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 us 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 and the c.s.t. it 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. calling the shots. left right left or

right. this is what is happening and in reality people no documents published so far haven't exactly uncovered anything groundbreaking but if every member in 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. wave of anti-government protests that started in tunisia in egypt continues raging across the greater middle east thousands have been clashing with police in yemen's capital for a full week now and libya at least twenty people have been killed as police are appointed moved higher arms in various cities and in bahrain mourners chanted anti-government slogans after security forces dispersed thousands of rioters from the center of the capital manara the opposition reports at least three were killed and more than one hundred injured mideast expert. 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 a revolutionary they want change they're fed up with 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 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 can 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 who's 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. as those protests rage across the middle east debate is heating up over the country that may be next to see its leader toppled later this hour and cross talk peter lavelle asks his guess if iran is likely to follow the examples of tunisia and egypt whether that might 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 this leaves before some of the ground off to the last of the demonstrations in june two thousand and nine and also the election so the true extrude 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

ahmadinejad other 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 he is like a rock star you have tens if not hundreds of thousands of people who surround his but it's easy is really his we're not all surprised regime demonstration dismounting is going to do you know is 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 the years that's due to arrive later on friday a number of scientists have warned of possible technological disaster while some people are taking the precaution of staying away from electrical appliances like kettles toasters and god forbid televisions earlier i talked with artie's pierre

oliver to see whether this is all justified. peter is this the day that our cell phones arise against us. 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 technology the technologies that we use in our daily lives this is due to a solar flare that i heard on the fifteenth of february it was 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 and what this can cause is some kind of. allows a lot more radiation than we've sent you we usually get from the sun now that can sound incredibly dangerous what scientists have told us though is that ground level here on earth the magnetosphere the eye on a sphere the atmosphere protecting our planet make sure that we are at no

particular risk here on the scientists are telling us there are some people though who are at more risk because we're looking at 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 human life however the majority of the scientific community saying that we would be fine and our atmosphere will protect us so if the t.v.'s are affected how about if you and me both go home right now i mean are people really going to happen well i'm hoping somebody is watching lots of it is nice it is to talk to you would be a bit of a waste if we were doing it just to just me and you talk to each other like this but we could see is what's referred to as. communications that we're looking at satellites here they can they will take the brunt of this this radiation storm is heading our way we could see things like g.p.s. affected g.p.s. i don't know if you like me get lost go very. jordan so many people's lives to get

around now that relies on satellites they can be heavily affected also air travel does become something that is 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 really 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 us 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. and turning to more celestial goings on to space travelers will walk on the surface of mars or at least a mock up version of it it's the project simulating

a trip to the red planet that enters its second half the eighteen month long program replicates the exact conditions of a return journey to mars a crew of three russians two europeans and a chinese have been locked up in a mock 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 already walked on it once we'll be bringing you live pictures of today's walk in just under two hours time the aim of the project is to study the psychological effects of long deep space voyage and one european astronaut says the distance makes it really difficult for them to cope. and i had the opportunity 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 re you see the election takes many minutes right now is about six seven minutes so if you're following you have

to wait fifteen minutes and some of them here are the you can't with you from the station rows that's why they have to do with rhythm is that it is sort of coordinated unison. and we'll be bringing you the latest developments on the story both here and on our web site r t dot com for those with first a little more cosmic wonder there's plenty more online for you right now including this joining the superhero security guarantees the legendary trip to space gets retold again this time as a complicated venture. bringing you the latest in science and technology from the realms of. the future of coverage.

this street still keeps the secrets of the times from the feel of the soviet scientists. like to see. you with us here on r t it's twelve minutes past the hour here in moscow while most americans are struggling hard to overcome the hardships of their reception the profits of national banks continue to rise j.p. morgan is among those cashing in and it's a contract to process food stat payments that's helping it's on its way artie's marine important to find out how some of the rich are benefiting off the backs of the coal. 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 what they call an electronic benefit transfer card allows food stamp recipients to spend their allowance the plastic lifeline for the hungry and unemployed it's 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 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 you 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 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 fifty an hour. meanwhile in the u.s. a business 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 dollars 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 in liberation in the us believes that banks that place the burden of the crisis on ordinary americans are the only ones to blame what's happening is there's a budget deficit there's an economic crisis and it's 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 steel workers 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 bombing in the eastern afghan city of khost has killed eleven 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 on his car prompting him to detonate his explosives authorities say that the death toll is expected to rise. day two of violence in southeastern turkey after riots

mark the twelfth anniversary of the capture of a prominent kurdish rebel leader protestors world 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 their demonstrations earlier this week over abdullah collins continued imprisonment. japan has generally halted the whale hunting season following continued pressure brian anti-whaling 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 aimed to kill almost a thousand whales this winter commercial whaling has been banned for almost two decades but it is allowed for the purposes of scientific research. while endangered whales have been given a brief respite from japanese plates there's a different kind of eco crisis unfolding in the amazon oil companies have been dumping toxic chemicals in ecuadorian forests for decades destroying biodiversity and threatening the existence of the indigenous populations are these exile report

comes your way later today here's a sneak peek. the rallies and palestinians have been long time to adverse areas but for mothers

desperate to save sick children the conflict takes a back seat and israeli clinic is saving the thousands lives of youngsters from many neighboring countries even those with whom israel is at war or his paws reports. every hour away is touch and go for a fourteen month old donna 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 yellow who was almost eight 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 very but all these parents face 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 oh prepare for the alternative possibly losing their child initially it was

a very difficult for them because there is where was the enemy country and the parents were very anxious and 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 that treat these arab children the decision is simple doing what they think is right to do and doing everything. in the last fifteen years more than two and a half thousand trolldom 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 eternally 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 our next year's got the business update after a short break.

hello and a very warm welcome to the business update modernization of the russian economy has become the key issue of the annual crustily arsk economic forum being held in russia's eastern siberia in his opening speech finance minister alexey cluetrain stressed the importance of creating a new development model for russia's economy in the post crisis period he admitted the innovative scenario is hardly possible with the budget deficit lying that two percent of g.d.p. over the next decade archies that has more. at the moment it's still not clear how expensive russia is more nice a show and diversification they away from or the gas will be russia's economic development ministry says it will not be cheap and if we russia wants to double the

share off its high tech sector in the economy took twenty percent of g.d.p. it will have to camp out a lot which means it will have to borrow and might triple its population 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 much of the deficit for another decade however the economic development ministry is made up poems russia's the finance ministry says that it wants to save more and to have known the 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 all this 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 quick look at all the markets are faring that solid japan's nikkei finished friday's session flat in tokyo the middle east tensions had a negative impact as a former encouraged investors to sell exporters. point six percent at the close this. low point six percent last point four percent hong kong's hang seng is higher more than one percent. and in russia the r.t.s. poised for a positive start slipped into red again this solemn to my six. the biggest gain on the my six foot analysts not quite optimistic in the pot from growing prices don't. well price has has retreated a bit from thursday's highest experts also say talk the subtitle is and not a story to watch at the russian markets today. markets is going to be pretty sluggish. there is. war is that the approach is going to

correct you see the difference between. 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 or it's got some dating right now. and russia's trades turnover rose by so she one percent last year reaching almost six hundred and fifty billion dollars according to the latest data from the federal statistics service moreover the country's trade surplus wife who took a billion dollars to reach one hundred and fifty two billion no to hear. russian entrepreneur or you to mina has successfully invested into social networking sites facebook group or unsigned a is plenty to invest in startups in 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 started just like us you know they're 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 you. next week and your op should acknowledge join let someone else time for more business news who you have on our.

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eleven thirty am in the russian capital good to have you with us on our team these are your headlines wiki leaks latest memo showed the u.s. has been snooping on nato's top official using its leverage ties with russia whistleblowers revelations of profit further question marks over the radio why it works. how people building over a major magnetic storm later today a wave of solar flares some scientists warn of a possible catastrophe and even people to stay away from electrical appliances others say there's nothing to worry about. and the wave of anti-government protests raging across the middle east gathers pace dozens of riders have been killed in libya hundreds are injured in the capitals of yemen and bahrain after clashes with police. and as public anger grows in the muslim world r.t.s.

peter lavelle asks his gas whether iran is political establishment maybe next to be toppled it's coming your way in cross talk up next. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from around russia. we've got the future covered. and. welcome to cross talk time peter lavelle as protest in people's power rage across the arab middle east there are those who say iran's political establishment is next in line to be topple.