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he's got a future crime has more now on the white house's reaction to this popular uprising . and given all the big interests at stake in the region there is no more democracy chanting going on in washington there have been a few statements from u.s. officials calling for leaders of leave you have bahrain and others in turmoil to show restraint in hadley handling the protests and that's about it no more of that epic coverage of the mom democracy in making the kind of thing something that we saw a little more than a week ago when obama delivered all these passionate speeches on people of egypt making their voice heard and embracing democracy there is no more of that now with the exception if you ran of course the u.s. history or anything that's against the ukrainian leadership but the situation in some other countries seems to have spiraled out of control with egypt analysts say it was easier and safer for the u.s. to root for democracy and support the people because there is the army there which is very powerful and is largely financed by the united states and is now in control
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of egypt but you know other countries in libya for example the u.s. doesn't have that same leverage so they are much more cautious calling for democracy in those countries i spoke to some experts here they say washington's biggest fear is that those op risings in the region could bring about leaders who will be hostile to the united states and many analysts and only say for the u.s. it's not really about supporting democracy in those countries it's about securing their interests just two months ago secretary of state hillary clinton pronounced herself very impressed by the progress that bahrain is making on all fronts she said that's quote there seems to be a strong the broadly held commitment to democracy. that was that was before pro-democracy demonstrators filled the streets and the government responded with deadly force and leave you two experts say the u.s. would so much rather have things as they were what more could off he was never their favorite leader that's what for about some seven years ago he reached to open up a levy is all which is to the west and to let them invest in oil production so they kind of. left him
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a little but now we protest spreading like wire wildfires across the region the u.s. seems to to have little control over what's going to happen next as the region becomes increasingly unstable the price of oil spikes on global markets it is now at its highest level since before the two thousand and eight financial crisis libya where protests are much more violent than they were in egypt or anywhere else now as the richest proven oil reserves in africa it is the twelfth largest oil exporter in the world and it's reckless to disrupt supplies i mean all these protests not only that but there are questions as to who will control the suez canal a major oil shipping lane americans have their fleet in bahrain to patrol the canal and keep an eye on iran but bahrain is now in deep crisis and nobody knows what's going to happen so the u.s. might be losing control there experts say if the unrest continues and the crude oil prices keep growing as they are now the u.s. is going to be hit really badly especially now that it's struggling to climb out of recession there are there are reports that a number of western oil corporations might temporarily gain from this spike in oil
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prices but the political unrest in the region makes it all too unpredictable. which occurred in washington d.c. some of the possible problems we may see that will discuss more the possible long term consequences of the events unfolding in the arab world and that's a story marco werman joining us on the line from turkey tonight thanks pete with the summer program in your greatest article would you say the uprisings as you see it will eventually lead to the fall of the monarchy in saudi arabia let's talk about country first the world's biggest oil producer what draws you to that conclusion. well it seems to me that the saudi regime concretely stable or secure its neighbors tried. to crack down but going before and for all it has the basic problem all these countries. for twenty years the rise in the price of oil. through a lot of problems very green to do with minority. particularly here is that it was
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actually produced so there's a whole bubble even crisis coming and i think it's either domino effect of the states rolling on into saudi arabia or we're seeing a spike in oil prices already if this continues what's it going to mean for the global economy. because this is where it's very bad code long time the west has talked as though it could have two things moxie and cheap oil. cheap moxie i think if it was for our growth in places which the americans still pretty have a handle on her arm. we're likely to see the price of oil spike if only because genuinely democratic machine was going to say when we have to pay to tyrants who turned a blind eye why should a price for us try to put our and the fact on their feet it's going to cost if the but it may be a cost that given the economic problems united states must know has already is simply something that's going to push us deeper into recession also take a look at your article you said that the world is since a quote one of the rides in decades why do you think the political turmoil will
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spread beyond the rich beyond the region. you see i think ironically the last twenty or so years rests had a very comfortable karmic revolution from the revolution students who comes in in ninety nine through two so-called color coded revolutions in the former soviet union now we see a possibility that the collapse of regimes which sometimes we want to bring about normal us can arm leash walk of course and we can control huge populations young people and people who don't necessarily feel any gratitude to the west if you decide to join our club the way that the store wants you to interpret the words i want to do feel that way however much they want democracy and human rights they just don't necessarily feel that we are actually the ideal spokesman all the representatives of those values we don't always abide by all of the four million dollar question what do you think should be done now what you think global powers should do in this situation to stop it spiraling out of control i think this is the great problem they don't have the power. out of control in one sense you must have
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the power. to start. trouble maybe. you know. ok mark almond oxford university story on the line from ankara turkey tonight thank you for your thoughts much prefer to thank you. major you post proposing more financial assistance to north african countries have made the wave of results in the region but r t this financial guru most kaiser says the union doesn't have the money to help its own members let alone nations outside the bloc they can print more money but as they print money it drives the cost of food on the futures market precious metals higher other just exacerbating the problem because they have no actual physical cash they just print fear out debt which makes the price of food go higher so the first thing the e.u. could do is shut up and not do a thing because they're just making the situation worse they're completely corrupt
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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. so server market cars are more common to opinion in our debate show crosstalk coming up just a bit later on today people of our losses guess why countries of the middle east spend so much on the military and how the u.s. justifies its big business in the region. so the g.c.c. states to me in part are somewhat comparable to a singapore of switzerland their swap populations they want people to know they have weapons system they basically want to be left alone saudi arabia does have some incursions into yemen and he's using the china kit purchased from the us in other states so i don't want to sure about that but nine or so where one can all of course discuss the problem there but to say that they're not using it at all i think is it would be a question. this
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is are too from moscow more news now to a radio warship sort of pass through egypt canal on tuesday it will be the first time a radio and naval vessels and sell those waters since the country's nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution they have been judah went to the canal on monday but there are passages being delayed the ships are heading to syria for a training mission israel of the u.s. expressed strong concern over the move saying it escalates already high tensions in the region artie's paullus leader is following developments for us seen on television. this many a minister benjamin netanyahu says that he views with at most gravity the passing of these two even you know warships through the suez canal to the mediterranean sea he says that it's really an attempt by tel rand 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
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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 were. alternately 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
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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 dipshit officials have checked the cargo they are confident that there is nothing suspicious on board and as a result they have allowed the free gate and the supply ship to go through. fall asleep our correspondent there bring you up to date see you with r t still to come for you this hour. faded dog is a man's best friend but of course if you're playing a guide dog it's a bit more than just companion more we've got the story of one man who once had to take care of his old pages and she'd be taken care of a really nice story. that he is jewish community is demanding compensation from the
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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 of his paper all of the reports from the baltic state. thousands of law being jews were robbed of their property money and in many cases their lives trying not to treat one of the major issues is how much food on the side of nazi germany of 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
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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 as we need to procure to solve our social problems 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 worshipers still inside over sixty five years after the end of the
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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 for this conflict seems a long way off peter oliver r.t. riga latvia. just from all the stories we cover of course available on our website as well r.t. dog you look to our web page if you know we really saw a selection of what we've got there for you tonight discover why a twenty five million dollar fleet of your school or yourself exiled russian tycoon boris berezovsky has been seized in france scott the great storm of one. what she opted out of the spy in the sky for the russian agent on a challenge no turning attention apparently because we can't deal with plans to add some glamour of the country space industry perish the thought details i don't want
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to see dot com. the dire economic situation in the united states has created a youth unemployment bomb with millions of graduates failing to find jobs to start paying off their college debts and those lucky enough to find work of massively overqualified for their positions he's a nice to see a check report 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
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thousand dollars hunted 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 him an employment 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
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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 go. 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 is 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
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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 china to 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 that educational. debt on taking out loans how is it is the car isn't safe so you just live from 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 debt piles up forcing millions of americans to settle for less than what they dreamed of when covering that higher
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education. party. to talk with you stories in brief the high court in india's of held. by the government of the two thousand and eight. appeal was rejected he'd been convicted of multiple murder and conspiracy as well as waging war against india. around one hundred seventy people were killed when ten pakistani government attacked two luxury hotels in the city could still take his case to the supreme court. 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 hideouts. they may be man's best friend but for some people dogs are also a lifeline of course to the world and where the eyes are one man's guide dog started to fall to the owner spared no cost to keep his four legged friend on the road but as r.t.
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sarah first found out the governor's not so quick to stump up the cash to train more of these vital animals. 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 chip to the vets 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 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 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 dog's now able to see again. in a country with a very coarse of a million blind and visually impaired the number of guide dogs available is where you feel inadequate training center on the outskirts and is one of only relatively
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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 completely valuable 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 maybe lies is so to really get your life back and it's why it's so
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important the more guys like this a trained up so say. if they were top story later this hour a taste of russian poetry and folk music smarties james brown to look forward but it's business first to just a tick. hello and welcome to business good to have you with us gas problem has warned that europe's new common energy policy could hurt russia europe's third energy package due to come into force in march aims to boost competition by separating gas production from pipeline management this would prevent one company from controlling the whole supply chain gazprom c.e.o.
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exit miller says the plan would hurt russian gas supplies and discourage investment and pipeline meet at a meeting with analysts miller also spoke against gazprom selling more gas to europe at prices set by the market leaders for. treating her than fifteen percent on the european gas market because gas is not a traditional exchange commodus he like oil gas cannot become a readily exchange commodity like because of its physical characteristics. yeah dex is planning to place initial public offering worth up to one billion dollars this summer where she is leaving internet search engine has hired deutsche bank and morgan stanley as underwriters for the i.p.o. to trade on the nasdaq stock exchange a search engines offering could become one of the largest companies in two thousand and eleven and would surpass mail dot ru's nine hundred twelve million dollars last november your given on call from invest cafe believes potential investors should
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approach with care. the market is now entering a new stage in the vein of the y2k bubble whereby investors will 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 hopes to then sell them are you playing the speculative game some will manage to get off the train but others will be jumping out of the skyscraper in fear of the credit to the. european shares declined on monday as investors nervously watched tensions spread across the middle east and north africa you case put the slip point two percent to several of its mining stocks from the rally and gold prices go for april deliveries target of one thousand four hundred dollars an ounce in electronic trading on globe x. . and russian stocks climbed by the most in more than a week political unrest in the middle east lifted oil prices questions biggest
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export. energy shares and the r.t.s. was expand its one point three percent higher its biggest gain in three days. and taking a look now at some of the individual share move the country's biggest could produce at three percent and look oil increase two percent gazprom at a one point seven percent. income with its stalks euros local producers are. so. related stocks are doing well gold stocks are doing well produce all that is up over two percent and the stock that. is news ing is utilities were hurt some populist comments by mr putin in the last week who wants to clear through surprise. shares of bank of moscow soared four point
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eight percent on monday as five representatives of v.t. bank were elected to its board that's despite the bank of moscow's president and co owner under a but i didn't stating there be no negotiation with the t.v. regarding a possible takeover he also said that a fair value for the bank was between a point to a nine and a half billion dollars it to be earlier said it hoped to acquire the moscow bank the first half of two thousand and eleven. that's all for now but you can always find most stories just log on to our website artie dot com slash.
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see if. you visit. these are our top stories this monday night middle east on fire protesters in libya burn government buildings reports of the country's leaders fled experts and politicians blame western involvement for stoking the violent unrest in the region . writing past wrongs of. compensation for their loss during world war two and claim the government is turning a blind eye to the crimes of the nazis liberating force and the country's official history. and the u.s. is facing an increasing population of graduates as the struggling economy fails to
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provide employment. next parties eventually james brown head south to the pens a region for half an hour discovering the latest russia. in russian terms the pen's region is just. it's an area that any travel. a million people. with a driving business and cultural scene. it's passed around the streets. so this is where the history of began sixteen sixty three it was founded as a frontier town and the very first wooden buildings went up right here. in fact much of the region still consists of forests and if you're interested in seeing.

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