portioned american ally the rain is an important american ally i mean if we look at a place like the rain there in 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 teach us 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 he spied 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 them slowly changed its support to the demonstrators and by the time the bike was overthrown it clearly put itself of the demonstrators the people you're asking the question of 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 financing 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 here criticizing a american involvement and b. their involvement as being of double standards and then of course israel comes to the party is all 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. russian president dmitri medvedev who's on an official visit to italy expressed hope that the q. rights and liberties of people living in the revolution torn states will be observed and respected. it's a very difficult process we hope that all conflicts that are taking place in the middle east will be settled on

a legal basis through observing the constitution and fundamental rights and freedoms of people living there. while turned as it can dream it's a sign including one on military transit to afghanistan assets what deal with an italian energy company business update we'll have more on some of these deals a little later for you this. the us unconditionally supports the corrupt regimes of the middle east but switches so as soon as the dictators are toppled well that's according to finney incoming m who's an expert on the region he spoke to us earlier from protest stricken bahrain the us foreign policy is replete with contradictions of what they heal the virtues of democracy free markets free speech and these kind of things but in reality on the growing they've shown past and present to be foo's were behind regimes that are the antithesis of these values regimes that are brutally repressive regimes that are corrupt elites regimes

to destabilize the region through their misconduct. use of the populations under neighboring book publishers it's very telling in the very mercurial positional of the us regarding the demonstrations in egypt and elsewhere they do you have to give some sort of lip service understandable support to the movement for democracy it was very noticeable that these disappeared is quite warm and it's it's quite large in it's it's not. food some support for the demonstrators in my view. to do so that is quite evident to walking a very fine line because of their protests areas contradictions. experts say rising food prices were one reason behind the wave of anti-government demonstrations in north africa and the middle east the u.n. has warned of impending social upheaval in countries that are quite literally

hungry for freedom and issues also creeping into the u.s. where food stamp programs are being slashed out is coming forward reports. 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 these kinds of huge world crop price increases can translate in 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 the price that we have to really have to learn how to if they do things like us because they don't know we don't get

a raise to go into everything and everything means basic staples like milk be 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 get a lot of i mean if i want to eat healthy food 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 you've got it goldman sachs j.p. morgan chase the largest holders a lot 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 food 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 berkeley to table. you know we have got sick and tired of being sick and tired of the we get did we 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 tables but it's unclear whether it will also bring them out in the streets toward our washington d.c. . and staying with dollars and the u.s. we explain to you later this hour a new budget proposal is making some americans fear even more for their future in front of a pretty federal spending will fall in the wrong hands only benefit those in power

. that's to come a little later for you in the meantime let's move on to lithuania where disagreeing with the government can land you behind bars an opposition party leader faces jail after blaming his country's authorities for orchestrating a fatal gun battle with soviet troops two decades ago peter all of it takes a look at both accounts of that day. january nine hundred ninety one fourteen protest is dying out the clashes with saudi troops the incident sparked international support for the demonstrators cause an independent state of lithuania however one local politician now faces a possible jail sentence but disagree with the fish equation of the events a good artist polansky this is a member of the vilna city council and says soviet soldiers were responsible basing my opinion on the witnesses and on the book which was published by the former

head of parliamentary national security committee chair so he wrote in his book and nobody denied that but from this tower representatives of libyan authorities where shooting down into the crowd. and other businesses why no who lived in that area and still live pointed to valve's houses here on the roofs of the shelters better people for the shooting and baseball than. you fresh opinions on historical events are nothing unusual some are 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 i may receive a fine for 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 if you win but also as well because both are part the lithuanian penal code provides for criminal responsibility for the public aisle of genocide crimes against humanity or work or a rules people who believe so these crimes are more victims should be held responsible as in one thousand nine hundred. mission against little you know and its citizens falls under the definition of a war crime if you can get those as an elected official mr play at this is a mune from prosecution however he has waived this right and he's prepared to stand trial local historians question play to get his sources back the official version of events from the start i mean we're. on the one hand there were civilians who wanted self-determination on the other hand it was military might in my assessment the events of january ninety ninety one were an attempt to solve a 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 your thirty seven overreacted but it's up to the lawyers to decide it's a provocation but it's based on certain logic lithuanian authorities did make attempts to provoke the soviet authorities and compel them to start solving the lithuanian issue. should he be found guilty by the courts in his native lithuania and gladys polanski says he will appeal to the european court of human rights an appeal he's convinced will be carried out from a jail cell history may not agree with the opinion of mr politicos when it comes to the events of january one thousand nine hundred 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. well coming up later in the program when the law meets the world of sports. m.m.a. fighter a tarzan redhead commonly known but that's it has been refused political asylum in norway and will return to russia to stand trial in the details coming up. but first some other international news in brief for you an iraqi defector who said saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction has admitted he lied about it arjun rbs claim for monday's 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 democracy to iraq essentially say the war has resulted in over one hundred thousand civilian. tropical low pressure system which developed into a category one side clone as part of the northern australian city of darwin dozens of homes for daily use the 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 in the city's airport remain closed so i can carlos is expected to intensify to a category two as it is the coast and will linger until right. down has been announced as the name of the world's newest country will come into existence in july after a referendum last month went overwhelmingly in favor of a split from the north much speculation of the territories name and among suggestions were cush republic separation is hoped to end decades of conflict between north and south. animal rights activists in china condemning a magic trick with synchronised goldfish if he wants to make the fish move in unison it was made famous after being vol castle state television during a lunar new year celebrations last month in the most watched program of the year and to show responsible says there's no abuse but refuses to give away the secrets of this. fishing trade a lot of. us president barack obama. has unveiled his twenty twelve federal budget

proposal in which he highlights the country's financial priorities the plan includes budget cuts and tax increases all aimed at reducing the deficit over the next ten years and while washington is calling for over three trillion dollars in federal spending experts say regular americans will not benefit from this i think we have a political system that is school erotic 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 urged but these are very small potatoes the basic picture which

republicans and democrats alike support is a budget that's going to be basically 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 it was professor richard wolffe there to norway now in a court there has ordered a russian nationalist be extradited back to his country for just that sequels and he's mixed martial arts states as the jinja tarzan escaped from a psychiatric ward in russia and so political asylum or he's captured server has the latest. request was sent by the russian prosecutor general's office to norway

asking that this man be returned to russia to stand trial he is of course wanted here in this country for a number of robberies he is also of course known for many strange and bizarre acts he. self-proclaimed in relative to some sort of pagan gods that he believes to be of russian descent he has called himself the lord of the more forest which of course is a region in russia has denied christianity as this country's religion has proven itself to be a hardcore neo nazi and even the fighters themselves of course not the m.m.a. fighters the mixed martial arts but perhaps other well known figures in the fighting community have all said that as a fighter and even as a human being this love got sick is not one of them and he of course continues to

shock the public with his escapades the latest of course being that he broke out of a psychiatric hospital apparently allegedly tearing at the fencing with his bare hands and then rode in a boat to norway from st petersburg that is how he arrived in that country and asked for political asylum that was refused to him and he's currently serving a prison sentence there for illegal possession of an unregistered firearm of that prison sentence will continue up until may be received eight months behind bars as soon as may which slopped out six may be extradited back to russia of course and his lawyers say that they will fight this decision by the norwegian courts stop that's it is already considering asking for political asylum in both law to be and looking at. question is are reporting that two russian cosmonauts on board the i

assessed have taken this year's second space walk flight engineers dimitry contract or leg scripts script have now returned back to the station after spending about five hours in open space the cosmonauts were traveling state of the art space suits which are interactive displays telling them what must be checked and what to do in an emergency or what we should do to take six hours but the cosmonauts were able to complete their work soon. by the way you can log on to our web site for much more news and videos in addition to what you see here on screen you can also read our blogs from around the world and leave your comments if we could to hear from me here's a taste of what's online right now. in sochi ski slopes are being put to the test of the twenty fourteen winter olympics host city prepares to stage the old pine rubin car. he never wanted to travel back in time when that fantasy was the plot of a film called distant neighborhood based on a japanese manga comic and often spoke to the lead actor and you can find out what

he had to say on r.t. dot com. the pentagon is denying rumors that the u.s. commander in afghanistan will leave his post by the end of the year the british press earlier 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 twenty fourteen quote come hell or high water well arty's military contributors says the u.s. failed to learn from the soviet campaign there. american occupation of afghanistan has already exceeded all possible saw that mistake in that contrie and accomplished even illegal 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 their raese g.-u. of the united states information agency propaganda which rolled supreme during the cold war battle you know afghanistan the economic objective was to distribute the farmland to farmers and that's why their sort of an armed forces of all fighting landlords the united states do not fire the landlords 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 and not into the narco caliphate former un add to drugs cheap you know lucky says international corruption in afghanistan is under reported and accounts for great problems in the country. out of forty billion dollars that lived in afghanistan for the civilian aid all the eight of these forty went through the african bowl. is international the production international newspapers particularly western newspapers never speak about this big piece of the cake they speak all the time about africa which is there of course but this is most lights these are the biggest corruption. that i discovered or the steel of african people eighty percent there with international aid.

and you can watch that interview in an hour from now here on r t dimitris here with the latest from the world of business stay with us for that. coming to you live from moscow wins the evening this is business r.t. good to have your company gazprom now after joining the elephant oil field in libya and an asset swap deal with italian energy company any of the gas giant is getting thirty three point three percent or half of any stake in the field with estimated reserves of two hundred twelve million tons of oil in return any will be given access to energy projects in russia according to deputy chairman of gazprom alexey miller the estimate worth of the deal is one hundred seventy eight million dollars the deal was sealed during the russian president dmitry medvedev visit to italy on wednesday. meanwhile russia could quit the burger. pipeline project

that bypasses turkey's bosphorus straits according to russian media trance now gas from the left are about to officially end the financing of the project now this would effectively kill off the idea of the russia of bulgaria and greece agreed upon three years ago and that's to build on was free hundred kilometers of an oil pipeline to export crude to european clients however tranced afters denied this information saying russia does not intend to redirect oil deliveries to other pipelines but some analysts doubt the economic value of the whole project. together with the completed is pure 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 graphical distribution overall is not so diversified as russia but it may want or potentially many i

don't think that. construction of some. extra additional pipelines for world is justified economically. to move out of the stock markets and u.s. markets are up just one half hour left before we close this is as new home construction in the u.s. comes in better than expected the fed is more upbeat about the economy and strong earnings results from family dollar and abercrombie and fitch are boosting the market half a percent up russia ended wednesday's session on a positive note pushed by rising oil prices and optimism in the u.s. and europe banking stocks were in the lead with back up one percent and bt be the biggest gainer of the day up almost four percent as its weight in the m.s.c.i. index was increased to three percent rose nicole was one of the biggest losers of the day and spritz rating says it's reconsidering the outlook for the company and sevastopol ended the day one and a half percent following of course their make cut steel supplies to carmakers after

vice. the my six is up about sixty basis points today helped by a combination of factors including the strong oil price strengths in european equity markets strengths in the u.s. equity futures and also better than expected u.s. housing starts data sentiment towards russia remains quite positive rate now helped by the. oil price environment and also by yesterday's better than expected industrial output data which showed that growth in russia is actually accelerating right now. because some of the other news here in russia possible merger of russia's heavy truck producers with its rival mask is one step closer this is prime minister. echoed russia's desire to consolidate the two companies now this potential merger would seek. to create a new company. and shareholders will get

a stake in the company. retail diesel prices in russia by two point four percent over the past week aviation fuel is also declining this comes after russian prime minister criticized. justifiably high prices. that's it for me join my colleague eight twenty moscow time in the morning bill is next with headlines don't go away.

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