kempinski my go to when you look you. know so turn. egyptians are triumphant as weeks of mass on the rest 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. i'm not at this time a candidate for the presidency i will decide by june whether or not i will become one party takes a sneak peek at who might be the potential candidate for the twenty twelve u.s. presidency and what their rhetoric might need for the country and the rest of the world. and in a lot of alternative to south africa's. ukraine is getting ready to reduce the value for the time he told me to an old slavic instrument that will have the

spectators fever pitch. coming to you live from moscow this is r t thanks for joining us egyptian president hosni mubarak has finally stepped down and in 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 backed the fall of dictator and his thirty year regime there are those who question the sincerity of the u.s. sentiments. reports. in the west mubarak's departure was hailed as a triumph of democracy for gyptian said 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 that's 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 egypt 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 gyptian military which gives 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 aren't mubarak and suleiman of course they're also military men that they were being no posed by chief of the army and the minister of defense they have a very cool relationship with the pentagon don't always very very close to robert gates they talked on the phone at least five times this past week so obviously washington will be supervising any seing 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 to date people on the streets of

kurdistan in 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 characters for many of you people power of being where but also people who. have. been just a change of races and. some say the lesson that the west to 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 of which side to back next even though there's a lot of celebration and 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 the united 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 is something in between you know and they're really confused 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 his are wouldn't be frozen as has happened in switzerland to see it hurt 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 i was in tough here 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 learning from mubarak's downfall find out how president karzai is using the events in egypt to solidify his power and protect himself against similar our pricing in afghanistan. now american billionaire donald trump could be the next u.s. president as a twenty twelve presidential race nearest he joy possible republican challengers who've been trying to win over conservative voters in washington artes do you notice of ski was there. if you've been wondering who i am

one of you. could possible are we going to let washington co-op the tea party. 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 and i will become one of the if you came to the right party and that's precisely what it means were people to see pack everything here the fact that that's the united states politics and get jealous you don't 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 let me make this very clear if i were to decide to run for president who according to a recent rasmussen poll leads 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 neustar needs our 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 red hot alert five alarm alert and instead of pulling back and taking our weapons off the table we need to go and another presidential hopeful has been gearing up for years now especially when it comes to dealing with iran and ahmadinejad he gets to wipe out tel aviv maybe the israelis use nuclear weapons to iran he would accept that in a minute. because he believes everybody into iran 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. while. it was going to be i knew there had to be some dissension so it was 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 yeah that's a good it's a new gate no matter how obvious always has a place in society but when realistic ideas too often get drowned out you cannot say that the doubling of the military budget in the last ten years has all been spent wisely and that there's not any waste in the job. you 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 show in january and rose to almost fifty billion dollars that's seven billion more than last year with a struggling. part of the end suffering its twenty eighth consecutive month in the red some wonder if the u.s. might end up going broke while in her show the resident lori harf an estate hits

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 hit bottom and what point do you start screaming about it china has too much invested in dollar to let america go bankrupt so now we're something that someone else has to take care of. right now. if anything happens there's going to other countries who are going to do that for us is that fair. it's . 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 believe me there's a lot of countries that are surviving off for the interest we're paying so it's good for us to be in debt 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 you know it's not but we should rebuild 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 pick. is 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 gotta give one way or another. also ahead for you this our family support knows no borders we'll how despite the severed ties with moscow the cash flow from russia to georgia gross every year that's due to money transfers from those who left their country in search of a better life. and the first more slatted happens today the crew of the longest space flight simulation in history preparing mankind for a real trip to the red planet. well if there's one thing the twenty two south

african world cup will be remembered for it's the constant bleed of the us but 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 a perfect opportunity to promote the european because it artie's alexei or chef he has the story. remember the whole mark sound of last summer's football world cup the distinctive drawing the additional south african foreign devils are really. its equivalent for your return to twelve championship to be held in ukraine and told this was so it's called sicily named and shaped after a cool and just like it was their work dates back thousands of years but with the report of the trip. to came from united many countries ukraine

moldova and the balkans we want to use it at the twenty twelve championship to let everyone know. we're not saying this instrument is purely ukrainian i would rather see it's purely slavic. those behind the idea to use this is elites at euro two thousand and twelve say they will try to avoid there was ill effect because 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 there all of this ukrainian musical instrument provides a far more melodic sound and just about anybody can play just about any tune. professional folk musician mixing business says any football fan with moss to this instrument in no time and there was particularly keen could play even more than just football songs.

not so the law as the norm 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 this is really to costs under five dollars coming in various sizes in either clay or plastic but this potter has been making these birdies for most of her life says the more natural this is really the more positive by linda then. the clay for their ratios as elites are comes from the soil like rainy and soil are countries friendly every person coming here for the twenty twelve couple feel it and this is elite cilla transfer the positive emotions of our land to every family uses one of. those pushing this is the need to hold that will become the unofficial emblem of the euro twenty twelve championship the sound

feeling stadium next year in ukraine in poland will tell how successful they have been. r.t. with from kiev ukraine. i can always find more and have your so. the stories we're covering on our website are teen dot com and here's what's on life for you right now follow the blog opened up at r.t. correspondent sean thomas as c.n.n. covers the hidden secrets of the arctic up and find out what it feels like at the other end of the earth. and the art goes high tech we explore the very modern paths of modern art as artists swap the paint brush or the laptop. into your. new.

life in georgia can be tough especially after the country severed all relations with moscow its largest trading partner and benefactor well every year thousands of georgians pack up and set off in search of a better life in russia but as artie's dennis polaski reports it's a lonely life for those left behind. going to. be happy and don't forget about us here come and visit don't miss lewis asked us to show this video greeting to her relatives she sends her best wishes to her some for adultery and the grandkids to live with russia for the seventy three year old we really hope to. live is hard nowadays oh i can get is if you are here and there is. help for this

big georgian family moved to rochelle fourteen years ago and even though it's hard for these people to make ends meet every month they send the money to their relatives and police and they're not the only ones last year alone families like the gross the transfer to the. seven hundred million u.s. dollars to georgia making russia the biggest cash supplier for this caucasus republic the number of such wire transfers has been growing steadily over the past few years giving a strong boost to georgia's economy and even though in two thousand aid bill we see officially broke all diplomatic ties with most screw and cancel direct flights between the two capitals it didn't stop georgians from my greeting to russia with the hopes of finding jobs and a better wife we came here as refugees the neighbors were kind to us and they helped a lot so now after all these years we communicated with the rest of the family over the internet sometimes to make their own calls and wire money to them whenever we

can money there is none nobody's daughter in law living in a small mining town loves a video in southern russia she relies on her husband bill small business income that lets the whole family live in russia being for their children situation and supporting their elderly relatives no i didn't see this picture of her but notice video message finally reached its recipients my year in medina i haven't seen their grandma for more than six years now they're hoping that someday wife in georgia will get better and visiting the relatives will be as easy as going to the bank and making a mani transfer dinners bill or r g it's very seldom russia. our military analyst. shelve 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 a slide popped up on the headlines with his new end to american rhetoric this style 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 drug trafficking has acquired total financial independence from the united states or international community it's to president obama whether he has the guts to learn the less sum from cairo and to arrange that preventive palace coup in kabul before the situation in afghanistan we'll come.

to of american control. now let's take a look at some other major headlines from around the world hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets in the pakistani city of karachi for the hanging would be the us embassy worker accused of killing two pakistani men allen davis claims he shot the men in self-defense after they attempted to rob him to wreak to go in the city of the u.s. embassy representatives have called for his immediate release due to his diplomatic immunity and washington hinted that financial aid to pakistan could be affected and that the country's ambassador to the u.s. may be expelled. and we powerful a six point eight magnitude earthquake has struck central chile disrupting power and communications and causing thousands to flee a little was centered in almost the same spot as last year's quake which caused a tsunami and devastated coastal communities there have been no reports of injuries

the president appealed for calm and praised chileans for their quick reaction. to more hostages have been released by rebels from the revolutionary armed forces of colombia a councilman and a marine were handed over to be international red cross in southern colombia and then transported to be copyable bogata it follows the release of another captive earlier this week fork is reportedly holding at least fifteen more people who they have been trying to exchange for captured rebels. thousands of greek workers took to the streets of athens in the latest set of strikes to protest against public sector reforms employees of the capital's transport 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 to a one hundred billion euro the i.m.f. and nations. now a team of astronauts hurdling through

a virtual universe in the longest. simulation in history that's a five hundred a mission to mars have landed on the red planet the crew of three volunteers will leave their spaceship where they have been since june for their first walk on the martian surface. found out how this virtual reality is preparing future explorers for a real trip to mars. after more than eight months flying to the red planet the isolated mars five hundred crew are preparing to go where no man has gone before they prepare to take their first tentative steps onto a mock mars this but we've been through it this thing the surface of mars now only three of the six are actually going to be entering here they're going to be carrying out experiments collecting phone calls other programs this are realizing that the mars is going to be monitored for russia's real life mission

control and in reality though the crew the spaceship and the planet's surface all just part of the simulated experiment will be one that comes complete with mach emergencies scientific experiments. 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 no girls 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 that. they will be able to walk on the planet's surface the crew all volunteers are being paid it's a long haul experiment that still has a while to completion in fact it won't be until november six hundred forty days

after they first began that the men will get to touch down back in reality 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. . and coming up in just five minutes time r.t. 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. the russians actually looking to the u.k. every year the ones that are calling the cell phones in crowds and the fact many experts say that's russia it's about this is the right thing british economy.

will all be back with the headlines in just a few moments to stay with us. our

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well when one deals with war for us to realize that this tremendous amounts of damage that have done not just human damage but damage the physical environment in which the battlefield takes place tremendous amounts of damage done by aerial bombs by napalm. coming from the city whether it's a sonic boom city tractor. or it's the burning oil fields in iraq or it's destroyed. in the pacific for purposes the list just goes on and on the geneva conventions of nineteen forty nine states that there shall be taken in war to protect. against widespread long term and severe damage the united states although it is accepted almost all of the provisions.