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 us representative to nato rasmussen took all mention of the two organizations growing closer out of his address to the alliance in two thousand and nine but why would the us try to pressure its allies. as one of nato is key players the u.s. tries to prevent the alliance from growing too close to the russia in the former soviet bloc because the region is of strategic interest to america they of course would prefer to build exclusive bilateral relationships strong ties between two military organizations such as nato 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

right. this is what is happening and in reality people know the documents published so far haven't exactly uncovered anything groundbreaking but if every member a nato is supposedly equal it has raised questions over whether the u.s. will really trust the alliance at all gas trainers are the r.t.e. . well shock waves from our peoples in tunisia in egypt are spread all across the greater middle east but opposition protests sweeping through other countries in the region clashes between rival demonstrators have once again yemeni watch how the day on the grass anti-government activists have been using social networks to call for as many people as possible to head straight on friday they are demanding the conference president and the abdullah phone ain't stepped down after more than thirty years in power protests also turned violent in libya over at least twenty four people have been killed in recent days. in clashes with security forces police

are reported to have use firearms to disperse crowds there and thousands of mourners gathered in behind at funerals of anti-government protesters killed in a brutal crackdown on thursday mideast expert my did darrius nazeem roh i asked says that although the region is in turmoil it's hard to say just how fundamental the changes will be. these are revolts and not revolutions yet people's mindsets or revolutionary they want 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 pleading we had 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 are genuine the protests are absolutely genuine organic but the fact is that the united states is trying to put its own opposition figures into position to see leave the wise men in egypt which are. individuals billionaires it's part of the status quo part of the regime in fact. where mubarak is in power. meanwhile people have flocked once again to talk or square in the egyptian capital cairo this time tens of thousands gather to celebrate a week since hosni mubarak bowed to huge pressure on him to quit the presidency the day it was labeled the friday a victory and continuation in which organizers said it was aimed at keeping the spirit of the eighteen day protest alive by the celebrations the situation in egypt still remains tense and the labor on grass and fears the current military

government will not keep its promises to usher in the long awaited forms becomes almost a week after the council suspended the constitution and dissolve both houses of parliament. and as those tensions rage on across the middle east abate is heating up over which country is going to be next and having its leader toppled later today in crosstalk peter lavelle asked his gas if you're wrong likely to follow the example set in tunisia and egypt or whether that would just be wishful thinking from western governments. but what 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 law to go off this leaders will force on the ground after the after the demonstrations in june two thousand and nine after the election so the true it true left of discontent with the government remains very very hard to quantify actually so no one's really said

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 imagination i've said this on numerous occasions 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 his here would also probably regime demonstration just for asking them to do you know that's not true if that was true then they gyptian regime could have done that no it's it's obvious that it's that's not the case. and . i. two participants of the mars five hundred program have carried out their second walk on a virtual surface of the red planet it's part of

a unique project that simulates an eighteen month mission renee south from think european space agency explained the meaning of the invitation. so we have to ask. this is oleksandr from russia. from china doing their second work and you see a simulated martian surface which is no more than forty square meters and what we see the two when the in their space suits which are pretty so close to what we would expect for real martian martian mission and what the two are doing is also what we would expect the first humans doing on mars namely collecting soil samples and preparing them to bring this back home but if the cord which of course would not be there or on the real mars and the core supplies to the to us to know it's. with electricity and also with air and of course in the real martian mars

mission that all would be in the big pick to us to know what's scary on there on the break they are doing very well so. everybody was really surprised that everything is going so well everything one of the reasons for that it's that they have really very interesting goal of simulating the first wark on the mars and also if you would expect a real mission on mars we could expect that after ten or fifteen minutes astronauts would there would have to take a small break the. major point here is that they are really all everybody of them is really focused on their task and that's that's the main reason why this is so surreal and so close to reality you always have to do a first step and this is a very good first step because it is very clear that. the mission the main mission to mars would be international and it's a very good stay simulation it's also an international simulation if you will

please participation and chinese participation. if you look at the future you know that we are right now in the process process of extending the international space station for another ten years and then afterwards we would do maybe the next steps but this is right now still in discussion which would be the next steps for human spaceflight there is a crew of six and it's of course a really russian project or if international participation. and europe has quite good relations with the in situ for biomedical problems and that might be the reason why we are involved but there's no particular exclusion of anybody from that project and in fact nasir is participating scientifically but not with their own astronaut. well you can follow the whole mission to mars on our website are two dot

com and if you're a cosmic fram a british cartoonist may have something just for you the story of the first man in space during garden strip gets retold once again this time in a comic adventure book based on the true story. also online a glimpse of a personal and professional life a man who changed the world nobel prize winner and the first and only president of the u.s.s.r. . an olympic venue in the russian city of sochi has been checked by the country's top officials in an atmosphere of sun skis and hard rock.

russia's president and prime ministers are paid a visit to european ski cars being held this week the two were satisfied with the track and the soundtrack for the event featuring a hard rock classic. favorite and deep purple is known for being a big fan of rock music well prepared checked out the slope that will see olympic competitions in full swing into the next. as more and more americans bear the brunt of recession major banks profits are still on the rise one of these thriving companies is j.p. morgan which cashes in on food stamps used by those struggling to survive on a daily basis or to use marine important i have found out how the rich benefit off the back of the poor. americans are generally known for their healthy appetite 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. you know just kind of you know 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 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 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 us a business of economic hardship nearly fourteen million americans like every oh are unemployed bailed out but to. 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 that created the crisis as if it's 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. japan's chief cabinet secretary yukio edano is going to view russia's lesser creel change from an airplane it comes after recent visits by russian officials to the islands which tokyo claims earlier russia said it would not tolerate japan's radical approach towards the territories and announced reequipping creels military garrisons however it seems that other parties are interfering in the dispute and for more we're joined in the studio by surrogates from russia's commerce newspaper thanks for being with us now the interview and we're talking about is washington it's underlined its position over the last or karylle change saying that it believes the territory belongs to japan why is washington getting involved in this conflict i think you should this question in

state department but. i personally think that what we witness now with this is just the he camp of all the proof which we would russia as a junior partner of the united states so if you accept his junior partner senior partner approach then this is just the mechanism to do to solve such an issues but as you know we have departed already we have. all the proof we have reset with obama administration and as i understand till recently we've had four understanding of very sensitive issue because the screen issues are very highly politically charged issues so for me really it came as a surprise unpleasant surprise now the territory itself is used by russia for strategic purposes do you think the u.s. is afraid of a strong neighbor being in there well there's a lot of talk about the islands in terms of korra me but security is definitely a mattress and we know that the united states have umbrella strategic security agreement we with japan we knew that. the biggest bases in

a ship pacific in okinawa. that's why security really matters and i don't want to speak about any hidden agenda to go that far you see but we have to take a. into consideration definitely well the u.s. yes certainly has a lot of allies in the asia pacific region the other side and to belong to russia since the end of the second world war why is the us supporting a stance that is not recognized legally well again it comes as a double surprise because of the let me remind you that there was a was a san francisco agreement of nine hundred fifty three and gave up all of the claims for korea why aunts and in addition to that as you knew the united states were our early in the second world war so now there's an attempt to reconsider the results of the second world war so on the part of our enemies they gently pushing us that

now technically and just technically russia and japan are at war because they've never signed an official peace deal do you think that it could end up coming into some kind of conflict between the two i don't think that it's appropriate to speak about conflict i don't think that we can go as far as to a conflict such but it is equally true and we might be frank you know to say that really. poisons our relations and there are a sudden people here you know including russia part of russian political elite we believe we believe that we can just develop economic and trade relations with japan . while horning disappointing that. the solution of this territorial issue this would never work with japan we'll have to do this you see and we'll have to find a solution on a mutually. basis are you saying that you think the only solution is dialogue.

yes but we have to understand what sort of a dialect it is i personally don't fully share the idea of for our foreign minister sergei lavrov with all of my respect for him when he says that it is up to the story ends just to decide because historians were already negotiated in for twenty years we were no more and the history just is on the table so it's up to politicians on both sides to take a decision which would be maybe painful to both sides because both sides have to make concessions but there's no other way you see this is a two way traffic and once and for all the crowd this gordian knot. all right well time will tell from brussels commissar newspaper thanks for having me. now a look at some other major headlines from around the world this friday a suicide car bomb in the eastern afghan city of course has killed at least eleven people including two police officers and thirty others the incident took place at

a roadside checkpoint police say they were suspicious of the bomber and opened fire prompting him to detonate his explosives officials have blamed the taliban who frequently target security checkpoints. and japan has halted the whale hunting season following continued pressure by whaling groups the fleet consisting of four ships and to kill almost one thousand wells this winter is said to have returned to shore but activists say they will continue their activities until they make sure it does commercial whaling has been banned for almost two decades but is allowed for the purpose of scientific research. now israelis and palestinians have been long time enemies but from other sore 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 has had ten translations with artist paul slayer reports. every our way is touch and go for fourteen months don't know whose

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 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 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 these and risk punishment and even death back home or prepare for the altar. senator of 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 iraq forbids its citizens from

traveling to israel just fire them there is there might be a layover in another country like i know for instance from africa they come in there because it's the only place in africa that was. before the israeli doctors that treat these arab children the decision is simple doing what they think is right to do and doing. in the last fifteen years more than two and a half thousand two hundred have been brought here on third and treated 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 edu turnley 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 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 will further a pass on the ground at least in this spot a very different story is unfolding policy r.t. . that's the way the news looks this hour from r.t. business is next with. a long welcome to business modernization is one of the key issues of the new across the ask economic forum being held in russia siberia with how to further attract capital a hot topic now could you under also found of terra capital says however that generating the necessary funds is not difficult once proper management and skilled labor allocation is addressed as soon as there is the concentration of the

management of governmental affairs brains and greed to salute you for the you're doing your front a. professional investor will come there because you know which of sectors of the mean money's not the key resource different is what you can receive it is the number one. russia's investment company basic element and china's tank shand plan to invest for a hundred million dollars in modernizing and expanding a pulp and paper mill in russia as in siberia this comes as asia is becoming one of the top priority regions for the russian business that can provide huge sources of demand and capital. shows the first evolving markets in northern 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 customer's costs to maximizing our production efficiency. russia's gas giant

gazprom is to boost its natural gas exports to the u.s. by fifteen percent and twenty eleven that's according to the head of gas for marketing and trading u.s.a. the increase would see the company export more than nine hundred million cubic meters annually has promised been selling gas in the united states market since water in two thousand and nine and successfully shipped six hundred million cubic meters in the second half of last year the u.s. imports over seventeen billion tons of gas annually but russian companies found it difficult to break into the market. take a look at the stock markets now but see the dax mixed the mining sector is to blame anglo american is two point three percent down that's despite the company's profit jumping ninety three percent on higher metal prices that's all in london be a system is also extending losses from previous session when it warned cautious about lower defense spending in twenty of them. in russia the r.t.s.

and the my sex in the red yet again boiling boil prices are high and the situation the middle east is adding uncertainty on the russian market. shares are somewhat mixed a second look at some of the biggest loser is norilsk nickel or a massive losing streak for that company ross hydro is known. well. the slow pace increases poil is positive territory by just a notch on the proposed changes in the way the russian oil industry is taxed. on the russian can make a soul less have agreed to create a joint venture in russia. called for. passenger unlike commercial ford. also be responsible for distribution of all ford products in russia and.

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live from moscow you're watching our t.v. our top stories today alliance of distrust new wiki leaks cables reveal how america has been spying on nato's top officials present closer ties with russia. and romain on the red line that the crew will be unique words for mars expedition carries out a second mock up a space walk in a simulation that's hope to bring the real thing a step closer. bridging the conflict to save lives and israeli clinic is taking in pills and with hard conditions from some neighboring countries disregarding tense relations between states. next stop it's our weekly cultural show moscow out

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