current oppression people around the exam you should read time and again we want freedom democratic institution news. international address egyptian president hosni mubarak dies during may be office until september but found some of the vice president. a flying visit by president in bed reveals major security lapses at a moscow railway station. so the new accidents christians in of rock fear they're being driven out of their country with constant sectarian attacks targeting the minority group. that sent you guys politicians famous for the blue because they make with advising the world on democracy things that american people are being turned into the object of ridicule .

or russia under around the world this is our she was meeting their ship of our thanks for joining it's egyptian president hosni mubarak voz to remain in office until september and a televised national address has said he will not step down and out of foreign pressure he also claimed that he was transferring some power to his vice president omar suni mubarak pointed out that the demands of the protesters were just and legitimate the address was not well received by hundreds of thousands gathered in tahrir square erupted into angry chance against him 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 and for more reaction let's crossover live to seattle where we are joined by michael hughes journalist for the think told post and it's to the new world strategy his coalition to q thank you very much indeed for your time so in one of your articles you claim

that the u.s. fears egyptian democracy as there's a double standard that the u.s. invades some middle east countries to bring democracy it fears what it comes from the people. yes absolutely it is it appears that america has all or democracy and freedom. of our own and when it meets our. and i wrote that article because i really do not think whether it's obama or bush and democrats you know we are not excited about the lack of the need to because we need someone like eric meet our geopolitical. israel with iran leave its oil. there is talk of democracy and freedom but we certainly aren't going out on the mall. what's the reaction then the u.s.d. the american people who really care about democracy in egypt i think. i think a lot of the american people are are not up to speed on some of the details on the

ground with regards to the muslim brotherhood what they are muslim brotherhood i think so some of this about him and they don't realize that it's actually a moderate force. so they know that you know by now they don't care for dictator they don't rely. on him but thirty years i think americans in general want are for the people of egypt but i don't think we're we're is educated. egypt the strategic importance to the united states it also gives cairo of a billion dollars a day in military aid well the military continue supporting the protesters oh well they switched allegiance to the hands that feeds them. i think the million dollar question and i think that is the key to the whole future is you know what is a military alliance and some of our. in the country and seem to be taking

a passive role but i don't know if that was white line originally and i think it'll be hard for me to believe that it will go against some of the traditions maybe. the training of. former general and the head of the president so. that is the discouraging element. but the role of the military everything you know going. also egypt u.s. interests during israeli arab tension will the u.s. look for a different approach now than the bard's days are numbered now. they are i think they will and it all depends on. what say there were democratic election i think people in america are paranoid that the muslim brotherhood. and that's probably. on just worry even if they were to come. what may come the.

nation the. worker labor act. liberal national party i think it was then we had a democratic election it would not be. regime at all that maybe a third of the people would vote for a muslim brotherhood party so what the u.s. would do what the coalition but i guarantee you they would not run for america's agenda or that friendly towards israel so they will definitely have to. really take a new approach so whatever regime of the prophet what omar suleiman the. new puppet same it's not much change. all right that was john this michael live from seattle thank you very much indeed. moving on now and that and investigation has been launched out of the russian

president pass and i discovered major security lapses at a railway station moscow it came when we trim is that of paid a surprise visit to one of the capitals main stations and that's also a sad fact discovered the end showed you check out high schools many red faces. start and the passengers. train station with extremely surprised by the arrival of president. plans to check out the security systems at the train station we know that he was extremely pleased 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 when he was 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 holds 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 voters agenda since. the date of course and today carrying out spacek you saying that he is extremely serious in ensuring that the measures and now up to scratch no one 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 play 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 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. so strong was surfin present they'd have again in the wake of the attacks we heard him talking very seriously about what he calls a system so. radio 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 had in say they'll simply be replaced by people who are we've already seen a number of high profile firings the. chief of the federal transportation security service again today with the support check highlighting some may just security lapses possibly some further firings to come but the essential message now is that the security system needs to be tight it needs to be solid and uncompromising and the shake ups going to continue until that's in place. it was at hand still coming out of the program a brain drain in the baltics. if you were

a viewer has one of the highest levels of every great should you many of the young people who i've spoken to here say they see their future employment beyond the borders of the country. so we know why so many people and it's when you're looking at a broad front the charities plans germany's chancellor quizzed over the killing of dozens of galveston civilians in an out of town about an hour strike two years ago . sectarian violence has forced iraqi christians to seek haven and relatively calm northern region of kurdistan hundreds of thousands of the minority group fled following the two thousand and three u.s. led invasion sebastian my reports from iraq that those who stayed are 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 the lack i went out with my arms just to buy some chocolate and come back and went out and didn't see anything i just had 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 like it was a live and. my daughter was lying the growing and people were running. mate everything was covered in dark street and charge of us so i picked up my daughter with her legs dangling i almost lost it i was shaking my daughter's gait she's been hit by a bomb but. 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. 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 to my name why. well it's my crime many in the church feel that countries in the west are responsible. merican is are liars we don't trust

their reputation is terrible because everywhere there they have light us train the sunni and shia and they just watch while they kill 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. u.s. politicians don't often hold back when it comes to their views of the wall but it seems they haven't always check their facts as gannett chicago reports is that american people have becoming the lot of the chart. devising other countries on democracy seems to be a must for any u.s. 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 with the way

now group of our members of congress visited with her us choose a great leader we also had the opportunity meet with members of the opposition many of whom have fellow countrymen residing in prison have been beaten and tortured. during the same conference the former presidential candidate don't one of the most influential republican senators referred to russia as the soviet union we all know that our missile defense were rather modest. earmarked and. 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 ever has 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 this is paling 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 bound 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 figures so sarah palin you know who could see russia from her door in her window

you know is now an expert on russia or whatever else the reason why us politicians feel free to make bloopers on your national 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 generally americans. indifferent they don't pay attention to world events and you can easily manipulate them cause of their 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 in the end. 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. and remember there's always more news on our website called what's

lined up for you on line right now. by the tempting side a one hundred twenty thousand dollars bus driver in brush it takes the onus rode off to finding banks a. customs officer in russia get into hot water after appearing and i want to rob me to showing the thrilling side of the job find out about these stories and more on our website. if one is experiencing a boring brain drain with the population plummeting by more than ten percent in the last decade and the impact on the world financial crisis has made the al flow of people in more aggressive. young educated and unemployed rhenish curvatures 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. and my parents and they are living in ireland for a six year seoul already and i decided to move to ireland to live 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 crippling recession in countries like ireland means that the move abroad doesn't always provide the opportunities it 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 even. as job then sitting just here and doing nothing this. is carrying out

a census in march to determine the current population demographic preliminary 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 if you or anyone has one of the highest levels of immigration 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 are 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 for 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.

of jackson's. in the year two thousand and fifty. five million. to task the bill this is to try and keep the best and brightest from being lost to the brain drain to safeguard the future but social security the second is to provide health security to the third maybe it is to provide conditions for people to study because now it's. difficult because it is becoming expensive people spend money on something i mean that money can do. that i think we have to reinstate system tax system for people for especially for young people any changes come too late for arena she's already made her move to pastures new and the search for employment in western europe these are all other r.t. bills. german chancellor angela merkel has been questioned over

a military ass try which killed dozens of civilians in afghanistan's can do is 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 one hundred forty two people were killed dozens of them civilians as a result of the strike on a two fuel tankers hijacked by taliban militants the incident sparked a political storm in germany claiming the jobs of several top military officials and peace activist john jones says the nato countries are just puppets controlled by the hands of the us it comes to the war in afghanistan. from the point of the americans germany is certainly reluctant but from the point of view of the german population. the government is eager to be in alliance with the united states in the question of afghanistan any other questions what really happens is certainly a play. completely

a chess game on. on the international scale that is led by the united states foreign policy and united states think tank. the europeans and the nato countries. are allies in this system and they as i said they try to benefit from. resource influence from oil influence the politicians are in the close alliance of close dependence with the military industrial complex so they are in this thinking. gaining from this war only in minor questions can nato allies deviate from this from the general united states strategy. now for a brief look at some other major headlines from around the world a teenage suicide so much trust in a school uniform has struck at a military facility in northwestern pakistan killing at least thirty soldiers and

wounding over forty others that target detonated his explosive laden best during an early training session in the city of la down there incidents described as one of the worst against pakistani security forces and restored months and since have carried out scores of suicide bombings and other terror attacks in the past few years in the region killing thousands. at least six people have been killed and six injured after a small plane crash at the airport in the republic of ireland the commuter aircraft overturned and caught fire while trying to land in heavy fog the months to plane had made it to previous attempts to land it had been travelling from belfast northern ireland the accident is the deadliest in irish aviation since the nineteenth sixty eight. and that's the news from around the world this hour now relations between london and moscow have been rock in recent years with many unresolved issues still hanging over the two actually spoke to the new russian ambassador to britain alexander lukashenko about how he expects the relationship to

progress that's coming up in just a few moments. today i am at the russian embassy in london talk. to mr alexander the m.k. has just taken up the post as the new russian ambassador to the u.k. is the academic thank you very much for talking to us he congratulations on your new pasting and a very warm welcome to london on

a human level relationships between the u.k. and russia are very good lots of persons work in russia russian culture is widely celebrates its here but on a diplomatic and political level that not say why do you think that's a well i think it's the task you know for the diplomats and for the political leaders you know to get the of course. to do their best to have good to political relations and as far as the russian britain ration what i would like to say that the last year was very fruitful from that point of view there were two meetings of the. video of the president of russia and the prime minister of britain that was in canada and in seoul we expect the visit of mr grove this will be next week which is very important in the mr hague was. in brush or you know the negotiations were very productive and we expect the visit of mr cameron

this year i mean the embassy we're studying preparing this visit so the texture of the political contacts a very important but i would like to see what is even more important that you know of course the. as you said the. the connections between the people and the russian culture is the probably this is the test for that and we know that a lot of events going on in london a lot of people are coming russians feel comfortable in london with thousands of them who doing business who just simply leave here and what is very important that the economic relations are going very well and the recent deal between the b.p. and the rusty after was just one of the. simples but if you look at the in the broader sense what's going on the business this the would indicate is the level of the trade but the last meeting of the international community or of trade

investment just showed that we had six day mentions directions of the corporations and we are planning to cooperate in different areas like for example. the brits will help us to make the international financial center we expect to cooperate on the energy efficiency so basically i'm very optimistic about the economic areas of corporation between our two countries and as far as your job case what areas if you targeted that you will focus on in terms of corporation or frankly i have to. point to you know all the all the areas still so this is politics definitely this is economy this is technology because you know we're building skolkovo with the brits building you know the same center not far from london reason regime we're in favor of the better conditions you know we want the

same conditions and we have to be rippin union and we're really you know to move in this direction and definitely we'll try you know to see good reaction you know from the u.k. the run no small questions in the by the tribulations you had of the press department to the ministry in moscow how do you assess the british press particularly the notes taken out by tabloid newspapers to think that british people can get an accurate perspective on international affairs from the press well i think i think that the first of all the british press is global they're not concentrated just on the local issues they're taking the issues globally and in this sense they're very competitive secondly you know there is a fast growing internet. and the third one is. interesting to me is that in britain you are trying to find new ways how you know to present the news and unless they deal with murder you know to issue the the new

let's say the brit between the space between the i mean in the internet in the printed version it's a very interesting it's very challenging question and of course definitely it's very interesting you know for the russian press because you know if you look at the russian internet you know it's basically the same as in the u.k. but if you have a global look at the press of the u.k. i would like to say that the get. adequate picture was going on in the world and on the national level to the u.k. still harbors people sort under the russian legal system people at their selves. as recently mocked. the subjects of the largest claim ever made in a u.k. commercial court and what do you think it will take for the u.k. to change its position on that kind of cooperation with russia you just cannot say you know in general. this is there are some specific and of course we have to

deal with. every specific case you know case by case basis ambassador you have got to thank you very much thank you. discover it's. just become. nature can give you. is that so much i would like to give a real full even hundred pounds.