groups aid agencies and foreign journalists put their figure at a much closer to three hundred now the first journalist has been killed he succumbed to his injuries a reporter for the egyptian daily newspaper we are hearing reports although they haven't been independently verified that there has been an assassination attempt on the life of the vice president almost to them and we do understand from the reports that two of his bodyguards were killed so many is widely being told as the man who will replace hosni mubarak but he did invoke a lot of foreign and foreign same time and when he went on state television and blamed foreign elements for inciting the violence of the past few days now earlier this morning at around ten thirty gyptian time there was an explosion on a natural gas pipe gas pipe provides israel with forty percent of its natural gas not you gyptian state television is reporting that the part of the pipe that supplies years ago was targeted by foreign elements but we are hearing from israeli radio that that part of the pipe was not attacked the part of the pipe that was

attacked was the part that supplies jordan either way it is standing alarm bells out into the community particularly in this region as there are fears that if israel that if egypt cannot control its own internal security situation this will head to the political ramifications for the rest of the region at the same time there are concerns being raised in terms of the perceived lawlessness in the sinai many israelis fearing that they will be weapons being smuggled into gaza at this moment that will eventually be fired on and being used against israeli citizens the latest word coming from the egyptian prime minister ahmed shafiq is that there will be no cancellation of the september elections that according to the legislation in this country the president needs to stay in power with if any changes to the constitution are to take place he says that there will be no early exit for mubarak and that's what we can wisely expect is that the vice president. almost all the men

will take over but only after those september elections now today saturday they all do this and there are discussions that opposition groups will be saying with particularly with particular people in the government the muslim brotherhood which is the largest opposition group in egypt it's also officially banned has said that they will not be party to those talks they are insisting that mubarak step down but indeed we are noticing a shift both within the opposition group and within the government in terms of wanting to meet each other and wanting to resolve this conflict as soon as possible because of course in nearly two weeks of the standoff the economy here has drained people's lives have been put on standby and as i'm talking to you from downtown cairo i continue that the shops the homes the people remain barricaded inside their homes and apartments despite the protests the protesters that found a way to. polish the car well meantime investigative journalist and contributor

when manson says the u.s. is buying time for mubarak to cover up evidence of murky business done about what during his thirty years of american support egypt has been our our major ally other than israel in the region can you imagine the files in cairo in the defense ministry in the in the security agencies that they have they could implicate the united states and everything from the cia torture and rendition program which started under president clinton and was authorized by then deputy attorney general eric holder turned thirty general they have a lot of fingerprints all over the egyptian regime they want to make sure before there's a change that they can be assured that no smoking gun evidence is going to be coming out in egyptian newspapers that will be free in a reform under reform of government. well there's been a lot of speculation that the unrest in egypt is being fueled by extremist groups.

author of the book humanitarian imperialism says that supporting tics or. regimes or other for over thirty years is also a form of extremism i think what we're seeing now is the total collapse of american and western policy in that region and he said the party scene that region which was always to sue poort dictatorship that was supposedly friendly to the west and friendly to israel if you're friendly government that unpopular then in the end it don't say against you because the people are against you in the government and they're being overthrown and that's what's happening now so you know you can call them extremists if you want but there's nothing you can do about it with real disease these so-called extremist by supporting our own extremism because why isn't it the extremist to support the government which is vastly unpopular as mubarak has been for many years and why isn't it extremist to support israel as would be a been doing for so many years which is not accepted in the region then doesn't

care to try to be accepted in the region. or james denselow who's an author on a middle east policy and security who says that fears that islamists could seize power unilaterally in egypt are all being exaggerated. it's a bit too far ahead to say what exact role the muslim brotherhood will have in any future coalition or political structure in egypt i think it's interesting to look at what happened in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine in the iranian revolution where by a revolution a popular revolution comprised of several more factors than simply islam its power but it was is the mess they were able to consolidate power following the revolution so the muslim brotherhood clearly have a structure of control that allow themselves to continually exist under the pressures of the mubarak regime that will give them a huge amount of strength going into whatever happens next but it really does come down to the idea of what other groups will be able to speak up for themselves and organize now the whole this peaceful protests a far thing is reflected very innate groundswell of ability to organize so i think

there's no guarantee that the muslim brotherhood will simply dominate the politics of post about era your with r.t. law from moscow still ahead for you this hour when luxury is a problem and not an asset with affordable accommodation to go hard to come by predicting how the next winter olympics out of sochi is hoping to improve the situation for foreign guests. the unrest in egypt is being widely discussed in munich where world leaders have gathered for an annual security conference and other highlight of the meeting will be the exchange of documents on the recently signed start treaty between russia and the us which will officially put it the deal into force you've got to push it off as more from munich . it is the second and probably main the conference will already heard a speech by the un secretary general ban ki moon the german chancellor angela merkel britain's prime minister david cameron and we're expecting the statement by

the russian foreign minister silvio of it all is expected to focus on russia's proposal to build up a legal document which would ensure european security and also is expected to outline russia's proposal for a unified anti missile defense system which would include russia the european union and the united states with sharing the responsibility for the safety old the other is another event also quite a we did here it is the meeting of the quartet on the middle east which includes russia the united states the united nations and the european union that was saw the hold up by a russia and is also going to be one of the highlights of saturday here i mean it could be actual exchange of the ratification documents off the new strategic arms reduction treaty between moscow and washington has been really a long awaited since the negotiations on the new deal continued for over a year or until we were signed the treaty was signed by the presidents of the two

countries who initially pushed this idea forward this happened last april then almost another year all the discussion of internal discussion especially in the united states until the treaty was finally ratified and now only formal exchange of these ratification documents is left. just giving the green light and officially putting into force and you could watch a sort of speech at the munich conference live on our channel it's due to start very shortly here but also watch he managed to catch up with russia's foreign minister a bit earlier his interviews coming up in our spotlight show that's in just over an hour's time right here on out. well from a navy captain to t.v. presenter no one is off the hook when it comes to political correctness in the united states now many americans say the p.c. overdose makes them keep their opinions to themselves as the wrong word can land you in serious trouble as artie's more important i reports even the classic

literature couldn't escape the censorship. america is a country that pioneers freedom of expression but is the rising tide of political correctness reigning in the right to say what you think. it's almost as though you have a sort of a code to fall down sometimes you want to call a spade a spade and sometimes you want to call it according to news and pull the majority of citizens think the us is overdosing on p.c. turning the land of the free into a nation of hyper sensitive sissies. were even corn chips can cause mass controversy in this ad a priest substituted to read zero for the eucharist the body of christ ran the commercial was created for a possible super bowl broadcast but after an uproar among catholics frito lay apologized and pulled the plug on the satirical spot during

a commercial being polled is a classic example of americans freaking out about something insulting to do with religion i understand why the catholic league might flip out that's their job however be able to laugh at yourself folks. the person humor can end up costing big maybe captain owen honors entrusted with a nuclear powered aircraft carrier worth half a billion dollars was fired over racy morale boosting videos created years ago having survived eighty five combat missions was shot down by for to justice and. as for the man who wrote nineteenth century classics not even mark twain is protected from present day p.c. two of tweens books are being republished with the word sleeve replacing the n. word it's about laziness it's not about liberal guilt to not want to do offend or conservatives want to sanitize or plain vanilla is history and art it's really

about laziness we don't we don't want to trust people to do. look and examine to look at something and then go beyond that said what does it mean what were those times like what is the author trying to say when film critic roger ebert took to twitter to criticize the censorship he was criticized for simply writing the n word can the white people say who can speak it has become a gadol in court a federal jury will soon decide if a white people can use the n. word at work this as a white t.v. reporter is suing a fox news affiliate in philadelphia after being fired for using the n. word during a staff meeting white house chief of staff rahm emanuel has apologized he's apologized and of course the r word can also make you a glorified villain as was the case last year when former chief of staff rahm emanuel privately called a group of liberals retards rahm emanuel and i think he has some indecent and insensitive ways of being sarah pailin is a great talk at e.s.p.n.

sensitivity surrounding sex has become a touchy subject announcer ron franklin was fired this month for allegedly calling a female reporter sweet baby many say a political correctness has a neuter in the american language creating a super sensitive society incapable of laughing things off a p.c. employee that blasts more people biting their tongues for fear that freedom of expression may be more trouble than it's worth more important artsy new york. always fatalities rising every week and america's ongoing afghanistan campaign u.s. policy in the country is increasingly under fire in a bid for a way out of the deadlock someone like veteran american diplomat robert blackwell propose a politician over afghanistan as the best solution but is also using military contributor explains the so-called plan b. it's not going to save the situation for the u.s. . despite all the goodwill mr blair will promote the defacto partition of

afghanistan the whole concept is a nonstarter though i stand by his situation and alice's speech has proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the us policy in afghanistan has crossed a point of no return however i cannot support or subscribe to blank will conclusions and recommendations that supposedly come from his impact and on a sailboat and alice's of the us policy in afghanistan their defacto politician is a nonstarter because it is a desperate attempt to address different audiences just in one position paper mr blackwell proposition is highly confusing and misleading for different audiences consider it for yourself for native afghans he's proposition is it kin to covertly break out of the country for pakistani neighbors it

amounts to the beginning of the belkin ization of the whole area starting from ghana still but he's also amounts to open ended u.s. military occupation and commitment to afghanistan we've all developed nation building and counterterrorism that will be in essence the long term consequences of the implementation of this well intentioned by ill advised plan. you without a life from oscar nominees get to some of our major headlines from around the world this hour and the cambodian and the like troops have resumed artillery fire along the border so left at least one soldier died in the biggest confrontation between the countries in years the fighting is a spark fears of an escalation causing thousands to flee conflict over an ancient temple which both sides claim has taken place periodically for years it's not yet

clear what sparked the latest clash reach came after the two sides declared a ceasefire. the husband of the u.s. congresswoman shot in the head last month it was their lead one of not sufficient last space shuttle flights kelly said he made the decision because his wife's condition had improved rapidly he was a training before the mission of when his wife was shot while holding a constituent meeting in fact that left six people died his twin brother scott kelly is the current commander of the international space station. australia's government has a called on the military to help clear the damage caused by its cycle own yes see a ship carrying three thousand tons of food and supplies has also been dispatched to the disaster area emergency services are working to unlock roads and restore utility services but their efforts are being hampered by the heavy rain a category five storm one of the most powerful on record devastated communities and

caused hundreds of millions dollars dollars worth of damage. well russian hotels are the most expensive in europe with moscow boasting a number of a luxury accommodations with the scarcity of budget rooms in the russian capital many believe new developments in other parts of the country might give tourists a chance to experience russia without shelling out a fortune and more details on that story in just a few moments but for now we can cross live it to munich and listen to the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov addressing those in attendance at the annual security conference let's let's listen in right now that is the spirit that we wish to pursue as we think about building a more comprehensive your atlantic security community at the same time it is wonderful to welcome again if i can say that in this way the veteran leader of the u.s. delegation there are not many people in this room been here so often supported this

enterprise. what used to be and what is now munich security conference over so many years leading so many congressional delegations very grateful to you the issue on the agenda initially was the violence in egypt the rest put it at the top of the talks now in his speech i started off is expected to touch upon dimitri many many of the initiative on a new security architecture in europe as well as a possible cooperation of by russia and nato on the european missile defense and one of the highlights of this year's conference is the meeting between the russian foreign minister and the u.s. secretary of state that's about an hour from now here on the table. from hillary clinton on to exchange the documents on the recently signed start treaty which will officially put the deal to force now we are standing by to hear from the russian foreign minister who is attending this annual security conference in munich he'll

be making a speech in just a few moments a many of the big names in well politics are in attendance. we have the likes of the u.n. secretary general ban ki moon u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton also the e.u. president herman a fine one point we saw him. and nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen powers the here we are now we'll go live now to the russian foreign minister sort of a left off and listen to what he has to say here. thank you for the organizing of this conference last year the leaders managed to bring in more help into the if you were atlantic region and we overcome challenges so we get less confrontations and more elements of cooperation and our interest expand and more. and we all are moving towards introducing more security so that everyone will feel as secure as anyone else and. regardless of

the participation in the military alliance we're not. things we talked about at the last year's conference are being implemented and to a large extent it's the result of our effort in the effort on the reform in the architecture of the continent which took up the initiative by president of. the security in europe. we take this as the invitation. for cooperation and it was accepted of all partners responded by setting forth their own views of the. security europe i'd like to say that. proposal by french president sarkozy who offered a new form of corporation between than it was including russia ukraine turkey. and the last you know. president going to have supported the creation of

community in the european union on for a. policy and security which which transfer this into a new quality from simple discussion of issues to working out common decisions in particular the regulation of crisis there and as our german and other partners said the european union has a consensus on the creation of the q e c and we understand now that it's just a matter of defining the date of its first session or another sign of it changes we talked about this today you. said the state secretary. of the united states and i are going to talk about the start treaty which was born thanks to the mutual understanding and common approach to the issue of your problem. it should be a based on equality and indivisibility. and cooperation between the united states

goes through with that with russia and the treaty which is effective as of today that will contribute to international security for you on the recent summit of the russian and nato elizabeth. we also. review into the issues of security and the logic of negative corporation has been overcome thanks where the contrary which were the way to fred's have been addressed and we are moving on to the positive logic. since we have gone under. we have common interests and tasks it means that we all recognize the indivisibility all you are trying to exclude in lisbon we have said we go to break the relations among the n.r.c. members to the level of strategic partnership with was important for this goal not tremaine just on paper. we are as a see. it's held in the past and now. is

a proof of the growing demand for cooperation in the year atlantic the summit continue the tradition of an opening called political dialogue of heads of state and. besides the final declaration of the summit russia together with a majority of a c. participant states was ready to adopt a well detailed action plan regrettably that is not achieved the action plan has fallen victim to a unilateral ideological approach isn't whether the o.c. summit has shown good prospects for the modernization of the ghana document on confidence and security building measures to see progress in addressing the deadlock in a conventional arms control in europe versus the use of the if we listen to mutual legitimate concerns we can achieve success here of what is in our common interest result chronicler conflicts a good source of suspicions and discord it. will need to discard double standards and would be objective about each situation taking into full account positions of what parties are on the whole yes that despite the fact that the

russian initiative on the. is helping to shape a meaningful global evaluation which will implemented will contribute to the creation of the truly great to europe to do sensually we're talking here about we were permanent elimination of the cold war legacy your minds politics and military affairs was a wee bit is important to the open we're also unity and put right alcove racialism countering you wrestle in such a way that which would be resilient to all kinds of ideological prejudice has been with you and wouldn't completely eliminate the threat to imagine of the to dividing line now in the areas of common interest that you wanted it was a nurse research act. the joint euro missile defense is believed to be looking to lisbon the m.r.c. summit we agreed to analyze possibilities for its. resident community mitigate your offered our vision of a project based on the quality of. the capacities possessed by russia and the nato countries without creating any problems for each other you can use this one as well because basically your mutual regard for interests are believed to collectively

counter common challenges in the sphere of missile solely for ration which joan work is beginning to expect it will be carried out with rally in compliance with a set of objectives to reach strategic partnership of the dialogue with russia is used to dispose of the tensions from the u.s. nato missile defense system we stand the risk of missing a unique chance what i think everybody understands the agreement to discuss with the n.r.c. possible cooperation of missile defense which is no way means that russia within lee agrees to exceed that nato program developed without russia the very good principle take it or leave it does not work here meanwhile now it seems that night in its internal deliberations over the missile defense issues intends to be a step or even two ahead of what we will be doing in this area with and i see him or at least the nato lisbon summit decisions are aimed at that nonetheless i hope

that some will not try to present us with f.m. accompli otherwise new complications are unavoidable the russian position to maintain strategic parity in the context of settling is you should be self evident experts are fully aware the fourth stages of the us phased adaptive approach and the major m d system which is being discussed is based on a if implemented will mean reaching a strategic level which directly infringes the efficiency of russian nuclear deterrent forces if our concerns are not take into account if no equitable joint work is. then we will have to compensate for the emergent imbalance in such a scenario regrettably main tail the reversion to the past thinking patterns and the russian leadership one repeatedly and sincerely failure to agree would tremendously reduce the opportunities for compression and dressing not only the missile risk but the whole range of thread stock common security with the most and that's what would not be our choice to join defense

a grand common threat is the highest essentially an allied form of security cooperation with that is why our ability to create the joint future of europe missile defense involving russia and later it will become a test of sincerity of decorations of readiness for partnership a radical transformation of the strategic relations with the establishment of a fascist. indivisible your atlantic and your asian security community of just a matter of principle is that you everything we do with them and i say including the hamdi corporation should not designate all enemies the damage of the global strategic stability or greatly new dividing lines within your list time between the n.r.c. and the other world it would undermine efforts aimed at having a building. civilizational accord which is highly needed today certainly there are a number of other areas where confidence runs with its ability required in this regard you know that too much emphasis put by nato on collective defense in the

context of speculations on some vague threats from the east will be incessantly pushing toward seeking out a man in the room and hit the attention of we have noted that the trend is traditional threat section of the nato new strategic concept was worked out along the lines of close minded ideological motivated positions. i do hope the decisions taken with them and i see will dominate in our activity and should be obvious to everybody that no state would be your atlanta carrier could have reasons plans or intentions to threaten nato members that objective reality should be harmony. with the mechanisms of implementation of article five of the washington traitors were holding the alliance military planning process both only with doctrine and material aspects but is no need to disguise the obviously alliances russia itself need lunch as hard as it was peculiarly and not say firstly ensuring security from transnational threats is when you are coming from outside that you

are a client to the area that terrorism and drug trafficking proliferation of w m d live remains we've got to work because we are ready for such corporation on the solid on the principles of international law in shrine of the united nations charter on the initiative of the great powers that still play a leading role in the world. but still actors. who for some reasons feel that when used dissatisfied was saying the mantra conflicts proneness and frame it up to make a decisive step from the past or the future and keep trying but hope it's the reverse the world's politics a lot remains to be done through irreversibly overcome accumulated historical clichés of odious and suspicion in order to materialize in the practical politics of all our countries the principal objects in the visibility of security proclaim their knowledge a joint project which we are ready to put the most serious collector work in this area of your atlantic a global policy time of year has come here to make

a choice between common strategic interests and immediate reasons of political expediency thank you very much ladies jumped. all right well that was the russian foreign minister sort of a laugh it off there addressing the crowd there in the attendance at the annual munich security conference going on now yesterday a total of three days over this weekend now the russian foreign minister was starting off by saying that he was very pleased that the new start treaty is finally coming into force in fact a little bit later today. and the u.s. secretary of state will do an exchange of papers fully bringing to force the new ratified start treaty. the issue of european security he said that the cold war legacy and phobias and suspicions must be put aside out of the world of culture and politics they must be a racist that paving the way for greater.