yes obama took on sort of a new populist tone something we haven't seen in quite a while promising a new resurgence for the american people in terms of job growth bringing back manufacturing to the country bringing back high skilled worker jobs training workers for better sorts of employment and competing with the world in the sense of economic manufacturing he also talked about ensuring better protections for the people a situation where the american dream so to speak will be brought back where people will be able to sort of more for for their livelihood and be able to save and be able to actually survive and that kind of money of course over the past few years we've seen this whole notion of the american dream essentially collapse this is something that has been really pushed for and highlighted by the occupy wall street movement that has talked about the uncanny connections between wall street and washington president obama did pick up on some of those undertones he brought that up in fact he said that corporations and companies those who are making more than

two hundred fifty thousand dollars a year millionaires will have to pay a fair share of taxes a lot of lofty sort of optimistic promises but whether or not this will translate into an actual policy agenda remains to be seen this is of course president obama's last state of the union address of this term and if he doesn't win a second term in office it's very unclear whether he's going to be able to push through any of these priorities and in fact many political analysts said that this was sounded much more like a campaign speech where he outlined ideas that most everywhere everyone all of the lawmakers in that room you were dead on arrival this is not a congress that is ready to work together to pass any sort of legislation we've been we've seen these folks had a deadlock and a standstill over the past year if not more so it's very unclear that any of these sort of vague ideas push push forward by the president would actually be carried out much more of a fighting stance. the tone for his campaign and of course the president did kick

off his campaign tour starting today now lucio also during president obama's state of the union address he said quote america remains the one indispensable nation in world affairs that we're looking at some big plans for his foreign policy do you think. according to the political have spots that i've talked to this was much more of a sort of attempts to paint the picture in a rosy and positive way than an actual reflection of changes in policy it appears that the president was more highlighting some of the some of the accomplishments that he has been able to put forward as he mentioned bringing troops out of afghanistan out of iraq what he did not mention is the thousands of contractors your contractors who remain in iraq he talked about a defeated taliban well that's not exactly the case in fact the new york times even issued a fact check disputing that claim he also talked rather surprisingly about an america that is that is more respected across the globe for its successes in iraq

this is sort of strange coming from a president who had in fact campaigned on on the issue highlighting the issue that the u.s. has lost influence across the globe because of its wars and the wars of course that did not make it into the state of the union address the drone warfare that the u.s. has been engaging in yemen in somalia in pakistan in other countries these kinds of conflicts do continue and so while the president didn't directly mention any of those we can probably just expect a lot more of the same in that regard the other interesting thing to point out was this sort of statements that he made about anyone who thinks that the u.s. is waning in its influence across the globe doesn't really know the situation hasn't really been paying attention well that's a white sands and quite stark contrast to what we've heard from many political analysts many lawmakers and politicians and even president obama himself when he had campaigned for office so it does not seem like there's going to be any new

foreign policy agenda issues being introduced by this white house and even if they are as we've seen with many of the sort of covert conflicts that have been playing out here they don't really need much approval from congress or. in washington d.c. thank you. well let's discuss the obama is addressed in more detail now with dr james lovelock a professor at the university of virginia and former chairman of the libertarian party. thought thank you becoming an author he today kept referring in its initial state of the union address to america's military and calling on people to act together as soldiers do in battle what do you make of that comparison what does it mean well president obama as with many american presidents seems to have this notion of how the american people should perform and behave as if we should essentially march with a common purpose which is very nice if you actually believe that the common purpose

is to promote peace and understanding with other people unfortunately president obama seems to have an opinion that the united states should be much more active in terms of interfering in the affairs of other countries than most libertarians would find congenial now regarding influence in other countries and that a foreign policy obama did say that world opinion of america is the highest in years and old alliances or even stronger but also that america will retain the finest military in the world if everybody is so happy with america then why does it be the finest military. well i think that the i think most americans in fact most citizens of the world would would agree that if government has any purpose at all it's to provide protection of the rights of its citizens and i support a very strong military for the purpose of protecting the lives and property of

americans in america however the united states is not the world's policeman and should not serve as the world's policeman we neither have the moral charge nor the technical competence to serve in such a role and people of libertarian disposition i have the honor of being involved with the libertarian party we believe that the american military should be for the purpose of protecting the life liberty and property of americans in america that we should not be involved basically as serving as a world policeman are now aside from the the global aspect here and as you say being the world's policeman let's bring it down to the dock on the ground level he kept saying in his state of the union obama saying that quote send me a bail and i'll thawing it imply that he's ready to take action to make people's lives better do you think that will convince voters who have struggled during his term. well as a president obama is pretty good at soaring rhetoric and he very well may believes that the actions of the federal government that he and his colleagues in the federal government can make the lives of citizens better and in some cases they can

but basically it's by getting government back to its appropriate functions which is the protection of our rights unfortunately governments and all of it in the united states but particularly at the federal level are too big intrusive and expensive and i doubt that president obama and the united states congress are going to be able to do an all full law at least over the short term that's going to do a lot to help the lives of americans they will unfortunately i suspect make the lives of americans much more expensive through additional taxation and regulation you bring up the issue of money you mention the government it's too big and of an expensive one of the points president obama makes and it's state of the union and he promised to an end to what he called quote the corrosive influence of money in politics is he referring to wall street there or is he referring perhaps to the law some analysts have said that lobbyists when they take in these huge amounts of money donations to campaigns for example at the end of the day they just translate

to bribes. well in a sense that's true one can one can make the point i feel that most legislators basically their product is selling services to favored constituents it should not surprise anyone that people whose lives are going to be heavily regulated whose businesses are going to be perhaps advanced or destroyed by virtue of government regulation are going to be keenly involved in what actually happens and so the sort of lobbying that we see is a result of the fact that federal government has so much power to influence people's lives if you reduce the government's role in people's lives to that of its proper function which is protection of rights the degree of lobbying you would see would be greatly reduced. the university of virginia former chairman of the libertarian party which we have more time but we thank you for coming on thank you thank you well still to come here in the program on keeping the business world's top taking

a look at the world economic elite set out to tackle the recession and make some profit along the way while those worst hit by financial troubles find themselves down. now ten minutes past the hour here in moscow and he exposed some of the world's darkest secrets soon you'll get the chance to find out even more when the world's most famous whistle blower launches his own talk show on. joining us on his exclusive series will permit here in march and the world's media is already a buzz about who the wiki leaks founder interview london correspondent laura smith reports. basically we knew that i saw and wanted to wanted to write and host his own interview show and we made it happen this is going to be broadcast on our t.v. it's going to focus of course on us ologies favorite topic control fifty two thousand and eleven was a solid as his name became one of the most famous in the world and indeed it became

a byword for four explosive control to see when he released the biggest ever set of us the documents by his web site wiki leaks he's going to be interviewing a series of what he called iconoclasts visionaries and power inside 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 focused on our city and we are hoping that it will be as explosive as the release of those documents was via wiki leaks we can't see any reason why it wouldn't be hundreds of articles from all around the world local newspapers international newspapers everybody seems to be talking about this caused a twist as there is a light with rumors about the show. 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 will be fascinating it's going to be filmed where a song has been subject to strict bail conditions things like signing in to the

police station every day being essentially under house arrest under the 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 actual decision to sweden for questioning on alleged sexual assault charges so as i say no lose 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 is 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 and the guests we can't reveal at the moment that the secret but we will be having exclusive trailers and previews here on r.t. so watch this space. correspondent laura smith right there well i mean time news executive nicolay bigotry in described how the network what about signing up julian assange. there were quite interesting discussions we said in our office after

christmas sharing ideas about the show's possibilities and obviously it would be any channels real right now to get our signage but i think it's quite natural that his show will be on our t.v. i mean r.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 channels when we talked. was very calm and relaxed which you wouldn't 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. and over to you now to tell us what topics you would like to see julian assange tackle and expose in his new t.v. series on beginning in march bringing out the numbers from r.t. dot com this hour the votes almost evenly split at this point a third believes he should focus on who really rules the mainstream media thirty

percent think the series should focus on the nato war machine agenda and as you can see here the same number would like to see julian expose how banks rule the world there are many ten percent want him to expose who controls the internet do tell us what you think and what you want to see make a choice right now at r.t. dot com. quarter past the hour here in moscow are thousands of egyptians are back in cairo's now iconic square to mark a year since the uprising that toppled president mubarak but there's another reason it's a landmark day as almost thirty years of emergency rule is partially lifted although some police powers will stay in place and he said he was in cairo says see the anger is causing concerns about allowing post revolution celebrations to go a few steps too far. and that's exactly what activists are warning and

asking these protesters not to do not to let this turn into a celebration because according to them there's a whole lot of work that still needs to be done a year after the revolution began right here on tough here i think it's fair to say just to give you a closer look tens of thousands of people have gathered we're hearing that hundreds of thousands more are making their way to top what we're seeing in twitter and facebook is people saying that's it it's official this is bigger than the twenty eighth which was just to remind you the biggest day of protests was last year the twenty fifth is when it all began of course and people sat on top here basically not leaving for eighteen days until the mubarak finally stepped down but the people here it's certainly clear this time there's still a lot of anger a lot of frustration and you can hear it in their slogans this time they're chanting about the army about the field-marshal tonto way so they've basically took mubarak out of that equation and now he's put these officials that are leading the country they say they're making concessions but according to these people there's

a lot more work to be done and in fact my colleague maria from notion has been talking to people and taking a closer look at why the revolution lives on. a year off to its historic revolution egypt he spoke from calm protests have become a part of everyday life and no longer an event one of the revolutionists most significant achievements. we could never believe who would come out and speak out like this there are all 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 debates the country's future resentment grows against michiru and the feeling and hijacked the revolution possibilities we want them to do what the military should do to protect its citizens. the country. really

want to be sure that they will not destroy our solutions achievements they've 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 when mubarak toppled down people welcomed 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 eighty lives since october there isn't any doubt left here scoff should go voices of the protesters against an louder but fears are growing as well that they may never be heard. and to scoff a scary cuz a boon arabic for army lawyers campaign they work to reveal the army's wrongdoings between our female activists attacking field hospitals and conspiracy theories on

to the military council twelve thousand people have been brought to military trials that against less than two thousand in mubarak's thirty years i believe that there i mean 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 what all i know believe and the work whatever scott claim it to leave when the new president is elected in june 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. r.t. cairo. and you can watch the events on egypt's tahrir square unfold live on our website our two top comments where we are streaming the rally online for you right

now and here's what else we've got lined up for you on our right for example of the u.s. is tightening the noose around net freedom but a former spy chief has come clean about cyber snooping and even digital attacks on other countries. and big business gets one over on the politicians as iran's sanctions do little to stop western oil giants trading with terror on those details that are to come. as the world's business top brass descends on switzerland some of the so-called one percenters saying that capitalism is widening the pit of inequality but the economic elite from around forty nations at the davos economic forum are out to save the financial system stem the crisis and of course seal the few lucrative deals along the way laura mysteries at the ski resort forests where she also met a few who are locked out of the talks. 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 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 genet agenda yes deals with capitalism the unofficial agenda of davos is very much about making corporate deals and that might in fact 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 shelling 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 some of these sessions dealing with remodeling 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 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 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 a few so that we do hear those voices inside the fore. artie's lauren lyster reporting there from davos now before we get to dmitri with the business let's get

to the world update here in our to some other international headlines in brief first to syria where security forces clashed with opposition groups in the central city of hama after talks mediated by observers to persuade militants to lay down their arms came to a failed conclusion. now gulf nations have pulled their observers from syria even though the mission's been extended for another month it was set up to monitor the regime's compliance with an arab league plan to end the violence i mean while the head of syria's red crescent was shot dead earlier on wednesday u.n. estimates that five thousand have been killed in the past ten months. at least twenty three have been killed in a tribal region near the pakistan afghan border when soldiers clashed with militants officials say six of the dead were pakistani troops attacked by taliban fighters pakistan has been battling against groups linked to either the taliban or

al qaeda for several years. rental rains are brought widespread chaos to southeastern australia local rivers broke their banks landslides flash floods occurred over four thousand residents ordered to flee their homes in the state of new south wales alone more heavy downpours and strong winds are forecast in the future it was just last year australia was hit by a similar weather killing thirty five. now the business with dmitri. one welcome to business optimism is in short supply in this was also the fate of the euro the swaying heaviest and minds of the economic four main theme may be how to create a fairer world but for many the more pressing question is how to fix this one and finance a george soros believes the european policy makers are not helping. it is germany

that dictates european policy because at times of crisis the creditors are in the driver's seat the trouble is that the austerity that germany wants to impose real a push europe into a deflationary debt spiral economic deterioration and a process a process of political and social disintegration will mutually reinforce each other. there's an amount of found an echo in russia's top banker the head of the burbank have been graphed believes the european policy makers should not focus on keeping all the current members in the single currency. the euro will have a say i think the situation would be improved if several countries left the single currency this is a key year for the eurozone in terms of making decisions and understanding the new

reality separately on who economic relations between russia and the e.u. become more closely integrated i think the current difficult situation in europe will encourage it to explore the growth potential who emerging markets like russia of the former soviet states and turkey. all right let's take a look at what's happening in the markets and we start with oil and it's falling from the second it has raised earlier games australia said it will join europe in boycotting iranian oil but this is being offset by a rising u.s. stockpiles of true therefore we see light sweet declining by more than one dollar. in the u.s. stock markets are mixed in early trading as pending on sales came in with a decline from a nineteen month high the nasdaq is propelled by apple shares which are gaining six point seven percent of impressive earnings. in europe stocks are also trading mostly in the red the way by pharmaceuticals and telecommunication companies shares

of ericsson tumbled fourteen percent at one point after the firm reported a sixty five percent profit line in the fourth quarter banks are also under pressure one of the few stocks which is gaining is arm holdings in london it's also boy by robust earnings from apple. and here in russia this is the closing picture very positive of the r.t.s. is up one percent and a quarter my six point seven percent led by banking and energy stocks a second look at some of the main movers indeed bank and. the are up of two point three percent three point three percent respectively on the hopes of. something positive coming out from chairman ben bernanke even the fed meeting right now but lukoil however is losing a month and he says it's down point two percent at the close. the ruble is set new highs for two thousand and twelve against the dollar in the euro in my six trading liquidity squeeze in the russian banking sector driven by tax payments and firm oil

prices have been supporting the currency the euro is also down against the dollar the european central bank was said to be opposed to restructuring its greek bonus. coming up next i'll see the headlines with truly do stay with us.

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