as preparing for talks with authorities after death and clashes with government forces six people killed and dozens wounded middle east expert mahdi darrius. told r.t. that although the reason is in turmoil it's hard to say whether it will see any fundamental changes. these are revolts or 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 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 because the more barak was a part of the military the military and hosni mubarak 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 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 who's 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. both already in the country is experiencing on ras are dancing to the tune of the west rather than listening to their people so says the president of the u.k. arab lawyers association. certainly the unifying factor is that all of them have had enough after an awful 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. generally sexpert. believes to you asses trying to use the unrest in the region in its own interest but could have difficulty controlling one 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 macro managed and controlled even and probably is going to be used to favor the interests of certain global power structures float it understood it 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. now with the middle east protests rampant the e.u. is launching a missile to help italy deal with a wave of immigrants from north africa more than five thousand people poured in from tunisia alone during the past week and officials agree the situation is out of control the wave of migrants comes just as europe is seeing a vicious debate over multiculturalism the leaders of major nations admit it's not working despite the current mood however one outspoken critic from austria has gone on trial for speaking out against the rights of religious groups are to get the rain across that up with the word. of 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 reading. my studying what islam so we learn how to. know your enemy elizabeth supper teaching 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 his 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 mostly culturalism 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 this district 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 sounds taking a stance against self segregation that top pick 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. well russia and progress face crafters on the undocking from the international space station where you are used to live pictures of the predator which has been at the station for after year and now they are progressed very delivered to want to have taught us a quick including oxygen water packages from only population census forms for the russian consulate that was separate probably shortly between moving

here as of yet. before leaving it was loaded up with garbage and used a quick moment before it's about to leave so we can say now it's been loaded up with garbage and equipment and once it's on docks it will be burned up in the earth's atmosphere with the remaining fragments dropping safely into the south pacific well just to let you know the next ferry to the eye is blasted off from the french cosmodrome earlier this week and is to reach the station next week the eye is that is currently manned by three russians two americans and in tally and the twenty six station crew earlier this week two russians performed this year a second space walk installing a quit meant for experiments to sense earthquakes lightning strikes and thunderstorms on earth again live pictures here of an undocking that's about to take place a little bit of movement there. progress freighter from the us. well

later this hour we'll be taking you further into space to look at a trip to mars which took place earlier this week more on this unusual virtual journey coming up for you in just a few minutes. in other news this week new wiki leaks revelations appear to show washington attempting to pressure nato a diplomatic cable released by the whistleblower says the u.s. went as far as snooping on the alliances top official or discovering i was our reports on the allegations. can among the pigeons whistleblower we strikes again this time at the very heart of me don't according to documents published by two european newspapers a us most 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 they of course would prefer to build exclusive bilateral relationships strong ties between two military organizations such as nato in the c.s. 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 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 march. this is what is happening and in reality 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. really trusts the alliance out catarina r.t. . police in russia's southern republic of korea have you fuse a massive car bomb at a hotel in a ski resort and anti terror operation has been launched in parts of the republic

police suspected connection with islamic terrorists operating in the region earlier a cable tower at a local ski lift was blown up and a minibus carrying taurus was fired at by masked men three people were killed converging of all korea allies in russia a volatile north caucasus region. kosovo has marked three years of self-proclaimed independence from serbia the region's unilateral move was backed by the us and seventy five other countries but most un member states including russia have not recognized it as a separate nation the anniversary was marred by a recent council of europe report the document claims kosovo's leaders including the current prime minister were responsible for serious crimes during the war in one thousand nine hundred nine these include executions abductions and organ trafficking claims which serbia wants the un to investigate peace campaigner marco gases says the u.s. and e.u. don't want their roles in the balkans conflict to mertz. 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 a 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 sponsoring at the time were indeed all steelers enslavers and villains in a variety of different kinds would be to be legitimized 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 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 version will see seventy eight billion dollars cuts in defense funding over ten years that's significantly less in comparison with the four hundred billion slashes in discretionary spending which includes education food safety and environmental protection even with the upcoming cuts washington will still account for almost half of the world's military and the defense analyst laura conley told us that the u.s. love of defense 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 they are spending during the war in vietnam as well and defense spending in the country has 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 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 us 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 the program here on our to your recipe for a stable country composition head that's how the president of bell ruth has promised to deal with the sound stay with us for some analysis. and more and more americans are forced to rely on food stamps to put food on the table one major bank is racking up profits by cashing in on every damn transaction . unique mission imitating a return trip to mars reached an important milestone this week friday marked the quieter of the eighteen month long virtual journey two crew members carried out a second walk on a mock martian surface the three russians to your. and

a chinese volunteer who are taking part in the mars five hundred then related landing on the breast planet ever to spend eight months in a set of legal this two with time like conversations with mr mission control and emails to their families their only outside contact scientists are studying the psychological the facts of such a long journey the third virtual walk should happen this tuesday it will be followed by a nine month journey home and we need to sell from the european space agency explains what the team hopes to learn. we have to assume no it's this is. from russia and. china are doing their second walk and you see a simulated martian surface which is no more than forty square meters and what we see the two when the in their space suits which are 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. is we have the cord which of course would not be there on the real mars and the core supplies to the to us to nodes. with electricity and also with air and of course in the real martian mission that all would be in the big pic or to us the nodes carry on there or on the break they are doing very very well so. everybody was really surprised that everything is going to go everything one of the reasons for that it's that they have a 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 expected. fifteen minutes the last of those would

have to take a small group of the major points here is that there really everybody of them is really focused on their toes and that's the main reason why this is so real and so close to reality. dot com is where you can follow all our stories blogs and analysis whenever you like here's what's on line for you today fasten your seatbelt and russia is developing an atomic power which could take further and faster as the. harry potter is magic has cast a spell on millions of pounds across the world but now his grave is drawing a crowd i know why people are flocking to the young magicians resting place in this area.

the president of the room says opposition will be quote bashed on 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 protests in minsk was sentenced to four years behind bars thousands of opposition activists took to the capital streets of polls closed in december as presidential election over six hundred protesters were arrested and more than forty now face trial including several presidential candidates the editor in chief of the magazine russia in global affairs told us that all both the opposition in belarus is weak it's still making nervous. opposition belarus is not serious enough to really challenge his rule and actually the election results we should force was falsified by you in the fair and free election i'm afraid of the question can you 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. huge repressions saw it seems that the question because steele is quite nervous about any kind of. allowed activities in belarus oprah's issues week show because there was. a look now at some of today's major headlines from around the world over sixty civilians killed in afghanistan as a result of a joint operation between the countries to guarantee forces and nato led foreign troops in the past week boucle officials say the victims mostly died in air raids with women and children making up almost half the casualties only thirteen of the dead were identified as militants nato has officially confirmed it's true with were involved in the operation but deny civilian killings.

seventeen people have been wounded in two successive at. by suspected muslim insurgents in the south of thailand the first took place at a karaoke restaurant which was raped with gunfire half an hour later a car bomb was detonated nearby a car bomb wounded eighteen people inside buildings on fire in the neighboring province over four thousand people have died in surgeon see related violence in the country in the last seven years. election results are expected in uganda which will show whether current president yoweri seventy will remain in power after twenty five years the vote was only the second multi-party election to take place in thirty years or seven years difference competition comes from his former ally and personal dr many analysts however believe the incumbent will remain for a fourth term while the election was largely peaceful the president vowed to lock up protesters to attempt any gyptian style demonstrations. the food stamp

business is booming in the us fueled by millions of unemployed americans who struggle to make ends meet their dependence on handouts is proving highly profitable although those most in need are not the ones receiving the paychecks ours is more important i explains how some of the biggest u.s. banks are cashing in on american poverty. americans are generally known for their healthy appetite eat what they crave while others like gabrielle jemma 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 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 what they call it 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 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 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 letting this person say no 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.

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our to you live from moscow the top news of the week middle eastern states are ravaged by anti-government protests sparked by the uprisings in egypt and tunisia at least two hundred rioters are reported killed by the military in libya. european union scrambles to help it lead with waves of north african immigrants have politicians and experts sound doubts on whether multiculturalism is viable for europe. and pulling the strings we can release has reopened the u.s. has been spying on top nato officials and using pressure to distance the alliance from russia. was this week mounted set foot on mars twice and

though it was just a trip it's hoped the unique virtual journey will bring a real mission to the red planet a staff officer. now russia and the european union have joined forces to fight the massive flow of drugs from afghanistan next we hear how the international effort is going so far with the u.n. man whose job it is to tackle the problem. i'm here talking to mr you're difficult to please the head of the u.n. office for drugs and 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 comforting those efforts to get struck production on to this list of international threats why do you think that it's very think there's a method referred to refuse him.