it was in two thousand and three that the united states and britain want to fight the guy is someone who gave up his weapons of mass destruction now they're doing an about face in claiming that colonel gadhafi has chemical weapons you know this is another book they're creating to justify their foreign policy in regards to libya 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 you have a whole different story because of oil interest or black gold as some may call it. martinez and roy of a political and political expert talking to us from ottawa a bit earlier on now still to come in the program of america's foreign policy 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 sue is congressman have to say about the

country's actions and why some accuse the government of couple stand. that has become common and loom is to meet the creation of the food system the global food system does not created to feed the people of the world is created to maximize the profits. gernot trading the actual cash physical grain your trading promises for grain to be delivered for a month or six months or twelve months or eighteen months in the future. for reasons madi regulate silver or gold that can be negotiated in order to some degree and. place. water.

possibly it's not traded now fight it could be in the future. good samaritan. excellent professional. projects 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 try. the other life of ron among. an arche. this is r.t. from moscow as world news for now the u.s. air force has confirmed two of its service would have been 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 course of was arrested by german police but

motive for the attack is clear. but the stars are going to sue for religious minorities as 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 was a christian of mean threatened by islamist militants in the past but speaking out against the country's harsh blasphemy laws it earlier in the year of punjab governor was gunned down by one of his own bodyguards for his opposition to the same laws. makers apologize for killing nine civilians in northeast afghanistan the coalition says preliminary findings indicate that nato forces out and then we killed nine children on tuesday local officials say the boys aged twelve and under way hit by an air strike while gathering firewood a coalition says there was a quote miscommunication of information concerning the location of alleged militants thousands of people living with a child being cancer olding a rally in india to protest the planned trade deal between the country and the

european union and the protesters are warning that the government shouldn't sign any deal that would increase the cost of basic drugs therefore denying tens of thousands of people treatment demonstrators marched through the streets of central new delhi befalling a meeting of the indian parliament. the 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 a broad now at the top of the government's agenda christine takes a look at the changing face of washington's priorities. first third. 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 and tackling the greatest challenges but now clear signs that the challenges and the times are changing a lot of people in this country have come to the conclusion that our policy overhaul has been inconsistent that sometimes we support 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 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 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 the support afghan led reconciliation that could end the conflict and put on the run but robert want cans of 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 loveridge 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 if as serves the condemnation of all who speak out for freedom and justice but in many other regions like bahrain 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 is now r.t.

. the last leader of the us. celebrating his eightieth birthday he's been awarded with russia's highest honor by president i mean from a vote of the order of st andrew medal for his work as the soviet leader for many people his name synonymous with the end of the cold war the reunification of germany of germany and liberalism but with his economic and political reforms he paved the way for democracy in russia his best known policy to revamp the country without destroying the basis of socialism is initiatives also led to the cancellation of state censorship and the creation of free speech or. nobel peace prize in one nine hundred ninety a year later voer co started a chain of events which led to the. ups of the soviet union and troughs departure his critics say he plunged the country into a destructive and chaotic reform the effects of which are still being felt today. still says russia was in desperate need of change. but when he said we realized from experience that it was dangerous to wait much longer

that we have to take a risk because we couldn't postpone as we needed changes i don't agree with people to the 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 looked also 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 it wasn't always easy many things did not work out the way we planned at the beginning when we made our first mistakes let's we didn't really explain to people what was going on and didn't get them involved in all those processes we were self-confidence and 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 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 and a mechanism for handling the hardest and most challenging issues what we need more than that it's a matter of learning to live in a global world. and just a reminder you can see the full interview with mikhail gorbachev about ten minutes time here on the great show cross-talk next hour either their people. discuss called the child's legacy what the current one is there are a. lot of doctors in russia developing a pioneering alternative treatment to heart transplants and with the shortage of organ donations in the country the techniques giving hope to thousands of people waiting surgery on lists i'm sort of boy it's got the story it's

a smile that come straight from the heart that almost died from heart failure to go to these visits a cardiology ward for regular check out through the roof 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. up to the miscarriage operated on the tosh a twenty one years ago i don't know 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 a need to tweak 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. the treatment. remodelling consists of seven surgeries that together reverse the damage to a broken heart russian doctor started performing it two years ago and its long term effectiveness is still being tested yet for someone like this patient not to it already proved a real life changer here where 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 our own i was told i may steal your heart transplant in the future but the surgery was there before years of. age is serious carried out these procedures is far from being routine here is the excess full recovery of older patients has already given to many on the transplant waiting list a change of heart reconstructive surgery has many bad edges that were hard

transplant patients don't have to change or an agonizing enfant problem garrincha before dawn or then the chances of success for recovery are higher but like heart transplants this procedure has one major setback to get between those who need them to school yet it is still disheartening to huge. arts and most call. it was online to market art see dot com the story's going to eclipse right now well calling for a new free world russia pushing for other nuclear nations to start their own arms reduction programs too that's a story of interest you check out of. moscow giving him his meal and as well as nice headline the capitals famous people are getting a bit of a facelift with millions of dollars comparatively with mortgage behind me reportedly the man financing the project will keep you posted on that one to disability dot com.

it's exactly twenty two minutes past ten o'clock here in moscow and tell me it's time we've got the extended interview with mikhail gorbachev i promised you but let's check out the latest choosing my business news dimitri next. well and welcome to business artsy oil prices are continuing to wobble in close to the highest levels in more than two and a half years as the tension in 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 an unexpected drop in crude supply in the united states is also contributing to the growth brant crude rose to around one hundred seventeen dollars a barrel on wednesday rights with

a smoldering around one hundred one dollar news that saudi arabia may not take any significant steps to bring down the price of crude oil to brant reaches arjen twenty dollars a barrel adding to the strike. total sees output as libyan my brookfield halted amid civil unrest in north africa meanwhile the company says russia is a safe market for investments and a stable than other oil producing country its meeting with president medvedev the head of the french oil giant christophe the marjorie said the unrest in north africa and the middle east is only making russia more attractive. to the fundamental peoples there 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 steeper conditions for investment don't want the owners of russian bridges d.m.k. v.p.

joint 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 of the earth that's awesome. that have been the latest twist in the ongoing conflict between b.p. and their russian joint venture sampai b.p. over the right to develop the enormous energy reserves in the russian oct together with the roughly after media reports the russian company has gone through to buy a five percent stake in b.p. for about eight billion dollars experts say the company wants to buy air space and that's what it's for shares in roughly of rich people and to acquire just remind you in january b.p. announced a deal with the russian oil major to small shares and to create a joint venture to explore the russian arctic however the russian shareholders of b.p. is rushing bait to take a b.p. object of the deal fame that it violates their agreement with the british company that any new project for 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's directors at ten k. b.p. board meeting this friday. friday look at the stock markets now in the u.s. stocks opened wednesday session in positive territory but the dow is flat at the moment payroll processor a.d.p. said private companies added two hundred seventy thousand jobs on a seasonally adjusted basis from jenny from europe that's well above the one hundred eighty thousand jobs that i said predicting yet that world prices are chilling investor. in europe we're seeing a negative picture i think close of wednesday session investors continued to fret to the unrest in the middle east and north africa concerns that rising oil prices could hurt the economic recovery from the masses themselves and hedge against further decline quite the opposite picture in russia at the close we are seeing the

obvious up one half a cent my six point four percent russian energy sector is benefiting from oil prices and gold companies are also seeing significant gains as the price of precious metals falls. growing look at some of the individual stocks gold actually went off percent one of the biggest gains of the session kasparov one point two percent of the close and as burbank and other banking stocks were weaker than the markets down four percent analysts say the market still has potential to test new record levels. for putting the market recover a bit was sound so often when they vote in general they will admit it was much less put there others would have seen yesterday when the market was first in a very resistance level and i think that the people is that either way to see a problem to day trading to new york with all the girls or if it was one day correction on the neurosis about inflationary pressure from the comfort of their

prices then we can see a continuation of buying in the russian market with. the. rush of the new levels set a style the selling free steel plants in the united states to run the u.s. private holdings as agreed to by warren wheeling and sparrows point facilities owned by service tell north america the deal which read values that one point two billion dollars may be completed as early as the end of this month so for me i'll be back in one hour's time with an update kevin is next but they're not going away .

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his eightieth birthday card company was the man behind the cancellation of state censorship and the promotion of free speech and some accuse him of paving the way for destructive chaotic reform. how does he so he should know as a speaks not to the former soviet leader about his legacy that interview coming right up. because mr gorbachev it's so great to have you with us today you know you're good to see you again but mr gorbachev you're turning eighty did you ever think the world will look like this on your eightieth birthday. it's not easy to surprise people like me those who lived to see her eightieth birthday have seen

a lot in life ese is a loss we should thank god for giving us so many years and because it eighty you already know a lot of experience many things i can view life in a primitive way to think back a safer today compared to the late eighty's what is this what if we look at the middle east for example in most countries where people took to the streets demanding the 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 day when his rule began so 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 recently. so you think ten years

is the ideal period 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 and a few concerns 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 all. cousin guess what we're watching sir he 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 where the communist regime. 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 to 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 were followed. they would have been like communicating vessels today sixty or seventy percent of people say they were gresh that the soviet union fell apart because when you ask them if they want the soviet union to be restored only nine percent say yes. who do you blame

yourself for the fall of the soviet union you will know i fought the best i could to defend the soviet union but i failed why do you think the cia ask for part 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 cruise what you were isolated what did you feel and i knew anything could happen it was not just a feeling i knew it not for as they try 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 here. especially if you consider how big our country is it takes our country a while to start push when it does it is very hard to stop so my goal was to renew the country without bloodshed. it doesn't get out when you started the perestroika could you imagine the scale of the changes to calm. people 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 chavez reforms basically failed because 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 we needed changes would be an innovation because you are saying that you didn't quite understand the scale of it are when did you

finally get a clear realization that there was no return to the past. i don't agree when people say the telestrator 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 old so glasnost there was so much openness the entire country was affected people realized they had finally got some freedom and 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 and i will put you through. i support the way . so let's talk about foreign policy twenty five years ago you started the process of disarmament between the soviet union and.