after weeks of antigovernment arrests the egyptian president prepares to address the nation the cia says it expects him to step down with the now it's fueling further criticism that the u.s. is pulling the strings. the new exodus christians in iraq fear they're being driven out of their country with constant sectarian attacks targeting the minority group. a surprise visit by the president concerns over transport security here in russia dmitry medvedev personally discovered major lapses at one of moscow's main stations . some u.s. politicians famous for the blue. advising the world of democracy it seems the american people are being turned into the object of ridicule.

life from our studios here in central moscow this is r.t. with twenty four hours a day so the egyptian president hosni mubarak has to address the nation later tonight the cia says it expects he'll resign however the country's information minister has denied the egyptian military forces have announced they are siding with the protesters and that the president will meet their demands it's been more than two weeks since the mass uprising in the country which has been accompanied by a wave of violent clashes between pro and anti-government protesters well these are live pictures from cairo central square where massive crowds are staying put as you can see they're refusing to leave until the president stands down with immediate effect. a professor at the u.s. naval war college michael ross says the money the u.s. has been pouring into the barracks corrupt regime has been with the direct aim of

securing american influence in the middle east as he told me earlier. the u.s. got. in a sense step by step it got sucked into our. approach to the middle east where the middle east became the greater middle east including pakistan the most important focus of american foreign policy and in the case of egypt there were two dynamics at work one you had. the camp david accords and that's sort of locked in. a year early by another word egypt was being egypt peace with israel was being paid for every year and if you look at it that way that helps explain why the u.s. has been locked into this important financial transfer year after year after year but also egypt became something of a substitute for the loss of iran and being one of the anchor core countries

in the arab world maybe the cork this was seen as a great triumph for u.s. . foreign policy and so we were almost immediately heavily invested in maintaining what we call stability and the author william indels says the u.s. has long been planning to get rid of mubarak for his opposition to some of washington's policies in the middle east. mubarak's government realized that the u.s. was preparing a regime change that along the lines of the so-called color revolutions in georgia . for bringing young egyptian activists to the united states sometimes received in the state department sometimes at the national endowment for democracy or freedom house these are all quote unquote private and she also specializes in trains for washington. and. what's going on is really a major not destabilization of the u.s.

ally mobarak has been opposed to most of us policy views of iran's. gulf nations and views of the levanon over the last several years so he's become in effect a thorn in the side of washington's greater agenda since two thousand and one well still coming up in the program this how a brain drain in the baltics. with u.a.d. has one of the highest levels of emigration you many of the young people who i've spoken to here say they'd see their future employment beyond the borders of their day to the country. we explore why so many people in. looking abroad for opportunities. germany's chancellor is quizzed over the killing of dozens of afghanistan civilians in them and the taliban strike two years ago. a story still to come but first an urgent investigation has been don't stuff to the russian president personally discovered major security lapses at

a railway station here in moscow he came in to beat him if it paid a surprise visit to one of the capitals main stations and as artie's sarah firth discovered the one shot you'll check up has caused many red faces. start the passengers. train station with the surprise today by the arrival of president. plans to check out the security systems at the train station we know that he was extremely displeased with what he found when he entered the station he couldn't see any police officers there when a metal detectors now he was accompanied by the heads of the federal security service and the interior ministry we know that he addressed the staff and the son of the police officer and he was actually quite angry over his questioning that as to why exactly these measures were in place but as for the order i haven't seen a single policeman at the railway station i understand that there are c.c.t.v. cameras but still what about. their standby duty and ruwi station holes we've

walked around the whole together with the minister but i haven't noticed a single priestman that transport security has been the talk of president medvedev is agenda since. i've done the date of course and today carrying out he's extremely serious and ensuring that the measures and now up to scratch know when he visited here is he said he spoke today stuff and we've heard him speaking at the come instead of course the finger of a plane pointing at a number of authorities that he really highlighted the federal security service as really holding top responsibility and what he was saying to them is they really no need to be making sure that they're doing their job not just immediately after the attack but they're putting these merged in place that will stay in place. from now on the federal security service will be responsible for coordinating security measures on transport the railways must be protected exactly the same as ports you must know what your officers are exactly doing at that moment they must not drink

tea or walk without any purpose they must do their work there's a strong was there from present they'd have again in the wake of the attacks we had to talking very seriously about what he calls a sin. the failure really they need to get this up to standard now and they're going to be very serious about implementing this and if people on the job we've heard him say simply be replaced by people who are we've already seen a number of high profile firings. of the chief of the federal transportation security says again today with this highlighting so may just security lapses possibly some further firings to come but the essential message now is that the security system needs to be tight and uncompromising and the shake up going to continue until that. sort of first reporting there from central moscow. sectarian violence has forced iraqi christians to seek haven in the relatively calm northern region of kurdistan hundreds of thousands of the minority group fled there in the years following the two thousand and three u.s.

led invasion and the sebastian moore reports from iraq those who stayed are a continued target of extremists. every night miriam gets ready for bed with her family but it's not her bed it's not even her house miriam and her family are christian iraqis who have been forced to flee from baghdad to the semi autonomous kurdish region because they become targets of extremist groups in the country in two thousand and seven miriam was hit by a bomb that was planted outside her house black i went out with my arm just to buy some chocolate and come back i went out and didn't see anything i just heard the bomb and i fell to the ground miriam was lying in the street with her foot dangling from her leg her father i had rushed outside. i saw my daughter lying only groaned it was a live and. my daughter was lying in the growing and people were running. everything was covered in dust and shortage of glass so i picked up my daughter

with her. i almost lost it i was shouting my daughter has been hit by a bomb. luckily i had was able to get her to a doctor who could repair her leg but others have not been so lucky in october last year fifty six people were killed by militants when they attacked the our lady of salvation church in baghdad in the following weeks dozens more were killed in attacks across the country many fear that eventually christians will be driven out of iraq completely of the eight hundred thousand christians in the country before two thousand and three almost half of fled in the past month alone four thousand have moved to the comparative safety of the northern kurdish region here they can worship and live in peace but in living their homes they've lost absolutely everything many like miriam's father and are forced to make a living cleaning toilets in bars and restaurants these women said i served for seven years in the military under saddam hussein i'm an iraqi christian and i don't

have a square switch of land in my name why what's my crime many in the church feel that countries in the west are responsible. americans are liars we don't trust them their reputation is terrible because everywhere they've been they have light the us train the sunni and shia and they just watch while they kill us it is impossible not to see all these murders but they don't get involved. it's the end of a long day and time for the family to go to bed everyone gets ready and eventually the lights are switched off in the darkness and uncertainty miriam and the rest of her family are left to dream about and hope for a better tomorrow sebastian meyer r t so i'm in the iraq. german chancellor angela merkel has been questioned over a military airstrike which killed dozens of civilians in afghanistan's province almost two years ago it comes as the country's parliament voted to extend the

military mission in the country by one year after a hundred forty two people were killed dozens of them civilians as a result of the strike and two fuel tankers hijacked by taliban militants incident sparked a political storm in germany claiming the jobs of several top military officials well chris of course still the business and government consultant based on telling told me earlier that nato countries including germany are just dancing to the beat of the us we are there because of nato to put it straight because washington ahd it to be there and it is going to continue no matter that seventy to eighty percent of the german people are opposed to this military a good gauge still the politicians are not listening and that means they must be more afraid of washington than they are the old people and of course this is a very severe. decision to go against your own people is to be elected politician and bear means that our democratic structures are no longer well

functioning our mass media are lying constantly about the afghan war our politicians are lying and the whole selection process even of members of parliament to be candidates for to stand for election is not democratic anymore we are killing mostly civilians there is no sign of any better future through nato in afghanistan in fact we are losing this war we are losing the good will of the population. lithuania is experiencing the warring brain drain with a population plummeting by more than ten percent in the last decade and the impact of the world financial crisis is maybe people even more aggressive. young educated and unemployed the rhenish have it she's a twenty four year old computer science graduate she can't find work in her native bilis so is headed to another country in search of a job she's one of the lucky ones she'll be reunited with her mother and father who have already made the switch i have finished university here and i couldn't find

a job because of their economic. situation in the country so my parents and they are living in ireland for a six year solar a day and i decided to off to ireland today with them and to find a job there more and more lithuanians are falling victim to the baltic brain drain young people finish their studies at home and then look for a job in western europe where salaries are much higher however the global financial crisis and feeling recession in countries like ireland means that the move abroad doesn't always provide the opportunity to once did its always so brazen but. it's now a days it's better to go to ireland and to find a job there. is job then sitting just here and doing nothing. lithuania is carrying out

a census in march to determine the current population demographic luminary government statistics for twenty ten show that last year alone an estimated eighty three thousand people left the country many in search of work elsewhere lithuania has one of the highest levels of emigration in the e.u. many of the young people who i've spoken to here say they see their future employment beyond the borders of their native country this is one of the reasons that the twenty eleven census that will take place here will be the most comprehensive in the nation's history. with questionnaires in english russian polish as well as if you were in the department of social statistics so desperate to find out how many people are living in the country they expect to see the two thousand and one population of three point four million four by almost five hundred thousand with no apparent end in sight to the exodus the long term estimates paint a bleak picture for the next forty years.

but it's excellence. in the year two thousand and fifty. the task of bill this is to try and keep the best and brightest from being lost to the brain drain to safeguard the future of social security the second is to provide health security was the third maybe it is to provide conditions for people to study because now it's really difficult because it is becoming expensive when people spend money on something i mean after money and when i can do that. we have to rearrange that system access some sort of people for especially for young people any changes come too late for arena she has already made her move to pastures new and to search for employment in western europe these are all other bills. remember there's always more news on our website dot com here's what's lined up for you

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politician and some of them get so carried away that they confuse what countries exactly they're talking about i also want to thank the president of lithuania a group of our members of congress visited with her yesterday in choosing a great leader a but we also had the opportunity to meet with members of the opposition many of whom have fellow countrymen residing in prison have been beaten and tortured are developing. during the same conference the former presidential candidate down one of the most influential republican senators referred to russia as the soviet union we all know that our missile defense rather modest. earmark. we are proceeding with it because of the threat we face from iran not from the soviet union but senator mccain's gaffes don't stop there i'm afraid that it's a very hard struggle particularly given the situation on the iraq pakistan border

probably only in mccain's mind did pakistan share a border with iraq but he's not the only u.s. politician who's quick to share their expertise in world affairs without checking some facts george w. bush will not prides himself on having pushed democracy in egypt during his presidency thought africa was a nation africa's a nation or suffers from incredible disease the winner of hearts and minds of millions of americans sarah pailin two thought africa was a country some two years ago but now nothing seems to stop her from handing out advice on how to deal with egypt mrs pailin has further contributed to her credibility in foreign affairs when commenting on the u.s. stance with regards to north korea obviously got to stand with our north korean allies were down to create by trees and worry about by well the paradoxes is that politicians who really know nothing about these things have to appear to know something they have to speak out on all of these issues to be considered credible sig years so sarah palin you know who could see russia from her door and her window

you know is now an expert on russia or whatever else the reason why us politicians feel free to make bloopers on international issues could be that many of their audience is can't catch the inconsistences well it's very easy to manipulate people when they don't know anything so they generally americans. indifferent they don't pay attention to world events and you can easily manipulate them cuss. public ignorance or guess what after waging wars in iraq and afghanistan for years figures show most americans still have difficulties finding the countries on the map giving the idea. of if the public is not able to notice the ignorance of their politicians they won't be able to hold them accountable for their decisions something that is one of the biggest threats to democracy in america i'm going to check our reporting from

washington r.t. . now time for a brief look at some other major headlines from around the world in our update at least six people have been killed and six injured after a small plane crash to cork airport in the republic of ireland the commuter aircraft overturned and called far will try to land in heavy fog and makes to play have made two previous attempts to land and have been traveling from belfast in northern ireland the accident is the deadliest in irish aviation since one nine hundred sixty eight. a teenage suicide bomber dressed in a school uniform has struck at a military facility in northwestern pakistan killing at least thirty soldiers and wounding over forty others the attacker detonated his explosives laden events during an early training session in the city of marjah and the incidents described as one of the worst against pakistani security forces in recent months militants who carried out scores of suicide bombings and other terror attacks in the past few years in the region killing thousands. one of our close up team continues its discovery of the west in your all's area as it explores life in and

around the city of egypt. well this time the team discovers how russia's elderly are struggling to get by in the remote villages where they make up the majority of the population with tiny pensions and poor healthcare the older generation is in need of food medical assistance and support. listened to their stories. already a patrol car gets her daily exercise by breaking the ice in the well she'd much rather do without it but then she'd have no water the seventy seven year old lives in her native village on her own. that we don't mind living like this we don't want to die but we do have a huge problem with water gas water seems to be the main concern for these women but once they start talking more problems come to surface ask what if we can't get

an ambulance out here probably because we're old and they think we're not important . out of thirty people in this village twenty are over the age of sixty we have no access to running water medical help or food so for them it's not so much about enjoying life as it is about survival the main problem of these women is their age miniscule pensions and poor health care make the lives of russia's elderly all but unbearable but many say the way the elderly are perceived in the country is even more lamentable that you. as a woman even if friends between russia and the west is that are not country old age is considered to be a time of loss and reminiscence whereas in the west it's a time for new possibilities. good ninety believes russia is in a dire need of more social programs to provide care for the elderly one woman in the jeffs is already doing her part the eighty for a private retirement home came to natalya when her mother died and she was looking

for someone to look after her father the taliban and her height. his job effectively and started her own business. when you see that you're good at what you do it's incredibly satisfying oh people come in frightened at first and then they start considering your family member it's especially satisfying when you realize you're doing something important you unfortunately these village women cannot afford to live in a tireless home like millions of russia's elderly they are forced to rely on their own strength in good spirits while they still have them in college go r.t. i'll be back with a summer of our new stories in about eight minutes from now in the meantime the business is next with dmitri that's after a short break so stay with us live here in moscow. for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. in

india is available in hotels. resort and spa. resort and spa. remote have been turned down. beach hotel the western resort. resort and spa the ritz carlton hotel grounds many articles of hotel pool seasons hotel the sultan who turned. out a warm welcome to business the government's intervention and fuel pricing has led to a reduction in the cost of diesel for consumers that's according to russia's monopoly watchdog the watchdog group and a formal investigation into three of the country's top oil producers for price fixing after prime minister vladimir putin questioned why fuel prices were rising faster than crude oil two years ago the watchdog imposed fines of nearly

a billion dollars against the likes of ross never. before fixing prices but constantin seaman of the general director of national energy security believes. the right way to ensure competition. the problem is that we cover more when the refineries and us all serious refineries there the part of this we have to integrated and in my opinion if we really want to struggle for law or prices across the wall we must think not about fines we must think about structural reform of our industry we must have independent refineries and. i think this is the only one way or. struggle with high oil prices we want to press on but we must have the real computer market we'll have no independent for the news there will be no competition. look at the markets now and in the us they are lower despite

a strong jobs report i got my second ologies fell sixteen percent at one point on the nasdaq up to the company said competitors were forcing it to offer low prices for its web streaming services. european stock markets and session mixed in london they were led by heavyweight banking stocks and led down. shares were down seven point seven percent. of profits warning analysts had said it was excess capacity on some. russian stocks ended the session deep in negative territory session of losses in a row investors were shifting their assets out of developing countries concerned about inflation would hurt growth in emerging markets energy majors were the main drag as a boil dropped to eighty six and a half barrel dollars a barrel it's now so at something like eighty seven the sixth day of declines pretty much for the west texas crude gastronomy up was down two and

a half percent at the end of the session investors were worried that the refining would suffer most if the rush to monopoly was forced fuel prices the drug maker project was down around two point seven percent despite reporting twenty percent revenue rising the night but. this is not been the best of the week for russia and again i think it will turn out to be having been one of the worst performing emerging markets story here is to one of the best performing markets so far this year it's profits when you when you when you made some so i think what we're looking at is profit taking having basically been on the forefront for this week. in other news two brewing plant of chell has stopped an upcoming initial public offering due to unfavorable market conditions become very bland to sell around thirty percent of its shares on the my six r.t.s. and london stock exchange in a bid to raise up to eight hundred twenty eight million dollars but and as predicted the i.p.o.

would have value because but he between two and two point seven billion dollars. ran over the last twenty one million euro's from its involvement with the russian carmaker after last year rhino adds that it expects along with its alliance partner a nice cent to acquire a controlling stake in afterwards by the end of the year. and i'll be back in one hour's time with more statements.

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