hotel points pushers and i would print certain discipline the original entire truth wins if you tell me touch your group which is a good girl i would international floods achieve every dream lowering her children in tow. explosions are wrong the libyan capital in a new wave of violence and scandal down in the opposition bank over control of the country there's speculation the u.s. and the u.k. could have their own agenda that. a change in course in the uprisings in the middle east and north africa shake the walls of america's foreign policy is now long. since the soviet union's first announced president celebrates his eightieth birthday we look at his legacy is the man that rush on the paul will still see.

a very warm welcome to you this is live from moscow now a series of blasts of rocks the libyan capital as colonel gadhafi continues to hold all he's reportedly regained control of two major cities in the northwest and a key will facility in the east meanwhile the u.s. is flexing its military muscle moving its naval forces closer to libya and triggering speculation on an invasion in case also not ruling out the use of false the telegraph newspaper is claiming versus special forces already in the country daily reports that is to call upon them to secure several zones of mustard gas and other potential chemical weapons for which to be stockpiled in libya the international films that gathering over the country's leader the u.n. suspended the country from its human rights council but also call. a mass

humanitarian evacuation of people caught up the crisis as well russia amounts assays more amicable routes or whether nato is ready for you. and we do not in any way the use of military assets we must not tolerate this regime using military force against its own people is this history repeating itself the british government getting the guns on standby as a country crumbles plowing to impose a no fly zone in this case libya in two thousand and three it was iraq it's looking very dangerous is looking quite possible that we will launch such an attack with or without un approval and so we're looking at almost a repeat of what happened in iraq and the result so suspect really large of the same but not every country is getting that treatment and libya is not the only african nation in turmoil somalia has drawn out conflict has been called a slow genocide but there's little sign of u.s.

or european military inputs and it's a similar story on the other side of the continent there are events unfolding right now in ivory coast where there is also a conflict an armed conflict between rebels and the government but nobody seems to be thinking of that it's only because fashionable attention is focused on libya oil but also for the political implications of the middle east as a whole as we all know the west including my own country has got its hands very dirty with the libyan leadership over recent years. with black gold and libya has the largest proven oil reserves in africa more than three percent of the global toso and there could be a lot more undiscovered the only reason you're interested in. your oil here anybody screaming and yelling about all those people who were killed in the ivory coast. i guess cocoa was that that you know as much of a national priority put in somalia. there was precious little help while the body

count over the years except for one brief but disastrous intervention involving u.s. soldiers immortalized in the movie black hawk down american forces failed at great cost to stabilize the country they left quickly and haven't returned and the lessons were learned when it came to iraq which remains of the staple even now with only feeble sheets of much vaunted democracy allied troops are equally bogged down in afghanistan the big thing timeline for withdrawal and an ever rising death toll could be clear. cause. or any more countries in the middle east it's a model today's troubled african nations will want to impose on their puppet government which is still ruling. american occupation of iraq really. help. the middle east. and american and european government should look for

backing whom either up to a million marched in london even the invasion of iraq in two thousand and three times have changed this is now austerity britain where starting another war factored into the budget british troops are already fighting an unpopular war in afghanistan it's highly unlikely the public has the appetite for again getting involved in someone else's struggle battling as they are at home in the face of deep cuts in unemployment and it's unlikely to be popular inside this building the ministry of defense has to slash spending by more than seven and a half billion dollars in the next four years it's an intervention britain would find hard to afford on many levels. turn around and see. that wobble majority of libyans may want regime change they don't

want to achieve by foreign intervention. and i'm extremely worried could be a foreign intervention led by the united states and britain i think it's very difficult for them but on the other hand if they feel that there's any opportunity of toppling a fee and installing a progress to the regime or if on the other hand they think feel that their oil interests in africa is that the interests are in some way threatened and i think ultimately they won't hold back and particularly concerns about the no fly zone policy that's been discuss for comparison would be what happens in iraq in the ninety ninth his at the end of the gulf war of ninety ninety one the united states and britain and so on and no fly zone the net result was that hundreds of thousands of iraqis were killed the infrastructure of the country was bombed the nets the results of a no fly zone was not to prevent splits of course the humanitarian crisis and it

doesn't take a great leap of imagination so you see that sort of situation unfolding in libya population across the region has made pretty clear in my opinion that although it wants to change regimes it doesn't want foreign intervention you don't need a degree in politics to work that out some to understand what's being said of course it doesn't want america and britain back in. i will have more on the developing situation in the arab world shortly be let's have a quick look ahead not what else we have with our dog. lifesaving surgery find out how they're helping to beat ticket is ticking in a few minutes. are gone in libya and the rest of the region has led to an unprecedented surge in oil prices the fuel's been sent through the escalating

situation for weeks and is now well over one hundred dollars a barrel for the. conservative business that's where you joins us live now. what's needed people around the world how hard is it having them in their pockets. that's the shop rising oil prices create a series of economic risks and can deliver a devastating blow to the fragile global economy and the struggles to recover from the global financial crisis and some fortune countries where energy is a greater share of overall consumption are even more vulnerable well it's difficult to make any forecasts now as workers have been particularly well the child during the previous years we saw them spiralling to one hundred forty seven dollars a barrel and then just plummeting to thirty err on the rise again some sectors are more impact of than others transportation has always been very vulnerable true. to rising oil prices all sorts of businesses affected from supermarkets to matter of factness so high energy prices are likely to hit what are we consumers in the

wallet to what we see here is a knock on effect many factories will need energy to make products and then there's a lot of them to shop and higher prices may lead to higher prices for food crevel hearing everything will simply individuals will have to favor worth the pump and filled it tanks and they will be left with less disposable income to buy other stuff so what we can see here is to pollution of consumer confidence we'll have more analysis in business in about two minutes time you hear that sort of the impacts like in the oil price as you say we'll be hearing from you later on the bottom many thanks. ok well while the situation in north africa in the middle east is rapidly changing so is america's foreign policy its featured course a touch the agenda of the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton as she met with authority affairs committee on capitol hill christina for that the changing tides of washington's piracy.

afghanistan iraq egypt. libya. when it comes to u.s. foreign policy this country's hands are not just full they're often tied secretary of state hillary clinton charged with the task of laying out a plan for the future generations of americans including my own have grown up successful and safe because we chose to lead the world and tackling the greatest challenges but now clear signs that the challenges and the times are changing a lot of people in this country have come to the conclusion that our policy overhaul has been inconsistent that sometimes we support the bad guys and the bad guys become our enemies. twenty eleven has been a major year with major shifts in prominence and power in northern africa and the middle east. and signs that us will influence may be waning just days

before the regime of egyptian president hosni mubarak fell both secretary clinton and cia director leon panetta called it stable until it was. there are also in consistencies on the war in afghanistan in afghanistan integrated military and civilian surges have helped set the stage for our diplomatic surge to support afghan led reconciliation that could end the conflict and put al qaeda on the run but rather one kansas senior u.n. official just said quote it is fair to say that security in the country is that its lowest point since the departure of the taliban even secretary of defense robert gates said this just last week to a group of cadets at west point in my opinion any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big american land army and asia. or into the middle east or africa. should have

his head examined as general macarthur so delicately put it there is also the matter of money u.s. own economy weak and losing leverage to other powers like china and brazil another frustration voiced by lawmakers doesn't make any sense are all for us to be borrowing money from trying to give it to other countries especially giving it back to china. now when it comes to iran there is a clear position given by the state department the denial of human dignity in iran is an outrage that is nerves the condemnation of all who speak out for freedom and justice but in many other regions like the rain albania and most prominently iraq where many many more people are killed at the hands of u.s. allied governments the silence is deafening. and as the landscape changes daily in libya cracks in the foundation here grow deeper we must maintain

firm ties with our allies and enemies and must be clearly identified it is a constantly changing position on good versus evil and increasingly diminishing power to influence what's next in washington christine prism r.t. . you can always find plenty of stories to explore on our website it's called fail find more antigovernment demonstrations but this time in america and not the middle east work it was along to respect the rights and will the timing of lines all things to concerns of the middle class it's. one of the most expensive and delicacies in the world via all of the common everyday things start a russian scientists discover a new techniques to harvest eggs i doubt more dot com also watch all the best videos of all you pay which. if.

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through the u.s.s.r. the first and last president. today celebrates his eightieth birthday and his legacy has and hailed as the fall of russia's democracy was born in a small village in the south of the country and became leader of the us and song in one thousand eight hundred nine with his economic and political reforms the way to democracy in russia is best known policy is dubbed that is through which end to revamp the country without destroying the basis of socialism his initiatives also lead to the cancellation of state censorship and the creation of free speech in the country qatar received the nobel peace prize in one nine hundred ninety eight years later how well. that chain of events which led to the collapse on the soviet union . and they just stepped down and other fields became a basket of critics say the plan was the country into

a destructive chaotic reform the effects of which are still being felt today. still says is that actions were timely and necessary. but for this we realized from experience that it was dangerous to wait much longer that we had to take a risk but we couldn't postpone it we needed changes i don't agree when people say that perestroika failed it didn't fail it was disrupted the railed stocks but still perestroika achieved a lot inside russia we had democracy free elections freedom of conscience private property freedom to travel abroad everything. blast last there was so much openness the entire country was affected people realized they had finally got some freedom an opportunity to act in foreign affairs we put it to the cold war we normalize our relationship with the u.s. we reunited germany we didn't send our tanks or to. there all are units in eastern

europe states where they were used wasn't always easy many things did not work out the way we planned at the beginning and when we made our first mistakes lots we didn't really explain to people what was going on and didn't get them involved in all those processes we were self-confident and all but in public politics i don't think we have ever lost a major battle nuclear arsenals were significantly reduced thanks to our efforts during perestroika today when the world is so divided we need to find things that bring us together for instance the g twenty is a step which brings us closer it's an instrument a mechanism for handling the hardest and most challenging issues but we need more than that it's a matter of learning to live in a global world. and you can watch the thing. that's often just ten minutes i. will say throughout the day you can catch all the basic cross thought about and get discussed how we could have thrown away got

ourselves a legacy. something after nine hundred ninety one we could have a whole separate program but remember the soviet union into twenty years ago and yet obama said we have to have a reset which suggests something is going badly wrong for relational you know disagree with a lot of things and this one we do worry i'm told is russian is there was good we squandered did we i mean our government squandered something good group which often given us you know i think the answer is we have it could possibly be retrieved i'm not very optimistic but it's possible but i think this legacy to my reference want well i do think that ending the cold war was just great a single achievement it was a very great achievement i don't think he handled it terribly skillfully towards the end i think he had it is it end of the negotiations with the u.s. and with the west rather weakly i mean for example. he dissolved the warsaw pact but didn't really get anything in return for it on the other hand i think obviously the main fault for the for the the kind of renewal of the cold war really does lie

with the west because we didn't respond strongly enough to gorbachev needs and then indeed to yeltsin's needs in the early years of post soviet russia. crossed off on in just a bad hour's time here on our sea. passes and what our international had lysis our part is to just minorities has been killed in a callous sack in the conference capitol police the gunman reportedly from the taliban sprays his car with bullets in a residential neighborhoods such as that bus he was a christian and threatened by militants in the past and speaking out against the country's harsh that blasphemy laws earlier in the year punjab governor was gunned down by one of his own bodyguards for his opposition to the. in new zealand dust storms whipped up by strong winds one hundred recovery efforts in the quake ravaged city of christchurch crews retrieving bodies from sources of

collapsed buildings and in the slowed by repeated on the shelves by more bodies in pill form of rubble bringing the death toll to one hundred sixty police say some of the victims that may never be recovered. colombia has been removed from a list of countries requiring special observation by the u.s. drug control watchdog international narcotics control also the move was and recognition of the country's achievements in fighting the problem but would continue to monitor developments closely the un's at twenty ten report showed drastic reduction is in cocoa plantations in colombia and there are more drugs and scenes there than any other state in the world only because decades. for some a change of heart is their only hope for life but the lack of donors in russia the dogs of survival of families stacked against but now a pioneering new technique being used in the country could reverse the trend of the

boycott story it's a smile that comes straight from the heart. almost died from heart failure to decades ago and these visits are cardiology ward for regular check out. look at her she's just a picture of health but i know she's been living with a new heart longer than with their own. dr z. miscarriage operated on natasha twenty one years ago when a donor organ was her only hope for a live one of the best known cardiac surgeons in russia he performed hundreds of lifesaving transplants but still thinks of the thousands he couldn't do because of a shortage of donor organs nowadays he's pioneering any technique that gives some patients on the analyst waiting list a more definite hope. you have. a heart transplant is not a panacea firstly the supply of donor organs is so short that you can only hope a smattering of patients secondly it brings with it

a number of complications starting with ethical dilemmas to biological functions that's why finding an alternative treatment that will allow to preserve a host organ is so crucial to the treatment backward remodelling consist of seventh urges that together reverse the damage to a broken heart russian doctor started performing it two years ago and its long term effectiveness is still being tested it for some like this patient not stare it already proved a real life changer here ready where was first diagnosed doctors told me i had a year to leave now and i have all the reasons to hope that i'll see my little daughter grow art i was told that i may steal your heart transplant in the future but the surgery was there before years of. just eighteen syria is carried out this procedure is far from being routine yet this successful recovery of all the patients has already given to many on the transplant waiting list the change of

heart reconstructive surgery has many advantages there were heart transplant patients don't have changer and agonizing and far from guaranteed to wait for a donor organ the chances of success for recovery a higher but like heart transplant these procedure has one major setback the gap between those who need it and those who get it is too disheartening to be huge so we call our team moscow. on his promise to you to bring us the latest from the world of business. that's right time to get the latest from the world of business and world prices continue to hit their highest levels in more than two years as the tension in north africa and the middle east continues to fuel concerns over crude supplies the price of light sweet past the psychological one hundred dollars a barrel not cheering wednesday morning trading rose their branch girth grows to

almost one hundred sixteen dollars a barrel you can see the figures on the screen this comes after the news that saudi arabia may not take any significant steps to bring down the price of crude oil until brand reaches one hundred twenty dollars a barrel which is about eight percent of current levels but both benchmark world burns so i've seen a slight dip in their trend with brant currently at around one hundred fifteen dollars and lights we just under one hundred dollars per barrel. now russian oil giant look well is running to maintain its foreign world production at ten to eleven million tons this year the company's international operate a little well overseas will also invest two point five billion dollars into its structural projects outside russia in twenty alone that's according to the divisions president you'll see such a company is still interested in middle east and because as despite the political instability in the region it's going to start drilling in iraq in the first half of this year. russia norway are stepping up corporation after the two sides finally

came on to agreement over they are to dispute the new stage of economic relations between the countries started last year when russia nor we ended a forty year debate over their maritime borders and agree to explore and gas in the arctic region the region minister of trade and industry as their strategic know how and expertise greatly help future cooperation in the energy sector. we have a lot of the. strong companies we have started of course there's a good reason because first we're operating in your company we have supply companies with technologists from all corners of the services and goods for those secure but i think also we have good security and environmental standards and procedures and fitness good use that will be very important in the arctic area where the consequences of an oil spill or accidents can be even more severe than in

other areas. trying to have a look at how the markets stop burying this solid european shares a low on wednesday and has just continued to fret over the unrest in the middle east and north africa both the footsie of the tech side of around three quarters of percent down concerns that rising oil prices could hurt konami recovery plunging votes just to sell stocks and hedge against the declines. here in russia the markets advantage into positive territory at this hour and the russian energy sector is benefiting from high up world prices gold companies are not seeing significant gains as price for precious metals gets high and let's have a look at some individual share moves here in russia dollars gold as a percent on the hot high energy majors the mostly on the rise with gazprom regaining yesterday's losses long losing more than a third of a percent on the r.g.s. . and the price of gold has hit a new record high as and that's just turn to what's the cautious national in times

of uncertainty how well the fires so as wave of since currently trading at one thousand four hundred thirty one silver is also in tomorrow's trading ash rollers pushing for end of hard dollars. and the high court of london has we kept a tunnel suit. of the shareholders meeting to approve the deal to purchase italy's wind telecom and actually have a twenty ten vimpel com song into doable by egyptian alone and the worse. the world's fifth largest mobile operator by subscribers whether it is telling a lot of the shareholders that it would vote against the deal arguing that more just came what do you think it's. asked of they do you will be will hold twenty five percent stake only on the shareholder agreement with. the kind of gold you will print for sound however i think they are afraid that in future because when

you go to further some harm and basically. just want to exercise their free enterprise. that's a separate places from being your desire to block the deal as the for your situation is now for the company i think the best if we do you as fast as possible so they become friends and just focuses on liberations again because of ford's the last tougher year or so it was more secure evolved into this corporate direction let's not have time for now you are today join me in less than one is time for more business news here on alt.

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