which has been dubbed the final friday and the last friday was dubbed the day of rage today is the departure day people saying that the day has arrived for mubarak to step down he is holed up in the presidential palace and he has indicated that he is to quality him fed up with the situation but that he believes he cannot step down immediately because egypt will result in chaos now many people here have lost of that assertion saying how much more chaotic can this country really be the army is maintaining a presence on the perimeter of to square there it is checking people there are still hundreds of thousands of people outside of the square still making their way still hoping to get inside these soldiers are checking people's i.d.'s they're checking that nobody is carrying weapons because of course nobody here wants a repeat of the violence of the last few days we have heard that the minister of defense has visited the square we're also hearing though a very defiant chord from posters they're saying that nothing short of mubarak

stepping down will satisfy them they're all increasing concerns in terms of the is an element of these demonstrations some analysts here in egypt have suggested that between fifty to sixty percent of people who turned out in those squares are religious people now the muslim brotherhood has denied that it's hijacking these demonstrations in fact mubarak has accused them of instigating the calls against against him they too have been very critical of these kind of views but certainly the sense here growing that there is a islamised sense to these demonstrations the result of the in the square here has strengthened since that violence since those. supporters were into the streets they are largely being closed off they are there in tahrir square they have very chaotic themselves behind thick. concrete slabs that they've been kept very much in as of yet no reports of violence but people here nervous the situation is one of any diety in terms of what the next. you always will bring what we've seen most

countries in the world criticize the violence nobody in the international community in fact condoning it we have seen the us very involved in what is happening with the american government putting forward a number of proposals in terms of how they see the situation in cairo developing one of the proposals on the table is that mubarak step down with immediate effect that an interim government be put in place that is headed by his vice president omar suleiman the egyptian people might might not support this but they certainly are in agreement that they do not want to be dictated to from the united states from europe from anybody in the international community in terms of what they should do here now the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton as well as the u.s. vice president joe biden have spoken with the egyptian vice president almost this too has been greeted with anger on the streets of cairo people here who are you to rating that call that it is their country and their decision in terms of what unfolds here my colleague your image in london took

a look at how the international community and particularly the united states has been to quote people here meddling in local domestic affairs president started a my belief that an orderly transition must be meaningful. it must be peaceful and it must begin now and then faithfully one after the other one the other governments followed suit and that will come out to show these democratic change has to start now. it needs to happen now to greater freedom and democracy in egypt and it seems the theme was contagious as the call for a new egypt spreads uncontrolled across the western mass media there were two hundred and fifty thousand people in the streets of cairo protesting for democracy this is how democracy happens but what right do u.s. and european leaders have to get involved in what's essentially domestic unrest about dissatisfaction with a ruler who cares what they want in egypt certainly not these demonstrators at the

egyptian embassy in london they supported the egyptian regime for such a long time and in fact they are they give the regime and now they are talking about democracy and respect the for the rights of this into obama's speech i want the best for it could be sitting on the fence so much it must. i mean it is not the same going on the boat out there just saying that's the appearance for a transition where is this peaceful transition or there are shades of past conflicts in the world's attitude to the situation in egypt egypt is a sovereign state but what they've always done things western they've used this humanitarian or came and they said oh we can intervene in yugoslavia we can intervene in baidoa russia we can put sanctions for example this week that put sanctions on. the grounds that they and elections were in some way invalid or there were some irregular as well they're all sufficient irregularities in the british

elections without your knowledge you opinion putting sanctions on. it's a complete turnaround for the western world which has always supported hosni mubarak as a force to stipulate see in the region. the us gave him one and a half billion dollars a year for his armed forces alone and it was western support that kept mubarak in power betraying an inherent misunderstanding of the way society operates according to chatham house the way regimes like mubarak survive. is by making themselves useful to the west so they have to convince the world that. if they leave it will be the muslim brotherhood and you'll have the public. in egypt. it's the worst case scenario so the. minute you can see beyond. the fall of all of which suggests that western countries should stand back and let the egyptian people

exercise their sovereignty the president of the united states would call to move immediately and. to make changes as if we are the fifty fifth of the united states we are not trying to play a role in egypt's future is a dangerous game the western leaders hosni mubarak enjoyed strong support from america and co for many years but now at the first sign of trouble their support is conspicuous in its absence it sends a message to friends and foes alike in the region when the going gets tough don't count on us a message that's likely to further destabilize an already deeply unstable possibly was no rabbits are to be logged. meantime eunice abdullah mohammad who's a chief analyst at islam policy dot com says that the u.s. seems to be afraid of losing its influence in egypt. if we pay attention to the rhetoric of the u.s. they'd like you to believe that they're not doing anything but somehow the mubarak

regime gets their hands on an awful lot of excess cash to buy one point five billion dollars worth of weaponry and all the weapons the tanks the tear gas that you see used against the egyptian people to try to quell this revolution is in fact funded by american tax dollars not to mention the fact that the pro mubarak counter-revolutionary force that just happens to appear from the most egypt's thirty million impoverished people probably was paid off with dollar bills so we have to really look at the fact that egypt has been a functioning american empire a client state for well over thirty years and the simple fact of the matter is is that there is no more you know polar power in the world and there is going to try to bargain in a way whereby they have until september to adapt to influence to try to use propaganda to try to use covert and overt operations as they have since one thousand nine hundred eighty three in the middle east to shape things in their direction but it apparently seems as though this strategic blunder of entering into a war of attrition in iraq and afghanistan is now starting to weigh on the world

and the world is going to have to let people in the muslim world decide for themselves with regard to government economics with regards to the way that they live their life. and we have more reaction to this fellas bennis from the u.s. institute of policy studies says that he'll have a full hips next government and its policies on the middle east conflict will change. we've heard from a number of people that are in the leadership of this huge coalition that is carrying out the anti mubarak protests who have all said look we're not going to renege on the camp david accords we don't want to go to war with israel we don't want to change that and of course we should note although they don't all talk about it the one and a half billion dollars of u.s. military aid is tied directly to the terms of that agreement if the agreement is abrogated they may not get that money what will change is the inclusion of egypt in israel's effort to isolate gaza i think we will see very quickly with any new

government if it wants to maintain the credibility of its people and and to egyptian collaboration with israel in the siege of gaza where you are with aunty it's good to have your company today and coming away in just under twenty minutes time it's the latest edition of crosstalk that people of l. and his guests discuss in detail of the turmoil in egypt could affect the entire middle east. and. the u.s. congress is debating plans to renew the patriot act adopted during the bush era following the nine eleven attacks and allows law enforcement agencies to search telephone and e-mail records of terror suspects and while lawmakers insist the aim is to defend the public when he said the cost to civil liberties is just too high.

to count as more. major provisions of the patriot act about to expire are due to be extended by lawmakers brought in by the bush administration as an emergency anti terror measure the act gives sweeping powers to the sorties to spy on people but the u.s. senate's judiciary committee is in a real hurry to rubberstamp rather than discuss and debate the far reaching measures they expire in three weeks and i think there is not time really to go through. a major change in those there was no time either for real debate back in two thousand and one when the patriot act was adopted weeks after the nine eleven attacks according to congressman dennis close senate lawmakers hadn't even read what they were passing what happened once the patriot act was passed the fourth amendment rights to. reasonable certainty to

be protected from unreasonable search and seizure just thrown out the congressman was one of the very few who openly oppose the act we have a challenge to the essence of our democracy with the very existence of the patriot act and of course its name the patriot act who would want to oppose the patriot act because it makes it sound as though you're a patriot if you're for it but actually. the idea of tying patriotism to destruction of cherished constitutional privilege is new in itself to be challenged although lawmakers insisted that the patriot act would be used just for anti-terrorism federal authorities have used its powers far more broadly the senate intelligence watchdog found that without any judicial checks government employees journalist anti-war activists and others had been spied on over the last six months more than twenty anti-war activists around the country

have been subpoenaed after the f.b.i. raided homes in chicago and minneapolis reportedly using patriot act powers to round up american citizens there's ample reason to believe that when you create massive databases of politically potentially very useful information about both innocent and guilty people eventually someone with access to that information will misuse it and we see all the time how people who become politically engaged politically threatening are subject to disclosures of sensitive information about them the patriot act allows security services to lawfully spied by wiretapping large groups of phone numbers and monitoring e-mail addresses in ball instead of meeting a warrant each time the national security agency has even intercepted bill clinton's private e-mails later said to be an inadvertent mistake among millions of other pieces of correspondence snooped on a privacy watchdog suggest that since two thousand and one the f.b.i. has intelligence investigations have compromised the civil liberties of american

citizens far more frequently and to a greater extent than was previously assumed supporters of the act say it's needed because of the terrorist threats that we've had thirty six stored in terrorist attacks since nine eleven well do you know for a fact that it was thanks to the patriot act that the attacks were prevented it's difficult to say that for sure because when you look at court records and other documents that are available you can you say in these cases. there were cases where patriot act like tools would be useful and so we can suspect that they were useful and some of them congressman could say niched as the act is supported in congress to a climate of fear so you have a whole nation of fearful people promoting fear you cannot have a democracy if the democracy rest upon fear you cannot walk in faith in freedom and fear at the same time americans have

a great deal of respect for their founding fathers and one of those wise men benjamin franklin said those essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety it. is largely ignored by today's america. story. plenty of news.

this is. ukraine's ultra nationalists. message of hate but the new government has made it a priority to fight extremism. is a growing threat the country. is proving far from easy. an innocent joke or deliberate disick ration recently activist of a ukrainian radical nationalist party cooped ags in bacon on the eternal flame and keeps memorial park a monument to the red army soldiers who died liberating the country from the nazi rather deputy by the increase the chance to seize a little surprise as to why this happens in one day ukraine at the bits of it there

were a nation was brainwashed by five years of you should as a rule actions like bees or an attempt to write off the sacrifices country made to be liberated from the nazis and the result of pro fascist propaganda like the rehabilitation of nazi collaborators like shook a bitch and been there as you produce them the two nationalist army leaders step on monday and i mention here which were made heroes of ukraine by former president. their groups are seen by many as nazi collaborators first they fought the german invasion then turned against the soviet troops at times using gruesome tactics against civilians the former president's decision split open ukraine ideologically now with victory on the coverage in office the author proved in court that front that i had no right to bear the heroic accolades when you get all the laws that only a citizen of ukraine can become a hero and been there wasn't a grainy and citizen is what the lord doesn't matter to some people here they

believe the really grain is in the west of the country and they don't want to find any compromise here the court's decision caused a massive public outcry in the west of ukraine and nationalists towards that from renaming the streets after been there to raising funds for the monuments people in this part of the country stressed that their loyalty to been there will stand firm . under no walls is on the way to be our hero this is what we believe in and no court decision will ever change. but at some point we're. turned into actions nationalist wings organized a series of extremist attacks this summer jews are sent back to arc's visit to ukraine they bomb the church and have also vandalized soviet era monuments and the country is left to wonder what reaction would follow should and no other controversial world war two ukrainian be deprived of fuse hero status on february

the sixteenth accord new key it will decide whether a monster cave which will also be stripped of his medal and while experts say he is most likely to follow been there us footsteps they say no matter their decision ukraine will still remain divided over its perception of the past. see reporting from kiev ukraine right now let's check out some other headlines from around the world this hour and the opposition with syria have called for a day of rage against the government they've been inspired by the protests unfolding throughout the middle east the country shares many similarities with twenty three i'm egypt including rising prices unemployment and poverty and this believe that any protests could unleash bloodshed and chaos or even civil war if you for the country's a deep sectarian divisions. the outgoing prime minister of me and maher has been named as the country's first president in almost fifty years of military rule sixty eight year old tice's sane former general chose the pro party which gained an

overwhelming majority in last november's elections the appointment followed the first meeting of the parliament in more than twenty years most analysts say the point will do little to weaken the influence of the junta. and returning to our top story egypt is braced for another day of tom all as opposition supporters take to the streets in the latest attempt to force president hosni mubarak out of office now let's have a look at the latest pictures we have here and according to egypt's health ministry day it says that eight people have been killed and more than eight hundred injured in the call. the u.n. estimates that more than three hundred people have died since the unrest broke out on the twenty fifth of january with about four thousand heard that the crisis in egypt has intensified in recent days supporters of mr mubarak have begun attacking protesters in the capital stones were thrown on both sides there were reports of gunfire while footage was also

a motion of vehicles being driven at high speed directly throughout the crowds of protesters the violence has drawn condemnation from britain france germany italy and spain here we are now going to live pictures in the central tahrir square in cairo we can see thousands in attendance again these are live pictures we apologize for the somewhat full quality of them coming to us now live from cairo but in a recent interview president mubarak did night that his administration was behind the violence of the last two days but he said that the violence troubled him and speaking from the presidential palace with his son at his side he said quote i never intended to run for president again and i never intended for my son gamal to be president. ok those were the latest pictures and some live pictures there from central cairo being brought to you by r.t. coming to life from the russian. more details on that and more on our website r.t. dot com but for now it's the business news with korea.

i welcome to business good to have you with us this hour i will go straight to our top story russia could attract up to thirty billion dollars of foreign investment in two thousand and eleven this can happen if all the companies taking part in the state privatization campaign hold an i.p.o. this year now to discuss the alcoa plan vestment inflow into russia i'm joined by killed me c.e.o. of like an equity fonthill thanks very much for coming to the program so how much for investment is russia really likely to attack this year from your point of view i think thirty billion is a very realistic target and i just came from a meeting in divorce in bric countries for very much a focus of the investment targets in russia specifically because of the address of president did of the children there are very many specific interest in investment opportunities in peru which is a show program and beyond preposition program in russia and i want when we're talking about investment opportunity what sectors are the most promising in the russian economy you think for that foreign investment well you just three examples

agriculture is a very interesting sector and we'll all know what's happening to food prices in the world is increasing dramatically in russia is one of the most dominant agricultural players infrastructure is definitely a great actress while were also infrastructure investment will be happening because olympic games for the world champions league championship it's a truck and all investments way to a middle class which is growing very dramatically in russia so banks. also sectors where russian population is growing better purchasing power and can build a very successful investment stores and from what from your point of view do you think moscow going to become an international financial center there i mean that it has spurred by mr sabean's a new mayor to make this goal in reality and again it was very widely discussed in davos what needs to happen and already a lot so companies are coming to moscow to invest more in the merger of two. big.

trade in platforms which happens this week is also a big step forward so i think definitely most there's more before we nigerians are nice i guess that's good news and russian finance minister says that the country needs about courtney seven to ten percent increase of foreign investment annually for the economy to grow more than four percent what should be done to promise this apart from privatization well i think just two things first of all till there's a wall the russian investment story and first deputy was to shove all over again was very active explaining many opportunities in russia and i think russia is becoming more open to outside investment in films the story is very important but secondly what mr would be different now is this creation of fresh and sober informed to attract foreign investment in russia is very important so it will be for the best with platform for we can invest for some of the world invest together was russia because it was a russian government and sold lots of the investment issues they typically face in russia so that also is going to be

a very important step for investment in russia do things in a strategic section and also be involved in this investment program yes definitely so i think you know there's a sharing strategic sectors it's already found as a gateway to invest in russia i will very specific steps taken by the president and the government to attract investment into russia ok. i can actually fun thanks very much i threw my joining in. and let's look at the markets now european stocks are trading higher as markets await to us non-farm payroll data later in the day plus he's helped by gains from my his attorneys and banks while a broker upgrade lifted shares of morrison's supermarkets and other news russian based coproduction group caucus group has postponed its initial public offering in london due to market conditions the group priced its offering at six point six dollars twenty five cents to eight dollars a share last month here in russia markets climbed for the third day this week and as you majors out the only guess as oil is trading above hundred dollars a barrel in london i meant. the unrest in north up in north africa and the middle

east have adds two and a half percent on both the bourses after the oil giant said third quarter profits climbed twenty one percent from the previous three months gazprom shares are also up point seven percent blocking the toronto is nor nickel that's down point nine percent. more on raw snapped it has posted a net profit of ten point sixty five billion dollars in two thousand and ten a sixty four percent increase year on year beating analyst expectations according to u.s. accounting standards russia's largest oil company has also reported a fourth quarter jump in profit while its overall debt deal twenty six percent improve results were mainly attributed to increased output cost control rising oil prices meanwhile president. who has denied that his company is we go sheeting to buy out a stake in the russian british joint venture. and russia's to begin selling

grain from state reserves in a move to curb prices and support the domestic market the plan is to sell two and a half million tons of grain within five months of the next harvest the state's current stockpile stands at nine a half million tons authorities ciro exports six months ago following the country's worst drought in fifty years that devastated the harvest industry watchers say prices have now started to stabilise thanks to the positive of the going rate. and the un food and agriculture organization says food prices hit an historic high last month the rising cost of staples was among the triggers behind the protests in egypt and tunisia however hugh hendry c.e.o. of eclectic asset management says the world has not yet seen prices peak. i agree cultures the one sector in the world which was uncorrelated to the banking sector to the madness of credit to the madness of the us economy. and is now having its

turn. some dispute that we're seeing all time high prices we're not we haven't seen all time high prices yet in the that the the biggest agricultural product which is corn and give us six months we might see that.

this is a. protest. expected. to push president. while the u.s. calls for a smooth transition of power. of mubarak's regime. nationalism . given by the ukrainian president.

the patriot. congressman. fighting terrorism. after the. reaction to egypt's turmoil and whether it could lead to the end of the cold peace between both countries. if you. cut. hello and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle the rise of a new middle east with the spectacular changes occurring in egypt what will become of the israeli egyptian peace treaty negotiated a camp david three decades ago can be.