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 meet zero 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 but they of course would prefer to build exclusive bilateral relationships strong ties between two military organizations such as nato and the c.s.t. 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 and we're much so this is this is what is happening in reality that 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. . in other news shock waves from up peoples in tunisia and 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 gripped yemen in what's now an eighth day of unrest anti-government activists have been using social networks to call for as many people as possible to hit the streets

this friday they're demanding the country's president of the abdullah today to step down after more than thirty years in power protests also turned violent in libya where at least twenty four people have been killed in recent days and conscious and security forces police are reported to have use firearms to disperse crowds thousands of mourners gathered in by her reign at the funerals of anti-government protesters killed in a brutal crackdown on thursday mideast expert my dear daria nineteen where i am 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 are revolutionary they want change they're fed up with these a revolt until the structures in place change it won't be considered a revolution so 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 stated over and nothing's 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 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 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 leave the wise men in egypt. which are an elected individuals. who were part of the status quo part of the regime in fact nothing were mubarak was in power. but while these uprisings are spreading in the middle east people have flocked once again to where square in the egyptian capital this time tens of thousands gathered to celebrate a week since hosni mubarak bowed to huge pressure on him to quit the presidency the

day was labeled the friday of victory and to tell you ation and which organizers said was aimed at keeping the spirit of the eight day protest alive despite the celebrations the situation in egypt still remains tense amid labor on the ground some fears the current military government will not keep its promises to usher in the long awaited forms it comes almost a week after the council suspended the constitution and dissolve both houses of parliament. well as those tensions rage on across the mideast debate is heating up over which country is going to be next and having its leader toppled later today in cross talk peter lavelle asked his guest if you're wrong likely to follow the example set in tunisia and egypt or whether that would be just wishful thinking from western governments. but what's the risks facing iran 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 off of the off 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 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 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 said. he goes to he's 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 little surprised demonstrations it's very easy for them to do was 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.

two astronauts from 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 purcell from the european space agency explain the meaning of the invitation. so we have to assume no it's this is oleksandr from russia and 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 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 if the cord which of course would not be there or on the real mars and their core supplies to the to us to know it's. with electricity and also with air and of course in a real martian mission that all would be in the big pick the two astronauts carry on their 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. really very interesting goal of simulating the first walk 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 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 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 simulation it's also an international simulation if you participation in chinese participation. if you look at the future you know that you. know in the process of. extending the international space station for another ten years and then afterwards. we would do that maybe the next steps but this is no discussion which would be the next steps for human spaceflight there's a crew of six and it's of course i'm really a russian project with the international participation. and europe has quite good relations with the institute for biomedical problems and that might be the reason

why we are involved but there's no particular exclusion of anybody from the project and in fact nasir is participating scientifically but not driven through their own us to know. where you can follow the whole mission to mars on our website our team and if you're a cosmic fan of british cartoonists may have something just for you know the story of the first man in space during a garden strip gets retold once again in a comic adventure book thanks on the true story. and a glimpse arsenault and that's not why the man who changed the world nobel peace prize winner and the first and only president u.s.s.r. mikhail gorbachev.

japan's chief cabinet secretary yukio edano is going to view brushes lester can reel change from an airplane because after a recent visit 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 the coup wheels military garrisons and island in the pacific ocean the islands i should say in the pacific ocean were handed to russia as part of agreements at the end of the second world war however it seems that other parties are interfering in the dispute with washington once again underlining its position over the lesser creel chain saying the territory belongs to japan about surrogates that all came from russia's commerce sun newspaper says the u.s. is pushing russia to review history. again comes as a double surprise because of the let me remind you that the was a was a san francisco agreement of nine hundred fifty three and gave up all the claims

for korea why once and in addition to that as you knew united states were are fairly in the second world war so now there's an attempt to reconsider the results of the second world war on the part of our area because they gently pushing us through it. well more and more americans bear the brunt of the recession but 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 archies marina porton i found out how the rich are benefiting 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 meat 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 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 out of line great remain. it's 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 the 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. 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 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 only only wants to blame. what's happening is there's a budget deficit there's an economic crisis it was a budget deficit because of the big this is a crisis that we know was created by lehman brothers by city big this is a crisis created by the super rich but what's happening now is that it is a demonization of public sector workers of steelworkers of teachers of nurses as if they are the ones that created the crisis as if it somehow their fault now the burden of this crisis is burden of this budget deficit is being shouldered on working families the people that need help the most while the millionaires and

billionaires who created the crisis are experiencing record profits and the argument of all these right wingers and tea parties around the country is their argument is in support of those multimillionaires and billionaires who contribute absolutely nothing. and the big 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 minister paid a visit to the european caught being held this week if you were satisfied with the trial and the soundtrack of the event featuring our drop by you can be going to spain for a band deep purple decided themselves to check out the slope that will see olympic competition in full swing in three years. coming up to eighteen minutes past the hour let's take a look at some other major headlines from around the world a suicide car bomb in eastern 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 belief 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. ugandans are going to the polls in the election where the president is seeking to extend his twenty five years in power. you removed seven is being challenged by his former ally and doctor who claims the voting has already been great but you observers said the ballot is progressing peacefully although most seventy is accused of controlling the electorial commission the opposition has threatened street protests and says the head of the ugandan grill army is on their song. japan has halted the whale hunting season following continued pressure by and. before ship fleet was to kill

almost five thousand wells this winter but is said to have returned to shore but activists say they will continue their protests marshall whaling has been banned for almost two decades but it is allowed for the purposes of scientific research. and while whales have been given a brief response there is a different kind of eco crisis unfolding in the amazon we investigate how oil corporations have been dumping toxic chemicals in ecuadorian forest for decades threatening the existence of indigenous populations our special report is coming your way in about ten minutes time but here's a quick look. israelis

and palestinians have been long time 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 young service for many neighboring countries even those israel has tense relationships with are just possibly a report. every hour away is touch and go for fourteen month old donna 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 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 very 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 fears and risk punishment and even death back home open pay for the alternative possibly losing their. 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 despite 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 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 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 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 were further apart on the ground at least in this spot a very different story is unfolding policy r.t. . that does it for us of the news this hour up next is the latest from the world of business for you with dimitri stay with us. modern. zation is one of the key issues of the cross in the ask economic forum being held in russia's east siberia with how to further attract capital a hot topic can you on joyce of the founder of terra capital says however that generating the necessary funds is not difficult once proper management and skilled labor allocation is addressed the soonest raised the consideration of the

management of governmental affairs of the brain syncrude she would see i am absolutely sure that you're doing sure from a. professional investor will come there because in a way to set your server to pull me money's not the key resource didn't just want you to research brissie which is the number one. russia's investment company basic element in china's tang shan chemical fiber plans to invest for a hundred billion dollars in modernizing and expanding a pulp and paper mill in russia's period this comes as asians begin is 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 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 has to boost its natural gas exports to the u.s. by fifteen percent in twenty eleven that's according to the head of gastro marketing in trading usa the increase would see the company export more than nine hundred million cubic meters annually castro has been selling gas in the u.s. market since autumn 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 cubic meters of gas and only but russian companies have found it difficult to break into the market. segment of the markets now the for the dax are still mixed this our mining sector is to blame anglo american is down more than two percent that's despite the company's profit jumping ninety three percent on prices be a system to extending losses from the previous session went towards cautious about

lower defense spending in twenty. years and myself have managed to somewhat recover back in the black boiling places prices are higher though the situation middle east is adding uncertainty to the russian markets shares a mixed indeed no snicko is one of the biggest losers in this massive losing streak that company. down. two percent so actually to a point one percent even on news of planned measures to slow the pace of the rate increases lukoil is in positive news a proposed changes in the way the russian oil industry is taxed. ford motor company and russian carmakers sollars have agreed to create a joint venture in russia a new company to be called ford solos will produce passenger own light commercial ford vehicles will also be responsible for all imports and distribution of all ford products in russia plan to start its business activities by the end of the year the

news comes just as another car company yet to stop negotiations on creating a joint venture with russia. brant crude oil passed the one hundred dollar mark to tensions in egypt last month but increased consumption in china and india are also weighing in on recent price escalations christine to square no standard and poor's equity research says however that it is not clear how strong the demand in these markets will be the threat of increased demand from china and india continues to push the price of oil up that's the reason why a soon as you have positive news of economic research you see these prices strengthening we really don't know what the total demand of crude oil will be from those two nations we don't know how much efficiency of oil is going to impact that we don't know how much demand there will be out there we have more and more electrical toys which require energy we have more and more use of transportation as

the world shrinks so we really don't know we can only estimate why it will be the approximate demand of oil from these nations but it's a big oh no so as soon as you see that their figures to strengthen and go up the price of oil immediately goes up again. so for me i'll be back in a one hour sign with nothing the headlines are next to stay with us.

more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are on the day . wealthy british soil. has more time to explain the different. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for

a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into khan's report. at five thirty pm on scout time these are the top stories on our scene alliance of distrust new wiki leaks cables revealed how america has been spying on nato is top officials to prevent closer ties with russia. and roaming the red planet the crew of a unique virtual mars expedition carries out a second mock up spacewalk in a simulation but it's hoped to bring the real thing a step closer. to bridging the conflict to save lives an israeli clinic is taking intil dream with heart conditions from some neighboring countries disregarding tense relations between states. up next our special report on the damage the oil

corporations are doing to the amazon rain forest and the indigenous tribes living there. i. i led. the league live . lives.