revolution in tunisia it's become swamped by thousands desperate for a better life in europe who are willing to risk all. down with them and we got into a storm and. i survived the 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 bitterly and tunisia used to have an agreement under which most tunisian refugees were intercepted before even reaching the island but now that the government has been overthrown the floodgates have opened and we're not ready for this 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 helpless at a center where they're provided with basic help but it's equipped only for eight hundred people. who we brought in additional staff members including police and even psychiatry just 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 e.u. 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 was going off r.t. . italy. where the saving the libyan leader vowed to fight. so the end of die

a martyr calling on his supporters to take back the streets from the opposition colonel gadhafi appeared on state t.v. in his latest attempt to cling to his forty one year rule amid the nationwide revolt of scented second week gadhafi said protesters have been bribed drugged and quote serving the devil is address comes after a day of reported army airstrikes against demonstrators in the capital tripoli more than two hundred have been killed and over four thousand injured in the first week of riots making this the bloodiest of all the arab revolts some libyan ambassadors have quit over the alleged use of force and want the u.n. to intervene world leaders repaving to the country's authorities to put a media end to the clashes the former u.k. ambassador to libya over miles told me we're seeing the final throes of a dictator at the very end of his reign. gadhafi is a very different character for why the banally or or mubarak. i wasn't surprised by the way he behaved i mean he's never he's never been prepared to accept any idea of

genuine opposition inside libya each always accused anyone who opposes him of being well now it's on the drugs but it was for it's always been in the pay of the experience is something he just can't get his head round the idea that there are people in libya who would like to see a change and that change means getting rid of him i think his promises. of reform and so on are working very closely and his threats. frankly disgraceful that we're witnessing and i'm not probably the final act of drama because what happened in libya was a different from what happened in the other countries was that the protests started really effectively outside the capital and it was in the in the villages in the towns and in particularly in benghazi which caught the attention of the international media that the protesters came out confronted the forces loyal to the regime and won and i i believe all the information is very scanty and it's very difficult to know what's going on. i believe that the situation in benghazi and in

many other parts of the country is now held by the by the protesters. rushers among the states preparing to evacuate their citizens from libya amid the escalating political crisis hundred fifty russians have reportedly been transferred a railway construction site in the desert all together there around five hundred currently working in the country at a meeting of the national counter-terrorism committee and russia's north of president dmitri medvedev warned the mounting violence in the arab world could bring dangerous consequences sarah first reports 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 political instability throughout these regions the decades to solidity most of. the middle east could shatter into pieces the situation is extremely tense we could witness the disintegration of large and densely populated countries. but the thing

is the situation there was quite complicated before and now there is a possibility that religious fanatics could seize power dashboards of the region and far for decades to come and would spread extremism further which extremists prepared such a scenario for russia before and they could try and make it a reality now but they definitely will succeed what from that list no 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 pro diverse classico we had a lot of that rhetorically coming out especially at the beginning of the protests russia's focus is really been actually takes more political dialogue 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 look at whether these countries we'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 are 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 a has got under way now president made vader's orders they've dispatched four planes we know that libya has actually given permission for they still land in tripoli so there's a one thousand two hundred people at the moment if actuated is over five hundred days and russian nationals themselves many of the specialist in the working on high tech investment projects in the country you know remember of course since libya's 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. one

of the biggest is the russian railways high speed rail waylaying project that is g to be completed in twenty twelve gazprom has also come out and said that it's going to be evacuating its workers there just last week they stein's a deal with an italian company to jointly work on an oil field in the country but of course with the potential of overthrowing of duffy's regime now with thing these are foreign investments really being called into question also correspondent sara firth i spoke to michael t. clare he's a professor of peace and world security studies he told me the country should focus on the reasons behind the uprisings he told me the food prices and the reconnect factors should be resolved before the problem spread even further afield. i think the sierra one thing the interest point before the events occurred in egypt and now in libya bahrain and elsewhere there were things signs and my mind the big thing to sign is the rising price of folk the price of food now as highest was even

higher than it was in two thousand and eight when you had riots around the world in dozens of countries and that's the situation you have today and i believe the situation can only get worse because indications of drought in many parts of the world in china and elsewhere and that makes people very angry in the case of libya it's too late because the government has used for us to kill their own citizens once you do that you've crossed the threshold and there's no going back in the case of egypt when the military announced they weren't going to fire on the protesters that open the way to a peaceful transition which we have so far seen in the gym i think that's the crucial factor is oh boy being conflict also transparency opening up the government to scrutiny where the money is is is is very crucial the fact is that the problems

in tunisia and egypt are replicated in many parts of the world not only in the middle east but in europe in central asia and in other parts of the world. observers begin to speculate on how the middle east uprisings might impact israel's relations with its arab neighbors now we spoke of getting primakov is a former russian foreign minister who says the revolt will force israel to rethink its current policies in the region. 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 in abandoning the idea of a peaceful settlement ocean despite numerous un security council resolutions which and president obama's cairo speech on israel building in new settlements in the

west bank and east jerusalem was sabotaging all exclusively goshi asian because i think recent events may cause them to reconsider their policy because global trends and not in favor of israel's an exchange policy will use. just let you know you can watch that full interview here on r.t. in an hour's time another strand to the story the british prime ministers of held his decision to take defense firm representatives with him on his tour of the middle east critics are accusing david cameron of exploiting the current events there at his correspondent laura emmott reports. it is the timing of this visit that has brought it under so much fire we've seen this is a huge amount of chaos in the middle east across these countries libya bahrain yemen before that egypt and tunisia and the police cracking down on these protests in certain countries and in fact there's

a former foreign office minister here in the u.k. a member of the labor party denis macshane who has called the prime minister's visit with defense companies at this time insensitive and crass insensitive and crass to seek to bolster u.k. arms deals with countries in the middle east at this very sensitive time we've seen just just very recently embarrassment for the u.k. after it was forced to revoke arms licenses to. libya amidst fears that british arms had been used against protesters during the trouble though david cameron is now trying to ascertain that they weren't that british arms weren't used in the suppression of protesters one just can't have that kind of control if one is an armed selling country we've also seen in the past accusation of the u.k. selling arms in exchange for oil particularly in relation to saudi arabia and we've also seen over a number of years a very in meshed relationship between thora tarion governments and the military and police forces of this country in fact british police have frequently going to help

train police forces in countries like libya bahrain abu dabi and qatar and saudi arabia and these are all police forces that have a propensity towards violence and some of them have shown violence towards processes in recent days the u.k. has also number of years authorized the supply of tear gas a crowd control ammunition to these countries as well as small arms ammunition and we also have seen a tradition of the elite coming to train at sandhurst which is the officer training institution here in the u.k. and in fact by current heads of states formally trained horse the king of bahrain. the head of jordan kuwait oman and hacks are all trained at sandhurst here in the u.k. and of course this all comes against a backdrop of cuts in defense spending in the u.k. so it would seem that one of david cameron's missions is to ensure that the u.k. defense. product will always have

a market in the middle east but the question that people are asking is is that morally right during this time of intense on rest in the region what is london correspondent laura among the military equipment britain sold to libya work crowd control vehicles and over partly been filmed on the streets of the country being used against the protesters as opposed to all of a sprog he's a u.k. arms program director of amnesty international he told me a little britain has got tough arms sales regulations they have been overlooked for years the vehicles that we've identified that appear to have been identified from from the you to footage should never have been sold in the first place it was just amnesty saying that an influential u.k. parliamentary committee was very critical of that decision back in two thousand and eight it is true to say that the u.k. does on paper have very strong rules it is not supposed to sell any equipment where there is a reasonable risk that they will be used to fuel armed conflict and human rights violations now in this case in libya. and elsewhere across the region but

particularly libya i think their judgment has been wrong and i think they have agreed the sales when when they should have done because i think it was clear back in two thousand and eight two thousand and nine when these losses were being approved by by the previous government actually that there were very real risks that they would fuel human rights atrocities exactly what we're seeing on our on our t.v. screens right now. they later taking a walk on the red planet find out i. made it out there and. go away we're back in just a minute now. wealthy british.

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from moscow russian special forces have reportedly eradicated three gunmen in a counter terror operation in the. north caucasus some of those killed are suspected of shooting tourists in the country's southern republic of coverage available caria last weekend on saturday two masked men stopped a minibus heading from around elbrus at least three tourists were killed and two more injured as the gunman opened fire. more world news in brief officials say four americans have been killed by pirates after the boat was seized off the coast of oman last week u.s. forces had been to go see it in with the hijackers until gunshots were heard early tuesday morning troops stormed the yachts detailing fifteen suspected pirates and killing another for the americans have been taking part in a rally when they were attacked the rescue operations tonight in new zealand

there's been a six point three magnitude earthquake there today it's killed at least sixty five in the city of christchurch thousands of people are in emergency shelters tonight the powerful quake brought down buildings tumbling to the floor and it all happened in the business district in the lunchtime is the worst affected area office blocks collapsed trapping scores of people in raining debris down on busy street is feared still some two hundred people might be beneath the rubble. emergency teams looking for them the second earthquake is to hit the city in five months and it is the country's deadliest natural disaster for eighteen years now. to rein in naval warships had to decide on tuesday on route to the mediterranean israel which moves around as a threat has already called the move a provocation iranian officials say the frigate and supply vessel are headed to syria for a year long training mission it's the first time around military ships have sailed

those waters since the country's islamic revolution of one hundred seventy nine egypt's defense ministry says iran's request stated that the vessels would have nobody trick wittman or nuclear materials of boredom. here in russia or the final walk on mars has been completed in a virtual experiment ended 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 the physical and psychological effects on people if mankind were ever to undertake such a long journey in the future the group of six volunteers are taking part us three russians to you. paeans in a chinese man they are now the official at the halfway point of the five hundred twenty day simulated journey spent in isolation in a moscow lab patrick fuller is the founder of a company specializing in scientific innovation he told me earlier that even though this experiment is quite accurate in reality this mission will be much much harder . there is

a body of knowledge that can be drawn on there what makes this particularly challenging in a real mission when you're on the surface of mars or a long way from the earth is that if you need to consult somebody for help the radio messages take a twenty minute round trip so that really does add an extra and rather more difficult dimension to it psychologically of course we know a lot more about how people will perform under these conditions now but the real challenge one of the real technical challenges that remains is working out how we protect cosmonauts on this long journey from the solar when the charged particles that come from the sun because that really will be one of the biggest difficulties that future technologies face in carrying out this journey. you can follow the progress too on our website r.t. dot com told me a witch gunning for an education online tonight found that out of college students a lecture is in texas might be given the right to carry loaded firearms on campus

that's one of the stories we're covering. and they're the pictures to go with it and also the circus is coming to town yeah we're about to see that now legendary canadian troops just select from a store showing the wrong pictures don't know why they're set to stage the late show with that we are in the cradle of the palace when they put it moscow next you . need a ring master with our director of think all right and now let's move on we got the business coming up shortly you're watching from moscow stay with us if you can. now to a few minutes we'll be looking into who is funding the arab uprisings a lot more to come on this with our very own financial whiz max keiser before that

let's catch up with the business sort of big day in the business world of the big effect there spike in oil prices crane has got the latest for you. now welcome to business good to have you with me all prices have climbed to the highest level in more than two years as the crisis in libya fuels concerns over crude supplies blend has risen as much as ten percent in less than one week now trading at ninety three dollars fifty seven cents a barrel libya which is africa's largest oil reserves has cut supplies by fifty thousand barrels a day with the opposition threatening to stop all of its elaborate identities are from metropole believes all prices could spike much higher if the unrest in the region spreads but. if conflicts will not stop in the next couple weeks we probably see the brand. price at about one twenty and i'm afraid if we'll see some conflicts

in iran we'll probably hit the historical maximum for one fifty maybe and in a more eve conflicts will stop and you know the peace will be there for a long time i think will come back below nine to you know in the short term and worst that may seek compensation from b.p. if they deal to join you develop rich arctic fields fails that's according to the wall street journal citing deputy prime minister igor sachin rosneft and b.p. concluded the deal in january but were forced to put it on hold after drew opposition from a that's b.p.'s russian partners in the joint venture tain k b p a r claims the deal violates its exclusive agreement with the british will nature. now let's look at the markets now u.s. stocks are thrown hard by unrest in the media financials are hit with bag of america and morgan chase shedding over three percent but high oil prices are lifting energy stocks chevron is gaining nearly two percent exxon mobil as well but

airlines plunge on the high of jet fuel prices delta airlines and u.s. airways grew by five percent european stock markets dropped sharply as well on tuesday extending the previous sessions heavy losses the footsie last point three percent germany's dax fell nearly three and a half points airlines ranked among the hardest hit stocks shares of air france killem dropped three point two percent and easyjet eight percent. and here in russia markets closed in the red tracking losses in europe and asia reality is in the minds experienced over half a percent lower on tuesday after posting here highest climb in more than a week on monday. and let's have a look at some of the individual share moves financials were under pressure would spare a bank ending almost two percent lower bank of moscow jumped more than four percent on news the city authorities have sold its stake to b. c b however shares slipped back toward the end of the trade the biggest gainers of the day were in the energy sector help not just by rising oil prices but also the

prospect of a more favorable tax regime here in russia. was also to focus on the oil sector because it has been a major article in the midst of this morning regarding the potential oil tax reform which is supporting the many economists including our house you know that the export crude tax will decrease from sixty percent to sixty percent which is very positive for the oil name so we've seen oil names such as. performing the market today quite significantly. russia's state run bank has acquired a forty six percent stake in bank of moscow from the city's government the t.v. is also bought from the city hold twenty five percent of capital issuance company which owns another seventeen percent of bank of moscow deputy mayor says be to be paid to have billion dollars for both stakes a forty percent premium to the market price tag of moscow's russia's largest lender by assets. that's all for me and the business team here but you can always find

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the red planet. this is part of the simulator. the volunteers and i half way through the five hundred twenty day experiment of bosco. twenty three thirty one the remorse go up next financial man of the no gets to grips with how american military money seeped its way into the current hour of uprisings. kaiser this is the kaiser report you know revolutions are happening all over the world the big question is what about the united states of america one taken to start revolting 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.