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feel america will be left counting the costs. it's a really bad thing for the united states to lose the skilled workforce it's going to be difficult to rebuild it. and broadcasting live from the center of moscow this is r t certainly glad to have you with us let's take a look at the top stories thousands of people are protesting in egypt's tahrir square all day and into the night now to voice their anger at the interim government over the country's sluggish rate of reform demonstrators want to keep up the pressure for change on the country's interim military rulers and see former regime officials brought to trial. in cairo for us. when i was coming here to talk to you are mistaken how well organized they really was basically civilians are

doing the security checks they're directing traffic and as i was saying i was impressed with the organizing of the protesters really it seems like what they wanted out of a peaceful protest but as we were coming you hear we're doing our my pop from the only really international t.v. station that is that is that is that the term that the egyptian authorities have allowed to work here is a turkish company and when we got here none of the staff was in the hotel it was very quiet and we were told that it was very dangerous in fact to be here because apparently some of these thugs are wearing sort of fans around there has had told them that they could really do and you want to stop from here so and we're hearing that it was actually the government to send these to do that in fact we were supposed to speak to get a guest this hour and he said that he was too afraid to come to speak to us on our city because of the situation that we saw as we came up to the hotel here it seems like everything is ok they left the building and some of the staff is beginning to

come back but that's a sign that these protesters are really ready for anything in the sense that they say they wanted to remain peaceful and the government has promised to send away i haven't seen one police officer here today but that they're sending people in plainclothes it's really instigate violence so a lot of people on edge that something could happen overnight here on talk to some of the protesters including the workers union as basically have most of the citizens that i spoke like with what we saw back in the winter they're going to basically live on talk here until they get what they want and what they want is to get rid of all these so-called mini mubarak they feel like they have the president altitude and a lot of high ranking officials but they want corrupt officials to be removed from the university of from the factory to all work places across the country they want military trials on civilians to stop they want free press and have full coverage of what's happening here in central cairo some people. we'll be staying here until the very end then you have the muslim brotherhood who didn't take place didn't do

comedy join the revolution back in the winter but this time are taking it critics say that they're really trying to just inflate their positions that if there are elections that they can gain some support it's a group that in fact is abandoned in many countries including russia it seems it seems that there is caution about any kind of links to perhaps terrorism but they are one of the groups that is protesting here are talking here but they're not spending the night they'll be coming back tomorrow but like i said a lot of these protesters are here until they feel that the egypt they've been fighting for has finally happened. reporting there from cairo now hundreds of propellants tinian activists are being blocked by israel in their attempts to reach gaza by air dozens were detained for questioning in tel aviv on arrival while the majority were prevented from even reaching israel and european airports artie's policy or who's been at ben-gurion airport throughout the day as more. for the last few weeks there have been some six to eight hundred international activists who've

been planning this so-called fly turner united under the banner of welcome to palestine and representing some fifty in geos is mostly french activists who made the point from the beginning that they were intention was to bring attention to the pride of the palestinian people particularly the people of gaza they said that they were intention was peaceful the plan was to spend a week particulate in the west bank visiting palestinian families and really giving them a message of hope and encouragement from the international community but of course the attention also needs to be on gaza where since two thousand and seven since her must came to power israel has imposed a hippy blockade and the latest word we hear from humanitarian organizations operating in gaza is that the situation is almost catastrophic we're hearing figures of as much as eighty percent of the population who do not have access to basic necessities the problem is that the israeli authorities heard about this fly tiller and already on thursday they issued the names of three hundred and forty two people that were not allowed to into this country and they gave those names to

foreign airlines and warn them that if they bought those people here they would have the expense of the responsibility of sending them back to their home countries we know that two hundred people were stopped in european capitals but of the roughly a hundred who made it through to israel most of them are being questioned are being interrogated and as far as we can tell only one woman from england made it through the arrivals hall we caught up with her just before she made her way to bethlehem in the west bank netanyahu sees us as a threat he says us as a threat to the legitimize a show of israel how can we be a threat and yet he whips up the israelis he gets directly pouring all over the airport he gets the british police the french police to stop activists coming out we never planned to demonstrate we always planned to be here and be here for this day and enjoy the the cultural activities of the palestinians. on the west bank and true with the israelis as well now israel is dealing

a heavy hand launched me because of what happened roughly this time last year which is when we first got to try to sell to gaza it had humanitarian aid on going with him you know it ended with nine activists did we have seen a second freedom flotilla attempt at this stage the eight ships that are part of efforts are stranded off the coast of greece athens has imposed a blanket ban preventing them from sailing to gaza so soon lot of attention in the international community trying to help the people of gaza and israel being very heavy handed very worried and very militant in its response. reporting there from tel aviv now this is our team and here's a look at what's ahead arresting development. new espionage charges are brought in georgia as opposition members explained why he just can't get enough of its spy saga plus. the latest twists in britain's phone hacking scandal

which has already seen its biggest selling paper shut down now it's a former editor is arrested. final shuttle flight has blasted off with up to a million spectators witnessing a historic launch it's the one hundred thirty fifth mission in the thirty year history of america's space shuttle program experts had warned of a high chance that it would launch the launch would be delayed by bad weather but in the end the astronauts left earth with just about a minute of a delay as artie's going to church can reports it was also a poignant moment for those who have devoted their lives to the program for final time from the start of the sentimental journey to empty shelves of what was once florida's thriving space coast. up to ten thousand people will be out of a job as soon as the last shuttle makes its final voyage back to. earth home to many of the kennedy space center workers rock luge is on the verge of becoming

a ghost town without the space program or pretty much nothing i mean this is what you know is built on the space program you know just a lot of people are going to be out of jobs sorry me out of homes people are left and right few chance anthony krista fully spent twenty three years with the shuttle launch team as an engineer with a plan to splash for its final mission it means the end of his career with nasa and the beginning of uncertainty a year ago he started looking for a new job to no avail i have applied for jobs and so far i haven't gotten any concrete responses there's not that many jobs out there for sure the u.s. scrapped its shuttle program and now wants the private sector to come up with ways to get astronauts to space and several companies are working on new vehicles but it's not clear when they'll be able to deliver them one thing is certain though will be able to hire only a fraction of the skilled space industry workers will be out of work this is the

first shuttle ever it never made it to space but it was going to put test before the columbia shuttle first launch into space in nineteen eighty one a total of five shuttles had been used for space mission says that two of them were last named tragic accidents a nine hundred eighty six and in two thousand and three those lawsuits and the skyrocketing price for each launch gradually led to the tassel ation of the program but critics say it's hard to estimate the losses that the end of the shuttle program will bring about both for the space industry and the people involved i think it's a really bad thing for the united states to lose the skilled workforce it's going to be difficult to rebuild for years the shuttle has been the only vehicle that could very cruel and a massive load of cargo to space officials say one of the reasons the program was scrapped is that it's safer and cheaper to send cards. when people separately something that russia for example has been doing for many years but whatever the

reasons for scrapping the thirty year old program for those who devoted their lives to it is the end of their dream job it's kind of sad because i've already seen a lot fewer of my friends go and nobody's there being more people that are probably may never see again it also means the end of a once vibrant scientific community that's grown up around the shuttle got a shotgun. on to the u.k. now were a former editor of the news of the world has been arrested in connection with the phone hacking scandal at the country's biggest selling newspaper it's a former royal correspondent has also been arrested on suspicion of bribing police along with a third man who hasn't yet been identified the fear or has prompted the prime minister to announce two inquiries into the ethics and practices of the british press the one hundred sixty eight year old the paper is suspected of hacking into the phones and emails of thousands of people including murder and terror attack

victims the families of dead soldiers as well as top level politicians its owner rupert murdoch's news international has announced the paper will close after this sunday's edition john daunt who used to work for one of murdoch's newspapers says the political elite should not control the press. many of us are calling for a full public inquiry led by a judge and cameron has been dragged through this position he's now willing to let it happen if you don't have a real democracy you have to have a separation between the press surely. the political establishment and the government of the day you also need to have separation between the judiciary and those two areas in britain and the united kingdom they've become too close over the last thirteen or fourteen years and i believe the last month no ordinary people in britain their views have not really been represented either in the newspapers or in the political arena it's a sorry sorry day let me tell you not just for the british press but for british

democracy also in the news this is saturday morning. south sudan is celebrating its newfound independence the occasion was marked by events across the country and in the new capital juba the hard won separation comes after decades of bloody civil war and repression that claimed the lives of more than a million people earlier the un security council deployed troops in the region in case of violence with the. north over still disputed border territory meanwhile north sudan has become the first state to recognize that its neighbor. rebel troops in libya are keeping up their advance towards the khadafi held town of gharyan in an attempt to gain control of one of the main roads leading to the capital tripoli it's considered their most significant gain in the past two weeks but they say their progress has been hampered by a lack of ammunition and inadequate support from nato meanwhile the u.s. is continuing to fund the campaign despite opposition from congress. ga claims

a group of high profile photographers detained in the capital tbilisi have been spying for a foreign state the arrests come as nine other people were jailed for up to fourteen years for espionage for moscow. explains what's behind george's spy saga. and. i still spy with my little lie george is continuing his firm encounter espionage campaign and this time around the people in the spotlight are those who usually stayed behind the scenes for photo journalists have been detained including the president's personal photographer and employees of the associated press and the european press agency the a.p. photographer was later released without charge but the other three remain in custody. i have met with my client he's got injuries to his face at the moment he still hasn't been charged with anything and we waiting on the prosecutors

to file the case and to question and formally charge my client. so for a georgian authorities haven't specified exactly who they believe these journalists were spying for their previous spying allegations however have mostly been aimed at russia for soccer shruti writes novels the continuation of war and the russian hysteria this is the main basis for these donors the poles and then all of these new ways to live here. power because the sluggishness second there are always really and in themselves and in certain hues going through an open door and a lot of fuel in the nature of war never appear calm there is why georgia. why. do you always bond with the. dependents of georgia.

but he's probably. in the agents or since. the recent hysteria began with yet another alleged spy story last year thirteen people were detained and accused of being spies on russia's payroll earlier this week nine of them were found guilty and sentenced to. and fourteen years behind bars but what lies behind this frenzied clampdown. i guess is just. and that has been. even seems international and news and convictions are not enough to put the paranoia. to rest george isn't. there and that he knows exactly who they are where they are and what they're doing

. ten minutes time but right now martin drew's explains. coming up right here on.

graham summer is the perfect time to visit russia. and st petersburg is a must the former capital is bursting full of history and culture so join me as we visit major landmarks and take part in various fun filled activities and we start off here at the spectacular cathedral originally the city's main church in the largest cathedral in russia it was built between eight hundred eighteen and eight hundred fifty eight french born architects. almost two centuries later the gilded dome mostly isaac still dominates the skyline of st petersburg a trip to the top provides excellent views of the city coming from the russian

capital moscow out seem troubled by the fast sampson train network the journey takes four hours and costs around three thousand five hundred rubles that's roughly one hundred twenty five dollars one way you can see here the location of the city situated to the northwest of russia in the eighteenth century it was piece of the great stream to create a window to your with a vast canal network press taking architecture and palaces that were built to rival who are paying counterparts this vision was well achieved just come here from moscow. we think this is a very grand. story enjoyed it we've been to the hermitage. with. the. i believe in it and now i'm visiting st petersburg for the second time i love it here especially the wingtip. is very beautiful misty prospect is st petersburg's main

avenue as one of the best known streets in russia i suppose you could control the prospect to oxford street in london. the area is packed full of restaurants shops museums and historic sites the main point has to be this magnificent. constructed two hundred. it was closed by the bolsheviks in march and twenty nine of them became a museum of cool services is now regimes and today the area in front of it is one of the city's main meeting points and tourist spots. the church of the spilled blood is located off the main streets here not to be confused the same passes cathedral in moscow this church is built on the site but saw xander the second was assassinated and was dedicated in his memory. and in this week's program we aim to show you some alternative sightseeing excursions. we've arrived at the city's answer to the london junction this proved very popular with russian and

international tourists tickets cost seven hundred rubles that's roughly around twenty five dollars. for two. similar projects. which is called the dungeons his visit to people who seeks emotions since they should and this is the early field our guests also include those who are interested in history literature myths and legends of some pieces but each room represents connected to the city's most famous story literature characters all united by one theme jack. for example legend has it and tchaikovsky died in simpy just back in eighty ninety three not because of color but because he famously said his last symphony was launched and his entire life hours later. he stands. in the room shows the body of the russian historical figure for spruce and burned

by conspires off of these borders and shot and drowned. the pharmacy isn't famed for the light hearted tourists among us i think it's the perfect skate an alternative in stamens have to be subjected to hours inside the city's palaces. well. into the forest and so there is an interactive museum dedicated to the myths and legends of the city the last. through a labyrinth of thirteen rooms where you come up close and personal to terrifying exhibits eyewitness ghostly characters of the past disrespected and peter the great . so what other alternative activities could you enjoy it said petersburg the ford museum of dreams located in the st petersburg institute of psychoanalysis opened in one thousand nine hundred nine to mark the one hundred years since for its famous book the interpretations of dreams was published there

are two holes exploring the psychologist's theories the so-called light school splays historical facts and figures where the guide explains freud's work while the dog is a collection of at first sight meaningless their names the guide suggests the visitors should perceive the display in accordance with their own experience fancies and desires. there's a museum in the northern capital which celebrates the rich history of the world's famous drink vodka display cover such a result of history in russia starting from the eleventh century when it was originally called red wine and explores drinking traditions and rituals. during peter the great swain many vodka drink in traditional were established and many of them exist to this day for example this item sheerest called it big eagle goblet which was a prototype for a ritual of penalty shots for being late to party the amount of malt which one had to drink from the goblet was fixed and total to one litter guess too late to

pitchers balls or dance badly broken large to drink. thousands of exhibits amazing vodka bottles spanning centuries there are also several unusual items on display which include even vulcan for cosmonauts to drink in space after you're done with exploring the items in glass cabinets in. in a room which contains over two hundred bush and the museum there's a restaurant called the. office of cools. and if you have a special occasion insipidus will just look top notch. professionals and take care of your stone know dozens of stylists. that you constantly upgrading their skills and you were schools for professionals of the industry will help you. the celebrations for normal in the source of much pleasure.

it's an exciting time to visit the city in this. town called. to discuss the culture in the city with this insider let's meet. laura lovely to meet you here so your been living here. so we try to promote the culture of cooperation between russia. is a completely different city in the winter than it is in the summer tell me about some of the activities that you enjoy you know what. first of all people act totally differently during the summertime. to go out. trying to get home possible so people go. in the restaurant

if you had any visitors already any tourists coming to the city where would you recommend to visit they had to. pause for. bringing take a walk around around downtown. well what if the weather is bad because you know one that can be a rainy day can be a bit temperamental. yeah well if you recommend. some inside activity there's this amazing tradition. if you're not into drinking or. very very.

different. to me you're sorry to hear. about. the want to party the night. immerse yourself with historical sites considered cultural capital st petersburg reflects the country's extraordinary fate. there are various ways to see the city by speedboat roller blading bicycles you can hire them privately or take part in group guided tours either way you can see all the major sites such as the peaceful way here for those who crave adrenaline filled activities there are a few other suggestions too like this next form of transport. furious . with. the city. and.

there are many people who dream of. popular destination for tourists so we've decided to combine these two. to those who fancy riding a bike from your perspective. can give you a tour and not only tell you about the main most popular landmarks. in the usual tour. show you some hidden gems of st petersburg which you won't find a guidebook. on it almost to pull it off. but. please. please this will last about two hours in the money's gone from three thousand five hundred rubles that's around one hundred twenty dollars the tool started as an initiative of a group of bikers who decided that many people's passion to push raising the city's hands tourists interests can be combined.