the ousting of the king of many people had been injured during a protest in the western backed state of the american made for all reports suggest riot police new supplies made by british companies to clear the protests human rights activists bartleby pace says the u.k. has been reckless and its 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 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 promotion of the u.k. government and actively promotes arms sales to a number of the presses of regimes this very weekend the u.k.

government is sending representatives out to the launch in abu dhabi it's called i debts. 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 whether selling to a specific country in 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 the u.k. is a. criteria which look good on paper very rarely applied with any record to egypt now there have been a mass celebrations marking a week since hosni mubarak was ousted as president but middle east analyst james king's college london says that so far barak's associates are still in power. it

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 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 the 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 what a 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 fellow 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 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. well the media focus is shifting across the protests sweeping through the middle east and 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 tomato story is totally gone i mean that's kind of the 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 will through to get the truth out and that's that's journalism. of the u.s. may be the self-proclaimed the last of the free but it beats all nations and both the number and percentage of residents incarcerates its prison population is inching towards two million a quarter of the world's total artie's at a sea of shook and i met one ex convict who is 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 so where the men 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 yet the eat sleep and use the same verse in the same area. that's disgusting to me is now somewhere i want to be married to my ear. the ex-con is now teaching children about the horrors of prison life to deter them from crime in the future and this 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 like. 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 lock the whole country and especially during a recession you know poverty is synonymous. poverty you want to have for 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're going to get crazy. where is the counterpart the money is a little bit of time 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. we all in the whole. party philadelphia. for the 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 in slave black folks and the people in my circles don't consider that the main impetus to 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 whip 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. and don't forget r t dot com is where you can check out all or stories blogs and analysis whenever you like and let's run you through some of what's online today taking protection to four u.s. government mistakenly shuts down tens of thousands of innocent web sites in a massive raid against child porn. and the song love letters are priceless but not this one there are magic writing of the holy of the josephine itself for sale of russia's oldest option house discover the price of passion r t v dot com.

japan's chief cabinet secretary has flown near russia's lesser coral islands to draw attention to tokyo's claim over the area it comes after recent visits by russian officials to the region earlier russia said it would not tolerate japan's radical approach towards the territories and announced it was required being the world's military garrisons the islands of 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 came from the us washington once again underlined its position over the lesser karylle train saying the territory belongs to japan political analyst victoria but nova's says tokyo's position is shaky and is leading the world down a dangerous path any diggin into their history might undermine the

position if was thought to revise it with all their agreements that were taken and so my point can you imagine what can start helping you move the world so any agreement on their part to to do that would actually undermine their position and their position is more political determined by internal politics and also determined by their steger's as their country is there a limit of sovereignty there is way for compromise if the government changes because this one wouldn't be able to go out of this. the slaying of twelve people in a southern 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 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 night last november 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 the numerous acts of murder rape and extortion but the ability of the local journalists who became with all wars were unheard as they directed their thoughts 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 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 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 i have doubts that these times they'll end up in jail or get proper punishment definitely have serious connections the question of square triggered to crack down across the country on organized crime in the republic of bush got 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 man also the murder of the mafia kingpin nicknamed han in the southern russian city of starr report may also lead to corrupt policemen and local officials and. it's 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 if journalists and crime experts i'll listen to. just a lot ski are to cross in the region. and soul ahead for you this hour a name that's loved and worship by millions of children around the world. that's harry potter of course and this is harry potter's grave in easy to find out why wizard crowds are flocking to this particular final resting place in just a few minutes.

it's. now while the dramatic uprising in egypt was unfolding us mainstream media gave it wall to wall coverage but once president hosni mubarak was gone and so too was the interest from t.v. and newspapers 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 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 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 you 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 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 and moving on to areas that the people are more interested in because that sanny why 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 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 there at that time. 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 artie's military contributor says although it might look like a softening of washington's foreign policy in reality the words don't match the facts hillary clinton has stated cheryl time is this three d. concept that is diplomacy to france and to development now lives 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 department diplomatic importance the state department all rural budget that is forty seven billion dollars is even less than the plan they're going to pay for its health insurance that is fifty billion dollars which composes only one tenth of the gigantic u.s. military expenditure and that is in fact not in wishful thinking reflects their real sequence importance in the three d. equation. we have more and u.s. military policy later today when our spotlight program shines a light on how much influence america has in nato i'll go give says an insider's view. 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 it's more complicated. 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 nato is absolutely essential and everybody wants it but it can influence but it can't decide. now here's a look at some other major headlines from around the world at the u.n. america has showed a draft resolution condemning israeli settlement building as illegal all fourteen other members of the security council approved 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 military helicopter has crashed in the balance and seeing more of these columbia 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 had firm that all onboard had died there was poor weather at the time although the cause of the crash is still being established. and western australia has been hit by fresh flooding following heavy rain several people had to flee their. homes after a river burst its banks walled 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. now a grave in ease rail is now one of a likely 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 that's not stopping wizard fans from flocking to visit those artes poles lior found out this potter story has anything but 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 both of 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 but many families 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 driver brought supply from jerusalem. 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 their children from reading his tales they say it's pagan content is forbidden in judaism but it is and

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's not the only illustrious literature buried in israel's military symmetries 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 and moscow is known to be one of the most expensive cities in the world and it's often believed that if you want to enjoy yourself you'll have to shell out but this week r.t. has more to andrew's discovers that's not always the case moscow out is focusing on frugality and it's coming your way in just over five minutes time. finally the film the red october truck of science in the heart of moscow is

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back we'll use a brief look at some of the main stories we're covering today in our teeth the violence intensifies in the middle east as as you government protests spread throughout the region with dozens of rioters killed and hundreds injured in police clashes young rest in libya rain again then follows the earlier uprisings in tunisia and egypt which saw their leaders ousted. japan's chief cabinet secretary has flown near russia's lesser karylle islands to try and draw attention to tokyo's claim over the area tensions over the islands have resumed after a series of visits by russian officials and moscow's decision to really put the grilles military garrisons. and in the us a self made in

a dozen parser rating himself in protest over america's burgeoning prison population which equals roughly a quarter of the world's total the former convict also swaps the country's justice system which he says sells food to the highest bidders well next it's time for this week's moscow out martin address discovers how to make life more affordable and the russian capital now to be one of the most expensive cities in the world do you stay with us for that. hello and welcome to the program now moscow is famous for being one of the mess expensive cities in the world so on this week's moscow show i'm going to see just how low we can find prices in the russian capital there are hundreds not thousands of deals office sales and discounts to be found here.