human voice face to face with the news makers. freedom of speech on trial and activists in austria awaits a verdict after being accused of inciting hatred and your critical lectures on islam and sharia law. twin blasts rocked russia's volatile the public of dagestan killing two policemen and injuring twenty others suicide bullet strike killed russia so the republic of dagestan join me in a few moments for all the latest. and putting differences aside moscow and london hope to overcome diplomatic tensions as russia's foreign minister visits the u.k. .

not i am here in moscow this is r t thanks for joining us now after decades of mass immigration into europe major leaders are lining up to say a multicultural society is not working but in austria free speech activists is on trial for say more or less the same thing elizabeth sub a ditch wall faces three years in prison for inciting religious hatred after she criticized islam and shari'a law that he reports from vienna was just a night. a european citizen peacefully debating islam with a muslim is nothing unusual in a multicultural country like the stream but it's a tall peak not always discussed in such gentle fashion but i do not to burn the koran about your. studying what islam. we learned not to place and.

well you know your enemy elizabeth supper to troll has been on trial in a vienna court on charges of making what is described as a hate speech against islam a left wing all strand magazine recorded and published a speech at one of her seminars lending who are in court i have nothing against people who want to practice their faith. but i would like them to do this in the privacy of their own homes your ideas she says are nothing new and when europe's political elite express them they are not prosecuted for the same views multiculturalism has failed this is nothing new and my group and i have been saying this for years now all of a sudden. and others come out of hiding and agree with us i don't know why but elizabeth proponents say she crossed the line here a speech is a great not only the muslim community but also made. it's not a matter of free speech that i can spread hatred about large groups of society

now we have to respect individuals in our society and we have to ask them to integrate and we have to help them to integrate yet european leaders such as german chancellor angela merkel french president nicolas sarkozy and british prime minister david cameron say mostly culturalism in europe isn't working there are huge muslim communities but frequently such as in all strata they leave in their own areas a physical sign of non integration there is this should see in vienna is known as the little people here speak their native language they prepare their national dishes and wear the clothes which they are used to and this is exactly what hell is about subject wall found here a fellow like sounds taking a stance against self segregation at top which was once taboo. is now at the top of

the european political agenda with multiculturalism now open to multi criticism from some of the continent's most influential political leaders we've yet to see how their views might fully enclosed debate on the ground and the future shape. exceeding of that our team from vienna. well danish writer and columnist says europe's push for political correctness has gone too far and is limiting citizens freedom we've allowed that too much multiculturalists to. it being represented in the public sphere and now we've gone even further to practice legislation against hate speech against the defamation and limiting the free speech and and the soul which is european heritage that that we should really care about so we've gone far to too far it with with all these soft spoken tolerance basically all of the government's not facing the facts standing up to

reality standing up to the social phenomena is popping up in belgium and holland and germany and in throughout a few 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 can be criticized and and be paid which is exactly what they're trying to do. now to end suicide bombers of rock russia's southern republic. the explosions happened to our support in the village of two people were killed and another twenty were injured all of them policemen are peter all over has the details. brown eight pm moscow time on monday a female suicide bomber she turned out approached a police station in the village and in the southern russian republic of dagestan she threw objects kindly at the police station and offices to to draw attention to

self when one of those offices approached her she detonated the device that she was carrying this device is believed to have been to it with small particles pieces of metal that have resulted in shrapnel injuries to another three policemen who were nearby some of those are in a critical condition at the moment now that attack caused police to step up security security interests in the area in the village of dead in dagestan and later on for a few hours later that's a police checkpoint and police pulled over a car that was then another explosion was detonated from within one car killing a nother policeman and injuring around seventy others so that's the situation at the moment as a stunt two policemen are being killed in dagestan many other wounded in the wake of the suicide bombing on the dollar dead of the airports president dmitri medvedev was very forthcoming in saying that security would be the main watchword that he

was wanting to completely revamp the security system here in russia to make sure the terror attacks wouldn't be allowed to happen now he's being very dissatisfied with the current level of security that has been in place he was scathing in his criticism of airport security chiefs. that blast occurred less than a month ago and just recently he visited a metro station and major train station here in moscow and was equally left as early dissatisfied with who's in place to try and stop terror attacks now he's promised that this will be addressed we're expecting very shortly to hear to see a major overhaul of. the laws here in russia and the police say russia as well as being put on high alert and told based operations are now their main alter of the day that their main goal is to try and make sure that no further terror attacks can take place here in russia. and coming up later in the program martial law well

after protests for all but the military are filling the power vacuum left by hosni mubarak but for how long. they've been buying influence fails by a military base while we take a look at how washington has spread its military by around the world. now moscow and london will be hoping to turn a page in their factious relations when russia's foreign minister visits the british capital on tuesday well events over the last few years have cost diplomatic tension but with a relatively new government and want to there's hope for a fresh start artie's laura reports russian foreign minister sergey lavrov is visiting the u.k. at a difficult time for the two countries relations earlier this month the guardian correspondent calling was expelled from russia he maintains it was because of his work with wiki leaks russia maintains he breached accreditation requirements now back in moscow after what's widely seen here in britain as

a climb down by the russian authorities but that's just the latest affair and what hasn't been an easy relationship for some years most notably the murder of former russian security officer alexander litvinenko in london in two thousand and six disrupted relations in a way that hasn't been overcome yet the u.k.'s chief suspect in the case is russian parliament but i lugovoy and the two countries can't see eye to eye on the u.k.'s also people who are wanted criminals in russia tycoon buddies chechen akhmed zakayev person so far refused to extradite them despite repeated requests despite difficulties de russia remains one of its most important trading partners with more than a thousand british companies working in russia recently we saw a huge deal signed between b.p. and state oil giant nest and trade between the two countries is estimated to run at . seventeen billion dollars that's always

a positive that can focus when he meets foreign secretary william hague he's also said chill to see prime minister david cameron and make a speech at the london school of economics on the agenda for european security cooperation in europe's missile defense project russia e.u. and russia nato relations and the situation in the middle east and afghanistan together with iran's nuclear program those last two points russia has allowed allied forces to use its transport routes for troops and supplies crucial for the war in afghanistan and it's also led fruitful negotiations with iran on its nuclear program the fact remains however that while russia has good relations with other european countries and the reset button on russia u.s. relations has been pressed and appears to be working visit to the u.k. may not be an easy one however slowly progress is being made in particular with brisson expressing interest in resuming cooperation with russia on security and the

fight against terrorism that's expected to be officially voice during last visit. egypt has been gripped by fresh strikes with thousands of workers demanding better pay and conditions and it comes as the new opposition is trying to build bridges with the supreme military council which is in interim control following the departure of president mubarak while the military which has dissolved parliament says it ordered a new draft constitution which will be put to a referendum within two months the army is calling for an end to protests by threatening to impose an outright ban on gathering sense right while the general seemed to be moving to a country on the path to civilian rule middle east expert over a mile says the military's plans for egypt are still unclear. we know from bitter experience that revolutions terribly wrong and the fact is that. the same problem. 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 to be 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. well the impact of the uprising in egypt continues to be felt throughout the middle east large crowds of anti-government demonstrators have clashed with police in iran police fired tear gas to disperse the protesters. throwing stones the country's first for over a year and the day before the protests the u.s. state department began said big twitter messages to the brain is r.t.

contributor way that says you want to support an opposition. to the current government a good crack down on them. but the problem is with the so-called green revolution it had too many us fingerprints on it from soros to usa id national down in for democracy so the regime in iran can always point to that and say this is the united states behind this whether we are behind some of the groups but legitimate opposition is suppressed because of that mantra that's put over all the opposition by the iranian government iran's a little bit different although there's a steering from morocco all the way across the we used to call the the islamic crescent into. iran is under economic embargo from the u.s. and u.n. it's also facing us straight as u.s. troops in afghanistan and iraq so the regime there can point to the fact that they're under siege and also under the threat of

a military attack by politicians in israel the united states they can point to that and say you can't be you can oppose the regime or under siege that's because we have basically frozen iran out there was probably a mistake on our part to by doing that were suppressing the legitimate democratic opposition in iran. remember there is much more on that story at r.t. dot com and there's plenty for you to explore including news coverage analysis and blogs well here's some of what's on line right now early really bad make use of training people involved in the two thousand five hundred bombings has been freed from a u.s. prison after less than five years. and a virtual reality pool for the first time astronauts set foot on the surface of the red planet created by russian scientists. and russian officials have dismissed claims that the sentence handed to the former oil tycoon. was influenced

by political pressure a legal assistant suggested that the judge had not been responsible for the guilty verdict 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 that are called ski and his business partner were found guilty of oil theft and money laundering last december it saw their present durham's extended by another six years in two thousand and five the two men were found guilty of several offenses including fraud and tax evasion. and the u.s. is cutting its next deficit budget with president obama saying tough choices and sacrifices have to be made but there's one place the administration does not want to make major cuts to and it's the defense spending now with numerous u.s. military bases located far beyond its territory artes do you know solves the found out where american taxpayers' money is really going. bad.

home they are signs of american power and might. military bases spread all over the world just how many apparently too many to count what i've read of. thousands of us bases or sites and. what there's more of them we just can't be sure but what we can be sure about is that the us defense budget is now about the same as no terry spending in all other countries combined and since nine eleven military and security expenditures have soared by one hundred and nineteen percent military expenditures in faraway places like new zealand colombia and japan and have you ever heard of the marshall islands khwaja one a told specifically well the united states is there too and some locations serve dual purposes like one time obey and they're all sustained by hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money just how much money i don't think it.

is going to spend and speaking of those miscellaneous expenses there are other reasons why. i think i'd rather. golf courses and see live in ski lodge yes. that's a little bit extra isn't it and brian becker of the answer coalition says it's not just the golf courses that are extra clearly there is no need and from the point of view of self defense for the u.s. military installations all over the world it's really part of maintaining a far flung global empire its place the us has a military base the us has political power economic power and it's a matter of coersion a corps and that isn't always welcome in fact it usually breeds more anti-american sentiment for example in kyrgyzstan the. we're living here and raising our children

why do we need this us or an aco now where locals have to give up ten to twenty percent of the island to the united states for a military base that they associate with noise crime and pollution and take a look at this in the wake of demonstrations and i cannot well last year activists place this ad in the washington post trying to tell the obama administration that they don't want to base in their hometown all of the proxy governments that accept u.s. military bases in to their country become vulnerable once the people actually start to rise up and mobilize which they almost always do rising up against a double standard the u.s. would never tolerate china having military bases in canada in mexico in haiti in the dominican republic in other words in the countries that ring the united states the united states is the seven hundred pound gorilla it sets wherever it chooses to sit and choosing to sit down wherever usually means that those most affected by these bases both here at home and abroad don't have a place at the table for our tea. jacob hornberger from

the future freedom foundation says the huge defense budget is taking money out of the lives of ordinary americans the military is just like a part of the government it doesn't have free money in order to fund this enormous military empire and you've got to take the money from the american taxpayer people families are having trouble making ends meet there have been trouble through their kids to college they can't pay their health care costs april fifteenth is coming up income tax day and all to fund what this dominant military role around the world it really does create nothing but problems for us. here's a brief look at some other world headlines thousands of demonstrators in the capital of yemen have taken the streets in a fourth straight day of rest for over four marchers clashed with police echoing similar events across the arab world the demonstrations in son are aimed at

removing president ali abdullah saleh who has ruled the country for thirty years meanwhile in nearby bahrain are protesters demanding more political freedoms from the ruling monarchy clashed with police in the capital manama security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets in an attempt to disperse the thousands gathered. now an italian court is due to give its decision on whether prime minister silvio berlusconi will face an immediate trial prosecutors want to die to on charges of abuse of power and sleeping with an underage prostitute the pressure is mounting on the about a leader with hundreds of thousands marching in protest at his alleged behavior on sunday he has denied all the allegations labeling them disgraceful. a small commercial airliner has crashed near the honduran koppel killing all fourteen people on board among the passengers was a senior government official and a union leader well the cause of the crash is being investigated but it's known

that there was fog in the area at the time the crash happened south of an airport considered dangerous because of its short runway and surrounding hills. are caltex trafficking a submarine has been discovered by authorities in colombia it's believed the vessel is able to travel from colombia to the coast of mexico the submarine was found in a river in the state of ca about four hundred kilometers southwest of the capital but authorities found weapons nearby but said no one was arrested and no drugs were found when they made the discovery. the preparations for the twenty fourteen winter olympics in russia city of sochi are well advanced and as part of that process the slopes of the brand new ski resort will be hosting the european cup in skiing which begins today with the c.e.o. of the sochi organizing committee. told r.t. there's a lot riding on getting this event right. this will be the first international

exam. with the presence of international olympic committee and i know that. from the. killie the great will. of the slopes. again i said. the proper planning is the key for the success and that is why we have to be ready for any unpredictable thing like you remember what happened in. the region the which was secured for the snow for one hundred thirty years suddenly was suffering with their luck so we have to predict every scene and to be ready to deliver what we promised. well you can catch the full interview in just over an hour here but first all the latest in business with you.

hello time for your business update russia's state owned v.t. bank which saw a successful privatization of a ten percent stake in the company on monday has decided to gobble up one of its rivals bank of moscow b. to b. wants to buy out one hundred percent of one of russia's top five banks on the first half of the year currently the biggest shareholder of bank of moscow the moscow city government estimates the bank at six billion dollars how whether some minority shareholders estimated at up to nine in the heart. and the unemployment rate in russia is showing signs of job resurgence having gunned down by one percentage

point in the past year but despite its downward trend president medvedev 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 there are currently about seventy five million working people in russia president very orange the government to shift from anti crisis measures to more normal transactions when tech bring unemployment. and even ford to juice or new cars in russia will be cut to twenty five percent from the existing thirty after that accession to the world trade organization that's according to the country's chief w t o negotiator he also said the text may be cut further to fifteen percent after seventy years of its session and the next meeting on russia's reid would be held on march twenty ninth the side still have to come to an

agreement on seventy shoes of the negotiations program including cautious for meat and poultry for to russia from w t o states. let's have a look at how the markets are faring this hour asian stocks are mixed at the moment japan's. ok average nine month high isn't any trade hong kong's hang seng is almost one hundred percent down at the moment and best just concerns that china may have a preset interest rates in the first quarter because of pressure from rising consumer prices we crossed four point nine percent in january from here moreover the chinese producer brice index which measures wholesale inflation rose a bounce to the expected six point six percent. and hit in russia the r.t.s. and the my six ended the session in the red on monday despite high oil energy stocks one of the main drags on the day. the euro which was

already under pressure by events in the eurozone continued falling this week and lists fear this will fall the tendency and john wells of data is from worm of acid management says analysts stick to emerging markets christmas so which show stable growth at the moment but unlike the euro we don't like the dollar either we don't like g seven slow growth rate currencies safehaven currencies like swiss franc or pound sterling we are actually very active in ethics grocery trades and we like as you'd expect you know high growth commodity centric inflationary emerging market currencies like korean one ruble seeing dollar type. dollar etc etc. and that wraps up the business bulletin for now but you can get more store small website r.t. dot com slash because that's.

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