of leaders in this. continuously losing their legitimacy there was this faulty assumption that you can rely on leaders that can be gnarly and even give birth to recently in the last few years by giving weapons and these leaders to the thieves thinking that they would be able to control the 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 at 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 good as that which was to do was say we're concerned about things happening in libya but the north africa and some of the there 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 before the leader of the iranian revolution where did he leave they

lived in paris and as 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 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 sort of fighting against it we need to give people a chance to determine their future themselves so we need to give them an opportunity to take a national way without any foreign interference to build their future for the other party or uprising as internees and started the domino effect that spread around the arab world well there is fresh hope and outside of the region for a brighter future on their democracy some fear it could just be a falls down artie's kerala reports from cairo. they feel. they played. many died. the protesters who took over central cairo had

a clear goal the removal of a dictator and establishing a free country he is 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 now on terms of or here i mean everyone look at it that it on its own terms but we are going to it our terms that we want to see in this country our country there does that that we want to feel like here there's some way of getting it and we're going to get better 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 basically we see this is for the worse we want democracy but we also want states that will be friendly to us and do what we want but almost certainly arab democracy. less comfortable for the rest

taters are autocrats are. those dictators have been swept aside by people who after years of injustice finally had enough. the truth is many egyptians live in diag conditions in an interview with a major newspaper the minister for social solidarity good idea of how leeks 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 egypt in capital live in the area of cairo here many are hopeful that a democratic egypt will help them out of poverty however others expressed concern that they may see the rich get richer while the poor get poorer. and worried things could get worse for the poor if there is not implemented a pretty good will keep egypt safe. 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 oliver r.t. cairo egypt. the young going on rest 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 when we get across to the business teach you a vulcan 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 sharp rise in oil prices does create a series of economic risks and can deliver a devastating blow to the phrase job global economy as it struggles to recover from the financial crisis and some version contraries energy is

a greater share of overall consumption are even more vulnerable it's really very difficult to make any forecasts or have been particularly volatile in recent years and some sectors will be more impact than others transportation has always been very vulnerable to. hikes and also i should say that all of the businesses here can be affected for manufacturers to supermarkets 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 fueled this whole process where to begin with the food crisis but one thing rising food prices and of course what you're going to have to see is feedback effect where you have rising oil prices rising energy prices that will actually contribute to higher food prices as well. that's right as we've got her with see here is the knock on effect manufacturers

will need. to make products down to deliver them to shops and high oil prices may lead to higher food prices and higher prices for heating and travel and simply individuals will have to pay more out there to fill in their tanks and they will be left with less disposable income to buy other stuff so we'll have more on that in business in about fifteen minutes all right thanks very much indeed for this story had this hour here in r.t.e. 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 grains president's first year in office takes on a rosier glow after their release of the new figures on the economy. are rubber stamping process that's how whistleblower adjoin a songe 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 are you scaling for charts the rise and fall of the we can leaks founder. when julian assange emerged less than a year ago with this video. showing u.s. troops going down unarmed civilians into reuters journalist video games he was lauded as a hero of transparency. and anti war ally and human rights defender r.t. america interview to sign on the day of collateral murders release what keeps most and more people civilization going to understand how the world actually works. in the fourth grade to get information out about the real world. and comment on it and think of the. sources. that.

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within wiki leaks frozen fake accounts stalled the nation particularly in the obama administration and the cia they want to start with you lisa. doing all sorts of extraordinary actions stopping. 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 the mean meaning. obviously it's the u.s. government which is really. makes no bones about it through under the bus by the newspaper that once eagerly used his leaks initial impressions are going to. set up some words some in a list say signed 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 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 where science could face espionage charges and even the death penalty as the sun spaces 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 in fort artsy washington d.c. but 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 mr sands guys does is illustrates the fundamental problems with the european restaurant which i've been talking about know me since i was introduced in two thousand and four he's an australian citizen i want to actually go 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 ground in a close race like this and taking into account it's what the lawyers call today to justice and i would now so i've been saying now for some time that vision 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 they haven't figured out what charges are you an interested party say about what happens when they don't 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 before the evidence because it's going to be done in a secret hearing which is absolutely astounding russia has revealed details of its ambitious plans 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 further reports. huge amounts of money these are the large scale spending plans that have be done by

the defense ministry and so we need a main focus of the spending that's going to take this up to twenty twenty five is going to be the development head first if he didn't need to be a weapons i know among some of the stuff that the defense is beginning to be purchasing again here on a hundred ships a thousand helicopters around six hundred planes and eight submarines that again to be equipped with new generation missiles as 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 that we have heard the russian government saying it is not planning on buying a huge amount for the broad i but what they do you bring in is where they feel the russian military is lacking right now and then they can then take some developments as well this is the coolest 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. at the would it doesn't say is that the countries are not allowed to upgrade their neat their arsenal say this is completely within the terms of the treaty doesn't actually contradict that tool and as he said that's really going against his will those huge amounts of money that is really needed president has come out and said that he really wants the military now to use those a bit of a should they're trying to upgrade and steam like the military force is not for the spendings all about surfers reporting there 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 deterrence to nato it was no longer deemed necessary once the sort of union collapse but nato carried on and as sorties 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 formed against the soviet threat long deprived of its enemy has been. the answer bumbling 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 their 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 for nuclear disarmament to terrorism and cyber security. it was all adopted amidst protests on the streets and nato is

out of date now out of time we need a world of peace and just is not going to prepared for yet more wars and already nato members have been divided over the near decade long war in afghanistan it was 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 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 a 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 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 once pledged was formed to keep lauren lyster r.t. new york. well keep up to date on our website r t v dot com but here's a taste of what we've got for you there right now as the let's say you know it's hearts and moves into the second week of protest against the budget cuts will always behind the demonstrations. and a little girl in the sleeves of the russian naturalists are all just crushed birdwatchers hopes of an early spring say newness don't mean a warrant was on the way for more weather advised to 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 because it's one thing that has improved though is the country's economy which has seen a rapid turnaround from a deep song to steady growth just like your chest it looks at the reasons for the revival. one week to the end of which campaign for the presidency a year ago he pledged to revive ukraine's quibbled economy twelve months on some one 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 was the year before that the country's economy was devastated by a fourteen percent slump. the crane was among the country's worst affected by the global recession and while experts say it has not yet fully overcome the blow raise fears of the economy saw a double digit growth in twenty term with the industrial sector being

a leader in the export we registered a thirty percent growth to avoid financial damages this year exporting our products is what can save our economy now in the current crisis year a company exports up to eighty percent of what we produce in the russian market is our priority. as ties between q. and more school moved from strains to warmth demand from the russian market increased industrial production increased by more than one percent there was an increase in demand for christmas from russia at all the major the terminal for the. very impressive growth in machinery more than thirty percent of these all saw gives us. basis to expose 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 as ordered to be put in a previous administration lived in a dream world and he wanted the whole country to live in that world superbike 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 to go on. the opposition is still rigorous in accusing the new power circles of feeling something over a new round of political infighting within this post soviet state experts assure if economy continues to receive at the same rate come next year many critics would be silenced by witnessing the promise to better living conditions next year sure ski r.t. reporting from kiev ukraine. let's take a look at some other stories from around the world here in our team hopes are fading up 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 and twenty of those are inside just one collapsed building. a college student from saudi arabia has been arrested in america on suspicion of. president george w. bush's house. who was studying chemical engineering at a university in texas came to the f.b.i. as a cancer after buying bomb making materials and posting anti american masters online stories say they found diary entries planning attacks on several sites around the u.s. if convicted of the sorry could see the life sentence. last. in a computer 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 cracks in an external tank discovery's final mission to deliver supplies and a module to the international space station. lot of brings us up to date here in our web site r.t. for you twenty four seven i will now take a look at what's happening in the world of business where you. hello and a very warm welcome to the business update world prices are climbing again on friday after retreating slightly from a twenty eight month high late on thursday and earlier the international energy agency said it was prepared to release. piles 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 all by the same. still to jointly develop reach arctic

fills lay finally get the green light on friday the british oil major is meeting with his russian partners in the joint venture g n p p p to try to persuade them that the deal doesn't violate their rights and ross never concluded the deal in january but were forced to freeze it after it through opposition from alpha after strand of assault him to russian shareholder consortium claims the deal violates its exclusive agreement with the british world country. ok and turning to act which is now asian stocks are bouncing back after a tough week they had signed was up one point eight percent the nikkei finished up almost point seven percent in tokyo exporters were mostly on the rise toyota merger was up two point three percent on a credit suisse up to outperform despite and not a us report. on european stocks or ported the falls over the last few

sessions and needs relief well prices have more to write to 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.d.'s is down almost twenty percent after losing a key u.s. tank of contract to rival boeing. and here in russia the r.t.s. in the miser's. trade how well the energy stocks are struggling as investors take profits after several days of gains other surplus such as banking and retail that have been under pressure climbing investors will be looking direction from some date or later in the day general place i won't with you money supply u.k. g.d.p. figures and u.s. g.d.p. data are and consumer confidence. let's now have a look at some individual moves in russia energy majors mostly retreating from their birthdays gains look well as more than point three percent lower wilson after

losing over half a percent but banking stocks are on the rise these would be is up nearly one and a half percent helped by news it has acquired a blocking stay in bank of moscow. now the russian central bank is raising the key interest rate for the first time in two years to step up the fight against inflation the refinancing break will increase twenty five basis points to eight percent consumer prices are we percent so far and twenty eleven fueling concerns. them official from a cost of eight percent. and i knew what was the right sort of jumped around eighteen percent and generally year on year it's reached roughly nineteen billion dollars with countries that schools up twenty five percent the growth was mostly driven by higher energy prices oil and gas sales made up most of it exports. that's it from me europe today drawing in less than one has time for more business news.

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