country star largest city of the police are said to have started with demonstrators meanwhile involve rain the army has withdrawn from the streets that's after it opened fire on crowds on friday as thousands demanded reforms and the ousting of the cane many people have been injured during a protest in the western backed state on to america maybe. it's claimed believe the pie is made by british companies to clear the protest human rights activists are to be pay 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 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 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 is 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. is called eidetic. 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 protesters in the middle east to seriously look at not just where the selling to a specific country is and i would say 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 mass gracious marking a week since hosni mubarak was ousted as president but many use that knowledge james denselow king's college in london says that so far marks associates are still in power. this hasn't really been a revolution in a traditional sense mubarak's power structure is 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 change 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 they 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 the self-serving policy or 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 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.

media focus is shifting across the protests sweeping through the middle east lander asked people in new york whether the media's loss 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 remounts kind of those type of journalists the 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. now the u.s. may be the self-proclaimed land of the free but it beats all nations involved the number and percentage of residents incarcerates its prison population is reaching towards two million a quarter of the world's total and stasia churkin at one x. 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 a roof top his generator strategically placed right here keeps the cell lit and warm throughout this cold winter months i mean 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 the eat and use the same restroom in the same area. that's disgusting to me is not somewhere i want to

be married to be if you're. the ex-con is now teaching children about the horrors of prison life to deter them from crime in the future and. the self-made convict says one of the biggest problems is american prisons are big business getting thirty three thousand dollars a year. there's like this kind of. go of in this park 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 case you want to get crazy. where is the counterpart the money is

a little bit of time a problem across the us but less than five percent of the world's population but almost a quarter of the prison population of the planet the men 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. glen ford editor of the political magazine black agenda report believes that and president is a profitable political tool to control social and resell on rust 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 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 all our stories out along and an analysis whenever you why that's when you can some of what's online today or maybe and now vent their anger at george all religious discrimination thing very churches are being destroyed also online. some love letter priceless but not

this one romantic writing of napoleon to josephine is up for sale at auction house discovered the price of. our t. . pants chief cabinet secretary has flown near to russell's lesser career 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 real quick bring the real military garrisons the 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 record real change saying the territory belongs to japan well political analyst victoria. position is shaky and leading the world down a dangerous path any diggin into their history funded mine the position if was thought everybody all their agreements were taken and so my point can you imagine what could start helping 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 the total by their status as their country is there a limit to the solver if 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 coverups by local police in small towns nationwide there

are those who spend years desperately trying to highlight the problem but they were largely ignored then he 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. 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 it was worth years mass murder the boys were unable to why and go through the numerous acts of murder rape and extortion but they have been a journalist who became with all wars and unheard and 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 and our region oleksandr 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 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 bad to box 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 crucial scared 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 a month 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 it is all part. the wider government pledged to tackle organized crime and corruption. is it 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 a listen to. just a lot ski are to cross in the region. live from moscow here with our to you still ahead for you a name that loved and worth buying millions of children around the world harry potter of course and this is harry potter brave in israel find out why and whether fans are flocking to this particular final resting place that's coming up.

now while the dramatic uprising in egypt was unfolding the u.s. 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 our new york resident laurie harshness 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 one and i mean it it's all about money and power in which that 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 that. basically it's you know governments and politics will control the media and about how you look at it or what people say it's just the way you 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 eighty nine news and then like on the i did 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 the those type of journalists the feed in the field reporting journalists it seems like that's the story will. 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 the only 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 are hard 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 make sure you get your information from as many media sources as. the u.s. secretary of state says it's to policy rather than military action which will ultimately help bring lasting peace to afghanistan and pakistan this comes as the u.s. congress debates cops to the country's massive defense budget but argues military contributor says that 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 several times this three d.

concept that is diplomacy defense and development now let's get a reality check and have a look of the current budget debates of the us senate and congress then you will realize that despite all the sleep serve it to this solved power of this 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 and beach composes only one town 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'll have more on u.s. military policy in just about ten minutes when our spotlight program signs a light on how much influence america has nato gas gives an insider you know.

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 in nato is absolutely essential and everybody wants it but it can influence but it can't decide. i. i mean ian's living in

moscow have gathered to protest over what they see as religious discrimination against the armenian church in georgia dozens of people congregated at the georgian section of the swiss embassy which has served as a mediator since ties were broken with russia after the two thousand and eight conflict in south ossetia they claim the are mainly armenian churches in georgia are being either destroyed or converted despite their historical significance the protesters say they just want georgia to adhere to its own constitution grounds freedom of religion. well let's take a look at some other stories dominating world news this weekend at the un 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 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 the north east columbia killing an army general and three soldiers a witness described seeing a 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 because 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 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 record breaking news. 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 desire to support the slayer found out this potter story is 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 be 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 but metaphor was but a few years ago we started getting all these phone calls we didn't even know the greve 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 drove oh it brought supply from jerusalem. 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 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 harry potter except the hype. her brother

contributed to a lot to people interests in paganism. because it's cool and potters not the only illustrious literature figure buried in israel's military cemeteries here interest in them 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. 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 argues martin andrews discovers that not always the case moscow out is focusing on frugality and it's coming your way next. finally the film the red october chocolate factory in the heart of moscow is a historic sites and of course if you explore the complex for free you can also find various freebies inside of the u.s.

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was. at three thirty pm moscow time these are the headlines from our team violence intensifies in the middle east as anti-government protests spread through the region with dozens of rioters killed and hundreds injured in clashes in libya grain and yemen follows the earlier uprisings in tunisia and egypt which saw their leaders alstad. transceiver cabinet secretary has flown near to russia's lesser queen real islands to try and draw attention tokyo's claim over the area tensions over the islands have risen after a series of visits by russian officials and moscow's decision to quit real military garrisons. and in the new asso self-made invaders incarcerating himself in

protest over america's burgeoning present population which equals roughly a quarter of the world's total former convict also one of the country's justice system which he says sells freedom to the highest bidder. next we take a look at russia's relations with nato in our spotlight show with al gore no. hello again the welcome to spotlight the interview on r.t. and al bruno and today my guest on the show is james a pass through. washington has published its new national military strategy document shifts the geopolitical interests of the u.s. to former soviet countries in asia and the caucasus social asia is a valuable supply.