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the. fears of violence and overcrowding run wild in italy as the government braces itself for an influx of immigrants from arab countries in turmoil. renewed clashes rock fans as greeks protest against all stare at sea measures it comes as billions of dollars of aid go to the middle east at the expense of europeans germy dunya bushelful the details. plus ukraine is hit with accusations of corruption and mismanagement positive patients blame the health ministry for delays in the supply of lifesaving drugs. this is r.t.

here in moscow ten pm here in the russian capital at eight pm now in italy where rome has been raising the alarm about the potential influx of up to three hundred thousand libyans with the country in the throes of a pop. civil civil war italy has demanded the share the burden of the so-called exodus stemming from the unrest in north africa thousands of china's eons have already flooded italy's southernmost point of lampedusa the closest european shore to the troubled region even to sort of is there with more. we 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 world leaders 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 refugees many spend their entire days this wandering around tell me there have already been reports of and vandalism and several have been arrested we've been talking to the locals and some of them or you know 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 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 an official see that some of them could be criminals or even terrorists would be 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. italy. libyan leader colonel gadhafi is fighting to retain control of the capital as he's faced with more defections from his own regime much of tripoli is currently deserted with reports of uprisings in the by towns in the nine days of revolt demonstrators have taken over the eastern part of the country thousands of foreigners are rushing to leave the country with chaos at the main airport and security council has demanded an end to the violence while the

arab league suspended libya united nations top human rights official has suggested imposing a no fly zone over the country to protect civilians from government strikes three hundred people have been reported so far killed in those strikes but the italian foreign minister says that the real death toll could stand of more than a thousand. what has come to light the u.k. has been selling military equipment to libya but since the unrest london's been calling for democracy condemning about his actions the former five agent says the west that is good daffy to the u.s. is now therefore i'm sure held true to respond to this crisis the west has been cozying up to gadhafi ever since two thousand and three when he came in from the cold in the came a new ally in the war against terror means that he's of course very old up with lots of weapons which been supplied by countries like france in the netherlands and the u.k. so he's in a very strong position and also a very strong position financially to fight back and i think perhaps that some of his new allies friends in the west are

a little confused on how to respond to what to do about him and i think because of that because he's being held up that 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 backlog but they don't want to overtly support the protests either but 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. a third plane carrying russians evacuated from turbulent libya has now landed in moscow it brought back more than one hundred people who describe the situation in the arab country as a nightmare they say that on their way to board the aircraft they had to fight through huge crowds of desperate libyans attempting to flee the she'll say a final plane is on its way back and it will land in moscow later tonight. well in an interview with r.t. edward looked back a writer and u.s. military strategist said that the people of north africa may want democracy but the foundations for it are far from set. democracy is not some day you come

by in a shop it takes centuries of development to go to democracy for example bureaus went into iraq removed saddam hussein. what have been is the rockies became the region it's all sweet they remain do they are i believe to be called visions of democracy at the polls as well though. and that full interview is coming up in about twenty minutes from now here on r.t. . western nations are seeking ways to help troubled north africa and the middle east but with multibillion dollar a deals being discussed some europeans are

starting to fear this will harm their own economies that a bushel has more now on this from brussels. but 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 a unemployed at the moment interior ministers of solvent e.u. states like italy and spain are meeting to find a way to stop the disparate my groups from north africa the middle east who are trying to come to the shores trying to battle and stem the flow or find a way of managing it and merkel 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 in the strongest economy around fifty meters as i was coming to the office today there is a protest from our arab immigrants calling on the e.u. the e.u. used to do much much more to help the new democratic regimes in the new democratic supporters in the middle east and north africa with speak to the residents and citizens of the 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 ever seen now is not the time to be pumping cash to uncertain regimes more now on this from along the correspondent nor it is in the battle for hearts and minds in the middle east the new front end

up influential voices from the heart of europe. washington are urging western politicians to take advantage of on rest by pumping involved 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 regular search over with i'll give it a broader many of those search i think we should be close to. the football i mean obviously they did serve someone they start helping to democracy but we need to be the ground zero farce that's crazy should probably try to look after us but on the whole first before you try to look and try and sort themselves out leading 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 debate 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 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 prospects. for countries that are these emerging democracies instead 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 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. transition that's the moment. to despise our problems that we can't just close up we have to look at the worst place we live 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 which now being destroyed by revolutions whether we're looking at over the years to egypt or what we're looking out it's a big deal tony blair was shaking hands and just a few years ago in libya was gadhafi so we need to be really careful particularly

when we don't know what the. root for the final government will be but we don't wind up with resources 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 target for a cash strapped euro your average forty. this is in moscow on the way boil shock to fear the uprising in libya will disrupt global supplies of black gold more analysis of the situation with the markets. just in ten minutes from now. on why doctors are being accused of jeopardizing people's lives

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led. a hideout of suspected militants has been destroyed in russia's north caucasus republic of comedy about it's part of a major anti terror efforts in the region special forces are still searching for suspected militants who opened fire on laurent forces overnight the same group is suspected of attacking tourists last weekend when to stop the minibus heading for a ski resort on mount elbrus three tourists were killed and two others injured what's on offer some other international news in a brief rescue as in museums crisis continuing to try to pull survivors from the rubble following tuesday is devastating earthquake seventy five people are so far confirmed dead but nearly three hundred remain missing a national state of emergency declared as hundreds of rescue workers including farm

teams have rushed to the city the trauma was the country's deadliest natural disaster in the ne a century. but he's ten soldiers have been killed in fighting between the forces of the two political rivals in ivory coast some reports suggest the real figure could be as high as forty events for some of the heaviest since the country's disputed presidential election nearly three months ago the fighting was concentrated in the stronghold of daraa internationally recognized as the winner of last year's poll coming president. who has ruled the country since two thousand and two continues to refuse to resign alleging voter fraud. u.s. military says fifteen somali pirates detained after killing four americans could face trial in the u.s. the victims and married couple and their two friends had been hijacked on their yacht off the coast of amman while attempting to sail 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 over three of

the hostages were found dead and the fourth died later from her wounds. ukraine's health ministry is under fire for failing to provide hiv sufferers with vital life prolonging drugs supply cuts are being blamed on government corruption country has europe's worst aids epidemic and is ati's election reports many hiv positive are resorting to risky medication changes just to keep themselves alive. ever since you learned the 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 human illogical serum for her three year old son dre also infected with a deadly virus when. they told me that i have to give my pills adult ones to andre 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 all of them that of official say this happened because the bidding 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 have no choice but such changes can pose a grave danger but i knew that when i bought it has got used to one drug we replace it with another it took or is another 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 of virus else to allergy 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 ukraine's health ministry reports of at least one hundred thousand h.i.v. positive 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 there 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 ground about 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. artsy

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well that brings up to date i'll be back a wooden summary of our main news stories in less than ten minutes from the meantime kareen is next with the latest business news. hello and welcome to business oil prices continue to surge as the unrest in the middle east raises fears over disruption to supplies light sweet crude has reached around ninety nine dollars a barrel while brant blend has grown to roughly one hundred ten dollars per barrel on monday gazprom c.e.o. aleksey miller said the turmoil showed how reliable russia was an energy partner earlier i spoke to jack on the chicago board of trade and i asked him how he assessed the risks to energy supplies from the middle east when we're talking about certain situations libya for example we have about three percent of the world oil supply that's being taken off and disrupted but i think that when we make comparisons we have to be very careful not to group all the arab nations for example into one pile i think the situation in saudi arabia is going to be much

different than it is in libya where we had an oppressive regime in saudi arabia it's a difference between the rich and the ultra rich as opposed to the rich and the poor which are the divisions politically that we're seeing a lot of these price movements are temporary but we are looking at a situation where we are looking at globally in facial inflation being driven by demand that global growth story is still very much intact but it's being fueled of course by these macro economic about. oil and gas stocks that have 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 the 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 good exports such as some of us now have. a look well be out the

farmers in the market towards the end of the week. here in russia markets were closed for a national holiday what's on wednesday european stocks. finished in the red with investors concerned about the unrest in the middle east salmon after for gas the way down the pussy losing over five percent in pretty and technologies lost the most of the dax was off by four percent banks were the bright spot helped by well received is all from a commerce bank in the u.k. barclays rose two point four percent the news it won a lawsuit filed by at lehman brothers. russian carmakers solo's and u.s. auto giant ford will invest one point four billion dollars in a new joint venture in two thousand and twenty the intention is to raise ford's market share in russia to nine percent from a current four point seven percent the car makers hope to get a state secured loan reportedly from the african non-bank with most of the money to be spent on launching new models good locally made parts solar's reached an agreement with ford but hold the talks on a partnership with italy's fear of the sides feel to agree on intellectual property

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