a tidal wave of illegal immigration is threatening to drown europe as uprisings in north africa and the middle east see thousands flooded tell you insurers. the

world's debating multi-billion dollar democracy package for the region hit by a revolt but many argue crippling cuts mean the money is desperately needed elsewhere. and oil prices climbed to the highest level in more than two years as even prices fuel the sun's over supplies but the oil price rally is definitely good news for some russian stocks were in business in twenty minutes. and other news ukraine's h.i.v. positive patients accuse the health ministry of banking on their illness as corruption and mismanagement mean the sick are left without a central drugs. eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r.t.m. arena joshie welcome to the program europe is facing an unprecedented wave of illegal immigration after levy has threatened to let refugees poor into the

continent the revolt across north africa and the middle east has already unleashed thousands on italian shores and as the chaos spreads through the region their numbers are only growing europe is going off has more. they don't call them to do so they get into europe for nothing you see this tiny italian island in the mediterranean is located just around eighteen miles off the coast of north africa and over the past decade many refugees came here looking for a better life and more leaders sent to other european countries nevertheless this place still managed to remain a peaceful isolated world populated mostly by fishermen and holiday makers just recently the peace was disturbed after the recent revolution in tunisia in just two weeks the island became flooded with the we both refugees many spend their entire days this wandering around tell there have already been reports of theft and vandalism several have been arrested we've been talking to the locals and some of

them are even afraid to come out on the streets when it's dark it takes around three days to seal from tunisia to lampedusa and these are some of the actual boats used by the refugees to get here and you can see they're not really that big so it's really hard to believe that sometimes up to three hundred people can cram on each one and actually not all of them even make it to be some get lost out there in the open sea and see dozens of refugees have already died this is the center where many of the refugees are being house you can see it's like a separate town itself they're being given out food and water and clothes and the necessary medical assistance as well all on the state money the problem is it was initially designed to house just around eight hundred fifty people while it had to receive in reality much more than that and another problem is it's required to

identify all these people and officials say that some of them could be criminals even terrorists would be easy for an interior minister's finally meeting to discuss the situation a resolution is needed fast because the violent. protests continuing both in northern africa and in the middle east italy has already warned a new bigger wave of refugees can flood not only this tiny island but the entire continent is going off r t one to italy but eight years discussing imposing sanctions against libya for a violent suppression of opposition protests some experts believe the measure could also help stop the flow of illegal immigration even before all these. things the prospect of massive immigration has always been europe's wars tonight. in real terms it has never been substantial and we have always been below thirty thousand. possible entries every year. clearly the overthrow of the governments

poses a whole different set of issues and what europe will be able to do it depends on the ability of actually cordy meeting among some of the governments that are most affected the instruments. of eligible to the international community in the short term are very limited 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. at least avoid color and prevent colon a 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 the freezing

of assets is 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 if the violence continue continues at this rate. and the libyan leader has vowed to fight till the death and die a martyr in his homeland refusing to step down amid widespread and government protests in his first major speech since the end rest began colonel moammar gadhafi talked of the cowards and traitors responsible for the uprising referring to protests as rats protesters rather as rats could offer urged his supporters to take to the streets and attack the opposition who he claimed were bribed drugged and serving the devil the libyan interior minister has defected and joined the protesters calling on the army to follow and support the people's demands for change several even ambassadors have also quit in protest over the use of force on civilians demanding the end of cut off these decades long rule the country's leader

of reportedly ordered the army to use airstrikes against the demonstrators something he denies several hundred have been killed and over four thousand injured in the first week of violence making it the bloodiest of all the arab revolt. meanwhile in yemen two anti-government protesters have been killed and dozens injured after supporters of the country's president opened fire outside a university in the capital sana tens of thousands have rallied across the country for two weeks now demanding the resignation of ali abdullah saleh the president who has been in power for over thirty years has refused to leave office saying he will step down only after national elections in two thousand and thirteen. the yuan haskin damn the libyan leader over his crackdown on protesters and coal for dance to the bloodshed u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton also described the violence as completely

unacceptable are these going to count as more from washington. the situation in libya has been critical for more than a week now the protests there turn out to be a lot more violent than they were in egypt or anywhere else in the way john but washington's we action as analysts point out has been as slow and cautious as ever only this tuesday did secretary of state hillary clinton come out to the press and powerful libya to stop the bloodshed she also called for leaders in bahrain and yemen to show restraint when handling the protests what analysts point out the spite the cautious words of concern expressed by the u.s. administration there is no more of that democracy celebration that we saw over a week ago when obama delivered all those passionate speeches on people of egypt making their voice heard and embracing democracy with 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 supported and financed by the united states and is now in control of egypt but in other countries in libya for example the u.s.

doesn't have the same leverage libya has the richest crude oil reserves in africa it is the twelve largest oil export in the world experts say it is very hard to predict who will take power if qaddafi is out that washington's biggest fear is that those uprisings in the region could bring about leaders who would be hostile to the united states market dopy never was their future and leader that's for sure but seven years ago he agreed to open up the rio seoul or oil riches to the west and let them invest in oil production so they kind of left him alone but now with protests spreading like wildfire is across the region the u.s. seems to have little control over what's going to happen next there are the u.s. is very sensitive about bahrain they have their fleet there to control the swears come out a major oil shipping lane and keep an eye on iran and they have good relations with the king of bahrain and all that political unrest could really undermine the u.s. presence in the gulf so they're very cautious calling for democracy there or even

yemen for that matter where. antigovernment protests are also going on the u.s. sponsors the yemeni government in exchange for their food cooperation in chasing down terrorist suspects experts say the unrest there is very dangerous for the united states a school the stark there for the sing rhetoric that we've seen here in washington many analysts say for the u.s. is not really about supporting democracy in those countries it's about securing their interests. there now more on the global impact of the young rest of the middle east and north africa is coming your way shortly but first let's take a look at what's ahead this hour i can say shoes of state next. to the patients in ukraine are pointing the finger at the government as they suffer from a shortage of biomedical. western nations are debating multi-billion dollar a deals for what's seen as democratic and economic transformation in north africa and the middle east while politicians in

europe and the u.s. say the west should show the region the tangible fruits of freedom many believe the timing couldn't be worse laura amyt explains. in the battle for hearts and minds in the middle east a new front has opened up influential voices from the heart of europe to washington are urging western politicians to take advantage of unrest by pumping involves sums of money in aid to show the newly liberated people of the region that democracy does carry rewards but it's cash that many europeans don't feel they have really the research on with well give it a broader many of those search i think we should be close to work on that level i mean obviously they did serve some money start helping to democracy but we need to be the council ruling farce that's crazy should probably try to look after was put on hold first before you strike out there like intransigent cells are really at this moment our country is going through these big cuts and that money i think

could be used for our own ben it's the aid package being proposed by e.u. and us leaders is potentially the biggest since the end of the second world war it's being dubbed the new marshall plan after the money that america gave to europe after the war to help rebuild a decimated economy and create jobs but robert oulds from the british group says we should be concentrating on trade not aid to countries such as egypt and tunisia and other countries developing nations are hurt their agricultural policies are damaged as a result of the european union's policies we need to have trade policies which stop hurting the third world would stop hurting developing nations and that that would be the better way of securing a long term process by oversea for countries that are these emerging democracies instead of europe in the u.s. are talking about handing over billions of dollars to the middle eastern

mediterranean to countries torn apart by revolution and unrest and despite the opposition in the u.k. . there are also some here believe it's the duty of developed countries to help those in trouble with lucky to have a democracy. democracy throughout the world i think that at least it's our hope that's going to. question transition that the moment. to despise our problems is told we can't just close up we have to look at the words this place we live it but it may not be as simple as that unlike europe after the second world war egypt and tunisia our own tool toward developing economies going through revolution and it's very unclear at this point who is going to end up in charge and who would take receipt of any aid package the government's made extensive attempts to build relations build up regimes which now being destroyed by revolutions whether we're looking at military over the years to egypt so what we're

looking at it's a big deal tony blair was shaking hands on this few years ago in libya was gadhafi so we need to be really careful particularly when we don't know what the final road for the final government things there is will be that we don't wind up with resources when we have the wrong hands so if the muslim brotherhood takes over nature do we want them to be taking over with institutions which we've built up with western taxpayers money westminster has been the scene of ugly demonstrations against government proposals to cut funds to some of the u.k.'s most vital services while some undoubtedly believe it would be a sad day when western countries refused to help build democracy others say it's the wrong help potentially going to the wrong people at the wrong type for a cash strapped euro your average forty. michael take lawyer a professor of peace and world security studies at u.s.

hampshire college believes western countries should focus on the reasons behind the uprisings he says prices and other economic factors should have been dealt with before the problem spread further afield. i think the sierra one thing the interest went before the events occurred in egypt and now in libya and bahrain and elsewhere they want danger signs and my mind the big thing to sign is the rising price fall the price of fuel now as high as was even higher than it was and that and they went you had punk 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 of indications of drought in many parts of the world in china and elsewhere and that makes people very angry well 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 crossed

that 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 egypt i think that's the crucial factor is of voiding conflict also transparency opening up the government to scrutiny where the money 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 and as the crisis in libya shows no sign of abating oil prices across the world continue to spike lee v.a. is the world's twelfth largest exporter of oil with investors fearing the anti-government uprising will disrupt global supplies as stocks fall sharply more

analysis of the current situation in the markets as well as the prospects for the future in our business both and in less than ten minutes time. britain's prime minister has come under fire for men to a weapons campaign hours after it emerged that he took the fans firm's representatives with him on his middle east tour u.k. manufacturers' crowd control vehicles have apparently been filmed on the streets of libya being used against protesters all over sprague from amnesty international says britain's tough arms sales laws are be abused. the vehicles that we've identified that appear to have been identified from from the youtube footage should never have been sold in the first place and 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'll be used to fuel armed conflict and human rights violations now in this case in libya. and elsewhere across the region but

particularly in 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 well they are people of value has crossed our guests debate whether the best way to achieve democracy in the middle east and north africa is for the western world to put its face in the people on the ground. i do think the west should be much more forceful in making it clear that we've had it with more market duffy i think it was a major strategic mistake in the previous administration to sort of lead khadafi off the hard just because he came clean on his weapons of mass destruction ok reed and i to go over to you in brussels which we cue things coming out of the obama

administration some of the things that hillary clinton has said a state department. what kind when they say they want to help the people in the arab world towards their democratic aspirations the usual rhetoric here i mean do you think what you think most people in the region to say thanks but no thanks i think the causes of these revolutions are indigenous and the answers are indigenous you know i think our our role of the role of the west should be to support civil society to support those people who are fighting for. freedom but to do it in a supportive way in a backup way. will follow that debate about the fate of the moderates in the arab middle east and cross-talk it on in just ten minutes time here on r t. hundreds of thousands of people living with aids we are fighting for their lives and ukraine as a government stands accused of delaying the supply of vile drugs claims of state

corruption patients have been forced to jeopardize their health in a bid to stay alive articulate here chef he has a story ever since you learned the learned she was a child the positive of her life has been a nightmare and the last few months have made matters even worse a local aid center which had been providing iliana with medication told her that they no longer had even a logical serum for her three year old son dre also infected with a deadly virus. they told me that i have to give my adult ones two hundred and that i have to split each peel into three how can i split it into exactly three parts and how do i know if his body will accept these pills late last year several ukrainian regents reported a shortage of immune strengthening drugs used by hiv positive patients experts point the finger at the country's health ministry was that then that of the

official say this happened because the beating for the purchase of drugs happened too late not in the summer but in the winter they received funding too late this whole system of buying drugs by tender is corrupt through and through. following this delay in supplies some hiv patients have had to alter their treatment and find alternative my education doctors say they have no choice but such changes can pose a grave danger to gray's health ministry reports of at least one hundred thousand people to people in the country however experts say this number is diminished and the real amount of be infected may go to three hundred and fifty thousand people. official say for the present the supply crisis has been dealt with. for now all regions have received their required medication the only drugs which are still on their way to children spills between a stand they will be delivered within a few days but doctors say within six months the hiv positive may feel the damaging

effects of the recent halt in supplies and roundabout that sign they are expecting another shortage of anti-viral medicine you know hopes she and her son will be able to make it through all of this once more. of ski odyssey reporting from key of and should cross the ukraine. keep up to date on our website r t dot com here's a taste of what's online right now despite a large number of deadly shootings on u.s. streets texas could soon become the next state to allow handguns on university campuses as a majority of lawmakers support the bill. and as russia celebrates man's day and a new survey suggest almost a third of women in the country would rather swap sex find out why at r t dot com. also take a look at some of the stories from around the world and rescue crews in the new

zealand city of christchurch are continuing frantic efforts to pull survivors from buildings following a devastating earthquake on tuesday that killed seventy five people dozens were rescued from collapsed buildings overnight but there are grave concerns for a further three hundred or still missing is there astra's tremors struck at the lunch time with falling structures raining debris down on the city's busy streets. to rain warships have passed through the suez canal for the first time in more than three decades the vessels are on route to the mediterranean sea for a training mission with syria though iran has stated there is no military equipment or nuclear materials on board the ships the prime minister of israel who considers both countries hostile denounced the move as a provocation. pirates have killed four americans taken captive aboard their yacht off the coast of amman the victim's husband and wife and their two friends were attempting to sail around the world and u.s.

military forces trailing the vessel had tried to negotiate with the hijackers the stormed the yacht in response to sounds of gunfire and killed two pirates while securing the boat three of the hostages were found dead and the fourth died later from her warns. train services to peruse historic march a pitcher rooms have resumed hallway enclosures do. flooding the rail line runs along the euro bomba river that had risen following twenty days of heavy rain many people got stranded on their way to the popular attraction last year in early february flooding near the site kept a close to tourist for two months while crosstalk is on the way but first it's the latest business news with.

the start time for a quick business update on the shop rise in the oil price due to then rests in the middle east has raised fears the global recovery might be stopped in its tracks economists argue that high energy costs will drag on for a job the economy is still struggling to emerge from the financial crisis but the dim attraction from its created believes the fears are being overplayed especially since oil supplies us still moving relatively freely. we need to take into account the global economic developments they take considerable time so assuming that the situation in the middle east doesn't of school age further significantly we should rather concede there is like a short term problem i should emphasize that so far we haven't seen any even

minor disruptions to all supplies to major markets including europe. we had problems in egypt. notwithstanding oil shipments through the suez canal were unaffected what we currently see in libya while and rest actually hasn't produced any material impact on the crude supply. while some are suffering from rising oil prices some are definitely gaining oil and gas stocks had the best of the week here in russia the benefit of not just from the rising want price but also from speculation in the media that upcoming tax reforms could see them operating under a more favorable regime there is a secular theme in russia of the tax reform which seems to be finding support even in this difficult environment. of the market sell off and we think that all names that are exposed to the good export such as of us never have to. look or i'll

be out the farmers in the market towards the end of the week the exploration deal signed between ross nafta and b.p. has raised the possibility of tapping into russia's arctic energy resources but even if the difficult surrounding that deal can be overcome there still remains the challenge of extracting if you will and gas from the frozen region the president of the russian union of oil and gas groups believes drilling will not only become economically viable will be economically viable when the oil price hits one hundred fifty dollars per barrel. yes it's very expensive to develop the arctic show i'm not saying we shouldn't develop this area but we still don't have enough experience to deal with it i believe we should stop the development when the price of oil reaches one hundred fifty dollars per barrel and beyond for example to drill one meter of the arctic shelf can cost up to one million rubles so we should care

kill eight accordingly. let's have a quick look at how the markets are doing this hour and here in russia it's a national holiday so there will be no trading but the rest of the world is going to work starting from asia here the stock market edging down weight down by was traced shop losses on tuesday and the continued political turmoil in only be at japan's nikkei last point eight percent and hank saying it's down point three percent. now russian railways the biggest corporate issue. is starting to the sterling market for the first time to access new investors as the country increases spending before the soccer world cup the company which sold one hundred billion dollars born to a bond in the us currency last year as well as one billion dollars of domestic debt plus stories at least one billion pounds this year russia which won the right to hold.