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 or without approval and so we're looking at almost a repeat of what happened in iraq. as a result spectrally largely the same but not every country is 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 u.s. or european military input 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 britain 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. your oil here anybody screaming and yelling about all those people last week there were killed in the ivory coast. i guess cocoa isn't 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. cost to

stabilize the country they left quickly and haven't returned and the lessons were learned when it came to iraq which remains on staple even now with only feeble sheets of that much vaunted democracy allied troops are equally bogged down in afghanistan with no convincing timeline for withdrawal and an ever rising death toll to be clear to an idiot. in the mess that's been made in afghanistan the terrible disaster that was caused in iraq really shouldn't be voted on any more countries in the middle east it's a model today's troubled african nations were imposed on them a puppet government which is still ruling by virtue of american military occupation of iraq really there is not because of help. revolutionaries throughout the middle east need and american and european government shouldn't look for backing at home either to a million marched in london a for 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 seven and a half billion dollars in the next four years it's an intervention britain would find hard to afford on many levels. well and he will answer first how it turns out won't libyans may want to regime change it should be achieved from within not by foreign intervention. i'm extremely worried 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 fe 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 speed and discuss the comparison would be what happens in iraq in the ninety ninth his at the ends of the gulf war of ninety nine he won the united states and britain and so on a stop list a no fly zone the net result was that hundreds of thousands of iraqis were killed the infrastructure of the country was bombed see net result of a no fly zone was not to prevent but of course the 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 a degree in politics to work that out some to understand what's being said of course it doesn't want america or britain back in. around the world are being affected by idea vents on the ravening in north africa and the middle east skyrocketing oil prices have been fueling concern on the slow economic recovery well let's get the latest funds and think is in cross over to a business death where do you get emitting joins me now live to be true what's happening with oil prices today then and what kind of an effect is it all having on stock markets well oil prices are actually pretty stable right now this is because libya has assured international marketplace they will continue exports of oil it's a very important oil supplier to europe even if it comes under international sanctions we all know that the situation is pretty turns over there we're seeing right now is so west texas crude ninety nine dollars seventy eight cents of sub

something like fourteen cents whereas brant is actually down fifteen to one hundred fifteen dollars twenty eight cents at the moment this is all not surprising highs that we've seen last week so situation is pretty stable right now and the markets in russia pretty much in line with just the general trends of up and downs that we've seen the past two weeks ok thanks for talking us through that spike in the oil market of course we'll have more from to return the rest of his team in just a few moments time here on. i guess those come later on the program america's foreign policy goes under the microscope. the future's 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 and find out what else the u.s. congress that had to say about the company's actions and why so making government double sometimes and.

claims of teams being to the your committee and republican. the center of russian defense production. now while she heads to central russia. handicrafts it's become an industry. where the harsh winter makes schools even more enjoyable. and where everyone can train to be a stunt man. to the younger slower reach. russia close up on oxy. that has become normal and global is to meet both creation of the of the food system the global food system is not created to feed the people of the world is created to maximize

the profits. gernot trading the actual physical grain your trading promises for grain to be delivered a month or six months or twelve months or eighteen months in the future. for reasons model regulate silver or gold that can be negotiated and ordered to some degree and. to place. water. possibly tomorrow. but it could be in the future. of a check on the international news making headlines around the world now and parts of its minister just minorities have been killed in a gun attack in the country's capital police say alleged taliban gunman sprayed the victim's car with bullets that a residential neighborhood. he was a christian had been threatened by islamic militants and the pulse was speaking out

against the country's hosp latham in laws in the year punjab governor was gunned down by one of his own bodyguards for his opposition to the eagles. found rooms of people living with aids and council holding a rally in india to protest a planned trade deal between the country and the european union the protesters warned the government against signing any deal that would increase the cost of basic drugs drawing tens of thousands of people treatment demonstrators marched through the streets of central new delhi before holding a meeting near the indian parliament. in new zealand strong winds are hampering recovery efforts spreading clouds of dust in the quake ravaged city of christchurch crews retrieving bodies from schools of collapsed buildings have been slowed by repeated aftershocks that have rumbled through the city threatening to bring down bricks and masonry five more bodies that been pulled from the rubble

bringing the death toll to one hundred and sixty many more remain missing police say some of the victims may never be recovered. fashion house christian dior is looking for a new chief designer the famous brand has its creative director john galliano following a series of claims that he used the people to add to semitic abuse in paris the french fashion decisive action after you video surfaced online showing galliano abusing two women he believed would jewish during the fifty's the fifty year old is heard declaring his love for hitler he was arrested by french police but later released. as changes sweep through the middle east and north africa u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has called for changes in the u.s. foreign policy desperate to influence the emerging critical map the future of american involvement abroad is at the top of the government's agenda aussie's christine fossil takes a look at the changing face of washington's piracy. right. 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 the 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 but 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 u.s.

global 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 inconsistency is 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 robert want cans of 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 futures 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 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 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 deserves the condemnation of all who speak out for freedom and justice but in many other regions like behind 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 r.t. . now in an hour's time with an in-depth look at the weapon of choice for terrorists around the world.

now the last leader of the u.s.s. mikhail gorbachev is celebrating his eightieth birthday he's been awarded with russia's highest honor by president dmitri medvedev the order to sing country medal for his work. but many people his name is synonymous with the end of the cold war the reunification of germany and liberalism but with his economic and political reforms he paved the way for democracy in russia his best name policy that is. to revamp the country without destroying the basis of socialism his initiatives also led to the cancellation of state censorship and the creation of free speech received the nobel peace prize in one nine hundred ninety a year later however started a chain of events which led to the collapse off the soviet union got out of step down and brought us yeltsin became president gorbachev critics say he plunged the country into a destructive and chaotic reform the facts of which are still being felt today the

former leader still says russia was in desperate need of change. but 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. stopped but still perestroika achieved a lot inside russia we had democracy free elections. freedom of conscience private property and freedom to travel abroad everything old so glasnost there was so much openness the entire country was affected the people realized they had finally got some freedom and an 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 and we didn't send our tanks our troops there all our units in eastern europe stayed where they were you know wasn't always easy many things did

not work out the way we planned at the beginning but when we made our first mistakes 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 of the 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. the third and got off in ten minutes time here are. now adults as a rock star developing a pioneering alternative treatment to heart transplants and with the sources of organ donations in the country it's giving hope to.

it's a smile that come straight from the heart that almost died from heart failure two decades ago but these only visits a cardiology ward for regular check. look at her she's just a picture of health by now she's been living with her new hurt longer than with her own. doctor gave each alterative on the tosh a twenty one years ago when a donor organ was her only hope for life 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 and need to get me that give some patients on the list waiting least a more definite hope. 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 the treatment brockport remodelling 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 yet for some like this patient not to it already proved a real life changer you already where was first diagnosed doctors told me i had a year to leave now i have all the reasons to hope that i'll see my little daughter grow up i was told that i may still need a heart transplant in the future but the surgery pulls that day four years off. just age is serious carried out these procedures is far from being routine yet this successful recovery of older patients has already given to many on the transplant

waiting list a change of heart reconstructive surgery has many advantages that were heart transplant patients don't have to endure and agonizing and probably guaranteed to wait for a donor organ the chances of successful recovery. but like heart transplant these procedure has been one major setback the gap between those who need it and those who get it is to disheartening a huge so we cut our teeth in moscow where a principal stories for you to explore on our website of course dot com here's just a taste of what's online the minute calls for new we world rushing through shoes for all the nations with nuclear arsenals to start their own all this reduction program. moscow is getting its disneyland the capital's famous groupie park is getting a facelift billions of dollars with a role model but i'm over it for all to be behind the project.

for all the nation's business news with dmitri. alone welcome to business news on oil prices are continuing to warble close to the highest levels and more than two years as the tension north africa middle east continues to fuel concerns over crude supplies brize of light sweet crude did pass the psychological one hundred dollars per barrel mark during wednesday morning trading. it's now a bit lower than that brant crude rose to almost one hundred sixteen dollars per barrel this comes after the news that saudi arabia may not take any significant steps to bring down the price of crude oil until bread reaches a hundred twenty dollars a barrel which is about eight percent about current levels but both benchmark oil

blends have seen a slight dip in the upward trend with grandparents to get around one hundred fifteen and a half dollars a barrel likes we just over one hundred dollars. national journal is planning to maintain its foreign oil production at ten to eleven million tons this year but his international break to look or overseas will also invest two and a half billion dollars into the extraction project outside russia and twenty eleven according to the divisions president he also said the company is still interested in the middle east and deposits despite the political instability in the region it plans to start drilling in iraq in the first half of this year. russia no way are stepping up corporation after the two sides finally came and agreements over the arctic dispute a new stage of economic relations between the countries started last year when russia norway ended a forty year debate over their maritime borders and agreed to export oil and gas in

the arctic region in the region minister of trade and industry says a strategic know how and expertise can greatly help future cooperation in the energy sector. we have a lot of. strong companies have started of course. biggest operating company we have supplier companies technology all kind of civil services and goods for those sector and i think also we have security and environmental standards and procedures and technologies that will be fairly important in the arctic area where the consequences will and will spill over accidents can be even more severe them in order. to get out of the markets now it starts with europe and european shares lower on wednesday as investors continue to fret over the unrest in middle east and north africa focusing on the dax are down around half a percent this out concerns that rising oil prices put the canonical coppery prompt

investors to sell stocks in ads against further declines. there rochelle markets are mixed this the energy sector is benefiting from world prices involved companies have seen significant gains as the price of precious metal gets highest take a look at those in more detail dollars gold is up one point six percent this hour and you know it is almost new on the rise with gazprom bucking the trend just a point one percent and also bank was down zero point four percent on the r.t.s. . more detail the price of gold it's here it's a new record high as investors turn towards the precious metal in times of uncertainty however the price was weighed as we could sense currently standing around one thousand four hundred thirty two dollars per ounce silver is also in demand trading at around thirty four dollars seventeen cents an ounce this hour. the high court of london has rejected tell an old suit to postpone if it becomes

shareholders meeting to approve the deal to purchase it in these wind telecom and i want to show you what i did to sign the deal with. wind owned by egyptian billionaire now greaves sorious in a bid to create the world's fifth largest mobile operator by subscribers however norway's tell an organ become shareholder they would vote against the deal arguing that the merger scheme would dilute its holding. asked of the deal they will hold twenty five percent stake only on the shareholder agreement with. the cannot go below twenty five percent however i think they are afraid that in future he could be diluted further somehow and basically with the just want to exercise their printer frights. then that's a separate process from the your desire to blog with you as the situation is now for the company i think the best if we do is done as fast as possible so that the

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do the u.k. song company. in libya some fear of the old going on in the old. the dishonestly if you campaign like things played out in iraq and afghanistan as well as all the foreign governments and said that they are getting sucked into bad journalism on the news over tangible pollution from. the us and foreign policy how some americans in the country's ever changing political position but space they are these things that are supporting the bad guy with a major shift in power in the halls of the welcome our accountant or least some americans fear the on the rest will shake that comes from the political and. the

last leader of the soul the union celebrates his eightieth birthday. for a man behind the consolation of state censorship in the promotion of free speech but some accuse him of paving the way of the destructive and chaotic were full. of . media about his legacy his interview coming up next. because mr gorbachev it's so great to have you with us today good to see you again well mr gorbachev you're turning eighty did you ever think the world will look like this on your eightieth birthday. it's not easy to.