although the rouge also turmoil it's hard to so just how fundamental the changes will be. these are revolts they're not revolutions yet people's mindsets or revolutionary they want change they're fed up with these are revolts until the structures in place change it won't be consider 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 is taking over nothing's changed it's a formal change because the more barak was a part of the military the military housing all right one of the united states and its allies are politically hedging their bets 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 an opposition that you control both sides now i'm not saying that the protests on january the protests are absolutely genuine organic but the fact is that the united states is trying to put its own opposition figures into

position this includes the wisemen in egypt which are unelected the individuals billionaires people who were it part of the status quo part of the regime in fact who did nothing were mobarak was in power. well 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 is that all of them have had enough of. dictatorship the governments that have all been so soft 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. and although the u.s.

is showing its support for the revolt one of the least acts believes the wave of demonstrations could come back to haunt america once so we definitely do have the peoples of different countries of bahrain of the round definitely of the rack of libya of yemen of egypt seated 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 float 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 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. further ricky leaks revelations are casting

a shadow on the image of unity that made to a struggling hard to project 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 as artie's got that he knows a lot of our reports it even goes as far as america's snooping on its own nato allies. can among the pigeon. 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 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.c. 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 night zero is a group dominated by the united states of america that in fact it's not an alliance

of tool in the sense of being sovereign states. it's a bogus alliance people in the street understand that washington is calling the shots so. left right left right in march 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 in nato is supposedly equal it has raised questions over whether the u.s. really trusts the alliance out catherine has r r t. well you're with r t and plenty more ahead this hour including a look at the three years of kossovo self declared independence from serbia still gone off the breakaway region any closer to recognition by the majority of the few one member states instead its broadcasts of those leaders closer to prosecution. and as the u.s. looks to slash its defense budget critics say it's just

a drop in the ocean for the world's biggest military spender or find out more just a few minutes. was launching an aid mission to help italy deal with a 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 comes as europe's multiculturalism debate intensifies with the leaders of major nations lining up to admit it's not working well even so one outspoken critic from austria has gone on trial for speaking out against religious groups are to speak up you know over reports. of a european citizen peacefully debating islam with a muslim is nothing unusual in a multicultural country like australia but it's a tall not always discussed in such gentle fashion but i do not to burn the koran about your. studying what you. learned not to.

know your enemy elizabeth supper teacher has been on trial and a vienna court on charges of making what is described as a hate speech against islam a left wing 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 elites 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 subjects wolf opponents say she crossed the line here a speech is outraged not only the muslim community but also made. 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 a physical sign of non integration there is this should sit in vienna is known as the little people here speak their native language they prepare their national dishes and wear the clothes which they are used to and this is exactly what elizabeth subaverage wall found here a fellow like south 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 fully influence debate on the ground and the future shape of europe exiting the church over our team from vienna. danish writer and columnist mikhail ya'll vague says it's the politicians lack of action that's led to europe's immigration crisis it's the fall of the governments not very freezing. the facts standing up to reality standing up to the social phenomena is popping up throughout 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 that can be criticized and in deep it is good we've allowed that too much

multiculturalists to darkness and top issues to being represented in the public sphere and now we've gone gone even further to practice legislation against hate speech against a defamation and limiting the free speech and and the soul which is european we have to start opening up to criticism and start forming a new policy. of the united states as a country all but founded by immigrants but its cultural mix and diversity are often not matched when it comes to trying to burry racial hatred well wait a report on how white supremacist moments still run deep within society and hear some of what to expect next hour. we're going. back.

to our rally will sell lots of their world. they will wear uniforms that will damage is the black man marrying but very little damning the white. and they are the key to our problem our own right. at kossovo has marked three here since it unilaterally declared independence from serbia almost un member states including russia don't you. could nice it as a separate nation although with sovereignty is backed by the u.s. and several dozen other countries the anniversary was marred by a recent council of europe report alleging that costs of both leaders 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 which serbia wants the u.n.

security council to investigate marco gets it from the british serbian alliance for peace says the u.s. and the e.u. did not look into it earlier because their rules of what happened would have emerged. the key thing is we go back to those eleven years to when serbia was being bombed when people were being butchered on bridges in schools and hospitals or rowing stations where people were being killed in the name of our supposedly good albanian leadership that needed protecting with its population those crimes that were committed to service at that time were so huge that to admit that in fact the reality was that the albanians 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 and that was the one step too far for them there seems to be no body to the task of actually investigating technologies findings so it will require a brave brave the security council and the 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 or the proposed budget is almost forty billion dollars last the last time even ballots still about's to almost half of all global military spending defense analyst laura conley told us that america's approach to spending on its armed forces cannot 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 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. and coming up in a few minutes the threat of a bashing in belo bruce as president called once again a strongly balanced 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 is profiting from the poverty that has led to recent those relying on food handouts. are unique mission replicating 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 so i could walk on a martian surface well the three russians two europeans and a chinese volunteer who were taking part in mars five hundred simulated landing on the red planet last week well they've already spent eight months in

a set of windowless tubes and their only outside contact are delayed conversations with mission control and e-mails to their families scientists are studying the psychological effects of the long. space voyage the third virtual walk that happened on saturday and then it's a night journey back home right at the shelf of the european space agency explains what they hope to learn. we have to assume. this is xander from russia. from china doing their second mass walk and you see a simulated martian surface which is no more than forty square meters and what we see the two were in the in their space suits which are produced close to what we would expect for real martian martian mission and what the two are doing is collecting soil samples and preparing them to bring the symbols back home as we have the cord which of course would not be there all 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 pic to us you know it's carry on there. they are doing very well so. everybody was really surprised that everything is going so bell everything one of the reasons for that it's that they have really very interesting goal of simulating the first wark on the march and what we can see now is that the two are going to take a break in this special chairs because each of the space you would see is a board thirty five kilogram and also if you would expect a real mission on 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 all 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. that story online at r.t. dot com where there's always plenty of news blogs and analysis for you let's take you through some of what's there right now fasten your seat belts russia is developing an atomic power train which could take passengers further and faster than ever before also. in paris potter cast a spell over millions of fans but it's this great ease rail that's drawing crowds we'll find out why teenagers are flocking to this harry potter is resting place in israel. the president of bella who says threatening the opposition with being quote bashed in the head unless it stops destabilizing the country alexander lukashenko is

warning days after the first person involved in last year's mass protests and mix was sentenced to four years in jail well thousands of opposition activists are to the capital streets as polls close in the country's presidential election and 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. tightening the screws what happened in december was indeed unique because people are not terrorists and they were drilled for. the fact that the british narrative is more sentenced. to four years in jail i think it's a very bad message. trying to show everyone that he's serious about. what we need to use for the west on the stand we should more drawn you are and soon

you will which is going to isolate anyone. opposition in belarus do move. to our situation we. miss you there and all of these three people have died in two remain injured after gunmen opened fire on a tourist many of us in the southern russian republic. to mass to men stop the vehicle as it headed for the melton area they shot the passenger said point blank range and fled in a car with no plate number the bus driver was unharmed and called for help while further south a cable tower at a ski lift and there were so resort of their school was blown up a few hours later although luckily no one was hurt afterwards hotels in a nearby village were evacuated when a car bomb was discovered. in the volatile were. caucuses and police are looking for a connection with islamist terrorists operating in the region. and now an update on

some of today's world headlines two german journalists have been released by iran after more than four months in custody they are now safely back in berlin and well iran accuse them of acting against national security and legally entering the country that sentence them to twenty months in prison but that reduced that to finds the germans were arrested after interviewing the son of an iranian woman who was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery. thousands of rallied in thailand's capital to remember those who died in violent anti-government protests there last spring the red shirt demonstrators are also demanding the release of their leaders who've been imprisoned since last may well up to thirty thousand people took part in the rally which is the fourth this year the protesters insist last current government is not democratic saying it was the last election only good backing. all the food

stamp business is booming in the u.s. with fourteen percent of americans now rely on handouts but 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 but he explains. americans are generally known for their healthy appetite some eat what they crave while others like gabrielle gemma use the food stamps here for meat too expensive only eat what is affordable is there a way to give me two dollars worth. of these villages for 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 benefits. 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 us 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 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 fifteen 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 coming up in our sports balls and later this hour we're at the kudo world cup this young much more furious arrives in moscow where team russia shows the competition just what it's made of. and i'll be back with the headlines shortly do you stay with us.

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dot com. welcome back over the years a look at the week's top stories on our to the middle east as the gulf by violent protests spurred by all of us in egypt and tunisia but experts warn it's too early to talk of regime change while the military is remain in charge. we can experience a blow to nato as new cables reveal washington spies on its own allies to influence the bloc's policies. also the u.s. looks to slash its defense budget but with post cut military spending still equaling almost half the global total many see it as just a drop in the ocean. at its touchdown during. the longest ever space simulation

experiment mission to mars has now reached half way. of russia and the european union have joined forces to fight the massive flow of drugs from. as a top official visited moscow on monday for talks well next we hear how the international effort is going so far with the u.n. whose job it is to talk all the problem stay with us. i'm here talking to mr you're difficult to use the head of the u.n. office for drugs crime russia has long been trying to get drug production included on the list of international security threats ms tippett also thank you very much for talking to us now the u.s. seems to have been hampering those efforts to get drug production on to this list of international threats why do you think that it's because i'm at the refractor refuse included everybody considers. that if you can conceive.