he also confirmed that rioters will seize military bases tanks and other equipment and warned of a looming civil war that could wipe out the whole he's a well. known while the other developments across the region rioters continued clashing with government supporters in the yemeni capital sanaa with gunfire heard in the streets while in bahraini opposition is prepping for talks with authorities after the deadly clashes with government forces saw six people killed and dozens wounded morocco was also seeing on a rest but at least five thousand people taking to the streets of the capital rabat demanding king mohammed give up some of his powers the middle east expert mahdi darrius now tells r.t. 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 it won't be considered revolutions in order for

democratic position to occur people need to elect their officials right now we're not seeing that we're seeing the status quo in egypt the military state in over nothing's changed it's a formal change because the more barak was a part of the military the military in hosni mubarak one of the united states and its allies are politically hedging their bets what they're doing right now is something that we can call creating a challenger 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 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 quo part of the regime in fact who did nothing for mubarak he's in power. authorities in the countries experiencing on what an 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 fact that is that all of them have had enough often enough of 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 this is a unifying factor. middle east expert adrian believes the u.s. is trying to use the unrest in the region its own interests and could have 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 micromanaged and troll even and probably is going to be used to favor the interests of certain global power structures low turnouts in 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 for the state department finding very difficult to control. israel has expressed strong concern over iran's dispatching two warships to across egypt suez canal prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the move will bring even more attention to what already on the stable region the two ships are due to sail through the canal monday on route to the mediterranean will be the first iranian warships to navigate these waters since the country's islamic revolution in one hundred seventy nine. more from tel aviv.

there's 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 by tel rand 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 israeli soon relations are strained as well convinced an israeli official saying as much over the past few years that iran is supplying weapons to syria that ultimately 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 saucy 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 rainy 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 took in officials have checked the cargo they are confident that there was nothing suspicious on board and as a result they have allowed there for data on the supply ship to go through.

european union is launching a mission to help italy deal with a wave of immigrants from north africa more than five thousand people hording from tunisia alone during the last week and officials agree the situation is out of control the wave of immigrants 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 though one outspoken critic from austria has gone on trial for speaking out against the rights of religious groups or he's a catarina grandchildren met up with. just a night vision of a european citizen peacefully debasing islam with a muslim is nothing unusual in a multicultural country like all stream but it's a topic not always discussed in such gentle fashion i advise you not to burn the koran about your worried. about studying what islam. with learning how to. 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 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 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 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 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. danish writer and columnist my colleague says it's politicians lack of action that's led to europe's immigration crisis. it's the fault of the government's not facing the facts standing up to reality standing up to the social phenomena is popping up throughout europe in sweden 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 a subject so it can be criticized and and be paid as we did we've allowed that too much multiculturalists to talk mazin top issues to being represented in the public

sphere and now we've gone gone even further to practice legislation against hate speech against a defamation and limiting the free speech and and the soul which is european we have to start opening up to criticism and start forming a new policy stay with us here on r t coming up a stained anniversary cosi hearts three years it proclaimed independence from serbia unfazed by recent reports of grave crimes allegedly committed by its leader . the us defense budget about to be slashed by almost eighty billion dollars but some say it's just a drop in the bucket compared to the massive cuts that other areas are facing. 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. one as far as snooping on the alliance of top official or his catarina as are reports. 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 in russia in the former soviet bloc because the region is a strategic interest to america they of course would prefer to build exclusive bilateral relationships with the go strong ties between two military organizations such as nato and a c s t is not in u.s. interests i mean. this is an odds with the image of the alliance tries to project a strong union 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 we're much yeah so this is this is what is happening in reality that is what 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. really trusts the alliance at all catarina zavala r.t. scores of civilians have been reported killed in nato led operations in the north east of afghanistan over the past few days women and children are said to make up almost half the casualties another thirteen dead right in a fight as taliban militants nato is officially confirm its troops were involved in groton air operations but tonight civilian killings member of the afghan parliament daoud sultanzoy says such incidents only help the taliban recruit new members among desperate locals it's an ugly or no warrant no one wins but the insurgency thrives on mistakes on the government and of the international community and in 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 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. us defense budget is going under the knife as the country seeks to slash national debt from a staggering fourteen trillion dollars the proposed version will see seventy eight billion dollars cuts in defense funding over ten years and significantly less in comparison with the four hundred billion slashes in discretionary spending that include education safety and environmental protection but even with the upcoming cuts washington will still account for almost half the world's military expenses defense of this war probably tells r.t. that us a lot of the 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 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 stay with us here on our coming up over tool

trip to outer space but what are you simulating a journey to the red planet by a multinational group and what it could mean for real space travel was. opposition on the head is a recipe for a stable country according to the president of bellers stay with us but more. first though kosovo has marked three years of suffering claim to dependents from serbia the region's unilateral move was backed by the us 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 a document claims kosovo's leaders including its current prime minister responsible for serious crimes during the war in the late ninety's these include eggs accused sions adoptions and organ trafficking claims that serbia wants the u.n. to investigate peace campaigner marco gas it says the u.s. and e.u. don't want their roles in the balkans klopp 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 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 all steelers and slavers and villains in a variety of different kinds would be to delegitimize one's own propaganda operation 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 this seems to be nobody charged with the task of 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 russian and british foreign ministers met in london tuesday at an attempt to turn a new page in their country's relationship sergey lavrov and william hague agreed to establish a hotline between downing street and the kremlin aimed at improving relations visit tums after years of simmering diplomatic tensions between london and moscow the most recent spat unfolded two weeks ago when a british journalist was denied re entry to russia after violating its accreditation rules it was quickly resolved when a reporter was allowed back in the country. the president of belarus says the opposition will be called bashed on the head on less and stops the stabilizing the

country alexander lukashenko is warning comes just days after the first person involved in last year's mass protests 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 race more than six hundred protesters were arrested and more than forty now face trial including several presidential candidates yet or in chief of the magazine a russia in global affairs tells r.t. that although the opposition and valorous is weak it's still making luka shanklin nervous. position below so as not not serious enough to. really challenge his rule. actually the election results which of course was falsified by you in the same case with fair and free election i'm afraid of the person who would leave the military as much but he he would do it at the same time it's quite strange that he blames the position for being so much important. and why in this case. he would repression so it seems it will crush him because steele

is quite nervous about any kind of. allowed activities and. his weak show his 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 right now. fasten your seat belts russia is developing an atomic powered train that could take passengers further faster than ever before plus sochi gets a thumbs up as russia's top brass hit the slopes that will host the twenty fourteen winter games. a unique mission imitating a return trip to mars is reached an important milestone is friday marked the midpoint of the eighteen month virtual journey to crew members carried out

a second walk on a mock martian surface three russians two europeans and one chinese volunteer are taking part in the mars five hundred project they've already spent eight months in a set of windowless tubes with time like conversations with mission control and e-mails to their families as their only outside contact scientists are studying the psychological effects of such a long journey the third a virtual walk should happen on tuesday and be followed by a nine month journey home from the european space agency explains what the team hopes to learn. we have to assume no it's this is xander from russia and from china doing their second mars work and you see a simulated martian surface which is not more than forty square meters and what we see other two were in the in their space suits which are pretty so close to what we would expect for real martian martian mission and what the two are doing is

collecting soil samples and preparing them to bring the samples back home the cord which of course would not be there or on the real mars and that core supplies to the two astronauts. with electricity and also with air and of course in the real martian mars mission that all would be in the backpack to us you know it's scary and they are on the break they are doing very well so. everybody was really surprised that everything is going so well everything one of the reasons for that is that they have this really very interesting goal of simulating the first walk on the mars 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 aboard thirty five kilogram and also if you would expect a real mission on mars we could expect that after ten or fifteen minutes astronauts

would would have to take a small break 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. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe at least ten children died in an orphanage fire in the coastal town of upsala western estonia the majority of them were disabled thirty seven children nine adults were in the building when it caught fire the cause of the blaze is so far unknown stony as 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 happened at a karaoke restaurant that came under heavy gunfire half an hour later a car bomb detonated nearby last week another blast wounded eighteen people in said buildings on fire in the neighboring province over four thousand people have died

in insurgent related violence in the country in the last seven years. as president will remain in power for a fourth term after the electoral commission confirmed he won sixty eight percent of the vote in the country's recent elections yeah removes of eighty's main competitor and former ally secured only twenty six percent and outcome that's being rejected by the opposition while the election was largely peaceful the president vowed to lock up any protesters attempting egyptian style demonstrations. in just a few minutes our special report about former soviet leader nikita khrushchev but before that i'll be back with a recap of our top stories stay with us here on r.t. .

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five thirty am in moscow good to have you with us you're on our team these are your weekly headlines. mass public protests sweeping across the middle east and north africa demonstrators have now taken to the streets of libya's capital tripoli is comes after at least two hundred people reportedly shot dead in the country's second city benghazi during the week about arrests. as thousands of immigrants fleeing unrest in north africa flooded italy european union rushes to head off a humanitarian crisis this is top e.u.

politicians claim multiculturalism culturalism has failed on the continent. more weekly leaks embarrassment for the u.s. as the latest cables reveal washington's been spying on a nato chief ossified documents expose a mole in the office of the secretary general anders rasmussen they also show u.s. influence in the. relations with moscow. and an eighteen month long moscow they simulated journey to mars reaches the halfway point with researchers taking a space walk on a mock version of the red planet scientists hold the virtual journey will bring the real thing the us one small step closer. next he was put in power by stalin's followers debunked his predecessors cult of personality and led the development of the soviet space program we take a look at the secrets behind the rule of nikita khrushchev. full of contradictions and paradoxes for nearly two decades.