freedom of speech on trial an activist in austria awaits a verdict after being accused of inciting hatred in her critical lectures on islamic and the sharia law. and putting spy scandals and mysterious murders behind them moscow and london hope to overcome diplomatic tensions as russia's foreign minister visits the u.k. . and tough choices but not where wars are concerned as the u.s. lost its next deficit budget defense spending remains relatively untouched. and russia's number two learn to be is said to paul i want to point blank of moscow for

about six been and almost. twelve noon here in moscow this is r t thanks for joining us now we begin in austria where a free speech activist has followed foul of the law for expressing similar views being chorused by major european leaders elizabeth sub a dish wolf says that after decades of mass immigration multicultural society is not working well she faces three years in prison for inciting religious hatred after she criticized islam and shari'a law argues it got that you know reports feel ya know. a european citizen peacefully debating islam with a muslim is nothing unusual in a multicultural country like australia but it's a topic not always discussed in such gentle fashion i advise you not to burn the

koran but you're reading. my writing what islam so far will be learning how to. know your enemy you 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 his seminars landing here 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 wolfe opponents say she crossed the line here

a speech is outraged 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 multiculturalism in europe isn't working there are huge muslim communities but frequently such as in all strata they leave in their own areas effie's a. sign of non integration base districts in vienna is known as a little stumble 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 south taking a stance against south segregation a topic 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 the euro exiting the church of our team from vienna. all danish writer and columnist mikhail yelping says europe's push for political correctness has gone too far and is now limiting citizen's freedom. we've allowed that too much multiculturalist darkness and top booze to it being represented in the public sphere and now we've gone even further to practice legislation against hate speech against 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 popping up in belgium and holland and germany and in through out of for through europe and 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 paid which is exactly what they're trying to do now. moscow and london will be hoping to to. turn a page in there factious relations as russia's foreign minister visits the british capital well events over the last few years have caused a diplomatic tension but with a relatively new government in london there's hope for a fresh start laura and that 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 luke harding was expelled from russia he maintains it was because of his work with wiki leaks russia maintained 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 deputy adding that i 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. and chechen akhmed zakayev person so far refused to extradite them despite repeated

requests despite difficulties they russia 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 nest and trade between the two countries is estimated to run at seventeen billion dollars on the agenda are european security cooperation in europe's missile defense projects 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 new. program the fact remains however that while russia has good relations with other european countries the reset button on russia u.s. relations has been pressed and appears to be working visit to the u.k. it may not be an easy one however slowly progress is being made in particular with

person expressing interest in resuming cooperation with russia on security and the fight against terrorism that's expected to be officially for use during that for us . and still ahead in the program twin blasts rocked russia's caucasus killing two policemen and injuring over twenty others. suicide pull the strike killed russia so the republic of dagestan join me in a few moments for all the latest. stay with r.t. as we take an in-depth look at the wave of popular revolt sweeping across the arab world. that the u.s. is cutting its next deficit budget with president obama saying tough choices as sacrifices have to be made but there is one place the administration does not want to make major cuts its defense spending now with numerous u.s. military bases located far beyond its territory are to be found out where american

taxpayers' money is really going. 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 we. know about. us bases or circles and. what. 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. one hundred and one thousand 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 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. and speaking of those miscellaneous expenses there are other reasons. 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 us to have military installations all over the world it's really part of maintaining a far flung global empire in 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 usually breeds more anti-american

sentiment for example in kyrgyzstan there's julio we're living here and raising our children why do we need this u.s. air base or an aco nawal 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 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 to. 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 sits 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 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 does create 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. that's when suicide bombers have rocked russia southern republic of dagestan the explosions happened two hours apart in the village of to begin two people were killed and another twenty were injured all of them poorest men are pieter 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

towards a self when one of those offices approached she detonated the device that she was carrying that this device is believed to have been to it with small particles pieces of metal that have resulted in shrapnel injuries that attack they caused police to step up security security interests in the area in the village of dead in dagestan and later on a few hours later at a police checkpoint 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 a stunt two policemen have been 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 no 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 of aware that 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 as 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 to he. a major overhaul of. the laws 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. well remember there is much more of that story at r.t. dot com and there's plenty for you to explore including in-depth news coverage and analysis and blogs well here's some of what's on the right now early really accused

of training the two thousand and five london bombers walks free from a u.s. prison find out why he's out after less than five years. and a virtual reality for the first time astronauts both on the surface of the rug as created by russian scientists will find out more in our dot com watch all the best videos on our do to page. egypt has been gripped by fresh strikes with thousands of workers demanding better

pay and conditions 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's 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 gatherings and strikes but while the general seems to be moving to set the country on the path to civilian rule no east expert all over a ball says nato has plans for egypt are still unclear. we know from bitter experience that revolutions can go terribly wrong and the fact is that egypt is a poor with. the same problems. is facing in the mobile 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 to the secretive and probably nobody outside 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 at least one person was reportedly shot dead in violent clashes between protesters and security forces into police fired tear gas to disperse the demonstrators and what is the first such clash for over here opposition groups say dozens were arrested the protesters were chanting death to dictator referring to president ahmadinejad they believe was fraudulently reelected in two thousand and nine the u.s. has expressed a firm support for the thousands of anti-government demonstrators to contributor

says he lack of the backing of iranian opposition groups is already 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 is 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. and 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. will stay. with the middle east where there is more tension on the streets of yemen thousands of people have taken part in demonstrations over four straight days before marchers squashed with police echoing similar events across the arab world where the protests in the capital sudden are aimed at removing president ali abdullah saleh who was ruled the country for thirty years meanwhile in nearby rain it security forces fired tear gas in an attempt to disperse thousands who joined the funeral of a man killed in a rally on monday a groups demanding more political freedoms from the ruling monarchy had previously

clashed with police in the capital manama. what 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 or pressure is mounting on the embattled leader with hundreds of thousands marching in protest that is alleged behavior on sunday berlusconi has denied all the allegations labeling them disgraceful. a small commercial airliner has crashed near the hundred capital killing all fourteen people on board among the passengers was a former government official and union leader well the cause of the crash is being investigated but it's note that there was fog in the area at the time it happened south of the airport considered dangerous because of its short runway and

surrounding hills. a narcotics trafficking submarine has been discovered by authorities in colombia it's believed that 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 of bogota authorities found weapons nearby but no one was arrested and no drugs were found when they made the discovery. now preparations for the twenty fourteen winter olympics in russia city of sochi are well advanced and this part of that process the slopes of their brand new ski resort will be hosting the european cup in alpine skiing which begins today well the c.e.o. of the saatchi organizing committee dimitri chernyshenko 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. from claude killy the great will come the checks of the slopes. again i said the first test of 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 which was secured for the snow for one hundred thirty years suddenly was suffering with the local small so we have to predict ricin and to be ready to deliver what we promised. well you can catch the full interview in or out of five minutes time here in our team but first let's get all the latest in business with your ear. hello and a very warm welcome to the business update russia's state owned free t.

bank which saw a successful privatization of a ten percent stake in the company on monday has decided to go bomb up one of its rivals of moscow be to be wants to buy out one hundred percent of one of russia's top five banks and the first top of the year currently the biggest shareholder of bank of most group the moscow city government estimates the bank at six billion dollars but some minority shareholders even estimated up to nine and a half than in whether one of the two b.'s supervisory board members presidential aides did what a call reach was against it was a reset the drill reached didn't go through it turned a crisis to tampa moskos designed to become an international financial center. and 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 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 that's what into 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 and russian president medvedev urged the government to shift from under crisis measures to more long term actions when tackling unemployment. ok let's have a look at how the stock market's a ferry that saw european stocks lower in early trading as minus and most financial stocks are in the red xstrata is posting biggest losses two point two percent angel read into was also edging lower about two percent each group religion is down more than one percent on the footsie how were the entry shares pushed up by high up there. are keeping their interests to positive and the dax is also in the black as you can see. going on to a rush of the r.t.s.

and the my sets are slightly higher oil and gas companies are the top gainers on the my six and in terms of economic data of the market is looking to hear releases from think u.s. and europe to later in the day and let's have a look at something because now. because again on the my six it's shares are up almost two and a half percent and gas from one look oil are a little bit behind with poilus up two point two percent gas problem is losing this hour about one percent. the euro which was already under pressure by fans and the eurozone continued falling this week analysts fear this will fall into tendency countries in europe face some deep restructuring issues you have too much debt deficit too large about being is 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 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. that's it for now are join me lesson one also time for more business news and to get more web site r.t. dot com slash business.

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