one technology update here on keep. u.n. says the death toll in libya could be in the thousands as the government steps up the battle against protesters and as the west bush's fault democratic change in troubled regions fears grow their interference will only have fuel to the point. ukase accused of government standards by agreeing to extradite wiki leaks founder julian assange to overrate clay who's refusing to do the same for international terrorists. plus boosting the russian armed forces the government announces a multi-billion dollar program to operators and military equipment to tackle modern day threats.

a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow where it's now or just after five pm well without much of libya now in the hands of anti-government protesters reports suggest the capital is now scene of violence and gunfire scuttle khadafi tries to crackdown on opposition he's battling to shore up control of the capital tripoli in the west as demonstrators consolidate gains in the east of the country that's all amid speculation that one of could after your son has now joined the opposition international momentum is building to punish the libyan leader for his violent response to the protests he is considering sanctions such as travel restrictions and freezing of kidnappings assets which switzerland has already done this twice supplying it with arms the u.k. and france are pushing for a weapons embargo and a war crimes investigation and u.n.

says there could be food supply shortages in libya now as well as libya follows their revolutionary path other middle eastern countries of the. political experts i'm pretty wild told me earlier that democracy in the states you don't see to represent any real change. western style democracy in its current state is far from what i would consider to be something that we should want in any of these countries i think i think if there's going to be democracy it should be a democracy with a real change and a change that reflects democracy that actually benefits the people today's democracy is nothing more than a mainstream control mechanism through which the vast majority of the public who do not think are emotionally engaged in in situations that they don't even really realize what it is a devoted for or approving and if you think that democracy which is supposedly what the u.s. is out there pushing and driving home for these people who need so much the philosophy of what they've developed and put together in any in the u.s. for example take a look at what they're doing and building bases in hundreds of whole over one

hundred different countries you know basically putting at the end of a gun the word democracy and shoving it down their throats to me this is not democracy this is abuse this is nothing more than a system that is doomed to failure and as long as central banks continue to stand side by side in a democratic system like we have printing endless amounts of money which is devalued by devaluing by the minute we're not going to have anything more here than chaos that is used to mask that evaluation process and hopefully distract people from the overall fraud that's been for trade on western societies if that's democracy who'd want a. popular revolution in egypt so a president in office for three decades so up from power in just a matter of weeks many observers say the transition from dictatorship to the type of democracy found in the west is just out of reach for all reports from cairo. how they feel. they played. many dice. the protesters who took over central cairo how to create gold the removal of

a dictator and establishing a free country a military b is an activist and one of the organizers. 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 at it on 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 does 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. for west we want democracy but we also want states that will be friendly to us and do what we want for almost certainly arab democracy is going through a great deal less comfortable for the rest of 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 diaconate conditions and an interview with a major newspaper the minister for social solidarity good identify leaks said that unless the people receive the required help that they need the next revolution in the country could be a revolution of the hungry the past years have seen the major cities in the north become wealthy while the south of the country suffers its social problems such as employment and education some of the poorest people in egypt shing capital live in the black 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 full get poorer and. i'm worried things could get worse for the poor if there were no pursuit is not implemented pretty good with egypt safe little while the rest may have become institutionalised

to fight to get them to try to principles they may be in. the next shot and they find out that the people simply change the channel of the cairo speech. while the oil prices fluctuating due to the ongoing political crisis in libya let's get more details on this ahead of who is winning a lot of the business so how is the average consumer who's far removed from what's going on and how are we going to be affected by this well prices are climbing again after slightly retreating it's not trading for one hundred twelve dollars a barrel fuel and energy prices are significant part of the consumer spending in most countries so high oil prices can slow down economic recovery that's obvious and when we talk about high oil prices the first thing that comes to mind of course is huge bills at the pump but it's also high cost of goods and services like in the united states and transportation in the united states some airlines have already added twenty dollars to their round trip high gasoline prices also take

a part of people think they could have been spent on goods and margin guidance here in russia price for the ready within three percent this year we'll have more on what analysts think about the global inflation in the program right now we'll see you in about ten fifteen minutes time thank you. all is related will be exploring nato and why some say it's just going out of date find out why the military alliance is being seen as a failure and why their mission is getting protests of the people. wiki leaks founder julian assange she blames the european arrest warrant system for the decision by a london court to extradite him to sweden he's accused of committing sex crimes there but he claims there just isn't enough evidence and saunders that lawyers fear he won't receive receive a fair trial in sweden and risks being handed over to america on espionage charges well the u.s. is a currently investigating his website which released a secret why is bush internet wants him held responsible for leaking classified

information but with international terrorists living in the u.k. some are starting to question great britain's extradition policies and. use them of double standards gerard batten and need for the united kingdom independence party says london's decision shows a flawed system. and what mr sands christ does illustrates the fundamental problems with the european restaurant which i've been talking about now ever since it was introduced in two thousand and four he's an australian citizen who actually got to sweden but this affects every pretty 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 her eyes she hadn't in a case like this and taking into account it's what a lawyer called to what justice and i would now it's all i've been saying 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 alan just going on that's been going on for a month from i haven't figured out what the charges are you an interesting thought and say about what's going to happen in sweden they 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 you know with r.t. live from moscow person i was just running ten minutes past the hour the russian army will get a make over in the next ten years the government has announced that it will allocate six hundred fifty billion dollars to upgrade its equipment it is an ambitious plan which fits in with russian dimitry president rather mutually long term modernization goals sarah further reports. huge amounts of money these are the large scale spending plans that have been felt 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 the strategic nuclear weapons i know among some of

the stuff the defense ministry going to be purchasing again 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 against me make that she going to be the first time that russia has full military equipment for the naysayers member is going to be purchasing a t.v. helicopter carrier ships from france that we have heard the russian government say that is not planning on buying a huge amount for the pros but what they did 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 a causal 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 heat here also knows by third at the would it doesn't say is that the countries are not allowed to upgrade neatly or else will say this

is completely within the terms of the treaty it doesn't actually called you take that tool as he said that's really been the answer is it does huge amounts of money if this really needed president has come out and said that he really wants the military now it's a bit of a should other trying to upgrade and steam like that if you feel it is not well the spendings all about. you sir for you with our team still to come for you look at later in the program so you're in for a few for you for. president has put out of the market. his first year in office find out how improving economy has silenced his harshest critics. good samaritan. excellent professional.

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without a law from moscow on this day in one thousand nine hundred one members of the warsaw pact set up as a counterweight to nato voted to dissolve their alliance twenty years on nato is still going strong with this fear of influence continuing to expand its heartiness and lower enlisted reports some say this western alliance has a place and more of. it was an alliance born of fear originally supposed to define i defend western europe against the soviet union but the fall of the berlijn 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 organisation 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 a 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 and it's protests on the streets now it's always out of date now out of time we need a world of peace and justice not one of preparing for yet more wars and already

nato members have been divided over the near decade long war in afghanistan 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 in. 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 is exchanged altered militarily to become also this very powerful political entity that is used to pressure countries to bow down to nato is 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 contribute existence. in terms of security and peace an assault to the peace that nato once pledged was formed to keep lauren mr r.t. new york. not as good as some other international news are in free for you this hour an iraqi official says security forces have killed a top al qaeda linked leader during a special operation west of baghdad. a minute was the womanist of the islamic state of iraq a group responsible for bombings and suicide attacks across the country it has been seriously debilitated since the height of the will or the militant group are still able to carry out attacks. and investigators say at least sixty two civilians including women and children died during a nato operation last week the child realize denies president hamid karzai has ordered an inquiry into the alleged incident including our problems with the

alliance used to attack helicopters in a three day offensive against the taliban but a nato spokesman says its findings have shown that absolutely no civilians working . for the student from the saudi arabia has been arrested in the united states on suspicion of plotting to bomb the house of former u.s. president george w. bush. sorry who was studying chemical engineering at a university and sexes came to the f.b.i.'s attention off of buying bomb making materials on posting and see american messages online authorities say they found the diary entries planning attacks on several sites around the u.s. if convicted aldawsari could receive a life sentence. from the polls have opened in our first election since receiving a she was a loan package from the e.u. and i.m.f. observers say the ruling a fiend for the party is expected to suffer huge losses are submitting the country's politics for almost eighty years the party has been blamed for ireland's financial crisis which led to

a bailout of the country's banks from mr brian cowen is not standing in the election which comes a year early and it's about to quit following the call. but he's been in office for a year but opinion remains split on the success of your ukraine's president victoria will cope which one thing that has improved is the country's economy which is seeing a rapid turnaround from a deep slump to steady growth and it's actually going to ask you know the reasons for the revival. when we do the campaign for the presidency a year ago he pledged to revive ukraine's squiggled economy twelve months on some 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 slump ukraine 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 firm leader even. 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 kiev and more school moved from strains to warm demand from the russian market increased industrial production increased by more than one percent there was an increase in demand for increase machinery from russia but not the major the terrible one for the. very impressive growth in machinery more than thirty percent piece all saw gives us. 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 saw i will go up as what is a big if your previous administration lived in a dream world with and he wanted the whole country to live in that world too but this regime stands firmly on its feet and deals with real problems we must give it another year to see how they would fulfill the many projects they've begun. the opposition is still reader is in accusing the new power circles of failing us something of a new round of political infighting within this post soviet state experts assure you for calling you continues to research at the same rate come next year many critics will be silenced by witnessing the promised better living conditions they see russia ascii art see reporting from kiev ukraine. now at twenty minutes past

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and welcome to business thanks for joining us our equity markets around the world seem to be breathing a sigh of relief as the sharp spike in the oil price has not aerated prices for crude retreated late on thursday from their twenty months high over friday's session has seen them climb once again news that saudi arabia could pump more oil to compensate for the loss from a.b.m. has taken some of the heat out of the market like sweet crude is now trading below one hundred dollars a barrel with brant crude as well off the one hundred eighteen dollars seen early in the week that the respect could just get temporary with many analysts predicting the rally will continue. now to discuss the implications of what's happening on the oil market i'm joined by ron national there and our capital thank you for coming to the program so do you expect the openness probably to continue and where do you see the peak i think is just great uncertainty right now we see huge amount of volatility in your price over recent days with no obvious reason why who knows

what's going to happen in the middle east and how far this can spread so you know will there be another oil price i think there's a real danger. where it will go through i think that's anybody's question the markets really trying to search for some some months and so if there's another spike a price hike how would the investor take advantage of this. and obvious ways to invest in russia russia is in a very positive position right now relative to be oil price it's so gold world's largest oil exporter the time when the oil price is moving much oil it's it's bad for the world but actually good for russian i mean the russian economy over the long term is a sustained high oil price good for russia you're saying where does it run the risk of dragging down the world economy and russia with it i think in the short term it's good for the russian bhaji. but you know the real key to having sustainable medium term growth in russia is actually russia we hydrocarbons in the north

producing oil so you having a higher oil prices actually makes russia more. reliance on oil and you know i think it's good in the longer term i'd like to see a stable and perhaps even lower oil prices right now for russia and what's the best defensive move for those who are fearing the oil shock if you could put it that way well you know a really big oil shock and all bets are off that's the time when people just sell risk they want to get out of any kind of risky including losing russia. and you know even russian stores and sell off but we don't have that huge move and you know i think russia some of the russians right now the cheap produce a lot of other member benefit from europe right. now hearing was this is a bank raise interest rates for the first time in two years on friday and if you could shop the sharply rising inflation how quickly do you expect further rate hikes to kong and what sort of problem doesn't place and bring with it gosh i mean

the medium term problem for russia is higher inflation russian tends to be a boom bust economy and it's driven largely by oil prices are going to as all prices rise it puts pressure on prices to rise in russia inflation is on the uptick now russia is trying to counteract that by rising rising interest rates like a lot of places in the world and i think you're going to see more of that going forward when will the next one be could be pretty soon actually could be in the next three months and that's what will go up here as well petrol prices will go up here as well yes. well thank you very much that was wrong nash with us in a program from bear no capital with the latest about the oil market trends and now let's take a look at how the markets of the soaring european stocks are gaining in the last few sessions amid relief that world prices have not aerated trading in london is just getting underway again after a technical glitch stop transactions for a couple of hours now one of the worst performers on that market is lloyds banking group down five percent after it warned business would be tough this year as the

u.k. economy slowed also airspace and defense firms eads is down almost three percent losing a key u.s. tanker contract to rival boy and here with russia the obvious demise it's a rising but just marginally energy stocks are struggling investors take profit after several days of gains other sectors such as banking and retail that have been under pressure are climbing as well and let's have a look at some individual share moves here in russia energy majors are mostly retreating from their thursday's gains look was down less than a quarter of a percent at the moment rosneft is losing more than one percent more than one quarter percent actually but banking stocks are on the rise we should be more than two percent are told by news it has acquired a walking stake in the bank of moscow. now profits at russian internet for mail dot ru rose sixty three percent last year to one hundred twenty four million dollars the company says the result was due to past spread of the internet in russia and

growth in advertising. and in economic news the russian central bank is raising the key interest rate for the first time in two years to step up the fight against inflation refinancing rate will increase twenty five basis points to eight percent consumer prices are up three percent so far in two thousand and eleven fuelling concerns annual inflation will be higher in official forecast but eight percent. and russia straighter plus jumped around eighteen percent in january and year on year in. reacted roughly nineteen reached roughly nineteen billion dollars with the country's exports up twenty five percent the growth was mostly driven by high energy prices oil and gas sales made up most of the exports. so for now i'll be back with more in less than one hour meanwhile you can always log on to our web site out to dot com slash business and find more stores.

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