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. i mean 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.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 washington is calling the shots so. left right left or right. so this is what is happening and in reality the people know the 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. really trusts the alliance our ghastliness our of our t. . in other news the wave of anti-government protests continues to rage across the greater middle east talk rear square has once again been filled with people in the egyptian capital there thousands are celebrating a week since president mubarak vowed to be here as pressure on him to quit meanwhile clashes have continued across from yemen and now the eighth day of

protests protesters would be using social networks to help present many people as possible to head the streets on what's been dubbed a day of rage in libya at least twenty four people have been killed as police are reported to have used firearms in various cities and in bahrain mourners chanted anti-government slogans after security forces dispersed thousands of rioters in the center of the capital managua opposition reports at least three were killed and more than a hundred injured many facts were my day daria. says that although the region of the turmoil it's hard to say just how fundamental the changes will be. these are revolts and not revolutions yet people's mindsets or revolutionary they want change they're fed up with these a revolt until the structures in place 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 and all those things changed it's a formal change the mubarak was a part of the military the military hosni mubarak one of the united states and its allies are polluting their backs what they're doing right now is something that we should 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 wise. in egypt with your own elected individuals. who were part of the status quo part of the regime in fact. when mubarak was in power. and those protests rage across the middle east debate is heating up over which country is going to be next in seeing a leader toppled in less than half an hour on cross talk meter the velasquez gas if

iran is likely to follow the examples of tunisia and egypt or whether that would just be wishful thinking from 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 leaders were forced on the ground after the last of 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 no one's really said it 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 but i didn't vote for mr imagination 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 who you would also probably regime demonstration dismounting is going to do you know is not true if that was true then the gyptian regime could have done that no it's obvious that it's that's not the case. two astronauts have carried out their second walk on a virtual surface of mars it's part of a unique project simulating an eighteen want mission to the red planet but when a purcell from the european space agency gave us the details of the project. we have to assume. this is. from russia. from china doing their second walk and you see a simulated martian surface which is no more than forty square meters and what we

see the two were in the in their space suits which are pretty close to what we would expect for real martian martian mission and what the two were doing is collecting soil samples and preparing them to bring this impulse back home as we have the cord which of course would not be there on the real mars and the core supplies to the to us to know its. electricity and also with air and of course in the real martian mission that all would be in the big pic to us to know it's carry on there or on the break they are doing very well so. everybody was really surprised that everything is going so bell everything one of the reasons for that it's that they have really very interesting goal of simulating the first wark on the march and what we can see now is that the two are going to take a break in this special chairs because each of the space you would see is

a board thirty five kilogram and also if you would expect a real mission on earth we could expect that after ten or fifteen minutes astronauts would would have to take a small break the major point here is that they are really of everybody of them is really focused on their task and that's that's the main reason why this is so so real and so close to reality. well continue to bring you the latest developments on that thing that later mission to mars both here and on our website ever further here but first for a little more wonder there are plenty more at our clothing lining the way a superhero. yuri gardens legendary trip to space gets retold once again this time in a comic adventure book. it's

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on the dot com. course you are to live from moscow with me and the somali sun skis and hard rock russia's president and prime minister have been checking out one of the main slopes that we use for sochi is twenty fourteen winter olympics which seemed to strike a positive note. the switched on the right music deep purple. to the sounds of a iconic heavy metal band grated to me time a day's events like the americans and as they watched the european scheme called being held in one of the reasons most beautiful twenty four kids made it is especially known for his affection for the fox news there but you also may go with the crowd some of whom manage to grab photos with the country. now while most americans are struggling to overcome the hardships of 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 tears me apart ny i found out how the rich benefit off the back 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 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 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 employ it 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. in many states they're actually offshoring jobs related 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. 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 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 well michael prysner from the newly formed party for socialism and liberation in

the u.s. 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 i 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 and michael snyder the founder of the economic collapse blog believes that banks profiting from food stamps widens the gap between rich and poor. it's really

just all there to here's j.p. morgan they receive these huge bail outs from the u.s. so they get back on their feet but then they're making be sued you crawl up to the suffering of the american people you know as we've seen the number of americans on food stamps has increased from twenty six million back in two thousand and seven to all of forty three point six million today so we would see it and the americans that dog food stamps the more money to j.p. morgan maybe there is no incentive for j.p. morgan help people get off of the food stamps no goals should be used to reduce the number or reduce the dependency of government but instead j.p. morgan what they want is to increase the number of customers big banks these wall street banks they seem to get away with the with murder get away with anything there does not seem to be just those desires on the part of the state governments to really do anything about this. brief look now at some other stories dominating

world news this friday a suicide car bombing in the eastern afghan city of course has killed at least eleven people including two police officers and wounded thirty others the incident took place at a roadside checkpoint police say they grew suspicious of the bomber and opened fire prompting him that made explosives officials have blamed the taliban who frequently target security checkpoints. there's been a second day of violence in southeastern turkey after riots marked the twelfth anniversary of the capture of a prominent kurdish rebel leader protesters hurled stones and petrol bombs that probably in the city of jarvik here over spotted with tear gas and water cannons several people were arrested protesters accused security forces of being too heavy handed during demos earlier this week over abdullah. tenure and president.

japan has called an early halt to the well hunting season following continued pressure by anti whaling groups tokyo has ordered its fleet home but activists say they will continue their activities until it returns to port the fleet consisting of four ships aim to kill almost a thousand wells this winter commercial whaling has been banned for almost two decades but it is allowed for the purposes of scientific research. and while endangered wells have been given a brief were spied from japanese dinner place there's a different kind of eco crisis unfolding in the amazon or oil corporations have been dumping toxic chemicals in ecuadorian forests for decades the storing biodiversity and threatening the existence of indigenous populations our special report is coming your way throughout the day but here's a quick look. 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 of youngsters from many

neighboring countries even those israel is at war with these polls we are reports. every hour away is touch and go for a fourteen month old done a little hunch 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 young 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. she was almost dead she was so sick that you could not walk very talk she was very 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 or prepare for the alternative possibly losing their child initially it was very difficult for them because i was there in america and the parents were very anxious they didn't know what to expect i was very scared to come to israel very frightened. and she

had good reason to be her country rock forbids its citizens from traveling to israel just fire them there is there might be a layover in another country like you 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. 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 more for not only is so eternally grateful to the israeli doctors that saved her daughter's life she's now brave enough to tell the 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 go further apart on the ground at least in this spot a very different story is unfolding policy or r t. but that wraps up our main news walk unit here next with the latest business stay with us. that's right time for your business update a very warm welcome modernization has become the key issue of the n.f.l. crusty arscott comic form being held in russia's eastern siberia hole whether rw sells nichols saga has taken the limelight or to set in the pinnacle of full the

story. both metal giants embattled and that's long going chapel they're called might hear this brusquely on the forum in their home region in siberia and of course the recent for all the real snake hill to sell to buy out twenty per cent of its shares for twelve point eight billion dollars is one of the maybe intrigues here that we just spoke to both companies to get the owner off to sell million their legs or a plus cut to the general director variously killed led to mr stone cold steve now that they will speak about it things lots of not that's. right now mikhail prokhorov together with victor vicksburg a negotiating with oleg deripaska so i'm not needed in these discussions is just as you can see no official comments but on the sidelines of the forum to repast just said that the board committee will consider the offer off norilsk on monday twenty

first of february earlier this week there pasco sad that he will not agree on the offer as the prize for a stake is not fair however experts say that the price is justified and eve the deal happens it will be a very positive factor for rousselle as it would allow it to decrease its huge debt burden. china over fourteen and she will be bringing us more throughout the day have russia's gas giant gazprom has to boost its natural gas exports to the u.s. by fifty percent in twenty eleven that's according to the head of gaspar marketing and trading usa the increase would see the company exports more the nine hundred million cubic metres annually from has been selling gas in the us market since two thousand and nine and success from the shipped six hundred. million cubic meters in the second home of last year the u.s. imports of seventeen been tons of gas annually but russian companies have found it

difficult to break it. into the market. now time to have a look at the markets go to europe where footsie down the decks are inching lower this solid the mining sector is mixed anglo-american is two and a half percent lower that's despite the company's profit jumping ninety three percent on the high metal prices be a nice systems is extending losses from the previous session but it warns it's cautious about lower defense spending in twenty eleven. and here in russia the mindsets and there are two yes a keeping in the red white and gold prices are higher though the situation in the middle east is of course edging uncertainty on the markets let's have a look at some figures show as a mixed the sollars burbank continues to gain for the third straight session is into positive territory on the news of the proposed changes in the way the russian oil industry is taxed but truth hydro is donald two percent of the news of planned

measures to slow the pace of electricity rate increases. to the price of oil now the spread between brant crude and light sweet oil prices has reached record disparity christin just around or than gas equity analyst as standard and poor's equity research explains why. we have record high inventories had cushing oklahoma where. it coupled with that in the u.k. in the north with 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 crude indic coupled with what you have the traders have seen the differential and they know that it too should be temporary so what they do with they sell the spreads they buy. 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 up 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 christian interest standard and pools equity research and russian entrepreneur you tim miller who successfully invested into social networking sites facebook group on and signed or is pledging to invest in startups and russian speaking exclusively to our two d. as to global c.e.o. admitted he would be facing challenges but claims russian labor is

a key factor in his decision. other countries have had started to like us you know they're much more advanced in on the technology front but russia has a the bandage in human capital it was 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 going the wrong russian talent is actually very highly regarded globally that's it from me you're up to date now.

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three thirty pm on scout time these are the top stories here on our team wiki leaks latest memo so that the u.s. has been snooping on nato's top official and using its leverage to prevent closer ties with russia the whistleblowers revelation to prompted further questions over the way the alliance works. the way. of anti-government protests raging across the middle east gathers pace and dozens of rioters have been killed in libya hundreds are injured in the capitals of yemen and bahrain after clashes with police. plus the crew of a simulated space flight to mars takes their second walk on a mocked up surface of the red planet as part of an eighteen month long program which aims to study the psychological impact of the mission. now as public anger

grows in the muslim world r.t.s. peter lavelle asked his aghast whether wrong political establishment is next to be taught but that's coming up in cross talk here on r.t. . the world. bringing you the latest in science and technology from around the world . we've got the future of coverage. and. welcome to cross talk time peter lavelle as protest and people's power rage across the arab middle east.