snooping on top nato officials and users heavy pressure on its allies to get its way as archy's catarina as our reports. cat among the pigeons whistle blower strikes again this time at the very heart of nato according to documents published by two european newspapers a u.s. mole was planted right in the office of the alliance's secretary general several of the cables revealed by wiki leaks indicate america is trying to control nato from within reporting confidential information back to washington this point of view is supported by some of the documents allegedly sent by u.s. diplomat jeff rafter. when under spog rasmussen 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 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 but they of course would prefer to build exclusive bilateral relationships the strong ties between two military organizations such as nato and the c.s.c. that 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 much so this is what is happening in reality that 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 wave of anti-government protests that started in tunisia and egypt continues to rage across the greater middle east clashes have continued across yemen in what's now the eighth day protest protestors have been using social networks to call for as many people as possible to hit the streets on what happened day every libya at least twenty people killed as police were reported to have used firearms and various cities in bahrain mourners chanted that high government slogans after security forces dispersed thousands of rioters in the center of the capital manama the opposition reports at least three people were killed more than one hundred injured there mideast expert. says although the region in the term the turmoil is in the region it's hard to say how fundamental the changes will be. these are revolts and not revolutions yet people's mindsets are 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 official 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 the mubarak was a part of the military the military hosni mubarak who won the united states and its allies are pleading their backs what they're doing right now is something that we call creating a challenger discourse counter discourse is 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 cleaves the wisemen in egypt which are unelected individuals billionaires people who were part of the status quo part of the regime in fact who did nothing when mubarak was in power. and as these protests rage

across the middle east debate is heating up over which country may be the next to see its leader toppled later today and cross talk you know about his gas if iran is likely to follow the examples of tunisia and egypt or that would just be wishful thinking from western governments. but what the risks are 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 the leaders with force of the ground off of the off the demonstrations in june two thousand and one after the election so the true it's true left of discontent with the government remains very very hard to quantify actually so no one's really said on this program that 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 is like a rock star you have tens if not hundreds of thousands of people who surround his but it's easy it really is we're going to also probably regime demonstrations it's very easy to do and that's not true if that was true then the gyptian regime could have done that no it's it's obvious that it's that's not the case. back to those live pictures that we were talking about earlier in the show two space travelers are walking on the surface of mars right now or at least a mock up version of it it's part of a unique project simulating a trip to the red planet and for more on this live by our sara firth so these are live pictures that we're looking we're going to look at from the studio that's going on right there tell us more about what's happening in these live shots but

it's exciting stuff on that team hundred sixty day all of the five hundred twenty day experimental nation and led killings today by al he is the heads of the european space agency have an emission here in russia thank you very much for joining us now we seen some of the pitches that. coming three to date the cosmonauts carrying out the space will not the second all kids in it they had the first one on monday to take in a second he taught us a bit more about what they're hoping to achieve and what they've been doing. so that's really the second walk. correctly it's the half way sort of the whole experiment they have been there since the container and they're shipped to mars sort of. since june and now we have this three mass walks the first one monday this is the second one and the simulation is the three guys out of this crew of six are sort of in a ship which went away from the mothership to mars we simulate three mars

walks each about two hours really how humans would behave on mars of course we don't you cannot simulate the gravity situation on mars where everything else is pretty similar to what we would expect on mars so after all that time such they probably get things like stretch we can see them here what do they actually think of collecting salts and stuff and chill well i would say they are doing what humans would do first humans would do and mars collecting samples trying to analyze some post you can see here they are how they collect. samples from the ground putting them into devices which then go back to earth together. with the soil samples also the spacesuits they have. there to rest on they're pretty similar to. what would be used for a mission to mars each of them is thirty five kilograms. and we can see how

the six. how come there's any truth in that occurring up this well for the moment there are two spacesuits we have of this quality and that's the reason but also in the real mission you would not expect that all of the six. i would call this a moment on the martian surface because you need to be. for safety regulations. somebody to support them from outside as well yeah that's been a big fakes in this project has been there on this really they didn't have the sort of twenty minute delay. with the communication i mean it is really a scientific experiment and therefore we try to make it as real as possible of course because simulate gravity we cannot simulate. radiation but everything else is really close as possible to reality it can a girl ask a final question obviously this is the big experiment but how far we are seeing the

real. world it's always a good question. i would say it's difficult to put use of numbers. i would say technically we have pretty much everything which is needed there but of course it is quite demanding in terms of of course of a budget but also in putting together an international project. everybody would find its correct rule correct wall and also to find the right target to really do it so i would say we're pretty far from it. thank you very much tony is that it's run a pitch l. and of course of course you know it's continuing on the experimentation the two hundred sixty day that five hundred twenty day look experiments not all right artie sarah ferguson and gas thank you both very much. and stay with us here on our team will bring you the latest developments on that story both here and on our web site and for those with a thirst for a little more cosmic wonder there's plenty at our t.v.

dot com including this joining the ranks of the superhero series the garron his legendary trip to space gets retold once again this time as a comic book. sun skies and hard rock russia's president and prime minister have been checking out one of the snow tracks i will be used for so she's twenty fourteen winter olympics . please. return medvedev inviting your putin went to see part of the european cup being held this week in one of the region's most beautiful ski resorts but apart from the skiing that you seem to enjoy the soundtrack for the event featuring deep purple particularly the president he's known for his affection for rock music but you didn't shy away from the crowd some of whom managed to grab a photo with russia's new. well 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 contractor processed food stamp payments that's helping it on its way or he's worried important to find out how many 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. 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 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'm going to apply so it doesn't surprise me that every every aspect. of this program and everything else has been privatized j.p. morgan. 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 out of line 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 center because in many states they're actually offshoring the 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 fifty an 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. archie new york. michael prysner from the newly formed party for socialism and liberalism in the

u.s. believes that believes 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 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 partiers 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 that again city of khost has killed at least

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 prompting him to detonate his explosives officials have blamed the taliban who frequently target security checkpoints. in 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 are old stones and petrol bombs at police in the city of job here who responded with tear gas and water cannons several people were arrested protestors accuse security forces of being too heavy handed the demonstrations earlier this week over a tolerance continued imprisonment. japan has called an early stop to the well hunting season following continued pressure by an anti whaling your tokyo has ordered its fleet home but activists say they'll continue their activities until it returns to port made up of four ships aim 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 dinner 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 local populations our special report coming your way in less than a quarter hour here's a quick look. israelis

and palestinians have been a long time adversary but from others who are desperate to save their sick children the conflict takes a back seat and israeli clinic is saving thousands of lives of youngsters from many neighboring countries even though i'm with them israel is at war or he's possibly reports. every hour away is touch and go for fourteen months all done to his little heart was born with a hole in 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 dead and she

was so sick that you could not walk you barely talked 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 oprah pay for the alternative possibly losing their child initially it was a very difficult for them because it was their. 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 you know for instance for 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. 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 turn to be 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 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 a business update. that's right time for you a business update and a very warm welcome what can i say she has become the key issue of the any across new york economic forum being held in russia eastern siberia in his opening speech finance minister 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 at two percent of g.d.p. over the next decade archies the channel has more. at the moment it's still not clear how expensive russia is more nice a sugar and diversification they away from or they get will be russia's economic development ministry says it will not be cheap and easy for russia wants to double

their share of 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 budget deficit for another decade however the economic development ministry has 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. we should realise that in the next few years our economy will be work in a more difficult conditions we'll see wrote the modus capsule inflows and face you know this we will have to work out a new development trend with low inflation and a stable currency rates are working and what did so we hope that this forum might represent a great opportunity to further the country's top financial i think shells to decide

on russia's future. russia's investment company basic element and china's tongue shanklin. five a firm plan to invest three hundred million dollars in morden izing and expanding the pulp and paper mill in russia. as comes as asia's becoming one of the top priority regions for the russian businesses that can provide huge sources of demand and capital. shows the first evolving markets in asia china korea and japan are making is reconsider our plans we're now paying more attention to developing value added products and alloys and we're trying to find out how to cut our customers costs through maximizing our production efficiency while giving more time to have a quick look at how the markets are faring that solve the footsie of attacks that are inching lower the mining sector is mixed shares of anglo-american are down about two and a half percent and that's despite the company's profit jumping ninety three percent

on high metal prices well the firm's chief executive did warble short term on starting just in the outlook aerospace and defense program be a new system this is also a top to climb here one point six percent down extending losses from the previous session when it warned its forces about twenty eleven due to expected lower defense spending in the u.k. and the u.s. . and here in russia they are testing the might set suffer much too negative one and gold prices are higher those situation the middle east is edging a certainty on the russian markets let's have a look at something those shares are mixed this hour as burbank continues to gain for the third straight session with oil is up on proposed changes in the way the russian oil industry is taxed buttressed hydro is down almost two percent on the news of planned measures to slow the pace of atrocity rate increases. ok and now the spread between brant crude and light sweet or oil prices has reached record disparity question just coronal oil and gas equity analyst as standard and poor's

equity research explains why. we have record high in van. tories had cushing oklahoma where w.t.r. say that coupled with that in the u.k. in the north sea we've had a lot of operational problems a lot of fields have been shut down and the fields are in decline with that you have on rest in the middle east and brant is actually the crude price to which north african crudes are in their coupled with what you have is that traders have seen the differential and they know that it's usually temporary so what they do with they sell the spreads they buy dog. and sell brant now the situation works when he prefers says you make money but as long as it doesn't reverse you're actually losing money so a lot of traders are holding on to what you might call paper barrels of oil as the spread widens they buy more spread bets so until the situation starts reversing

itself you're going to have higher storage of oil in the u.s. you're going to have all these paper barrels that are in limbo and the threat of this rupture and to oil supplies in europe and asia due to problems in the middle east will keep this differential going. to go obs is eight now you can get most or a small website archie dot com slash business. one

thirty pm in moscow good to have you with us here on our t.v. see the headlines wiki leaks latest memo show the u.s. has been snooping on nato's top official and using its leverage to prevent closer ties with russia there was a lower revelations of profit further question marks over the way the alliance works. the wave of anti-government protests raging across the middle east gathers pace and dozens of rioters have been killed in libya hundreds injured in the capitals of yemen and bahrain after clashes with police. and setting foot on mars has become all virtual reality for the crew of a simulated space flight to the red planet who are in the middle of the second space walk in a mock up version it's part of an eighteen month long program that aims to study the psychological effects of the mission. up next the second part of our special

report on the damage oil companies are doing to the amazon rain forest and to the indigenous tribes that live there. would you believe the locals were affected by cancer when it's letters. good hygiene conditions are terrible actually all the drinking water in eastern ecuador is. we have analysis results that show the water contains excrement residues meaning that it comes from the native steph occasions that is what causes cancer and all other illnesses if you constantly drink water with feces that it since you were a child let's see if that doesn't cause you some serious illness. and all those stomach cancer is definitely looks.