two officers have been killed and several others injured in the attacks near a police station. he failed to provide a vision of society to which they feel to. western european leaders multiculturalism is a failure and a threat to security but. instead of criticism. maybe a new power in egypt attention from a us applauding the country's journey to democracy. could be a recipe for disaster. and a revolution a virtual trip aimed to bring us closer to space. to

make the first steps. in the program. live from our studios here in central moscow this is our twenty four hours a day. two suicide bomb blasts have rocked the southern russian republic of dagestan killing at least two policeman and injuring several others the explosions went off just hours apart in the same village of. in the first a woman blew herself up as she tried to enter the local police station she'd already made her way through a security checkpoint when she was stopped she then detonated an explosive device the second blast was a car bomb near the same police station russia's north caucasus remains a volatile region despite a serious crackdown on terrorism in the last year. and security has been stepped up

across the country after last month's suicide bombing in moscow's airport claiming thirty six lives attacker has been identified as twenty year old michael met from russia's republic of chechnya in the north caucasus through his suspected accomplices have been arrested and are being questioned officials say the terrorist group responsible for the attack included up to seven people. on the news now 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 ortiz and he 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 oh this approach has failed utterly now. my answer is clearly yes it's

a failure yes usually they have state are now admitting what many observers and radicals have been saying for some time more to culturalism 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 with 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 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 in groups of somali imposed in youth have rattled this neighborhood in 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 get out of hand the situation remains far from being a fairy tale story there have been some suggestions on how to ease the tensions if we take those two hundred persons. split from all over the city. with the help from the state and police and kick them out of the country we won't have any problems but some immigrants believe the main issue is in the different mission of integration. to get other dames things like integration means becoming danish immigrants have a drink and a live just like the danes but those who come here think integration means only. money having their kids speak danish and going to schools. that's why there's 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 is r.t. . and writer and columnist mccallion elving says the failure of multiculturalism in europe has been caused by governments soft immigration policies it's the fault of the governments not facing the facts standing up to reality standing up to the social phenomena popping up throughout europe in sweden and denmark as well you can't 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 can be criticized and and be painted with it we've allowed that too much multicultural darkness and taboos to being represented in the public sphere and now we've gone even further to to. practice legislation against hate speech against

a defamation and limiting the free speech and and the soul which is european we have to start opening up to criticism and start forming a new policy. and that was writer and con in this talking to me a little earlier. now coming up later we tell you help pills for pensive pooches are flying off the shelves in the u.s. it's an american saying it's yet another example that shows the volunteer to go industry is all about profits. egyptians have managed to president hosni mubarak but the democracy they were hoping to get is in question the minute you generals have assumed power have frozen the civil rights of egyptians place in the country under martial law mubarak stepped down on friday passing on part of the armed forces which always backed his regime with support from western and especially american money he's currently rumored to be ill possibly even 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 can be

heard and the government appointed by mubarak last month is still in place and is controlled by the generals middle east expert all of. the plans for the future of egypt's are unclear. we know from bitter experience that revolutions are 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 low bar 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 is secretive and there are probably nobody outside the the egyptian army knows exactly what their intentions are of course 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. that was retired diplomat and middle east expert all of them miles well the events in egypt reverberating throughout the middle east told monday anti-government demonstrators clashed with police in toronto police fired tear gas to disperse the demonstrators who were throwing stones at the offices it's the first such clash in the country for over a year the day before the protest the u.s. state department began sending twitter messages to iranians in their native tongue professors said mohammad marandi from the university of tehran tells us that 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 all 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 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 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 . when i caught up with prominent u.s. congressman ron paul to get his view on the latest events in egypt and he says that washington often tries to buy into revolutions and there's usually to protect national security but perhaps in reality where the reins. were always involved on both sides if if our puppet dictator can last we keep propping him up when we see

the tide changing there i'm sure our cia is involved in the opposition they can be in earlier or later they try to pick up the pieces that 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 be see american people that our national security will be threatened if we don't control these governments i just don't believe that. and you can watch the full interview with congressman ron paul in about ten minutes from now here on r t two cosmonauts are taking their first steps on 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 you go to reports on the huge step for mankind. italy's india. and russia. they made their first steps on the surface of mars the installed the flags there they took the samples off the surface 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 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 three people a chinese an italian and a russian volunteer they went to the martian surface they're going to spend around a month there and are going to conduct three or walks in total now after that they

will be reunited with the 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 space flight and actually russian the russian space agency has now announced that the 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's just really important who are these scientists to see how people can live together and work together 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. and mission control with the from whom the get these 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 that module walks or perhaps the most difficult psychologically part of the experiment is still ahead. of reporting on the mars five hundred project. russian officials have dismissed claims

that the sentence handed to the former head of the company. was made under pressure the judge's 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 dictating the terms of the verdict because again his partner were found guilty of oil theft and money laundering last december 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. time now for a quick look at some world news making the headlines this hour. one hundred pro-government demonstrators a clash with hundreds of students in yemen the young people were marching to 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 first team but has previously broken promises to quote. these two

security guards been killed in what police say was a suicide attack in the afghan capital kabul the blast occurred in a well known building or a hotel and shopping mall in the center of the city gunfire was heard after the explosion and is said to be continuing last year the same building was heavily damaged in the suicide attack on nearby hotels. a pakistani court has charge of police commander terrorism and murder of a politician. has he's confessed to killing the governor of punjab province and says he doesn't regret shooting him last month he says he was angered by the politicians a position to the country's blasphemy nor which sentences to death anyone convicted 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. well now it is feeling a little low these days 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 if the pharmaceutical industry keeps growing some fear it's turning into a cash cow. to investigate 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 aggression and anxiety disorders. yes 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 goober drugs that are important 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 ever looked at before and it shows you how out of control the foreseeable industry 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 or over the last two decades companies have been cheating and endangering 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 side 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 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. we have described. 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 sexual dysfunction itself was definitely something that the pharmaceutical industry really pushed for and had a hand and creating that's the conclusion cancer came to after following the process of a drug company developing a female by agra she says only

a small number of women who needed it but the company has other plans their marketing and the amount of money that they were pouring into it really says that they're trying to sell this to the whole population restless leg syndrome and with commercials store 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 lest people go to jail worst of five or much larger. 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. and that brings up today for the moment i'll be back with a recap of all my news stories in about ten minutes from now in the meantime it's our interview with u.s. congressman ron paul and he told our teachers do niggas also give that washington was largely to blame for the shortcomings of the mubarak regime and was behind the

revolution that toppled him that's going to be next week. congressman ron paul is talking to us here in washington d.c. about the situation in egypt the future of the conservative movement at possible presidential run in two thousand and twelve congressman thank you so much for being here i understand paul let's start off with you as usual you have

a very different take on the situation in egypt something that many lawmakers most lawmakers aren't even talking about you say that this is our thirty year mistake that this this mass happened because of us foreign policy what do you mean by that we had a lot to do with mubarak being in power and staying in power like we subsidize them we own him he's our puppet dictator he does what we tell him because he gives so much money he's gotten probably sixty to seventy billion dollars and i understand his family has sixty or seventy billion dollars stashed away in swiss accounts in other places around the world so we've known him and. we're supposed to get you know perpetual peace and cooperation but in times after a time the people rebel against this they know about it and they see dicta. waiters as being nothing more than public you know is a style government and they rebel and that's what they've done so even though there's been stability and we could afford it over those years now there's no stability and we can't afford it anymore so the sooner we quit this foreign policy

subsidizing people they said well he's our only friend if we have to pay that much money for a friend he's not much of a friend the way i figure but your critics would say look we have to look out for the best interests of the united states therefore we can not have a noninterventionist foreign policy intervention hasn't helped us very well very much at all because if you look at how many americans have been killed in korea and vietnam in the middle east and around the world and how many others how much collateral damage there's been and how many civilians are being killed around the world i would say the hasn't done us a bit of good in this helped move us toward our own bankruptcy so i don't believe our national security requires it i think we're realists say for it the threat of terrorism is related to our foreign policy so i feel less safe because we're over there i never feel safer for the foreign policy that we have today here's something that shocked a lot of people this is something that you had mentioned the telegraph reported on

it it was part of the wiki leaks revelations the fact that the united states was actually supporting some of these activists that we saw on the streets for several years now how do we make sense of that where we're always involved on both sides here if if if our puppet dictator can last we keep propping him up when we see the tide taint 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 that doesn't mean they have total control you know we controlled 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 can be seen merican people that are national six. he will be threatened if we don't control these governments i just don't believe that a lot of folks over that conservative political action conference isn't disagree with a lot of your especially when it comes to foreign policy and now especially this

year with go proud being included in the conference and you winning the straw poll last year there's this sort of fear as as they say that sea pack is becoming more libertarian why do you think that for some folks that's such a dirty word some people who call themselves conservative are big government conservatives so my opposition are big government conservatives and big government liberals i want libertarians and constitutional conservatives who say they will follow the constitution we believe in personal liberty and they come from our own right tradition there is a tradition in the republican party that objects to us policing the world so although you hear that and they've had lots of influence these last several decades there's still a lot of influence in the past at least by republicans who believed in in limited government and a noninterventionist foreign policy what do you think their ideal america looks like their conclusion is because we're exceptional and so special that we have this . jacob an ism where we have this moral obligation to spread our goodness even if

we have to use force we reject the notion of using force to move people survive and change the world so that's where the separation is a big government conservative and more libertarian constitutionalist because we believe we can persuade people rather than forcing people to accept our views and act the way we do and you see pac is usually a platform or perhaps a task for future presidential candidates are you going to be one of them and twenty truthfully. no decision to make i am undecided and some days i am sympathetic to the idea because i have a lot of supporters urging me to then there are other days i think well you know maybe i have better things to do or other things to do so. i am still undecided i have a couple months to make a decision i don't know if you got a chance to see this but there was an article circulating on the internet amongst your supporters and the title of it was a radical idea ron paul runs as

a democrat in two thousand and twelve and if we listed all of the quote unquote good reasons as to why you should run as a democrat for example your anti-war views the fact that you want to end the drug war and many republicans associate you know smoking a joint with him or ality i have you ever considered that running as a democrat. but then i realize it's improper to go but it would be great to do it because it would just just drive the progressives nuts because they would be agreeing with me but they wouldn't be able to stand the idea of supporting somebody like me because i don't address i don't endorse their principles of redistribution of wealth you know from one group to another so there's a limit they might agree with me on civil liberties and war and they would in a we could expose the. the conflicts and the inconsistency of our president because he has the endorsement of the progressives but they get annoyed too because he's up there promoting no already been doing about the drug war and all these things that we call moats a patriot act and endorses assassinations and secret prisons nothing really changed

so that would that would really stir the hearts of all the rest of the progressives would say oh you know he doesn't want to give more food stamps to the american people and you know it's back to that but it's an interesting thing it's fascinating to think about congressman paul as always thank you so much thank you. so much brighter. from sales to. these firms.

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