well and dozens wounded mideast expert mahdi darrius. told r.t. that although the region isn't 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 or 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 stake in all those things 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 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 in opposition to get 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 for mubarak was in power. well authorities in the country is 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 lawyers association. certainly the unifying factor is that all of them have had enough after enough of dictatorship the governments that have all been sold something into 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 many stacks. believes the u.s. is trying to use the unrest in the region and its own interest that could have difficulty controlling it 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 macro managed and controlled lieven 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 iraq is another problem altogether so i think that we have

a generalized situation which the united states is for the state department finding very difficult to control. other news out of the middle east this hour israel has expressed strong concern over iran's dispatch for two warships to cross egypt's suez canal prime minister netanyahu says the move will bring even more tension to an already unstable region the two ships are due to sell through the canal on monday and route to the mediterranean well they will be the first to rainy and warships navigate those waters since the country's islamic revolution of one thousand nine hundred seventy nine let's cross live now to paul the slayer who keeps track of these developments from tel aviv paulo what are the israelis afraid of here. well minister benjamin netanyahu says that he views with most gravity the passing of these two iranian warships through the suez canal to the mediterranean sea he says that it's really an attempt by terror and to take advantage of the current situation to exploited and to extend its regional

influence we also heard today from the israeli foreign minister of adore lieberman and he says that this is nothing short of provocation israel and iran have not had diplomatic relations for the past thirty years and israel is concerned that iran is sending weapons to its neighbors that will ultimately be used against the jewish state is what is also concerned that back home to iran is building nuclear arsenal now iranian state television is reporting that the two ships have already passed through the suez canal that they're headed towards a syrian port now this will send and is sending alarm bells off in his role because israeli soon relations are strained as well convinced an israeli official saying as much over the past few years that iran is supplying weapons to syria that ultimately land in the hands of his in lebanon now the united states is adding fuel to the whole situation the u.s. state department recently set up a twitter account and it is using their twitter account to post tweets in farsi

that supports anti iranian government demonstrators out on the streets of tehran we haven't seen the u.s. state department do anything like that supporting or even expressing any kind of opinion on the same kind of demonstrations that are happening in bahrain and yemen but just to give you an idea of what some of these tweets are saying the u.s. state department saying that iran should and now peaceful demonstrations to take to take place it should afford these demonstrators the same rights as egypt's demonstrators those who took to turkey a square and the u.s. state department saying that it recognizes the historic role of social media in bringing a change in the middle east. now this debate where it was closed to iran for more than thirty years how did to run manage to get permission now and are we getting any hints as to what might happen if the ships go through the canal. well this has been in the pipeline for the past week and wasn't clear whether or

not he took the officials would actually agree to give iran permission to stay in these two ships through as you correctly say since nine hundred seventy nine since the iranian revolution there have been no iranian warships that have actually passed through the suez canal this is the first major diplomatic headache for the egyptian interim government for the ruling military council as you well know president mubarak had a close relationship with the united states he was an ally of the u.s. and at the same time relations between him and the rand were strained for the past thirty years it is not clear exactly why they gave permission we haven't had any insight on that but what we have been told reportedly is that it dipshit officials have checked the cargo they are confident that there is nothing suspicious on board and as a result they have allowed the for gate and the supply ship to go through this is sending alarm or alarm bells out in israel lots of concerns as to what this means for the future whether or not more ships will be allowed to go through and whether or not this does signal a change in relations particularly between egypt and iran and whether or not its

role can continue to believe that egypt will supporters in its future foreign policy decisions are these polls we're reporting live from tel aviv. well with the protest in the middle east 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 the leaders of major nations admit it's not working for the current mode however one outspoken critic from austria has gone on trial for speaking out against the rights of religious groups are seizing katherina grab that up there. is. 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 read. only months studying what islam so we learn how to. know your enemy elizabeth supper teach walt 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 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. speech that i can spread hatred about large groups of society you know we have to respect individuals in our society and we have to ask them to integrate and we have to help them to integrate yet european leaders such as german chancellor angela merkel french president nicolas sarkozy and british prime minister david cameron say 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 a little a system will people here speak their native language they prepare their national

dishes and where the clothes which they are used to and this is exactly what elizabeth subaverage wall found here a fellow like south taking a stance against self segregation at all peak 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 r t from vienna. well danish writer and columnist. says it's politicians' lack of accent 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 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 be paid as we did we will out there too much multiculturalist doc mazin taboos to being represented in the public sphere and now we've gone gone even further to practice legislation against hate speech against a defamation and limiting the free speech and in 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 this hour we'll report on how white supremacy mood still on deep within society here's some of what that.

we are going to get. one all right. we'll have a rally will sell lots of beer will. they will wear uniforms that will damage is down the black man over there but very little damage in the way. they are the key to our problem right. 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 being on the alliance as top official are discussing those are the reports the allegations. cat among the pigeons whistleblower week each

strikes again this time at the very heart of mido according to documents published by two european newspapers a us most was planted right in the office of deal line says 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 us representative to nido rasmussen to all mention of the two organizations growing closer out of his address to the alliance in two thousand and nine but my. would the u.s. 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 the strong ties between two military organizations such as nato and the c.s.c. that is not in u.s. interests. this is an odds with the image of the alliance tries to project a strong union where every opinion matters nato 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 so this is this is what is happening in reality that the 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. will really trust the alliance out catherine as our r.t. . meanwhile scores of civilians have reportedly been killed in nato led operations in the north of the country over the past few days women and children are said to make up most almost half of the casualties another thirteen dead were identified as taliban militants nato has officially confirmed its troops were involved in the ground and air operations but deny civilian killings member of the afghan parliament that. such incidents only help the taliban to recruit new members among desperate locals it's an ugly or nor an no one wins but the insurgency thrives on the mistakes of the government of the international community and civilian casualties are the perfect mistakes for them to thrive on and to to seize up on the

news public opinion in their own favor and also government inefficiency and government problems add to that so this is something that the international community and the government has to cope up with and learn and also try to isolate the population from insurgency afghan and pave their. way but the u.s. defense budget is going under the knife as the country's seeks to slash national debt from a staggering fourteen trillion dollars the proposed version will see seventy eight billion dollars cuts in defense funding over the next ten years that's significantly less in comparison with a four hundred billion sloshes in discretionary spending which includes education food safety and environmental protection now even with the upcoming concert washington will still want count for almost half of the world's military expenses defense analyst laura conaway told us that the u.s. love of defense kept 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 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 us we really just can't afford to increase the pentagon budget year after year as we have been doing over the last decade. live from moscow you're watching are coming up on the program we take you straight for a look at a trip to mars which took place earlier this week or so unique a virtual journey by. her. was bashing opposition on the head that's the recipe for a stable country according to the president delegates stay with us for more analysis. but 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 but most u.n. member states including russia have not recognized it as a separate nation the anniversary was marked by a recent council. your 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 of ducks and and organ trafficking claims which serbia wants the un to investigate these campaign or market gas it says the u.s. and e.u. don't want their roles in the balkans conflict. the key thing is when 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 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 stealers 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. bombed serbia were culpable in criminal terms for that bombing i 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 marty's findings so it will require a brave brave the security council and the 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. 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 two crew members carried out a second walk on a mock martian surface three russians two europeans and a chinese volunteer who are taking part in mars five hundred simulated betting on

the red planet well they've already spent eight months in a set of window this tubes with time like conversations with mission 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 that happened on tuesday and it will be followed by and i want to run a home run a few cell from the european space agency explains what the team hopes teller. we have to assume no it's this is. from russia. from china doing their second most walk and you see a simulated martian surface which is no more than forty square meters and what we see here are the two when the space suits which are produced close to what we would expect for your most of the martian mission. were doing is soil

samples and preparing them to printers and those big is made if the cord which of course would not be there well on the real mars and the core supplies to the to us to know its. electricity and also with air and of course in the real mission that all would be in the big pick there to us to know it's carry on there or. they're doing very 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 go. simulating the first wark on the mars what you 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 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 but the major point here is that they are really of 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. argy dot com is where you can check out all our stories blogs analysis and much more whenever you like there is with online for you today fasten your seat belts russia is developing an atomic power train which could take passengers further and faster than ever before. and also harry potter's magic has cast a spell on the lives of fans across the world but now his grave is drawing a crowd and find out why people are flocking to the young woman from the resting place in israel.

the president of bella ruth says opposition will be quote bashed on the head unless it stops destabilizing the country alexander the 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 as polls closed in december presidential election over six hundred protesters were arrested and more than forty now face trial including several presidential candidates get under and chief of the magazine russia in global affairs told us that although the opposition in belarus is weak it's still making look i shan't go nervous. opposition belarus is not not serious enough to really challenge his rule and actually they lection results we should force was falsified by you in the increase of thirty three election i'm afraid of the question can we not as much but he he would do that 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 repression saw it seems a good question because steele is quite nervous about any kind. and all for. norm allowed to see the disability issues week show his newest. it's twenty seven minutes past the hour and let's take a look at some other major headlines from around the world seventeen have been wounded in two successive attacks by suspected muslim insurgents in the south of thailand the first took place in a karaoke restaurant which was rates with gunfire half an hour later a car bomb was detonated nearby last week a car bomb wounded eighteen people and set buildings on fire in a 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 know rumors seven these main competitor and former allies secured only twenty six percent an outcome which is being rejected by the opposition while the election was largely pays well the president vowed to lock up any protesters attempting jackson style demonstrations. we're going to go short break you're an r.t. and i'll be back with a recap of our week's top stories. lines

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issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. far from moscow bureau with our two you were covering the top news of the week this sunday in the middle eastern states are ravaged by anti-government protests by the uprisings in tunisia and egypt at least two hundred rioters are reported killed by the military in libya. pulling the strings reeky leaks has revealed the u.s. has been spying on top nato officials and using prancer to distance the alliance from russia. because we command set foot on mars twice and though it was just so mock up trip it's hoped the unique birds will journey will bring a real mission to the red planet a step closer to the. pulse of the european union scramble to help it we with waves

of north african immigrants us politicians and experts sound doubt on whether multiculturalism is viable for europe. and with white supremacist movements in the u.s. existing for decades we take a look now at how they operate and why nationalist sentiment is on the rise in some parts of the country. there was one klan plot out of texas nine hundred ninety seven where these klansman intended to blow up a natural gas refinery and they succeeded the authorities said after they were all arrested no one was hurt and off they likely would have killed thirty thousand people that is ten times the number of people. not eleven the world trade center if there's going to be any so salvation. are called. european culture in north america.