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one of its rivals. welcome to the program. free speech activist has fallen foul of the law for expressing similar views being coerced by major european leaders elizabeth. says that after decades of mass immigration multicultural society just isn't working she faces three years in prison for inciting religious hatred after she criticized. 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. much studying what islam. we learn how to. know your enemy elizabeth supper teaching wall has been on trial and 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 or 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 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 physical a. sign of non integration there is this should sit in vienna is known as a little a system will people here speak their native language they prepare their national

dishes and where the clothes which they are used to and this is exactly what hell is about subaverage wall found here a fellow likes us 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 europe exiting the church over our team from vienna. now moscow and london will be hoping to turn a page in the fascist relations russian's foreign minister visits the british capital in france over the last few years have caused diplomatic tension but with a relatively new government there in london there is a hope for a fresh start let's cross live not on tuesday or i mean in london work for the beating or so he left off and his kind about william hague is underway hi laura so

the meeting is about halfway through at this point or they could be covering a broad spectrum of subjects economic issues security issues what do you think they're talking about at the moment well that's right there's a there are a broad range of meetings throughout the day in fact today meeting with his counterpart william hague also be meeting with prime minister david cameron but at the moment he's giving a speech at the london school of economics and i understand he's taking questions as we speak he's definitely focusing on the positives i think that the aim of this visit will be to focus on the positives and they are expected to be wide ranging meetings which cover a lot of topics among them we are expecting to see some talk about european security talk about economic and visa issues they're also going to be preparing prime minister david cameron's coming visit to moscow they're going to be talking about russia's cooperation in the european missile defense project russia e.u. and russia nato relations obviously also russia u.k.

relations if they get around to that and the situation in the middle east and afghanistan iran's nuclear program these last two will be high points because that has all those have always been areas in which russia and the u.k. and the u.s. have cooperated very well russia allows allied forces to use its transport routes in afghanistan for transporting troops and other things and russia has also led negotiations in the past on iran's nuclear ambitions which which the u.k. has always been very grateful for as they say focusing on the positives definitely but this visit is unlikely to be a particularly easy one for a lot for all the. russia has good or indeed for william hague russia has good relations with all the european countries and of course we've seen that much vaunted reset button being pressed between russia and the u.s. but we have say fall fails to push the reset button on russia u.k. relations and that's going to be something that will happen during this visit whenever you talk about russia having a better relationship with the u.s.

in recent years and other western european countries but why have the white house russia and the u.k. . relationship has been less than friendly over the past four years what are the issues we're talking about here. well over a number of years the relations haven't been very good as you say and really things came to a bit of a head in two thousand and six with the of former russian security officer alexander litvinenko in london that disrupted relations in a way that really hasn't been mended yet the u. case chief suspects in that case and is now a demon a deputy and all the rest and has repeatedly requested his extradition and russia cannot extradite him because it's against the constitution and that's something that this relationship hasn't been able to see past there have been variety of of this including the closure of the british council offices in moscow the smaller things. the u.k. is harboring what amounts to around forty people who all wanted criminal charges in

russia the most notable of them include bodies but it's all ski the business tycoon and the chechen akhmed zakayev again extradition has been requested by russia but the u.k. refuses to extradite them but most recently the that was distance just at the beginning of this month the guardian correspondent new calling was expelled refused entry to russia he was trying to travel to russia according to the authorities on an invalid visa but he says that his expulsion and listening to his work with the wiki leaks diplomatic cable cables he's now allowed to come back to moscow in what's seen in london as a climb down by the russian authorities to really a lot of differing views on a variety of issues and people not willing go both sides not willing to budge in order to be friends essentially but at the same time with a diplomatic relations might not be very good business ties have always been very strong throughout this period and they remain strong to this day russia is one of

britain's most important trading partners there are an estimated around a thousand u.k. companies working in russia and trade is estimated to run at seventeen billion dollars so there's certainly nothing wrong. business ties between the two countries and we of course thought this enormous deal between he and russia's state oil. and that is based by love often. by. business and through days economic cooperation political and diplomatic relations. indeed laura there are some that are saying that with this new big deal between b.p. and the big oil players can play nice with each other then why can't the politicians as well or and live in london thank you. cross to come for you here on the program on our tough choices but not where wars are concerned the u.s. . deficit budget defense spending remains relatively untouched.

and the newly built centerpiece of so choose a winter olympics is tested by the pros as training for the alpine skiing european cup now gets underway. three policemen have been killed and three injured in a gun battle near russia's volatile caucasus region five militants were killed in a terror operation on the border between the region and the. republic a special operation to flush out militants is currently ongoing it's the latest in a series of violent incidents in the caucasus region. well earlier twin suicide bombers rocked russia's troubled republic of dagestan the explosions happened just two hours apart two people were killed and another twenty others were injured all of them being policeman peter all about his 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 apparently at the police station at offices to to draw attention to herself 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 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 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 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 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 thoroughly dissatisfied with who is 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 say russia as well as being put on high alert and told based on teacher operations are now their main alter of the day that their main goal is to try and make sure that no further terror attack. can take place here in russia. while the u.s. is cutting its next budget deficit with president obama saying tough choices and

sacrifices have to be made but there's one place the administration doesn't want to make major cuts defense spending with numerous u.s. military bases located far beyond his territory did it goes off ski found out where american taxpayers' money is really go. bad. 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. know about one thousand is that it's that us bases are cycles and. while there is more than 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 military 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. understand is this and that is 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 x. . 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 into 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. 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 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. do remember there's a much more on that story at r.t. dot com and plenty of other things for you to explore including our in-depth news coverage analysis and blogs and let's have a look at now are some of the items waiting for you want to take on and early release a man accused of training the two thousand and five london bombers he 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 set foot on the surface of the red planet as created by russian scientists find out more are two top.

while egypt has been gripped by fresh strikes with thousands of workers demanding better pay and better conditions it comes as the new your position is trying to build bridges with the supreme military council which is in interim control following the departure of president mubarak 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 gatherings and strikes but what the generals seem to be moving to set the country on the path to civilian rule little east expert all of a miles so the military's plans for egypt are still 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 is 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 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 recent unrest in north africa has given rise to thousands of immigrants flocking to the e.u. italian authorities have captured a boat carrying thirty two people believed to be egyptians in waters off the coast of sicily it comes after some five thousand illegal immigrants arrived on italian shores over the past week alone has requested one hundred million euros from the e.u. to help deal with the thousands of asylum seekers currently being housed on and it

and i learned. in the projects trafficking is submarine has been discovered by a thirties in colombia it's believed the vessel is able to travel from colombia to the coasts of mexico and the submarine was found in a river in the state of about four hundred kilometers southwest of the capital bogota authorities found weapons nearby but said no one was arrested and no drugs were found when they made the discovery. a judge has given the go ahead for the trial of italian prime minister silvio berlusconi these are facing charges that he paid a seventeen year old girl for sex and then used his influence to cover it up on sunday hundreds of thousands gathered in protest over the allegations which he strongly denies the trial is scheduled to begin early april. well it's a key testing event of head of russia's hosting the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics in sochi training for this week's european cup in alpine skiing has gotten

underway on a brand new slope which will be a centerpiece of the games. he's there and he's following the action for us. we are now at the rosa khutor ski resort in sochi one of the most important venue school the two thousand and fourteen winter olympic games the resort is situated in the cross napoli on the mountain range about forty kilometers away from the central part of the city and it will be connected with the olympic village near the coast by high speed rail way in highway now what we see here today is one of the first field tests and. the sporting facilities before the actual games to see how they perform under live conditions even though the olympics are three years away russian and european athletes already are getting a chance to test some of this key piece now during the two thousand and eleven alpine european cup and also domestic competitions while the mountains are covered in snow now there were plenty of nerves beforehand organizers were very concerned

about the weather since just a few weeks ago it was raining here in the mountains and everyone was waiting anxiously for the snow to fall and as you can see their prayers were heard and the steep mountain slopes are now in excellent condition for ski but if the weather fails to deliver enough snow there is always a plan b. in the form of recently installed snow making machines to ensure there's plenty for competition what we see here today is the initial stage of the l. point european man's cup the skiers are having a training day this tuesday and the main part of the competition will be held during the coming days a total of seventy four test events will be held in sochi before the two thousand and fourteen winter games twenty nine of them international competitions it's the start of serious testing of the olympic infrastructure not just the venues but also roads bridges tunnels and power lines the construction of most venues is still under way although the organizers say it's answering the final stages and it's over

the most difficult initial phase the organizers among them members of the russian government sports industry pros and construction companies will use feedback from these events to fine tune preparations for the olympics themselves. or the business news there. hello and a very warm welcome to the business news the unemployment rate in russia is showing signs of job resurgence of income down by one percentage point in the past year but despite its downward trend present votive 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 as warning to five point two 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 typing unemployment. ok on to discuss that we're now joined by feliks google vice president of men power russia and c.i.s. products thank you for joining us so how does. a problem is unemployment in russia the problem is serious for any country at any given day or age but again. saying that there is a lot of resurgence as it was previously reported on one hand on the other hand russia is a unique situation where be sickly somebody wishes to find work there is plenty work available from real point of view what measures on need it to significantly reduce to be an employment rate in russia so the draw of to reduce unemployment rate has to be done or had to have to take place yesterday for tomorrow

and so begins with education it begins with all kinds of systems it begins with the proper legal basis so that the employers are able to employ you without having to maintain huge amount of risk. and according to some analysts russia is known as the quest lists human resource market in the world and why is that the case well one of the one of the biggest issues is that russia has been has been for some time a quickly emerging economy and the quick piece that it was emerging was talent style until not. when you took the stand food is that we are. you know seeing a change from capitalism to talent is talent is what will drive the economy forward and the identification of that on the proper grooming of talent is it's really important. and aging population this is definitely

a burning issues across europe and in the u.s. but it's russia facing the same problems i do think the demographic shift in russia is extreme the population is aging the pressure on the government from the pension funds and so forth and so on is going to be huge and so how do you bring the talent how old. people do have experience how do you bring it back into the workforce how do you make them want to work not need to work there is a big difference in. your shoes or you have the burden now will be burning in your future ok frank you very much indeed for your analysis that vice president of men power russia and c.i.s. thank you so much. and we continue our top story today is russia's state owned bank which saw a successful privatization of a ten percent stake in the company on monday has decided to go ball up one of its

rivals bank of moscow it to be wants to buy out one hundred percent a one a russian stopped by banks in the first half of the year currently the biggest shareholder of bank of moscow the moscow city government estimates the bank of six billion dollars but some minority shareholders even estimated up to nine and a hope in whether one of the tributes supervisory board members presidential aide which was against it was issued is that the jewel which didn't go through returned to process the tampa most was decided to become an international financial center. let's have a look at how the markets are faring that's our job in europe if so it is a quite a busy day euro zone g.d.p. figures along with economic sentiment data from germany and inflation figures from the u.k. . on choose from later in the day so far the european indices are flat minus and most financial stocks are in the road on foot see xstrata as opposed to biggest

losses down two point two percent and. the billiton also down more than one percent on the food see how whether energy shares pushed up by higher oil are keeping the index flat to positive and in fact from the dax is trading marginally in the black . when we go into russia investors are of course looking to clear a force for europe from the us later in the day they are on the minds of some to positive this hour up oil and gas companies are the top gave us on the my six on the rising oil prices with branch crude close to one hundred four dollars on continued rest in the middle east and robust chinese demand. let's have a look at something goes now and russia's second largest gas company not the tech is losing the gains on the my six with two point eight percent its share. ah rallying right now after russia's federal entry monopolists approved text main shareholder and you. put twenty five percent of the chairs in singapore holding

through its operation this will bring the company stay conserve fifty percent. that wraps up the business bulletin but please do get more stories from our website r.t. dot com slash business. on

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