west texas crude one hundred dollars fifty four cents a number that's up around almost a dollar and brant is 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 the risk that in might all 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 skylight in the oil price more financial. still to come later in the program american foreign policy goes under the microscope. the future some 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 he was congressman out say about the

country's actions and lysaght he's the comments of doublethink. that has become common and local is to many of the creation of the bill the food system the global food system is not created to feed the people of the world is created to maximize the profits. sure not trading the actual physical grain or trading promises for grain to be delivered a month or six months or twelve months or eighteen months in the future. for reasons model like light silver or gold they 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. plans of teams being to the country and republic. the center of russian defense production. quality heads to central russia. the crops of become an industry. the harsh winter make schools even more enjoyable. and where everyone can train to be a stump. a small. pressure clips uk. has some international news making headlines around the world this hour pakistan's minister for religious minorities. and of dollars attack in the country's capital police say alleged taliban gunmen sprayed the victim's car with bullets in

a residential neighborhood shahbaz bhatti he was a christian hundred threatened by militants in the past and speaking out against the country's hospitals for me last. year governor was gunned down by one of his own bodyguards position to the rules. mazie has apologized for killing nine civilians in northeast afghanistan the coalition says preliminary findings indicate that nato forces accidentally killed nineteen ages on tuesday local officials say the boys aged twelve and under were hit by an airstrip while gathering firewood a coalition says there was a miscommunication of information concerning the location of alleged militants. thousands of people living with hiv as council holding a rally in india to protest a pound 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 treatment demonstrations march through the streets of central delhi for holding a meeting of the indian parliament. in new zealand strong winds and recovery efforts a spreading clouds of dulce in the quake ravaged city of christchurch crews retrieving bodies from schools of collapsed buildings have been slowed by repeated aftershocks 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 one hundred sixty and many more remain missing police say some of the victims may never be recovered. but changes sweep 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 of broad is at the top of the government's agenda christine

brazile to look at the changing face of washington's priorities. first. afghanistan iraq egypt. libya. when it comes to u.s. foreign policy this country's hands are not just full they're often tied secretary of state hillary clinton charged with the task of laying out a plan for the future generations of americans including my own have grown up successful and safe because we chose to lead the world and tackling the greatest challenges but now clear signs that the challenges and the times are changing but 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 enemy. twenty eleven has been a major year with major shifts in prominence and power in northern africa and the

us. and signs that us will influence maybe we need just days before the regime of the gyptian president hosni mubarak fell both secretary clinton and cia director leon panetta called it stable until it was. prepared and 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 what 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 futures defense secretary who advises the president to again send

a big american land army and asia. or into the middle east or africa should have his head examined as general macarthur so delicately put it there is also the matter of money u.s. own economy weak and losing leverage to other powers like china and brazil another frustration voiced by lawmakers doesn't make any sense 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 were 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 last leader of the u.s. has. been celebrating his eightieth birthday he's been awarded with russians highest on our by going in the middle of that of the water of st andrew medal for his work at the south than many people his name is synonymous with the end of the cold war that we have a cage in germany and liberalism well with his economic and political reforms paid the way for democracy in russia is best known policy but it appears. to revamp the country without destroying the basis of socialism his initiatives all say that the

cancellation of state censorship and the creation of speech could write off received the nobel peace prize in ninety eight years later however the chain of events he said to come out of the soviet union cut off stepped down by the sales and became president gorbachev critics say the club was the country into a destructive and chaotic reform the affects 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 than we have to take a risk because we couldn't postpone as we needed changes i don't agree with people say that had a stroke a failed it didn't fail it was disrupted the rails stocks 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 and opportunity to act in foreign affairs we put it to the cold war we normalized our relationship with the u.s. we reunited germany we didn't send our tanks or troops there all our units in eastern europe states where they were it wasn't always easy but many things did not work out the way we planned actually. beginning when we made our first mistakes much 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 nor probably 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 a hundred in 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 that interview with me about all that around ten minutes time and date with all the data across talk next hour people about his. legacy ok doctors and russia are developing a pioneering alternative treatment to heart transplants and with the shortage of organ donations in the country is giving hope to thousands of people on. the reports it's a smile that comes straight from the heart that she almost died from heart failure to decades ago and these visits a cardiology ward for regular check out of the new. 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. doctor of the miscarriage operated on natasha twenty one years ago but a donor organ was her only hope for 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 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 hope a smattering of patients secondly it brings with it a number of complications starting with ethical dilemmas to biological functions that's why finding an alternative treatment that will allow to preserve a host organ is so crucial to the treatment rapporteur 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 attractiveness is still being tested yet for someone like this patient not stare it already proved

a real life changer. 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 art i was told that i may steal your heart transplant in the future but the surgery was there before years of. but just eighteen seared you risk carried out this procedure is far from being rude see and yet this successful recovery of older patients has already given to many on the transplant waiting list a change of heart reconstructive surgery has made that injuries that were heart transplant patients don't have to change and agonizing and phone from garrincha to wait for don't know or and 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 disheartening a huge so we call it seen most. of all stories roll on all

websites dot com is just a taste of what's on widely right now corning for a new three dollars profit and choose other nations because it can offer this and stop the introduction of programs. in most cases getting insane disney down the capital's famous gold coupon is getting a facelift with billions of dollars with romanov more bitter pill to be behind the contracts. well that is the way the news is it's our new kind of course always check all right side dot com for more on all that we've covered this hour and of course you'll find more including all the latest logs and videos that we've all been honored that produce day with us all next week will i don't place on the business news or dmitri

. thanks very much alice alone welcome to the business news on art seen oil prices are continuing 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 take a look at those figures brant is one hundred fifteen dollars fifty cents a barrel this comes after news that saudi arabia may not take any significant steps to bring down the price of crude oil until it reaches hundred twenty dollars belches still quite a way to go light sweet as hovering just over one hundred dollars a barrel moments slight dip in the upward trend from tomorrow's today's highs. the owners of russian british have reportedly made an eight billion dollar beard's

to rewrite the peace deal with rosneft it's another move by the russian through the joint venture to try and get involved in the arctic shelf exploration deal presented to the group as more the story. that have been the latest twist in the ongoing conflict between b.p. and their russian joint venture tim k.b.p.s. over the right to develop the enormous energy reserves in the russian all to together with ross nafta these are of course 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 that's what works for shares in last year which b.p. plans to acquire just remind you in january b.p. 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 russian venture to take a b.p. object a big deal think 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. a stake is expected to be discussed with the company is that record at ten k. b.p. board meeting this friday. going to the markets now we saw with the united states on there was a positive opening slightly positive business as payroll processor a.d.p. said private companies added two hundred seventeen thousand jobs on a seasonally adjusted basis from january to february when the anticipation was of 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 that 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 fruits in the dumps down half a percent on the tension still the middle east and north africa concerns that rising oil prices could hurt economic operate from to investors to sell stocks

hedge against the funds. in russia pictures raise even laws to this is after positive opening in the u.s. russian energy sector is actually. benefiting from higher oil prices obviously coal companies are seeing significant gains as the price for precious metals gets high enough to give more detail now and we're seeing police called up two point three percent still this hour as you majors are mostly on the rise with gas from our point six percent whereas bank is still down around one percent it's down. the price of gold indeed has a new record high as investors turned towards the precious metal in times of uncertainty however the prices where that sense it's currently trading at around forty one hundred dollars per troy ounce and silvers also up around the edges around thirty four dollars seventy six this is a. service dollars selling three is steel plants in the united

states for two hundred twenty five million dollars the company said the private holding from the rent group has agreed to buy warren wheeling and sparrows point facilities owned by such a star in north america the deal may be completed already this month and will include a cash payment and screwups. how court of london has rejected that annoyance suit to postpone to become a shareholder meeting to approve the deal at least we instead of actually what he said biblical and signed a deal with wind owned by egyptian billionaire neg so it is in a bid to create the world's fifth largest mobile operator by subscriber numbers however no ways tell it no of it become a shareholder said it would vote against the deal arguing that the merger would tell you that's why. i asked if they do will be will hold twenty five percent stake only on the shareholder agreement with. the kind of go good will point for

a percent however i think they're afraid that in future they could be go down further some harm and basically we believe just to exercise a parameter frights. that's a separate colson's from your desire to block the deal as the situation is now for the company i think the best if you use them as fast as possible so they become funny because just focuses on the parishioner again because of ford's the last year was so it was mostly involved in the corporate direction the headlines the next.

good samaritan. excellent professional. medics travel much possessing an extra ordinary 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 life. on our team. culture is that so much could be easily be made into a lot of people a good idea but looking as he turns eighteen out of a child's legacy season loves abroad in loaded home as glasnost and perestroika become distant memories. wealthy british style polls sometimes it's

time. to cut. markets finance scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports on our t.v. . and start off our last day before the. upper brackets believe kagan that is minute change events in libya some theory on. i'm going violence the north are going to trigger because there's a russia as well as a lot of foreign governments have said they're all against him use which involves the use of international military it's. us foreign policy how some americans want to come to the ever changing political position which they say regularly sees them

supporting the. major shift in power in the current at least some americans fear will shake their conscience global influence. on the last major the so be it celebrates a speech he gave me. the man behind the constellation of state censorship and the promotion all free speech some accuse him of paving the way and chaos of. shutting out these spikes the former soviet news about his legacy his interview next. because he will mr gorbachev it's so great to have you with us today good to see you again but this regard richard if 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 her eightieth birthday have seen a lot in life eighty is a loss we should thank god for giving us so many years and because it eighty you already know a lot you've experienced many things i can view life in a primitive way to think that is safer today compared to the late eighty's wealthiest it's more that if we look at the middle east for example in most countries where people took to the streets demanding resignation of their leaders these leaders have been in power for twenty or thirty years it is unbelievable mubarak has ruled egypt for twenty nine years as for gadhafi we are all confused about the actual date when his rule began to i think we were right when we said there should be a limit otherwise people got tired of the same leaders in addition after ten years or so you get nepotism leaders become too preoccupied to take care of the things that are really important that's why we decided that the maximum term for the

general secretary the chairman of the council of ministers and others would be ten years after ten years they had to step down. so you think ten years is the ideal clearing it for a head of state. yes of course many of those people are very capable they can be very useful in other areas but it is important to have rotation young people should not feel like they are locked in a box lest they upset the system built on nepotism but you concerned when i look at the world today. lenin whom i respect once said don't be afraid of chaos we see a lot of chaos around chaos produces new forms of life it is true so these troubles too will pass it won't be easy of course changes are never easy with this will be a step to a better future will. cousin guess what we're sorry often say that what you regret most is that disintegration of the soviet union do you think that it could exist in

two thousand and eleven what it would have been like today had not integrated. reportable it could exist even longer it should have become a union of sovereign states where the communist regime are also being a union of sovereign states means that each sovereign state has the right to make its own choice the conditions we were in require that we practice what the constitution said of the constitutions of the soviet republics said they were states entitled to self-determination that's why we should have made them sovereign states. but different regimes different political systems mean that some countries could be democratic while others remain communist yet. no i think they all would have followed the same scenario because they would be making their choice at a stage when they were still close to each other in many respects so if something would change in one stays others would follow. they would have been like communicating vessels today sixty or seventy percent of people say they were

aggression of the soviet union fell apart because when you ask them if they want the soviet union to be restored only nine percent say yes. we would do you blame yourself for the fall of the soviet union. no i for the best i could to defend the soviet union but i failed why do you think the c.i.s. fall apart is practically nonexistent. that's because of the political situation we had in our country after nine hundred eighty nine the elite played a role there after nine hundred eighty nine we had the coup first they tried to overthrow gorbachev using political means but they failed because people supported gorbachev i always wanted to ask during the coups where you were isolated what did you feel i knew anything could happen it was not just a feeling i knew it not for it they tried to provoke us and get us to start shooting and then they would document that and have the right to shoot back and

kill us. that's number one what are you afraid the most for your life your country . even you know for my family and of course i thought that it was not going to be just my family other people may suffer too i knew there would be bloodshed. especially if you consider how big our country is it takes our country a while to start but when it does it is very hard to stop so my goal was to renew the country without bloodshed. because it gets out when you started the perestroika could you imagine the scale of the changes to crown. more useful i think i did not completely but it is dangerous to start a storm in our country if you lose control you may get into a lot of trouble to shelves reforms basically failed reforms failed we realized from experience that it was dangerous to wait much longer that we have to take

a risk but we couldn't we needed changes would be even on the journey because you are saying that you didn't quite understand the scale of it all when did you finally get a clear realization that there was no return to the past for. the world i don't agree with people say that perestroika failed it didn't fail it was disrupted the rails stopped 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 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 and.