it's 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 tell 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 was the muslim brotherhood the muslim brotherhood is banned here with just a few days ago they were saying that there was no way they would meet with the government until mubarak step 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 it's only 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 do to meet them halfway and to put the demands of the people across as far as we can gauge the mood is one solution but it's not so much that people are fearing more violence it's really the uncertainty of what comes next we've witnessed various precisions being held by coptic christians as well as muslims they have 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 putting out is that this is a people's revolution this is a democratic revolution for the first time we've noticed a real desire for people to get back to work in some kind of normality the banks were open earlier for three hours there have been some businesses who opened their doors the figures being bandied about is that this crisis has cost this 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 sympathize and empathize with the protesters for some kind of normality to return to the streets of egypt 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 but almost sort of many now superman is widely regarded here as mubarak's right hand man and people prefer him possibly to mubarak but they certainly don't believe that a government headed by him will be anything different to what they've seen at the moment his nickname is miss. to torture because of the position he held for so many

years in the intelligence service here he was the chief of egypt's army intelligence so when those kind of statements come out of the american administration they just reinforced the feeling on the streets here that the united states and european powers and the rest of the world leading needs to stay out of egypt and i say is my colleague in england took a look at the 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 bind them a card to show these democratic change has to start now. it needs to happen now the growth of 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 three 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 on rest about dissatisfaction with a ruler who cares what they want in egypt certainly not these demonstrators at the egyptian embassy in london they supported this gypsy regime for such a long time and in fact they are they give the regime and now they are talking about developing a serious work the from the right side of this into obama's speech imo this is bob must go out because he's sitting on the fence so much and most of that i mean he's not the same going overboard out there just saying that's the appearance for a transition where is this peaceful transition it's a complete turnaround for the western world which is always supported hosni mubarak is a force for stability in the region the u.s. 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 and you'll have the public. in egypt and it's the worst case scenario so the. minute you can see beyond never the fall of all of which suggests that western countries should stand back and let the egyptian people exercise that sovereignty the president of the united states would call on us 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 to count on us a message that's likely to further destabilize an already deeply unstable possible was. locked. you know with the weekly hit on r.t. still to come human rights groups versus george w. bush find out why you have the u.s. president has done example of a visit to the land of cheese and chocolate. glass that russia rebuilt its commercial aviation with a brand new airline no which is just being given the launch we've got the full details in a few minutes here on r.t. . rational thorough search in for two people from the republic of congo shetty are believed to be connected to the deadly terror attack on domodedovo airport thirty six people were killed and more than one hundred injured in the

blast at one of moscow's busiest travel hubs almost two weeks ago it's thought the two men could be linked to the twenty year old who's a currently suspected of being the suicide bomber when his body parts were found at the scene but russian investigators say they need time to determine if he was in fact the culprit meanwhile a video has emerged showing russia's most wanted man doctor model threatening an attack on the capital the chechen terrorists went on to promise a year of tears and blood there's a lot of these companies a lot of reports many nonbelievers his way of claiming responsibility for the airport bombing. in that video is standing with two other men both of whom are never 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 at 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 a 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 and 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. well that was aussies contadina us out of a bringing us the latest only investigation into the bombing of moscow's domodedovo airport almost two weeks ago. now the new deal on nuclear arms reduction between russia and the us has come into force nearly a year after it was first signed by the two countries presidents the treaty known

as the new stars is being held as a proper we settle for nations but when the culture does not oppose the not support it then 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 and 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 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 months 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 remember they were ok for the way of france from hopes on both sides but luckily this is all or were and now we see that it was with the start treaty that we started with 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 responsibility for the safety of the others according to you i would offer maintaining a balance is essential for everyone security and he stressed this is a unique chance to work together. and if 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. getting rid of all cliches and we're really seeing dividing one that's the message wars by most here in germany a country which learned from bitter experience what being divided is all about that's pretty much 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 land 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 the stereotypes we are proceeding with 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 north korea frozen conflicts and for the first time in forty seven years cybercrime the security 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 every year. 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. now it's no joke in moscow is scarce in their thousands slide into the capital. of all ages and funding from across the country fell in an annual find out what a chance just a couple of. our former u.s. president george w. bush has canceled a visit to switzerland citing security concerns but human rights groups say they prepared a criminal case against him on charges of authorizing torture and that he simply scared of arrest journalist actually. more likely will be held to account by an international court. my understanding is the center can start as usual writes has

a two and a half thousand page document they're releasing in the next twenty four hours in geneva but it's difficult to know where to start with george w. bush because it's an entire car drove people it's dick cheney it's called rumsfeld is dick cheney's chief of staff we don't have rumsfeld's memoirs this is about illegal wars and so on but this case i think centers around two individuals in particular one of whom i've met cameraman for a category satellite t.v. channel who was incarcerated in guantanamo for years and we mustn't forget forty eight year old died a few days ago after being in guantanamo for nine years also without charge of course and and tortured i think international law has proved pretty useless when it comes to torture will any of these come to pass to actually indict all these people including of course tony blair here in britain very doubtful in the hague won't touch the people who really are responsible for torture in such a major scale and for training tortures at the school of americas and of course we

must remember that the about it ministration still is going to animal open so people are being tortured to this day. well it was journalist returns the there a quick check now and some other stories making headlines across the world this hour and to near zero remains tense weeks after the else that president ben ali left the country two people were killed and seventeen others injured in the newseum town of kef when police opened fire on protesters around fouls and were demanding the resignation of the local police chief who they claim abused a woman from the local community many in the country remain distrust for the police who they blame for carrying out their oppressive policy on president ben ali he was ousted last month. the indian navy has seized more than twenty pirates and rescued two dozen hostages from a hijacked fishing boat it happened off the southwestern coast of india now all be taken to mumbai and hundred a tall forty's pirates of mainly from somalia have been highly active in the indian

ocean and recent years and three tiny vessels were reportedly captured last year. thirty five homes have been destroyed and hundreds of others evacuated as fires raged in western australia the blazes were found by a massive site that struck the east of the country on friday. also exacerbated the flooding that continues to affect the east region they've been the country's worst decades killing thirty five people and calls in billions of dollars of damage all those tensions with iran unlikely way this week us all dorothy's discovered a book instructing a radiance suicide bombers in the hours in the desert when i don't quite know what it was doing in the middle of nowhere but the u.s. media were quick to make their own conclusions as artie's gun egypt can report. a book found in the arizona desert has put america's most watched cable news channel

on the high alert fox news alert i knew terror fears the book was reportedly published in iran 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 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. no newscaster ever got negative publicity from. it is an industry here in the united states that whenever you have something negative that you want to say about

the middle east or about the islamic world you can always attack iran every chance is taken to toss the rain into a stories that has no connection with a military like this suicide bombings in moscow second to help us in places like iran to 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 e ran with a four page article alone focusing on the country but they demonize they should have iran is not new in the us media is being going on for years despite no prove 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 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 threat 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 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 young 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 got to check out r.t. washington d.c. . now this week russia would have been the eightieth birthday of its late president yeltsin he was at the helm during the country's first turbulent steps to democracy after the ford of the song union president medvedev unveiled the monuments to russia's first into his hometown a victim brick in the world he praised yeltsin for sticking to the democratic for the very tough time of the country's history years after death russians still debate his legacy and his impact on russia's future and while some praises have to provide a civil never seems out there's blame. even with the corruption and economic suffering of the time. the mayor of ukraine's capital kid has been missing for months so now

the prime minister is demanding someone finds him one local official has reassured ukrainians that live in the van ski is unlikely to well but that's not much for the government. investigates the mystery. many if 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 i am definitely. in five years as city's top dog maybe a ski 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 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 in tell him that the people of kiev miss him and want him to return to work. after 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 chimney cap he s'posed but the real man running affairs is thought to be the city hall of ministration boss alexandre popof but 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 year six months ago even his. post has been. using. this whether it is from a look at jury. resort in france or italy or somewhere else the location of where exactly and you should maybe it's queue runs the city from remains unclear but with the prime minister inquiring for his whereabouts the long vacation could still be cut short for gives me your looks your share of ski r.t. reporting from kiev ukraine. now a brand new russian passenger plane has been cleared to fly into the lucrative world of commercial aviation the sukhoi superjet one hundred is the first airliner designed in the country's three soviet times the plane with a capacity of around one hundred passengers is said to replace russia's aging fleet of short range jets the designers will promote the super jet on to the global

market later this year after it undergoes european aviation safety checks. we've got all these a many more stories for you on our website r.t. dot com let's have a look at what's on offer right now for you are using sports promote religion american churches gather on super bowl sunday to pray for the world to stop watching. and flushing out on cultures st petersburg's famous about inskeep fears it is set to become one of the most expensive theater projects in the world after its renovation. this sunday is no day of rest with scores of russian athletes thousands of strapped on their skis then headed to the moscow region for an annual ski mouth and this is

raised mark the fiftieth anniversary of yet again gardens historic first flight into space their first slid to the starting line. we're here at the most. annual cross-country ski event one of the largest ski marathons in russia now is a huge event this saves seventeen thousand participants a day from a twenty region every russian the very really catering to ages sizes and abilities now this year's event predicated marking the fiftieth anniversary of the first manned spaceflight and these guys are going to be racing eva three distances you go forty kilometers ten kilometer a simple five kilometers for the children and it's a great event a huge turnout of the said lazy people participating in fact all we need to join in the event is the pairs and how certificates are everyone here now gearing up for the cross-country slog i look for lots of spectators around to enjoy the event to

say. coming up an exclusive interview with a danish m.p. yes belong here believes that multiculturalism is costing europe its rights to korean speech but first i'll be right back with a recap our top story. the

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ok this is the latest headlines on the week it's a top story now it changes promise to move to the government reaches agreement with the opposition in a bid to stable football. planning to set up a committee to look at constitutional reform the days of probably demonstrators continue to model the president's resignation pretty hot so paul really means home to rob reelection instead. also a russian investigators are on the scene met with possible links of the suspected gunman dead at the airport suicide bomb but it comes as russia's most wanted a doctor who model. fresh terror all the schools

a newly released video shows him to all the is wrong of him appears to be the suspect and. also this week it's a fresh start for moscow and washington there's a new nuclear arms reduction treaty comes in the polls it took me to being signed by the two countries presidents. and when i was little it's a case of later and see if there's ukrainian officials search for this disease need to be able to six months ukrainian prime minister says the public misses him almost to see him back to work. now multiculturalism is costing right to free speech that's the opinion of danish m.p.'s. he was convicted on challenges of making an anti muslim hate speech coming up in an exclusive interview he shares his views with elsie.