you know told. the meridian country club it's so boring sure to find this piece of the first earth book well sure can pinsky switzer till closing the whole deal to let me go nuts come golden eagle chico. foreign intervention in troubled libya clips as the us repositions its naval forces in the region and the u.k. refuses to rule out using military assets against his regime. at the same time military base that no airstrikes which the western media have been reporting have actually occurred on the ground in libya more on that in just a few moments. plus key western nations have been quick to back the arab uprisings despite years of helping the old regime in terms of questions over a subject close to democracy as we report. it's day one of the much heralded overhaul of russia's police to try and boost public trust to the forces

but many say to revamp its own police indeed. you're watching are to eleven pm moscow time welcome my name is kevin all top story tonight the u.s. has started repositioning its heavy hitting warships in the mediterranean triggering speculation of foreign invasion of libya britain is vowing to set up a no fly zone in the region and is threatening to use military forces against colonel gadhafi is reaching. sin london with the latest. the strongest sign among several strong signs that they are ramping up this pressure is this repositioning of the u.s. is warships in the region we've seen the aircraft carrier u.s.s. enterprise which is literally bristling with planes moved from pirate duty super

trolling for pirates off the coast of somalia down now to the mouth of the suez canal which is within a flying distance of libya and there's talk that it might be moved even closer but we've also heard u.k. prime minister david cameron talk about setting up a no fly zone in libya that essentially means that any aircraft that takes off inside libya will potentially be able to be shot down by. allied forces under the assumption that aircraft that do take off are headed to be turned against the libyan people themselves and that in fact is similar to a position that was taken against saddam hussein no fly zone was imposed in iraq ahead of the invasion of iraq and we also heard talk that there's a possibility that jets will be based in u.k. and cross bases in cyprus to perform those functions and we've also heard reports. that western powers are also preparing to arm. forces inside libya and of course

this all comes against the backdrop of a very strong statement from the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton and he said that the u.s. is ready to offer and i quote any type of assistance to libyans who wish to be and in all of this we shouldn't forget that there is a u.s. naval base in rain that's the headquarters of the u.s. navy's fifth fleet and thousands of sorties jury in the gulf war were flown from bahrain over to iraq and it could be an important base in any military intervention . could take place in libya inside the kremlin is cooling the a living political. coupes but notwithstanding russia feels that the international community should concentrate on sanctions in order to punish the un has imposed trade restrictions an arms embargo and has also frozen foreign assets all of which

is intended to store the regime of cash that might be intended to hire foreign mercenaries to support the russians also against this no fly zone that's being proposed by cameron and others and also the international community together with russia supports a u.n. security council unanimous vote she referred libya and more specifically could see the international criminal court for an investigation into. this of human rights during this time of crimes against humanity that may have taken place in libya whilst he is seeming to turn the army on his own people the argument being that of course he and his loyal supporters will presumably think twice about turning the army in and other weapons on its own people if it thinks that the full force of international law will be brought down against it remains to be seen whether this military intervention will in fact taken take place to whether this is just threats to. his supporters and whether in fact these sanctions and this action by the

international court of human rights will be enough. here a little of to correspond with the reports of mobilizing force against its own people spread quickly around the world but russia's military troops to go so they've been monitoring from the pictures they saw tell a different story he's a really good for you. at this point we have information from russia's joint staff who are saying that they happened not monitoring the situation in libya from space by satellite since the beginning of the unrest in the country and according to them some of the reports why they made by the western media are not entirely corresponding to the pictures that they are getting to be more precise the cording to al-jazeera and to b.b.c. on the twenty second of every libyan government has inflicted airstrikes on bin ghazi and on tripoli and according to russia's military these have not registered any of those airstrikes according to them the pictures show that nothing all that

sort has been going on the ground now if we also focus on the pictures that out on the footage that we've been getting from that country we may be able to notice that there are absolutely no signs of any destruction inflicted by tax from air or by live in air force in those pictures so at this point russia's military saying that as far as they are concerned they have not seen any attacks so they can pretty much make a judgment that those attacks which the western media has been reporting on have not been made the russian military is also working in very close cooperation with russia's the ministry of foreign affairs then they're monitoring not just the military situation not just tripoli and other cities in libya they're also being a very close attention to that with extraction facilities and they are keeping us up to date as to what is happening on the ground from space. what is really going to shoot in moscow let's talk about these unfolding events in libya to peace

activist and journalist eric stone from new york tonight this is thanks for being with us ok let's take a look at the starbucks a bit with the u.s. new cake gathering the military forces near libya as you see it is another american led intervention on the. i sure hope not i think any type of military intervention by the west would be a huge disaster for for many reasons one it's likely only to lead to a dramatic escalation in terms of the loss of life. shown his willingness to kill far more of his own people than move iraq and egypt sending in us in western troops or bombs is only going to dramatically increase that the destruction also there is the real risk i think of. it backfiring. you often hear

of something called like the rally around the flag of fact with foreign interventions where people will put aside their differences with the government to oppose outside intervention so i think there is the possibility that this could happen in libya where people could it actually serve to empower or embolden the further where are the what if your worst case scenario does happen how will the right in future history books mean some experts say for instance because once foreign forces intervened they now believe we saw in a rut we saw that to the extent in serbia that does libya face the same fate in the long term in your view if the. i think there is a real possibility of that i think anybody who talks of any kind of quick and easy military intervention is just is just wrong history has proven that that's just not

the case working physically iraq and afghanistan what the the so-called experts were predicting before those interventions before we we intervene militarily and look at where we're at now and many many years of war hundreds of thousands of people killed. and there's no end in sight to those interventions and and so that's just it it's unpredictable what would happen but it could be it could be devastating and i think ultimately the opposition the one which has been largely nonviolent still hasn't run its course and i think there is as much as there has been a loss of life there's also many signs the opposition has the the regime on the ropes and you know there's reports that up to maybe ninety percent of the country is in rebel hands at the moment and there have been serious defections within the military within the government ministers and diplomats and so there are lots of

signs that the regime is already crumbling and i think military intervention could be. medically backfire. listens to the populations involved here i'm thinking about egypt anti-government protesters there repeatedly insisted they didn't want foreign intervention similar sentiments too from rebels in libya does nato listen to what these people are saying and you think i don't think they listen too much to the people unfortunately. but i will kill gadhafi is accusing western leaders of a switching sides is the. president hosni mubarak this should other u.s. regimes in the region be watching their step tonight should they be worried. i think the other regimes in the region should be should be worried about their opposition to home grown up as ition did the protests throughout the region i think

they are posing serious threats to the regimes in yemen in bahrain and in several other countries so i think there should be more of a concern for for the homegrown protests they're happy that the region which is really encouraging sign but the u.s. i think unfortunately is likely to back these regimes until the better hitter and as we did with tunisia and morocco egypt and i think he's complained when journalist eric stoner in new york thanks for your input here and i think tonight's pretty shaded. well never mind now to this story had thought that the libyan leader has found a close ally in the country known to be led by europe's last dictator get duffy's planes allegedly been spotted in bel air roost something the country's foreign ministry tonight he's a lecturer a jet ski looks at the possible connections between the two. according to a stalker home based international institute for peace research and sixty four

aircraft took off from an air base heading for libya in the middle of february and headed for the libyan town of southpaw which according to experts is indeed a key strategic center in in libya this air base in belarus where the plane took off from. a stockpile of different weaponry including rocket launchers machine guns and ammunition now this alleged transfer of weaponry from belarus to libya happened before the u.n. security council imposed an embargo on all weapon sales to libya this is the latest in a string of different allegations connecting in tripoli which surfaced in the last several weeks several days ago media outlets reported that i witness is supported mercenaries from belarus fighting on the khadafi side on the side of khadafi stoops in libya and monday several media outlets reported that khadafi is private jet was spotted landing in the main airport before flying back to libya these claims have

been denounced by the country's foreign ministry which called insinuations against minsk. jeff ski well of course keep you updated throughout the night on developments in the middle east and north africa there's also plenty more news and analysis about it r.t. dot com as well. this is our team from moscow now those behind the arab uprisings having no trouble in finding friends and things right now in the west but that isn't of course an abrupt change of heart for those countries who've been supporting the previous regimes for decades that is paula slowly reports next on the deep suspicion in the middle east and the u.s. and its allies that tailoring democracies to fit their interests. demonstrations

for regime change across the arab world have spread like wildfire western powers of cum are backing the protests demanding regime change dramatically changing the colors in supporting the ousting of authoritarian rulers they backed only weeks ago as demonstrations sweep across the arab world western governments support a call for change but is a call for change or is it actually a call for regimes if they want in power it's not the first time they wish to shown an approach to democracy in the arab world six years ago elections in gaza were hailed internationally as a massive masterton for the middle east. and representatives from the west renowned political figures and organizations who were present during the election and monitored and confirmed its authenticity to the world. but when the results were in that authenticity physique nord one of the general. standing here is that. the worst. aboard democracy as long as it's good for them and give it is not good

for bernward. interests were not supported and the west most certainly did not support and you have us government despite being voted in by more than sixty percent of gazans wisdom power was labeled a mass a terrorist organization. yeah. there are not really many instances of genuine democracy in the west the people for democracy but when people make a democratic choice like choosing among us to refuse to help a western democracies a fast a marker see democracy double standards for the benefit of europe with the watches my as soon as hamas was voted in western governments got busy with trying to booted out the boycott and sanctions which raises the question why support felix's in the first place but not there are come. i believe the west is in constant need of regimes to go along with its policy is the shooter serve the west its procedures

will be elected by their own people. i believe that the americans. don't really know how to handle this situation a relationship with qaddafi where. they provoke oh there were times when your post him and go bother him if they were going to support it then when he gave them the oil but now he's no longer of use and like to take his elsewhere who at the start of the year winning favor in the waist he's been detached the hopes of the arab world for change under obama appear to be dwindling among some political figures at least than that of president bush there are a lot of criticism that after the advent of president obama there was a lot. of welcome to the new america mr obama. i would have hoped that. the administration and the president obama would have done better the protesters across the arab world hoping to talk with dictators in the

chris for democracy may find that the choice may not be as free as they'd hoped for either meddling hand from a far still pulling the strings policy r.t. tel aviv. and stay with us if you can to discover who is messing with the minds of leading american politician. becoming wanting to extract more resources from the senate to support your mitt mission used one of the techniques they used against the taliban against the united states and the headache right now on capitol hill over reports the military men were asking you psychological mind games to keep the war coming. before that they'd see new start for russia's police force with major changes kicking off today and it all begins with a change of name root and branch reforms were ordered after a series of high profile scandals saw public trust sink to an all time low as artie's a catherine a result of a report's next there's a lot riding on the overall success to. a change of title and hopefully

a change in attitudes these line forces and officers are abandoning their soviet era name of needs they're in favor of the world the recognizable police for the government it's a first step down a long road towards modernizing the service and arresting a sharp decline in public perception the people stressed of the boys in blue has been dealt a huge blow in recent years it's led to a messiah amongst officers and outrage from knows they're supposed to protect incidents like a supermarket round page by officer you cough who opened fire an innocent shoppers killing two and wounding seven it was the final straw that fueled calls for reform but can changing their name bring about a change in behavior while some insist that any change as long overdue for others it's purely cosmetic of birth ect there were so many events with police officers

behaving illegally in russia during the years. this very fact is not going to be changed by the change of the law because these illegal practices were concrete of the previous legislation as well as cauldron of the current work the big question is whether there is the political will. they get it under control the police themselves though are preparing for the changes to come up with a huge part of our ratings well depends on the people of this country how they evaluate our performance this colonel is already grasping the essence of modernizing the force her students seem eager to absorb as much information before their upcoming exams so that it was that everyone will be interested in physical ability knowledge of new law civic duties all those are included in the exams there will be no indulgences for anyone either pass the test or leave the force other

changes are a mixed blessing there. b. a twenty percent cut in personnel but the remaining officers will get a pay rise there will be better screening of new recruits with every detail of an applicant's background put under the microscope but until all that takes effect after a series have to knuckle down to the job in hand restoring honor to russia's police is a tough task and the public are no pushover judges but the force is determined to turn that around reexamining staff redesigning the uniforms all those changes will like a lot of time before the end but one of the first things to change will be signs like these which suv feature internationally recognizable policing classroom as our mascot let me run you through a couple of top world news stories now this hour into yemen first hundreds of protesters t.v. you to rally near a university in the capital despite the president's pledge to form a unity government with opposition figures but is not enough for the demonstrators

who insist that. must end his thirty two year rule at least twenty four people have died in a week of violence germany's defense ministers quit after it was found that he copied large parts of his university doctrine off the internet skull theodore zoo good could be considered a high flyer in potential candidate for chancellor but no use relinquished all political roles and been stripped of his ph d. he tried to cling to his job but thousands of students and lecturers kept up the pressure over him to go. claims that the american military has been getting its own way by psychologically manipulating the country's decision makers of raising her calls on capitol hill rolling stone magazine says army officials order groups known as psyops teams to put pressure on congressman visiting afghanistan to get more money and support for the war out is going to takes up the story for r.t. . were u.s. lawmakers brainwashed by the military when making key decisions on supporting the

escalation of war in afghanistan that's a question posed by rolling stone magazine which alleges lieutenant general william caldwell the man in charge of training in afghanistan ordered psychological operations against visiting senators and congressional delegations to manipulate them into backing more funding and troops who were there they had a special unit that conduct psychological operations now term gain from asian support operations said he was told to provide quote the poor and now a series of pressure points we could use to leverage the delegation from more fronts. my job in psyops is to clear with people's heads to get the enemy to behave the way we want them to behave and for had been sued from to you not to our own people when you asked me to try to use these skills on senators and congressmen you're crossing a line moreover it's illegal to do so according to the defense department's own definition psychological operations imply do use of propaganda and psychological

tactics to influence emotions and behaviors and are supposed to be used exclusively on hostile foreign groups but instead of fighting afghan insurgents holmes and his team were systematically ordered to use their training to influence u.s. members of congress it is a methodology used for enemy yes this is not something you do with allies who are members of your own government tasked with oversight responsibilities of your operation that's why the senators were there not to be palace not to be partners but to have oversight over what the pentagon was doing because the pentagon not wanting that every oversight as much and wanting to extract more resources from the senate to support their men mission and used one of the techniques they used against the taliban against the united states senate that's that's incredible the long list of high profile targets including carl levin who's the chairman of the senate armed forces community steve israel a member of the house appropriations committee senators john mccain and al franken

i don't see how it could have affected my positions. so we'll see what happens but back in january last year is the climate as reported on the sudden shift of some senators use after their visit to afghanistan was a very big jump in shift and i felt it was something i wrote about and i called while this is like a confidence game it's you know you feel as if the military is manipulating people but i didn't know about these things article at the time or about psyops one example is so. manager al franken who in january last year went to get his then with strong doubts and criticism but came back quote feeling much better but some say the reported use of psychological tactics to influence politicians could be happening not only of galveston but here in washington as well there's tends to be the belief that you can't necessarily trust what you call leaders trying to work to

trust the military commanders behind a war that's not really the military is just as eager to stand up and get it. to its own benefit and. unfortunately congressmen are all too willing to believe that now the pentagon is looking into the matter experts say they're going to try and downplay the effect of this report lieutenant general caldwell has already been night i've been given such orders but it true for many it's going to be a fraud a testament to the what will be innocent civilian control of the military in today's america i'm going to check out our two washington d.c. . the former u.s. congressman tom andrews says the issue needs a broad investigation because this could prove to be more than just manipulation.