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what you are to live from moscow i'm arena joshie welcome to the program. 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 a told state t.v. that osama bin laden and his followers part of blame for the uprising and claim protesters were given drugs to inside them to revoke the overall number of dead after a ten days of unrest has been difficult to determine with asked to meet ranging from several hundred. over two thousand they use considering sanctions against libya for its leaders bloody crackdown meanwhile the swiss government has ordered a freeze of any locally held assets belonging to afi with libya following the revolutionary path of tunisia and egypt some experts believe the crisis in the arab world is the result of years of misguided policies in the west. that duffy is different than mubarak and ben ali if we accept the premise that he's

a special type of the data. i think most likely he will try to cling to power for as much as he can probably die trying to cling to power if not opposed by force what is really worrying is not what happens to be durfy 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's definitely an intelligence failure on the part of the worst. part of it is actually the outcome of years of policy failure from the west in not being gable to understand correctly the mood of the people in the street in the arab and continuous support of leaders in this part of the world the readers will

continuously losing their legitimacy there was this faulty assumption that the 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 russian prime minister vladimir putin has warned western countries against attempts at meddling in the arab world to try to impose democracy speaking after talks with the e.u. leadership he said that pretty. it's along those lines had led to victories for governments the west is now fighting to contain. it was. to do was say we're concerned about things happening in libya but the north african soul of al qaida is also concerned about what is happening 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 where did he leave he

lived in paris and there's a whole he was supported by the western community you know 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 the 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 while there is fresh hope and outside of the region for a brighter future on their democracy some fear it could just be a false dawn are all over reports from cairo. before. the blitz. 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 logic he believes that egypt can make the transition from dictatorship to a democratic state the thing is defining democracy now or in 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 or some way of getting it and we are 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. we want democracy but we also want states that will be friendly to us and do what we want but almost certainly democracy deal less comfortable for the west.

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 for social solidarity good idea of how leak 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 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. implemented. a little while the

west may have been told. democratic principles they may be in for a nasty shock when they find out that the people simply want to change. egypt. the young going on dressed in the region there have been reports from libya that rioters are now controlling some of the key oil terminals they're stopping exports and energy analysts are warning that oil prices are likely to soar further i'll go across to the business desk you're welcome let's talk about the implications of the unrest now russia's prime minister vladimir putin has warned that the world's economic growth could start to slow down so what can consumers expect. that's absolutely right the shop rising oil prices does create a series of economic risks and can deliver a devastating blow to the phrase joe global economy as it struggles to recover from the financial crisis and some version contrary its work energy is

a greater share of overall consumption are even more vulnerable it's really very difficult to make any forecasts oil prices have been particularly volatile and recent years and some sectors a will be more impact than others transportation has always been very vulnerable to oil to oil hikes and also i can say that all the businesses here can be affected for a matter of fact true a super market so high energy prices are likely to hit ordinary consumers in the wallet to let's listen to what analysts say. some of the catalyst that actually feel this whole process where to begin with the food crisis for one thing food prices and of course what you're going to have to see is feedback effects where you have well as you know oil prices rising energy prices that will actually contribute to higher food prices as well. that's right as we've just heard was see here is the knock on effect manufacturers will need. to make products to deliver

them to. high oil prices to high up food prices higher prices for travel and simply individuals will have to be more to fill in their tanks and they will be left with less disposable income to buy other stuff so we'll have more i'm out of business in about fifteen minutes all right thanks very much indeed for this still ahead this hour here in r.t. an alliance without a mission. party takes a look at how nato continues to function without a clear goal or a common enemy. as his critics but the cranes president's first year in office takes on a rosier glow after the release of the new figures on the economy. a rubber stamping process that's how whistleblower adjoin assad's described a 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 for

charts rise and fall of that we can leaks founder. when julian assange emerged less than a year ago with this video. showing u.s. troops gunning down unarmed civilians and two reuters journalists videogame style he was lauded as a hero of transparency. and anti war ally a human rights defender r.t. america interview decides on the day of collateral murders release and what keeps people honest and more people in management of a civilization going to understand how the world actually works. in the fourth grade is to get information out about the real world and the second step is to comment on it and to think about it but sources can't get. through to the

information out to the public a nomadic computer expert with the cache of two hundred fifty thousand classified cables assigned catapulted to the front page of virtually every newspaper in the country with a week's wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks to his foes julian assange is a cyber terrorist and war time he's guilty of sabotage espionage crimes against humanity he should be killed but to his fans a soft spoken activist with the potential to radically reshape the geo political landscape voted by the people as time's man of the year but our commitment to our sources is not just to protect and we have never lost it is not just to publish the material it is to get the maximum political impact possible but it's our city it's the political impact of the leaker and not the leaks that has gripped have been. allegations of sexual misconduct by two swedish women infighting within wiki leaks

frozen bank accounts stalled donations particularly in the obama administration in the cia they want to stop wiki leaks there. doing all sorts of extraordinary actions stopping pay pal or leaning on pay pal master card and other private corporations to allow donations to be made to wiki leaks the once heroic figure now hawking mugs bumper stickers and t. shirts to pay his legal bills who profits from demeaning demeaning. obviously it's the u.s. government which is really out to get him makes no bones about it then under the bus by the newspaper that once eagerly used his leaks initial impressions of julian assange. up some red flags some analysts say assigned and wiki leaks have been effectively neutralized consumed by litigation rather than leaks i think what the american government wants is to have mr assad in custody so that ultimately he can be extradited to the united states to face charges for the release of those

documents u.k. court ruled that julian assange should be extradited to sweden but his attorneys say the next stop for the thirty nine year old computer programmer could be here in the united states could face espionage charges and even the death penalty as a son faces jail time the future of wiki leaks hangs in the balance and its ability to be a place for whistleblowers and it beacon of transparency and ford artsy washington d.c. well i am happy for the u.k. the panel's party gerard biden has hit out of the british justice system saying join us on his extradition is a legalized kidnap. what was the sound you guys does illustrates the fundamental problems with the european restaurant which i've been talking about never since it was introduced in two thousand and four he's an australian citizen you want to actually go out to sweden but this effects 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 bullets in the courthouse and tied to include counts 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 legalised kidnapping alan just going on that's been going on for months and i haven't figured out what charges are you an interesting thought to say about what's going to happen in sweden they are 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 it's going to be done in a secret hearing which is absolutely astounding 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 i do sarah firth reports. huge amounts of money these are the large scale spending plans that have been unveiled by the defense ministry and we know that the main focus of the spending

that's going to take this up to twenty twenty five is going to be the development of the strategic nuclear weapons now among some of the stuff that the defense ministry again to be purchasing 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 game to be the first time that russia has bought military equipment from a nato member is going to be purchasing helicopter carrier ships from france but we have heard the russian government saying that is not planning on buying a huge amount for the pros but what they do you bring it is where they feel the russian military is lacking right now and then they can then take some developments 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 the week here also little by thursday the would it doesn't say is that the countries are not allowed to upgrade the nuclear arsenal say this is completely within the terms of the treaty it doesn't actually contradict that tool and as he said that's really been the absence of those huge amounts of money that this really needed president vedas come out and said that he really wants the military now to be a source of innovation or trying to upgrade and stream like that that he feels it's not for the spendings all about. sarah first reporting there twenty years ago the members of the warsaw pact agreed to end their alliance originally formed at the height of the cold war as a deterrent to nato it was no longer deemed necessary once the soviet union collapsed but nato carried on and as ortiz lauren lister 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 is 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'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 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 nato'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 continued existence. in terms of security and be an assault to the peace that nato once pledged was formed to keep lauren lyster r.t. new york. well keep up to date on our website r.t. dot com but here's a taste of what we've got for you there right now as the state of its content moves into the second week of protest against the budget cuts will keep her stories behind the demonstrations. and a little bird in the sleeves the russian naturalist are all just crushed birdwatchers hopes of an early spring saying newness don't mean a warrant is on the way for more weather advice go to our website r t v dot com. he's been in office for

a year but opinion remains split on the success of ukraine's president one thing that has improved though is the country's economy which is seen a rapid turnaround from a deep saw 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 quibbled economy twelve months on some when ukraine accuse 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. crane was among the country's worst affected by the global recession and while experts say it has not yet fully overcome the blow maze fears of the economy saw a double digit growth in twenty ten with the industrial sector being a leader. registered

a thirty percent growth 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 strains to warmth demand from the russian market increased industrial production increased by more than eleven percent there was an increase in demand for chris machinery from russia but for the major the tariff on four. were impressive. more than thirty percent of these all saw gives us. to expose 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. picking 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've 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 assure you for corn and he continues to receive wrecked at the same rate next year many critics will be silenced by witnessing the promise to better living conditions they. see reporting from key ukraine. let's take a look at some other stories from around the world here in our team hopes are fading of pulling in more survivors from toppled buildings following 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 pull

anyone alive from the 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 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.'s attention after buying bomb making materials and posting anti-american messages online authorities say they found diary entries planning attacks on several sites around the u.s. if convicted of sorry could receive a life sentence. a last minute. which almost derailed the thirty ninth and final launch of the space shuttle discovery the ship added six crew did manage to blast off successfully from the kennedy space center but with just three seconds. remaining in its critical launch a window of the launch had been delayed for three and

a half months due to cracks in an external tank discovery's final mission to deliver supplies and a module to the international space station. while the brings us up to date here in our website are. for you twenty four seven well now take a look at what's happening in the world of business with you. hello and a very warm welcome to the business update world prices a climbing again on friday off to retreating slightly from a twenty eight month high late on thursday and earlier the international energy agency said it was prepared to release oil stockpiles to cover any shortfalls resulting from the tour more oil in the middle east and north africa light sweet crude is over ninety eight dollars a barrel. brant crude is trading at over one hundred twelve dollars a barrel up by the same now. and still to jointly develop reach arctic oil

spills may finally get the green light on friday the british oil major is meeting with its russian partners of the joint venture. to try to persuade them that the deal doesn't violate their rights. concluded the deal in january but were forced to freeze it after it true opposition from friend of a consortium. of russian shareholder the consortium claims the deal violates its exclusive agreement with the british oil company. ok and turning to act which is now asian stocks are bouncing back off to a tough week was up one point eight percent the nikkei finished up almost point seven percent into. exporters were mostly on the rise toyota measure was up two point three percent on a credit suisse up to outperform despite another us report. on european stocks have halted the falls over the last few sessions immediate relief world prices have moderated but some individual stocks are still doing badly lloyds

banking group is down four percent after posting disappointing n.l. results also era space and defense firm a.g.s. is down almost three percent after losing the key u.s. tank of contract to rival boeing. and here in russia the r.t.s. in the miser's. trade where the energy stocks are struggling as investors take profits off for several days of gains other sectors such as banking and retail that had been under pressure climbing in votes just will be looking direction from some key data or later in the day german inflation along with you money supply u.k. g.d.p. figures. dater and consumer confidence. let's not have a look at some individual moves in russia energy majors mostly retreating from there those days gains look well as more than point three percent lower will smith is losing over the hump of the cent but banking stocks on the rise is up nearly one

of the hoff percent helped by news it has acquired a blocking stake in bank of moscow. the russian central bank is raising the key interest rate for the first time in trickiest to step up the fight against inflation the refinancing rate will increase twenty five basis points to eight percent consumer prices we percent so far in twenty eleven fueling concerns will be higher than official from the cost of eight percent. and why you trade surplus job eighteen percent in january year on the year it's reached roughly nineteen billion dollars with the country's exports twenty five percent the growth was mostly driven by high energy prices oil and gas sales made up most of the exports. that's it from me you're up to date now join in less than one has time for more business news.