to bring this about to bring to us all to show to our t.v. you is basically we knew that our son's wanted to wanted to write and host his own interview show and we made it happen this is going to be broadcast exclusively on r.t. it's going to focus of course on our songes favorite topic control to see you say two thousand and eleven was absolutely zero and undoubtedly was his name became one of the most famous in the world and indeed it became a by word for for exclusive control to see when he released the biggest ever set of u.s. secret documents by his website wiki leaks he's going to be interviewing a series of what he called a visionary and power insiders and he's going to talk about how to shape the vision of a brighter and better tomorrow that as i say is going to be poor cost exclusively on our t.v. and we are hoping that it will be as explosive as the release of those documents was via when he leaks we can't see any reason why it wouldn't be. lower certainly

the international news networks and basic small town news outlets around the world are certainly putting forth two cents regarding this already we're getting a lot of reaction to julian coming to you but still still weeks away i believe it's going to be march to this program goes to a. hundreds of articles from all around the world local newspapers international newspapers everybody seems to be talking about this particularly this morning of course the twitter sphere is a light with with rumors about the show's speculation about who might be interviewed by julian ourselves and of course he is a massive name but that's not the only reason why this show will be fascinating it's going to be filmed where asaad has been subject to strict bail conditions things like signing him to the police station every day being essentially under house arrest under these spell conditions for the last four hundred fourteen days even though no charges have been filed the first episode is also going to be shot

a week before his supremes court hearing to fight against his extradition to sweden for questioning on a leg sexual assault charges so as i say lou of rumors about what's going to go on he says going to be a new type of television of course he's no stranger to being on the other side of the interview as table i've interviewed him myself but if you want to find out exactly what's going on you're going to have to stay here on r.t. my lips are sealed so for all the details of the guests we can't reveal at the moment that's all a secret but we will be having exclusive trailers and previews here on r.t. so watch this space all right officer laura smith live in london thanks very much. and our news executive a nickel a a book a chick in hell talks with a songe to secure this program he says our new host is full of fresh ideas there were quite interesting discussions we said in our office after christmas sharing ideas about the show's possibilities and obviously it would be and it channels you

right now to get our son but i think it's quite natural that the future will be on our t.v. i mean our t. always tries to go beyond that to see other sides of any news story and sure the real reasons behind the news that you would see on mainstream science when we talk to you know was very common in the arts which you would expect of course from someone who's been under house arrest for more than four hundred days he was very full of ideas and some of them were born as we talked so i think this will be a very hard hitting show you with r.t. live from moscow and still to come your way in the program a meeting of mana tree minds in the business and banking elite descend on dubs for the world economic forum and find out how much focus will actually fall on reforming the global financial system. five minutes past the hour here in moscow as the u.s. presidential race picks up pace ahead of november's vote barack obama is trying to

ratchet up support for reelection he's delivered his annual state of the union address making new promises of change in the future artie's guy nature can was listening at. his goal was to highlight his achievements and lay out new promises as far as the message policies he speech was full of heartfelt success stories about the economy and jobs creation but there is a lot of skepticism among american social inequality in america is now at a level unseen since the great depression the top one percent of wealthiest in the country are making a killing while the middle class is shrinking dramatically and that 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 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 a 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 promise is 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. oh he's got an extra count reporting i found when i mean time president obama reiterated his commitment to cutting down on military spending and trimming beyond forces by u.s. professor poll sheldon foote to send his pledges and all gods 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. likewise he said regional gadhafi syria's next day and if iran doesn't behave there there after that so. it is totally contradictory to say that he's going to be able to pay down the american debt in extraneous government spending programs domestically with savings from bringing

soldiers older moore's what in fact he has plans to expand what he didn't mention try to find any also said that we have a pacific strategy and the world will know that we heard number would. that it was a thinly veiled threat against china even i mean how insane can you be a 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 though and he's threatening them to. we have more u.s. news stories for you want to our website arts he taught com for example including striking back because while america defends itself against terror one former spy chief says the country is actually worst sponsible for attacks on the region's find all the details online also. real gold for black gold iran will

reportedly bypass the latest round of western sanctions by accepting the pressures of metal as payment for its oil exports but full story twenty four seventh's waiting for you at all to talk. now ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital thousands of egyptians are gathering to mark a year since the uprising that toppled president mubarak it's also a landmark day in the country as almost thirty years of emergency rule is partially lifted although some key police powers will remain but ending the law has been one of the protesters key demands our correspondent and he said are you standing by for us and central cairo so we are seeing thousands of people interior square but are

we talking more frustration or more celebration. well that's the thing activists here are actually warning people that have come out not to let those turn into a celebration because according to them not very much has changed within the last twelve months in fact many of them say that they feel that their revolution has been hijacked that the military is still in power like you said thousands if not tens of thousands of people on top clear just as there was exactly a year ago when this revolution began and we're expecting more people to come through out the day because what's happening is margins are gathering around the city. kyra of course an enormous city millions of people and they're expected to all make their way to top here by this evening and really what i'm hearing i've been here a lot this year is a lot more anger today that i've heard at any of the other posts so-called protests which we have seen very often on the streets of cairo and throughout egypt since the the fall of mubarak people here saying that their initial goal was to haue the

regime fall and that is still their goal because the army is still in power my colleague reeva notion has been talking to people and taking a closer look at why people feel the revolution is still very much alive. a year after its historic revolution in egypt is far from calm protests have become part of everyday life and no longer an event while the revolutions and see attitude going to suck up what we could never believe what would come out and speak out like this. there are several reasons for egypt's people to take out to the streets following the op rising that ousted mubarak last february the country's economy is struggling unemployment is at its highest in decades and while the movie interacted islam is dominated tolerant debate the country's future resentment rose against men to 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. in 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 took food down people vulcan's 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 claim it least eighteen lives to tober there isn't any doubt that here scaf 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 the words and that's what most of all i know believe and the work whatever as these are

works and discard are scared because he blew in arabic for army lawyers contain the work to reveal the army's wrongdoing. between all female activists attacking field hospitals and conspiracy theories under the military council twelve thousand people have been brought to the two trials that against less than two thousand in mubarak's thirty years staff claim it's not leave when the new president is elected to do but few believe the promises that once were broken so easily some also fear that the general smith behind the scenes reluctance to relinquish the power they've had for decades this protestation him to leave one thing is clear the fight is not here to her grief notion r.t. cairo. just one in quarter past the hour here in the russian capital where there is confusion over events in the libyan town of bani walid after moammar gadhafi

loyalists seized the city on monday killing five and injuring twenty five in clashes with government forces but libya's interior minister says it's not clear who actually controls the city now and claims that clashes erupted due to internal disagreements between rival militias meanwhile elders in the town say they'll appoint their own local representatives and reject any interference from the interim authorities fighters for the national transitional council are now set up checkpoints outside bani walid it comes as the n.c.c. has been struggling to unify its armed forces violent protests in. several cities across the country prompted the council's chairman to warn of a possible looming 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 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 touching his 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 affairs and so you you can imagine. nato but i don't 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 the rebels air force and so they were attacking in the or you know almost total annihilation of very messy very brutal and i think it's quite a lot of acts of revenge taking place as well. watching the outgoing russian president

is not ruling out running for the country's top post again in the future to retreat maybe if says he'll stay in politics for godless of the outcome of the presidential election in which he's not contesting let's get more now from. on the story hello to you so what else has made you had to say about his future on the political scene . well president may get it was the dressing journalism students at a university here in moscow and he said that he would remain in politics after the election in march regardless of the outcome of that election he had. he also hinted at a possible return to. take sometime in the future he said he wouldn't rule it out right now he's only forty six years old relatively young and. it would be it would be too soon for him to say ok after i leave office as president that's me done with . me a putin is running for president in march putin's offered the job of prime minister

. should he be elected that he would take that position. and return as prime minister but what we're hearing is that perhaps sometime in the future we could see president dmitri medvedev name back on a ballot paper running for the top job in russia. until the nation. the presidential race shaping up. well everybody's getting into position really what we're going to be seeing on friday we've heard from the central election committee that will hear the official shortly but we pretty much know it already but the official list of who people will be able to vote for a macho that will be blood in me a putin from united russia. vladimir putin also democratic. russia and the independent candidate the only independent confident to get his name . billionaire owner of the n.b.a.

basketball teams because. those are going to be the five people going to be on the list. and people are able to vote for say only one independent candidate the rest of those names coming from the established political parties here in russia those parties that have seats in the duma. the lower house of the russian government some . smaller. didn't get the required amount. of signatures needed to get their party leader to the electoral. for the presidential election so only five people five names will be on there we're expecting to hear this the announce on friday those five names going head to head for the job of president in march or authorities could have a life in central moscow thank you. the so-called one percent global business elite have now descended on switzerland to seal lucrative deals and search for the salvation of capitalism and that means it's time for the world economic

forum which kicks off today perhaps surprisingly though the ninety nine percent who have been worst hit by the ongoing financial crisis have been locked out and left to look in from the outside let's get the latest details now of course over the r.t.s. lauren lyster standing by for us in davos lauren good to see you talks are planned on some kind of reform of capitalism but is there really any optimism that anyone has answers to what's a pretty big question. it is a pretty big question indeed and you pose a great question can anybody really solve that big issue that faces the globe really they're trying here it's certainly on the agenda talk of remodelling capitalism debate about capitalism and they can talk all they want though you have to wonder how serious people are about that discussion when many of the corporations that are present here are those that have benefited from this term this type of capitalism so although klaus schwab the founder of the world economic

forum has said that capitalism in its current form has no place in the world around us these are the corporations and banks that are represented here many of which have benefited from government bailouts in the case of banks from central bank easy money policies in the case case of many banks and corporations so whether or not these are the right people to be having that conversation to be talking about reform i'm not quite sure you also have to remember that while the official agenda agenda yes deals with capitalism the unofficial agenda of davos is very much about making corporate deals and that might in fact from the official agenda as you can probably recall some corporations here shell out up to three hundred thousand dollars for a membership to the world economic forum in order to be here they're selling out that kind of money presumably for more than to talk about capitalism there have been reports in the past every year of the deals that go on the networking of this some sixteen hundred business leaders including a thousand executives that are here at davos a lot of it comes as no surprise when you talk about the exclusive it's two year

old the big money players doing these actions behind closed doors it's no surprise that the occupy activists who have made their way to dub also basically being barred out from attending i understand of some of them are actually building igloos to study and any chance that any of their voices would actually be heard. well there is always a chance but probably not as you said they're building igloos not too far from where the davos forum is taking place they're very much highlighting this occupy movement that is swept the globe it is on the agenda that is the ironic thing is some of these sessions dealing with remodelling capitalism specifically talk about the occupy movement is identifying some of these problems with capitalism that they're supposed to be talking about here at this forum bailouts inequality those being some of the issues however none of the occupy activists have been invited klaus schwab was asked about that he said it's hard to identify a leader that was his excuse we're not likely to see them here unless of course mr

schwab himself goes down to those igloos and maybe recruits if you so that we do hear those their voices inside the former e r lauren of a live in dollars thank you. it was you know it's the law from moscow russia says the old saw is in serious conflict should engage in talks with no preconditions for . statement comes on the back of the arab league's call for president assad it certainly. we fully support the immediate halting of violence in the country no matter where it comes from that spy the way is the position also by the arab league we're also calling for the peaceful regulation of serious political situation we believe that also it's involved in the conflict should support similar measures and we're also against any military interference from outside we believe that earth is balanced just as opposed to the method of except by extra solutions which can only

one side eat provoking the other to build up to a confrontation. meanwhile syria has agreed to extend the arab league observers mission by a month it was set up to monitor the regime's compliance with the league's plan to end the violence there on tuesday sixteen were reportedly killed in protests all across syria while the un estimates that the number killed in the past ten months is over five thousand. and a quick look at some other international news now nigerian forces have arrested scores of suspected members of an islamist group during raids in the northern city of kano the sect said it carried out a series of bombings in the city on friday killing at least one hundred eighty five previous considered the most violent and radical organization in nigeria responsible for nearly a thousand deaths last year. hundreds of demonstrators in argentina were met by riot police as they protested in front of the british embassy and when i was over the disputed falkland islands protesters demanded britain had the territories over

to argentina britain has refused and plans to send more military support to the area tension between the two countries has simmered since argentina invaded the falklands in the 1980's insisting it had prior claims on the territory. and rescue teams are searching for seventeen still unaccounted for in the cruise liner which capsized off the italian coast new footage emerging showing images. floating debris inside the vessel divers filmed the interior of the ship after using explosives to blast into more areas sixteen bodies have been recovered and since the ship ran aground twelve days ago. our top of the business now with coverage. hello and welcome to our business object this hour with me can as we've been reporting the world's largest economic forum is taking place in the swiss resorts of davos this year the get together is being held under the banner of reshaping

capitalism promoted by forty four years of financial turmoil and political protests the global elite will grapple with the thorny issue of how to create a foul. when you see the compensation gaps that exist the unemployment levels that exist whole generations of employees potential employees that don't have jobs today the youth in different parts of the world yeah there are some fundamental issues that have to be looked at and quite frankly if we don't start with ourselves to understand our role from a business standpoint in dealing with these issues i don't know how they're going to be solved i mean to me this is a classic example of how it's a complex issue it clearly requires collaboration between the business community between governments and key policy makers and that degree of collaboration doesn't exist it's pretty hard to see how these problems are going to be solved for the long term. taking a look at the markets now all fall the second day raising early again that came

after australia said it will join europe and boycotting iranian oil this is being offset by rising u.s. stockpiles of crude here in russia equity markets are high and mid day trading banking and energy stocks among the gayness let's have a look at the market movers on the my six financials are rallying on improving sentiment about the eurozone stat crisis bank of the top again on the my xix has jumped over two percent russia second largest lender v.t. b. is adding over one and a half percent or major role snap is up half a percent. here's europe where stocks slide into the red waged by pharmaceutical and telecommunication companies shares of ericsson tumbled fourteen point two percent after the firm reported a sixty five percent profit decline for the fourth quarter banks are also under pressure on a more of beat note chip maker arm holdings added over three and a half percent in london avoided by robust earnings from apple. now apple has

posted the fourth largest quarterly profit of all time earning over thirteen billion dollars for the period ending december two thousand and eleven the consumer electronics giant was boosted by a runaway demand for its i pad and i phone devices. the result is only surpassed by gazprom rolled up shell and exxon mobil as such has set a new standard becoming the first electronics company to breach an otherwise oil and gas dominated list of profitable firms. well that's all for this hour but stay with us for headline news coming up right after this.

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the world to the. science technology innovation hall the least a mela minutes from around russia we've gone to the future coverage. if you want just joining us a very warm welcome to you this is artsy live from moscow. if you headlines now the man who exposed much of the world's wrongdoing is coming to r.t. wiki leaks founder julian assange to all host his own interview show in just a few weeks and it's already got the world's media wondering who the whistleblower will next go face to face with. and with the u.s. economy still on the ropes president obama pledges another program for change

during his annual state of the union address his approval ratings are taken or not and the republicans are turning up the heat as the president tries to rally support for reelection in november. and the coming full circle thousands of egyptians angry at slow reforms are gathering in central cairo the country is marking the first anniversary of its uprising that toppled president mubarak. if you can do stay with us here and now it's pitiful in its guests as a debate the future of egypt it's a year after the revolution cross-talk is now. wealthy british style. sometimes. margetts weiner scandal.