that link clashes with government forces saw six people killed and dozens wounded mideast expert mahdi daria's. told r.t. that although the region is in turmoil it's hard to say whether it will see any fundamental changes. 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 a 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 the more barak was a part of the military the military 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 challenger 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 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. authorities in the countries experiencing on rast are dancing to the tune of the west rather than listening to their people so says the president of the u.k. arab boyer's association certainly the unifying factor 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. well milli facts adrian which he believes the u.s. is trying to use the un rest in the region in its own interest but could have difficulty controlling it once so we definitely do have the peoples of different countries on better reign of the round definitely of the rack of libya of yemen of egypt we've seen it who really want to have change now the other aspect that i think we have to be very careful about is that this will be and i think it is probably being either macro managed and controlled leavin 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 especially the state department finding very difficult to control. with the middle east protests rampant the e.u. is launching a mission 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 as 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 article three mcgrath. 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 very. much studying what islam so we learn how to. know your enemy elizabeth supper teach 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 his 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 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 upgrade not only the muslim community but also made. it's not a matter of. 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 based districts 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 sounds taking a stance against self segregation at top which was once taboo is now at the top of the european political agenda with multiculturalism now open to multi criticism from some of the continent's most influential political leaders we've yet to see how their views might fully influence debate on the ground and the future shape of europe exiting the church over our team from vienna. well dana's writer and columnist. says it's politicians lack of action that lead europe's to europe's immigration crisis it's the fault of the governments 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 subjects can be criticized and and deep it is that we've allowed that too much multiculturalist doc mazin top issues to being represented in the public sphere and now we've gone gone even further to practice legislation against hate speech against the 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. and the united states known as the world's biggest cultural melting pot seems not always to achieve a good mix either later today we report on how white supremacists still want deep within society here some of what to expect.

are. going. to rally will sell lots of beer will. they will wear uniforms that damage is in the black and them everything but very little damning the white. and they are the key to our problem are all right. now 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 an opening on the alliances top official are discovering those are reports the allegations. 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. that i mean as one of nato as key players the us 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. it is not in u.s. interests. this isn't 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 in the law and so tall in the sense of being sovereign states. it's both. it's a law and 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 in reality that is what 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 i don't catch reno's r o r t. meanwhile the us defense budget is going under the knife as the country's cigs to slash national debt from a staggering fourteen trillion dollars the proposed version will see seventy eight billion dollar cuts in defense funding over ten years that's significantly less than comparison with a four hundred billion slashes in discretionary spending which includes education food safety and environmental protection now even with the upcoming cuts washington will still account for almost half of the world's military expenses defense analyst laura calmly 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 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. scores of civilians have been reported killed

in nato led operations in the north of the country over the past few days where women and children are said to make up most almost half brother of the casualties another thirteen dead were identified as taliban militants nato has officially confirmed its troops were involved in the ground in air operations but deny civilian killings was not discussed the story in a little more we're joined by a member of the afghan parliament but would. he joins us live from kabul now officials are saying there were also a lot of civilians who were injured in these raids you're in afghanistan tell us anything you know about what has happened. actually. to some of the. shows and canary and also some people before i came to this program days ago the operation started a joint operation of nato and afghan army and of course the area was a very very narrow canyon and according to my information no government

official can go there so that the death tolls are unconfirmed they're here by saying by villagers who have sent people to the center of the capital a total of sixty eight people according to them but according to nato forty seven people have been killed and nato says all forty seven are insurgency and the villagers say there are some civilians among these they say thirteen or insurgency there are civilians so there is a confirmed report by one side and the unconfirmed report by the other side but naturally some investigation is required into the matter that i'm sure in these insurgency operations there's always a civilian casualty we cannot exclude dead right but some very conflicting figures there nato has admitted to causing civilian deaths in the past which of course has drawn huge anger among afghans is that the signs you think that the alliance hasn't learned any lessons. the problem of this war is that

the insurgency. always hides in civilian areas and they use civilians as shields and naturally we have to deal with it and we have to educate. the people that this war is like any other war it's an ugly or no war and no one wins but the insurgency thrives on mistakes on all of the government and of the international community and civilian casualties are the perfect mistakes for them to thrive on and to to seize upon in a news public opinion in their own favor and also a government inefficiency and government problems add to that so this is something that the international community and afghan government has to cope with then learn and also try to isolate the population from insurgency and the ability to use the the civilians this insurgency has been very effective it and using the civilians as

shields and you ve using civilian areas as their hideouts and we have to deny that by efficiency by a bit better governance and better services and we haven't been able to do that yet now some experts go as far as to say that civilian casualties actually help the taliban recruit new members do you agree with that. that's very true that's very true of the civilians you know when taleban roam around in these areas remember most of them are local taliban and when these kinds of situations take place they go to the remain remaining family members of the dead and they go to the disaffected people and they try to recruit this is a very very easy way to recruit people and i'm sure they take advantage of that you mentioned nato claims it will investigate the deaths of these civilians and deaths of civilians that it's admitted to causing do you think this will actually bring any results. i'm sure in the past also made to in hair

out in other places after several weeks of investigation they have come up and released real effect figures one thing we have to remember that these figures cannot i cannot be hidden because if the true casualties are civilians their relatives and those who know them will come out and reveal it so nato cannot and cannot hide dad and in the past eventually they have come up with the exact figures but as you know the bureaucracy of larger powers like america and russia and nato they appear ocracy is our sole slaw and they're grinding and draining and after a while they bring results and i think they have to learn to cope with the realities of the situation in this country they have to speed up they're up there their performance in my opinion live on the line with us from kabul afghanistan a member of the afghan parliament so tons of oil thank you very much for your time . coming up in the program for you we take you to outer space for

a long trip to mars which took place earlier this week a unique virtual dirty by a multinational crew. was bashing opposition on the head that's the recipe for a stable country according to the president hello ruth stay with us for some analysis on matter from. the first kosovo has marked three years of self proclaimed independence from serbia the region's unilateral move was backed by the u.s. and seventy five other countries 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 ninety 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 emerge. the key thing is when we go back to those eleven years to when so be it was being bombed when people were being butchered on bridges in 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 was so huge that to admit that in fact the reality was that the albanians that the u.s. was sponsoring at the time were indeed all. women and slavers and villains in a variety of different kinds would be to delegitimize 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. you 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 the 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 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. a unique mission imitating a return trip to mars reached an important milestone this week friday marked the equator of the eighteen month long virtual journey to crewmembers carried out a second walk on a mock martian surface the three russians two europeans and a chinese volunteer who are taking part in mars five hundred simulated landing on the red planet they've already spent eight months in a set of window this two time lags conversations with mr control and e-mails to their families their only outside contact scientists are studying the psychological

effects of such a long journey the third virtual walk should happen on tuesday and it will be followed by a nine mm. on journey home when a cell from the european space agency explains to us what it seem hope still are. we have to assume. this is oleksandr from russia. from china doing their second mars work 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 pretty 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 back home as we have the cord which of course would not be there 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

a real martian mars mission that all would be in the big pick to us you know it's carry on there are on the break they are doing very well so. everybody was really surprised that everything is going so bell everything one of the reasons for that is that they have this 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 the woods is aboard 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. well our to dot com is where you can follow that

and all our stories blogs and analysis plus much more whenever you like here's what's lined up for you at our team dot com right now fasten your seatbelts russia is developing an atomic power train which could take passengers further and faster than ever before also. very potter's magic has cast a spell on millions of fans across the world but now his grave is drawing a crowd find out why people are flocking to the young magicians resting place in israel. police in russell's southern republic of korea have defused a massive car bomb at a hotel in a ski resort and anti terror operation has been launched in parts of the republic

police suspect a connection with islamist terrorists operating in the region earlier a cable tower at a local ski lift was blown up and a minibus carrying tourist was fired at by masked men who killed three people virginia all khari allies in russia volatile north caucuses region. president of bella ruth says opposition will be quote bashed on the head unless it stops destabilizing the country alexander lukashenko warning comes just days after the first person involved in last year's mass protest in men was sentenced to four years behind bars thousands of opposition activists took to the capital streets and polls closed in december 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 although the opposition in valorous is weak it's still making the nervous

opposition below says not serious enough to really challenge his rule and actually the election results we should force was falsified by you in the third free election i'm afraid of the question can we not as much but he would do it at the same time it's quite strange that he blames the position for being so much important but. why in this case the side show huge repressions saw it seems that the question because steele is quite nervous about any kind of. allowed activities in belarus opals issues we look at show that he is in the us. he said look now at some other major headlines from around the world seventeen. people wounded in two successive attacks five suspected muslim insurgents in the south of thailand first took place in a karaoke restaurant which was raked with gunfire half an hour later

a car bomb was detonated nearby last week a car bomb wounded eighteen people inside buildings on fire in the neighboring province over four thousand people have died in insurgency related violence in the country in the last seven years. the ugandan president is to remain in power for a fourth term after the electoral commission confirmed that he won sixty eight percent of the vote in the country's recent election you're in with seventies main competitor and former allies secured only twenty six percent and now from which is being rejected by the opposition all the election was largely peaceful the president vowed to lock up any protesters attempting egyptian style demonstrations . a recap of this week's top stories is coming up after this short break.

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future of covered. so much in our to you live from moscow the top news of the week middle eastern states are ravaged by anti-government protests parked by the uprisings in tunisia and egypt at least two hundred rioters are reportedly killed by the military in libya and. the european union scrambles to help italy with waves of north african immigrants as politicians and experts sound doubts on whether multiculturalism is viable for europe. pulling the strings wiki leaks has revealed the u.s. has been spying on top nato officials and use using pressure to distance the alliance and from russia. also this week

a man set foot on mars twice and go it was just a mock up trip it's hoped the unique virtual journey will bring a real mission to the red find it a step closer. now russia and the european union have joined forces to fight the massive flow of drugs from afghanistan next we'll 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 u.t. for going to he's the head of the un 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 hampering those efforts to get struck production on to this list of international threats why do you think that it was her think there's a method referred to refuse included.