if he's going to do you can as more of the white house's reaction towards the prize . 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 to mock 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 iranian leadership but the situation in some other countries has 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 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 alice anneli say for the u.s. is 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 it leave you to experts say the u.s. would so much rather have things as they were 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 riches to the west and to let them invest in oil production so they kind of left him a little but now we protest spreading like the wire. fires 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 spiked 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 he threatens 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 rushing 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 prices but the political unrest in the region makes it all too unpredictable how it

is going to in washington d.c. there wolf more on the tense situation in the arab world let's talk to ramsey but rudy's editor of palestine chronicle mr bruce thanks for being with us on r.t. well experts are voicing the opinion on whether these results may spread the saudi arabia the second largest oil producer in the world if that were to happen what will the impact be as you see it on the global energy market we've already seen the turmoil in libya spiking oil prices. they. had the folks at the egyptians and tried to somewhat set up with the science that. sign up for what's happening in libya or find out they are taking any position that's really. lived up to the expectations of anyone so that what's happening right now

real fast because they're underweight and shipley in fact got the journal and we get up to fifty now i think realizing this democracy room. over the middle east could be the last in. altogether specially when they are reaching areas that are free to work in to the us including . what we are really funding and here on. three we are looking at the heart of american strategic interest in the middle east. or to take a position that. earth and operation are of. a very high price for that some. of the role of the military's being crucial as an indecisive the outcome of some of the recent writings what do you think the loyalty of the libyan military lie with colonel

gadhafi or the people tonight. sadly when you know very little about what we are allowed to know that libya is one of the people i disagree that our country thanks to. he. only dropped in i said it is you know it's all about a little bit. now. but it made it out that. you are i generally if you think the popular uprising. right now is the fact that america. doesn't need it fast people because as you know is that it's a matter of. he has the monastery particularly from china. from. other african countries must look at happening who

most mercenaries and in various parts of the mist of the rude i just want to put in modern technology is a great thing skype and all that but unfortunately the technical quality is not too great of what we're hearing but i want to ask you a third question but maybe you think if you're on some brief that the western world's being rather cautious in its call for democracy is that what why is the rhetoric changed since the egyptian uprising especially from washington i'm thinking that frankly because the west doesn't really care back real and genuine democracy in the middle east the us has interests you know and simple and they want to keep interest intact now we are seeing a read a little and we'll watch the words democracy and forward that you and other western allies are part of that we'll call for democracy i don't know if you can stop at the expense of their own interests and what about the medium term the global powers when dealing with some of these toppled regimes of course for decades is it going to be business as usual briefly. as far as that b.b.s.

concerned no as far as though the america's been dealing with some of these government something here of colonel gadhafi for one for many many many years what's going to happen if there is change will it be business as usual so do you not do without the need to think about american policy. and that's been. lost by the people however if you. are an idiot because you can nature all that you think and what might eat into what or where it's really a matter of fact about reports that there would be an american as far as their policies in the region are realms of prudence or of palestine chronicle got dot com speaking to us from seattle albeit in a rather breaking of fashion thanks ever so much for your input to the program it is pretty sure you did well major powers are proposing more financial assistance to north african countries have made their way through routes revolts in the region

but artie's financial guru most keyser 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 or they're just exacerbating the problem because they have no actual physical cash they just print fear 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 think they there 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 american military strategy in the store and it looks as the people bay won't change the middle east but the foundations for democracy would not get established. democracy is not something you come by in a shop it takes centuries of development to go to democracy but this stage of

development religion is much more meaning for democracy and to have democracy have to have real respect for human rights and personal individual rights. you have to say you have somebody who wants to go with the head cover that should be covered if not not in science abroad but they're not there so we take you through some of the top stories now to rein in washington to pass through egypt is canal on tuesday it will be the first time a rainy a naval vessels of sail those waters since the country's nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution they have been due to enter the car monday but their passage has been delayed the ships are heading to syria for a training mission israel and the u.s. have expressed strong concern over the move saying it escalates already high tensions in the region. you without the still to come this hour. only fifteen thousand and he said he'll get everything he needs to survive why even

comedians now in america are focusing on the huge student debt problem and. they say that dog is a man's best friend but of course if you're playing a guy don't get same it's more than just companion said here we got the story of a man who want to sort of take care of his pet just to she had been taking care of him it's a nice. lovey 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 from the baltic states. thousands of law being jews were robbed of their property money and in many cases their lives by nazi troops one of the major issues is how people met on the side of nazi germany a view to doing so really. unfortunately many believed a lot of in 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 an administration is not responsible for the night you do it 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 attitudes in latvia while they wish we need the property to solve our social problems develop education coach or mentor you know 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 in 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 be in 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. the dire economic situation of 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 are massively overqualified for their positions he's honest to see a chicken it reports. 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 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 debts larry is one of america's college degree owners facing a job market that has long ago thrown out the welcome mat the 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 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. 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 dollars. 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 peoples 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 us a lot of my friends are considering jobs outside of the us in india considering i

don't and china to shriek 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 to education or. dead taking out loans how is it is the car isn't safe so you just live from one day to another in the us 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 dead piles up forcing millions of americans to settle for less than what they dreamed of when covering that higher education and party. when i have seen a moscow time world news in brief caught in india's of hell the penalty for the only surviving two thousand and eight mumbai attacks muhammad. appeal was rejected it being convicted of multiple murder and conspiracy as well as waging war against

india around a 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 four 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 queuing for national id cards violence has been on the rise in the region which is believed to harbor taliban hideouts. that may be man's best friend but for some people dogs are of course also a lifeline to the world and 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 but sarah firth the government's not quite so quick to stump up the cash to train more of these vital animals. when alexei shiloh's guide dog bursar 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 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 coarse or of a million blind and visually impaired the number of guide dogs available is way fairly inadequate training center in the outskirts and 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 dog typically starts in there between ten months and two years old and many of the puppies are bred in the third itself but the schools in

a catch twenty situation it won't 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 parents and in a country struggling to adequately provide for the blind guy don't complete invaluable as alexei well know he's. like a member of the family which is 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 or so to really get your life back and that's why it's so important that more guys like this are trained up so i refer. next on the program some experts believe that the u.s. progs down in wars and pressed by emerging powers have to rethink its role in world affairs norwegian social or just your own gold one goes one step further as you're

about to see by predicting the fall of the us empire in the very near future. archie sitting 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 with r.t.

today my pleasure he said in twenty twenty the us empire will come crumbling down that leaves nine years according to your prediction what will happen between now and twenty twenty really. making wars. having not been better success for they redraw their bases but the english did once east of the still of them according to some account they will discover negotiation twisting and threatening they may discover quit to trade trade for mutual and he could benefit that this is not enough for a good trade agreement that the willing by your mates willing sellers and sign something for to look at the facts down in the pit at the top of. those put them in may also employ. employee quite a lot of americans maybe something what do you believe will happen that will cause

us leaders to decide to and the ongoing wars in afghanistan. in iraq and to put their base in iraq is not at all turning out the way they hoped certain a lot of god has done the same will happen in yemen and some of the number of other countries for the covert operations somebody will come to the conclusion that enough is enough that conclusion may not be drawn publicly what do you think's going to happen with the next five years or so between israel and iran i think the logic phrase for it has changed the last two weeks after tunis. has been running the game according to the prophet chapter two one to five inspire you by deterred one through king they use and then. we make peace between the bedouin tribes and when we have done that they. missed their swords into plowshares and it's the last part of this quote this is

politics. and this except what they have tried to do by trying to somehow buy up one way or the other to theirs jeems in the neighboring countries right now this is challenged. u.s. president barack obama campaigning two years ago. and when you sign when the presidential election did you think he was going to change american anyway i didn't believe him or did you think the system was too strong personally but it was obvious secondly didn't know foreign politics didn't have i.d.'s birdwatcher gross impressed me more was that the major find the answer was goldman sachs. and the american jews for obama or some organization in chicago that's to put it this way expected him to be very probably surrender so the moment you go on that line you're see you have tied up

a lot of your foreign policy. trying to two other countries kind of thing probably starting with tunisia you know have six seven eight the coming by the way in the world you can leave behind disregard the people who voted for you. david and maybe can use and we me and blacks and hispanics and youth and all kinds of groups to see as i'm hoping for something new to happen with republican south republicans but a single little thing is the operating by presidential directive which he could to a much larger extent tried to make a compromise with the republicans to watering down but they would he proposed and in addition having them vote against him do you think president obama will win a second term i don't think so you know i think so i don't think so if he won as a black maybe the next one would be able. pale and i don't underestimate is there

anything that americans every day americans could do tween now and twenty twenty to prevent the what you call the upcoming fall of the us empire i don't think that's decided inside the u.s. it's decided to. let me just clarify that but. the simple sentence what is going to happen to afghanistan this side the bush in my view it's this side of the axis that is stumbling beijing. russia. increasing irrelevance. how relevant this washington to vietnam for the last the warden pulled out you see it's the political defeat that this morning poured in from the military would be irrelevant so having said that the faith of

the us this decide on the outside the implications of it is this i don't incite. cultures that so much of it taxpayers' money for me to provide six years of a real treat to global warming is booming you more or less in change of people's purity obviously events in the middle east are top. stress nutrition and this is the product of the price of healthy eating. meat to test the sleep toxicity allergenicity immune response lower nutrition and for environmental contamination don't you feel like a lab rat some consider the experiment each human treatment very highly significant differences between the g.m.

fact that they both at the don't cheer. but they weren't treated so well themselves one question means one career if you ask one question you could be uncertain and you might or might not be able to publish it but that's be end of your career. wealthy british. market. was really happening to the global economy with mike stronger. global financial headlines.

this is the. taking it through our top stories tonight middle east. government buildings are missed reports of the country's leaders fled and politicians blame western involvement. in the region. having a blind eye to the crimes of the nazis who were considered a liberating force in the country's official history. and the u.s. is facing an increasing population of graduates as the struggling economy fails to

provide for. its coming up to one thirty one next cross-talk. discuss huge military spending in the middle east as all the news is focused there right now and whether the region actually benefits from it. if you still. play. 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 nonetheless the global arms business is booming do more arms not less in jane ger the world security obviously events in the middle east are top of mind play. and you can see.