these tens of thousands of protesters that have come to talk we are just going to step out of the side and give you an idea of how packed this is where is this for them is of course where it all started tons of thousands of people if not hundreds of thousands in fact talk here is back to its max hundreds of people cannot get onto the square and in fact there are reports from the egyptian cope ministry that's an eighty six people were injured when one of the stages collapsed and dozens of those people were taken to hospital it's just report for now i was just on the square and it did seem like painful very hard but people extremely frustrated extremely passionate and really sick of the fact that the what they say is their original goal for this revolution was to take down the regime and their goal is still very much just that to take down the regime they do not want the army running their country although the military rulers have made some concessions it is just not enough for these people these are most certainly people are on top here today will say the biggest protest since the fall of hosni mubarak and what we're

hearing people will not give up until this regime comes down as well my colleague mary of the notion has been speaking to people and now takes a closer look at why for egyptians the revolution is still very much alive a year off to its historic revolution egypt is spawn 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 would come out and speak out like this 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 debates the country's future resentment grows against michiru and the feeling they hijacked the revolution possibility we want them to do

what the military should do it protect its citizens and 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 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 louder but fears are growing as well that they may never be heard. and to scoff a scary cuz aboon arabic or 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 they're alive 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 we will work whatever happens scott claim it to leave when the new president is elected in june but few 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. well for more on the anniversary of the uprising let's now talk to lynn

a managing editor of the newspaper egypt independent with the teller thanks ever so much for taking the time to be with us one year on from egypt's revolution the same people are standing in the same square but it supposed of course now the be a very different country just how different is it do you think. it's different in the sense that it's not unusual anymore that. tens of thousands of people could gather from different parts of the nation and i'm not just talking about the hay or square or even talking about the whole nation it's very possible now for ten or so of thousands of people to modernize and to get together in order to make unified demands no matter how this could cost in terms of repression from the authorities so they are there is definitely a barrier of fear that has been broken ever since. twenty five generate twenty eleven broke out last year egypt's emergency rule was in place for almost thirty

years that's now being lifted if only partially an end to the low was of course one of the protesters killed how significant a move is this now that it's being lifted how is it being received. on one hand it is it is a very significant decision because it showcases the military. that the military council which is ruling the country in terror is responding to mounting pressure from the revolutionaries and from the ongoing lucian in egypt however. many receive the news of the harsh addicting of the emergency law as only cosmetic change because it is it exempts suggs or the so-called thugs from. from this room which means that there could still be people tried or arbitrarily detained under the emergency law if prosecutors think that they are

thugs which is a very subjective thing which is which has been also a weapon used by the military council against revolutionaries in the last throughout the last year so there is a lot of skepticism towards this change the loudest voice of course of the new parliament is the muslim brotherhood clearly had the most public support but do you think is going to be able to bring about the change that's needed still. it is going to be very challenging for the parliament to be able to do that there is a common acceptance that this parliament has been properly elected with the acceptance of everyone in it it's also commonly believed that the elections haven't been barred by violations or fraud as previous elections did but that doesn't mean that the islamist majority in the parliament are not facing a huge challenge particularly with regards to the terry reading economy in the country which basically is the crux of the demands of the revolutionaries

revolutionaries have gathered a year back to demand social justice and this is the promise of the upcoming parliament and the challenge for them is when the us was one of the biggest supporters of former president mubarak preventing cause western allies supported egypt's revolution back in february do you think they will now continue to guide the country's policies through to the next chapter. it will be hard to believe that the u.s. would suddenly stop its relation. with egypt particularly that there is a close to organic relation with the military council now this organic relation needs to be questioned in the wake of people's mounting criticism to the military institution and particularly to the opaqueness of this institution in terms of its dealings and its economy and its relationship with the u.s. so that doesn't mean however that the u.s. want to remain big player in the egyptian politics at least in

the interim i expect that the relation will be also at the head with the elected parliament even with its in the midst majority it will just take different directions in different forums ok lynn retarded managing editor of egypt's independent newspaper thanks ever so much for being with us give us your thoughts. millions of new jobs manufacturing back on track war in iraq over in britain log gone. barack obama set out his stool for reelection and using the state of the union address to do it ditto is now the live from washington d.c. . the. good to see you know the speech was full of rhetoric we're listening in to promising some big changes for the bets of the american people if you sum it all up for us sure a very positive speech as you mentioned set against a very dire backdrop where record forty six million americans are now receiving food assistance some thirteen million are out of work and millions more have

abandoned on the job force all together but of course the president is as you mentioned launching his reelection campaign and talented resurgence of american manufacturing talked about the sort of the issue of fairness where every citizen will get their fair chance to live a good life to pay their fair share including the wealthiest he sort of attacked the financial industry talking about how wall street will no longer be allowed to write its own rules announcing the new initiatives in that sense and really in some ways mirroring some of the rhetoric we've seen coming out of the occupy wall street movement although whether or not this tough talk is going to translate into realistic hala sees remains to be seen of course this congress is very deadlocked and there's not a lot of initiative for the lawmakers here to pass his agenda. remains the woman dispensable nation and world affairs he must have big plans for his foreign policy than. well it's quite interesting this is coming from

a president who campaigned on ending america's wars abroad who spoke at length about the u.s. declining influence abroad and completely changed his rhetoric in that regard the toughest language was reserved for iran followed by syria and china and iran the president reiterated his determination to keep iran from going nuclear talking about how the iranians are isolated how there is consensus with the u.s. in targeting iran that's not quite the case moreover he reiterated that no option is off the table this is coming at a time when some fifteen thousand u.s. troops have been deployed to that region where the u.s. special operations command has confirmed that special operations officers are operating on the ground he also was a bit more nuanced in regards to syria but did say that. president assad will see change in the air soon and on china he did announce a new task force that will be dealing with the sort of protection economic issues that will target china the biggest laudatory remarks were of course reserved for

ending the war in afghanistan or drawing it down in iraq he mentioned that no u.s. soldiers are currently fighting on the ground there did not get into the fact that some fifteen thousand federal bureaucrats state department visors and contractors are there and of course did not vote at all into the undeclared u.s. wars abroad in somalia and yemen in pockets don and of course the drone strikes that have been such a devastating part of the u.s. foreign policy when it comes to the way it's been received abroad. thank you for joining us here in washington d.c. bring you so today let's get more about the speech. from drone one. web site for president kind of for the socialist equality party he's joining us along from detroit very good evening president obama admitted the lot of challenges remain when it comes to social reforms but he said he knows how to solve these not just the rhetoric do you think. things are having to do.

the image that comes out of this speech last night is the complete school erotica character of the american political system i mean tens of millions of people are suffering the worst conditions of unemployment hunger and homelessness in the united states and on a world scale there are billions of people who feel nothing but revulsion towards the militarism of the united states but on both scores the obama administration expressed nothing but its determination to continue to cut vitally needed social programs to cut wages domestically and on an international scale to wage continue the on ending wars by the united states will get more magic was promised by president obama as well he also promised a need to end what he called the quote corrosive influence of money in politics

that's good news that for people with whom i was going on and wall street and all that wall street dominance we've seen all the troubles and brought over the last couple years here. well of course that state's a complete fraud i mean after all the esteemed body that he was speaking before forty nine percent of congressmen are multimillionaires the average net worth of a senator is two point five six million dollars and the obama administration since coming in continuing the bailout of wall street cutting the wages of workers is done everything on behalf of wall street and they have rewarded him by making sure that his campaign is received millions and millions of dollars his top officials have been drawn directly from wall street including his last three chief of staff to the white house so this again is a is an indication that this entire political structure it's not just the democrats democrats and republicans alike are thoroughly impervious to the needs of the

population they are in the pockets of the wealthiest one percent and no fundamental change is possible in america outside of a political movement of the working class from below that's in opposition to this entire political and economic order to rome as always when you're running for office it's always good to have someone else to blame for the problems above are also blamed in the america's economic troubles on some of its competitors for not playing by the rules what did they mean by that. well this is an interesting point because you have the united states blaming china you have the united states saber rattling against syria against iran. and in reality what's happening is as the united states economy is declined over the last thirty forty years it's increased it's it's trade war but above all the strategy of the environment ministration is to rebuild an american economy based on cheap labor that is closing the wage gap

between american workers and chinese workers and in the name of american unity in american nationalism the government and the corporations have been conducting an unrelenting attack on the wages and social benefits of the working class and that's what obama means by rebuilding a sustainable economy jerome we've only got thirty seconds your prognosis briefly as possible about obama's chances of winning a second term in office what's going to happen. well is enormous discussed with the obama administration but he clearly has it this point the support of wall street and big business and the republicans are in great disarray and in sounding more and more extreme basically because the obama administration has stolen the republican program the social see quality party will be running in the elections our own candidate in order to fight for the building of a political and socialist movement of the working class and to fight for

a fundamental restructuring of society in the interests of the masses of workers in american around the world are prognosis is this is going to be a year of powerful social struggles which american workers take forward far beyond the occupy wall street pros protest and take part in the struggle of the working class which is taking place around the world or i would do it demeaning their own goes along thirty seconds per thanks for your thoughts to know what rights are for a world socialist web site thanks for being on the line from detroit there thank you. coming up on this channel r.t. from moscow keeping the business world's top tier taking along the world's economic elites has had to tackle the eurozone and the recession and make some profit along the way was those worst hit by the financial troubles for the self. as we report. next though he's exposed some of the world's darkest secrets and soon you'll get the chance to find out even more when the world's most famous whistle blower

launches a talk show here on our t.v. journalist songes exclusive series will premiere here in march and the world's media is already abuzz about who the wiki leaks founder is set to interview a london correspondent laura smith has the details. basically we knew that afghans wanted to wanted to write and host his own interview show and we made it happen this is going to be broadcast 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 court 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 r.t.

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 cause to twitter there is a light with rumors about the show. about who might be interviewed by julian assange 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 assault 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 moves 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. while it's a sealed stay 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 our watch this space. laura smith the u.s. is tightening the noose around net freedom but america's former spy chief come clean about cyber snooping and even digital attacks on other countries reporting on via bit later and also online at r.t. dot com big business gets one over on the politicians that's around sanctions do little to stop western all giants trading with is a few of our stories in our web sites now you may be interested in. next though as the world's top brass in the world of business descend on switzerland the road to save the financial system to stem the crisis and of course seal a few lucrative deals as well it wouldn't be doubles without it the world economic

forum is kicked off by the leader of the european powerhouse germany who once again pledged support for united europe very nice two of the listers in davos good to see you how do the movers and shakers of business politics see the walls economy going forward than this year what's your. well i think you have to look no further kevin then who opened up the opening remarks on this day one of davos angela merkel talking about the eurozone crisis trying to convince this room of some of the most financial elite that she's got it under control that pretty much sums it up she took a real defensive you know let me tell you she said i realize that we're labeled as the headache for the global economy but you know i think there are more headaches to really this was to you could also see it is kind of merkel versus the bond market she was really trying to reassure markets saying if you want to attack us just know that we are promising to solve this crisis of course this is a time where we've seen euro zone bond auctions be

a daily news item did europe sell enough has italy seen those unsustainable yields of seven percent have they seen him spike is greece going to get a deal with its bondholders in order to avert this disaster of a disorderly default so these are this is all the subtext where this speech is coming from and then she gets up there to say you know fiscal solidarity integration is the solution we're promising that even if we don't promise more bailout money or more central bank action which so many of the investment community seem to be pushing for we're trying to substitute that with this fiscal pact and a fiscal union to solve this crisis she also urged patience saying this is going to take a while but i think you know as you can see with everybody so concerned over the eurozone debt crisis patience maybe for some as well nor everyone going to hear what was going to serve some people. quite literally. yeah and you know occupy davos is here of course in a year where we've seen occupy protests all over the world it's fitting that there

would be one at the world economic forum davos style of course there and igloos but we've seen them have some actions protests they have them planned all week and that is their concern not being part of the conversation it's interesting because at the end of merkel's remarks she said you know the importance of davos too is to hear the input from the financial leaders and from the people that are there for politicians who don't go back and make policy so i think that kind of plays to the concerns that people have about zappos which is that these are the world's elite that are networking and talking about these issues these problems trying to claim that they're going to be able to solve them without the voices in the employ of the rest of the world that there aren't the global elites so those are the concerns of occupy davos i went down and i spoke to them then and there are many of the same concerns that we hear in the news about the debt crisis all the time their belt very well informed they're concerned about debt they're concerned about the current

currency system that we're living in and these are all of the issues that they have they don't think that it's fair that they should be decided or discussed solving them without the input of some of the people that they in fact. put it away frankly i was one. report some of the other made to laura list of folks very much for just to let our audience as well the removing more troops actually in the u.s. economy and politics show capital account on air on this channel in five minutes time. he writes twenty five whether it's. full of money and it is me to drink with the latest business for you. they're friendly kevin thank you so much not a muslim is in the short supply in this was turn of devils though it's the fate of the euro that's weighing heavy on stone minds at the konami form the main theme may be how to create a vera world but for many in the more pressing question is how to fix this one and

finance it george soros believes european policymakers are not helping it is germany that dictate european policy because at times of crisis the creditors are into driver seat the travel is that the austerity that germany wants to impose real a push europe into a deflationary that spiral of economic deterioration and a process a process of political or social disintegration real mutually reinforce each other. well those sentiments have found an echo in russia's top banker the head of the bank herman graff believes european policymakers should not focus on keeping all current members in the single currency regime go through. 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 i hope economic relations between russia and the e.u. become more closely integrated i think the current difficult situation in europe will encourage you to explore the growth potential who are merging markets like russia other former soviet states and turkey. has moved to the markets quickly tug of war on the oil market australia said it will join europe in boycotting iranian oil while iran says it may hold supplies to europe ahead of the embargo imposed on the country therefore we are seeing prices pretty much where they were yesterday evening in the u.s. markets also mixed in trading as a pending home sales came in with decline from one thousand one. proposed by apple shares there are more than six percent in europe stocks were trading in negative

territory at the close are driven down by pharmaceuticals and telecommunications company shares of ericsson tumbled fourteen percent of one point as the firm reported sixty five percent profit decline in the fourth. and i will take a look at russia where it's all rosier because the r.t.s. up more than one percent of my six point seven percent are driven by banks and here's the proof burbank are gaining two point three percent b. to be three point three percent among energy shares lukoil was losing out continuing its decline from the previous sessions down one two percent. and the ruble as said new highs for twenty twelve against the dollar and the euro in my six trading in the critically squeezing the russian banking sector driven by tax payments and a firm of well prices have been supporting the currency the euro is down versus the dollar the european central bank was said to be opposed to restructuring it's a greek it's the headlines are next r.t. to stay with us.

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there for it being used like the board to experiment to be used as guinea. we have more questions than we have answers guards. like. you watching t.v. international from moscow and all the top stories for you tens of thousands of egyptians of tahrir square marking years since the uprising that toppled president mubarak's thirty years but it's frustration along with celebration because of drug reform. president obama kicks off his campaign to stay in the white house using the state of the union address to pledge saving the economy. he stressed his successes and promises millions of new jobs but critics say he's upbeat tone doesn't reflect

reality. to get others to spill the beans on t.v. is julian assange has his own interview show right here on this channel see the wiki leaks founder exposed some of the world's darkest secrets in his new series will premier here. it's nine thirty one exactly moscow time coming up now laura listees show just talked about a couple of minutes ago called capital account filling you in on what to expect from the world economic forum in davos. good afternoon and welcome to capital account. in washington d.c. filling in for laura. covering the world economic forum heads of state central bankers c.e.o.'s of multinational corporations and international finance fears make up more than sixteen hundred of the business leaders now pouring in from all over the globe.