who's next. to this. country's going to. start saying 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 open fire not to do any slaughter him. within their own people most of the ability to be the next controllers 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 nugent schimmel and. protestors refer to supposedly. the state of emergency. drill in

a country where nearly thirty years but the market will be buying we called assurances and bungling to be skeptical on each intentions of the military my mind see i'm as 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 which an emergency all of the. central component of the government apparatus when are arab like the president on an hour. or more or. generals and for as long as a state of emergency remains in place 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 too has its emergency doors our marriages in the small way is because we live in a bad neighborhood they are happy. in israel to most receive our elected politicians . israel is another state in the region. in part by hearing and big. democratic major or it is real routinely we lose wars of aggression against neighbors karen strangers. generally these are is often 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 then many protesters might be wondering what exactly they were out on the streets for policy r.t. tel aviv that 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 on 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 we have to be very careful about is that this will be and i think it is probably being either macro managed and controlled lieven and probably is going to be used to favor the interests of certain global power structures no doubt that the state is 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 especially 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 christine for 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 assist 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 two thousand and 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 at all 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 against them here. 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. 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 no scar. usually pleas for money come cloaked in 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 solenn today it's as simple as they hand 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 other 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 seeing some expose believe the principals warnings of cuts consequences caused by further cuts is just blackmail

to get more money. it's a cut in the play and growth in spending so we're actually going to spend more next year than we spent last year according to the obama administration and that's what they'd like congress to do so it's not really a cut and then the seventy eight billion over five years is about two point five percent of what we were planning to spend so if you think that's a major cut fine but it's just two point five percent so it's not very substantial when they're saying the cuts are catastrophic you saying in the continuing resolution that congress wants to pass for the rest of two thousand and eleven doesn't have as much money as they've asked for so the seventy eight billion they say well that's sort of ok because that's what we asked for there is sort of being alarmist about the two thousand and eleven budget we need money for the rest of the year and they're saying if we don't get enough it's going to be end of the world i think obviously they have a parochial interest in being alarmist about that but as far as china goes i mean china is always a always something that people who want to spend more money particularly in the navy in the air force like to talk about it's a big power it has

a big military so it's an easy easy way to justify a whole lot of defense spending if you think we have something to fight a war with china over the lead for you this hour kicked out a russian martial law is too broad a psychiatric facility with his bare hands. in norway. plus the liberty and justice deals more of one of them 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 so for a claim balkan republic of kosovo is offering fertile ground for hardline islam and the sarah firth as been fine d.l. its extremist rhetoric speaking imported alongside foreign aid. press time in kosovo is 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 of a hobby as it is taking the most fundamental strain. on the mental strain from the harbors them 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 i'm originally from saudi arabia and many mosques destroyed in the balkan conflicts are being rebuilt with saudi money in fact the saudi government has poured tens of billions of dollars into building mosques schools and charities worldwide charities that in kosovo helping support poor members of the community. who don't have jobs sure the charity. food which we need for which children most of the order but

with nearly half the population employed and widespread poverty possibly could be becoming a fair to hold breeding ground 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 bought in there will be ideology as well a lot of the saudi money is. 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 are supposed to be carefully monitored by the islamic community in course very to ensure that there adhering to moderate teachings. cannot be under labor control because really how to appoint 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 over the poor it was a legally built mosque in the town of marina the v.m. i was able to operate for ten years though they're being closed down now locals are asking why it was left of 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 more religious trips abroad so we found 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 the back to the right into the hearts of here surface r.t. . well later is keen to get the few remaining western european countries not members of the alliance on board sweden is one of those being enticed but as

ignatov norberg a swedish antenatal activist tells r.t. the expansion is simply part of u.s. 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 to insane these policies it's pure insanity home many things can the united states government show that they don't care about peoples when they show they torture in for instance all these terrible torture places you know bill good i.e. . in every place they are violating international law all the airline plane thing all treaties all treaties and they come away with it. and you can catch that full interview in around fifteen minutes here on r.t. . he had

a fearsome reputation in and out of the ring looked to me oh nazis and being caged in a mental institution in russia before breaking out with his bare hands and escaping to norway if you just love that sequel now be extradited back to russia after his bid for political asylum was delivered a knockout blow by an oslo court or as or 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 he. self-proclaimed relative to some sort of pagan gods that he believes to be of russian descent he has called himself the lord of the more rooms forest which of course is a region in russia has denied christianity as this country's religion has proved

himself 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 that 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 an unregistered firearm of that prison sentence will continue up until may be received eight months behind bars as

soon as may which slopped out six may be extradited back to russia he of course and his lawyers say that they will fight this decision by the norwegian or it's stop does it is already considering asking for political asylum in both law to be and lithuania. remember there are always plenty of stories for you to explore at ulti dot com here's a look at what you'll find there right now facing jail for speaking out unless you and your 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 why people would want to get a fever in the u.s. the teen pop sensation describes american health care as evil and says he's glad he's canadian the full story at r.t. dot com. 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 the anti terror laws allow enforcement agencies to tap phones access 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 a vote of eighty six to twelve. full boat has sunk in how long bay in northeast vietnam killing eleven tourists and a tour guide has 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 had been rescued so far it's not clear why the boat sank but it's known the weather was calm at the time of the incident is the self-styled land of the free but also the country with more prisoners than anywhere else now one activist as lord says 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 behind bars as a situation reports. the parking lot where the prison cell where the man 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 the main 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 slaved 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 were. disgusting to me is not somewhere i want

to be. the ex-con is now teaching children about the horrors of prison life to deter them from crime in the future. a message 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. 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 or a to human being is like this kind of like you go on 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 make up the whole country and especially during

a recession you know poverty is synonymous if you've got poverty you want to have michael also cites a flawed justice system for the high can. fiction rates especially of the poor with lawyers selling freedom to the highest bidder if you can't afford to pay for the case you're going to get crazy town where is the counterpart the money is gone a little bit of time 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. now we all in the hole and stacy churkin are our t. philadelphia. slobo financial crisis has shaken confidence in future economic security and politicians continue to debate what to do the mother's director of the international monetary fund has called for

a new world currency to ensure stability but financial pundit next closer says without the backing of resources it would have no value. as you. connect all the dots you find that the underlying earth resources are collapsing and that everybody's addicted to online virtual playing with themselves on these various games using a virtual currency so there is no intrinsic value once again it's based on forest that don't exist. you know court bonds that are made of cardboard rice from made of plastic. marriages fake cities there are city usa he's got cities in china i want to say i worked on farmville you know thirty seven virtual credits divided by an i.m.f. dollar in s.t.r. people other than me explain something to you the owner allowing natural resources of the globe that are the basis for the global economy are disintegrating until you come to terms with that no amount of virtual credits on the farm bill is going to

save you from extinction. you can what's the cause a report in just over an hour here on c joins us with a business update in a few months. hello this is your business update gas from rejoining the elephant oil field and leave it in an essence for deal with a tell an energy company any the gas giant is taking thirty three point three percent or heart of any stake in the field for around one hundred seventy million dollars in return any will be given access to energy projects and russia the deal

was sealed during russian president dmitry medvedev so visit to italy on wednesday it still has to be approved by the libyan authorities gas from and any also agreed to sign a sale contract for gas production in the siberian fields or sit in their get. as the listing of the russian rail of great afraid one may take place in london though the issue is still open to question that's according to present a russian railways. this is the government to decide what will be the formula or. this company that is not settled yet sure you know the fifty years of the procedure will fly pure then possibly in one go but if it will be if it is the direct selling there to build build russia. let's have a quick look at the markets and asian stocks are mostly high on japan's nikkei rose

point two percent with some export focused blue chips rising after overnight u.s. gains and hong kong's hang seng point three percent up. and russia ended wednesday's session on a positive note pushed by higher rising oil prices and optimism in the u.s. and europe. for my sins gained more than point six percent on wednesday but this hour the r.t.s. continues to rise in early trading gating about three tenths of a percent. and michael stein head of equity research at it says that despite the lack of new domestic dating investors will continue to be upbeat about 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 were quite positive on russia overall right now the sentiment as i indicated

towards russia now sits is quite positive and valuations remain 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 know you benefit from rising commodity prices doff said some of the impact of inflation. michael stein from which creates here and a south african business delegation has arrived in moscow to boost trade and investment ties ambassador of south africa told business archie that energy would be among top areas for future cooperation. with africa 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 energy sources so one of the areas we're looking to pour pruett 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 said no more news in announce time.

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pull costing live from moscow you're with altie i'll top stories for you this hour the most for political reform moments with violence and on certainty in the middle east and north africa as the domino with. continues libya is the latest country to see clashes on its streets. america's top military officials stand guard over their budget as defense secretary robert gates warns the productions would have tragic consequences but protecting the military is pushing massive cuts onto the rest of society. and the press self-proclaimed republic of course a vote could be turning into a training ground for terrorists there are fears aid from saudi arabia is coming in along side extremist islamic teachings. now most

western european countries are fully paid up members of nato but a small number of not and the alliance is keen to sign them up sweden is among those nations but peace activist mr norberg tells altie moves to tempt it into the arms of nato but just another example of america's ongoing quest for influence that's in our interview next. i don't know to norberg is on a mission her goal to tell the world how far and how much nato has gone in taking over the globe and tells aren't t.-y. the activist has dedicated her life to stop what she calls the us nato war machine in south korea and japan where you go through the so proud to be one of the guys. why did people know so little about nato sweden cooperation they.