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 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 thought it through these kinds 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 and he has to be perceived as winning this battle the longer he has to negotiate with these opposition greet the muslim brotherhood poses a question for the international community than it does on says they have abandoned egypt and they raise alarm bells to observers of what is going on because he's increasingly this felt these protests and these demonstrations have taken and islam this and almost extremist trond on the streets of cairo i explored this phenomenon earlier in the package it didn't get more than a passing mention in the mainstream media has been or a mass and muslim brotherhood members in a jail break. i'm here and want to lebanon there's no way to go to lebanon from

egypt only to go to the sea or to fly so who help them any one of the thousands of protesters on egypt streets 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 do 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 they work in every arab country there they're below the surface and there they're now talking with the government and its 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 maven of his friends traveled 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 i was in eritrea and i 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. the brotherhood gets some of its funding from the 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 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 for 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 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 or talking it would have been unthinkable that just gives you an indication of how far this country has come in a fortnight. we'll he's founder join us on his in a london court fighting his extradition from the u.k. to sweden stockholm wants him on accusations of sexual wrongdoing something a son denies and says the accusations are politically motivated are his loran is outside the fourth for us and we join her alive now for more well or a son his defense has braced itself for a tough battle so it seems has now. it has this is due to be a two day hearing it's only just started it was due to start at ten o'clock this morning and we saw julian i saw himself arriving at quarter to around nine o'clock to prepare for that so this is just day one and as you say he is wanted for questioning in sweden over allegations of rape molestation and our norful coercion

those were made by two women in august over in sweden and shoot innocent himself has always said that these allegations are politically motivated that these were bit women was somehow paid or forced to make these allegations against him to bring him down essentially we don't know what the prosecution's going to be arguing at the moment but unusually to full defense argument is being released on the web site of us on his list we know preliminary arguments they're going to say that he's human rights could be violated if he was extradited to sweden and on then the u.s. which is what the defense lawyers are saying that's going to happen they say that there's a risk a big risk that the u.s. will seek his extradition or even illegal rendition to the u.s. after he's been deported to sweden and that there's a real risk then of him being detained either in guantanamo bay or in some kind of similar facility they're also going to argue that he will be at risk of the death penalty death penalty if he was sent to america and they're also fighting on

grounds that he hasn't actually been charged with a crime and one of the principles of extraditing people is that you context right people just if you suspect that they've done something that you have to charge them with a crime you can't just send people to other countries in order to question them now the death penalty. argument is key because if they managed to successfully argue that soldiers might be subject to the death penalty an e.u. country cannot extradite to a jurisdiction where a suspect would face the death penalty so that really would be would be the end of this extradition argument but we have to wait quite a long time we think to to see what exactly is going to happen yes indeed laura well let's take a look at all possible scenarios there and how likely is it that a staunch will be sent to the states. well we we know that the swedish prosecutor's office has come out and said that even if he was extradited to sweden from here would be protected by strictly you rules and in fact sweden wouldn't be

able to do just whatever he liked with the songs once he got there sweden would have to get approval from the u.k. to then agree to another extradition request from another country in this case the united states but they also say that politicians are not involved in the legal process and so this would be a decision that was made by the court in sweden whether to extradite him to the u.s. so there wouldn't be any involvement from politicians but as we are saying today many say that sweden's friendship with the u.s. has got quite a cozy close friendship with the u.s. may mean that the edginess on his extradition is much more likely my colleague and he said no way it filed a report on just that let's hear what it says in. sweden a quiet little neutral scandinavian nation the current foreign policy establishment in sweden has a remarkably close relationship with the united states and the country that gave us our flat pack furniture for dollar meatballs top model and one 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 deer hunter film was shown again on swedish t.v. for the. simply 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 cropping 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 a son 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 is. a willingness to. do the ariens of the united states over many years from. questions. making asylum seekers in sweden. both to the cia freddy's is particularly strong now with a right leaning government in sweden and with the us wanting him for spying and 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 relationships we dug up julian assange ticks off the us with fierce reaction from one of the country's most notorious neo cons is not a particularly credible source unloveable and he said he is a hero to millions my mind as it is

a criminal only ought to be hunted down and grabbed him and put on trial for war 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. partner in the firm who filed charges against a song for sex crimes with another link to the us thomas von stroom is claimed to have handed the cia asylum seekers from sweden who were then tortured a question about neutrality became even even clearer thanks to some of the documents from exactly with daily 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 a song from the united states of sweden merica and let him keep blowing his whistle and using now a r t stockholm sweden. still ahead of the program this hour opposing

teens exposed john king was and is fueled by the lack of stringent laws to prevent youngsters from being able to buy booze without the need to show id and. one person signing of the start treaty it is now the task of russia and the u.s. to minimize the threat of terrorist getting hold of a nuclear arsenal. as the u.s. president's impending budget announcement looms there are some who say will slash the amount going to poverty reduction programs but with many u.s. cities running on threadbare service levels already it's a cut they can ill afford arches lauren lyster has more. rights against 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 debt 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 reading up after a snowstorm now public officials blame that on any number of reasons the 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 economies 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 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 will 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 on the range alcoholism with no stringent punishments many store owners turn a blind eye to selling alcohol to minors are just

a radio show 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. well the problem is that kids are start drinking around fourteen fifteen years of age regularly the dependency takes a few years to four so when they are brought to us. to be in for it 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 nine hundred 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 them 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 whether 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 faced with breaking the law i would have never been in those ok how many times even we tell you not to sell alcohol to under-aged and you still continue to do that. fortunately 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 drink it will raise the level of risk. it's ability because presently teenagers do all these things practically with a parent's permission. this with 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 and the president's life they want to relax to feel great 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 even those sporty mosco. there's always more news and analysis on our web site r t v dot com here's what's online right now. and as long march has been

staged by whining was farai a group us prime minister david cameron spoke of failing multiculturalism and modern day britain. salvos of russian athletes gathering skis on an annual cross-country race to find out more about this event head to our website our team dot com. that he arms reduction treaty was finally given the green light by moscow and washington and russia and the us will now start slashing their nuclear arsenals by a third but as artie's military contributor current only began it herself explains it's now their task not to let the nuclear weapons fall into terrorists' hands their latest certification of the start treaty is not the end but just a beginning of the r.t.o. spro says to denuclearized and to minimize the nuclear threat both from the rogue states and known states. especially from delusions nukes that might wind up in the

hands of terrorists who are enjoying the hospitality of the badlands of pakistan in fact on obama administration watch. slowly but still. dilli has significantly expanded its nuclear arsenal both in 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 cut off treaty and to become a signatory the us to help pakistan to shed that 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 debt 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. let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world and to build fires driven by hot summer winds are raging on the outskirts of perth in australia as west coast fifty nine owners have been destroyed in more 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 of 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. shots have been traded along the border of thailand and cambodia for a fourth day in a row the conflict is centered around a tampa internationally recognized as belonging to although 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 reporting we described the latest skirmish as a misunderstanding. well it brings us up to date here in our t.v. time now for the business of date with kareena. hello and welcome to business and we start with our top story is elise biggest insurer generali could become the anchor investor in the privatisation of the t.v. that i see daily reports generali may buy up to five percent stake in russia second largest lender that's as d.t.b. which is kind of the eighty five percent stake own start to sell a ten percent stake in the back to raise around three and a half billion dollars it's the first big sale of russia's ambitious privatization program but. deputy head of research at uni credit says it's

a special case but i don't think that success of displacement real have any influence on on the whole predation problem this kind of special case the possible investors will be of use to investment funds. were they just sort of investment funds or insurance companies. for example or certain today i think investor mr wagner and to ensure you tell i'm sure so it's going to be it's going to be probably. investors long term investors which are interested in the russian financial market the price of brant crude oil soared past the hundred dollar mark this month the latest rise was reportedly due to the tensions in egypt have or will christophe b.p.'s chief economist and vice president says that the growth came primarily from typing oil markets. what has happened already over the last few months with more stable supply and growing demand the majority will draw down but

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 such as to smoke was just some of the official statistics you see the initial was going down at the end of the third is the summary of that is that by the beginning of this year we will have to see won't be reacting either your mentors will continue to fall very sharp and prices will start to rise will be green have to increase production. to connect the market european stock markets open realities of beauty early trading that's for a wall street strong finish on friday and a good start to the week japanese market london's would see out of the germany and germany's dax and seven percent long stocks on the move shares and rang gold resources advanced to a half percent after the group predicted shop rise in production for two thousand and eleven and how to build the beltway rose one a half percent following a trade updates. here in russia markets are trading in the red in the afternoon the

rise it is losing nearly half a percent energy and banking shares are weighing on the indices reading bees shedding point eight percent this hour although my sex witness in the banks can't share price is seen by analysts as a buying opportunity or all county and city need she has gained of reports that shareholders had approved a merger of the two conference. and russia's largest independent gas producer novacek expects to increase al boards 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 the attack is currently building a plant in the gas which arctic peninsular press healed is expected in five years time the company says it's investing one hundred million dollars into the nickel fight natural gas project this year in addition to the gas producer is looking for a strategic partner to take a forty nine percent stake. here in the shell there is totality of there is

very. 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 who study the concept we're finish an exploration start 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 two initial work and now all the infrastructure activities are underway in the i'm open insulin . and that's all i have for you this hour but don't forget you can always look for most doors in our website just logon to our t dot com site it's.

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for the. we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. welcome back to join us. the headlines and it hit 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 meanwhile street protests show little sign of abating after two weeks of violence. with leaks founder julian assange to appear in a one quarter fight extradition to sweden over alleged sex crimes but cozy friends . was washington might see him traded to the united states where he could face the death penalty assigned outrage the u.s. by publishing tens of thousands of its military documents and diplomatic cables. as

u.s. president barack obama implements a new budget some say it's going to poverty reduction programs but struggling with massive debts many american cities are already threadbare services. while next week's pose how constant wars and conflicts bring often irrevocably damage to the natural world. displacement is another of war's consequences the forced migration of civilians has profound impacts on the natural environment this image was taken in one thousand nine hundred six after the tens of million government decided to close camps and refugees the column of refugees this photo stretched for twenty seven miles toward the rwandan border. these women are i.d.p.'s internally displaced.