airstrikes against demonstrators in the capital tripoli hundreds have been killed and over four thousand injured in the first week of riots making this the bloodiest of all the arab revolts colonel gadhafi denies live ammunition was used against the demonstrators nevertheless some libyan ambassador had quit over the bloods use of force and one day you want to intervene world leaders are appealing to the country's authorities to put an immediate end to the clashes are going to change you can talks about attitudes towards the arab uprisings in washington. but 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 hadlee handling the protests and that's about it no more of that epic coverage of did not democracy in making 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 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 in the region could bring about leaders who will be hostile to the united states and many analysts and only say for the u.s. it's not really about supporting democracy in those countries it's about securing their interest it leave you to experts say the u.s. would so much rather have things as they were could offer was never their favorite leader that's what for about some seven years ago he reached to open up a levy is all which is to the west and to let them invest in oil production so they kind of left him a little but now we protest spreading like you are 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 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 twelfth largest oil exporter in the world and he threatens to disrupt supplies i mean all these protests so the u.s. might be losing 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. well the u.s. stance on the arab protests drawn criticism from around the world but now washington is also under fire for its handling of iraq closer to home. find out why workers from the midwest of the country are slamming the government for ignoring their fight for rights all supporting foreign protests. foreigners living and working in libya are getting ready to leave the country amid

aggravating political quite the aggravating political crisis russia is among the states prepared to evacuate their citizens let's cross live to our to sara furth for more details so what's russia saying about the situation in libya how critical does moscow think it really is. but we've heard president medvedev speaking today at a security meeting and he was addressing the situation in the middle east and north africa and what we heard him saying was about talking about the real danger now let's go instability throughout these regions the decades to come we can hear him speaking about these five is the decades people now come to power he was appropriate with democracy. the situation in the middle east difficult some cases we could witness the disintegration begin to sleep populated countries those countries could shatter

into pieces but the thing is the situation there was quite complicated before you know there is a possibility that religious fanatics could seize power that would set the region on fire for decades to come and would spread extremism further. prepared such a scenario for russia before and they could try and make it their reality now but they definitely will succeed. you know what we see in russia's response to the situation throughout these regions is that it's been markedly different to that of other western countries certainly much more cautious where we saw the u.s. being very deprived in this crisis we had a lot of that rhetorically coming out especially at the beginning of the protests russia's focus is really be actually takes more political dialogue what we've been hearing from people such as the foreign minister sergey lavrov is really revolution does not a democracy make what now needs to be the focus it's about having these democratic

structures put in place and as we heard president medvedev saying that there's a real risk that that won't happen and certainly over the coming weeks and months there's going to be a real little whether these countries you've already seen egypt and tunisia having their governments they could train libya potentially following and they spit out whether these democratic structures can be put in place and whether these countries capable of running a modern democracy. first tell us more about tell us more about what you know about what russia is doing to help its citizens that are stuck in the troubled country. what we've heard from the foreign ministry that the evacuation for they snatched those that are working and living in libya at the moment has gone underway now a president orders they've dispatched four planes we know the libya has actually given permission for they still land and should play say there's a one thousand two hundred people at the moment actuated over five hundred days of

russian nationals themselves and many of the specialists the working all the high tech investment projects in the country you know remember of course since libya has been open for investment since about two thousand and eight we've seen a number of these high profile investment projects get up and running one of a lot of the biggest is the russian railways high speed rail way link project be completed in twenty twelve but of course. day's work as an engine is now being evacuated gazprom has also come out and said that it is going to be evacuating its workers there just last week. a deal with an italian company to jointly work on an oil field in the country but of course with the potential a the. throne of. thing these foreign investments really being called into question . right are to therof earth reporting live far away in the evacuation of russian citizens from libya thanks for that. well violence in the middle east and north

africa is driving thousands to flee in search of a safe haven faced with a deluge of immigrants italy is concerned about security on its borders are to visit an island struggling to cope with the influx. nor who will. the life of the refugees. to leave i can give them i should only want a familiar story here. a tiny italian island in the mediterranean around eighty 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. of them i'm sure 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 law they have been only here for a couple of weeks so it's pretty clear their initial condition is four 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. but now that the government has been overthrown the floodgates have opened we were not ready for this according to one produces mia it's 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 so some of them may be criminals or even terrorists most of the refugees are housed at a 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 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 islands to help. you with this kind of art. and to talk more about the middle east turmoil and the facts on the rest of the world i'm now joined live by from brazil from the danish institute for international studies now as we've just heard in europe now how to deal with a significant influx of refugees from the revolt torn region what can we do about it. well look i mean even before. the

prospect of massive immigration has always been europe's wars tonight. in real terms it has never been substantial that we have always been below thirty thousand . possible entries every year and clearly the overthrow of the governments poses a whole different set of issues and what you're. will be able to do it depends on the ability of actually core dating among some of the governments that are most affected most concretely there is a prospect for from tax which is the agency in charge for protecting e.u. borders to install some more effective lines of protection in terms of patrolling of the sea borders but really most of the south and european governments are just now wait and see situation where this comes as the

multiculturalism debate in europe especially in denmark and sweden other countries and together navia is really intensifying how do you think that's going to all play into that. well look i mean it is no surprise that the issue of immigration in general has played very well into the domestic debates not only of scandinavian countries but really throughout western europe you have prime minister cameron of. the united kingdom saying that multiculturalism has failed and a similar argument was made by chance well i'm going to go a few months ago i mean you know the reality is that multiculturalism is there and is there to stay the question is how governments cope with it and in a way you can say that the answer so far hasn't been convincing judging at least by the rise of right wing populist at this throughout western europe these parties

have anti immigration and most often. they are primary for the spark is performing cruiser to. well it shows that in a way our answers to this issue is not being particularly convincing now libya has seen more violence and death in a week then tunisia and egypt put together many world leaders and the u.n. secretary general have urged colonel gadhafi to observe human rights. but the bloodshed continues what do you think can be done by the international community. well i mean let me safe from that of course the instruments. to the international community in the short term are very limited yesterday in brussels are the meeting of e.u. foreign ministers the talk of sunshine sanctions was was voiced for example by the finnish foreign minister stubb there front of the prospect is there i mean

imagine if in two months time coral gadhafi is not overthrown i mean business cannot proceed as usual after this so something will have to be done and clearly one obvious thing to do or one immediate thing that could be done is a visa ban on the regime if the violence continue at this at this rate. would at least avoid call it prevent corner gadhafi from traveling europe and put up his talents in several european capitals as he has done over the past few years anything beyond that including freezing of assets it's going to be more complicated but clearly targeted sanctions is the kind of symbolic as well as concrete answer that the international community can give if the violence continue continues at this rate but just briefly do you think that in libya in fact protests as well fixate on overthrowing a longtime leader. it's hard to tell it's hard to tell one thing you can argue is

that in many of the in the two previous cases especially tunisia you had the experiences of a balance of power between different forces inside the country and that in a way is the typical situation of a country that is not a fully fledged dictatorship and is somewhat somehow not so much sure to move towards democracy in the case of libya what you can say. is that it has to be much more entrenched if on the one hand this makes it more difficult to predict what will happen in the future you can also justify in this way. pressure of the regime has been much more than to look for breezy or customary from the danish institute for international studies thank you very much for your analysis this hour thank you . and later in the program we take a walk on the red planet find out how these men made it up there and what our

moscow wow has to do with their attorney. but first in the u.s. state of wisconsin thousands were of workers have taken to the streets protesting against wage and benefit cuts many of the demonstrators say their struggles are unimportant to their government they claim that while the u.s. pays close attention to what's going on abroad it ignores such protests at home lister takes a look at how much attention their struggle is getting. these images of thousands protesting their government. are reminiscent of the scenes we're seeing in yemen. or by train 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 one 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 as one of the most incredible out short pouring of energies 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 featuring 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 said may be a tiny side bar dedicated to the people right here in america fighting for their rights our us to get our own reporting overall and american protesters challenge the story told by the most watched twenty four hour u.s. news network in the country critics accuse far good series that it did were getting more aggressive and i fear that it might be supplied with fear of being peaceful

protesters as rioters and the safety of state lawmakers can not be guaranteed while it may be true the struggles people face from the midwest to the mideast 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 and developing world but it is a manifestation of the shame global 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 protesters are 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 have the governor of wisconsin threatening to call the national guard lawmakers in the u.s. were rallying the troops against protesters and the top republican in the u.s. derived 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. you know and we watched the people of egypt celebrate their triumph now in cairo it was victorious friday a victory fought and won whose support of the u.s. once a battlefield now a monument to the one we called freedom meanwhile on the battlefield of working people right here in america those fighting go largely undefended lauren lyster r.t. new york. well the final walk on mars has been completed in

a virtual experiment aimed at studying the demands of deep space travel this was the last of three simulated strolls on the martian surface mars five hundred is a project aimed at studying the physical and psychological effects on people if mankind was ever to undertake such a journey in the future while a group of six volunteers is taking part three russians two europeans and a chinese man they are now at the halfway point of the five hundred and twenty day simulated journey spent in isolation in moscow while the crew is currently heading back to their mock space ship allen smith from london's mother and space science laboratory experiments is a great step a great step forward for international 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 i've done i'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 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 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's the mars five hundred is trying to just isolate in their in their isolation and 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 things like the difficulty in.

growing taller in the communications and the sense of genuine sense of isolation the fact that they have only limited supplies except you so those things have been well simulated. it's twenty three minutes past the hour a brief look now at some world news rescue operations are under way following a six point three magnitude earthquake that killed at least sixty five in the city of christ church of people are in emergency shelters a powerful quite broad buildings tumbling down in the business district at lunch time blocks collapsed trapping scores of people and draining to agree down on the streets some two hundred might still be beneath the rubble the second earthquake to hit the city in five months this is the country's deadliest natural disaster for some eighty years. to iranian naval warships entered the suez canal this tuesday and route to the mediterranean israel which views iran as a threat has already called the move

a provocation iranian officials say the for gate and supply vessel are headed to syria for a year long training mission it's the first time iran's military ships have salvos water since the country's islamic revolution of one thousand nine hundred seventy nine egypt's defense ministry says the state of the vessel would have no military equipment or nuclear materials on board. a special indian court has convicted thirty one people of conspiracy conspiracy to torch a passenger train fifty nine people mainly hindu pogroms died when an express was attacked by a muslim mob in the town of nine years ago the court acquitted sixty three others of conspiracy and murder the deadly train fire triggered some of india's worst riots which killed more than a thousand people mainly muslims the full sentence will be announced later this week. for more on all our top stories as well as street journal blogs and. yes you can always log on to our web site r t v dot com there's

a lot of work for mind right now gunning for an education find out how college students and lecturers in texas might be given the right to carry loaded firearms on campus. and the circus is coming to town legendary canadian troops are set to stage their later show in the kremlin palace when they visit moscow next year. cory is here next with the business. and welcome to business and our top story this hour well prices of climb to the highest level and more than two years as the crisis in libya fuels concern over

crude supplies. has risen as much as ten percent in less than one week now trading at around ninety two dollars a barrel libya which is africa's largest oil reserves has cut surprised by two thousand barrels a day with the opposition threatening to stop all the deliveries alexander nazarov from matter paul believes while prices could spike much higher than the rest of the region spreads. conflicts will not stop in the next couple weeks we probably see the. oil price sort of one twenty and i'm afraid if you see some conflicts in iran we'll probably. historical mark some for one fifty maybe. eve conflicts will stop and you know that peace will be there for a long time i think will come big global now into you know in the short term. and may seek compensation from b.p. of their deal to jointly develop bridge fields fails that's according to the wall

street journal citing deputy prime minister. that b.p. concluded the deal in january but were forced to put it on hold afterwards to the opposition from the russian partners of the joint venture tainted b.p. our claims the deal by legs with exclusive agreement with the british will major. top two of the markets the european stock markets dropped sharply extending the previous sessions heavy losses of the bonds and levy escalates the pullback also comes in the heels of sharp losses for asian markets could seize back below six thousand points airline stocks are among the worst hit amid worries over oil supplies. and pretty much the same picture in russia where the indices attracting those losses in europe and asia the r.t.s. in the mars express significantly lower on tuesday after posting their highest climb in more than a week on monday now let's have a look at some of the individual share moves shares are not doing very well as the situation of instability continues to test traders nerves chairs have slipped into

red financials as well awaited by escalating tensions in the lead we have both spare bank and b t v down almost three percent. and more russia's state bank has acquired a forty six percent stake in bank of moscow from the city's government the b t v it has also bought from city hall twenty five percent of the company which owns another seventy percent of bank of moscow deputy mayor says he could be paid to have billion dollars for both stakes a forty percent premium to the market price tag of moscow's fifth largest lender by assets. so we have time for this edition of business r t but i'll be back with more or less.

more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world

has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations are on the day. at four thirty pm on scout time these are the headlines from our t.v. anger at the government reaches a boiling point in libya with clashes and airstrikes against protesters reported president gadhafi denies flee the country and refuses to step down. president dmitri medvedev warns of decades of turmoil if the protests continue this comes as moscow sends in planes to pick up hundreds of options working in the. and the political unrest in north africa and the middle east is prompting many

people to risk their lives and flee to european countries but locals claim immigrants are bringing violence and instability with. the red line it sees its last gasp for now as the six man crew made their final walk on a mock martian surface as part of a simulated mission to mars they are back they are on their way back to earth to complete the remainder of their five hundred twenty day experiment in a moscow laboratory. more now on the ongoing unrest across the middle east and north africa next artie's speaks to former russian foreign minister and expert on the arab world about the implications of the unfolding events.