crisis and chaos at these border points as gods struggle to keep the situation under control now the fighting is continuing throughout the country at several times between forces loyal to the leader moammar gadhafi and rebel forces to kill a lead in those areas around the libyan capital tripoli government forces are struggling to retain control and create create to keep in place a buffer zone around what is still the leaders stronghold there are increasingly fears that the situation could deteriorate into civil war now discussions are continuing at the united nations over a proposed no fly zone over libya now this idea has been suggested by the british prime minister david cameron if indeed he goes ahead and commit some self to it in essence britain will be committing itself to shooting down aircraft now the idea has been rejected by many in the international community including russia they say that it is for libyans to determine their own fate and their own future it is worth noting though that british troops are in the libyan town of bin ghazi they've been

there for nearly two weeks and there are also growing concerns that they might take over chemical weapons stockpiles that are in that town and this is because london has indicated that it has fears that gadhafi might use these stockpiles against his own people the official reason though for those british troops being there is humanitarian reasons it's a little also the official reason that's been given by the united states for warships that extend to the region it says that these will ships might be used or at least are planning to use them in humanitarian efforts but that all options are on the table and this has raised concerns here that they might be behind the scenes some kind of plan for international intervention despite libyans saying that they do not want to have this. well as the libyan crisis rageous on to some foreign powers are weighing up whether to get involved phyllis bennis director of the washington based think tank the institute for policy studies believes that nato is military intervention is unrealistic and its recent posturing is just showing off

this is an old story in washington where humanitarian intervention is the excuse of the day i don't think we're going to see the possibility of troop deployments or even necessarily ship involvement i think this is partly a show of force to intimidate gadhafi and to make nice as it were to the new leadership that will be rising in libya to create a new government when gadhafi is overthrown there is no doubt that people in washington and london and elsewhere are scurrying around desperate to figure out ways of ensuring that they get in on the ground floor with these new these new governments that are going to be in power that their oil companies get it and that it chevron and b.p. rather than russian or chinese or other oil companies the people of libya face an even harder challenge than then the people of egypt and tunisia and other countries that have existing governmental institutions in place that they can take over and

use as the base in libya there are no such institutions there is no parliament there is no constitution all of this is being created whole cloth it's an incredibly exciting moment for people in libya but they're paying a huge price in blood to make that possible the democratic revolution that is underway in libya are indigenous home grown revolutionary processes and they don't need us government forces to teach them about democracy they are claiming it on their own and that needs to be respected. well more on the fallout from the rest of the middle east and north africa in just a moment but first let's have a look at what else is ahead for you this hour war of the worlds the replanting calls for reinforcements saying america's battle for hearts and minds is being lost on the global t.v. news screens. and step back a whole millennia and paul are two schools of thought as we tore the rich cultural legacy of. now the ripples caused by the unrest in

northern africa and across the middle east are now being felt far and wide. 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 egypt in algeria 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 as ten 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 watched night. in

real terms it has never been substantial we have always been below thirty thousand . possible and every year. the overthrow of the governments poses a whole different set of issues what europe will be able to do. it depends on the ability of actually cord to meet some of the governments most affected i mean imagine if time is not overthrown i mean business cannot proceed as usual after 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 you're upticks over eighty five percent of libya's crude exports more than thirty percent of libyan oil goes to italy fourteen percent to germany ten percent to china and france and five percent to the united states the unrest 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 some analysts say is just the beginning or prices have a knock on effect. to the cost of. most items because of course you need energy to to make products and deliver them to shop so. if prices continue to stay tastes a high 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 in tunisia all of the arab states they have been here you can see

a million radical islamist parties and we have been suppressed by previous regimes like the brotherhood in egypt for instance. in libya you know very strong in libya action in libya and department is one of the strongest in the world maybe the second strongest after the pit to stun you one of the greatest dangers now is that . you could use their troops to try to get you for the city so they highly volatile situation in this northern african region really bear significance not just fully be egyptian but really for the rest of the world. r.t. . well we're interested in your opinion over the question of who has the most to win from the wave of unrest gripping the arab world well you can vote now on our website that's our dot com. now in the clash of the global media outlets america is taking hits and losing ground to the new kids on the block including r t well

the warning from top u.s. diplomat hillary clinton was coupled with a plea for hard cash to get america's message back on track and authorities go an extra can reports the secretary of state doesn't believe the home grown news channels are up to the task 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 running contrast to the coverage of events by u.s. mainstream 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 information war and among those media who are winning that war hillary clinton named r t 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 mrs clinton says she's leading an effort to spread u.s. propaganda through new media with twitter feeds in arabic and farsi but on local stage the us creil twenty comes to television basically said the u.s. should specify 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's because the only t.v. ever saw was baywatch and worldwide wrestling some 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 tune into various foreign media to get a fresh take on the events r t presence on you tube for example is a real hit almost three hundred million views c.n.n. something like three million al-jazeera coverage of the unrest in the middle east and north africa has thousand on the u.s. presentation of the events while many are happy to see this emerging media variety the head of the u.s. agency that manages the country's government one international broadcasting 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 voice of america later he backtracked on those on that statement though and said he was mean and didn't have those words either sensation in my ear sent a pretty hostile message to foreign media trying to trying to provide a fresh perspective on world news but but this when they start to state hillary clinton basically confirmed it saying that the u.s. is at war at an information war with foreign media well journalist and filmmaker danny schechter says the u.s. is not open to alternative points of view so can no longer hold a monopoly on information. the united states feels on the defensive in part because they can no longer monopolize not only the terms of you know the soroti in these countries but also the terms of the debate there's other information out there there are other points of view and those points of view are profoundly damaging to

a country that believes that its point of view is the only point of view who should be the only point of view so hillary clinton one day is defending the internet the next day the administration is proposing all kinds of regulations and ways to cut off the internet if possible you know there's no real commitment to the kind of freedom of diverse speech that we really need if we're going to be in a democracy at home and in a you know a community of nations overseas we can't dictate what people believe anymore so forget for more stories visit our website r.t. dot com and there are plenty of analysis and features for you to explore including the father of russia's democracy and the recipient to be held elton's prize overcharge is eighty to find out what his hero means for the country and. artesian thomas is called great be eternal ice of the south pole this is the

important basis that taking as exotic iceberg beer you can read more about shah's antarctic adventures in his blog only at our team dot com. now the second prototype of the future of russia's fighter jet program has successfully completed its maiden flight the sukhoi may point to to the skies for about an hour the jets said to be equipped with some of the most advanced avionics on the planet it will be able to land on runways and fly in any weather and it can carry up to eight medium range or to a long range missiles and it's to internal base that sets first prototype. it's maiden flight last january the fifth generation fighters expected to enter service in russia in two thousand and fifteen the price tag is estimated at one hundred million dollars. time for a quick look at some other international headlines officials in new zealand have stated they don't expect to pull any more survivors from collapsed buildings

following a deadly earthquake a little over a week ago when the death toll currently sits at one hundred sixty one and most died in multi-story building which came crashing down in the city of christchurch. say the goal is to recover as many bodies as possible for the final count may rise as high as two hundred forty. the u.s. 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 and they include aiding the enemy which can carry the death penalty although prosecutors say they won't apply for it intelligence analysts 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 is enough evidence to try him. astronauts on board the space shuttle discovery took a final space walk around the international space station to get the outpost

shipshape before the shuttle program winds up well discovery is headed into retirement after this flight and only two more shuttle trips remain by endeavor and then be atlantis the crew use the trip outside to repair a broken as well as remove an experiment platform where the shuttle will remain at the space station until sunday. get ready for an adventure as our close up team prepares another exciting trip around russia. just three hundred kilometers north of moscow lies the millennia old. which prides itself with its history and breathtaking views well despite its considerable the town has managed to preserve a many of its original buildings its churches and monasteries now attracting thousands of visitors who want to absorb the spirit of ancient history and yet us

levels amazing amazing scenery also appeals to the cinema industry lynsey friends found out it is said that one thousand years ago at the place where the volga and the coach or so rivers meet prince jaroslava wise killed a local 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 local filmmaker yuri vacs man gave me a tour to show me why you did lots of some fifteen to twenty historical films with short runs in the area where we are working. at this location to recreate moscow in one hundred forty one with stalin being driven around in his 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 arse off the 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 find

a great historical setting. level is ready for its close. and so is its talent alexander petrovitch 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 one thousand nine hundred ninety nine academy award 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 who now teaches to bake in the making of my films i heard that soon they're going to have their own ideas and will start working on their own projects and my dream has come true for. other movers and shakers in the industry are generating people their own but in a much more physical way romana carts and hollywood and russian movie career has

taken his stunts to regard film to a whole new level and the need to get 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 russia training four or five times a week with complex stunts it's very intensive you talents in real stunt men aboard here in this car but there are more ways to jump into the movies than playing with fire in jaroslav just go get a bite to eat one of the local cafes one of the most famous of all soviet films was even busy live its changes profession a spoof on ivan the terrible in at the moscow of the sixteenth century was played by the town a rough stuff and here at the even the sale of addressed customers at the 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 what you'll fall for it caters to the movie minded with its time honored blockbuster themed rooms evander seal of

which being the most popular for his part yuri vacs men's recent film hydraulic is packed with blockbuster action but his other local repertoire is not that of the theater. the cradle of. the famous theater founded short of vocals was the first national theatre that opened in russia it reached the heights of creative and professional flooring in its time. that may be but as long as the one thousand year old city of yaroslavl 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 with the hundreds of movies made here in the region over the last century it's made a huge impression on the locals and here to give us a better idea of that is local movie lover. hello lowness here give us an idea of

what movie making industry is meant to you here. there were a lot of show here and there will be more i think when i was a small school girl they decided to shoot i feel i'm old school. was with a very famous russian actor and i was so here when i saw the whole group where and then later when i saw it on t.v. i was really impressed because it was. the place i know from my real life it was great we'll have much more for you here from the close up team in central russia exploring a region. where you can get to know about the history of one of the most destructive weapons in the twentieth century here on our team. for the.

hello and welcome to the business of dates and our top story of this hour global oil major total has agreed to buy a twelve percent stake in russia's independent gas producer novacek eyeing to increase its share in the company to up to twenty percent in the next three years the deal signed on wednesday he's asked to meet at around four billion dollars total has also acquired a twenty percent stake and vicious liquefied natural gas fortune on the. total already owns a quarter of the stop on gas fields project run by gas to go with starter well the company's head says russia is becoming increasingly attractive before. the planned project between talked on another tack opens new highs for the global energy industry says alexander and as our fed i've seen measurable. currently russia has only one large energy plan it circling to tell would be blown to be about fifty percent larger than cycle and so it will be the largest energy plan russia moreover

it will be the most northern. plant in the world so basically it will help other companies to create technology is it legal for probably all the contras. and analysts agree about the potential total and no deal has for both gas companies whether i look sick or can. is set to gain a lot more than its fresh partner. the fellow with turkish first or starburst itself was a major international player. since. russian oil and gas companies are not allowed to explode gas rock pop bands directly no protection no exceptions or from. suddenly it has the potential to be a major exporter of liquor from natural gas it's also the access to technology that

no one really has short fall. lots have a look at the markets now if european stocks are climbing on thursday as the highest close in wall street and decline in oil prices boy that sentiment investors of europe digesting it as strange or news reports insurance curb of even again one percent in the minutes of trade off its twenty term profit surged in a food percent in the energy sector shaz of the irish oil and gas exploration company oil are rising three and a half percent as the company has confirmed it encounters a major oil field offshore gonna. come to wash markets are continuing their rawest trucking asian games and world prices are pushing up energy shaz gold companies may also see some gains as price for precious metal gets higher us cross the psychological benchmark of two thousand points during the thoughts ten minutes of thursday straight it's now gaining one point two percent in the my since its point

eight percent on the rise. let's have a look at some individual moves because more than a percent high at this solemn the news french toast is buying a stake of the russian gas main high oil prices up backing investor interest in energy shares gospel is more than two percent on the on the rise so a star is high as russia's biggest still make to sell to you it's five guys based on profitable still longs to run cuckoo unserviced also says growing demand both. home and overseas markets would boost sales and production twenty eleven this comes after it posted a fourth quarter twenty ten last more than three hundred fifty million dollars investors also a bit on the news that frank corp last several months. that wraps up the business boys are enjoying the lesson one last time for more business news.

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is a quick look at the top stories in the arts and the un is warning. the one hundred eighty. three across the border. as quintal gadhafi once again refuses to be prised from power in libya he's threatening more violence if the u.s. or nato forces intervene. and america is losing the information war to foreign media like al-jazeera china sea c.t.v. and r.t. hillary clinton voiced the concern as she asked congress for extra cash to promote the us agenda. and now it's time for a special report about the history of the deadly explosives of the twentieth

century to stay with us. my name is bob baer. i used to be a cia agent stationed 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 it's who invented it who developed it and who killed. i've come back to the one city where a car bombs have forever shaped our history. beirut. i love beirut.