now some brush and box from the bush point minister david cameron wants for me to establish a no fly zone over libya has been rejected by many in the international community among its aunts and russia they say it should be up to begins in selves to determine the fate and the future is how we have in london was to go to hit and impose this no sign so it would essentially be committing itself to shooting down its cost that's over now there are coming to the british troops deployed in the they are they're all going with the humanitarian situation but there are growing concerns that they could be used to take over chemical weapons stockpiles and this because land suited is fearful that gadhafi might use the stockpiles against his own people will secure confirmations on both egypt and america that to you is your ships have still to this is going up in the mediterranean sea not far from libya so there are concerns of testable american intervention in addition to a possible push when my colleague in london or image looks at what some

intervention would mean for libya and we do not in any way rule out the use of military assets we must not tolerate this regime using military force against its own people is this history repeating itself the british government getting the guns on standby as a country crumbles bowing to impose a no fly zone in this case libya in two thousand and three it was iraq it's looking very dangerous news looking quite possible that they will launch such an attack with or without un approval so we're looking at almost a repeat of what happened in iraq and indeed the results will be largely the same but not every country is getting that treatment and libya is not the only african nation in turmoil somalia's drop out conflict has been called a slow genocide but there's little sign of u.s. or european military input and it's a similar story. this side of the continent there are events unfolding right now in

ivory coast where there is also conflict an armed conflict between rebels and the government but nobody seems to be thinking of that it's only because fashionable attention is focused on libya oil but also for the political implications of the middle east as a whole as we all know the west including my own country britain has got its hands very dirty with the libyan leadership over recent years dirty with black gold libya has the largest proven oil reserves in africa more than three percent of the global total and there could be a lot more undiscovered the only reason they're interested in. your oil here anybody screaming and yelling about all those people last week they were killed in the ivory coast. i guess cocoa wasn't that you know 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 should be clear to an idiot that the mess that's been made in afghanistan the terrible disaster that was caused in iraq really shouldn't be voted on any more countries in the middle east it's a model today's troubled african nations were imposed on their puppet government which is still ruling by virtue of american military occupation of iraq really there is not the current of help. revolutionaries throughout the middle east need and american and european governments. shouldn't the backing of whom ether 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 in sight 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. two author we're going to perspective on the situation in north africa from political expert mark and broyard thanks for being with us gadhafi is continuing to talk tough it's warned again today the thousands of libyans will die if foreign

powers intervene what do you think intervention would mean for a country already in the grip of a humanitarian crisis intervention would definitely mean more deaths in libya because a civil war will be ignited to a higher level indeed already years. colonel gadhafi will also fight to the last minute. you are absolutely sure of that you think he will fight to the very last year not just talk if i am absolutely sure that you're good at the he means what he says when he'll fight to the last man this is a dictator who wants to hold on to power and. foreign intervention can only exasperate the problem in libya it cannot help in any way and as a matter of fact foreign intervention has already begun the french the united states and the british have already said so called to manage tarion aid to benghazi but they've also sent military advisors and special forces this means that your operations have already begun. do you think we could see

a similar similar. to what we saw in iraq we are seeing a similar scenario of what happened to iraq we're seeing the same stories we're we're seeing talks about sanctions no fly zone reports false reports that have been used to justify the no fly zones about aerial strikes on protesters and civilians this is exactly the same scenario as iraq in fact they're starting to talk about chemical weapons in libya it was in two thousand and three that the united states and britain want to fight gadhafi as someone who gave up his weapons of mass destruction now they're doing about face and claiming that colonel gadhafi has chemical weapons no this is another book the man they're creating to justify their foreign policy in regards to libya looking at what you're seeing today you've had syria across the latest news you see in the news wires where do you think this is going just today where the gadhafi has failed to retake control over the eastern

town of brag but as you mentioned earlier on he says he's still determined to cling to power you think he will do the very end do you think he will succeed where is it going to go. colonel gadhafi would succeed and no not that i'm an apologist for he would succeed against the opposition forces right now in libya because of his military might. the opposition officials so called off opposition officials in benghazi have asked for military intervention intervention by the united states by britain by france they have asked for this knowing full well that they can't take on colonel gadhafi now i want to point out that the opposition figures the leaders and big guys who are regime officials themselves are very different from the grassroots grassroots movement in libya they don't want foreign intervention but their so-called leaders do you know saying without let me just get this clear you're saying without foreign intervention it looks like gadhafi would be able to

take control he's already can go skating with tribes and i'm sorry he's already negotiating with tribes and cities in libya for a peaceful for a peaceful settlement in fact it's very ironic that the united states called on protesters in egypt and the regime to talk things out but in libya we don't see the same principles being applied we don't see the same principles being applied in an all man or yemen or about rape but in libya we have a whole different story because of oil interests or black gold as some may call it one is not all that's beyond if you think. i think the united states wants to appropriate libya's wealth now we're hearing stories about migrants from all over the world rushing out of libya this says something about the economic status of libya this was a country that wanted to buy british petroleum they have a lot of money set aside as well as oil the united states wants to appropriate libyan oil the actions have the operations have already begun the u.s. the u.s.

senate yesterday passed a resolution for a no fly zone they've already made their minds up the italian government has. canceled or put on hold its treaty friendship treaty with libya which allows u.s. and nato forces to use its bases everything is already begun what's the human toll going to be here already two thousand libyans of parish which are going to end do you think with regard to the human toll tragically this is going to escalate the united states has an interest to make the civil war escalate britain has an interest to make the civil war escalate just like they did before in iraq after the gulf war they they told iraqis that they could they would come in and they let them fight sadam these were people who wanted democracy shiites military officials kurds they want to rebel against them and then they didn't intervene they let them be slaughtered so they could use it as a pretext for war either way they want the situation to escalate they're the ones

that are fueling the fire and libya not dot doesn't mean that i don't acknowledge the agency of the libyan people and the arab people who want to be free of a dictatorship but the fact simply is that they are fueling the fire in libya or. research so shit talking to us from auto or tonight thanks for your thoughts on the program. now countries around the world are being affected by the events unraveling in north africa the middle east skyrocketing oil prices been feuding concern of a slower economic. but the business side of this for the latest facts and figures cross to a business has to be true maybe because they're high they're all what is happening with all prices today what kind of an effect it having on the stock markets two and a half we are. well kevin right now price is actually growing more than one dollar thirty cents for brant crude that's one hundred sixteen dollars thirty nine cents the price i'm standing right now and west texas is one hundred one dollars

forty nine cents up one dollar eighty seven two factors here very important that is of course worries about supplies coming from libya concerned over there right now centered on the statement that fifty percent of production has halted already in the whole country but supplies are still coming frewen nobody knows what's going to happen from that country whether it will spread into other countries such as saudi arabia which is of course one of the biggest oil producers in the world and also according to the american petroleum institute crude supplies to the united states fell unexpectedly and this is also contributing to or oil price growth this is limiting gains on most stock markets especially in the united states and in europe of russia it's actually quite a favorable factor because russia is very oil centered and most energy stocks were driving the markets forward and we got more business with you in about ten minutes time and we did we'll see them thank you for that update there well also still to

come later in the program america's foreign policy goes under the microscope. the futures defense secretary goodbyes as the president to again send a big american land army indonesia. or into the middle east or africa. should have his head examined find out what else he was congressman to say about the country's actions and why some accuse the government of double standards world news now though in brief let me bring up to date on the top stories coming into worse the u.s. air force has confirmed two of its servicemen have been killed and two wounded. in a shooting at frankfurt airport a gunman opened fire on a bus carrying military personnel while it was parked outside the building following the shooting a twenty one year old suspect from kosovo was arrested by german police the motive for the attack is still unclear. but his stand 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 is

a christian has 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 lord's. natures apologized for killing nine civilians in northeast afghanistan of the coalition says preliminary findings indicate that nato forces accidentally killed nine children on tuesday local officials say the boys aged twelve and under were hit by an airstrike or gathering firewood the coalition says there was a miscommunication of information concerning the location of alleged militants. thousands of people living with hiv cancer are holding a rally in india to protest a planned trade deal between the country and 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 parliament. has changes sweep through the middle east and

north africa u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton's call for changes in u.s. foreign policy is desperate to influence the emerging political map the future of american involvement of broad is at the top of the government's agenda right now christine freeserve takes a look at the changing face of washington's priorities. ricer. 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 enemies. twenty eleven has been a major year with major shifts in prominence and power in northern africa and the middle east. and signs that u.s. global influence may be waning just days before the regime of egyptian president hosni mubarak fell both secretary clinton and cia director leon panetta called it stable until it was. there are also in consistencies on the war in afghanistan in afghanistan integrated military and civilian surges have helped set the stage for our diplomatic surge to support afghan led reconciliation that could end the conflict and put al qaeda on the run but robert want 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 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 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 take influence what's next in washington christine for r.t. . the last leader of the us has become a god which offers celebrating his eightieth birthday he's been awarded with russia's highest honor by president to be to medvedev the order of saying to andrew medal for his work as the soviet leader for many people his name synonymous with the end of the cold war the occasion of germany and liberalism with his economic

and political reforms he paved the way for democracy in russia is best known policy but a strong aim to revive the country without destroying the basis of socialism is initiatives also led to the cancellation of state censorship and the creation of free speech which of received the nobel peace prize in one nine hundred ninety eight a year later vo a coup started a chain of events which. led to the collapse of the soviet union and gorbachev departure its critics say the country into a destructive and chaotic reform the effects of which is still being felt today 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 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 also 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 you know wasn't always easy many things did not work out the way we planned at the beginning but when we made our first mistakes we didn't really explain to people what was going on and didn't get them involved in all those processes we were self-confident lord 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 of 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. i'm sure the full interview with mikhail gorbachev for all data dates coming up next next hour in fact here on our table and the play of the. rees's want to look on our web site r t dot com gave the clicks right now pleading for a new world russia is pushing for other nations with nuclear arsenals to start their own. program so that story interest you. give us your views on that of course you can with all the other stories you see on the web page moscow's going to get some disneyland there it is the capital famous corky park as it is at the moment but it's going to be getting a facelift with billions of dollars with a mortgage reportedly behind the longer there what more again had to.

change later this hour we explore the history of the car bomb and how terrorists turned it into a devastating weapon still used around the world today first. business we heard from in ten minutes ago he's got more now dimitri's here on r.t. . welcome to business r.t. with me to be sure of the day oil prices continue to wobble close to the highest levels in more than two years as attention in northern africa and 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 an unexpected drop in crude supply in the u.s. is also contributing to the growth brant crude rose to around one hundred and sixteen dollars almost a hundred seventeen dollars a barrel on wednesday like sweet as hovering around the one hundred one half dollar mark news that saudi arabia may not take any significant steps to bring down the price of crude oil until brant reaches a hundred twenty dollars a barrel also adding to the spike. total says russia is a safe market for investments and more stable than other oil producing countries now meeting with president medvedev the head of the french oil giant christophe de margerie 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 the owners of the russian british peter and venture reportedly made an eight billion dollar bid to rewrite the peace deal with rosneft is another move by the joint venture to try and get involved in the arctic shelf exploration deal that i'm a bit more in the story. there has 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 to together with the 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 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 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. is take is expected to be discussed with the company has directed at ten k. b.p. board meeting this friday. markets to start with the united states and they did open a high effort that was now four point two percent payroll processor a.d.p. said private companies added two hundred seventeen thousand jobs in january february that's opposed to one hundred eighty thousand new jobs the analysts had predicted that's a positive factor yet high oil prices are chilling investor appetite european shares on wednesday ended the session in negative territory the forty down point four percent the dax point six percent this is as investor continue to fret over

the unrest in the middle east and north africa concerns that rising oil prices could hurt economic recovery best to sell stocks and hedge against further declines here in russia the. price back to was a positive one they managed to recover at the end of the session russian energy sector is benefiting from this oil prices we're seeing and you stocks going up at world. gold companies are seeing significant gains as the price for the freshest match what was going session long second to get more details for his gold as proof of what i've just said to him off the scent but energy majors we're up against from one point two percent of the close burbank and other banking stocks were down twelve bank down point four percent at the close analysts say the market still has potential to test new levels. never to markets recover the was so often mean they've worked in general do well that it was much list others would have seen yesterday when the market was based on the resistance level and i

think that the people is that really waiting to see a poll today trading to new york will go to gold so if it was one the correction on the neurosis about inflationary pressure from the wanted to prices then we can see a continuation of wind in the russian market with. russia to new levels. that's it for me this i'll be back in one hour time with an update had allies on next nazi.

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the kennel was her job as a treat. it's nine thirty pm we're also going watching out to top stories of iraq as the u.k. considers military intervention in libya. some fear the signal for africa could trigger another disastrous campaign russia as well as i live for and the government says it said that they're against moves which involve the use of international military force. the us foreign policy has some americans questioning the countries of a changing political position meantime which they say in the season supporting the bad guys with major shifts of power in parts of north africa the middle east some americans fear the west will shake their country's global influence. on the last leader of the soviet union celebrates his eightieth birthday because gorbachev was

the man behind the constellation of state censorship and the promotion of free speech but some accuse him of paving the way for destructive and chaotic for the. coming of the history. the face of terrorism in the twentieth century. my name is bob baer. i used to be a cia station in the eleven on during the civil war. it was chaos. but the real threat was always car bombs. but until now the car bomb secret history has never been told. who invented it who developed it and who killed. i've come back to the one city where car bombs have forever shape.