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 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 that's when he said that it went to go and meet with him and to see what was the position of the government how much it was reputed to have to do to meet them halfway and to put the demands of the people across as well as we can gauge the the need 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 witness the 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 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 assume 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 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 of egyptian. someone was kind of

statements come out of the american administration they just reinforced the feeling on the speech that the united states and you with him powers and the rest of the world waiting needs to stay out of egypt and i say is my colleague came in and 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 and that 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 a hundred and 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 you feel regime for such a long time. and now they're talking about democracy and that's what the feeling right out of this into obama's speech by the. police in on the fence so much. i mean is not the same going on with what i understand as we experience for transition where is this peaceful transition it's a complete turnaround for the western world which has always supported hosni mubarak as 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 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. it is by making themselves

useful. to the west so they have to go that. 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. at the end. to make changes as if we are the fifty fifth state 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 mubarek enjoyed strong support from american cofa many is that now at the first sign of trouble best approach is conspicuous in its absence it sends

a message to friends and foes the leech in the region when the going gets tough don't count on us the message is likely if they do stabilise an already deeply unstable because it was. seen. you're watching the weekly here on r t still to come 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. russia reboot its commercial aviation with a brand new airliner just been cleared for launch we've got the full details in a few minutes. first though russian authorities are searching for two people from the republic of the english believed to be connected to the deadly terror attack on domodedovo airport thirty six people were killed 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 currently suspected of being the suicide bomber his body parts were found at the scene where russian

investigators say they need time to determine if you was in fact the culprit meanwhile a video has emerged showing russia's most wanted man doku umarov threatening an attack on the capital of chechen terrorists went on to promise a year of tears and blood as are his catarina reports many now believe it's his way claiming responsibility for the airport bombing. in that video model is standing with two other men both of whom lever first to ask his brothers the man on the one side i'll still call model appears to resemble the man authorities 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 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. 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. it was artie's catarina bring us 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 start treaty is hailed as a proper reset ever elations between the two countries but as artie's ever of his kind of reports it's just the beginning of a long road toward 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 a photo of 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 member there were. threats from hopes on both sides but luckily this has all and now we see that it was well the start treaty that started the reset process also on the table at the munich security forum was another initiative backed by moscow the building of a unified anti missile defense system which includes russia the united states and the european union all sharing the responsibility for the safety of the others according to 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 i think 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 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 krishi is any reason dividing lines that's the message of wars by most here in germany a country which learned from bitter experience what being divided is all about that . 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 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 speech 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 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 munich. coming your way soon snow joke in moscow skiers and the thousands slide into the

capital of all ages and sizes from across the country to test their mettle in the i knew alston marathon find out what attracts them a couple of moments. first though former u.s. president george w. bush has canceled a visit to switzerland citing security concerns but human rights groups said they had prepared a criminal case against him on charges of authorizing torture and he simply scared of getting arrested journalists believes it's unlikely that bush will be held to account in an international court. my understanding is the sense of a complete constitutional rights 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 drew of people it's dick cheney it's little rooms filled as dick cheney's chief of staff we don't have rumsfeld's memo as 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 can't remember for a canary 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 gone time for nine years also without charge of course and tortured by the 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 training torturers of the school of americas and of course we must remember that the obama administration still is going to open so people are being tortured to this day commentary from journalist option or a town state turnout of some other stories making headlines across the globe tunisia remains tense weeks after the ouster of president ben ali left the country two people were killed seventeen injured in the tunisian town of care when police opened fire on protesters around one thousand were demanding the resignation of the

local police chief who they claim abuse the local woman 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 villa outside milan demonstrations turned violent when police moved in to stop protesters from reaching the residence the villa became the focus of an investigation after it was alleged that berlusconi threw 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 fishing boat it happened off the southwestern indian coast all will now be taken to mumbai and handed over to authorities somali pirates have been highly

active in the indian ocean in recent years and three thai bezels world portably capture the last. three americans accused of illegally spot legally entering iran have a pleaded not guilty on the first day of their trial in tehran they were arrested last year while hiking in the iran iraq border hikers insist they didn't cross the border and if they did it was by accident but iran says there are spies working for the u.s. the trial has increased the already high level hostility between the two nations. while those tensions in iran were stoked in a likely way this week as u.s. authorities discovered a book instructing a ronnie and suicide bombers in the hours on a desert no one quite knows how it got to have it got there but some media in the u.s. were quick to draw their own conclusions as artie's guy reports. a book found in the arizona desert has put america's most watched cable news channel on high alert fox news alert on new terror of fear as 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 us 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 although the reporter did 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 bogeyman the biggest threat on earth no politician ever lost a. new news every got negative publicity from america your own. industry states that whenever you have something negative that you want to say about the middle east world you can always attack you every chance is taken to toss

the rain into a stories that have no connection with it like this was not 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 ation of iran is not new in the us media it's been going off the years despite no proof tehran was building nuclear bombs stage 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 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 have been major cheerleaders in fear mongering which back in two thousand and three latch to a war that was started on line the same people that want to cause regime change in iraq are now saying we need to do regime change in iran fear mongering could 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 a 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 yeah 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 got to check out our t. washington d.c. . you can get more on that and many other stories that are t. dot com here's a look at what else is online right now. boris yeltsin through his wife's eyes i would have been the eightieth birthday airbrushes first president. has an exclusive interview to our team. using sports to promote religion the american churches gather on super bowl sunday to pray for the world and stop you and warn you can catch all that online at our website.

the mayor of ukraine's capital kiev has been missing for a month so now the prime minister is demanding someone track him down one local official is reassured ukrainians that leonid is alive and well but that's not enough for the government or he's alexei takes a look. 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 woman who is the mayor i am definitely. in five years as city's top dog and each and 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 and when 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 define to novitsky 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 should have kept you s'posed but the real man running affairs is thought to be the city hall of ministration boss alexander 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 last year six months ago even his.

often. we are told that he is a. whether it is from a luxurious resort in france or italy or somewhere else the location of where exactly and you should maybe it's good runs the city from remains unclear but with the prime minister inquiry for his whereabouts the long vacation could soon be cut short for gives me year the next year or so of ski reporting from key if you crane . a brand new russian passenger jet has been cleared to fly into the commercial into the world of commercial aviation the sukhoi superjet one hundred is the first airliner designed in russia since soviet times a plane with a capacity of around one hundred passengers and said to replace russia's aging fleet of short range jets the designers will promote the super jet into the global market later this year after undergoing european aviation safety checks

and rounding out our sunday program today is no day everest for a scores of russian athletes thousands have strapped on their skis and headed to the mosque or region for an annual ski marathon this year's race marking the fiftieth anniversary of yuri gagarin's historic first flight into space r.t. sarraf earth slid up to the starting line. at the most. i knew cross-country one of the largest the marathons in russia now is a huge event there's a seventeen thousand participants it's a very the twenty region and the event really catering ages saif is ability without this year's event that it takes it to evolve in the fiftieth anniversary of the first month spaceflight 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. and is a great event and of things that lazy people participating in but all we need to

join in the event the pairs gave a house that if it gets there everyone here now carrying up the cross-country float i'm looking at the spectators around to enjoy the event with. crosstalk with peter lavelle and his guest debating the question can the west continue to support multiculturalism in the face of a growing muslim population or will it further divide society before that i'll be back with a recap of our top stories stay with us. wealthy

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seven thirty am in the russian capital or bring you the latest headlines in the week's top stories here on our team change promised in egypt as the government reaches agreement with the opposition in a bid to stave off of all both sides now planning to set up a committee to look at constitutional reform of nearly two weeks of rallies demonstrators continue demanding that president resignation but in so far refuses promising instead not to run for reelection. also russian investigators hunting two men with possible links to the suspected airport suicide bomber comes as russia's most wanted terrorist vows to unleash terror on one newly released video shows him

into others one of whom appears to be just a suspect. and this week a fresh start for moscow and washington as the nuclear arms reduction treaty comes into force it took more than a year after being signed by the two countries president's. next peter labelling his gas debate the question can the west continue to support multiculturalism in the face of a growing muslim population stay with us here on r.t. . hungry for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on. we'll . bring you the latest in science and technology from around russia. we've got the future covered.