that further through the region the protests in yemen bahrain and morocco the gentle expert in jail she says that global dominance groups all behind the wheel revolve. they might be getting rid of of thirty forty or fifty euro regime but many of these countries certainly in egypt certainly in libya certainly in tunisia and back karim that might be getting themselves into just as bad or even worse trouble if they don't really understand the social proof so this is going on and be our full interests that may be driving them from outside of the middle east because i think this ties into a more global pattern to we have to understand the major geopolitical long term planning emanating from such organizations as the council of foreign relations the trilateral commission and the builder group afford to take the cake it's been fighting the arab world and have been fighting the sovereign nation state as an institution on a global basis so in

a way if they can get rid of these strong mad men whether it be hosni mubarak in egypt or colonel gadhafi in libya and try to transition has always seen before to a more liberal chaotic and more controllable western style democracy that would serve in a privilege to serve i think we have to be very careful about the various reading said we make of this is very important that both the pro protesters on the one side and the government do you know this will be egypt whether it be in libya whether it be in a back rain or in tunisia should understand how powerful social forces they are up against the psychological warfare tactics that are being used and they should not allow themselves either side to be used by interested objectives which are completely outside the interests of libyans or the egyptians or we are tunisians or the iraqis or just about any country that is having such turmoil in the middle east a president. as u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton calls for under strict at internet access for

all some experts are taking a more skeptical view of her campaign and message of journalist webster tarpley told r.t. that washington is using social media to drive results at the greater greater middle east mirroring the color revolutions of the post soviet space. the thing that hillary clinton talked about is digital activists in other words there's a huge ball going on the world they want to mobilize these people i think what she's got in mind is a secret army of hackers and indeed trolls that will be the shock and awe of the new decade and this is what they were able to deploy in egypt they say it's simple you get the rich kids using facebook and twitter you get the rich kids into the square you put that on television you convince the rest of the society that the government is deeply unpopular and the revolution takes off it's a way to come on manipulate and dupe an entire society and that's this is what a color revolution or cia people power coup or post-modern co actually is. well to

ring in warships were delayed entry of egypt's suez canal and this comes after israel and the us expressed strong concerns over the dispatch first terrazas navy earlier egyptian official said that they had tracked the cargo allows them to the vessel. where the passage was attacked by israel you know ministers who call for the world to act against iran school recurring provocations. developments. there's many prime minister benjamin netanyahu says that he views with most gravity the posturing of these two iranian warships through the suez canal to the mediterranean sea he says that it's really an attempt to take advantage of the current situation to exploited and to extend its regional influence we also heard today from the israeli foreign minister avigdor lieberman and he says that this is nothing short of provocation israel and iran have not had diplomatic relations for

the past thirty years and israel is concerned that iran is sending weapons to its neighbors that will ultimately be used against the jewish state is really soon relations are strained as well convinced an israeli official saying as much over the past few years that iran is supplying weapons to syria that ultimately landed in the hands of his vote in lebanon on now the united states is adding fuel to the whole situation the u.s. state department recently set up a twitter account and it is using their twitter account to post tweets in flossy that supports anti iranian government demonstrators out on the streets of tehran we haven't seen the u.s. state department do anything like that supporting or even expressing any kind of opinion on the same kind of demonstrations that are happening in yemen since nine hundred seventy nine since the iranian revolution there have been no iranian warships that have actually passed through the suez canal this is the first major diplomatic headache for the egyptian interim government for the ruling military

council as you well know. president mubarak had a close relationship with the united states he was an ally of the u.s. and at the same time relations between him and the rand was strained for the past thirty years it is not clear exactly why they gave permission we haven't had any insight on that but what we have been told reported is that it took in officials have checked the cargo they are confident that there was nothing suspicious on board and as a result they have allowed the free gate and the supply ship to go through and coming up later today and cross talk peter lavelle his guests discuss why countries in the middle east spend so much on the military and how the u.s. justifies its big business in the region. how do you in the g.c.c. states to me partner somewhat comparable to what singapore switzerland their small populations they want people to know they have weapons should be racially want to be left alone saudi arabia does have some incursions into yemen and is using its charnock it purchased from the us in other states so i'm more sure about that but

not a missile or one could of course discuss the problem out but to say that they're not using it at all i think it would be a question the. law is divided over claims that the countries jew should be compensated for the property they lost during the second world war well many including the government say the country was fighting against bolshevik occupation at any cost necessary but she was claimed that that was just a pretext to steal from their families as artie's peter all they were discovered. thousands of latvian jews were robbed of their property money and in many cases their lives by nazi treats one of the major issues is how. on the side of nazi germany viewed today so really. unfortunately many believe the lothian waffen s.s.

who fought against the bolsheviks were liberators if it were but they in fact were bandits and robbers they have seen documents listing real estate that belong to jews killed in ghettos i think that property should be returned the amount of reparations claimed by latvian jews is around sixty five million dollars the country's government says that they will continue to hold talks with religious leaders in order to come up with a solution however those in power draw their support from nationalist groups who are far less diplomatic when it comes to the issue. lottery and administration is not responsible for the night you doing on the holocaust began our country was under occupation by definition lightly and i thought at least cannot be responsible for actions of occupants local jewish leaders say that they only want what was stolen to be returned however they realize that this may be difficult with current attitude in latvia while they wish as we need to broker to solve our social problems like develop education culture with men say no synagogues and cemeteries

of course it's hard to find hours when you need to take back certain property but i hope people will understand and justice will be done a short distance from the capital is the forest where thousands of jews were executed it serves as a poignant memorial to those who lost their lives but in central riga there are equally chilling monuments to the holocaust like this synagogue which was burned to the ground with worshippers still inside over sixty five years after the end of the second world war the burnt out shell of this synagogue serves as a reminder to the tensions that still bubble between the local jewish community and those latvians that consider the s.s. troops to have been heroes while while the government continues to draw most of its support from nationalist organizations a resolution to this conflict seems a long way off peter all of r.t. riga latvia. still ahead for you this hour the heavy price for miscalculating

operations in afghanistan. riots on the mistakes of the government of the international community to look into the surge in civilian deaths of the north east which nato denies and also. they faded though is the month brant bit of political. gets a bit more than just. the duty of care is a two way street we meet a blind man who went to every life to save his helper who was losing her sight as well. a recession is proving that getting to university is not the meal ticket to a study career that it once was well millions of american graduates saddled with college debts for funding their future five that they're also laden with skills employers won't pay for those artes and associates you're going to discovered only the blue color option remains. the international children's fund has worked for almost

a century help the less fortunate than other nations now we want to tell you about a problem a little closer to home. for only fifteen thousand and he said today he'll get everything he needs to survive the idea of adopt a grad maybe a joke but modern day post college survival is most certainly not have seventy six thousand dollars hunted by tuition debt larry's one of america's college degreed owners facing a job market that has long ago thrown out the welcome mat young people have twice the unemployment rate of most americans college grads are stepping out into the world in the worst time to try to land a job with around two million of them unemployed forcing many to forget about their skills and agree to any job on offer over three hundred thousand waiters and over eighteen thousand parking lot attendants working in the u.s.

are said to have a college degree moreover at the u.s. bureau of labor statistics suggests as many as seventeen million americans with college degrees are forced to work jobs requiring less skills than a bachelor's degree provides raising an entire generation of janitors with ph d.'s as we have an ever higher percentage of kids in college and ever higher percentage of kids graduating at the same time as ever more companies are hiring fewer people so what better time to question whether education really is the best investment fed with america's traditional promise of a dream life after college what students aren't told however is that the cash and time they are investing is going to come back to bite them. at twenty two charles with a bachelor's in film and a dream of directing is already getting ready to settle for less. because of the economy. he's looking for any available jobs to pay off his student

loan debt but has not been able to find any paid work. sixty five seventy thousand college. tuition bills. apart from weaving a dream career goodbye another big trend according to analysts debt driving much more than career choice if you want to help poor children as a physician good luck with your four hundred thousand dollars and other words people's college and university debt is beginning to pick their careers who they marry where they live with the economy in other countries pumping in full mode job hunting overseas is becoming a lot more attractive than in the u.s. a lot of my friends are considering jobs outside of the u.s. in india they're considering i didn't and two new sri with fifty thousand dollars of college debt says debt walks hand in hand with american culture take it or leave it but it's the cost of living the american life to educational. debt on taking out

loans how is it is the car isn't safe so you just live from one day to another and the u.s. wants to hold top position as world leader in the number of college graduates at the same time not enough jobs are being created and debt piles up forcing millions of americans to settle for less than what they dreamed of when covering that higher education and party. all the stories we're covering for you are available right now what are the let's run through a selection of what else is there discovered in twenty million dollar fleet of yachts belonging to solve russian. has been seized in france. and the spy in the skies former rough age is turning her attention to the cosmic catwalk class to some glamour to the collection space industry all the details are at our top.

a suicide bomber has killed at least twenty eight people in the northern afghan town of can do is police say many civilians are among the dead as a bomber targeted people queuing outside a government building well it's the latest of a string of incidents claiming innocent afghan lives officials there are some of the blame on nato forces they claim that coalition raids killed sixty four civilians in the northeastern province over the past few days but the alliance says it was armed insurgents who were killed even so it has dispatched investigators to look into the claims afghan m.p. . says such incidents only help the taliban to recruit new members among desperate locals. it's an ugly or nor an no one wins but the insurgency thrives

on mistakes of the government and of the international community in civilian casualties are perfectly straight for them to drive on and to seize up on the news probably opinion in their own favor and also government inefficiency and government problems. this is something that the international community and afghan government has to. learn and also dr drew isolate the population from insurgency. and in about fifteen minutes time we hear how u.s. operations in afghanistan are not only doomed to failure there but how the consequences will reverberate for washington's wider global role peace and. has been studying america's moves for years and here's some of what he has to say. what is going to happen to afghanistan he's not decided in bush in in my view it's this side of an axis that is stumbling beijing. turkey iran

russia. china increasing irrelevance of watching somebody even come to the conclusion that enough is enough that conclusion may not be drawn publicly but that will be a kind of pullback maneuvers that will take the faith of the u.s. and by this decide on the outside the implications of it is this i don't feel inside. as american politicians and congress raggle over a slash of the world's biggest military budget some republicans a chess putting a stop to foreign aid as well while the idea has been slammed by b. council on foreign relations a think tag that says the money helps poor countries stand on their own but as our military contributor explains in reality the culture brings a very different consequence. see if our experts came up with their case at l a

times trying to save the state department and the id budget from the incoming burn attack by rand paul and other republicans the main case in favor of saving or even marginally increasing the us state department and d. budget is based on a false premise that id rich officially stands for american international development allegedly does develop their client states and consequently promotes pax americana all over the world on a shoestring budget in reality it's quiet the opposite because for the recipient countries a id's stands for american international dependence not development consider egypt for example the us have invested one point five billion dollars annually in

promoting self-sufficiency and independence of egypt agricultural sector but in reality egypt dependence on import off you as a grain these as big as it's ever been and that's why i strongly and sincerely support senator rand paul initiative to completely abolish idea out as they counterproductive and totally on effective reach in their way spreads anti-american feelings and resentment toward state department hypocrisy all over the world. let's have a look at some other international headlines now a string of attacks on taxis in the mexican city of buffalo has left thirteen people dead the city has been the scene of bloody drug cartel wars for years taxi drivers have often been targeted for extortion and recruited to transport drugs and act as lookouts for mexico risen during one of the bloodiest periods in its recent

history with increasing gang violence killing fifty three people in the past three days. ten children have been killed in a blaze at an orphanage for youngsters with disabilities in western a stone nine adults and thirty seven children were in the wooden building when the far started when most of the children at the home used wheelchairs and were unable to escape the flames because of the far has not yet been determined his stone in government has declared monday a day of mourning throughout the country. one hundred seven pilot whales have died after becoming beached on a remote island off the south of new zealand authorities were alerted when a pair of hikers discovered the whales about how four still alive at the time but were euthanized to ease their suffering time constraints talk and strains and an approaching storm made it unfeasible to rescue the creatures. now a dog's devotion to its owner is often reciprocated but one. was gone to

extraordinary lengths to make sure that this guard dog gets a second chance however as. found out these gifted animals are in short supply. of a technical problem on that story so we'll try to bring that back later in the program but for now we'll have you all the out with the latest in business that's coming after a short break. ok i'm hearing that the package was actually reading the story on the dog come back to that. when alexei shiloh's began leading him astray he realized that rather than a visual aid this might be more of a case of the blind leading the blind the trip to the vet confirmed his worst suspicions. we find cataracts on the dogs eyes and how to take urgent measures. but

as they say a dog is for life and despite the large cost of the operation lexie was determined to find a solution. i don't like to think about how much it cost me i took extra work and saved my pension for surgery and it was worth it. we had to stop the inflammation and then remove the islands from the dog severely damaged by the surgery was successful and the dogs now able to see again. in a country with a very coarse sort of a million blind and visually impaired the number of guide dogs available is way fairly inadequate training center in the outskirts and is one of only relatively few and the only one that's government funded there are eighty dogs being chained here in the third at the moment now the training of the dog typically start somewhere between ten months and two years old and many of the puppies are bred in the third. but the schools in

a catch twenty two situation it will receive further government funding to increase the numbers trained until demand is higher but the demand remains low as many simply can't afford the expense of keeping a pair and in a country struggling to adequately provide for the blind guy don't complete invaluable as alexei. is like a member of the family which is always in the same room as me. they say that dog is a man's best friend but of course if you're blind a guide dog is so much more than just companionship it's a chance to mobilize itself to really get your life back and that's why it's so important the more guys like this are trained up so. although it's really time for a business your years here with that next after a short break. hello

and a very warm welcome to the business day yandex us plenty to place an initial public offering worth up to one billion dollars this summer russia's leading internet search engine. morgan stanley as underwriters for the i.p.o. and plans to grade on the nasdaq stock exchange the search engines offering could become one of the largest companies in twenty eleven and board certified mail dot argues nine hundred twelve million dollar i.p.o. last november. which recently landed in the top fifteen most innovative companies previously planned to issue shares back in two thousand and eight which halted its plans due to the crisis. and the booker project europe's answer to russia's north and south rim gas pipeline has doubled in cost after a recent reevaluation the proposed three thousand two hundred kilometer pipeline which the e.u. hopes will help reduce dependency on russia by transporting gas from b.p.'s new

twenty billion dollar project in the count's been see was initially supposed to cost nine and a half billion dollars but to recent assessment by b.p. has put the cost of nineteen billion dollars many analysts have questioned the project's viability as the majority of the gas fields intended to supply the pipeline have yet to be developed. the ongoing dispute between shareholders. could be coming to a close after the company major renewed offer to buy twenty percent of its shares from one of its own as. well since the middle of last year two nickles majority shareholders this c.e.o. . and the head of winter also at a time in have been buying for control of the nickel producer but with both finesse having twenty five percent blocking stakes and refusing to yield to one another and if further development of the company is being blocked chris were third world think

believes that the outstanding issue in ending the route is now just a matter of price. it does appear we're now entering the the end stages of this long running dispute we noted some key minority shareholders and russo are pressing the board to accept this deal and even the controlling shareholder himself has no acknowledged that they're likely to sell it's no question of price hike doing so we certainly see that we are more likely to get a deal over the next few weeks or maybe you might even take the next few months but at least i think the principle to we're now talking about the price of the exit rather than the principle of the exit of think that's now been established. let's have a look at how the markets are faring this solve the european markets all flat this hour resource shares and pharmaceuticals the highest sort it out before the on the deck says german pharmaceutical for merck up three point seven percent after it

reported better than expected results and in russia the average the markets are beginning the week on a softer note note well continues to rise due to political upheavals in the middle east and this is helping push energy shares a little higher but may keep the indices straight to the washer is the lack of news from the u.s. as the american markets are closed on monday presidents day. and take a look at some of the individual should move spreads crude for april delivery is trading just under one hundred five dollars this is providing some support for the energy majors god's promise of using the point seven percent this hour and rushes to talk world farms crossing up to look oil on also marginally. and h.s.b.c. could be the next for him thanks to quit its retail banking business in russia the news comes up to a british bank barclays spanish banks some to. all close they were operations in russia experts say banks that didn't manage to expand their business quick enough

prior to the crisis finding it easier to sell it off increased competition. that's it for now you're up to date. well for british science it's a spot on. the. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global

economy is a report on our. here's a recap of some of the main stories we're covering today on our to the raging middle east unrest that has already led to hundreds of deaths is putting some countries on the verge of civil war their leaders some experts are blaming foreign meddling for fueling the basque protests. fresh suicide bombing hits afghanistan killing at least twenty eight people but adds to the recent surge and civilian deaths in the country many of those apparently your current operations a claim the alliance rejects. lobby and choose call for the return of property seized during the nine hundred fourteen cost they accuse the country's authorities

of relabeling the war as liberation from the bolsheviks and glorified nots a collaborator to justify. some experts believe. that the u.s. which is bogged down in warsaw and pressed by emerging powers will have to rethink its role in world affairs which is a goal to peace and conflict expert goes one step further by predicting the fall of the us subpar his interview is next on r.t. . r t fitting down with professor johan galton an internationally recognized founder of peace studies and author of more than one hundred fifty books his most recent book is titled the fall of the us empire and then what professor galton thank you very much for sitting down r.t. today my pleasure in two thousand you had predicted in forecasts that that the.