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a growing number of international governments have publicly opposed the use of external military force our season or and almost an intervention from abroad could mean for libya. we do not in any way rule out 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 looking quite possible that they 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 indeed the results suspect we 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.
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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 they're interested in. 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. in somalia there was precious little help while the body count
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rose 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 on stable 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 but 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 puppet government which is still ruling through an american military occupation of iraq really there is not the current of help. revolutionary through the middle east need and american
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and european government shouldn't look for backing at home 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 seven and a half billion dollars in the next four years it's an intervention britain would find hard to afford on many levels. of the discuss the possible military intervention in libya when outlined by dr franklin the deal.
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of americans that's in the least at peace talks lie many facets being with us now the u.s. is sending more warships to was libya and the u.k. has said that it won't rule out using military force there as well saying is foreign intervention and war inevitable that no it's not in of a ball but the it's true they've brought into ships the u.s.s. ponce and the u.s.s. gear force that have two thousand marines they have drone missiles i don't think it's inevitable but i think that the american position now is pretty player if they want to remove gadhafi if they can do it with a special operations force if they can do it with drones so be it but it may well be that a massive invasion force is is launched they have the capability to do that there are some problems with out of course the arab league's against the united nations have sanctioned it but i think it's going to depend on what we see in the next twenty four hours the americans are realizing that they may have to unless they get
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rid of gadhafi he may survive this. it's difficult to know exactly what's going on there but the recent reports suggest that qaddafi may be gaining back some of the territory. so. you know we just don't know but john to your question no i don't say it's inevitable. i think it's widely that there will be an effort to assassinate qaddafi. so you say that it might be intervention is not inevitable but but likely but is this sort of intervention by the u.s. u.k. really the solution to the libyan crisis. well it is in their eyes possibly if you accept their reasoning and i think their reasoning is look we've had stability there since and good relations since two thousand and four when kadafi you know gave us two hundred barrels of enrich uranium things have been
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pretty good we did a deal on lockerbie that was all right but we cannot accept a bloodbath and if this continues and turns into the bloodbath then the west led by the united states can take him out invade that country get rid of him and his cohorts do a deal with the tribes maybe bring in the arab league to you know facilitate that leave or not completely but withdraw and say look we did this even though we didn't get the sanctions through the united nations because this was such an overwhelming human on humanitarian crisis they can gain politically from this with all the debacle the americans have had if they can somehow be seen as doing the world a favor and then if they withdraw or substantially withdraw and if the arab league gets in there then i think the american administration would say yes we were justified doing it we're changing our policy in the region this is an example of it
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we're not going to occupy that country we could not accept this kind of bloodbath i think that would be their argument when you talk about the international community's fail. because he puts his hand of course the international community has insisted that its own minute she's down by purely for humanitarian reasons do you support that will she think that they could be gen does that play here. there's always the major three agendas with american foreign policy we've seen in the past century and that is we want stability khadafi was all right for us for forty two years he was what reagan called the madman of the middle east all those problems we had with him but by gosh that oil is going and it's going to our allies france and italy and we have a cut in the that so that's fine stability we've had with that with khadafi that's what we need secondly we need a friendly power there for maybe the use of military bases you know we have eight hundred bases in one hundred thirty countries and that would be nice but in the
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case of qaddafi we don't need that in libya rather because we've got enough around the region but the third thing that we need is a government there that will support israel or at least keep quiet about israel that will not join the resistance that will not make problems with camp david and that's a requirement so whatever government goes in there. that's what we're going to be there to try to assure apart from that i don't think we would desire a long intervention they just wants to build a de in that small country of two point six point two million people and i think they believe that they can they can achieve that but there are real doubts about qaddafi. and of course we don't know this afternoon which way the pendulum is going to go he may survive this well some experts say that events in libya are then even echoing the build up as the u.s.
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led invasion of iraq do you think that they see comparisons to fast. we're. certainly we earned the public has earned the right to make that comparison because that was such a false criminal enterprise. i would i think it's fair to raise and discuss that but i see some differences here. you know libya is not iraq neither by population or by power or by influence in the region khadafi has not been a thorn in the side of israel our policy is based largely on what suits israel saddam was a big problem for israel that's why we went in there i think you know there's always similarities about wanting to get their hands on the oil and wanting in force so but that libya has been stable and the europeans can have a role there and certainly the arab league should this is a tremendous opportunity for the arab league to follow up on their declaration that
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they don't want intervention and to try to solve this among themselves to send a delegation over there and let them show that they're worth is something because in many people's eyes are pretty. weak force so i i predict that the arab league will get more involved i think the americans may assassinate qaddafi even through drones that they've got plenty of drones on both of those ships and if they can find them and try to engineer a quick who. and then withdraw i don't think it's in america's interest or the american people would accept yet another interventions our boys are our families are objecting you know the statistics on not just a million and a half that we've killed and that's blood on every american's hands but the condition of the americans coming home people are getting angry about that i mean nobody who comes back from iraq is probably going to be normal again and that's a huge price for nothing you know except
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a bad reputation of increasing. of the world sort i'll be surprised if we get involved and i don't think that's what obama expects he wants to clean it up. for the world that we did something good we did something right for a change and we're out of here but. we have to see how things play out. director of americans of middle east peace many thoughts and speaking to all. those in the program america's foreign policy goes further under the microscope. the future's defense secretary good rises the president to again send a big american land army into asia. or into the middle east or africa. should have his head examined find out what else u.s. congress might have to say about the country's actions and why some accuse the government of double standards. let's take a look now at some international news making headlines around the world on
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pakistan's minister for religious minorities has been killed and the gun attack in the country's capital police say alleged taliban gunman sprayed the victim's car with bullets in a residential neighborhood. he was a christian had been threatened by islamic militants in the past for speaking out against the country's harsh blasphemy laws earlier in the year punjab governor was gunned down by one of his own bodyguards for his opposition to the rules. thousands of people living with and holding a rally in india to protest a planned trade deal between the country in the european union the protesters want a government against signing any deal that would increase the cost of drugs denying tens of thousands of people treatment demonstrators marched through the streets of central new delhi before holding a meeting near the indian parliament. in news even strong winds the hampering recovery efforts spreading clouds of dust in the quake ravaged city of christchurch
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. crews are trading bodies from schools of collapsed buildings have been slowed by repeated alta shelves that have rumbled through the city threatening to bring down bricks and masonry five more bodies have been pulled from the rubble bringing the death toll to a 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 design of the famous brand his creative director john galliano following a series of claims that in subjected people to cinematic abuse in paris the french fashion decisive action for a new video surfaced online showing galliano of these and two women he believed were 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.
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secretary of state hillary clinton has called the changes in u.s. foreign policy desperate to influence the emerging political map the future of american involvement abroad is of the top of the government's agenda christine brazile takes a look at the changing face 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 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
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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 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 robert want kins a 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
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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 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 deserves the condemnation of all who speak out for freedom and justice but in many other regions like behind rain albania and most prominently
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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. . the last age of the u.s. . celebrating his eightieth birthday he has been awarded with russia's highest honor by president dmitri rivette of the order of st medal for his work. for many people his name is synonymous with the end of the cold war the unification of germany and liberalism but with his economic and political reforms he paved the way
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for democracy in russia his best name policy aimed to revamp the country without destroying the basis of socialism his initiatives all thing led to the cancellation of state censorship and the creation of free speech good one. received the nobel peace prize in one nine hundred ninety. got rich off stepped down and became president of critics say he plans the country destructive reform which is still being felt today but the former leader still says russell was in desperate need of change. 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 railed stocked but still
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perestroika achieved a lot inside russia we had democracy free elections freedom of conscience private property freedom to travel abroad everything. glasnost there was so much openness the entire country was affected the 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 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-confident 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
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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 but we need more than that it's a matter of learning to live in a global world. well you can watch the full interview with mikhail gorbachev next hour here on r.t. . doctors in russia are developing a pioneering alternative treatment to heart transplants and with the shortage of organ donations in the country the technique is giving hope to thousands of people on surgery waiting yes. it's a smile that comes straight from the heart that she almost died from heart failure two decades ago but these she only visits a cardiology ward for regular check. look at her she's just a picture of health by know she's been living with her new hurt longer than with her own. dr z.
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miscavige alterative on the tire should twenty one years ago when a donor organ was her only hope for a 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 meet that gives some patients on the list a waiting list a more definite hope. a heart transplant is not a panacea firstly the supply of donor organs is so short that you can only help 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. 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
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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 pulled that day four years off. just eighteen series carried out this procedure is far from being routine yet this successful recovery of older patients has already given the many on the transplant waiting list a change of heart reconstructive to julie has many advantages that were heart transplant patients don't have to change your and agonizing and probably garrincha to wait for a don't know organ the chances of successful recovery a higher but like heart transplant these procedures have one major setback the gap between those who need it and those who get it is too disheartening to huge. or to
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moscow later this hour we explore the history of the car bomb and how terrorists turned into a devastating weapon around the world to day. basis updating us. it's good to have your company you're watching business r.t. or oil prices are continuing to or will close to the highest levels in more than two years as tension in north africa the middle east continues to fuel concerns over crude supplies and i expect a drop in crude supply in the u.s. according to the american petroleum institute is also contributing to the growth we are seeing brant crude cross close to almost one hundred and sixteen dollars a barrel this comes after the news that saudi arabia may not take any significant steps to bring down the price of crude until bread which is under than twenty dollars a barrel still a long way to go there but both benchmark oil blends have seen
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a slight dip per compared to the highs that we've seen earlier today brant curly around hundred fifteen in the half sleights we just over one hundred dollars a barrel. the owners of russian british. made names a billion dollar bid to rewrite speech peace deal with ross now to give him a buy additional stakes in british oil producer to get into exploring arctic shelf to go back as more of the story. there has been the latest twist in the ongoing conflict between b.p. and their russian joint venture ten k.b.p.s. over the right to develop the enormous energy reserves in the russian all thick together with roughly after media reports the russian company has offered to buy a five percent stake in b.p. for about eight billion dollars experts say the company wants to buy your stake and then swap it for shares in roughly half which b.p. plans to acquire just to remind you in january b.p.
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announced a deal with the russian oil major to swap shares and to create a joint venture to explore the russian arctic however the russian shareholders of b.p. is rushing venture take a b.p. object of the deal saying that it violates their agreement with the british company that any new project of b.p. in russia should be implemented via t.m. k.b.p.s. so the latest offer to buy b.p. is take is expected to be discussed with the company is directed at ten k. b.p. board meeting this friday. markets now start with europe and european shares alone wednesday as investors continue to be unrest in mideast and north africa the fourth day of the dr down round of the senate says that rising oil prices could hurt economic recovery from the investors to sell stocks and hedge against the decline. going to russia now russian energy sector is better from high oil prices gold companies will see significant gains as price of precious metals
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gets higher more detail now some of those stocks gold is up one then the half percent actually two point three at the moment i see of my over here and the wages are mostly on the rise gas from bucking that trend point one percent downs bagley's and point four percent on the obvious. price of gold is a new record as investors turned towards the precious metal in times of uncertainty however the prices wavered so. more than fourteen hundred dollars or so is also up at thirty four dollars seventy cents. so we have time for right now we go back i want to update stay with us.
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it's half past the hour this is. the u.k. considers military intervention in libya some fear the ongoing violence in north africa trigger a number of himself his campaign. as well as other foreign. you know who has said they are against news which involves the use of international manager for. the us foreign policy has some americans questioning the country's ever changing political position as they say regular these things than three percent of the bad guys the major shifts in power in the halls of the half occur in the middle east some americans fear the rest will shake their country's global influence. the last these are the soviet union celebrates his eightieth birthday me with the man behind the
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council a show of state censorship and the promotion of free speech itself making him paving the way for destructive and payoffs. coming out the history of the car bomb and how it changed the face of terrorism and the twentieth century. homemade explosives slipped across the atlantic into the hands of the ira. the world's first full scale car bomb war was now ready to begin. and the material to make the bombs was lying around in every farmer's barn in ireland. sean ok i'll hand was a senior ira bomb maker at the time.

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