yes safe al islam gadhafi said it was with this number rather was exaggerated also he dismissed reports that his father fled the country meanwhile he had rescued ten years to spread further throughout the pretend with protests in yemen bahrain and rocco regional expert angela and how good she says that global dominance groups are behind the wave of revolt. we 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 we will fall the interest that may be driving them from outside of the middle east because i think this ties into a more global pattern where we have to understand the major geopolitical long term planning emanating from such organizations as the council on foreign relations the trilateral commission and the bluebird group who have for decades 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 as i was saying before to a more liberal chaotic and more controllable the western style democracy that we just sort of been privileged to serve with we have to be very careful about the various readings of we make of this very important that both the pro protesters on one side and the government the you know will be in egypt whether it be in libya whether it be in that crane 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 interest of libya because all the

egyptians or we are tunisians or the iraqis or just about any country that is having such turmoil in the middle east the president. two iranian warships were delayed entry into egypt syria's kamau this comes after israel and the u.s. expressed strong concerns over the dispatcher first for terror brands navy earlier egyptian officials that they checked the cargo allowing them to pass the passes was attacked by israeli ministers and world to act against iran's reoccurring provocations are following developments in television. 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 of a dollar lieberman 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 hizbullah in lebanon 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 rain revolution they 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 the president will be. it 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 were 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 is in officials have checked the cargo they are confident that there was nothing suspicious on board and as a result they have allowed their free gate on the supply ship to go through. coming up later in cross talk peter the valen his gas 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. the saudi and the g.c.c. states to me in part or somewhat comparable to what singapore switzerland their small populations they want people to know they have weapons system basically want to be left alone saudi arabia does have some incursions into yemen and he's using

it charnock it purchased from the u.s. and other states so i'm not sure about that but not a missile or one could of course discuss the problem there but to say that they're not using it at all i think it would be a question. if you could. watch is divided over claims that the countries jews should be compensated for the property they lost during the second world war many including the government say the country was fighting against occupation at any cost necessary but jews claim that was just a pretext to steal from their families peter all of discovery. thousands of law being jews were robbed of their property money and in many cases their lives by nazi treats one of the major issues is how much 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 after a while 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 of the lottery and administration is not responsible for the night you're doing and 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 we need the property to

solve our social problems and the like developed education culture if it meant say no synagogues and cemeteries of course it's hard to find ours 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 the government continues to draw most of its support from nationalist organizations a resolution to this conflict seems a long way off peter oliver r.t.

riga latvia. still ahead for you this hour here in our tiba heavy price for miscalculating operations in afghanistan. he thrives on the mistakes of the government of the international community. we look into the surge and civilian deaths in the northeast which nato denies also. 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 and the duty of care is a two way street we need a blind man who went to every length to save his canine helper who was losing life as well. but first recessions proving that getting to university is not the meal ticket to a study career that it wants was millions of american graduates saddled with college debts from funding their future fund they're also bad with skills employers won't pay for as an associate churkin have discovered only the blue collar option

remains the international children's fund has worked for almost a century help the less fortunate for another nation now we want to tell you about a problem a little closer to home. for only fifteen thousand and he said they don't get everything the needs to survive the idea of a doctor grad may be 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 degree 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 are now for over three hundred thousand waders and over

eighteen. thousand parking lot attendants working in the us are said to have a college degree moreover 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 you do wonder

sometimes. because of the economy he's looking for any of the lable jobs to pay off his student loan debt but has not been able to find any paid work. sixty five seventy thousand college. tuition but. 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 that 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 don't and try to sri with fifty thousand dollars of college debt says debt walks hand in hand with american culture take it or. believe

it but it's the cost of living the american life it's educational and it's dead taking out loans how is it is the car isn't safe so you just live one day to another in 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 piles up forcing millions of americans to settle for less than what they dreamed of when coveting that higher education and. all the stories we're covering for you are available right now at our two dot com let me run you through a selection of what else is there discover why after twenty million dollar fleet of yachts belonging to self exile russian tycoon. has been seized in france. and the spy in the sky former russian agent anna chapman is turning her attention to the cosmic catwalk with plans to add some glamour to the contrary space industry

the details are dot com. a suicide bomber has killed at least twenty eight people in the northern afghan town of kunduz police say many civilians are among the dead as the bomber targeted people queuing outside a government building it's the latest in a string of incidents claiming innocent afghan lives officials there put some of the blame on nato forces they claim that coalition raids killed sixty four civilians in the north eastern 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 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 out of the international community is civilian casualties of the perfect mistakes for them to thrive on and to to seize up on in a news public opinion in their own favor and also government inefficiency and government problems so this is something that the international community and afghan government has to. learn and also try to isolate the population from insurgency. and next hour we'll 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 conflict expert you know have gotten has been studying america's most for years here's some of what he has to say. he's good to have been two of. the

bushes in my view through side of the axis. beijing. to. russia. increasing irrelevance so. some will even come to the conclusion that enough is enough that conclusion may not be drawn publicly but to truly be kind. to the faith of the usa but just decide on the outside the implications so it does so i don't even see it. as american politicians in congress wrangle over slashing the world's biggest military budget some republicans are putting a stop to foreign aid as well the idea has been slammed by the council on foreign relations of think tank that says the money helps poor countries stand on their own but as our military contributor explains in reality the cash brings very different

consequences. see if our experts came out of the very 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 which officially stands for american international development allegedly does develop their client states and consequently promotes pax americana all over the world oh i'm a shoestring budget in reality it's quiet the opposite because for the recipient countries id stands for american international dependence not development consider

egypt for example the us a id have invested one point five billion dollars annually in promoting self-sufficiency and independence of egypt agricultural sector but in reality egypt dependence on imported off you as grave as big as it's ever been and that's why i strongly and sincerely support senator rand paul initiative to completely abolish us idea as a counterproductive and totally on effective reach in their way spreads anti-american feelings resentment toward state department hypocrisy all over the world. it's coming up to twenty minutes past the hour let's have a look at some other international headlines first to the philippines where of volcanic eruption in the east of the country has sent clouds of almost three kilometers high and forced thousands of people to flee witnesses describe the ground sake and before

a tremendous explosion smoke an ass blanketed nearby villages to stop. power and communications the military is helping to evacuate communities near the mountain the last major eruption was in two thousand and six. a string of attacks on taxis in the mexican city of go 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 gangs mexico's and during one of the bloodiest periods in its recent history written creasing 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 or stoney nine adults and thirty seven children were in the wooden building when the fire started most of the children at the home use real tears and were unable to escape the

flames the cause of the fire has not been not been determined but the government has declared monday a day of mourning throughout the country. and 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 half were still alive at the time but were euthanized to ease their suffering time constraints on an approaching storm made it unfeasible to rescue the crew. of dogs devotion to its owner is all said reciprocated but one blind man in the russian city of novosibirsk has gone to extraordinary lengths to make sure that his guide dog gets a second chance however as our two sarah first found out these gifted animals are in short supply. when the next day shuttles began leading him astray he realised that rather than a visual aid this might be more of a case of the blind leading the blind the chip to the vets and his suspicions. we

find cataracts on the dogs eyes and hard 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 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 quarter of a million blind and visually impaired the number of guide dogs available is way fully inadequate training center in the outskirts more scale is one of only relatively few and the only one that's government funded there up to eighty dogs being chained here in the center at the moment now the training of the dogs 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 situation when we see 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 pet and in a country struggling to adequately provide for the blind guy i don't completely invaluable as alexei. is like a member of the family she's always in the same room as me. they say the 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 is so to really get your life back and that's why it's so important the more guys like this are trained up so if. well that wraps up our main news black businesses next year in our team with stay with us.

hello and a very warm welcome time for your business update yandex is plenty to place and initial public offering worth up to one billion dollars this summer russia's leading internet search engine has hired dortch bank and walk in stanley as underwriters for that i.p.o. when plans to trade on the nasdaq stock exchange the search engines offering could become one of the largest companies in twenty eleven and would surpass mail dot argues nine hundred twelve million dollars i.p.o. last november yandex which recently landed in the top fifteen most innovative companies previously planned to issue shares back in two thousand and eight but halted it closed due to the crisis. they in the book zero project europe's answer to russia's but north and south stream gas pipeline for ships 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 caspian sea was initially supposed to cost nine and a whole billion dollars but a recent assessment by b.p. put the cost at 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. and the ongoing dispute between shareholders and nickel could be coming to a close after the company major new to offer to buy back twenty percent of its shares from one of its own us. since the middle of last year too often a majority of stock holders the sea over. the head of interest let him a baton and have been buying for control of the nickel producer but with both billionaires having twenty five percent walking stakes and refusing to yield to one another any further development of the company is being blocked chris. believes the

world that the outstanding issue in ending the route is 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 hiking so we certainly see that we are more likely to get a deal over the next few weeks or maybe my you can take the next few months but at least the principle to the we're now talking about the price of the exit rather than the principle of the exit or think that's not going. time to have a look at how the markets are fare in this hour it's a sea of red in europe investors are not making any big moves nervous about tensions spreading across the middle east and north africa retail shares and pharmaceuticals are higher

a solid performance on the texas german pharmaceutical firm merck up four point three percent after it reported better than expected results. moving on to russia the equity markets are posting gains on monday oil continues to rise due to the political upheavals in the middle east and this is helping push energy shares a little higher may keep the indices treading water is the lack of news from the u.s. as the american markets are closed on monday for presidents' day and taking a look now at some of the individual show moves brant crude for april delivery is trading just under one hundred five dollars a barrel this is providing some support for the energy they just gazprom is leading the pack up over one percent first so i want and rushes to talk all forms ross nafta and lukoil are also making headway as you can see around one percent. and russia stage owned diamond mine plenty to increase production by fifteen

percent in the next seventy years the company which might hold an initial public offering this year plans to produce an average of thirty six point eight million carats of diamonds annually and aims to generate fifty five billion thirty five sorry billion dollars from diamond sales by twenty eight thousand been well rival de beers is expected to win back the title of the world's largest diamond producer in character arms and twenty eleven as a target production of some thirty eight million europe now during me in less than one else try for more business news and get more stores more website are to dot com slash business.

culture is that so much of the taxpayers' money or maybe even hundreds of years of a real mess created by the global arms this is booming you more armstrong less in jayne's or the world security obviously events in the middle east are top. wealthy british style. time to subscribe to the times. markets why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy

with mike's cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause a report on our. crosstalk is coming up here on r t but first a look at today's top stories the raging middle east on why that has already led to hundreds of doubts is putting some countries on the verge of civil war their leaders and acts worse are blaming foreign meddling for fueling the mass protests. for suicide bombing kids afghanistan killing at least twenty eight people it outs to the recent surge in civilian deaths in the country many of those apparently occurring during nato operations claimed the alliance for jack's. laughing and juice calls for the return of property and seems during the one nine hundred forty

s. holocaust they accuse the country's authorities are really labeling the war as liberation from the bolsheviks and glorifying nazi collaborators to justify robbery and murder . next and crosstalk later the bell and his gas discuss huge military spending in the middle east and whether the region actually benefits from it. and. to let him. alone we may well come across talk i'm peter lavelle us president barack obama has requested five hundred forty nine billion dollar.