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 pull 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 then 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 in trimming the armed forces u.s. professor paul sheldon foote says he's pledges of all of this 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 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 what he didn't mention china by name he also said that we have a pacific strategy and the world will know that we are number war. and that was a thinly veiled threat against china even i mean how insane can you be china's holding more than a trillion dollars of our debt we've got tens of thousands of factories there weird highly coordinated doing depended on them now and he's threatening them to. it was r.t.m. still to come on the program a meeting of monetary minds the business and banking of the senate on davos for the world economic forum find out much of this will fall on forming a global financial system. are searching for a salary while

a legal loophole in india so that many without jobs or a stable income. there is confusion over events in the libyan town of bani walid out of market often don't list seize the city on monday killing five people and injuring twenty five in clashes with government forces but libya's interior minister says it's not clear who actually controls the city and claims clashes erupted you to internal disagreements between rival militias. elders in the town say their point their own local representatives and reject any interference from the interim authorities fighters for the national transitional council of now set up checkpoints outside running well here it comes as the m.d.c. has been struggling to unify its armed forces violent protests in several cities across the country have prompted the council's chairman to warn of possible civil war investigative journalist someone else says many libyans feel they're not

getting paid 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 prizing 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 is a reintroduction of tribalism and patronage networks and so on and so you know. 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 wars are the most brutal affairs 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 were essentially became the rebel 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 but we have more news and stories for you on our website r.t. dot com here's a look at what you can find from the web whistleblower to t.v. talk show host the internet's most controversial activist here in the sun which is to become a star of the small screen with his own program exclusively here on r.t. to find out more details. also online 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 own exports to store it out into.

but i wasn't of egyptians are gathering in cairo's tahrir square marking a year since the uprising toppled president mubarak but it's not a sort of broken they're still angry at the slow pace of reforms it's also a landmark day in the country's almost thirty years in regency is being partially moved to her some key police powers will remain ending the draconian no one has been one of the protesters killed in models but there's too many regime it's not enough they won't rest until the army steps down as marie for national ports now from 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 revolutions and significant achievements i. could never believe 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 rose against military rule and the feeling they hijacked the revolution this ability we want them to do what military should do to protect its citizens and not rule the country people. 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 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 it's a toper there isn't any doubt left here scoff should go i believe that there are no lie i believe that we don't want them anywhere here in this chair that's what i believe in words and that's what most of all i know believe and the work whatever as these are works with and discard are scared because the boom in arabic for army liars campaign they work to reveal the army's wrongdoing. between a female activists attacking field hospitals and conspiracy theories under the military council twelve thousand people have been brought to bear two trials that are against less than two thousand in mubarak's thirty years. claim it and leave when the new president is elected to do 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 their power they've had for decades with protests pushing them to leave one thing is clear the fight is not yet over grief notion r.t. cairo. well egypt now has a newly elected parliament with them was when brotherhood majority of seats the only has pledged to give up power when a new president is sworn in with an election expected to be held in june and all across top program later people of ellen's guests debate the country's future is 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 shermer souse to the egyptian people and not so much you know got the government no better crime rate majority taken on their side and i will say 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 here a lot 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 if 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 the global business elite have descended on divorce 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 the ninety nine percent to be worst hit by the financial crisis have been locked out left to look on from the outside aunties 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 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 i'll swap 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 inequality that we've seen with the occupy wall street movement which is on the agenda when some of these sessions are talking about remodeling 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 of 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 from some of these big business leaders and heads of state and central

bankers exactly what they're talking about these 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 every all of that and i will be your intrepid reporter until that. while business heavyweights in switzerland discuss ways to patch up the global economy emerging markets continue to make them up. from a business that. will look at the birth that are surging around the world with findings show that russia is lagging behind not only its brics peers but also the majority of new countries joining for more and other stories and other things. look at some other international headlines now syria has agreed to extend the arab league observers mission by a month it was set off last year one of the regime's compliance with the leaks plan to end the violence then it's reports claim sixty people were killed and government

protests across syria queues the. u.n. says more than five thousand people have died in the last ten months of rest. nigerian forces have arrested scores of suspected members of an islamist group during raids in the northern city of kano broke around the sect said it carried out a series of bombings in the city on friday in which one hundred eighty four if you don't like the group is considered the most violent radical organization in. responsible for many thousand deaths last year. hundreds of demonstrators in argentina were met with right please as a protest in front of the british embassy in a disputed four thousand dollars protest as demanded britain hand the territories over to argentina britain has refused and plans to send more military support to the area tension between the two countries has salutes insurgent. clinton nine hundred eighty insisting it had prior claims on the territory. and

rescue teams are searching for seventeen people still unaccounted for in the cruise line which capsized off the italian coast 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 bodies have been recovered since the ship ran aground twelve days ago. that later next hour we hear from the surprise candidate in russia's upcoming presidential election because prograf is one of russia's richest people and it's considered a done of course in the race for the kremlin is what's ahead. i 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 roger i knew there would be

a release on blogger square in the south of iraq where it would that's why i went into politics what do you mean you knew nobody i got the signal this happens to me see i foresaw the rices and i sold my last words in advance if 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 country's poverty stricken regions and always so lucky employers have found a legal loophole leaving many workers exploited through the fear of losing their jobs at any moment preassure that 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 money shopper well thinks he has the answer a temp agency that trains and then touts its labor. was 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 really cannot afford a very expensive education it's going to be for people who have those skills 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 how they did the major coffee i was very warned to nervous about sitting for job interviews i'm not fluent in english so i wanted teachers beacon 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 ovoid. hackling it's labor law

me which lets firms get away with dire wages and sacking staff on a whim but shopper will insist the priority for those on his roster is putting bread on the table and that is really where we came in and said look a job is better than one job and employers were not hiring people because they were scared of him because they were laws we were saying look there are lots of kids who actually are not trying to move too often blurbs 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. crudest hang out with latest business news. thank you rory it's twenty carries sorry it's twenty one minutes past one pm here in moscow welcome to business with me about accounts almost half of russian c.e.o.'s say they are very confident on growth over the next year according to

a survey by pricewaterhouse coopers at slower than this time last year while sixty percent predicted good times ahead their peers around the world though are even less optimistic only forty percent of them forecast growth in twenty twelve just starting spoke to david gray from p.w. c. russia at the world economic forum in davos where he sees the russian economy. 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 either that you can put it two ways you can put it that the risk is exaggerated all the opportunities underestimated so if you want to put it in a positive light so the under two opportunities are so great that the risks need to be seen in that context and therefore i do think that there is fantastic opportunities for domestic russian companies and also for inbound investment and we see international companies that have previously been in russia coming into russia and existing ones that 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 the findings show that russia is lagging behind not only as brics peers but also the majority of eastern european countries during the course of has more. 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 australia and the united states now one that comes to russia the picture is pretty grim the number of new firms accounts for just five percent of businesses 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 slotkin when it comes to internationalize the nation 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 or almost all the taxes go. for their own lives and then some of. the subsidy it means there is no the rich food we should pull. from the developmental business and they should get should get this money you can use the. number of small businesses small businesses the budget. the survey reveals 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 moment cereals and make it less vulnerable to external financial songs. look at the markets now

all rises above ninety nine dollars a barrel as australia says it will join europe and iran all boycott rising in the us are offset by concerns that iran could disrupt shifting. gears and stock markets open slightly higher with sentiment held by better than expected results from my phone maker. the prior day. i am holding rows over four percent in london lifting the food c two point nearly point. point three percent and the dax is down point two percent at the moment. here's russia so where markets rise at noon the r.t.s. is up one point eight percent in the my six is up over a percent banking and energy stocks among the gainers let's have a look at the markets movers on the my six banking stocks are rallying on improving sentiment about the euro zone's debt crisis bank is top gainer on them isaac's it has jumped nearly three percent to russia's second largest lender. is adding

roughly two point four percent and all major ross is up half a percent. market watchers 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 brics economies their risk aversion though comes from the eurozone crisis which is fueling a global recession josh watonga from russian telecoms major m.t.s. believes 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 into the emerging markets however for the medium and long term we feel the rest of us 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 resources to some degree intellectual capital and we feel that we're in a good position to capitalize on the long term bellows appears to be pulling out of

the severe crisis which crushed its national currency last year it's getting three billion dollars support from the ninety crisis fund set up by regional assets including russia and the deputy chairman of the year asian development bank of looks into the country's prospects and the risks that remain. this tradition 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 now have a historically high international reserves which is very close to two months of imports villagers had never had we see clear signs of stabilization in belarus the challenge to belittle with as well as to all countries including russia and kazakhstan is how the global economy will shape up in the in this year.

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the ship would be so much brian. if you move. from student. don't come. to that again the main stories we've been covering this out with the u.s. economy still on the ropes president obama pledges another program for change during his annual state of the union address. in libya gadhafi loyalists claim they've seized control of the town of bani walid and abolish the government appointed military council that country's interim leaders admit and short who's really in charge of the city saying the balance was caused by internal problems.

and coming full circle thousands of egyptians angry at slow reforms gathered in central cairo the country is marking the first anniversary of its uprising that toppled president mubarak. well next we bring you the story of one farmer who stood up against a massive multinational corporation to defend his rights and property. in japan i met with a lot of scientists consumers and processors and in partners and this document here is a condensed version of the all the scientific studies the japanese have done using monsanto's data is over fifty pages long it has been all translated into english for me that is on the food issue the food part of g.m.o. was.