from silence to pressure. starts on t.v. don't come. egyptians are triumphant as weeks of mass on the roster 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 watching and. i'm not at this time a candidate for the presidency i will decide by june whether and 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 mean for the rest of the country and the rest of the world. a melodic alternative to south africa was ukraine's getting ready to introduce fans of the twenty twelve year old pop to an old slavic instrument that will have spectators at

fever pitch. it's three pm in moscow this is r t coming to you live in that way first up this hour egyptian acts government officials have been banned from traveling by military officials this comes after president hosni mubarak finally stepped down ending a standoff lasting more than two weeks barack obama welcomed the move saying that the voice of the people have been heard but this is america back befalling dictator and his thirty year regime there are those who question the sincerity of the u.s. sentiments are just going to can report. in the west mubarak's departure was hailed as a triumph of democracy for gyptian to 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 you know opposition by force with 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 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 certainly a man of course there are also military men that there will be no close by chief of the army and the minister of defense they have a very close relationship with the pentagon don't always very very close to robert gates the. on the fold at least. this past week or so all because 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 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 later rejected by their own people prepared to do so many of you people. where. people could. be 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. . well investigative journalist robert dreyfus says that now mubarak has stepped down and handed power to the military america's 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 be 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 the obama has been a step or two behind throughout this entire process. and british journalist and war correspondent you've. lost me mubarak delayed his departure to take care of his multi billion 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 wouldn't be frozen as has happened in switzerland to see further already there are lots of things that i think he's had to sort out of 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 tahrir square just on tuesday and it was an electric atmosphere they got their rewards that patience paid off. and coming up for you later the 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 uprisings in afghanistan. but first american billionaire donald trump could be the next u.s. president as the twenty twelve presidential race nears he joined possible republican challengers who've been trying to win over conservative voters in

washington are choosing to go soft was their. if you've been wondering who i am one of you. could possibly know we could all let washington up the jeep already i 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 of the if you came to the right party that's precisely what it is words undervalues the fault of the pack everyone here the fact that the next president of the united states. it's just 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 i want to 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 he will 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 is the compromise that conservatives also will have to make we will have to look long and hard at the military budget. i think is going to be i knew there had to be some dissension so. some fresh faces are willing to say in with the new out with field 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 geography in or 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 doubling of the military budget in the last ten years has all been spent wisely and that there's not any waste in the joke. he just be on you. r. t. washington d.c. . and whoever becomes the next u.s. president one of the main challenges they'll face is the growing budget deficit but his reports show in january it rose almost fifty billion dollars seven billion more

than last year but the struggling. color me and suffering its twenty eighth consecutive month in the red some wonder if the u.s. might end up going broke when her show the resident laurie hard finished hits the streets of new york to find out of 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 the bottom and what point do you start screaming about it china has too much invested in dollar to let america go bankrupt so now were 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 always been laid up on not saying that everything's all right rosy at this point we're certainly are 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 or believe me there's a lot of countries that are surviving off for the interest we're painting 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 built on a surplus either do you think the rest of the world needs us to be in that yes i do i 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. you're watching our to you live from moscow still ahead for you this hour family support knows no borders feel how despite sever ties with moscow cash flow from russia to georgia grows every year due to money transfers from those who left their country in search of a better life. and the first mars landing has

happened today read 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 ten south african world cup will be remembered for it's the constant belief of the boos they were both but some are determined not to be outdone by the infamous horn with ukraine and poland set to host the twenty twelve european championships well courts have decided it's the perfect opportunity to promote the european cousin alexei or has the story. remember the whole mark sound of last summer's football world cup the distinctive drawing of the traditional south african horn there was still a. real. meet its equivalent for the euro two thousand and twelve championship to be held in ukraine and poland this was so it's called this is only named and shaped after

a cuckoo and just like there was a lot it dates back thousands of years but at the border the triple your culture where there's a leak came from united money countries ukraine poland moldova romania 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 a leader at euro two thousand and twelve say they will try to avoid the will was ill effect which brought complaints from some that the powerful pitch 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 fulcrum using nukes as any football fan would master this instrument in no time and there was particularly keen could play even more than just football songs. 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 by nerve. in many other musicians. costs under five dollars coming in various sizes and either clay or plastic but this potter has been making these birdies for most of her life says the more natural the more positive vibe they make sure their ratios as a lead comes from the solo ukrainian soil countries friendly every person coming

here for the twenty two hours couple feel it and this is a little a transfer the positive emotions of our land every families is one of those pushing this is the lead so i 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. reporting from ukraine. you can always find more news than have your thing. a on the stories we're covering on our website r t v dot com here's what's online for you right now following the blog of in-town follow the blog of intrepid r.t.e. correspondent sean thomas as he uncovers the hidden secrets of antarctica and find out what it feels like to be at the other end of the earth. and our close high tack we have for the very modern power of modern art as artists want to paint prompted more than one copy.

if you. life in georgia can be tough especially after the country severed all relations with moscow its largest trading partner and benefactor every year thousands of georgians pack up and set off in search of a better life in russia because our team is the news backi reports and so one way of life for those left behind. goes up in the media to feed me happy and don't forget about us here come and visit us the lot is asked us to show this video greeting to her relatives she sends her best wishes to her son her daughter in law

and the grandkids to live away russia for the seventy three year old they are her only real hope to. learn his hard nowadays oh i can get is if you love her here and there. 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 west. here alone families like the gross the chivas transferred more than 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 e.c. officially broke all diplomatic ties with more screw and cancel direct flights between the two capitals it didn't stop georgians from by 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 who make the phone calls and the wire money to them whenever we can money you know is in the movies daughter in law living in a small mining town of video in southern russia she relies on her husband bill small business income that lets the whole family live in russia being put their children situation and supporting their elderly relatives oh i didn't see this picture of her the latest video message finally reached its recipients my in medina i haven't seen their grandma for more than sixty 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 this video for southern russia. well the first

task of olympic ski slopes have kicked off in russia city of sochi as it gears up for the twenty fourteen winter games on saturday the black sea resort hosts the russian koppen alpine skiing the first international competition at the venue the european cup will start next week and last until the end of february over one hundred think the athletes are taking part representing russia and other nations from across the continent. are to use military analysts a colonel give 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 on reveling situation in egypt suddenly got his life popped up on the headlines with his new american resurrect 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 again to stand thanks to american occupation now he's in charge. clinton used to call narco state due to drug trafficking has required total financial independence from the united states or international community it's to president obama whether he has the guts to learn the lesson from cairo to arrange the program to tell a school in kabul before the situation in afghanistan come. to of american control. a brief look now at some other stories from around the world a pakistani end to terrorism court and arrest warrant for prove as musharraf over

the assassination of acts prime minister benazir bhutto the former president who currently resides in london will be declared a wanted fugitive by pakistan if you fail to appear in court later this month denies allegations that he knew about the planned murder of bhutto and that he failed to act to ensure the protection of the opposition leader benazir bhutto was killed in a gun and suicide attack in two thousand and seven. thousands of people have gathered in the capital city of algeria to demand the president's resignation witnesses say there have been clashes while human rights groups report that about one hundred people have been detained up to thirty thousand police and riot gear are said to have been posted around the city had of the demonstration to prevent an uprising like that of egypt the government has also suspended trains and blocked websites such as twitter and facebook. a powerful six point eight magnitude

earthquake has struck central chile disrupting power and communications and causing thousands to flee it 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 praise chileans for their quick reaction. hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets in the pakistani city of karachi calling for the hating of 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 washington hinted that financial aid to pakistan could be affected and that the countries of vassar to the u.s. may be expelled. now a team of astronauts hurdling through a virtual universe in the longest space flight simulation in history

a five hundred day mission to mars have landed on the red planet the crew of three volunteers will leave their space ship where they've been since june for the first walk on the martian surface are two sarah firth found out how this virtual reality is preparing future explorers for 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 surface 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 in collecting found other programs. and means that mars is going to be monitored for russia's real life mission control and in reality though the crew the space ship 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 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. thanks to this program of drills the men are in a good condition and we hope. they will be able to walk on the 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 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 that will be

a long while yet before the real thing till then this simulation is as close as it gets to witnessing a real mission to mars sarah r.t. . coming up next hour here in our two we continue our exploration of european capitals through the prism of russia's cultural influence today barn andrews is in london to see how the city has benefited from what russians living there have to offer with more and more russians actually moving to the u.k. every year the ones according to so funding grads and the fights ready experts say it's about the size of the rocks they say it's going to make. you can join martin andrews add to four thirty pm on scout time i'll be back with

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