riots making this the bloodiest of all the arab revolts colonel gadhafi son has to know i live ammunition was used nevertheless some libyan ambassadors have quit over the last use of force and want the u.n. to intervene and world leaders are appealing to the country's authorities to put an immediate end to the clashes and fears of a refugee crisis italy has raised concerns about security on its borders faced with a deluge of immigrants are just your words can all visit an island struggling to cope with the influx. no home 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 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 don't. 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 on each one. 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 overthrown the floodgates have opened were not ready for the according to one produces mir 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 are held 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 violent 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 rome is planning to deploy its army to the island to help the gateway to europe is going off. well. from the day institute for international studies says the international

community could turn sanctions could turn to sanctions to deal with the uprisings. the prospect of massive immigration has always been europe's wars tonight and europe will be able to do that it depends on the ability of actually core deleting 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 are the meeting of the e.u. foreign ministers the talk of sanctions was was voiced and definite death prospect is there i mean imagine if in two months time karl 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 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 answer that the international community can get if the if the violence continues at this rate. u.s. was vocal in voicing support for democracy and some of the mideast protests but now washington has come under fire for its handling of on ras closer to home find out what words from the midwest are slamming the government for ignoring their fight

for rights while supporting foreign protests. rushes among the states preparing to evacuate their citizens from libya the aggravating political crisis one hundred fifty russians have been reported trapped at a railway construction site in the desert although altogether there are over five hundred currently working in the country at a national at a meeting of the national counter-terrorism committee and russia's north a resident of war the escalating violence in the arab world could bring dangerous consequences are to sour first has more now we've heard president medvedev speaking today at a security meeting and he was addressing the situation in the middle east north africa and what we had been saying was about talking about the real danger now let's go instability throughout these regions for decades to come. through. 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 dashwood says the region and 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 won't succeed on that list you know we see russia's response to the situation throughout these regions as it has been markedly different to that of other western countries certainly much more cautious where we saw the u.s. being very proud of us we had a lot of that rhetorical coming out especially at the beginning of the protests russia's focus is really big need thanks more political dialogue the foreign minister sergei lavrov is really revolution does not a democracy make what now needs to be the fake it's about having a democratic structure is put in place so 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 real look at whether these countries we've already seen egypt and tunisia having their governments a great 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 the libya has actually given permission for they still land. so there's a one thousand two hundred people at the moment actually waited over five hundred days and russian nationals themselves many of the specialists the working on high tech investment projects in the country now remember of course since libya has been open for investment since the two thousand and eight we've seen

a number of these high profile investment projects get up. running one of. the biggest is the russian railways high speed railway length. to be completed in twenty twelve guys from has come out and said that it's going to be evacuating. just last week they signed a deal with an italian company to jointly. build in the country but of cools with the potential of the. thing these foreign investments really being called into question coming up a little later in the program we'll talk to walk on the red planet find out how these men made it up there what. to do with. coming to the. theory that the police are the.

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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 ours is more or less star has more. these images of thousands protesting their government. are reminiscent of the scenes we're seeing in yemen oh or bahrain 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 all remotely 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 doesn't see what they did they were getting more and more aggressive and i fear that it might be some problem with fear of being 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 developing world but it is a manifestation of the same gamble 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 cope with 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. dried 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 is 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 ours is blocked in your venue primark while the former russian foreign minister says the result will force israel to rethink its current policy room to.

issue more in any case i think it might force the israeli leadership to give up their policy of maintaining the status quo in the middle east so far the israeli leadership has been leaning towards preserving the status quo and abandoning the idea of a peaceful settlement despite numerous un security council resolutions and president obama's cairo speech to israel building in new settlements in the west bank and east jerusalem sabotaging all attempts to go she a should because i think recent events may cause them to reconsider their policy because global trends and not in favor of israel's anik sation policy. you can watch that full interview here on our in around fifteen minutes. of on

a walk on mars has been completed in a virtual experiment aimed at studying the demands of deep space travel this is the last of three simulated strolls on the mock 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 a group of six volunteers is taking part three russians two europeans and a chinese man are now at the halfway point of the five hundred twenty day simulated journey spent in isolation in a moscow while the crew is currently heading back to their mock space said alan smith from london smaller space science laboratories says the experiment is 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 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 you 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 i 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. now 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. it's just gone nineteen minutes past the hour let's take a look at some world news in brief for you officials say for americans have been shot dead by pirates after their boat received off the coast of oman last week u.s. forces have been negotiating reply hijackers until gunshots were heard early tuesday morning troops stormed the yacht detaining fifteen suspected pirates and killing another four the americans have been taking part in a rally when they were attacked. rescue operations are underway in new zealand following a six point three magnitude earthquake that killed at least sixty five in the city of christchurch thousands of people are in emergency shelters the powerful quake broad buildings tumbling down in the business district at lunch time office blocks collapsed trapping scores of people and raining degree down on busy streets it's

feared some two hundred might still be in the rubble the second earthquake to hit the city in five months this is the country's deadliest not to lose out for some it's. two iranian naval warships enter the suez canal this tuesday on route to the mediterranean israel which views iran as a threat has already called them a provocation randian officials say the frigate and supply vessels are headed to syria for a year long term a mission it's the first time iran's military ships have salvos water since the country's islamic revolution of one nine hundred seventy nine egypt's defense ministry says iran's required state of the us the would have no military equipment or nuclear materials on board. a stampede of a muslim ceremony in the african country of mali has left at least thirty six dead most of them were 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 loved moms to be blast at a festival to mark the prophet mohammed's birthday the twenty five thousand seat venue was said to have been for. filled well beyond capacity. now for more on all our top stories as well as features blogs videos and much more you can always log on to our website archie dot com here's a taste of what's online for you 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 surfaced today are sent to stage their latest so in the kremlin palace when they visit moscow next year.

greene is here next with the latest business. hello and welcome to the latest in business and we go to our top story well prices have climbed to the highest level in more than two years as the crisis and maybe a few concerns over crude supplies. has risen as much as ten percent in less than one week now trading at around ninety two dollars per barrel libya which has africa's largest oil reserves has cut supplies by fifty thousand barrels a day with the opposition threatening to stop all the deliveries i was out in the south from metropole believes well prices could spike much higher if the unrest in the region spreads. if folks will not stop in the next couple weeks we probably see the. oil price at about one twenty and i'm afraid if we'll see some conflicts in

iran we'll probably. historical months more for one fifty maybe in iran more conflicts will stop until you know that peace will be there for a long time i think will come big little known to you know in the short term. the rally here will prices the beginning of the year is giving the russian government new options taking a closer view to our two finance minister aleksei called in says the high revenues will mean oh i'm borrowing. you spoilers only we're going to cut our initial plan for foreign borrowing due to the high oil price 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 and in siberia the money could come in the form of loans foreign direct investment through the placement of you know projects in asia . compensation from b.p.

of their deal to join to develop rich arctic fields fails that's according to the wall street journal citing deputy prime minister igor c.-h. in grozny have to and b.p. concluded the deal in january but were forced to put it on hold after drew opposition from our russian partners in the joint venture to. a are claims the deal violates its exclusive agreement with the british all major. now let's take a look at how the markets are doing violence in libya is affecting markets worldwide u.s. stocks are falling with lies in oil prices investors fear crisis in libya could spread to all the oil rich countries in the region or lead to hard gas prices for consumers after a one hundred point slide at the start of dow jones was off eighty one point forty seven points. european stock markets dropped sharply as well extending the previous sessions heavy losses airlines rank among the hardest hit stocks because of the

shop spike in oil price shares of air. dropped three point two percent and easyjet fell eight percent. pretty much the same picture in russia where the this is a tracking those losses in europe and the united states the r.t.s. and significantly lower on tuesday after posting their highest climb in more than a week on monday now here are some individual share moves all shares i doing better than the others as the situation of instability continues to test traders nerves rostam shares are over half a percent up financials are weighed by escalating tensions in libya and it is down by more than two percent otherwise it's. more than four percent on news the city authorities have sold its stake to bt be however shares slipped back toward the end of the trade we'll have more on that story in a moment. russia's uranium holding arms output by twelve percent to more than five tons last year the company console. all the radium mines

in russia along with the reigning mining related assets in other countries arms said production grew thanks to its expansion strategy on external markets and its deal with canada's union and won it we should became the biggest shareholder. russia's state run bank has acquired a forty six percent stake in bank of moscow from the city's government. has also bought the city hall twenty five percent of capital insurance company which owns another seventeen percent of bank of moscow deputy mayor says paid three and a half billion dollars for both stakes a forty percent premium to the market price tag of moscow is russia's fifth largest lender by assets. and finally relation to 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 the government is still optimistic it can hit its annual inflation target in two thousand and eleven but as economic development minister given the be one of the concedes this will require some help from mother nature. we

expect that the annual inflation will start to flow in the second half of lisi and maybe seven to eight percent this book cost is based on high expectations of good harvest of crops in russia and the rest of the wild state there's a bang and that's the update for now where we'll be following stories of oil and other programs and join me for business starting in less than what.

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move forward. at six thirty pm moscow time these are the top stories on our team anger at the government reaches a boiling point in libya with clashes in airstrikes against protesters supported colonel gadhafi did lines fleeing the country and refuses to step down. president to meet me i'm afraid have wars or decades of turmoil if the protests continue this comes as moscow signs in flames to pick up hundreds of russians working in libya. and the political on rats in north africa and the middle east is prompting many people to with their lives and fleeting drunken punters locals claim immigrants are bringing violence and instability with that. from. readline it sees its last gasp

for now as the six man crew rigs its final walk on a mock mock some progress 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 experiments in a month. more now on the ongoing on rast across the middle east and north africa next starting speaks to your former russian foreign minister an expert on the arab world about the implications of the unfolding events. super michael thank you very much for finding time to talk to us if that is to go speaking of the recent operations in.