contrie one of gadhafi son he's blamed exiles and outsiders for taking the country to the brink of civil war and he denied that live ammunition was be used against demonstrators. basters have quit over the use of force on civilians in protest and they are calling on the u.n. it to intervene. has more on how the trouble is being felt in washington. 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 libya 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 of iran of course the u.s. is for anything that's against the iranian 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 of egypt but in 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 analysts 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. broadly held commitment to democracy. that was that was before pro-democracy demonstrators filled the streets and the government risk. with

deadly force in leave you two 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 with protests spreading like wire wildfires across the region the u.s. seems to have little control over what's going to happen next there 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 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 rushing control there experts say if the on rescue teams 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. that was artie's going education and reporting from washington then in time john laughlin from the institute for democracy and cooperation in paris says that by supporting the uprisings in the arab world the u.s. only gives the appearance of change the american double standards in the middle east are so breathtaking that. one doesn't really know what to say in the case of egypt and as in the case of the other countries the interest of the united states is to present to the appearance of change while maintaining political control that is what the americans are about revolution serves to legitimize

a continuation of the status quo effectively you may remember in the great novel and film the leopard there's the famous saying everything must change so that everything stays the same and that's really the motto of the americans in these situations they're trying to keep a lid on the situation in the middle east they're trying to legitimize new versions of the old regime but of course that's not to say that there are no social pressures autonomous social pressures themselves there are of course considerable precious pressures in countries where foreigners living and working in libya are leaving the country several nations including russia are sending special planes to bring their citizens back home surfer has the details. russia evacuating the russian nationals living away a king in libya. specialist at a working on high profile investment projects and we know that that's not going ahead as he said special planes have been dispatched to aid that evacuation we can hear now from russia's khulna and busted to libya he commented on this.

russian nationals should be evacuated emergences ministry has been quite successful in carrying out bank eurasians on the social consensus it's hard to predict what the current situation in libya will lead to is there's one common reason for such reports across the arab world is the emergence of a new generation of better informed who have been brought up by televisions and to some extent the internet and are ready to take responsibility for the country's fate no statement on the foreign ministry website has called for an end to the violence in the country and the political dialogue is one that's really been this and this only let's put up that we've seen the russia's response to the situation in the middle east is being markedly different to the approach taken by other western countries especially as we've been hearing in the u.s. so they had this big pro-democracy rhetoric and we heard the freshest foreign minister sergei lavrov saying that morning western countries really that this.

revolution for the sake of revolution in for a democracy tool can be counterproductive to actually the focus should be on a stop listening now this democratic process is in the country he's one western countries is not to interfere in the region's internal affairs that these countries have the right to define their own future and it was intentionally to be very careful that they're not using me as the first of their own chief to speak gave since the energy rich country open for investment we've seen a russia make the most of these opportunities right back in two thousand and eight paid to zero. who is then the president of the country fiza to chipley and signed a three point five billion dollars deal for a high speed rail way link in the country that runs between big ozzie and i now that's scheduled for completion in twenty twelve but of course as we've heard they said specialist the engine is working well not project now of course being

evacuated now we know also there are many russian oil companies working in the country months and gas from gas from seoul say release a statement saying that there are many thing some of the people that working in the country that. as part of the evacuation in fact just last week gazprom signed a deal with the tallying company and the and that was to jointly develop the ellison oil fields in libya a bit of course now with the potential of gadhafi regime this is really calling into question the foreign investments in that country well you'll have more on the fallout from the uprisings in north africa and the middle east shortly but first let's look ahead as we deal with martial law later this stuffing on to the red planet in the moscow region the mars five hundred crew are set to walk on their mars for the last time before heading home.

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and more now on the unrest in the middle east and north africa it's leading to a surge of illegal immigrants fleeing the trouble italy is boosting security on its borders to cope with thousands of refugees whose numbers grow as the violence spreads r.t.c. group is going to have reports on those taking flight across the mediterranean. no job and no guarantees the life of a refugee. i had to leave i can do them i should have no money i want to see a familiar story here. a tiny italian island in the mediterranean around eighteen miles away from the coast of north africa it's always been the main route for refugees but since the recent revolution in tunisia it's become swamped by thousands desperate for a better life in europe who are willing to risk all. we got into a storm and. i survived six of us and. these are some of the boats

which were used by the refugees to get here and now they have these signs on them from the authorities saying their use is prohibited by italian a law they've been only here for a couple of weeks so it's pretty clear their initial condition is far from seaworthy nevertheless sometimes up to two hundred people can cram on each one bitterly and tunisia used to have an agreement under which most tunisian refugees were intercepted before even reaching the island but now that the government has been through on the floodgates have opened we were not ready for the recording to introduce as mir is becoming increasingly hard to. keep the situation under control with scuffles between migrants and police in question will there ever been cases of robbery and vandalism it's really hard to identify them some of them may be criminals or even terrorists most of the refugees are harold's data center where

they're provided with basic help but it's equipped only for eight hundred people. we brought in additional staff members including police and even psychiatry one hundred people in total but that's still not enough. with a wave of violence political unrest sweeping north africa and the middle east italy is warning of an exodus of be able to go proportions it's calling for cash to help handle the influx of refugees but for now rahm is planning to deploy its army to the islands to help the gateway to europe is going off. well the turbulence in the arab world has drawn the full attention of the american media riots and demonstrations in libya and bahrain are dominating the news channels of prime time and the newspaper front pages as artie's or analysts are reports while u.s. leaders fly the flag for and for popular uprisings thousands of miles away it's

a very different story at home. these images of thousands protesting their government. are reminiscent of the scenes we're seeing in yemen. or back pain or any of the mideast protests inspired by tunisia. and on a larger scale egypt where the people's will in many cases driven by workers struggles won out over ruling regimes but these demonstrations are going on in the u.s. state of wisconsin absolutely wisconsin is the new egypt their workers are fighting to maintain their wages benefits and bargaining rights unions and their supporters have been standing up collectively for a week and counting against politicians proposing to take those rights away this is one of the most incredible pouring of energy we've seen since the great depression and i think it could be the spark that could rebuild the labor movement in this

country we wouldn't know it walking past a news stand in the u.s. american newspapers featured the protests of other countries on their front pages right here this is bahrain no mention of the seventy thousand protesters right here on u.s. soil that may be a tiny side bar dedicated to the people right here in america fighting for their rights our us to get our everybody over and american protesters challenge the story told by the most watched twenty four hour u.s. news network in the country critics accuse fox c.b.s. that it was getting more and more aggressive and i fear that it might be some part of painting peaceful protesters as rioters and the safety of state lawmakers cannot be guaranteed while it may be true the struggles people face from the midwest to the mid east can't be painted with one broad brush because we do have a higher standard of living each not as bad as what we're seeing overseas in the third world the developing world but it is

a manifestation of the same. move that manifestation is received very differently by u.s. press and politicians depending on where it's happening american media that shared in the excitement of egyptian protesters all day long in cairo the anticipation and excitement were growing villainize the ones in their own backyard these protests. some of the signs aren't so nice a little bit nasty are you feeling any aggression there on the ground the president sided with the democratic demands of egyptians on the street and called for this political social and economic reforms that meet the aspirations of the egyptian people meanwhile at home on the day that the egyptian military help liberate the egyptian people we had the governor of wisconsin threaten to call the national guard lawmakers in the u.s. were rallying the troops against protesters and the top republican in the u.s. dried their tactics saying this was not a way to have an adult conversation gyptian seem to disagree

a prominent union leader pledged support for the western workers in this video. and we watched the people of egypt celebrate their triumph now in cairo it was victorious friday a victory fought and won the support of the u.s. once a battlefield now a monument to the one we call freedom meanwhile on the battlefield of working people right here in america those fighting go largely undefended lauren lyster party new york. well later our financial guru max kaiser says the u.s. needs a revolt and a toppling wall street banking giants. the global insurrection against banker occupation is gathering storm gathering force all over the world the forces that are in power now can't stop it the momentum is too high so we're seeing in egypt they're saying to me is yeah we're seeing riots all over the world in america it's coming it's coming soon and it's time for

a regime change and he's right to target the federal reserve bank there's going to need to be a regime change at some point as a matter of survival you know people in america debate whether it's a left wing issue or right wing issue it's none left or right it's a matter of survival either to get rid of bernanke or you die. you can watch the kaiser report in just over ten minutes time here on r.t. for now let's have a look at some other stories making international headlines new zealand prime minister has confirmed sixty five people have died following a powerful earthquake in the city of christchurch that number is expected to rise significantly the magnitude six point three quake struck just after midday causing busy office buildings to crash down in the bustling city center cries for help could be very neat the rubble during a desperate scramble for survivors rescue crews from across new zealand and

australia are after the sas the site. of the emergency has been declared. at least thirty six people have died after a stampede at a muslim ceremony in bali officials say over sixty others were injured when the crowd surged against a mental barrier the stadium hosting the event the country's president of i did to her a visit to a local hospital where the victims were taken the crush occurred tens of thousands of people were. attempting to leave the ceremony. a suicide bomber targeting a government building in northern afghanistan has killed at least thirty people the man detonated his device near a group lined up to collect identity cards in the quintus province of the taliban claimed responsibility saying the a talk was intended for an army recruitment center well this comes just days after militants in the eastern city of jalalabad killed forty and wounded dozens.

germany's defense minister has given up his doctoral title following allegations he plagiarized sections of his thesis last recall theodore's. he would temporarily give up the title while his university investigated the charges gutenberg has now asked the university of beirut to retract his ph d. in law admitting he had made quote serious mistakes. well the final space walk of a simulated voyage to mars will soon be underway in moscow before the crew packed their bags and head back to worth the volunteers are halfway through a period of five hundred twenty days spent in isolation in a moscow laboratory the team consists of six volunteers from russia and one each from china france and italy but the experiment is the sign to test the effects of long distance based travel alan smith from london smaller space science laboratory

says the experiment is a vital step for future space exploration. i think is actually an excellent idea i think it's a lovely idea because it is internationalized is the problem because i think that's a wonderful thing that they've done they've internationalize the problem and russia has chosen an aspect of the problem which i don't think is really been addressed properly the most focus so far has been the technology that gets you to mars and lands romanza and we can't simulate it in one go so what we have to do is separate out the various different difficult aspects of it and then try to isolate those aspects and then understand those aspects so the one of the real problems in going to mars is getting people to get on with each other for that period of time and still be effective when they arrive six or eight months later on the surface of mars and then come back again. and that's not a tall trivial so what the mars five hundred is trying to just isolate in their in

their isolation rooms some of the issues which those crew technology are going to see so it's not meant to be a perfect. simulation. is meant to just tease out some of the real issues and some of the issues are things like the difficulty in communication with earth and the growing time in the communications with the sense of general sense of isolation the fact that they have only a limited amount of supplies etc so all those things have been well simulated now said head of the guardian cosmonaut training center says this experience will prove useful for furthering the study of psychology. this experiment shows the behavior of people in limited confines and in limited groups and the results of it will be useful not only for future space missions but also for different fields of medicine finally it will be useful for members of polar expeditions and sailors who spend

a lot of time together in one place on one boat and as regards a real flight to mars training will take place when the technical equipment able to fly to the red planet is created of course we're following the mars five hundred crew story on our website and here is what else is on like keeping you up to date that are called. face a fight for compensation for the property stolen during world war two as praise for the nazi collaborators sees the conflict redefined by the country as a liberation invasion. and as the unemployment rate rises in the u.s. more and more women are taking the work going even in the porn industry to r.t. dot com to find out more. about next all the latest business news.

hello time for your business update a very warm welcome there rally in the oil price since the beginning of the year given the russian government new options speaking exclusively to our finance minister says the higher revenues will mean lower boring. sure newspoll is only going to cut our initial plan for and borrowing due to the high oil prices this year it could be cut by around five hundred billion rubles we have an opportunity which we haven't used yet to finance modernization with money from asia in particular this relates to projects in the far east in siberia the money could come in the form of loans foreign direct investment through the placement of

projects in asia. let's have a look at the markets now asian stocks are trading in the red that's our way down by political tensions in the middle east the nikkei lost almost two percent following the weakness in here but while related shares are on the rise on the back of strong oil prices brant crude just now one hundred seven dollars a barrel as the political crisis in libya fuels concerns over oil supplies in hong kong construction stocks a shot there low one with whom di engineering and construction down around five percent and g.s. engineering and construction down four point eight percent. and in russia the indices that tracking those losses in europe and asia. inching significantly lower in early trade up to sing their highest climb in more than a week on monday. now that oil spikes are having a positive impact on the russian equity but of a message on

a stretches from believes crude is a double edged sword and says investors shouldn't let their guard down. mr should be kosher is because we are getting into oil super spikes and we are we're overdue. getting to levels of hundred and five. you know the tensions are going to continue we're going to see higher price. it's good for russia's current accounts it's good for russians it's makes them makes them welfare but it's a key you were for me when i sit in the sun from our nation's capital there their russian labor market is improving but the end of a wave of metz layoffs seemingly over russia's statistics bureau says the show axed employees among the country's total workforce fell from around four percent in

december to roughly two percent in january and companies are hiring more than firing with the majority of workers leaving for personal reasons most of the layoffs take place in the manufacturing transport and communications sectors. and finally canadian circus companies will invest a record fifty seven million dollars in a new show in moscow next year to test the ground before launching a permanent show in russia by twenty fifteen more ryall based company which draws a fifth of its one thousand artists from russia says the country is the company's fastest growing market entertainment company came to russia two years ago and is now in looked we russians said it's moscow and st petersburg it will lead the euro sidorov easy to import later this year. that's it from me you're up to date now to get more store a small website r.t. dot com slash business.

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really you believe. some. welcome back here's a quick recap of the main stories we're covering today on our t.v. there are global calls for the violence to end in libya as hundreds died during a week of protests it was rumored that the libyan leader had fled the trouble with colonel gadhafi later made a brief t.v. appearance saying he was still in the country. russia is among several other nations racing to get their people to safety special planes are being sent to the troubled country to ensure foreign workers don't get caught up in the clashes. and the mars five hundred crew are preparing for their final walk on the block martian

surface before starting their long journey back home the volunteers are halfway through the five hundred twenty day project which they are spending in isolation in a small school laboratory to test the psychological impact deep space travel. and up next. in the no gets to grips with how american military money seeped its way into the arab uprisings do stay with us for that. max kaiser this is the kaiser report you know revolutions are happening all over the world the big question is what about the united states of america one ticket to start revolting i know it's already revolting but ones are going to really revolve things here or what's happening the first war we're going to talk about is the economic war.