private dialogue with the u.s. representative to nato rasmussen took all mention at 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. left right left or right. this is what is happening in reality the 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 about r t. the arab world is shaking as the wave of anti-government protests that started in tunisia and egypt continue to rage across the greater middle east thousands have been clashing with police and yemen's capital for a full week now we'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 reported to have used firearms in the various cities in bahrain security forces this push thousands of rioters in the center of the capital manama the opposition reports at least three dead more than one hundred injured mideast expert. says that although the region although the region is in turmoil it's hard to say just how fundamental the changes will be. ease a revolt 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 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 state can over nothing's changed it's a formal change any 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 could call creating a counter discourse counter discourse is when you have a party in governance and in 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 a part of the status quo part of the regime in fact who did nothing when mubarak

was in power. and as the protests rage across the middle east debate heats up over which country is going to be next to see its leader toppled coming up later and cross talk host peter lavelle asks his guess if iran is likely to follow the examples of tunisia and egypt whether 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 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 to nature than 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 to do you know and that's not true if that was true then they gyptian regime could have done that now it's it's obvious that it's that's not the case. our planet is gearing up for its largest magnetic stormy years which is due to arrive later today a number of scientists have warned of possible technological disaster while some people are taking the precaution of staying away from electrical appliances like t.v.'s kettles and toasters for more on this we crossed the spear all over to find out where this is all justified so peter is this the day that our cell phones arise

against us i don't really know if we're in a. skynet situation just yet but what we are hearing from scientists is that we could see some interference on our. on our technology the technologies that we use in our daily lives now this is due to a solar flare that i heard on the fifteenth of february and the solar flares essentially a little bit like a little bit like a belt from the sun it kicks out with of radiation that's now taken in the past few days to reach us here and will hit us to date now what this can cause is some kind of it allows a lot more radiation than we've senshi we usually get from the sun now that can sound incredibly dangerous what scientists have told us though is that a ground level here on earth the magnets fear the eye on a sphere the aft miss fear protecting our planet make sure that we are at no particular risk here on earth that the scientists are telling us there are some

people though who are more risk than one thousand eight hundred nine the last time we had a storm of roughly the same type of size as this the astronauts on the mia space station observe zorba i beg pardon around a year's worth of radiation but the limit you can absorb it around a couple of days so the amount of radiation it's kicked out is very very high so because we're looking at three astronauts currently up on the international space station at the moment they will be taking precautions to make sure they safe there have been some people warning of risks to to human life however the majority of the scientific community saying that we'll be fine and our atmosphere will protect us so if the tv's are affected how about if you and me both go home right now i mean are people is that really going to happen well i'm hoping somebody is watching lots of it is nice that is to talk to you would be a bit of a waste if we were doing it just to just me and you talk and do each other like this but yet what we could see is what's referred to as

a normal. terrestrial communications we're looking at satellites here they can they will take the brunt of this this radiation storm it's heading our way we could see things like g.p.s. affected now g.p.s. i don't know if you like me the get lost wherever you go very important to many people's lives to get around now that relies on satellites they can be heavily affected and the previous storms that we've seen has resulted in g.p.s. networks being being knocked out of shut down for a little while also air travel does become something that is affected what we should see though is the airlines know what they're doing with this they receive. about when they're going to be. when there's going to be heightened risk of radiation and they change altitudes or divert flight paths in order to be able to make sure that they're not putting themselves at any of the risk there are thought

though for the air for homing pigeons and dolphins i mentioned the g.p.s. system being affected homing pigeons and dolphins also as well as many other migratory animals their internal compass is can be affected by this and they can find themselves getting a little bit lost so things hopefully won't be too badly affected one thing that we will be able to see scientists have been preparing us for is if you're in the right place at the right time you could be in for a spectacular light show in the evening time pending on where you are this this solar. this solar storm passes this radiation storm passes us it could make things like the the northern lights incredibly beautiful as they are already even that little bit more spectacular are able to be watching for that thanks very much artie's peter all over. or more some some more celestial goings on to space travelers are set to walk on the surface of mars or at least a mock up version it's the unique project that simulates

a trip to the red planet and centering its second half the eighteen month long program we're up. the exact conditions of a return journey to mars the crew of three russians two europeans and a chinese have been locked up in a mock spaceship for most nine months now with very little outside contact they landed on a model of the martian surface last week and already walked on it once the aim of the project is to study the psychological effects of the space of a long deep space voyage one european astronaut says the distance really makes it tough for them because. i had the opportunity from the space station and i'm sure you call the whole month old to the families through. telephone system over radio 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 seeing the reducing the action takes many minutes right now is about six seven minutes so you know if you're following you have to wait fifteen minutes and some of them here. you can look for

safety rope that's why they have to do is create the mist that is sort of core to be doing this. will bring you the latest developments on this story both here and on our web site r t dot com for those with a thirst for a little more cosmic wonder there's plenty more for you on line putting this joining the ranks of the superheroes here you can guarantee legendary trip to space gets retold once again this time as a comic adventure book. review the latest in science and technology from the realms. of huge earth covered.

this street still keeps its secrets the. feel of the soviet slums heaton seems. likely to succeed. posting with us here on r t it's thirteen minutes past the hour while most 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 to process food stamp payments that's helping it on its way or he's marina porton to find out how some of the rich are benefiting off the backs of the poor. americans are generally known for their healthy appetite some eat what they

crave while others like gabrielle jemma can't use the food stamps here for me to express of only eat what is affordable is there a way to give me two dollars worth. of these you have to go look for the 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 it is is that we offer that every time 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 apply so it doesn't surprise me that every every aspect. 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 stamps 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. the business of economic hardship nearly fourteen million americans like every al 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. archie new york michael prysner from the newly formed party for socialism and liberation in the us believes that the banks place the burden of the crisis on ordinary americans and they're the only ones to blame what's happening is there's a budget deficit there's an economic crisis it was a budget deficit because of the banks this is a crisis that we know was created by lehman brothers by city big this is a crisis created by the super rich but what's happening now is that it is

a demonization of public sector workers of steelworkers of teachers of nurses as if they are the ones that created the crisis as if it somehow their fault now the burden of this crisis is burden of this budget deficit is being shouldered on working families the people that need help the most while the millionaires and billionaires who created the crisis are experiencing record profits and the argument of all these right wingers and tea parties around the country is their argument is in support of those multimillionaires and billionaires who contribute absolutely nothing. take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe a suicide car bombing in the eastern afghan city of khost has killed at least nine people including two police officers and wounded thirty others the incident happened at a roadside checkpoint police say they grew suspicious of the bomber and opened fire prompting him to detonate his explosives authorities say the death toll is expected to rise. there's been a second day of violence in southeastern turkey after riots mark the twelfth anniversary of the capture of

a prominent kurdish rebel leader protesters who rolled stones and petrol bombs at police in the city of here who responded with tear gas and water cannons several people were arrested protestors accuse security forces of being too heavy handed during demonstrations earlier this week over a. continued in prison. and has called an early halt to the whale hunting season following continued pressure by an anti whaling group tokyo ordered the fleet home but activists say they'll continue their activities until it returns to port if lee consisting of four ships aim to kill almost a thousand whales this winter commercial whaling has been banned for almost two decades but is allowed for purposes of scientific research. while endangered whales have been given a brief respite from japanese dinner plates there's a different kind of eco crisis unfolding in the amazon oil companies have been dumping toxic chemicals in ecuadorian forest for decades destroying biodiversity and threatening the existence of indigenous populations exile report comes your way later today here's

a sneak peek. finally in this new block israelis and palestinians have been longtime enemies but for

mothers who are desperate to save their sick children the conflict takes a back seat and israeli clinic is saving thousands of lives with youngsters from many neighboring countries even those from form with whom israel is at war or peace policy reports. every our way is touch and go for fourteen months duller his little heart was born with a hole in it without 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 blue these parents face the most difficult decision of their lives bring their children to israel a country at war with theirs 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 it was their enemy country 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 rock forbids its citizens from traveling to israel they just fire 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. before the israeli doctors there treat these arab children the decision is simple doing what they think is right to do and doing. 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 edu turning the grateful to the israeli doctors that saved her daughter's life she's now brave enough to tell her neighbors back home. what i will tell everyone we were in israel and how they 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 were further apart on the ground at least in this spot a very different story is unfolding policy r.t. hold on. stay with us here on araa to you your book of ours up next with a business update after a short break. no

time for your business update and modernization has become the key issue of the annual economic forum which is taking place in russia's class najar hoping the foreign finance minister could ruin stressed the importance of creating a new development model for russia's economy in the post crisis period he said the innovative scenario is hardly possible with the budget deficit at two percent of g.d.p. over the next decade artista has more. at the moment it's still not clear how expensive russia is more than nice asian and diversification their way from one of the gaps will be russia's economic development ministry says it will not be cheap and if the 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 out water 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 mean that russia will have to leave with such a deficit for another decade however the economic development ministry has made up her own and russia's the finance ministry says that it wants to save more and to have normal deficit budget already in four years. we should realise that in the next few years our economy will be wakin in more difficult conditions we'll see wrote the modus capital inflows and facing the base we will have to work out a new development trend with low inflation and a stable currency rate. so we hope that this forum might represent a great opportunity to further the country's top financial i fish oils to decide on russia's future. let's have

a look at the markets and we start with asia japan's nikkei finished friday's session flat in tokyo and middle east tensions had a negative impact as a form here and encouraged investors to sell some exporters toyota motor was down zero point eight percent nice and low point four percent and so on your last point seven percent hong kong saying saying it's higher. ok and in russia the r.t.s. poised for a positive start it has with twitter debate from thursday's highest stocks closed down also day as investors assessed economic data on the u.s. inflation which rose to his fourteen months maximum but analysts are quite up to miss. taken the outlook apart from growing oil prices telecom sector is another story to watch out there were some markets today. markets is going to be pretty sluggish. all this war is that the approach is going to

correct you see the difference between. grain to oil prices and a huge is almost seventeen dollars no there's no. there could be some. profit taking. no mames and so i think the market is up for a small correction or it's going to dating right now. russia's trades 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 more over the country straight surplus by forty billion dollars to reach one hundred fifty two billion over a year. now russian entrepreneur u.-t. milner who successfully invested into social networking sites facebook groupon and is planning to invest in startups and russia speaking exclusively to archie 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 an advantage in human capital it was the basic advantage if you look at the wall championship in programming the russian teams won six out the last ten years so russia on the raw russian talent is actually very highly regarded globally and you can catch their full interview with your millionaire next week you're up to date knowledge. of what is.

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it's ten thirty am in moscow these here are some headlines wiki leaks latest memo show that the u.s. has been snooping on nato's top official and using its leverage to prevent closer ties with russia the whistleblower revelations have prompted further questions over the way the alliance works. a wave of anti-government protests raging across the middle east gathers pace dozens of rioters have been killed in libya and hundreds injured in the capitals of yemen and bahrain after clashes with police. and high building over a major magnetic storm due to hit earth later today in the wake of solar flares while some scientists warn of a possible task your feet and urged people to stay away from electrical appliances others say there's nothing to worry about. up next our culture show moscow out this

week discovers how life can be cheap in the russian capital known to be one of the most expensive cities in the world. hello and welcome to the program now moscow is famous for being one of the mess expensive cities in the world. and see just how low we can find prices in the capital there are hundreds if not thousands of deals office sales and discounts to be found here. six of. the good. times you don't have to be a. swine to enjoy shopping. if you know the social security still has several locations around.