talk to us about what's come out of the negotiations as far as you know at this point. what we're hearing so far is that the decision has been taken to set up a committee to study constitutional reform and that this committee has one month in which to complete its work this is obviously to deal with the government's argument that despite the protesters oscar president mubarak cannot step down now because it will dissolve from the country entering into some kind of legal crisis now it. we do apologize for those technical difficulties there that was our. reporting live from cairo about the ongoing negotiations with the mubarak government still in power president mubarak after thirty years saying that he will not step down immediately despite millions protesting and demanding that he does step down the egyptian president saying that he will wait till september to step down now you are with weekly here on r.t. still to come america's media are hot on the heels of tehran.

industry. you can always. present frenzy over the latest claims of mounting threat from the islamic state but is american fear mongering everything it's cracked up to be. commercial aviation with a brand new airline or just being clear for launch full details in a few minutes right here on our. russian security services believe a twenty year old man from the republic of. could be the suicide bomber behind the deadly terror attack on the airport thirty six were killed and well over one hundred injured in the blast at one of moscow's busiest travel hubs almost about two weeks ago now the suspect's body parts were found at the scene but russian investigators say they need time to determine if indeed he was the culprit

meanwhile a video has emerged showing russia's most wanted man. threatening an attack on the capital the chechen terrorists went on to promise quote a year of tears and blood and as artie's reports many now believe it's his way of claiming responsibility for the recent bombing. in that video is a standing with two other men both of whom you were first to ask his brothers the man on the one side of the cool model appears to resemble the man authorities believe to be the suicide bomber who detonated the explosive device adam idea the airport 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 vocal lot of force has made similar videos before he is russia's most wanted terrorist and a leader of a terrorist organization that operates in the north caucasus previously of course

he has been found 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 the 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 the 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 do that the fact they investigation is still ongoing but they've also said that they've arrested they've actually detained some other people who they believe to have been involved in up 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. by the reporting. well the new deal on the nuclear arms reduction between russia and the u.s. has now come into force nearly a year after it was first signed by the two countries presidents the treaty known as start is being hailed as a reset relations between the two countries but as our. reports it's only the beginning of a long road to scrapping cold war era stereotypes. words put into action a historic exchange of ratification documents and the new strategic arms reduction treaty between moscow and washington is officially in force and when it comes to

the button that has worried the most over the years the one that would unleash nuclear destruction the day we take another step to ensure it will never be pushed . to last for the next ten years the treaty said to reduce the number of nuclear weapons on both sides over a third an outcome which would have appeared impossible even a decade ago i think we will be presented with this historical moment the green light has been given in around six weeks to russia and the united states will exchange full information on all their strategic facilities 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 months of hard talks and internal dispute until the treaty was ratified by both countries parliaments 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 by there were . threats from hoax on both sides but. and now we see that it was with a start treaty that we started with a 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 c.v.t. of the others according to sort of you i would offer maintaining a balance is essential for everyone security and he stressed this is a unique chance to work to do. other u.s. nationals are watching i think 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 or 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 of getting rid of all cliches and we're receiving 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. 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 are ready to follow serious collective work in the key area of year a land tick in global policy the time has come to take a choice between common strategic interests and the immediate 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. 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 and 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 since it's a great opportunity for world leaders and top level politicians to share of their views on key contemporary issues and many see every year this forum reveals the true direction of global politics for the near future and in the case of russia and the united states for the next decade you've got this kind of munich. ten minutes past the hour here in the heart of the russian capital and it's snow joke here in moscow skiers and their thousand flight into the capital enthusiastic

of all ages shapes and sizes from across the country test themselves in an annual ski marathon find out what attracts them in just a couple of minutes. now let's get to some of the stories making headlines around the world tunisia remains tense weeks after the president ben ali left the country two people were killed in the tunisian town of cath when the police opened fire on protesters around one thousand were demanding the resignation of the local police chief who they claim abuse the woman from the local community many in the country remain distrustful of police who they blame for carrying out their oppressive policy of president ben ali who was ousted just last month. the indian navy has seized more than twenty pirates and red. you two dozen hostages from a hijacked thai fishing boat that happened off the southwestern coast of india they

will now all be taken to mumbai and handed over to or thirty's pirates mainly from somalia have been highly active in the indian ocean in recent years and the three vessels were reportedly captured just last year. thirty five homes have been destroyed and hundreds of others evacuated as fires raging in western australia the blazes were found by a massive cyclon that struck the east of the country on friday so i clone see also exacerbated the flooding that continues to affect the eastern region they've been the country's worst effects in decades killing thirty five people and causing billions of dollars of damage. three americans accused of spying and illegally entering iran have gone on trial in tehran they were arrested last year while hiking near the iran iraq border the hikers insist that they didn't cross the border and if they did it was by accident but iran says they're spies working for the united states the trial has increased the already high level of hostilities

between the two nations. while those tensions with iran were stoked in an unlikely way this week you were so thorough he's discovered a book instructing iranian suicide bombers but the location being that of the arizona desert no one quite knows what it was doing in the middle of nowhere but the u.s. media were quick to make their own conclusions as artie's guy nature can reports. a book found in the arizona desert has put america's most watched cable news channel on high alert fox news alert time new terror fears the book was reportedly published anywhere and contained information on suicide bombers that much was enough to trigger 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 say if it's 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 reported it point out at the end it 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 to vote by attacking iran. every got negative publicity from the around it is an industry here in the united states that 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 a terrorist like this suicide bombings in moscow to help us in places like iran we 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 release of u.s. secret diplomatic cables despite having vast amounts of material at their disposal

to choose 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 u.s. media has been going on for years despite no proof tehran was building nuclear bombs states people are out to kill us i feel that this is the most dangerous country in the world. do you think the world understands how evil this regime is a nuclear iran can pass on nuclear military capabilities to terrorist organizations so why is america sitting here like apache waiting to get spanked smacked killed what is it a whole city is going to get hit with a nuke some american news outlets have been major cheerleaders in fear mongering which back in two thousand and three legged stool war that was started on why the same people that want to cause 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 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 fall kaido was whipped up to justify the invasion reasons later proven to be false the question is could the same approach be used with a rant 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 yeah poor yeah that's how i look at news very often it's cumulative as far as the viewers are concerned fear is also a cumulative get a check on r.t. washington d.c. . are now let's get back to our top story here on r t that of the continuation of two weeks nearly now of protests in the central square in cairo with over the

course of what fourteen or thirteen days now upwards of a million people have been demanding that the government of president hosni mubarak step down and he is at this point refusing to do so let's cross live now to cairo noughties paul asli who can give us the latest details there and hello to you paula so for the first time in thirty years the government in power has agreed to meet with the muslim brotherhood to discuss the future of the government that the negotiations have come and gone tell us what. you know at this point. well the latest is that a decision was reached to establish a committee to investigate constitutional reform and this is obviously to deal with the government's stance that president mubarak cannot step down despite the demand from protesters on the streets that he step down immediately and till the constitution is dealt with the committee has been given one month to complete its work it is significant that the vice president almost sentiment met with opposition groups and that among those opposition groups it was the muslim brotherhood the muslim brotherhood is banned here in just

a few days ago they were saying that there was no way they would meet with the government until mubarak stepped down now the brotherhood is it pains to say that its position has not changed that it has called these talks are not negotiations and that's when he said that it went to go and meet with them and to see what was the position of the government how much it was prepared to meet them halfway and to put the demands of the people across the other parties there there were leaders of secular parties there were independent legal experts there was a representative from mohamed el baradei who is the former head of the international atomic energy agency who has indicated that he is prepared to hit an interim government and there was also representative that we with who is egypt's most wealthy businessmen there are numerous issues on the table that are being looked at number one in the decision of parliament as well as the creation of an interim government also the setting up of some kind of committee to investigate the violence of the past few days and bring those people who were responsible to book

they also looking at the right to peaceful demonstrations the right for journalists to be able to work here freely and also what the muslim brotherhood is insisting on is that they be someone from the youth someone who represents the young people who are into his square as we speak came and that without that person there they refused to continue with these negotiations it is important to say though that most people here see this more as a punctuation mark they don't really believe that these negotiations are going to yield anything at least not in. and that is why we hearing from protesters that they will continue to gather in various cities around the country as you were saying just now and many egyptians are divided on whether whether it makes sense to engage in dialogue with the government or they want out the first place puts a toss about the current situation on the streets nearly a fortnight now with protests in the central to rear square in cairo where we've seen hundreds or thousands in attendance all the other morpheus of further violence as far as you know. as far as we can gauge the the media is uncertain but it's not so much that people are fearing more violence it's really the uncertainty of what

comes next today sunday we've met me witness the various playstation is being held by coptic christians as well as muslims they've come together and they've been praying for the people who died today has been called the day of mass has the message that they've been pushing out is that this is a people's revolution this is a democratic revolution the mood today has been faced if there is a concept that is is being organized by the soft to mean with egypt and not just people are holding down as people continue to chant to sing to scream so certainly not at the moment any kind of hints of violence on the cards outside of tokyo square for the first time we've noticed a real desire for people to get back to work and some kind of normality the banks were open earlier for three or four three hours they're having some businesses have opened their doors i can tell you though that the regulators used military cargo planes to bring in five billion pounds of cash and that was because of the fear that so many people would use this as an opportunity to go and this crew as much

money as they could the figures being bandied about is that this crisis has cost the country three hundred ten million dollars a day totaling three point one billion dollars so there is a very real desire from most people in the country that while they simplify is an improviser the protesters push some kind of normality to return to the streets of egypt. we are now looking at live pictures here on r.t. of the central to rear square just. to go we have live pictures then the latest pictures if we can just queue up the live pictures now we were just seeing what appeared as you said earlier it looks like a tent city you mentioned that a couple of hours ago it would seem that the thousands that have been congregating in the central square there certainly have set up home nevertheless though they are still making a clear call to the government that for mubarak to step down again live pictures here on r t. the us and e.u. have been critical of president mubarak's handling of the crisis of this point we've heard condemnation from all over leaders in western europe to talk to us about the reaction in egypt to the western star how the locals feel about the west

getting involved. just yesterday the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton speaking in munich saying that the washington the american administration would support a government that is headed by almost sort of man he is the vice president that is currently meeting with these opposition groups now superman is widely regarded here as mubarak's right hand man and people prefer him possibly but they certainly don't believe that a government headed by him will be anything different to what they say seen at the moment his nickname is mr torture because of the position he held for so many years in the intelligence service here he was the chief intelligence so when those kind of statements come out of the american administration they just reinforce the feeling on the street here that the united states and european powers and the rest of the world really needs to stay out of egypt and if it is my colleague in england took a look at that phenomenon. president obama starts today my belief that an orderly

transition must be meaningful. it must be peaceful and it must begin now and then faithfully one after the other one the other governments followed suit. the show these democratic change has to start now. it needs to happen now to 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 do feel regime and now they are talking about democracy and respect the from the right side of this and so obama's speech i looked at this bob could be sitting on the fence so much. i mean it is not the same good overbought out there 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 on the west they've used this humanitarian or good moves they said oh we can intervene in yugoslavia we can intervene in bhalo russia we can put sanctions for example this week so i put sanctions on. the grounds that they in directions were in some way invalid or there was some irregular as well there were all sufficient irregularities in the british elections without your knowledge you 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 and the way regimes like mubarak 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 and 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 for western leaders hosni mubarak enjoyed strong support from america and co for many years but now at the first sign of trouble this approach is conspicuous in its absence it 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 part of the world's nor a majority. white audience come to you live from moscow it's good to have you with us today the mayor of ukraine's capital kiev has now been missing for months so now the prime minister is demanding somebody finds him one a local official has reassured ukrainians that. scheme is alive and well but that's just not enough for the government. investigates. many here for agree that over the

past six months ukraine's capital has become a better place to live in 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 and each and maybe its key 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 key of smear earned him the nickname spaceman among locals yes i am a spaceman absolutely true if he had gone to space it might at least explain the ministry 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 in tell him that the people of kiev miss him and want him to return to work. after an avalanche of criticism was dumped on gives mayor following a devastating winter in two thousand and nine the city's snow clearing gear was overhauled by the government should have kept you s'posed but the real man running affairs is thought to be the city hall of ministration boss alexander pop off he's giving nothing away about the mystery may. 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. i saw him last six months ago even his. often. use of. this

whether it is from a luxury. resort in france or italy or somewhere else the location of where exactly any journey it's good runs the city from remains unclear but with the prime minister inquiring for his whereabouts the long vacation could soon be cut short for kiev's mayor let's hear a shot of ski r.t. reporting from key if you crane. coming up in just a few moments here. special report on the vietnam war that's right after the latest headlines on the week's top stories do stay with us.

it's now a five thirty pm here in the russian capital you with. headlines on the week's top stories the egyptian government meets the opposition in a bid to appease protesters. thirteen days of rallying demonstrators. on the president's resignation. at this point so far refused. to run for reelection instead. as investigators examine the remains of a twenty year old believed to be the. suicide bomber a video. most wanted terrorist threatening of. him

with one of whom appears to resemble the suspect in the. years of debate as the new nuclear arms reduction treaty comes into force with both sides. it took over a year after the. signed by the two countries presidents. and the search for a missing man stepped up as a government official's demand to know his whereabouts after months of mystery the ukrainian prime minister says the public misses him and wants to see him in. a special report on the mass murder atrocities committed during the vietnam war you may find some of the following images disturbing.