that state to be american made a great report suggests that why policing supplies made by british companies to clear the protest their rights activists bar the place says the u.k. has big block lists and its arms sales. we can see across the middle east that the government is selling to repressive regimes all over that this could happen at any point in and we've got to be aware that when we sell you 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 good overseas in the case of bahrain. they are actively promote. the u.k. government and actively promotes arms sales to a number of repressive regimes this very weekend the u.k. government is sending representatives out to the launch in abu dhabi

a good idea. which the arms 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 protesters 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 these weapons are widely misused. and export criteria which look good on paper very rarely applied with any record. in egypt there have been a bass celebrations marking a week since hosni mubarak was ousted as president but mideast analyst james denselow from king's college london says that so far barak's associates are still in power. this hasn't really been a revolution in a traditional sense mubarak's power structures his cronies are still really in a similar place as they were before this so all the battle to our sewer barak has

been won the war over the future of egypt is really yet to be fought and we see what happens next in terms of real constitutional change changes to the state of emergency whether political parties can rise out of the ashes of mubarak's authoritarianism the genie has well and truly been let out of the bottle and the reverberations from what happened in tunisia and are 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. let's get some perspective from america on this radio host and film director alex jones says that one factor forcing people out onto the streets is dollar inflation and then there's the self-serving policies of major banks. as the global economy is flooded with dollars

as the private shell of 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 helps to use all of this new furor in the streets as a pretext to basically roll in another layer of intensified police states. all the media focus is shifting across the protests sweeping through the middle east later we asked people in new york whether the media has lost sight of what that means for the country where the unrest began in egypt and tunisia. it's all about money and power in which so the meat of the story is totally going to mean that's kind of

those type of journalists the 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. the u.s. may be the self-proclaimed alot of the free but it beats all nations in both the number and percentage of residents it of course or it's it's prison population is inching towards two million a quarter of the world's total artes and associate sure can have that one ex convict let's try 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 rooftop 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. and use the same verse in the same area were. disgusting to me is not somewhere i want to be mad 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. for the self-made convict says one of the biggest problems is american prisons are big business thirty three thousand dollars a year. is like this come alive.

for every rock you bring me. how many rocks would you bring and in this diary khana meet many youngsters are stuck between a rock and a hard place you can't the whole country and especially during the recession you know poverty is synonymous if you go poverty you want 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 case you want to get 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 thought now we all in the home and stacy church cannot r.t.

philadelphia. glanford editor of the political magazine black agenda report he believes that imprisonment is a profitable political tool to control social and racial unrest that people who would in slave 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 whipped up a and hysteria which is really recent 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. dot com is where you can check out all our stories blogs on the valises whatever you like but that's run you through some of what's on like today taking protection to the u.s. government mistakenly shuts down tens of thousands of innocent web sites in a massive raid against child porn. and to solve the love letters are priceless not this one dramatic writing of the pulliam to josephine herself for sale at russia's oldest often house discovered the price of passion at r t dot com.

japan's chief cabinet secretary is to view russia's lesser karylle train from an airplane it comes after recent visits by russian officials to the islands which are claimed by tokyo earlier russia would not tolerate japan's radical approach towards the territories and announced it was reequipping the corals and military garrisons the islands in the pacific ocean were had to russia as part of agreements at the end of the site the world war i want friday comments on the situation came from the us washington once again underlined its position over the lesser karylle train saying the territory belongs to japan said they struck out from russia's 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 who gave up all the claims for korea

why once and in addition to that as you knew united states were barely 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 read. the slaying of twelve people in a southern russia. well it's last year brought the public's attention to the massive scale of corruption and cover ups by local police in small towns well there are those who spent years desperately trying to highlight the problem but they were largely ignored this explains. these graves a reminder of one of the most horrific crimes in russia and world farmer his companion and turned others mostly women and children were killed one. in the village of short stay in russia itself but investigators were even more shocked when they discovered that this brutal slaying is just the tip of the iceberg the crime where we go thought it was worth years mass murder the boys were unable to

why and go through sponsible numerous acts of murder rape and extortion but they have been a journalist who became with all wars and heard as they directed the earth bushman's at one particular local gang all suspects were also well respected members of the village situated in the cross in the region oleksandr 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 boot dip 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 says their crimes could have been prevented in two thousand and five she informed local police about 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 doubts that these times they'll end up in jail or get proper

punishment they definitely have serious connections the case triggered a crackdown across the country on organized crime in the republic of bush got to stun ninety three people were arrested on new year's eve on drug related charge. yes 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 may also lead to corrupt policemen and local officials it is all part of a wider government pledged to tackle organized crime and corruption. is it possible to get everything in order yes it is and have for years time is 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 is the whole good the brutality of the gangs and corruption of some officials can be overcome and russia it journalists and crime experts listen to. just below are crossing the region

and still ahead for you this hour a name that's loved in worship by millions of children around the world. and if you can explain it terry potter of course and this is harry potter's grave and easy well i'll find out why was a trans are flocking to this particular final resting place in just a few minutes. now while the dramatic uprising in egypt was unfolding us mainstream media gave it wall to wall coverage but was president hosni mubarak was gone so too was the interest from t.v. and newspapers are new york resident laurie harmfulness 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 and i mean if it's all about money and power in which of the meta 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 when 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 to the three major major networks with the f.c.c. regulations and it got more normalized now with you know like anybody can pull the

shiny thing they're going to go after sensationalism again and opinionated journalism i mean that's kind of those 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 heart 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 care to make sure you get your information from the many media as.

more news today is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to operation day. u.s. secretary of state says its diplomacy rather than military action which will ultimately help bring a lasting peace to afghanistan and pakistan well this comes as the u.s. congress debates cuts to the country's massive defense budget but artie's military contributor you get a crucial says 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 times three do concept that is diplomacy defense and development now let's get a reality check and have a look at the current budget debates of the us senate and congress then you will realize that despite all the sleep service to this solved power of this state department diplomatic importance the state department. 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 of their gigantic us military expenditure and that is in fact not in wishful thinking reflects their real sequence and importance in the three d. equation. got more and us military policy in two hours' time as our spotlight program shines

a light on how much influence america has in nato guest gets 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 and wrestles until it becomes a nato decision or it's more complicated. a nato 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 influence 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 in 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 of the u.n. america has vetoed a draft resolution condemning israeli settlement building as illegal all fourteen other members of the security council approved the motion which insisted it 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. and military helicopter has crashed in the mountains in northeast colombia killing an army general and three soldiers a witness described seeing the helicopter spiral out of control before calming down and exploding a military official at the scene confirmed that all on board had died there was poor weather at the time although the cause of the crash is still be established.

in australia has been hit by fresh flooding following heavy rain several people had to flee their homes after a river burst its banks while roads and bridges have also been cut off more rain is predicted a water levels are expected to rise further the area was struck by devastating floods last december and huge swathes of the east are also recovering from a record breaking. student in mexico is refusing to end her hunger strike demanding to be invited to britain's royal wedding the nineteen year old is a vast amount of the british monarchy and has been surviving on water for nine days even though the u.k. embassy says she can't go but staff say the embassador will reply to her letter the teenager says she won't give up until she gets an invite to prince william and kate middleton's wedding in london in april. now agree even easier ale is an unlikely tourist attraction because the person buried 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 weather fans from flocking to visit as artie's policy or found out this part of story has anything that a happy ending. harry potter is good and buried in israel 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 hour we pore through you signed up to the i'm going to british army when he was sixteen or seventeen years old 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 the grave 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 push mandated palestine a year after joining the army but there was a truck drove it brought supplied from jerusalem to her room and this is the way they got. 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 it is and has nothing to do with her daughter. except the hype. her brother contributed a lot to people interests in paganism and magic 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 bush 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 to me r.t. jerusalem. 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 regard is more to address discovers that that's not always the case moscow out is focusing on frugality and it's coming your way next hour. finally the scene in the red october chocolate factory in the heart of moscow is a historic site and of course if you explore the complex for free you can also find various freebies inside one of the new restaurants to me venues in this case and big area. is a cafe and similar to the inside we can watch various films some of them in english

and yes three in chicago schedule on the day of the website enjoy its house documentary and we would movies with no tickets should. all be back with a recap of the headlines in just a few minutes. the

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a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. we're watching our team now here's a quick look at some of the stories we're covering for you today violence intensifies in the middle east as government protests spread throughout the region does it serve as killed and hundreds injured in police clashes be addressed in libya rein in yemen follows the earlier risings in tunisia and egypt which saw their leaders ousted. cabinet secretary is set to view russia's lesser carrillo islands that tokyo lays claim to you from an airplane. over the islands have risen after a series of visits by russian officials at moscow's decision to require a military. and in the us a self-made incarcerating himself

and protests over america's burgeoning closer population which equals roughly a quarter of the world's total the former convict also slams a country's justice system which he says sells freedom to the highest bidder. and up next the second part of our special report on the damage oil corporations are doing to the amazon rain forest and the indigenous tribes living there that's coming your way next. why do you believe the locals more affected by cancer when it's letters was. good hygiene conditions are terrible actually all the drinking water in eastern ecuador is. we have a malice this results that shows.