testers say follow islam gadhafi also confirm that wyatt has had seize military bases tanks and other equipment and warned of a looming civil war that will wipe out the nation's oil well. in while the other day about developments across the region rioters continued to clash with government supporters in the yemeni capital sanaa with gunfire heard in the streets while in bahrain opposition is preparing opposite the opposition is preparing for talks with authorities after deadly clashes of the government forces saw six people killed and dozens wounded and morocco was also seeing on arrest with at least five thousand people taking to the streets of the capital rabat demanding king mohamed give up some of his powers middle east expert mahdi darrius now as i mariah 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 a revolutionary they want change they're fed up with these are revolts until the structures in place change it won't be considered

a revolution so 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 it nothing's changed it's a formal change because the mubarak 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 if you control both sides now i'm not saying that the protests aren't genuine the protests are absolutely genuine and organic but the fact is that the united states is trying to put its own opposition figures into position to see if the wise men in egypt which are unelected the individuals billionaires people who were it part of the status quo part of the regime in fact who did nothing when mubarak was in power. authorities in the

countries experiencing on arrest are dancing to the tune of the west rather than listening to their 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 after earning enough of dictatorship the governments that have all been so something into the west that this goes against the will of the people in that region generally speaking the interest 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 middle east expert adrian believes the u.s. is trying to use the an arrest in the region in its own interests and 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 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 what iraq is another problem altogether so i think that we have a generalized situation which the united states especially the state department finding very difficult to control. israel has expressed strong concern over iran's dispatch of two warships across egypt suez canal prime minister netanyahu says the move will bring even more attention to what already unstable region the two ships are due to sail through the canal one day on route to the mediterranean they'll be the first iranian warships to navigate those waters so as the country's islamic

revolution in one thousand seven hundred are his policy nor on the developments. this many prime minister benjamin netanyahu says that he views with 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 avigdor lieberman 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 israel 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 but 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 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 was 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 there for a gate on the supply ship to go through. european launching a mission to help italy deal with a wave of immigrants from north africa or than five thousand people poured in from tunisia alone during last week and officials agree the situation is out of the role 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 despite the current mood one outspoken critic from austria has gone on trial for speaking out against the rights of religious groups artie's a cattery wretch over met up with. us tonight for a european citizen peacefully debating islam with a muslim is nothing unusual in a multicultural country like little stream but it's a topic not always discussed in such gentle fashion and i advise you not to burn the koran about your reading. only mind studying what islam so we learn how to play

to our you know your enemy elizabeth supper teaching wall has been on trial in a vienna court on charges of making what is described as a hate speech against islam a left wing all strand magazine recorded and published a speech at one of his seminars landing here in court i have nothing against people who want to practice their faith. but i would like them to do this in the privacy of their own homes your ideas she says are nothing new and when europe's political elites express them they are not prosecuted for the same views multiculturalism has failed this is nothing new and my group and i have been saying this for years now all of a sudden. and others come out of hiding and agree with us i don't know why but elizabeth 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 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 a little stumble 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 subaverage wall found here a fellow like south taking a stance against south so greg ation

a tall 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 influence debate on the ground and the future shape of the euro exceeding the dutch over our team from vienna. stay with us coming up a stained anniversary cosi hearts three years since have proclaimed independence from serbia unfazed by recent reports of grave crimes allegedly committed by its leader. says u.s. defense budget is about to be slashed by almost any billion dollars but some say that's just a drop in the bucket compared to the massive cuts that other areas are facing. but first new week in these revelations appear to show washington attempting to pressure nato a diplomatic cable released by the whistleblower says the us what as far as snooping on the alliances top official he's catarina as our 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 rafferty. 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 meet oh 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 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 and the c.s.t. it 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. is that a group dominated by the united states of america that in fact it's not an alliance of tools 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 yeah so this is this is what is happening and in reality people know da. humans 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. will really trust the alliance at all catarina zavala r.t. scores of civilians have been reported killed in nato led operations on earth east of afghanistan over the past few days women and children are said to make up almost half the casualties another thirteen dead right then a fight is taliban militants nato is officially confirm its troops were involved in a ground in air operations but denied civilian deaths member of the afghan parliament daoud sultanzoy says such incidents only help the taliban to recruit new members among desperate locals you are no warrant no one wins but the insurgency thrives on mistakes on the government of the international community and in the civilian casualties are the perfect mistakes for them to thrive on and to to seize

up on in a news public opinion and their own favor and also a government inefficiency and government problems add to that so this is something that the international community and afghan government has to cope up but then learn and also try to isolate the population from insurgency. u.s. defense budget is going out of it i fear is the country seeks to slash national debt from a staggering fourteen trillion dollars their proposed version will see seventy eight billion dollars cuts in defense funding over ten years it's significantly less in comparison with a four hundred billion slashes in discretionary spending which includes education food safety environmental protection but even with the upcoming cuts washington will still account for almost half the world's military expenses defense harmless war calmly says that the u.s. level defense can't last forever. the defense budget is is actually higher now than it was at the peak level of spending during the cold war we're spending more on

defense 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 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 is no amount of money that you can spend that 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 us we really just can't

afford to increase the pentagon budget year after year as we have been doing over the last decade. stay with us here on r t coming up a virtual trip to outer space we take the unique security journey to the red planet by a multinational through what that could mean for real space travel. showing the opposition on the head that's a recipe for a stable country according to the president of belarus stay with us for some analysis. kosovo's mark three years of suffering claim to dependence from serbia the region's unilateral move was backed by the us and seventy five other countries but most un member states including russia have not recognized it as a separate nation anniversary was marred by a recent council of europe report the document claims kosovo's leaders including its current prime minister worst sponsible for a serious crimes during the war in the late ninety's these include executions abductions and organ trafficking claims that serbia wants the u.n.

to investigate peace campaigner marco gossett says the u.s. and e.u. don't want their roles in the balkans conflict to emerge. the key thing is to go back 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 were so huge that to admit that in fact the reality was that the albanians the us was sponsoring at the time were indeed stealers and slavers and villains in a variety of different kinds would be to the legitimize one's own propaganda operations so they couldn't go back from their original claims without admitting that they'd be lying all along particular in one thousand nine hundred nine and that would have meant 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 and that was 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 security council and a committee a security council one that wants the truth to actually appear and i have my doubts whether that will appear out of the security council. president of bellerose says the opposition will be quote back on the head on less it stops the stabilizing the country or xander look at shadows warning comes just days after the first person involved in license has mass protests and was sentenced to four years behind bars thousands of opposition activists took to the capital streets as polls closed in december presidential election more than six hundred protesters were arrested and more than forty now face trial including several presidential candidates editor in chief of the magazine russia in global affairs says that although the opposition in

belarus is weak it's still making leadership on nervous. opposition bill or. not serious enough to really challenge his rule. to lay lection results we should force was falsified by you in the same case with fair and free election i'm afraid of the person who when he looked as much but he he would do it 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 it will crush him because steele is quite nervous about any kind of. allowed to activities in below zero position is weak show he is nervous. remember r t dot com is where you can check out all our stories blogs and analysis whenever you like here's what's online for you today. fasten your seat belts russia is developing an atomic power drain that could take passengers per ever faster than

ever before plus. the grave of harry potter drawing fans of the young magician to israel but not as all eyes it seems. the food stamp business is booming in the us filled by millions of unemployed americans who struggle to make ends meet this dependence on handouts is proving profitable though although those most in need are not the ones getting the paychecks artie's marina porton i explains how some of the u.s. biggest biggest banks may be cashing in on the country's poverty. americans are generally known for their healthy appetite some eat what they crave while others like gavriel 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 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 they're living up to this person so no because in many states they're actually offshoring 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 fifty an 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. unique mission imitating a return trip to mars has reached an important milestone friday marked the midpoint of the eighteen month a virtual journey to crew members carried out a second walk on a mock martian surface three russians two europeans and one chinese volunteer taking part in the mars five hundred project they have already spent eight months in a set of windowless tubes with time like conversations that met with mission control and e-mails to their family is their only outside contact scientists are studying the psychological effects of such a long journey

a third of all ritual walk should happen on tuesday it will be followed by a nine month journey home a shelf in 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 are produced close to what we would expect for a real martian martian mission and what the two are doing is soil samples and preparing them to bring this simplistic home is made if the cord which of course would not be there well in the real mars and that. supplies the to us to know it's . with 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. they are

doing very well so. everybody was really surprised that everything is going so bill everything one of the reasons for that it's that they have really very interesting go. simulating the first wark on the miners 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 the woods. is aboard the thirty five killer gun and also if you would expect a real mission on mars we could expect that after ten or fifteen minutes astronauts would see it 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 tusks and that's that's the main reason why this is so so real and so close to reality. turns out of some other stories making headlines across the globe at least ten children have died in an orphanage blaze in the

coastal town of hoppe salu in western the majority of them were disabled thirty seven children nine adults were inside the building when it caught fire the cause of still unknown is stony and president has declared monday a day of mourning throughout the country. and seventeen people have been wounded by two successive attacks by suspected muslim insurgents in the south of thailand the first happened at a karaoke restaurant that came under heavy gunfire half hour later a car bomb was detonated nearby last week another blast wounded eighteen people inside 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. we're back with a recap of our top stories in a couple of minutes after that our special report about the damage oil companies are doing to the amazon rain forest stay with us.

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thirty am in moscow to give you the week's top stories in a look back at the week's news public protests sweeping across the middle east and north africa demonstrators have taken to the streets of libya's capital tripoli this after at least two hundred people reportedly shot dead in the country's second city bengazi during a week of underwrites. as thousands of immigrants fleeing the unrest in north africa flood into italy even russia is to head off a humanitarian crisis this comes as top european politicians play multipole. has failed on the continent. where we queue leaks embarrassment for the us as latest

cables reveal washington's been spying on the nato chief process documents expose a mole in the office of the secretary general anders fogh rasmussen and also showed us influence in the alliances relations with moscow. at a fifteen month lot of 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 the real thing a small scale. attacks are special damage oil companies are doing to the amazon rain forest and the indigenous tribes living there stay with us. would you believe the locals were affected by cancer when his letters. hygiene conditions are terror.