what is happening and the region. let me tell you one thing when you exaggerate the threat and when you say that it might take over for example in vox down or in some of the middle eastern countries when you say that you're basically playing into the hands of a very. let's see into the hands of certain western countries that have a vested interest in perpetuating their presence in afghanistan it's very it's an open secret the united states wants to continue to be president there are a couple of us allies in nato also would like to see a continuity of this terror for many strategic purposes and reasons that have to do with the gulf with iran with china and certainly will so with russia so there are a lot of vested interests i just suspect that some off the reports that we read in the media particularly in the western media in the in the american media the british media sometimes exaggerate these trends. and in order to serve their own strategic interest there are again as i said extremist groups they are some of them

are lethal some of them are very crazy you need to be watch out beyond the watch out for them but we don't see any sign really that any of them really have to keep ability to seize power in vibrant countries such as egypt or tunisia see tunisia it's been a couple of months now and whatever happened over there and you hardly see any influence for even the moderate religious groups over there there are there are there are there are segments of the population that support them but there are far far from seizing power in any of these places whether it's egypt tunisia or parts ok well let's just let's just say in the way the way the west is viewing the situation in the region could they be underestimating the internal situation in the arab world. under estimating i don't think so i think there's a clear understanding now everybody understands i think and especially the officials in washington d.c. many of the governments that we have in the middle east in crucial countries are

very close to the united states we can see oman of course hosting to get us air bases we have rain we have saudi arabia kuwait and of course egypt so and on all of these governments they are have been traditionally very close to the united states i think if there's anybody who is really very concerned about what's going on in the middle east it is of course the american officials and i don't see that they're underestimating was going on there is a very serious situation it could hurt long term the u.s. interest in this whole entire region including pakistan as well of course as we all know that the americans have a very strong presence in box them as well a very close relations with iraq study government and the last thing they would like to see is for all of these pro-american ruling elites really being toppled by popular discontent and this content is very real and nobody's interest to meeting it's ok well thank you very much for your insight there i'm a political expert from. more on the continuing developments in the middle east and north africa in just a moment but first a look at what else is ahead for you this hour our global war of words u.s.

secretary of state hillary clinton wants more taxpayer cash to fight back against an information onslaught from the foreign media. and step back a whole millennia and follow our teams close a team as meets for the rich cultural legacy of got a slot. for the unrest in northern africa and across the middle east may have far reaching implications and they're already being felt around the globe artie's even to go to show maps out the situation. let's look at the implications of the ongoing unrest in the northern african region and what it means for the rest of the world geographically libya tunisia and egypt and these are just some of the countries affected by the civil unrest there just across the sea from europe and this to me that hundred forty thousand people have already fled unrest in libya into neighboring tunisia and egypt but the likelihood will actually stay there is

rather slim it's only has already received as many of thousand refugees who continue to pour into the country france greece and spain may just be next in line even before. the prospect of massive immigration has always been europe's wars. in real terms it has never been substantial we have always been below thirty thousand. possible and every year. clearly the overthrow of the governments poses a whole different set of issues and what europe will be able to do. on the ability of actually cordingley among some of the governments most affected i mean imagine if time is not overthrown i mean business cannot proceed as usual so if something will have to be done if we work on the map of libya in terms of oil

production facilities will see that eighty percent of that oil producing territories right now are under rebel control now europe takes over eighty five percent of libya's crude exports more than thirty percent of libyan oil goes to italy fourteen percent in germany ten percent to china in france and five percent to the united states and the rest has already promoted a spike in oil prices which climbed it to over one hundred dollars a barrel the highest point in two years and this summer analysts say is just the beginning or prices have a knock on effect. the cost of most most items because of course you need energy to. to make products and deliver to the shop so. if prices continue to state a state that will have significant inflation pressures. on europe and the world finally if a civil war breaks out in libya with the country breaking apart geopolitical

implications for the region and for the world cannot be underestimated the major peril now is coming is the islamists radical islamists coming into power one all over the region you know these revolutions in egypt and syria tunisia all of the arab speeds they have been. if you'll see thirty million radical islamist parties have been suppressed by previous regimes like muslim brotherhood in egypt for instance. in libya you know al qaeda is very strong in libya actually libyan department is one of the strongest of the world maybe the secular strongest after the pakistani one one of the greatest dangers is that. you could use their trucks to try to get into the city so they're highly volatile situation in this northern african region really bears significance not just for libya is it's an algerian but really for the rest of the world. r.t.

. america is losing the information war to foreign english language media like al-jazeera t.v. and r t well that's a concern of u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton who is asking congress for extra cash to promote the u.s. and around the world are things going to check out reports from washington. here is what we have learned from hillary clinton's statement we are officially at war information war by we i mean english language non us run media which provide alternative views on world news use which often run in contrast to the coverage of events by as worsening stream media story clinton was defending her department budget in congress she says a major reason the state department needs money is because the u.s. is losing the easel mation war and among those media who are winning that war hillary clinton named our team we are in an information war and we are losing that war i'll be very blunt in my assessment al jazeera is winning. the chinese have

opened up a global english language and multi language television network the russians have opened up an english language network i've seen it in a few countries and it's quite instructive this is when one says he's leading an effort to spread u.s. propaganda through new media with twitter in arabic and farsi but only local stage the us trails when it comes to television jason said the u.s. should spend far propaganda efforts and get back quote in the game of doing quote what we do best here is more we are engaged in an information war you know during the cold war we did a great job in getting america's message out after the berlin wall fell we said ok fine enough of that you know we've done it we're done and unfortunately we are paying a big price for it and our our private media cannot fill that gap in fact our private

media particularly cultural programming often works at counter purposes to what we truly are as americans and what our values are i remember having an afghan general tell me that the only thing he thought about americans is that all the men wrestled in the women walked around a bikini because the only t.v. ever saw was baywatch and world wrestling from five years ago western media outlets including b.b.c. and c.n.n. basically had a monopoly in the coverage of walled news things have changed a lot since then more and more viewers of crossed the walled tuning into various foreign media to get a fresh take on the events our t.v. presence on you tube for example is a real hit almost three hundred million views. something like three million artie's cost and growing viewership is already an indication to many that the days of media monopoly are over and people demand multi-polar thank you al-jazeera coverage of young grass in the middle east and in north africa and thousand on the us just presentation of these events while many are happy to see this emerging medium.

right in the head of the u.s. agency that manages the country's government run international broadcasting and is basically called those foreign media enemies i'm talking about walter isaacson's last year's infamous pitch to get more funding for his agency which among other media outlets runs out of america later he backtracked on the. understatement though and said it was. pretty hostile message to foreign media trying to trying to provide a fresh perspective on world news but but this was their fear of state hillary clinton basically confirmed it saying that the u.s. is at war at an information war with foreign media over more stories you can visit our website that's our q. dog collar there's plenty of analysis and features for you to explore including the american dream for assault and nightmare for others the divide in the west between the haves and the have nots becomes

a cold. and pancakes are ready for tossing of russia as the country gets down to traditional celebrations to mark the end of winter and the start of spring and find out more about the country's oldest holiday and our two daughters. well a quick look now at some other international headlines a man armed with a handgun has a type of boss carrying u.s. air force troops at frankfurt airport in germany killing two and wounding two others the attacker was identified as a twenty one year old cos of one who worked at the airport he apparently began shooting following an altered patient with the men he boarded the bus and was caught by police while trying to flee the scene. for us army private believed responsible for supplying a trove of documents to whistle blowing web site wiki leaks has had twenty two more charges brought against him including aiding the enemy which can carry the death penalty other prosecutors say they won't apply for an intelligence analyst private

bradley manning is currently being. held at a military jail in virginia he faces a hearing in may or june to determine whether there's enough evidence to try him. officials in new zealand have stated that they don't expect to pull any more survivors from collapsed buildings following a deadly earthquake a little over a week ago the death toll currently sits at one hundred sixty one the most died in multi-story buildings which came crashing down in the city of christchurch authorities who say their goal is to recover as many bodies as possible fear that the final count may rise as high as two hundred forty. well get ready for an adventure that was her closer to him prepares another exciting trip around russia.

just three hundred kilometers north of moscow lies the new lead you go down if you had a slot will which prides itself on its rich history and breathtaking views or the spite of its considerable age that style has managed to preserve many of its original buildings its structures and monasteries now attract thousands of tourists who want to absorb the spirit of ancient history you know just levels amazing scenery also appeals to the cinema industry as art these lives in france found out . it is said that one thousand years ago at a place where the volga in a coach or small rivers meet prince jaroslav of the wise building up a sacred bear with his battleaxe. and then founded the town of. the town and region its name for has been known for drama ever since a local filmmaker yuri vacs man gave me a tour to show me why. because of some fifteen to twenty historical films with short rushing the area we're working with its location to recreate moscow in one

hundred forty one with stalin being driven around in this car from the kremlin to the church of the prophet elijah to the embankment time has stopped in the frame of a camera what makes the asaba region so attractive to filmmakers is that the sets have been standing for centuries nearly perfectly preserved so in studio send out their location scouts to fight a great historical setting goals labile is ready for its close. and so is its talent alexander petrobras in the business of setting scenes with paint and a heavy dose of romantic realism. he adapted ernest hemingway's the old man and the sea into an animated film on twenty nine thousand painted plates of glass and snag in one nine hundred ninety nine academy awards for animated short film he showed me how he shot the frames with a custom made motion control imax camera system. i've made several films

here here i've raised my pupils and now participate in the making of my films i hope that soon they're going to have their own ideas and will start working on their own projects and my dreams come true. other movers and shakers in the industry are generating peoples of their own but in a much more physical way romana carts in hollywood and russian movie career has taken his stance to regard film to a whole new level. to be over the past five years we've been training people mostly boys and men who want to master this profession they come from all over russian training for four or five times a week with complex stunts it's very intense and new talents and real stunt men aboard here in this car but there are more ways to jump into the movies than playing with fire in jaroslava just go get a bite to eat at one of the local cafes one of the most famous of all soviet films was even brazil of its changes profession a spoof on ivan the terrible in it the moscow of the sixteenth century was played

by the yaroslavl town a rough stuff and here at the even busy with its restaurant customers at their full cinematic experience the scenes of the film are set throughout the restaurant but if you'd like to sleep on it the attached hotel is watch all fall for it caters to the movie mind it with its time honored blockbuster themed rooms evander silly bitch being denounced popular for his part yuri vacs men's recent film hydraulic is packed with blockbuster action but his other local repertoire is not it's that of the theater. new city of jaroslaw is the cradle of russian fusion the finest theater founded here but if you would have all course was the first national theater that opened in russia it reached the heights of creative and professional force in its time. and that may be but as long as the one thousand year old city of yaroslav will is internationally protected as a historical site it will forever be known as the silent ingenue gracing the

background of thousands of cinema and television screens the world over and jaroslav all over the frats r.t. . for later it will be time for spotlight today an origin story or yuri milner the first russian venture capitalists and fortune magazine's top fifty but first the business. stay with us. hello and

a very warm welcome to the business update french while major total is buying a twelve percent stake in russia's independent gas producer normal to boost its share in the company up to twenty percent in the next three years the deal signed on wednesday is asked to meet at around four billion dollars total has also acquired a twenty percent stake and bushes liquefied natural gas project on the camel peninsula which makes the company strategic partner in the project total already owns a quarter or the stock when gas filled project run by gas brought together with start well the company's third says russia is becoming increasingly attractive for foreign investors. to the situation in the world shows that we've been bright strange bluestar investments into russia russia is a very attractive country for investors which is even more obvious a bit the instability that we currently facing. and another foreign investor on the russian soil japan's largest general trading company minutes ago also announced its

plans to participate in the start when gas project a stop on a field in the barents sea is said to contain almost four trillion cubic meters of gas the venture aims to build a plant to produce seven and a half million tons of liquefied natural gas annually the plan is to start output within the next five years. but some a lot of the stocks now asian store markets are mostly higher on thursday many investors are grasping the opportunity to buy into the pit stops after wall street's mortars rise but the turmoil in the middle east and the surge and world prices continue to temper demand and the case point. nine percent higher and home on the rise both chinese and global find some fun stuff to bolster if u.s. employment data boosted chasse middle eastern and rest and high oil peeping investors wherry. and on wednesday the russian markets managed to recover after a positive opening in the u.s. on wednesday the person energy sector benefited from high oil prices gold companies

saw a significant gains for precious metal gets the russian markets will start thursday straight and now it's time. to worry while the inflationary pressure from the come with your presence i don't want to present support to all the russian in the market to settle for the let's think we're going to see again the election to the inside just to print some of the market for its pipes in the oil futures or even. something futures again as we have seen the before. that's wraps up the business bought a new york state now join me unless someone else time for more business news here on archie. it's.

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to. talk about a quick recap of the top stories we're covering on our team here what is warning of a. humanitarian crisis as the uprising in libya sees at least one hundred eighty thousand refugees police across the border it's unusual but most of them are foreign laborers who are now being housed in tents. as colonel gadhafi once again refuses to be prised from power in the libya the right name or violence if us or they still forces intervene or he warned that he would fight while to unsolder allows them at the last in order. and america is losing the information war to

foreign media like al-jazeera seems to me and are to meet us top diplomat hillary clinton voiced the concern as she asked congress for extra cash to promote the us agenda around the world. now it's time for al gore and all of his guys for today is the first russian to venture capitalists and fortune magazine's top fifty that's coming your way after a short break. for the. we've got. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers.

how again a welcome to spotlight the infamy showered on party i'm all grown up and today my guest in the studio is unity milner. two years ago he went to the u.s. to meet young billionaire mark zuckerberg the founder and owner of facebook they didn't talk about money they talked about the future of the next you do you return how and if you must later he bought into facebook the russians made it out for the american couldn't refuse this he has and resistible offer for every company he buys his you know the director general of the s.k. global and the first russian venture capitalist and the fortune top fifteen months . during perestroika time he called scientists during milner became an entrepreneur

and started in computer retail but then suddenly quit the business and left the country he started management in the u.s. and soon returned to moscow to work in an investment company the same smell from real money and virtual reality and he was quick to invest. with the irresistible charisma he manages to persuade even the most difficult partners to the business community came the first russian venture capitalist to make it into the fortune top fifty some of the deals in the wild but at the end of the day they brought you read the v.c. of the year. hello union welcome to the show hi thank you thank you very much for coming for being with think they were for the first time in the history of venture capitalism california davis c. of the year of world was awarded to russian was it was a shock and if it was for good for you or for americans. well it was

a shock for me for sure and eventual we're going to get americans that i don't know you don't know but. but i was very likely to be nominated. like there was a very strong list of the people who are nominated and you know i was like even to be on this list. why does your investment strategy work so well is it is it true that you have each other special offer for every company and you always are for more than the others or something else well that's not exactly the case. in the first and last month in facebook we were higher than the others but in subsequent investments we actually quite interested with other lead us funds so our offer was not higher. i think it's

just sort of more investor friendly than sometimes other funds offer but. you base your decisions here are three years on your intuition or calculation no it's actually a ninety percent calculation but it what you can calculate computers can calculate it well special that you. will have a very strong team very international team it's. going. to. team members are from india one from germany and one from finland. one from. asia so the team is very diverse it's really a global team and because we specialize in the area in the rural sector i think we. may be just sometimes do.

more comprehensive research just because we're specialised so as a part of the one you're a specialist there are you so so so i understand that the problem with most of the investors in the business in the internet is that they regarded internet as a whole and were ready to invest wherever it wherever they saw that there's fish in this plan well you took like a little little need and put all your all your intellectual abilities into the small to the small sector is that right yeah that's correct and it's basically called the social work and from everything you're walling around social so. are you sure that even today the future of the future of business the most money you can make in the net lies in the social. isn't going to change well i will view it as a good trend for the next five ten years and we believe that social is going to be

the underlying platform and a lot of internet businesses will be rebuilt around social. well. calculation is good but still i think there is something more than calculation because lots of people have a good teams lots of people can calculate but i think there is something about your intuition maybe just luck because for example all those trying to make their fortune online as far as the statistics say less than five percent eventually succeed spotlight even of the medieval looks at the new and risky business the. rocks tourist or polo directors astronauts on olympic champions should all step aside for the real usable time continuum many explained to me when fortunes on the line. the stories about them was reply.