a revolutionary trip aimed at bringing us closer. to the first steps. in the program. we failed to provide a vision of society to which they feel. western european multiculturalism is a failure and a potential threat to security but immigrants solutions instead of criticism. plus there may be new power in egypt but tensions remain high and the us supporting the country's journey to democracy as some political experts it could be a recipe for disaster.

from our studios here in central moscow this is r t with you twenty four hours a day two cosmonauts have taken their first steps on during a revolutionary experiment masterminded by russian scientists even though it's a simulated mission researches all over the world agree that the project is an important scientific breakthrough he reports now and a huge step for mankind. italy's diego and russia's isle xander smiley and ski v. made their first steps on the surface of mars they installed the flags there they took the samples of the service and measured the imagine a magnetic level of the red planet of course this is a simulation but it is pretty real for the volunteers who already spent over two

hundred days in isolation during the simulation of the actual trip to the red planet just previously we were broken up into two groups one group stayed in the mothership simulator and two or three people a chinese an italian and a russian volunteer we went to the martian surface they're going to spend around armont and are going to conduct three or walks in total though after that they will be reunited with the whole team and will begin their simulation of the journey back home even though this is a simulation it's a real step forward. towards a mission to the red planet because scientists on both sides both in european space agency and in the russian space agency they say that before a real flight to the red planet it's possible hundreds and hundreds of various tests and experiments are needed to be conducted this is definitely

a massive psychological test for these people since these six men are locked in this scientific model absolutely isolated from the rest of the world with the limited communication even messages from mission control or received would be delays simulating a real spaceflight and actually a russian the russian space agency has now announced that they see a real flight to mars possible in around twenty years so that kind of gives some time for some more tests and by. it is just really important who are these scientists who to see how people can live together and work together most importantly in isolated simulated conditions there even beam being given simulations of emergency situations which can also turn up during a real spaceflight so there is no t.v.

no internet no radio do so me the six of them and mission control with the from who me get these are dealing with messages to very difficult psychologically and also this is only middle of the mission since they still have to come back and that is going to be over two hundred more days that they will have to spend inside of that module a lot so perhaps the most difficult psychologically part of the experiment is still ahead. that was artie's correspondent reporting on the mars five hundred project well a little later we tell you how pills for pensive pitches are flying off the shelves in the u.s. . some americans say it's yet another example that shows the pharmaceutical industry is all about profit. but first european politicians are calling for a total overhaul of immigration policy as many leaders admit integration in the e.u. has failed and with a new wave of migrants following the political chaos in north africa the problem

only looks set to get more complex. has this report the concept of multiculturalism seems to be failing all around europe we fail to provide a vision of society to which they feel they want to belong. this approach has failed utterly my answer is clearly yes it's a failure. the heads of state are now admitting what many observers and radicals have been saying for some time mortar culturalism will only function if the people come into the country have a job to own their own money and feel responsible for the for the community otherwise was jobless people and if they live a passive life or social welfare and the passive approach can sometimes devolve into extreme action denmark is home to more than half a million immigrants making up almost ten percent of the population or didn't see it quite the nice town the birthplace of hans christian andersen one of the world's

best known storytellers but the story unfolding here has nothing magical about it clashes between danes and groups of somali imposed union youth have rattled this neighborhood for more than a year locals say car burnings and violence between immigrants and police are a familiar sight one neighborhood to different worlds and their voices are being raised about doing something before tensions involves more is get out of hand the situation remains far from being a fairy tale there have been some suggestions on how to ease the tensions every time mons two hundred persons. split from all over the city. or the help from the state police and kick them out of the country we won't have any problems but some immigrants believe the main issue isn't the different issue of integration. the danes think the integration means becoming fully danish

immigrants have to eat drink and live just like the danes but those who come here think integration means earning some money having their kids speak danish and going to danish schools. that's why there's a discord. so perhaps until this difference in expected is resolved the cultural tensions in europe will persist but admitting that the problem exists may be the first step on the way to finding a solution. r t well the italian island of lampedusa has been inundated with thousands of migrants from tunisia over the past few days they've been fleeing the country after its recent revolution there and authorities on the island say they're struggling with this sudden influx want to discuss this in more depth i'm now joined by n.e.p. and the e.u. parliament vice chair of foreign affairs provera thanks very much indeed for joining us there. well your member state is italy one would imagine that this is adding pressure to any existing multicultural problems in your country is it.

a multi problem because. most of. the accommodate to our rules and they want to. have. leave of following the sharia law if the muslims and this is a problem because. the liberalism means that we have to leave following the rules and follow and there being detail in rights and we don't want to get those in our city or in our country and. we need these two to try to live together. in the future together so you acknowledge the fact that italy does have similar problems to many other european countries

talking about this particular instance where we're seeing this new wave of migrants coming to your country i understand the e.u. foreign policy chief has gone to chin is here to discuss the situation from where those migrants came from now is there actually anything. to be done about this problem. the actual problem is there are six thousand and two hundred peoples. reached. the south of italy in three days and there is a huge invasion difficult to stand with such a large number of people immigrants and integrate them in the society so we think that it's not only telling problem it's a european problem and any way we have to. challenge to cope with a structural problem in the maghreb in the north of africa because after the fall

of the data ship in tunisia and egypt. some huge problem remains structured around problems the economy and the building of democracy up a new democracy that's not easy to reach out to be said as you're saying not just a problem in italy but other countries as well is it the government's fault or the immigrants fault who is actually mainly to blame i know you touched on this a little bit earlier but tell us a bit more about where the real root of the problem lies about multiculturalism integration. the problem of the integration is that most of people who came to italy in the past and they are still coming to italy they don't want to be integrated they want to following. a tradition to follow their own lows i mean the sharia law if we

can such behavior. we can accept immigrants. who are. behavior and. just briefly can i ask you that almost you're saying you have to accept that behavior but in a way there's an element of tolerance needed from both sides and there's got to be tolerance from the host nation and that's all about regardless of creed color or culture that tolerance is the most important thing and maybe that's not what the immigrants are experiencing people all tolerating them. immigrants are tolerated if they're beheading. or rules and lows and tradition. it's very easy to tolerate that to accept the following. if they want to live following they rules in our territory in our areas in our

country that will be very very difficult to accept for italian people can i just ask you do you think the growth of extremism and terrorism has prompted the likes of yourself european politicians to admit that multiculturalism hasn't succeeded across the continent and that as what prompted this recognition of the problem. most of the italian politicians admit that multiculturalism is. actually and not only need to come in and say is that. the same. germany the. the same opinion. of social democrat politician i've made the mountain is a problem we have to change their mind if it has failed has actually led to extremism and the further threat of terrorism in europe. sorry can you link the

fact the failure of multiculturalism multiculturalism has led to an increase of extremism and terrorism in europe just finally. yes because. you see it. is not the same. story for every immigrant. coming from certain areas. that are very well accepted they can enter our society they can accommodate our lows our behaviors and they are very easy to be integrated and there are some others. not so easy to be integrated one of the key areas of integration is to provide jobs for people to be self financing in a new country but when you think about half of europe much of europe being broke at the moment that's not really a realistic solution is further people coming to look for jobs where the people who actually live in the countries don't have jobs themselves. of course. very

important because it's impossible to live in a country without any drops you need money you need salaries of proposal for life and the real problem for italy is not the legal immigration is the legal immigration. that is the problem because. if you are not legal in a country you have no documents you can work with. every worker in this in italy and so it makes a lot of problems because what what what are the chances for someone without any documents with the papers. they can they cannot leave in legal way well it's very interesting to hear what you have to say and very relevant bearing in mind you're all from italy and there you are in strasburg m.e.p.

. thank you very much indeed for joining us live and sharing your thoughts here on r.t. . egyptians have managed to oust president hosni mubarak but the democracy they were hoping to get is in question the military generals who assumed power have frozen the civil rights of egyptians placing the country under martial law but barack stepped down from passing on power to the armed forces which always backed his regime he's currently rumored to be ill possibly even in a coma on sunday the generals dissolved parliament and suspended the constitution they say they'll run the country for at least six months until elections could be held the government appointed by last month is still in place and is controlled by the generals western and especially american money funded the mubarak regime for decades well the journalist afshin rattansi says the egyptian people have had enough of foreign influence well 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 people in tahrir square want to see the back of the army that was trained in the united states and we must remember more than three hundred dead thousand still disappeared and the egyptians will remember who trained people that tortured killed so many of their relatives egypt's economy is in the doldrums it's in chaos a lot of those companies that are stationed there have been stealing the money so a lot of your gyptian people might see their masses of companies there that are enjoying huge privileges i want to hello it'll take before remember the idea of nationalization this is a failure of u.s. and european powers they will remember that they don't embrace democracy and see the united states as any part of the liberation. journalist afshin rattansi there speaking to us from london well the events in egypt are reverberating throughout the middle east on monday anti-government demonstrators clashed with police in

tehran the protests came just a day after the u.s. state department began sending twitter messages to iranians in their native tongue professor side mohammad marandi says washington is losing ground in the region the united states seems very desperate because this is a very desperate measure the americans know they are losing out in the middle east and the middle east is becoming independent even its key allies are no longer stable countries regimes like jordan and saudi arabia and yemen it's not clear how long they will last the united states is in serious trouble on of fronts it's in trouble in iraq and afghanistan and lebanon in tunisia in egypt the americans are desperately trying to bring about change in iran but the fact is that republic of iran is highly popular with a small group of people who rioted in downtown tehran today which are no more than a few hundred they constitute a small minority the iranians basically want their independence they want to remain

independent and they're opposed to apartheid in palestine if the americans are able to come to terms with the reality in iran the iranians are quite willing to to move towards rapprochement. time now to have a quick look at some world news in brief more than one hundred government demonstrators and fast with hundred students and young men and young people were marching through the capital sanaa to demand political reform and the resignation of president saleh the leader has been in power for more than thirty years he's already pledged to step down in twenty thirteen but as previously broken promises to quit. two security guards have been killed in what police say was a suicide attack in the afghan capital kabul the blast occurred in a well known building near a hotel and shopping mall in the center of the city gun fire was heard after the explosion and is said to be continuing last year the same building was heavily damaged in a suicide attack on nearby hotels. i understand the court has charge of police commando with terrorism and murder of a politician card that he. is actually confessed to killing the governor of the

punjab province and says he doesn't regret shooting him last month he said he was angered by the politicians opposition to the country's blasphemy law which sentences to death anyone convicted of defaming the prophet muhammad it's the most high profile political killing in pakistan since former prime minister benazir bhutto's assassination more than four years ago. an italian court is set to announce whether prime minister silvio berlusconi will face an immediate trial last week prosecutors filed a request for a fast track hearing for the premier on charges of sex crimes and abuse of power he said let's have paid for sex with a seventeen year old girl and uses influence to secure her release from custody on theft charges the premier denies the accusations saying this quote for a trial is a fast. well if your pooch is feeling a little low these days fear no more there are companies that claim they have just the right pill for it canine prozac is one of many pet products in

a very lucrative market but as the pharmaceutical industry keeps growing something it's turning into a cash cow what is lauren lyster investigates if there's a conflict of interest when it comes to profit and quality. the most common things that we prescribe medication for in dogs are questionings ideas hoarders. have project works great on dogs you heard it right doggie prozac a b. 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 company's 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 the form 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 while side the world headquarters of one of the largest offender 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 or give 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 this 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 a 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 even in the case of crime for this industry nothing is likely to change it less people go to jail worst of five or much larger than they have 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 r.t. new york. a little later prominent u.s. congressman ron paul gives us his view on the united's events in egypt and why he believes washington tries to buy into revolutions what's coming your way after all

business updates with dmitri he's next. bill thank you very much indeed the russian government has finalized the sale of ten percent of the t.v. for free point three billion dollars in its first big asset sale of that's part of the ambitious privatization program the state which is to reduce its stake to seventy five percent with the sale agreed a final price of six dollars twenty five cents per the poetry receipt the shares of russia's second largest lender was sold to more than twenty investors among them t p g n generali each of them paying more than one hundred million dollars around fifteen percent of bag shares that were offered for sale were quiet by russian investors but despite the successful claimant placement john winslow davies from where most asset management claims investors still do not have much appetite for russian assets. the sellers are looking for higher multiples and valuations that

the market can't support at the moment or that. a global institutional portfolio managers really don't have as much appetite for russian assets as people would think or perhaps are looking for really much steeper discounts the sellers are willing to afford or looking back since two thousand and seven i mean how many are peers who made money for anybody not many. the unemployment rate in russia is showing signs of job resurgence having gone down by one percentage point in the past year but despite its downward trend present better still sees it as one of the country's top problems data compiled by the international labor organization says the number of russians without a job has fallen to five point four million people in twenty eleven from six point two million a year ago as it stands the current be around seventy five million working people in russia present a very urged the government to shift from anti christ measures to more long term

actions when tackling unemployment. the current rate on the one hand gives us the right to think that the government has done a good job but on the other hand we shouldn't forget that more than five million russians are still jugglers this is a very sizeable number and the employment service is need to do their best to help those people. so good to be here markets not much drama in the u.s. still mix the dow and the nasdaq still flat as they were an hour ago that was down two point one percent nasdaq up point three percent that's after barack obama's three point seven three trillion dollars budget proposal in europe the markets also ended the day mixed with the dax up as worries over political instability middle east seem to be easing but the footsie was losing ground dragged by banking shares here in russia the r.t.s. m i six started the week on a slight negative note the main drags were energy stocks the second look at them in

more detail luke oil and gas problem and it up losing one and two point four percent respectively the shares were bucking the trend as a state and now stood successfully sold ten percent in the second public offering generating three point three billion dollars as we mentioned earlier in the program . the world's largest element and producer roussel has reported a three percent increase in its total output in twenty ten compared with the previous year results first. says the further recovery of global demand will boost prices this year we see the very strong market everywhere we see the recovering an aluminum prices we have that's why our estimation for them. for this year at least twenty five hundred. dollars per ton. in some weeks it should even reach to into seven hundred. if i was back in the one i was

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