you take into control in egypt the western leaders congratulate the gyptian people who are getting poor drugs and holes that are barred after weeks of revolt but following steps to get the american bank rolling which helped him in power critics are questioning how much of egypt's new democracy will have to answer to u.s. demand also. united states is becoming the laughing stock of the world. as election season kicks off and the united states potential republican candidates reveal their big plans for the country as opposed to conference in long term and. there's ukraine and poland provides a house with twenty twelve european championships look at how

a very national instrument and make a similar is more squeaky in parts of the bazelon last year's soccer world cup. into russia and around the world this is actually with me our thanks for joining us there gyptian military house pro promise to uphold the country's international obligations as it takes control of following the resignation of president hosni mubarak after eighteen days a widespread and sometimes violent unrest forced him out the armed forces assume power transitional period until a new leader is elected crowds continue to gather in cairo's tahrir square on saturday in celebration of his removal world leaders including the u.s. president praising virus decision to stand down saying he'd finally given in to the voice of the people but some observers question america's sincerity says it was

u.s. political and financial support which kept the dictator in power for three decades and he's going there to try to turn the reports of washington's involvement in egyptian politics is not likely to end. with a mubarak regime. 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 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. 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. 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 but there will be no close 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 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 parties so many of these great people power revolution being when. people discover but by a large group. of people just a change of pace is there. 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. . and britishness tire and middle east text that tariq ali says the u.s. isn't playing a dangerous game while history unfolds in egypt. the attempts made by. mubarak's deputy to cry and crush the demonstrators through violence for a. bend the choice is very clear either they call in the army to carry out a blood part to 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 in the next day he was gone because the army told him he had to go and the ya me. freedom marshal power week 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 to try to control the situation. of protocol later in the program approaching the red planet broken bow

five hundred mission is nearing its destination and although it's only natural the scientific worth of big government is very real. as americans begin looking to next year's presidential election a country in economic crisis but social comes from the republican party slugging it out on the issues including abortion gun ownership and the place of religion in public life but the u.s. still fighting two wars abroad one of the biggest topics of discussion will be in the tree spending. has been looking into some of the new political faces on the scene who could be vying for the white. if you've been wondering who i am one of you. could possibly are we going to let the washing. up the jeep already. 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 if you were in. the pack everything here the fact that the next president spoke to 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. foreign policy particular. 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 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 the conservatives also will have to make we will have to look long and hard at the military budget.

was good we knew there had to be some extensions. 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 joke. he just be on you. r. t. washington d.c. . and no matter who becomes the next american president he or she will have to face the growing challenge of a massive bunch of deficit is currently topping one trillion dollars and some

unless they fear the us is paused the point of no return and his new york resident glory hole thing is took to the streets of gotham to find out if people really think america is set to hit rock bottom. 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 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 but 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 alright 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. 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 doubt you think some debt is 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 build 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 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 got to give one way or another. just as the horn became the signature sound of this soccer world cup in south africa last year some are hoping a traditional instrument will prove a similar choir to create the finals of the european championships in poland and ukraine. has been getting in some practice. remember the whole mark sound of last summer's football world cup the distinctive drawing of the traditional south african horn there was still up. here i.

mean it's equivalent for the euro twenty twelve championship to be held in ukraine and poland this was so it's called this is a lead sack named and shaped after a cool and just like there was a lot it dates back thousands of years but at the reporter get aboard the triple your culture where there's also lots of came from united money countries ukraine poland rumania on the balkans we want to use it at the twenty twelve championship to let everyone know of our roots we're not saying this instrument is purely ukrainian i would rather say it's purely slavic. those behind the idea to use this is a lead to 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. professional folk musician maxime because nukes as any football fan would master this instrument in no time and there was particularly keen good play even more than just football songs. and lots of those nor was i 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 digits in 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 birdies for most of her life says the more natural there's only

thirty more positive it's vibe then make sure there are ratios as a lead comes from the ukrainian soil countries friendly every person coming here for the twenty two hour cup will feel it and this is the least cilla transfer the positive emotions are valid and every fan eases 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 of course you can always check on our website. dot com for other news stories and he's a taster was there right now. last match making one of the presidential candidates in kazakhstan promises to marry off all the single women in the country. and as my betrayal at times he lost about wonder what it's like to live in antarctica while i

indulge in our block section. thomas discovers the hidden secrets of the frozen land down under and don't forget to check out our facebook and twitter pages as well. after months of simulated space travel a crew of three hundred landed on the red planet the latest phase in an experiment to replicate the conditions for journey to and from mars the single ation recreates all the rigors of long distance spaceflight including solitude and of course basic

food about the report. after more than eight months flying to the red planet the isolated modest life hundred crew preparing to go where no man has gone before they prepare to take the first steps on to look mars this only be in the mood to it this is the simulated surface of mars now only three of the six drone crew right she going to be entering here they're going to be carrying out experiments and collecting samples the other programs emphasis on really as a means to mars what is going to be monitored for russia's real life mission controls and in reality day the the crew. they ship in the planet's surface all just part of a simulated experiment albeit one that comes complete with mock emergencies scientific experiments space 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 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 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 and 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'll 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 r.t.

. so let's take a look at some other headlines from around the world a political and sweet story in northern africa terror thousands of perience have taken to the streets of that capital to demand the resignation of president of delays is to filter out police detained more than four hundred demonstrators and countries across the city has officially been in a state of emergency for nineteen days allowing us northeast public demonstrations demonstrators ignored the pilot's following rising to music and egypt. and announcement by the algerian authorities that they and the state of emergency. and arrest warrant has been issued by a kid in pakistan who the country's former military leader perez michel wrote his own to do with us as a nation of former prime minister benazir bhutto four years ago musharraf who is now living in london will go on the wanted list as a fugitive if you fail to appear in court in his home country next on today the

ex-president denies he knew about the plans to assassinate the opposition leader but did nothing to protect. the taliban raid on the southern i've been city of kandahar has killed at least twenty one people and wounded forty nine minute and is armed with suicide bombs guns. strike the police headquarters in the city center of the security forces battled that targets for several hours violence has written it was written in recent months despite thousands of international troops in the province. up next season as the situation is speaks to the activists and political rapper one about his view on u.s. policy at home.

archie sitting down with m. one from underground political hip hop duo dead prez and one thanks so much for joining us today thank you i want to get started with a topic that you touched upon a lot in your lyrics and that's corporate ownership of the media in the united states for three arise how does that affect what americans see on t.v. and why is that a bad thing because the people who have the most interest and or the people who are the corporate ownership itself their interest in. conflict directly with

the reality of the majority of the masses of the people are now you have this very popular song called propaganda and there's a sentence in there that reads you can't fool all of the people all of the time but if you fall the right ones the rest will fall behind yeah i want to ask you has that happened and who was fooling the people if you if you read in propaganda one hundred one you know media one o one these words are probably engrained in stone because this seems to be the montra you know by which you know media was born in this country out of a kind of the steps in the. interest of the ruling class once again the bottom line media. meaning for the people would mean big govern. who has interest in making sure that even though bomb to being dropped. in many other countries in the interest of or oil in dollars and and control that we may maintain focus on

a soap opera type relationship between people who are pretty trivial well whose interests are the media more interested in representing in their news coverage that the corporations is that the government is it who is it who is the main kind of entity the media sleeps with well let's be clear you know the media is the right hand of the ruling class it is the voice of the ruling class in this particular country of which we would say less than ten percent own ninety percent of the wealth and resources when one of your songs you say the democrats and the republicans are two sides of the same coin does that mean. you think that obama is just a continuation of george bush obama. representing capitalism being just a continuation of george bush is an understatement. you have a system which was built of the slave of african people to birth

a birth of this economy it gave birth to not only what's happening here domestically but around the world which is what we call today imperialism you have barack hussein obama as also a cogged meaning a small part of the machinery that works the system the same old kind of a rule that happen across the country is still happening in the same or way but represented by a face more familiar face that is usually associated with the our press and poor people so it is important to maintain the kind of programs and campaigns that continuation of even more spending on war was what obama's doing then what bush has done in his previous presidents when you're talking about the events in egypt the poverty of the people that led to these uprisings do you think the u.s. political elite should be fearful that something similar could come here i think the conditions are ripe. for there to be uprisings in the same manner because the

same set of conditions that existed in cairo exist in new york city exist in miami florida they exist in los angeles you have a ruling class with abuse of power i was recently in cairo. and i was there on a humanitarian aid mission to help the people in gaza in order for us to get to gaza we had to jump through so much bureaucracy and we began to understand that not only did egypt's government what was it controlled by bureaucratic politicians in egypt but israel has a huge stake in making sure that the state of egypt was the way that it was maintained. and that is definitely the situation in the streets look at what we have inside the united states we have young african black and brown subjects community colonial subject being sat down in the street in an obsessive kind of way and you have a song called know your enemy who is the main enemy of the common american people

a main enemy is ignorance not a proper political education this is the enemy of our people because once we can understand diagnosed. what we are living under all human beings who recognize that me and you have human rights will fight for the rights of human beings. the way we are being governmental treats a good sector of our people less than human and the enemy out of this particular time that we're in is lack of information and political education do you think the us has too much power over other countries or tries to have too much power and really getting in the affairs of the businesses of other nations out there who deserve to make their own decisions what's your take on this kind of foreign policy exchange that goes on no days power is he who controls imperialism the belly of imperialism is born at the birth of capitalism in this country through the

inflaming of africa and its resources which are still being siphoned out of africa and into the world today despite the world media tirade against africa put it as this third world place to be this has been the number one place that people have been siphoning resources from for five hundred years power comes from the barrel of a gun and so as many bombs as they can point at whatever foreign country that it plans to control. is reading this and willingness to take this area we see the same tentacles of u.s. domination because of its ability to have its power base here the birth of its strength and capitalism and then the defense of it using military might around the world. well when one deals with war for us to realize that the tremendous amounts of

damage that are done not just human damage but damage to the physical environment in which the battlefield takes place tremendous amounts of damage done by aerial bombs by napalm boy chemicals that means whether it's a sonic boom say factory marine mammals or it's the burning oil fields here in iraq or it's destroyed coral reefs in the pacific for landing purposes the list just goes on and on the geneva conventions of nineteen forty nine states that they are shall be taken in war to protect and bought 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.