rain and others in turmoil to show restraint handling the protests and that's about it no more of that epic coverage of democracy democracy in making 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 of iran of course the u.s. is for anything that's against the ukrainian 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 uprisings 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. 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 alone but now we protest spreading like while wildfires across the region the u.s. seems to have little control over what's going to happen next year 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

has the richest proven oil reserves in africa it is the twelve 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 losing control there experts say if the andress 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. as. director of middle east projects at george mason university says the use of air power won't see the libyan dictator from being toppled. that mistake he did is he drew experience of what happened in tunisia and in egypt and he thought that they

didn't use enough force and he started by crackdown with more force and kill more people than have more chance of succeeding and what we see is the exact opposite he's only making it faster for him to end up leaving power the u.s. has been taking a weak stand through the whole process of from tunisia to egypt now to bahrain which it's almost been silent on to libya and it's been taken that we stand because it's afraid that the fall of the regime in libya will create more revolves and other arab countries we've seen because of tunisia few more rebels and because of egypt many more have been protesting in other arab countries and assumption is if libya falls then the new countries that we haven't been expecting to have protests will also start protesting but they also look at the short term of their interest and they look and oil and libya is a very important oil exporter and so this will and will in the short term affect the sale prices of oil in the united states. in brussels the e.u.

member states are mapping out financial assistance to countries in the middle east and north africa caught up in the political unrest reportedly the plan or debate could become the largest foreign aid package since the end of the second world war parties financial guru max kaiser says the union doesn't have 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 and 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're just making the situation worse they think they're 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. u.s. military strategist and historian ed ward look voc says the people may want change

in the middle east but he believes the foundations for democracy there are not yet fully established democracy is not some day you come by in a show it takes centuries of development to get to democracy that this stage of your. religion is much more meaningful democracy and to have democracy have to have a real respect for human rights and personal individual rights. you have to say you somebody wants to go with the head cover that should be covered if not no and so on support but it's not been as unrest continues across north africa and the middle east a story in mark allman warns that if this situation spins out of control it could have a destructive effect on the global economy. polanco of the west would have to see and she. were there i think if they can control it in

places which the americans don't really have a handle on are. we likely to see the possible spike only because anyone democratic going to say when we have to go to some tyrants who turned a blind eye why should a price for us trying to put our arms back home it's going to cost you your cost the given the economic problems you must know has already sometimes the worst recession. commentary from historian mark all men talking about the unrest sweeping the middle east and north africa. two iranian warships are set to pass through egypt suez canal tuesday it'll be the first time iranian naval vessels have sailed those waters since the country's islamic revolution in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine they had been due to enter the canal monday but their passage was delayed the ships are bound for syria for a training mission israel and the u.s. have expressed strong concern over the move saying it escalates already high tension in the region. stay with us here on our team lots more headed your way

including this. only fifteen thousand and he said today he'll get everything he needs to survive why even comedians in the u.s. are focusing on the huge student debt and. they say this is the man's best friend but it cool if they feel flying a kite though it's a bit smaller than just companion said we have a story of a man who once had to take care of his pet just as she has been taking care of him . first though latvia's jewish community is 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 nation where s.s. forces are seen as liberators from soviet occupation or he's peter all over reports 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

the flute on the side of nazi germany a view today so. 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 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 on the holocaust began our country was under occupation by definition lightly and i thought at least cannot be responsible for actions of occupants local jewish leaders say that they only want what was stolen to be returned however they realize that this may be difficult with current

attitude in latvia while they wish we knew the property to solve our social problems develop education coach or mentor 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 for this conflict seems

a long way off peter oliver r.t. riga latvia. remember to check out our t. dot com for tons more on all the stories that we cover including this discover why a twenty million dollar fleet of yachts belonging to self exiled russian tycoon boris berezovsky has been seized in france. and the spy in the sky former russian agent chapman turning her attention to the cosmic catwalk with plans to add some go armor to the country's space industry all the details are to be done . the economic situation in the u.s. has created a youth unemployment bomb with millions of graduates failing to find jobs to start paying off their college debt many of those lucky enough to find work find

themselves massively overqualified for the jobs they find. churkin or reports from new york. international children's fund has worked for almost a century help the less fortunate than other nations now we want to tell you about a problem a little closer to home. for only fifteen thousand and he said today he'll give 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's 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 bed 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 of the label jobs to pay off his student loan debt but has not been able to find any paid work. 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 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 try to sri with fifty thousand dollars of

college debt so it's debt walks hand in hand with american culture take it or leave it but it's the cost of living the american life to education. taking out. how is it is the car isn't safe so you just live from one day to another and the u.s. wants to hold top position as world leader in the number of college graduates at the same time not enough jobs are being created and debt piles up forcing millions of americans to settle for less than what they dreamed of when covering that higher education and party. and out of some other stories making headlines across the globe in christchurch new zealand multiple fatalities have been reported after a six point three magnitude earthquake dozens have been injured many buildings have either collapsed or been badly damaged armed forces have been called in to assist rescue efforts to free those trapped under the rubble the quake struck at around twelve fifty pm local time in the city was at its busiest.

day that is up held the death penalty for the only surviving gunman of the two thousand. mumbai attacks mohammad. appeal was rejected he's been convicted of multiple murder and conspiracy and waging war against india around one hundred seventy people were killed when ten pakistani gunmen attacked two luxury hotels in the city because saad could still take his case to the country's supreme court. at least thirty people were killed and forty wounded in a suicide bombing in northern afghanistan the device was detonated near the entrance to a government office where crowds of people were lining up for national id cards and violence has seen a rise in the region that's believed to harbor taliban hideouts. and in the somali capital mogadishu at least eight people have been killed thirty five wounded when a suicide bomber detonated their car outside a police station no group has yet claimed responsibility authorities fear of the involvement of islamised insurgent groups authorities have branded the attack quote

a cowardly act and while they may be a 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 expense to keep his four legged friend on his feet but as our tease for a found out the government's not quick to pony up the cash to train more of these vital animals. when the next day shyness began leading you 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 and his well suspicions will we find contracts on the dogs to take urgent measures. but as they say it dog is for life and despite the large cost of the operation the next thing 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 you do. have to stop the inflammation

and then remove the islands from the dog severely damaged by the surgery was successful in the dog. able to see again. in a country with a very cool short of a million blind and visually impaired the number of guide dogs available is wastefully inadequate training center in the outskirts small 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 center of but the school is in a catch twenty situation it will receive the 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 parent 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. 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 a trained up surfer. some experts believe the u.s. bogged down in wars and pressed by emerging powers may have to rethink its role in world affairs but the region sociologist johan gulgong goes a step further by predicting the fall of what he calls the us empire in the near future stay with us the interview coming up next.

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

a better success for you they redraw their bases but the english did onesies to. stay with them according to some. they will discover negotiation and twisting and. they may discover quit the 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 to look at the facts down in the pit at the top and those to them it may also employ. employee quite a lot of americans maybe suffer. what do you believe will happen that will cause us leaders to decide to and the ongoing wars in afghanistan and iraq and to put the draw their bases in iraq is not at all turning out the way they hoped a certain amount of god has done the same will happen in the. number of other

countries for the covert operations some believe in come to the conclusion that enough is enough that conclusion may not be drawn publicly what do you think's going to happen within the next five years or so between israel and iran i think the logic phrase for it has changed the last two weeks of the tunis. israel has been running the game according to the prophet chapter two to five inspire you by deterred one through can they do so then. we make peace between the bedouin tribes and when we have done that they. moved their swords into plowshares. the last part of this quote this is politics. and this except through what they have tried to do by trying to somehow buy up one way or the other to their jeems in the neighboring countries right now

this is challenged when you saw us president barack obama campaigning two years ago . and when you sign when the presidential election did you think keep this going their children american anyway i didn't believe him or did you think the system was too strong personally but it was obvious secondly i felt didn't know foreign politics didn't have i.d.'s but total gross impressed me more was that the major find the answer was goldman sachs. and the medic in jews for obama or some organization in chicago the reports were expected him to be very probably set up so the moment you go on that line you see you have tied up a lot of your forte and pulls. the trigger to other countries kind of thing probably starting with two knees 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 convert to send we me and blacks and hispanics and youth and all kinds of groups and dense 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 don't think so i don't think so if he won as a black maybe the next one would be able been pale and don't underestimate the paver is there anything that americans everyday americans could do tween now and twenty twenty to prevent the what you call the upcoming fall with us empire i

don't think that's decided inside the u.s. it's decided to. me just for that but. one simple sentence. that's going to happen to a this not that important in my view it's this side of an axis stumbling beijing. russia. china. increasing irrelevance or say. how relevant this washington to vietnam after they lost the war and pulled out it was here it's the political defeat that this morning poured in from the military one of the year's relevance so having said that the faith of the us but is decide on the outside the implications of it i don't the insight.

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six thirty am in moscow these are the headlines of dozens of demonstrators in the libyan capital tripoli reportedly killed in the air raids by the military as protesters torched government buildings opposition forces came to control the country's second city benghazi is libyan diplomats at the u.n. where jack moammar gadhafi regime. liberians use demand compensation for property seized during the second world war by baltic as ac units were still viewed as liberators in the country's official history they accuse the government in riga of turning a blind eye to the crimes of the nazis. and in the u.s. the number of jobless graduates continues to grow with many heavily in debt and

forced into low paid work according to official figures around seventeen million americans with college degrees are currently working in low skilled jobs up next dahlgren off talks to russian adventurers about how they set off to the arctic on the most hazardous section of the round the world journey using self-made extreme terrain vehicles spotlight coming your way next. hello again and welcome to spotlight on r.t. i'm algernon and today we're going to talk about traveling in the car. eighty years ago a group. decided to make a trip around the world by a landowner border and not through warm seas but on self-made all terrain.