and government forces saw six people killed and dozens wounded now morocco to say also sitting on rest with at least five thousand people taking the streets of the capital demanding king mohammed give us some of his. middle east expert muddy darrius know told us about that although the region is in turmoil right now it's hard to say whether we can see any fundamental changes. these are revolts they're 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 might 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 nothing's changed it's a formal change more barak was a part of the military the military housing all right one 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 challenge discourse counted discourses and have a party in governance and in opposition to get control of both sides now i'm not saying that the protests are 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 individuals billionaires people who were it part of the status for part of the regime in fact who did nothing or more barak who is in power. authorities in the country is experiencing unrest and dancing to the children of the west rather than listening to the people so says the president of the u.k. arab lawyers association. certainly the unifying factor that is that all of them have had enough often enough of 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 fact that. middle east expert adrian some good she believes the u.s. is trying to use the unrest in the region in its own interests but could now difficulty controlling it once so we definitely do have the peoples of different countries or better reign 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 low turnout 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 well iraq is another problem altogether so i think that we have a generalized situation which the united states from the state department finding very difficult to control. israel's expressed strong concern over rome's dispatch of two warships across egypt kamil 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 on route to the mediterranean they will be the first to radiate more ships to navigate those waters since the country's islamic revolution of knowing you are to. cross developments from tel aviv. israeli prime 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 to take advantage of the current situation

to exploited and to extend its regional influence we also heard today from the israeli foreign minister avigdor 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 really soon relations are strained as well convinced an israeli official saying as a matter of the past few years that iran is supplying weapons to 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 one

thousand 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. it 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 the porter is that it took in officials have checked the cargo they are confident that there was nothing suspicious onboard and as a result they have allowed this for gate on the supply ship to go through. as a correspondent paula slayer reporting for us coming up on our stay in the anniversary cost of three plane the dependents from unfazed by recent reports of grave crimes allegedly committed by the forthcoming. class america's

defense budgets about to be slashed by almost eighteen billion dollars but 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 the wave of immigrants from north africa more than five thousand people poured in from choosier 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 of multiculturalism as 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. over the. age of a european citizen peacefully debating islam with a muslim is nothing unusual in a march a cultural country like syria but it's a topic not always discussed in such gentle fashion but i do not to burn the koran

about your worried. about studying what islam so we'll be learning how to. know your enemy elizabeth supper to channel has been on. highland of 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 lending who are you. 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 expressed 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 will proponents say she crossed the line here a speech is up raged not only the muslim community but also major streams 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 there is this should soon be an eis 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 your fellow likes us taking a stance against self segregation at talk which was once taboo is now at the top of the european political agenda with multiculturalism now oh. plan to multi criticism from some of the continent's most influential political leaders we've yet to see how their views might bully a debate on the ground and the future shape of the feel of actual art from. danish writer and columnist mark says it's politicians a lack of action this led to europe's immigration crisis it's the fall 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 be paid would we be allowed that too much multiculturalists to doctors and top rules to being represented in the public sphere and now we've gone and 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 out for bosco coming up in the program we take you out of space for a look at a trip to mars which took place earlier this week a unique virtual journey by a multinational. tracker they got on the program also. bashing a position on the head seems that's the recipe for a stable country well according to the president of better anyway stay with us for some analysis. 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. reports on location. cat among the pigeons whistle blower 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. 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 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 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.c. 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 knights who is a group dominated by the united states of america that in fact it's not an alliance of tall 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 in march so this is this is what is happening in reality 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 at all catarina as arvo 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 are said to make a promise half of the casualties there and the thirteen dead were identified as taliban militants now it has officially confirmed its troops were involved in the ground and air operations but denied civilian killings member of the afghan parliament sultanzoy spoke to see says such incidents only help the taliban to recruit new members of a desperate locals. it's an ugly you are no warrant 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 upon in a news public opinion in their own favor and also government you know if they see any 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. come in there from afghan the m.p. diode sultanzoy speaking to us earlier. the u.s. defense budgets going under the knife as the country seeks to slash national debt from struggling fourteen trillion dollars the proposed will see seventy eight billion dollars cuts in defense funding of the views that is significantly less in comparison with the four hundred billion slashes in discretionary spending

including education food safety and environmental protection but even with the upcoming cuts washington will still come from most harmful of the world's military expensive defense missile recalled we told us that the u.s. defense can't last forever. 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 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 the 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 is 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. more top stories for the past week cos of a mark three years of so proclaimed independence from serbia the region's unilateral move was backed by the u.s. and seventy five other countries most u.n. member states including russia though have not recognized it as a separate nation university was marred by recent council of europe reports 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 included executions abductions and organ trafficking claims which serbia

wants the un to investigate he's come paid a mark of gas ij told us the u.s. and the e.u. don't want their roles in the balkans conflict two of. the key thing is when you 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 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 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 that those who 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 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. marco gas which the russian and british foreign ministers met in london earlier this week in an attempt to turn a new page in the country's relationship sergey lavrov and william hague agreed to establish a hotline between guarding streak in the kremlin to improve communication and love rove's visit comes after years of similar interest from attic tensions between lovers are the most recent spat unfolded on a two weeks ago when a british journalist was denied re-entry to russia also a violation accreditation rules it was quickly resolved though in the reporter was allowed back into the country. take a quick look at our t.

dog comes tonight it was a place he gets a lot about going to our stories blogs analysis out the chance of you'll say as well online right now fasten your seat belt drive russia's developing an atomic powered train which could they say take passengers further and faster than ever before really interesting technology story one tonight but check it out chief you want to know more about iran we brought you this yes they didn't catch it the grave of harry potter is drawing fans of the young magician to israel but. is not as it seems check it out home to find out what the real story. if. a unique mission imitating a return trip to mars reached an important milestone this last week friday marked

the midpoint of the eighteen month journey to crewmembers carried a second walk on a mock martian surface three russians two europeans and one chinese volunteer are taking part of the mars five hundred project they've already spent eight months in a set of windowless chub with time lag conversations with mission control and e-mails to their family their only outside contact scientists to try to study the psychological effects of such a long journey the virtual will choose day will be followed then by a nine month journey back home again beneficial from the european space agency explains what the team's hoping to. we have to us to know it's this is. from russia and. china are doing their second book and you see a similar martian surface which is no more than forty square meters and what we see here are the two were in the in their space suits which up. this is close to what

we would expect for real martians a martian mission and what the two are doing is collecting soil samples and preparing them to bring the samples back home as we have the cord which of course would not be there or on the real mars and that core supplies to the to us to know its. electricity and also with air and of course in the real martian mars mission that all would be in the backpack or two astronauts carry on there on the back they are doing very well so that. 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 about 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 there 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. the president better or says opposition will be quote bashed on the head unless it stops destabilizing the country well xander because 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's presidential election then over six hundred protesters were arrested and more than forty now face trial including several presidential candidates yet a two in chief of the magazine russia in global affairs told us that although the opposition in better receives week it is still making the question could now.

opposition belarus is not not not serious enough to really challenge his rule and actually the election results which of course was falsified by you and in case a fair and free election i'm afraid of the question who would win not as much but he he would do at 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 will question because steele is quite nervous about any kind of. allowed activities and opposition is weak. three top world news stories in brief right now at least ten children have died in an orphanage blaze in the coastal town of hop salo in western a stony a majority of them were disabled thirty seven children and nine adults were inside the building when it caught fire the cause of the places unknown is stony and

president has 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 in the kochi restaurant which came under heavy gunfire an awful hour later a car bomb was detonated nearby just last week another blast wounded eighteen people and set buildings on fire in the neighboring province over four thousand died in search and simulated 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 hope of the country's recent election you were seven his main competitor and former ally secured only twenty six percent of that sort outcome which is being rejected by the opposition by the way while the election was largely peaceful the president vowed to lock up any protesters attempting egyptian style strange. to go out to twenty seven minutes past eleven o'clock at night here in

moscow coming up in just a few minutes for you part two of our special report about former soviet leader nikita khrushchev before bats all remind you of our top stories straight after this short break.

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public. particularly. at the u.n. . a politician full of contradictions and paradoxes for nearly two decades his name received no mention in the soviet press many continue to remember him to his resignation should i think he was the best emperor of the soviet era yes he was. publicly vowed that the soviet union would catch up with america and do it he promised to fully established communism in his country by nine hundred eighty that all was possible and compelled others to share that.