the creamy feel. the oil. the military takes charge of egypt. or the president as a triumph of democracy and much of an american agenda that democracy. united states is becoming the laughingstock of the world the faces of potentially the next american president as well as the bold plans for the country. in washington. as ukraine prepares to host the next euro championships. the world cup so.

good to have you with us you live from the russian capital with the twenty four hours a day the egyptian military authorities now controlling the country have promised they will comply fully with egypt's international obligations during the transitional period the army took charge of the country after the embattled president hosni mubarak finally stepped down on friday and in a public standoff last in more than two weeks on saturday crowds once again gathered at tahrir square which became the center point for the people in the country to the historic event. along with other world leaders. resignation saying that the voice of the people have been but since the u.s. backed the dictator during his thirty year reign there are those. question the

sincerity of these sentiments and that's all it is gonna come reports washington 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 or 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 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 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 egypt is the second largest recipient of american aid in the world after his neighbor israel 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 suleiman of course they're also military men dead they were being no posed by the 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 rule by. an autocratic leader who restricted political freedoms and damaged economic congress so today 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 these great people power revolution being here when the dust settled people discover but their lives have been might have been just a change of faces and. 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. . and the renowned author a middle east expert tony carney believes the u.s. is 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 frail. 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 ya me. freedom marshal. the defense minister as we've already heard is a close ally of the pentagon and takes orders direct the big question washington has is nothing should happen to destabilize the. 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 can to try to control the situation. when in a few minutes from now more analysis of the report spreading out from the egyptian . ministry expert examines how the president of afghanistan is trying to shield

himself from the repetition of the events that current and also still to come we've there's a lot of folks that are surviving off of the interest. so it's good for us to be in doubt you think. not this but how deep in debt can the u.s. slip before bankruptcy comes knocking the president tries to find out he looks pretty. so those stories still to come first ahead of the euro two thousand and twelve championships in poland and ukraine the hosts of all vale the new object may be small but they hope their traditional instrument will pack just as loud a punch as that african cousin did last year. reports now from ukraine. remember the whole mark sound of last summer's football world cup the distinctive drawing of the traditional south african horn there was ill i.

mean it's equivalent for the euro twenty twelve championship to be held in ukraine and poland this whistle is called this is only named and shaped after a coup and just like that it dates back thousands of years but at the reporter at the tripoli a culture where there's a leak came from united money countries ukraine poland mulled over romania and the balkans we want to use it at the twenty twelve championship to let everyone know of our roots we're not seeing this instrument as purely ukrainian i would rather see it's purely slavic. those behind the idea to use this is a leader at euro two thousand and twelve say they will try to avoid there was ill effect which brought complaints from some that the powerful picture of the african horn was irritating and drowned out the atmosphere and like a monotonous roar of a who was ill of this ukrainian musical instrument provides a far more melodic sound and just about anybody can play just about any tune.

professional folk musician says any football fan would master this instrument in no time and those particularly keen could play even more than just football songs. most of those with your boss 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 spotter has been making these birds for most of her life says the more natural the lead certain the more positive vibe they make sure their ratios as elite comes from

the soil ukrainian soil our country is friendly ever passed in coming here for the twenty two of couple feel it and this is the least cilla transfer the positive emotions of our land every family uses 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. and are still to come this hour approaching the. red planet the the market five hundred mission is nearing its destination and though it's only virtual the scientific worth of the experiment is very revealing. how the diplomatic breakdown between russia and georgia has every day lives we look at families forced apart by politics. as potential u.s.

presidential hopefuls stop turning their minds to 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 as a having their say on the issue on tuesday night because all skin looks now at some new names on the scene. if you've been wondering who i am one of you. could possibly how we got on larry 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 it is we're. going to see pack everything here the fact that that's the united states you can. get 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 us. 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 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 i thought tel aviv maybe his role as 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 add 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 good to see you 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 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 the. scene of a softy r. t. washington d.c. . on the matter who becomes the next president one of the main challenges they'll face is the growing budget deficit they just report shows risen to almost fifty billion dollars leaving some analysts to warn that the us is past the point of no return well new york resident healthy just 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 the bottom and what point do you start screaming about it. 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 we mean there's a lot of countries that are surviving for the interest we're paying so it's good for us to be in doubt you think. 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 feel like questions like these are sort of useless to people like me because 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 got to give one way or another. after months of space travel a crew of three is finally nearing had destination the red planet where 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 how this you need. 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 where no man has gone before they prepare to take their first tentative steps onto a mock mars this. thing the surface of mars now only three of the six are actually going to entering here they're going to

be carrying out experiments in collecting found other programs. 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 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 project tells me it's a new team perhaps to avoid any tensions and the experience itself is a tough challenge for the crew to have to deal with the monotony but thanks to this program of drills the men are in a good condition and we hope. they will be able to walk on the 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 until then this simulation is as close as it gets to witnessing a real mission to mars sarah fan. see. all the way. five hundred expedition on our website and. the stories and features here's a quick look on one of the most. matchmaking there's a story if we want to the presidential candidates promise to marry off all the single women in the country. ever wonder what it's like to live in. the hidden secrets of the frozen land. dot com. don't forget to check out our

facebook and twitter pages. fearful of the events in egypt the afghan president hamid karzai is trying to safeguard himself against a potential u.s. backed coup and that's the view of our military analyst colonel. 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 direct 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. time now to update you on some world news

in brief for you this hour the four hundred protesters have been detained by police in the capital of algeria demonstrations demanding the president's resignation more than thirty thousand police have been posted around the city to prevent an uprising similar to that in egypt the government is also suspended trains and blocked websites such as twitter and facebook. and the arrest warrant has been issued for ex pakistan military pervez musharraf in connection with the assassination of the former prime minister benazir musharraf is 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 in suicide blast in two thousand and seven election campaign. to chile mount a powerful six point eight magnitude earthquake has hit the central region of the country because thousands to flee downed power lines and cut communications no

injuries have been reported government also reassured the public of fears of a tsunami the president said the tremor was an aftershock from last year's eight point eight strong quake and that one was centered in almost the same sport and caused mass devastation of coastal communities. well as russian city of sochi gears up to host the twenty fourteen winter games it's limping slopes are being put through their pieces for the first time the black sea resort is hosting the russian cup in old pine skiing the first international competition at the venue the european cup will start next week and last until the end of the month with 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 police he 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 left behind can actually survive. me

me happy and don't forget about us here come and visit us no one has 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. when the leg is hard nowadays all i can get is a few lottery here and there. half of 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 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 aid go we see officially broke all diplomatic ties with more school and council 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 money there is none nobody's daughter in law living in a small mining town lives very well in southern russia she relies on her husband paddle small business income that lets the whole family live in russia being put their children situation and supporting their elderly relatives no i didn't see this picture of her nor does 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 there is a lot r g it's very seldom russia. coming up in the next hour here on r.t. we continue our exploration of europe's capitals and we travel to london to see how russian culture is being welcomed there and you can join the team as a discovers that many russians are enjoying their home from home on the tens. or more russians actually moving to the u.k. every year no one's a calling to self loathing crowds and the fact many experts say that questions about that this is the writes the first thing british economy.

so that's coming your way very shortly in the meantime we have a recap of the main news stories that's coming your way in just a few minutes stay with us live here in moscow on martin.

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