broken down though. let's go to the regret of both sides it seems to be in this case i was rather surprised to hear a p commander peter mandelson place great advisors saying that he only wished he had a chance to talk to. gadhafi before he made his t.v. speech saying that he was going to be prepared to fight its own people to the last call it seems that he thinks it's a public relations issue whether he starts a massacre in his own people or not i think that they are very uncomfortable about what will happen if the people in the in the region and in libya specifically actually start taking control of their own lives earlier on today if you did say during a t.v. address that he will fight to the end he's reiterated that again what do you think will happen to him. now do you think he really does have his back against the wall is there a chance though nevertheless that he may even at this late stage managed to claw back power where do you think it's going to go. there is always

a danger that he might claw back power and i think that's been it's been seen in uprisings against dictators well throughout history that if if their momentum of the uprising loses steam then they dictate will start regrouping his forces is already trying to counterattack this morning i believe that if as long as the. rising and the revolutionaries keep their and the mentoring going they will actually manage to push him back and defeat him i think that a lot of the forces who are actually stayed loyal to gadhafi so far are watching to see if it's how long it's worth supporting and i think a lot of the military forces he has sent against different towns to try and try and defeat the rebellion have actually changed sides a lot of people have gone over or at least handed over their own because they're not keen on going on to support. that. we have sorry yes what if gadhafi

does go. to philip. that remains to be seen i know that even in benghazi there are different groups of people who are talking about about taking control there are people who have. just risen are people who started organizing on the streets the people who heroically taken on its forces have started creating councils that are organizing people in all the main cities of libya and now there are also people who are leading members of his regime who have now switch sides who are also saying that they should be able to organize a provisional government which of these becomes dominant i think will depend on what happens over over the next few days i think the west would find it much easier to talk to people who just defected from his regime i do think in terms of democracy it will be much better actually the people who reason are overtaken on. a

much more about what they want about the future of libya a future that would involve a better role for ordinary people i think it would much better for the country if those would become dominant. journalist a line from london tonight thanks for your thoughts here on b r t news channel's preach. and still to come a little bit later in the program different subject america's foreign policy what kind of different goes under the microscope. the future's 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 find out what else u.s. congressmen have to say about the country's actions or why some of the government the double standard. international news in brief before that now german officials say two people have been shot dead in a bus carrying u.s. soldiers and. frankfurt airport two other people have been seriously wounded police

have reportedly arrested a twenty one year old suspect from cost of a german chancellor angela merkel has condemned the shootings. but the stars minister for religious minorities has been killed in a gun attack in the country's capital police say alleged taliban gunmen sprayed the victim's car with bullets in a residential neighborhood shahbaz bhatti who's a christian had been threatened by islamist militants in the past for speaking out against the country's harsh blasphemy laws earlier in the year of punjab governor was gunned down by one of his own bodyguards for his opposition to the. nato as apologize for killing nine civilians in northeast afghanistan the coalition says preliminary findings indicate that nato forces accidentally killed nineteen ages on tuesday local officials said the boys aged twelve a number were hit by an airstrike while gathering firewood be a coalition says there was a miscommunication of information concerning the location of alleged militants of

course they're not teenagers if they are twelve and. now thousands of people living with hiv in cancer are holding a rally in india to protest a planned trade deal between the country and the european union a protest was born the government again signing any deal that would increase the cost of basic drugs to nine tens of thousands of people treatment demonstrators marched through the streets of central new delhi before holding a meeting near the indian parliament. changes week for 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 of the future of american involvement abroad is the talk of the government's agenda that is christine preserve 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 a 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 sometimes we support the bad guys and the bad guys become our enemies. twenty eleven has been a major year with major shifts in prominence and power in northern africa and the middle east. and signs that u.s. global influence maybe waning just days before the regime of egyptian president hosni mubarak fell both secretary clinton and cia director leon panetta called it stable until it was. there are also inconsistency is on the war in

afghanistan in afghanistan integrated military and civilian surges have helped set the stage for our diplomatic surge to support afghan led reconciliation that could end the conflict and put al qaeda on the run but robert want 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 could that at west point in my opinion any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big american land army and asia. well into the middle east or africa should have his head examined as general macarthur so delicately put it and 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 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 that 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 the 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 looking ahead and i was tired when i see tonight an in-depth look at the weapon of choice for terrorists around the world. comrie your feet. the last leader of the u.s.s.r. mikhail gorbachev celebrating his eightieth birthday he has been awarded with russia's highest honor a president of the treatment but in the order of st andrew medal for his work at the start it leader for many people his name synonymous with the end of the cold

war and unification of germany and liberalism and its economic and political reforms he paved the way for democracy here in russia is best known policy. to revamp the country without destroying the places of socialism is nish lives also led to the cancellation of state censorship and the creation of free speech which often see the nobel peace prize in one thousand nine hundred ninety three and later however started a chain of events which led to the collapse of the soviet union and gorbachev departure his critics say he plunged the country though into a destructive and chaotic reform of the effects of which is still being felt today but the former leader still says russia was in desperate need of change. these are the google books. who said we realized from experience that it was dangerous to wait much longer that we had to take a risk because we couldn't disclose we needed changes i don't agree with people to the perestroika 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 title property freedom to travel abroad everything looked also all glass or steel and there was so much openness the entire country was affected but the people realized they had finally got some freedom and an opportunity to act in foreign affairs we put an end to the cold war we normalized our relationship with the u.s. we really liked it germany we didn't send our tanks or troops there all our units in eastern europe stayed where they were you know wasn't always easy but 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. all those processes we were self-confidence in war but in public politics i don't think we have ever lost a major battle nuclear arsenals were significantly reduced thanks to our efforts during perestroika today where 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 a mechanism for humbling the hardest and most challenging issues but we need more than that it's one of the it's a matter of learning to live in a global world. and i just let you know you can see the full interview with mikhail gorbachev in about ten minutes time tonight here on r.t. . doctors in russia are developing a pioneering alternative treatment of heart transplants with a shortage of organ donations in the country right now the technique is giving hope to thousands of people on surgery waiting lists i was on a boy reports it's a smile that come straight from the heart that almost died from heart failure to decades ago and these visits to cardiology ward for regular check out with a. 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. the thugs in miscarriage operated 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 new 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 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 seventh urges 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 someone like this patient not to it already proved a real life changer you buddy 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 art i was told i may still need a heart transplant in the future but the surgery was there before years of. eighteen serious carried out this procedure is far from being routine yet this excess full recovery of all the patients has already given to many on the transplant waiting list the change of heart reconstructive surgery has many advantages there were heart transplant patients don't have to change and agonizing and opt for the gallantry that week for a donor organ the chances of success for recovery higher because heart transplant this procedure has been one major setback to get him to school even get into school yet it is still disheartening because huge. arts in my school.

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a business first with any tree. thanks so much kevin hello and welcome to business artsy oil prices are at a new levels in the more than two years as tension north african middle east continues to fuel concerns of crude supply now libya's oil chief has also announced a fifty percent drop in the country's cream production and an unexpected drop in crude supply in the united states is also contributing to the group look at those figures brant is hovering over one hundred seventeen dollars a barrel in we've got unfortunately some kind of technical error we can't show you the latest figures right now but i can actually tell you what they are and that's west texas crude one hundred one dollars sixty nine cents that's up to two dollars six cents brant one hundred seventeen point seven t. that's up one dollar seventy five cents this is as of course the concerns are still high about supply from the north african region. to

tell says russia is a safe market for investments and more stable than other world producing countries meeting with president of the head of the french oil giant christophe to measure e said rest in north africa the middle east is only making russia more attractive to your bottom the fundamental rules that are now taking place in orland gas producing countries gives a signal for all investors that they should be going to russia as russia offers much steeper conditions for investment. the owners of russian and british here gave you have reportedly made an eight billion dollar bid surreal right b.p.'s deal with rosneft it's another move by the russian british joint venture to try and get involved in the arctic shelf exploration because there's more in the story. there 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 authentic

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 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 absent create a joint venture to explore the russian arctic home of the russian shareholders of b.p. his russian 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 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. going to stocks this hour and we start with the united states where they opened up but that was now slipped into negative territory just

point two percent payroll processor a.d.p. said that private companies added two hundred seventeen thousand jobs from seasonally adjusted basis from january to february and that's well above the one hundred eighty thousand new job the anticipated yet while prices are chilling investor appetites to europe now and european shares managed some kind of recovery one last look at them but they sit back into the red on wednesday at the end of the session as investors continue to pressure the unrest in the middle east and north africa concerns that rising oil prices we've heard just now michael coverage from the best is to sell stocks and hedge against further declines. in russia pretty positive picture at the close the markets managed to recover up to a positive effect in the united states such as of course benefiting from these high oil prices and gold comfort. it's also seeing significant gains in price for the metals getting a look at that in a second first as some of the russian stalks gold is up two and

a half percent of the clothes energy majors are also higher as i said gazprom are one point two percent of the clothes parts of the banking sector is quite weak as well banker down point four percent at the close price of gold earning a new record high for fourteen hundred thirty eight dollars fifteen cents per troy ounce that's for gold and silver is also in demand is trading at around the fifty four dollars eighty point sense this. is selling three steel plants in the united states for two hundred twenty five million dollars the company said the private holdings the group has agreed to by warren wheeling and sparrows point facilities owned by citizen of north america made a deal may be completed already this month and will include a cash payment security. that's all for me i'll be back in one i was with an update comes next with the headlines to stay with us.

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the book . hello this is the r t news channel from moscow my name's kevin owen and these are all top stories tonight for you back out of iraq as the u.k. considers military intervention in libya some for the ongoing violence in november could trigger another disaster struck a russian as well as other foreign governments and said they are against this which involves the use of. international military force. u.s. foreign policy some americans question the country's ever changing political positions which they say regularly sees them supporting the bad guys with major

shifts in power in parts of north africa and the middle east so americans for the rest will shake their country's global him for. his loss leader of the soviet union celebrates his eightieth birthday mikhail gorbachev was the cancellation of the state censorship and the promotion of free speech but some accuse him of paving the way for destructive and chaotic reforms. i don't see sophie shevardnadze spoke to the former soviet leader about his legacy that interview is coming right up for you . mr gorbachev it's so great to have you with us today good to see you again but this regard 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 their eightieth birthday have seen a lot in life eighty is a lot we should thank god for giving us so many years and because of eighty you already know a lot of experience many things i can view life in a primitive way that's even laughter safer today compared to the late eighty's or here is this what 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 will bark has ruled egypt for twenty nine years as for gadhafi we are all confused about the actual day 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 you should live. so you think ten years is the ideal clearing 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 let me upset the system built on nepotism if 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 but this will be a step to a better future for them. doesn't it work 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 it not

integrated. it could exist even longer it should have become a union of sovereign states with a 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 and the constitutions of the soviet republics said they were states entitled to self-determination that's why we should have made them sovereign states. are different regimes different political systems do you mean that some countries could be democratic while others remain communist yes. 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 that the soviet union fell apart but when you ask them if they want the soviet union to be

restored only nine percent say yes. but it works laura who do you blame yourself for the fall of the soviet union. no i thought the best i could to defend the soviet union but i failed why do you think the c.i.s. fell apart it 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 clues what you were isolated what did you feel. i knew anything could happen it was not just a feeling i knew 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 the way what are you afraid the most for your life the country you you. know.

no for my family and of course i thought that it was not going to be just my family other people may suffer too but 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. mr only rarely gets out when you started the perestroika could you imagine the scale of the changes to calm. people i think i did but not completely it is dangerous to start a storm in our country if you lose control you may get into a lot of trouble to show his reforms basically failed and proceedings reforms failed we realized from experience that it was dangerous to wait much longer that we had to take a risk but we couldn't put stoners we needed changes but even in the evening.

you were 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 with. the world community i don't agree when people say the perestroika failed it didn't fail it was disrupted derailed stopped but still perestroika achieved a lot inside russia we had democracy free elections freedom of conscience private property freedom to travel abroad everything old so 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 in eastern europe stayed where they were truthful. i think we're going.