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of violence and overcrowding run wild in the government itself for an influx of immigrants from the arab countries in. clashes or rock athens greece rally against austerity measures this comes amid fears of billions of dollars of aid going to the middle east at the expense of europeans. ukraine is hit with accusations of corruption and mismanagement as positive patients have claimed the health ministry delay in supply of life saving drugs.
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worldwide news twenty four seven this is from moscow. it's early fear is an immigrant exodus of up to three hundred thousand libyans colonel gadhafi is toppled in the ongoing nationwide revolt the country's southern most point of lampedusa is the closest european shore to north africa and ultimately the getaway for arab refugees from the troubled region thousands of tunisians have already flooded the european island after the overthrow of its authoritarian regime in january you got a pretty good offer points. 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 while we were sent to other european countries nevertheless this place still managed to remain a peaceful isolated world populated mostly by fishermen and holiday makers of the
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just recent week the peace was disturbed after the recent revolution in tunisia in just two weeks the island became flooded with a wave of refugees many spend their entire days this wandering around town there have already been reports of thirst and vandalism and 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 the island some get lost out there in the open sea and some sink 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
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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 to foreign and interior ministers finally meeting to discuss the situation a resolution is needed fast because the violent. protests continuing 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 or do you want to do it early. supporters of libyan leader colonel gadhafi appear to be turning their back on him while the international community unites its voices against the bloodshed the country's interior minister has resigned and joined the anti-government protesters appalled by reports of three
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hundred unarmed civilians being killed in libya's second largest city of benghazi he accused gadhafi of planning a wide scale attack on his own countrymen the italian foreign minister told reporters that more than one thousand libyans may have been killed in just the eight days are past eight days alone the u.n. security council demanded an end to the violence on tuesday while the arab league suspended libya the french president meantime has called for e.u. sanctions against the country nevertheless to fight till the death and die a martyr in his home in his first major speech since the unrest began the leader supporters to attack the opposition he claimed were bribed drugged and it was serving the devil we can now cross live to the us to discuss the crisis with the idol shambles from the baltimore based foreign policy in focus think tanks so the libyan unrest has become the bloodiest of all of the arab revolt so far out of all
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the leaders could have been the only one of this point to use such a brazen force against his own people what's the what's he trying to achieve trying to instill fear in still dissension among the protesters. well he is a dictator and dictators job is to remain in power especially when he's been in power for forty two years he has been abusive no freedom the economy despite it's sort of finished with oil has gone down and that's why the people revolted against him so he is going to try to remain in power he and his children by any means are fortunately he has no sense of history and no sense of love to his own people so you see he has no sense of history he has no sense of love to his own people but there are many there say that libya is still very much a tribal country and it bengazi is the second largest city in control of the opposition so just how much longer do you think that afy can just cling on to his own rule here yes obviously gadhafi did not want to devolve the entire country
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remained tribal there are four or five six large straw arabs control vast areas of leaves which is unfortunate that he did not in forty two years do anything to do all of the country and the rebels are really in control in great part of east. as well as benghazi and the surrounding area and there are so many vaults in. tripoli itself so i don't think he's in total control and now he's bringing african mercenaries to suppress the people well let's let's talk about the broader scope here and bring europe into focus we've heard reports of up to possibly three hundred thousand north africans flooding into italy and what do you think you are can do to try and control this refugee rampage. well i think there is very little they can do it's a human wave of people desperate to find save the region and those
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kind of instabilities are outcome of who you should hopefully they will not last longer and they will themselves ones there's a stability in middle east in general are now staying with the issue of europe and that of the refugees many people have expressed fears that refugees could could further destabilize the situation in europe and this comes after weeks of the blocs leaders crying that multiculturalism has failed healthcare these claims what's the real danger of having thousands of arab migrants in europe do you think. i think there is some risk but i don't believe it is very ill are highly exaggerated and european countries have been staying while there are. racial or ethnic strife every now and then towards immigrants especially in southern france and in some part of italy but i don't think that will continue. vast areas of european countries
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european countries can have sort of some of those in a temporary basis and one stability that is prevailing in the us countries they should go especially in tunisia they should be able to all of them go back to need is now fairly on the road to stability what do you say you say to tunisia is on the road to stability here but let's say let's go back a few weeks now egypt really was as many say the catalyst for the beginning of a domino effect of violence across the region but when we look at libya do you think it is a violent hand against its own people could just swayed other uprisings in various countries in the region do you think oh i think the arab countries in general there are people. are finally. revolving against those people who have caused them dignitary harm and they dish into economic harm arabs have been in iraq in beijing for over nine hundred years by the.
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europeans by the byzantines by the heart to mind empire and then you are british an american so they have had that is enough foreign occupation and suppression of their rights all these centuries basically and that makes sense specially in the past hundred years they have been under an incredible oppression by occupying force or my government and that's what you are seeing his life water boiling and it's finally exploded and the lid is been. thrown out of the cattle. from the baltimore based from policy think tank focus think tank thank you very much thank you. a western nations are seeking ways to help the conflict stricken north africa and the middle east but with a multi-billion dollar aid deals being discussed some europeans are starting to fear this will harm their own economy let's cross live now to brussels and our
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correspondent daniel bushell to look at some facts and figures here hi daniel so what we're talking about billions of dollars here we're seeing a renewed protests now in greece against government austerity cuts we're seeing two thousand and ten is a very bad year for regional recessions and when we talk about this potentially massive billion dollars aid package what does it mean for the current economic climate in europe do you think. the climate has all the elements of a perfect storm for many citizens here in the e.u. is the worst possible time to be pumping cash into uncertain regimes what with the economic tensions and the economic problems here in the e.u. at the moment not only in the soft underbelly of europe as we've been seeing in reports this hour but it's richest states as well greece is paralyzed at the moment with a nationwide strike hundreds of thousands of workers have left the job to protest as the recession there goes from bad to worse and more than one in three young
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people there are unemployed at the moment interior ministers of solvent e.u. states like italy and spain are meeting at the moment to find a way to stop the desperate migrants from north africa the middle east who are trying to come to the sure trying to battle and stem that flow or find a way of managing is something. called the chancellor of germany is giving a speech today to say that the financial problems of many of those southern e.u. states will not spread to germany on the one hundred sure but on the other hand of concern the very fact that she has to be saying this speech and in the strongest economy you need to look on the streets behind me to really see those conflict intentions in action around. fifty meters as i was coming to the office today there is a protest as a moment from our arab immigrants calling on the e.u. the e.u. to do much much more to help the the new democratic regimes in the new democratic
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supporters in the middle east and north africa to speak to the residents and citizens of the e.u. here as well and they will tell you now is not the time as the country battles and the e.u. as a whole battle's one of the worst economic crises it's ever seen now is not the time to be pumping cash to uncertain regimes more now on this from a longer correspondent war and. 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 on rest by pumping in fast sums of money in eight 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 regular search over with i'll give it a broader many of those search i think we should be close to on the football i mean obviously they did serve some money start helping to democracy but we need to get
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the council rules force that's crazy should probably try and look at what's put on hold first before you just try to make and try and sort themselves out leading at this moment in our country's going through these big cuts and that money i think could be used for foreign but that'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 eight countries. touches egypt and tunisia and other countries developing nations are hurts their agricultural policies are damaged as a result of the european union's policies we need to have trade policies which stop
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hurting the third world would stop hurting developing nations and that that would be the better way of securing a long term to better see for countries that are these emerging democracies instead europe in the us 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 who believe it's the duty of developed countries to help those in trouble we're lucky to have a democracy. democracy throughout the world i think the middle east needs our help it's going to. question transition that's the moment yes i think despise our problems are told we can't just close up we have to look at the words this place we live in 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
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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 has made extensive attempts to build relations build up regimes which are now being destroyed by a revolution is whether we're looking at military over the years to egypt so what we're looking out it's a big deal tony blair was shaking hands on just a few years ago in libya with gadhafi so we need to be really careful particularly when we don't know what the full route for the final government in service will be that we don't wind up with resources when we have the road home so if the muslim brotherhood takes over in egypt do we want them to be taking over with institutions which we've built up with western taxpayers money westminster's been this. 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 refuse to pay taxes to help build democracy others
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say it's the wrong help potentially going to the wrong people at the wrong target and for a cash strapped to your average job to. go with. on the way for you. invest in the top prizes and destructive global supplies of the black gold for analysis of the situation with the markets and business bulletin that's coming your way in just under ten minutes time. find out why doctors are being accused of jeopardizing people's lives in ukraine and what drugs have to do with.
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with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report. with r t it's good to have your company today out of suspected militants has been destroyed in russia's republic of qatar to be a part of a major terror effort in the region special forces still searching for a group of suspected militants that opened fire on law enforcers overnight the men are suspected of attacking tourists last weekend when a gunman stopped a minibus heading for a ski resort on mount elbrus three tourists were killed two others injured. right now let's get to some other international news in brief this hour an identified gunman in ivory coast capital abidjan have killed ten soldiers loyal to incumbent leader. they also seized at least four military vehicles in the
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neighborhood all the gunfire was heard throughout the night. stronghold of his rival. who is internationally recognized as the winner of last year's presidential poll. who has ruled the country since two thousand and two still refused to resign all of this vote for. christ church music continuing efforts to pull survivors from the rubble following a devastating earthquake on tuesday seventy five people are confirmed dead with nearly three hundred still missing a national state of emergency has been declared as hundreds of emergency workers including teams rushed to the city. measuring about me to it of six point three is the country's most deadly natural disaster in eighty years. or ukraine's health minister is under fire for failing to provide hiv sufferers with
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a vital life prolonging drugs supply cuts have been blamed on government corruption the country has europe's worst aids epidemic and as artie's alexy reports many hiv positive ukrainians i was ordered into a risky medication changes just to keep themselves alive. ever since you learn they 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 andree also infected with a deadly virus. they told me that i have to give my people with adult one hundred eighty 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 late last years several ukrainian regents reported
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a shortage of immune strengthening drugs used by hiv positive patients experts point the finger at the country's health ministry more than that of any official say this happened because the beating for the purchase of drugs happened too late in the summer between 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 medication doctors say they had no choice but such changes can pose a grave danger one uses that he says when i'm bored it has got used to one drug we replace it with another it took or is another adaptation period we never know whether patients. he wouldn't accept a new truck if it doesn't then they can be different outcomes from a rapid growth virus else too early and even imminent death. experts say ukraine
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which has one of the highest hiv spread rates in europe can hardly afford to take such risks it brings 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 the fact it may go to three hundred and fifty thousand people. official say for the present the supply crisis has been dealt with is a bit it could make for now all regions have received the required medication the only drugs which are still on their way to children spells it when to 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 and now the shortage of anti-viral medicine you know hopes she and her son will be able to make it through all of this once more. see reporting from key of. ukraine. if you want to any more on our top
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and welcome to business thanks for joining me a sharp rise in the oil price due to the unrest in the middle east has raised fears the global recovery might be stopped in its tracks economists argue the high energy costs will drag on fragile economies still struggling to merge from the financial crisis but with russian from up created believes the fears are being overplayed especially since all supplies are still moving relatively freely we need to take. global economic developments considerable time so assuming that the situation in the middle east doesn't escalate further significantly we should rather concede there is like a short term problem i should emphasize that so far recovered see in any even minor disruptions to all supplies major markets including europe. because
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problems in egypt. oil shipments through the suez canal were unaffected what we currently see in libya while and. actually hasn't produced any material impact on the crude supply. gas stocks have had the best of the week here in russia benefit not just from the rising oil price but also from speculation in the media that upcoming tax reforms could see them operating under a more favorable regime there's a secular theme in russia of 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 could exploit such as you have to. look well out the farmers in the market towards the end of that week. there's spiration deal signed between rosneft and b.p. has raised the possibility of tapping into russia's arctic energy resources but
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even if the difficulties surrounding that deal can be overcome there's still remains the challenge of extracting the oil and gas from the frozen region the president of the russian union of oil and gas groups believes drilling will only become economically viable when the oil price hits one hundred fifty dollars per barrel yeah the most thirty years usually it's very expensive to develop the arctic show that's 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 in the pros who reaches one hundred fifty dollars per barrel and beyond for example to drill one metre of the arctic show could cost up to one million rubles so we should curricula to cordingley. to the markets here in russia it's a national holiday so there's no trading today but elsewhere in europe the markets are open european stocks are continuing to fall on concerns about the unrest in the middle east bank stole are providing one of the bright spots helped by well
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received results from commerce bank and that exist in the u.k. barclays rose two point four percent on news it won a lawsuit filed by brother. russian comic us dollars and u.s. auto giant ford will invest one point four billion dollars on a new venture in two thousand and twenty the intention is to raise ford's market share in russia to nine percent from the car four point seven the con makers hope to get a state secured loan reportedly from the actually can come back with most of the money to be spent on launching new models with locally made parts solis reached an agreement with ford but halted talks on the partnership with italy's fia at the site for you to agree on intellectual property rights. that's all for now join me in less than one hour formal business news here on r.t. .
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