it's believed rioters have taken control of the country's third largest city so of the police are said to have fired with the demonstrators meanwhile in bahrain the army has withdrawn from the streets that after it opened fire on crowds on friday as thousands demanded reforms and the ousting of the cake well many people have been injured during the protest in western backstay home to the american navy fifth fleet it is claimed the prize made by british companies to clear the protest human rights activists barnaby pace the u.k. has been good in its arms. 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 we'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 promotion inside the u.k. government and actively promotes arms sales to a number of the press's regimes this very weekend the u.k. government is sending representatives out to the launch in abu dhabi it's called eidetic. 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 protest this 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. these weapons are widely misused and the u.k. is. 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 mideast analyst james denselow from king's college in 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 al samoud 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 close to to shortchange changes to the state of emergency whether political parties can rise out of the ashes of mubarak's authoritarianism the genie is well and truly been let out of the bottle and reverberations from what half an inch an hour 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 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 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. well media focus is shifting across the protests sweeping through the middle east later we asked people in new york whether the media lost sight of what that means for the countries where the on the rest began in egypt and tunisia. it's all about money and power in which the tomato story is totally gone remits kind of those type of journalists that 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 yeah. the u.s. may be the self-proclaimed land of the free but it beats all nations involved the number and percentage off the residents incarcerate its present population is reaching towards two million a quarter of the world's total and it says here turk and i met one x.

convict who is trying to keep kids on the straight and narrow but he 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 home as a roof top his generator strategically placed right here keeps the cell lit and warm throughout the 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 does still exist 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 verse in the same area. that's disgusting to me is now somewhere i

want to be married to be love. you know you're the ex-con is now teaching children about the horrors of prison life to deter them from crime in the future and 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 it's gonna. go on 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 can't love the whole country and especially during the recession you know poverty is synonymous if you go poverty you're going 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 gone 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. we all in the hole if they see a church in our party philadelphia. grand 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 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. argue dot com is where you can check out all our stories and analysis whenever you like let's run you through some of what's online today taking action to far the u.s. government mistakenly shot down thousands of innocent web sites in

a massive raid against child porn. love letters are priceless but not this one the romantic writing of polly and joe three percent of what russia's auction house is covering the price of passion arcade dot com. japan's chief cabinet secretary has flown near to russia's lesser greil islands to draw attention to tokyo's claim over the area it comes after a recent visit by russian officials to the region earlier russia said it would not tolerate japan's radical approach towards the territories and announced it was reequipping the korean military garrisons islands in the pacific ocean were handed to russia as part of agreements at 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 last or greil chain saying the territory belongs to japan political analysts victoria says tokyo's position is shaky and leading the world down a dangerous path. any diggin into their history might undermine the position if we start everybody all their agreements that were taken out so my point can you imagine what can start helping you move the world so any agreement to live to produce part two to do that would actually undermine their position and their position is more political determined by politics and also the total by their status as their country is there a limit to the suburbs to there is a 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 copper up by local police in small towns nationwide there are those who spent years desperately trying to highlight the problem but they were largely ignored that is malarky explained. 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. 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 barnstable numerous bags 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 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 dip did use of the local council and it is said there were also dozens of mafia thugs 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 i have doubts that these times they'll end up in jail or get proper punishment they definitely have serious connections the. trigger 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

a month old so the murder of the mafia kingpin nicknamed han in the southern russian city of stoppable 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 years 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 whole good the brutality of the gangs and corruption of some officials can be overcome and russia if journalists and crime experts listen to. just a lot ski cross in the region. here with our t.v. line from moscow still ahead for you this hour a name that's long been worth sam by millions of children around the world harry potter of course and then third grade in israel find out why their fans are

flocking to this particular final resting place coming out into the community. now while the dramatic uprising in egypt was unfolding you as mainstream media gave it wall to wall coverage but once president hosni mubarak was gong so too was the interest from t.v. and newspapers our new york resident laurie harmfulness talks to people on the streets of the big apple to find out what they think 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 and 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 their job. 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 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 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 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 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 can make sure you get your information from the many media started as. u.s. secretary of state says it's diplomacy rather than military action which will ultimately help bring lasting peace to afghanistan and pakistan this comes as the u.s. congress debates cuts to the country's massive defense budget but it is 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 this 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 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 the gigantic u.s. military expenditure and that is in fact not in wishful thinking reflects the real sequence and importance in the three d. equation. well we'll have more on u.s. military policy next hour when our spotlight program shines a light on how much influence america has

a nato gas gives also 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. 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.

our mania and living in moscow have gathered to protest over what they see as religious discrimination against the armenian turd's in georgia dozens of people congregated at the georgian section of the swiss embassy which is served as a mediator since ties were broken with washington after the two thousand and eight conflict in south of sets here they claim are many and turkey is in georgia are being either destroyed or converted despite their story of significance the protesters say they just want georgia to be here in its own constitution grounds on which. let's take a look now at some other headlines from around the world at the un america has vetoed a draft resolution condemning israeli settlement building as illegal all fourteen other men. as of the security council approved a motion which insisted israel stops construction in the west bank and east

jerusalem is seen as another blow to the mideast peace process with the palestinians now saying they'll reassess their role in the talks is the first un veto used by the obama administration. a military helicopter has crashed in the mountains of north east columbia 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 on board 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 caught on more rains predicted and 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. now

a grave in israel is now 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 wizard fans from flocking to visit and it's probably or found out this 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 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 metaphor was but a few years ago we started getting all these phone calls we didn't even 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. 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 oh it brought supply. of wrong and this is the way the. only thing you can 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 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 portsea r.t. jerusalem. now 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 our day as martin andrews discovers that's not always the case moscow out is focusing on frugality and it's coming your way in less than five minutes. finally the film the red october took the sign to 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 numerous instead we've been using in this case and they area. is a cafe and cinema line is a civil inside as we watch various films some of them in english and yes three each of the schedule on the job websites enjoy it's house documentary and hollywood movies with no particular treatment. we're going to take a short break here on ars here and i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a moment. i

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in the lead we can see they are going to. our weekend entertainment show moscow out is coming your way but first let's take a look at the headlines violence intensifies in the middle east as anti-government protests read through the region with dozens of fire killed and hundreds injured in police classes in libya and bahrain also and in yemen following earlier uprisings in tunisia and egypt which song their leaders announced it. trance chief cabinet secretary have flown near to a rush of blood from a real island to draw attention to tokyo's claim over the area and tensions over the island have risen after a series of visits by russian officials and moscow's decision to re-equip a career as a military garrison. and in the you asked

a self-made inmate is incarcerated himself in protest over america's burgeoning prison population which equals roughly a quarter of the world's total former convict also slams the country's justice system which he says sells freedom to the highest bidders. next as promised this week's edition of moscow. 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 if not thousands of deals office sales and discounts to be found here at a first location the thirty sixth.