now who's next. time to decide. which way the country's going to. start so far it's nearly a week since the gyptian generals promised to lift a fifty year state of emergency but there's still no sign of when that will be 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 my mind see 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 i. think. so just how different is egypt today under the generals from the egypt of yesterday under mubarak finian cunningham is a middle east expert in bahrain from way visual and internet communications have been cut by the authorities emergency. central component of the government apparatus we're not. like.

them or. generals and for as long as a state of emergency remains in place the hopes that both 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 this country too has its emergency north for the last six decades since the birth of the state of israel we've been in a formal state of emergency which in israel has set into power and number of laws that were strict civil liberties and civil rights in ways that we find problematic 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 there are many protesters might be wondering what exactly they were out on the streets for. r.t. tel aviv. a muddy darrius from the center for research on globalization told me earlier the real change in the region will come only when constitutions are altered

and elections take place these are revolts they're not revolutions yet people's mindsets are revolutionary they want change they're fed up with these or revolts until the structures in place change it won't be consider revolutions in order for democratic position to occur people need to elect their officials right now we're not seeing that we're seeing the status quo in egypt the military is taking over it nothing's changed it's a formal change because the more barak was a part of the military the military hosni mubarak one of the united states and its allies are politically hedging their backs what they're doing right now is something that we should call creating a counter discourse counter discourse is when you have a party in governance and an opposition if 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 to see the wisemen in egypt which are unelected individuals

billionaires people who were it part of the status quo part of the regime in fact who did nothing when mubarak was in power. coming up in just a couple of moments here on r t it's a religious affair in rome russian. it's the vatican have all the details on his meeting with the pope and how it could change the relationship between the country's children. plus russia's wealthiest woman finds herself in the middle of a multimillion dollar thirty scandal it all the details on that story later in the program here on r.t. . kosovo is marking the third anniversary of its declaration of independence from serbia but the republic continues 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 touching of

being involved in a renders crimes during the ninety nine nine hundred ninety nine secession among the allegations of executions abductions and organ trafficking on wednesday serbia called on the un security council to investigate the charges marco does it from the british urban alliance for peace says the claims weren't investigated by the u.s. and the e.u. earlier because they would have to admit blame for their role. the lows crimes that were committed a great service at that time was so huge that to admit that in fact the reality was that the albanians that the u.s. was sponsoring at the time they couldn't go back from their original claims without admitting that they'd be lying all along particularly in one thousand nine hundred nine and that would have meant that. serbia were culpable in criminal terms for that bombing and should answer before an international court so of course it would be very difficult for them to say actually yes we are indeed wrong we were wrong we supported the wrong side and the that and that was the one step too far for them because he was to be nobody charged with the task of actually investigating marty's

findings so it will require a brave brave the security council and the committee security council one that wants the truth to actually appear and i have my doubts whether that will appear out of the security council i mean one of the people and cause of a struggle in the economic turmoil the republic is seeing money pouring in from saudi arabia but some say the funds are breeding a hardline strain of radical islam in the region. now reports many fear this will lead to the territory fostering terrorists. press timing cause of a's 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 is a hobby as it is taking the most fundamental strain. of the fundamentalist strain from the harbors and so i think when you have this kind of

ideology saying you have to literally follow. from the koran. you can quite easily have a situation where for example terrorist acts can be justified when harvey 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 bring in food which we need for i would children of the order but with nearly half the population employed and widespread poverty because of the could be becoming a fertile breeding ground for 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 the hobby ideology as well a lot of the saudi money is often this is this is tied up in ideology and i don't think so massively keen on the west especially for. building a democratic structure which. has been right for four months and the mosques are supposed to be carefully monitored by the islamic community in course very to ensure that there adhering to moderate teachings. not to be under a layer of control because really hard to a point being mom and v are some comes to redo 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 interview the poor it was a legally built mosque in the hand of marina that the him out was able to operate but ten years now 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 karma and she was taking the 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 a to our top story u.s. congressmen and pentagon officials are debating how best to trim the country's fifty five trillion dollar debt president barack obama has already proposed cutting the massive defense budget by seventy eight billion over the next five years while the pentagon is making sure the cuts doesn't come at the expense of america's ability to wage war while not essential programs are being slashed the proposed

budget will actually see the pentagon spending growth this year or more or less i can cross live to the u.s. and talk to kathy kelly from voices for creative nonviolence thanks very much indeed for joining. me now understand you've been to afghanistan three times although u.s. military spendings been necessary there has no. well i wouldn't say that at all i think that if the united states wanted to secure a better future for people in afghanistan and in the united states we wouldn't be loading the country up with weapons and we wouldn't be surging united states soldiers i think we'd instead be looking at some of the realities on both sides both among afghans and people in the united states in terms of what real security would be comprised of i mean here in the united states the enormous amounts of money we're spending it comes to three million a day or two billion per week. this amount of money is needed very badly here to deal with the very real terrors that we face and those are terrors that have to do

with what we're doing to our own environment to the ecosystem to the depletion of fossil fuels working with and meanwhile in afghanistan eight hundred fifty children every single day it's a country where people don't have good security education security health security job security and yet money gets already into building our huge military bases and roadways to connect those bases and people in college just quickly ask you that the u.s. will be withdrawing from afghanistan from a competent role they will not be there in a competent role but they will continue of course in the normal competent supportive role surely money will be justified being spent on afghanistan post this conflict. well i don't know that we would find that keeping united states soldiers and united states security contractors. wealth

and a with access to some of the amenities that they would expect at home and the enormous expense and brother that you know it's there are seven thousand trucks per day crossing into afghanistan to service the united states troop presence and each of those trucks can sometimes cross as much as one thousand dollars per day just to cross certain stretches of road and that money goes right into the hands of maybe taliban warlords and certainly other kinds of drug lords and people who have control over the roads i don't know that we would expect that this is going to somehow be of benefit to people in afghanistan and the idea that if the united states is able to train and create small groups armed. militias in every single village that this is going to create security has been recruited by reputable or non-governmental organisations who are actually begging

the international security assistance forces and nato in the united states to reconsider that or hardy plan it's a prescription for civil war and ongoing violence well we'll have to leave it there thank you very much indeed for sharing your thoughts on the matter live from chicago in the u.s. catholic county from voices for creative nonviolence thanks for joining us. now pope benedict says he wants to learn russian that's what he told me treatment that he's currently on an official visit to the vatican just over a year since moscow and the holy see restored toys following decades of disagreement in the town and often of a more. this is the first visit over russian president to vatican city after russian vatican establish diplomatic relations back in two thousand and nine president's meeting with a different both been addict the sixteenth touched upon a number of global issues as well as a corporation 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 the relations 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 the habit 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 it's a visit to rome a number of energy deals have been signed russia and it's really have agreed to jointly invest into major infrastructure and energy projects in north africa also it was decided that glossaries going to be involved in developing the elephant oil fields in levy it together with its early and career it's really is russia second

largest trade partner in the european union often germany and according to preliminary asked amidst the trade to volumes have increased between the two countries by a nearly twelve percent since two thousand and nine. well still ahead for you here in r.t. space fashion courtesy of our unarmed former agent who spy scandal made headlines around the world. unlike chapman is not a mission to get the russian space industry to look fabulous all the cosmic details there a little later on the program. story still to come but first police have raided the offices of russia's richest woman. is the wife of moscow's former mayor who was sent by prison dimitri medvedev last year and r.t. as you got of his kind of explains what's behind this raid. officials are saying that these searchers are part of an investigation looking into the imbecile meant 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 yell about 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 and 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 the 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 two in a says that neither she or her company in teko were connected or involved. in any criminal activities and said that these searchers. pressure on her and her husband meanwhile the investigators say that they're ready to call up everybody in

including for questioning if it is necessary. now let's update you on some other news making international headlines this hour a series of blasts rocked a military base in tanzania killing at least thirty people it happened near the airport in the country's largest city. explosions it 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 another tanzanian ammunition facility in two thousand and nine killed three people. tourists were among twelve people killed when a boat sank in north eastern vietnam the vessel went down before dawn when most will sleep in the 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 accident since the country opened up to foreigners twenty five years ago. belgium has now gone two hundred forty nine

days without a government which some are saying equals the world record held by iran the month stalemate is divided on language lines between the leaders of the six million speaking flourish and four hundred million french speakers and the people from both sides organize a flash mob in the french speaking student town a louver calling for the creation of a unity government the event was one of many and held across the country. it's been a second day of violence in southeastern turkey off to riots marked the twelfth anniversary of the capture of a prominent kurdish rebel leader protesters holed stones and put two bombs at what police in the city of the up here who responded with tear gas and water cannon several people were arrested just as accuse forces of being too heavy handed during demos earlier this week over a dollar continued in prison. the renowned former russian agent on a chaplain will add a dash of glamour to the country's space program the redhead now wants to try her hand in designing new uniforms for the space industry. 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 to your name as a trademark so no official michigan sells her name as a brand and the latest appeal creative ideas will be reflected in a collection of quote sport ross course most people spacemen on the grounds that a space control central mosque and also the country's largest portion of its training center will be trussed up in what we believe might be very glamorous and outfits it's 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 into orbit and perhaps it was there where she followed

inspiration looked around at those brave men and decided that their next mission will be to make them look small they feel as though since the july last year when she was deported from the united states of america it seems that the sell shoes 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 an advisor to the phone surveys bank which shares the initials with the country's a top secret service the af is beyond just recently she joined a program in youth movement so yes it seems that these days she is here and there and everywhere. and if you prefer the internet for your daily news brief you can always check out our website it's r t v dot com here's a taste of what's on offer there right now in addition to the screen mosco wins the title by having the world's most expensive hotels for the six in a row and find out who else made it to the top of that list. if you often.

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by-passed amazon which took second place in the us last year the top three spots were taken by apple twitter and facebook. and russian entrepreneur your email it was excessively invested into online sites and projects like facebook groupon and zynga all on the aforementioned innovation list is planning to invest in startups here in russia d.s.d. global c.e.o. admitted he would be facing challenges but claims that russian skilled labor is a key factor in his decision other countries have had started just like us you know much more advanced in on the technology front but russia has in the 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 on the rule russian talent is actually very highly regarded globally. and you can catch the full interview with spotlight next week

second look at the stock markets now that your applications for jobless benefits and consumer prices grew more than expected in the united states this is offset by strong manufacturing reports so in the end we're seeing a flat the positive picture european stocks ended the session flats biggest defense contractors be systems was down more than four percent after its profit missed estimates and in russia a dramatic change of mood there we have to gains in the morning but stocks ended the session in negative territory as take a look at some of those stocks the blue chips were losing but burbank was up slightly on news that it could sell off its oil related assets worth over one point two billion dollars as soon as this year gazprom is down two percent of the closest point securing this asset swap deal with any that we've been telling you about the past two days polymaths it was up at the close as the price of gold reached

thirteen hundred eighty three dollars per troy ounce braces capital says the ongoing tension in the middle east continues to shake the markets. 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 we have real disposable income declining almost be in the pre-crisis levels but the real terms because of the. inflation in. standard and poor's is raised it's a long term corporate credit rating for russia's dairy giant wimble down from the miners to be plus the upgrade follows pepsi co's acquisition of a sixty six percent stake in wimbledon or three point eight billion dollars which.

all the soft drink joints total ownership an awesome company to seventy seven percent it's also expected the pepsi co will offer it so quiet the remaining shares of we're both down this spring. so often i'll be back in a while so i live on next to stay with us.

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fi. just joined us for a little while consulted life here in the russian capital top stories this hour frustration with governments which is boiling point across the middle east and north africa as protesters push for change the same time egyptians are starting to question the outcome of that unrest. u.s. military is fighting tooth and nail to hold on to its multi-billion dollar budget claiming the cuts will cost lives and some say americans are already in the deep end with many on the edge of poverty. economic woes and political turmoil kosovo battles of tarnished image on its third anniversary since declaring independence from serbia meanwhile there are fears radical islam is gaining ground in the republic. popping up with another update for you in about fifteen minutes from now in the meantime we move to sweden where there is increasing pressure for the

country to join nato with many european countries already members of the alliance experts say it's only a matter of time before stockholm follows their lead. 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 on r.t. . i've noted 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.-y. the activist has dedicated her life to stop what she calls the u.s. nato war machine in the south korea and japan is where you guys were they are so proud to be one of the guys. why did people know so little about nato sweden cooperation they saw it.