fears of violence and overcrowding run a wild in italy as the government braced for an influx of immigrants from the arab countries in turmoil. renewed clashes rock fans as greeks protest against all stirred see measures becomes as billions of dollars of aid go to the middle east by the expense of europeans show me the new bushel for all the details. plus ukraine is hit with accusations of corruption and mismanagement as most of the patients blame the health ministry for delays in the supply of lifesaving drugs. top story in business for a rise in oil prices due to the unrest in the middle east raises fears the global recovery might be stopped in its tracks but have more of what economists think

about the problem that has brought. you with r.t. live from moscow where it's now a just after five pm well it's early fears the immigrant exodus of up to three hundred thousand libyans if colonel gadhafi is toppled in the ongoing nationwide revolt the country's southernmost point of lampedusa is the closest european sure 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 authority and regime in january you're going to spin off as this. don't call when you do eat into europe for. nothing you see tiny italian island in the mediterranean is located just around eighty miles off the coast of north africa

and over the past decade many refugees came here looking for a better life and 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 but just recently 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 tell me 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 you know afraid to come out on the streets when it's dark it takes around three days to seel 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 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 really hard to identify all these people and officials say that some of them could be criminals even terrorists the e.u. foreign and interior minister is 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 or t. . italy. western nations are seeking ways to help 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 economies daniel bushell is in brussels bringing us the latest now on this debate and what it could mean for europe as a whole. climate has all the elements of a perfect storm for many citizens here in the u.s. 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

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 it something. called the chancellor of germany is giving a speech today to say that the financial problems of many of those southern these days will not spread to germany on the one hundred foot on the land of concern the very fact that she has to be saying this speech and in the e.u. strongest economy around fifty metres as i was coming to the office today there is a protest at the moment from our immigrants calling on the e.u. to do much much more to help the new democratic regimes in the new democratic supporters in the middle east and north africa 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. saul's 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 unrest 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 braved the research on with well give it a broader when you go search i think you should be close to the world on that level i mean obviously they did so if someone needs our help to democracy but we need to be the council ruling farce that's crazy should probably try to look after what's

going on on them first before you strike that they can try and sort themselves out reading 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 the decimated economy and create jobs but robert oulds from the british group says we should be concentrating on trade not eight 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. for countries that are these emerging democracies. instead europe in the us a talking about handing over billions of dollars to the middle eastern mediterranean to countries torn apart by revolution and on rest and despite the opposition in the u.k. they're also 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 the middle east needs our help it's going to. transition that's the moment. to despise our problems are told we can't just close up we have to look at the world we live in but it may not be as simple as that unlike europe after the second world war egypt and. they're 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 wish being destroyed by revolutions whether we're looking out over the years we're looking out for big deals tony blair was shaking hands on the few years ago in libya with gadhafi so we need to be really careful particularly when we don't know what the road for the final government will be but we don't wind up with resources when we have the right one 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 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. you would. marty live from moscow where it's now ten minutes past the hour and on the way for you or oil shot investors fear the government uprisings in libya will disrupt the global supply of black gold for analysis of the situation with the markets in our business bulletin that's coming your way in just under ten minutes. and find out why doctors are being accused of jeopardizing people's lives in ukraine and what drugs have to do with. this virus studio three shit and this is the product on the price of healthy eating . we need to test these three times is the allergenicity immune response lower nutrition in for environmental contamination don't you feel like

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a fair trial. the other line well good. on our team. with our team. of suspected militants has been destroyed in russia's republic of. it's part of a major anti terror effort in the region special forces are 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 gunmen stopped a minibus heading for a ski resort on mount elbrus three tourists were killed and two others injured. as another international news in brief this hour the u.s. military says fifteen is some molly pirates detained after killing four americans could face trial in the united states the victims married couple and their two

friends had been hijacked on their yacht off the coast of oman while attempting to sell around the world u.s. military forces had been training the vessel and trying to negotiate with the pirates but on tuesday they stormed the yacht after hearing gunfire however three of the hostages were found dead and the fourth died later from her wounds. on the gunman in ivory coast's commercial capital abidjan have killed ten soldiers loyal to the incumbent leader laurent gbagbo they also seized at least four military vehicles in the neighborhood of its way gunfire was heard throughout the night the suburb is a 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 continues to refuse to resign alleging voter fraud. and rescuers in christ church new zealand are continuing to try to pull survivors from the rubble following tuesday's devastating earthquake seventy five people are so far confirmed

dead but nearly three hundred remain missing. a national state of emergency has been declared as hundreds of rescue workers including foreign teams rushed to the city to try measuring six point three is the country's deadliest battle disaster in that nearly a century. or ukraine's health ministry is under fire for failing to provide hiv suffer as were the vital life prolonging drugs supply cuts have been blamed on government corruption the country has europe's worst aids epidemic and as artie's an accident or a chef ski reports many hiv positive ukrainians are resorting to risky medication changes just to keep themselves alive. ever since you are young they learned she was a child positive 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 pills adult ones two hundred eighty and that i have to split each peel into three how can i simply didn't exactly three parts and how do i know if his body will accept these people 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 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 medication doctors say they had no choice but such changes can pose

a grave danger. that when a boy has got used to one drug we place it with another it took or is enough an adaptation period we never know whether a patient's body will accept a new drug if it doesn't then they can be different outcomes from a rapid growth over iris else too early and even imminent death. experts say ukraine which has one of the highest hiv spread rates in europe can hardly afford to take such risks to graze 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 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 the required medication the only drugs which are still on their way to children's pills 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. reporting from key of. ukraine. right now you are with r.t. let's get back to our top story now with the continuing unrest in libya supporters of colonel gadhafi appear to be turning their back on him while the international community unites against the bloodshed the country's interior minister has resigned joined the anti-government protesters after reports of three hundred unarmed civilians being killed in the country's second largest city of benghazi. of planning a wide scale attack on his own countrymen the italian foreign minister told reporters that more than one thousand libyans and they are being killed in just eight days

the un security council demanded that the violence on tuesday while the arab league suspended libya the french president meantime has called for you sanctions against the country nevertheless to fight until the death and die in his homeland in his first major speech since the unrest began. supporters to attack the opposition reclaimed were bribed drugged and serving the devil and the lesser cross live to germany to talk more about the situation in north africa with a former m i five agent. so the italian foreign minister as we were saying moments ago has put the death toll at about a thousand and only after eight days of violence with no end in sight with coffey waging war on his own people is he fighting his last battle here do you think. i think it probably is it's a very different situation from most of the other protest movements in the middle east in my opinion because good all fifth corps has been in power for forty two years and he sees himself as

a revolutionary against the west against the civil military industrial complex so his mindset it's perhaps slightly different and because he's been considered considered a very big nation for so long you feel like you have left the count ability perhaps towards his western allies now so i think you probably will fight on and he is used to using violence he has reigned very brutally for law school. and i don't think you'll develop it without a fight so i'd be very surprised if the death toll remains at one thousand. times on the protesters there's been violence between the pro and anti-government demonstrators neighbor versus neighbor people dying in the streets blood on the streets tell me why are the libyans paying such a high price to have their voices heard. i think partly because of the repression of the regime over the last four decades they have been brutalized and they have less communication perhaps with the outside world they have they're not quite as textile perhaps with some of the other middle eastern countries so even the younger generation of perhaps finding it harder to coordinate what's going on but it's just

a very fertile sea of the regime that's been pace and the fact that the west has been cozying up to get healthy ever since two thousand and three when he came in from the cold in the came on you ally in the war against terror means that he's of course very tooled up with lots of new weapons which been supplied by countries like france and the netherlands and u.k. so he's in a very strong position and also hurts from position financially to fight back and i think perhaps that some of his new friends in the west are a little confused on how to respond to you what to do about them when you talk about the west and how the west is being cozying up to you could argue for the better part of ten years now it seems that dictatorships in the middle east only seem to survive as long as the west is satisfied with them said i was once useful now he's dead mubarak he was known as he's no longer in power do you think the west is a trying to reshape the political map in the region or is it just power in this ongoing revolved. i think it is becoming increasingly powerless it's realizing that perhaps the days of post-colonial get many of gold and there is

a new generation of activists to protest if he's coming through who can make a difference who can coordinate the sort of activities without gadhafi i think the situation is slightly different because he had come in from the cold he was the sort of poster boy of being opposed to very dictatorship of course often seen what happens saddam hussein did offer a little technology which. take towards a situation where you have weapons of mass destruction and then of course he is welcome back into the interaction with we don't know and has been allowed to start opening up his country to a certain extent but certainly financially so he's in a very different position and i think because of that because he's been held up as the the way to go the way that the west can deal with middle eastern dictators and bring them back into the fold it really just don't know how to handle this sort of backlogs but they don't want to overtly support a protest either so you're saying that the west really powerless and was becoming a regional revolt if you were a former intelligence officer did you recognize similar roots in this conflict to other previous uprisings and what is the role of intelligence agencies from the

west when it comes to what we're seeing in the middle east and north africa. well indeed the intelligence agencies have a long history of dirty tricks and subverting and promoting whatever protest movements suit their political agenda at the time but i do think it's sort of generational shift in some of the other countries that have already experienced the revolution in egypt and tunisia but i think certainly libya has a long and bloody history with the western intelligence agencies i mean there was the escalation of terror from the one nine hundred eighty s. on woods where gadhafi was funding organizations like the other nidal organization and the ira and palestinian groups and in retaliation the west did. in one nine hundred eighty six and of course then he would tell you things like the french flight you t seven seven two and pan am one of three so there was also escalation of terror which really reached its zenith in the one nine hundred ninety s. when m i six british intelligence agency funded an islamic extremist group in libya to try and topple gadhafi so i think stage the west also as well as being involved

intelligence wise has given safe haven to a lot of his most outspoken oppositionist certainly in the u.k. so i would not be surprised if there is a sort of tacit under the table encouragement of those oppositionists within libya at the moment that the west just can't show its hand now i'm running very low on time here. for weeks european leaders have cried that multiculturalism has failed such an immigrant tsunami would not further strain the already crippled regional economy if indeed the immigrants to to move move across well if indeed that happens but i think this is a bit of saber rattling between me and libya which has history on this front and of course libya did threaten to send over a mass migration a few years ago and. retaliated by saying no no it's ok we will give you reparations for clearly in it chloe isn't but i have to say i think that if these countries do it it's a real meaningful sense democracy is achieved by the protesters and the young the educated the technologically savvy who are the sort of vanguard of these protests

will actually be in a position where they can build their countries will be happy to stay there in their countries building a future fascinating inside. m i five agent live from brussels thank you. thank you or not as good leaders of the world of business with korea. are welcome to our business bulletin and we go straight to our top story the sharp rise in the oil prize do you then the rest of 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 economy still struggling to emerge from the financial crisis but i didn't get ocean from korea to believe the fears are being overplayed especially since all supplies are still moving relatively freely. we need to take into account the 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 we haven't seen any. minor disruptions to all supplies to major markets including europe. 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 crude supply. and oil and gas stocks have been the scene the best of the way where the best of the week here in russia they've benefited 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.

exposed to the could export such as we have to. look well be out performers in the market towards the end of the week now exploration deal signed between was enough then b.p. has raised the possibility of tapping into russia's arctic energy resources but even if the difficulties surrounding that deal can be overcome there still remains the challenge of extracting oil and gas from the frozen region president of the russian union of all and gas groups believes drilling will only become economically viable when the oil price hits one hundred fifty dollars per barrel. yeah. it's very expensive to develop the arctic show so 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 start the development with the pros who reaches one hundred fifty dollars per barrel and beyond for example to drill one metre of the arctic show can

cost up to one million rubles so we should calculate accordingly. have a look at the markets here in russia it's a national holiday so there's no trading but elsewhere in europe the markets are open and european stocks are falling on concerns about the unrest in the middle east banks that were providing one of the bright spots helped by well received results from commerce bank and that exist in the u.k. barclays rose two point four percent on news it won a lawsuit by lehman brothers. the russian comic us soldiers and u.s. auto giant ford will invest one point four billion dollars in a new joint venture and twenty twenty the intention is to raise ford's market share in russia to nine percent from the con four point seven com makers hope to get a state secured loan reported from michigan on bank with most of the money to be spent on launching new models with locally made parts so it's reached an agreement with ford but hold it talks on the partnership what it lays out at the site.