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 a man we do understand from the reports that two of his bodyguards were killed so many is widely being touted 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 enormousness in the sinai these raids fearing that they will be weapons being smuggled into gaza at this moment that will eventually be 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 what we can live and expect is that the vice president almost in the end will take over but only off to those september elections. today

saturday they are and there are discussions that opposition groups will be meeting 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 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 homes the people who remain barricaded inside their homes and apartments despite the protests the protesters that found a way to. reporting from cairo that meantime investigative journalist and contributor wayne madsen says the u.s. is buying time for mubarak to cover up evidence of murky business deals done 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 turn attorney 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 but. author of the book humanitarian imperialism says that supporting dictate oriel

regimes over the course of 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 we are thrilled to see 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 or to be have been doing for so many years which is not accepted in the region and doesn't care to try to be accepted in the region. now you are with are still ahead for you this hour

when luxury is a problem not an asset with a political accommodation moscow hard to come by look at how the host of the next winter olympics that of sochi it's open to improve the situation for foreign guests and. the key meeting between the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov off the u.s. secretary of state is due to start in munich the two would exchange the documents on the recently signed its start treaty between russia and the u.s. which will officially put the deal into force. joins us live from munich and can bring us up to date here let's cross over to you go to mao and so it's all happening on the sidelines of the annual security conference tell me what's been said that today at this point. was quite a busy day here in munich on saturday is the second and probably most important day of the forty seven security conference in munich we've already heard statements from many well known political figures international political figures from the

secretary general of the united nations the prime minister of great britain who actually outlined britain's new with immigration policy saying some really strong words all hell newcomers really do have to try to integrate into the european society hillary clinton also spoke russia's foreign minister said if you are made quite a big speech talking about moscow's. idea of building eight when you fly into a missile defense system which would include russia the united states and the european union talking about how important it is to face mutual threats together and stressed that this is essential in order to sustain balance in the world and the foreign minister did say that if this balance will not be sustained then russia will have to keep it up on its own. use to do. if the dialogue with russia is

used to distract attention from the u.s. nato missile defense system we stand the risk of missing a unique chance to go to the brink everybody understands that the agreement discussed with the n.r.c. possible cooperation of missile defense is no way means that russia would singly agree to exceed to that nato program developed without russia really would principle take it or leave it does not work here if our concerns are not taken into account but if no equitable joint work is achieved then we will have to compensate for the emergent imbalance of such a scenario regrettably main tail the reversion to the fast lane. so on and so moscow's initiative to create a legal document which will ensure european security in general is also still on the table and the russian foreign minister said that this disagreement this document and a unified anti missile defense systems system are all essential in order to move.

the old dividing lines the remaining dividing lines left from the soviet era and also some of the old stereotypes as well. because look if that is what was there which there were a lot remains to be done to irreversibly overcome the accumulated historical clichés phobias and suspicions in order to materialize in the practical politics of all our countries the principle of the visibility of security proclaims your knowledge a joint project which we are ready to put the most serious collector work in this area of your atlantic global policy time if you has come here to make a choice between common strategic interests and immediate reasons of political expediency. and talking about getting rid of all the stereotypes would also listens to a speech by senator john mccain right after all. the russian foreign minister statement

he was talking about iran but let's let let's listen in on what senator mccain had to say. through the. threat we face from iran not from the soviet union and. when you look from the former soviet union. some people obviously do have to take another look at the history books but obviously and definitely this this conference is a great basis for discussion a lot of issues discussed here a very important and contemporary like the current crisis in egypt frozen conflicts a nuclear iran for the world proliferation of a few billion and you atlantic security in general that's why this conference is all is often referred to as the security damaso since it really shows the tendencies of global security and global politics for it for the rest of the year indeed you go to a sudden you're full spectrum of subjects being covered this i knew what event of

the munich security conference where you are now but that's the time to the upcoming exchange of the documents between russia and the u.s. but you have waited for this moment for about about a year haven't met. i think it's even more actually it's one of the highlights of today vs this exchange of the ratification documents although the new strategy just magickal arms reduction treaty between moscow and washington that's going to happen in the very near future perhaps in the last of an hour and it's going to be done by the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and by u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton and the vatican is going to officially put the new strategic arms reduction treaty into force ending over two years of coraline talks and negotiations internal disputes especially in the united states all of that happened before the treaty was ratified first by the u.s. congress then just last week by both houses of. the russian parliament then signed

by president dmitry medvedev and now only this formal exchange of documents is left before it can officially come into force aimed at reducing the number of times you can on both sides over one third so it's quite significant in terms of the relations between moscow and washington and for global security all right i want to see you go to school for bringing us up to date on the latest from there so i knew a security conference and you know you got thank you very much. also managed to catch up earlier with russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov his interview is coming up in our spotlight that's in just. coming in when about eighteen minutes time so do stay with us for that. well as the british prime minister spoke in munich about the failure of multi-culturalism the englishtown of lucian is a person yourself for a march of the far right group the english defense league several thousands of her supporters will protest against islam while a few hundred meters away there'll be

a demonstration by a fascist group. joins us live from the town which is at the center of this racial flashpoint let's go now to tell us what's happening on the streets now what do you know. what is the most extraordinary scenes here and later today we've been here for a couple of hours already and really it's usually a busy town center on a saturday morning the streets absolutely deserted a lot of the shops have been boarded up especially for this occasion this one just in front to behave with. the windows stayed a day get smashed by the protesters it's really a sort of arab men it's like a town that's waiting for a tornado to hit. police say the police waiting to reveal how many offices they're bringing to today's demonstration but we estimate it's in the recent two thousand policemen and women as we drove into the town this morning we still. full of police batons with police officers bracing for what's happening obviously. in the vans behind me the a.d.l.

is says that luton is its birthplace essentially it found in about eighteen months ago after extremists muslims came to the town and a pre-tested in the soldiers came coming for aid from afghanistan and that's when the the founders of the english defense league felt that it was worth getting together a group to protest essentially the islamification of britain and in the eighteen months that they've been founded they've held around thirteen marches in towns and cities across the u.k. but this is tape to be their biggest march ever again we're not sure how many english defense league supporters will be here today but we think it's going to be in the region of seven thousand also as you mentioned there will be an anti fascist mahler's taking place here in the town today both sides always say when they come together like this that it's not them the stores the violence no one's ever clear quite you don't start it but one thing that is clear is that usually there is some form of violence involved obviously everyone taping today that with this huge

police presence that way happened but the shopkeepers in the residence of leasing us to say well. you know i want to apologize as opposed to getting rather noisy where you are losing but our time is you know certainly times are changing in europe are used to brandish its multicultural credentials but now we're seeing top politicians a meeting of the whole concept. and that's right i mean the e.u. has had a very open immigration policy in recent years some would say the people who are marching here today would say much too open and that sort of tolerance and welcoming attitude is really led to this the rise of santa fe view and the rise of this is i'm a favorite behavior and it's said to hold the english defense league that they pose the biggest threats to communicate he's in in the u.k. today now that as you stay comes against the backdrop of all sorts of your leaders across europe saying that multiculturalism has failed. i'm glad merkel said in germany she said that it had been a miserable failure and that of course there's

a lot of turkish immigration into germany and that integration of muslims has entirely failed and david cameron the prime minister of the u.k. has recently said it is well he says multiculturalism has been a complete failure interesting i spoke to the english defense league leader this morning and he disagrees with dots he says that multiculturalism hasn't failed different communities live in harmony all over the u.k. all the time it's just extremist islam that they are opposing but of course as you say we've seen deportations old gypsies from france and we've also seen the swedish democrats win seats in parliament and now the full rights of political party aver in suisun win seats in parliament quite recently for the first time ever so it does seem that that. open immigration policy has brought about directly this rise in sea islamic feeling and that's certainly what we're seeing here in recent day and it will be surprising if you. will be addressed today and maybe tomorrow as well of

the annual security forum. to use the right there for me thank you. all from i know because into t.v. presenter no one is off the hook when it comes to political correctness in the united states now many americans p.c. overdose makes them keep their opinions to themselves the wrong word can land you in serious trouble at all times more important 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 a trouble according to a poll 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. 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 pulled 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 owing was shot down by for tuesday

style gestures and comments 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 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 the. 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 battle in court a federal jury will soon decide if 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 keys 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 palin 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 neutered the american language creating a super sensitive society incapable on laughing things off a p.c. employee that blasts more people buying their tongues for fear that freedom of expression may be more trouble than it's. more important artsy new york.

is coming to you live from the heart of the russian capital let's check out some of the major headlines from around the world this. time troops how can i do what artillery fire. sleeping at least one soldier biggest confrontation between the countries in the fighting season ask your wife or thousands to flee the conflict over an ancient temple which both sides taking place there radically for years it's not clear what's the latest clash which came all. the two sides are actually declared a cease fire. the husband of the u.s. congresswoman who were shot in the head lost her mother as you bring up a. space shuttle flight she will be leading that is mark kelly said he made the decision because his wife's condition had improved rapidly he was training for the mission when his wife was shot while holding a constituent meeting in an attack that left six people dead his twin brother scott kelly is the current international space station. australia's government has

called on the military to help clear the damage caused by cycling yasi a ship carrying tons of food and supplies has already been dispatched to the disaster area emergency services are working to block roads and restore utility services for their efforts are being comforted by constant heavy rain the category five storm one of the most powerful on record devastated communities on the court hundreds of millions worth of damage. are now talking the business news with sharon . welcome to the business program. emerging markets will be the driver of global growth over the next few years that's the opinion of joseph stiglitz who spoke exclusively to business there are now an economist also says western countries will continue to struggle with the consequences of the financial crisis. it's very clear

that poorer the next many years. europe and america are going to be facing problems that we aren't going to be able to solve those problems we may be able to grow but growth will be so when you make that we won't be able to get our unemployment rate down. and it won't be the kind of robust growth that would be an engine for global growth of course high commodity prices are good for russia that bad for the united states a slowing down economic growth is the solution the problem of global imbalance is that we say too little. before the crisis household savings rate in the united states. was zero some quarters negative it's obviously not sustainable. since the crisis is coming up. but still not enough and well how so savings have gone up. five percent. public's

a big sysco handout national deficit better risk of deficit of around ten percent so in terms of the overall savings rate of the economy we haven't improved we just shifted from one side to the other is there a risk that we will see a double dip i don't think in the united states there's mill much of a risk of a double dip but only a certain. of a decline in growth rate winnable said innocent player. and we've got a little bit of a boost because of the payroll tax cut that was just a nap that shows that payroll tax cut is another might say artificial support a good thing to do but it was on from one year and that means that into the year it's not renewed that they could have forces constraints on states and localities the continuing. problems over leveraged. the house will just continue to

grow for nancy state governments the negatives will become predominant. only surely growth will slow. and let's take a look at the markets question markets close in the black on friday having climbed for a third day energy majors where the top interest was about one hundred dollars a barrel in london and they had political unrest in north africa and the middle east. and. both close trading down on the day after however added close to two percent on both voices after the oil giants stated there that its fourth quarter net income saw a nineteen percent jump over the previous three months. with this week's trading mostly affected by tensions in the middle east and mounting all prices so sooner off deutsche bank explains why gas palm was among the top gainers there

were some people still with the good performance and but people are desperate on. oil prices and there's no. hurry and everything will fall desperate because gas prices prices on the but the taxation for gas from the if the oil companies just promiscuous have been efficient credit will price until they're going to perform poorly so in that the progression of growth will be used to finance excluded loans from the sale of them to speak in that the web by the street this year and this creates the potential market global him with the bushes and that's all the business news for now but you can always find more stories on our website at r.t. dot com slash business thanks for watching.

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on t.v. don't come. now past the hour here in moscow you with a reminder now. the world holds it. over was to follow in egypt after mass protests failed to make in battle president mubarak given to his people's demands and leave office the demonstrations are now and that trial day since they started over three hundred people have reportedly been killed and russia will have to retaliate if nato those missile defense violates its interests the country's foreign minister the foreign minister said this a security conference and munich he reassured those present that russians are ready to build a joint security system but one put up with ultimatums meanwhile at the same

conference the historic nuclear cuts treaty with the u.s. it's about to come into force. and the political correctness overdose survey shows how a growing number of americans are getting tired of his own words and one recent case study american public was the censorship of a classic novel by mark twain. well as the russian foreign minister attends the annual security conference in munich this weekend we had a chance to speak to him just a bit earlier we covered a range of issues from the situation the ongoing chaos in egypt to the conflict in the middle east and a many other issues as well his interview is coming up next in our spotlight show here on our. again a welcome.