said to have you supplies made by british companies to clear the protests human rights activist barnaby pace says the u.k. has been reckless and this arms sales. we can see across the middle east that the government is selling to repressive regimes all over this could happen at any point in and we've got to be aware that when we suddenly both non-lethal and lethal equipment those will be used and. generally at some point that they will be used on someone innocent the u.k. government needs to seriously reconsider how approaches arm sales in the first place not only have these arms be licensed to be so diocese in the case of bahrain . they are actively promote. the u.k. government and actually promote sales to a number of repressive regimes this very weekend the u.k. government is sending representatives out to the launch an abu dhabi it's called eidetic. which the industry trade body in the u.k.

claims ten percent of its exhibitors will be british at this spare and the u.k. actively encourages is these companies to sell including the very equipment that is being used to protest this in the middle east to seriously look at not just where the selling to a specific country is and which i is a good idea but whether but how it should be selling arms and if it should be selling arms a tool. is the weapons are widely misused and the u.k. is a textbook criteria which look good on paper very rarely applied with any record. now in egypt there have been mass abrasions marking a week since hosni mubarak was ousted as president but middle east analyst james denselow from king's college london says that so far mubarak's associates are still in power. this hasn't really been a revolution in a traditional sense mubarak's power structure his cronies are still really in a similar place as they were before they say while the battle to. be won the war

over the future of egypt before and we see what happens next in terms of real constitutional changes changes to the state of emergency whether political parties can rise out of the ashes. tearing isn't the genie has well and truly been left out of the bottle and the reverberations from what happened in a now being felt in every single state and i think that you know as the persian tales go if there were to be three wishes from the genie out of the bottle the governments would wish that the populations would accept the compromises they've made the population seem to wish that their leadership disappeared and the international community seems to be busy wishing that it knew which side of the fence to sit on and let's get some perspective from america on this radio host and film director alex jones says that the fact of forcing people out onto the streets is dollar inflation and the self-serving policies of major banks. as the global economy is flooded with dollars as the private philip reserve hyper inflates

the dollar it's going to drive commodities and so in places like egypt and many other areas you're going to have people who are making on average two dollars a day or less. basically with empty bellies who are going to start rioting and protesting and austerity via globalism is also coming to western europe it's coming to places like ireland because everything is now going to the offshore private central banks the system hopes to use all of this new furor in the streets as a pretext to basically roll in another layer of intensified police states. the media focus is shifting across the protests sweeping through the middle east and later we ask people in new york whether the media has lost sight of what it means for the countries where the unrest began in egypt and tunisia. it's all about money and power in which at the meat of the story is totally gone kind of

though those type of journalists in the field reporting journalist it seems like that's the story with all of them they love to kind of shine just as much of a peripheral light on what they went through to get the truth out and that's that's journalism. now the u.s. may be the self-proclaimed land of the free but it beats all nations in both the number and percentage of residents that incarcerates now its present population is inching towards two million a quarter of the world's total artes and associate schork and i met one ex convict who's trying to keep kids on the straight and narrow but who says he's up against a prison system built for profit. the parking lot where the prison cell where the man inside it the inmate michael to bond moved in out of his own free will michael spent thirty hours building his prison cell made out of plywood

and even parts of his own homes a roof top his generator strategically placed right here keeps the cell lit and warm throughout this cold winter months the main goal of the man once convicted of armed robbery to bring down the number of prisoners in the u.s. slavery still exists in the united states of america to him and his supporters in sleeved are over two million prisoners packing jails across the u.s. a country with the highest prison population in the world yet they eat sleep and use the same in the same area were. disgusting to me is not somewhere i want to be married to be if you are the ex-con is now teaching children about the horrors of prison life to deter them from crime in the future. where the self-made convict says one of the biggest problems is american prisons are big business thirty three thousand dollars a year. is like it's gonna. go.

for every rock you bring me. how many rocks would you bring and in this diary khana meat many youngsters are stuck between a rock and a hard place you can't mop the whole country and especially during a recession you know poverty is synonymous if you go poverty you're going to have michael also cites a flawed justice system for the high conviction rates especially of the poor with lawyers selling freedom to the highest bidder if you can't afford to pay for the. crazy. where is the counterpart the money is a little bit of a problem. across the u.s. but less than five percent of the world's population but almost a quarter of the prison population of the planet the man will remain in his cell until the end of the month by which time he hopes his message will have hit home until then look at a thawing now we all in the home and face it you're going to r.t.

philadelphia. glen ford editor of the political magazine black agenda report believes that imprisonment is a profitable political tool to control social and racial unrest the people who would insulate black folks and the people in my circles don't consider that the main impetus to mass incarceration is money it is a political tool to control folks but if you want to do that you have to get large segments of the society on your side you have to make prison profitable for lots of people lots of companies and you also make it profitable for little towns in upstate new york and downstate illinois towns that would be suffering serious terrible unemployment if they didn't have a prison in their county so you you you you do two things you whip out

a and hysteria which is really a racial hysteria and the numbers show it around mainly drugs and you create a profit motive for people to vote to incarcerate masses and masses of black people and it works and that's why we have by far the worst imprisonments record on the planet. well our dot com is where you can check out all or stories blogs analysis whatever you like and let's run you through some of what's online today taking protect. the u.s. government mistakenly shuts down tens of thousands of innocent websites in a massive raid against child porn. to sample love letters are priceless but this one they're about to writing of napoleon to josephine is up for sale at russia's oldest auction house discover the price of passion r t v dot com.

japan's chief cabinet secretary is to view russia's lesser karylle chain from an airplane what comes after a recent visits by russian officials to the islands which are claimed by tokyo now earlier russia said it would not tolerate japan's radical approach towards the territories and announced it was reequipping the corals military garrisons the islands in the pacific ocean were handed to russia as part of the grievance that the end of the second world war on friday comments on the situation came from the us washington once again underlined its position over the lesser karylle say the territory belongs to japan so again struck on for russia's comments sun newspaper says the u.s. is pushing russia to review history. again comes as a double surprise because of the let me remind you that it was it was a san francisco agreement of one hundred fifty three and gave up all the claims for

korea why once and in addition to that as you knew united states were are fairly in the second world war so now there's an attempt to reconsider the results of the second world war on the part of our area because they gently pushing us right. now the slaying of twelve people in a so. russian village last year brought the public's attention to the massive scale of corruption and cover ups by local police in small towns nationwide now there are those who spent years desperately trying to highlight the problem but they were largely ignored. explains. these graves a reminder of one of the most horrific crimes in russia and wealthy farmer his companion and ten others mostly women and children were killed one. in the village of short skinned russia's self but investigators were even more shocked when they discovered that this brutal slaying is just the tip of the iceberg the crime where when. it was worth years mass murder the boys were unable to why and go through the

numerous acts of murder rape an extortion but they have been a journalist who became with all wars and heard as they directed their thoughts bush and at one particular local gang all suspects were also well respected members of the village situated in the cross in the region alexandre called each officer of the organized crime fighting unit of the local police reportedly provided to cover up for the gang its leader sub believed to be sort of gates of pork and his aide sort of gave us who did produce of the local council and it is said there were also dozens of mafia dogs recruited from. perfectly legitimate security for that young above all square says their crimes could have been prevented in two thousand and five she informed local police above the gangsters but they got away something that may happen again. it's not only birds of dogs people it's about the ones who

protected them and they have these times end up in jail or get proper punishment definitely have serious connections the question of scared case triggered to crack down across the country on organized crime in the republic of bush give the stun ninety three people were arrested on new year's eve on drug related charges the gang was supported by police and laundered more than one and a half million dollars a month also the murder of the mafia kingpin nicknamed han in the southern russian city of stubble may also lead to corrupt policemen and local officials it is all part. one hundred government pledged to tackle organized crime and corruption. with everything in order yes it is in a few years' time it's basically if you change the heads of the law enforcement agencies make the courts work and restore the system district organized crime units and there's the good the brutality of the gangs and corruption of some officials can be overcome and russia if journalists and crime experts to listen to. are

crossing the region. and still have for you this hour a name that's loved and worshipped by millions of children around the world. anything you can explain. it's harry potter of course and this is harry potter's grave in these well i'll find out why wizard fans are flocking to this particular final resting place in just a few minutes. now while the dramatic uprising in egypt was unfolding u.s. mainstream media gave it wall to wall coverage but once president hosni mubarak was gone so too was the interest from t.v. and newspapers well our new york resident laurie harshness talks to people on the streets of the big apple to find out what they think of the media's approach. after the success of protesters in egypt the media has quickly shifted their focus

to other areas of unrest do they even care about the outcome or just their next big scoop this week let's talk about that i think the meat of the story is gone. but the meat of the work still has yet to be done right there's no money in that. it's about a war i mean it's all about money and power and which of the meat of the story is totally gone is that ok are we ok with that does that mean that the media is doing its job. i don't think they're allowed to be doing it. i mean basically it's you know governments and politics will control the media and about how you look at it and what people say it's just the way i go just the way it is but it's been like that for a long time will it always be like that will come and go i mean used to be the yellow journalism of the eighteen nineties and then like an ad that has three major major networks with the f.c.c. regulations and it got more normalized now with you know like anybody can publish anything they're going to go after some station was and again an opinionated

journalism i mean that's kind of the those type of journalists the feet in the field reporting journalists it seems like that's the story with all of them they love to kind of shine just as much of a peripheral light on what they went through to get the truth out and that's that's journalism is that more important than getting the truth out no absolutely not but i don't think you can blame the press to moving on to areas that the people are more interested in because that sanny way they're going to make money and they're not going to survive but you know you guys who you have p.b.s. and we have stuff like that to harm and that's why we have to keep paying taxes so that we can have. motivated by making a profit whether or not you believe the media actually cares about the outcome of such uprisings the bottom line is that. if you can make sure you get your information from the many media sources as.

well the u.s. secretary of state state says it's diplomacy rather than military action which will ultimately help bring lasting peace to afghanistan and pakistan all this comes as the u.s. congress debates cuts to the country's massive defense budget but as artie's military contributor get a crucial says that although it might look like a softening of washington's foreign policy and reality the words don't match the facts hillary clinton has stated cheryl time is three d. concept that is diplomacy defense and development now let's get a reality check and have a look at the current budget debates at the u.s. senate and congress then you will realize that despite all the sleep service to this solved paul we're all this department diplomatic importance the state department all rolled budget that is forty seven billion dollars is even less than the pentagon pays for its health insurance that is fifty billion dollars which

composes only one tenth of their gigantic u.s. military expenditure and that is in fact not in wishful thinking reflects their real sequence and importance in the three d. equation. well we've got more on u.s. military policy later today as our spotlight program shines a light on how much influence america has in nato i'll go to as guest gives an insider's view and here's a preview. is it really is it really so is is it really the case that whatever people say in washington doesn't really matter in brussels until it becomes a nato decision or its more complicated. decision takes all member states all twenty eight so what washington wants has a very important influence there's no doubt but of course what the other allies want also has an important food i don't want to underestimate the influence that

washington has within the alliance it is a critical member it's a very important member and honestly speaking of the military capability and political leadership of the united states nato is absolutely essential and everybody wants it but it can influence but it can't decide. now for a look at some other major headlines from around the world at the un america has vetoed a draft resolution condemning the israelis israeli settlement building as illegal all fourteen other members of the security council approve the motion which insisted israel stops construction in the west bank and east jerusalem well it's seen as another blow to the middle east peace process with the palestinians now saying they'll reassess their role in the talks it's the first un veto used by the obama administration. a student in mexico has gone on hunger strike demanding to

be invited to britain's royal wedding of the nineteen year old is a massive fan of the british monarchy and refuses to eat even though the u.k. embassy says you can't go that stuff so you be a bastard or will reply to her low. the teenager says she won't give up until she gets an invite to prince william and kate middleton's wedding in london. now agree vinnie's rail is an unlikely tourist attraction because a person there is one harry potter but it's not what you're thinking this is the final resting place of a teenage british soldier killed decades ago but that's not stopping wizard fans from flocking to visit and as artie's policy we're found out this potter story has anything but a happy ending. harry potter is good and varied in his role but before you die hard potter fans collapse from the shock we're talking about a very different harry and a somewhat different plot this are reported you signed up to the i'm going to

british army when he was sixteen or seventeen. and he did it by lying about his age but he couldn't cheat death and died in battle near hebron in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine potter fans found the grave that will far as he's had long forgotten the metaphor but a few years ago we started getting all these phone calls we didn't even know all agree of existed. but word spread fast and now the relatively little known israeli town of rambler is firmly on the tourist map potter's grave attracts as much attention as ancient archaeological digs in the area. i pray god. the two parters are similar in name and age and both are heroes but that's where it ends the real harry potter was from a village near birmingham england and was dispatched to bush mandated palestine a year after joining the army he was a truck drove it brought supply from jerusalem. and this is the way they got

everything and looked like as for the world's most famous boy wizard he's fallen foul of israel's rabbis after the last installment of his book was launched during the jewish sabbath many religious jews also forbid the children from reading his tales they say it's pagan content is forbidden in judaism but the reason has nothing to do with harry potter. except the hype. her brother contributed a lot to people interests in paganism and magick because it's cool and potter is not the only illustrious literature figure buried in israel's military cemeteries here in jerusalem is buried none other than william shakespeare like potter he was also part of the british army and served as a truck driver although he died a few years before potter was born both their tombstones bring a smile of recognition point three r.t. jerusalem. or moscow is known to be one of the most expensive cities in the world

and it's often believe that if you want to enjoy yourself you'll have to shell out but this week artie's martin urges discovers that's not always the case moscow out is focusing on frugality and it's coming your way in just a few minutes. finally the film the red october truck of science in the heart of moscow is a history of science and of course if you explore the complex for free you can also find various freebies inside one of the recent stayman venues in this case and they area. is a cafe and cinema land has a civil war inside where you can watch various films some of them in english and yes three each of the schedule on the day of the websites is your house documentary and hollywood movies with no particular trick of. the all that's ahead for you but first a recap of the headlines in just a few minutes.

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it watching our team now here's a look at some of the main stories we're covering for you today violence intensifies in the middle east as anti-government protests spread through the region with dozens of rioters killed and hundreds injured in police clashes rest in libya. follows the earlier uprisings in tunisia and egypt which small their leaders ousted. chief cabinet secretary is set to view russia's lesser kuril islands tokyo lace claims to from an airplane tensions over the islands have risen after a series of visits by russian officials and moscow's the social to require military garrisons. and in the us a self made in nato is incarcerating himself in protest over america's burgeoning

of prison population which equals roughly a quarter of the world's total former conflict also slams the country's justice system which he says sells freedom to the highest bidders all next it's time for this week's moscow out martin andrews discovers how to make life more affordable and the russian capital to be one of the most expensive cities in the world that's coming up next. hello and welcome to the program no moscow is famous for being one of the most expensive cities in the world so on this week's show and we'll see just how low we can find prices in the world cup so there are hundreds if not thousands of deals of the sales and discounts to be found here with first look.