just as 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 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 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 reputed to do to meet them halfway and to put the demands of the people across as well as we can gauge the the media's on 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 the various prayer sessions 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 matters 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 have 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 said that the washington the american administration would support a government that is headed by almost sort of many now the sentiment is widely regarded here as mubarak's right hand man and people prefer him possibly to a vote but they certainly don't believe that a government headed by him will be anything different to what they seem 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 of egyptian intelligence someone

who was kind of statements come out of the american administration they just reinforced the feeling on the street that the united states and you with him powers and the rest of the world we 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. to 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 fifty thousand people in the streets of cairo protesting for democracy this is how democracy happened 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 this if you regime for such a long time. the regime where now they're talking about democracy and respect the from the right side of this into obama's speech. the decision on the fence so much . i mean it is not the same going overboard 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 catch mubarak in power betraying an inherent misunderstanding of the way society operates according

to chatham house and the way regimes like. is by making themselves useful. to the west have to go that. if they leave. brotherhood. it's the worst case scenario so. the minute you can see beyond. 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 to move. at the end. to make changes as if we are the fifty third of the united states we are not trying to play a role in egypt steam chase a dangerous game for the west and lead to hosni mubarak enjoyed strong support from america in case the many is that now at the first sign of trouble that the group 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 the message is likely if they do stabilise an already deeply unstable possibly. no rabbits are keen to. stay with as we keep on iraq bring up the week's news here on r t coming your way human rights groups versus george w. bush find out why the former u.s. president ducked out of a visit to the land of cheese and chocolate. bust russia reboot its commercial aviation with a brand new airliner that has just been cleared for takeoff we've got the full details of a few problems. first though russian authorities are searching for two people from the republic of india shetty are believed to be connected to the deadly terror attack on domodedovo airport thirty six were killed and more than one hundred injured in the blast at one of moscow's busiest travel almost two weeks ago it's thought that the two men could be linked to the twenty year old who's currently

suspected of being the suicide bomber 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 videos emerged showing russia's most wanted man doku umarov threatening an attack on the capital the chechen terrorist want to promise a year or two years and blood as artie's catarina as our reports many now believe it's his way of claiming responsibility for the airport 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 appears to resemble the man of dorothy's believed 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 of course 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 go 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 the 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 everything investigative action has been taken. with the latest on the investigation into the bombing of moscow's domodedovo airport almost two weeks ago. the new deal on nuclear arms reduction between russia and the us has come into force nearly a year after being signed by the two countries presidents the treaty known as the new start treaty has been hailed as our proper reset of relations between the two countries there are reports it's just the beginning of a long road to scrapping cold war era stereotypes. and words put into action

a historic exchange of ratification documents and the news to 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 today 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 a 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 that. 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 regional text remains untouched remember they were ok from the way of threats from hopes on both sides but luckily this is all and now we see that it was with the start treaty that we started with a reset process also on the table at the munich security forum was another in. backed by moscow the building of a unified n.t. 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 some of 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 and 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 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 we're receiving dividing lines that's the message wars by most here in germany a country which learned from bitter experience what being divided is all about actually but it's. a lot remains to be done to irreversibly overcome the accumulated historical cliches phobias and suspicions 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 old stereotypes we are proceeding with it because of the threat we face from iran not from the soviet union and. 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 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 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 going to munich.

it's no joke in moscow as skiers in the thousands slide into the capital and through easiest of all eight shapes and sizes across the country test themselves on an annual steve marathon by that what attracts them a couple of minutes. first though former u.s. president george w. bush canceled a visit to switzerland citing security concerns but human rights groups say they've prepared a criminal case against him on charges of authorizing torture and that he's afraid of arrest journalists believes it's unlikely but he will be held to account by an international court. my understanding is the center can constitutionally 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 into a car drew of people it's dick cheney it's called rumsfeld is dick cheney's chief of staff we now 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 a camera man for a qatari 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 going to him for nine years also without charge of course 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 that really are responsible for torture in such a major scale and for training tortures at their school of americas and of course we must remember that the obama administration still has going to animal open so people are being tortured to this day. commentary from journalist option written see turn now to some other stories making headlines across the globe tunisia remains tense weeks after the ousted president ben ali left the country people were

killed seventeen injured in the tunisian town of cath when police opened fire on protesters about one thousand were demanding the resignation of local police chief who claimed abused a woman from a local community many in the country remain distrustful of police who they blame for carrying out the oppressive policy of president ben ali was ousted last month. protesters demanding the resignation of italian premier silvio berlusconi clashed with police near his a bill out side in iran demonstrations turned violent when police moved in to stop the protesters from the reaching the residence with little became the focus of an investigation after it was alleged berlusconi's two parties with young women there he's currently being investigated on suspicion of having had sex with a seventeen year old moroccan belly dancer charges he strongly denies. the indian navy has seized more than twenty pirates and rescued two dozen hostages from a hijacked thai fishing boat that happened off the southwestern coast of india that

out of all be taken to mumbai and headed over to authorities pirates mainly from somalia have been highly active in the indian ocean in recent years and three thai vessels were reportedly captured last year. three americans accused of spying and illegally entering iran have pleaded not guilty on the first day of their trial in tehran they were arrested last year while hiking near the iran iraq border bikers insist they didn't cross the border and if they did it was only by accident but iran says there were spies working for the u.s. the trial has increased the already high level of hostile tensions between the two nations. and those tensions with iran are being stoked and likely way this week u.s. authorities discovered a book instructing iranian suicide bombers in the hours on a desert no one knows quite how it got there in the middle of nowhere but u.s. media were quick to make their own conclusions. jaan investigates. a book found in the arizona desert has put america's most watched cable news channel on

the high alert fox news alert on new terror theories 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 be able to personalize 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. every got negative publicity for your own. industry here in the united states that whenever you have something negative that you want to say about the. world you can

always attack you every chance is taken to toss the rain into a stories that has no connection with a terrorist like this suicide bombings in moscow going 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 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 these 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 why is america sitting there 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 of being 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 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 the reasons later proven to be false the question is could the same approach be used with the ran 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 yeah 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 our t. washington d.c. . always get more on our stories online. here's what's online for you right now. boris yeltsin through the eyes of his wife what would have been the eightieth birthday of russia's first president gives an exclusive interview to our team. using sports to promote religion some american churches gather on super bowl sunday to pray for the world to stop watching porn you can catch all that and more online .

the mayor of ukraine's capital has been missing for a while and say now even the prime minister is demanding that somebody find him one local official reassured ukrainians that. he is alive and well but that's not enough for the government parties alexei our ships he takes a walk. 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. 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 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 chill of its key caps you supposed but the real man running affairs is thought to be the city hall of ministration boss alexandre popof he is 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. six months ago. even his. post has been. we are told that he is a conditional. whether it is from a luxurious resort in france or italy or somewhere else the location of where exactly a need should maybe 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 gives me here but it's your show of ski reporting from key if you crane are brand new russian passenger plane has been cleared to fly into the world of commercial aviation the sukhoi superjet one hundred is the first airliner designed in the country since soviet times the plane with a capacity of around one hundred passengers and said to replace russia's aging

fleet of short range jets designers will promote the super jet on to the global market later this year after it undergoes european aviation safety checks well this sunday is no day of rest for scores of russian athletes thousands of strapped on their skis and headed to the moscow region for annual ski marathon this year's race marks the fiftieth anniversary of yuri gagarin's historic first flight into space r.t. sorry for a slip up at the starting line. at the most. cross country event one of the largest the marathons in russia now is a huge event there's a seventeen thousand participants it's a day for the twenty regions in russia and the event really catering ages sizes and abilities this year's event thirty kate said to evolve from the fiftieth anniversary of the first man space flight and these guys again for the very thing eva three to think that they go well i think a lot of it is. five because of it is that show to it and it's

a great event and of things that people participating in fact we need to join in the event the pairs gave a house that is because there everyone here now carrying up the cross-country float i love the look of spectators around to enjoy the events of the. coming up an exclusive interview with a danish champagne yes para long ballet who believes that multiculturalism may be costing europe its right to free speech i'll be back first with a recap of our top story.

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was. four thirty am in moscow good to have you with us and we bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on our team change promised in egypt is the government reaches agreement with the opposition to be just be able to hold both sides now pledging to set up a committee to look at constitutional reform after thirteen days of were all these demonstrators continue to bed in the president's resignation but he's so far refused promising not to run for reelection instead. russian investigators hunting two men with possible links to business spectator domodedovo airport suicide bomber this comes as russia's most wanted. to unleash a terror onslaught on the country newly released video shows him and to others one

of the appears to be the suspected bomber. also this week a fresh start for moscow and washington is the new nuclear is there a new nuclear arms reduction treaty comes into effect and it took more than a year after being signed by the two countries present. multiculturalism is costing europe its right to free speech that's the opinion of danish m.p.'s prolonged ballet who was convicted on charges of making an anti muslim hate speech coming up in an exclusive interview he shares his views with r t. this is lang ball 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 and i do know.