yes there has made change 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 there will be noses limitation when the decision was taken not to door open fire not to do any slaughter in. 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 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 and. protestors refer to

supposedly eventually the state of emergency. grill in a country where nearly thirty years but the must. be buying we called assurances among didn't want right to be skeptical or. 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 emergency all of the. essential component of the government apparatus when our arab like the present. it inches or more of them or. generals and for as long as a state of emergency remains. pace the hopes that brought millions of egyptians to

the streets remain up in the air but he took it's not the only country the middle east that lives in a state of emergency across its border and here in israel depending on who you talk to this country too has its emergency doors our margins even the small way is because we live in a bad neighborhood you have to. worry too much receive our elected politicians. israel is another step in the region. in part by hearing and it. becomes democratic. but israel routinely reenlist wars of aggression against neighbors and carriage return. these are his office total promotions for his will is living its usual life no one moved from from the simple to the social 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 and many protesters might be wondering what exactly they were out on the streets for policy r.t. tel aviv. allotted to us now some royer from the center for research on globalization joins me now live from canada to provide a perspective on the situation in the revolution torn region now good to see you here in r.t. in an article i've seen that you've written recently you draw an interesting parallel between what's happening in the arab world now and the revolutions that took place across europe and in the middle of the nineteenth century can you explain briefly what those comparisons are. you revolutions that first of all the causes of the revolutions are popular and popular anger amongst a widespread anger i'm sorry widespread anger amongst the general population.

workers rights being abused and. bad governance on the part of the leadership. trotting down on the masses the same thing. decades. comparison i make is that the revolutions in eight hundred forty eight years and. not just in order for revolutions take place. to change from. but not much really changed. changes and in the arab world. revolutionary. it's not it's not revolution yet not until the changes are made i do i do. i do it he. the. people's mindsets have changed now they're aware that they can throw away the

shackles of dictatorship. nothing has changed yet that's why we have to wait and see ok. and crucially many people don't know how revolutions are going to turn out this is certainly people power speaking and that's only comparison you draw from what happened earlier in historic times but the question is and you will saying you're not too sure what's going to happen some saying this is a wave of a democratic movement moving throughout the middle east or it's actually going to be chaos what do you yourself predict as a historian in the way that you've been looking back in history. number one i want to apologize for starting i'm a bit camera shy but going back to the point these are revolts they're not revolutions yet people's mindsets are revolutionary they want change they're fed up but these are revolts until the structures in place change it won't be consider revolutions that's my first point democratic isolation. people want that

isn't happening that's the question cosmetic changes cosmetic changes like face lift are not democratic. in order for a democratic opposition to occur for democracy to take place people need to elect their officials right now we're not seeing that we're seeing the status quo in egypt the military staking over nothing's changed it's a formal change any more barak was a part of the military the military hosni mubarak one that is one regime of hosni mubarak was a military commander general so a man was a military commander it's the same people in fact the commander of the egypt's military is the defense minister under mubarak and deputy prime minister nothing has changed yet tunisia is this thing of course that the big difference between what happened in those historical comparisons you're making is that this isn't just people pass speaking this is also as many say the influence of the united states now as you're saying the situation changed that that the u.s. was sponsoring that mubarak's regime for thirty years they were also sponsoring the

egyptian military which is now in power but what do you make of the u.s. strategy now for the whole of the middle east region and its future influence there i'm glad you asked me that because that's a very important question the united states and its allies are politically hedging their bets what i mean by politically hedging their bets i have a said you know what's year i just to refer to for dates but what they're doing right now is something that we can call creating a counter discourse counter discourse is when you have a party in governance and in opposition to. you control both sides now i'm not saying that the protests aren't genuine the protests are absolutely genuine and organic but the fact is that the united states is trying to put its own opposition figures into position the wise men in egypt which are an elected individuals billionaires people who are part of the status quo part of the regime in fact he did nothing when mubarak was in power and the united states is actually thinking of

transferring money to political parties giving money to political parties in egypt in the arab world to help them but i have to ask the viewers since you have an international audience what if a foreign country was funding political parties in your country what would your reaction be but it's not just briefly some will say well it's a very good reason it's a justifiable cause because the u.s. wants peace in the middle east and that's what it's been promoting for the last thirty years and some would say that's what is achieved and that's the next step so in effect it is having. a political map of the region but with a very justified reason. i'm sorry i have to disagree with that statement because slavery is not peace the united states is giving green lights to war so invading iraq is not peace. giving the green light for israel to attack lebanon and to attack guys is not peace peace is letting people decide how they want to live stability is

a good thing but you can't have stability of democracy is being undermined stability is a bottom up process just like democracy it's not a top down process the instability being caused in the middle east is caused by us interference in the region as well as interference by other powers and their support of arab client states none of these regimes would be here if it wasn't for united states influence in the middle east the support for these regimes i'd wager that most of them would have been gone a long time ago not a doubt us not some are interesting to hear what you have to say from the center for research on globalization joining us live in ottawa canada thanks for being with us on thank you you thank. one hour coming up in just a couple of moments it's a religious affair in rome the russian president committed a visit but again we have all the details on his meeting with the pope and how it could change the relationship between the country's church. wealthiest woman finds herself in the middle of

a multimillion dollar fare. get all the details later in the program. but first u.s. congressmen 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 that's over the next five years 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 was artie's christine for some reports on what 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 assess 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 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 hunnam is 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. usually pleas for money come close 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 had writing on the wall it's called the military industrial complex is in charge of the name. 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 other things that are sacrificing the basic cuts in service to 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 the now are teen. kosovo's marking the third anniversary of its declaration of independence from serbia but the republican tin used to suffer from huge 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 his leading politicians including the current prime minister of being involved in horrendous crimes during the one thousand nine hundred worst recession among the allegations of executions abductions and organ trafficking on wednesday serbia called on the un security council to investigate the charges and some of you remember an austrian m.p. said it wasn't in the interest of the e.u. and the us to investigate these claims earlier. 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 conflicts 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 need to intervention and the de facto creation of an independent kosovo state under nato and e.u. protectorate as we saw it in the last years before independence well the sings we're so father to return to serbia of the problems was almost impossible because this would have resulted certainly not a round of war the permanent administration of course the war as a colony or as a protectorate 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 when it was council of europe and an austrian m.p. you hence you can put benedict says he wants to learn russian that's what he told dimitri medvedev he's currently on an official visit to the vatican just over a year since moscow and who really see restored tiny's following decades of disagreement and talent not because it has. this is the first visit over russian president putin vatican city after russian vatican establish diplomatic relations back in two thousand and nine president's meeting with a different both benedict the sixteenth touched upon a number of global issues as well as cooperation has been russia and italy within various international organizations but they also talked about the cross concessional dialogue between the russian orthodox and the roman catholic church as members of the russian delegation have been saying that there will ations between the churches have been improving recently and that right now a possibility of

a meeting of the leader of the russian orthodox church patron cureall and they had all of the roman catholic church who benedict the sixteenth is now much more possible than it was several years ago so in that respect this visit has been very symbolic also during president that if the visit to rome a number of energy deals have been signed russia and its silly have agreed to jointly invest in two major infrastructure and energy projects in north africa also it was decided that brushy is going to be involved in developing the elephant oil fields in levy it together with its elite and career it's really is russia second largest trade partner in the european union after germany and according to preliminary estimates the trade to volumes have increased between the two countries by nearly twelve percent since two thousand and nine. police have raided the

offices of russia's richest woman but you know is the wife of moscow's former mayor who was sent to bar present dmitri medvedev last year when authors you're going to skim over explains what's behind this raid do. officials are saying that these searchers are part of an investigation looking into the embezzle mint 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're about to know the wife of moscow's former mir. are directly connected to the scase which actually started in december investigators believe that the investment 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 a 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 to cover up the debts of a company in teko for recent years both the union about and you to scoff 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 soldiers. are pressure on her and her husband meanwhile the investigators are ready to call up everybody including for questioning if it is necessary now to some other news making international headlines this hour a series of rock to move place in tanzania killing at least thirty people who have been near the airport in the country's largest city. explosions that started in one arms depot 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. were among twelve people killed when a boat sank in northeastern vietnam the vessel went down before dawn when most were

sleep in their cabins it's believed 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's the deadliest told by accidents since the country opened up to foreigners twenty five years ago. gone two hundred forty nine days without a government which 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 speaking flemish for a half million french speakers hundreds of people from both sides organized a flash mob in the french speaking student. calling for the creation of a unity government event was one of many been held across the country. they're known for the russian agent anna chapman will add a dash of glamour to the country's space program the redhead now wants to try a hand in designing by creating new uniforms for the space industry parties you cut into has this report. the british are taking center stage in business it seems so

and on a chapman is just the latest to try and cash in on your v.a.p. status well to begin with she registered your name as a trademark so no official michigan sells her name as a brand to jewelry cloths put in drinks produces and the latest appeal creative ideas will be reflected in a collection of quote support role sports most people spacemen on the grounds that a space control central mosque and also the country's largest most journalists training center will be trussed up in what we believe might be very glamorous and actually outfits its not specified though in what capacity issue will be participating as a designer or she will take pause in the projects financially would not have told the last year for the first time in her life on a chaplain visited the baikonur space cosmodrome in kazakhstan where she soit a rocket launched a into orbit and perhaps it was there where she followed an inspiration looked around at those brave men and decided that her next mission will be to make them

look small idealists well since july last year when she was deported from the united states of america it seems that the songstress spy service has become the least kept secrets in russia she was offered a job on television she's now hosting a t.v. program where she's supposedly uncovering the world's secrets she was also appointed to an advisor to the phone surveys bank which shares the initials with the country's a top secret service the aphis beyond just recently she joined a program in youth movement so yes it seems that these days she is here and there and everywhere. well let to bring you up to date for the moment turning twenty five minutes past the hour let's cross now to dmitri has the latest on that in the business world. is good to have your company you're watching business r.t. russia's leading search engine yandex has landed in the top fifty most in the

companies and twenty eleven place higher than global i.t. giants like i.b.m. and microsoft now fast company magazine which complied compiled this list put yandex at twenty six place in the list of the most innovative in the world this year this is the first time yandex was actually included in the list noted for its prowess in search systems have bypassed amazon which took second place in the last year the top three spots were taken by apple twitter and facebook. and russian entrepreneur u.-t. milner has successfully invested into social networking sites facebook groupon and zynga all on the aforementioned innovation list he's planning to invest in startups in russia d.s.d. global c.e.o. admitted he will be facing challenges but claims russian skilled labor is a key factor in this decision. other countries have had starts like us you know they're much more advanced in on the technology front but russia has a new ground in human capital it was 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 has been the rule russian talent is actually very highly regarded locally. segment of the markets and there's a mixed feeling over the united states new up locations for jobless benefits and the consumer price they grew worse than expected but this is offset by a strong manufacturing port and therefore we're seeing this flat over the picture european stocks however they are mixed this hour europeans europe's the biggest defense contractors be a system is down four percent of the clothes after its profit missed estimates and here in russia it all started off rosy but in the red there was indeed have the gains in the morning but then that this patient of

a negative opening in the united states caused russia's investors to sell off the nation's capital says the ongoing tension in the middle east continues to shake from the. g.d.p. number that came up. was. four point three percent blue from december versus december two thousand and nine and i think that's all right so people are very nervous you know there is. inflation is eating into. real disposable income declining almost being the pre-crisis levels but the real terms. because of the. inflation in. that's all from may bill is next with the headlines say without sci.

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top stories this hour naughty frustration with governments reaches boiling point across the middle east and north africa as protesters push for change it's a time to gyptian they're starting to question the outcome of that unrest. the u.s. military is fighting tooth and nail to hold on to its multi-billion dollar budget claiming cuts will cost lives but some say americans are already in the deep end with many on the edge of poverty. economic woes and political turmoil because of a bottles of tarnish image on its third anniversary since declaring independence from serbia and while there are fears radical islam is gaining ground in the republic. i'll be back with another update for you in fifteen minutes from now in the meantime we're moving to sweden where there is increasing pressure for the country to join nato with many european countries already members of the experts say it's only a matter of time before stockholm that lead and he said now he met up with

a local peace activist who claims all these attempts are america's way of trying to gain control of more countries that interview is next. i've never 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 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 go through there so proud to be one of the guys. why did people know so little about nato sweden cooperation their sort of don't speak about the connection between afghanistan the troops we have in afghanistan and nato.