european leaders say multiculturalism has failed and austrian additive it says has been tried and found guilty for saying much the same thing in her criticism of muslims and they're really. international news live for most of this is aussie with me thanks for joining us the uprisings in tunisia and egypt have triggered a domino effect to grow reform protests across the arab world with the middle east a key to american foreign policy the popular push for democracy in the region is creating difficulties for washington's fierce pro is ready agenda made in his correspondent paul is here to make his. 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 for president abdullah abdullah saleh who has been in

power for more than thirty years we witnessed also in the plane two protesters killed the violence happened in a funeral procession that was mocking the death of one protester yesterday monday and here to the violence is almost unabated between pro and anti government demonstrators the problem of the flame 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 on us here in iran today members of parliament called for the execution of two leaders of the opposition parties they've charged them with orchestrating these anti-government demonstrations on monday there were protests across the rally tens of thousands of people taking to the streets there and the iranian revolutionary guard used batteries and tear gas injuring a number of people and killing one person not each of the two has not seen an end

to the upheaval there 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 rainiest regime hypocritical she said that on the one hand president mahmoud off we're going to head ready behind the protesters on the streets but not when he's witnessing it in his own country he's used hosh violence against them this is a big concern for. the united states wants to do with the rand and at the same time it's very nervous that as it watches events in egypt which supported presumably 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 not israel is very cautious about what is happening certainly is concerned more long term that it could be some kind of a radian state some kind of islamic republic now much closer on its borders than is in. and sticking with the middle east. changes has the u.s. has massive financial and political asset thank you very. clearly the united states will support anything that will promote what they want all regime change in iran especially considering that you ran is 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 slimy world of the dollars based in tehran hold great sway over the literally hundreds of millions of muslims so whatever happens

in rand is far more important than he even knows 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 the want to counter with all the support of the money power whether it be for his campaign for media and t.v. time and so forth so for example in the country of origin tina 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 tremble for the egyptians because it is going to be a democracy how long the brand as this was promoted in argentina whore or for those sort of throughout latin america it will only help to support the 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 very local and generalized manner. and we also spoke to professor robert springborg from the u.s. naval postgraduate school who says that when i tell logical with play from divine phage option military leadership has more to worry about than us interfering they will not want to fully democratize egypt they will not want the military to be so subject to a civilian political control so they will be reaching out to civilian politicians who are willing to allow the military can to continue to have them and power and continue to have a very important economic power and the military will seek to ensure that it is those sorts of people well occupied so whether the presidency whether in parliament whether in the media and so we can anticipate that there will be some opposition

arising from the civilian political forces there's awareness that the concern with the business enterprise has got in the way of the military unsurprised. the primary concern of the minister of defense and those around him his business not the military there are officers who are professional and who think the business of the military should be the military not business itself so the high command is going to have to wrestle without problems. this is the view this speaking out on multiculturalism can land you in a courtroom in austria. we have to respect the individuals in our society and we have to ask them to integrate and we have to help them to. find out what happened to free speech activists who didn't agree with this viewpoint and proclaimed multiculturalism yet. hold the

line between downing street and the kremlin is to be setup to prove communications between moscow and london was made on the first official trip to london via russian foreign minister b. love rolled me to his british counterpart william hague is the highest level visit since relations declined after a former russian security service agent alexander named died from poisoning in london in two thousand and six he's a lawyer and has been for the. 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 russian and u.k. amounted to around seven billion dollars and russia is one of the e.u. heyst 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 nano tech sector of energy efficiency of course one

of these big projects coming up for us here is the end impacts corporation on olympic infrastructure strengthening the small and medium businesses in russia cleaning the residence 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 and in this particular official capacity let's hear what he said about those communication ties that they're looking at him. it's my first visit to london an invitation of government. relations based on partnership interest economic cooperation between our countries on the strategic. we have. a direct line between the british prime minister and the crimean it's an important element of our communications that's meant to take a. little. off talked about how important u.k.

was its part in it 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 have him the country to see a patient steady improvement in relations it will take. giant leaps it is a very measured. this welcome visit is an important steady improvement in relations which we initiated on our side when the coalition government came into office. working practically relationship. issues global issues it is. on the train 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 calling the guardian correspondent who was

refused entry to russia 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 where really this relationship was the murder of alexander litvinenko in london in two thousand and six and the british law enforcement's main suspect is andrey lugovoy who is now a dual 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 refusal to extradite them as well the most notable. bodies but it's all ski the russian tycoon and also. the former chechen needs 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 talks about transfer of power in afghanistan also talked about troop withdrawal set to talk assessing a sort of 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. use new issues russia has been an important negotiator with iran in terms of its nuclear program. said that rather than introducing the sanctions iran should join the. also tried to become part of the way that and only that will convince the world that iran has no hostile nuclear ambitions that it does indeed once a nuclear program merely for domestic use. their reporting on the visit of russian foreign minister sergei lavrov to. five minutes since have been killed in a special and. troubled north caucuses three policemen died in

a gun battle while two officers were killed in twin suicide attacks in douglas than the incidents come as russian president dmitry medvedev ordered intensive measures to fight terrorism. integration. brings us all to have. a number of terrorist war surrounded by a local law enforcement a gun battle ensued and 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 ongoing battle against terrorism in russia specifically in the volatile caucasus region one of the a suicide blast that was 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. 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 specifically 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 of course including airports train stations metro stations the investigation into moscow's airport bombing is still ongoing we do know that authorities have now managed to confirm the identity of the suicide bomber and facts are coming out as soon as the identity of the suicide bomber was established the authorities. 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 made sure that he got to the airport that he detonated the device everyone and anyone of course who came into contact with the suicide bomber is now under even further scrutiny from the security forces the president ordering heavier police presence a lot more devices such as metal detectors to be implemented on train stations for control to be doubled at airports. that of course is being implemented as we speak the full effect of those measures is of course yet to take place as it is quite a serious amount of work for the security forces. that are correspondent reporting on russia's fight against terrorism. had to also store as well on line for you twenty four hours a day and he's a taste of what's your plan there right now. two russian cosmonauts made about simulated steps and was an experiment using a mission to the red planet. and also hollywood. is now

is thought only russian language movie cop trouble. because finding a new kind of today's sending bison to russia. is in danger it's. the controversial debate of a multicultural in that multiculturalism in europe has not taken any twist as no migrants free their troubled countries in search of stability and security europe is giving them the cold shoulder more than five thousand a ride in italy this past week and its interior minister claims they could jeopardize the institutional and social structures of the continent in the past four months the leaders of western europe three largest democracies germany britain

and france have each declared multiculturalism a failure then while a free speech activist and also trick or criticize it has gone on trial for speaking out against religious groups the charge of inciting hatred and violence were dropped and she was found guilty of denigrating really just symbols and this about the some additional phase of that is appealing because of claims she could not be prosecuted for expressing her views because he 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 martyr cultural country like france but it's a topic not always discussed in such gentle fashion but i do not to burn the koran about your worried. about studying what islam will be learning how to. know your enemy elizabeth supper to chill has been on trial and of course on

charges of making what is described as a hate speech against as long a left we all stand magazine recorded and published a speech at one of his seminars landing nor do 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. my group and i have been saying this for years now all of a sudden. and others come out of hiding and agree with us i don't know why but elizabeth proponents say she crossed the line there are speeches up raged 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 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 of physical sight of non integration districts in vienna is known as the little people here speak their native language they prepare their national dishes and wear the clothes which they are used to and this is exactly what hell is about subject wall found your fellow likes taking a stance against self segregation a tall peak 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 bar team from vienna. and now on to some other international headlines this hour thousands of protesters have clashed with police as demonstrations across turkey commemorating their arrest twelve years ago a prominent kurdish rebel leader stones and fireballs were. held as police and protests in twelve cities across turkey. the shots of his demanding the release of separateness chief. who was captured in kenya nine hundred ninety nine and sentenced to death later commuted to life imprisonment for treason at least thirty demonstrators were detained. a senior politician science and downs ruling party has accused northern forces of backing the rebel groups that attacked and killed over two hundred people last week the majority of the victims are

civilians and include children and officials have called on both sides to immediately agree to a ceasefire southern sudan will separate from the north and july after a ninety nine percent vote in favor in the referendum last month. and italian giant has given the go ahead for the trial of prime minister silvio berlusconi he's 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 if convicted the billionaire prime minister could face up to fifteen years in prison but as cody has strongly denied the allegations calling the case a farce the trial is scheduled to begin in early april and will be heard by a panel of three judges all of them women. but winter olympics in the russian city of seoul show fast approaching with only three years left to make all the preparations for sure now as it caught up with this c.e.o. this sochi twenty fourteen organizing committee dimitri. to get the latest on the

build up to the games that continues up next. thank you. is that jessica thanks a lot for being with us today my pleasure right so three or so ago till the opening

of two thousand and fourteen in sochi you said in one of your recent interviews that time is your main challenge how ready are you what does this mean that maybe you're afraid that you're not going to be done in time you wrote we just in the middle for wonderful journey to deliver the most in a way to ever olympic and paralympic games which will celebrate this period we knew more than russia through sustainable positive changes and we interim will inspire the world with him we can have a positive change in the region i can tell you that three years to the games away in the good shape we deliver and everything within budget and on time so no drops that russia will be prepared for the games at the highest possible level so you have test competitions going on in february on the slopes in

sochi how do you think they're going to be assessed the european cup will be the first international exam. with the presence of international olympic committee and i know that. both from the i.o.c. from clode kili the great will come to church the slopes and how well way again i said the first test event well it's been one year since to vancouver olympics what do you think you've learnt there and what are some of the things that maybe you're implementing in sochi. the first of all we were very much. inspired by the success reach over again eyes are in terms of the creating the wonderful electric i would say atmosphere in gauging all the nation around one or the project. secondly we were very impressed with grade school too so which

international team canada. it's also great for us there and certainly did the proper planning to keep photos of success and that is why we have to be ready for any unpredictable things like remember what happened we still are the region the which was secured for the snow for one hundred thirty years suddenly was suffering with their local small so we have to predict every scene and to be ready to deliver what we promised now there's been criticism that canadians both bills to so-called white elephant and the bank or facilities weren't being used enough do you fear the same thing about sochi where trying to be in the way to frame everything we created and submitted for the i.c. consideration very soul it and sort out a legacy plan what will be with me until after the games were and the rest

some interest in initiative again we're trying to be innovative there are three venus which will be disassembled and then moved to another region and assembled those that. dismantle it's not. temporary this is completely permanent main us but you can imagine how excited the region who are now building to host the real lympics venue in the city which never hosts the game but that's the same thing they did in london right venue that they had for the olympics was completely dismantle it. yes but dismantled that means that they will be disappeared but our will be working in sort of their real sport and the multi-purpose mean you. in the different region but in accordance to the same limp extend that let's talk about the mascot everyone's dying to know what the

mascot is going to be do you know what's going on. who knows this will be a democratic election how does the process go this there are several stages of the selection of the mascotte the first to fold was a missional white complain and i'm really proud to say that this is the first time in the history of the olympic movement when all the nation express on desire and the must quote candid that their nation will deserve they submitted to the candidates more than twenty four selves and different pictures did you expect so much people to participate frankly no we didn't expect expect that it will be a real national interest and we're very happy that it was a completion and you query just lazier your world. central stars.

very good clue bream to those must go to as a candidate to be on the top of the rim then a professional jury. presented by did most of the nice things respected presented from the police for science of course culture and art selected to the least. eleven candidates they must support which will be. then submit people to the audience and the people will be. like for you revision with the same approach same system for those can do that which will be the most desirable who will tell the most interesting story and will come to the audience polices elect me so it will be like that thank you very much for this interview thank you.

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