tell me touch your rules the fictional google how would international calls. every green local hotels in talk with. colonel gadhafi stays and defiant despite the onslaught of topple him as libya's leader claims osama bin ladin for inspiring the uprising. and as the u.k. prepares to shift what you know songs off to sweden to stand trial for sexual assault and look at who profits from damaging the reputation of the man behind wiki leaks. russia unveils ambitious proposals to modernize its armed forces plus k. plans to spend around six hundred fifty billion dollars a good next ten years we'll have all the details coming out.

here with r.t. live from moscow where it's now or just after two pm welcome to the program libya's leader colonel gadhafi is desperately clinging to power despite facing a more defections from his own rule he's battling to shore up control of the capital tripoli and western areas with protesters consolidating gains in the east of the country and that's all amid speculation that one of these sons a husband joined the opposition the libyan leader told the state television that osama bin laden and his followers are to blame for the uprising and claim the protesters were given drugs to incite them to revolt the overall number of dead after ten days gone rest has been difficult to determine question it's ranging from several hundred to over two thousand and un a human rights committee has condemned the reported mass killings of the e.u.

is considering sanctions against libya for its leaders bloody crackdown meanwhile the swiss government has ordered a free use of any locally held assets belonging to capacity with libya following the revolutionary path of egypt experts say resource rich arab countries are an obvious target for terrorists. now when we have a revolution is rolling all over the arab world while culture after another some of those countries are precarious region mineral resources are reaching all guests and of course our health care prize for al qaeda and other jihadists so these resources can easily be used by terrorists to stage unprecedented scale attacks and then european countries and the united states the still think in the terms of colonial times they. overestimate their influence over the. one first understand their leshner ism is the major driving force across the region in both countries

and when people see the attempts of the west to push onto them easily ridiculize the street and this chain of revolution will never end and entire russian prime minister vladimir putin has that warning that western countries against meddling in the arab world to try to impose democracy speaking after talks with the new leadership previous efforts along those lines have led to a victories for governments the west is now fighting to contain it was doesn't today we say we're concerned about things happening in libya please note the following the north african cell of al qaeda is also concerned about what is happening in libya do you think this is a coincidence i'd like to go back in history a little bit the former leader of the iranian revolution where did he live he lived in paris and the 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 the democratic elections in the palestinian autonomy and how much one and immediately they declared hamas 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 their future. the popular uprisings in tunisia and egypt started a domino effect that spread around the arab world are there's fresh hope in and outside of the region for a brighter future under democracy some fear it could just be a false dawn partings reports kyra. they fault. they bled. many died the protesters who took over central cairo had a clear goal the removal of the dictator and establishing a free country he is an activist and one of the organizers of the revolution that toppled one's mubarak he believes 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 in its own terms but we are going to it our terms that we want to see in this country our country there does not that we want to feel like it there are some way of getting it and we're going get that support for a democratic egypt has come from governments around the world however some of those leaders who are being quick to congratulate the revolutionaries may not be so pleased with the possible future for the country and one basic problem we see in this is the worst we want democracy but we also want states that will be friendly to us and do what we want but almost certainly arab democracy is going to be a great deal less comfortable for the west the arab dictators 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 dyad konami conditions in

an interview with a major newspaper the minister for social solidarity good idea of how the 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 and many are hopeful that 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. amery things could get worse for the poor if democracy is not implemented a pretty good will keep egypt see if. 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 of the people simply want to change peter all over

r t cairo egypt and with the ongoing unrest in the region there are reports from libya that rioters and are controlling some of the boil tylenols stopping exports. of production and profit is. the business to i talk about the implications here with a bit of a stark warning coming from the russian president vladimir putin saying the world's economic growth could start a slowdown tell us what consumers expect us. the sharp rise in oil prices just created serious of economic risks and that can deliver a devastating blow to the economy global economy as it struggles to recover from the global financial crisis and some are working consumers were energy is a greater share of overall consumption of course even more vulnerable and it's pretty difficult to make any forecast as we saw price sparling at one hundred forty seven dollars a barrel then just plummeting to thirty dollars

a barrel of course some sectors are more impacted than other than transportation has always been particularly of vulnerable to rising oil prices and that affected all sorts of businesses to supermarkets to matters back to us and of course higher energy prices are likely to hit consumers in the wallet to listen to what analysts are saying some of the catalyst that actually fuel this whole process where to begin with the food crisis 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 prices as well. ok well as we just heard what we see here is a knock on effect manufacturers will need. energy to make products and of course deliver them to shops in the high oil prices may lead to higher prices for food

heating travel everything and simply individuals will have to pay more. to fill in their tanks and they will have less sensible income to buy other stuff so the result is complete pollution of consumer spending here that's the risk and bring you more analysis and business in about fifteen minutes. or you know pretty pretty concerning software. still ahead for you this hour here on our alliance with the mission are three things to look at how nato continues to function without a clear goal or a common enemy. he has his critics but the president's first year in office takes on a rosy glow about the elusive new figures on the economy. a rubber stamping process that's how it will blow julian a solider described the london court's decision to extradite him to sweden on sexual assault allegations and said the ruling didn't catch him by surprise and

that he's going to appeal parties came in for a chance at the rise and fall of the wiki 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 of human rights defender r.t. america interview decides on the day of collateral murders release and what keeps people. from going through understand how the world actually works. in the fourth grade used to get information out about the real world and the second step is the common for them to think about the. sources.

of the problem and nomadic computer expert with a cache of two hundred fifty thousand classified cables is so much catapulted to the front page of virtually every newspaper in the country with the week's wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks which leads 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 as the first with the potential to radically reshape the geo political landscape by the people as time's man of the year our commitment to our sources is not just to protect we've never lost it's not just published material to get the maximum. possible but it's a pity it's a political impact of the leaker and not the leaks that has gripped headlines. allegations of sexual misconduct by two swedish women infighting within wiki leaks

frozen bank accounts stalled donations particularly in the obama administration and the cia they want to start doing. all sorts of extraordinary actions star been. leaning on paper mastercard and other are private corporations to 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 meaning of meaning. obviously it's the u.s. government which is really getting him makes no bones about it they're under the bus with a newspaper that once eagerly used his beak michelle impressions of. set up some some in a list say assigned and wiki leaks have been effectively neutralized consumed by litigation rather then leaks i think with the american government wants us to have mr assigned in custody so that ultimately he can be extradited to the united states

to face charges for the release of those documents or 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 where science could face as we know is charges and even the death penalty as a standard places jail time the future of wiki leaks hangs in the balance and its ability to be a place for whistleblowers and it became of transparency and for an artsy washington d.c. well i mean pay for the u.k. independence party gerard batten has hit out of the british justice system he says that julian assange extradition is quote legalized. what was the sound guys does this illustrates the fundamental problems with the european restaurant which i've been talking about nobody since i was introduced in two thousand and four he's an australian citizen they 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 if

they are not simply not allowed to look at the problem of facie evidence in a case like this and taking into account it's what the lawyer called today what justice and i would now sign i've been sign now for some time that relation 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 alice it's been going on now going on for months and i haven't figured out what the charges are yet an interest if i can say about what's going to happen in suite and begin 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 you know locations 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. and a member of the european parliament for the u.k. independence party will be following that story here on r.t. and do remember you can always catch more by just going to our website that's not a dot com. 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 so for us this. she's amounts of money these are the large scale spending plans that are being unveiled 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 of first fifty to nuclear weapons and now among some of the stuff that the defense is still going to be purchasing games here on a 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 that she going 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 that we have heard the russian government saying that it's not planning on buying a huge amount from abroad i but what they did bring it is where they feel the

russian military is lacking right now and they can then focus on development as well this is of course all part of this push by the government to modernize the military because the start treaty is now in place and that agreement between the u.s. and russia with the flash the heat here also little spy service 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 called you take that tool and as he said that's really going against his will there is huge amounts of money if that is really needed president today has come out and said that he really wants the military now it's a bit of a should they're trying to upgrade and steam like that if you go this is not well this spending's all about party sort of what about twenty years ago 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

a no longer necessary as the soviet union collapsed but nato carried on and as artie's lauren lister reports the organization is having trouble justify its existence. it was an alliance born of fear rejoice was to define a good friend 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 for nuclear disarmament to terrorism and cyber security. it was all adopted and its 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 going to prepare for yet more wars and already nato members have been divided over the near decade long war in afghanistan nato is 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 and 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 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 i don't believe there's anything that justifies nato has contributed systems. in terms of security and peace an assault to the peace that nato wants pledged was formed to keep lauren mr r.t. new york you can always keep up to date on our website dot com here's a taste of what we've got lined up for you right now i think u.s. a state of wisconsin moves into a second week of protests against budget cuts but as we bring you in-depth coverage from the front line of the demonstrations and.

to russia with love and american gets into with a show of solidarity video doesn't exactly square as voice of the ears of his audience why he's about russia's national anthem the more if you're sure what. it's like. well he's i've been in office for about a year but opinion remains on the success of ukraine's president that they want your local branch one thing that has improved it is the country's economy which has seen a rapid turnaround from a slump to study growth he selects and your actions give us the reasons for the revival. well the campaign for the presidency a year ago he clutched revive ukraine's squiggled economy twelve months of summer

in 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 slog. crane was among the country's worst affected by dickel recession and while experts say it has not yet fully overcome the blow mains fuse of the economy saw a double digit growth in twenty ten with the industrial sector being a firm leader even though. we registered a thirty percent growth. financial damages this year exporting our products is what can save our economy now in the post-crisis year a 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 warmth demand from the russian market increased industrial production increased by more than

eleven percent there was an increase in demand for increase machinery from russia that was the major the terrible one for the. very impressive growth in machinery more than thirty percent piece all saw you saw saw. basis to expect 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. if your previous administration lived in a dream world with and he wanted the whole country to live in that world this regime stands firmly on its feet in deals with the real problems we must give it another year to see how they would fulfill all the many projects begun. the opposition is still rigorous in accusing the new power circles of. something of

a new round of political infighting within this post so you state experts assure if economy continues to receive the same great calm next year many critics will be silenced by witnessing that promised better living conditions they see russia asking r.t. from kiev ukraine. let's take a look at some other international headlines this hour of face pulling any more survivors from toppled buildings following today's devastating earthquake in the ceiling one hundred thirteen people so far confirmed dead it's been more than twenty four hours now since anyone alive has been found amid the rubble in the city of christchurch sunday two hundred people are still missing it still has many as one hundred twenty of those are still inside of one a collapsed building in particular. a college student from saudi arabia has been arrested in america on suspicion of plotting to bomb attacks president george w. bush's house khalida our dastyari he 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 a diary entries planning attacks on several sites around the west if convicted albar sorry could receive a life sentence. but. but also no computer glitch almost thirty ninth and final launch of the space shuttle discovery a ship like it's six crew did manage to blast off successfully from the kennedy space center but with just three seconds remaining in its critical launch window the launch had agreed to delay for three and a half months due to a crack c.n.n. external tank discovery's final mission will be to deliver supplies and the more due to the international space station all in a just a few minutes get the chopsticks out and ready we're going to try japanese right here in the russian capital but first there is the business with your help.

hello that's right time for your business of data very welcome world prices are climbing again on friday after retreating slightly from a twenty eight month high late on thursday and the international energy agency said it was prepared to release emergency well stockpiles to cover any shortfall resulting from the turmoil in the middle east and north africa as you can see a light sweet crude is over ninety seven dollars a barrel point four percent and brant crude is trading at nearly one hundred twelve dollars a barrel off a percent ok to discuss the implications of what's happening in the world market i'm joined by the legend of course he had a reset north capitol the duma thank you for joining us so how concerned are you that high oil prices will knock the global economic recovery of course. no one who are being there done that will know for a judging by experience or for two thousand and eight that the deteriorated effect

will take place however it's not going to happen overnight it will take approximately four to six months for the economic impact to happen during this time obviously investment in the energy resources will stay attractive . what's good for russia is not good for georgia to say with all the saying right there for right now the question is how long this euphoria will last i don't think it will last for more for four obviously four for russia it's not going to last for more than three or four months right now obviously there's going to be in flaw or for influence the positive trade imbalance there's going to be zero deficit of the budget and obviously will cause. more consumption more luxury cars on the streets more exotic traveling however it's not going to last for for a year i am absolutely confident in that but you know what our investors are

supposed to do do you think it's time for investors to act defensively and if so how could they do that. well in the meantime there is no as i said there is no ground for panic because there to mantle things will not happen immediately so far so good we can still invest in stocks models we need to be carefully stock peaking a bit market looks relatively stable because the energy and commodities that's a big plane definitely so we need to we exactly for how long we're going invest in oil during this arab conflict obviously it's a good way to invest in oil however if the conflict will ultimately untidy one day and we wake up in the morning and see oil prices go in back you let's say eighty or by w.t. i obviously will be caught by surprise we don't need that therefore there her rise

and is very limited i would say right now all investment media is available but horizon has significantly shrunk let me put it has recently said that sharply higher oil prices are not good for russia do you agree with that absolutely in the short run it will be good for our place that it will cause influx of foreign funds there will be a. boost the consumer confidence boost spending but iraq unfortunately kim seen it well for. some of the economy is dependent on where boris and. bob woodward it will be. ok where experienced some technical difficulties so now that's all we have thought time for now let me just remind at that was the generals on call the ski head of research of north capital will definitely bring you more analysis on the sparling

price in about an hour's time you're up to date. come on come on your feet. can't come. from.