yes is getting wider american jobs are being outsourced to other countries president obama's state of the union speech sounded motivational full of good intentions but the fact that almost all his major economic initiatives got bogged down in congress like the jobs act that he put forward last year is giving a sense to many that he might be saying all the right words may not be necessarily followed by on the foreign policy front he ran on promises to end wars but while he pulled troops out of iraq and started winding down the war in afghanistan with a pledge to bring all troops home by two thousand and fourteen america's wars didn't stop president obama bombed levy last year to the tune of bringing about democracy also the u.s. may now be on the verge of an all out confrontation with iran and in the speech he once again said all options are on the table washington is now actively building up its military presence in the persian gulf region new u.s. drone bases are popping up in the arabian peninsula so we see that while president

obama went through with the promises to scale back on the record of ghana's that he's been actively building up a platform for possibly new wars president obama certainly prides himself on his role in killing osama bin laden and a number of other terrorists but the means by which the u.s. is going about the task of chasing down terrorists raises a lot of red flags so some experts argue that what washington is doing is fighting terror and provoking terror at the same time but in president obama's presentation everything sounds just great on the war on terror front. well president obama reiterated his commitment to cutting down on military spending and trimming the armed forces but u.s. professor paul sheldon foods says the president's pledge is that all of those with washington's foreign policy goals. he used the cute little code phrase that we're going to have an enduring relationship with death in a stand which means we're going to have bases in that country and stay there for ever whether they want to serve not. likewise he said we kill gadhafi syria's

next day and if iran doesn't behave they're there after that so. it is totally contradictory to say that he's going to be able to pay down the american debt and expand government spending programs domestically with savings from bringing soldiers home for more is what in fact he has plans to expand what he didn't mention child of my name he also said that we have a pacific strategy and the world will know that we are number war. but it was a thinly veiled threat against china even i mean how insane can you baby china is holding more than a trillion dollars of our debt we've got tens of thousands of factories there we're highly coordinated doing depended on them now and he's threatening them to. well you know with r.t. still to come on the program a meeting of monetary minds

a business in banking elites descend on davos for the world economic forum to find out how much focus will fall on reforming the global financial system. searching for a fair salary by illegal loophole in india has left many without jobs or a stable income. there is confusion over events in a libyan town of bani walid after market darfield or this seize the city on monday killing five people and injuring twenty five in clashes with government forces but libya's interior minister said it's actually not clear who controls the city and claimed clashes are up to due to internal problems with between rival militias meanwhile elders in the town said they'll now appoint their own local representatives and reject any interference from interim authorities prices for the national transitional council now set up checkpoints outside bani walid this comes as the m.d.c. has been struggling to unify its armed forces protests in several cities across the

country and prompted the council chairman to warn of possible civil war investigative journalist simon ourself says many libyans feel they're not getting what they fought for. the thing about revolutions is they're not simply passive events there is a whole awakening of a population in the middle east but also libya and people saying well this is not what we have not rising for the victims themselves you know the victims the new victims the old supporters of the old regime saying well you talk about democracy where is our inclusion in this so you get the sense there is this fracturing the new electoral law is very. going to put it has made people very very unhappy it seems there is a reintroduction of tribalism and touching as networks and so on and so you know. that there is a lot of disquiet in every corner of libya at the moment it's a truism that there's no such thing as a clean war and civil war is the most brutal. and so you. so you can imagine. nato but i need to imagine nato really pushed the envelope and they broke the

resolution they were there to defend civilians that was the mandate and they went they essentially became the rebel the rebels air force and so they were attacking in the the all you know almost total annihilation of very messy very brutal and i think there's quite a lot of acts of revenge taking place as well. well we have more news and stories for you on our website at r.t. dot com here's a look at what you can find just a click away trading real gold for black gold iran will reportedly bypass the latest round of western sanctions by accepting the precious metal as payment for its oil exports also. from one online source to another the founder of russia's most popular social networking site has donated a million dollars to wikipedia and why r.t. dot com.

egypt's military ruler has announced that the country's decades long state of emergency will be partially lifted on wednesday it's one of the key demands of thousands of protesters who are marking the first anniversary of the uprising that toppled president mubarak but for many who continue to demand that the army steps down it's still not enough room for national reports now in car. a year after its historic revolution in egypt is far from calm protests have become a part of everyday life and no longer in event one of the revolutions most significant achievements. what i could never believe more would come out and speak out later. there are several reasons for egypt's people to take out to the streets following the uprising that ousted mubarak last february the country's economy is struggling unemployment is at its highest in decades and while the newly elected

islam is dominated parliament debate the country's future resentment grows against military rule and the feeling they hijacked the revolution because we want them to do what military should do to protect its citizens and not rule the country. no i want to be sure that there will not destroy our solutions achievements they betrayed us the military dominated egypt's politics since the fall of the monarchy sixty years ago some skeptics say the twenty eleven revolution did little to change this trend. where mubarak toppled down people volcom to the supreme council of the armed forces to lead the transition but the initial euphoria began to fade when the military council was still in place six months later after one bloody crackdown on peaceful protestors officer another claim at least eighteen lives since october

there isn't any doubt left here scaf should go i believe that they're there i mean our life i believe that we don't want them anywhere here in this chair that's what i believe in the words and that's what most of what all i know believe and we will work in whatever happens as these are works with and to scholars are scared because he blew in arabic or army lawyers contained they worked through really armies wrongdoings beats you know female activists attacking field hospitals and conspiracy theories under the military council twelve thousand people have been brought to mentor trials that's against less than two thousand in mubarak's thirty years scaf claim it's leave when the new president is elected in june but if you believe the promises that once were broken so easily some also fear that the generals may stay on behind the scenes reluctance to relinquish the power they've had for decades with protests pushing them to leave one thing is clear the fight

is not yet over. raef an option r t cairo. well egypt now has a new leader to parliament with a muslim brotherhood holding the majority of seats the army said it would give up power once a new president is sworn in after june poll well in our crosstalk program next hour people are belon his guests to debate the country's future here's a preview for you. if the united states wants to ingratiate themselves with the egyptian people what they've got to do is we've got to offer humanitarian aid we've got to offer loans and services to the egyptian people and not so much you know i've got the government but i've really enjoyed you think it's on their side you know but you know we wish nothing but the best for you know but well i don't i think most egyptians don't believe that ok after thirty years it's hard for them to believe that the last twelve months hasn't changed and i think that's why we've got a lot of work to do you know a lot of you want to believe what are these real intentions if you just leave egypt

alone completely and let them decide for themselves let them decide their own foreign policy if they want to tear up the peace treaty with israel. you're saying there is an object ourselves it should be there is politics but there's a lot of humanitarian relief that we can help and that's the kind of work we should be doing. the so-called one percent global business elites have descended on davos switzerland to seal the deals and search for the salvation of capitalism that means it's time for the world economic forum which kicks off today perhaps unsurprisingly the ninety nine percent have been worst hit by the financial crisis have been locked out and left to look on from the outside parties learn this to reports. all right i'm here i made it to davos i'm at the world economic forum my first time i'm not alone though turns out morgan stanley's c.e.o. says first time which shows the caliber of the people that are here ok these are

much of the corporate elite much of the global elite when it comes to wealth power all of that so they're all gathered here the question is what is davos man got on his agenda this year now of course the unofficial business is what davos has really become known for in many respects that's what you hear about that makes it worth all of the money that some of these corporations shell out to be here is the networking and the deals that are done in private parties. you know off the record in hallways in the lobbies so this is where a lot of the global one percent or some of them at least a presumably are doing business according to past reports ironically on the actual official agenda this year is that the topic of capitalism and if it is for ambling what its future is and what the solutions to its problems are so schwab the founder of the world economic forum has said that we can't think of this is business as usual anymore that capitalism in its current form has no place in the world around

us talking about much of the of the discontent we've seen over in quality that we've seen with the occupy wall street movement which is on the agenda when some of these sessions are talking about remodelling capitalism occupy is one of the things that they're talking about interesting lee though none of those activists are invited to the forum to have that discussion but they are here really highlighting the difference separating everybody else from the elites that are meeting here they have the igloo encampment which many people are talking about but they're very much here now as far as what exactly is going to go on i'll do my best to show you that the more i'm looking at these reports of what the press is going to be able to do it looks like i'm not going to be able to see a film or go a lot of the places that i would want to go except for maybe in thirty minute increments what's a day hopefully as supported by someone from the world. economic forum for me to lock down some of these big business leaders and heads of state and central bankers exactly what they're talking about recession i may not be privy to but that is what

i'm going to try and do i'm going to do my best for you all of that and i will be your intrepid reporter. what are some international news in brief now for you syria has agreed to extend the mandate of the arab league observer mission by a month mission was set up at the end of last year to monitor the regime's compliance with leeks plan to end the violence there were reports claim sixty people were killed in antigovernment protests across the country on tuesday and. thousand people died in the last months of the last. and i jury and forces have arrested scores of suspected members of an islamist group or two in raids in the country's northern city of kano the boko haram sect said it carried out a series of bombings in the city on friday which at least one hundred eighty. the group is considered the most violent radical organization in like you responsible for the thousand deaths last year. hundreds of demonstrators in argentina were met

by riot police as a protest in front of the british embassy in one of the disputed fourteen dollars but just as demanded britain hand the territories over to argentina britain has refused to send military support to the area tension between the two countries has . raided the port in the 1980's insisting it had prior claims on the territory. and rescue teams are searching for seventeen people still unaccounted for after a cruise liner capsized off the town in khost new footage has emerged showing images of floating debris inside the vessel divers film the interior of the ship after using explosives to blast into more areas sixteen board. these have been recovered since the ship ran aground twelve days ago. now india's labor laws a promise of full time workers a range of benefits from decent wages to paid holidays but those from the country's

poverty stricken regions aren't always so lucky employers have found a legal loophole leaving many workers exploited through the fear of losing their jobs at any moment reports. it's got one of the fastest growing populations in the world and getting india's eager young workforce into skilled jobs is no mean feat business tycoon mini shopper well thinks he has the answer a temp agency that trains and then touts its labor. existed all over the world temporary stuffing so good but what we've heard somebody of the five minutes for the last five years filling posts and bringing home a paycheck it sounds like a perfect match but for indian firms there are extra more dubious benefits india's tough labor laws make it hard to fire workers plus permanent staff get decent hours holidays and a living wage none of which apply to hiring temps it's a cost cutting gifts keeping employers smiling all the way to the bank india has

always been a famous destination for foreign companies to outsource their work at a cheap cost but a growing trend here is for indian companies themselves to outsource their work force to agencies like instead of hiring workers for themselves everywhere from malls to restaurants in india are using agencies to hire and manage their workers for the shopper while insists his workers do benefit vital training they are unlikely to get in india as many poverty stricken regions in the woman who from you know really cannot afford a very expensive education but begin to feel who have those skills but don't know where to go they don't have been grooming them because some pawn three agrees she's in rolled in one of the many nationwide team lease training centers to improve her english skills and enroll in a computer accounting course to make her stand out from the crowd to potential employers. coffee i was very warned to nervous about sitting for job interviews i'm not fluent in english so i wanted teachers speak in english get motivated and gain

some confidence going but critics say jobs people like some end up in should be higher paid employment and because the agency keeps the jobless figures down many believe it's bloody india over. tackling it's labor law to me which lets firms get away with dire wages and sacking staff on a whim but shovel insists the priority for those on his roster is putting bread on the table and that is really where we came in and said that look a job is better than no job and employers were not hiring people because they were scared of me but as we were saying look there are lots of kids who actually are not trying to move off employers or use the law as a weapon in their hands to hit employers they're just warned an opportunity to get a job preassure either r t new delhi india. where the business news with kareena is just a had a cup of it stay with us. we

have seen the damage it has done to our environment mark chemicals what the poor props we do not want any more new to most. our core system it's just there was a dismal experience and i'm just i'm just appalled but that's allowed to go on. eating this unfortunately because we don't know what's in it there's no labeling there for it being used like oratory experiment be used as guinea pig. now we have more questions than we have had three words. like.

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is twenty one past ten am here in moscow welcome to business here in r.t. entrepreneurs are searching around the world according to a new report by the global entrepreneurship monitor however that's not the case when it comes to russia over seven thousand people are surveyed in the country and the findings show that russia is lagging behind not only its brics peers but also the majority of eastern european countries i mean acosta has the details. there are almost four hundred million business men and fifty four countries and about a quarter of them are planning to add at least five new jobs over the next five years and we're talking about countries like brazil china australia and the united states now one that comes to russia the picture is pretty grim the number of new firms account for just five percent of business is that's compared to twenty five percent in china which places that at the bottom of the list of developing countries and russia is also slack in one it comes to international isolation with

fewer businesses offering their goods and services to foreign markets. still you. corruption. when you suppose should get more taxes from small business at this point all the taxes for almost all the taxes go. there a little and then some of. what is a subsidy it means there is no the rich food we should pull. from the developmental business and they should be should get this money means they will see very very pleased between the number of small businesses small businesses and the budget. a high level of has. the majority of small and medium sized businesses do not believe there will be a positive change and this is of course a bad sign for government plans to diversify the economy away from rome materials

and make it less vulnerable to external financial stocks. almost half of russia c.e.o.'s are very confident of growth over the next year according to a survey by pricewaterhouse coopers that's lower than at the beginning of two thousand and eleven when sixty percent were predicting good times ahead piers are even less optimistic with only forty percent of forecasting growth in two thousand and twelve. looking at the markets now heading higher. signs of rising stockpiles in the u.s. are offset by concerns that iran could disrupt shipping in the persian gulf now crossover to equities asian stocks climb as fears about prospects for the eurozone east stronger than expected economic data japan's nikkei is up over one percent on the back of a weakening yen and that is boosting earnings for exporters and sang is closed for a public holiday. here in russia markets stock price stocks rose in the first minutes of trading the r.t.s.

is up over a percent them isaac's is up over half a percent this hour. market watchers claim this year is likely to be volatile for investors merging markets look appealing if you look at the fundamentals which remain strong among the breaks economies but risk aversion is coming from the e.u. crisis that is fueling the spread of global recession chief economist at deutsche bank russia of all it looks ahead to two thousand and twelve in terms of the dynamics of two thousand and eleven despite the very significant blows to global financial markets russia wasn't really a laggard and actually throughout most of two thousand and eleven it all performed on average other emerging markets but of course one of the supporting factors was will prices and i think for the very near term this is the big question on the minds of a lot of investors will these high oil prices persist them hands actors of course.

continues to favor russia over some of the other emerging markets. bello's appears to be pulling out of the severe crisis which crushed its national currency last year it's getting three billion dollars support from an attic crisis fund set up by regional states including russia deputy chairman of the your asian development bank said gay shuttle of details how the country's prospects have improved and the risks that remain. the civilization program of bill it always is close to seven percent of g.d.p. of this country this is ample amount of resources so given. the current account of the country is showing first signs of improving. of a historically high international reserves which is very close to two months of imports villagers had never we see clear signs of stabilization in belittles the challenge

to belittle those as well as to all countries including russia and kazakhstan is how the global economy will shape up in the in this year. and that's it for this hour we're back in about fifteen minutes with more.

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understand it. and realized. welcome to the big picture. stories we're covering for you this hour crack obama pledges another program changed. during his annual state of the union address with his approval rating suffering and republicans turning up the heat the president is trying to ratchet up support for reelection in november. in libya gadhafi loyalists claim they've seized control of the town of bani walid abolish the government appointed military council there the country's interim rulers admit they're not sure who's really in charge of

the city saying the violence was caused by internal problems. and coming full circle in tahrir square thousands of egyptian protesters angry at the lack of reform are expected in central cairo the country is marking the first anniversary of its popular uprising that toppled president mubarak. but as russians prepare to go to the polls to elect a new president on the fourth of march we talked to the surprise candidate one of russia's richest tycoons and the owner of the new jersey nets basketball team we hear about mikhail prokhorov supply runs for russia that's next. mr crocker thank you for your time always good to oblige thing.