with the latest for us. 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 sure that the protestors and these rallies stay focused on what they say is the same demands they had back when they came out a year ago to push for the fall of hosni mubarak who said they want this regime to come out throughout the day and 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 protests 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're hearing is organization saying that this is it this is another suit in the key now is what happens because every other sit in that has happened since the fall of hosni mubarak has been violently dispersed surviving military and by the police people here saying that they will say this time until

the army lets go of our 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 a low cost me 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 on what's happening as 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 with a parliament essentially has no power that parliament has to write

a call. situation but these protesters don't want that constitution to be written under military rule like i said people on top are now saying they will stay until the military steps down. it will be totally rotella the managing editor of the egypt independent newspaper told me the lifting of the words you see law is not being received that optimistically by many egyptians 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 revolution in egypt however many receive the news of the partial victory of the emergency law as only cosmetic change because it exempts so-called thugs from this rule which means that there could still be people tried or arbitrarily detained under the emergency law it would be hard to believe that the u.s.

would suddenly stop its relation with egypt particularly that there is a close to organic relation was the military council and now this organic relation needs to be questioned in the wake of 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 was the u.s. so that doesn't mean however that the u.s. want to remain a big player in the egyptian politics at least in the interim. well if you want keep abreast of what's happening in egypt tahrir square we showed the pictures just now you can watch the event what's happening there unfolding live these are the latest pictures our cameras trained on the now we still get out see dot com our web site whenever you want to catch up with it live pictures there from egypt area square tonight crowds gathering yet again one year. millions of new jobs manufacturing back on track the war in iraq over and bin

ladden go on barack obama set out his stall for reelection and using the annual state of the union address to do it at his lucy caffein office got 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 to pay their fair share including the wealthiest sort of attached 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 coming out of the occupy wall street movement although whether or not this tough talk is going to translate into

realistic policies 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. the one dispensable . we need. security. our friends and our interest 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 he did say that changes the president assad will see change in the air 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 lie. laudatory remarks or force reserve or 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 vote at all into the undeclared us wars abroad in somalia and yemen in pockets don and of course the drone strikes that have been such a devastating part of the us foreign policy when it comes to the way it's been received a broad. international action center tells us that america's double standards on domestic and international policy with a fool to see during obama's speech. well the speech that was given made a lot of references to the united states is just one country we're all together we're all pulling together and we're all sharing the sacrifice but in reality there

are people all across the united states laid off unemployed food stamps are being cut homes are being foreclosed and the only sacrifice the rich are even being possibly threatened with is the possibility that they might have their taxes go up well i don't see this country is as one nation of all of us pulling together i see this is a country with two classes in it there's one class a small ruling elite that owns the banks the factories the oil wells and then there's the rest of us who have to sell our labor to the small ruling elite and i think any any push for a national unity is going to be sadly one sided it's really tragic the speech made a lot of references to tyranny and a love of democracy but this is coming at the same time the u.s. continues to fund saudi arabia which is committing crimes against the people and continues to get us funds at the same time the u.s. is funding the egyptian military which is which is repressing the movement that brought down mubarak you know the u.s. supports supports all kinds of tyrants all over the world that support its agenda

and economically you know benefit the ruling elite of the united states the oil companies and then the speech spoke of libya as if what happened in libya was a great victory to the libyan people it was a disaster area country was destroyed i don't i don't view that as a great advance and the situation with iran again you know sanctions are not going to help the iranian people i mean people starve to death and sanctions that was what happened to iraq prior to the invasion so that that that should not be considered a victory. coming up on our keeping an eye on big business. members of the world's economic elite that set out to tackle the eurozone debt crisis and do some business deals along the way and meanwhile some of the people most hurt by the financial crisis over the last three years are shut out of the conversation will have more coming up. but next big story from us today expose some of the world's darkest secrets and soon to get the chance to find that even more when the world's most famous whistle blower launches a talk show right here on our c julia songes exclusive series will premiere here in

march and the world's media is already buzz about who the wiki leaks founder is likely to interview a london correspondent laura smith picks up 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 the show's going to be broadcast on 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 releases the biggest as a 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 insider than 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 switch 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 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 short a week before his to preen court hearing to fight against his actual decision to sweden for questioning on alleged sexual assault charges so as i say no use 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 cecile says all the details and 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. argues executive describes how the network signed up julie misandry in britain there were quite interesting discussions in our office after christmas sharing ideas about the show's possibility is. obviously it would be real right now to get our son 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 the real reasons behind the news that you would see on mainstream channels when we talk to julian 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. well over to you now to tell us what topics you'd like to see julie was stanch title expose in these new t.v. series you won r.t. for march this is what been telling is someone else wrote a little over a third of you think he should focus on who really rules the mainstream media rather staid number of you telling us the series should discuss the nato war machine agenda if you put it twenty eight percent if you would like to see julian expose how banks rule the world the remaining eight percent there this is one of the more about who controls the internet good question your choice now at r.t. dot com. as the world's business top brass to send some switzerland they're out to save the financial system steady the crisis and of course the few lucrative deals leader of europe germany kicked off the world economic forum and limerick once again pledged support for a united europe and the eurozone but said a major rethink is needed laura list is across the latest in. 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. has italy seen those unsustainable yields of seven percent have a spike is greece going to get a deal with its leaders 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 patients maybe for some as well 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 then go back and make policy so i think that kind of plays to the concerns that people have about all those 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 they aren't the global elite so those are the concerns of occupy davos i went down and i spoke to the men and their many of the same concerns that we hear in the news about the debt crisis all the time they're valid very well informed they're concerned about debt they're concerned about. the currency system that we're living in and these are all of the issues that they have and they don't think that it's fair that they should be decided or discussed solving them without the input of so many people that they in fact. if you like a storage you can always find them online that are it's the motherboard light hearted will go up on a website but you know this was sort of like out of the door google turning into big brother is put the world wide web into what we're all the judge. said put all its data about it uses different accounts of just one profile scary find out why

your privacy could be jeopardy and a light hearted thing i was talking about russian family sport of this curious bird as it was trying out some snowboarding on a nearby roof a give us a break most pictures rather snow related stories but short of a website i'll tell you don't come. around the world first to syria their security forces clashed with opposition groups in the central city of hama after talks to persuade militants. gulf nations have pulled their observers from syria even though the mission has been extended for another month it was set up to monitor the regime's compliance with the plan to end the violence meanwhile the head of syria's red crescent was shot dead earlier

wednesday the u.n. estimates that more than five thousand have been killed in the country. in the past ten months. at least seven people are believed to have died in the pakistani city of lahore this month because of contaminated medicines officials say over four hundred others are being treated for similar symptoms some of them are in a critical condition many protested after their relatives died as a result of using the tainted drugs the deaths of course panic in the city less than three months. fever epidemic. nigeria's president sacked the federal chief of police in the six deputies after an attack by radical islamists in the country's north. said it carried out a series of bombings in the city of canada last week in which at least one hundred eighty five people died the group's considered the most violent radical organization in nigeria responsible for nearly a thousand deaths last year. crenshaw reins of widespread chaos to southeastern astray or several local rivers of broken banks is causing landslips and flash floods over four thousand residents have been ordered to leave their homes in the

state of new south wales alone with more heavy downpours and storm with the forecast for the area. was also hit you may recall that devastating set of floods last year then thirty five people died. with russians heading to the polls in march to elect a president next we talked to one of the candidates in the race he's an international tycoon and owner of the new jersey nets basketball team. his plans for russia and interview next to r.t. .

mr prothero hello and thank you for the time paul was glad to oblige do you really think you can be the next president you're probably going with i always aim high and whenever i launch a project i'm always in it to win it taking part in this presidential election is definitely the most important decision i've ever taken and i'm ready for a fight if you aim high in other things you definitely should aim high in politics your got both the buttes rush can you know people often ask you if you're a kremlin project but i'd like to ask you about something else you're very much you're smart you have the reputation of a maverick and you have

a strong team how did you end up in a situation where no one believes that you are not a common project the problem of all i think almost anyone who joins the presidential race is automatically labeled as a kremlin project i will always want to know what it means i was a successful and wealthy person even before but i don't rely on government contracts with a lot of it well if well done with people outside russia on the other hand don't really care if you're a crumb and project that say you make it to the runoff where you run against putin what would people outside russia know about you first they know you were taken then they know about the scandal in france where you were practically accused of being a pimp and also the fact that you own the new jersey nets why should the west take you seriously because what was the point isn't whether it should or shouldn't it's up to me in my team to explain to people that my goal is to change russia i have a specific program for integrating our country into the international community and

making it a war old leader the whole world is changing all. having a hard time unless we change our country and develop it our relations with other countries will only become worse in the future when you last on this. let's talk about the u.s. over the free years of reset in relations russia and the us have fallen out on quite a number of issues iran libya the spy scandal not to mention missile defense how would you build a relationship with america the beautiful go girl the first thing i do i would abandon the whole idea of the west versus russia i think it's about time we'll learn to differentiate our relations with europe are one thing and our relations with the us are a different matter russia and america have many things in common the nuclear shield the fact that both our countries are large and multicultural we face similar challenges say immigration issues even if the reasons are different both countries have dast territory the only problem with america is that despite all that we don't

really have economic ties with the us russia's share in the u.s. trade is less than that off thailand below one percent if we build a purely political relationship it proves to be unstable and often emotional the world is changing and the old system of checks and balances he's not enough now i would suggest replacing nato with a pan-european security system that's a left can russia join the european union or us should i think we should actually make it our strategic goal of course we'll need to consider how to organize this common market but strategically i agree with general de goal who said decades ago that we need a united europe from lisbon to vladivostok i wish to do regard russia as a superpower. national odd believe our country has an important mission but by virtue of our history we should set high goals and achieve them of course we

haven't been doing that lately so many. our people have lost the vision in our past we colonized the vast territories like say derrida russia is a special nation that like sixteen challenges there is a downside of course what i mean is that individual people are considered insignificant in our sacrificed for the sake of a great goal but that was before me question took the us a what do you mean before you before you become president. with a yes before i become president we need to change that completely people should be at the heart of every grand arms of taking people should be the top priority people often ask you whether you're going to get married or not i only ask about this because of plots a cult i really done now a single president will take a look at russia's history russia has never had a single president or a single leader you say you're waiting for the love of a lifetime but your love of a lifetime may come tomorrow or in ten years and you want to be president today are

you ready to get married if this helps you become president of pickle for more no of course not if you put it like that i genuinely believe in love and i really hope it comes to me sooner or later i work a lot and perhaps i don't give enough time to other things including dating my guests my work takes up too much of my time it's either the data or bad luck i'm lucky in many other things but i'm not lucky in love but i should be lucky sooner or later. you have been extremely lucky your whole life and you always emphasize the importance of good luck have you ever considered why you're so lucky actually i think that to be lucky you have to work a lot and that's the thing with with i often observed various politicians and the way they talk to the media especially during the campaign or now often try to win you over with passion or emotion but you're a very reserved person at least that's how you appear to the media also when you talk to say all the right words but it all sounds like math is this if you're reciting the multiplication table do you ever get sentimental which are working

everyone gets sentimental wants. what can move you to tears be my little secret what the that's what you tell everybody what was the last time you cried that it was back in my school days when i was bullied by three boys who were older than me . and there was nothing i could do the whole class saw it but later i caught them all one by one little. by so thank you very much for the interview thank you. lou. it's

just so. if. the show is that so much given to each musician. egypt's unfinished business a year on the revolution the activist spirit it appears to have stalled the military rulers who replaced with. nature and discover its beauty. communicate with the. test yourself and become free.

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this is our. top stories for you tens of thousands of egyptians. you can see in the . marquee years since the uprising that toppled president mubarak's thirty year rule. president of. the union address to pledge saving the economy he stressed his successes and millions of new

jobs but critics say is upbeat tone doesn't quite reflect reality. on the world. to get others to spill the beans on television. interview show right here on this channel. expose some of the world's darkest secrets. in. time and back to our top story more about that a year after the revolution what does the future hold for egypt it's a big question it's debated next by people. trying to hammer out the possibilities cross-talk. unfinished business a year on.