all non-royal dieter's gadhafi has refuted reports that he's fled claiming in a t.v. address that the country is still under his control while it follows a day of reported army airstrikes against demonstrators in the capital tripoli hundreds have been killed and over her thousand injured in the first week of riots making this the my use of all the arab revolts colonel gadhafi denies live ammunition was used against the demonstrators nevertheless libyan ambassador have quit over the use of force and want the u.n. to intervene world leaders are appealing to the country's authorities to put an immediate and to the clashes are going to talks about attitudes towards the arab uprising in washington. there have been a few statements from u.s. officials calling for leaders of leave you have bahrain and others in turmoil to show restraint in hadley handling the protests and that's about it no more of that epic 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 op risings 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 and leave you to experts say the u.s. would so much rather have things as they were warm or could offer 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 protest spreading like you are wildfires across the region the u.s. seems to 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 made all these protests so the u.s. might be losing control there experts say if the andress continues and the crude oil prices continue 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. the u.s. stance on the arab protest has drawn criticism from around the world but now washington is also under fire for its handling of on rats closer to home find out why workers in the midwest are slamming the government for ignoring their fight for rights sporting foreign protests. but first foreigners living and working in libya are

getting ready to leave the country amid the aggravating political crisis russia is among the states preparing to evacuate their citizens president's meeting with rage of war and the escalating violence could bring dangerous consequences are to serve further has more. we've heard president speaking today at a security meeting and he was addressing the situation in the middle east and north africa what we heard him saying was about talking about the real danger now let's go in to the city throughout these regions for decades because much of. the middle east could shatter into pieces the situation is extremely tense we could witness the disintegration of large and densely populated country. but the thing is the situation there was quite complicated before and now there is a possibility that religious fanatics could seize power that would set the region on far for decades to come and would spread extremism further extremists prepared

such a scenario for russia before they could try and make it a reality now but they definitely will succeed only now we see 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 proud of its classic we had a lot of other tarik coming out especially at the beginning of the protests russia's focus is really actually takes more political dialogue the foreign minister sergey lavrov is really revolutions is not a democracy make what now needs to be the fake it's about having a democratic structure is put in place that 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 little whether these countries you've already seen egypt and tunisia having the government save its right libya potentially following in the states that whether these democratic structures can be put in place and whether these countries capable

of running a modern democracy we've heard from the foreign ministry that the evacuation so they snatched those that are working and living in libya at the moment has got under way now president orders they've dispatched four planes we know that libya has actually given permission for they still land play so there's a one thousand two hundred people at the moment evacuated over five hundred days of russian nationals themselves and many of the specialists that are working on high tech investment projects in the country now remember of course since livy has been open for investment since the two thousand and eight we've seen a number of these high profile investment projects get up and running one of the. a lot of the biggest is the russian railways high speed rail way laying project does need to be completed in twenty twelve but of course day's work is an engine is now being evacuated but of course with the potential a the right. thing these are foreign investments really being called into question

. and the violence in the middle east and north africa is driving thousands to flee in search of safe haven faced with a deluge of immigrants and only concerned about security on its borders are seizing visits an island struggling to cope with the influx. no whom no job and no guarantees the wife of a refugee. had to leave i can do them i should have no money i want 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 lot they've been only here for a couple of weeks so it's pretty clear initial condition is far from seaworthy nevertheless sometimes up to two hundred people can cram on each one bitterly in tunisia used to have an agreement under which most too easy refugees were intercepted before you didn't. know that the government has been drawn the floodgates have opened and i were not ready for that he said according to him producers mia is becoming increasingly hard to keep the situation under control. scuffles between migrants police inquest. been cases of robbery and vandalism a protest it's really hard to identify it on its own some of them may be criminals or even terrorists the 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 just one hundred people in title 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 roll is planning to deploy its army to the islands to help. to you're. just going off or to. get in. from the danish institute for international studies says the international community could turn to sanctions to deal with the uprisings. the prospect of massive immigration has always been europe's was tonight europe will be able to do

that it depends on the ability of actually core donating 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 the borders to install some more effective lines of protection in terms of patrolling of the sea borders the instruments. eligible to the international community in the short term are very limited yesterday in brussels at the meeting of e.u. foreign ministers the talk of sanctions was was voiced and definite that prospect is there i mean imagine. if in two months time choral 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. that would at least avoid color and prevent a corner of gadhafi from traveling europe and put up his tenants 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 and so that the international community can get if if the violence continues at this rate. here with our team live from moscow a little later in the program we take a walk on the red planet find out how these man made it out there and what a moscow wound has to do with their journey. but first in the u.s. state of wisconsin thousands of workers have taken to the streets protesting against wage and benefit cuts the scenes may be reminiscent of those in north africa and

the middle east but demonstrators say they're not getting any government attention they claim that while the u.s. is closely monitoring what's going on abroad it ignores such protests at home. has more. these images of thousands protesting their government. or reminiscent of the scenes we're seeing in yemen. or bahrain 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 of a ruling regime but these demonstrations are going on in the u.s. state of wisconsin she was conscious of 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. to get all right everybody. protesters challenge the story told by the most watched twenty four hour u.s. news network in the country the critics accuse far doesn't seem like they did they are getting more and more aggressive and i fear that it might be some part of being tinged 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 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 same global move that manifestation is received very differently by us 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 at their tactics saying this was not a way to have an adult conversation egyptians 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 called freedom meanwhile on the battlefield of working people right here in america those fighting go largely undefended lauren lyster r.t. new york. more on the unrest across the middle east observers are beginning to speculate over how the uprisings might impact israel's relations with its arab neighbors are two spoke to. the former russian foreign minister who says the revolt will force israel to rethink its current policies in the region. which you

mood in any case i think it might force the israeli leadership to give up that philistine of maintaining the status quo in the middle east so phone the israeli leadership has been leaning towards preserving the status quo in abandoning the idea of a peaceful settlement despite numerous un security council resolutions and president obama's cairo speech. israel building new settlements in the west bank and east jerusalem sabotaging. i think recent events may cause them to reconsider their policy because global trends and not to be in israel's an exchange policy. full interview here in our team just over an hour's time. the final walk on

mars has been completed in a virtual experimenting studying the demands of deep space travel this was the last of three simulated strolls on the mock martian surface mars five hundred is a project aimed at studying but physical and psychological the facts on people if mankind was ever to undertake such a journey in the future a group of six volunteers is taking part in brussels to europeans and a chinese man they are now at the halfway point of the five hundred and twenty day simulated journey spent in isolation and among. the crew is currently heading back to their mock space ship alan smith from london's smaller space science laboratory the experiment is a great step forward for intern. small space exploration. i think is actually an excellent idea i think it's a lovely idea because it is internationalize is the problem because i think that's a wonderful thing that they've done there internationalize the problem and russia has chosen an aspect of the problem which i don't think is 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 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. 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 genuine sense of isolation the fact that they have only a limited amount of supplies etc so all those things have been well simulated. a brief look now at some other stories dominating world news today rescue operations are underway following a six point three magnitude earthquake that killed at least sixty five in the city of christ church thousands of people are in emergency shelters the. buildings tumbling down in the business district at lunch time office blocks collapsed trapping scores of people and raining debris down on busy streets it's feared 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 the year. two iranian naval warships entered the suez canal this tuesday group to the mediterranean israel which views iran as a threat has already called the move

a provocation iranian officials say the forget and supply all 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 revolution of one thousand nine hundred seventy nine egypt's advance ministry says iran's required state of vassals would have no military equipment or nuclear materials on board. a stampede a muslim ceremony in the african country of mali has left at least thirty six people dead most of them women over sixty others were injured when a crowd surged against a metal barrier at a stadium they were trying to get closer to one of the country's most love to be last at a festival to mark the prophet muhammad's birthday twenty five thousand seat stadium was said to have been filled well beyond capacity. a special indian court has convicted thirty one people of conspiracy to torch a passenger train fifty nine people mainly hindu pilgrims died when the sabarmati

express was attacked by a muslim mob in the town of nine years ago the court acquitted sixty three others of conspiracy. the 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 features blogs videos and much more you can always log on to our web site that's our dot com here's a look at what's online 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 the city are set to stage their latest show in the kremlin palace when they visit moscow next year.

next an r t a live business update with kareena stay with us. and welcome to business good to have you with us all prices have climbed to the highest level in more than two years as the crisis in libya fuels concerns over school supplies blend has risen as much as ten percent in less than one week now trading at around ninety three dollars per barrel libya which is africa's largest oil reserves has cup surprised by fifty thousand barrels a day with the opposition threatening to stop cold with the lives examined as are all from metropole believes oil prices could spike much higher if the in the rest of the beach and spreads. if it will not stop in the next couple weeks we probably

see the. price at about one twenty. i'm afraid if we see some conflicts in iran we've probably. won fifty maybe in. eve conflicts will stop and you know that peace will be there for a long time and think will come big little known to you know in the short term. compensation from b.p. if their deal to jointly develop rich arctic fields fails that's according to the wall street journal citing deputy prime minister. we have to end b.p. concluded the deal in january but were forced to put it on hold to it through opposition from b.p.'s russian partners in a joint venture attained keeping pay our claims the deal violates its exclusive agreement with a british measure. now let's look at the markets european stock markets dropped sharply extending the previous sessions heavy losses as the violence in libya

escalates the pullback also companies on the heels of sharp losses for asian markets footies back below six thousand points airline stocks worst heads i mean worries over oil supplies. pretty much the same picture in russia where the in this is attracting those losses in europe and asia. significantly lower on 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 backing stocks are trading deep in the red while all shares a pointing upwards very bank is down over two percent of the. trading block. russian state run bank has acquired a forty six percent stake in bank of lost go from the city's government we to be is also bought from city hall twenty five percent of capital insurance company which owns another seventy percent of bank of moscow deputy mayor says will be paid three hundred billion dollars stakes a forty percent premium to the market price tag of moscow's russia's largest lender

by assets. inflation in russia has been racing away since the beginning of the year prices now are nearly three percent higher than they were in january the first of the government is still optimistic it can hit its annual inflation target in two thousand and eleven but as economic development minister and then during the can seems this will require some help from mother nature. reconnected the annual inflation moved onto fly when it's now could hardly see and maybe seven to eight percent however just to cost is based on high expectations of good has a lot of groups in russia and the rest of the world. that's all for now but you can always buy most tories just log on to our website r t dot com slash business tax watch.

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and. there with arts you live from moscow our top stories at five thirty pm anger at the government reaches a boiling point in libya with clashes and airstrikes against protesters reported colonel gadhafi the nice feeling the contrary and refuses to step down. president dmitry medvedev warns of decades of turmoil if the protests continue this comes as moscow sons and claims to pick up hundreds of russians working in libya. 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 them. was the red planet sees a flask of gas for now as a six man crew makes its final walk on a mock martian surface as part of a simulated mission to mars the volunteers are heading back to earth to complete the remainder of the five hundred twenty day experiment in a moscow laboratory. now meet a pair of russian adventurers who are about to set off on one of the most hazardous journey as there is that's through the arctic spotlight is next here on our. hello again the welcome to spotlight the interview show on r t i'm alvin donovan today we're going to talk about traveling in the car. eighty years ago a group.