the u.s. 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 glowing 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 it has one of nato's 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 with strong ties between two military organizations such as nato in the c.s.c. 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. left right left right. 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 remains are the r.t.e. . shock waves from peoples in tunisia and egypt spread all across the greater middle east with opposition protests sweeping through other countries in the region clashes between rival demonstrators and once again gripped yemen and lots of. anti-government activists have been using social networks to call for as many people as possible to hit the streets on friday they're demanding the country's president ali abdullah saleh to step down after more than thirty years in power clashes also erupted in jordan's capital amman where the government demonstrators are calling for reforms and abolishing the peace treaty with israel protests turned violent in libya where at least twenty four killed in recent days clashes with security forces police reported to have used firearms to disperse the crowds

meanwhile in egypt people once again gathered in tahrir square to celebrate a week since hosni mubarak huge pressure on him to quit the presidency well earlier the military council which runs the country suspended the constitution and dissolved both houses of parliament and i'm told even a british journalist and policy analyst says it's not clear yet whether the military is going to give up power in september but what we've heard so far is basically a military coup the question is whether the military is on the one hand scared and by now of popular protest to hold free. and on the other hand of course believes that it can to a degree control the process in other words that it can. see the company can manage the elections in such a way that the next government if it's an elected government. will be allied to the military at the moment that's all yeah but clearly.

if the army is willing to open fire on the crowd and go on shooting into the crowd then the revolution is probably crushed unless the killing reaches such a scale that the country completely disintegrate. and thousands of mourners have gathered in bahrain for the funerals of government protesters killed in the brutal crackdown the riot police in the gulf state reportedly used supplies made by british companies to clear the protest human rights watch dogs are calling for an embargo on supplies and a disclosure of why export licenses were issued well for more i'm joined by barnaby pace he's from the campaign against the arms trade he's in london thanks indeed for joining us now up until now bahrain has been a stable and a good partner for britain because of its strategic importance in the gulf so shouldn't the u.k. supply them with right control equipment. i think there's something of a catch twenty two if you're if you're selling someone weapons and they want to buy

weapons it's generally speaking because they intend to use those weapons at some point and so stepping back and saying oh well we sold them the tear gas and we're terribly shocked that they used. testers is somewhat disingenuous but even britain has protesters in the streets and you get violent protests surely authorities need some way of controlling crowds. or possibly so but we can see that this was. going to be possible we may say that bahrain was a was a help the ally but we can see across the middle east that the government is selling to repressive regimes all over that this could happen at any point in and we've got to be aware that when we sell you both non-lethal and lethal equipment those will be used and. generally at some point that they will be used on someone innocent very in mind that obviously the the arms trade is

a very big industry not just in britain but many countries throughout the world how can possibly a country that sells arms to another country have influence in the way they're used . well this is the problem is that once you've handed over the weapons you have little control over how they use but that doesn't mean you can morally justify handing them over in the first place if you have selling someone weapons the weapons are going to be used it doesn't your chain of more responsibility doesn't stop once you've handed over the weapons and frankly the u.k. government needs to seriously reconsider how approaches arm sales in the first place not only have these arms being licensed to be so dioceses in the case of bahrain. they are actively promoted as such the u.k. government and actively promotes arms sales to a number of repressive regimes this very weekend the u.k. government is sending representatives out to the large arms fair in abu dhabi it's called i debts. which the arms industry trade body in the u.k.

claims ten percent of its exhibitors will be british at this spare and the u.k. actively encourages these companies to sell including the very equipment that is being used to protesters in the middle east as we speak but you say britain aren't directly on purposefully would perhaps supply arms to dictatorships or indeed even rogue states like somalia i mean it's fairly choosy and know who it does business with surely the u.k. does tend to draw a line at somalia but it's not choosy about where it does its business. very clear example is saudi arabia where for years the u.k. has made saudi arabia its one number one target customer where we can see it very clear thora terry but. it's. but it's very clear a repressive state that has used those weapons and human rights abuses last year in the city international pointed out that fighter jets sold to saudi arabia in the massive. every gram in the eighty's sold from the u.k. and b.

a systems to saudi arabia were probably used to get instant civilians in the cross border conflict. between saudi arabia and yemen and probably use in human rights abuses that just just police is not this is not new i mean they should know that these weapons are going to be misused if they sell them you make a very persuasive argument and indeed the british government has responded today they say there's no evidence that you made manufactured tear gas was used in this crackdown but nevertheless the m. o. d. is now going to review arms exports to britain indeed france has cancelled any arms exports to to bahrain so any l. l. arms exports from britain are now being reviewed what do you make of the response of the british government now. well it's certainly a late i mean again i'd rather they placed the embargo on the now and stopped any further shipments going out but the fact is that the horses already bolted and now they're seeing to the stable door there the weapons are there and they don't go

around they don't go away the weapons hang around for centuries they're not they don't go off in six weeks' time they're going to stay there and the fact is the u.k. nice to see you actually look at not just whether selling to a specific country is in order is a good idea but whether but how it should be our selling arms and if it should be selling arms or toward. the these weapons are widely misused and the u.k. is arms and export criteria which look good on paper are very rarely applied with any regular interest in talking to you bob we will leave it there but to be paste from the campaign against the arms trade joining us live in london thanks very much indeed for thank you. does those tensions rage across the middle east debate is heating up over which country is going to be next in having its leader toppled well later today in crosstalk peter lavelle assays guess if iran's 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 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 as leaders were forced on the ground after the after the demonstrations in june two thousand and one after the election so the true it true level 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 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 is really his we're lots of priority demonstrations it's very easy for them to do now is not true if that was true then they gyptian regime could have

done that no it's it's obvious that it's that's not the case. i. want to. cross talk later today here on r t two astronauts from the mars five hundred program of carrying out their second walk in the virtual surface of the red planet it's part of a unique project that simulates an eighteen month mission when a purcell from the european space agency explained the meaning of the imitation. so we have to assume no it's this is. from russia and from china doing their second moscow 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 the samples back home if the cord which of course would not be there or on the real mars and their core supplies to us to know it's. with electricity and also with air and of course in a real martian mars mission that all would be in the big pic to us you know it's scary and there are. 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 there would have to take a small break the. major point here is that they are really all 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 we are right now in the process of process of extending the international space station for another ten years. after. we would do maybe the next steps but this is. still a discussion which would be the exactly the next steps for human spaceflight there is a crew of six and it's of course really russian project or if international participation

. has quite good relations with the in situ for biomedical problems and that might be the reason why we are involved but there is no particular exclusion of anybody from the project and in fact nasr is participating scientifically but not with their own astronaut and you can follow the whole mission to mars on our website dot com and by the way if you're a cosmic fan of british call to nist may have something for you. stored the first man in space yuri gagarin's trip gets retold once again in a comic adventure book based on the true story. glimpse of the personal professional life of a man who changed the world also nobel prize one of the first and the only presidents of the us as we call gorbachev that available again author of.

japan's chief cabinet secretary yukio edano is going to view russia's lesser killen's from an airplane it comes off the recent visits by russian officials to the archipelago which tokyo claims earlier russia said it would not tolerate japan's radical approach towards the territories and announced reequipping the military garrisons yarns in the pacific ocean were handed to russia as part of agreements at the end of the second world war over it seems that other parties are interfering in the dispute with washington once again underlining its position over the chain saying the terror treat belongs to japan so it is talk from russia's commerce and newspaper says the u.s. is pushing russia to review history. again comes as a double surprise because of the let me remind you of the. san francisco agreement are fluent in fifty. gave up all the claims for korea why on earth 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 air police their gently pushing us where more and more americans bear the brunt of the recession but major banks profits are still on the rise and 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 artie's marina portnoy find out how the rich benefit of the back of the pool. americans are generally known for their healthy appetite some eat what they crave while others like gabrielle jemma can't use the food stamps here for me to express of only eat what is affordable is there a way to give me two dollars worth. of these you have to go look for the sixty one year old is unemployed and maintains a monthly food budget of two hundred dollars gabrielle is among the forty three

million americans relying on federal food subsidy here's. 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 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 center because in many states they're actually offshoring jobs related processing steps to save money. j.p. morgan has been routing benefit card customer service calls to india where employees reportedly earn no more than three fifty an hour. meanwhile in the u.s. 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 and then 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 hauled rock. russia's president and prime minister paid a visit to the european cup being held this week the two were satisfied the track and do soundtrack for the event featuring the hard rock traffic by internet village favorite band purple the pair decided to check out the slate that will see competitions in full swing in just three years from. now time now for a quick look at some other headlines from around the world in the world of a suicide car in the eastern afghan city of course has killed at least eleven people including two police officers and we did thirty on this incident took place

in a roadside check who 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. to plan to talk to the whale hunting season following continued pressure by an anti whaling group before ship fleet was to kill almost a thousand whales this winter but is said to have returned to show the activists say they will continue their protests commercial whaling has been banned for almost two decades but is allowed for the purposes of scientific research. 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 fell's and supplies as youngsters from many neighboring countries even those israel has had tense relations with parties paula let slip this report. every our way is touch and go for fourteen months i 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 yell 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 and 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 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 it was their enemy country 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 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 three think it's. 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 easy you 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. well that's the news from me for the moment i'll be back with the summer in about five minutes from now in the meantime the business is next with dimitri. hello and welcome to business r.t. good to have your company the russian finance minister alexei occlusion said the inflow of foreign direct investment into russia dropped by a furred last year to around thirteen billion dollars earlier couldn't stated that the growth of foreign investment is vital for the end annual g.d.p. growth of at least four percent but chris we for chief strategist that we're also says the same time russia remains very interesting for portfolio investors. we're

seeing stock market flows coming in and. we get these data in a weekly basis from the from an agency in the u.s. and that does show that this year in part for you investors prefer russia to the other big emerging market fund so for example the last four or five weeks there has been net outflows of money from countries like brazil china and india where as russia funds have attracted money support for you investors are betting to things are going to change and that is a hopeful lead indicator but we still need to see a pickup in foreign direct investment and frankly we really don't expect to see that at laughter the election i think the second half two thousand and twelve is a more realistic target in two thousand and eleven and maybe doubt and two thousand and thirteen. the stock markets right now stocks in the u.s. are up with the dow and nasdaq poised for a week of gains in a row caterpillar is up one half percent chevron as one percent pushing the markets forward. footsie in the dax managed to end the session mixed and flat

anglo-american was down two percent at this point we companies profit jumping ninety three percent metal prices in russia indices are down point one seven percent at the close of friday's session with electricity shares being the biggest drag but overall the week it's been positive. gaining one point two percent of my six point eight percent. shares are mixed at the close north may cause the biggest loser one of the heaviest biggest losers massive long street that stock. was down two point three percent of the close on news of planned measures to slow the pace of rate increases and lukoil was up three quarters of a percent positive territory of course the news of proposed changes in the way russian oil industry is taxed. and mark rubenstein i see metropole believes investors are taking advantage of the good start of the. we are seeing our flat

markets today and this is a pretty much been the trend for the whole week. no watch momentum so the market is i think in a sort of a consolidation stage where he's looking for a new driver to grow he continued to believe they were in the bull markets but we've taken him pause here because when on the one we had a nice run since the beginning of the year number two they're reporting by u.s. companies is behind us was strong reporting but anyway that's already priced in most of it number three the marker data that we're getting proving the point that years economies are accelerating global economies are accelerating but at this point and this is being taking already as a given in many ways. ford motor company and russian car maker soul as have agreed to create a joint venture and russia now the new company to be called forward salles will produce passenger on light commercial ford vehicles will also be responsible for imports and distribution of ford products in russia and its plan to start its

business activities by the end of the news comes just as another company of fiat's declared it has stopped negotiations on creating a joint venture with solos in russia. had lines on next on odyssey with built their go away.

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