as an epidemic but congress and i don't wait on that issue or what about d.c. schools there amongst the most troubled in the nation that's something that former school chancellor michelle rhee spoke about openly in the film waiting for superman . you wake up every morning and you know that kids are getting a really crappy education right now she's think the most the kids are going to. go i don't think they are i know they are. all right or how about poverty considering that washington d.c. as a state ranks third in the nation for the highest poverty rate at one thousand nine hundred nine percent behind only mississippi and louisiana now congress hasn't made that a priority either so why is occupy do you see why do occupy d.c. need an entire congressional hearing to talk about it i mean it's pretty civil right it's politics there i says been on a tirade since december to figure out what else happening in mr macpherson square he's requested all communications from the white house from the interior department

and the park service so that he can decide for himself is the president is allowing protests or sustain unsanitary conditions for political reasons and according to the washington examiner committee members will analyze the effects of the occupy movement with what they fact that they've had on the economy on security and on the environment so is the real concern here unsanitary conditions due to rats well d.c. residents don't seem to think so it's not too bad i mean you go anywhere in the city anywhere in the city there's a everywhere you go out you know everywhere you can be in the white house i never knew it b.c. map in a way that you could tell me. now i'm sure the mayor knows but somebody should probably inform i says well rats are nothing new but congress actually taking an interest in the city that is very new so i'm going to take the liberty of calling out there i said for merely taking up the d.c. issue because he's sick of how the occupiers portray him and his party so for that their eyes and the rest of congress it's all part of it they're tonight's

bull's-eye winners. our guys have time for a happy hour and joining me this evening are two producer jenny churchill and tanya saw minator reporter and blogger for think progress dot org hello ladies are you ready to talk about some more food and always talk about a lot of food a lot of fast food lot of cheese on the show lately right now we're going to talk a little about mcdonald's mcdonald's if there's one thing that they're usually good at it's marketing right it's marketing and branding themselves take a look at this at. the global build if you told me it was the egg with monsanto apartments the egg mcmuffin the egg mcmuffin of all these days experts are calling it an account that all signs point to. ok well it turns out mcdonald's had one big

massive fail because they tried to launch this social media campaign and try to get people to tweet with the hash tag meet the farmers in the campaign to draw attention to the brands guarantee a fresh produce unfortunately however. basically they just got a lot of people talking about how they've lost finger and gross and they had to i think they had to edit. the egg mcmuffin of p.r. fail. very good it was actually really pathetic because it only lasted like two hours this hash tag macdonald stories or whatever and then they had to pull it they didn't specify however that they had to be good stories this is probably why ronald mcdonald has a confidentiality agreement this is my period on it i do have like a lot if you're going to ask people to tweet about mcdonald's you really think there's going to be overwhelmingly positive rather than just people talking smack on mcdonald's and i just can't think of one positive experience i've had there untrue and you never got is there something you know you're going through the drive

through on a sunday morning and gotten from coke and thought it was the best thing in your whole life a burger king well. i only do i only do the mcdonald's breakfast and there is only where it was you know i told you this is going to be all about it again and not about their failed social media campaign. and he's getting hungry. all right now let's move on to rick santorum and we've got he's a hateful mean person and we talk about it all the time but he decided to weigh in on what he thinks about women bodies and what we should do with them yet again in a new interview take a look at this. the right approach is to is to accept this horribly created in the sense of of rape but nevertheless gift and in a very broken way the gift of human life and accept what god has given to us. so again he doesn't support abortion even in cases of rape because it's a gift even though it's a crappy gift it's a gift from god i think the worst gift giver. and i mean nothing says happy hour

like rape and abortion i really can't think of anything i'd rather be talking about right now but i do have to say whenever i hear santorum talk about rape and abortion i cannot stop thinking of that law and order character olivia benson she was like the product of a rape and her mom hated her and she's like an uncomfortable topic i think for everyone all around well i just extends this sense of humanity to the actual victim you know he keeps talking about these embryos. like have rights when he's completely ignoring the right of a sexual assault for young and that's the whole concept the g.o.p. loves babies until they're born an actual people so not a good actor so. let's see what is a little happier. just a downer and it makes me angry it makes me depressed so let's talk about something going on in kentucky basically we've spoken about the creationist theme park before

but here's a little refresher. the park is scheduled to include a first century style village up of the tower of babel children's play areas and petting zoos and the main attraction of noah's ark based on biblical descriptions. have you been yeah i really don't think it's not open yet it's still building yeah there's a theme park is set to open in spring of two thousand and fourteen however the museum the creation museum which is right down the street is open and i've never been to that now well you know kentucky like most other states in the nation right now is having some tough economic times so budget cuts are involved but this is what they're doing is kentucky governor steve beshear is suggesting over fifty million dollars in cuts to education and yet he's preserving forty three million dollars in tax breaks for the creationist theme park right yeah and events around we could be you know this is gone the only way to teach creationism and you want to

cut money for education this is actually i don't think this is going to be any more outraging because what you have here is a state where it's you know renowned for its allure to illiteracy issues you've got a forty percent illiteracy rate in a lot of areas and and we're focusing now on a theme park that may or may not produce nine hundred jobs instead of the future of the state and its children it's disgusting well said well you know if they don't go to school because they can't reach any discernible educational standards they can just work at the ark young dinosaurs rightfully out amusement parks we're talking high level careers it is pretty out of priorities to me. all right now to onto one of our favorite topics of the show. last night at the debate we heard a lot of talk about nasa and of the space race but it's not the first time with

this kind of thing has come up we've seen mitt romney even make fun of newt gingrich in the past about wanting litter colonies take a look real quick. speaker gingrich and i have a lot of places where we disagree we'll talk about you name them what places where we disagree. let's see. we could start with that with this idea to have a lunar colony that would mine minerals from the from the moon i'm not in favor of spending that kind of money to do that. because it's true turns out that. nasa and russia and the e.u. are working on putting permanent research stations up on the moon and i find it very fascinating the u.s. and russia have such a tough time you know relating to each other and getting along on earth but we seem to do really well in space maybe we should just all go up there and we just get along great i'm just surprised gingrich is like a one man think tank i don't know why he was like worrying about the presidency when he just you know opened shop but it's down in the spews ideas and things

happen a lot of ideas are scary let's see what are you guys thanks for joining me tonight at the fair night so thanks for tuning in they come back tomorrow we're going to have change you hear from the young turks on to talk about obama's state to get you dressed in the meantime coming up next for the. wealthy british style it's time to. go. to the. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy cars report on.

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starting off with these live pictures a live event tens of thousands of people the egyptians again gathered on tyrion square to marquee years since the uprising but nonetheless frustration too over a lack of change clouding the celebrations reaction and reporting about this story coming right up also tonight. pledges to save the economy and create much needed jobs kick off president obama's reelection campaign and his state of the union address. and all the secrets on the one show the world's top whistle blowers to get others to tell on t.v.

stand by where to watch. live from moscow at eleven pm you're watching r.t. well welcome to my name is kevin owen and our top story then this hour as i've just been mentioning tens of thousands of egyptians are back in cairo's now iconic tahrir square marking a year since the uprising with toppled president mubarak but there's another reason is a landmark day because almost thirty years of emergency rules partially been lifted even those key police powers will remain because we can sing it with our correspondent in this and now she's live in cairo in cairo in tahrir square shortly but let's now before that talk to dr. he's director of the center for conflict realises he's on the line from cairo to dr thanks for being on the program one year

on from the revolution many say the very little change that gyptian must be pretty skeptical i guess about how much has been achieved what are your thoughts about it . a lot has been achieved but there's still a lot more to be achieved most egyptians are still weary. and power on the supreme council of the armed forces. corruption is still there the trials of the symbols of the old regime are still ongoing and there is a general. feeling of frustration or one of the slow pace of change having said that on the other hand. a lot has been done and the most important achievement of course of the three and fair elections that were held in december and january parliament just had its first session in the last couple of those so it's a mixed picture on the whole with. those who were our percent of the i believe

were a bit larger than those who continue demands for you know what's the significance as well dr of this lifting of emergency or all this put in place now for almost thirty years is that being seen as a major step towards meeting the protesters demands. it is a move to a step two words meaning that the manner of almost all egyptians the emergency the condition of emergency the emergency laws were imposed right after the assassination of so that in one thousand nine hundred eighty one and it's been like a sword hanging over everybody's neck in egypt especially those who wanted to have a syrian politics. extreme powers who are the police the security services and use that in a very unwise and inability indiscriminate against everybody you. resist or show any sign of opposition will be all. everybody really. believe now that

this emergency condition can finally cause doctor there is a cab to it isn't there the car they have being the word thuggery. and that is a very serious word. no one really knows who these thugs. whether they are working in a lawn or whether they are being carried to cause problems by remnants of the old regime it's the lack of security or over the last year the condition has been improving but there's still a feeling of lack of security among many egyptians and they would welcome any effort by the government to control the security situation and of course thuggery is a very loose two of those from the from the old regime and some members of the supreme council of the armed forces they would like to describe any form of opposition as

i've been on the other hand from the revolutionary side they are not happy with the use of the stir because most of the people who are being accused. of being cyrus not most of them a lot of them are actually revolutionary briefly so it's going to go ahead briefly touched on it just now sort of but in there although its military government said it will fully hand over power to the new parliament there are still very rare real fears are there that it will try to hold on to its employees how much of a concern is that for you and your fellow country men and women. it is the. who are you to. do seem people just have people have a general lack of trust the words authority but so far i personally haven't seen any evidence of any indication that the supreme council of the armed forces wants to hold on to power on the contrary i believe that the sooner we get rid of our the

better for them we do nor the book is. very much aware of those and so far the roadmap has been followed to the letter there has been maybe two or three months of dilute involved in the general elections but they said they've promised many people from among the politicians they will hold them to the word there will be a final of a civilian government and a civilian president. even. if. they go as much for time dot to act like the dalai director of the center for conflict analysis joining us live there on the line from cairo much appreciated we're staying on the line to cairo as well and there's promise we're catching up with our correspondent listen now and she's there she's in tahrir square and this and you've been reporting on this all night i bring us a flavor of what you're seeing behind you they just spoke to our guest and he said it's a mixture of a joy about this this thirty year of the cloud down that's been lifted but also

a lot of worry about what lays ahead in the future it is a year on since the crowds first mass there in tahrir square looking over your shoulder tonight do they have the same demands. yes indeed as we get into the night what we're seeing are these crowds more turning into celebrations and something that activists actually warned against making sort of the protesters and these rallies stay focus on what they say is the same demands they had that when they came out here about to push for the fall of hosni mubarak they said they want this for. seem to come out throughout the day now we're seeing more celebrations like i said in the night people kind of strolling around the numbers are dying but throughout the day we heard a lot of frustration a lot of passion a lot of anger i have to say i've been here several times throughout the year and this is the most intense kind of protest that we've seen and if we just look at the numbers certainly these are the biggest protests that we've seen since the fall of

hosni mubarak and what we have now in tough rear even though the numbers are dying down into the night is that this place in the center where tents have been set up and what we're hearing is organization saying that this is it this is another sit in the key now is what happens because every other city and that has happened since the fall of hosni mubarak has been violently dispersed by the military and by the police people here are saying that they will stay this time until the army lets go of power and what is it that the protesters are most unhappy about a year or. so when you go out and talk to a lot of them a lot of them say that in fact it's become much worse since the revolution and critics say that the army has purposefully created chaos in the country which might scare people into not coming out to protest against them unemployment is tremendous now you have people who are still being tried in military trials so low it has to be said the military rulers lifting that emergency law they have released several

people that were detained and were meant to have military trials but these things are still happening a lot of people say in terms of the process we're seeing a lot more severe clamp down and what's happening is protests have become such a natural thing really it's not really an event here in egypt anymore it's something you see all the time although like i said today the biggest numbers that we've seen so it's a lot of similar kind of complaints that we're hearing about the army some of the things that we're hearing which we didn't hear under hosni mubarak is the fact that the country one needs a president that yes they now have a parliament but the parliament essential has no power. that part of the met has to write a constitution but these protesters don't want that constitution to be written under military rule mike i said people on top here now think they will stay until the military steps down and they're reporting live there from tahrir square in cairo things have so much to do we invite you to watch events on egypt's tahrir square unfolding live on our website dot com our cameras are trained on those events to

stream you the picture live on our website if you touch it with whenever you'd like to. millions of new jobs manufacturing back on trucks the war in iraq over and. barack obama said to stall for reelection is using the annual state of the union address to do it. all the details very positive speech as you mentioned set against a very dire backdrop where a 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 untalented a 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 too to pay their fair share including the wealthiest he sort of tapped to the financial industry talking about how wall street will no longer be allowed

to write its own rules announcing some 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 a realistic call a season 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 america remains the one indispensable nation. and we safeguard america's own security against those who threaten our citizens our friends and our interests. 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 on 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 he also was a bit more nuanced in regards to syria but did say that changes to president assad will see change in the air and on china who 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 or force 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 advisors and contractors are there and of course did not go at all into the undeclared u.s. wars abroad in somalia and yemen in pakistan 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 as would you recall british labor m.p. in a member of the stop the war coalition in london who told me that despite falling woods

of the dress exposes the fact that a bomb has simply been continuing with the republican. i find the speech really rather strange for a country that's just gone up to sixteen trillion pounds of debts it seems to be very strange to then be presenting themselves as a military power with more ambitions for greater military power around the world and hence obama's speech last month of expanding u.s. military operations all over the asia pacific region and then his statement. iran would never possess nuclear weapons well that to me wrong i don't want to run or anybody else to possess nuclear weapons the flotilla sent through the straits of hormuz last week was a provocation to put it mildly and i just hear the drums of war building up again obama to me is very very disappointing. us is still the biggest military power in the world and. and. the problem of.

course is inability to rein in the whole military industrial complex seems to me that is the term for another enemy they had afghanistan and that has not been a success they had iraq which was. a success they have the internal problems and war that's happening in libya so they need to look for another enemy but this one it's been a slowly very well choreographed build up towards the tensions with iran and now the admission that they're not building a nuclear weapon not one in a weapon must be very inconvenient but it won't stop them doing the same. this is our three live from moscow coming up keeping the business world's top tier ticking along. members of the world's economic elite had set out to tackle the eurozone debt crisis and do some business deals along the way meanwhile some of the people

most hurt by the financial crisis over the last three years are shut out of the conversation we'll have more coming up. will he 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 whistleblower launches a talk show right here on r t during the sanjay's 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 the london correspondent laura smith scott the story 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 r.t. it's going to focus of course on us angie's favorite topic control fifty two thousand and eleven was a solid as yet his name became one of the most famous in the world and indeed it became a byword for for explosive control to see when he releases 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 calls iconoclast visionaries 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 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 course to twitter's fair is alight 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. a fascinating it's going to be filmed where a solid has been subject to strict bail conditions things like signing in to the police station every day being essentially under house arrest under these 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 court hearing to fight against his extradition to sweden for questioning on a leg sexual assault charges so as i say rumors about what's going to go on he is going to be a new type of television of course he's no stranger to being on the other side of the interview 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.c. watch this space we will i'm going to tell you the exact of nicholas berg and she describes how the network signed up julian assange. there were quite interesting discussions research in our office after christmas sharing ideas about the show's possibility is. obviously it would be right now to get our son but.