will be lifted now on sunday the vice president almost element met 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 is 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 president hosni mubarak stepping down the brotherhood has been at pains to say that they have not changed their stance they have to afford it when these kind of discussions and not negotiations and what we do understand is that there will be. 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 the government despite this call for mubarak to step down immediately it is indicative that mubarak has no time in history perceived as winning this battle the longest and has to negotiate with these opposition groups the muslim brotherhood poses a question for the international community than it does on says they have to be egypt and they raise an alarm bells to observers of what is going on that has it's increasing at this felt that these protests are nice demonstrations have taken an islamicist and almost extremist trond on the streets of cairo it didn't get more than a passing mention in the mainstream media has been or a mass and muslim brotherhood members in a jailbreak. here one 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 help them any one of the thousands of protesters in egypt. crete's was support for the demonstrators has fled 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 they're there now talking with the government and this support as i hear shouting on the streets in two weeks of demonstrations they are rallying call hasn't changed step down mubarak has made any neven of his friends traveled for forty eight hours to get here they've come all the way from eritrea to be part of what they believe is the new revolution sweeping the middle east i was in eritrea i know watch everything on t.v. i wish i was here before but coming here now is my contribution i'm asking all my brothers in egypt to express their opinion without fear you will never leave the

blood of her martyrs who was killed in this revolution with a vengeance then with the brotherhood get 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 of a port in the global future it consisted of a caliphate one big muslim state created through social unrest a slowdown in the economy and fueled by religious movements if such a pan regional union did genuinely coming to 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 our. muslim world and the u.s.

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 for sure if the muslim brotherhood reach the top of egypt's though impose those special agenda they'll go ahead to establish a religious state 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 it can happen 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 the muslim brotherhood sitting down with the government of talking it would have been unthinkable as for the rest of the country will in tokyo 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 only morning here in cairo but these protesters saying that they're going nowhere they're as defiant as ever. wiki leaks founder julian assange just to appear in a london court to fight extradition to sweden over alleged sex crimes he is the fans that if handed over to stockholm he faces the risk of being eventually santa the u.s. were sentence range washington by publishing tens of thousands of its military documents and diplomatic cables swindon eyes and intention to extradite him to the u.s. but as any so now we have found out stuff maybe far from impartial in this case. sweden a quiet little neutral scandinavian nation the current foreign power. he established

in sweden has a remarkably close relationship with the united states 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 politics through the back door like sweden's times with nato you have the military and some politicians cross-breeding 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 get from julian assange to terrorist suspects to nato support when

america wants something they get it but why and what's in it for the 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 has been a willingness to. do the arrogance of the united states over many years from. questions of. making asylum seekers in sweden of a to both to the cia freddy's is particularly strong now with a right leaning government in sweden and with the u.s. wanting him for spying in sweden wanting him for sex crimes julian assange 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 relationship. as we dug up

julian a song takes off the u.s. with fierce reaction from one of the country's most notorious neo cons does not a particularly credible source and lover and he see is a you know to not in my mind as it is a criminal and he ought to be hunted down and grabbed and put on trial for what he has done hear 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's a cry of both wanted for serious crimes in russia it could be argued there's

another room in the british justice system to protect julian assange from the united states of sweden merica and let him keep blowing his whistle and he's now a r.t. stockholm sweden. and so i had on the program this hour a boozing teens exposed to rage alcohol rush is fueled by the lack of stringent laws to prevent youngsters from being able to buy booze without the need to show id . human rights groups versus george w. bush find out why the former u.s. president has ducked out of a visit to the land of cheney's and child what. now as the u.s. president's impending budget announcement looms there are some who say it will slash the amount going to poverty reduction programs but with manny u.s. cities running out threadbare service levels already it's a cots they can ill afford artie's lauren lyster has more. than sometimes 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 all together 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 and 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 brewer 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 a 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 and there isn't enough wasteful spending so to speak to cut you're 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 bankruptcy is 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 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 a feedback towards economic shrinking downsizing and they are been 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 flees to other countries threatening to take with it the american dream lauren lyster r.t.

new york. it's never been easier for teenagers in russia to buy booze without being asked for id fueling under-age alcoholism with no stringent punishments many store owners turn a blind eye to selling alcohol to minors are going to school went in with hidden cameras to uncover the scale of the problem. 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 the dependency takes a few years to form so when they are brought to us. to be in for 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 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 asked for then to the kitchen 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 here from this. when confronted this serious woman got defensive but didn't seem too fazed with breaking the law oh no that's ok how many times even we tell you not to sell alcohol to 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 make positive tendencies to russian parliamentarians have been trying to implement stringent punishments for those who sell alcohol on cigarettes to minors but so far there has been very little progress there and so are responsible for the children until they turn eighteen and i think if we make parents pay a fine when the kids could drink if we raise the level. responsibility because presently teenagers do all these things practically with a parent's permission. of this rubbing alcohol became an intrinsic part of the russian culture after world war two we have a tradition to dream for any reason and that's a huge problem we need to tackle fortunately many youngsters themselves realize the scope of the problem the part of us 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 punishments for kiosk or store

owners willing to cash in on minors health but it could be the country's future at stake it even. more scope. and there's always more news and analysis on our web site r t v dot com but here's what's online right now. an anti islam march has been staged by one english bar ride group as prime minister david cameron spoke failing multiculturalism and modern day britain. and thousands of russian athletes get their skis on in an annual cross-country race to find out more about this event head to our web site r.t. dot com. former u.s. president george w. bush has canceled a visit to switzerland citing security concerns and came after human rights groups threatened protests and cold on the swiss government to detain bush for authorizing the torture of suspected terrorists journalist option were tons he believes it's unlikely bush will be held to account by an international court. my understanding

is the center can 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. his 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 a cameraman for a qatari satellite t.v. channel who was incarcerated in guantanamo for years and we mustn't forget forty eight year old guy a few days ago after being gone to her 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 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 and they can arms reduction treaty was finally given the green light by moscow and washington russia and the u.s. will now start slashing their nuclear arsenals by a third but as our military contributor carl of getting herself explains it's now their task not to let the nuclear weapons fall into terrorists' hands. the latest certification of the start treaty is not the end but just a beginning of the r.t.o. spro says to definitely arise and to minimize the nuclear threat both from the rogue state and known state actors especially from the lose nukes that might wind up in the hands of terrorists who are enjoying the hospitality in the badlands of pakistan in fact on a bomb administration watch pakistan slowly but steadily has significantly expanded

its nuclear arsenal both in the its first strike capability and the amount of the cell material that could be easily employed for yet another one hundred nuclear warheads now the united states has a unique opportunity to exonerate its shattered image in the muslim world it has to persuade its most indispensable ally pakistan to stop sub but dodging the known fiesole material kind of treaty and to become a signatory the us to help pakistan to shed it image as an international parea and to prove its ability and willingness to share their full responsibility as a respected member of the international community in that endeavor i'm sure the russian federation we will do its best to aid and support the united states effort in full accordance with the latter and spirit of just recently signed up and ready

fight start treaty. brief look at some other stories from around the world now a shot of. the border island in bolivia for a fourth day in a row the conflict the center of the route of tampa internationally recognized as belonging to can vote though thai authorities dispute this the clashes have so far claimed five lives since friday and forced the evacuation of thousands of villagers a time military source reportedly described the latest skirmish as a misunderstanding involving small arms fire. to bush fires driven by hot summer winds are raging on the outskirts of post on a street west coast forty homes have been destroyed and twenty others have been damaged the strong winds are hampering efforts to contain the blazes with water bombing aircraft affected meanwhile the cleanup from floods and cyclons on the country's east coast continues the floods have been the country's worst in decades

killing thirty five people and causing an estimated five point six billion dollars in damage. castors demanding the resignation of italian prime minister silvio berlusconi have clashed with police outside israel in the or in the land demonstration turned violent when some members of the hundred strong crowd tried to break a security for the ground residents the protests calm of the scandal plagued leader fans off accusations that he can sort it with prostitutes mr berlusconi strongly denies the accusations that's bound to continue to go. well that brings us up to date kareena joins us now to deal with the business of data entry and we hear that russia bank is starting a road show soon that's what we know the country's second largest lender is offering a ten percent stake worth around three and a half billion dollars and we'll have more on who the potential buyers could be.

i am. i am i am. i am. i welcome to business thanks for joining me russia's state owned bank is starting a row show later on monday the country's second largest lender is offering a ten percent stake worth around three and a half billion dollars it's the first big sale in russia's ambitious privatization program roche hours overnight that merrill lynch deutsche bank and bt capital will be held in the u.s. britain scandinavian states germany and small scale analysts named middle eastern sovereign wealth funds among the potential buyers for the stake presidency david also reports that about half of the ten percent stake may be acquired by italian insurance group generally. the price for brant crude oil went beyond the hundred dollar mark this small this latest rise was reportedly due to the tensions in egypt

. christophe chief economist and vice president of b.p. says that the overall price growth was due to tightening oil markets. what has happened already over the last few months because stable supply and growing demand in majoris wrote 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 december the official statistics you see the initial is 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 will think we'll have to increase production. now let's have a look at the markets. higher extending the benchmark equities best weakest year to bad as nick is now trading point four percent among stocks getting a lift on the week again our nikon and i limp us up two point seven and two point

one percent respectively oh she has moving the range close to breakeven level early monday as trading resume for the first time since nearing its politics russia was one of the best performing global equity markets last week with yes gaining two point four percent and allies it's adding one point eight percent russia funds to get almost two hundred million dollars of new money while all other measure markets bonds separate out of more than seven billion dollars analysts expect equity markets to open better this morning as the crisis in egypt appears to ease and the economic data in most countries confirms the recovery is expanding. and the insulation in the middle east it will create. it will be a trigger for the interest on this on the scene that you look even if it will buy shares where the way we see some old fools from emerging markets and the russia who has been if you sharing foreign soil in the inflows in the russian markets as waste will not have to be built and also on the oil for the cheapness of. most of the

rest as we wait for him to explode to every month simple machine i only love him or for marie and i think that the investors will play and we say that because well. russia's largest independent gas producer nova take expects to increase output by up to fifteen percent this year in january it perform better than gas from which to crease production by about three percent compared to last year now what's currently building a plant in the gas which arctic yaml peninsula the first yield is expected 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 producer thinking over which strategic partners will obtain a forty nine percent stake. there's a show there is two of the rivers. exxon mobil has looked at a conoco phillips smaller companies i've looked at a couple japanese firms look out so we're looking at

a series of foreigners who have studied the particular geology studied the concept 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 which was c.b.i. loomis to start with what we call the feed study and so we've completed the initial work and now all the infrastructure activity is underway in the i'm open and so. that's the lace we that's the latest we have for you in business but you can always find more stories on our website our. flash business.

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dot com. welcome back here with our team here's a look at the top stories in edge of the government has offered new concessions to ease the tension in the crisis hit country by the opposition is holding firm and their demands for president mubarak's immediate resignation. will expound or join us on. prepares to file his extradition to sweden but stockholders cozy friendship with washington might see him traded to the united states where he could face the death penalty. and as u.s. president barack obama implements a new budget some say it all cost money going to poverty reduction programs but strong going with massive debts many american cities are already running on

threadbare services. and that's the outlines here in our next week suppose how constant wars and conflicts bring often revokable damage to the natural world. sometimes we think that it's easier to make war then to work to prevent it or to clean up after it the military is a major player in terms of environmental outcomes. the environment is wars silent casualties when we talk about the costs of war we really focus on what happens to one of the animals we really focus on that which sustains human one. we're completely out of sync in defining threats to our security. at one.