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 or revolts 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 state nothing's changed it's a formal change because the more barak 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 challenger discourse counter discourse is when you have a party in governance and in opposition to detroit both sides now i'm not saying that the protests aren't genuine the protests are absolutely genuine an organic but the fact is that the united states is trying to put its own opposition figures into

position to see the wise men in egypt which are unelected individuals billionaires people who were it part of the status quo part of the regime in fact who did nothing or mubarak was in power. while the president of the arab lawyers association in britain said the protests across the region were ignited by a hatred of too much western involvement and domestic policies certainly the unifying factor that is that all of them have had enough of the whole dictatorship the governments that have all been so subservient to the west that this goes against the will of the people in that region generally speaking the interest of the national interest of the west is contradictory to the national interest of that region that of countries have a problem with israel they have a problem with the americans they have a problem with capitalism and this is going to this is a unifying factor. although the u.s. is showing its support for the revolts one middle east expert believes the wave of

demonstrations could come back to haunt america once so we definitely do have the peoples of different countries on burien of the definitely of the rack of libya of yemen of egypt we've seen it who really want to have change now the other aspect that i think we have to be very careful about is that this will be and i think it is probably being either micromanaged and control even and probably is going to be used to favor the interests of certain global power structures the united states would like to see regime change in iran but at the same time they would like to see no regime change in bahrain and in egypt they probably knew that regime change was on the way because of the age of hosni mubarak and what iraq is another problem altogether so i think that we have a generalized situation which the united states for the state department finding very difficult to control of further weaken leaks revelations are casting a shadow on the image of unity that nato is struggling hard to protect well instead

of being an alliance of equals it turns out to be increasingly controlled by the u.s. with washington dictating both its stance and agenda and as r.t. scouting as a lot of our reports even goes as far as america snooping on its own nato allies. cat among the pigeons whistle blower strikes again this time at the very heart of meat. according to documents published by two european newspapers a u.s. mole was planted right in the office of the alliance's secretary general several of the cables revealed by wiki leaks indicate america is trying to control nato from within reporting confidential information back to washington this point of view is supported by some of the documents allegedly sent by u.s. diplomat jeff rafter. when under spog rasmussen was looking for closer ties with the collective security treaty organization made up of former soviet states the us

was quick to veto the idea after a private dialogue with the u.s. representative to nato rasmussen took all mention of the two organizations growing closer out of his address to the alliance in two thousand and nine but why would the us try to pressure its allies. as one of nato is key players with 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. 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 much so this is 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 a nato is supposedly equal it has raised questions over whether the u.s. will really trust the alliance at all catherine as arvo r.t. . or british foreign policy analyst william spring gave us a damning indictment of nato calling it a book less alliance dominated by the us all these cables actually show is what we've known all along that nato is a group dominated by the united states of america in fact it's not an alliance at all in the sense of being sovereign states. it's a bogus alliance secretary-general rasmussen has seen the invalidity of the current strategic concept of nato and he is endeavoring in o.c. only way to make build bridges with the country with russia but he's being

guarded by hillary clinton i think for some from these cables anyway so it appears some sort of pale pink lefty and hillary clinton seems desperate to stop anders rasmussen making any positive outreach to russia. well you're of authority and plenty more ahead this hour including a look at to three years of kossovo self declared independence from serbia but it's still wrong breakaway region any closer to record there should by the majority of the you whether member states instead it's brought the whole supposed leaders closer to prosecution. and looks to slash its defense budget critics say it's just a drop in the ocean for the world's biggest military spender bill find out more in just a few minutes. well the e.u. is launching an aid mission to help deal with the wave of immigrants from north

africa more than five thousand arrived there from tunisia alone during the past week and officials agree the situation is out of control. multi-culturalism debate intensifies with the leaders of major nations lining up to admit it's not working or even so outspoken critic from austria has gone on trial for speaking out against religious groups are. reports. it was just a nice addition was a european citizen peacefully debating islam with a muslim is nothing unusual in a multicultural country like australia but it's a topic not always discussed in such gentle fashion i advise you not to burn the koran about your read. only mark studying what islam stands for learning how to play. you know your enemy elizabeth supper to channel has been on trial and a vienna court on charges of making what is described as

a hate speech against islam a left we all strand magazine recorded and published a speech at one of his seminars lending who are in court i have nothing against people who want to practice their faith. but i would like them to do this in the privacy of their own homes your ideas she says are nothing new and when europe's political elite express them they are not prosecuted for the same views multiculturalism has failed this is nothing new and my group and i have been saying this for years now all of a sudden. and others come out of hiding and agree with us i don't know why but elizabeth wolfe opponents say she crossed the line here a speech is upgrade not only the muslim community but also major streams it's not a matter of free speech that i can spread hatred about large groups of society you know we have to respect individuals in our society and we have to ask them to

integrate and we have to help them to integrate yet european leaders such as german chancellor angela merkel french president nicolas sarkozy and british prime minister david cameron say multiculturalism in europe isn't working there are huge muslim communities but frequently such as in all strata they leave in their own areas effie's a. sign of non integration districts in vienna is known as the little people here speak their native language they propose the national dishes and wear the clothes which they are used to and this is exactly what hell is about subaverage wall found here a fellow like sounds taking a stance against self segregation at top which was once taboo is now at the top of the european political agenda with multiculturalism now open to multi criticism

from some of the continent's most influential political leaders we've yet to see how their views might bully a debate on the ground and the future shape of your exit in the church of our team from vienna. danish writer and columnist says it's the politicians lack of action that's led to europe's immigration crisis it's the fall of the governments not facing the facts standing up to reality standing up to the social phenomena popping up through europe in sweden and denmark as well you can you can't blame a whole. group of people for not doing this or that but you can you can blame the politicians for not dealing with the problems not not turning them into subjects can be criticized and and be paid out there too much multicultural is. being represented in the public sphere and now we've gone even further to practice

legislation against hate speech against a definition and limiting the free speech and in the soul which is european we have to start opening up to criticism and start forming a new policy. that the united states is a country all but founded by immigrants but its cultural mix and diversity are often well much when it comes to trying to burry racial hatred well it a report on how white supremacist still run deep within society and hear some of what to expect in fifteen minutes time. are. you going to. play. louder rally. where you know. them and.

the black. but very little damning the white. they are the key to our problem our own right. kossovo has marked three years since it unilaterally declared independence from serbia well the region is recognized by the united states and some e.u. countries but not by russia and more than one hundred other un member states the anniversary was marred by a recent council of europe report alleging that call civil sleepers including the current prime minister were involved in crimes during the war of one nine hundred ninety nine they include executions abductions and organ trafficking claims which a survey wants the u.n. security council to investigate of markel gas which the british surveyed alliance for peace says the us and the e.u. did not look into it earlier because their roles in what happened would have emerged. the key thing is when we go back to those eleven years to when so be it

was being bombed when people were being butchered on bridges in the schools and hospitals and roa stations where people were being killed in the name of supposedly good albanian leadership that needed protecting with its population those crimes that were committed a great service at that time was so huge that to admit that in fact the reality was that by you knew it was the u.s. was sponsoring at the time were indeed. women and slavers and villains in a variety of different kinds would be to the legitimize one's own propaganda operation so they couldn't go back from their original claims without admitting that they'd be lying all along particularly in one thousand nine hundred nine and that would have meant those who bombed serbia were culpable in criminal terms for that bombing and should answer before an international court so of course it would be very difficult for them to say actually yes we are indeed wrong we were wrong we supported the wrong side and. that was the one step too far for them there seems to

be nobody to charge with the task of actually investigating technologies findings so it will require a brave brave security council and a commission security council one that wants the truth to actually appear and i have my doubts whether that will appear out of the security council the us defense budget is going under the knife as the country seeks to slash the national debt from a staggering fourteen trillion dollars well the proposed budget is almost forty billion dollars last the last time even now it's still amounts to almost half of all global military spending well defense analyst laura connelly told us that america's approach to spending on its armed forces can't last forever. the defense budget is it's actually higher now than it was at the peak level of spending during the cold war we're spending more on defense than they are spending during the war in vietnam as well and defense spending in the country is actually doubled since two thousand and one so really i think we need to do

a better job of matching our resources and our priorities i think since two thousand and one in this country we've sort of gotten into the mindset of buy everything do everything in a sense we've decided that if we can spend enough money we can sort of in a way address every threat that's out there we can buy perfect security and that's just not realistic actually secretary gates was testify in front of the house armed services committee and he was asked about this very idea you know how much money do we really need to spend for all these security needs and he said listen you know there's no amount of money that you can spend that can actually take our risk down to zero and that's just it's an illusory concept so we need to do a better job as i said of matching our resources and our priorities and at this moment time with the difficult economic situation in the u.s. we really just can't afford to increase the pentagon budget year after year as we have been doing over the last decade. coming up in a few minutes the threat of

a bashing in the roots as president called watson strongly wants the country's opposition we asked what his latest message signals about the country's future plus . j.p. morgan is responsible for the fact that i want to employ a look at how an american investment bank is profiting from the poverty that has led to what we saw there was relying on food handouts. well a unique mission replicated a return trip to mars reached an important milestone this week friday marked the middle of the eighteen month long virtual journey when two crew members carried out a second walk on martian surface well the three russians two europeans at a chinese volunteer who are taking part in mars five hundred simulated loving on the red planet last week they've already spent eight months in a set of windowless two well they're only outside contact are delayed conversations with mission control and e-mails to their families scientists are studying the

psychological effects of a long deep space voyage the third virtual walk should happen on tuesday bet it's a nine month journey back home. from the european space agency explains what they hope to learn. we have to assume this is. from russia. from china doing their second. and you see a similar martian surface which is. not more than forty square meters and what we see you know the two were in the in their space suits which are produced close to what we would expect for real motion of motion mission. were doing. soil samples and comparing them to printers and those because if we're if the cord which of course would look very well on the real mars and the. supplies to the to us to know it's. electricity and also. and of course in the real martian mission that all

would be in the big pic or two us notes carry on there. they're doing very well. everybody was really surprised that everything is going to go everything one of the reasons for that it's that they have really really interesting goal of simulating the first wark on the morris' and what you can see you know is that the two are going to take a break in this special chairs because each of the space you would see is aboard thirty five killer gone. also if you would expect a real mission or nurse we could expect that after ten or fifteen minutes astronauts would have to take a small break but the major point here is that they're really all everybody of them is really focused on their toes and that's that's the main reason why this is so real and so close to reality. over across that story online at r.t.

dot com where there's always plenty of news blogs and analysis for you and let's take you through some of what's there right now fasten your seat belts washer is developing at atomic power train which could take passengers further and faster than ever before also. a pair of potter cast a spell over millions of fans but it's this great israel that's drawing crowds will find out why do you majors are flocking to this harry potter resting place in israel. the president of bellary says threatening the opposition with being quote bashed in the head ls it stops destabilizing the country alexandre look a shrink was warning comes just days after the first person and. last year's mass protests and banks was sentenced to four years in jail well thousands of opposition

activists took to the capital streets as polls closed in the country's presidential election in december over six hundred protesters were arrested and more than twenty face trial including several presidential candidates political analyst dimitri babich from russia's ria novosti news agency says the question keeps tightening the screws. but what happened in december was indeed unique because people are not terrorists and they were jailed for redoing turn. out of position activists or sentenced to four years in jail i think it's a very bad message. trying to show everyone that he's serious about his promise to . the whole denies this whole that what we need is for the west on the stand there we should more drawn you are and soon you will which is not isolate anyone. opposition in belarus do move or soon will or with rule north to win situation it

will win them still open this is the end all of this all an update now on some of today's world headlines two german journalists have been released by bond after more than four months of custody they are now safely back in berlin or iran accuse them of acting against national security and illegally entering the country that sentence them to twenty months in prison but then you'd use that to find the germans were arrested after interviewing the son of a brain and woman who was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery. thousands have rallied in thailand's capital to remember those who died in violent government protests there last spring the redshirt demonstrators are also demanding the release of their leaders been imprisoned since may well up to thirty thousand people took part in the rally which is the fourth this year the protesters insist thailand's prime government is not democratic. say it was the last election only on

the back of. well the food stamp business is booming in the u.s. with fourteen percent of americans now relying on handouts while families struggle to put food on the table the major banks are gorging on the takings the formula is simple the number of food stamp recipients goes up so do banks profits. explains. 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. 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 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 often. merican 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 i know 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 fifteen hour. meanwhile in the u.s. abyss of economic hardship nearly fourteen million americans like every l. 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.

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welcome back well here's a look at this week's top stories in our to the middle east as an gulf by violent protests spurred by armed recipe egypt and tunisia but experts want it's too early to talk of regime change while militaries remain in charge. we few weeks deals a blow to nato as new cables reveal washington spies on its own allies to influence the blocks policies. also the u.s. looks to slash its defense budget but with both cut military spending still equaling almost half the global total many see it as just a drop in the ocean. and it's touched down during the longest ever space simulation

experiment the mock mission to mars has now reached halfway. and next as promised our special report on hate groups within the u.s. society that's coming your way next on our t.v. . there was one claim plot out of texas nine hundred ninety seven where these clansmen intended to blow up a natural gas refinery and they succeeded the authorities said after they were all arrested no one was hurt and all they likely would have killed thirty thousand people that is ten times the number of people. not eleven the world trade center if there's going to be any salvation. are called. culture in north america. because they're not listening.