a journey outside of human experience right on your very own doorstep. two cosmonauts make the first steps on the surface of moore's a sport of a simulated flight to the red planet find out the details in a couple of moments. egypt and you a military leadership it dissolves parliament and suspends the country's constitution allegations of foreign influence refused to go away. and a crime that shocked russia and one thousand year old student awaits trial after she allegedly tried to murder her mother and brother with a hired hitman turned out to be undercover policeman.

worldwide news twenty four seven this is r.t. live from moscow almost nine months of isolation training and preparation have finally paid off two cosmonauts have stepped out onto the rep planet for the first time now mars five hundred maybe a simulated mission but with the planet's surface being recreated in the moscow region the space walk though is being monitored by russia's real mission control we can live to our correspondent in europe is going off there for us now and hello to you go to talk about a grueling experience of solitude here months of isolated in durance now coming to an end but tell me this is this really the climax of the mission. well this is definitely one of the highlights of the mission since it is diego and russia's alexander smolensky successfully held their first more sure walk i guess that's

what it should be called cause this is a simulation but it's still quite a significant step forward if we're talking about future possible real flight. the red planet and this is only the middle of this experiment because the volunteers have already spent around two hundred and sixty days in isolation simulating a flight to the right planet just previously they were separated into two groups one stayed at the imaginary mothership currently orbiting the red planet that's according to the scientific legend and three men one chinese italian and russian volunteers the ones down to the martian surface they're going to spend around a month they're going to conduct three martial walks in total the aims for the first walk were quite simple they had to install the flanks of china russia and the european space agency he took samples off the make belief martians

the surface and also measured the magnetic fields of the red planet now after this whole part of the experiment is done i'm talking about the martian portion of the experiment they will be reunited with the rest of the team and will begin their simulated journey back home. where you can as you say at this point the cosmonauts of binning capsulated for two hundred sixty days that is no short stretch but there's been a lot of excitement surrounding the mission but the cosmonauts they haven't even left the ground talk to us how significant is that. they haven't left the ground and in fact this all of this is happening inside a giant law cked scientific experiments and there's a lot of international attention to this experiment because this is a giant massive psychological test to see how people work and live together

in a closed isolated environment and the scientists on both sides both in the european space agency and in the russian space agency they see. before a real flight to mars is even possible hundreds and hundreds of tests and experiments like this one have to be held. but the experiment mostly focuses on medical and biological problems we're trying to better understand how a human behaves in these unusual conditions when a small group of people works together in a contained environment i think is very important at the mars five hundred mission as an international crew or a single entity and they became a real crew perhaps in the first month of flight they were very efficiently they've managed down emergency situation and we hope they'll be as efficient june these experiments on the surface of mars that you. can you imagine living without

t.v. radio or the internet in almost complete isolation in a simulation of whites to the red planet it's something personally really hard for me to even imagine to be able to live a life like that for five hundred twenty days but these guys have been successful so far they also go through various simulations including emergency situations which may turn up during a real flight to mars and all of this is of course quite stressful and i think since we still have over two hundred more days to go back before back to earth imaginarily. they still have to stay inside for all this time until the experiment ends and i think the vet could be the most difficult part psychologically and so that gives a lot of future more to your for the scientists to study so when you go when it all comes to an end when it's all said and done nearly six hundred days this experiment

have gone on for an amazing accomplishment was we should really tip our hat to these cosmonauts want to take such a. you're going to thank you. while egypt's military. leaders have dissolved parliament and suspended the constitution taking power from deposed president hosni mubarak the military council said it would stay in power for six months or in seoul the next elections are held a committee has now been formed to amend the constitution and set most for the interim period egypt was governed by martial law for nearly three decades under a barracks for some rejection and arab media are reporting that the eighty two year old former head of state is in poor health and may even be in a coma so no official response from cairo or god meanwhile after washington called the band's egypt a victory for democracy author and journalist afshin rattansi says it's not an american triumph but i think the people in tahrir square certainly don't want to see field marshal tantawi and. vice president that they don't want these people in

power but of course it is not an american victory and the people in tahrir square to see the back of the army that was strange in the united states and we must remember more than three hundred thousand still disappeared. will remember who trained the people that tortured killed so many of their relatives egypt's economy is in. chaos a lot of those companies that are stationed there have been stealing the money so a lot of people might see as well as the muslim brotherhood is one party to watch because they do have social programs and grassroots movements whether they have been you school whether they've been clever in the past three weeks is a different matter because their leadership some might say maybe out of step with those in the grassroots organizations of the muslim brotherhood runs which creates housing and food distribution so on to to the poor of egypt. meantime u.s.

congressman ron paul says washington always tries to buy its way into other countries so weird. as it has done in egypt. always involved on both sides. if our puppet dictator can last we keep propping him up when we see the tide changing then i'm sure our cia is involved in the opposition they can be in earlier and later they try to pick up the pieces it doesn't mean they have total control over you know we control the iranian situation we had the shah in there for a while but eventually the next revolution we didn't have control and then we end up with the ayatollah so long term i think it hurts us on the short term we will always try to buy the influence and stay involved and could we see american people on our national security will be threatened if we don't control these governments i just don't believe that. and you can see the full interview with the u.s. congressman ron paul in about an hour's time right here on. well still ahead for

you this hour money making it medicine will come in the united states they're accused of creating illnesses and treatments that often end up in danger in the lives of patients. and the peace of god has been removed from a new exhibition at a gallery in washington after the government's intervention that's coming up this hour here on out. it was a case that shocked russia's southern city of volgograd where a nineteen year old student apparently tried to execute the cold blooded murder of her own family she carefully planned the assassination of a mother and brother allegedly just to gain ownership of their apartment but luckily the diabolic scheme failed. pins against the wall criminal police were you doing here. she came home to check the family's dead. the claim of detectives organized this thing in which this nineteen

year old woman tried to mastermind a cold blooded murder of her mother and brother she's admitted her guilt but is awaiting trial for sentence volgograd formally known as the city with storm but three are sick and family values the motherly figure is sacred for everyone here so most people were in shock as local student so i had to hire a hitman to kill her own mother and brother the woman's death died in a car accident for which she blamed her mother detective say the teenager wanted her dead and everything they also cleaned she wanted her brother killed to inherit the family apartments they accused a student of coming up with a price for both killings almost thirty eight thousand dollars she also worked out a thorough plan but unknown to her the hitmen for hire she want to do the deed were undercover detectives saying we will be held in her captive she has to average one

i was at her place that's known and will kill her and dumped her in the woods making a movie. the police stepped in after the teenager allegedly approached a friend with the deadly plan officers say she gave them details of her brother's and mother's movements and family photos and supplied the supposed the sasa as would not. the arrest was a total surprise for her she was shocked because she was certain this time it all has to happen she's dealing with serious people and she's done everything right they convinced her by pretending that actually stains the murder of her mother and her brother and they even gave her what they said were their clothes covered in blood as proof of death finally related contract killings in russia have been increasing according to investigators close relatives and now behind more than half a full modus for hire and while in the past such crimes were mua sociate it with gangsters or business disputes and turf wars police. they're becoming more common

and simple family roles particularly over property or inheritance. today people are ready to kill their father their mother in their grandma life is measured by square meters of real estate in amount of money in the bank the more expensive the apartment the less is the cost of the owner's loan prosecutors say they have enough evidence to put the accused woman behind bars for ten years she was found criminally saved and is now. in a crime that shocked russia. well. many more stories for you blogs and analysis for you to explore at any time there are some of the items waiting for you online right now and our three questions are living in fear in iraq as hundreds of thousands flee north to escape deadly sectarian violence. and before valentine's day one russian region bans the holiday claiming it's immoral i think promotes temporary affections rather than

a true feelings. from canine depression to female sexual dysfunction us pharmaceutical companies get creative when it comes to disorders and drugs to treat them the industry has been accused of illegally pushing medicine onto the market often endangering the lives of patients and as a long list found out the american drug trade is a multi-billion dollar business and is only getting back. the most common things that we prescribe medication for in dogs are questionings ideas hoarders. project works great on dog you heard it right doggie prozac of the flavored version of the well known human anti-depressant government approved and being prescribed by veterinarians for canines in crisis there is a significant population of dogs that really have suffering from separation anxiety the drug company one of the largest is banking on that they believe up to seventeen

percent of us dogs are suffering from this mental affliction it's an idea some would scoff at i definitely understand being skeptical so is this really a quest to help feisty fido's or is it a sign of this companies desperate to keep up their profit margin doing things to keep the margins up even though the job or drugs that are reported in the pipeline is diminish it turns out those companies don't need doggie drugs in order for critics to make that case medical researchers crunched the numbers and found the pharmaceutical industry now tops the defense industry as the number one de fraud or of the u.s. government that was a following that i didn't expect nor really ever looked at before and it shows you how out of control before i'm sure the glow of history is in some cases criminally out of control perhaps helping this industry go from selling forty billion dollars

to two hundred thirty four billion dollars a year in prescription drugs over the last two decades companies have been cheating and in danger in patients their biggest violations are overcharging the government by billions and illegally marketing their drugs for uses they are proven safe or effective for world sighed the world headquarters of one of the largest offenders one of the biggest criminal penalties that ever levied against any american corporation and. this drug giant pfizer their illegal practices included essentially hiring physicians to spread buzz about a drug telling their colleagues to prescribe it for a condition it wasn't approved for drug pushers that is a fair way of describing. difficulty g.b.u. or again and when it comes to the drug companies disease pushers may not be an unfair way of describing them either that's what one filmmaker found tracing a newly minted disorder female such as function itself was definitely something

that the pharmaceutical industry really pushed for and had a hand in creating and that's the conclusion cancer came to after following the process of a drug company developing female viagra she says only a small number of women need it but the company has other plans their marketing and the amount of money that they were pouring into it really is says that they're trying to sell this to the whole population restless legs and with commercials for prescription drugs airing on t.v. in the us companies are in a position to do just that you feel better with billions being made and not much to lose critics say even in the case of crime for this industry nothing is likely to change it less people go to jail works the fires are much larger than they have been the companies will follow that is cheaper to cheat stopping short of nothing to find some syndrome someone or something new to medicate lauren lyster are to

new york. it without the light from moscow where it's now about a quarter past the hour let's check out some other world news in brief now and a suicide bomber has struck a shopping and hotel complex in the afghan capital kabul two security guards on the bomb no one killed in the last the man was stopped by security guards while trying to gain entrance to the center and his vest detonated during a gun battle that followed a little over two weeks ago a suicide bomber killed eight looms at an upscale market. palestinian cabinet has been dissolved as part of a major political shake up from minister salam fayyad been a tast with appointing a new one the announcement comes on the back of the government's decision to hold presidential and legislative elections in the west bank by september hamas which controls the gaza strip has rejected the call for a referendum elections planned for january two thousand and ten were spun and after

it was assumed that hamas would undermine any vote. a radical muslim cleric has been indicted on fresh terrorism charges it is trial in indonesia. he was accused of planning and inciting terror acts and helping to set up and fund an islamic militant training camp but it was convicted of conspiracy in the two thousand and three bali bombings which killed over two hundred people but the sentence was later overturned on appeal if convicted of the latest charges he could face the death penalty. a work of art has been removed from an exhibition in washington d.c. after the government intervened the gallery received threats of fund withdrawal which saw the controversial work move to a makeshift venue want to nearby street but it's obvious christine for azhar reports this isn't the first time u.s. officials have a sense of the arts. it's a glimpse at life in modern day america and you could say it bears all works like

this have led some to call the heidsieck exhibition at the smithsonian's national portrait gallery unprecedented the first of its kind groundbreaking since it deals with things like homosexuality lust struggle and religion well actually not religion at least not anymore turns out some people found this work of art a video called fire in my belly offensive. the video was actually shown inside the national portrait gallery as part of the exhibition for more than a month no complaint but then the group started complaining the blogosphere exploded and in less than twenty four hours the video was banned and now lives inside this trailer this kind of censorship. i mean. if you don't like things don't look at them instead of diverting their gaze

a handful of people mostly conservative and religious activists wanted to prevent anyone from seeing it they contacted members of congress who are sympathetic to them who then threatened the smithsonian's funding over eleven seconds of video in a four minute work those eleven seconds are of the shot ants supposed to symbolize society crawling on a crucifix the artist david want to rove which was expressing anger and concern over society's apathy about aids he later died of aids related complications. michael blazon stein one of the organizers of the museum of censored art wanted to make sure the artist message was heard at first he tried to keep it inside the museum putting the video on an i pad and just stood there right at the entrance to the exhibit so this is you that's me i plan to. and i just stood there i didn't even talk to anybody i just stood there and anybody who wanted to come up

and look at it could look at it within ten minutes he was escorted out and is now banned from the smithsonian for life but he says it's worth it these things are done in the name of the taxpayer but when people are coming in they you know they see the museum of censored art and they want to know what the government is trying to hide from them this is just the latest attempt by government officials to censor the expression of artists sometimes they're more upfront about what they want to keep it in. at washington d.c. as union station an artist back in one thousand nine hundred seventy contributed roman soldiers and was told they would need to cover up their quote personal items with shields and then there was the one nine hundred eighty nine robert mapplethorpe exhibit shown at the washington project for the arts after being banned from the corcoran art gallery once again after government intervention

senator jesse helms put a stop to it being shown there after threatening the national endowment for the arts he's conservative he wants to control people he wasn't told what people think he wants to. reality and i think. he's way off base fast forward twenty one years to a metal trailer with no heat and one work of art on display all because a few people consider it fact religious do you think that's what it is i mean religion is always the one thing that still drums up so much controversy especially in our. religion and sex religion and sex to subjects depicted in art for millennia at seemingly lost in the shadows of the free speech clause in the u.s. constitution. christine for south r.t. washington. fahri debate is on his way served with the people of all of course his cross talk show that will be coming to an about eight minutes or so but now the

business news with you. that's right time to get the latest from the world of business the russian government has finalized the sale of ten percent of the g.b. for three point three billion dollars in its first big asset sell off in the bishop's privatization program the state which is to reduce its stake to seventy five percent of the sale agrees a final price of six point twenty five dollars put to pause to receipt the shares of russia's second largest lender was sold to more than twenty investors each of them paying more than one hundred million dollars around fifteen percent of the bank's shares were acquired by russian investors a trick question president of ficci beach says demand appeared to be higher than expected of you was a yolk the number of bids has two times outweighed supply this allowed us to reach the highest price which corresponds to the current market price it is very rare

situation in a stock placement because when a large amount of new stock is put into circulation the price usually has a downward tendency. time to have a look at markets european shares are slightly higher as were political instability in the middle east seem to be easing the debts is high but the foot so is losing ground dragged down by banking shares h.s.b.c. barclay and world bank of scotland and pulling more than one hundred percent that's up to concerns about the long term future of banking were raised again yesterday. and in russia there are two s and m i six have slipped into red in raising early gains most of the blue chips to lower the sol with well companies leading the drop on the mises. but have a look at those figures coreless point seven percent lower gas promise not far behind its shares and losing eight hundred percent. bucking the trend as the state announced it had successfully sold ten percent in a second public offering generation three point three billion dollars bond is also

up as russia's biggest lender. credit report it was up more than eleven percent and the bank's chairman has also announced the bank's plans for privatization in the second half of this year. the world's largest oil producer to sell has reported a three percent increase in its total aluminum output in twenty ten compared with the previous year where saul's first deputy c.e.o. says twenty to ten showed a recovery of global only medium consumption to pre-crisis levels with children are leading the way. in the five years china will switch to them then in perth and i think you will see the science already in this year in two thousand and eleven maybe maybe at the end of the year but in two thousand and twelve i think differently imports from china to the china market from what that's why for us this market is a hole in the china particular is very important and we saw last year at the end of last year the stop was to long term. the infantry agreement was not income and now

we're trying to sort of keep our i mean. her structure. chelsea football club billionaire ramana burma which is no longer among the top three richest russians that's according to the latest rating published by russian magazine magazine financed the top two places where unchanged metals tycoon led him a lesson topped the list with investment in second place how weather every move it slips to fifth leaving that sport to another metals tycoon. who was in seventh place last year. so we have time for knowledge joined my calling in less than one and to get more news from a website dot com slash business. culture

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