ammunition was being used on demonstrators will someday be in ambassadors have quit over the use of force on civilians in protest and want the un to be let's hear now some of the international reaction aren't you going to to count house more on how the trouble is being felt 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 that mock democracy in making the kind of things 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 uprisings in the region could bring about leaders who will be hostile to the united states and many alice analysts say for the u.s.

it's not really about supporting democracy in those countries it's about securing their interest in 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 agreed to open up a leave us all the riches to the west and to let them invest in oil production so they kind of left him a little but now with protests riding like wire wildfires across the region the u.s. seems to 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 leave you know 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 it's threatens to disrupt supplies i made all these protests so the u.s. might be losing control there experts say if the andress continues and the crude oil prices keep growing is there an. 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 and the rest in the region makes it all too unpredictable . he is going to take can there reporting from washington john laughlin from the institute of democracy and cooperation in paris says 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 it's important to understand as we discuss the relationship between authoritarian regimes often military backed in the middle east on the one hand and the forces of political islam on the other but the americans are capable of playing both sides of that game equally there is a long history of american and indeed before that british friendship with political islam friendship with political islam because political islam undermines the

national principle in arab states so the western powers and america in particular trying to play on as many different sides of the equation as possible in the case of egypt and as in the case of the other countries the interest of the united states is to present 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 pressures pressures in these countries. well foreigners living and working in libya

are leaving the country several nations including russia are sending special planes to bring their citizens home or to use our firth has to detach. russia evacuating the russian nationals living a working 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 the to libya he commented on this. russian nationals should be evacuated to the margins his ministry has been quite successful in carrying out on the. cheap it's hard to predict what the current situation in libya will lead to just one common reason for such reports across the arab world is the margins of a new generation of better informed that have been brought up by television someone and to some extent the internet and who 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 missed and this own political dialogue 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. today had this big pro-democracy rhetoric and we heard the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov saying that morning when i think 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 the stop machine now these democratic processes in the country what he's won western countries is not to interfere in the regions internal affairs that these countries have the right to define their own future and there wasn't country need to be very careful that they're not using me as the first of their own chief it's two guys since the energy rich country open for investment we stay in russia and make the

most of these opportunities right but in two thousand and eight pay to zero. who is then the president of the country first to chifley and signed a three point five billion dollars deal for a high speed rail way link in the country that runs between the garci and another scheduled for completion in twenty twelve but of course as we've heard they so specialist the engine is working on that project now of course being evacuated now we know also there are many russian oil companies working in the country among some gas from gas from is also a release a statement saying that there were me feeling some of the people that are working in the country there for them as part of the evacuation in fact just last week gazprom signed a deal with the tallying company any and that was to jointly develop the elephant oil fields in libya but of course now with the potential of the duffys

regime this is really calling into question the foreign investments in that country . president medvedev says the situation in the middle east and the arab world could lead to major nations falling apart and put fanatics in power at a meeting with russian and chiefs in the north caucasus to meet them advance of said the un rests on a number of arab countries could have a decades long a fact and cause extremism to spread the also added that such a scenario was being prepared to happen in russia but that such a situation would never work instead of pointing out that terrorism exists almost everywhere and southern regions he pledged to bring all terrorists to justice or destroyed them without mercy if they resist. now more on the fallout from the uprisings in north africa and the mideast shortly first let's take a look at what's ahead we're dealing with martial matters later this hour stepping on to the red planet in the moscow region the mars five hundred crew take a mock martian stroll for the last time before heading home. we get back to

our top story the unrest in the middle east and north africa it's emerged that britain's prime minister has taken defense firms representatives with him on his tour of the troubled region david cameron praised the changes taking place and the will of the people in achieving freedom but the campaign against arms trade accused him of using his tour as a cover for selling arms deals let's talk now to kay stearman from that pressure group she joins us live from london firstly you are going to zation calls david cameron's actions a disc race what do you think he's planning to achieve during his four day tour exactly. what you've got to remember to david ridgen. in order to see deals with various middle eastern countries she took a quick trip to egypt where he talked a lot about democracy and freedom praised the people in toyota square but really it

was. a site should do what he's hoping to do is so arms and lots of them to the middle east and i have to say so far british arms sales do seem to have been very successful there but of course the main reason for these arms sales is seems to be for internal repression now britain has sold at least eight million pounds worth of military equipment to libya last year weapons which could essentially have been used during those riots are there other ways you think the u.k. could be contributing to the middle east uprisings. well obviously it would have been great if we hadn't sold those arms to libya or to bahrain because then we could talk with a little bit more credibility about the importance of freedom and democracy and unfortunately the way the british government works and it's not just mr cameron's government of the former labor government as well is what the british state is set

up to support in several avenues on the part of u.k. trade and investment their defense and security organization specifically there to promote arms sales and they have sold a lot of arms in the middle east including to saudi arabia which is one of the u.k.'s best customers so unfortunately it seems that you know no government has been willing to take the crunch and say we're going to be ethical we're not going to sow arms to dictators and should human rights abuses which is what these governments are why would britain try to make arms deals are more arms deals really at such a sensitive time like this when these uprisings are still raging across the region . well of course one of the main reasons for going at the moment is because those big arms fair in abu dhabi. and there are i believe around thirty six

british firms in shipping there including the big ones like. call kinetic and so on it's because all i'm saying oh very very lucrative the u.k. is cutting its own ministry of defense spending the us is cutting its but spending lots of countries in the recession are cutting back so they look for other places to sell them up means overseas the middle east particularly as a very rich market so that all going to so. it's a it's not just the u.k. other countries are doing exactly the same they see it as a very lucrative market very profitable part and they don't really care too much about fictionally at the same time david cameron has defended his actions by saying britain has long protected countries like kuwait and that the u.k. has tough regulations on who it sells those weapons to do you think that that's a sallow guarantee given the nature of selling guns bombs tanks etc. well the

point about suspending licenses for arms deals is first of all you have already sold a lot i mean that's sort of they've suspended a few arms licenses but that's really the equivalent of slapping someone over the wrist and say go away and don't do it again as far as we know sales are still going ahead to those regions have gone ahead in the past and i'm sure those in the future the fact that a few licenses have been stopped and suspended for the moment unfortunately i think it's not going to really make a difference right from the campaign against arms trade case dear man live with us on the line from london thanks for that. well the uprising in the arab world is leading to a surge of illegal immigrants fleeing the trouble italy's boosting its border security to cope with thousands of refugees whose numbers grow as the violence spreads you've got this kind of reports of those taking flight across the

mediterranean. no home no job and no guarantees the wife of a refugee. to leave i can give them i should. 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. then 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 lot 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.

used to have an agreement under which most tunisian refugees were intercepted before even reaching the island but know that the government has been overthrown the floodgates have opened were not ready for the according to one produces mere is becoming increasingly hard to keep the situation under control with scuffles between migrants and police. there have already 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 or herald center were 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 biblical proportions it's calling for cash to help handle the influx of refugees but for now is planning to deploy its army to the island to help. to europe. or to. italy. later our financial guru max kaiser says the u.s. needs a revolt aimed at toppling wall street banking giants. global insurrection against background compassion 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 are saying they're saying to me is here we're saying riots all over the world in america it's coming it's coming soon and it's time for 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 get rid of bernanke or you die. you can watch the crimes report right here on our just over ten minutes time let's take a look at some other world headlines for you list the city of turn to new zealand has been hit by a devastating earthquake leaving at least sixty five people dead the powerful quake brought buildings tumbling down in the business district at lunch time office blocks collapsed trapping people inside and running debris down streets teeming with people it's feared some two hundred people might be stuck we need the rubble and emergency crews are scrambling to pull survivors out. at least thirty six people have died after a stampede at a muslim ceremony in mali officials say over sixty others were injured when the

crowd surged against a metal barrier in the stadium posting here that country's president. visited a local hospital where the victims were taken across occurred as tens of thousands of people were attempting to leave the site. and a suicide bomber targeting a government building in northern afghanistan has killed at least thirty people the men detonated his device near a group lined up to collect identity cards in the conduce province the taliban claimed responsibility saying the attack was intended for an army recruitment center 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 placed arise sections of his thesis last week karl théodore zoo gutenberg said he would temporarily give up the title while his university investigated charges was now asked has now asked rather the

university of bed. to retract his ph d. in law admitting he had made serious mistakes. now the final space walk during a simulated voyage to mars concluding in moscow the crew will then pack their bags and start their virtual journey to earth six volunteers are halfway through the five hundred twenty day project spending it in isolation in a moscow lab while two of the crew practicing coping when things go wrong such as falling over as you can see luckily his russian companion came to the rescue helping to history and back then to the spacecraft the experiment is designed to study the physical and psychological demands of deep space travel that in reality last for about two years well you'll recall from the russian academy of says the reality would be very different from this mark so. there must be

this experiment can't recreate some of the important conditions of a martian flight first of all volunteers can convince themselves hundreds of millions of kilometers away from the earth and without this feeling you can't estimate what their real psychological condition will be moreover the lack of weightlessness and radiation the food is different to what cosmonauts would eat during a real mars mission it's a good imitation of a flight but only at a low level but of course this virtual flight is important if we don't have experiences like this which rusher in the soviet union have been doing for the last fifty years that huge experience in space exploration will be lost. but alan smith from london's mothered space science laboratory says their experiment is a good chance for a psychologist to better understand people's behavior in such long term isolation i think is actually an excellent idea i think it's a lovely idea because it internationalize is the problem because i think that's a wonderful thing that they've done every internationalize the problem and chosen

an aspect of the problem. i don't think it's really been addressed properly the most focused so far has been the technology that gets you to mars and lands on mars 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 then 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 those that crew technology are going to see so it's not meant to be a perfect. simulation of a trip to mars 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 lag 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. we're following the mars five hundred crew story on our web site here's what else is online keeping you up to date at our dot com years jews face a fight for compensation for the property stolen during world war two as praise for nazi collaborators the conflict redefined by the country as liberation not invasion . and as the unemployment rate rises in the u.s. more and more women are taking any work going even in the porn industry go to argue dot com to find out more. because reporters coming up here in our tea at half past the hour but first let's check the business with you.

that's right time for the business update a very warm welcome or oil prices have climbed to the highest level in more than two years as the crisis in libya fuels concerns over current supplies w t i blend has risen as much as ten percent in less than one week now trading at around ninety three dollars per barrel beer which has africa's largest oil reserves has cut its supplies by fifty thousand barrels a day with the opposition threatening to stop all the deliveries but for metropol believes prices could spike much higher if the rest of the region spreads. will not stop in the next couple weeks we probably see the. oil price at about one twenty. i'm afraid for some conflicts in iran will probably. historical maximum for for one fifty maybe. even conflicts will stop and you know

the peace will be there for a long time i think. in the short term. and girls next may seek compensation from b.p. if the deal to jointly develop reach arctic fields that's according to the wall street journal signed you deputy prime minister you could say it was snipped and b b concluded the deal in january but were forced to put it on hold after you drew from a our russian partners of the joint venture team p b p a r claims the deal by late it's exclusive agreement with the british world major. and time to have a quick look at how the markets are doing that sour it's a sea of red in europe european indices extending the previous sessions shot losses as the violence in libya worsens and off to having markets see is but below six thousand points airline stocks on monk the worst hit amid worries over oil supplies . and here in russia the indices are tracking those losses in europe and asia of

the r.t.s. in the mice it's significantly lower tuesday after posting their highest climb in more than a week on monday let's have a look at some of the individual share moves now well shares are not doing very well as a situation of instability continues to test traders nerves frostnip shares have slipped into red financials as well weighed by it escalating tensions and leave both burbank and feed to be a doll most three percent on the my six. brothers you raney i'm holding arms boosted output by twelve percent to more than five tons last year the company consolidates all uranium mines and russia along with your a new mining or latest s. it's in other countries arms reduction grew thanks to its special strategy on external markets and its deal with canada's during one in which it's become the biggest shareholder. and finally inflation and russia has been racing away since

the beginning of the year prices now are nearly three percent higher than they were on general first the government is still optimistic it can hit its target in twenty eleven but as economic development minister invited to be wanted it concedes this will require some help from mother nature. should we expect that the annual inflation will start to slow in the second half of this year and maybe seven to eight percent however this book cost is based on high expectations of good harvest of crops in russia and the rest of the world. that's it from me europe today.

de france to you trisha and this is products on the price of healthy eating. we need to test these foods for toxicity allergenicity immune response lower nutrition and for environmental contamination don't you feel like a law brought some consider the experiment each human treatment idly significate differences between the g.m. fed that they both at the don't g.m. . but they weren't treated so well themselves one question means one career you ask one question you could be uncertain and you might or might not be able to publish

it but that's the end of your career. wealthy british style. that's not on. the. market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cons or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report on our.

the cards are of course coming up here on our team but first let's get you up to date on today's top stories world leaders are calling for an immediate end to violence in libya as hundreds of people died during a week of government protests colonel gadhafi appeared on t.v. to confirm he's still in tripoli after rumors get on the continent. and russia is racing to get its people safely out of libya special planes are being sent to restore foreign workers don't get caught up in the constant. also the crew of a mock journey to mars and perform their final walk on the pretend red planet surface in the moscow preacher and the volunteers are halfway through the five

hundred twenty day project which they're spending in isolation to test the psychological impact of long distance space travel. as promised. financial man in the know gets to grips with how american military money seeped its way into the arab uprisings. 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 once again a star revolt. i know it's already revolting but ones are going to really revolve things here what's happening the first war we're going to talk about is the economic war paul b. pharaoh forget mubarak it's fed reign of terror that must then and now this is your take with a very pretty picture on.