although the who is in turmoil it's hard to say just how fundamental the cho just will be. these are revolts and not revolutions yet people's mindsets or revolutionary they want change they're fed up with these a revolt until the structures in place change it won't be considered 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 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 if 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 when mubarak was in power. 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 in 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 of burien 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 micro manage 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 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 further review weeks revelations are casting

a shadow on the image of unity that nato is struggling hard to project 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 artie's got that he reports it even goes as far as america snooping on its own nato allies. can among the pigeons whistleblower weekly strikes again this time at the very heart of nato. 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 rafiki. 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 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 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 and we march yeah 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 our cats renos r o r t. well you're with r.t.m. plenty more ahead this hour including a look at two three years of kossovo self declared independence from serbia it's still not the breakaway region any closer to recognition by the majority of the un member states stead it's brought costs of those nearest closer to the 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 will find out more in just a few minutes. ties between moscow and the vatican saw a dramatic improvement this week when president medvedev met pope benedict the sixteenth in rome while the two discussed ways of refusing dialogue between the russian orthodox and catholic churches in the latest attempt to better relations that were destroyed during soviet times and that's just over a year since small scale of the vatican restored to full diplomatic ties earlier the president met with prime minister silvio berlusconi in rome where they signed a multi-million dollar energy deal twelve months of cultural exchanges as part of a year of russian and it really cool but that. the e.u. is launching an aid mission to help it leave 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 while it 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 r.t.c. got that you know reports. of. a european citizen peacefully debating islam with a muslim is nothing unusual in a multicultural country like little stream but it's a tall peak not always discussed in such gentle fashion but i do not to burn the koran. but you read. much studying what is luck. with learning how to. know your enemy elizabeth's supper teaching wall has been on trial in 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 her seminars landing here or 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 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 now 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. taking a stance against self segregation a topic 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 enclosed debate on the ground and the future shape of europe exiting the church of our team

from vienna. danish writer and columnist nicole ya'll thing says it's the politicians lack of action that's led to europe's immigration crisis. it's the fault of the government's not facing the facts standing up to reality standing up to the social phenomenon 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. can be criticized and and be paid out there too much multiculturalists to. being represented in the public sphere and now we've gone even further to practice legislation against hate speech against a defamation 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 of the united states as a country all but founded by immigrants but its cultural mix and diversity are often no match when it comes to trying to burry racial hatred well that a report on how white supremacist moves still run deep within society and hear some of what to expect and fifteen minutes time. are. going to. be louder rally. where you know. them. but very little damning the white. they are the key to our problem are already.

cos of zero has marked three years since it unilaterally declared independence from serbia while most un member states including russia don't recognize it as a separate nation although its sovereignty is backed by the us and several dozen other countries the anniversary was marred by a recent council of europe report alleging that cos of oaths leaders including the current prime minister were involved in crimes during the war of ninety ninety nine they include executions abductions and organ trafficking claims which serbia wants the u.n. security council to investigate marker gas it from the british serving alliance for peace says the u.s. and the e.u. did not look into it earlier because their roles in 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 and roa 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 a great service at that time were so huge that to admit that in fact the reality was that the albanians the us was at the time were indeed stealers enslavers and villains in a variety of different kinds would be to the legitimize one's own propaganda operations so they couldn't go back from their original claims without admitting that they'd be lying all along particularly nine hundred ninety 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 charged with the task of actually investigating technologies findings so

it will require a brave brave 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 the proposed budget is almost forty billion dollars last the last time even now it still amounts to almost half of all global military spending defense analyst mark calmly told us that america's approach to spending on its armed forces can't last forever. the defense budget is is actually higher now than it was at the peak level of spending during the cold war we're spending more on defense than we 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 and 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 testifying 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 and belly roots as president once again a strong leader 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 look at how one american investment bank is profiting from the poverty that a slots would increase and those rely on food handouts. all unique mission replicating a return trip to mars reached an important milestone this week friday marks the middle of the eighteen month long virtual journey when two crew members carried out a second walk on the mock martian surface or the three russians two europeans and a chinese volunteer who were taking place. five hundred simulated lad doing all the vets a lot of last week they've already spent eight months in a set of windowless tubes and they're only outside contact are delayed conversations with mission console and e-mails to their families scientists are studying the psychological effects of a long deep space voyage but their virtual walk should happen on tuesday it's a journey help but

a shell from the european space agency explains what they hope to learn. we have to assume. this is oleksandr from russia. 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 of 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 this simple spec home is rare for the cord which of course would not be there well on the real mars and their core supply used to us to know it's. electricity and also with air and of course in the real martian mission would be in the big pick to us to know it's carry on there or. 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 go. simulating the first wark on the morris and what we 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 a board thirty five kilogram. also if you would expect a real mission on earth we could expect that after ten or fifteen minutes astronauts would would have to take a small. 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 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 harry potter cast a spell over millions of pounds but it's this rabid israel that's drawing crowds to find out why teenagers are flocking to this harry potter's resting place in israel . the president of belarus is threatening the opposition with being quote bashed in the head unless it stops destabilizing the country alexander lukashenko is warning comes just days after the first person involved in last year's mass protest advance was sentenced to four years in jail 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 analysts dmitri babich from russia's be an obvious t.v. news agency says. tightening the screws. what happened in december was indeed unique because people are not terrorists and there were drilled for review on during the first of the british ne more sentenced. to four years in jail i think it's a very bad message. trying to show everyone that he's serious. here's. what we need to use for the west. we should more drawn you are and soon you will be sure not to isolate anyone. there are always be moving soon there will always room to win them story situation we. are in this in there in the lobby and anti-terrorist operation has been introduced in parts of russia southern republic

of. it follows a series of incidents this weekend police defuse a car blog containing the equivalent of seventy kilos of t.n.t. at a hotel in the ski resort of a school a few hours earlier a cable tower at a nearby ski lift was blown out although luckily no one was hurt and before that two masked men opened fire on a tourist minibus further north killing all ski resorts in the area are closed until the emergency measures are lifted it covers the novel collier is in the volatile north caucasus and police are looking for a connection with islamist terrorists operating in this region. now an update on some of today's world headlines two german journalists have to be used by iran after more than four months in custody they're now safely back in berlin well iran accuse them of acting against national security and legally entering the country it sentence them to twenty eight months in prison but then we do spout to clients the

germans were arrested after interviewing the son of an iranian woman who was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery. thousands have rallied in thailand's capital to remember those who died in violent anti-government protests there last spring the redshirt demonstrators are also demanding the release of their leaders who have been imprisoned says last may up to thirty thousand people took part in the rally which is the fourth this year and the protesters insist that thailand's current government is non-democratic saying it was the. last election only with backing. the food stamp business is booming in the u.s. with fourteen percent of americans now relying on handouts but while families struggle to put food on the table the major banks are gorging on the takings and the formula is simple when the number of food stamp recipients goes up so to banks

profits. explains. americans are generally known for their healthy appetite some eat what they crave while others like gabrielle gemma 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 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. 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 invest. and 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 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. i'll be back with the headlines shortly if you stay with us.

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back here's a recap of the week's top stories on our team in the middle east as a gulf by violent protests spurred by the rest in egypt and tunisia but swan it's too early to talk a routine change while militaries remain in charge. which in weeks deals a blow to may to go 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 those got more terrorist threat than still including 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 the mock mission to mars has now reached halfway. and next as promised the second part of our special report on hate groups within the u.s. society do stay with us for that. when i very first got involved and showing and even started hanging out with skinheads and different people like that i was searching for something and when i met the skin heads. it was kind of like a whole new arena for me they were feared they were angry and i was angry inside and didn't really realize what my reasons were. it was kind of the perfect match for me the first organized group i was involved in was area nations.