as 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 mutually reviews up us 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 russian u.s. relations in many areas must be equal participation we assure starts it will have a positive effect on global security to bring in hillary 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 now that this exchange of the gratification 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 it's quite important that the treaty

was a ratified by both 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 options on each side by over one third of this security conference is often referred to as the security loss because many world leaders and top level politicians are taking part in discussions on some of the most contemporary and important issues i would often focused on russia's proposal to to build and make up a legal document which would ensure the safety and security off the european nations stressed that this stability is very much needed. and if it will

not be kept as a result of me you sure work washout will have to be forced to do it on its own you salute. if the dialogue between moscow and washington is used only to distract attention from the u.s. and nato only anti missile defense system when europe which we could lose a unique chance at a few an agreement to discuss the possibility of a joint anti missile shield in the doesn't automatically mean russia is ready to join the program out there which is being drafted without its participation the idea of take it or leave it doesn't work here many other issues were discussed here as well of course like nuclear nonproliferation meaning iran's nuclear program falls in conflict the situation in the middle east and of course the current crisis in egypt what the international community and top level politicians voicing their views and their concerns of all of what's happening in the country at the moment. i think you've got this kind of reporting meantime that kate hudson

a nuclear disarmament campaigner from london says the newly implemented pact is part of a global tendency towards nuclear disarmament. i think the key thing of course is is in the reestablishment of trust between the two nations we know that things like the verification process that's now being reestablished and restarted that of course is very important and also the message that it sends elsewhere in the world if we're looking at whether other countries will seek to pursue nuclear weapons the fact the two biggest nuclear powers. most surely encourage other countries not to go down that it's not to go down the nuclear proliferation so i think as an indication of the way the international community is moving on nuclear weapons this is very significant indeed and of course the way is open for the united states and russia to pursue the bilateral talks there is

a global trend away from nuclear weapons this is a very very important factor within that process and i'm coming away in just a few moments from now here in oz he will get some more insight on that story from a professor of politics that of dr adrian pabst from the university of kent will be joining us from cambridge shortly now the idea of 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 around three thousand and far right supporters gathered in the town of luton to protest against islam and the fascists and muslims are also there to hold their own rallies. and that is following the story. 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 to 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 i mean you do hear that there is another gathering rather question though it's gathering of about a thousand people in another area in town which is where the main knutson mosque is again anything could happen from this point 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 called. movement you said but you're absolutely right i mean. germany has come out and said that she feels that. has been a miserable failure in her country of immigrants from turkey in germany and they has been immigration.

from. democratic. seats in parliament at the end of last year and. they voted in favor of a ban on building any more minarets so we study all saying that this. sentiment spread throughout europe and in detail marching with the a.d.l. today according to them all greeks from. germany they stay there all. the. claims to represent a growing feeling of. lorimer reporting right now let's get out one of our top stories here on our tooth out of the start treaty going into full force today being ratified by the russian foreign minister often his american counterpart hillary clinton it was done today the annual security conference in munich and we can get more details on this from dr adrian pabst a professor of politics at the university of kent in britain joining me now from

cambridge or let's talk politically here do you think this agreement will lead to an easy a working relationship in other areas of contention between moscow and washington for example highly controversial european missile defense program. yes i think it does because it is a confidence building measure the reset has often been dismissed as just nice rhetoric with little action but now we have a concrete outcome of the reset in u.s. russian relations and i think both sides will want to build on this indeed missile defense has been one of the most divisive issues about as we saw in november at the nato summit in lisbon president medvedev is prepared to discuss this and also prepared to consider russian participation in a missile defense shield that is not aimed at russia but in fact is aimed at rogue states and so it would really help to diffuse tensions of the last few years and move forward in

a more proper spirit for your pentagon positive picture there but there are clauses in this new start treaty that enable either side to pull out if they're not happy about missile defense. as this started any chance of lasting do you think. well it's absolutely right that both sides can pull out that's also been the case in the past with previous treaties so i don't think that is any different but it's important to sign a treaty to implement it and for both sides to engage again in verification i think it just changes the atmosphere of course events could always interfere on both sides if the political leadership were to change you could see moves away from cooperation for the moment i think the trajectory is one of corp and greater confidence and then in previous years however. real threats always exist and both sides have to be very careful as to what they want to put out because that would really set by correlations by many years and one point that many people may be

missing missing here is that upon the ratification of the new start treaty and lowering the number of warheads between moscow and washington the two biggest boys on the books have so many warheads in the first place many of them decades old is possibly just a case of spring cleaning getting rid of their obsolete weapons. well that's of course what many hardliners on both sides think and they'll probably want to push for greater modernization to upgrade their respective bafflement indeed president obama was forced by many republican senators to. agree to new. budget support for modernization so this is by no means the end of this topic at all on the contrary both sides have to move forward possibly sign more treaties on a continued reduction and indeed measures to bring about what president obama called for ready you know half ago which is a nuclear free world of course that is a long way off not in our lifetime we have to see something like this but both

sides have to continue making steps in that direction but now is it just possible is it possible the both both parties here could just be grandstanding on the stage of international public relations or do you think this is a genuine move to make the world more secure. what it could be either depending on whether words and treaties are followed by by actions and by deeds of course both sides want to this treaty because it's not only reinforces the reset but also counterbalances tendencies that see china and the u.s. as the only global power so russia had a real stake in this but so did the obama administration showing that it's serious about relations with the why the european world now it all depends on whether the u.s. and russia can persuade other countries to join these efforts not just china but also india pakistan and other nuclear powers so a lot will depend on efforts to strengthen the nonproliferation regime and again

russia and the u.s. are very very strong shared interests but the presidents of both countries need to make good on their promises and move in that direction perhaps professor of politics at the university of kent in britain live from cambridge thank you thank you very much. well anti-government protesters in egypt are still pouring into cairo's tahrir square and part of the pressure on president hosni mubarak to step down the deadline set by demonstrators for him to quit passed on friday without mubarak making any statement now according to the state media the leadership of egypt's ruling party has resigned we've got the live pictures right here from the central square in moscow we are hearing that the army is trying to secure one of the entrances to tahrir square where protests remain in camp since friday's mass rally dozens of soldiers are trying to remove barricades in what appears to be an attempt to restore order headed the next working week and when you talk about the next working week economically speaking analysts say the uprising is costing the

country at least three hundred ten million dollars a day they say the banks will reopen on sunday but the uprising is costing the country massively when it comes to the economy now 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 as we watch these live pictures here from the car a central square. who has more on these developments. 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 has been various moments throughout the course of today saturday when things looked a bit tense both groups making this surge to each other the army has moved closer when 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 rumors are later and known not to be true but it certainly

gives an indication of the fear 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 portfolio these include prime minister the finance minister. 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 when you're also hearing thea's that weapons might be at the moment smuggled into gaza the presidency from the inside and simply israel watching these developments coast be very afraid that those will be with you and 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 our citizens with both egypt and american citizenship they have also been demonstrations in the middle east in turkey and in yemen and in iran and they've been demonstrations this fall field as south africa and demonstrations in europe from france and belgium so those kind of images of support so we are keeping rimington going here through the demonstration today saturday into the twelfth day

now at the same time we are hearing that demonstrators have formed a new opposition party and that this party consists of ten members included among them a mohamed el baradei who is the former head of the international atomic energy agency . the muslim brotherhood and that the demands they putting forth are quite simple number one they want mubarak gone and number two they want to have some kind of mechanism in place for the would be 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 sort of in their stance that they were not going to negotiate with the other until one of those sides 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 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 thing here he is being told to particularly by the united states and others in the international community as a person to follow mubarak so that kind of rumor only fueling the. situation here in egypt. reporting well meantime. the resident hit the streets of new york to find out what people there think of the ongoing child prince in egypt. thousands upon thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in cairo is this a welcome revolution or an out now try it this week let's talk about that figure's revolution actually should be so did you know much of the situation in egypt before the media started covering what was going on now do you think that what the media puts out there skews our perception of what's going on pretty much us so if they

called it a riot would you feel differently yes why do you think the media sometimes calls in events a riot and sometimes calls it a revolution but i think it probably depends on the news commentator he's imposing his opinion on the scene do you think that the news always does that yeah but i think everybody goes i mean there you are there are no objective people in the world we all come with our mind probably already made up do you think that there media's coverage of what's going on in egypt just fair. at first. i don't i don't know. fair i mean we haven't covered egypt i mean they've had this guy in power for how many years so where were they all those years that he was supposed to be not a good leader you know we haven't heard anything about that until now do you think it's important what happens in egypt for us. it's important for the people i think that. a democratic system is more important than.

for united states so would it surprise you to know that our country has backed the current person that in broward no. not really i mean as the oil right if that's what it always comes down to a young mom if they're getting footage and it looks like people are in this upheaval and it looks like a riot and that's what people want to hear they'll call it that on the other hand if they think they'll sell more and call it a revolution i think they'll call it that so do you think they care about the outcome of what happens in egypt or are they trying to push their own agenda well i think that the individuals care but as a corporation and the media i think they care about selling the news however they want and whoever the stakeholders are whatever they want to hear that's the gender that they're going to push whether or not you think the protests in egypt are a good thing we can only hope that the situation gets resolved with as little violence as possible.

political correctness in the u.s. has become entrenched into everyday life but the rules on what you can say and what you call and have now extended into censoring or altering classic literature is more important explains. 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 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 add 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. perfect humor can end up costing big navy 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. 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 sanitize or plain vanilla is history and art it's really about laziness we don't we don't want to trust people to. 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 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 if sarah palin is 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 neutered the american language creating a super sensitive society incapable of laughing things off a p.c. employer that more people driving their tongues for fear that freedom of expression may be more trouble than it's worth growing up or not artsy new york. or it's hard for sharon and the business. welcome to the business program. and watching 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 the renowned economist also says western countries will continue to struggle with the consequences of the financial crisis. it's very clear . who are in 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 save too little. before the crisis household savings rate in the united states. was zero some quarters negative is obviously not sustainable.

since the crisis is still my job. but still not enough to moscow also savings have gone up to five percent. publics a big sysco hunt down the 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 other is there a risk that we will see a double dip i don't think in the united states there's no 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 so that payroll tax cut is and. makes a artificial support good thing to do but it was on for one year and that means it

didn't hear it's not renewed. the negative forces constraints on states and localities the continuing. problems over leveraged. on the house will just continue the new n.c. state governments the negatives will become predominant. only shortly growth will slow. and let's take a look at the markets question markets close in the black on friday having klein for a third day energy majors where the top interest was about one hundred dollars a barrel and a lot of the other had political unrest in north africa and the middle east. and. both close trading down on the day processed 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. and what this week's

trading mostly affected by tensions in the middle east and mounting oil prices circa sooner off explains why gas palm was among the top gainers there were some people still sold for quite a good performance and but people are desperate and. will. cry out every year for the spring because gas prices prices. but the taxation for gas from the middle of their own companies that's promiscuous have been officially presently priced under the negative firm we saw in that with the bushes were able to move the used to finance excluded 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.

the key nuclear arms reduction deal between russia and the us finally comes into force in the exact form it was signed in by the country's president moscow and washington to exchange a full details about their nuclear arsenals in forty five days. the world. to follow in each protests fail to make the embattled president given to his people's demands and leave office since the demonstrations started twelve days ago over three hundred people being killed. and the british prime minister says multiculturalism has failed one british. to. talk to russia's foreign minister about the start treaty the

situation in egypt and the situation in the middle east as a whole a lot more still to come in his interview on his way next right here with spotlight on. again the welcome to. the show. today my guest in the studio. two thousand and eleven started with a tremendous international politics a long awaited start treaty has been ratified by the russian state duma and signed . the treaty. to the two sides exchanged the ratification which will happen in munich this weekend.