it's sad that this is a result of a long and difficult negotiations there were obstacles but they did manage to work as one team and achieve this goal are only really moves up us with this with the start treaty has been agreed on the understanding between russia and the us that unilateral views on global security lead nowhere it's clear the basis of strong russia u.s. relations in many areas must be equal participation we assure starts will have a positive effect on global security particularly clinton also said that it was quite symbolic that this exchange of the ratification documents happened in munich since germany was the country divided after the second world war and during the cold war in iraq and that now that this exchange of the ratification documents happened here the two sides are russia and the united states or have chosen this location to move closer to each other as well as quite important that the treaty

was a ratified by all sides in its initial original version nothing was changed although as ratification went on on all sides both sides did have to make some winding statements but they do not back to the actual implementation of this treaty just to remind you it's aimed at reducing the number of strategic always on each side by over one third of this security conference is often referred to as the security boss because many world leaders and top level politicians are taking part in discussions on some of the most contemporary and important issues i would offer focused on russia's proposal to to build and make up a legal document which would ensure the safety and security off of european nations the figure of stressed that versus the bill. do you disagree much here and if it

will not of the doubt as a result of mutual work with russia will have to be forced to do it on its own used to work for us we would prefer if the dialogue between moscow and washington is used only to distract attention from the u.s. and nato 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 here the russian foreign minister also talked about how both the european security treaty and the project of the unified anti missile defense system they're both essential in order to erase the outdated dividing wings left since the cold war era and some of the stereotypes since then. i don't think you can discount for putting their let's get some more on this i'm joined in the studio

by sort of from the moscow based commerce and newspaper good to see you i'm so he is this deal a good example for other world's nuclear power is a possible other nuclear possessors could actually follow suit here i think where and when we discuss the importance of the start treaty we have to understand that this is not only the deepest of nuclear weapons in the world history it should definitely be as important political and psychological message a message to the world powers that nuclear weapons are obsolete they doesn't feed into the defense strategies or the world powers they have to count them but at the same time let us let us be frank so far there are no any indications that the world powers would be enthusiastic just before the example of russia and the united states there would you could cite you of the biggest nuclear powers so disarmament should be restricted to you but china france not to mention thresholds the

dimension countries like israel and pakistan and india so they approve is just lukewarm and they would definitely stick to the you so i'll just say as you're saying all right look it's you know it's a broad message it's a broad myself put out there by the two biggest boys on the blogs and you'll say the suggestions are lukewarm that we don't know at any point if any other countries who possess nuclear weapons would follow suit but let's talk about the one major bone of contention between between moscow and washington d.c. and that was america's desire to have this missile defense shield in western europe that was a real sticking point when it came to both major players coming and ratifying the start treaty what's next for the u.s. plans for the so-called missile defense shield well i hope you would agree that the . nuclear. a.b.m. plants the a.b.m. deployment in europe those plans are still remaining you need more for. for all the world probably. still those laws for understanding even you wouldn't between nato

leadership and american leadership more cheap future a.b.m. system would have but i'm sure as we heard from sort of today at the security summit in munich the russian foreign minister saying that russia must play an active role if it would come to this european missile defense shield is that at all possible i wish russia would play a role if russia doesn't play or all of that's going to that would be a big problem because it's clear that about my administration has got to go ahead with a.b.m. and russian side as strong as that ration is or with it so the only option is just to settle the issue is just we embrace russian to build collective. russia would be equal partners now is this a positive sign of the relationship between moscow and washington because during the bush era certainly there was quite a lot of locking horns between two of the biggest boys on the block here you are saying obama he's quite adamant to get this missile defense shield going but but do

you think this today's development is a sign of a warming of relations between russia and america well i think we should have started with this question and that definitely this is this is a this is the major price we shared by presidents maybe i do want to bomb and in fact it was the start treaty i mean how things were going that was a new girl in negotiations you know and you remember there were some ok for the way of threats from kooks on both sides but luckily this is all or work and now we see that it was with the start treaty that we started that we're separate now so i'm running out of time here but do you think you think this arms reduction treaty can make america or russia any weaker when it comes to terms of global security in no way to make it then we can definitely tell it would make them stronger because it in was a just not only only. nuclear. weapons but also both sides would undergo modernizing

their they their potential and that's why their military force would it would be more up to date and i don't see any way how how they would be weaker and i started a stroke on a political analyst from the commerce and newspaper here in moscow thank you thanks for sharing. well the idea of a multiculturalism in the u.k. has failed so sounds prime minister david cameron who's urging minority groups to do more to integrate it comes as around three thousand former supporters are gathered in the town of luton in england to protest against islam and the fascists and muslims are also going to hold their own rallies auntie's lorem an hour joins us live from a little less cross live to her and see what the latest developments are and laura so what can you tell us about these demonstrations what's the what's the one of the messages have been put forth by the various groups but. well what we've got here essentially rory is two arch rival factions meeting to hold their various gatherings in the same small town about thirty miles outside of london you've got

the english defense league on the one side who are the people who are gathered just behind me and they are and see islamic group essentially they proclaim to be against the what they call the islamification of the u.k. some of them say that they're only against extremist islam and some say that islam is inherently an extremist religion at its core and say therefore they're against islam as a whole and then at the other end of the high street towards which i have to say the english defense league supporters are now moving the united against fascism movement and they are against everything that the d.l. stands for they proclaim inclusion and that everyone should be able to live in peace and harmony in this country now there are extremist and violent elements in both groups it has to be said and whenever these groups means they don't often result in violence each group says you know it's never us that starts the violence it's always them that stood it throws the first punch and then we have course won't

turn the other cheek but it's never clear who started it but it generally does result in violence at the moment we've got about two thousand police officers apparently in this small town and they are doing an excellent job i have to say of keeping these factions of heart now that this group is. moving towards where the other group is it's not clear what's going to happen and we do hear that there is another gathering rather question though it's gathering of about thousand people in all the area in town which is where the main newson mosque is so again anything could happen from this point also nor of a potential for tempers to flare prime minister david cameron he's not the first european leader to address this idea for a year old multiculturalism how do his comments chime in with what's being said elsewhere. well it's it may be a coincidence or it may be just ironic or it may be plans that david cameron has made these comments about multiculturalism failing on the very day that the english defense league holding their biggest march ever they were formed about eighteen

months ago they've had thirty marches around towns and cities in the u.k. in that time and this is the biggest one they've ever held in what they call the heartland of their movement leeson but you're absolutely right i mean angela merkel in germany has come out and said before that she feels that multiculturalism has been a miserable failure in her country of immigrants from turkey in germany and they that there has been little to no immigration that that muslim culture we've also seen gypsies the travelling community d. posted from france the swedish democrats the fall right group in sweden won their first seats in parliament at the end of last year and fifty seven percent of swiss people voted in favor of a ban on building any more minarets so we certainly are seeing this this time see islamic sentiment spreading throughout europe and in detail marching with the a.d.l. today according to them all groups from from holland germany they stay there all

say swedes and norwegians has the e.t.l. certainly claims to represent a growing anti islamic feeling across europe right onto the lorimer the reporting live from new zealand thank you. well still to come on the program here when i see the weight of work. sometimes you want to call a spade a spade sometimes you want to call it a job but some americans feel they have. fallen victim to censorship as political correctness takes over. and government protesters in egypt are still pouring into cairo's tahrir square as they piled on the pressure on president hosni mubarak to step down that deadline set by demonstrators for him to quit passed on friday without mubarak making any statement at all opposition activists here say they held discussions with egypt's prime minister over how to oust the president and start negotiations on the country's political future these are live pictures right here from syringe square we see the

crowds just as big as yesterday yesterday's count about a million this doesn't look too far from it on the twelfth day of protests a crowd is refusing to leave until their demands are met and the country's leader of almost three decades stepped down and as we said you're looking at these live pictures from central cairo thousands in attendance so this is one of the issues being addressed today during their week long economic and security forum in munich this is one of the issues being discussed which you want to call a sleeper who is a cross the developments for us. thousands of demonstrators remain converted into his square in downtown kabul 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 the surge to each other the army has moved close to it has intensified its presence in the area and it has brought in more soldiers so so far no reports of violence but we are hearing occasionally rumors that bombs in

these rooms are later and known not to be too but it certainly gives an indication of the anger and the uncertainty out there in tahrir square. now state television is reporting that president mubarak was meeting today with the ministers of his top economic portfolios these include the prime minister the finance minister the oil minister and the minister of trade and industry but no word so thoughts from mubarak himself he hasn't had anything 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 there 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 that if egypt tennille control its internal security that this has the possibility to spread further lang also hearing fears that weapons might be at the moment smuggled into gaza the president also from the inside and certainly israel watching these developments closely very afraid that those will be with means that will be used against israeli citizens demonstrations has been held in new york where hundreds of people took to the streets many of them are in are citizens with both egypt and american citizenship they have also been demonstrations in the middle east in turkey and in yemen and in iraq and they've been demonstrations in small fields as south africa and demonstrations in europe from france and belgium so those kind of images of support so we are keeping

remember going here for the demonstration today saturday entering the 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 a mohammed el baradei who is the former head of the international atomic energy agency the muslim brotherhood and that the demands they are 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 was reportedly meeting with various opposition groups today that has shown a shift on both sides because until today both sides can serve in their stance that they were not going to negotiate with the other until one of those sides did but we're also hearing reports about the alleged assassination attempt on the life of the vice president omar suleiman earlier it was reported that two of his bodyguards

had died there the egyptian state media not reporting that there was nobody and i said no assassination attempt of what i can tell you is that's when the most important figure here he is being told to particularly by the united states and others in the international community as the person to follow mubarak so that kind of only fueling the. situation here in egypt. policy or the reporter means i'm investigative journalist and author should be when madsen says the u.s. is buying time for mubarak to cover up evidence of monkey business during 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 and 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 government. you without a life from moscow where it's now worth twenty minutes past the hour let's get to some other international news making headlines around the world and an estimated seventy thousand or so took part in a protest in central belgrade the biggest ever anti-government rally in the movies demonstrators are calling for early elections higher wages and a crackdown on corruption and opposition leaders have threatening a blockade of the capital if the request is not that within two months almost ten thousand officers were on hand to prevent a repeat of violence seen at previous demonstrations. the monsoon rains have caused massive flooding in several parts of sri lanka claiming at least seven lives and

affecting over eight hundred thousand people thousands of houses have been destroyed 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. now as part of the fight against inequality and discriminations political correctness in the us 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 as artie's marina portnoy reports many americans think that means the p.c. movement has 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. 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 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 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 owen 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 a friend 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 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 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 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 pailin 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 many say political correctness has a neuter in the american language creating a super sensitive society incapable of laughing things off a p.c. employee that's left more people biting their tongues for fear that freedom of

expression may be more trouble than it's. very important artsy new york. with us always blogs feature stories on our website called a few of the items you can find online waiting for you right now. american soldier in the race is a crocodile he was called go wild it sounds more like bringing. new weapons of put a lid on corruption and russia. website is created to name and shame a cricket officials for the full story so much more. time now for the business news with sheila.

welcome to our business program i'm sure on a. 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 the source rich countries have. is a strange rate it's very high and in a high exchange rate it's very poor export has to compete with other exports from other countries or importers or import substitution industries to compete with the budget in four years so. all of the world resource rich countries become what i call the rich countries or people. countries that are not able to sustain

the first. economic base that is necessary for a long to roll instability colleague nouriel 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 deep in need of financial regulation is that possible i mean is 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 bill you're for the global community to solve a lot of its problems doesn't immediately. 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 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 raise interest rates again that worked with them there was little interest rate subprime mortgage she. fell apart. to me this represents probably the most immediate. and russian markets closed in the black on friday having klon for a third day energy majors where the top players with oil trading above one hundred dollars a barrel in london made political unrest in north africa and the middle east. and. 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. this week's trading mostly affected by tensions in the middle east and mounting oil prices. explains why gas palm was among the top. there were some people still with the good performance but people were desperately. curry on everything before just gets breaks with only prices. but the taxation for gas permitted to own companies that's promiscuous beneficiary of credit would priced and then the negative for and we saw that with the precious growth from we used to finance. the sale of going to space in that the grab 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 watch stories on our website. thanks for watching.

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the huge earth covered. here with r.t. live from moscow where it's not just about half past six in the evening. the key nuclear arms reduction deal between russia and the u.s. it finally comes into force in the exact form it was signed by the country's president moscow and washington stranger. in forty five. and the world holds its breath over wants to follow in egypt after massive protests failed to make the embattled president mubarak and given to his people leave office since the demonstrations started twelve days ago over three hundred. people have reportedly being killed. and the british prime minister says multiculturalism has

failed one british town broaches first of all ten u.s. rallies by hundreds of anti islam and fascist activists. all right well now here on r.t. explores the rich tapestry of russian culture but where does he find it great britain that's coming up next. hello welcome to the show will be visiting different cities exploring russian life history culture and we begin one of my favorite cities in the world. london one of the most visited cities in the world and the cultural sea.