five thousand people taking to the streets of the capital rabat demanding came a homemade give up some of his powers the middle east expert mahdi darrius tells our team 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 are revolts until the structures in place change in what we consider 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 is taking over that nothing's changed it's a formal change because the more barak was a part of the military the military hosni mubarak who won the united states and its allies are pleading 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 of both sides now i'm not

saying that the protests are 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 cleaves the wisemen 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. authorities in the country is experiencing are under arrest are dancing to the tune of the west rather than listening to the people according to the president of the u.k. arab lawyers association. certainly the unifying factor that is that all of them have had enough of an awful dictatorship the governments that have all been so such 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 fact that. middle east expert adrian believes the u.s. is trying to use on a rest in the region towards its own interest but 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 control even and probably is going to be used to favor the interests of certain global power structures float out 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 in the state department finding very difficult to control. israel has expressed strong concern over iran's dispatch of two warships to cross egypt suez and now prime minister netanyahu says the move will bring even more attention to an already unstable region two ships are due to sail through the canal monday on the mediterranean will be the first iranian warships to navigate those waters since the islamic revolution of iran in seventy nine. more from tel aviv. many prime minister benjamin netanyahu says that he views with at most gravity the posturing 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 of a dollar lieberman and he says that this is nothing short of publication 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 much over the past few years that iran is supplying weapons to syria that ultimately landed in the hands of his vote 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 flossy that supports anti rainin 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 who. as 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 took an official's have checked the cargo they are confident that there is nothing suspicious on board and as a result they have allowed that for gate on the supply ship to go through. stay with us here on r t coming up a stained anniversary kosovo years and some independence from serbia unfazed by recent reports of brave crimes allegedly committed by its leader. was the us defense budget about to be slashed by almost eighteen billion dollars but some say it's a drop in the bucket compared to massive cuts other areas are facing. first though the european union 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 artie's academy graduate went to meet. the snipers magician because of a european citizen peacefully debasing islam with a muslim is nothing unusual in a multicultural country like the stream but it's a tall peak not always discussed in such gentle fashion and i advise you not to bring the course about your reading. only might studying what islam stands for we'll be learning how to play to our you know your enemy you elizabeth supper teach well 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 lending who are 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 here 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 outraged not only the muslim community but also made. it's not a matter of free speech that i can spread hatred about large groups of society

now we have to respect individuals in our society and we have to ask them to integrate and we have to help them to integrate yet european leaders such as german chancellor angela merkel french president nicolas sarkozy and british prime minister david cameron say mostly culturalism in europe isn't working there are huge muslim communities but frequently such as in all strata they leave in their own areas a physical sign of non integration there is this should sit 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. stay with us here on r t coming up a virtual trip to space we take a look at a unique way to journey to the red planet by a multinational through and what it could mean for real space travel. plus about the opposition on the head that's a recipe for a stable country according to the president of bellaver stay with us for some analysis. first though a 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 alliance's top official or he's catarina czar of a reports on the allegations. 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 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. i mean 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 with 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 of the alliance tries to project a strong union where every opinion matters. is that 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 much so this is this is what is happening in reality that people know the documents published so far haven't exactly uncovered anything groundbreaking but if every member of nato is supposedly equal it has raised questions over whether the u.s.

really trusts the alliance at all catherine as arvo r.t. . scores of civilians been reported killed in a nato led operation in the north east of afghanistan over the past few days women and children are said to make up almost half the casualties and other thirteen dead were identified as taliban militants nato has officially confirmed its troops were involved in groton air operations but denied civilian killings member of the afghan parliament dog sultanzoy says such incidents only help the taliban to recruit new members among desperate locals it's an ugly or no one no one wins but the insurgency thrives on mistakes off the government and of the international community and is the villian casualties of 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 cope up what and learn and also try to isolate the population from insurgency. the u.s. defense budget is going under the knife as the country seeks to slash the national debt from a staggering fourteen trillion dollars the proposed version will see seventy eight billion dollars cuts in defense funding over ten years that's significantly less in comparison with a four hundred billion slashes in discretionary spending that includes education food safety and environmental protection but even with the upcoming cuts washington will still account for almost half the world's military expenses defense analyst laura conley tells us that the u.s. love of defense can't last 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 than 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 testifying in front of the house armed services committee and 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 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 has marked three years for of self

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 have not recognized it as a separate nation the anniversary was marred by a recent council of europe report document claims kosovo's leaders including the current prime minister were responsible for serious crimes during the war in the late ninety's he's into the executions abductions and organ trafficking claims that serbia wants the un to investigate these campaigner marco gossage says the u.s. and the don't want their roles in the balkan conflict to emerge. the key thing is when you go back in 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 steve was would be the enslavers 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 under that and that was the one step too far for them because he was three nobody charged with the trial still 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 member r.t. dot com is where you can check out all our stories blogs and analysis whatever you

like yours what's online for you today. passing your seatbelts russia is developing an atomic power train that could take passengers further and faster than ever before but it's. great that harry potter is drawing fans of young magician to israel but all is not as it seems. unique mission imitating a return trip to mars has reached an important milestone as friday mark and made point of the eighteen month virtual journey two crew members carried out a second walk on the mark on the mock martian surface three russians two europeans and one chinese volunteer are taking part in the mars five hundred project already spent eight months in a set of windowless tombs with a time lag 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 third a virtual walk should happen on tuesday will be followed by a nine month journey home and a shell from the european space agency explains what the team hopes to learn. we have to assume. this is xander from russia. from china doing their second walk and you see a simulated martian surface which is no more than forty square meters and what we see of the two were in the in their space suits which produced close to what we would expect for a real martian martian mission and what the two were doing is collecting soil samples and preparing them to bring this. is be if the cord which of course would not be there well in the real mars and the core supplies the 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 there to us to know it's carry on there in the break they are doing very very well so. everybody was really surprised that everything is going to a bell everything one of the reasons for that is that they have really very interesting go. simulating the first wark on the monitor and 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. is aboard thirty five. and also if you would expect a real mission. we could expect that after ten or fifteen minutes astronauts would still would have to take a small break but 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 of bellers says opposition will be quote

bashed on the head on less that stops the stabilizing the country alexander lukashenko is warning comes just days after the first person involved in last year's mass protests in minsk was sentenced to four years behind bars thousands of opposition activists took to the capital streets as polls closed in december as presidential election more than six hundred protests were 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 says that although the opposition valorous is weak it's still making the nervous. opposition below says not not serious enough to really challenge his rule. actually the election results which of course was falsified by. a fair and free election i'm afraid that the questions will be not as much what he sees he would do at the same time it's quite strange that he blames the position for being so much important.

and why in this case side show huge repression so it seems that will crush him because steele is quite nervous about any kind of. allowed activities and opposition is weak he is nervous. the food stamp business is booming in the us fueled by millions of unemployed americans who struggle to make ends meet this dependence on handouts is proving highly profitable although most in need are not the ones receiving the paychecks artie's marina portman explains how some of the biggest u.s. banks are cashing in on the country's poverty. americans are generally known for their healthy appetite some eat what they crave while others like gabrielle jemma can't use the food stamps here for me to express of only eat what is affordable is there a way to give me two dollars worth. of these you have to go look for the sixty one

year old is unemployed and maintains a monthly food budget of two hundred dollars gabrielle is among the forty three million americans relying on federal food subsidy here's. the electronic benefit transfer card allows food stamp recipients to spend their allowance the plastic lifeline for the hungry and unemployed is also a money maker for j.p. morgan chase the largest processor of food stamp benefits in the u.s. meaning an increase in food stamp recipients equals more profit for the investment bank every time i use my debit card goldman sachs or j.p. morgan in this case make a little money off of my transaction j.p. morgan is responsible for the fact that i want to apply so it doesn't surprise me that every every aspect. of this program and everything else has been privatized j.p. morgan chase provides food stamp debit cards in twenty six states and the district

of columbia the firm is paid per customer and in the state of indiana j.p. morgan makes roughly one hundred eighty six thousand dollars per month critics say the investment bank is making a fortune off american poverty as long as the unemployment rate remains high as long as families are struggling there's sort of this perverse incentive for j.p. morgan chase to continue to benefit off of high unemployment and there let me go to this person center because in many states they're actually offshoring the jobs related processing steps to save money j.p. morgan has been routing benefit card customer service calls to india where employees reportedly earn no more than three fifteen hour. meanwhile in the u.s. abyss of economic hardship nearly fourteen million americans like every oh are unemployed bailed out to the tune of twenty five billion dollars in two thousand and eight j.p. morgan has bounced back reporting

a seventeen point eight billion dollar profit in two thousand and ten the same success can be said for the people forty percent of food stamp recipients are working americans unable to keep up with the cost of living. archie new york. you know some other stories making headlines across the globe at least ten children have died orphanage fire in the coastal town of hoppe saloon western a stony the majority were disabled thirty seven children ninety adults were inside the building when it caught fire the cause of the blaze is unknown yes tony and president has declared monday a day of mourning throughout the country. seventeen people were wounded in two successive attacks by suspected muslim insurgents in the south of thailand the first topic of a karaoke restaurant that came under heavy gunfire half an hour later a car bomb was detonated nearby week another blast wounded eighteen people and said 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 will 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 election you know where your main competitor and former ally secured only twenty six percent of the outcome that's been rejected by the opposition while the election was largely peaceful the president vowed to lock up any protesters attempting egypt's in style demonstrations. coming up in a few minutes our exclusive interview on how the fight on drugs is progressing in afghanistan with un's top counter-narcotics officials coming your way r t this monday the twenty first of february stay with us.

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economy in these kinds of reports on our. so you see i'm in moscow were doing the week's top stories here on r t massive public protests sweeping across the middle east and north africa demonstrators have now taken to the streets of the libyan capital tripoli this comes after at least two hundred people were shot dead in the country's second city benghazi during the week up on the rocks. as thousands of immigrants fleeing the rest of north africa fled into italy the european union rushes to head off a humanitarian crisis there says top e.u. politicians claim multiculturalism has failed on the continent. more with the leaks embarrassment for the u.s. as the latest cables reveal washington has been spying on the nato chief classified

documents expose a mole in the office of the secretary general anders fogh rasmussen also showed the u.s. influence with the allies has relations with moscow. and a fifteen month long moscow based simulation of a journey to mars reaches its halfway point with researchers taking a space walk on a mock version of the red planet scientists hope the virtual journey will bring a step closer to the real thing. next we talked to the head of the un office on drugs and crime in russia about the international effort to prevent the massive flow of drugs from afghanistan i was going so far. i'm here talking to mr yoo anything built if he's the head of the u.n. a face full of drugs and crime russia has long been trying to get drug production included on the list of international security threats at ms tippett also thank you very much for talking to.