middle class is shrinking dramatically and that gap 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 but they may not be necessarily followed by demons 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 iraq 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 again is 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 for us professor paul sheldon foods says his pledge is that owns 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 the country and stay there for

ever whether they want us are not. likewise he said we kill gadhafi syria's next day and if iran doesn't behave there the 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 while he didn't mention china my name he also said that we have a pacific strategy and the world will know that we are number one. and that 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. here without a still to come in the program

a meeting of military minds the business banking elite descend on that boss of the world economic forum find out how much focus will fall on the former no before mentioned system. but searching for a fair salary why a legal loophole in india that any without any jobs or stable income. there is confusion over events in the libyan town of bani walid after a remark of darfield loyalists seized the city on monday killing five people injuring twenty five in clashes with government forces libya's interior minister says it's actually not clear who controls the city and claims clashes erupted due to internal disagreements between rival militias. elders in the town say they will appoint their own little representatives and reject any interference from the interim authorities fighters for the national transitional council now set up checkpoints outside bani walid it comes as the m.d.c. has been struggling to unify its armed forces by protests in several cities across

the country and prompted the council's chairman to warn of possible civil war when investigative journalist salman also says that many libyans are getting paid for. think about revolutions are not simply passive events there is a whole awakening of a population in the middle east but also in libya and people saying well this is not what we have not rising for and 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 how can i put it has made people very very unhappy it seems there's a reintroduction of tribalism and passion is networks and so on and so you know. there's 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 wars are the most brutal affairs and so you could 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 were essentially became the rebel rebels air force and so they were attacking in 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 few i website r.t. dot com here's a look at what you can find there right now from a web whistleblower to t.v. talk show host the internet's close confidential activist in asuncion to become a star of the small screen but isn't the program exclusively here. on to find out all the details. and while you're there trading real gold for black gold iran will reportedly bypass the latest round of western sanctions accepting the precious metal as payment for its all exports to r.t. dot com for details.

let's take you live to egypt now in cairo's now iconic tahrir square gardens of egyptians are gathering to mark the first anniversary of the uprising toppled president they're angry at the slow pace of reforms in the country was also a landmark day in the country as almost thirteen years of emergency rule has been partially lifted of some key police powers meaning ending the drug has been on the protesters killed in malls there are still many for whom it's not enough to rest until the army steps down the river notion of course the car. a year after its historic revolution in egypt is far from calm protests have become a part of everyday life and no longer an event while the revolution is

a significant achievement. we could never believe who 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 east. at its highest in decades and while the newly elected islam is dominated parliament debate the country's future resentment rose against military rule and the feeling they hijacked the revolution was administered we want them to do what the military should do to protect its citizens and neutral the country people. want to be sure that there will not destroy our lucian's 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 welcome 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 protesters after another claiming at least eighteen lives as a toper 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 you know believe and we will work in whatever happens as these are works and discard are scared because the boon arabic for army liars contain they work to reveal the army's wrongdoings beats you know female activists attacking field hospitals and conspiracy theories under the military council twelve thousand people have been brought to military trials that are against less than two thousand and mubarak's

thirty years. claim it and 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 all behind the scenes reluctance to relinquish the power they've had for decades with protests pushing him to leave one thing as clear the fight is not yet over for a fraction r.t. cairo. well egypt now has a newly elected parliament with the muslim brotherhood holding the majority of seats the army said it would give up power once a new pressed into sworn enough to do poll now cross-talk program native people of l. and his guests debate the country's future is a preview. 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 that

you know i've got the government but i'm very much you take it on their side and 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 and 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. i mean you're saying there isn't just 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 because these are the have descended on davos switzerland to see lucrative deals and the salvation of capitalism itself that means it's time for the world economic forum which kicks off today perhaps unsurprisingly that the ninety nine percent being worst hit by the financial crisis have been locked out

and left to look on from the outside nazis that learn this to reports. all right i'm here i've 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 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 pass for ports 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 and can't mint 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 a 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. business leaders and heads of state and central bankers exactly what they're talking about me sessions i may not be privy to but that is what i'm going to try and do i'm going to do my best or very all of that and i will be your intrepid reporter until. some other international news now in syria has agreed to extend the arab league observers mission by a month it was set up at the end of last year to monitor the regime's compliance with the league's plan to end the violence there but this reports claim sixty people were killed in government protests across syria on tuesday and the u.n. says more than five thousand people have died. and various forces have arrested scores of suspected members of an islamist group

during raids in the 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 five people died the group is considered the most violent radical organization in nigeria responsible for nearly a thousand deaths last year. hundreds of demonstrators in argentina were met by riot police say a protest in front of the british embassy in one of the disputed falkland islands protesters demanded britain had the territories over to argentina has refused to send woman to support the area tension between the two countries or senator since argentina before community meetings insisting it had private claims on the territory. rescue teams are searching for seventeen people still unaccounted for in the upsized coast new footage has emerged showing images of looting debris inside the vessel. film the interior of the ship

after using explosives to blast into more areas sixteen bodies have been recovered since the ship ran aground. twelve days ago. what a little later this hour we'll hear from the surprise candidate in russia's upcoming presidential election make up rocker off is one of russia's richest men it's considered a dull course in the race for the credit has what's ahead. we were single by make decisions quickly i guess the first develop within me over a long period of time and then when conditions are right i get a kind of signal that it's time for a change so when i realized that i had to change something i turned to politics back in april when i just joined the right cause project i knew there would be a release on blog this square in the roswell it would that's why i went into politics or do you mean you knew nobody i got the signal this happens to me say i foresaw the crisis and i sold my last words in advance youth and this time it was

the same thing is it. i don't know i guess it's a bit more tricky it's a combination of knowledge experience being aware of the current situation in the country and the worldwide and intuition world added together all these things enable you to make the right move. india's labor laws promise full time workers a range of benefits from decent wages to paid holidays but those from the countries poverty stricken regions aren't always so lucky always have found a legal loophole leaving many workers exploited through the fear of losing their jobs at any moment pressure to report. 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 tell its labor. existed all over the world

temporary stuff things that would but do know 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 its cost but a growing trend here is for indian companies themselves to outsource their work force to agencies like team 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 film

you know who really cannot afford a very expensive education it's going to be for people who have those goals but don't know where to go they don't have the grooming them because some pantry 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. to the major coffee i was very warned to nervous about sitting for job interviews i'm not fluent in english so i wanted teachers because english get motivated and gain some confidence going but critics say jobs people like some end up in should be higher paid and permanent and because the agency keeps the jobless figures down many believe it's bloody india over. boy tackling it's labor law to me is which lets firms get away with dire wages and sacking staff on a whim but szabo 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 one job and employers were not hiring people because they were scared of him because they were not as we were saying look there are lots of kids who actually are not trying to move too often employers to use the law as a weapon in their hands to hit employers they just want an opportunity to get a job pre-history there are t. new delhi india. koreans had with a suspicion seems. thank you carrie hello and welcome to our business update good to have you with me almost half of russia's say they're very confident of growth over the next year according to a survey by pricewaterhouse coopers that's lower than this time last year when sixty percent predicted good times ahead their peers around the world though are even less optimistic only forty percent of them forecast growth in two thousand and twelve business r.t. spoke to david gray from the w.c. russia at the world the call. to ask where he sees the car heading. and i think

the level of risk in the russian market is greatly exaggerated but i've been there seventeen years and so i've seen ups and downs it's all the you can put it to as you put it the risk is exaggerated all the opportunities dressed in my do so if you want to put it in a positive light so the other two opportunities are so great that the risks need to be seen in that context and therefore i do think that the fantastic opportunities for domestic russian companies and also for inbound investment and we see international companies that have previously been russia coming into russia and existing ones who invested actually looking to expand their activities. entrepreneurs are surging 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 were 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 during the course of

a has the details. there are almost four hundred million businessmen 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. 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 slacking when it comes to answer nationalisation with fewer businesses offering their goods and services to foreign markets. still you. should get more taxes from small business at this point all the taxes for almost all the taxes go up for a little and then some of. it is

a subsidy if there is no direct impact. from the development of business they should. get this money. very very pleased between number of small businesses small businesses and the budget. high level of has. the majority of small and medium sized businesses do not believe there will be a pause it's a change soon and this is of course a bad sign for government plans to diversify the economy away from raw materials and make it less vulnerable to external financial songs. have a look at the markets or rises above ninety nine dollars a barrel as australia says it will join europe and iran or. the west offset by concerns that iran could just drop shipping. asian markets closed earnings from higher on real earnings from apple and better than expected eurozone

economic data. tokyo and it in three months highest again we can bounce first annual trade deficit in thirty one years and the hang sang it was closed for public holiday. and european markets open mostly high in the forty's up over a quarter of a percent boosted by those better than expected results from apple as well while the dax is shedding practically to say here in russia markets rise at noon the r.t.s. is up over one and a half percent and my xix is about eight percent in the black banking and energy stocks among the main gate has let's have a look at some market movers on the line six banking stocks are rallying on improving sentiment about the euro zone's debt crisis spread back as the top gain on the mys x. has jumped over two and a half percent russia second largest level d.t.b. is adding roughly one point four percent and major ross now is half a percent of the. market watches claim this year is likely to be volatile for

investors but emerging markets look appealing certainly when it comes to fundamentals which remain strong among the breaks economy the risk aversion though comes from the eurozone crisis which is feeling a global recession just what told them from a russian telecoms major m.t.s. believes that the emerging markets are the only place to go for those wanting to capitalize on growth it's sometimes a challenge given the volatility that we see in global economies to get people interested in the merging markets however for the medium and long term we feel that investors need to look towards emerging markets because this is going to be the most natural place for growth in the world russia has what everybody needs for resources to some degree intellectual capital and we feel that we're in a good position to capitalize on the long term. belarus appears to be pulling out of the severe crisis which cross which crossed its national currency last year it's

getting three billion dollars support from an anti crisis fund set up by regional states including russia deputy chairman of the year asian development bank sergey shuttle of explains how the country's prospects have improved and the risks that remain the position 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 that the current account of the country is showing signs of improving. we know. historically high international reserves which is very close to two months of imports villagers had never had we see clear signs of stabilization in billups the challenge to belittle is 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 all the business is for now stay with us for headline news with kerry

coming up right after this. we have seen the damage it has done to our environment mark chemicals what the poor props we do not want anymore a new deal molds. our core system it's just there was

a does more experience and i'm just just appalled that that's allowed to go on america. we're eating this unfortunately because we don't know what's in it there's no labeling there for it being used like the board to experiment to be used is getting. old now we have more questions than we have had three guards in like. the world trade center it's technology innovation called in these developments around russia we've dumped the future covered.

bright. song from stupid. stunts on t.v. dot com. with our t.v. main stories we're covering for you this hour. is another program for change during his annual state of the union address that is approval rating suffering and the republicans turning up the heat the president is trying to ratchet up support for reelection in the that. libya gadhafi loyalists claim they've seized control of the town of bani walid and 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 ballots was course point problems. and coming full circle thousands of egyptians angry at slow reforms gather in central cairo countries marking the first anniversary of its uprising that toppled president. says what's happening in tahrir square right now almost thirty years emergency rule gets passed in dictator today. 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 hear about plans for russia that's next. live.