after a private dialogue with the u.s. representative to nido rasmussen took all mention of the two organizations growing closer out of his address to the alliance in two thousand and nine but why would the us try to pressure its allies. as one of nato as key players the u.s. tries to prevent the alliance from growing too close to the russia in the former soviet bloc because the region is of strategic interest to america they of course would prefer to build exclusive bilateral relationships the strong ties between two military organizations such as nato in the c.s. is not in u.s. interests. this is an odds with the image of the alliance tries to project a strong union where every opinion matters even the people in the street understand that washington is calling the shots so. left right left right and much yeah so this is this is what is happening and in reality that is what people know so what does this say about nato speech or nato.

as well as this all and then. you who are the nato military alliance by you so it's absolutely impossible because it's not until it's us grace the documents published so far haven't exactly uncovered anything groundbreaking but if every member a nato is supposedly equal it has raised questions over whether the u.s. will really trust the alliance our own gas trainers our of our r t. the arab world is shaking as the wake of anti-government protests started in tunisia and egypt continues to rage across the greater middle east thousands have been clashing with police in yemen's capital for a whole week and now they're watching archy's exclusive pictures from there showing police taking on demonstrators in libya at least twenty people have been killed as police are reporting to having to fire on various cities in bahrain security forces this first thousands of rioters in the center of the capital the opposition reports

at least three dead and more than one hundred injured mideast expert marty darian says that although the region isn't her region is in turmoil it's hard to say just how fundamental the changes will be. these are revolts and not revolutions yet people's mindsets or revolutionary they want change they're fed up with these a revolt until the structures in place changed it won't be considered a revolution so in order for a 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 state nothing's changed it's a formal change was the mubarak was a part of the military the military hosni mubarak who won the united states and its allies are pleading we had their backs what they're doing right now is something that we call creating a town or discourse town or discourses and we have a party in governance and in opposition you do control both sides now i'm not

saying that the protests aren't genuine the protests are absolutely genuine an organic but the fact is that the united states is trying to put its own opposition figures into position to see if the wise men in egypt which are unelected individuals billionaires people who were part of the status quo part of the regime in fact who did nothing were mubarak was in power. and as protests rage across the middle east debate is heating up over which country is going to be next to see its leader toppled coming up later and cross talk host piero della his gas if iran is likely to follow the examples of tunisia and egypt or other i would just be wishful thinking from western governments. what's the risks facing down as we talk about massive changes going on in the arab world part of the problem is that no one knows the extent of the opposition because most of the logs go off as leaders before some of the ground off of the off the demonstrations in june two

thousand on off the elections the true it's true left of discontent with the government remains very very hard to quantify actually so you know it's really center on this program it i'll ask you the question this point blank as i always do are people tired of having the islamic republic of iran i didn't vote for mr ahmed teenager then i've said this on numerous occasions there's there's it's clear but there's no doubt that he is highly popular throughout the country every province that he goes to is like a rock star you have tens if not hundreds of thousands of people who surround his but it's easy is really this we're not all surprised regime demonstrations it's very easy to do you know and that's not true if that was true then they gyptian regime could have done that no it's it's obvious that it's that's not the case. our planet is gearing up for its largest magnetic stormin years which is due to arrive later on friday a number of scientists have warned of possible technological disaster well some

people are actually taken the precaution of staying away from electrical appliances like t.v.'s and kettles and toasters for more on this we turn to our teas are all over the top of the story for us to see whether this is all justified so peter what are scientists saying about how dangerous this solar storm could be. the one thing mark that certainly seems to have been affected by this solar flare if anything is to be affected is the ability for me to hear you i can't exactly hear too well right now so i'll do my best with what we can right what could happen with these solar flares is they care they do put out a lot of radiation they are essentially a a birth from the sun that takes a couple of days for it to reach us here but earth and that bird contains a lot of radiation now that radiation damages the can damage has the potential to damage satellites things that are outside of our atmosphere our atmosphere of course protecting us from any kind of lethal dorsey's any kind of dangerous doses even of radiation that will come from the solar flare so we should be perfectly

fine here on earth we shouldn't be too affected at all but it will look at things like especially older satellites they can take a bit of a pounding from this this as a witch more like if you want to describe a birth from the sun it belcher's out this this radiation from this because molten burning hot star in our center of center of our universe out of our solar system and that earth eventually when it reaches us provides us with this this little bump of radiation so nothing too dangerous but it can as i say affect communications as we're facing right now and can also affect satellites that are in the areas and in what other ways could this affect our everyday lives here. well one of the worst things you can be right now with the solar flare situation that we have is a homing pigeon apparently tragically as it sounds homing pigeons dramatically

affected by the solar radiation that comes through cause them to get lost still phones also seven of the animal world is affected as well as humans what we can see though is our effect on our own versions of of navigation g.p.s. can be greatly affected by these kind of solar flares that could see so snow maybe get the old road map out and stead of using the cheapie s. in the car a new way to work but yes that's one of the key things that can be affected is the is how we navigate how we get around of course there are. there are contingency plans put in place for situations like this one word of mention definitely for three people that are in slightly more risk than most of us are the three people on the international space station at the moment to be taken that are katherine coleman and paolo nespoli they however have. extra radiation treatment just in case to make sure that they don't suffer any any seen any dramatic side

effects from being in space outside as they say all of our atmosphere that the eye on a sphere that protects us so greatly from these kind of solar flares what it could result though is if you're in the right part of the world this evening if you wherever you are could be the right place to see some dramatic lights in the sky so hopefully you're somewhere where you can see that hopefully not too greatly affected by this solar outburst are i will be looking out for that artie's peter our live for us thank you for that report. now to more celestial goings on to space travelers are set to walk on the surface of mars or at least a mark up version of it that's the unique project simulating the trip to the red planet as it enters its second half the a movie eighteen month long program is to replicate the exact can. missions of a return journey to mars their crew of three russians two europeans and chinese has been locked up in a mock space ship for nine months now with very little contact with the outside world they landed on

a model of the martian surface last week and already walked on it once they carried out a test to study the psychological effects of long deep space travel and one european astronaut says the distance makes it really difficult for them to cope. and i had the opportunity to from the space station and i'm sure you call the whole month old to the families through. telephone system very old radios that three to help suit what they tend to do that. i think is the hardest for them they are so far away from yours so even the scene of the raid you see that takes many minutes right now is about six seven minutes so if you're following you have to wait fifteen min this is some of the i'm here to you can with you from the situation room that's why they have to do is create the mess that is the record of doing this. to bring you the latest developments on that story both on our t.v. and on our web site and for those with a thirst for a little more cosmic wonder there is plenty more at r t dot com including this. and

joining the ranks of the superheroes yuri gagarin's legendary trip to space gets retold once again this time in a comic book adventure. israelis and palestinians have been a long time enemies but for mothers who are desperate to save their children the conflict takes a back seat and israeli clinic is saving thousands of lives of youngsters from many neighboring countries even those with whom israel is at war policy or has been. every our way is touch and go for fourteen months i don't know whose little heart was born with a hole in it for the operation in this hospital my son would have died and in the next ward fourteen year old one yell who was almost did when she was wheeled in one

of five iraqi children flown from baghdad to a month and then driven across the border to jerusalem she was almost dead she was so sick that you could not walk very talk she was very but these parents faced the most difficult decision of their lives bring their children to israel a country at war with this and risk punishment and even death back home or prepare for the alternative possibly losing their child initially it was very difficult for them because i was there in america and the parents were very anxious they didn't know what to expect i was very scared to come to israel very frightened. and she had good reason to be her country iraq forbids its citizens from traveling to israel just fire them there is there might be a layover in another country like i know for instance the africa they come in there because it's the only place in africa that was. before the israeli doctors that

treat these arab children the decision is simple doing what they think is right to do and doing anything. in the last fifteen years more than two and a half thousand two hundred have been brought here on third and treated half of them come from gaza the rest come from iraq indonesia and across africa the main goal of this organization is to help developing countries create the medical ability to treat children with heart problems by themselves in order to achieve that we bring children from these developing countries to israel we also bring doctors from these developing countries for training here in israel and it's a vision that's paying more for not only a say do you turn to be grateful to the israeli doctors the. saved to daughter's life she's now brave enough to tell a neighbor's back. home what i will tell everyone we were in israel and how the saved my daughter's life i'm no longer afraid to say it because my daughter is alive and so while the politicians continue to have

a child there and israel and the arab neighbors go further a pox on the ground at least in this spot a very different story is unfolding put a c r t. still ahead this hour a plastic card that's a lifeline for some in the u.s. and a money making tool for others. if you morgan is responsible for the fact that i'm going to apply we look at how an american investment bank profits from the poverty that has led to an increase in the number of food stamp recipients. first though the u.s. defense budget is going under the knife of the country seeks to slash the u.s. government debt from a staggering fourteen trillion dollars although this year's budget is almost forty billion dollars less than the previous and still one and a half times larger than the combined military budget of the twenty seven countries laura carley from the center for american progress think tank tells us the current u.s. approach to defense spending can't last forever. the defense budget is it's actually

higher now than it was at the peak level of spending during the cold war we're spending more on defense and they are spending during the war in vietnam as well and defense spending in the country has actually doubled since two thousand and one so really i think we need to do a better job of matching our resources and our priorities i think since two thousand and one in this country we've sort of gotten into the mindset of buy everything do everything in a sense we've decided that if we can spend enough money we can sort of in a way address every threat that's out there we can buy perfect security and that's just not realistic actually secretary gates was testifying in front of the house armed services committee and he was asked about this very idea you know how much money do we really need to spend for all these security needs and he said listen you know there's no amount of money that you can spend that can actually take our risk down to zero and that's just it's an illusory concept so we need to do a better job as i said of matching our resources and our priorities and at this

moment time with the difficult economic situation in the u.s. we really just can't afford to increase the pentagon budget year after year as we have been doing over the last decade and miriam pemberton from the institute for policy studies in washington says that defense dollars are supposed to make americans safer and may actually be doing the opposite. what they do and they've been doing it for years is a envision you know very ambitious plans for military spending then they pair them back a little bit and they call that a cut at military bases around the world some of those bases were in saudi arabia it's pretty clear that they are doing us at least as much harm as they're doing good by claiming sentiments in those countries who don't want to be occupied by us military bases and so i think we need to really look carefully at what we are spending for this military security and really whether it's making us in fact more

secure. and while many americans are struggling hard to overcome the hardships of the recession the profits of national banks continue to rise j.p. morgan is among those cashing in and it's a contract and it's a contract to process food stamp payments that's helping it on its way. to find out how many of the rich are benefiting off the backs of the poor. americans are generally known for their healthy appetite eat what they crave while others like gabrielle jemma use the food stamps here for me too expensive only eat what is affordable is there a way to give me two dollars worth. of these really worth sixty one year old is unemployed and maintains a monthly food budget of two hundred dollars gabrielle is among the forty three million americans relying on federal food subsidy here's. the electronic benefit transfer card allows food stamp recipients to spend their allowance the plastic

lifeline for the hungry and unemployed is also a money maker for j.p. morgan chase the largest processor of food stamp benefits in the u.s. meaning an increase in food stamp recipients equals more profit for the investment bank yes that is that we offer that every time. i'm i use my debit card goldman sachs or j.p. morgan in this case make a little money off of my transaction j.p. morgan is responsible for the fact that i want to play it so it doesn't surprise me that every every aspect of of this program and everything else has been privatized j.p. morgan chase provides food stamp debit cards in twenty six states and the district of columbia the firm is paid per customer and in the state of indiana j.p. morgan makes roughly one hundred eighty six thousand dollars per month critics say the investment bank is making

a fortune off american poverty as long as the unemployment rate remains high as long as families are struggling there's sort of this perverse incentive for j.p. morgan chase to continue to benefit off of high unemployment and they're living up to this person so no because in many states they're actually offshoring jobs related you're processing steps to save money j.p. morgan has been routing benefit card customer service calls to india where employees reportedly earn no more than three fifteen hour. meanwhile in the u.s. abyss of economic hardship nearly fourteen million americans like every oh are unemployed bailed out to the tune of twenty five billion dollars in two thousand and eight j.p. morgan has bounced back reporting a seventeen point eight billion dollar profit in two thousand and ten the same success can be said for the people forty percent of food stamp recipients are working americans unable to keep up with the cost of living booming business

arguably feasting off the hungry and disadvantaged. archie new york michael snyder for the founder of the economic collapse blog believes that banks profiting from food stamps widens the gap between rich and poor. it's really just a stall that here's j.p. morgan they receive these huge bailouts from the u.s. government so they hate kid to get back on their feet but then they're making be sued you crop it off the suffering of the american people you know as we've seen the number of americans on food stamps has increased from twenty six million back in two thousand and seven to all of forty three point six million today so it's it and the war americans that go on food stamps the more money to j.p. morgan makes there is no incentive for j.p. morgan help people get off of the food stamps you know goal should be here to reduce the number or reduce the dependency of government but instead j.p.

morgan what they want is to increase the number of customers big banks the these wall street banks they seem to get away with the with murder get away with anything there does not seem to be just this desire on the part of the state governments to really do anything about this. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe it's been a second day of violence in southeastern turkey after riots marked the twelfth anniversary of the capture of a prominent pretty rebel leader protestors her old stones and petrol bombs of police in the city of that you're back here who responded with tear gas and water cannons several were arrested protesters accused security forces of being too heavy handed during demonstrations earlier this week over a collins continued imprisonment. opposition parties and candidates in uganda warning of mass protests against fraud as the state gears up for elections as reports of militia groups being formed across the country well some are calling for an egypt style revolt one of the polls been relatively peaceful and contrasts with

the elections marred by the violence of oppression the current president of twenty five years was a close ally of the u.s. is widely expected to win. and japan has called an early halt to the whale hunting season followed continue with pressure by an anti welling group tokyo has ordered its fleet home but activists say they will continue their activities until it returns to port the fleet consisting of four ships aim to kill almost a thousand whales this winter commercial well has been banned for almost two decades but it is allowed for the purposes of scientific research. stay with us here on our. next with the business update. hello and a very warm welcome to the business update and more than a zation has become the key issue of the n.f.l. it can moment form taking place in brushes across new york opening the forum finance minister stressed the importance of new technologies and know how in

today's economic life of russia he also said it would in a zation is hardly possible with unstable currency kind and interest rates of up to fifteen percent are just as full as the event. at the moment it's still not clear how expensive russia is more than isolation and diversification that away from or the gaps will be russia's economic development ministry says it will not be cheap and easy for russia wants to double their share all but my tech sector in the economy took twenty per cent of to defeat it will have to camp out a lot which means it will have to borrow and might triple its public that's two thirds of per cent of g.d.p. in the next fifteen years it might also mean that russia will have to leave it with budget deficit for another decade however the economic development minister is made up potence rushes the finance ministry says that it wants to save more and to have

known the deficit budget already in four years so we hope that this forum might represent a great opportunity to two of the country's top financial i fish oils to decide on the russia's future. but have a look at the markets now let's start with asia and sneak a stalk average was flat. in tokyo the middle east tensions had a negative impact as a farm and encouraged investors to sell something which is. was down zero point eight percent a nice and off point four percent and selling off point seven. and in russia stocks closed down on thursday but every lists are quite up to mystic and their outlook apart from oil prices telecom sector is another story to watch out there russian markets. markets are going to be pretty sluggish.

all this war is that the approach is going to correct you see that difference between. grain to oil price and it's huge it's almost seventeen dollars now there's no clarity on this there could be some. profit taking you know names and so i think the market is up for a small correction this four or it's going to do to great. and russian entrepreneur acuity miller has successfully invested in just social networking sites facebook groupon and single play to invest in start ups in russia speaking exclusively to our g d s t global c.e.o. admitted he would be facing challenges but claims russian skilled labor is a key factor in his decision other countries have had starts like us you know they're much more advanced in on the technology front but russia has

a in the front page in human capital at least 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 russian talent is actually very highly regarded globally. and you can catch the full interview with yuri limited on spotlights next week and that's all we have time for now join me in less than one last time for more business news and get more stories small website our. business.

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eight thirty am in moscow good to have you with us here on our t.d.c. your headlines wiki leaks latest memos show that the u.s. has been snooping on nato as a top official using its leverage to prevent closer ties with russia the whistleblowers revelations have prompted further question marks over the way the alliance works. high builds over a major magnetic storm due to hit the earth later today in the wake of solar flares some scientists warn of a possible catastrophe and heard people to stay away from electrical appliances others say there's nothing to worry about. and saving young lives as a bridge to peace thousands of families from arab and middle east countries find a cure for their children's heart conditions in israel. and next martin andrews explores the russian influence in paris in this week's special edition of moscow

out stay with us. hello and welcome to the program now moscow is famous for being one of the mess expensive cities in the world. and how low we can find prices in the capital there are hundreds if not thousands of deals. found. the good old. times he didn't have to be a. wife to enjoy shopping eating and drinking if you know to say she still has several locations around the capitol. down high street alleyways when.