grassroots and was looking for closer ties with the collective security treaty organization made up of former soviet states the us was quick to veto the idea after a private dialogue with the u.s. representative to nato 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 is 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 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 yeah. this is what is happening in reality that people know 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 at all gas trainers are the r.t.e. . the arab world is shaking as the wave of anti-government protests that started in tunisia in egypt continues to rage across the greater middle east thousands have been clashing with police in yemen's capital for a full week now these are our exclusive pictures from there showing police take on demonstrators in libya at least twenty people have been killed as police are reported to have used firearms in various cities and in bahrain security forces dispersed thousands of rioters in the center of the capital managua the opposition reports at least three dead more than one hundred injured and east expert mahdi darrius says that although the 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 changed but these are 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 state nothing's changed it's a formal change because the mubarak was a part of the military the military hosni mubarak who won the united states and its allies are polluting their backs what they're doing right now is something that we call creating a challenger discourse counter discourse is when you have a party in governance and in opposition to do to 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 it part of the status quo part of the regime in fact who did nothing when 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 out later and cross talk peter lavelle asks his gas if her. iran is likely to follow the examples of tunisia and egypt or that would just be wishful thinking on the part of western governments. but what's the risks facing. 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 with force of the ground off of the off the demonstrations in june two thousand and nine after the election so 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 but 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 nature 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 also probably regime demonstrations it's very easy for them 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 storm in years which is due to arrive later on friday a number of scientists have warned of a possible technological disaster while some people are even taking the precaution

of keeping away from electrical appliances like t.v.'s and kettles and toasters for more on this i'm joined by over the fight over all of this fear is justified so peter one of the scientists saying about how dangerous the storm could really be well hopefully not know too many people be staying away from their televisions of the was just made to look into each other as well what we're looking at really is probably the biggest solar radiation storm since around one. nine hundred eighty nine now this is being caused by a solar flare that erupted from the surface of the sun on the fifteenth of february a solar flare kind of like well almost like a bird or a bell from a from our let me wrists star as its expels this really radioactive energy now that radioactive energy is no joke it is quite dangerous to humans if we were to be able to face the full brunt of it however thanks to our eye on a sphere and our atmosphere we don't have to face any of that it's perfectly safe but ground level now it could affect as you said some kind of electronic equipment

one of the things we could see affected is communication satellites the last time that they had any kind of major solar radiation storm we saw the g.p.s. system affected and know this could be a problem for anybody who's of course g.p.s. systems used to have just about everywhere these days even mobile phones of them but of course new when we get around and the way we we navigate through our daily lives but also g.p.s. used by militaries by governments so this is something that will be looked at by them now it's not just the electronic vacation devices that are affected by this the sod the saddest thing i've heard that's affected by this is homing pigeons they will parents they suffer from a problem whereby they can get lost in the their their internal compass is as in the eternal compass internal compass of most migratory animals like dolphins as well they become affected and they can become a little confused as to where they are so hopefully they won't be too badly

affected as i say electronic equipment can suffer from this i don't think it's worthwhile to stay away from you from your t.v.'s and your blenders this isn't going to be sky net we're not looking at a hollywood movie here. it will it has the potential to give some kind of light effect however it's not going to be anything too bad to worry about. now going all this be affecting our everyday lives peter well how can affect their everyday lives they said. here on earth ground level we're fine we're. fine from any of the radiation it comes out from the solar this solar flare. if you're flying in an airplane you are rid of grit to risk however you'd be having to fly in an airplane morse of the time that we are going to be suffering from this this radiation storm cabin crew will be given the correct kind of of information in the correct kind of medication if they deem to be at risk by the airline that they're flying with normal commercial five passengers should be absolutely fine three people who are

grid a risk than anybody else that would to me to have problems desperately and katherine kuhlmann the three astronauts who are up there on the international space station of course precautions being taken for them to make sure they are fine one of the things that we could see you've got some great pictures on the screen right now is one of the reasons it could affect our daily lives is we could be in for a fantastic like short depending on where you are around the world in this evening so hopefully you'll be able to see some of the the the northern lights as they sometimes are the with the lights that would be able to see in the sky should be fantastic if you are in the right part of the world over so you would check in with your local weather service to see if you are in one of those areas should be in for a grid chill tonight however the immediate risk to us is into greece hopefully the best we get is some pretty sane some pretty sites like that we'll be keeping an eye out for that artie's peter all of our thanks for that. to more celestial goings on

now to space travelers are set to walk on the surface of mars or at least a mock up version of it so you need project that simulates a trip to the red planet entering its second half the eighteen month long program replicates the exact conditions of the return journey to mars the crew of three russians two europeans and a chinese have been locked up in my. space ship for most nine months now with very little contact with the outside world they landed on a model of the martian surface last week and i've already walked on it once the aim of the project is to study the psychological effects of a long deep space voyage one european astronaut says the distance makes it difficult for them to cope. and i had the opportunity to you from the space station and i'm sure you call the whole month told 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 challenge for them they are so far away from yours so even the scene of the raid you see takes many minutes right now it's about six seven minutes so if

you're following you have to wait fifteen minutes and some of them here. you can look from the station that's why they have to do it. just sort of cordon did you know this. you can find the latest developments on the story both here on our web site for those with a thirst for a little more cosmic wonder there is plenty more. including this joining the ranks of the superheroes yuri gagarin's legendary trip to space gets retold once again this time in comic books for.

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felt that they both at the chia pet but they weren't treated so well themselves one question means one career you ask one question you could be uncertain and you might or might not be able to publish it but that's the end of your career. u.s. defense budget is going under the knife as 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 it still amounts to almost half of all the global military spending or a carly from the center for american progress think 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 than they are spending during the war in vietnam as well and defense spending in the country is 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 testify in front of the house armed services committee and 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 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. marian pemberton

a very institute for policy studies in washington says that defense dollars are supposed to make americans safer or 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 cut military bases around the world some of those bases were in saudi arabia it's pretty clear that they are doing at least as much harm as they're doing good by claiming sentiments in those countries who don't want to be occupied by u.s. 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. take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe there's been a second day of violence in southeast turkey after riots marked the twelfth anniversary of the capture of a prominent kurdish rebel leader protesters who are old stones and petrol bombs of

police in the city of the job out here who responded with tear gas and water tight several were arrested protesters accused security forces of being too heavy handed during demonstrations earlier this week over collins continued imprisonment. opposition parties and candidates in uganda warning of mass protests against fraud as the state gears up for elections reports of militia groups being formed across the country while some are calling for an egypt style revolt the run up to the poll has been relatively peaceful in contrast with past elections marred by violence and oppression current president of twenty five years was a close ally of the us is widely expected to win. japan has called an early halt to the whale hunting season following continued pressure by an anti whaling group tokyo has ordered its fleet home but activists say they'll continue their activities until it returns to port the fleet consisting of four ships aim to kill almost a thousand whales this winter commercial whaling has been banned for almost twenty

years but it is allowed for the purposes of scientific research. while endangered whales have been given a brief respite from japanese dinner plates there is a different kind of eco crisis unfolding in the amazon oil companies have been dumping toxic tema chemicals in ecuadorian forests for decades destroying biodiversity and threatening the existence of indigenous populations or he's exile report comes away in fifteen minutes here's a sneak peek. farley

in his news black israelis and palestinians have been longtime enemies but for mothers who are desperate to save sick 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 our teams policy reports. every alway is touch and go for fourteen months all done to his little heart was born with a hole in it that without the operation in this hospital my son would have died and in the next ward fourteen year old one yell who was almost dead 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 that she was so sick that she could not walk you very talk she was a very but all these parents faced the most difficult decision of their lives bring their children to israel a country at war with face and risk punishment and even death back home pay for the alternative possibly losing their child initially it was a very difficult for them because. was there any me 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 despite them there's there might be a layover in another country like i know for instance from 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 created 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 off not only is so easy you turn to be grateful to the israeli doctors that saved her 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 these 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 go at each other and israel and her arab neighbors go further apart on the ground

at least in this spot a very different story is unfolding policy r.t. . stay with us here on our team is up next with the business updates in a few moments. hello time for your business update it's a very warm welcome more denies ation has become the key issue of the annual economic forum which is taking place in russia's cross najar ask opening the forum finance minister elect seclusion stressed the importance of new technologies and know how in today's economic life of russia he also said modernization is hardly

possible with unstable currency hind's lation and interest rates of up to fifteen percent are just a gentle but of course follows the event. at the moment it's still not clear how expensive russia is more than isolation and diversification they away from or the gas will be russia's economic development ministry says it will not be a cheap and easy for russia wants to double the share off its high tech sector in the economy took twenty per cent of g.d.p. it will have to camp a whole lot which means it will have to borrow and might triple its public that's two third's of per cent of g.d.p. in the next fifteen years it might also be about russia it will have to leave it with such a deficit for another decade however the economic development ministry is made up potence rush as the finance ministry says that it wants to save more and to have known deficit budget already in four years so we hope that this forum might represent

a great opportunity to move the country's top financial i fish oils to decide on the russia future. ok let's have a look at the asian markets and japan's nikkei finished friday's session flat and you know the mideast tensions had a negative impact as a farm yet encourage investors to sell some things just so you have to motion it was done point eight percent nice mochi low what point four percent and sony last point seven percent and saying he's higher this. than russia stocks closed on thursday as investors assessed economic data on us inflation which rose to its fourteen months maximum journalists quite optimistic and they are all torn apart from growing wealth crisis telecom sector is another story to watch out the russian markets. markets is going to be pretty sluggish. there is

all the warders that the approach is going to create after you see the difference between. grain to oil prices and. it's huge it's almost seventeen dollars no it's not very big could be some. profit taking you know names and so i think the market is up for a small correction for or it's got some good dating right now. russia's trade turnover rose by thirty one percent last year reaching almost six hundred fifty billion dollars that's according to the latest data from the federal statistics service for all of the countries trade surplus grew by for a few billion dollars to reach one hundred fifty two billion over here. and russian entrepreneur you are a millionaire who successfully invested into social networking sites facebook and single plenty to invest in startups in russia speaking exclusively to our tedious

to global sea admitted he would be facing challenges but claims russian skilled labor is a key factor in his decision other countries have had started just like us you know them much more advanced in on the technology front but russia has a vantage 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 and the russian talent is actually very highly regarded globally. and you can catch the full interview with your i'm in the spotlight next week and you're up to date now that's it from me join me in lesson one last time for more business news.

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nine thirty am in moscow good to have you with us here on our t.v. easier headlines wiki leaks latest memo showed that the u.s. has been snooping on nato's top official and using its leverage closer ties with russia whistleblowers revelations have prompted further questions over the way the alliance works. waves of anti-government protests raging across the middle east to gather pace dozens of riders have been killed in libya and hundreds are injured in the capital of yemen and bahrain after clashes with police. builds over a major magnetic storm due to hit earth later today in the wake of solar flare as well some scientists warn a possible catastrophe and urged people to stay away from electrical appliances others are saying don't worry there is nothing to worry about. next special report

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