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 approval and so we're looking at almost a repeat of what happened in iraq. the result spectrally largely the same but not every country is getting that treatment and libya is not the only african nation in turmoil somalia is drawn out conflict is being 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 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. with black gold 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. 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 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 a staple even now with only feeble sheets of that much vaunted democracy. equally

bogged down in afghanistan with no convincing timeline for withdrawal and an ever rising death toll should 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 will want to impose a puppet government which is still ruling by virtue of american military occupation of iraq really that it's not because of help. the revolutionaries throughout the middle east need and american and european government shouldn't look for backing whom either up 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 your average r.t. . activists count turner told me that while libyans may want to regime change it should be achieved from within and 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 a toughie and installing a pro western regime or if on the other hand they think feel that oil interests and operate here 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

discussed the comparison would be what happens in iraq in the ninety ninth his at the end 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 sea nets the results of a no fly zone was not to prevent but cause the humanitarian crisis and it doesn't take a great leap of imagination to see that sort of situation unfolding libyan 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 and to understand what's being said of course

it doesn't want america or britain back in. well countries around the world are being affected by the events rattling in north africa around the middle east side iraq single oil prices have been fueling concerns of a slow economic recovery well for all the nations fact that's causing business desk now where to meet joins me live at imagery is more hype than reality or are we seeing shifting global economy trends well there's going to be a shift in the global economy trend if oil exports stop from libya or at least they're coming to a halt for a short while we're not seeing that happen right now and therefore there's just risk which is being priced in at the moment this is why we're seeing oil and gas prices going up we're seeing. west texas crude so one hundred dollars fifty four cents at the moment it's up around almost a dollar for brant it's one hundred fifteen dollars sixty two cents that's up another twenty cents today so really there's a risk that the supplies might be disrupted from libya there's risk that. affect

other countries such as saudi arabia one of the biggest oil producing nations in the world and therefore that could lead to a change but we're not really talking about that at the moment came to be too many thanks for talking us through that spike in the oil price more from you later on in the person. still to come later in the program america's foreign policy goes under the microscope. any future some defense secretary who advise 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 he was congressman out say about the kardashians actions and why some breaking of the government to double fund.

that has become normal and he's told me the creation of the bill is 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 madi regulate silver or gold that can be negotiated and afforded to some degree in. place. yet or. possibly it's not traded now but it could be in the future. lives up to spain to the twenty and republic. center of russian defense production

. now while she heads to central russia. handicrafts become an industry. where the harsh winter make schools even more enjoyable. and where everyone can train to be just on mine. russia close up. some international news making headlines around the wall pakistan's minister for religious minorities. and a gun attack in the country's capital police say alleged gunman sprayed the victim's car with bullets in a residential neighborhood shahbaz bhatti he was a christian have been threatened by militants in the past with speaking out against the country's hospitals for me laws in the punjab governor was gunned down by one

of his own bodyguards position to the rules. nato has apologized for killing nine civilians in northeast afghanistan the coalition says preliminary findings indicate that nato forces accidentally killed mine teenagers on tuesday local officials say the boys aged twelve and under were hit by an airstrike while gathering firewood the coalition says there was a miscommunication of information concerning the location of alleged medicines. thousands of people living with hiv council holding a rally in india to protest a planned trade deal between the country and the european union the protesters were in the government against signing any deal that would increase the cost of basic drugs denying tens of thousands of people treated demonstrators marched through the streets of central delhi before holding a meeting of the indian parliament. in new zealand strong winds one

hundred three recovery efforts spreading cals of dulce in the quake ravaged city of christchurch crews retrieving bodies from schools of collapsed buildings have been slowed by repeated off the shelves that are 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 letting police say some of the victims may never be recovered. as changes sweeping through the middle east and north africa u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has called for changes in u.s. foreign policy desperate to influence the emerging political map the future of american involvement abroad is at the top of the government's agenda christine franzl 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 fold 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 enemy. 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 robert want 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 but in my opinion any 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 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 beyond 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 our team. the loss leader of the u.s.s. gorbachev and celebrating his eightieth birthday he's been awarded with russians highest honor have been in the meantime advantage of the order of st andrew medal for his work at the soviet leader for many people his name is synonymous with the end of the cold war that we have occasional germany and liberalism well with his economic and political reforms he paid the way for democracy in russia his best known policy. to revamp the country without destroying the basis of socialism his initiatives the cancellation of state censorship and the creation of speech gorbachev received the nobel peace prize in ninety three a year later however q. started a chain of events which led to the collapse of the soviet union got off stepped

down and bought his yeltsin became president gorbachev critics say the club was the country into destructive and chaotic reform the effects of which are still being felt today but the former leader still says russia 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 because 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 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 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 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 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 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. where you can watch the full interview with me to watch on for around ten minutes time and date with all the major cross talk next hour where people about death discuss patel's legacy ok doctors in

a rush hour out of the pioneer alternative treatment to heart transplants and with the shortage of organ donations in the culture the technique is giving hope to thousands of people. to report. 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 a cardiology ward for regular check out her little. look at her she's just a picture of health i know she's been living with a new heart longer than with her own. ducted the miscarriage operate on natasha twenty one years ago when a donor organ was her only hope for 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 the shortage of donor organs nowadays he's

pioneering any technique that gives some patients on the analyst 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 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 ready when i 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 that i may still need

a heart transplant in the future but this surgery was that day four years of. the just eighteen series you risk carried out this procedure is far from being routine yet the successful recovery of all the patients has already given to many on the transplant waiting list a change of heart reconstructive stint julie has many advantages that were heart transplant patients don't have to change or and agonizing and far from guaranteed to wait for don't know or the chances of successful 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 to discard the huge. arts and school. website is just a taste of what's online right now calling for a new free with all the issues that other nations didn't pay off for for the nontraditional programs. in most cases you have to do is move around the capital's

famous school is getting a facelift with billions of dollars with roman abramovich or for those of you behind the project. well that is the way the news that. you kind of course always check our website for more on all that we've covered this hour and of course you'll find much more including all the. blogs and videos that we do stay with us all next week i don't own the business. thanks very much alice alone welcome to the business news on our scene oil prices

are going to stay 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 an unexpected drop in crude supply in the u.s. is also contributing to the gravest cyclical those figures brant is one hundred fifteen dollars fifty cents a barrel this comes off the news that saudi arabia may not take any significant steps to bring down the price of crude oil until it reaches hundred twenty dollars a barrel which is still quite a way to go light sweet as harboring just over one hundred dollars a barrel at the moment slight dip in the upward trend from tomorrow's today's highs . the owners of russian british have reportedly made an eight billion dollar bid to rewrite the peace deal with rosneft it's another move by the russian british joint venture to try and get involved in the arctic shelf exploration deal because anybody who has more of the story. there has been the

latest twist in the ongoing conflict between b.p. and the russian joint venture ten k b p over the right to develop the enormous energy reserves in the russian all to together with ross nafta 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 at stake and then swap it for shares in rosneft which b.p. plans to acquire just to remind you in january b.p. announced a deal with the russian oil major to swap shares out to create a joint venture to explore the russian arctic however the russian shareholders of b.p. is russian venture to pay 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 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. saying look at the markets now it would be united states and it was a positive opening slightly positive business as payroll processor a.d.p. said the private companies added two hundred seventeen thousand jobs on the seasonally adjusted basis from january to february when the anticipation was up one hundred eighty thousand jobs so much better stats than expected adding optimism about the recovery of us a quick. check of the european markets now and the picture there is better than when we last looked at it better than last time but the same time still negative we're seeing the footsie in the dax down half a percent on the tensions through the middle east and north africa concerns that rising oil prices could hurt economic recovery come to investors to sell stocks hedge against the for the funds. in russia the pictures rosier than last two this is after a positive opening in the u.s. russian energy sector is actually. benefiting from higher oil prices obviously gold

companies are seeing significant gains as the price for precious metals gets. taken in more detail now and we're seeing police gold up two point three percent this hour and if you majors are mostly on the rise with gazprom up point six percent whereas burbank is still down around one percent. the price of gold indeed has a new record high as investors turn towards the precious metal in times of uncertainty however the prices way but since it's kind of the trading at around four hundred dollars per ounce and silver is also up around at around thirty four dollars seventy cents this. sevastopol is selling three is steel plants in the united states for two hundred twenty five million dollars the company said the private holding from the red group as agreed to by warren wheeling and sparrows point facilities owned by

a service style in north america the deal may be completed already this month and will include a cash payment and secured nets. high court of london has rejected telling no one suit to postpone of them become a shareholder meeting to approve the deal at least when teleco. signed a deal with wind owned by egyptian billionaire so it is in a bid to create the world's fifth largest mobile operator by subscriber numbers however norway's tell a lot of it will come a shareholder said it would vote against the go arguing that the merger would just . after the deal they will hold twenty five percent stake only. the shareholder agreement with. the can go below twenty five percent however i think they're afraid that in the future we could be voted further somehow and basically be just want to exercise their parameter frights. that's the

separate process from the your desire to blog with you as the situation is now for the company i think the best the do as fast as possible so that the company is just focuses on the parishioners again because of ford's the last year was so it was mostly involved in those core protection the headlines the next. good samaritan. excellent professional.

medics traveling and possessing an extraordinary car. the doctor who helped many people in his country. the political criminal responsible for thousands of deaths. was it an attempt to repent. or just escape a fair trial. the other line. on our team. culture is that so much to me is really a need to get a lot of people a very unhappy look as he turns eighty minutes out of a child's legacy sees him loved abroad in loaded home as glasnost and perestroika become distant memories. wealthy british style polls a passport under the spotlight. margetts weiner scandal. find out what's really happening to the global

economy in the kinds of reports on r.g.p. . the top off our last day before. the rock of the u.k. concluded minute intervention in libya some fear the only. going bought into the north africa trip. his campaign. as well as foreign governments and said they're all against news which involves the use of internet only the truth hurts. us foreign policy how some americans or countries have a changing political position which they say regularly sees them supporting the. major shift in power. at least some americans fear it will shake the terms global influence. on the last major of the soviet union celebrates

a speech he gave me. the man behind the counter place the state censorship and the progression of free speech some accuse him of paper weight charts. when i. spoke to the former soviet leader about his legacy his interview op next. well 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 surprise people like me those who lived to see there.