a domino effect in the middle east design rest in egypt resonates across the region . demonstrators take to the streets of yemen and while the u.s. struggles to ensure its interests are preserved. the promise is of a new beginning a maid as russia's foreign minister meets his british counterpart to try to put the past behind them and work on common interests. practical steps towards improving a rocky relationship and what's awards developing a strong partnership i'm here in london to bring you more. russian security is back in the spotlight after fresh violence leaves five people dead in the country's

troubled north caucuses region. plus they're looking for a better future but are accused of ruining other people's lives in the process the payton multiculturalism heats up as more migrants seek refuge in europe. now from our studios here in central moscow this is r.t. with twenty four hours a day the revolution in egypt has sparked an avalanche of anti-government protests across the middle east it's a strategically vital region for the u.s. which is now trying to balance its approach to the demonstrations while pushing its own agenda a middle east correspondent has the latest. in yemen for the fifth consecutive day violence broke out between pro and anti-government demonstrators it happened a number of cities a number of people were injured and analysts have gone so far as to say that the next few weeks are critical the president abdullah abdullah saleh who has been in

power for more than thirty years we witnessed also in the fray in two protesters killed by the violence happened in a funeral procession that was marking the death of one protester yesterday monday and here to the violence is almost unabated between pro and anti government demonstrators the problem number one is that you have a seventy percent majority that is shiite and you have a small sunni monarchy and that is what the confrontation is over we witnessing violence or certainly in iran today members of parliament called for the execution of two leaders of the opposition parties they've charged them with all these empty government demonstrations on monday there were protests across iran tens of thousands of people taking to the streets there and the iranian revolutionary guard used veterans and tear gas injuring a number of people and killing one person not each of two has not seen an end to

the upheaval of the parliament has been disbanded the constitution is frozen while the army that is in control says it is reworking a new constitution the strikes in egypt are continuing and the army insistently calling for calm a lot of concern from the united states and israel and other people watching the developments here in the middle east the united states does not have a stronghold in iran and that is why we've seen harsh words from the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton she called the radio regime hypocritical she said that on the one hand president mahmoud ahmadinejad's head readied behind the protesters on the streets but now when his witnessing of his own country he's used harsh violence against him this is a big. and for the united states what to do with the rand and at the same time it's very nervous that as it watches events in egypt which supported prism mubarak for thirty years it now has to redefine its role there and also send out

a message to other regimes in the region that it has bet that it will not leave them in the dark as a did many say in terms of mubarak now israel is very cautious about what is happening certainly is concerned more long term that they could be some kind of a radian state some kind of islamic republic now much closer on its borders than is . was staying on the subject or to research or she believes the u.s. is pursuing its financial and political interests in the middle east. clearly the united states will support anything that will promote what they call regina change in iran especially considering that it ran in such a powerful country from the point of view not only of its potential military and also its potential with oil but also its potential as being a theocracy we are in the islam in world the as a whole is based in tehran hold great sway over for literally hundreds of millions of muslims so whatever happens in rand is far more important than he even knew what

happened with saddam hussein in iraq we have to understand that what the united states now i believe is trying to achieve is a way to promote change in a way that will facilitate things for them the best instrument they have to control the country is so-called democracy because although they call it democracy it is basically a vote counting system handled by the mass media where you can get the guy who wins whether it be a president or prime minister or a senator or a deputy is that the want to counter with all the support of the money power whether it be for his campaign or for media and t.v. time and so forth so for example in eventually of argentina democracy is the best way they have to control the country against the people's interest and i think when they hear that they are promoting democracy in egypt i trembled for the egyptians because it was going to be a democracy when the brand as it was promoted in argentina or elsewhere in the throat of latin america it will only help to support both long term objectives of

this global power structure operated from europe and from the united states and not the actual interest of we the people to say that in a vertical local and generalized manner. that was agency able to talking to me a little earlier on the unrest in the middle east. the visit of russia's foreign minister to london the scene a promise of stronger future cooperation with the u.k. it's the first highlevel visit since ties deteriorated following the death of former federal security service agent and xander litvinenko in london in two thousand and six the british foreign secretary said disagreements between moscow and london should not stop them from working together. as more. we have seen a series of meetings today which have really focused on the positive points in what has become a rocky relationship between russia and the u.k. and because of that a lot of what was talked about were economic ties and trade ties of course trade between russia and the u.k. amounts to around seventeen billion dollars and russia is one of the u.k.'s most

important trading partners foreign minister lavrov outlined six priorities for improving the trade relationship he talked about finance he talked about working together in the nanotech sector and the g officials say of course one of these big projects coming up for russia is the lympics cooperation on olympic infrastructure strengthening the small and medium business sector in russia and also improving the business environment in general they also talked a bit about modernizing communication links between london and moscow this is obviously a lover off first visit to london in this particular official capacity let's hear what he said about those communication ties that they're looking to improve through this it's my first visit to london an invitation if you could government symbolises and you can see of our relations based on partnership interest economic cooperation between our countries is on the rise the strategic b.p. rosneft the later examples would be to look at the agreement on establishing

a direct line between the british prime minister and the kremlin it's an important new elements of our communications that's meant to take it to a more high to levels and taking that relationship to a more high tech level is really symptomatic of how important russia and the u.k. are as partners together talked about how important u.k. was as its partner in it starlost with and with the e.u. and also the partnership that it has in dialogue with nato and on improving european security and william hague the british foreign secretary also underlined the importance of that relationship let's hear him. countries continue to see patient steady improvement in relations it will take time there will be no giant leaps it is a very measured steps and this welcome visit is an important part of the steady improvement in relations which we initiated on our side when the coalition

government came into office. working practically relationship bilateral issues and global issues it is undoubtedly on an improving trend but it does seem that in the past every attempt this been made to put this relationship back on track has been deemed railed in some way and the latest example of that is new carding the guardian correspondent who was refused entry to russia earlier this month there was something wrong with his accreditation and that's why he wasn't allowed back into the country but of course that's not the only thing we're really this relationship was the merger of alexander litvinenko in london in two thousand and six and the british law enforcement main suspect is under a new gulf war who is now a do or deputy and it's against russia's constitution to extradite him that's something that the british have been calling for for some time now but it hasn't happened also there are forty people around about living here in the u.k. who are wanted for crimes in russia and so far refusal to extradite them as well

the most notable of them is parties but it's all ski the russian tycoon and also our. former chechen leader and alongside the bilateral relationship that these two countries have and are trying to improve there's obviously that cooperation on the international stage and in terms of that they have issued a joint statement on afghanistan which talked about transfer of power in afghanistan also talked about troop withdrawal set up assessing a sort of loose timetable for that and also the fight against the production of drugs in afghanistan which is a huge problem with russia in terms of transport routes they also talk about iran and the nuclear issue nuclear. russia has been an important negotiator with iran in terms of its nuclear program. said that rather than introducing further sanctions iran should join the nonproliferation treaty and also try to become part of the way

that and only that will convince the world this iran has hostile nuclear ambitions that it does indeed wants a nuclear program that domestic. there reporting on the visit of russian foreign minister sergey lavrov to london well still to come this hour speaking elton multiculturalism can lead you to a courtroom in austria. we have to respect individuals in our society and we have to ask them to integrate and we have to help them to. find out what happened to a free speech activists who didn't agree with this viewpoint and proclaimed multiculturalism a failure. the first russia is taking new measures in its fight against terrorism in the latest special operation five militants were killed in the northern caucasus region three policemen died and three were injured in the ensuing gun battle. as this report. a number of terrorists were surrounded by

a local law enforcement a gun battle in shoot in which five militants were killed one is supposedly on the run and is being sought after as we speak in the gun battle and this of course is just the latest installment in the on go wing battle against terrorism in russia specifically in the volatile caucasus region one of the a suicide blast that was a detonated in a village in the republic of the guest on that was a car that was detonated by a suicide bomber he himself was in the car of course and died on location another suicide bomb that also took place in that same village in the guest on a woman who walked up to a military outpost and detonated a suicide belt with a bomb of course killing herself killing one. security officer and injuring many others russian authorities specific lee the russian president dmitry medvedev has

ordered security forces to be stepped up a lot not just a notch on all major transport hubs in russia that's of course including airports train stations metro stations the investigation into moscow's airport bombing is still ongoing but we do know that authorities have now managed to confirm the identity of the suicide bomber attacks are coming out as soon as the identity of the suicide bomber was established the authorities of course are now gathering more and more information not only about the man himself but also about all of his accomplices who helped him put together the detonating device who actually made and made sure that he got to the airport that he detonated that device everyone and anyone of course who came into contact with the so side bomber is now under even further scrutiny from the security forces the president ordering heavier police presence. and a lot more devices such as metal detectors to be implemented on train stations for

control to be doubled at airports and that of course is being implemented as we speak the fall the fact of those measures is of course yet to take place as it is quite a serious amount of work for the security forces. that was artie's correspondent katrina czar of reporting on russia's fight against terrorism. the controversial debate over multiculturalism in europe has now taken a new twist as more migrants flee their troubled countries in search of stability and security europe is giving them the cold shoulder more than five thousand arrived in italy in this past week and as interior minister warns they could jeopardize the institutional and social structures of the continent becomes on the back of harsh criticism of multiculturalism by some western european leaders free speech activist in austria described it as a failure has gone on trial for speaking out against religious groups who the charges of inciting hatred and violence were dropped she was found guilty of denigrating religious symbols was of somebody who is appealing the case and claims

she should not be prosecuted for expressing these. looks at why some are free to speak out while others are not. 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. studying what islam so far we've learned how to. know your enemy elizabeth supper teaching wall 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 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 here ideas she says are nothing new and when europe's political elites 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 subjects wolf opponents say she crossed the line here a speech is upgrade 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 you know 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 of. will sign of non integration business 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 elizabeth subaverage wall found here a fellow like sounds taking a stance against self segregation at 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 influence debate on the ground and the future shape of europe exiting the church over our team from vienna. well a little later we get a glimpse into the future of

a major sporting event here in russia it's a taste of what's to come in the resort city of sochi here in the country as the host of the twenty fourteen winter olympics puts a brand new slate of attack. on that let's have a quick look at some other world news this hour in turkey iran two thousand kurdish protesters have clashed with police the demonstration the twelfth anniversary of the capture of a prominent kurdish rebel leader protesters holed rocks and far bombs at police and twelve cities and towns in demands for the release of a he was sentenced to life imprisonment for treason and thirty demonstrators were detained. a senior official of south sudan's ruling party has accused the north of backing rebel attacks which killed some two hundred people last week the death toll is twice that of early estimates with most victims being civilians with children among them u.n. secretary general called on both sides to immediately implement a cease fire agreement this comes one month on from southern sudan voting to secede from the north this british for july. italian judges given the go ahead for the

trial of prime minister silvio berlusconi is facing charges he paid for sex with a significant number of young women including a seventeen year old girl and used his influence to cover it up but i strongly denied the allegations you know fifty three years in prison if found guilty of minors for sex and from six to twelve years for abuse of power. to get in early april will be heard by a panel of three judges all of them women. the spacecraft stardust started beating back the first pictures of a comet it is flowing past encounter will give scientists unique information on how these great balls of ice and rock change over time just taking more than seventy high resolution images the first time the same comet has been examined by two different spacecraft. so the winter olympics in the russian resort of sochi may be a few years away but the city is already gearing up for the grand event training runs for the alpine skiing european cup of kicked off on one of the brand new

slopes which will be the scene of the games in twenty fourteen and that is brodsky is there for us. 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 and highway now what we see here today is one of the first field tests of 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's 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 alpine 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 underway 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

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or stay with us for the kaiser report that's coming your way in about fifteen minutes from now where i talk about the shoe throwing index saudi oil reserves and haircuts on investors but business is next with dmitri. i don't welcome do business out so you could have your company moscow's chances of becoming a global financial center could be hampered of need to be back acquires bank of moscow without attend that's according to a presidential aide a card you've got called which the t.v. wants to buy out one hundred percent of one of russia's top five banks of the first half of this year the bank of moscow's biggest shareholder the moscow city government estimates that the bank is worth something like six billion dollars the decided to sell a stake in the bank twenty ten after the previous mayor of moscow you lost his position some minority shareholders say the bank should be worth up to nine and a half but. the british banking giant barclays is planning to sell its russian

retail daughter by the end of the year ahead of its russian division says the company plans to focus more on its investment business in russia barclay's bank ends of the russian market for the second time back in two thousand and eight when its acquired russian lender expo bank was seven hundred eighty million dollars previously barclays quit russia after the fault in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight carrying a loss of around four hundred million dollars but that's all from unicredit securities believes that this move shows that competition between different players in the market is only increasing. the competition in the russia is intensifying. and to be really successful in the retail banking the rush or any kind of bank for a local bank has to have a good scale has to have a presence and if i'm not mistaken barker was scaled back maybe half

a year ago and it's a retail business outside of moscow. agreed to by n.y.c. is your next four million and a half billion dollars the long awaited deal will create the world's largest equities and derivatives markets force will control sixty percent of the new corporation. move to the markets now in u.s. markets of open lower retail sales in january early point three percent of what analysts had expected this is during worries about the pace of recovery of the world's largest economy the result of gloom was limited gains on the european markets the footsie was slightly down however banking stocks were strong with barclays in the lead up to four point two percent at the close as earnings reports beat expectations and there was a change of direction and russia's markets in the seeds were point seven percent lower at the close in versus not finding reasons for growth easily enough to see

the ongoing decline as a buying opportunity to get some of the stocks in more detail as one of the most interesting stocks of the day was leading the gains up six percent of the clothes off was technology corp for just that the russian truck maker should unite with fellow russian rival into one company. and you don't choose the russian stock markets were by the release of inflation data from china and the. from the financial corp and explains why these figures are very important for the russian equity platforms the first things that we should highlight for sure is the all important inflation number in china which came at four point one percent or a little bit below the consensus expectations it is a very important number for russia because potential above trend inflation in china means a potential increased risk of aggressive tightening and we have the chinese central bank which means in china potential slowdown in china and a potential decrease in raw materials demand in china which is clearly negative for

russia. well it's all for now bill is next with the headlines on my colleague tomorrow morning eight twenty eight moscow time. wealthy british style. time to.

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