there are demonstrations happening in alexandria in suez in a number of other different cities the rallying call is the same this is a protest to say mubarak's d. day they want him gone by sunset which is just a few hours away now there have so far been no sign of those pro barwick demonstrators this doesn't mean that all concerns for violence have been abated but we're certainly seeing a lot a lot of excitement out of the streets and a lot of a common situation the army is maintaining a presence on the periphery a short time ago imo musette who is the secretary general of the arab league did attend the protests in tough his square people there welcoming him they were also put up with given by him moms who were calling for calm they also said the army was with god because it had promised not to state fire and get involved in these demonstrations with me i have a professor i meant nice guy me from cairo university thank you very much for joining us do you think mubarak will step down today we hope for that dear you see

i was born forty three years ago and now you've course lived in the time of president. president sadat then president mubarak and i can tell you this is a big day in my country's history we hope that he will listen to the voice of wisdom and he will listed down and leave the office today what do you make of the american involvement and there's a lot of american diplomatic activity with him speaking now to almost solomon and other top egyptian officials is there a sense that they have betrayed a man who they've backed for thirty years no it's politics you know i mean for thirty years we have the same gentleman same faces same policy ok and what i think now what the american trying to do right now is to steal that air force and actually word to the youth of the april twenty fifth did you try to steal their victory and claim it to themselves but you know it's the effort and the blood and the creaming. and tiredness of the young people of egypt why is the american

administration not supporting mubarak anymore because simply i think mr mubarak has lost his credibility the entire nation actually thinking that is time to go so no credibility no support i mean what are the american going to support nothing what does the average egyptian make of america's involvement because they're still so involved in what's going on in internal egyptian affairs it's totally rejected and people actually into his career and every single part of the country calling in the foreign powers no matter what i mean without naming any particular power to keep away it's our affairs and we'd like to keep it our fears but that's certainly the rallying call we're hearing from protesters mubarak has to leave today that among those protesters those that are spoke to about that involvement in the international community some saying that the united states has been hypocritical in

supporting an ally such as mubarak and then today turning its back on him and my colleague laura emmet fall this report from england in terms of what has been what is perceived by people here u.s. meddling in egypt in affairs. president obama started it is 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. to show these democratic change has to start now. it needs to happen now the growth of 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 hundred and fifty thousand people in the streets of cairo protesting for democracy this is how democracy happened but what right do u.s.

and european leaders have to get involved in what's essentially domestic old rest about dissatisfaction with a ruler who cares what they want in egypt certainly not these demonstrators at the egyptian embassy in london they supported this if you regime for such a long time. they give the regime and now they're talking about democracy and respect the from the right side of this and so obama's speech. could be sitting on the fence so much. i mean it is not the same going on what are you just saying as we experience for transition where is this peaceful transition where there are shades of past conflicts in the world's attitude to the situation in egypt egypt is a sovereign state but what they have always done for the west they've used this humanitarian or came and they said oh we can intervene in yugoslavia we can intervene in bhalo russia we can put sanctions for example this week said put sanctions on. the grounds that they in directions were in some way invalid.

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 for stability in the region. the u.s. 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 wages in 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'll be the muslim brotherhood. in egypt. it's the worst case scenario so the. minute you can see beyond never 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 first state of the united states we are not trying to play a role in egypt's future is a dangerous game for western leaders hosni mubarak enjoyed strong support from america and co for many is that now at the first sign of trouble this approach is conspicuous in its absence this sends a message to friends and foes alike in the region when the going gets tough they don't count on us a message that's likely to further destabilize an already deeply unstable part of it was a majority. meantime you know. chief analyst that is long policy dot com he 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 of the weapons the tanks the tear gas that you see used against the jets and people to try to quell this revolution is in fact funded by american tax dollars not to mention the fact that the promo boric 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 client state for our 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 america is going to try to bargain away 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 change 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 in regard to government or to economics with regards to the way that they live there are. still more to come on this story is next hour the latest edition of cross told and this time. ton more than egypt could affect the wider region as a whole here's a brief preview. in the future of this relationship it really all depends on what type of government ends up emerging in egypt i think that we can say for certain that this relationship will never be the same unless we see the emergence of a nother dictatorship in egypt very similar to the mubarak regime of course that is what the israelis would like to see their preferable candidate is the newly named

vice president in egypt men who they have been working with very carefully and he has been sort of the architect an overseer of the siege of gaza from the egyptian side but it's unlikely that a new government in egypt whatever that government is will be able to you can nor the will of the egyptian people in the way that previous governments have. you without a lot from moscow now u.s. lawmakers are pushing for a renewal of the patriot act which allows security agency used to go through private telephone and e-mail records the majority of congressmen insist the law

defends the public from the threat of terror but as aussies gonna try to count reports many people view it as a violation of civil liberties. 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 these orders 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 for real debate back in two thousand and one when the patriot act was adopted weeks after the nine eleven attack according to congressman dennis kucinich the lawmakers hadn't even read what they were passing what happened once the patriot act was passed the fourth amendment rights to. unreasonable searches 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. idea of patriotism to destruction of cherished constitutional privileges needs to shelf 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's intelligence watchdog found that without any judicial checks government employees journalists danto were activist and others had been spied on

over the last six months more than twenty antiwar 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 spiny 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 stand it stands 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 quote those who give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety and it. is largely ignored by today's america reporting from washington. and there's always more news blogs stories on our website that's. some of the items waiting for you right now. to pioneering forms of travel was a good idea. in the competition. one hundred spreading its wings taking. place with a curious. thing. a

series of ultra nationalist attacks and ukraine has once again shown a society divided by. the west east of the country hold very different views on what it is to be ukrainian. reports often expressed in violence. an innocent joke or deliberate disick ration recently activist of a ukrainian radical nationalist party cooked eggs and bacon on the eternal flame in caves memorial park a monument to the red army soldiers who died liberating the country from the nazis rather deputy. sees little surprise as to why this happens in more than day ukraine at. the nation was brainwashed by five years of you should as

a rule actions like these or an attempt to write off the sacrifices made to be liberated from the nazis in the result of profanities propaganda like the rehabilitation of nazi collaborators like your keep it and on their produce them the two nationalist army leaders to been there and i mention here which were made heroes of ukraine by former president you sure there are 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 and a cause which in office the author proved in court that done better had no right to bear the heroic accolades for. the law that only a citizen of ukraine can become a hero and been there wasn't a ukrainian citizen but the law doesn't matter to some people here they believe the really crane 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 told that from renaming the streets after been there to raising funds for new monuments people in this part of the country stressed that their loyalty to been there will stand firm . on dura 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 words turned into actions nationalist wings organized a series of extremist attacks this summer as you are sent back to our 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 now the controversial world war two ukrainian will be deprived of his hero status on february the sixteenth a court in kiev will decide whether i'm on strike a 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 let's. see reporting from kiev ukraine. where you are with are live from moscow twenty minutes past the hour let's check out some other international news in brief now e.u. leaders are meeting in brussels to discuss the ongoing european debt crisis turmoil in egypt and energy security the twenty seven nations are hoping to agree on the new ways of managing the economic situation although no decisions will be taken into a meeting next month a number of non-binding agreements with difficulty in matters of energy are expected to be made and it's been confirmed europe is working closely with egypt's vice president over the ongoing tensions that are. radio tagging of indian students in the united states has caused angry protests in new delhi indians attending the tri valley university in california had been asked to.

electronic ankle tags so immigration authorities can keep track of them the university was shut down last month and accused of being up front to help in legal immigrants into the country the indian government has called the american actions inhumane and demanded the tanks be removed. clear up the operation has started in the northeastern state of queensland after cyclonic gassing hit on wednesday it's been confirmed that one man was killed as a result of the category five storm flooding and heavy rain are hindering rescue efforts as emergency teams try to help the coastal areas australia's prime minister described the damage as massive. well coming up for you this time all the deals uncovered. because it's the british capital in search of the russian spirit that's coming your way shortly. wow absolutely

breathtaking the soviet embassy moved into this building in one nine hundred twenty nine also known as harrington house it was one of the few venues in the area that bravely use the number thirteen but scared of anything another interesting fact is that they just pay one pound a year for the rent here but on the flip side of that the british embassy residence in moscow pays just one ruble which is sixty times cheaper. or more you know up to date all the latest news here on our t.v. but for the meantime we'll turn over to sharon up she's got the business news. welcome to the business program. inflation in russia has already climbed two point four percent in the first month of two thousand and eleven exceeding analyst

expectations many experts say should this trend continue inflation could reach double digits by mid year alexander models of h.s.b.c.'s chief economist for russia and the c.i.s. agrees with this prognosis but believes inflation will fall by the year's and inflation outlook for next two miles we also expect a violation to reach double digits as early as and of itself what's wrong on the second quarter of this year and what is some chance according to all model but the relational data the way back to single digits towards very year around this is why we're still expect inflation of nine point five percent this year december to december according to our. projections or infrastructure inflation russia belong to about as low inflation as of west in the medium of course to some extent that's a structural problem with steel prices mused the prices went up to be raised in russia but i would argue that still inflation of four percent is quiet for the ball

and it's possible to achieve bad timing for that there is indeed should take markets to get this done within the next two or three years. and russia has started selling grain from state reserves in a move to curb food prices and support the domestic market the plan is to sell two and a half million tonnes within five months of the next harvest thirteen million dollars have already flowed into the budget after the first trading day as sixty tons of grain were sold the state's current stockpile stands at nine and a half million tonnes authorities cereal 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 outlook on the grain trade. now let's take a look at the markets u.s. markets have opened slightly up on the day on positive news that unemployment rates in the country fell to nine percent a twenty one month low as non farm payrolls rose by thirty six percent thousand

according to the labor department's announcement today. european stocks are mixed this hour the footsies being supported by gains in mining introduced and baseball a book where he lifted shares of glory in more of the supermarkets and in other news the russian base co-producer cox group has posted his i.p.o. in london due to market conditions the group price that's offering at six dollars and twenty five cents to eight dollars per share last month. and russian markets have climbed for a third day energy majors other early gainers as oil is trading above one hundred dollars a barrel mark in london amid political on rest in north africa and the middle east . nor all snake oil traded down of the third of a percent this hour as fairbanks sat around one hundred forty percent last night however closed over two percent on both bourses after the all giant said that its fourth quarter profits had climbed ninety percent over the previous three months.

the russian company has also posted a net profit of ten point six five billion dollars in two thousand and ten a sixty four percent increase year on year beating. analysts expectations according to the u.s. accounting standards russia's largest oil company reduce its overall debt by twenty six percent the improved results were mainly attributed to increased output total cost control and rising oil prices meanwhile grossness president has the navajos company's negotiating to buy out half of the russian british joint venture to b.p. . star economist nouriel roubini dr doom forecast russia's inflation will hit double digits this year in the first month of two thousand and eleven consumer prices in russia saw a two point four percent hike topping market expectations meanwhile the government's official inflation forecast for two thousand and eleven is still set for six to seven percent will be in explains why inflation is on the rise and how russia needs to pursue economic growth. so far the growth rate of russia

in the recall very has been disappointing in part because there was excessive amounts of that the leverage in the financial system or parts of the corporate the world so while china india brazil are growing six to eight nine percent last year that i call video growth in russia was only around four percent i think that not only that is a low growth but compared to other emerging markets inflation dizzy in my region double digits of a percent or more and the central bank has been cautious in raising interest rates and inflation might be gold also higher i think that the way that russia has to deal with the fact that they want to grow but they need to limit inflation is to make sure that potential growth the desire and if you make structural reforms if you free our private enterprise if you make more efficient state than other enterprises if you have more incentive to enter banerjee then potential growth can be higher actual growth can be

a year and inflation is going to stay on their control. and that's all the business news for this hour but you can always find more stories on our web site that's our dot com slash business also watching. the more people we killed a happier our officers were you know it's got to be like a game like to see who could kill the most people and the different ways you can prove maybe be killed look i can you know here's a few drawbacks some are serious you know where they have the most fears they will

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limited. rich tapestry of russian culture in great britain. hello welcome to this i will be visiting different cities exploring this story. and we begin one of my favorite cities in the world. london one of the most visited cities in the world and the cultural scene here in many areas has been a huge.