to last for the next ten years the treaty said to reduce the number of nuclear weapons on both sides by over a third an outcome which would have appeared impossible even a decade ago i think we will be presented with a flick of this historical moment the green light has been given in around six weeks russia and the united states will exchange for information on all. and in two months they will resume regular check ups of the new stocks and perhaps most importantly their reduction the pact was backed by both presidents but it still took nearly two years of talks and internal disputes 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 there non-binding and will not affect the actual implementation of the deal in the regional text remains untouched by the way from the way of france from hopes on both sides but. we see

that it was with the start treaty that started the reset process also on the table at the munich security 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 responsibility for the safety of the other according to 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 what was the idea of take it or leave it doesn't work here if we don't work together she will have to compensate like you don't know an emerging imbalance of getting rid of old cliches and dividing one that. the message was by most here in germany

a country which learned from bitter experience what it is all about little what was there which there were a lot remains to be done to irreversibly overcome the accumulated historical cliches phobias and suspicions of 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 the land global policy the time has come to take a choice between common strategic interests really media and 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. no this meeting in munich is fast becoming a major stage for people to look forward to 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 what the security there was that's the nickname this conference has been given by some since it's a great opportunity for world leaders and top level politicians to share 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. pups from the university of canton britain says the treaty marks a real milestone in russian u.s. relations. 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 but as we saw in november at the

nato summit in lisbon president via there 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 a rogue states and so it would really help to diffuse tensions of the last few years and move forward in a more positive spirit both sides that's also been the case in the past with previous treaties so i don't think it's any different. that's always exist on both sides if you're very careful as to where they want to put out because that would really set back relations by by many years. in age of president hosni mubarak has made an attempt to calm the country stands situation by reshuffling his government the leadership of the ruling party including mubarak's son to resign in response to violent protests that answered their thirteenth day however the eighty two year old president insists on staying in office until elections take place in september

meanwhile people around the world to the streets demanding his immediate resignation are western leaders were quick to align themselves with the protests but as laura amad explains calls for democratic changes are after decades of supporting farce regime. president obama started a my belief that an orderly transition must be meaningful. it must be peaceful and it must begin now and then faithfully one off to the other one the other governments followed suit. to show these democratic change has to start now. it needs to happen now for greater freedom and democracy in egypt and it seems the theme was contagious as the call for a new egypt spreads uncontrolled across the western mass media there were two hundred and fifty thousand people in the streets of cairo protesting for democracy this is how democracy happens but what right do u.s.

and european leaders have to get involved in what's essentially domestic unrest about dissatisfaction with a ruler who cares what they want in egypt certainly not these demonstrators at the egyptian embassy in london they supported the egyptian regime for such a long time and in fact they are they give the regime and now they are talking about democracy in respect of human rights of this and so obama's speech i looked for it could be sitting on the fence so much it was up there i mean are these not the same going on the boat out there just saying that's the appearance for a transition where is this peaceful transition where there are shades of past conflicts in the world's attitude to the situation in egypt according to william spring he campaigns against nato aggression is a sovereign state but what they have always done the west they've used this humanitarian or came and they said oh we can intervene in yugoslavia we can

intervene in bhalo russia we can put sanctions for example this week they put sanctions on. the grounds that they and elections were in some way invalid. as well they're all sufficient irregularities in the british elections without your knowledge opinion putting sanctions on. it's a complete turnaround for the western world. which is always supported hosni mubarak is a force for stability in the region the us gave him one and a half billion dollars a year for his armed forces alone and it was western support that kept mubarak in power betraying an inherent misunderstanding of the way society operates according to chatham house the way regimes like survive. is by making themselves useful to the west so they have to convince the world that. if they leave it'll be the muslim brotherhood. in egypt. it's the worst case

scenario so the. minute you can see beyond never really fall or all of which suggests that western countries should stand back and let the egyptian people exercise their sovereignty the president of the united states would call to move immediately and. to make changes as if we are the fifty third state of the united states we are not trying to play a role in egypt's future is a dangerous game the western leaders hosni mubarak enjoyed strong support from america and co for many years but now at the first sign of trouble the support is conspicuous in its absence this sends a message to friends and foes alike in the region when the going gets tough don't count on us a message that's likely to further destabilize an already deeply unstable possibly was a majority. and also our middle east policy and security james believes the u.s.

has invested too much into egypt to just stand idly by. no one will ever think that the u.s. is a neutral arbitrator in this affair i mean clearly it's got a huge amounts of vested interest in egypt egypt is the cation of the second amount of u.s. military assistance in recent history so the u.s. is not under any illusions of its role and its relationship with the country and of course it supported the mubarak regime for decades i think that the obama administration's response is count to rise by extreme amounts of fence sitting and i think it's only come to this point where clearly the population of egypt has totally and utterly rejected mubarak and his regime that they decided to take action now this of course brings us to the next question is that how deep will this change go the population of egypt have clearly shown again that they want except staying for even a few more months so what happens next because his regime is far more than him and of course the cronyism in the petroleum guard system essentially built in the

country will remain the politics of that will remain too unless there is a significant alteration of the constitution and the politics of egypt and that of course remains to be seen with american support that level because of course it's instability that's associated with such an incredible change in such a large country. also i had in the program out of side but not out of mind the people of ukraine's capital kiev demand to know what happened to be eccentric america has been missing from public life for several months. and a false fear of the presence of weapons of mass destruction drew america into war with iran but the same happened with iran we'll look at how the us media is ratcheting up the public suspicion. while russia's security services say they know might have organized a deadly suicide bombing at a moscow airport last month investigators told russian president medvedev they are stepping up the hunt for those behind the attack it's made of welcome progress into

the investigation but warned that it's too early to say the case has been solved meanwhile a video has emerged showing his most wanted man there was dr maher threatening an attack on moscow it comes less than two weeks after the suicide blast of the capital airport took steroids six lives and injured more than a hundred people because he knows our when our reports this address is believed to be a claim of responsibility for the bombing. thank you of course have accepted that conclusion and have accepted the responsibility and claim of responsibility based on one fact in that video is standing with two other men both of whom he refers to as his brothers the man on one side. appears to resemble the man ortiz believed to be the suicide bomber who detonated the explosive device at the airport and many also believe that this is one way to date the video despite the fact that it has been

posted nearly two weeks after the blast of course has made similar videos before he is russia's most wanted terrorist a leader of an extremist organization operates in the north caucasus previously he has been fair. i'm guilty of organizing many terrorist attacks the most recent of course being the moscow metro bombings in march two thousand and ten when dozens were killed and injured there has been no official reaction to w.r. of video so far earlier this week russian president dmitry medvedev met with the heads of the investigative committee and russia's security service the f.s.b. both these services have reported to the president that they have identified the suicide bomber they believe him to be a young man twenty your year old young men are originally from the north caucasus who was quite high on drugs intoxicated with some illegal substances which these security services believe is

a one way that these terrorist organizations are controlling those that they set up to as suicide bombers they've also said that they could potentially have identified the men masterminding this terrorist attack that of course the details of that are not revealed. the fact the investigation is still ongoing but they've also said that they've arrested out of actually detained some other people who they believe to be involved in the preparations for the terrorist attack on the russian president has commended officials on all the steps that they have taken but warned against calling the case closed too soon before every investigative action has been taken because you know as our reporting there and. to other stories now here in our three million people in ukraine's capital kiev have been left scratching their hands after the or eccentric mayor has gone to a wall and he has not been seen in public for six months and even by his standards

they need to turn events kase behavior is radek now even the country's prime minister has demanded to know his whereabouts are to investigate the case of the missing mayor. if agree that over the past six months ukraine's capital has become a bad place to live but locals are bewildered as to who should take the credit as the man in charge of the city has gone missing. the mayor. definitely. in five years as city's top dog he has been a journalist delight from singing at a press conference. taking a dive in front of cameras to prove he was mentally sane the eccentricity of smear earned him the nickname spaceman among locals yes i am a space and true if he had gone to space it might at least explain the mystery of

where he actually is that's because the last time should not be askew was seen in public was almost six months ago it is troubling not just ordinary citizens but those at the very top as well. as the authorities defined. him to return to. switch off to an avalanche of criticism was dumped and gives mayor following a devastating winter in two thousand and nine the city's snow clearing gear was overhauled by the government. you supposed but the real man running affairs is thought to be the city hall of ministration boss alexandre. but he's giving nothing away about the mystery man. villa looks deserted only his mother in law was captured by our camera security guards say they have not seen its principal resident for quite a while. post

. this whether it is from a look at the jury. in france or italy or somewhere else the location of where exactly. the city from remains unclear but with the prime minister inquiring for his whereabouts the long vacation could soon be cut short for. looks you are sure of ski reporting from kiev ukraine well there's always more news and analysis on our website but here's a taster of what's there right now infringing on civil liberties the u.s. authorities are trying to renew the country's patriot act which gives them sweeping powers to illegally spied on people. and russia's black carrier is heading back to european markets after a longstanding ban by now more on this story had to our website r t v dot com.

this week russia commemorate of the man who had presided over the fall of the soviet union and the country's turbulent transition to democracy tuesday is what tuesday would have been boris yeltsin's eightieth birthday present would be a veiled a monument to the late leader in his home because remember in the you were praising him for leaving the country that difficult ninety nine four years after yeltsin's day as his legacy still has many russians divided some admired him for promoting civil freedoms democracy while others despise him for the corruption and canonic suffering that marked his presidency in an interview with our teens talk show spotlight since we don't know enough says her husband had to make a number of difficult decisions during his time in office. it was a time when there were russian colleagues and none there was nothing at all in stores and more importantly there was nothing left to stalk them up when he became president in one thousand nine hundred ninety one what did he have to do. sit and

wait for rights to begin. i don't remember very well when president mitterrand came with a visit to nine hundred ninety one and then chancellor. they both sides of the same saying no actually mitterrand said that in one thousand nine hundred five when he came to russia to attend the day celebrations. he was already very ill at the time we had a long conversation and he said you know i came here because of your husband. i think mr president did everything possible to save people. not only in russia but also in europe and the whole world he said that the u.s.s.r. was not repaying any loans so mitterrand said can you imagine what it would have been a famine broke out in such a multinational country as yours it would have been much worse than yugoslavia they

were afraid there would be no they were sure of that and we were a nuclear power and by containing all the odds and mr mitt romney's words were results in the term i saved russia but also europe and the world to watch the full interview with the widow of russia's first president boris yeltsin log on to our website r.t. dot com now the u.s. media has gone wild over an iranian book found in the arizona desert its contents lists the details of past terror attacks carried out by suicide bombers and militants the publication made some american news channels hand at future attacks on the us by iran but there are still those who think the threat is an exaggeration . a book found in the arizona desert that's what america's most are watching cable news channels one thing i heard fox news alert i knew terror fears the book was reportedly published in iraq and contained information on suicide bombers that much was enough to trigger a sensational suggestions that iranians could be plotting something inside the u.s.

they would not give us a picture of the book they would not be able to personalized in any way or you know what trackers may have found basically no facts behind the story but that didn't stop the channel from making a big scary deal of it story although they reportedly in point out of the end could mean something and it could also mean nothing the international community is worried about iran but the american media go way beyond that seeking to make the country the wall boogie man the biggest threat on earth no politician ever lost a. new newscaster every got negative publicity from around. industry in the states there whenever you have something negative that you want to say about the middle east. you can always attack iran every chance is taken to toss the rain into a story that has no connection with terrorist like with suicide bombings in moscow to help us in places like iran get more russian cooperation with afghanistan things

like that are they going to wise up and help us a little bit the pick and choose style of reporting which shapes the american usage and it became all the more obvious in the wake of the week he leaks we lease of u.s. secret diplomatic cables despite having bast amounts of material at their disposal to troops from the new york times chose to go biggest on he ran with a four page article alone focusing on the country but the demonize they should have iran is not new in the us media is being going on for years despite no proof tehran was building nuclear bombs. are out to kill us i feel that this is the most dangerous country in. do you think the world understands how evil this regime is a nuclear iran can pass on nuclear military capabilities to terrorist organizations and why is america sitting here like apache waiting to get spanked smack killed what is the whole cities going to get hit with a nuke some american news outlets of being major cheerleaders in fear mongering

which back in two thousand and three landstuhl war that was started on why the same people that want regime change in iraq are now saying we need to do regime change in iran fear mongering can have major consequences creating a climate of scratch which could justify any action in the name of providing safety for the american people that's what happened in iraq where a friendly about long range weapons of mass destruction and links to al qaeda was whipped up to justify the invasion reasons later proven to be false the question is could the same approach be used with the rat a bit of news about a suspicious iranian book in the middle of nowhere is nothing but as the news reporter pointed out in isolation this is just a piece of information we don't maybe know months from now maybe a year from now you'll hey remember that young poor yeah that's how i look at news very often it's cumulative as far as the viewers are concerned here is also

a cumulative gotta check on our team in washington d.c. . rushes first a massacre we produced passenger plane in over twenty years has been cleared for the skies this week the savoy superdad one hundred cost around one billion dollars to develop and involve thirty international air space companies now given the go ahead for commercial flights in russia it's set to replace an aging fleet of t one hundred the ferry for jets plans to introduce the super jet on to the global market in of the middle of twenty eleven after it undergoes european and asian safety checks. let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world and a massive flooding caused by moving rains have claimed at least thirteen lives and displaced more than eight hundred thousand people in northern sri lanka local officials say thousands of houses have been destroyed manning roads damaged the government has deployed the army to assist in the evacuations in january more than

a million people were hit by flooding in the country which claimed at least forty three lives. time for telstra staged around the country's capital saturday night urging their prime minister to step down over a territorial dispute with. demonstration follow the skirmish between the two countries left at least five people dead and forced thousands to flee their homes a cease fire has since been cold and tensions have been high on the border where thais disputed ownership of world heritage list attempt. two people were killed in tunisia after police opened fire on protesters attacking and trying to burn a police station incident happened in the northwestern town of caf after hundreds gathered demanding the resignation of the police chief the das came as a nationwide nighttime curfew imposed during the unrest which ousted president and ali it was shortened by two hours. well shortly would discuss whether multiculturalism in europe is a blessing or a curse and

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welcome back you're watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow these are the top stories of the week as well as the latest stories the key arms reduction deal between moscow and washington finally comes into force two years after a much hyped reset of relations with announced the start agreement that was launched by russia and the u.s. and you see the countries arsenal slashed by a third. egypt's president hosni mubarak a chance to calm the unrest in the country by reshuffling his government the protests for his immediate resignation that angered the are thirteenth day are now taking on a global scale. and russia's security service is one thing no doubt organized moscow bombings that killed thirty six people meanwhile video brokers most wanted

terrorist dog whom are threatening an attack on the capital has emerged next to him and someone who appears to be to blame for blowing himself up at the airport. multiculturalism is costing you or it's right to free speech that's the opinion of danish m.p. longball and he was convicted on charges of making an anti muslim hate speech coming up in our exclusive interview he shares some details of the case. this is going well well you're associated with an aggressive stance towards islam your recent a variety is derived from your treatment by your own legal system too you feel betrayed by the system that you've been defending first. i do not. agree if you.