a look at whether civilian rule is any closer to reality. mubarak's out the army's in and the question now who's next. to. try countries go see that same bar it's nearly a week since he gyptian generals promised to lift a fifty year state of emergency but there's still no sign of when that will be the army knows his limitations when the decision was taken not to door open fire not to do any slaughter in. within their own people most of the ability to be the next controllers on the controllers of egypt but they do want to be the controllers of the peace and therefore the army if it once can keep the state of emergency in place for as long as it says it's necessary but not everyone thinks its intentions are noble finian cunningham is a middle east expert in bahrain from way visual and internet communications have been cut by the authorities in egypt schimmel unchained and protestors were.

supposedly eventually the scene of emergency. drill in a country where nearly thirty years but the mobs dodging me by angry chuckled assurances and bungling to be skeptical on each intentions the military my lucy on is a photographer who couldn't wait to capture egypt's revolution on film but he was stopped at the border by gyptian soldiers. so just how different is egypt today under the generals from the egypt of yesterday under mubarak emergency all of the. central component of the governing apparatus when our arab like or the president on an hour. or more or. generals and for as long as a state of emergency remains in play. the hopes that brought millions of egyptians

to the streets remain up in the air but egypt's not the only country the middle east that lives in a state of emergency across its border here in israel depending on who you talk to this country to has its emergency doors alamo jersey with the smaller is because we live in a bad neighborhood day you have. in israel democracy our elected politicians. as real as another state in the region. in part by hearing and good. democratic. but israel routinely released war of aggression against neighbors and parents ranger. children in these owners of the state of emergency israel is living its usual life no one moved from from the center for themselves or from the north to the center but whatever it is there's no denying that a country in a state of emergency is a country where democracy is ignored and if in egypt the generals don't make clear

signs to move towards democracy soon in many protesters might be wondering what exactly they were out on the streets for the r.t. tel aviv the u.s. showing its support for the revolts one expert on the middle east believes the wave of demonstrations could actually pose a threat to america. one so we definitely do have the peoples of different countries of burien of the round definitely of the rack of libya of yemen of egypt seated who really want to have change now the other aspect that i think that we have to be very careful about is that this will be and i think it is probably being either macro manage and control even and probably is going to be used to favor the interests of certain global power structures float out the united states would like to see regime change in iran but at the same time they would like to see no regime change in bahrain and in egypt they probably knew that regime change was on the way because of the age of hosni mubarak and what iraq is another problem altogether so

i think that we have a generalized situation which the united states is for in the state department finding very difficult to control. the big guns of america's military establishment are taking defensive action on capitol hill to protect their budget defense secretary robert gates want cuts any deeper than the seventy eight billion dollars proposed by president obama would have tragic consequences ati's christine for us our looks at who's really benefiting. times are tough for many on main street but most in government agree before assisting people like this it's more important to assess people like this. perhaps this is one reason the us military budget is more than fifty percent of the entire world and once again the top brass came to washington to defend defense it is my judgment that the department of defense needs an appropriation of at least five hundred forty billion dollars for fiscal year two thousand and eleven for the u.s.

military to properly carry out its mission maintain readiness and prepare for the future defense secretary robert gates also discussed cuts he's made to the military budget on programs no longer needed what you may not know is that most of the seventy eight billion dollars he's cut would take place in twenty fourteen and twenty fifteen when there will be a new secretary of defense and possibly a new president still and this was his announcement last month that i'll describe how these reform efforts are followed through to completion will make it possible to protect the u.s. military size reach and fighting strength despite a declining rate of growth and eventual flattening of the defense budget over the next five years as far as that flattening budget here's a look at current spending compared to previous war efforts and even after the cuts experts say in twenty fifteen the military budget will still be about one hundred billion dollars larger than in the bush years and about fifty billion more than the

reagan years so what's going on here economist richard wolfe says it's simple all the beneficiaries of government spending the companies that get subsidies the military producers who sell goods to the government the working people who get some benefits even if they're small all of them have mobilized to hold on to what they get to make it politically costly for any congress man or woman to go again. them here's congressman buck mckeon chairman of the house armed services committee who has fought cuts tooth and nail there will be winners and losers in this process tough choices must be made but i will not support initiatives that will leave our military less capable and less ready to fight guess where his top campaign contributions came from lockheed martin northrop grumman boeing and general dynamics. in addition to the wars in iraq and afghanistan and the health and safety

of men and women serving and there are also other expenses more than eight hundred military bases in places like the marshall islands and a seven million dollars sponsorship by the army of notecard. usually pleas for money come close to the name of life or death drastic reductions in the size and strength of the us military make millet armed conflict all the more likely with an unacceptably high cost in american blood and treasure but the real treasure lies with those with the real power according to trends research institute director gerald solent it's a simple as they had writing on the wall it's called the military industrial complex is in charge of the nation and until that changes there will be an invisible cloak around the pentagon that will allow no one to touch its budget what you will think i the things that are sacrifice the basic cuts in services the roads that go on repair and people who are forced to live on the streets and

a continuing decline in the health education and overall quality of life for most americans in washington christine for them now are. wrong becca from the un see what the coalition says america is a warfare state of the military budgets will only have a growth. it's just a slowing of general increase next year for instance the defense budget goes up by five percent at the same time that the federal government with the new budget eliminates two hundred federal programs no words if you look at all of the aggregate spending for war in america it's about one trillion dollars a year so there we tend trillion dollars or more over the next ten years so if you go back for the past fifty years the defense chiefs the captains of industry the captains of the military industrial complex say the same thing there is always a some new enemy some great scare some catastrophe lou mean unless the defense industry the war industry really gets everything that it wants and so this country

is not a welfare state is the conservatives claim it is a warfare state it is in many ways the hidden hand of politics in washington is that war machinery itself it's becoming a completely militarized society still ahead for you this hour kicked out a russian mob it's loses this point for asylum in norway. the liberty justice deals out more of one than the other we take a look at one man's bid to redress the balance. that could be a major terrorist hub forming right in the heart of europe with high unemployment and rising poverty self-proclaimed balkan republic of kosovo is offering fertile ground for hardline islamic and this for a first has been finding out extremist rhetoric is being imported alongside foreign aid. press time in causeways capital and the mosques are overflowing ninety percent of the population here are muslim and known for their liberal

interpretation of the faith but there are now growing concerns that a fundamentalist strain a visit a hobby as is taking. the most fundamentalist strain of the fundamentalist strain is from from the harbison so i think when you have this kind of ideology saying you have to literally follow the child from the koran. you can quite easily have a situation where for example terrorist acts can be justified hobby is a region it's from saudi arabia and many mosques destroyed in the balkan conflicts are being rebuilt with saudi money in fact the saudi government has put tens of billions of dollars into building mosques schools and charities worldwide charities that in course of a helping support poor members of the community. not only have jobs sure the charity bring in food which we need for i would children of the order but with

nearly half the population employed and widespread poverty closer they could be becoming affairs held breeding grounds the influence of well financed. the impact of saudi financing in course of a now is clearly evident and the fear is that it's not just the money that's being brought in there will be ideology as well a lot of the saudi money is i mean this is tied up in ideology and i don't think saudi arabia massively keen on the west especially for. building a democratic structure which. has been right for the mosques is the place to be carefully monitored by the islamic community in course of a to ensure that there adhering to moderate teachings. cannot be underlayer control because really how to point b. and v of them comes to. a point three months re control however recently

a mosque was closed down after a petition to remove him and he was allegedly using money to win a for the poor it was the fair legally built mosque in the town of marina the v.m. i was able to operate with ten years though they're being closed down now locals are asking why it was left to them to take action because you could tell there was something not tried going on there were young children full body cover and she was taking the religious trips abroad so we felt we had to do something about it. the moderate muslim community here has made it clear that hardline teachings will not be tolerated but there are warning signs the fundamentalist islam to be sneaking in through the back to the right into the hearts of hear their first. well nato is keen to get the few remaining western european countries not members of the alliance on board sweden is one of these being enticed but the likeness to

norberg a swedish anti nato activist tells r.t. the expansion is simply part of us is attempts to strengthen its influence in europe and beyond. what are they doing to get them on the hook what are they doing what are they promising them or i really i don't have the answer because for me it's an insane lease policy it's pure insanity oh many things can the united states government show that they don't care if about peoples when they show they torture in for instance all these terrible torture places you know bill good i.e. being one in every place they are violating international law all their lives lading all treaties all treaties and they come away with it. and you can catch the full interview in just over an hour here on our team he had

a fearsome reputation in and out of the ring linked to me you know nazis and being caged in a mental institution in russia before breaking up with his bare hands and escaping to norway but if you just love that sick will now be extradited back to russia of his bid for political asylum was delivered a knockout blow by an oslo court ortiz catarina zoravar has the story. request was sent by the russian prosecutor general's office to norway asking that this man be returned to russia to stand trial he is of course wanted here in this country for a number of robberies he is also of course known for many strange and bizarre acts. as a self-proclaimed and relative to some sort of pagan gods that he believes to be of russian descent he has called himself the lord of the more forest which of course is a region in russia has denied christianity as this country's religion has proven itself

to be a hardcore neo nazi and even the fighters themselves of course not the m.m.a. fighters the mixed martial arts but perhaps other well known figures in the fighting community have all said that as a fighter and even as a human being they just love dots it is not one of them and he of course continues to shock the public with his escapades the latest of course being that he broke out of a psychiatric hospital apparently allegedly tearing at the fencing with his bare hands and then rode in a boat to norway from st petersburg that is how he arrived in that country and asked for political asylum that was refused to him and he's currently serving a prison sentence there for illegal possession of and on the registered firearm of that prison sentence will continue up until may recede eight months behind bars as

soon as may which is locked out six may be extradited back to russia he of course and his lawyers say that they will fight this decision by the no fourth stop does it is already considering asking for political asylum in both law to be and looking at. remember there are always plenty of stories for you to explore at r.t. dot com here's a look at what you'll find there right now. peeking out. politician is in trouble for his views on who's to blame for the deadly unrest in the country twenty years ago which don't match the official line. and what people want to get a fever in the u.s. the teen pop sensation pictured here describes american health care as evil and says he's glad he's canadian the full story. now some other news making international headlines the u.s.

senate has voted to extend the controversial patriot act for ninety days giving lawmakers time to discuss its future terror laws allow enforcement agencies to tap phones business records and carry out surveillance on suspects but the act has faced huge criticism among those who consider these powers an infringement of civil liberties the extension was passed comfortably approved by vote of eighty six to twelve. a tall order has sunk in northeast vietnam killing eleven tourists and a tour guide is believed at least twenty one foreign tourists were on the vessel when it went down before dawn local officials said nine people and six crew have been rescued so far it's not clear why the boat sank but it's known that the weather was calm at the time of the incident. colombian rebels have released two captives of a group which had been expected to be freed last weekend before freed a thirty five year old police may just seized in two thousand and seven and an army

corporal captured a year later it brings the total number of hostages released over the past week to six the country's president criticized the rebels accusing them of kidnapping two factory workers in the same period. and the british navy has stormed a pirate ship in the indian ocean to free five people who'd been held captive for three months the hostages were all yemeni fishermen the british crew said they found and destroyed the pirates weapons including grenades and three skiffs used to launch attacks the raid was prompted by reports from a nearby merchant vessel of the somali boats acting suspiciously. it's the self-styled land of the free but also the country with more prisoners than anywhere else now one activist has launched his own unorthodox protest against the criminal justice policy in the u.s. he says something needs to change in a system which is too quick to condemn people to a life beyond balls as in a situation reports. the parking lot where the prison cell where the

men inside it the inmate michael to bond moved in out of his own free will michael spent thirty hours building his prison cell made out of plywood and even parts of his own homes rooftop his generator strategically placed right here keeps the cell lit and warm throughout this cold winter months i mean goal of the man once convicted of armed robbery to bring down the number of prisoners in the u.s. slavery still exists in the united states of america to him and his supporters in sleeved are over two million prisoners packing jails across the u.s. a country with the highest prison population in the world yet they eat sleep and use the same verse in the same area where you're only. that's disgusting to me it's not somewhere i want to be in. the ex-con is now teaching children about the horrors of prison life to deter them from crime in the future. that the message is

reaching these kids and one that mike hopes to get across to the masses writing a book with the same title from inside his cell he lends support to those for whom crime is part of everyday life the system right now the self-made convict says one of the biggest problems is american prisons are big business when you get in thirty three thousand dollars a year cause the rate of human being is like this kind of like you know of them is par for every rock you bring me. how many rocks would you bring and in this diary khana meet many youngsters are stuck between a rock and a hard place you can't love the whole country and especially during the recession you know crime and poverty is synonymous if you go to poverty you want to have for michael also cites a flawed justice system for the high conviction rates especially of the poor with lawyers selling freedom to the highest bidder if you can't afford to pay for the

case you want to get crazy time where is the counterpart the money is a little bit of the locals are attracted to mike like bees to honey in their town the problem is too large to ignore six or seven eight hundred is getting arrested each day a problem across the us but less than five percent of the world's population but almost a quarter of the prison population of the planet haircuts are mike's big talent and talent he acquired behind bars where his creativity was born and later led him here the man will remain in his cell until the end of the month by which time he hopes his message will have hit home until then look at i saw him now we all in the hole and stacy churkin are our t. philadelphia. i'm next door the latest business news with you look to stay with us .

fellow time for your business update and gasp romans joining the elephant oil filled in libya in an asset swap deal with italian energy company any because giant is taking fifty three point three of the central office and a stake in the field for around one hundred seventy million dollars in return any will be given access to energy for ships and russia the deal was sealed during russian president dmitry medvedev sphere's it to eat alone wednesday it still has to be approved by the only been authorities gas from and any also agreed to sign a sales contract for gas production in the siberian fields of seven that. time to have a still have a look at how the markets are faring this hour and asian stocks are mostly high up

japan's nikkei rose point five percent in the afternoon trade with some export focused blue chips rising after overnight to escape hong kong's hang seng is flat this hour. and russia ended ones this session on a positive note pushed higher by rising oil prices and optimism in the u.s. and europe both the r.t.s. and the my six gained more than point six percent. and michael stein head of equity research at creech air says the despite the lack of new domestic data investors will continue to be a bit above russia as commodity prices remain strong. if you look at the calendar there's not a lot expected on the domestic side for the next couple of days and a lot of our clients are looking very closely instead it global issues macro issues like us c.p.i. data or quite positive on russia overall right now the sentiment as i indicated

towards russian assets is quite positive a valuation from an attractive if you look at the world globally right now there's a lot of inflation concerns and if you're an investor it's makes sense to invest in a market that has a lot of commodities so that you could benefit from rising commodity prices some of the impact of inflation. michael stein so much and a south african business delegation has arrived in moscow to boost trade and investment time ambassador of south africa told business archie that energy would be among the top areas for future corp but after a guy has brought a big need for energy we are not short of energy but we have very tight margins we are increasing our investments and we are calling for investments into the area of energy because we are doing a number of things we are working to increase our capacity to produce electricity

but we are also diversifying our in the just sources so one of the areas we're looking to cooperate with russia is in the area of nuclear in the area of all tended to clean our sources of energy we are also attracting and we have russian companies that are involved in initiatives in south africa. that's it for me not for me now and join me in less than one outs time for more business news and get more stories small that side r.t. dot com slash business.

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stories. political reform with. the middle east. continues libya is the latest country to see clashes on the streets. america's top military officials. as defense secretary robert gates productions would have tragic consequences but protecting the military is pushing. the rest of society. and the self-proclaimed republic of kosovo could be turning into a training ground for terrorists there are fears aid from saudi arabia is coming in alongside extremist islamic teachings. high commissioner for human rights on her

first official visit to russia how civil society can best be in the country spotlight is next. hungry for the full story we've got it first the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on. fifty . five. hello again a welcome to spotlight the interview shall i think i'm algernon and today my guest in the studio.