video on demand. on the. explosions or wrongs of the libyan capital in a new wave of violence is colonel gadhafi and the opposition battle for control of the country the speculation the u.s. to begin kate could have their own agenda that. a change in course is the uprisings in the middle east and north africa shakes the world america's foreign policy is talking a lot. and the price of gold has retreated from its high but investors are still considering their precious metal to be a safe haven on the market or in business in twenty minutes. or so as the soviet union under president celebrates his eightieth birthday we look at his legacy as

the man who could rush on the pompous pole in the system or see. this is our seed live from moscow the libyan leader colonel gadhafi has once again appeared on state t.v. vowing to fight home it comes after a series of blasts rocked the capital as the battle for the country continues is reportedly regain control of two major cities in the northwest clashes are presumed over the bridge east meanwhile the u.s. is flexing its military muscle moving its naval forces close is in libya and triggering speculation over the invasion the u.k. is also not ruling out the use of for the telegraph these papers claiming russian special forces are all already in the country again. the pentagon is to call upon

them to secure several tons of mustard gas and not a potential chemical weapons stop a beer with international storms gathering over the country's leader the u.n. suspended because they think it's human rights council it also calls for a nasty humanitarian evacuation for people caught up in the crisis as well pressure mounts are you the right mental hold on whether nato is ready for a new rule. 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 to impose a no fly zone in this case libya in two thousand and three it was iraq it's looking very dangerous it is looking quite possible that they will launch such an attack with an approval and so we're looking at almost

a repeat of what happened in iraq and in the results spoke of the launch of the site but not every country's getting that treatment and libya is not the only african nation in turmoil somalia's drop out conflict has been called a slow genocide but there's little sign of us 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 from 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 dirty with black gold libya has the largest proven oil reserves in africa more than three percent of the global total and there could be a lot. more undiscovered the only reason. for your oil here anybody screaming and

yelling about all those people they were killed in iraq is very close. i guess cocoa was it that much of a national priority but in somalia there was precious little help while the body count rose over the years except for one brief 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 unstable even now with only feeble sheets of back much vaunted democracy allied troops equally bogged down in afghanistan with no convincing timeline for withdrawal and an ever rising death toll. and the mess that's been made in afghanistan the terrible disaster that was caused in iraq really shouldn't people who want any more countries in the middle

east it's a model today's troubles african nations will want to impose on their government which is still ruling. out american occupation of iraq really. help. the middle east. and american and european government shouldn't look for backing of whom either to a million marched in london even the invasion of iraq in two thousand and three and times have changed this is now austerity britain where starting another war wasn't 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 and rising unemployment and it's unlikely to be popular inside this building the ministry of defense has to slash spending by more than so. seven and

a half billion dollars in the next four years it's an intervention britain would find hard to afford on many levels. the cause then that's russia's envoys nato says there's opposition inside the alliance against any military intervention in libya. as of today nato was an alliance won't take a decision to intervene into libya some european countries within the bloc are against any military actions without an agreement from the u.n. security council if the u.s. and britain decide to intervene that will be a gross violation of all international laws this can be sanctioned only going to un i talked to the alliance's secretary-general and i hope moscow's voice was heard. the war activist says that while the majority of libyans may want a regime change they don't want to see it achieved by foreign intervention. but i'm extremely rare it 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 gets a fee and installing a pro western regime or if on the other hand they think feel that oil interests and other cheers interests are in some way threatened then i think ultimately they won't hold back and particularly concerns about the no fly zone policy that spain discounts for comparison will be what happens in iraq in the ninety ninth is at the end of the gulf war of ninety ninety one the united states and britain and so on a stop list and no fly zone the net result is that hundreds of thousands of iraqis were killed the infrastructure of the country was see nets the results of a no fly zone was not to prevent splits to cause a humanitarian crisis and it doesn't take

a great leap of imagination to 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 to a degree in politics to work that out for them to understand what's being said of course it doesn't want america or britain back in. we'll have more on the developing situation in the world shortly but let's have a quick look ahead now what else we have on the this hour doctors a pioneering new life saving surgery find out how they're helping to keep ticket is taking just a few minutes. on all the situation in north africa and the middle east is rapidly changing so is america's foreign policy its future course is tops the agenda for u.s. texture of state hillary clinton as she met with the foreign affairs committee on capitol hill christine brazile looks at the changing timelines of washington's

priorities. 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 in 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 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 warble 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 kit put al qaeda on the run but robert one kansas senior u.n. official just said quote it is fair to say that security in the country is at 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 into asia. or into the middle east or africa. should have

his head examined as general macarthur so delicately put it and 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 at all for us to be borrowing money from china and giving it to other countries especially giving it back to try and. 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 deserves 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 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 for is now r.t. . you can also always find plenty of stories to explore on all website that's on dot com or mark's antigovernment demonstrations this time in america not at least work is a volunteer respect of their rights but local authorities are trying to blind eye to the middle class that. one of the most expensive delicacies in the world can be argued but common everyday feedstocks of russian scientists discovered a new technique to harvest the eggs find out more dot com also all the best ideas

on how you choose a. i am. in the. dump your social. one called talk from the dumpster. on the. video. month old girl. and. now in the palm of your. on. the end of the cold war the reification of germany liberalism

destroyed the us as well as bust president mikhail gorbachev today celebrates his eightieth birthday and his legacy has and hailed as the fall of russia's democracy the top was born in a small village in the south the country became leader of the u.s.s.r. in nineteen g. filing with his economic and political reforms in the wake of democracy in russia is best known policy is dog that is through which means to revamp the country without destroying the basis is socialism as a nation is in the soup that's the cancellation of state censorship on the creation of free speech in the country goodbye to office in the mobile please prize in one hundred ninety a year later however kuhn stalls a chain of events which led to the collapse of the soviet union got a bunch of plays and stepped down about its yeltsin became. the critics of the last soviet leaders say you can alter the country into a destructive and they also prefer the effects of which are still being felt today

however the. still thousands that. would cook all of those with us for this we realized from experience that it was dangerous to wait much longer that we have to take a risk but we couldn't post photos we needed changes i don't agree when people say the palace like a failed it didn't fail it was disrupted railed stocked but still perestroika achieved a lot inside russia we had democracy free elections freedom of conscience private property freedom to travel abroad everything also glasnost there was so much openness the entire country was affected people realized they had finally got some freedom and opportunity to act in foreign affairs we put an end to the cold war we normalized our relationship with the u.s. we reunited germany we didn't send our tanks our troops there all our units in eastern europe stayed where they were it wasn't always easy and many things did not

work out the way we planned after the beginning when we made our first mistakes let's we didn't really explain to people what was going on and didn't get them involved in all those processes we were self-confidence in the war 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 in the mechanism for handling the hardest and most challenging issues what we need more than that it's a matter of learning to live in a global world. and of course the full interview with the long. just hours time also throughout the day you can. catch our debate show thought we develop his guest discuss how the world could have thrown away

a legacy. so wrong after ninety ninety one we can or will suffer program remember the soviet union to twenty years ago and yet obama said we have to have a reset which suggests something is going bad for relational you know i disagree with a lot of things on this one we do worry i told russian is did it we squander or did we i mean our government squander or something the group which i had given us a few years for as we have it could possibly be retrieved i'm not very optimistic but it's possible but i think this legacy too might have been swan well i do think that ending the cold war was called which was great a single achievement and it was a very great achievement i don't think he handled it terribly skillfully towards the end i think he handled his 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. across talks on its way in just ten minutes time here on r.t. equipment that's not our international headlines now pakistan's minister of minorities has been killed and i can assign the country's capitol police a government reportedly from the taliban sprayed in the car with bullets in a residential neighborhood shahbaz bhatti who was a christian and threatened by militants in the past for speaking out against the country's passports only bills in the year governor with guns. down by one of his own bodyguards for his opposition to the rules. in new zealand dust storms whipped up by strong winds the humping recovery efforts in the quake ravaged city of christchurch crews retrieving bodies from schools of collapse buildings

have been slowed by repeated aftershocks five more bodies pulled from the rubble bringing the death toll to one hundred and sixty police say some of the victims that may never be recovered. colombia has been removed from the list of countries requiring special observation by the un's a drug control was stocked the international court is control board says the move was a recognition of the country's achievements in fighting the problem but would continue to monitor developments closely the un's twenty ten report showed drastic reductions in cocoa plantations in colombia and that more drugs were seized there than any other state in the world over the past decade. for some a change of heart is the only hope for life but a lack of donors in russia means odds of survival are firmly stacked against the now a pioneering new technique used in the country can try and plan a boy has

a story it's a smile that comes straight from the heart that's how she almost died from heart failure two decades ago but 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 her own. dr z. miscarriage operated on natasha twenty one years ago but it donor organ was her only hope alive 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 the shortage of donor organs nowadays he's pioneering any technique that gives some patients on the analyst a 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. for treatment backwards remodeling consists of seven surgeries 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 someone like this patient not to it already proved a real life changer here 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 up i was told i may steal your heart transplant in the future but the surgery was there before years of. but just eight is serious carried out this procedure is far from being routine here this successful recovery of older patients has already given to many on the transplant waiting list

a change of heart reconstructed to julie has many bad injuries or heart transplant patients don't have to change or and i've been on this ng and far from a guarantee but for do no more than the chances of successful recovery a higher but like heart transplant this procedure has one major setback to get between those who need it and those who get it is too disheartening to be huge so we call our team law school. ok to stay with us with this is days up next with the . alone the very welcome time for the business update world prices continue to hit their highest levels and woman sure hears as the tension in north africa and the middle east continues to fuel concerns over twice the price of light sweet past the psychological one hundred dollars a barrel march year and wednesday morning trading we can see the figures on the

screen and whereas the branch crude rose to almost one hundred sixteen dollars a barrel this comes after the news that saudi arabia may not take on a significant steps to bring down the price of crude oil until branch which is one hundred twenty dollars a barrel which is about eight percent above current levels but both been truck world bans have seen a slight dip and they're up the trend with brant brant peak at around one hundred fifteen dollars and lights with just under one hundred dollars per barrel. now russian oil giant plenty to maintain its foreign oil production at ten to eleven million tons this year the company's international operation look well overseas will also invest two and a half billion dollars into its extraction projects outside pressure in twenty eleven that's according to the divisions president also said the company still interested in middle eastern deposits despite the political instability in the region it plans to start drilling in iraq in the first half of this year.

russia norway are stepping up corporation after the two sites finally came under a grim and over the arctic dispute a new stage of economic relations between the countries started last year when russia and more we entered a forty year debate over their maritime borders and agreed to explore oil and gas in the arctic region in the region minister of trade and industry serves their strategic know how and expertise can greatly help future cooperation in the energy sector. we have a lot of the. strong companies we have stuff and of course there's a good reason because for the who are operating your company you have supplier companies with technologies some all kinds of those services are good for those secure but i think also we have a security and environmental standards and the procedures some people would use that would be really important in the arctic area where the consequences of an oil spill or accidents can be even more severe than in other areas but let's have

a look at the markets now european shares a low on wednesday as investors continue to fret i'll be unrest in the middle east and north africa both puts on the back side of rum top of the sun down concerns that rising world prices go to court economic recovery from sion that's just to sell stocks and ted you guessed from the winds. and russia the markets have made it into positive territory at this hour the russian energy sector is benefiting from higher oil prices gold companies are seeing significant gains as buys for precious national gas time. let's now have a look at some individual share moves in russia dollars gold as it was such and hot energy majors are mostly on the rise with gas from regaining yesterday's losses her thong losing wilderness said to descend on the r.g.s. . and the price of gold has hit a new record high as it has just turned to what's the freshest national in times of

recession take home whether the price is weighted since currently trading at one thousand four hundred thirty three silver is also in demand trading at wrong station war and a half dollars per ounce this hour. and finally the high court of london has rejected. to postpone a vocal claim shareholders be using to approve the deal to purchase. it but twenty will come signed a deal with the wind owned by egyptian women and it gets worse three roles but not just mobile operated by subscribers whether norway's stubborn or shareholder said it would vote against the deal are that the more interesting to me holding. asked if they do you will be will hold twenty five percent stake. on the shareholder agreement with for the cannot go below twenty five percent however i think they are afraid that if you which are people to be voted further some heart

basically. just wants to exercise their printer frights. that's a separate process from the your desire to broker a deal as the situation is now for the company i think the best you've read you will be said on this for us this possible so the company has just focuses on what the reasons again because for the last half a year or so it was mostly able to produce corporate action. that's it for me so they can always find more stories on the website archly dot com slash business. to.

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