hey hey hey. new accidents christians in iraq fear they are being driven out of their country with constant sectarian attacks targeting the minority group. with some u.s. politicians famous for the worse they make way to rise in the world on democracy it's the american people who are being turned into the object of ridicule. and we tell you the story of how good spirit and personal strength to keep the elderly people going and russia's western girls have our clothes our team takes to the boat again. and. companies are suspected of price fixing as diesel and jet fuel prices are growing faster than crude oil find out more around twenty minutes to.

warm welcome to you live from our headquarters in central moscow this is our team with me and he said no way it's six pm here in the russian capital and in baghdad and secretary and violence has forced iraqi christians to seek haven in a relatively calm northern region of kurdistan hundreds of thousands of the minority group fled there in the years following the two thousand and three u.s. led invasion and as sebastian wire reports from iraq those who stayed are a continued target of extremist. every night miriam gets ready for bed with her family but it's not her bed it's not even her house miriam and her family are christian iraqis who have been forced to flee from baghdad to the semi autonomous kurdish region because they become targets of extremist groups in the country in two thousand and seven miriam was hit by a bomb that was planted outside her house. i went out with my on just to buy some

chocolate and come back i went out and didn't see anything i just had the bomb and i fell to the ground and the room was lying in the street with her foot dangling from her leg her father i had rushed outside. i saw my daughter lying on the ground it was eleven my my daughter was lying the growing and people were running shouting everything was covered in dust and shards of glass i picked up my daughter with her leg dangling i almost lost it i was shouting my daughter is dead she's been hit by a bomb. luckily i had was able to get her to a doctor who could repair her leg but others have not been so lucky in october last year fifty six people were killed by militants when they attacked the our lady of salvation church in baghdad in the following weeks dozens more were killed in

attacks across the country many fear that eventually christians will be driven out of iraq completely of the eight hundred thousand christians in the country before two thousand and three almost half of fled in the past month alone four thousand have moved to the comparative safety of the northern kurdish region here they can worship and live in peace but in even their homes they've lost absolutely everything many like miriam's father and are forced to make a living cleaning toilets in bars and restaurants. i served for seven years in the military under saddam hussein i'm an iraqi christian and i don't have a square foot of land in my name why what's my crime many in the church feel that countries in the west are responsible. americans are liars we don't trust their reputation is terrible because everywhere they have light the us train the sunni and shia and they just watch while they kill it is impossible not to see all these murders but they don't get involved. it's the end of

a long day and time for the family to go to bed everyone gets ready and eventually the lights are switched off in the darkness and uncertainty miriam and the rest of her family are left to dream about and hope for a better tomorrow sebastian meyer r t so i'm in the iraq. the protests in egypt have gained freshmen mentum with labor unions and state media joining the popular rebellion the country's regime has threatened the protesters with military force and demonstrations persist the government also lashed out at the u.s. expressing its anger and frustration with washington's actions saying america shouldn't impose its will on cairo it comes amid allegations that during barak's rule america turned a blind eye to rampant corruption and human rights abuses in an exclusive interview r.t. spoke to the secretary general of the arab me. who believes the unrest in egypt is

just the beginning of reason why people in the arab world is in a state of change in a mood to change in a mood of change with different degrees of change and different interpretations of the word change but in general i depend of the day it is a change if you want is for you can be effectively so. demonstrations as i can do it is illegal event in the history perhaps not only only to. history of nations but it is an uprising of the people and by the people. it is new in this part of the world it happened and in some countries before but not with this intensity. coming up in the program here in our brain drain in the baltics. if you wait he has one of the highest levels of immigration you many of the young people who i've spoken to here say they see their future employment beyond the borders of country we might be educated you know. looking abroad for opportunity plus.

out of thirty people in this village twenty are over the age of sixty they have no access to running water medical help or food so for them it's not so much about enjoying life as it is about survival we'll take you to the western world for a look at the elderly there fend for themselves you know where. u.s. politicians don't often hold back when it comes to their views of the world but it seems they haven't always check their facts and can reports it's the american people who are becoming the butt of the joke. advising other countries on democracy seems to be a must for any u.s. politician and some of them get so carried away that they confuse what countries exactly they're talking about i also want to thank the president with the way now group of our members of congress visited with her us choose a great leader

a but we also had the opportunity meet with members of the opposition many of whom have fellow countrymen residing in prison have been beaten and tortured hard. during the same conference the former presidential candidate known one of the most influential republican senators referred to russia as the soviet union we all know that our missile defense rather modest. earmark. we are proceeding with it because of the threat we face from iran not from the soviet union but senator mccain's gaffes don't stop there i'm afraid that it's a very hard struggle particularly given the situation on the iraq pakistan border probably only in mccain's mind did pakistan share a border with iraq but he's not the only u.s. politician who's quick to share their expertise in world affairs without checking some facts george w.

bush will not prides himself on having pushed democracy in egypt during his presidency thought africa was a nation africa's a nation has suffered from incredible disease the winner of hearts and minds of millions of americans sarah pailin two thought africa was a country some two years ago but now nothing seems to stop her from handing out advice on how to deal with egypt this is paling has further contributed to her credibility in foreign affairs when commenting on the u.s. stance with regards to north korea obviously got to stand with our north korean allies were down to create by trees and worry about by well the paradoxes is that politicians who really know nothing about these things have to appear to know something. they have to speak out on all of these issues to be considered credible figures so sarah palin you know who could see russia from her door in her window you know is now an expert on russia or whatever else the reason why us politicians feel free to make bloopers on international issues could be that many of their

audience is can't cash the inconsistences well it's very easy to manipulate people when they don't know anything so on foreign policy generally americans. indifferent they don't pay attention to world events and you can easily manipulate them krus of their public ignorance or ghastly after waging wars in iraq and afghanistan for years figures show most americans still have difficulties finding the countries on the map the getting the money and. if the public is not able to notice the ignorance of their politicians they won't be able to hold them accountable for their decisions some say that is one of the biggest threat to democracy in america i'm going to check our reporting from washington our team. remember there is always more news on our website or two dot com here's what's lined up for you online right now by attempting side of one hundred twenty thousand dollars

a bus driver in russia takes the honest road after finding bags of cash. and customs officers in russia got into hot water after appearing in an amateur video showing the billings side of the job find out about these stories and much more on our website r t v dot com. lithuania's experiencing a worrying brain drain with the population plummeting by more than ten percent in the last decade and the impact of the world's financial crisis has made the outflow of people even more aggressive. young educated and unemployed the rhenish cabbage is a twenty four year old computer science graduate she can't find work in her native build this so is headed to another country in search of

a job she's one of the lucky ones she'll be reunited with her mother and father who have already made the switch i have finished university here and i couldn't find a job because of their economic. situation in the country. and my parents and they are living in ireland for a six year solar a day and i decided to off to ireland today with them and to find a job there more and more lithuanians are falling victim to the baltic brain drain young people finish their studies at home and then look for a job in western europe where salaries are much higher however the global financial crisis and crippling recession in countries like ireland means that the move abroad doesn't always provide the opportunity to once did it's always so brazen but. it's now a days it's better to go to ireland and to find a job there even

a way to his job then sitting just here and doing nothing. lithuania is carrying out a census in march to determine the current population demographic preliminary government statistics for twenty ten show that last year alone an estimated eighty three thousand people left the country many in search of work elsewhere lithuania has one of the highest levels of emigration in the e.u. many of the young people who i've spoken to here say they see their future employment beyond the borders of their native country this is one of the reasons that the twenty eleven census that will take place here will be the most comprehensive in the nation's history. with question is in english russian polish as well as if you were in the department of social statistics said desperate to find out how many people are living in the country they expect to see the two thousand and one population of three point four million for almost five hundred

thousand with no apparent end in sight to the exodus the long term estimates paint a bleak picture for the next forty years. but it's excellence. in the year two thousand and fifty. five million it's the task of bill this is to try and keep the best and brightest from being lost to the brain drain to safeguard the future but how social security the second is to provide health security because of the flood maybe it is to provide conditions for people to study because now it's going to be difficult because it is becoming expensive for people spend money on something i mean after money and when i can do. that i think we have to rearrange the access some access some sort of people for especially for young people any changes come too late for rena she's already made her move to pastures new and the search for employment in

western europe these are all over the list. and there's no financial news that escapes the prying eyes of our economic expert max kaiser and his co-host stacy herbert enjoy a slice of global thinking in the kaiser report coming up next hour. an urgent investigation's been launched after the russian president personally discovered major security lapses and where a way station in moscow it came to me that his religion paid a surprise visit to one of the capitals main stations he discovered no police or metal detectors that were supposed to be inside the president criticized the federal security service for its poor performance security and transport was meant to have been tightened across the country following the recent attack on the moscow . it's coming up to quarter past the hour let's take

a look at some other major headlines from around the world at least six people have been killed and six injured after a small plane crashed at cork airport in the republic of ireland a commuter aircraft overturned in court fire while trying to land in heavy fog the max two plane had made two previous attempts to land it had been travelling from belfast to northern ireland the accident is the deadliest in irish aviation since one thousand nine hundred sixty eight. a teenage suicide bomber dressed in school uniform has struck at a military facility in northwestern pakistan killing at least thirty soldiers and wounding over forty others the attackers detonated his explosive vest during an earlier training session in the city of marjah the incidents described as one of the worst against pakistani security forces in recent months militants have carried out scores of suicide bombings and other terror attacks in the past two years in the region killing thousands of. german chancellor angela merkel is due to

face questioning it's part of a probe into a military airstrike which killed dozens of civilians in afghanistan's kunduz province almost two years ago up to one hundred forty two people. building as a result of the attack on two fuel tankers which have been hijacked by taliban militants it sparked a political storm in germany claiming the job of several top military officials. a group of twenty eight somali pirates captured in the indian ocean on sunday have been handed over to mumbai police the pirates had hijacked a thai fishing vessel nine months ago and were using it as a base they were said to be preparing to attack a greek merchant ship when they were caught twenty four hostages were freed from the second anti-piracy operation by the indian navy in the region in less than two weeks late last month the navy arrested fifteen pirates after a gun battle. are close to

a team continues its discovery of the western europe is area now as it explores life in and around the city. this time the team discovers how russia's elderly are struggling to get by in the remote villages where they make up the majority of the population with tiny pensions and poor health care the older generation is in need of food medical assistance and support. listen to their stories. for many of russia's elderly their golden years seem to be anything but that a lot of them feel abandoned by their children who do not seem to pay enough attention to their parents they also feel abandoned by their government which they say does not supply enough aid in order for the pensioners to make it in their day to day lives so we wanted morsi aware significant number of populations over the

age of sixty five to find out how pensioners here are coping with everyday problems . already if it gets her daily exercise by breaking the ice in the well she'd much rather do without it but then she'd have no water in the seventy seven year old lives in her native village on her own. obvious that self no no we don't mind living like this we don't want to die but we do have a huge problem with water. water seems to be the main concern for these women but once they start talking more problems come to surface ask what if we can't get an ambulance out here probably because we're older and they think we're not important . out of thirty people in this village twenty are over the age of sixty we have no access to running water medical help or food so for them it's not so much about enjoying life as it is about survival the main problem of these women is their age miniscule pensions and poor healthcare make the lives of russia's elderly all but

unbearable but many say the way the elderly are perceived in the country is even more lamentable that you. different between russia and the west is that or not country old age is considered to be a time of loss and remain years whereas in the west it's a time for new possibilities. you know he believes russia is in a dire need of more social programs to provide care for the elderly one woman in the jeffs is already doing her part the eighty for a private retirement home came to natalya when her mother died and she was looking for someone to look after her father the taliban and her house. his job effectively and started her own business and when you see that you're good at what you do it's incredibly satisfying both people come in frightened at first and then they start considering your family member it's especially satisfying when you realize you doing something important new unfortunately these village women cannot afford to live in

a tiger's home like millions of russians they're forced to rely on their own strength in good spirits while they still have them for more on the issues which russia's elderly are facing today we are here joined by this is your uncle who is the director of a charity foundation united way at the time to thank you very much for coming to meet with us today to tell us which issues the pensioners in russia are facing at the moment. thank you very much for inviting me i would like to say that this is a common package of the problems the elderly people are facing in russian federation this is not only the financial issues to reach out extremely important but this is also their social isolation the lack of social support there for medical and other possibility for the elderly people frankly speaking it's very difficult in russia to get funding to find out the money for the programs focus on the interest of the elderly people and from all the people of the money raised it's about sixteen percent only goes for the grants through the end job providing

assistance to the elderly well stay for more of the close up coverage as we continue to cover the events and we'll cover other issues in our future programs as well. as there with our t. as well to say one of the oldest and largest protected areas in russia the caucuses nature reserve there's a world heritage site can only be reached by helicopter it's a trip that offers many rewards if you watch our report at six thirty pm jamie g.m.t. here's a preview. discovery. test yourself and become. see what nature can give you.

your authority i'll be back with the headlines at half past the hour up next it's the business with dimitri. welcome to business artie's good to have your company the government's intervention in fuel pricing is led to a reduction in the cost of diesel for consumers that's according to russians in monopoly watchdog the watchdog over the formal investigation into three of the country's top oil producers for price fixing after prime minister putin questioned why fuel prices were rising faster than crude oil two years ago that was so already imposed fines of nearly a billion dollars against the likes of frost. for fixing prices but constantine seaman of general director of the national energy security fund believes fines are not the right way to show competition. the problem is that we have no in the plan them to refineries in the us all serious or foreign that is their part of this we

have to integrated companies and in my opinion if we really want to struggle for law with all prices across the wall we must sink not about fines we must think about structural reform of our industry we must have independent refineries and only i think this is the only one way to struggle with high oil prices if we want to price on petrol we must have a real computer vision of our market if we'll have no independent why there is there will be no competition. gazprom is post of the first quarter net profit of five point four billion dollars down nine percent from the previous year the figures were in line with and its expectations russia's biggest company of servitude the decline to long term debt interest payments and a decrease in demand gas from supplies around a quarter of europe's gas needs though its market share has dropped in the last two years due to be in for over alternative energy sources. second to be

a stock markets now first to the u.s. which opened just a few minutes ago flat to negative as always this is again threatening the dow jones winning streak of around eight days now again just point one percent yesterday down point right now. european stocks are also lower than led by heavyweight banking stocks shares of credit suisse fell more than two percent after the bank report to the six percent rise in fourth quarter net profit that fell short of expectations russian stocks are also declining taking a deeper plunge with every minutes investors are shifting their assets out of developing countries are concerned that inflation will hurt growth in emerging markets more do the stocks now energy majors are the main drag of oil is dropping to eighty six dollars a barrel this is because opec has announced increasing production this will be driving prices even further lower gas from the aft is therefore down two and

a half percent investors are worried that the refinery will suffer most of the russian anti-monopoly more forces fuel prices no drug maker pro tech is down three percent despite reporting twenty ten revenue rising one point one percent because it fell short of expectations. to levin's to growing plant or shell pipe as stopped in upcoming initial public offering due to unfavorable market conditions the company had planned to sell around thirty percent of its shares and then my sexuality is in london stock exchange in a bid to raise up to eight hundred twenty eight million dollars now this predicted the i.p.o. would have. valued the company between two and two point seven billion dollars. rather says it lost twenty one million euros from its involvement with the russian comic up to us last year but that was down to the first with after returning a profit of thirty five many of the french company in the second half right now it expects along with its alliance partner to acquire controlling stake in up to the

us by. russia's ruble is climbed five percent against the dollar of the past three months the best performer among twenty five emerging market currencies because it is appreciation is helping keep inflation in check but. from beating the capital explains russian central bank needs to balance its concern over rising prices against attracting unwanted speculative capital. for the central bank the tradeoff is really the need to they need someone to compensation by the same time they. can't allow it to thaw us because otherwise they will treat it kept telling flows and it will make the problem of fighting inflation even more difficult so we're seeing the ruble against the dollar at twenty nine thirty by the year end which is not far from from where we are now but much stronger against the basket. so we in total for this year we're seeing just we see seven percent. against

a bust. so we use furniture giant i here to top selling stores worldwide where in russia according to the company's chief in this country still investment plans this year for russia are focused on preservation rather than expansion. what amazing we have about two hundred twenty million people visiting the me and that's an increase of sixteen seventeen percent so that's an amazing figure and we have also say seen increase in the same in the same way sixteen seventeen percent say it's increased which is which is growing much much faster than the rest of the russian is actually very very important for us and there's one interesting thing is that the two top selling stores in the world tour russians do so from a volume wise russia is really do well an update of the latest business news and

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