opened far as thousands took to the streets today about reforms and the ousting of the king many people have been injured during a protest in the western backed state home to the american made this point never poured suggests that riot police use supplies made by british companies to clear the protests human rights activist part of the pace says the u.k. has been reckless in 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 sell you both normally for 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 dioceses and case of bahrain. they are actively promote. the u.k. government and actually promotes arms sales to

a number of the press's have 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 executives 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 textbook criteria which look good on paper very rarely applied with any record. well in egypt there have been a mass celebrations marking a week since hosni mubarak was ousted as president but middle east analyst james downslope from king's college in 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 structures his cronies are still really in the similar places as they were before this so all the battle. 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 changes 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 one half an inch are 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 that 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 well let's get some perspective from america on this radio host and

film director alex jones says that what's forcing people out onto the streets are dollar inflation and the self-serving policies of major banks. as the global economy is flooded with dollars as the private fell of reserve hyperinflation the dollar is 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 well literally as 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 so the meat of the story is totally going remounts kind of those type of journalists the few 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. and 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 it incarcerates its prison population is inching towards two million a quarter of the world's total artie's on a sea of turk and i met one ex convict was 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 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 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. for the self-made convict says one of the

biggest problems is american prisons are big business and thirty three thousand dollars a year. is like this come in. 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. 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. 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 they featured in our r.t.e. philadelphia well 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 you just really ration 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 don't forget our t. dot com is where you can check out all our stories blogs and analysis whatever you like well let's run you through some of what's on the line today taking production too far the u.s. government mistakenly shuts down tens of thousands of innocent web sites in a massive brain against child porn. to soft love letters are priceless but not this one the magic writing of the polian to josephine is up for sale at russia's oldest often house will discover the price of passion dot com.

japan's chief cabinet secretary has flown near russia's lesser karylle islands to draw attention to tokyo's claim over the area it comes out of her recent visits by russian officials to the region and earlier russia said it would not tolerate japan's radical approach towards the territories and announced it was real quick being the 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 won once again underlined its position over the last saying the territory belongs to japan political analysts victoria nova says tokyo's position is shaky and is leading the world down

a dangerous. any diggin into their history might undermine the position if was thought everybody all their agreements were taken and so my point can you imagine what could start happening in 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 this teeters as their country is there a limit its sovereignty there is way for compromise if the government changes because this one wouldn't be able to go out of this. and the slaying of twelve people in a southern russian village last year brought the public's attention to the massive scale of corruption and coverups by local police in small towns nationwide well 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 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 of before 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 their thoughts bushman's at one particular local gang all suspects were also well respected members of the village situated and across 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 booth 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 doubts that these times they'll end up in jail or get proper punishment definitely have serious connections the question of square case triggered to crack down across the country on organized crime in the republic of bush give to 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 the man also the murder of the mafia kingpin nicknamed han in the southern russian city of style report may also lead to corrupt policemen and local officials it is all part. why did government pledge to tackle organized crime

and corruption. is a principle to beat everything in order yes it is in a few years time it's possible 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 it journalists and crime experts a listen to. just a lot ski cross in the region and still ahead for you this hour a name that's loved and worshipped by millions of children around the world. well that's harry potter of course and this is harry potter's grave in israel will find out why weather fans 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 once president hosni mubarak was gone so is who was the actress from t.v. and newspapers our new york resident to laurie hard from his talks of 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 and 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 and there's no money in that. it's about a war and i mean it 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's doing its job. i don't think they're allowed to be doing their job. 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 you 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 sensationalism again in opinionated journalism i mean that's kind of the those type of journalists the feel 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's. anyway they're going to make money and they're going to survive but you know you guys here you have p.b.s.

and we have stuff like that on her and that's why we have to keep paying taxes so that we can have press here 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 make sure you get your information from the many media sources as part. of 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 that 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 times three do concept that is diplomacy difference and development now let's get

a reality check and have a look the current budget debates of the u.s. senate and congress then you will realize that despite all the sleep service to this solved. department diplomatic porton the state department all real budget that is forty seven billion dollars is even less than the pound they're going to pay for its health insurance that is fifty billion dollars which composes only one tenth of their gigantic u.s. military expenditure in fact not in wishful thinking reflects their real sequence and importance in the three equation well we do have more of us military policy later today when our spotlight program shines a light on how much influence america has in nato. gives us 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 and brussels 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 nato is absolutely essential and everybody wants it but it can influence but it can't decide. and now for a look at some other major headlines from around the world at the u.n. there has

a draft resolution condemning israeli settlement building as illegal all fourteen other members of the security council approve the motion which insists that 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 new red veto used by the obama administration. a 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 coming down and exploding a military official at the scene confirming that all on board had died the worst poor weather at that time although the cause of the crash is still a stop in. western australia has been hit by fresh flooded following heavy rain. several people had to flee their homes after a river burst its banks roads and bridges have also been cut off or more rain is

predicted and water levels are expected to rise further the area was struck by devastating floods last december and huge swathes of the roles are recovering from a record breaking. now a grave in israel is now an unlikely tourist attraction because the person bertie 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 polis leader 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 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 but many families but a few years ago we started getting all these phone calls we didn't even know all the grieve 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 the. 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 magic because it's cool and potter is not the only illustrious literature 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. and moscow is known to be one of the most expensive cities in the world and it's often believe that if you want to measure yourself you'll have to shell out but this week artie's martin andrews discovers that's not always the case moscow out is focusing our frugality that's coming your way in just over an hour.

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economy. welcome back now here's a quick look at some of the main stories we're covering on r.t.e. violence intensifies in the middle east as government protests spread through the region dozens of ride through skilled and hundreds injured in. the unrest in libya bringing yemen that follows the earlier uprisings in tunisia and egypt which saw their leaders ousted. chief cabinet secretary has flown near brushless lesser correll islands to try and draw attention to tokyo's claim over the area tensions over the islands have received after a series of visits by russian officials at moscow's decision to require between real military garrisons. and in the us a self-made inmates is

incarcerated himself in protest over america's burgeoning persian population which equals roughly a quarter of the world's total for the former convict also slogs the country's and justice system which he says sells to the highest bidders. a lot next 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 on our t.v. .