we are sure stance will have a positive effect on global security. are now let's get some more developments here from this ongoing three day summit in munich that's what's called the davos salva international security will cross live now to r.t. the year gropius going off you can bring us up to date on the latest developments here. you go to hell if you so the upcoming exchange of the documents between russia and the u.s. first other two side to be no waiting for this moment for some time haven't. all been waiting for this moment for quite a long time in fact for over two years first the negotiations which lasted for for around a year then just a lot of internal discussion especially in the united states since the republicans initially opposed this treaty and demanded that some changes and amendments are made before the congress could write a fire but many analysts actually say that it's the personal achievement on of president barack obama that this deal was pushed through the u.s.

congress which ratified it then it was ratified by both houses of the russian parliament and signed by both presidents and now only a formal exchange of ratification documents is left just giving the green light and officially putting this treaty into force we've heard the foreign minister russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov talk about it earlier today i think you've just heard his statement just before my report right now he's saying that it's a great example of how. how disagreements can you overcome and of mutual joint understanding of mutual threats so the exchange of the ratification documents can happen at any moment now and this will mean of that to russia and the united states will be set to start reducing their strategic or missed by over one third which is

very significant both for the relations between russia and the united states and for global security in general you're going to be you talk about the start treaty that's certainly taken some of the attention of the three day summit in munich where you are now the so-called dark horse forum of international security but are three days' worth of talks what else is on the campus. table here. will be right it's called the security guard last because this is a great base a great platform for conversation for dialogue most of the whole leaders and very well known globally politicians all present here taking part in discussions with for statements from the general secretary of the senate general of the united nations and we've heard. a speech by the british prime minister of who talked about britain's new immigration policy and he really stressed that a new comers do have to adjust and do have to try to integrate into the european

society statements from the u.s. state secretary hillary clinton and to the russia's foreign minister to go off as well who apart from mentioning the new strategic arms reduction treaty with washington also talked about other important issue contemporary issues like moscow's proposal for a unified anti missile defense system which would include russia the united states the european union and all would share the responsibility for the safety of of each other also talked about. moscow's proposal for the european security treaty a legal document which would ensure the safety off european nations where all would also share the responsibility for the sifi off one of the another and still a lot of really stress that all of this is as essential in order to get rid of the how to did it in the old posts for you to dividing the way the west since the cold

war you run into some of these stereotypes and said this also shows an essential for sustaining balance this acuity balance in europe and stressed that if this will not be maintained then russia will have to do it on its own. you saloon do a look for us we will go to if the dialogue between moscow and washington is used only to distract attention from the u.s. in the only anti missile defense system we could lose a unique chance of a few in agreement to discuss the possibility of a joint anti missile shield doesn't automatically mean russia is ready to join the program which is being drafted without its participation the idea of take it or leave it doesn't work you are. talking about all stereotypes we've heard a u.s. senator john mccain talking right after the russian foreign minister let's listen to what he had to say. we are proceeding with it because of the threat we face from iran not from the soviet union and. when you look from the

former show. well quite an individual and interesting point of view on global politics from u.s. senator john mccain there are of course a lot more is set to happen still here on saturday as the second and main day of the forty seventh security conference in munich continues where you go first there's a wide spectrum of world leaders attending the summit where you are in munich so we'll keep on coming back to you for more details you can piss going off live in munich thank you. government protesters in egypt are still pouring on to cairo tahrir square as they piled up the pressure on president hosni mubarak to step down the deadline set by the demonstrators for him to quit as part of the past on friday actually without making any live statements at all now opposition activists say they held discussions with egypt's prime minister over the president and start negotiations on the country's political future and these are right now live

pictures from tahrir square the twelfth day of protests now still a massive crowd refusing to leave until the divines are met and the country's leader of almost three decades has stepped down these are again impressive and live pictures of the central square in cairo where yesterday we had a count of one million people there it would seem that the crowd has not faded now let's get some more developments on this we'll cross live now to use policy out there which are keeping across all the developments in the capital paula hard to use so government supporters don't seem to be giving up hope do they. now they're still don't seem to be giving up hope the situation here in egypt is calm but tense as you as you can see from these pictures thousands of demonstrators remain converged in tough square in downtown which really has been the focal point of these anti mubarak demonstrations now there have been various moments throughout the course of today saturday when things looked a bit tense both groups making a surge to each other the army has moved closer when it has intensified its

presence in the area and it has gotten more soldiers so so far no reports of violence but we are hearing occasionally rumors that bombs in these rumors are later not true but it certainly gives you an indication of the fear and the uncertainty out there in tahrir square state television is reporting that president mubarak is meeting today with the ministers of his top economic portfolio these include the prime minister the finance minister the oil minister and the minute. trade and industry but no word so thoughts from mubarak himself he hasn't had any thing to say about yesterday friday's d.-day and that was the deadline that protesters gave him to step down at the same time earlier today this morning in fact there was an explosion in a natural gas pipeline not far from gaza now we're just hearing reports that it was caused by some kind of gas leak we're hearing from the authorities that it was not because of sabotage early reports did suggest that it was sabotage what is

interesting though is the conflicting reports also in terms of how much damage it's done to egypt supply of gas to israel egypt supplies the country with forty percent of natural gas now israeli radio is reporting that they have been no disruptions on the israeli nine we've heard other conflicting reports it gives one a sense of the uncertainty and particularly the fear that is being experienced in the region that it is real egypt cannot control its internal security that this has the possibility to spread further when we also hearing fears that weapons might be at the moment smuggled into gaza the president it's different in sinai and simply watching these developments coast be very afraid that those will be with friends that will be used against israeli citizens sure paula as you were saying due to his past still no reaction from the president hosni mubarak but what we do think of the protesters are finding any support from beyond the egyptian borders. well they certainly encouraged by the pictures they see in the messages they hear on the

social media i mean demonstrations have been held in new york where hundreds of people took to the streets many of them are our citizens with both egypt and an american citizenship they have also been demonstrations in the middle east in turkey and in yemen and in iran and they've been demonstrations as hall filled as south africa demonstrations a new approach france and belgium so those kind of images of support so we are keeping rimington going here for the demonstrators who are today. saturday into a twelfth day now at the same time we are hearing that demonstrators has formed a new opposition party and that this party consists of ten members included among them mohamed el baradei who is the former head of the international atomic energy agency the muslim brotherhood and that the demands they putting forward are quite simple number one they want mubarak gone and number two they want to have some kind of mechanism in case for the gradual transition to free and fair elections the

prime minister is reportedly meeting with various opposition groups today that has shown a shift on both sides because until today both sides confirming their stance that they were not going to negotiate with the other until one of those sides we also hear reports about the assess the nation attend on the life of the vice president omar suleiman earlier it was reported that two of his bodyguards had died the egyptian state media now reporting that there was nobody in a sack no assassination attempt what i can tell you is that sentiment is an important figure here he is being told to particularly badly united states and others in the international community as a person to follow mubarak so that kind of rumor only fueling a really uncertain situation here in egypt. we know that the uncertainty in egypt as you're saying is one of the many issues being discussed at the annual security forum in munich as we heard from chris going off just moments ago we have to see what else is said there in germany or of course we're live in carver thank you well

israel has journalist who's written books about the middle east says it's time for president mubarak to flee egypt otherwise he may face unpredictable consequences. a revolution of this sort of skill and peacefully was the part of two for a soldier or for the united states or for somewhere else or otherwise he could find himself being trucked situation is he's now in the egypt it calls for some looting steam or for changing situation which is quite unbearable into something that will be quite. understand that the united states is not really thinking about the best for the gyptian people normally sing suppose about what's good for them i don't know. probably their way of doing the same things would be very much limited. to where you are with r.t. life from moscow and still to come for you on the program the weight of words

american political correctness has just gone too far that's classic literature finds itself the target of censorship. or the idea of a multiculturalism in the u.k. has failed so says prime minister david cameron who's urging minority groups to do more to integrate it comes as hundreds of far right supporters are gathered in the town of luton to protest against islam and the fascists and muslims are also there to hold their own rally and we can cross live to what he's lorem it who joins us now from the can you bring us up to date so laura has the potential for a volatile solution where you are. absolutely i mean we see an extraordinary scene in the town of this morning we've been here for few hours now wandering around talking to people about what they expect from today and the shopkeepers of looseness certainly not confident they have boarded up shops in the main this is just behind the camera there which is entirely covered with a wooden board say the protesters don't smash the window that sort of eerily quiet

at the maybe it's getting a little bit louder now it's. supported start to gather in the square just behind me we expect there's a large band to support these gates coming. on the street just behind the police vans that you can see behind me very shortly in fact we've been expecting it to happen for about the last half hour us a bit but essentially the town center which is usually populated people shopping on a saturday morning it is completely deserted and it feels like a town which is waiting for a tornado chaser pass through it that certainly the atmosphere now the english defense league sees it as the town if you said they say that they were formed here of an extremist muslim protest against returning soldiers from afghanistan who came through the town that was about eighteen months and in those eighteen months since the great school mation they've held about thirty marches in towns and cities across the country they're calling this march back to where it's all began but the

townspeople of newton certainly disputes that this is where the school they say that it's based in in football hooliganism essentially and certainly there are a lot of football he can tell you lurking around the streets usually we see these marches ending in violence as you mentioned that will be another group of protesters in the town of leasing today unite against fascism and they oppose entirely this anti islamic sentiment that the a.t.l. is is trying to promote yes but i mean it has to be said that these these marches do often end in violence so there is only basically an extremist elements inside the english defense league itself these marches are often marred by islamophobia the easy at least is active against what it calls extremist islam but there are obviously lots of definitions of course extremist islamic actually is ranging from terror attacks right up to women who choose to wear the burka and the e.t.l. seems to stand against all these things both sides always say that they will not be

the ones to stop the violence but somehow it always seems to start and we're certainly expecting that today and i'm more interested in looking at the wider picture here david cameron is just the latest western you. leader to talk in these sorts of terms about the failure of multiculturalism but tell us how widespread is that if you are among countries do you think. he is the e.u. has had in recent years an extremely liberal immigration policy and what we're seeing now of course combined with the recession and the economic troubles that we've seen is certainly a backlash against. the d.d.l. is said to pose the biggest threats to community cohesion in the u.k. today because they're treated like e.t.l. all across europe and in fact public sentiment in general is turning more and more against islam in europe really cool has come out and said that that multiculturalism integration in germany has been a miserable failure that's about to turkish immigration that she says that muslims

just on to integrating into german society we've seen travelling communities gypsies deportation from france we've seen in sweden the swedish democrats also a far right party that's what its first ever see same parliament at the end of last year and of course over in switzerland fifty seven percent of the population feted for a ban on minarets so we certainly are seeing a rise in anti islamic and anti immigration feeling across europe and that is what is happening serbian leeson head today we're going to have to check in with you plenty throughout my life thank. you with our breaking news this hour russia's foreign minister and the u.s. secretary of state have exchanged at the start treaty ratification documents in munich the last finalizing the deal the pact was first signed by the russian and u.s. presidents in april of last year the ratification took almost a year with

a deal having to be approved on both sides of the atlantic reduction treaty will see russia and the u.s. cut their nuclear arsenals by thought. now as part of the fight against inequality and discrimination political correctness in the united states has become entrenched into everyday life but the rules on what you can say and what you can't have now extended into censoring or altering classic literature and art is more important i reports many americans think that means the p.c. movement has just gone too far. 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 people do to do to actually speak their mind it's almost as though you have a sort of a code to call them sometimes you want to call a spade

a spade and sometimes you want to call it trouble according to a museum 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. 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 price of humor can end up costing big maybe captain owen honors intrusted 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 owen was shot down by for two the 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 a founder 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 a federal jury will soon decide if white people can use the n.

word at work and 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 keyes 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 as of. 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 menace 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.

i want you all without a lot from moscow now let's get to some other international news making headlines this hour. police wearing riot gear deployed in the central boat gray head of an anti government probably almost ten thousand officers that to prevent a repeat of violence in the previous demonstrations protesters want the elections higher wages and a crackdown on corruption and opposition leaders have threatened a blockade of the capital the request is that within two months. of the monsoon rains have caused a massive flooding in several parts of the. at least seven lives and affecting over eight hundred thousand people thousands of homes have been destroyed and many roads damaged this is the second time within a month the sri lanka has been badly affected by raging waters in january more than a million people were affected by flooding which claimed at least forty three lives

. hundreds of protesters gathered in pakistani administered kashmir in a show of solidarity with people in parts of kashmir administered by india residents and school children formed a human chain cross a bridge and chanted together dozens of rebel groups have been fighting in kashmir a region in the himalayas which is claimed by both pakistan and india over sixty thousand people have died as a result of the conflict since the fighting began in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine. pardon our breaking news here again on r.t. as russia's foreign minister and the u.s. secretary of state have now exchanged at the start treaty ratification documents they did this in munich just now and it's the last step in finalizing this nuclear deal the pact was signed by the russian and the us presidents in april of last year the ratification took almost a year with the deal having to be approved on both sides of the atlantic the key

reduction treaty will see russia and the u.s. cut their nuclear arsenals by a third and next hour our correspondent who is in munich will bring you more details. right now top of the business news do stay with us. welcome to our business program i'm sure on a key. rising prices on crude oil and energy are the main obstacles to global growth says world renowned economist joseph stiglitz he also warns that the recovery from the financial crisis will be slow and painful unless the world addresses pressing economic problems and one of the main challenges for russia he points out is the high exchange rate. one of the problems that almost all resource rich countries have. is the change rate it's very high and a high exchange rate it's very hard for exports to compete with other exports from

other countries or importers or import substitution industries to compete with but it imports so. all of the world resource rich countries become what i call the rich countries poor people. countries that are not able to sustain the first. economic base that is necessary for long term growth instability colleague murielle roubini dr doom mentioned that there's a high risk the g twenty will become a g.'s zero because there is no country was going to pose the united states and come forth as the leader of financial regulation is that possible always absolutely right if we continue going down the route of unanimity it will be taking zero. and you know to be frank i am not sure that there will be the willingness to go through the kind of lame work of broad consensus that i'd advocate the failure of

the global community to solve a lot of this problem doesn't immediately lead to disaster it just means that we will have a less prosperous global economy and a more unstable global economy so where do you see the main risk for economic growth right now to try to do the energy crisis. there are some to patients of the two thousand a crisis or was that it was the high proven energy crisis that really precipitated the crisis because his central banks had to respond and when they raised interest rates again that worked with them there was a low interest rate subprime mortgage she. fell apart. you need to represent probably the most human of. risk. and russian markets closed in the black on friday having clowns for a third day energy majors were the top eight hours with oil trading above one

hundred dollars a barrel in london amid political unrest in north africa and the middle east. and also. close trading down on the day ross enough however added close to two percent on both forces after the oil giant stated that its fourth quarter net income saw a nineteen percent jump over the previous three months. oh this week's trading mostly affected by tensions in the middle east and mounting oil prices surrogate. explains why gas palm was among the top. there were some people still with the good performance but people are desperate. for desperate because gas breaks the only prices on the taxation for gas promotion relative to all companies that's promiscuous beneficiary of credit would price and the negative we saw in that with the precious growth we used to finance and

excluded the sale of three of the percent stake in that the web by the street this year and this creates the potential market bubble him for with the bushes. and that's all the business news for now but you can always find more stories.

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has failed british. hundreds of. years explores the rich tapestry of russian culture but where. that's coming up next. hello welcome to the summer be visiting different cities exploring russian life history our culture we begin with one of my favorite cities in the world. london one of the most visited cities in the world and the cultural scene here and you see how in many areas russia has been a huge into.