the biggest issues get a human voice ceased to face with the news makers. the . anti-government protesters in libya build up their forces for a final assault on the capital one of the last parts of the country still held by its struggling leader colonel gadhafi. the other nations scramble to evacuate their citizens from the rubble of libya but while most ex-pats are eager to get out some reluctance to leave behind the lies they're used to. the oil is the most valuable resource on the planet today who controls it is extremely important to restimulate elevator arab nations pushes fuel prices up with predictions the u.s. might intervene to stop its own economy from skidding into trouble. business with oil prices continue to grow on fears that unrest in north africa and the middle

east might spread to topple the use of saudi arabia to speak to analysts on the effects of the rising oil prices on the us uk our business mullet. and as britain's prepared a tell all in the latest national census there is deep concern that the u.s. firm collecting the info could dish out the data to american intelligence by law. five pm in moscow i matras are going to have you with us here on r t our top story opposition forces in libya are in circling the capital prepping for a final assault on tripoli which is still held by the country's embattled leader protesters have already wrested control of most of the country to try and force colonel moammar gadhafi to step down and un has issued a resolution referring to the to the international criminal court for war crimes calling almost two weeks of bloody. crackdowns but experts say any investigation is

likely to lift the lid on the strength in friendships with western countries details that neither washington or london they want to see in the open or it is correspondent in the middle east bureau has more from. the current frontline in the battle between opposition forces and those soldiers still loyal to colonel gadhafi is the city of zawiya at the moment now that's around fifty kilometers to the west of the capital tripoli the opposition in control of the majority of the city of detroit you are a few of the country if not all of its their headquarters based out of thing gharazi the second city in libya in the east of the country now that fighting is conti has continued we are hearing of peace in tripoli at the moment quiet there as armed militias to control checkpoints on the streets we can hear from so gay lover of the russian foreign ministry here dressed be un human rights council and condemned the violence in libya and said that the country should be allowed to

determine its own future and what we put yourself through on the mass protests across the middle east and north african countries and exposed the range of problems that have piled up for decades first of all policy unemployment and anger and teach social and economic rights in general these problems should be addressed by the people of defective countries without any conversion or external interference the use of military force against civilians is unacceptable and libya and goes hundreds of civilian deaths russia condemns such violence demands it's a million says asian and there deserve an suv international humanitarian law on saturday the united nations imposed sanctions upon the gadhafi regime these included a travel ban the freezing of assets of goods after he and his family close associates as well as an arms embargo also included in those sanctions was the referral of colonel gadhafi to the international criminal court in the. now this is caused some

experts to to look twice at this and what could come out of those investigation should be or any of it so she had to testify because in the hague now over the past few the past decade he has been in power in libya he's been something of a pariah especially to washington and to london however in recent years we have seen this rehabilitation of gadhafi in the west among western governments we've seen him used as an ally in the area over during the iraq war we've also seen contracts for arms deals and also oil deal struck between western countries and libya so if anybody does appear before the hague on trial for crimes against humanity for what has happened during this violence in libya will be very interesting to see what comes out of those investigations i think the americans and i don't know people like tony blair would be very very frightened of nicolas sarkozy or mr berlusconi of italy would be quite frightened about trial because

they're there in the regime and the people that are still supporting him in tripoli been there because he would be able to tell the stories about everything from what could be. american and british arms companies were involved in propping up that regime and the level of a string of e-mail that have an e-mail trail i don't think the americans or and and and nor brussels would very much want that to come out in court the international red cross have described the border between cheney and libya as a humanitarian crisis forty thousand people cross that border fleeing from beilenson libya in the last week alone now around one hundred thousand people are estimated by the u.n. to have fled libya in total some coming here to egypt where i was going up broad elsewhere many countries around the world trying to get their citizens out of libya people from all over the world working in. the north african country many countries

already removing all of their citizens russia sends a plane in order to remove russian citizens to evacuate russian citizens from the libyan capital and my colleagues on a boycott went along to find out firsthand just what they've been through in the violence that's been going on in the country propelled by fear held back by doubt many of those who boarded the last russian emergency plane from libya didn't want to leave but then decided that or save in story a subcontractor for gasper on alexy says he never cared much about the live in politics that is until our demands replaced by grants. because. the press says its people.

just don't. believe the responsibility. doesn't work. for years it was a mantra for many foreign companies ignore good efforts quirks and you'll be rewarded in oil revenues but is the leap sleeps closer to civil war. no longer seems bulletproof yet even on the russian plane there were some grim predictions for blown out of proportion but you know whose voice can leave as a nurse for twenty years so she already regrets the decision to flee. all those reports by al jazeera and all the arab language channels calls she a penny can on the people of new bodies attack and intrigue fully there is no shooting yesterday i could easily go to see my friends all the young people all supported gaddafi hospitals are working as usual as all the people so good today everything paul. actions people want to leave as they can here to the country awash

with firearms the current law and violence increasingly looks like a conduit for the storm that's why a tripoli airport is now be easier than ever with a country scrambling to pull their citizens out oh my god after he's known to profit cell phone being issued negotiator results even if the waiting back ation of foreign nationals has been carried out over the past week the government before servicing planes of the tripoli airport has more than tripled to more than eight hundred thousand dollars per plane considering their ex-pats used to make about twenty percent of the country's labor force the five career is proving to be a very good source of cash with less than two thousand of its residents caught up in their unrest russia managed the evacuation fairly easily other countries didn't fare that well the gyptian uprising may have inspired believe bins but it also left

thousands of egyptians guest workers stranded at tripoli airport with very little if any assistance from their state a few years ago many countries raise to leave it was all reserves of the biggest in africa now days even more frantically if they're trying to get out the deuce fleeing the violence see it's just a matter of time before they'll be back soon and we call r c tripoli. with oil prices reaching news new highs to the arab uprisings it's thought this could just be the start of a bumpy ride surging fuel costs in the u.s. are threatening to derail the country's recovery as artie's lauren lyster reports the political price may be too high for the obama administration. tunisia. egypt. and the hurricane. algeria. libya protest in countries seeming to fuel one another unrest spreading like

wildfire through the middle east and north africa all raging in or near countries that help fuel the world's use of more than eighty four million barrels of crude a day. uncertainty over production has sent prices soaring meaning the shock waves from the middle east turmoil are being felt worldwide while it's a most valuable resource on the planet today controls. extremely now the mideast crisis is hitting home for outteridge americans as oil prices have skyrocketed so too have the prices you pay for gasoline and now the price americans pay at the pump is threatening to derail the u.s. economic recovery a surge in oil. prices will be the end of the u.s. economy not just an engine to recover there's no more bailouts like

a reality peak oil expert michael c. rupert sees happening it boyle hits one hundred fifty dollars a barrel which he believes is inevitable this year others predicted going to two hundred twenty dollars it's so devastating because oil. fuels more than just cars. it fuels the entire global economy. though there's no doubt that if gas goes to five dollars a gallon for americans. asked some predict there would be a high political price to pay for the obama administration you know gasoline prices go up much i for a very long period it could. be your or. your political impact here there is no denying the u.s. has played a role in the events that have transpired in the middle east every time u.s. president barack obama went to the podium calling for this that there must be reform political social and economic reforms that meet the aspirations of the

egyptian people and calling for egyptian president hosni mubarak's resignation he was calling for an end to the status quo which means a ride in uncertainty and rich region so did leaders weigh the toll it could take on their own economy some argue they don't have the power to kind of winning back up trying to push them back against an avalanche and i don't think we're going to hear a lot of success that may not stop the u.s. from trying to take control some observers believe the u.s. may intervene militarily in libya or oil reserves are massive under false pretenses of helping protesting people has nothing to do with interest or people it has everything to do with the interest of the u.s. corporate oil corporations military. profits either way analysts say the price of fuel going up will simply fuel public rage and the government is largely

helpless the american people are going for a very nasty ride and there's no way out of it now but i can tell you the government understands that it's time lauren mr r.t. new york. more on the impact on oil prices from repercussions in arab nations in our business update in about ten minutes and later peter lavelle asks his guest on cross talk if the thirst for fuel is becoming strong enough for the u.s. to intervene in the region here's a clip quick look at what's coming your way for a pm g.m.t. . there is no neutrality in washington ok please. start if you're ok if you look anything that you could that washington try to control events on the ground in the middle east and that's patently absurd i mean there's no way we could be that said so chaotic it's so totally believe me these are the real central i mean there was a man we know that the cia is calling the shots there really defies description i mean i don't think america is necessarily doing if you're already on this and little league as we know you're not up to speed on the latest techniques all you

all do is going to look at all the evidence really. your daughter was saying razi or tripoli and you can realize this is not being dictated by washington. shifting away from the middle east now the people of britain are about to get probed about who they are and how they live with the latest nationwide census just around the corner but there's a fear over who will get to see the sensitive information that they'll tell about themselves that's because a controversial u.s. security firm is in charge of collecting the data as artie's more and it has more from london. senses time in the u.k. when every household in the country is asked to provide detailed information about their lives to the government so they can keep track of what's going on and who

will be in charge of this sensitive data. yes it's controversial u.s. arms manufacturer a lot martin and campaigners ranging from religious groups to peace activists to data protection lobbyists are really against it on ethical grounds play on a number of oppressive regimes but also. the u.s. evilly in the wars they fought in iraq and afghanistan opposed by the majority of people in britain even if supported by the british government hill vows to boycott the census despite the risk of prosecution he says he won't be alone look he'd makes land mines and nuclear weapons and contracts out interrogation of kuantan of a bay although it will be the u.k. arm that carries out the survey there's still a worry that the information could fall under the auspices of the us patriot act which compels personal data held by any company on systems in the us to be made

available to government intelligence the office but national statistics which in gauged lockheed martin maintains it's taken measures to make sure u.s. authorities can't access the data. well dancer processing will be carried out in the u.k. leave will be held at any point outside the u.k. no lockheed martin staff will have access to any personal census data or data is the property of and only u.k. e.u. owned companies will have any access to personal census data but it's that last point that's raised red flags for data protection lobbyists who say that all the private information collected during the census will be available to practically any organization that requests it amy use found any statute. any use by the security or intelligence services for national security purposes any use

for the pursuit of troy any use in pursuit of an e u community obligations so any e.u. rules that information can be passed over so it's essentially any government use whatsoever the computer of his being a polish and u.k. government agencies don't exactly have a great track record when it comes to safeguarding information three years ago a file containing secrets terror related documents was left on a train more recently the national health service lost the medical records of tens of thousands of people thanks to lockheed martin's involvement in the census it wouldn't be hard for the u.s. authorities to lay their hands on that information if they wanted dated from the census is used by the government grants to local councils and recognize new groups in society the census is run by lockheed martin raises grave concerns in britain about ethics and its national security if a lot of people boycott the fed says it will make it ineffective and

a waste of money but the two hundred forty million dollar contracts amount will go into looking at martins pockets any way your average party. stay with us here on our it in a few minutes we take a look at forming the new. stun the fish is that you can use to know it's not that sweet have you seen the specimen is around ten kilos so he was a caviar every time an innovative approach by russian sturgeon breeders could see the high end delicacy make it come back to the middle class dinner tables. ers now though to some other stories making headlines across the globe the people of chile have been marking a year since the math of the massive earthquake there killed more than five hundred people and left hundreds of thousands homeless the country's president led commemorations in a town that was all but destroyed by the quake protests took place accusing the government of being too slow with rebuilding shattered communities nearly half the

damage properties remain uninhabitable but repairs are being dogged by your credit pulled up. british security guards been sentenced to twenty years in prison for murdering two colleagues while on the job in iraq danny fitzsimons shot the man dead during a drunken brawl in baghdad he's the first westerner convicted in a rocky court since the two thousand and three invasion is follows a deal between baghdad and washington allowing iraqi authorities to prosecute foreign contractors with violate the country's laws. entertainment news of the eighty third oscar awards in los angeles the king's speech reign supreme it grabbed for how to new wars including best actor for power and force her trailer british monarch george the sixth widely important won best actress for her performance as a troubled ballerina in black swan the biggest rival to them both was the social network the story of facebook's a reception that took home three gold statuettes. one.

of the triangle of russian producers hope to ship more than two tons of the delicacy to the e.u. by this year it could soon become more affordable because russian scientists have found a way to harvest the eggs without killing the fish that could mean families again enjoying caviar without breaking the back this is the new klondike home to black gold caviar limited supplies and time consuming production delicacy is one of the most expensive foods on the planet however that may soon be a thing of the past we grumble here we have this story of a hybrid between luger and sturgeon a beautiful fish but also hardy and very productive. igor board so has been working with sturgeon his whole life and even has a species named after him thanks to special living conditions he created his fish mature three times faster then in the wild so the caviar can be farmed all year round. here this is all caviar in the belly it's full of it. what's

a is also behind a unique to greek to harvest the row without killing the fish rather than being cold like elsewhere in the world the female fish is what can be best called milked gently and harmlessly a style of fishes milked it can produce up to a quarter of its weight in caviar say this specimen is about ten pillows so up to two out here as of caviar every time the approach known makes heavy are more accessible but also helps preserve this increasingly scars read all beautiful things once russia had about ninety percent of the world's stock of sturgeon but by the turn of the century while sturgeon were close to extinction and poachers were running the show to preserve what was left russia first hold a commercial harvesting in two thousand and two and then banned the sale of sturgeon and black caviar all together poaching escalated and so did the prices now

the country is trying to return to the heady days of soviet gary i abundance this is the largest farm in russia it boasts artesian water organic push food and even start treatments for its inhabitants the head of this raises says it all leads to one inescapable fact that you can an on professional consumer will hardly be able to tell the difference between the wild and the farm caviar in fact you can only taste it and if it tastes good it got means it has been farmed however most experts agree that demand will always outstrip supply and although black caviar may get cheaper it will never be cheap carry a pushover r.t. and ask. and r.t. dot com right now more of the day's news and analysis let's take you through some of what's lined up right now. i suppose i knew of the troubles final flight watching this unique footage taken by an airplane and you're on his phone. and what

are russian special forces being put through their paces during winter training all there in our gallery section on our team dot com. pretty melican is up next with the business news now be back with the headlines stay with us here on r.t. . comes of business that will go straight to our top story all process a continuing to growing fears that unrest in the north africa and the middle east might spread including to talk with you says saudi arabia the price of light sweet has almost reached one hundred dollars per hour on monday the price of brant crude hovers above one hundred twelve dollars now to discuss the impact of the growing all price on rosseau and i'm joined by christine. reno from standard and poor's equity.

thanks for your time christine now my first question is how is that tone wall in the middle east affecting the global head of many of oil producing countries and would push russia into a more favorable position. i think that a lot of people are focusing right now on what's going to happen to oil prices oil prices are sky high because they are telling us that something very unstable and dangerous is happening in the middle east which is basically where a big chunk of our oil production comes from what the market hasn't been focusing on is the fact that it's natural gas that is going to be impacted also in the short term north africa importance is not so much in terms of its crude oil but in terms of its natural gas europe was fearful that it was solely dependent on gratia for its imports so it had decided to try to diversify by exploring more for natural gas in north african countries now these has now been put into jeopardy and once again we find ourselves dependent on russia is it good news for russia yes i think it is

because at the moment we have our guard all of natural gas it's the natural gas exports from libya taking out of the market that helps natural gas market which have an abundance of supply at the same time it puts russian a difficult situation because they have to develop future reserves for example at the moment they are starting to develop stockmen with start all all and two towers and the question is if we're going to develop these reserves which we now see will be necessary if one gross continues in northern africa at what price are we going to develop them increasing oil prices it's not just lack of commodities everything goes up we have food inflation we have commodities inflation and it's very difficult to the term and the development of a project if you don't know what the costs are going to be and is saudi arabia and other members have said they're ready to step in to compensate for leaving expert losses now how opec cope with a storm are you think. libya is very easy to deal with only exported about one

point five million barrels of oil per day and fifty five trillion cubic feet of natural gas now it's very high quality crude oil but it can easily be replaced now apparently the news that we have now is that not all. sports have been completely stopped and i think one thing that differentiates this type of term or with the turmoil in the past in that people that want change realize that won't be like the west or not they're heavily dependent on the income derived from hydrocarbon production so whatever come seen they realize that they can't just stop producing now natural oil prices i think going forward will have stepped up but if we were thinking that we could use prices in the range of around eighty five for the next two three years it would probably be ninety five to reflect the uncertainty you know exists in the market now one point thinks million barrels of oil but there is monitor opec has about three point five on standby and total reserves

are about four point five to six million barrels of oil per day so you could easily be done remember at the moment the danger is not so much to the markets and the replacing of oil but the fact that we have a very weak recovery and these could really put the brakes on the economic recovery that is the danger right now if we have prices one hundred ten for the next six months that will really derail the development of the economy and what have come you know what our country supposed to do they have a policy which is not safe for inflation so it will create a lot of economic turmoil thank you christine scare and i'm afraid that's all the time we have for thank you very very much for this thank you. and let's have a look at the markets european stocks are mixed as are investors still concerned over the continuing to a more late leaving across the middle east and waiting for key euro zone inflation data like this was dragged by banking shares ages b c's losing four and

a half percent all going to the lowest level in nearly a month the banks or your earnings missed analyst estimates. of the markets and climbing continuing to last week's winning streak overall the markets are set to settle down firmly into positive territory as they try to gaze in. asia oil prices are moving up as tensions in the middle east escalates moving closer to the key one hundred dollars barrel mark and brands trading over one hundred fourteen dollars. and let's have a look at some individual share moves in russia energy majors a mixed metals and mining sector is better than market of gold severstal is up more than three percent oppose gold is climbing point eight percent banking shares are also posting gains easy is nearly two and a half percent. that's all the update for now but i'll be back with more in about fifteen minutes.

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