and egypt bracing itself for the hardest protests in anti-government andress began two weeks ago president mubarak has reiterated he won't step down until september and the country's military has vowed to support him . also russia warns japan against pushing forward it's a tough stance on the grio islands a territory tokyo's wanted back since the end of world war two i'll have more details on all those stories at the top of the hour worst sports is next with drama . hello welcome to sport an artsy coming to you from the russian capital with me from on cost for a pledge of sporting action coming your way invisble it said including. ice hockey your tour team rochelle squad wins this winter games opener against finland. we will be in a total different form of ours you have no chance there looking ahead to euro twenty it's all qualifier against armenia national football coach got a call it speaks exclusively to r.t. . and a sick notes illness rules three times grand slam champion maria sharapova alex of the paris open. let's start with the news that russia's quest for a third euro hawk its or

as economy resigns following the brutal andress seen over the past few weeks. we can expect will have to wait his extradition fight follows the judgment of the latest hearing into whether he'll be sent to sweden where he's wanted on sex crime charges. a limb a sweet maybe just a short stop for. an american agenda behind a swedish one topping rule that might allow washington to press espionage charges on the whistleblower. also reporting this. against pushing forward its tough stance on the good a lot of territory tokyo's wanted back since the end of world. i'll be back with another update in fifteen minutes from now in the meantime join the moscow team in search of russian spirits in the british capital. the hundreds of thousands of us living in great britain said. recent history. is a. seems that come fishies. just how much. has simple in fact. one thing is just. the british. just. think well. you can if. it's celebrations in the city streets of the. new style. several. times and everything. i'm trying to trips to. the recent past things you're one of life's t

might be losing control there experts say if the andress continues and the crude oil prices keep blowing as they are now. now the u.s. is going to be hit really badly especially now that it's struggling to climb out of recession there are there are reports that a number of western oil corporations might temporarily gain from this spike in oil prices but the political unrest in the region makes it all too unpredictable. and reporting there from washington now john laughlin from the institute for democracy and cooperation in paris by supporting the uprisings in the arab world the u.s. only gives the appearance of change. the american double standards in the middle east are so breathtaking that. one doesn't really know what to say it's important to understand as we discuss the relationship between authoritarian regimes often military backed in the middle east on the one hand the forces of political islam on the other but the americans are capable of playing both sides of that game equally there is a long history of america and indeed before that british friendship with political islam frien

might be losing control there experts say if the andress continues and the crude oil prices continue growing as they are now the u.s. is going to be hit really badly especially now that it's struggling to climb out of recession there are there are reports that a number of western oil corporations might temporarily gain from this spike in oil prices but the political unrest in the region makes it all too unpredictable. the u.s. stance on the arab protest has drawn criticism from around the world but now washington is also under fire for its handling of on rats closer to home find out why workers in the midwest are slamming the government for ignoring their fight for rights sporting foreign protests. but first foreigners living and working in libya are getting ready to leave the country amid the aggravating political crisis russia is among the states preparing to evacuate their citizens president's meeting with rage of war and the escalating violence could bring dangerous consequences are to serve further has more. we've heard president speaking today at a security meeting and he was a

might be losing control there experts say if the andress continues and the crude oil prices keep growing as they are now the u.s. is going to be hit really badly especially now that it's struggling to climb out of recession there are there are reports that a number of western oil corporations might temporarily gain from this spike in oil prices but the political unrest in the region makes it all too unpredictable. that was our tease going to check our reporting from washington in the meantime john laughlin from the institute for democracy and cooperation in paris says that by supporting the uprisings that the arab world the us only gives the appearance of change. the american double standards in the middle east are so breathtaking that. one doesn't really know what to say in the case of egypt as in the case of the other countries the interest of the united states is to present the appearance of change while maintaining political control that is what the americans are about revolution to legitimize a continuation of the status quo effectively you may remember in the great novel and film t

greater agenda since two thousand and one friday is expected to see the largest protest since the andress began more than two weeks ago a former cia officer i mean an ocular told r.t. he thinks mubarak's reluctance to go makes the situation a volatile. now that the president mubarak that years as said he would not leave i am afraid that they are going to expand their religion and get beyond. the way our government buildings as we see and do in fact the movement has already selected leadership of people and this leadership consists among others groups of the muslim brotherhood so i do not believe that the muslim brotherhood necessarily will get over the movement the movement remains secular i have lived through our professional movement from across the chance to side so it is not one specific ideology so there are some members who are extremists but for the most part the muslim brotherhood has participated in egypt general elections and already indicated they would be really participating in fair and free elections each full of people in egypt demanding change peter lavelle ask his guests

let's get more insight into the continuing andress to cross the arab world these recent article published in the wall street journal bad word lot walk a rider and u.s. military strategist said that the removal of egypt's hosni mubarak would lead to either autarky or islamists coming to power r.t. spoke to him to get more insight that's in our interview next. edward luttwak thank you very much for being with us today who do you think pulled the rug from under mubarak and who is pulling the strings right now well it's pulling the strings and nobody's putting in the streets because this is a crowd action the crowd this is the popular insurrection it's not the revolution it's not the coup it's not some clever criminal who takes three tanks and takes two pounds this is a real popular insurrection which is people are living under a government for one year and ten years and twenty years and thirty years or more they all get it because of the needs of the something happens and in this case of as you know it didn't happen in egypt could happen to me when one person was pushed around burnt themselv

might be losing control there experts say if the andress continues and the crude oil prices keep growing as they are now the u.s. is going to be hit really badly especially now that it's struggling to climb out of recession there are there are reports that a number of western oil corporations might temporarily gain from this spike in oil prices but the political unrest in the region makes it all too unpredictable. as. director of middle east projects at george mason university says the use of air power won't see the libyan dictator from being toppled. that mistake he did is he drew experience of what happened in tunisia and in egypt and he thought that they didn't use enough force and he started by crackdown with more force and kill more people than have more chance of succeeding and what we see is the exact opposite he's only making it faster for him to end up leaving power the u.s. has been taking a weak stand through the whole process of from tunisia to egypt now to bahrain which it's almost been silent on to libya and it's been taken that we stand because it's afraid that the fall of

the escalating andress from the arab world and especially libya has sent energy prices skyrocketing affecting living costs and economy all around the globe and the problem has set the stage for a return to the oil rush by global powers. and a public outcry indeed newquay over the cold months of controversial u.s. security contractor off the margin britain's national census writes writs a lead for the government is risking big confidentiality of personal data it is reigniting a debate on privacy and they say. allows a former boss to serve leader radovan credits just preparing his defense to stand before the war crimes tribunals in the hague it may r.t. looks at how he managed to avoid arrest for more than a decade that's coming up next. belgrade become people of serbia in two thousand and two dr drug and god which a specialist in alternative medicine settled here nobody knew where he was from or what his occupation had been before. one instant popularity in the medical community he gave lectures i'm sure people of diseases receive him as someone who helps people and people love him. in one tho

violent andress to grips egypt is protesters demanding the president's immediate removal from office come face to face with his supporters in the capital streets. u.s. president obama signed the new treaty to treason. the deal will be ready approved on levels by moscow which is both the country's nuclear obstacles by a powerful. sticks telling a russian diplomat a bally game moscow intelligence lol i wish identities for spy work russia has responded with a warning that serious consequences will follow. a very warm welcome to you this is live from moscow with me analysts have it clashes have flared up on the streets of the egyptian capital cairo between members of the opposition and protesters rallying to support the current president hosni mubarak the country's leader and now he won't seek reelection in september's vote after more than a week of violent demonstrations across the country urging him to step down paula steer joins us from egypt. these clashes between pro and anti-government demonstrators have been on the go since mid afternoon and they showed no sign of. demonstrations

and egypt bracing itself for the heart of protests since antigovernment andress began two weeks ago president mubarak has reiterated he won't step down until the time and the country's military has vowed to support him . although russia warns japan against pushing forward if tougher stance on the grill island territory tokyo is wanted back since the end of world war two. it's five pm in moscow this is coming to you live on the nice and not way first up this hour the verdict in the high profile case of the wiki leaks founder has been adjourned for two weeks doing the songs appeared in court in london friday as he continues his battle against extradition to sweden where he faces questioning over sex crime allegations he claims the case was fabricated so the u.s. can use sweden to hand him over on espionage charges live now to our floor and outside the court for us so the hearing adjourned i guess now we wait for a verdict. that's right all we're waiting for now is the verdict and that is due to be delivered we now know on the twenty fourth of february so in a couple of weeks' time we were heari

year rule of colonel gadhafi hundreds have been killed and over a thousand injured during a week of andress the reports of airstrikes from the country's own military on monday rumors spread that the libyan leader had fled the trouble with gadhafi later made a brief and defiant t.v. appearance saying he was still in the country one of his sons blamed exiles and outsiders for pushing libya to the brink of civil war and denied that live ammunition was being used on demonstrators some libyan ambassadors of quit over the use of force on civilians in protests.

might be losing control there experts say if the andress continues and the crude oil prices can be growing as they are now the u.s. is going to be hit really badly especially now that it's struggling to climb out of recession there are there are reports that a number of western oil corporations might temporarily gain from this spike in oil prices but the political unrest in the region makes it all too unpredictable you know what about the political reaction the u.s. was so vocal was. comin so we heard from the white so so far considering this latest wave of unrest. well kevin given all the big interests at stake in the region there is no more democracy chanting going on in washington there have been a few statements from u.s. officials calling for leaders of libya bahrain and others in turmoil to show restraint in hadley handling the protests and that's about it no more of that epic coverage of the map democracy in making kind of things something that we saw a little more than a week ago when obama delivered all these passionate speeches on people of egypt making their voice heard and embr