what is significant is that it has been agreed at a committee that mr bush to study constitutional reform and that this committee has been given a deadline of one month in which to deliver its findings it has also been agreed that the state of emergency here will be lifted now on sunday the vice president almost sort of meant meet with various opposition groups and within those groups were representatives of secular parties were representatives of the muslim brotherhood were independent legal experts as well as a number of representatives for mohamed el baradei and he of course of the former head of the international atomic energy agency who has indicated that he will be prepared to head an interim government the muslim brotherhood really is the focus of the discussion and the debate here in egypt because before yesterday they said that they would not meet with the government if there was not agreement on the president hosni mubarak stepping down the brotherhood has been at pains to say that they have not changed their stance they have thought it through these kinds of

discussions and not negotiations and what we do understand is that there will be some of the fruits today monday but what is noticeable is that the opposition voices are not that unified they certainly do need somebody to bring them together to keep the momentum and to represent their point of view because by and large every day that these groups respect the government despite their call for mubarak to step down immediately it is indicative that mubarak has made time and he is so he perceived as winning this battle the longer he has to negotiate with these opposition greet as the risk of the country will in tahrir square for the fourteenth day now thousands of protesters have camped out overnight it is cold it has been raining intermittently throughout the night and it is now early morning here in cairo but these protesters saying that they're going nowhere they are as defiant as ever outside of the square there is an attempt for a return to normality the banks in the businesses will be opening. this morning

social period like they did yesterday and the latest word we hearing from the head of the stock exchange is that the stock exchange will open on wednesday. paul what do people think of the new opposition leadership come to power in egypt and perhaps some kind of reaction would there be from the west of this. well the big question of course is how will this new opposition leadership look there are various scenarios that that are being played out here in egypt the united states particularly hillary hillary clinton the u.s. secretary of state recently said that they would support a government backed by the vice president omar suleiman it's not clear how much the country has here in egypt because he is widely seen as of the staying making as mubarak of course mubarak pointed him it's also not clear exactly what is american stance and what is happening here people feeling that not only are they meddling but that there is a very different kind of contradictory voice coming out of washington did they feel a bomber say that the situation khan continue like this for much longer they needed

to be trained implemented now but he also sent an envoy who said that that change could only be implemented after mubarak stepped down and he needed to be in place for a while to oversee some kind of transition to free and fair elections at the same time we are hearing that the opposition groups are suspicious of mohamed el baradei who has been the person who's been put forward and supported particularly bothered waste in washington he's a figure of those well known in international circles but not that well known in egypt itself the muslim brotherhood poses the question for the international community than it does on says they have been banned in egypt and and they raise alarm bells to observers of what is going on it has appears increasingly this felt that these protests the needs demonstrations have taken and islamised and almost extremist chant on the streets of cairo i explored this phenomenon earlier in this package. it didn't get more than

a passing mention in the mainstream media hizbollah a mass and muslim brotherhood members in a jail break. here a long time i've been on there's no way to go to lebanon from egypt to go through this she or to fly so you hope them any one of the thousands of protesters on egypt streets. was support for the demonstrators has failed fast and although the muslim brotherhood the country's largest opposition group with an islamist agenda got involved only on day three that says mom to ramsey is part of the plan. the muslim brotherhood will appear when they're sure the presidency will fall and when they have the support and power to control everything as they work in every arab country there they're below the surface and there they're now talking with the government and this supporters are here shouting on the streets in two weeks of demonstrations they are rallying call hasn't changed step down mubarak has made any

nevin of his friends travel for forty eight hours to get here they've come all the way from him a trip to be part of what they believe is the new revolution sweeping the middle east and. i was in eritrea and i watched everything on t.v. i wish i was here before but coming here now is my contribution. i must you know my brothers in egypt to express their opinion without fear would never leave the blood of our martyrs who was killed in this revolution without. the brotherhood gets some of its funding from me ran and tehran is already cashing in its foreign minister says the protests show the need for an overhaul in the region and ayatollah ali khamenei has called the protests an islamic awakening there's an opportunity for an increased role for muslims in the international arena from a political and economic perspective for the first time in quite a long while six years ago the american national intelligence council which is linked to the cia warned of exactly this it mapped out a report on the global future it consisted of

a caliphate one big muslim state created through social unrest as so down in the economy and fueled by religious movements. if such a pan regional union did genuinely come into being such a regional union would necessitate the breaking of very strong very resistant bonds that exist between the us and many of the participants in such a putative arab muslim world and the us is already feeling the heat with confusing messages coming from an administration that's unsure what to do when the protests first started president obama was careful not to abandon his old friend hosni mubarak but his loyalties soon shifted and he sided with the protesters to try and keep on top of things with. the sure of the muslim brotherhood reach the top of egypt's though impose those special agenda they'll go ahead to establish a religious state and despite them saying they don't want to be in the government they do they want to rule egypt and it's not just egypt many fear much of the arab

world today saying if it can happen in the streets of cairo but what's it going to happen here so democracy does seem to be spreading so as the brotherhood sits down for talks with the government it despises it's not just egypt's future that's at stake but so to that of the region two weeks ago if you would have asked anyone here whether they could envisage there was a brotherhood sitting down with the government and talking it would have been unthinkable that just gives you an indication of how far this country has come in a fortnight as for the past year thanks so much indeed for bringing us the very latest from cairo. and we go he's founder julian assange just to appear in a london court to fight extradition to sweden over alleged sex crimes he's a fan says that if handed over to stockholm he faces the risk of being eventually sent to the u.s. where the death sentence sounds outraged washington by publishing tens of thousands

of its military documents and diplomatic cables sweden denies any intention to extradite him to the u.s. but as any so now we have found out stockholm may be far from impartial in this case. so we did a quiet little neutral scandinavian nation the current foreign policy establishment in sweden has a remarkably close relationship with the united states of the country that gave us our flat pack furniture for dollar meatballs top models and lawn bombshells may not be so neutral after all american influence is everywhere from food to feature films but in sweden it seems to be supersized just the other day the deerhunter film was shown again on swedish t.v. for the. sixtieth time it's an awful film it's the worst propaganda in politics through the back door like swedens times with nato you have the military

and some politicians cross pretty intensively with the united states and with nato and the large mass of the population being totally unaware of all the stuff going on but it's not just what swedes are taking in it's also what their leaders are ready to give from julian assange to terrorist suspects to nato support when america wants something they get it but why and what's in it for this so-called neutral nation they get. all the benefits of being an intelligence partner of the united states without the baggage of being in nato it's a partnership decades in the making there's been a willing. to. do the arrogance of the united states over many years from. questions of. making asylum seekers in sweden available to the cia buddies is particularly strong now with

a raid leaning government in sweden and with the us wanting him for spying in sweden wanting him for sex crimes julian a song is wanted by quite a team and the songe wiki leaks case seems to be just the next continuation of this very old intelligence relationship here's some other relationships we dug up julian a song just ticks off the us with fierce reaction from one of the country's most notorious neo cons is not a particularly credible source and lovable and he is a hero to milk in my mind as it is a criminal only ought to be hunted down and grabbed and put on trial for well used earlier these words from karl rove who claims he's part swedish and just happens to be advising the country's pm while the former swedish minister of justice is a partner in the firm who filed charges against a songs for sex crimes with another link to the us thomas von stroheim is claimed to have handed the cia asylum seekers from sweden who were then tortured the

question about neutrality became even even clearer thanks to some of the documents from exactly wiki leaks and if the u.k. can secure asylum for bodies because of ski and ahmed zakayev both wanted for serious crimes in russia it could be argued there's another room in the british justice system to protect julian a song from the united states of sweden merica and let him keep blowing his whistle and he's now a r.t. stockholm sweden. also had in the program here in our team building teens exposed underage alcoholism is becoming a big. problem in russia words never been easier for youngsters to bibles without id we sent in hidden cameras trying to cover the scale of the problem. now is the u.s. president's impending budget an ounce one looms there are some who say it will slash the amount going to poverty reduction programs but with manny u.s.

cities running on. running out threadbare service levels already it's a cut they can't afford artie's lauren lyster has more. that's intentional it's the reality america cannot escape with the city's roughly two hundred eighty million dollars debt more and more people are talking about bankruptcy news of debt like that hitting cash strapped cities and states all over the country altogether it could amount to two trillion dollars and a bill many may not be able to pay the problem of the state and local debt is more serious than the real estate bubble serious because with millions of americans still unemployed and losing their homes there isn't enough taxpayer money to pay creditors local governments which aren't allowed to operate in the red must come up with the cash this means some may be choosing between default or devastation in many cases it will be fairly simple for cities to cut services before they actually

default on their cities and states coast to coast seem to be trying this route in the toll it's taking on the streets of america is undeniable. camden new jersey is this second most dangerous city in the country you didn't see many cops on the streets to begin with and now. the city's had to lay off nearly half of their police force in detroit a city where people have been too broke to bury their dead the city's too broke to repair dying infrastructure to fix roads or lights in the desert state of arizona cuts have been a matter of life and death. governor jan. rouer taking a lot of heat over the death of another transplant patient after the state cut funding for the operations here in new york city huge piles of garbage like this one are all over city streets this city's behind on picking up trash after getting behind cleaning up after our snowstorm now public officials blame that on any

number of reasons but one accusation that keeps coming up is this is the result of budget cuts cuts have consequences you can't just sort of cut there isn't enough wasteful spending so to speak to cut your actually do have to cut services that people depend on analysts say the slashing will amount to an increase in unemployment and a lowering of wages dragging more americans down and the economy with it while the prospect of bankruptcies threaten the pensions of public workers and may cause a run on municipal bonds so that will push the city counties over the over the cliff if it's not a solution either scenario seems to be causing a widespread decline in the american city once relegated to ancient history it's the feedback forge economic shrinking downsizing and the urban ization exactly the same thing happened in the roman empire when in the end broom was left almost a deserted city and all of the production shifted back onto the land that's what

you're faced here although the land in this case looks like it'll be a broad rather than in the united states as investment heelys to other countries threatening to take with it the american dream lauren lyster r.t. new york. and it's never going to hear for teenagers in russia to buy booze without being asked for id fueling under-age alcoholism was no stringent punishments many store owners turn a blind eye to selling alcohol to minors and we send in hidden cameras to see the scale of the problem as are now reports. that these teenagers just may be russia's future and it's looking rather bleak. the. problem is that kids start drinking around fourteen fifteen years of age regularly dependence it takes a few years to form so when they are brought to us the process has already been for and not always we can pull them out of this tough situation according to n.g.o.s there are anywhere from twenty to sixty thousand teenagers in the country and many

blame the fact that it's far too easy for a teenager to buy alcohol legal drinking age in russia is eighteen years old so how easy is it for a teenager to get his or her hands on some hard liquor we're going to follow a couple of an. organization into that liquor store right across the street which is one of the largest supermarkets selling hard alcohol to find out whether or not they will be successful in getting their hands on a couple of bottles of whiskey we've been in with a hidden camera but the experiment didn't work the first time around so no go hear the teenage girls were not sold any alcohol they were elsewhere than to the patient when they didn't provide it they were refused service but we're going to go to another place just down the street and see what they will be able to get some vodka or beer there. sure enough each of them had no trouble getting a beer from this chaos. when confronted this serious woman got defensive but didn't

seem too fazed with breaking the law oh no. how many times did we tell you not to sell alcohol to the under-aged and you still continue to do that. unfortunately practically every second or supermarkets sell cigarettes and alcohol to adolescents and we have to mark positive tendencies to russian parliamentarians have been trying to implement stringent punishments for those who sell alcohol and cigarettes to minors but so far there has been very little progress parents are responsible for the children until they turn eighteen and i think if we make parents pay a fine when they kids smell good drink it will raise the level of responsibility. because presently teenagers do all these things practically with a parent's permission. of the use of this drug and alcohol became an intrinsic part of the russian culture after world war two we have a tradition to drink for any reason and that's a huge problem we need to tackle fortunately many youngsters themselves realize the

scope of the problem part of it as life they want to relax to feel grown up but i don't think if you drink two three bottles of beer you automatically become an adult as things stand there is little consequence or punishment for kiosk or store owners willing to cash in on minors health but it could be the country's future at stake it even goes court mosco. and there's always more news and analysis on our website or to dot com here's what's online right now antis mom march has been staged by wanting was far right groups prime minister david cameron spoke of failing multiculturalism in modern day britain. thousands of russian athletes get their skis on an annual cross-country race to find out more about this event head to our web site r t v dot com. and former u.s. president george w. bush has canceled a visit to switzerland over planned protest of the visit and calls for a warrant for his arrest human rights groups have been calling for the swiss

government to arrest bush for the authorizing torture of a suspected terrorist and going tobe a journalist if she were tons he believes it's unlikely bush would 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'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 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 on time 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 that 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 obama administration still is going to open so people are being tortured to this day. now a brief look at some other stories from around the world and shots have been traded along the border of clinton voted for a fourth day in a row the conflict is centered around a temple internationally recognized belonging to the boediono thai authorities dispute this the clashes have so far claimed five lives since friday and forced the evacuation of thousands of villagers a thai military source reportedly described the latest skirmish as a misunderstanding involving small arms fire. two bushfires driven by hot summer winds are raging on the outskirts of perth in australia west coast forty homes have been destroyed and twenty others have been damaged the blazes were fanned by

a massive cycle that struck the country's eastern seaboard on friday cycle and yes he also exacerbated the flooding that continues to affect the region the floods have been the country's worst in decades killing thirty five people causing an estimated five point six billion dollars in damage. and protesters demanding the resignation of italian prime minister silvio berlusconi have clashed with police outside his villa nguyen the land demonstration turned violent when some members of a hundred strong crowd tried to break a security cordon around the residence to protest calm as the scandal plagued leader fans off accusations that he can sort of with prostitutes mr berlusconi strongly denies the accusations and is valid to continue to govern. and in a little over five minutes time we discuss with moscow's police chief how to lower the capital's crime rate first as business news with korea.

welcome to business good to have you with us the price for brant crude oil went beyond the one hundred dollar mark this month the latest was reportedly due to the tensions in egypt over rule kristoff chief economist and vice president of b.p. says the overall price. what has happened already over the last few months because stable supply a growing demand limit to respond to what it was invisible the reason for this is we had so much floating storage oil stored over see that us disappear didn't show up in official statistics now with just some of the official statistics you see the interview was going down at the end of the book that is the summary of that is that by the beginning of this year we will have to see will be reacting either inventories we continue to fall very sharply and prices will start to rise what will people have to increase production. alice have a look at the markets asian stocks are mostly high extending the benchmark equities best way this year japan's nikkei is trading point seven percent in the black among

stocks getting a lift on the weaker yen that kind of an olympus up two point seven percent two point one percent respectively shares move in a range close to breakeven level early monday as trading resumed for the first time since the new year. and also was one of the best performing global equity markets last week with the r.t.s. gaining two point four percent and the my six adding one point eight percent russian funds took in almost two hundred million dollars of new money other emerging markets bonds suffered outflows of more than seven billion dollars as expected the markets to open better this morning as the crisis in egypt here is to ease the economic data and most countries confront the recovery is expanding. and the insulation in the middle east it will create. it will be a trigger for buying the interest on this on the c.u. so i think that the investors will buy shares by the way we see some old fools from emerging markets and the russia who has been if you serial four and so in the

inflows in the russian market is based on the most you have to be below and also the middle for the cheapness of the russian market and also the rest as we wait for him we do expect every month so when we say only eleventh or for marie and i think that the investors will play and we say that because well. now russia's largest independent gas producing overtake expects to increase output by up to fifteen percent this year in january it perform better than gas problem which decreased production by about three percent compared to last year that would take this country building a plant in a gas which peninsula. is expected to five times in five years' time the company says it's investing one hundred million dollars into the liquefied natural gas project this year in addition to gas produces ruling over which to teach you part this with the pain of forty nine percent stake. there's show there's two

of the rivers there's a. exxon mobil has looked at a conoco phillips smaller companies i've looked at a couple japanese firms a lookout so we're looking at a series of foreigners who have studied the particular geology who are starting to construct we're finishing the exploration started we're drilling three wells this year there's already been fifty five exploration wells are drilled and then will engage the contractor who which was c.b.i. numis to start with what we call the feed study and so we've completed the initial work and now all the infrastructure activities are underway in the i'm open insolent. that's all for this hour join me in fifteen minutes.

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welcome back here with r t here's a look at the top stories in egypt the government has offered new concessions to ease the tension in the crisis hit country but the opposition is holding firm and their demands for president mubarak's immediate resignation. we could leaks founder julian assange prepares to fight his extradition to sweden but stockholm's cozy friendship with washington might see him traded to the united states were he could face the death penalty. and as u.s. president barack obama implements a new budget some say it'll cut money going to poverty reduction programs but struggling with massive debts many american cities are already running on threadbare services. so they had lines here in our city russia's police has to

undergo a major shake up following continuous accusations of corruption and abuse of power more in this overhaul as well as the crime problems in russia's capital r t sophie shevardnadze talks to moscow police chief william of cold calls up next in our. first of all mr carr quotes of thank you very much for joining us today with the low that's what we're calling the recent clashes at the my years in a square in moscow what measures should be taken to stop growing extremism and intolerance that we are observing at the moment. as we shift there is no universal measure we need a set of measures to improve the current situation we need to find an overall solution involving firstly.