holt of the american navy fifth fleet reports suggest riot police use supplies made by british companies to clear the protests human rights activists want to be pay says the u.k. has been reckless in its arm 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 sell the both non-lethal and lethal equipment those will be used and. generally at some point they'll 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. it's called i debts. 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 these companies to sell including the very equipment that is being used to protesters in the middle east to seriously look at not just whether selling to a specific country. is a good idea but whether but how it should be selling arms and if it should be selling arms at all. is the weapons are widely misused. and export criteria which look good on paper very rarely applied with any record. in egypt there have been mass celebrations marking a week since hosni mubarak was ousted as president but middle east analyst james downslope from king's college london says that so far 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 if they were before they say while the battle to oust mubarak

has been 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 reverberations from what happened in tunisia and 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 let's get some perspective from america on this radio host and film director alex jones says the water forcing people out onto the streets our 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 we're going to start rioting and protesting and austerity 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. well 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 countries where the unrest began in egypt and tunisia it's all about money and power in which the media story is totally gone remits kind of 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 yeah. well the u.s. may be the self-proclaimed land of the free but it beats all nations had both the number and percentage of residents it incarcerates well its present population is inching towards two million a quarter of the world's total artes and associates or can 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. a parking lot with a prison cell with a 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 enslaved 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 in the same area were. disgusting to me is not somewhere i want 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 when you get in thirty three thousand dollars a year cause or a human being is like this kind of. them is par 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 came up 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 is the future going to r.t.

philadelphia well glenn 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 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

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 r.t. dot com is where you can check out all our stories blogs and analysis whenever you like and let's run you through some of what's online today taking protection too far the u.s. government mistakenly shuts down tens of thousands of innocent web sites in a massive raid against child porn. and dishonor love letters are priceless not this one they're mounted writing of the polian to josephine is up for sale of russia's oldest option house or discover the price of passion 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 were claimed by tokyo earlier russia said it would not tolerate japan's radical approach towards the territories and announced it was reequipping the curls of military garrisons the islands in the pacific ocean were handed to russia as part of agreements at the end of the second world war last friday comments on the situation of the us washington once again underlined its position over the lesser karylle shame saying the territory belongs to japan so again struck on for russia's governance not newspaper says the u.s. is pushing russia to review history. again it comes as a double surprise because of the let me remind you that. was the time from cisco agreement of nine hundred fifty three and gave up all the claims for korea liar

once and in addition to that as you knew united states were are 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 airplanes they gently pushing us. of the slaying of twelve people in a southern russia. village last year brought the public's attention to the massive scale of corruption and cover ups by local police in small towns nationwide and there are those who spent years desperately trying to highlight the problem but they were largely ignored r.t. explains. these graves a reminder of one of the most horrific crimes in russia the world the farmer his companion and turn others mostly women and children were killed one noiseless november in the village of 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 we go thought it was worth years mass murder the boys were unable to

whine go through sponsible numerous bags of murder rape and extortion but they have been a journalist who became with all wars and unheard as they directed their suspicions at one particular local gang all suspects were also well respected members of the village situated in the cross in the region alexander called each officer of the organized crime fighting unit of the local police reportedly provided to cover up for the gang its leaders of 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 the bubble of 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 good to start 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 the mom also the murder of the mafia kingpin nicknamed han and the southern russian city of stock report 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 a possible to put everything in order yes it is in half a year's time it's possible if you change the heads of the law enforcement agencies make the courts work and restore the system of district organized crime units and there is the hope that the brutality of the gangs and corruption of some officials can be overcome and russia it journalists and crime experts a listen to. just

a lot ski are to cross in the region. and still ahead for you this hour a name that's loved and worshiped by millions of children around the world. harry potter of course and biz is out pauper's grave in israel will find out why wizard friends are flocking to this particular final resting place in just a few minutes. from

. don't. know while the dramatic uprising in egypt was unfolding us 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 harford has 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 at 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. basically it's you

know governments and politics will control media no matter how you look at it and what people say it's just the way 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 ninety's and then like when they had to do you know the three major major networks with the f.c.c. regulations and they got more normalized now with you know like anybody can publish anything they're going to go after sensationalism again an 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 where 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. you can make sure you get your information from the many media sources as. the u.s. secretary of state says it's diplomacy rather than military action which will ultimately help bring lasting peace to afghanistan and pakistan well this comes as the u.s. congress debates cuts to the country's massive defense budget but it's artie's military contributors 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 u.s. senate and congress then you will realize that despite all the sleep service to this solved power of the state department diplomatic importance the state department all rural 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 do have more on u.s. military policy next hour when our spotlight program shines a light on how much influence america has in nato i'll goodell's guests gives us an insider view. is it really is it really so is is it really the case that whatever people say in washington doesn't really matter and 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 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 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 israeli settlement building as illegal all fourteen

other members of the security council approved a 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 but the palestinians now say they'll reassess their role in the talks it's the first u.s. veto used by the obama administration. a military helicopter has crashed in that mountains in northeast colombia killing an army general and three soldiers a witness described seeing the helicopter spiral out of control before coming down and exploding a military official at the scene confirmed that all onboard had died. there was poor weather at the time although the cause of the crash is still being established . western 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 and water levels are expected to rise further well 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 of the nineteen year old is a massive fan of the british monarchy and has been surviving on water for dying days even though the u.k. embassy says he can't go but staff 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 a grave in ease rail is now an unlikely tourist attraction because the person birdy bear is one harry potter but it's not what you're thinking this is the final resting place of a teenager a british soldier killed decades ago but that's not stopping fans from flocking to visit as we are found out this potter story has anything but

a happy ending. harry potter is good and varied 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. you signed up to be 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 but not if there was 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. 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 rovio it brought supply from jerusalem because of wrong and this is the way they got everything you couldn't explain 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 for but 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 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 portsea r.t. jerusalem. moscow is known to be one of the both expensive cities in the world and it's often believe that if you want to enjoy yourself you'll have to shell out this week artie's martin andrews discovers that that's not always the case moscow out is focusing on frugality and that's coming your way in a few minutes. finally the film the red of trade the 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 of the new response team and venues in this case and area. is a cafe and similar to the one side we can watch various films some of them in english and yes free egypt scheduled on the day the website enjoys its house documentary

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those are married. others. here's a recap of some of the main stories we're covering the. protests spread throughout the region with dozens of rioters killed hundreds injured in clashes restive. follows the earlier. cabinet secretary of. the tokyo race for. tensions over the islands have risen after a series of visits by russian officials. and military. the us a self-made inmate is

a prostrating himself in protests over america's burgeoning prison population which . of the world's total the former convict also slops the country's justice system which sells to the highest. nexus to. go out discovers how to make a life more affordable in the russian capital one of the most expensive cities in the world that's coming your way next. hello and welcome to the program know moscow is famous for being one of the mess expensive cities in the world. and we'll see just how low we can find prices in the russian capital there are hundreds not thousands of deals office sales and discounts.