certainly the splined entire truth wins if you tell me touch your future a good girl i would international. every green lower killed in total. freedom of speech on trial and activists in austria awaits a verdict after being accused of inciting hatred and critical lectures on islam and shari'a law. twin blasts rocked russia's volatile republic of that the stock killing two policemen and injuring over twenty. seriously pull the strike could russia so the republic of dagestan join me in a few moments for all the latest. putting differences aside moscow and london hope to overcome diplomatic tensions as russia's foreign minister visits the u.k. . ostia the number of unemployed and russia has gone down by one

percent the details in business and implemented. ten 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 saying more or less the same thing elizabeth somebody will face as three years in prison for inciting religious hatred after she criticized islam and sharia law. reports from vienna it was just a night this is not a european citizen peacefully debating islam with a muslim is nothing unusual in a multicultural country like france but it's a topic not always discussed in such gentle fashion. i advise you not to burn the

koran about your reading. studying what islam. with learning how to. know your enemy elizabeth supper to channel 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. 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 opponents say she crossed the line here

a speech is up raged not only the muslim community but also major streams 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 sit 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 a. exactly what hell is about subject wall found here a fellow like south taking

a stance against self segregation a top pick 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 influence debate on the ground and the future shape of exceeding the actual for our team from vienna. well danish writer and columnist. europe's push for political correctness has gone too far and is now limiting citizens' freedom we've allowed it to much multiculturalist. it being represented in the public sphere and now we've gone and 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 it's a fall 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 and suicide bombers serve rock russia southern republic of dagestan the explosions happened two hours apart in the village of two people were killed and another twenty injured all of the policemen are peter all over has the details. around 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 at offices to to draw attention to when one of those offices approached she detonated the device that she was carrying that this device is believed to have been to a small particles pieces of metal that have resulted in shrapnel injuries 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 at a police checkpoint the police pulled over a car that was then another explosion was detonated from within one car killing a nother policeman so that's the situation at the moment as assad's two policemen are being killed in dagestan many other wounded in the wake of the suicide bombing on the door dead of the airports president dmitri medvedev was very forthcoming in saying that security would be the main watch word 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 chief side. blast occurred me less than a month ago and just recently he visited a metro station and a major train station here in moscow and was equally left early dissatisfied with what was in place to try and stop terror attacks now he's promised that this will be addressed we're expecting very shortly see here to see a major overhaul of. the laws here in russia and the police here russia as well as being put on high alert and told based operations are now their main goal to all of the day that their main goal is to try and make sure that no further terror attack . take place here in russia. and coming up later in the program marshall will test

force of the military are fueling the power vacuum left by most need to borrow but . when buying influence fails and by military base you take a look at how washington has spread its military might around the world. and moscow and london will be hoping to turn a page in their factious relations as russia's foreign minister visits the british capital well events over the last few years have caused diplomatic tension but with a relatively new government in london there's hope for a fresh start but 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 causing was expelled from russia he maintains it was because of his work with wiki leaks russia maintained breached accreditation requirements now back in moscow after it was 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 yes the u.k.'s chief suspect in the case is russian parliament deputy and by lugovoy and the two countries can't see eye to eye on the u.k.'s also harboring people who are wanted criminals in russia tycoon. akhmed zakayev person so far refused to extradite them despite repeated requests despite difficulties the russian remains one of britain's 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 ross nest and trade between the two countries is estimated to run at seventeen billion dollars that's always a positive that lavrov can focus on 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 of our 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 for us to 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 laughs. well

egypt has been gripped by fresh strikes of thousands of workers demanding better pay and conditions now it comes as the new opposition is trying to build bridges with the supreme military council which is an interim control following the departure of president mubarak well the military which has the sole parliament says it ordered a new draft constitution which will be put to a referendum we're going to months the army is calling for an end to protest by threatening to impose an outright ban on gatherings and strikes while the general seemed to be moving to the country on the path to civilian rule to east expert all of our model says the military's plans for egypt are still unclear. we know from bitter experience that revolutions can go terribly wrong and the fact is that egypt is appalling problems. the same problems essentially that it was facing in 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 a secretive and probably nobody outside the the egyptian army knows exactly what their intentions are of course plenty of other examples where revolution should be hijacked by the military what we need is to see which way the military are going to take egypt 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 in teheran who had been throwing stones it's the country's first such clash for over a year well the day before the protests the u.s. state department began setting twitter messages to rein yes r.t. contributor wayne madsen says u.s. support for iranian opposition groups is only giving the current government

a good reason to crack down on them. but the problem is with the so-called green revolution it had too many u.s. 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 what we used to call the the islamic crescent into. iran is under economic embargo from the u.s. in the 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 we're under siege that's because we have basically frozen iran out there was probably a mistake on our part. by doing that we're suppressing the legitimate democratic opposition in iran. well remember there is much more in that story at r.t. dot com and there's plenty for you to explore including news coverage analysis and blogs but here are some of what's online right now really really about accused of training people involved in the two thousand and five london bombings has been freed from a u.s. prison after less than five years. and a virtual reality for the first time astronauts set foot on the surface of the red planet related by russian scientists. the russian officials have dismissed claims that the sentence handed to the former oil tycoon. was influenced by political pressure a legal assistant had 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. and his business partner were found guilty of oil theft and money laundering last december it saw their prison terms extended by another six years in two thousand and five the two men were found guilty of several offenses including fraud and tax evasion. that the u.s. is cutting its next deficit budget with president obama saying tough choices and sacrifice have to be made but there's one place the administration does not want to make major cuts to it's the defense spending now with numerous u.s. military bases located far beyond its territory artes you know softly found out where american taxpayers' money is really going. back.

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 which there are. thousands that webspace their cycles and. one. of them we just can't 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 an atoll specifically well the united states is there too and some locations serve dual purposes like kuantan i'm obey and they're all sustained by hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money just how much money i don't get in. the.

good. news and speaking of those miscellaneous expenses there are other reasons why. i think i'd rather. golf courses and see life than ski lachesis. that's a little bit actually 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 us to have 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 are living here and raising our children why do we need this us or an arc in our world 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 in arkansas 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 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 you've got to take the money from the american taxpayer people families are having trouble making ends meet they're having trouble seeing 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 this dominant military role around the world that's really just creating nothing but problems for us i mean they have they have some of the nicer resorts in the military that you can imagine and you've got generals and admirals flying around in private jets anywhere they want in the world i mean it's a high lifestyle and it's a very expensive lifestyle it's a huge burden and this nonsense that the department of defense can't be put on the cutting board is just absolutely ridiculous the country is going broke we're

spending more what one and a half trillion dollars more than what the government's bringing in the national debt. and a large part of this is the u.s. military and the military industrial complex that's what this is all about power and money. now a brief look at some other world headlines there is more tension on the streets of yemen following four straight days of unrest which have seen thousands of people taking part in demonstrations pro reform marchers clashed with police echoing similar events across the arab world where the demonstrations in the capital sudden are aimed at removing president all the of the law suddenly who is ruled the country for thirty years meanwhile in nearby bahrain security forces fired tear gas in an attempt to disperse thousands who joined the funeral of a man that killed in a rally on monday groups demanding more political freedoms from the ruling monarchy had previously clashed with police in the capital. and italian court is

due to give its decision on whether prime minister silvio berlusconi will face an immediate trial prosecutors want to indict him on charges of abuse of power and sleeping with an underage prostitute pressure is mounting on be a battle with hundreds of thousands marching in protest at his alleged behavior on sunday berlusconi has denied all the allegations disgraceful. a small commercial airliner has crashed near the honduran capital killing all fourteen people on board among the passengers was a former government official and a union leader with the cause of the crash is being investigated but it's known that there was fog in the area at the time it happened of south of an airport considered dangerous because of its short runway and surrounding hills. are caught extra 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 about four hundred kilometers southwest of the capital but authorities found weapons nearby but said no one was arrested and no drugs were found where they made the discovery. for the twenty fourteen winter olympics in russia city of sochi are well advanced and us part of that process the slopes of the brand new ski resort will be hosting the european cup in alpine skiing which begins today now the c.e.o. of the sochi organizing committee. told r.t. there's a lot riding on getting this event right. it will be the first international exam. with the presence of international olympic committee and i know that. from the. from claude kelly the great will come to check the slopes. again i said the first test about the proper

planning is the key factor of the success and that is why we have to be ready for any unpredictable things like you remember what happened in the region the which was secured for the snow for one hundred thirty years suddenly was suffering with the local snow so we have to predict everything and to be ready to deliver what we promised. or you can catch the full interview in around five minutes time here on our team but first this all the latest business with you.

very warm welcome to the program time to have a look at what's happening in the world of business russia's state owned free to be bank which saw a successful privatization of a ten percent stake in the company on monday has decided to go below one of its rivals bank of moscow p.t.b. wants to buy out one hundred percent or one of russia's top five banks in 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 whether some minority shareholders estimated up to ninety nine have been. the unemployment rate in russia is showing signs of job or source job. having gone down by one percentage point in the past year but despite a trend present but it 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 six 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 and russian president medvedev urge the government to shift from crisis measures to more long term actions when tackling unemployment. and the new cars in russia will be cut to twenty five percent from the existing thirty after the 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 accession the next meeting on russia's bede would be held in march twenty ninth the sides still have to come to an agreement on seven issues of the negotiations including cautious for meat and poultry imported to russia from w g o states. let's have a look at how the markets are faring this hour asian stocks

a mixed japan's nikkei average held near a nine month high isn't tuesday and hong kong's hang seng has almost a half a percent down at the moment investors are concerned that china may further increase its interest rates in the first quarter because of pressure from rising consumer prices which rose four point nine percent in january from the hear more of the chinese producer price index which measures wholesale inflation rose of bonds to then expect at six point six percent. and in russia there are two years into my six and the session in the red on monday and currently the r.t.s. is down a. ten four percent and on monday just bite high oil energy stocks were the main drags on the day let's see how they will be doing on tuesday. and the euro which was already under pressure by events in the euro zone continued falling this week and analysts fear this will fall into tendency countries in europe face some deep

restructuring issues you have too much debt deficit too large about beings that the euro is going to be unfortunately fundamentally weak currency what it's going to do in the next two or three months well i mean that really depends on on how things look with the dollar another currency actually faces a lot of a lot of issues so you know my view is that the euro will tend to weaken over the. over the medium term. so we have time for now but you can always find more stories on our website dot com slash business.

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