inter milan it's hard to see just how fundamental the changes will be. these are revolts and not revolutions yet people's mindsets are revolutionary they want change they're fed up with these a revolt until the structures in place change it won't be considered 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 state in over nothing's changed it's a formal change more barak was a part of the military the military hosni mubarak one of the united states and its allies are polluting we had their backs what they're doing right now is something that we should call creating a counter discourse counter discourse is when you have a party in governance and an opposition if you control both sides now i'm not saying that the protests are genuine the protests are absolutely genuine 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 is that all of them have had enough often in a 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 better rein of iran definitely on 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 that 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 no doubt 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 is in the state department finding very difficult to control. further wiki leaks revelations are casting

a shadow on the image of unity that nato is struggling hard to project instead of being an alliance of equals it turns out to be increasingly controlled by the us with washington dictating both its stance and agenda and as our. reports it even goes as far as america sloping on its own nato allies. cat among the pigeons whistleblower 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 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 as key players the u.s. tries to prevent the alliance from growing too close to the russia in the former soviet bloc because the region is of strategic interest to america but they of course would prefer to build exclusive bilateral relationships strong ties between two military organizations such as nato and the c.s.t. that is not in u.s. interests. this is an odds with the image of the alliance tries to project a strong union where every opinion matters. is a group dominated by the united states of america that in fact it's not in the law and. all 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 so this is this is what is happening and in reality that is what people no documents published so far haven't exactly uncovered anything groundbreaking but if every member a neato is supposedly equal it has raised questions of whether the us really trusts the alliance around catarina as our r.t. . well you were there are plenty more ahead this hour including a look at two three years of kossovo self declared independence from serbia but it's still not brought the way region any closer to recognition by the majority of the un member states instead it's brought positive osa 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 we'll find out more in just a few minutes. ties between moscow and the vatican so a dramatic improvement this week when president medvedev met pope benedict the sixteenth in rome the two discussed ways of issuing dialogue between the russian orthodox and catholic churches in the latest attempt to mend relations that were destroyed during the soviet times well it's just over a year since moscow and the vatican restored to full diplomatic ties earlier the president met with the prime minister silvio berlusconi and rome where they signed a multi-million dollar energy deal as launched twelve months of cultural exchanges as part of a year of russia in italy. where the e.u. is launching an aid mission to help it lee 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 the columns as europe's

multiculturalism debate intensifies with the leaders of major of nations lining up to admit it's not working but even so one else woken critic from austria has gone on trial for speaking out against religious groups got that he reports. tonight. a european citizen peacefully debating islam with him is nothing unusual in a multicultural country like stream but it's a tool not always discussed in such gentle fashion. you do not burn the koran out. sure you. only want studying what islam. with learning how to. know your enemy you elizabeth supper to channel 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 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 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 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 hell is about subject wall found here a fellow like zounds. 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 bully employers debate on the ground and the future shape. exceeding look at our children

our team from vienna. danish writer and columnist mikhail yalding says it's the politicians lack of action that's led to europe's immigration crisis. it's a fall of the government's not facing the facts standing up to reality standing up to the social phenomena 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 multiculturalist dog nose and taboos to being represented in the public sphere and now we've gone and gone even further to practice legislation against hate speech against a different nation 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 the united states as a country all but founded by immigrants but it's cultural mix and diversity are often no match when it comes to trying to bring racial hatred later today we report on how white supremacy still run deep within society and hear some of what to expect. are. going. to rally. where you know. very little damming the white. they are the key to our problem are already.

an anti-terrorist operation has been introduced in parts of russia's southern republic of. it follows a series of incidents this weekend will police diffuse a car bomb containing the equivalent of seventy kilos of t.n.t. at a hotel in the ski resort of terror school and a few hours earlier a cable tower at a nearby ski lift was blown up all the luckily no one was hurt before that two mast man opened fire on a tourist many of us further north killing three the thing about katia is in the volatile north caucuses and police are looking for a connection with islamist terrorists operating in the region. the cost of zero has marked the three years since it unilaterally declared independence from serbia well most u.n. member states including russia don't recognize it as a separate nation although its 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 those 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 serbia wants the us 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 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 service at that time were so huge that to admit that in fact the reality was that the albanians that the us was sponsoring at the time were indeed stealers

and slavers 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 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 and that 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 a committee 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 u.s. defense budget is growing on the knife as the country seeks to slash the national debt from a staggering fourteen trillion dollars the proposed budget is almost fourteen

billion dollars less than last i but even that would still amounts to almost half of all global military spending the facts on the us war calmly told us that america's approach to spending on its off forces kept last for ever. 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 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 they 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 roost as president bush once again only wants the country's opposition to be asked what his latest message signals about the country's future loss. j.p. morgan is responsible for the fact that i'm going to look at how one american investment back is. profiting from the poverty that has led to an increase in those relying on handouts. a unique admission 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 second walk on a martian surface all the three russians to europeans and a chinese volunteer or taking part in mars five hundred simulate it landed on the red part 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 control and e-mail so their families scientists are studying the psychological effects of a long deep space voyage and the third virtual walk should happen on tears and that it's and i want the journey back home or never shelf of the european space agency explains what they hope to learn. we have to assume. this is. from russia. from china doing their second walk and you see a similar to the martian surface which is. not more than forty square meters and

what we see of the two when the space suits which are produced close to what we would expect for real more immersion mission. were doing is soil samples and preparing them to bring this. is near for the cord which of course would not be their will on the real mars in their core supplies to the to us to know it's. electricity and also if they're of course in the real martian mission would be in the big pick there to us to know it's carry on there or. they're doing very well that. everybody was really surprised that everything is going to go everything one of the reasons for that it's. really very interesting. simulating the first wark on the monitors and what you can see you know is that the two are going to take

a break in the special chairs because each of the space you would see is a board thirty five kilogram. also if you would expect a real mission or nurse we could expect to after ten or fifteen minutes astronauts would would have to take a small break at 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 is 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 it's developing and atomic power train which could take passengers further and faster than ever before also. can carry potter cast a spell over millions of fads but it's this craving to israel the stronger the crowds 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 because shank was warning comes just days after the first person involved in last year's mass protests in the mix 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 forty face trial including several presidential candidates the editor in chief of the bag. russia in global affairs told us that although the opposition and belive use is weak it's still making nervous. opposition belarus is not serious enough to

really challenge his rule and actually the election results which of course was falsified by you in the fair and free election i'm afraid of the question can we not as much but he he would do it the same time it's quite strange that he blames the position for being so much important but. why in this case such huge repression so it seems at the question because steele is quite nervous about any kind of. allowed to activities in belarus so opposition is weak show his nose. all time now for an update and solve today's world headlines to german journalists have been released by the bomb after four months in custody they're now safely back in berlin or iran accuse them of acting against national security and illegally entering the country is sentence them to

twenty months in prison but then reduce that to fines the germans were arrested after interviewing the son of a woman who was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery. thousands of rallied in tahrir last capital to remember those who died in violent antigovernment protests there last spring the redshirt demonstrators are also demanding the release of their leaders who have been imprisoned since last may well up to thirty thousand people took part in the rally which was the fourth this year the protesters and psystar last current government is not democratic saying it won the last election only with on the backing. of the foods job 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 at major banks or gorging on the takings well the formula. it's simple when the number of food stamp recipients goes up so do backs profits do you know what my explains. 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 facilities 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 what they call an electronic benefit transfer card allows food stamp recipients to spend their allowance the plastic lifeline for the hungry and unemployed is also a money maker for j.p. morgan chase the largest processor of food stamp benefits in the u.s. meaning an increase in food stamp recipients equals more profit for the investment bank every time i use my debit card goldman sachs or j.p. morgan in this case make a little money off of my transaction j.p.

morgan is responsible for the fact that i want to apply so it doesn't surprise me that every every aspect. of this program and everything else has been privatized j.p. morgan chase provides food stamp debit cards in twenty six states and the district of columbia the firm is paid per customer and in the state of indiana j.p. morgan makes roughly one hundred eighty six thousand dollars per month critics say the investment bank is making a fortune off american poverty as long as the out of line 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 letting this person say no because in my. he 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 us a business 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. be back shortly with a recap of the week's top stories do stay with us. sir

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in these kinds of reports on our. combat now here's a recap of the week's top stories on our team the middle east is in call five violent protests spurred by ahmed ressam egypt and tunisia but experts warn it's too early to talk of regime change while the military has remained in charge. little weekly it steals a blow to nato as new cables reveal washington's files on its own allies to influence the blocks policies and. also the u.s. looks to slosh its offense. but with military spending still almost half the globe . see it as. a long.

pathway. remembered by many for a public campaign against the cult of stalin and a particular shoe banging incident at the un well up next we meet those who personally knew the former soviet leader and trace the heritage left behind. full of contradictions and paradoxes for nearly two decades his name received no mention in the soviet press many continue to remember him with his resignation. and i think he was the best emperor of the soviet era yes he was. publicly that the soviet union would catch up with america and do it he promised to fully established communism in his country by nine hundred eighty he believed it was possible and compelled others to share that belief.