remain tense with sparks of protests in different parts of the country artie's policy or takes a look at whether the weeks of on rest there have made any change in any closer to egyptians. mubarak's out the army's in and the question now who's next. to. which way the 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 its limitations when the decision was taken not to door open fire not to do any slaughter. within their own people the most of the ability to be the next the 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 stays 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 similar. protesters were. supposedly going to live in the state of emergency. drill in a country where nearly thirty years but the market will be buying we called assurances and money and the right to be skeptical on. intentions of the military my lucy arm 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 which emergency. central component of the government apparatus when our arab like or the president on our. border

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 is 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 on marriages even the small is because we live in a bad neighborhood they have. to move to see our political addition to. the israel as another state in the region. in part. democratic. but israel routinely released wars of aggression against neighbors and karen stranger. these are not a state of emergency usually living the usual life no one moved from from the center for themselves or from the north to the center but whichever 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 and many protesters might be wondering what exactly they were out on the streets for. r t tel aviv. now the president of the arab lawyers association said the protests across the region have been ignited by a hatred of too much western involvement in domestic policy. certainly the unifying factor is that all of them have had enough after only enough of dictatorship the governments that have all been so subservient to the west that this goes against the will of the people in that region generally speaking the interest of the national interest of the west is contradictory to the national interest of that region that of countries have a problem with israel they have a problem with the americans they have a problem with capitalism and this is going to this is a unifying factor. that was the president of the arab lawyers association that.

we spoke to him just a bit earlier well coming away just a few minutes here on arts he from riches to rags wealthiest woman herself in the middle of a multi-million dollar theft scandal get all the details just a bit later in the program here on. u.s. congressman and pentagon officials are debating how best to trim the country's fifty five trillion dollars debt president barack obama has already proposed cutting the massive defense budget by seventy eight billion over the next five years of the pentagon is making sure the cut doesn't come at the expense of america's ability to wage war while non-essential programs are being slashed the proposed budget would actually see the pentagon spending growth this year and is also used christine for reports ordinary americans are paying the price of living in a war mongering country. 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 u.s. 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 that i'll describe

how these reform efforts are followed through the. it 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'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. 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 solent it's a simple as they had writing on the wall. well 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 see by the things that are sacrifice the basic cuts in services the roads that go on repair in 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 sound. on let's get some more details on this now we're joined live from washington d.c. by a political analyst. so obama wants the defense budget trimmed by seventy eight billion dollars over the course of five years that's only two point five percent over those years doesn't really sound much of a cut to me. yes that how does the way to four point five percent and when that's compared to cuts to state and foreign aid at around twenty percent and the current

continuing resolution that's being talked about in congress it's it's really pales in comparison to those major cuts that are being made everywhere else. the defense secretary robert gates the defense i was just going to say he's asking for nearly. six hundred five hundred fifty three billion dollars for the military that's hoff of the entire world's combined defense budget surely in a time of recession this called me the will of the people. it's a very very large amount and it's still an increased defense secretary gates is talking about major cuts the seventy eight billion dollars in cuts seems like a very large number but in fact much of it actually comes from changes in economic assumptions such as just changing around what your projected inflation rate is so many of these cuts that are even being talked about are not even cuts and as a result the defense budget is still growing by a real increase after inflation of about three percent so now our american system

is enthusiastic about the so-called war on terror as they would george bush is because the defense and industry certainly seems to be the longer the war goes on the more tired americans get of the wars and the more tired congress gets more and more you hear talk about ending the wars getting out removing troops and you do see that in the defense budget this year the defense budget for overseas contingency operations which is what they call the wars in afghanistan iraq has decreased from about one hundred fifty nine billion to one hundred eighteen billion so that is one major cut that has been made but on the other side you have to keep in mind that in all past years the defense budget has seen an emergency supplemental appropriations which could come later and could add to that number significantly so as you were suggesting a moment ago the american public is perhaps for all the war he for the past many years since two thousand and one that america has been involved in two wars iraq

and afghanistan if the public is war fatigue and yet all this money for the military budget keeps getting keeps coming through the pentagon would you say that the u.s. is a military controlled by the military industrial complex because it seems it seems that the people don't really have much of a say about the. so there are many suggestions that the military could be controlled controlled by the military industrial congressional complex even they say because many congresspeople actually have jobs in their district that they have to protect and constantly you see this say with the f. thirty five extra engine that was actually just voted down in the house yesterday but has been supported vehemently by all of the congressmen in the house in past votes now when it comes to finally here with all the billions and trillions being spent since two thousand and one with the wars in iraq and afghanistan the so-called war on terror have been a success. i believe that the continued

drawdown of troops in iraq does signal some success i think it's a long and hard battle in afghanistan still and i'm curious to see how defense spending goes along with that. live from washington d.c. that was political analyst leslie olson thank you well cause of i was marking the third anniversary of its declaration of independence from serbia but the republic continues to suffer from shoots economic and political chaos and the crisis has been further deepen by a recent critical report submitted by the council of europe it accuses some of course of those leading politicians including the current prime minister hushing taji of being involved in horrendous crimes during the one nine hundred ninety nine war of secession among the allegations are executions abductions and organ trafficking on wednesday so you're called on the un security council to investigate the charges council of europe member and austrian m.p. johan who says it wasn't in the interest of the e.u.

or the us to investigate these claims only. the european look was that the serbian side the bad side the evil side and that we have to investigate the crime of the evil side the evil side which was also the loser of the conflict in the end the military might of nato and the united states prevailed over the losers and europe and the united states we're on the winning side and it was in the interest of the winning side to find out a lot about crimes from the losing side from the side they stood up against after the. intervention and the de facto creation of an independent kosovo state and nato and protectorate as we saw it in the last years before independence well the sings we're so father to return to the problems it was almost impossible because this would have resulted it's certainly not a round of war the permanent administration of course as a colony or as

a protector it was not feasible as well so in the end there was no other way than granting independence which was to my feeling not right because it was against international rules against the law of the peoples as we know it with r.t. live from moscow and police have raided the offices of russia's richest woman yelena but when the wife of moscow's form a man who was sacked by president of a different last year. this kind of explains what's behind this raid. officials are saying that these searchers are part of an investigation looking into the embezzle mint of thirteen billion rubles which is over four hundred forty million u.s. dollars from the bank of moscow which is russia's fifth largest bank and they see that you and about to know the wife of moscow's former mir. or directly connected to the scase which actually started in december investigators believe that the in

measurement was conducted through a loan deal between the bank of moscow and several if you go up in companies and they say that the money simply ended up on personal bank account not what's also interesting is that investigators say that this transaction happened on the same day as the government allocated around fifteen billion rubles to the bank of moscow for other purposes and there's already speculation that this state money may have been used by about two to cover up the debts of a company in teko for recent years both the union and udall school of moscow's former mayor have been subjected to controversy although neither of them have been found guilty of any illegal activities there's a lot of speculation that you know who is the russia's richest woman and the only female billion in the country she was able to gain this fortune with the help of

her husband's resources as the mayor of moscow her company and also always got the most attractive deals in the city when it comes to its development and what's also interesting is that since stopped being the mayor of moscow into also stopped getting all these good deals. and her lawyer so deny all the accusations saying that the investigators have absolutely no grounds for such claims even the martin a says that neither she or her company in teko were connected or involved. in any criminal activities and said that these. keys or pressure on her and her husband's meanwhile the investigators are ready to call up everybody including for questioning if it is necessary. or let's go to some other news now making international headlines this hour a series of black rock military base in tanzania killed at least thirty people it

happened near the airport in the country's largest city dar es salaam the explosions had started in one before spreading to others in the camp four thousand people have fled the area and have gathered at the country's national sports stadium a similar accident at another tanzanian ammunition facility in two thousand and nine killed three people. tourists were among twelve people killed when a boat sank in northeastern vietnam the vessel went down before dawn when most were asleep in their cabins it's believed that there were twenty foreigners on board those who survived nine people and six crew members jumped into the water where they were rescued by other vessels it is the deadliest accident since the country opened up to foreigners twenty five years ago. belgium has now gone two hundred and forty nine days without a government it's a feat that some are saying equals the world record held by iraq eight months stalemate is divided on language lines between the leaders of the six million dutch

speaking flemish and four and a half million french speakers only one serious political protest has taken place to date with belgians instead of venting their frustration through the media and the record is yet to be verified. well renowned former russian agent and a chapman will out of dosh of glamour to the country's space program the redhead now wants to try her hand in designing a by creating new uniforms for the space industry that's cross live now to our correspondent. to give us more details on this. so anna chapman has her fingers in many pies tell us what that is french or. well celebrities seem to be taking central stage in business and on the chapman is just the latest to try and cash a known cure a few statists just recently she registered your name as a trademark so knowledge she can officially sell it as

a brand to cloths on to wear a perfect jewelry and even heartbeat the producers so no surprise if one day will come across one voice could want to grocery stores now the latest of your creative ideas will find its reflection on a collection of clothes for ross course most. her space when walking on the ground will be dressed up in what we believe by be very edgy and glamorous fits well the talk astronaut. training center russia's largest told russian media that chapman is interested in participating in the project but she hasn't specified in what capacity financially or as a designer and it took the last year on a chapman visit to the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan where for the first time in her life she saw a rocket launched into orbit and rather public appearance by the spy even stole the show from the russian space program itself and perhaps it was there it

was found as a ration and decided looked around at those men to decided that her next mission would be to make them look more glamorous. than a time when she's been the center of the biggest spy crisis between the u.s. and russia and years. it seems and since then her career has just gone from strength to strength. yes since being deported from the united states of america in july twenty ten this sultry spy service has become the least kept secret in russia and on the chopped mind she's definitely important to own a career self promotion she's been given a job on television she's now presenting a program one on t.v. stations in russia and the supposedly i'm covering the world secrets she was also appointed an advisor to foreign service bank which shares the me shills of russia secret service the athens beat and just recently she joined a group youth group and as i've just said just to take your name as

a trademark in these following and not about russia celebrities gold winning champion gymnast in the bible is now considering passing through a name to produce a range of dollars russian version of barbie named by leaving nothing. you can read i suppose when it comes to these new design of fashion spaces the one question on the minds of all male viewers is when are you going to start modeling the new chairman designs. oh nobody knows that's. because they're making a true thank you. card type of the business news to me to say you know. hello and welcome to business i guess from is joining the elephant oilfield project in libya and the swap deal with italian energy company any the gas giants will get thirty free point three percent off of any stake in the project worth around one

hundred seventy million dollars in return and he will be given access to energy project russia the deal was sealed during russian president dmitry medvedev visit it still has to be approved by libyan authorities. russia's leading search engine yandex has landed in the top fifty most innovative companies and twenty eleven placed higher than the global i.t. giants like i.b.m. and microsoft fast company magazine which compiled the list put yandex at twenty six place in the list of the most innovative firms in the world this year this is the first time i've gathered was actually included is noted for its a prowess and search systems that bypassed amazon which took second place in the list last year the top three spots were taken by apple twitter and facebook. russian entrepreneur u.-t. milner who successfully invested into social networking sites facebook groupon and zynga all on the aforementioned innovation best he was planning to invest in

startups in russia a global c.e.o. admitted that he would be facing challenges but claims russians skilled labor is a key factor in his decision other countries have had started to like us you know they're much more advanced in on the technology front but russia has the advantage in human capital it is the basic advantage if you look at the world championship in programming the russian teams won six out of the last ten years so russia on the rule russian talent is actually very highly regarded globally. well you can catch the full interview with you on spotlight next week. so look at the markets now a new applications for jobless benefits in the u.s. rose more than expected so we're seeing

a negative opening dow jones and nasdaq down point two percent for european stocks up also low of this hour europe's biggest defense contract to be a e systems is down more than four percent after its profit missed estimates here in russia just minutes before the close is the picture a change of mood of course after have to gains in the morning stocks are flat to negative especially on the my six down almost one percent plus the blue chips. bag is point two percent lower that's despite news that it could sell off its oil related assets worth one point two billion dollars as soon as this year this news was pushing the stock up in the morning carly is down point four percent now after negative news on fertilizer pricing came out of asia and point is gold one of the few gators right now this point two percent as gold has reached the price of one thousand three hundred eighty one dollars troy ounce. in brief now the world's

seventh largest pharmaceutical company astra zeneca is set to invest one hundred fifty million dollars into building a new plant in russia the construction to be located in the kaluga region is the start of this april plants will engage in full cycle production from the preparation of medicine components to packaging is expected to launch in twenty first. and russia has almost quadrupled its export of diamonds during the first nine months of the previous year bringing in almost two point two billion dollars in overall revenue at the same time the import of gemstones fell by more than two fold as russia's main diamond producer with ninety seven percent of the market share and accounts for twenty five percent of global production. the listing of the a russian a rail cargo operates a freight one may take place in london though the issue is still open to question that's according to present russian railways this is the government to decide

what will be the formula or properties ation of this company that is not settled yet so you know the fifty years of the procedure will fly pure then possibly in lumber but if it will be if it is the direct selling they had to build a russian. that's often i'll be back in a one hour's time with plenty more will have the closing picture for the russian market so don't mess it.

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do it all to you live from moscow to the headlines now frustration now with the government's reaches boiling point across the middle east. and in north africa protesters push for change at the same time egyptians are starting to question the outcome of their own rights to. the u.s. military is fighting tooth and nail to hold on to his multi-billion dollar budget claiming the cuts will cost lives and some say americans are already in the deep with many on the edge of public. economic woes and the political turmoil because of our battles are tarnished image on his third anniversary since declaring independence from serbia meanwhile there are fears radical islam is gaining ground in the republic. right now and moving on to sweden where there is increasing

pressure for the country to join nato with many european countries already members of the alliance expos say it's only a matter of time before stockholm follows their lead and he said now i met up with a local peace activist who claims all these attempts are america's way of trying to gain more influence and more control of countries. i don't know don't know where berg 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 our t. why the activist has dedicated her life to stop what she calls the u.s. nato war machine in the south korea and japan where you. guys were there too proud to be one of the guys. why did people know so little about nato sweden cooperation.