and thirty in a televised address the leaders sense that this number was exaggerated he also dismissed the horse and his father has fled the country but on rations also raging through out the protests again behind. middle east expert. says that global dominance are behind them while. they might be getting rid of of thirty forty or fifty euro rejean but many of these countries certainly in egypt certainly libya are certainly in tunisia and back during that might be getting themselves into just as bad or even worse trouble if they don't really understand the social proof that this is going on and we our full interests 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 of 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 has always seen before to a more rural chaotic and more controllable western style democracy that would serve in a privilege to serve what we have to be very careful about the various readings that we make of this is very important that both the pro protesters on one side and the government. in egypt whether it be in libya whether it be in a back rain or in tunisia should understand the 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 the tunisians

or the iraqis or just about any country that is having such turmoil in the middle east the president. well john laughlin from the institute for democracy and cooperation in paris says the us is not going to surrender its position in the middle east in the case of egypt and in the case of the other countries the interest of the united states is to preserve is to present the appearance of change while maintaining political control that is what the americans are about revolutions to legitimize a continuation of. the status quo effectively the american double standards in the middle east are so breathtaking that. one doesn't really know what to say i mean let's start with the most obvious example saudi arabia the biggest strongest richest ally of the united states in the middle east except for israel is saudi arabia and saudi arabia doesn't even profess democracy it doesn't have a single ounce of democracy in its constitution or in its political practice and

yet that country is always so to does the. you know as the americans which of course it is the americans simply turn a blind eye blind eye to the nature of the regime but there is another aspect to these double standards which is important to mention and that is the flirtation with the forces of islam it's important to understand as we discuss the relationship between authoritarian regimes often military backed in the middle east on the one hand and the forces of political islam on the other it's important to understand that the americans are capable of playing both sides of the game. major powers are proposing more financial assistant assistance to north african countries amid the wave of revolts in the region back to its financial guru max kaiser has dismissed the idea saying the union doesn't have the money to help its own members let alone nations outside the block. they can print more money but as they print

money it drives the cost of food on the futures market precious metals higher they're just exacerbating the problem because they have no actual physical cash they just print feet out debt which makes the price of food go higher so the best thing the e.u. could do is shut up and not do a thing because they are just making the situation worse they are completely corrupt they have absolutely no ability to assist whatsoever because they have no money and they keep printing fake money which is driving the price of food higher which is causing more revolution. coming up later this hour in our debate. peter lavelle and 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. in part are somewhat comparable to a singapore of switzerland their small populations they want people to know they have weapons racially want to be left alone saudi arabia does have some incursions

into yemen and he's using it charnock it purchased from the us in other states so i'm not sure about that but nine or so where 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. it's more news out of the middle east this hour to a brainy and warships are to pass through egypt suez canal on tuesday it will be the first time iranian naval vessels have sailed those waters since the country's nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution vessels have been due to enter the canal on monday but their passage has been delayed ships are heading to syria for training mission israel and the u.s. have expressed strong concern over the move thing it escalates already high tensions in the region are just falsely or is following developments in tel aviv.

this many prime minister benjamin netanyahu says that he views with most gravity the posturing of these two 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 from the israeli foreign minister avigdor lieberman and he says that this is nothing short of publication its will in iran have not had diplomatic relations for the past thirty years and israel is concerned that iran is sending weapons to its name. as that will ultimately be used against the jewish state israeli soon relations are strained israel convinced an israeli official saying as much over the past few years that iran is supplying weapons to syria that ultimately land up in the hands of his 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 farsi

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 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 took in officials have checked the cargo they are confident that there is nothing suspicious on board and as a result they have allowed their free gate and the supply ship to go through. here with our team live from moscow still to come on the program not just man's best

friend. they say that though is a man's best friend but of course if you're blind a guide dog is so much more than just companionship we have the story of a man who once had to take care of what had just yes he had been taking care of him . the first lodger is jewish communities demanding compensation from the government for property stolen by the nazis during the second world war but many believe the case is likely to be rejected in a country where s.s. forces are seen as liberators from soviet occupation peter all of the reports now from the baltic states. thousands of lives been jews were robbed of their property money and in many cases their lives by nazi troops one of the major issues is how much food on the side of nazi germany a view today so very. unfortunately many believe the lothian waffen s.s. who fought against the bolsheviks were liberators but they in fact were bandits and

robbers they have seen documents listing real estate that belong to jews killed in ghettos i think their 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 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 attitudes in latvia while they wish we need the property to solve our social problems and develop education culture if it meant 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 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. of course all the stories we're covering plus much more is always available for you at our com let's run you through

a selection of what's there today number one in twenty million dollars it's belonging to the self exiled russian tycoon bodies. and been seized in frowns. and a spy in the sky former russian agent anna chapman's turning her attention to the cosmic catwalk plans to add some glamour to the country's space industry get the details that are soon dot com. the dire economic situation in the u.s. has created thank you unemployment bomb with millions of graduates failing to find jobs to start paying off their college debts and those lucky enough to find work are massively overqualified for their positions are to understand. how. the

international children's fund has worked for almost a century to 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 you'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 haunted by tuition debt larry is 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 on offer over three hundred thousand waiters 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 bed with america's traditional promise of a dream life after college what students aren't told however is that the cash. 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 this because of the economy that he's looking for any

available jobs to pay off his student loan debt but has not been able to find any paid work spend sixty five seventy thousand college. tuition. 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 didn't and try to sri with fifty thousand dollars of college debt says debt works hand in hand with american culture take it or leave it but it's the cost of living the american life that educational. dead 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. party. the u.s. congress is currently debating defense budgets but some republicans want to go a step further suggesting a halt to all foreign aid as well the idea has been slammed by the council on foreign relations a 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 up the very case at l a times trying to save the state department and 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 the budget is based on their false premise that id 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 stands for american international dependence not development consider egypt for example the usa 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 oil if you as a grade used as big as it's ever been and that's why i strongly and sincerely support senator rand paul initiative to completely abolish idea as a counterproductive and totally ineffective reach in their way spreads anti-american feelings and resentment toward state department hypocrisy all over the world. it's nineteen minutes past the hour let's take a look at some other major headlines from around the world monday high court in india is up how the death penalty for the only surviving gunman of the two thousand and eight mumbai attacks mohamad. appeal was rejected he's been convicted of multiple murder and conspiracy as well as waves of war against india around. a hundred and seventy people were killed when ten pakistani government attacked two luxury hotels in the city because saab could still take his case to the supreme

court. one hundred seven pilot whales have died off the tip of new zealand south island after beaching the whales were discovered by hikers in a remote location of the countries from the country's conservation department flew to the site but found about half of the group had already died last month twenty four pilot whales were also lost in a similar incident on the north island. and at least thirty people have been killed and nearly forty wounded in a suicide bomb attack in northern afghanistan the device was detonated near the entrance to a government office where crowds of people were queuing for national id cards violence has been on the rise in the region which is believed to harbor taliban doubts. well next hour here in our two we hear from peace and conflict expert johan goldstone who says u.s. operations in afghanistan are doomed to fail and the consequences of u.s. actions abroad will reverberate affecting washington's wider global role. it's good

to have been two of. the. axis. to give it a. try. increasing the relevance of. some will even come to the conclusion that i presume that conclusion may not be drawn public. but the train be a kind of maneuver to protect the faith of the usa by this decide on the outside. implications of it so i don't see inside. of it maybe man's best friend but for some people dogs are also a lifeline to the world when the eyes of one man's guide dog started to falter the owner spared no cost to keep his four legged friend on the road. about the

government's not so quick to stump up the cash to train more of these vital animals . when alexei shiloh's guide dog 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 chip to the vet confirmed his worst suspicions. we find cataracts on the dog's eyes and how to take urgent measures. but as they say a dog is for life and despite the large cost of the operation let's say it 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 in 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 where

you feel 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 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 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 pet 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 she's always in the same room as me i'm one. 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 is so to really get your life back and it's why it's so important the more guys like this a trained up. well that brings up to date this hour from the news desk let's go over to green apple. just provide update more hearing of the global economy is facing a new threat words are coming from now well this time it comes from the sun and strong solar storms could damage satellites and power grids and cost the economy a lot of money details coming up in the program and i welcome to business russian gas giant gazprom is rejecting a request from german utility gas that its russian gas purchases be linked to the spot market price long term gas supply contracts between gas from and european customers are linked to the price of oil that formula has attracted increasing criticism from europe as a price of oil has rallied strongly gazprom c.e.o. aleksey miller explains why gas can't be traded like oil dollars for. trading you

need to be higher than fifteen percent in the european market because gas is not a traditional exchange to see like gas cannot become a really exchange commodity like because of its physical characteristics. yandex is planning to place an initial public offering worth up to one billion dollars this summer leading internet search engine engine has hired a bank and morgan stanley as underwriters for the i.p.o. and plans to trade on the nasdaq stock exchange the search engines all franka become one of the largest companies in two thousand and eleven that would surpass mail dot ru nine hundred twelve million dollars i.p.o. last november your giver on call from invest cafe believes potential investors should approach with care. because the market is now entering a new stage in the vein of the y2k bubble whereby investors would be cautious when looking at yandex probable valuation of seven or eight billion dollars in reality

this tendency is very dangerous because buying the shares in the hope to then sell them are you playing the speculative game mean some will manage to get off the train but others will be jumping out of the skyscraper in fear of the creditor. let's have a look at the markets european shares declined on monday as investors nervously watched tensions spread across the middle east and north africa if you case that point two percent as several of its mining stocks got a boost from the rally in gold and silver prices gold for april delivery service above one thousand four hundred dollars an ounce electronic trading. and russian stocks now up two days of losses on monday high oil prices are lifting energy shares as oil is russia's biggest export or what may keep the indices of its lack of news from the u.s. the american markets are closed on monday for presidents' day and i'm taking a look at some of the individual share moves gazprom is up over one point seven percent this hour at rossen after the country's biggest crude producer andrew coral

are making headway as well over three and one point seven percent respectively. official efforts to stop russian people drinking too much or too much have taken a toll on the brewing industry the country's largest beer maker baltic has reported an eighty percent decline in net profit for two thousand and ten the company says sales suffered due to the two hundred percent increase in excise duty imposed last year to help combat alcoholism danish brewer called work which owns eighty percent of cited russia's performance as the main it is a list of profit forecasts for last year. and the global economy is facing a new threats this time from the sun scientists warn the planet is in danger from unusually strong solar storms which could damage satellites and power grids according to an estimate by u.k. scientists this could cost the world economy as march as two trillion dollars the

sun's activity goes up and down in a roughly eleven year cycle and it's currently walking from a long waking from a long quiet spell with peak activity expected in two thousand and thirteen. that's all the update for now but you can always find most stories just log on to our website artie dot com.

culture is that so much of the taxpayers' money i mean when i say yeah real mystery this little arms this is blooming do more on armstrong less in jayne's or the world security obviously events in the middle east or top. wealthy british scientists it's time to retire let's go. to the. markets financed scandals find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to name two kinds of reports on our to. more news today violence is once again flared up the front saying these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations

rule the day. look. crosstalk is coming up here on r t but first let's check the headlines middle east on fire protesters in libya burn government buildings amidst reports the country's leader has fled experts and politicians blamed western involvement for stoking the final time rest in the region. writing past smyth into one compensation for what they want started world war two and claim their governments turning a blind eye to the crimes of the nazis were considered a liberating force in the continent's official history. and the u.s. is facing an increasing population of out of work graduates as the struggling up

commie fails to provide employment. next in quotes talk peter the valen has gassed scots huge military spending in the middle east and whether the region actually benefits from it. and it. could be the only. hello and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle u.s. president barack obama has requested five hundred forty nine billion dollars in military spending for this year a small decrease over last year none the less the global arms business is booming do more arms.