a revolutionary virtual trip aimed at bringing us closer to space. to make the first steps. a leader in the program. we fail to provide a vision of society to which they feel they want to belong. western european leaders multiculturalism as a failure and a potential threat to security but immigrants demand solutions instead of criticism . plus there may be new power in egypt the tensions remain high and despite the u.s. applauding the country's journey to democracy some political experts warn it could be a recipe for disaster. from

our studios here in central moscow this is r.t. with twenty four hours a day so two cosmonauts have taken their first steps. 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. reports now on the huge step for mankind. italy's india. 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 chinese and italian and a russian volunteer and we went to the martian surface they're going to spend around our month there 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 testing by. it is just really important who are these scientists who to see how people can live together and work together at the most importantly in isolated simulated conditions 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 only the sixth of them and mission control with the from

whom the get these messages are very difficult psychologically and also this is only middle of the mission since they still have to come back home 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 now was artie's correspond you got a piskun of reporting on the mars five hundred project. this is a party here in moscow a little later we tell you how pills for pensive pooches of flying off the shelves in the u.s. but some americans say it's yet another example that shows the pharmaceutical industry is all about profit. 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. as this report. the concept

of multiculturalism seems to be failing all around europe we failed 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 mordecai tourism will only function if the people come into the country every job to own their own money and feel responsible for that for the community otherwise was jobless people and if they live a passive life or social welfare and the passive approach can sometimes evolve into extreme action denmark is home to more than half a million immigrants making up almost ten percent of the population or don't see why danish 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 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 police and kick them out of the country 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 is a discord so perhaps until this difference in expectations 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 it didn't go. well discuss the issue further i'm now joined by writer and columnist he's in copenhagen it's a see you here thanks very much indeed for joining us so what do you make of this what do you think has caused this failure of multiculturalism. where we have to admit that throughout the last twenty five years or so we've had a huge influx of people coming from from the middle east or from africa or from from less developed countries and we put massive amounts of money into integration into schooling into welfare systems and and all the rest of it and still we are

experiencing a parallel lives parallel societies ghettos huge problems in schooling in learning in teaching. i mean over representation of of people coming from from other countries in the criminal statistics experienced experiencing loads of social problems due to too. multicultural is policies throughout the last twenty five years of. politicians throughout the years because you have a lot of time you say you paint a very clear picture that definitely has failed but is it the government's fault or the immigrants fault. well i think basically it's it's the fault of the government's not facing the facts standing up to reality standing up to the social phenomenon popping up in belgium in holland in germany and in throughout europe in

sweden and denmark as well you can you can't blame a whole. group of people for not doing this or that but you can you can blame the politicians for not dealing with the problems not not turning them into subjects circuit be criticized and in deep it which is exactly what they're trying to do now do you think perhaps maybe the immigration policy policies of being too tolerant to actually allow the immigrants to pursue their own way to ways of life they are in different countries and perhaps societies would rather than continue with their own separate ways and not integrate well i think that's very much part of the problem that we've allowed that too much multiculturalist doctors and. it being represented in the public sphere and now we've gone gone even further to to. practice legislation against hate speech against defamation and limiting the free speech and in the soul which is european our our our our heritage that that we should really

care about so we've gone far too far to too far with with all these with all this means soft spoken tolerance which is not really what makes societies glued together and what makes people. caring about each other well just before you came on we heard that report about the situation concerning ethnic violence in your country in denmark do you think that the failure of multiculturalism multiculturalism is also not indeed to blame for that ethnic unrest within countries but also the growth of extremism and terrorism in europe which some are saying. well. there might be a connection here i mean that the moment a society is not really demarcating with the the limits saw in terms of crime in terms of misbehavior in terms of all sorts of social or social problems i mean there's a vacuum there's

a power vacuum and into this vacuum we see gangs was the people who are more interested in violence and in integration we see even radical islamists taking up the heat and inspiring young men men around twenty or even even younger sometimes to do silly things and to start becoming a member of their clan or their family instead of becoming citizens and individuals and this is very much a tendency that has been provoked an even inspired by soft spoken politicians that don't really care about political societies civil society and the states of. just just briefly saying that european politicians are now recognizing this problem and now calling for a total overhaul of immigration policy. is a really an easy solution to this one just briefly what do you think should be done about it then because you've cited so many problems and symptoms of the problems. there are no easy solution this is a very complicated matter but i think this is a first step i mean for the for the top figures to realize ok we have

a problem our previous policies have failed we have to do something else what i think we should do is to speak about it for a beginning a column is so i speak about this and i brag about this every day i hope as as as often as i come across problems i think that's the beginning and we're only in the beginning we we're not even looking at at a solution. and there's no final solution i mean this is this is of course a very delicate work i'm not i'm not referring to anything as such but we have to start we have to start opening up to to criticism and start forming a new poll. well good to hear you talking about it here live on our t.v. thanks for joining us there from copenhagen russian economist's thank you. to russia now and russia's southern republican dagestan a suicide bomber has killed a policeman and wounded four others officials say the woman had been trying to enter a village police station she'd already made her way through

a security checkpoint when she was stopped she then detonated an explosive device russia's north caucasus remains a volatile region despite a serious crackdown on terrorism by security services in the last year. egyptians have managed to alst president hosni mubarak but the democracy they were hoping to get is in question the minute you generals who assume power have frozen the civil rights of egyptians place in the country under martial law but barack stepped down on friday passing on power to the armed forces which always backed his regime with support from western and especially american money is currently rumored to be killed possibly even in a coma on sunday the general dissolved parliament and suspended the constitution said to run the country for at least six months until elections can be held become appointed by barak last month is still in place and is controlled by the generals well middle east expert all of them miles told me earlier that the army's plans for the future of egypt are unclear. we know from bitter experience that revolutions going to go can go terribly wrong and the fact is that egypt faces appalling

problems. the same problems essentially that it was facing in the mubarak years the same problems that other countries in the region are also facing economic problems over rising food prices unemployment underemployment and so on problems of corruption problems of ingrained habits of brutality in the security forces all these things can perhaps be put right but they can't be put right overnight now the army in egypt and the secretive and probably nobody outside the the egyptian army knows exactly what their intentions are of course of plenty of other examples where revolutions have been hijacked by the military what we need is to see which way the military are going to take egypt and that for the moment we don't know. and that was retired diplomat and middle east expert oliver miles talking to a little earlier there in the u.k. a terrorist accused of training the leader of the two thousand and five london bombings has been released from prison in the u.s. after less than five years muhammad barbour admitted to setting up

a training camp in pakistan and two connections with senior al qaeda figures the american citizens early release prompted claims by the u.k.'s guardian newspaper that he was a u.s. informant while to get some analysis on this let's now cross live to london where i'm joined by journalist and author hugh malik thank you very much indeed for joining us here on r.t. and thanks for helping us to unravel this somewhat intriguing story now this is an international terrorist to help train the ringleader of the seven seven bombing in london people will be dismayed to know that he's now walking free when he's supposed to be behind bars up for up to what seventy years how has he been able to walk free in this way do you think well the american government is saying a stance a body that john made barbara barbara has helped them prosecute a number of people across the world in canada the u.k. and in the u.s.

and selves and so they say look this is the reward for that cooperation so you put almost nearly a dozen people were helped to put them behind bars but actually the probation service in america knew all of those facts as well and still concluded that he was still pretty dangerous and actually deserved a thirty year or thirty more years in prison but the judge and the american prosecution service there took a different view and decided in fact that they would give him the sentence essentially of time served and that's what the you know that the u.s. government argued for and the judge accepted that argument so there might be something else going on here which is what the investigation that we did was it was it was looking at well in the speculation he was an informant of the guardian newspaper claims and those as perhaps you are suggesting now but if that's the case why wasn't the bombing in london prevented then. well i mean this is the really big mystery we've got mean there's a inquest going on at the moment of all courts of justice here is the coroner's

inquest looking into all of these issues we've also had to pry inquest into this and yet we still haven't been able to answer some fundamental questions especially about johnny barber which is for example in two thousand and one he gave an interview which was syndicated around the world in which he said look i'm going to kill americans and i'm here defending myself and my muslim brothers and i'll kill my fellow americans if they stepped foot in afghanistan and that was pretty clear and you also gave lots of identifying clues he also had his face fully identified on television and yet he wasn't placed sort of no fly list he was able to fly to the u.k. and then to the u.s. and lived there for a month without actually being arrested so these are the kinds of questions now which we're asking and that we can ask could have been further now that he's been released and now we know obviously he's been sort of essentially given a four and a half year sentence which is very limited and we hope that we've just learned in the last hour or so that the foreign secretary in this country will be pushing

forward with those questions and asking the american government directly to answer these things on behalf of the bereaved families just briefly and finally you're a journalist you're an author you've written a book on the causes of radical islam now this man is a pakistani american he moved to the the state at the age of choose why has he in so many others chosen this path. well it's been a bit of a mystery i mean one organization that's been at the heart of all of this is an organization called. a radical organization run by a guy called omar bakri here who's a very loud and provocative person a lot of people who said he was also good at sort of getting alienated boys young muslim boys to sort of join his organization acting as sort of as a father figure in that and actually they moved to open up a branch in the u.s. in june a barber was one of their first recruits so that's one aspect of it but underlying all of this i think that this is somewhat faded this aspect of homegrown terrorism

in this country it's certainly either more secretive or more peripheral that it has been in the last ten years but in the u.s. it's a growing problem and journeyed barbel is one of the first u.s. homegrown terrorist and now he's out walking free and living a life presumably in the u.s. somewhere with his wife and children should many thanks indeed for enlightening us on the story we appreciate your time on r t journalist and author should've malik joining us live in london on r.t. thank you. russian officials have dismissed claims that the sentence handed to the former head of the yukos all company because it was made under pressure the judges assistant had said that he was forced to prolong the tycoon's jail term but according to a court official the judge was the only person who had access to all the details of the case and could not have been dictated the terms of the verdict could of course skinny's partner were found guilty of oil theft and money laundering last december which saw their prison terms extended for another six years in two thousand and five the two men were found guilty of several offenses including fraud and tax

evasion. well now 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 some fear it's turning into a cash cow or investigates if there's a conflict of interest when it comes to profits and quality. the most common things that we prescribe medication for in dogs are questionings ideas hoarders. yes protect 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 poured 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. really ever looked at before and it shows you how out of control before 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 more outside 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 eventually 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 the 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 or worse before age or much larger than they have the properties will follow that it's cheaper to cheat stopping short of nothing to find some syndrome someone or something new to medicate lauren lyster r.t.

new york. we're getting some news just in that a car bomb has exploded near the village police station in russia's southern republic of dagestan well earlier we were reporting that a policeman was killed and four others wounded by a suicide bomber in that same village officials say that a woman had been trying to enter a village police station and she'd already made her way through a security checkpoint when she was stopped she then detonated an explosive device on russia's north caucasus remains a volatile region despite a serious crackdown on terrorism by security services in the last year. well i'll be back with more developments on that story and a summary of our main news in about five minutes from now in the meantime we've got the business news we have to between next stay with us on r.t. . in a warm welcome to business the russian government is finalized the sale of ten percent of the t.v. for three point three billion dollars in its first big asset sell off as part of

the ambitious privatization program the state which is to reduce its stake to seventy five percent of the sale agreed a final price of six dollars twenty five cents but of course the receipt of shares of russia's second largest were sold to more than twenty investors among them generally each of them paying more than one hundred million dollars but despite their successful placement on the one sole davies from where most asset management 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. the. 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 than the sellers are willing to afford or looking back since two thousand and seven i mean how many peers have made new money for anybody not many. the unemployment rate in russia is

showing signs of resurgence having gone down by one percentage point in the past year but despite its downward trend president better still sees it as one of the country's top problems they say compiled by the international labor organization says the number of russians without a job and looking for one has fallen to five point four million people in twenty eleven from six point two million a year ago as it stands currently around seventy five million in russia's labor force as a motivator for the government to shift from adze crisis measures to more long term actions when tackling unemployment. if you. look 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. now is look at monday's closing picture on the russian markets r.t.s.

and my six ended the session in the red there was a lot of buying at the opening but gains were later raced with energy stocks weighing down on the indices so some of the figures of the gas pramod losing one and two point four percent respectively of a close banking stocks fared better than the market shares were bucking the trend as the state announced it successfully sold ten percent of the second public offering generating three point three billion dollars. the world's largest alimony and producer has reported a three percent increase in its total admin about a foot and twenty ten compared with the previous year resells of first deputy c.e.o. of islam further recovery of global demand will boost prices this year. we see the very strong market everywhere we see the recovering in other medium prices so we're that's why our estimation for their. for this year at least down to five hundred. dollars per tonne. in some in some weeks it should even reach to into

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