in and the question now who's next fall back after. which way the country's going to be easy 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 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 my mind 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 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 the present.

war 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 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 a number of laws that were struck civil liberties and civil rights in ways that we find problematic wherever 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 policy r.t. tel aviv. and marty. from the center for research on globalization told me earlier that 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 considered 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 nothing's changed it's a formal change more barak was a part of the military the military hosni mubarak one of the united states and its allies are politically hedging their bets 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 in opposition to get control both sides now i'm not saying that the protests are genuine the protests are absolutely genuine organic but the fact is that the united states is trying to put its own opposition figures

into position to see the wise men 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. well coming up in just a couple of moments it's a religious affair in rome russian president dmitri visits the vatican we have all the details on his meeting with the pope and how it could change the relationship between the country's churches and. russia's wealthiest woman finds herself in the middle of a multimillion dollar left scandal get all the details on that story a little later here on our team. first 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 duchy of being involved in horrendous crimes to. in the nine hundred ninety nine war of secession among the allegations or executions of doctrines and organ trafficking wednesday serbia called on the un security council to investigate the charges marco gusset from the british seven alliance for peace told me earlier that the claims weren't investigated by the us and e.u. earlier because they would have had to admit blame for their role the lows crimes that were committed a great service at that time were 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 those who bombed 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 and the that and that was the

one step too far for them there seems 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 meanwhile as the people in kosovo struggle amid 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 and as r.t. sarah firth reports many fear this will lead to the territory fostering terrorists . timing cost base 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 is taking the most fundamentalist strain of. the

fundamentalist strain is from from the harbison so i think when you have this kind of ideology saying you have to literally follow the child from the koran. you can quite easily have a situation where for example terrorist acts can be justified hobby is 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 all members of the community. not only have jobs sure the charity bring food which we need for which children. but with nearly half the population are employed and widespread poverty closely could be becoming affairs whole breeding grounds the influence of well financed. the impact of saudi financing in course of a now is clearly evident and the fear is that it's not just the money that's being

bought in the ideology as well a lot of saudi money is often this 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 four months and the mosques are supposed to be carefully monitored by the islamic community in course very to ensure that their it hearing to moderate teachings. cannot be underlayer control because really hard to appoint the mom and v. of the summit 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 win a for the poor it was this illegally built mosque in the town of marina the v m i was able to operate but 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 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 door right into the hearts of hear. r.t. . pope benedict says he wants to learn russian that's what he told dimitri medvedev who's currently on an official visit to the vatican just over a year since moscow and the holy see restored ties following decades of disagreement already in the telling of a has 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 dmitry medvedev and both benedict the sixteenth touched upon a number of global issues as well as cooperation between 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 that 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 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 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 elite and at korea it's really is russia second largest trade partner in the european union are to germany and according to preliminary asked amidst the trade to volumes have increased between the two countries by nearly two hundred percent since two thousand and nine. 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 that's over the next five years where the pentagon is making sure the cut doesn't come at the expense of america's ability to wage war while non-essential programs of being slashed the proposed budget would actually see the pentagon spending growing this year well for more on this we can of course live to the u.s. capitol and talk to matthew from the center for international policy thanks very much indeed here on our team now back in two thousand and nine you became the first

u.s. official to resign in protest over the afghan war now some would say that short of all the money and efforts in hindsight put into that country has been vital to winning the war on terror and actually protecting the u.s. or i would strongly disagree with that. as not present in afghanistan the exist more as a crime syndicate than as any conventional military force and what we're doing here is we're basically trying to kill the fly with a sledgehammer and this is an organization that is a very dangerous. organization a very dangerous operation around the world but that's the case it's around the world it's an axe through individuals and small cells that are loosely connected and now to follow a particular ideology so they were going about attacking al qaeda it is completely wrong and actually what it does it opens up. for attack because we're concentrating

on that as existed when they did exist in the sudan and did exist in afghanistan and now as they exist today and that makes us much more drawn from them all right what about toppling a dictator what happened in iraq and understand you served as a marine corps captain. that time some would say the u.s. is kick started a democratic process there after toppling saddam hussein. well you know the case with iraq we went to iraq many on several different false presumptions one that iraq had something to do with nine eleven which it did not that saddam hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction which he was not that he did had those weapons he would use them which he would not of because that makes no sense he would have lost his regime and that we're there to bring democracy to the iraqi people what happened was we got there and we had no planning we had no preparation for what we're getting into and we sparked

a civil war by demonizing the sunni's in that country and by elevating the shia into positions of power and excluding the sunni's and excluded and disenfranchising we sparked a civil war that i think has reparations still to this day throughout the middle east i know plenty of iraqis work with plenty iraqis daily both my deployments to iraq it's been about told twenty months there and while they do have a freer government while saddam hussein was a tyrant it was a brutal government. i think most iraqis would prefer to have that than to have the violence and the chaos and the insanity that has marked daily life in iraq since two thousand and three when i understand that so we have time for role this link between moscow and washington thanks very much indeed matthew hoh from the center for international policy joining us here live in auti thank you. more just ahead this hour space fashion courtesy of a renowned former agent who spy scandal made headlines around the world. unlike

chapman it's not a mission to get the russian space industry to look fabulous all the cosmic details are a little later on the program. but first police have raided the offices of russia's richest woman yelena is the wife of moscow's former man who was sent by prison to meet him and last year r.t. if you got this kind of explains what's behind this raid. officials are saying that these searchers are part of an investigation looking into the imbecile 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 mayor. are directly connected to the scase which actually started in december investigators believe that the immerse them and who 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 the and you to school of moscow's former mayor have been subject 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 i stopped being the mayor of moscow in tech are 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 you for questioning if it is necessary. now to some other news making international headlines this hour a series of blasts a book to military police in tanzania killing at least thirty people it happened near the airport in the country's largest city. the explosions that started in one

arm's depo 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 tanzania i mean a facility in two thousand and nine killed three people. it's been a second in southeastern turkey after riots marked the twelfth anniversary of the capture of a prominent kurdish rebel leader protesters holed stones and petrol bombs at riot police in the city of a kid who responded with tear gas and water cannon several people were arrested and protesters accuse forces of being too heavy handed doing demos earlier this week over a dollar or two lines continued in prison. as for among twelve people killed when a boat sank in north eastern vietnam the vessel went down before dawn when most were asleep in the cabins it's believed there were twenty foreigners on board and those who survived nine people and six crew members jumped into the water where they were rescued by other vessels it's the deadliest tour boat accident since the country opened up to foreigners twenty five years ago. and it's now gone two

hundred forty nine days without a government which some are saying equals the world record held by iran the month tell me it is divided on language lines between the leaders of the six million dutch speaking flemish for half a million french speakers hundreds of people from both sides organize a flash mall being the french speaking town of over the creation of a unity government event one of many being held across the country. renowned former russian agent donna chapman 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 and artie's because. 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 and the latest of your creative ideas will be reflected in

a collection of quote sports bra sports most people spacemen on the grounds that a space control central mosque and also the country's largest oil spills training center will be trussed up in what we believe might be very glamorous and she 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 the chaplain visited the baikonur space cosmodrome in kazakhstan where she soit a rocket launched into orbit and perhaps it was there where follow the inspiration looks around at those brave men and decided that their next mission will be to make them look small they feel as though since july last year when she was deported from the united states of america it seems that the cell sure spy service has become the least kept secret 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 the youth movement so yes it seems that these days she is here and there and everywhere. katrina of reporting there if you prefer the internet for your daily news brief you can always check out our website www dot com online all the time here's a taste of what's there at the moment in addition to what you see here on screen moscow wins are probably the worst expensive hotels for the sixth time in a row find out who else made it to that list and. to alter the culture check out our odds section for a preview of contemporary georgian photography as more than sixty works going to play here in the russian capital all lined altie dot com.

a little later here on r.t. mexico and co-host stacey heard it will be talking about schemes selling fictional forests for money and how this affects farm but first let's get the latest business news with the tree. thanks very much bill this is business coming to you live from moscow russia is leading the search engine yandex has landed in the top fifty most innovative companies and twenty eleven placed higher than global giants like i.b.m. and microsoft fast company magazine which compiled the list. twenty six place in the list of the most innovative in the world this year this is the first time and this was actually included in this noted for its prowess in search systems that bypassed amazon which took second place in this last year the top three spots were

taken by apple twitter and facebook. and russian entrepreneur u.-t. milner who successfully invested in two online projects like facebook groupon and zynga all on the aforementioned innovation list he's planning to invest in startups in russia to use the 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 they're much more advanced in on the technology front but russia has a in the ground 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. and you can watch the full interview with yuri milner on

spotlight next week so you look at the markets now we start with the united states new applications for jobless benefits consumer prices they grew more than expected and this is on the other hand offset by strong manufacturing report so we're kind of in between positive negative stats to positive the markets european stocks ended the session mixed europe's biggest defense contract to be a nice systems that stock was down four percent after its profit missed estimates in russia there was a dramatic change of mood have to gains in the mornings but stocks were flat to negative in the end of the session plus the blue chips were losing its burbank was up slightly on the news that it could sell off its oil related assets worth over one point two billion dollars as soon as this year gazprom was down two percent on the biggest losers despite securing the assets will deal with any polymath sell was up at the close as the price of gold reached thirteen hundred eighty three dollars

per ounce nathan's 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. eight 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. inflation in january. and standard and poor's has raised its long term corporate credit rating the russian giant wimble down from the minus to be plus the upgrade follows pepsico its acquisition of a sixty six percent stake in wimbledon for three point eight. dolans this brought

the soft total ownership in the russian company to seventy seven percent it's also expected the pepsi co will offer to acquire the remaining shares of this spring. from may join my colleague. eight twenty in the morning moscow time that is headlines are next on the to do stay with us.

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from moscow this is good to have you with this is our top stories now frustration with governments reaches a boiling point across the middle east and north africa protests his push for change at the same time egyptians are starting to question the rest. of us with a tree is fighting tooth and nail to hold on to its multi-billion dollar budget claiming cults 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 some of bottles of tarnished image on its third anniversary since declaring independence from serbia the brunt of radical islam is gaining ground in public. i'll be back with more news for thirty minutes from now in the meantime join us for the latest

addition of the cause report where i will discuss how schemes setting virtual forests are actually affecting real fall now that's next on r.t. . guys or this is the kaiser report you know the value of real farms and cities is going down due to the eco eco disaster of degradation of the ecology and deflation in the economy but the value of virtual farms in the cities is going up going to be stacy herbert tell us all about it yes max there's a global conflicts going on between real and fake we can't tell the difference anymore between real value and fake value carlyle group lost one hundred five million dollars on a fictional chinese forestry.