the military takes charge of egypt and while the west hails the el sting of the president of the triumph of democracy now this wonder just how much of an american agenda that new democracy would involve also. the united states is becoming the laughingstock of the world the faces of potentially the next american president as well as their bold plans for the country revealed at a conservative party conference in washington and. as ukraine prepares to co-host the next euro championships we discover a traditional instrument that might just be in for us.

live from our studios here in central moscow this is r t with twenty four hours a day nine pm here and eight pm now in caro where the egyptian military has started removing barricades at tahrir square despite their still being felt strongly what was the center point for historic are people there in the country presumably finally stepped down on friday ending a standoff last in more than two weeks while eyes are now on the egyptian army which has taken charge to see if it will be able to prepare the country for presidential elections in september. along with other world leaders welcome to saying that the voice of the people have been heard since the u.s. backed the fall of the during his thirty year reign there are those who question the sincerity of these sentiments and is not he's going to church can report what you. it is not likely to take

a back seat when it comes to egypt's new politics. 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 opposition by force barrack 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 united states has a 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 it's sure 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 that they were being no posed by the chief of the army and the minister of defense they have a very close. the relationship with the pentagon don't always very very close to

robert gates they talked on the phone at least five die this past week so always the washington would 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 to date 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 for targeted so many of these great people power revolution being. the but also people who. have been. being 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.

. and the renowned author a middle east expert atomic 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 free. ben the choice is very clear either they call in the army to carry out a blood bury 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 and the next day he was gone because the army told him he had to go and the army. field marshal. 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 them saudi arabia and bahrain so regardless of what washington wants it to try to control the situation. well in a few minutes from now more analysis of the ripples spreading elf from the egyptian . military expert examines how the president of afghanistan is trying to shield

himself from a repetition of the events in cairo and also. there's a lot of countries that are surviving off of the interest were paid so it's good for us to be in doubt you think so i'm dead not this one held deep in debt can the us slip before bankruptcy comes knocking rather than trying to find else on new york streets a little later this hour. well ahead of the euro two thousand and twelve championships in poland and ukraine the hosts of unveil the chuen full new object it may be small but they hope their traditional instrument will pack just as loud a punch as it african cousin did last year and reports now from ukraine. remember the whole mark sound of last summer's full world cup the distinctive drawing of the traditional south african horn the whistle.

me it's equivalent for the euro twenty twelve championship to be held in ukraine and told us this was so it's called sicily named and shaped after a cool and just like it was it dates back thousands of years before the report of the triple your culture where there's a lead to came from united many 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 elites 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 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 would master this instrument in no time and there was particularly keen could play even more than just football songs. not so the 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 binder of honor 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 the more positive its vibe lera they make sure their ratios as elite comes from the solo cranium so

in countries friendly ever passed and coming here for the twenty twelve couple feel it and this is the least cilla transfer the positive emotions are valid and 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. reporting from ukraine. and still to come this hour for you approaching. the red planet crew of the walk miles five hundred mission is nearing its destination and although it's only virtual scientific worth of the experiment is very real. also still to come how the diplomatic breakdown between russia and georgia is hurting everyday lives we look at families forced apart by politics. those stories still to come but first 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 in military spending and only possible run as a having their say on the issue because off he looks now with some new names on the scene. if you've been wondering who i am one of you. could possibly or we could all 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 and i will become one . you came to the right party and that's precisely what if you were. 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 alec. point 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 five alarm alert and instead of calling 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 i thought tel aviv maybe this really is used nuclear weapons he would accept that in a minute. because she 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 is the compromise that conservatives also will have to make we will have to look long and hard at the military budget. was 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 the old 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 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 if there's not any waste in the job. you just be on the. scene of the soft r. t. washington d.c. . when a mother 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 leading some analysts to warn the u.s. as poss the point of no return when i'm very own new york resident laurie hoff this hit the streets of the big apple to see if people there 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 i mean. can you go at what point you at 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 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 for the interest we're painting so it's good for us to be in doubt you think. not this watch is that 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 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 gotta give one way or another. after months of space travel a crew of three is finally nearing their destination the red planet well though the mission is only a simulation it comes complete with all the trying conditions of space flight the lengthy journey the solitude and of course the basic food. found out help. unique experiment to prepare mankind for a real trip to mars. after more than eight months flying to the red planet the isolated mars five hundred crew preparing to go when gone before they prepare to take their first tentative steps into a mock mars this or. 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. that 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 and no natural light it's purpose to learn more about the physical and psychological demands of long distance space travel the head of the put it 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 really 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 this close as it gets to witnessing a real mission to mars. south sea. and you can get a full account of the mars five hundred expedition on our website that's. the news their stories and features here's a look at what's available at lower online mass matchmaking one of the presidential candidates. promises to marry off all the single women in the country. who want to what it's like to live in antarctica own section of our very own sean thomas uncovers the hidden secrets of the frozen that's all available for you by

the way don't forget to check out facebook and also twitter pages. of the 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. 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 to american rhetoric

this 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 up to president obama whether he has the guts to learn the less sum from cairo to arrange that preventive palace in kabul before this situation in afghanistan completely out of american control.

world news in brief for you now thousands of people 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 clashes between demonstrators and security forces have already taken place the government has also suspended trains and blocked websites such as twitter and facebook. the arrest warrant has been issued for x. pakistan military. in connection with the assassination of the former prime minister benazir bhutto who shot offers to appear in court on the nineteenth of february and if you failed to do so he 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 . a powerful six point eight magnitude earthquake has hit central chile although it calls thousands to flee power lines and cut communications no injuries have been reported the government also reassure the public over fears of

a tsunami president said the trauma was an aftershock from last year's eight point eight strong quake was centered in almost the same spots and cause mass devastation of coastal communities. what is russian city of sochi gears up to host the twenty fourteen winter games it's lympics slopes are being put through their paces from the very first time the black sea resort is hosting the russian cup 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 fleets of 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 tbilisi may have severed all relations with its neighbor but it happily welcomes vast swathes of money that flow into the country on a daily basis one of the few ways. behind can survive.

the me happy and don't forget about us here come and visit us the north 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 who live away in russia for the seventy three year old they are her only real hope. leg is hard nowadays all i can get is a few lottery here and there this half of this big georgian family moved to russia 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 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 though in two thousand and eight do we

see officially broke all diplomatic ties with more school 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 who make the phone calls and we wire money to them whenever we can. do you know is no nobody's daughter in law living in a small mining town lives very well in southern russia she relies on her husband by bill small business income that lets the whole family live in russia being for their children situation and supporting their elderly relatives though i didn't see in this picture of her the newest video message finally reached its recipients maja and marina haven't seen their grandma for more than six years and they're hoping

that some day wife in georgia will get better and visiting the relatives will be as easy as going to the bank and making him on a chance for dinner table or r g it's very seldom russia. well coming up in the next here on r.t. we continue the exploration of europe's capitals and travels to london to see how russian culture is being welcomed there 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 the ones according to so loving grads the fact many experts say facts about this wrecks the british economy. just turning twenty six minutes past the hour here in the russian capital i'll be back with a recap of our main news stories after

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