yes they are against president ali abdullah saleh has been in power for more than thirty two years and they're also concerned about poverty i mean poignant and corruption in the protests there continuing today thousands of people took place in a peaceful procession that was to bury one of the people who was killed in demonstrations there on monday human rights groups are accusing the security forces in bahrain of using pellet guns at short range and now the king has vowed to investigate these claims and institute reforms and then lastly in iran thousands of people clashed with police in a funeral procession there for protester also killed on monday we're also hearing from government officials and clerics they are calling for the trial and execution of opposition leaders who they claim are behind these demonstrations if we look at just some of these countries yemen is an important american ally the rain is an important american ally i mean if you look at a place like the rain there the united states houses the headquarters of the u.s.

navy's fifth fleet the big question mark for washington of course is iran because it does not have a strong american influence there in these clashes that happened today wednesday a lot of protesters were holding up and t. even with signs they were they were chanting anti american slogans and the feeling is growing within iran as it has been for some time against the american administration if we look back at what inspired a lot of these events the toppling if one can call it that of president mubarak in egypt the united states was given conflicting messages at the beginning of the demonstrations it seemed to support mubarak the u.s. had supported for thirty years if they change that support to the demonstrators and by the time the barak was overthrown it clearly put itself of the demonstrators the people here asking the question this doesn't really change the u.s. influence particularly in egypt because now the army is in place and for years the u.s. has been. and sing with billions of dollars the egyptian army so to some extent the

army is really just the other side of mubarak's power so the u.s. watching these developments with increasing concern and needing to balance itself people who are criticizing a american involvement and b. their involvement as being of double standards and then of course israel comes to the party as well watching events israel increasingly concerned that it could see islamic republics erupting on its borders so as the tsunami continues to sweep across the middle east the u.s. and israel as well increasingly alarmed. but washington is trying to promote its own model of democracy in the region so as to keep the people under control that's according to author. clearly the united states will support anything that will promote what they want to be all routine change in it round especially considering that the round is such a powerful country from the point of view not only of its potential military and

also its potential with oil but also its potential as being a theocracy we are in the slammin world of the house of dollars based interior on hold great sway over for literally hundreds of millions of muslims so whatever happens in rand is far more important than he even of what happened with saddam hussein in iraq we have to understand that what the united states now i believe is trying to achieve is a way to promote change in a way that will facilitate things for them the best instrument they have to control the country is the so-called democracy because holy war and democracy it is basically a vote counting system handled by the mass media the guy who wins whether it be a president or prime minister or a senator or a deputy is that the want to challenge it with all the support of the money power whether it be for his campaign or for media in t.v. time and so forth so for example in the joy of origin tina democracy is the best way they have to control the country against the people's interest and i think when

they hear that they are promoting democracy in egypt i tremble for the egyptians because it is going to be a democracy how long the brand as it was promoted in argentina or knows what it looks throughout latin america it will only help to support long term objectives in this global power structure operated from europe and from the united states and not the actual interest of we the people to say that in a vertical local and generalized manner. experts say that rising food prices were one reason behind the way the fancy government demonstrations in north africa and the middle east the un has warned often pending a social up people in countries that are quite literally hungry for freedom the issue is also creeping into the u.s. where food stamp programs are being slashed. and ford has more. in egypt the revolution took to the streets. but it may have started at the table when food prices began skyrocketing for the

more than forty percent of egyptians living on less than two dollars per day. and it isn't just egypt around the world where there are billion people who are already hungry they spend more than half of their money on food so these kinds of huge world crop price increases can translate into twenty or thirty percent or more increases in their cost of. food prices rapidly rising beyond the levels of the two thousand and eight food prices are forcing americans to make tough decisions at the cash register to vote the friends we have had to learn how to do things. because they don't know we don't get a raise. and everything means basic staples like milk the coffee and cereal which rose five percent in the last few months alone. is going to be every summer going to fifty dollars and i'll get

a lot of i mean if i want to. but decisions about who pays and how much aren't made at the register says journalist frederick kaufman imaginary wheat being bought and sold by financial giants is controlling the price of real wheat they're made on wall street by big investment firms who distrust dollars and euros and instead hedge their bets on commodities who's winning but you've got it goldman sachs j.p. morgan chase the largest holders a lot of largest financial dealers in this they're doing very well as the u.s. pushes producers to convert corn crops to ethanol the crisis deepens around the world demand for biofuels has tripled over the past six years and will triple again by two thousand and twenty growing demand for bottles oh my. challenge increasing the amount of time we have to produce for people and. farmers are having a tough time keeping up but americans aren't as eager to push frustrations from the

grocery store to the streets from work to table. because we haven't got a second job to. do with thirteen point nine billion dollars in cuts to food stamp programs over the next three years means that the average american family all receive fifty nine dollars less per month bringing less food to their table but it's unclear whether it will also bring them out in the streets in florida part of washington d.c. . staying with dollars in the u.s. we explain to you later this hour how a new budget proposal is making some americans fear even more for their future. why the trillions in federal spending will fall into the wrong hands and will only benefit those currently in power. now let's move to lithuania now where a disagreeing with the government can land you behind bars. opposition party leader rather faces jail time off the blaming his country's wealth ortiz for orchestrating

a fatal done battle with soviet troops two decades ago. takes a look at both sides of the story. january nine hundred ninety one fourteen protesters dying after clashes with saudi troops the incident sparked international support for the demonstrators cause an independent state of lift the waning however one local politician now faces a possible jail sentence that disagree with the fish equation of events a good artist polanski this is a member of the vilna city council and says soviet soldiers would responsible basing my opinion on the witnesses and on the book which was published by the former head of parliamentary the national security committee chair so he wrote in his book and nobody denied that but from this tower representatives of libyan and all for a case where shooting down into the crowd. and other businesses for i know who

lived in that area and still live pointed to bellows houses here on the roofs off which houses better people for the shooting and they solve them. fresh opinions on historical events are nothing unusual based on newly discovered evidence others merely conspiracy theories what's different is that mr polanski's his argument that it was live gunman that were responsible could land him in jail i am facing a charge of. up to two years in prison i mean i have i may receive a fine up to two years in prison i think this is absolute from term in terms of human rights and freedom of opinion absurd or not it's the law in the few when you that was. the lithuanian penal code provides for criminal responsibility for the public thing aisle of genocide crimes against humanity or war crime was people who

belittle these crimes are more victims should be held responsible as the nine hundred ninety one aggression against lithuania and its citizens falls under the definition of a war crime. as an elected official miss the player is a mune from prosecution however he has waived this right and is prepared to stand trial local historians question plaits cases sources and back the official version of events. on the one hand there were civilians who wanted self-determination on the other hand there was military might in my assessment the events of january nine hundred ninety one were an attempt to solve the problem of the use of force claimed innocent lives. but should questioning history bring with it a criminal investigation. i don't think that this is a reason for a person to be prosecuted it's his personal opinion the authorities have overreacted but it's up to the lawyers to decide it's

a provocation but it's based on certain logic lithuanian north or a ts did make attempts to provoke the save your thirty's and compel them to start solving the lithuanian issue. should he be found guilty by the. it is needed lithuania and gladys polanski says he will appeal to the european court of human rights and appeal he's convinced it would be carried out from a jail cell history may not agree with the opinion of mr polanski when it comes to the events of january one thousand nine hundred one however those same historians are unsure whether it's the role of the legal system to determine who can say what about the circumstances of the deaths of fourteen people here in vilnius peter all over r.t. lithuania. you with the live from moscow and the european security the middle east economic cooperation they're all on the agenda for the russian president dmitri medvedev as he visits italy he's in a room holding negotiations with his counterpart as well as with prime minister

silvio berlusconi it's really is leading business partner for russia so the visit focuses on diversifying trade and modernizing their economic partnership but here there will certainly hope at the vatican becoming the first russian leader to go there after the two sides established its diplomatic relations in two thousand and nine. right let's go to some other international news in brief for you this hour an iraqi defector who said saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction has admitted that he lied profit algernon these claims were among those used to justify the u.s. led two thousand and three invasion of the country he said he saw an opportunity to topple the old regime and bring to mock two of our show which groups say the war had resulted in over one hundred thousand civilian deaths. a tropical low pressure system which developed into a category one cycle and happened back to the northern australian city of darwin dozens of homes were deluged and main roads have been cut off by floodwaters high

winds and heavy rains lashed the city overnight operating trees and knocking down power lines schools and the city's airport remain closed so i can call loss is expected to intensify to a category two as it nears the coast and will linger until friday. korea is celebrating the birthday of its leader kim jong il who is sixty nine although some records show that he's actually a year older in pyongyang people climbed to the foot of a giant statue of the country's founding leader and kim's father we could festivities is shuttled including exhibitions ice skating and music shows it's widely believed the leaders health is ailing after a stroke in two thousand and eight and the sun. kim jong un is being groomed a replacement. runnable rights activists in china are condemning a magic trick with synchronized goldfish they say cruelty was required to make the

fish move in unison the act was made famous after being broadcast on state television during the lunar new year celebrations last month in the most watched program of the year the magician responsible says there's no abuse but refuses to give away the secret of the trick. well u.s. president barack obama has unveiled his two thousand and twelve federal budget proposal which he highlights the country's financial priorities the plan includes a budget cuts and tax increases all aimed at reducing the deficit over the next decade and while washington is calling for over three trillion dollars in federal spending experts say regular americans will not benefit. i think we have a political system that is sclerosis and what i mean by that is all the beneficiaries of government spending the companies that get subsidies the military producers who sell goods to the government the working people who get some benefits

even if they're small all of them have mobilized to hold on to what they get to make it politically costly for any congressman or woman to go against them those people whose programs will be cut they will be hurt those people whose taxes will be raised they will be heard but these are very small potatoes the basic picture which republicans and democrats alike support is a budget that's going to be basically of one and a half trillion dollars short the government is going to spend that money the republicans and democrats agree on all of that they're just squabbling over a little amount but the larger picture nobody addresses nobody debates and that's an economy that requires a huge amount of government support to keep hobbling along and debts into the future that we will suffer a farm much more than anything being debated by republicans and democrats in washington. and that was professor richard wolfe speaking right there where you can

log onto our web site for much more news videos you can also read our blogs from around the world and even leave your own comments what's waiting for you online right now. so if you ski slopes are being put to the test as the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics host city prepares to stage the european cup. have you ever wanted to travel. to see what the plot of a film called neighborhood. spoke to the lead up to find out what he had to say at. the pentagon is rumors that the u.s. commander in afghanistan will leave his post by the end of the year the british

press reported that general david petraeus is due to leave afghanistan along with a large share of u.s. troops washington's promise to pull all of its forces out of the country by two thousand and fourteen quote come hell or highwater. the us has failed to learn from the soviet campaign. american occupation of afghanistan has already exceeded all possible saw that mistake in that contrie and accomplished even more than that in a negative sense and simultaneously having missed all the positive developments that were triggered and promoted by the soviet union intentionally or not in afghanistan i'm not going to justify the soviet military campaign in afghanistan however i do believe that the current american military campaign in afghanistan provides and ample evidence to exonerate the soviet political economic

and military presence in afghanistan from day to raise e.g. of the united states information agency of propaganda which super e during the cold war battle you know afghanistan the economic objective was to distribute the farmland to farmers and that's why their forces will fighting the landlords the united states do not fire the landlords the befriending the landlords and have turned them into the drug lords and the main negative success story for the united states occupation these that have been a stand has been turned deliberately on not into the narco caliphate. former u.n. anti drugs chief lackey says international corruption in afghanistan is under reported and accounts for greater problems inside the country.

forty billion dollars. in afghanistan for the civilian aid only eight of these forty went through they are forever there is the international the production international newspapers particularly western news be it was never speak directly at least a big piece of the key base because the time about after the production which is there of course but this is more. leisurely the biggest corruption. that i discovered or the steal of african people eighty percent there with international aid. now you can watch that interview in full next hour right here on our t.v. but now it's a look at today's business news with dmitri. welcome to business r.t. russia could quit the. oil pipeline project that bypasses turkey's bosphorus

straits according to russian media russian partners comprising of transnet through us after gas from the us are about to officially end their financing of the project this would effectively kill off the project that russia bulgaria and greece agreed to three years ago to build almost three hundred kilometers of an oil pipeline to export crude to european clients however trance they have does deny this information saying russia does not intend to redirect all deliveries to other pipelines but alice doubts the economic value of the whole project. together with the completed one pipeline and together with the plan to be completed next year to pipeline i think currently. russia has enough expert capacity is probably distribution i mean j a graphical distribution of it's not so diversified as russia but actually may want or potentially many i don't think that.

construction of some. extra additional pipelines for world is justified economically. gazprom expects export revenues this year to top the pre-crisis record as natural gas prices increase and the demand for fuel recovers route europe pick up but he said the total export revenue could exceed seventy two billion dollars this year which is two and a half billion more than in two thousand and eight russia's gas giant plans to boost its exports to europe this year expecting gas prices to rise fifteen percent from those who said it is already shipping ahead of schedule meanwhile ukraine's natural gas is the price it pays for one thousand cubic meters of russian gas will go up to two hundred eighteen dollars in the second quarter of twenty one. retail diesel prices in russia have fallen by two point four percent in a week with aviation fuel dropping in price this came after russian prime minister

vladimir putin criticize all companies for justifiably high prices the prices for diesel and aviation fuel in russia rose by fifty and thirty five percent respectively over the past wants. in russia indices of the stock markets are rising this hour investors are continuing to trade cautiously overseeing just have a percent. marginal so go get some of these stocks this burbank is gaining around one percent of the stock is finding it hard to recover after the climbing around eight percent in the past couple weeks severstal is also up one percent following reports may cut steel supplies to car maker after a small stock was down one half percent european shares are rising ahead of the u.s. market opening and the new home construction in the united states came in better than expected that's probably going to push the markets higher at the opening french drugmaker start of year venters up two percent after its agreed to buy its

rival. twenty billion dollars in cash. saying with france french under sort of vision or else said. fourth quarter profit quadrupled due to turnaround at its russian units the russian duma banking business had a first team million euro profit compared with the loss of fifty eight million last year russia which is the lead the second largest market by employees may become the biggest contributor to the international return by twenty fifty. brief the possible merger of russia's heavy truck producer car mass with its bella roots rival is a step closer to reality of the delivery stephanie prime minister will give us in moscow echoed russian technology is designed to consolidate the two companies but central merger could see come as a man as to create a new company and would in turn give mad shareholders of forty nine percent stake.

in this week's news very curvy t b bank which successfully sold ten percent of its shares on monday is planning to snap up bank of moscow the bank is expecting record profits for twenty ten in addition to these positive developments between bees deputy chairman go but moose said that the non-performing loans been steadily shrinking in the past year while it's credible foley was growing above the market. in two thousand and ten we close in the years i said i think we expect to grow above market. expectation will grow somewhere in the area of twelve to fourteen percent for this year for two thousand and eleven we have you know fairly high growth expectations we think. for books will grow in line with market and we think that that will be approximately fifteen percent and told book will grow above the market and we expect to hear growth of about twenty percent what about. we certainly past the peak where now

we've seen a steady fall in the last three quarters of two thousand and ten i think for this year we expect that for the full and we expect for the new long portfolio our cost of risk or percentage of reserves that we create against the bad loans will be somewhere between one and a half and two percent so friday a long number we think that's a new normal crisis to realize approximately one of the two percent of the bad loans of your credit but for. most the chief financial officer of the talking to business are to such an opinion well be back in one hour's time with an update the headlines are next you stay with us.

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now five thirty pm in the russian capital he with. top stories. of the arab world as protesters in the region follow the example set. in egypt. demanding reform meanwhile over in tehran government demonstrators are getting support from washington but some experts say it shows america is using standard under the pretense of democracy. and wall street also finds itself in this global tidal wave of unrest as financial. crisis. was the original cause of frustration which forced all the people.

and a politician in lithuania may face jail for disagreeing with his government he claims local authorities and troops. twenty years ago. waived his right of immunity from prosecution for freedom of speech in the baltic states. when he was put in power by. his predecessors cult of personality the development of the soviet space program look at the secrets behind the rule of nikita khrushchev. a politician full of contradictions and paradoxes for nearly two decades his name received no mention in the soviet press many continue to remember him to his resignation. i think he was the best emperor of the soviet era yes he was. publicly that the soviet union would catch up with america and do it he promised.