meant the green light has been given in around six weeks to russia and the united states will exchange for information on all. and in two months they will resume regular check ups of the nuke stocks and perhaps most importantly their reduction the pact was backed by both presidents but it still took nearly two years of hard talks and internal dispute until the treaty was ratified by both countries parliament and even then only after the two sides had made so-called special statements or recommendations but they were non-binding and will not affect the actual implementation of the deal the original text remains untouched to remember there were. threats from hoax on both sides but that's all and now we see that it was well the start treaty that started the reset process also on the table at the munich security forum was another initiative backed by moscow the building of a unified anti missile defense system which includes russia the united states and the

european union all sharing the responsibility for the safety of the others according to so you are better off maintaining a balance is essential for everyone security and he stressed this is a unique chance to work together. an 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 was the idea of take it or leave it doesn't work here if we don't work together russia will have to compensate like it or not an emerging imbalance. getting rid of old cliches and received dividing lines that's the message was by most here in germany a country which learned from bitter experience what being divided is all about. a lot remains to be done to irreversibly overcome the accumulated historical clichés phobias this is. titian's all our countries need to follow the principle of

the indivisibility of security we already to follow serious collective work in the key area of year land ticket global policy the time has come to take a choice between common strategic interests and the media political expediency but clearly not everyone is able to get rid of all stereotypes we are proceeding with it because of the threat we face from iran not from the soviet union. when you look from the former soviet this meeting in munich is fast becoming a major stage for people to look forward among other issues dominating the talks were the current unrest in egypt the peace process in the middle east iran's nuclear program north korea frozen conflicts and for the first time in forty seven years cybercrime the security there was that's the nickname this conference has been given by some sense it's

a great opportunity for world leaders and top level politicians to share of their views on key contemporary issues and many say every year this forum reveals the true direction of global politics for the near future and this time in the case of russia and the united states for the next decade you've got this kind of arty munich. on top to a.j. and pat from the university of kent in britain says that although both startling still have the option of pulling out of a joint best al defense system either is likely to use it. the reset has often been dismissed as just nice rhetoric with little action but now we have a concrete outcome of the reset in us russian relations and i think both sides will want to build on this indeed missile defense has been one of the most divisive issues well as we saw in november at the nato summit in lisbon president b. of 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 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. real threats always exist and both sides have you very careful as to where they want to put out because that would really set back relations by many years. still ahead in the program for you revolution riots why do you think the media sometimes calls an event and sometimes calls it a revolution but i think it probably depends on your. visitors opinion to see would it surprise you to know that our country has its current nurse a member now. whether the international media coverage of the political crisis in egypt is fair and what kind of message it sending. the weight of

words some americans say political correctness has gone too far as classic literature of self the target of censorship. night has fallen in cairo's tahrir square but still fouls and seventy government protesters in egypt remain attempting to keep the pressure on the president hosni mubarak the deadline set by demonstrators for him to step down has passed mr mubarak has made no statement however according to state media the leadership of egypt's ruling party has resigned in response to the continued demands among those to quit is the son of the current president will be the latest pictures we have from tahrir square on the twelfth day of protests the crowds are refusing it's him so it seems is what the robotic steers keeping across developments it is raining intermittently people

are still frightened and people have been huddling so wants around campfires and intense but maybe it's just been suzi as and and the real belief in what they're doing that is essentially keeping them warm it was a cheer in the crowd earlier saturday when the announcement came through that state television was reporting that the president mubarak and the rest of the top leadership of the national democratic party had resigned we are those who are in conflict in reports about whether or not that happened but assuming that the response in the square was that this was a step in. right direction but not enough protesters still insisting that mubarak needs to stick to needs to step down from the presidency at the same time i've been speaking to a.m.'s and they can use an expression that when a person has cancer you don't treat that can set by giving them one poor one poor vesper and now earlier saturday the head of the army's central command visited square if you will from the one side to the other and he urged protesters to go home i can tell you that the mood in the square was almost as if the army is

choking people in we did try to make our way there but we were stopped by the army the tape that we've been filming was actually confiscated and we were warned that if we do not turn back we would be arrested on the spot not the focus here is for sunday sunday has been dubbed the day of martyrdom and again a court has gone out for one million protesters to make their way to tahrir square earlier on saturday president mubarak met with the top officials of his government it was almost as if they were trying to put on a face that it was business as usual and that was the message that was given by the country's prime minister he met with opposition parties he did say that the opposition parties were very divided but he was confident that they could reach some kind of common ground and some kind of solution he also said that stability was returning to that country and of course once that message to go out to the international community because of the economic crisis that essentially this country is facing at the moment well saturday's demonstration was dubbed the day of solidarity and that was really to mock and to say thank you to the demonstrations

that have been held around the world in solidarity with what is going on here in egypt itself in new york hundreds of people took to the streets they have egypt and american citizenship we saw the same kind of scenes being played out in europe across the middle east in. turkey in iran and as far afield as south africa at the same time the mid east caught it did meet on the sidelines of the munich security conference and there the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton. satan to quote a perfect storm is brewing in the arab world and of course that is because people are concerned that what has happened here in egypt will have and is already having a ripple effect in the rest of the region e.u. leaders did condemn the violence and again we're hearing the same calls from the international community to acknowledge actions to make a decision for themselves at the same call coming from egypt and asking the international community to stay out and stop meddling in their own internal domestic issues. american special envoy to egypt says mubarak should stay in power

to supervise the transition it appears to contradict earlier reports that the white house was pushing mubarak to leave immediately well in blue his and all things story an outspoken critic of united states foreign policy says the u.s. is playing a double game when it dictates democracy topple. it's embarrassing you know every day the u.s. pretends to be a champion of democracy that that is the main image. they can't just ignore the protests in cairo they have to show some support for the war that's that's that's for their image that's that's that's public relations that their heart is not in if the u.s. government doesn't have any. emotional investment in democracy and overthrow a dictator is that they were not supported mubarak for thirty years if they froze otherwise what is the international media coverage of the unrest in egypt giving

a fair picture on what's going on there to find out laurie hall finessed also known as the breath and hit the streets of new york to ask people that think. 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 why do you think the media sometimes calls in events a riot and sometimes calls it a revolution 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 is 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 and then. for united states so would it surprise you to know that our country has backed the current version that the our no. not really i mean it's all right because that's what it always comes down to you know 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 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. now as part of the fight against inequality and discrimination political correctness in the us has become entrenched into everyday life but the rules of what you can say and what you call it has now extended into censoring altering classic literature that is all things move the 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 people do. to actually

speak their mind 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 museum 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 in 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 tuesday's 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 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 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 pale and 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 b.b. that is a political correctness has neutered the american language creating a super sensitive society incapable of laughing things off a p.c.

employee that's lot more people biting their tongues for fear that freedom of expression may be more trouble than it's worth. artsy new york. here with some of the international news in brief now an estimated seventy thousand dollars in approach in central belgrade the biggest antigovernment rally in the year is demonstrates recorded for elections higher wages a crackdown on corruption and opposition leaders have threatened a blockade of the capital if that request is not met with its own weight have panels of. about a repeat of one hundred see that previous demonstration. heavy monsoon rains have caused massive flooding in several paul. claiming at least thirteen lives that affect eight hundred thousand people thousands of houses have been destroyed and many roads damage this is the second time within a month that sri lanka has been badly affected by raging waters and generally more

than a million people were affected by flooding which claimed at least forty three law. now the idea of multiculturalism in the u.k. has failed says prime minister david cameron who is urging minority groups to do more to integrate the comments were made on the same day as around three thousand far right supporters marched in the town of looted to protest against islam as the fascist and muslims also gather to hold their own rally on his door and it has more . what we've seen in luton on saturday are two arch rival factions meeting about five hundred meters from each other really in this same small town just behind me where the english defense league who is. against the islamification of the u.k. as they call it just up the road you know i see gates fascism and a large list of faction as well saying exactly the opposite saying that we want everybody to be able to come and live in this country in peace and so really when

these two groups meet and come together there are very usually clashes we've seen it several times happening in london in the last year or so we have seen a huge police operation mounted costing in the region of one point two million dollars just to police this demonstration we managed to catch up with the chief counsel for the chip police he told us that he was very pleased with how the operation of post office regardless of how much it cost that to him policing operation the rooms roy through the evening and into the current we've prepared for the. looting to ensure that so you. can push into the evening. more than a thousand people drafted into to and from all over the country and let's hear what one of the u.s. forces had to say about that because you have. been bringing people. just like a huge operation to allow for a system fascistic violence i mean it's the english defense league has seemed to

manage at least for now to have got that violent drunken sort of football hooliganism aspect of their organization under control as they say at least for the moment their membership is fairly diverse already it's not just white people as you might imagine they still say sikhs there are jewish people there are black people who are among their ranks here on saturday so we have to just wait and see what the what the e.t.l. comes up with next whether it was a coincidence that david cameron made his comments today or whether it was done deliberately to coincide. with this march is not clear but it is clear that to hit it again he is not the first person to have made these comments inside europe germany's angela merkel also said that this is a system that has failed miserably they've got said a lot of turkish immigration in germany and she says that there is little to no integration into the german community we've also seen the travelling community gypsies being deported from france recently the swedish democrats won seats in parliament a fall rights group for the first ever time at the beginning of last year and we've

also seen a vote in switzerland in which fifty seven percent of people said they wanted to ban the building of any more minarets so this is certainly a europe wide feeling this this is this anti islam ism and we've more on that issue just ahead danish yes long ballot he's been convicted on charges of anti muslim hate speech says that multiculturalism is damaging the rights to freedom of expression in europe we hear from you know.

mr lang well while you're associated with an aggressive stance towards islam your recent a variety is derived from your treatment by your own legal system do you feel betrayed by the system that you've been defending the main proper. is the role. which was. for. we say is that if you. speak something which. mock or scorn. people because of their ethnicity their race their relief really is belief and. and their. and secure mad rush and then you can be punished and

it shows up. what is a toe mock course born or humiliate. it would be understood in different we. from the one person to the are the what i. used will call or. sober. critique of relief where. the politically correct movement will core two duo mark or form and therefore the problem is this specific law which my party has been working to. get away

you've cited provisions in the article under which you were found guilty that someone merely needs to feel offended in order for a crime to have been made why insert such a subjective clause into such an important piece of legislation a lot of people. first of all of them are from. but also many. left wing people in and denmark see it as an art to feel offended it's. a special culture to feel of ended and when they feel offended they argue that. that you should. stop the freedom of. speech or restrict

it the courts the shish dorsey's them shouldn't care about. people feeling of fended. issued in state are they off and it is it true what that man says. are there are not killings yes or no and then not bother about people. a lot of people are. offended when the truth is that in your so-called confession you pointed out that you voted to lift your own parliamentary immunity. in order to allow yourself to be prosecuted have you not willingly participated in a show trial i voted for. because i thought and right were wrong i thought that i in the courtroom.

make an every day of truth. but what i didn't know was that this is not. part of perth and in such a case. under the punishment the law so i couldn't do that and when i noticed that my lawyer told me that i couldn't. make any evidence of truth. then it ok then i preach. guilty myself. i confessed. this horrible are all. sure i have rated and then i. used.

the meeting in the courts to. make. a speech where i criticised. this law we call it people call it the ratio. law but did you plead guilty because you thought you were guilty or because you wanted to make a point where. if there. is made a law. which for pete in free speech and i speak free freely then there i wire lead the law then i must confess guilty.

i am. discovering. communicate with you want to. become free. give you. this is not a theatrical sit. this is a real correctional facility. is there any cultural life behind bars. could transform a criminal into a lower body citizen. and. really revolutionized the penitentiary system.

prisons. this is the key nuclear arms reduction deal between russia and the us finally comes into force in the exact form of the signed in by the countries presidents of moscow and washington all to exchange full details about the nuclear all souls' or forty five day. of protest rally and claim despite the posting of the deadline for president obama to quit. as the british prime minister says multiculturalism has failed one versions town things simultaneously found islam and as he sat tests coming out next was the rich tapestry of russian culture great britain.

hello and welcome to the show will 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 to the cultural scene here you see how in many areas russia has been a huge influence fifty years in the past bush on the west may have battled it out with cultural and pensacola was the nominee believe it's a time when both old working together to celebrate each other's success first we.