it turns our triumphant weeks of mass on grass to finally see hosni mubarak step down leaving the military in power but there are concerns that the country's future is now under the control of a force largely financed by washington. a growing number of european leaders said myth that multiculturalism has failed a longstanding policy has cost rifts between local and immigrant communities in several states and. turn it is to south africa. ukraine is getting ready to introduce fans of the twenty twelve year old to an all slavic instrument that will have spectators at fever pitch.

nine am here in moscow this is r t thanks for joining us now we start with egypt where egyptian president hosni mubarak has finally stepped down and during a standoff lasting more than two weeks well barack obama welcomed the move saying that the voice of the people had been heard but since america back the fall of dictator and his thirty year regime there are those who question this is sarah t. of the u.s. sentiments are these gay and educate young reports. in the west mubarak's departure was hailed as a triumph of democracy or gyptian have made it clear that nothing less than genuine democracy will carry the day the u.s. congratulates egyptians for getting rid of a repressive leader it's a big change after washington sponsoring hosni mubarak for thirty years and turning a blind eye to widespread human rights violations in the country what have they

been doing for the previous thirty years while mubarak was actually torturing people. putting down opposition by force barak was a bad guy but he was our bad guy and as long as we had some element of control and that was good for us america's close ally is out of power but some analysts say the u.s. is still pulling the strings. long term alliance with israel a deep partnership with egypt we as a country have provided more than one hundred billion dollars in aid to both of these countries there's a real investment here the force now in charge in egypt is the country's military largely financed by the united states the army will be in power until egyptians choose their next president it is the second largest recipient of american aid in the world after his neighbor as well the u.s. is pumping billions of dollars into the egyptian military which kids washington huge control over the running of the country and its future although the official

u.s. position is that it's up to the egyptian people to choose their next leader some analysts say it's very likely the country's next president will be subject to american approval what took place in egypt was a military coup in a military coup inside the art of mubarak and suleiman of course they're also military men but they were being no posed by chief of the army and the minister of defense they have a very close relationship with the pentagon always very very close to robert gates they talked on the. told at least five times this past week so obviously washington will be supervising any sing that happens tahrir square in cairo now celebrates the end of ruled by an autocratic leader who restricted political freedoms and damaged economic progress so too did people on the streets of kurdistan and ukraine in recent years after so-called democratic revolutions with western approval but the

leaders who came to power were leader rejected by their own people the parties for many of you people power revolution being where the. people who. have. been just a change of racism. some say the lesson that the west could learn from recent revolutions is to abstain from supporting a leader just based on how convenient they are for the west rather than how much they can do for their people going to check on our t. washington d.c. . investigative journalist robert dreyfuss says that now that mubarak has stepped down and had a power to the military america is uncertain which side to back next even though there's a lot of celebration in jubilation going on in cairo we don't know really whether the military is going to give up its power and authority and if they do to whom how far will they share or what's going to happen the most likely course is going to be a prolonged period of very difficult talks between some emerging group coming out

of the protest states was certainly involves behind the scenes in a very intensive way when it became clear that mubarak was was in trouble they wanted him out now do they want the military to stay in power do they want the protesters to take over i think something in between you know and they're really confused the obama has been a step or two behind throughout this entire process. and british journalist and war correspondent yvonne ridley says hosni mubarak delayed his departure to take care of his multibillion dollar fortune the problem facing a dictator like mubarak is that when you have many billions stashed away. he obviously had to seek assurances that it's also wouldn't be frozen as has happened in switzerland to suit heard already there are lots of things that i think he's had to sort out and this obviously been a lot of deals going on behind the scenes but at the end of the day the victory is

with the people they got their way it was in tough you square just on tuesday and it was an electric atmosphere they got their rewards that patience paid off and coming up for you in a few minutes here on r t learning from mubarak's downfall doubt how karzai is using the events in egypt to solidify his power and protect himself against similar uprisings in afghanistan. and european leaders are one by one denouncing the policy of multiculturalism the latest fail stab came from the french president nicolas sarkozy who said he doesn't want people to pray in a quote an ostentatious way in the street. takes a look at what's behind the backlash you can see it's official the grand concept of multiculturalism has been deemed an epic fail by european leaders germany's angela

merkel started the trend. of course the multicultural approach living side by side and being happy with each other this approach has field. then david cameron added fuel we've encouraged different cultures to live separate lives apart from each other and apart from the mainstream we fail to provide a vision of society to which they feel they want to belong and now france is an equal and sarkozy nation as well my answer is clearly yes it's a failure yes yourself apparently heads of state have only now realised what many observers and radicals were saying for quite some time mordechai tourism will only function if the people come into the country have a job to own their own money and feel responsible for the for the community otherwise was jobless people and if they live a passive life with social welfare the concept of multiculturalism seems to be failing all around europe take all in super example why danish town known as the

birthplace of hans christian andersen one of the world's best known fairy tale authors but recent bouts of discord between the local population and muslim immigrants forced officials and residents to spin a different yarn one neighborhood two different worlds and their voices are being raised about doing something before tensions involved get out of hand the situation remains far from being a fairy tale if we take those two hundred persons. split from all over the city and with the help from the state and police and kick them out of the country we won't have any problems make authority that's only dormant and to get other dames things like integration means becoming fully danish immigrants have a dream come to live just like the danes but those who come here think integration means getting some money having their kids speak danish and going to danish schools

. but that's why there's a discordian about that so now that european leaders seem to have finally stopped believing in a fairy tale of multiculturalism the question begs. what's the next step of solving the growing national rift in the e.u. in the r t. essel ahead for you this hour the very first leg of the race i'm not at this time a candidate for the presidency i will decide by june whether or not i will become one we take a sneak peek at who might be the potential candidate for the twenty twelve u.s. presidency and what their rhetoric might mean for the country and the rest of the world. and the landing on mars just hours away the crew of the longest space flight simulation in history preparing mankind for a real trip to the red one. well if there's one thing the twenty ten south african world cup will be remembered for is the constant lead of the us what some are

determined not to be outdone by the infamous horn with ukraine and poland set to host the two thousand and twelve european championships locals have decided it's the perfect opportunity to promote the european cousin artie's alexei or ships he has the story. remember the whole mark sound of last summer's football world cup the distinctive droning of the traditional south africa horn. made its equivalent for the euro two thousand to twelve championship to be held in ukraine and poland this was so it's called sicily named and shaped after a cool and just like it was a lot it dates back thousands of years before the report of the triple your culture where this is elites it came from united many countries ukraine moldova romania and the balkans we want to use it at the twenty twelve championship to let everyone

know of our roots we're not seeing this instrument as purely ukrainian i would rather see it's purely slavic. those behind the idea to use this is the lead at euro two thousand and twelve say they will try to avoid there was ill effect which brought complaints from some that the powerful picture of the african horn was irritating and drowned out the atmosphere and like a monotonous roar of a who was ill of this ukrainian musical instrument provides a far more melodic sound and just about anybody can play just about any tune. professional folk musician maxime business says any football fan would master this instrument in no time and there was particularly keen could play even more than just football songs.

not socialism nor was i you see it took me less than five minutes to teach you how to play it's really easy to use i've been playing for some time and i've learned to play tunes wonder vala d.j. and many other musicians. costs under five dollars coming in various sizes and either clay or plastic but this spotter has been making these birdies for most of her life says the more natural the lead certain the more positive its vibe the limo they make sure their ratios as elite comes from the solo ukrainian soil countries friendly ever passed and coming here for the twenty twelve couple feel it and this is elite cilla transfer the positive emotions of our land every family uses one of . those pushing this is the need to hope it will become the unofficial emblem of the euro twenty twelve championship the sound feeling stadium next year in ukraine and poland will tell how successful they have been. r.t.

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all american billionaire donald trump could be the next u.s. president of the two thousand and twelve presidential race nears he joined a possible republican challengers who've been trying to win over conservative voters in washington kosofsky was there. if you've been wondering who i am one of you. could possibly only go let me washington the jeep already. one day become the next u.s. president. while i'm not at this time a candidate for the presidency i will decide by june whether or not i will become one. you came to the right party and that's precisely what it means for one hundred thousand meaningfulness deepak you have written here the fact that the next president of the united states you can call it so you get

a stone's throw away and though he hasn't officially announced it it is going to take a lot more of the new rhetoric to put americans back to work it's going to take a new president. all eyes were on mitt romney were to make this very clear if i were to decide to run for president who according to a recent rasmussen poll leaves obama in a potential presidential race in two thousand and twelve and who just recently opposed the new start treaty which would limit the amount of nuclear weapons in both the united states and russia and which was supported by leadership of both parties new star national security. and potential candidate michele bachmann had quite a few eloquent things to say about u.s. foreign policy particularly china with all the money that we owe china i think we might rightly say who is your daddy but in this interview when discussing foreign policy bachmann it wasn't joking this is the time where we need to be on the red hot alert. alert and instead of calling back and taking our weapons off the table

we need to care and another presidential hopeful has been gearing up for years now especially when it comes to dealing with iran and i'm a doing a job he gets to wipe out tel aviv maybe the israelis use nuclear weapons and he would accept that in a minute. because he believes everybody in tehran goes to heaven and everybody in tel aviv does and now he's really angry at the u.s. president the obama administration is wrong on terrorism wrong on iran wrong on the muslim brotherhood wrong on hezbollah but hating obama is where the agreement seems to end because this year here's the compromise the conservatives also will have to make we will have to look long and hard at the military budget. thank you i knew there had to be some change. some fresh faces are willing to say in with the new out with the old the tea party is

interested in selecting our tea party candidates not just all the not just all of the. establishment republicans but establishment republicans there may be the temptation to x. everything including the defense but still have something to say and the money to not only say it but also to believe that the united states is becoming the laughing stock of the world because delusion john boehner by the way is flying commercial these days. oh yes i guess it's a new day no matter how obvious always has a place in society but when realistic ideas too often get drowned out you cannot say that the job laying of the military budget in the last ten years has all been spent wisely and that there's not any waste in the job. just be on you.

r. t. washington d.c. . well whoever becomes the next u.s. president one of the main challenges they'll face is the growing budget deficit latest report shows in january and rose to almost fifty billion dollars that's seven billion more than last year with a struggling economy and suffering its twenty eighth consecutive month in the red some wonder if the u.s. might end up going broke well in her show the resident laurie harmfulness has the streets of new york to find out if people really think america is on the brink of going bust. the u.s. has a new budget coming out can america ever go bankrupt this week let's talk about that well we're already bankrupt so it's like credit card debt i mean. can you go at what point you at the bottom and what point do you start screaming about it has too much invested in dollar to let america go bankrupt so now we're

something that someone else has to take care of. not right now but if anything happens there's going to other countries who are going to do that for us is that fair. it's always really tough on not saying that everything's all right rosy at this point we're certainly not at a critical point and i think what you're pointing out is the fact that we need increased global cooperation it's not just a problem that can be fixed unilaterally either within the within the euro or within the us economy it's something that has to be fixed globally how do you stop spending when you've got thirty three hundred million people to make sure that they're healthy and have enough food and all that kind of stuff. how do you. you. you have to. cut it other places maybe stop going to war with so many people. as a real work. there's

a lot of countries that are surviving for the interest we're paying so it's good for us to be in doubt you think some debt not this much is it ok that our country is built on a deficit system. if you look at a lot of companies now they are so no it's not but we should be build on a surplus either do you think the rest of the world needs us to be in that yes i do feel like questions like these are sort of useless to people like me because it feels like it has nothing to do with me at all whether or not you think america can ever go bankrupt the bottom line is with a deficit that continues to grow something's got to give one way or another. artie's military analyst colonel you have getting crucial of explains how president karzai fearful of the events in egypt is safeguarding himself against

a potential u.s. backed coup. when the whole international attention has been foreclosed on the unraveling situation in egypt suddenly got his eye popped up on the headlines with his new end to american rhetoric this time to deprive the united states any opportunity to swap or to dismiss him with a more pliable pseudo democratic leader he decided to regain the initiative and momentum and to capitalize on and to american sentiments in afghanistan thanks to american occupation now he is in charge. clinton used to call narco state due to the direct trafficking has acquired total financial independence from the united states or international community it's up to president obama whether he has the guts to learn the less sum from cairo to arrange that

preventive palace coup in kabul before the situation in afghanistan we'll completely spin out of american control. well let's take a look at some other major headlines from around the world hundreds of protesters are taking to the streets in the pakistani city of karachi calling for the hanging over a u.s. embassy worker accused of killing two pakistani men allen davis claims he shot the men in self-defense after they attempted to rob him two weeks ago in the city of lahore u.s. embassy representatives have called for his immediate release due to his diplomatic immunity and washington hinted that the national aid to pakistan could be affected and that the countries of the bass are to be on the west may be expelled. a powerful six point eight magnitude earthquake has struck central chile disrupting power and communications and causing thousands to quit it was centered in almost

the same spot as last year's quake which caused a tsunami and devastated coastal communities well there have been no reports of injuries the president appealed for calm and praised lance for their quick reaction . two more hostages have been released by rebels from the revolutionary armed forces of colombia a councilman and a marine were handed over to the international red cross in southern colombia and transported to the capital it follows the release of another captive earlier this week of fark is reportedly holding at least fifteen or more people have been trying to exchange for captured rebels. transport workers took to the streets of athens the latest set of strikes a protest against public sector reforms. of the capital services all walked off the job for several hours to attend the demonstrations the reforms part of the government's austerity measures are a precondition one hundred billion euro zone of the i.m.f.

. now the longest space flight simulation in history a five hundred day mission to mars is reaching its destination as the astronauts prepare to land on the red planet later today with a crew of three volunteers will leave their spaceship where they have been locked since june for a first spacewalk on the martian surface well fake as it may seem the ongoing experiment is more than virtual as it helps prepare future astronauts for a real trip to mars sarah for explains. more than eight months flying to the red planet the isolated. preparing to go. to school they plan to take their chance to stand. between them to it this is the simulator the surface of mars now only three of the six crew are actually going to be entering here and they're going to be carrying out experiments and collecting samples and other programs and system really. is

going to be monitored for russia's real life mission controls and in reality they are the crew of the space ship and the planet. this all just part of the simulated experiment one that comes complete with mock emergencies scientific experiments space v. and no natural light its purpose to learn more about the physical and psychological demands of long distance space travel the head of the project tells me it's a new team perhaps to avoid any tensions and the experience itself is a tough challenge for the crew to have to deal with the monotony but thanks to this program of drills the men are in a good condition and we hope. they will be able to walk on the simulated planet's surface the crew volunteers are being paid it's a long haul experiment that still has a while to completion in fact it won't be until the vendor six hundred forty days

after they first began that the men will get to touch down back in reality it was the experiment gives a unique insight into the long term space travel techniques it will be a long while yet before the real thing until then this simulation is as close as it gets to witnessing a real mission to mars south r.t. . in order to continues its exploration of european capitals through the prism of russia's cultural influence today martin andrews is in london to see how the city has benefited from what russians living there have to offer all the four program is coming up next hour but here is a quick preview. with more russians actually moving to the u.k. every year the ones are calling because of the grads the fact ready experts say that it's more about that this is the rights the british economy.

i'll be back with the headlines shortly do stay with us.

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