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technology update here on along we've got the future covered. colonel gadhafi refuses to give up power and tries desperately to shift the blame accusing us of a lot of inspiring the revolt. the publisher of the british pool. as the u.k. prepares to ship were leaks founder julian assange to sweden to stand trial many question why suspected terrorists and other controversial figures are allowed to remain. and russia launches and a vicious mission to upgrade its army. the fifty billion the new weaponry will have all the details of the timing of.

this is r.t. live from moscow with marina joshie libya's leader colonel gadhafi is desperately clinging to power despite facing more defections from his own rule is battling to shore up control of the capital tripoli and western areas with protesters consolidating gains in the east of the country cut off he told state t.v. that osama bin laden and his followers are to blame for the uprising and claim protesters were given drugs to incite them to revolt the overall number of dead after days of unrest has been difficult to determine with estimates ranging from several hundred to over two thousand. against libya for its leaders a bloody crackdown meanwhile the swiss government has ordered a freeze of any locally held assets belonging to put up with libya following the

revolutionary path of tunisia and egypt some experts believe the outcome of the revolt there will be different. can ben ali if we accept the premise that he's a special type of dictator. i think most likely he will try to cling to power for as much as he could probably die trying to cling to power if not opposed by force what is really worrying is not what happens to get there feel what is worrying is that before he goes i think he'll eventually have to go how many libyans will have to suffer because of this this is really a big question and it calls for some sort of more proactive intervention from the west in what is happening at the moment in the arab world has taken everybody by surprise there's definitely an intelligence failure on the part of the worst big part of it is actually the outcome of years of policy failure from the west in not

being able to understand correctly the mood of of the people in the street in the arab world and their continuous support of leaders in this part of the world while the readers were continuously losing their legitimacy there was this faulty assumption that the. leaders there can be an army and even that there are few recently in the last few years. giving weapons and arming these leaders to the teeth thinking that they will be able to control their population of course that proved to be a very faulty assumption indeed on behalf of many people in the worst. russian prime minister vladimir putin has warned western countries against attempts of meddling in the arab world to try to impose democracy speaking after talks with the e.u. leadership he said that previous efforts along those lines had led to victories for governments the west is now fighting to contain. it was because of that which is

today we say we're concerned about things happening in libya but the north african sullivan card is also concerned about what has happened. in libya do you think this is a coincidence i would like to go back in history a little bit the former leader of the iranian revolution we're delivering he lived in paris and as a whole he was supported by the western community now the entire western community fights against the iranian nuclear program i remember just recently our partners were very active in supporting democratic elections in the palestinian autonomy and hamas won and immediately they declared them us a terrorist organization and started fighting against it we need to give people a chance to determine their future themselves we need to give them an opportunity to take a natural way without any foreign interference to build a future for. the popular uprisings in tunisia and egypt started the domino effect that spread around the arab world and there's fresh hope of a brighter future under democracy but as artist peter all over reports from cairo

fighting poverty and other deep rooted problems maybe just as in part. of the fault they bled many died the protesters who took over central cairo how to be a girl the removal of a dictator and establishing a free country. as an activist one of the organizers of the revolution toppled a lot of people leave that egypt can make the transition from dictatorship to a democratic state the thing is defining democracy no on terms that were here i mean everyone look at it at it in its own terms but we are going to it turns there is that we want to see in this country our country there that want to feel like there's some way of getting it and we're going to get that support for a democratic egypt has come from governments around the world however some of those leaders who have been quick to congratulate the revolutionaries may not be so

pleased the possible future for the country one basic problem we see this is for the west we want democracy but we also want states. that will be friendly to us and do what we want but almost certainly our democracy is going to be a great deal less comfortable for the west the our dictators our autocrats our moments of peace but those dictators have been swept aside by people who after years of injustice finally had enough the truth is many egyptians live in die i cannot make conditions in an interview with a major newspaper the minister of the social solidarity good identify leaks said that unless the people receive the required help that they need the next revolution in the country could be a revolution of the hungry the past years have seen the major cities in the north become wealthy while the south of the country has suffered with social problems such as unemployment and education some of the poorest people in the egyptian capital live in the black area of cairo here many are hopeful that

a democratic egypt will help them out of poverty however others express concern that they may see the rich get richer while the poor get poorer. omari things could get worse for the poor if democracy is not implemented i pray god will keep egypt safe little while the west may have been convinced egyptians were fighting for democratic principles they may be in for a nasty shock when they find out that the people simply want to change peter all of a. egypt. still have the sour here in our adeline's without a mission party takes a look at how nato continues to function without a clear goal or common enemy. and he has his critics but ukraine's president's first year in office takes on a year ago after the release of a new face on the economy and. a rubber stamping process that's how whistleblower julian assange described the london court's

decision to extradite him to sweden on sexual assault allegations he said the ruling didn't catch him by surprise. and that is going to appeal as lauren reports while britain is to the port that we can expound or it's been happy to provide asylum for some controversial figures. wiki leaks founder julian assange has learned the court has ordered his extradition to sweden to face questions over rape allegations and he's got some interesting questions of his own why is it. that i am subject. to nonprofit free speech activists who want three hundred and sixty thousand dollars bail. why is it that i am kept. under electronic alpharetta. when i have not even been charged in any country he's not the only one asking those questions particularly as the british government

has a history of granting asylum to some fairly controversial characters including russian business tycoon buddies but is it shows here the hypocrisy of the british courts. is quite clearly been involved in the mass fear over the is all sorts of very serious offenses which you may actually quite literally equate with terrorism and yet he is not being extradited and yet we say here appears to be anyway a trumped up charge of right which hasn't actually even come to charges in sweden a song appears anyway being taken over to sweden and there is going to be a pail so we'll see but this certainly does appear to show blatant political interference in the court system here in britain and total hypocrisy from the british justice system around forty people wanted by russian law enforcement all resident in the u.k. and the list of the rich and powerful wanted by interpol is even longer egyptian born abu hamza is serving

a seven year prison sentence for inciting murder and racial hatred the european court of human rights wait until now his extradition to the u.s. . until it's satisfied he'll be treated humanely the case also harboring other suspected terrorists in a similar boat in two thousand and three alleged chechen terrorist. who was granted political refuge the same year asylum was granted to russian tycoon buddies but it's all ski a case that took two years and severely damaged russia's relationship with the u.k. that is of ski later said he'd been trying to overthrow the russian government using the u.k. as his base basic tradition relating to asylum is that anybody can come here provided. provided i've got lots of money we will let them in because we want them in with their money and therefore it's not particularly the russian magnets and so welcome here. shakes. i have a jew would be

a criminal record of torture yet they're allowed to swarm around london. bridge water wherever no problem whatsoever while julian assange looks set to be cast from the safe harbor of the u.k. into choppy waters it's unlikely he'll think from trace just yet and start his defense team has vowed to now take his case from here to the highest court in the land in the hope of preventing his extradition meanwhile convicted criminals like. those with outstanding international arrest warrants like. remain at large in the u.k. under the protection of the state. crown court. and in an appeal for the new canaan panel's party jared barton has hit out of the british justice system saying chilling asinus extradition sends a disturbing message. what was the sound you guys does it illustrates the fundamental problems with the european restaurant which i've been talking about now

ever since it was introduced in two thousand and four he's an australian citizen they want to actually go out to sweden but this affects every british citizen and anyone who's a guest in our country and what it does it removes the fundamental rights of the english courts to protect its own citizens and guests in our country because they are not simply not allowed to look at the problem of facie evidence in a case like this and take it into account it's what the lawyer called today to justice and i would now so i've been signed now for some time that extradition which is now called judicial surrender has been reduced to a bureaucratic formality and now i'm saying that it's actually nothing better than legalized kidnapping hallums it's been going on now it's been going on for months and i haven't figured out what charges are you an interest if i can say about what's going to happen in sweden they're going to use a very very rarely used mechanism here to try this case in secret so we won't even be able to hear what's being said what the allegations are what the charges are and all the full evidence because that's it's going to be done in a secret hearing which is absolutely astounding. tara barton there

a member of the european parliament for the u.k. depends party and we'll be following a story here in our to remember also that you can go to our website r.t. dot com for more coverage. now russia has revealed details of its ambitious plan to upgrade its harmony over the next ten years moscow is planning to spend six hundred fifty billion dollars on the project we now cross live to our correspondents here further to have the story for us so sara what exactly will this money be spent on. these are the large scale spending plans by the deputy defense minister and minutes in the pool of kids and we know that. huge amounts of money being spent to six hundred fifty billion dollars that's always three times as much as the previous allocation for the need to fence budget and that's going to take it up to twenty twentieth's a huge amount of weaponry going to be purchased you know on that shopping list

a very thousands over thousand shit. helicopters six hundred planes a hundred ships among them submarines eight of which they serve with the love into continental. and this is the big fish in the country now to modernize the military and we know that monks the stuff that is going to be purchased some of the ships coming from foreign countries as well. quite an impressive number there so sara where is russia getting all these weapons from and also how does this grand plan go together with the russians lionel reducing its nuclear arsenal. this is actually the first time the. military equipment for nato member is going to be buying to france's miss mistral helicopter carrier ships and then we know that the stuff that is thing from these countries is going to be developing itself where

it's going to be posting from foreign. she is we know the rushes said other than not planning on having a huge amount coming from other countries but where they feel that the village hates lacking here are they going to be touched and then developing is what we've heard the president is saying that this is really a fake is he wants the military to become a source of innovation full of the development of worker who is well. all right sara thanks very much indeed for bringing us the details on this. twenty years ago the members of the warsaw pact agreed to and they were alliance or regionally formed at the height of the cold war as a return tomato it was no longer deemed necessary once the soviet union collapsed but nato carried on and as our teams lauren lyster reports the organization is having trouble justifying its existence. it was an alliance born of fear originally supposed to define defend western europe against the soviet union but the fall of

the berlin wall changed all that now decades later the military alliance for and against the soviet threat long deprived of its enemy has been. the answer stumbling for a clear cut mission the north atlantic treaty organization has been fighting for justifiable reason to be but that hasn't stopped nato from continuing to pursue a global reach it's been twenty years since the warsaw pact formed in response to nato dissolved but even without its main rival nato has continued to aggressively expand and to date it has operations spanning several countries with troops and resources in the sudan the mediterranean sea kosovo iraq afghanistan and the horn of africa in november they redefined their goals going forward at the summit in lisbon wanting to tackle everything from nuclear disarmament to terrorism and cyber security. it was all adopted amidst protests on the streets now it's always out of

date now to the. we need a world of peace and justice not want to prepared for yet more wars and already nato members have been divided over the near decade long war in afghanistan nato has not prevailed there calling into question the alliance mission. there's every expectation that with the end of the cold war nato would be disbanded instead what happened in fact and in violation of even the accords in the agreements at the time was nato aggressively expanded critics say it's u.s. defense companies benefiting most from this expansion with the sales of weapons to every new nato member and the building of every new base and not growth allows other tools to be used as it's changed altered militarily to become also this very powerful political entity that is used to pressure countries to bow down to nato as agenda nato is agenda being primarily a u.s.

agenda it's an agenda some countries see as a threat and critics of that agenda right in the u.s. say it's global expansion must be stopped and i don't believe there's anything that justifies nato has continued existence. in terms of security and be an assault to the peace that nato wants pledged it was formed to keep lauren lyster r.t. new york i'll keep up to date on our website r.t. dot com here's a taste of what we've got lined up for you right now getting hold of painkillers will soon become more of a pain in russia find out how the law will need a prescription to buy medicine in order to prevent drug dealers getting hold of pills. and why france is the most acclaimed after a star beyond us already know talks exclusively to our team he shares his thoughts about his latest project as well as human as an analyst nationalism that's all at our t.v. dot com. now here's. been in office for years but opinion

remains split on the success of ukraine's president think three out of car but one thing has improved though is the country's economy which has seen a rapid turnaround from a deep slumber to steady growth. looks at the reasons for the revival. one victory on the campaign for the presidency a year ago he pledged to revive ukraine's crippled economy twelve months on of some ukrainian cuse him of not keeping his word however the annual economic report paints a different picture in twenty ten ukraine registered a four percent g.d.p. growth one of the highest figures in eastern europe whilst the year before that the country's economy was devastated by a fourteen percent slump. ukraine was among the country's worst affected by the global recession and while experts say it has not yet fully overcome the blow maze fused of the economy saw

a double digit growth in twenty term with the industrial sector being a leader but we registered a thirty percent growth has helped us to avoid financial damages this year exporting our products is what can save our economy now in the post-crisis year our company exports up to eighty percent of what we produce in the russian market is our priority. as ties between kiev and moscow moved from strains to warm demand from the russian market increased industrial production increases by more than eleven percent there was an increase in demand for you chris machinery from russia that was the major the terrible one for the. very impressive machinery more than thirty percent of all saw give source. to expect to a strong performance for the economy in the current year the government still has a lot of issues to address ailing social structure ineffective banking sector and

poor agriculture but this political analyst is sure that it's only a matter of time will go up with orders to be put to the previous administration lived in a dream and he wanted the whole country to live in that way to this regime stands firmly on its feet and deals with the real problems we must give it another year to see how they would fill in the many projects they've begun. the opposition is still rigorous in accusing the new powers circles of failing us something over a new round of political infighting within this post soviet state but experts assure if you're going to be continues to receive at the same rate come next year many critics would be silenced by witnessing the promise to better living conditions they. see reporting from kiev ukraine. and a quick look at some other stories from around the world now hopes are fading of war survivors from topple buildings fall in tuesday's devastating earthquake in new zealand one hundred thirteen people have so far been confirmed dead and rescue

crews in the city of christchurch have failed to point one alive from the rubble for more than a day it's thought as many as one hundred twenty bodies may be inside one collapsed building. heavy rain has caused several rivers across believe yet to burst their banks and dating entire towns and destroying roads and crops authorities say three people were killed in wednesday bringing the death toll from floods in the country since january to fifteen a state of emergency has been declared in the country as well as in neighboring terrible flooding there has left more than three and a half thousand people homeless like. a suicide bomber has killed eight people in their rocking city of ramadi while trying to assassinate a government says. the attack outside a sports stadium injured the deputy governor barbour province and killed seven people seven police officers rather and bodyguard the bombing came hours after the

country's prime minister nouri al maliki issued a warning to rocky's over security fears. last minute computer glitch almost derailed the thirty ninth and final launch of the space shuttle discovery to the ship and its six crew did manage to blast off successfully from the kennedy space center but with just three seconds remaining and its critical launch window the launch have been delayed for three and a half months due to cracks in that external tank and discovery's final mission will be to deliver supplies and a module to the international space station. just a few minutes chopstick said they're ready as we try japanese food in the russian capital first though it's the business of day with. all of that strike time for your business to very well welcome world prices have retreated from the two and a halt year high posted on thursday but the momentum is still forward as the unrest

in north africa and the middle east sends further shocks of the market here in russia got stocks have done particularly well in the crisis spoiled banks and retailers have done badly but a western from the tone thinks this might represent a buying opportunity. fundamentally we still believe that there will names remain an underwear store in russia so again you played a moment but you need to be ready to take profits and eventually as we are all price. should benefit consumers consumers here including the banks these are sectors have been very downbeat and. in recent weeks on the back of that when we see some kind of clarity in the situation but even if there is high you know our argument is that the whole process you're better off paying consumers about that would benefit from the money trickling through into the economy rather than oil oil companies themselves given that these are under beat and this could be

a story that could really revived in other words keep an eye on banks and consumers let's take a look at some of the numbers now lights we heard is around ninety seven dollars barrel down just a notch brant crude is over one hundred eleven dollars a barrel point four percent. and energy security was also the hot topic in brussels well what about putin has been meeting commission president manuel but also there were prime minister roundly criticized these so-called third energy package he warned the new rules to increase competition in the market would simply make more expensive number. there's a big challenge if you want to gas you shouldn't own the transport system even if you buy gas from together with its european partners has built a pipeline under the baltic sea they tell us to let a third partner into it how can we do this we extract the gas in russia together and then we transport it through our joint property but where will the third

partner get gas they tell us to sell the gas at the euro people order and then you'll get the through the department who will become the owner of the gas but if he buys it he'll have to get his profits from this business so immediately the price will go up. well and gas analysts believe is putin is right to object strongly to the energy package as it's way to have a way in favor of european interests but he will get an edge if it's accepted russia will most likely lose some control over the market now it turns out the russia will have to become a supplier of resources or the europeans will have no flexibility to choose a supplier means of transportation and prices of course this is a disadvantage for russia or the. thoughts of a look at the markets now asian stocks are trading in the black as well prices left a twenty eight month high in tokyo exporters a mostly on the rise toyota motor is up two point three percent on the credit

suisse upgrades to all of the form despise and you know as we. turn into equities now but the r.t.s. otherwise of somerset closed in the black on thursday helped primarily private energy sector defensive gold stocks were also doing well retailers by its industrials that might as well all down let's have a look at some individual moves. but that's going to happen in the next village and . you're.