i will try to get back with him in just a moment mr michael o'brien i wonder if you can now hear me over there i think we've lost that connection. to him to further discuss these memoirs that have just been published by the former u.s. secretary of defense donald rumsfeld so do stay with us here on r.t. for that. ok let's cross over egypt and now where anti-government protests enter a third week president hosni mubarak has taken steps to reform the constitution in an attempt to diffuse public anger but thousands of demonstrators remain in cairo's main square keeping up the pressure on the president to resign. the latest from the capital. what we've now entered the third week of and mubarak demonstrations and the numbers on the street just keep growing of his square still remaining the focal point here in downtown cairo hundreds of thousands of people on the streets as we speak and also the city of alexandria with you off the course of the day tens of thousands of people have been coming to protest these small stores heard at around midday when government buildings close in the last day a

has something to do with our several year involvement and war in this country well as author michael o'brien next the richest of banker turned prisoners seeks out bernie made off made several claims in his latest interview including one saying of the entire government is a ponzi scheme so is he just spreading the blame or is this con artist right we'll talk about it with richard also how much will the u.s. be directly affected by the conflicts in libya do americans realize that supporting democratic revolutions may end up hurting their wallets we're going to hash it all out with our team financial correspondent lauren lyster then the hacktivists have struck again after concentrating their efforts on defending weekly anonymous has expanded and recently they attacked a web site for the koch brothers group americans for prosperity so now they've added more groups to their hit list and we want to know why they've advanced their mission we're going to speak with two members to find out and would you put a price tag on your internet privacy some people saying that they'd sell their personal inform

terror publishing his memoirs the book charts as time during the wars in iraq and afghanistan michael o'brien a former u.s. contractor in iraq says wrong rumsfeld still refuses to take full responsibility for his actions. i think it will hurt his reputation because he says he doesn't really take the responsibility for poorly executing the war all it was his war he prosecuted it for and it was carried out by tommy franks who did everything rumsfeld told him to do. he blames paul bremmer well he hired paul bremmer so don't blame the guy that you hired if he wasn't doing the job right then get somebody else he blames all these other people but he was the one responsible for executing the conflict no one else i really do believe that it will like or like robert mcnamara in viet nam i don't think this is going to help donald rumsfeld reputation it's just a book to try and use his selective memory to to describe what happened in his own words the russian foreign ministry says a british journalist was denied entry on arrival to moscow because he broke a series of accreditation laws concerning foreig

there are very good ministers working for me, including michael o'brien, at the time.i was very hands-on on the iraq dossier. i had to be. i think officials expected to have direct access to me on that. >> talking about the actual planning -- >> i understand that. the interaction between ministers and officials in the foreign office is it different one from that in domestic departments, very -- its -- it's true of diplomats >> they are being totally anonymous behind the screen. they are more used to a public role by definition, halfway between the official and department and the minister, and they knew the region. he knew the beach. i had every confidence in him and in the others. i know you had evidence from steven patterson. they are all very good officials. >> i mean you said when you gave evidence last year, americans were never keen on the u.n. role, and this is just something we had to manage the whole time. >> yeah. >> i ask you about when you realized the united nations would not play a major role, you said the 19th of march. truly, it was clear before that tha

there are very good ministers working for me, including michael o'brien, at the time. i was very hands-on on the iraq dossier. i had to be. i think officials expected to have direct access to me on that. >> talking about the actual planning -- >> i understand that. the interaction between ministers and officials in the foreign office is it different one from that in domestic departments, very -- its -- it's true of diplomats anyway. they don't feel the classic mold -- they don't fill the classic mold of civil servants. they are being totally anonymo anonymous. they are more vocal, more eastern public role by definition. halfway between big and say, a line official domestic department, and administer. and edward chaplin knew the region. he knew the beat. i had every confidence in him. and any others, i know you have to have evidence from stephen patterson and john buck were also good officials. >> i mean, you said that you are satisfied other planning, but when you gave evidence just last year you said they were never keen on the u.n. role. this was just something we ha