she's got a look at the caliber excitement in southern mel still prefers to keep you in top form and watch you on the gulag carving the trail the sochi twenty four to one technology update here. we've got the future covered. colonel gadhafi defiant despite the onslaught of the top of it was libya's leader and meantime he blames osama bin ladin for and starring. as the u.k. prepares to ship julian a song to sweden to stand trial for sexual assault we look at who profit from damaging the reputation of the man behind with. the. rush on sales ambitions of proposals to modernize its armed forces both k. plans to spend around six hundred fifty billion dollars a good ten years away we'll have details coming out the. world prices

are climbing again after he's a good twenty eight month high on stage but from people saying that high oil prices may to leave are a devastating blow to the global economic recovery more analysis in business in twenty minutes. just after three pm here in the russian capital you with r.t. well libya's leader colonel gadhafi is desperately clinging to power despite facing 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 eastern part of the country and all of its regulation that one of these sons is now joined the opposition libyan leader told state television that osama bin ladin and his followers are to blame for the uprising and he claimed that protesters were given

drugs trancelike them to revolve the overall number of dead after ten days one arrest it's been difficult to determine estimates range from several hundred to or two thousand the u.n. human rights committee has condemned the reported mass killer the e.u. is considering sanctions against libya meanwhile the swiss government has ordered a freeze on any locally held assets belonging to gadhafi with libya following the revolutionary path of tunisia and egypt experts say resource rich arab countries are an obvious target for terrorists. now when we have revolutions rolling over the arab world one country after another some of those countries are pretty rich region mineral resources region oil gas and of course hard cash prize for al qaeda and other jihadists so these resources can easily be used by terrorists to stage unprecedented scale attacks many european countries and the united states the still

thinking in terms of colonial times. overestimate their influence over the internal situation one first understand that nationalism is the major driving force across the region in those countries they want people see a chance of the west to push on to them it could easily really collide the station and this chain of revolution will never end. well the puppet uprisings in tunisia and egypt started a domino effect that spread all across the arab world as a fresh hope in and outside of the region for a brighter future under democracy some for could also just be a false dawn. reports from cairo. they fault. they bled. many jite protesters who took over central cairo had a clear goal the removal of the dictator and establishing a free country a mortuary as an activist and one of the organizers of the revolution that toppled

in the balik 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 how it turns there is that we want to see in this country our country there that 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 and one basic problem we see in this is for the west we want democracy but we also want states that will be friendly to us and do what we want but almost certainly our democracy is country great deal less comfortable for the west the our potatoes our autocrats our moments of peace but those dictators have been swept aside by people who after years of

injustice finally had enough. the truth is many egyptians live in conversations and an interview with a major newspaper the minister of the social solidarity good idea 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 area of cairo here and 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 of democracy is not implemented a create god 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 russia's former ambassador to libya says that a western style democracy simply wouldn't work in the arab world. of course the only question now is whether the arab countries are ready for democracy one must bear in mind it's not the west it's the east where clannish and tribal traditions are very strong after the democratic election in algeria national islamic front almost came to power the civil war broke out with over two hundred thousand killed after absolutely democratic and transparent elections in the palestinian autonomy the result was that hamas came to power there are calls now to turn egypt into a parliamentary republic in my mind only a presidential republican be strong and effective generally speaking it would be bad to force democratic processes upon the arab world. you know with r.t. it's good to have it up and it's ok and still ahead for you this hour an alliance

with out of it. look at how and nato continues to function without a clear goal coming and it. does have its critics but the ukrainian president's first year in office takes on a rosy glow after the release of a new figures on the economy. stamping process that's how whistleblower julian assange just described the london court decision to extradite him to sweden on allegations of sexual assault he said the ruling didn't catch him by surprise and he will appeal he's killing for the charts the rise and fall of the wiki leaks founder. back when julian assange emerged less than a year ago with this video. showing u.s. troops gunning down unarmed civilians and two reuters journalists video games he was lauded as a hero of transparency. and anti war ally and human

rights defender r.t. america interview just such on the day of collateral murders release and what keeps people. from going to understand how the world actually works. in the fourth grade used to get information about the real world. but sources can't get. through to the public a 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 within weeks wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks which leads to his foes julian sargent is a cyber terrorist in wartime he's guilty of sabotage espionage crimes against humanity he should be killed but to his fans as soft spoken as the first with the potential to radically reshape the geo political landscape voted by the people as

time's man of the year our commitment to our sources is not just to protect the family of the lost it's not just published it is to get the maximum political impact possible but it's our city it's the political impact of the leaker not the leaks that has gripped have been. allegations of sexual misconduct by two swedish women infighting within wiki leaks for using fake accounts start the nation particularly in the obama administration in the cia they want to start with you leagues third. all sorts of extraordinary actions start being paid 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 the meaning of meaning. and

obviously it's the u.s. government which is really gets him and makes no bones about it then under the basket by the newspaper that once eagerly used his leaks special impressions of. some red cent in a list say assigned and wiki leaks have been effectively neutralized consumed by litigation rather then leaks i think would be american government wants us to have mr science 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. as charges and even the death penalty as the sun chases 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 for an artsy washington d.c. well and repeat for the u.k. independence party. he's hit out of the british justice system saying that julian

assange extradition is quote legalized. what mr science tries does illustrates the fundamental problems with the european restaurant which i've been talking about now if it was introduced in two thousand and four he's an australian citizen they want to actually go out to sweden but this effects every british citizen and anyone who is 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 prime of facie evidence in a case like this and take into account it's what the lawyer called today to what justice and i would now so i've been saying now for some time that extradition which is now called judicial surrender has been reduced to a bureaucratic formality and now i'm saying that it's actually nothing better than legalized kidnap alison going on that's been going on for months and i haven't figured out what the charges are you an interest if i can say about what's going to happen in suite and they're going to use

a very very rarely used mechanism get to try this case in secret so we won't even be able to hear what's being said what the allegations are what the charges are and all the full evidence because that's it's going to be done in a secret hearing which is absolutely astounding chargeback and speaking but he's a member of the european parliament for the u.k. independence party will be following our story here on r.t. and remember you can always log on to our web site for more coverage that's r.t. 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 are to serve furthest the story. huge amounts of money these are the large scale spending plans that it be done 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 the defense is to going to be purchasing again here and

a hundred ships a thousand helicopters around six hundred planes and eight submarines that again 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 the native a 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've got what they do you bring it is where they feel the russian military is lacking right now and then they can then take some development as well as his of course all part of this push by the government to modernize the military of course the start treaty is now in place that agreement between the u.s. and russia was this last week here also. at 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 doesn't actually contradict that tool and as you

said there's really been yes there's a huge amount of money that is really needed to present day has come out and said that he really wants the military now it's those of innovation they're trying to upgrade and steam like the military force is not for the spending is all about. the surface reporting now 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 be necessary once the soviet union collapsed but nato country don't understand he's a long list of reports the organization is having trouble justifying its expense. it was an alliance born of fear originally supposed to define defend western europe against the soviet union but the fall of the burley in wall changed all that now decades later the military alliance formed against the soviet threat longer proud 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 into 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 a 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 justice not want to prepared for yet more wars and already nato members have been divided over the near decade long war in afghanistan nato

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 the time was nato aggressively expanded critics say it's u.s. defense companies benefiting most from this expansion with the sales of weapons to every new nato member and the building of every new base and 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 nader's continued existence. in terms of security and

peace and assaulted a peace that nato wants a pledge that was formed to keep lauren lyster r.t. new york you can always keep up to date on our website that's r.t. dot com it's a taste of what we've got lined up for you right now i think u.s. state of wisconsin moves into a second week of protests against budget cuts bring you in depth coverage from the front line of the demonstrations also. see. the. russia with love and america gets into it with a show of solidarity doesn't spare is voice or part of the ears of his audience my dear you can find out what he's learned in russia's national anthem you can hear more if you're sure you really want to.

hear. what he's been in office for a year and opinions remain split on the success of ukraine's president but sort of your local beach one thing that has improved is the country's economy which has seen a rapid turnaround from a deep slump to study growth parties that actually got to ski looks the reasons for the revival. one victory of which campaign for the presidency a year ago he pledged to revive ukraine's quibbled economy twelve months on the sun when ukraine queues 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. ukraine was among the country's worst affected by the global recession and while experts say it has not yet fully overcome that blow base

fears of the economy saw a double digit growth in twenty percent with the industrial sector being a firm leader. we registered a thirty percent growth has helped us to avoid financial damages this year exporting our products is what can save our economy now in the post-crisis year our company exports up to eighty percent of what we produce in the russian market is our priority. as ties between give and more school moved from strains to warm demand from the russian market increased industrial production increased by more than eleven percent there was an increase in demand for machinery from russia for the majoritarian and for the. impressive growth in machinery more than thirty percent of these all sort of gives us. basis to expect 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 tying up of order to do it in a previous administration lived in a dream world with and he wanted the whole country to live in that world to this regime stands firmly on its feet and deals with real problems we must give it another year to see how they would fulfill all the many projects they have begun. the opposition is still read in accusing the new power circles of failing us something of a new round of political infighting within this post soviet state experts assure if a corner he continues to receive wrecked at the same rate come next year many critics would be silenced by witnessing the promise to better living conditions they see russia ski artsy reporting from key ukraine. it's not going to go twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow you would see let's check out some of the international headlines now and so fading of pulling any more survivors from the

troubled buildings following tuesday's devastating earthquake in new zealand one hundred thirteen people so far are confirmed dead and it's been more than twenty four hours since anyone alive has been found amid the rubble in the city of christchurch some two hundred people are still missing and restored as many as one hundred twenty of those are inside just one collapsed building in particular. a college student from saudi arabia has been arrested in america on suspicion of plotting to bomb ex-president george w. bush's house. he was studying chemical engineering at a university in texas came to the f.b.i.'s attention off the buying bomb making materials and see american messages online authorities say they found a diary entries planning attacks on several sites around the u.s. if convicted. could receive a life sentence. from the last minute computer glitches nearly derailed the. final launch of a space shuttle discovery the ship six crew did manage to blast off successfully

from the kind of the space shuttle but with just three seconds remaining in its critical go it's going to go a little child like you're late but three and a half months to the cracks in an external tank discovery's final mission will be to deliver supplies and a more general to the international space station. unidentified gunman in northwest pakistan and forced at least twelve fuel trucks leaving for dad time as well and roots are supplying nato forces in afghanistan when men with rockets and guns open fire on them one vehicle to burst into flames trucks carrying supplies to foreign forces in afghanistan frequently come under attack in pakistan where militants have destroyed hundreds of. thank you for a few minutes good labelling as guests will cross swords in a heated debate over the middle east but first though it's really a business. that's

right time to get the latest on the world of business every will welcome world prices are climbing again on friday after retreating slightly from a twenty eight month high late on thursday and early of the international energy agency said it was prepared to release it merges it will stop piles to cover any short films resulting from the turmoil in the middle east and north africa as you can see light sweet crude is over ninety seven dollars a barrel up point four percent and ground courage is trading at one hundred twelve dollars a barrel are hotter percent all in the short term high oil prices are good for the russian economy and for energy shots but. from north capitol ones the negative impact on the global economy in terms of slower growth will ultimately be harmful even in the world's biggest energy exporter. oh one word being there down that we know for

a judging by experience of third two thousand and eight that the deteriorating effect will take place however it's not going to happen overnight it will take approximately four to six months for the true mental economic impact to happen during this time obviously investment in their energy resources will stay at rock to however good for russia is not so good for german so to say they're for right now the question is how long this euphoria will last 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 of foreign funds 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 exhaustive troubling however it's not going to last for for a year i am absolutely confident in that. but you know he had a research at north capitol b.p.

is due to jointly develop reach arctic oil fields with rosneft they finally get the green light on friday the british girl major is greeting with us russian partners of the joint venture team p b b to try to persuade them that the deal doesn't violate their rights and rosneft concluded the due in january were forced to freeze it after we drew opposition from alpha axis renova consortium to russian shareholder consortium claims the deal violates its exclusive agreement with the british well company. ok let's take a look at how the markets are forming so far european stocks have caught it before us off the last two sessions the moves believe the oil prices have moderated trading in london is just getting underway again after a technical glitch stop transactions for a couple of hours and one of the worst performers on that market as lloyds banking group down five percent oxford word business will be tough this year as the u.k.

economy slows also aerospace and defense firm e.d.s. is down almost three percent after losing a key u.s. tank of contract to rival boeing. and here in russia the r.t.s. and demise of star rising point just marginally energy stocks are struggling as investors take profits up to several days of gains other sectors such as banking and retail that have been under pressure are finally this hour. let's have a look at some of the individual share moves in russia energy majors mostly retrieves me from the earth those days dance you can see a look or as a round top of the slightly lower growth and after is losing over one percent but banking stocks are on the rise the to be as round two percent higher health by news it has acquired a mistake in bank of moscow. not profits that russian internet for a male dog are you rose sixty three percent last year to one hundred twenty four million dollars the company says the result was due to fast spread of the internet

in russia and growth in advertising. and finally in economic news the russian central bank is raising the key interest rate for the first time in two years to step up the going against inflation the refinancing rate will increase twenty five basis points to eight percent consumer prices are up twenty percent so far in twenty eleven fuelling concerns and will be an official forecast of eight percent. but his trade surplus jumped around eighteen percent in january year on year it reached roughly nineteen billion dollars with the country's exports twenty five percent the growth was most was driven by high energy prices oil and gas sales made up most of the exports that's all from me for now you are up to date you can always get more stories from above site archie dot com slash business.

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