a year ago to push for the fall of hosni mubarak he 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 a 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're hearing is organization saying that this is it this is another suit 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 and people here are saying that they will stay this time until the army lets go of power 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 alone

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 intervention 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 he has no power that parliament has to write a constitution but these protesters don't want that constitution to be written under military rule like i said people on top three are now saying they will stay until the military steps down. meanwhile writer and filmmaker philip morris says egypt continues to live under military rule with no change in sight. i don't see it as

being that big of a shift i mean we lived under military rule for thirty years and that gave the government the authority to do just about what they wanted today we live under military rule so to me it's just a formal matter and that they they lift emergency law while we live under the rule of a military jointer since the military took over general twenty eight's over fifteen thousand civilians that we know of have faced military courts and have received trials of anywhere between six months to fifteen years and a formal matter like lifting emergency law means absolutely nothing when we have a newly elected parliament that is still under the thumb of military they've tasted power they have massive economic interests in the country again everything that's happened in egypt really needs to be looked at from an economic perspective in that there's a group of cronies of one box and his government that were in power they've been moved out of power and there's

a new group of cronies that are in place and central to that group of power hungry rulers today are the military generals and they will not just let go and hand over power like that without having guarantees that their interests will be secured coming up on r t keeping an eye on big business. members of the world economic elite has set out to tackle the eurozone debt crisis than 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. millions of new jobs manufacturing back on track the war in iraq over and bin laden gone barack obama has set out his stall for reelection and using the annual state of the union address to do it lucy confidence has 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 and touted 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 seen coming out of the occupy wall street movement although whether or not this tough talk is going to translate into realistic solaces 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 need to america's 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's a consensus with the u.s. it 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 a change of 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. 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 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 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 to rome lying to former presidential candidate for the socialist equality party thinks that no actual change is possible in the u.s. . 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 has received millions and millions of dollars of 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 it's in opposition to this entire political and economic order. the man behind some of the world's most scandalous revelations joanna sounds as preparing to host his very own interview show and it's premiering here on our team the exclusive series is set to air in march with the global media already buzzing about what subject the wiki leaks founder is going to tackle our london correspondent lara smith has the details. basically we knew that as and wanted to wanted to write and host his own interview

show and we made it happen this show is 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 the 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 the 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 because the twitter there is

a light with rumors about the show relation 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 a leg 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 why lips are sealed so it's all the details that guests we can't reveal at the moment that the

secret but we will be having exclusive trailers and previews here on r.t.c. watch this space. r t news executive nikolai booker has more about how the network signed up julian assange. there were quite interesting discussions in the office of the christmas sharing ideas about the show's possibility is. obviously it would be new channels really right now to get our son but i think it's quite natural that will be on our t.v. i mean r t always tries to go beyond that to see other sides of any news story. the real reasons behind the news that you would see on mainstream channels when we talked to them was very calm and relaxed which you would expect of course from someone who's been under house arrest for more than four hundred days she was beautiful of ideas and some of them were born as we talked so i think this will be very hard to control over to you our viewers now to tell us what topics you would

like to see julian assange tackle an expose on his new t.v. series on r t in march this is how the both look at this hour a little over a third believe he should focus on who really rules the mainstream media the same number of you think the syrians should discuss the nato war machine agenda twenty nine percent would like to see julian expose how banks rule the world and the remaining ninety percent want to know more controls be internet cast your vote at our t.v. dot com. i russian progress cargo ship is on its way to the international space station after blasting off from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan this first flight two thousand and twelve is carrying more than two and a half tons of freight to the s.s. among the goods being delivered our scientific equipment and presents for the astronauts and cosmonauts including fresh fruit and sweep the lights a large comes a day after a recently on dark progress rocket deployed microsatellite into space prior to

returning to earth. the top of vent on the calendar of any serious a business man the world economy for men devils has got underway at the swiss alps resort the need for structural reform and job creation was the main call from germany's chancellor angela merkel as she launched the conference artie's lauren leinster has more. 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

haven't 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 of 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 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 a bounce off 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 input 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 built 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. without the input of so many people

that they impact. and if you like our stories you can always find them online at our dot com here's what else we've got lined up for you on our web site billionaire investor george soros has a new prediction for america and all out class war find out why online bust on a lighter note. the russian family spotted this curious bird as it was trying out some snow boarding on a nearby roof for another snow related stories make sure to serve our website r t v dot com. six seventeen now on r t and some more world news and brief at least two people have been killed and many others are injured after a multi-story building collapsed in the center of rio de janeiro rescue workers are working at the scene to recover those trapped in the rubble so far no official

reason has been given for the collapse but witnesses say there was a violent explosion shortly before the building came down. to foreigners held hostage in somalia have been freed by u.s. special forces in a raid near the town of a dato these captives jessica buchanan from the u.s. and paul hagen from denmark were working for a dinner demining charity when they were kidnapped in october last year president obama personally authorized the operation which was carried out by the same unit that killed osama bin laden last year. in india a bus driver has killed nine people and injured twenty seven more as he slammed his boss into pedestrians and cars it took police almost an hour to stop the drivers rampage through new delhi he is reported to be a licensed driver who is on his usual route through the city now he is being held on murder charges and his motives are being investigated. so here is president how

sacked the federal chief of police and his six deputies after an attack by radical islamists in the country's north the boko haram sect said it carried out a series of bombings in the city of kano last week in which it killed at least one hundred eighty five people the group is considered the most violent radical organization in nigeria responsible for nearly a thousand deaths last year. brought widespread chaos to southeastern australia several local rivers that broke their banks causing landslides 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 strong winds forecast for the area house trailer was also hit by devastating floods last year which killed thirty five people. with russians heading to the polls in march to elect a president we talked to one of the candidates in their rights he's an international tycoon and the owner of the new jersey nets basketball team. reveals

his plans for russia in an interview with our.

mr prothero hello and thank you for the time paul was glad to oblige do you really think you can be the next president. i always aim high and whenever a 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 brushwood 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 bonding 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 put in 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 of 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. unity in making it world leader the whole world is changing all nations are 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 left them there. let's talk about the us over the four 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 miss out the facts how

would you build a relationship with america. the first thing i do i would abandon the whole idea of the west versus russia i think it's about time we 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 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 regard russia as a superpower. national odd believe our country has an important mission which by virtue of our history we should set high goals. an achiever them of course we haven't been doing that lately so mean you our people have lost the vision in our past we colonized the vast territories like say derrida russia is a special nation or that like sixteen challenges there is a downside of course what i mean is that individual people are considered in significant in are sacrificed for the sake of a great goal but that was before me of course i'm took the us a what do you mean

before you before you become president both focused on the because 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 protocol i really done now a single president would take a look at russia's history russia has never had a single president or a single leader you say you were 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 book or form with 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 do other things including dating i guess my work takes up too much of my time it's either that 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 i often observed various politicians and the way they talk to the media especially during the campaign are they often try to win you over with passion or emotion but you're a very reserved person or 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 sent. everyone gets sentimental once in a while what can move you to tears look at 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 the economy 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. we have seen the damage it has done to our environment mark chemicals what the poor props we do not want any more of. our core system it's just that i was a does more experience and i'm just just appalled that that's allowed to go on in america. we are getting this unfortunately because we don't know what's in it and there's no labeling there for it being used like the board tory experiment being used as guinea. now we have

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thanks for being with us at half past the hour here's a quick recap of your headlines one year down the line and just to celebrating the beginning of the revolution that ousted president mubarak tens of thousands of people are now gathered on top of her square but frustration over the slow pace of change has cast a cloud over the party atmosphere. in the state of the union address president obama pledges to fix the economy and. create millions of new jobs and

a speech widely seen as the start of his reelection campaign critics of his address say his agenda leaves the white house open to accusations of double standards and is upbeat tone doesn't reflect reality. and doing a song known for spilling the world secrets online is going on the air and his exclusive interview program is set to premiere here on our t.v. . coming out party discusses some crucial issues facing modern russia and the diversity immigration and nationalism and how these problems will be tackled if putin becomes the next president spotlight is next. and welcome just walls like the interview show on hard to you are the album you know already they were tossed mediated.