we do not in any way the use of military assets we must not tolerate this regime using military force against its own people is this history repeating itself the british government getting the guns on standby as a country crumbles to impose a no fly zone in this case libya in two thousand and three it was iraq it's looking very dangerous 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 to be largely the same but not every country is getting that treatment and libya is not the only african nation in turmoil somalia's 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 dirty 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 they're interested in. your oil here anybody screaming and yelling about all those people last week they were killed in the ivory coast. i guess cocoa wasn'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 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 of the 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 will want to impose their puppet government which is still ruling. american military occupation of iraq really that it's not because of help. revolutionaries throughout the middle east need and american and european government shouldn't look for backing at home either up 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. and you were out of a scowl turn of. libyans may want to regime change and should be achieved from within not by foreign intervention. i'm extremely worried it could be a foreign intervention led by i think 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 and installing a pro western regime or if on the other hand they think feel that oil interests and offered here the 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's been discussed the comparison would be what happens in iraq in the ninety ninth his at the end of the gulf war of one nine hundred ninety one 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 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 some to understand what's being said of course it doesn't want america or britain back in. combination the program america's foreign policy goes under the microscope. the future's defense secretary good rises the president good 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. congressman had to say about the country's actions and why some accuse the government of double standards.

that has become common and is the own 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 moderate like silver or gold that can be negotiated and ordered to some degree in. place. yet or. possibly it's not traded now but it could be in the future. lives of teens being interviewed quintillion republic. the center of russian defense production. he 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 just on. the younger slower. russia close up on oxy. now let's have a look at some international news making headlines around the while this hour and a german missile say to perhaps been shot dead on a boss carrying u.s. soldiers a frankfurt app or at least one of the passenger has been seriously wounded piece of reports of their breath a twenty one year old suspect from kosovo the u.s. army says it called confirm the shootings but is looking into the incident. pakistan's minister for religious minorities is been killed in a girl attack and the country's capital police say alleged taliban gunman sprayed

the victim's car with bullets in a residential neighborhood shahbaz bhatti who was a christian have been threatened by islamist militants in the past for speaking out against the country's harsh blasphemy laws earlier in the year a pretty governor was gunned down by one of his own bodyguards for his opposition little. nato has apologized for killing nine civilians in northeast afghanistan the coalition's those preliminary findings indicate that nato forces accidentally killed nine teenagers on tuesday local officials say the boys aged twelve and under were hit by an airstrike while gathering firewood the coalition's there's there was a miscommunication of information concerning the location of alleged weather since . thousands of people live there would h.i.b. and can't sell holding a rally in india to protest a plan 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 denying tens of thousands of people treatment demonstrators marched through the streets of central new delhi before holding a meeting in the indian politics. as 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 abroad is the top of the government's agenda christine fossil takes a look at the changing face of washington's priorities. reisa. 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 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 into what. was occurring 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 can's 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 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 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 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. . but also the us. celebrating his eightieth birthday

he's been awarded with russia's highest honor by president didn't admit that if the same country medal for his work as the soviet leader for many people his name is synonymous with the end of the cold war through unification of germany and liberalism with his economic and political reforms he paved the way for democracy in russia his best day in policy put a story to rebound the country without destroying the basis of socialism his initiatives also led to the cancellation of state censorship on the creation of free speech. received the nobel peace prize in one thousand. however kid started a chain of events that i thought it and got a bunch of the parts of his critics say. it felt today the former leader still thinks russell will. change. the book. when he says 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 stopped but still perestroika achieved a lot inside russia we had democracy free elections freedom of conscience private property freedom to travel abroad everything. 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 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 and 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. well you can watch the full interview with me got a bunch of next hour also to mysel debates a cross talk coming up in just around ten minutes time where his people of our health care discuss cottle's legacy. doctors in russia heart of elevating a pioneering alternative treatment to heart chance falls and with the shortage of organ donations in the country the technique is giving home to thousands of people one surgery waiting west. it's

a smile that comes straight from the heart that almost died from heart failure two decades ago but these only visits a cardiology ward for regular check out. look at her she's just a picture of health by know she's been living with a new heart longer than with her own. doctor the miscarriage operate on natasha twenty one years ago when a donor organ was here 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. that. 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 remodeling consists of seven surgeries that together reverse the damage to a broken heart russian doctor started performing it two years ago and its long term effectiveness is still being tested yet for some like this patient not to it already proved a real life changer. when i 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 was that day four years of. the just eighteen series you risk carried out this procedure 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 stint julie has many advantages that were heart

transplant patients don't have to change your and agonizing and far from guaranteed to wait for you don't know or the chances of successful recovery a higher but like heart transplant this procedure has one major setback the gap between those who need it and those who get it is to discard any huge. art scene. where printing more stories explore on a website dot com he says the taste was online now morning so i knew for a while the rush of persons for the nation's signals to stop their own long program . the capital's famous book and pollack is getting a facelift billions of dollars with no man out of them over job or to be behind the project.

with a recap of all top stories in just a few minutes all next they will the latest business news to be true. welcome to business are so eager to have your company oil prices are continuing to look at highest levels in more than two years as tension and north africa middle east continues to fuel concerns over crude supplies libya's oil chief has just announced a fifty percent drop in the country's crude production and unexpected drop in crude supply in the u.s. is also contributing to the growth. brant crude rose to almost one hundred sixteen dollars a barrel on wednesday on light sweet as hovering around the one hundred dollar mark news that saudi arabia may not take any significant steps to bring down the price

of crude oil until brant reaches under twenty dollars a barrel added. total says russia is a safe market for investments and more stable than other oil producing countries meeting with president medvedev head of the french oil giant of the military said the unrest in northern africa and middle east is only making russia more attractive . to the fundamental rules that are now taking place in oil and gas producing countries gives a signal for all investors that they should be going to russia as russia offers much safer conditions for investment. in all the owners of russian british here k.b.p.s. reportedly made an eight billion dollar bid to rewrite the peace deal with ross neff there's another move by the russian british joint venture to try and get involved in the arctic shelf exploration deal as an america has more on the story. have been the latest twist in the ongoing conflict between b.p.

and their russian joint venture ten k b p over the right to develop the enormous energy reserves in the russian all click 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 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 the 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 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 n k b p so the latest offer to buy b.p. a steak is expected to be discussed with the company is directed at ten k. b.p. board me it's a friday. take a look at the stock market start in the united states and this trading positively

of the payroll processor a.d.p. said private companies added two hundred seventeen thousand jobs and this is new just the basis from january february well above the one hundred eighty thousand new jobs the analysts said predicted this is feeling optimism about the recovery like states in europe shares of managed to somewhat recover the fourth seed just in positive territory but that still down half a percent this is as investors are continuing to fragile the unrest in the middle east and north africa. move to russia now where markets ended in positive territory wednesday's trade this is after the positive opening in the united states the russian energy sector is benefiting from oil prices and gold companies have seen significant gains as the price for precious metal gets i'll take a look about the second first some of the stocks one is gold. of the biggest gainers two and a half percent energy majors also including gazprom one point two percent of the

territory but burbank was down zero point four percent price of gold is a new record highs investors turned towards the precious metal in times of uncertainty silver is also in demand half a percent to thirty four dollars eighty four it stands. severstal is seeing three steel plants in the united states go for sale for two hundred twenty five million dollars but he said the private holding firm the group has agreed to by warren wheeling and sparrows point facility is owned by seven stone of america the deal may be completed already this month and will include a cash payment and securities. high court of london has rejected telling those to post photos of them become shareholders meeting to approve the deal just in these wind and it's over twenty ten will come signed a deal with wind. and then they get so we it is in a bid to create the world's fifth largest mobile operator by subscriber numbers

however no way is telling all which is holder said it would vote against the deal arguing that the matzoh scheme the merger scheme would dilute its holding. of the deal they will hold twenty five percent stake only. the shareholder agreement with . the cannot go below twenty five percent however i think they're afraid that in future be could be voted further somehow and basically the just want to exercise their printer frights. that's the separate forces from your desire to blog with you as the situation is now for the company i think the best you do you as fast as possible so that the company is just focuses on the breach and again because of ford's the last half a year or so it was mostly involved with risk or protection i'm back in one of some of the headlines that i saw to do status.

the question is that so much i'm afraid we're going to make a lot of people very unhappy because he turns eighty minutes out of a child's legacy season loves abroad in loaded home as glasnost and perestroika become distant memories. good samaritan.

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ok this is chaos all round because the u.k. considers military intervention in libya some say the only thing violence in the obama good could trigger and the disastrous campaign as well as foreign governments has said they are against me which involved the use of international military for. the us foreign policy of americans to the country's ever changing political position in which they state regularly sees them supporting the bad guy with major shifts in power in parts of north africa the middle east some americans fear the rest will shake that comes from a little bit. on the last leader of the soviet union celebrates his eightieth

birthday maybe got. behind the constellation of state censorship on the promotion of free speech bought some making him paving the way for destructive akyol take no for. his destiny golf how the legacy of the father of russian democracy is seen both in russia and on the other side of the atlantic costal is up next. and. if you want any. follow in welcoming rostrum computor labelle as he turns eighty middle got a bunch of you see loved abroad in loads good home as glasnost and perestroika become distant memories we ask how will history judge the man who seemingly ended history. and.