when forces saw six people killed and dozens wounded morocco to is also saying unrest the least five thousand people taking to the streets of the capital demanding that king mohamed give up some of his powers and middle east expert mother doris knows him or i told r.t. that although the region is into a more very 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 are revolts until the structures in place change 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 for egypt the military is taking over nothing's changed it's a formal change the more barak was a part of the military the military hosni mubarak who want the united states and its allies are pleading we had their backs what they're doing right now is

something that we call creating a counter discourse counter discourse is 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 an 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 there are individuals billionaires people who were it part of the status for part of the regime in fact who did nothing for mubarak is in power. authorities in the country is experiencing unrest and dancing to the children 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 of an awful dictatorship the governments that have all been so soft 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 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. middle east to explode a dream so but she believes the u.s. is trying to use the unrest in the region then tress but could have difficulty controlling it. one so we definitely do have the peoples of different countries of burien of the definitely of iraq 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 manage and control them and probably is going to be used to favor the going interest of certain global power structures no doubt the united states would like to see regime change in iran but at the same time we would like to see no regime change in

bahrain and in egypt because we knew that with dream team was on the way because of the age of hosni mubarak and what you reckon some of the problem altogether so i think that we have a generalized situation which the united states at the state department finding very difficult to control. israel's expressed strong concern over iran's dispatch of two warships across egypt serious canal prime minister netanyahu says the move will bring even more tension to an already unstable region the two ships are due to sail through the canal on monday on route to the mediterranean they'll be the first arabian was shipped from navigate those waters since the country's islamic revolution of my friends or family are these paula slayer's keepers cross development television for any and there's many prime minister benjamin netanyahu says that he views with at 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 other don't leave him alone 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 israeli soon relations are strained as well convinced an israeli official saying as a matter of the past few years that you. it is supplying weapons through syria that ultimately land up in the hands of his beloved 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 yemen since nine

hundred seventy nine since the iranian revolution they 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 reported 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 their free gate and the supply ship to go through. our correspondent paula. coming up a stained anniversary course of about three years since a plane independence from serbia unfazed by recent reports of grave crimes allegedly committed by the lead coming up for you plus america's defense budget is

about to be slashed by almost eighty billion dollars and some say that's just a drop in the ocean compared to the massive cuts other areas are facing. the european union is launching a mission to help italy deal with a wave of immigrants from northern africa more than five thousand people poured in from china zero alone during the past week and officials agree the situation is out of control the wave of migrants comes just as europe seeing a vicious debate over multiculturalism as the leaders of major nations admit it's not working despite the current mood however one outspoken critic from austria is going on trial for speaking out against the rights of religious groups. with. a european citizen peacefully debating islam with a muslim is nothing unusual in a martyr cultural country like france but it's a topic not always discussed in such gentle fashion buys you not to burn the koran

about your read. about studying what islam stands for will be learning how to play to know your enemy elisabeth's supper to channel has been on trial in a piano court on charges of making what is described as a hate speech against as long a left we all stand magazine recorded and published a speech at one of his seminars lending your. 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 . 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 proponents say she crossed the line here

a speech is up raged 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 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 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 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 hell is about subjects

walther and your fellow likes are taking a stance against self segregation at all pete 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 your exiting the church over our team from vienna. from columnist. politicians lack of action that's led 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't 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 criticised and in deep it is that we've allowed it too much multiculturalists to darkness and top issues to being represented in the public sphere and now we've gone even further to practice legislation against hate speech against a defamation and limiting the free speech and in the soul which is european we have to start opening up to to criticism and start forming a new policy. you're watching our team from moscow coming up in the program we take you to outer space for a look at a trip to mars the place is a unique virtual journey by a multinational pruitt you know how they got on plus bashing opposition on their head that's the recipe for a stable country according to the president and bella ruth anyway stay with us for some analysis on that. new wiki leaks revelations appear to show washington attempting to pressured nato a diplomatic cable released by the whistleblower says the u.s.

went as far as snooping on the alliance's top official of his country reports on the allegations. as cat among the pigeons. 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 raft. went under spog rasmussen was looking for closer ties with the collective security treaty organization made up of former soviet states the u.s. was quick to veto the idea after a private dialogue with the u.s. representative to nido 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 u.s. try to pressure its allies. i mean as one of nato is key players 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 for the strong ties between two military organizations such as nato in the c.s.c. is not in u.s. interests. this isn't odds with the image the alliance tries to project a strong union an opinion matters night a group dominated by the united states of america that in fact it's not an alliance of tool in the sense of being sovereign states. it's a bogus alliance people in the street understand that washington is calling the shots so. left right left right and we march so this

is this is what is happening and in reality that is what people know the. arguments published so far haven't exactly uncovered anything groundbreaking but if every member in nato is supposedly equal it has race questions over whether the u.s. really trusts the alliance out catarina sarvant r.t. schools of civilians have been reportedly killed in nato led operations in the north east of afghanistan over the past few days women and children is said to make up almost half of the casualties another thirteen dead were identified as taliban militants nato is officially confirmed its troops were involved in the ground an air operations but denied any civilian killings member of the afghan parliament diode sometimes ois says 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 on mistakes off the government of the international community

and civilian casualties are the perfect mistakes for them to thrive on and to to seize up on in a 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 afghan government has to. learn and also try to isolate the population from insurgency. coming from. the us to from spud scoring on to the money for the country seeks to slash national debt from a struggling fourteen trillion dollars proposed she will see seventy eight billion dollars cuts in defense funding over ten years significantly less of that would be four hundred billion slashes in discretionary spending which includes a vacation food safety and environmental protection but even with the upcoming cuts washington will still would come for almost half of the world's military expenses if this war calmly told us that the u.s.

and love of defense combo's forever. 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 and they are spending during the war in vietnam as well and defense spending in the country is actually double 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. kosovo's mark three years of self proclaimed independence from serbia the region's unilateral moves 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 that 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 campaign america gas it says the u.s. and the e.u. don't want their roles in the balkans conflict which 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 the was with me 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 that 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 that was the one step too far for them it seems to me nobody charged with the task of actually investigating technologies

findings so it will require a brave brave security council and a committee of security council one that wants the truth to actually appear and i have my doubts whether that will appear out of the security council. more top stories for the week the russian and british foreign ministers met in london in the attempt to turn a new page in the country's relationship so good lavrov and william hague agreed to establish a hotline between downing street or the kremlin with communication but. visit comes after years of simmering limited tensions between the two was. the most recent spat unfolded two weeks ago would have put it this was designed re-entry to russia after violating accreditation rules it was quickly resolved though and the reporter was allowed back into the country r.t. dot com is where you can catch. stories we're covering and i will lot more as well as i was behind the scenes look at a lot of stories were taking part in the show and you and you can have those as well online tonight fasten your seat well functioning be patient russia is

developing an atomic powered train you heard right which could take passengers further and faster they say than ever before you want the lowdown on bad impressive story it's about to fall. and what do we have here one of the grave of harry potter is drawing fans of the young magician to israel but all is not as it seemed as you'll find out online if you take a look. next a unique mission imitating a return trip to mars reached an important milestone this week friday marked the midpoint of the eighteen month virtual journey two crew members carried out a second walk on a mork martian surface three russians to europeans and one chinese volunteer taking part in the mass five hundred projects they've already as i mentioned spent eight

months in a set of windowless change with time like conversations with mission control and emails to their families their only outside contact scientists are studying the psychological effects of such a small journey the third version or should happen soon they will be followed by a nine month journey back home again but if a shell from the european space agency explains what the team is helping to lead. you to us to know what this is oleksandr from russia. from china doing their second mass work and you see a simulated martian surface which is not more than forty square meters and what we see of 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 were doing is collecting soil samples and preparing them to bring the simple spec home is beer

for the cord which of course would not be there all on the real mars and the core supplies are there to us to know it's. electricity and also with air and of course in the real martian mission that all would be in the big pick to us the notes carry on there. they are doing very well so. everybody was really surprised that everything is going so well rating one of the reasons for that it's . really very interesting goal of simulating the first wark on the mars what we can see now is that the two are going to take a break at least. 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 earth you could expect that after ten or fifteen minutes astronauts would would have to take a small break the major point here is that there really everybody of them is really

focused on their toes and that's that's the main reason why this is so so real and so close to reality. the president says opposition will be quote bashed on the head message stops destabilizing the country alexander lukashenko 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 the presidential election then 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 better or worse is weak they're still making a can change america's. position below says not not not serious enough to really challenge his rule. actually actual results which of course was falsified by

you in the increase of fair and free election i'm afraid that the question who would win not as much but he he she 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 side show huge repression saw it seems a little question because steele is quite nervous about any kind of for. allowed to activities and belittles opposition is weak look i showed his nervous. couple top news stories for you tonight at least ten children have died in an orphanage place in the coastal town of hoppe saloon western estonia the majority of them with disabled thirty seven children and nine out olds were inside the building when it caught fire the cause of the blaze is unknown the estonian president's announced that monday will be a day of mourning throughout the country. seventeen people have been wounded in two successive attacks by suspected muslim insurgents in the south of thailand the

first took place mccurry oaky restaurant which came under heavy gunfire in half an hour later a car bomb detonated nearby last week another blast wounded eighteen people and set buildings on fire in the neighboring province over four thousand people have died in insurgency related violence in the country in the last seventy. ugandan president is to remain in power for a fourth term after the electoral commission confirmed that he won sixty eight percent of the country's interim action you want to be seventy main competitors from secure the twenty six percent. which is big the opposition while the election was largely peaceful the president vowed to lock up any protest is attempting gyptian demonstration. place itself in his past turn those. in a few minutes for you an exclusive interview on how the fight on drugs is progressing in afghanistan the un's top counter-narcotics official is here from moscow this sunday the twentieth of february i'm kevin thanks for being with us.

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a. step closer. to russia and the european union have joined forces to fight the massive flow of drugs from afghanistan next tonight we hear how the international efforts going so far with the u.n. man whose job it is to tackle the problem. i'm here talking to mr u.t. federal to 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 think as a matter of fact refuse included everybody considers. that african countries.