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colonel gadhafi refuses to give up power and levy and tries desperately to shift the blame accusing a solid ladan of inspiring the revolt. it shows here the hypocrisy of the british courts as the u.k. prepares to ship we can leaks founder julian assange to office leading to stand trial many question why suspected terrorists and other ana versal figures are allowed to remain. and russian veils ambitious proposals to modernize its armed forces. both k. plans to spend around six hundred fifty billion dollars over the next ten years a weapon we will have full details on not coming up.

ten am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshua welcome to the program maybe as leader colonel gadhafi 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 protests consolidating gains in the east of the country could offer told state t.v. that osama bin laden and his followers are to blame for the uprising and claimed protesters were given drugs to incite them to revolt the overall number of dead after ten days of unrest has been difficult to determine with estimates ranging from several hundred to over two thousand the e.u. is considering sanctions against libya for its leaders a bloody crackdown meanwhile the swiss government has ordered a freeze of any locally held assets belonging to gadhafi although levy is following the revolutionary path of tunisia and egypt some experts believe the outcome of the revolt won't necessarily be the same. the free is different than mubarak can be 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 can and could probably die trying to cling to power if not posed by force what is really worried is not what happens to get their feet what is worrying is that how many libyans will have to suffer 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 test taken everybody by surprise there is 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 the people in the street in the arab and the continuous support of leaders in this part of the world why the leaders

will continuously losing their legitimacy there was this faulty assumption that he can rely on leaders like mubarak and ben ali and even that the few recently in the last few years by 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 west and 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 their previous efforts along those lines that lead to victories for governments the west is now fighting to contain. it was because of. that which was to do was say we're concerned about things happening in libya but the north african soul of al-qaeda is also concerned about what is happening in libya to think this is a coincidence i would like to go back in history a little bit the former leader of the iranian revolution where did he leave 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 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 the while there is fresh help and outside of the region for a brighter future on the democracy some fear it could just be ethel's dawn peter oliver reports from cairo. they fought they bled many died the protesters who took over central cairo had a clear goal the removal of a dictator and establishing

a free country. as an activist and one of the organizers of the revolution that toppled and he believes that egypt can make the transition from dictatorship to a democratic state the thing is defining democracy in our own terms of or here i mean everyone look at it at it in its own terms but we are going to it our terms there is that we want to see in this country our country there does stuff that we want to feel like it there are 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 with the possible future for the country one basic problem we see in this is the west we want democracy but we also want states that will be friendly to us and do what we want but almost certainly democracy is going to be a great deal less comfortable for the west the arab dictators arab autocrats are.

that 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 for 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 block 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 so. i'm worried 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 over cairo egypt. amid the young going on the rest in the region there have been reports from levy that riders are now controlling some of the key oil terminals they are stopping experts and analysts are warning that oil prices are likely to soar further but we now talk more about the impact this is having a business. so russia's prime minister with a report has warned that the world's economic growth could start to slow down what can consumers expect. that's absolutely right murray in the shop rising oil prices does create a serious economic risks and can deliver a devastating blow to the global economy as a struggles to recover from the financial crisis and some emerging countries where energy is a greater share of overall consumption are even more vulnerable well it's really

difficult to make any forecast oil prices have been particularly vulnerable and volatile curing the recent years some. are more impacted than the others transportation for example has always been particularly vulnerable to soaring oil prices and all sorts of businesses affected from manufacturers to supermarkets and higher energy prices are likely to hit ordinary consumers in the wallet to let's listen to what analysts are saying some of the catalyst that actually fueled this whole process where economic to begin with the food crisis for one thing in food prices and of course what you're going to have to see is feedback effect where you have well as you know oil prices rising energy prices that will actually contribute to high food prices as well so marina as we've just heard it's the knock on effect manufacturers will need more energy to make products and to deliver them to shops and high oil prices lead to higher prices for food travel hearing everything

soaring oil prices ect like a tax on consumers which will force them to pay more at the pump to fill in their tanks and they will have less disposable income to buy other stuff so the calculation here is very simple absolutely well the price hikes have ripple effects on everything as we have seen a while more on this i guess will get in your business both in the later in the program but are now there thanks very much indeed for this. and you're watching r.t. live from moscow still have a sour an alliance without a mission takes a look around nato continues to function without a clear goal or common anomie. he has his critics but ukraine's president's first year in office takes on a rosier glow after the release of new figures on the economy. a rubber stamping process that's how whistleblower joined us on to describe 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 he's going to appeal as laura reports while britain is to deport the wiki leaks founder it's been happy to provide asylum for some controversial figures. wiki leaks founder julian assange learns the cool it 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 act of two or three hundred and sixty thousand dollars bail. why is a bit i am kept. under electronic house arrest. when i have not even been charged in any country he's not the only one asking these questions particularly as the british government has a history of granting asylum to some fairly controversial characters including

russian business tycoon buddies but his old ski date shows here the hypocrisy of the british courts. is quite clearly been involved in the mafia over the years all sorts of very serious offenses which he may actually quite literally equate with terrorism and yet he is not being extradited they 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 wouldn't allow 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 akhmed zakayev

who is granted political refuge the same year asylum was granted to russian tycoon bodies but his old 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 they'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 all the goal. shakes. i have 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 cost from the safe harbor of the u.k. into choppy waters it's unlikely he'll sink from trace just yet i start his defense

team has vowed to now take his case from head 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 law ramage. crown court. brian becker from the anti-war answer coalition believes it's washington that. the strings in the julian assange case in the director's chair i believe is the washington government particularly the obama administration in the cia they want to stop wiki leaks they're doing all sorts of extraordinary actions stopping pay pal or leaning on pay pal master card and other private corporations to to not allow donations to be made to wiki leaks these charges have been pursued unusually vigorously for charges of

sexual assault they should those kind of charges should never be trivialized but the fact that they are trivialized routinely and that this case has used extraordinary measures with the european arrest warrant and finally this proceeding for extradition when mr assigned was willing to cooperate with swedish prosecutors while he when he was there i think it's clear that behind the scenes is the american government. brian becker from the antiwar answer coalition will be following that story here in r.t. and remember you can always go to our website r.t. dot com for more. russia has revealed details of its ambitious plan to upgrade its army over the next ten years moscow is planning to spend six hundred fifty billion dollars on the project already sarah first reports huge amounts of money these are the large scale spending plans that have been unveiled by the defense ministry and we know that a main focus of the spending that's going to take this up to twenty twenty is going to be the development of strategic nuclear weapons now among some of the stuff that

the defense ministry again to be purchased saying again here on one hundred ships a thousand helicopters around six hundred planes and eight submarines that are going to be equipped with new generation missiles so a huge amount of purchases that again to be made such a going to be the first time that russia has bought military equipment from a nato member is going to be purchasing two helicopter carrier ships from france but we have heard the russian government saying that is not planning on buying a huge amount for the broad but what they do you bring it is where they feel the russian military is lacking right now and then they can then focus on development as well this is of course all part of this push by the government to modernize the military of course the start treaty is now in place and that agreement between the u.s. and russia was to slash their nuclear arsenals by a third of the would it doesn't say is that the countries are not allowed to

upgrade their arsenal say this is completely within the terms of the treaty it doesn't actually call dziedzic that tool and as he said that's really been the absence of those huge amounts of money that is really needed president vader's come out and said that he really wants the military now to be a source of innovation trying to upgrade and streamline seventy forces and that's what this spending's all about. so far as they are and twenty years ago the members of the warsaw pact agreed to and their alliance originally formed at the height of the cold war as a deterrent to nato was no longer deemed necessary once the soviet union collapsed but nato carried on and as artie's 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 fumbling 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 out of time we need a world of peace and justice not one of preparing 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 is 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 agreement at that 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 that 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 nader's agenda nader's 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 contributed systems. in terms of security and an assault to the peace that nato wants pledged it was formed to keep lauren lyster r.t. new york one member that you can always keep abreast of the developments on our website which is our dot com and here's a taste of what we've got for you there right now getting hold of painkillers will soon become more of a pain in russia find out how a new law will mean you need a prescription to buy medicine in order to prevent drug dealers getting hold of pills. and one of france's most acclaimed actors the star beyond genre no talks exclusively towards he shares his thoughts about his latest project as well as humanism and nationalism that's all at our t dot com. has been in office for a year but opinion remains split on the success of ukraine's president victorian

college one thing that has improved though is the country's economy which has seen a rapid turnaround from a deep slump to steady growth. looks at the reasons for the revival. of the campaign for the presidency a year ago keep bloodstream five ukraine's crippled economy twelve months on some ukraine accuse him of not keeping his word however the annual economic report paints a different picture in trying to turn 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. it's worst affected by the global recession and while experts say it has not yet fully overcome that blow maze fears of the economy saw a double digit growth in twenty ten with the industrial sector being a leader even though. 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 and the russian market is our priority. as ties between kiev and moscow moved from strange to warm demand from the russian market increased industrial production increased by more than eleven percent there was an effect on increase in demand for you chris machinery from russia that was the major the terrible one for were very impressive in machinery more than thirty percent of these all saw gives us. just to expand on 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. because the previous administration lived in

a dream and they wanted the whole country to live in that. 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 have begun. the opposition is still rigorous in accusing the new power circles of. something over a new round of political infighting within this post soviet state but experts are sure if you're going to continue to receive rect at the same rate come next year many critics will be silenced by witnessing the promise to better living conditions they. see reporting from kiev ukraine or not take a look at some other stories from around the world and hopes are fading of pulling any more survivors from the toppled buildings fall into this 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 pull anyone alive from their rubble for more than

a day some two hundred people are still missing and it's thought as many as one hundred twenty of those are inside just one collapsed building. a college student from saudi arabia has been arrested in america on suspicion of plotting to bomb ex-president george w. bush's house. who was studying chemical engineering at a university in texas came to the f.b.i. as attention after buying bomb making materials and posting to american messages online authorities say they found diary entries planning attacks on several sides around the u.s. if convicted al the sorry could receive a life sentence. but alas. minute computer glitch almost derailed the thirty ninth and final launch of the space shuttle discovery the ship at st screw it did manage to blast off successfully from the kennedy space center but with just three seconds remaining at its critical wanted with the launch has been delayed for three to half months due to cracks in an external tank discovery's final mission will be to

deliver supplies and a module to the international space station. we have today time now for the business news with us. hello time for your business dates a very warm welcome and oil prices are climbing again on friday off to retreating slightly from their highest levels in almost three decades and earlier at the international energy agency said it's prepared to release its immersion suit well stockpiles to cover any shortfalls resulting from the turmoil in the middle east but investors are still cautious as the situation in libya remains unstable why

it's kurds are only ninety eight dollars a barrel point seven percent and we're destroying at over one hundred thirteen dollars a barrel at one point seven percent. energy security was also a major issue in brussels jim approach and met with commission president jose manuel but also the prime minister roundly criticized the so-called surge energy package he warned that the new rules would increase competition in the e.u. gas market and simply make guest more expensive. then go ahead there's them they tell us if you own gas you shouldn't own the transport system but gazprom together with its european partners has built a pipeline under the baltic sea they tell us to let a third partner into it but 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 part get gas they tell us to sell the gas at the european border and then

you'll get the third partner 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. and some oil and gas analysts believe the third. way to have a way in favor european interests. you 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 the flexibility to choose a supplier means of transportation and prices of course this is a disadvantage. because deal to jointly develop reach arctic oilfields may finally get the green light on friday the british major with his russian partners in the joint venture to try to persuade them that the deal doesn't violate their rights. concluded the deal in january forced to freeze it off to true

opposition from alpha axis were not a consortium to russian shareholder and the consortium claims the deal violates its exclusive for image with the previous world company. and turning to average is now in asian stocks outraising in the black that is saying is a wrong one percent higher than it is heading point seven percent and in tokyo exporters. mostly higher toyota motor is up two point three percent on a two hour hold despite and nothing will happen. and here in russia they are. trading session high at my service is just about to open the my markets close in the black on thursday held primarily by the energy sector defensive gold stocks also doing well retailers banks industrials and minus all down. and finally this one bit of a canonic news russia straight sort of jumped around eighteen.