he also confirmed riders of seas military bases tanks and other equipment and warned of a looming civil war that could wipe out the nation's oil well meanwhile in other developments across the region the rioters continue to clash with government supporters in the yemeni capital sanaa with gunfire heard in the streets while in bach rain the opposition is preparing for talks with authorities after deadly clashes with government forces saw six people dead and dozens wounded morocco was also seeing on a raft with at least five thousand people taking to the streets of the capital rabat demanding came mohamad give up some of his powers middle east expert adrian he says protesters may not fully understand the implications of trying to adopt the western style democracy. there is a certain pattern that we are seeing seeing in the middle east in egypt first against mubarak naturally in tunisia now in libya and in back arrangement where it seems that the major so sector of public opinion is a bit tired of these regimes that have lasted twenty thirty even forty two years

however i think that we have to be avoid the rather simplistic binary or a point of view of thinking you know good and bad black and white i think that we need to make several readings about this there is probably a legitimate desire on the part of many people to have some sort of change or liberalization in these regimes however often occurs to be alternative which is western style democracy as they have been pleading for and egypt and they're also asking for another part of the middle east might also be a dead end street because western style democracy is probably not the answer for them so they might be getting rid of of thirty forty or fifty year old regina but many of these countries certainly in egypt certainly libya certainly in tunisia and in battering that might be getting themselves into just as bad or even worse trouble if they don't really understand the social propes has this going on and be

colorful interests that may be driving them from outside of the middle east you cannot fight the people with bullets so ok it might take one hundred it might take two and in egypt it took quite a number actually of people who are victims of this violence but when the people rise there is probably no room in it and in the long run any rigi trying to put down such protests with violence is probably condemned to failure so the important thing i would say is to understand the social processes understand all the bandage that people power groups from other areas may take some of this and not give it give it to them serve in a silver platter it's very important that both the pro protesters on the one side and the government offices. we'll be in egypt whether it be in libya with or be in a back rain or in tunisia should understand the powerful social forces they are up against the psychological warfare tactics that are being used and they should not allow themselves either side to be used by interested objectives which are

completely outside the via interest of libya does or the egyptians or the tunisians or the iraqis or just about any country that is having such turmoil in the middle east the president. israel has expressed strong concern over iran's dispatching two warships across egypt suez canal prime minister netanyahu says the move will bring even more tension to an already unstable region the two ships are due to sail through the canal on monday on or to the mediterranean i mean the first errani in warships to navigate these waters since the country's islamic revolution of one nine hundred seventy nine our case policy leader has more from tel aviv. there's many 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 by tehran 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 adore 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 israeli 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 land in the hands of hizbullah 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 government demonstrators out on the streets of tehran we haven't seen the u.s. state department do anything like that supporting or even expressing any kind of opinion on the same kind of demonstrations that are happening in yemen since nine hundred seventy nine since the iranian revolution they have been no iranian

warships that have actually passed through the suez canal this is the first major diplomatic headache for the egyptian interim government for the ruling military council as you well know president mubarak had a close relationship with the united states he was an ally of the u.s. and at the same time relations between him and the rand were strained for the past thirty years it is not clear exactly why they gave permission we haven't had any insight on that but what we have been told reported is that it dipshit officials have checked the cargo they are confident that there is nothing suspicious on board and as a result they have allowed the free gate and 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 poured in from tunisia alone during the last week officials agree the situation is out of control the wave of immigrants 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 though one outspoken critic from austria has

gone on trial for speaking out against the rights of religious groups or teams of catarina groucho i met up with a woman. in. a european citizen peacefully debating 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 and i advise you not to burn the koran about your reading. only months studying what islam will be 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 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 somebody each will proponents say she crossed the line here a speech is upgrades to 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 hell is about subject wall found here a fellow like south taking a stance against self segregation at all 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 fully influence debate on the ground and the future shape of europe exiting the church over our team from vienna the danish writer and columnist mikhail yalding says its politicians lack of action that led to europe's

immigration crisis. it's the fault of the government's not facing the facts that standing up to reality standing up to the social phenomena is 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 that can be criticized and and be paid to do that we've allowed that too much multiculturalists to doctor as in top moves to the 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 coming up a stain to anniversary kosovo marks three years so proclaimed from serbia unfazed

by recent reports of grave crimes allegedly committed by its leader. 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 of other areas face. first though new wiki leaks revelations appear to show washington attempting to pressure nato diplomatic cable released by the whistleblower says the u.s. went as far as snooping on the alliances top official or his catarina zoravar reports on the allegations. cat among the pigeons whistleblower 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. 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 but they of course would prefer to build exclusive bilateral relationships strong ties between two military organizations such as nato and the c.s.c. 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 night zero is a group dominated by the united states of america that in fact it's not an alliance of tool in the sense of being sovereign states. it's a bogus alliance people in the street understand that washington is calling the shots so. left right left right and we 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 a nato is supposedly equal it has raised questions. over whether the u.s. will really trust the alliance i don't catarina zavala. scores of civilians have been reported killed in nato led operations in the north east of afghanistan over the last few days women and children 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 a grad of their operations but denied civilian deaths 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 off the government and of the international community and it is the violent 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 national debt from a staggering fourteen trillion dollars the 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 that include 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 r.t. 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 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's 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 r t coming up a virtual trip to outer space take a look at a simulated journey to the red planet by a multi-national through and what it could mean for real space travel. plus the opposition on the head as a recipe for a stable country according to the president of belarus stay with us for more on

that. first though kosovo's mark three years of supper claimed 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 anniversary was marred by a recent council of europe report the document claims kosovo's leaders including current prime minister work for a sponsible for serious crimes during the war in the late ninety's these include executions of doctrines and organ trafficking claims that serbia wants the un to investigate peace campaigner marco gas which says the u.s. and e.u. don't want their roles in the balkans conflict to emerge. the key thing is when we go back in those eleven years to when so be it was being bombed when people were being butchered on bridges in schools and hospitals and roadway 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 operations so they couldn't go back from their original claims without admitting that they'd be lying all along particularly in one thousand nine hundred nine and that would have meant that those who bombed serbia were culpable in criminal terms for that bombing and should answer before an international court so of course it would be very difficult for them to say actually yes we are indeed wrong we were wrong we supported the wrong side and the that and that was the one step too far for them this seems to be nobody charged with the tasco 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 on

tuesday in 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 to improve communications lavrov says visit comes years comes 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 accreditation rules it was quickly resolved though when the reporter was allowed back into the country. the president of delarue says opposition will be quote bashed on the head on less that stops the stabilizing the country alexander lukashenko is warning comes just after 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 over six hundred protesters were arrested and more than forty now face trial including several presidential candidates the editor in chief of the magazine

russia in global affairs says that although the opposition della reese is weak it still making the president nervous. position bill are not serious enough to. really challenge his rule. to lay lection results we should force was falsified by you in the same key is a fair and free election i'm afraid that the person who would be in the military as much of what he she 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. he would repression so it seems that the question because steele is quite nervous about any kind of. allowed. is weak in the us. remember r.t. dot com is where you can check out our stories blogs and analysis whatever you like

here is what's online right now. passing your seat belts russia developing an atomic power train that can take passengers further and faster than ever before. so she gets the thumbs up as russia's top brass hit the slopes that will soon host the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics. a unique mission simulating a return trip to mars has reached an important milestone as friday marks 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 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 the only outside contact scientists are studying the psychological effects of such a long journey the third of our actual walk will happen on tuesday will be followed by a nine month journey home when a european space agency explains but the team hopes to discover. 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 real martian martian mission and what the two are doing is connecting soil samples and preparing them to bring this. is made if the cord which of course would not be there well on the real mars and the core supplies to the to us to know its. 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're doing very very well so. everybody was really surprised that everything is going so bell everything one of the reasons for that it's that they have to 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 in this special chairs because each of the space you would. 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 still would have to take a small break the major point here is that they are really of 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. turning now to some other stories making headlines

across the globe at least ten children have died in an orphanage fire in the coastal coastal town of hoppe salu in western if donia majority of them were disabled thirty seven children nine adults were in the building when it caught fire the cause of the blaze still unknown stony as president has declared monday a day of mourning throughout the country. seventeen people wounded in two successive attacks by suspected muslim insurgents in the south of thailand the first happened in a karaoke restaurant that came under heavy gunfire half an hour later a car bomb was detonated nearby last week another blast wounded eighteen people and said buildings on fire in the neighboring province more than four thousand people have died in insurgency related violence in the country in the last seven years. ugandan president will remain in power for a fourth term after the electoral commission confirmed that he wrapped up sixty eight percent of the ballot in the country's recent election no worry mousavi needs

main competitor and former ally secured only twenty six per cent and outcome that's been rejected by the opposition while the election was largely peaceful the president vowed to lock up by any protesters attempting any egypt style demonstrations. for a couple of our top stories peter lavelle in his panel of guests debate military spending in the middle east cross talk coming your way in a few minutes. culture

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seven thirty am in moscow good to have you with us here on our team the easier headlines mass public protests sweeping across the middle east and north africa demonstrators are now taking to the streets of the libyan capital tripoli this comes after at least two hundred people reportedly shot dead in the country's second city benghazi during a week about prising. as thousands of immigrants fleeing the out arrest in north africa fled to italy the european union rushes to head off a humanitarian crisis as top e.u. politicians claim multiculturalism has failed on the continent. more we can leave some for the u.s. says cables reveal washington's spying on the nato chief classified documents

expose a mole in the office of the secretary general anders rasmussen they also show u.s. influence had with the alliance of relations with moscow. and eighteen 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 the real thing one small step closer. with a combined defense budget of gulf states expected to reach sixty eight billion dollars in two thousand and eleven peter lavelle and his panel of guests debate military spending in the middle east crosstalk coming your way next. for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers.