the military takes charge of egypt the west hails the of the president as a triumph of democracy analysts wonder just how much of an american agenda that new democracy would involve also. united states is becoming the laughing stock of the world. the faces of potentially the next american president as well as the bold plans for the country revealed at a conservative party conference in washington and. has to co-host the next year oh championships we discover a traditional instrument that might just sing the world cup's infamous.

live from our studios here in central moscow this is the twenty four hours a day eight pm here and seven pm in cairo where the egyptian military has started removing barricades at tahrir square at this point they're still being felt in what was the center point for the historical people in the country president mubarak finally stepped down on friday ending a standoff last more than two weeks now in the egyptian army which has taken charge to see if it will be able to prepare the country for presidential elections in september. with other world leaders welcome the move saying that the voice of the people had been heard but since the u.s. backed before and during his thirty year reign there are those who question the sincerity of these sentiments. reports washington is not likely to take a back seat. comes to egypt's new politics. 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 i been doing for the previous thirty years while mubarak was actually torturing people. putting down opposition by force barrack was a bad guy but he was our bad guy 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 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 art of mubarak and suleiman of course they're also military men but they were being no posed by the chief of the army and the minister of defense they have a very close relationship with a pencil. i don't always very very close to robot gates they talked on the phone at

least five times this past week so all the washington will be supervising a missing 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 the party of so many of the great people power of the king. but also people that. have been. beaten just a change of pace is that. 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 r t washington d.c. . well the renowned author a middle east expert tariq ali believes the u.s.

was playing a risky game during the days of the egyptian unrest. the attempts made by. mubarak's deputy to cry and crush the demonstrators through violence fail. ben the choice is very clear either they call in the army to carry out a blood department buried square in front of the world and that was too risky an option for the gyptian army because it might have split the army the generals might have carried out the orders if the pentagon had approved them but young officers whose children whose families whose brothers and sisters involved in this uprising might have desisted so it was a very serious risk for washington and in the end they decided it would be safe to dump mubarak and mubarak then refused to carry out orders from the pentagon but

only for twenty four hours he resisted for one day in the next day he was gone because the army told him he had to go and the army. freed marshall. the defense minister as we've already heard is a close ally of the pentagon then takes orders direct the big question washington has is nothing should happen to destabilize their permanent israel that is all they're concerned about and they're also concerned about the effects of this are people now on jordan on yemen and who knows even in saudi arabia and bahrain so regardless of what washington wants it come to try to control the situation. when in a few minutes more analysis of the ripple spreading out from the egyptian unrest military expert examines how the president of afghanistan is trying to shield himself from a repetition of the events in cairo and. there's

a lot of countries that are survivors of the interest we're. so it's good for us to be in doubt you think so i'm dead not this was held in debt can the u.s. slip before bankruptcy comes knocking president tries to find out on new york streets a little late. ahead of the euro two thousand and twelve championships in poland and ukraine the hosts have unveiled a cheerful new object when it may be small but they have their traditional instrument will pack just as loud a punch as it's african cousin did last year. he reports now from ukraine. remember the whole mark sound of last summer's full world cup the distinctive drawing of the traditional south african foreign devil was still. meet its equivalent for the euro two thousand and 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 it dates back thousands of years but at the airport at the triple your culture where there's also lots of came from united money countries ukraine poland rumania 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 relieved at euro two thousand and twelve say they will try to avoid there was ill effect which brought complaints from the sound 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 folk musician mixing 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 so the lows that your boys are 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 digits and many other musicians as the 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 there's only thirty more positive it's five lire then make sure they're ratios as elite comes from the solo cranium so in countries friendly ever passed in coming

here for the twenty two hour couple feel it and this is the least cilla transfer the positive emotions are valid and every fan who 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. with posting from kiev ukraine. all still to come this hour for you here on r.t. approaching. red planet of the five hundred mission is nearing its destination although it's only virtual the sun to pick with of the experiment is very real. i don't know how the diplomatic breakdown between russia and georgia is hurting every day lives we look at families forced apart by politics. and stories still to come before us to as potential u.s. presidential hopefuls start turning their minds to the twenty twelve elections the

list of burning issues for the republican candidates is growing longer by the day but one of the biggest is military spending and all the possible run is having this say on the issue. looks at some new names on the scene. if you've been wondering who i am one of you. could possible are we going to let washington 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 or not i will become one. you came to the right party and that's precisely what i. want to see pack everything here the fact that that's 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 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 new star national security. and potential candidate michele bachmann had quite a few eloquent things to say about u.s. policy foreign. allah see 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 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 ahmadinejad he gets

to wipe out tel aviv maybe this role as use nuclear weapons to iran 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 in 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. thank you it's going to be i knew there had to be some change. some fresh faces are willing to say in with the new out with field but establishment republicans there may be the temptation to axe 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 laughingstock of the world but when realistic ideas too often get drowned out you cannot say that the job wing 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. even the soft r. t. washington d.c. . when another who becomes the next president one of the main challenges they'll face is the growing budget deficit latest report show it's risen to almost fifty billion dollars leaving some analysts to warn the u.s. is past the point of no return when our very own new york resident laurie healthiest hit the streets of the big apple to see if people really think america is 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 were something that someone else has to take care of. 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 . 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 u.s. 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 even 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 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 feel like questions like these are sort of useless to people like me. it feels like it has nothing to do with. 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.

after months of space travel the crew of three is finally nearing their destination the red planet although the mission is only a simulation it comes complete with all the trying conditions of space flight the link the journey the solitude and of course the basic food or do you sort of first find out how this unique experiment aims to prepare for a real trip to mars. after more than eight months flying to the red planet the isolated mars five hundred preparing to go where no man has gone before they plan to take their chance to step onto a mock mars. this thing the surface of mars now only three of the six are actually going to be entering here and they're going to be carrying out experiments in collecting found other programs. mars

is going to be monitored for russia's real life mission control and in reality they are the crew of the space ship and the planet's surface all just part of a simulated experiment one that comes complete with mock emergencies scientific experiments space the natural light it's purpose to learn more about the physical and psychological demands for the 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 that. they will be able to was. planet's surface the crew volunteers are being paid it's a long haul experiment that still has

a while to completion in fact being fully vender 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 till then this simulation is this case as it gets to witnessing a real mission to mars south sea. and by the way get a full account of the mars five hundred expedition on our web site that's our dot com there's plenty of other news stories and features there here's a preview for you master matchmaking one of the presidential candidates in kazakhstan promises to marry off all the single women in the country also on the web sites ever wonder what it's like to live in antarctica find out in our blog section as our very own sean thomas uncovers the hidden secrets of the frozen land that's all for you on dot com and don't forget to check out facebook and twitter

pages. full of events in egypt the afghan president hamid karzai is trying to safeguard himself against a potential u.s. backed coup well that's the view of a military analyst colonel is going to. when the whole international attention has been foreclosed on the unraveling situation in egypt suddenly got as i popped up on the headlines with his new and 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 to arrange that preventive palace in kabul before the situation in afghanistan we'll come. out of american control. to update you on some world news in brief thousands

of people are gathered in the capital of algeria to demand the president's resignation police have been posted around the city to prevent an uprising similar to that in egypt this is really being clashes between demonstrators and security forces the government is also suspended trains and websites such as twitter and facebook. and the arrest warrant has been issued for the ex pakistan military pervez musharraf in connection with the assassination of the former prime minister benazir bhutto which i refuse to appear in court on the nineteenth of february if he fails to do so he stands to be declared a wanted fugitive he denies the allegations that he knew about the planned murder and that he failed to ensure the protection of the opposition leader who was the victim of a shooting and suicide blast in two thousand and seven during her election campaign . to chile now a powerful six point eight magnitude earthquake that hit the central part of the country and it caused thousands to flee downed power lines and cut communications

no injuries have been reported the chilean government also reassure the public of the fears of a tsunami president said the tremor was an aftershock from last year's eight point eight strong quake now almost centered in almost the same spot and cause mass devastation of coastal communities. well as russia city of sochi gears up to host the twenty eight fourteen winter games it's a limbic slopes being put through their paces for the first time the black sea resort is hosting the russian cup in skiing the first international competition at the venue the european cup will start next week and last until the end of the month over one hundred sixty athletes are participating as part of the preparations for the winter olympics. the tough economic situation in georgia is forcing thousands of people to pack up and set off in search of a better life in russia to b.c. may have severed all relations with its neighbor but it happily welcomes valse waves of money the flow into the country on a daily basis one of the few ways those left behind can survive.

media 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 in russia but the seventy three year old they are her only real hope. ledges hard nowadays all i can get is a few lottery here and there this half of this big georgian family moved to rochelle fourteen years ago and even though it's hard for these people to make and meet every month they send the money to their relatives and police and they are not the only ones last year 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 due in two thousand aid bill we see

officially broke all diplomatic ties with moscow and canceled direct flights between the two capitals it didn't stop georgians from my great teacher russia with the hopes of finding jobs and a better why 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 we wire money to them whenever we can but even there is none nobody's daughter in law living in a spoiled mining town lives very well in southern russia she relies on her husband by. all small business income that lets the whole family live in russia being for their children strew ition and supporting their elderly relatives no i didn't see this picture of her newest video message finally reached its recipients my in madina i haven't seen their grandma for more than six years they're hoping that

someday a wife in georgia will get better and visiting their relatives and be as easy as going to the bank and making a money transfer then as well or r g it's very southern russia. well coming up in just a few minutes here in r.t. we continue our exploration of europe's capitals and travels to look them to see how russian culture is being welcomed there and you can join the moscow team as it discovers that many russians are enjoying their home from home on the thames. with more and more russians actually moving to the u.k. every year no ones are calling it so loving grads and in fact ready experts say that small restaurants about that this is perhaps the british economy.

to bring this very minute to twenty seven minutes past the hour a recap of our main headlines with me in just a few moments stay with us live here in moscow on r.t. . 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. chemicals that whether it's a sonic boom say factory mammals or it's the burning oil field syria or 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 the involved against widespread long term and severe damage the united states although it is accepted almost all of the provisions protocol one has taken exception to that.

are close enough to stop we are going to come back. we'll have a rally we'll sell lots of beer low wrong wrong faith will wear uniforms that will damage is down the black for them anything but very little damming the white. and they are the key to our problem our own right. if. russia would be so much brighter if you knew all about its.