the leader moammar gadhafi and rebel forces particularly 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 leader's 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 and 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 bint 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 also also the official reason that's been given by the united states for warships that it's into 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 libyan saying that they do not want to have this as the libyan crisis when does on some foreign powers away in on whether to get involved phil is the best director of the washington based think tank the institute for policy studies believes nato military intervention is unrealistic and its recent posturing is just showing all. 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 there are oil companies getting in 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 than 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. more on the fall out from the rest in the middle east in north africa and just a moment but first a look at what else is ahead for you this hour rule hillary clinton calls for reinforcements saying americans back to the homes and minds is being lost on the globe's t.v. news screen it's. one step back a whole millennia on follow all she's close up t.v. as we told the rich cultural legacy gets louder. the ripples cools by down rest in northern africa and across the middle east is now being felt far and wide that in the south a 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 the actually stay there is rather slim it's only has already received as many as thirty 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 and 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 it depends on the ability of actually among some of the governments most affected i mean imagine if in two months time coral gadhafi is not overthrown i mean business cannot proceed as usual after something will have to be done if you 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 and the rest has already promoted a spike in oil prices which climbed 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 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 a radical islamist interpol one all over the region you know these revolutions in egypt and syria in tunisia all of the arab speeds they have been islamic yet you can see thirty million radical islamist parties who have been suppressed by previous regime muslim brotherhood in egypt for instance. al-qaeda in libya you

know al qaeda is there is strong in libya libyan department of acquired is one of the strongest of the world maybe it's the second strongest after the pull to start a new one one of the greatest dangers is that of. trying to get use of the city so they're highly volatile situation in this northern african region really bear significance not just fully being egypt in all 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 waves of the rest gripping the arab world do vote now on our website r.t. 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 hard cash to get america's message back on track in his garbage 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 global stage the u.s. trails when it comes to television basically said the u.s. should stephon propaganda efforts and get back quote and they gave 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 wall 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 our t.v. presence on you tube for example is a real hit almost three hundred million views c.n.n. or something like three million al-jazeera coverage of the unrest in the middle east and north africa has outdone 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 has basically called those foreign media enemies. i'm talking about walter isaacson's last year's infamous page to get more funding for his agency which among other media outlets one's voice of america later he backtracked on the. understatement though and said he was on. i've written statement land your stand pretty hostile

message to foreign media trying to trying to provide a fresh perspective on world news but but this was effective state hillary clinton basically confirmed it saying that the u.s. is at war at an information war with foreign media. journalist and filmmaker danny 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 it 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 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. well for more stories do visit our website kong there are plenty of analysis and features doris' for you to explore including. russia's democracy in the owner of the nobel peace prize mikhail gorbachev and see find out water his zero means for the country and. i'll see you sean thomas is conquering the a tunnel eyes of the south pole visiting foreign bases and drinking exotic iceberg beer you can read more about antarctica adventures in his blog amy adelson the daughter called. the second prototype for the future of russia's science jet

program has successfully completed its maiden flight this plane took to the skies for about an hour where the jets are said to be equipped with some of the most advanced avionics on the planet will be able to runways and fly in any weather carry up to eight. point two days the jets first project did its maiden flight last january the fifth generation is expected to enter service in russia and the price tag is estimated at one hundred million dollars so. a quick look now at some other international headlines this hour and officials in new zealand stated they don't expect to pull any more survivors from collapsed buildings following a deadly earthquake in the weeks ago the death toll currently sits on a hundred and sixty one most died in multi-story buildings which came crashing down and this is the of christ church authorities who say their goal is to recover as

many bodies as possible for the final count may rise as high as two hundred and forty. lawyers of the head of wiki leaks julian i saw interest on hold on appeal against last week's extradition ruling along don't hand over the whistleblower web site. to face questioning over sex crime on a geisha. it comes as the u.s. intelligence agents who it's believed supplied a song with a troop of documents have twenty two new charges brought against him by the u.s. one of them included being an enemy of the state and carries the death penalty. astronauts onboard the space shuttle discovery took a final space walk around the international space station to get the outpost ship shape before the shuttle program winds up discovery is headed into retirement after this flight in only two more shuttle trips remain by endeavor and then atlantis the crew used the trip outside to repair

a broken pump as well as remove an experiment platform the shuttle will remain at the space station until sunday. ok get ready for an adventure now as our close up to prepare is another exciting trip around russia. well just three hundred kilometers north of moscow lines the millennium old home of us level which prides itself on its rich history and breathtaking views despises considerable age the talents managed to preserve many of its original buildings its churches and monasteries now attract tourists who want to kill the spirit of ancient history aristotle's amazing scenery also appeals to the cinema our industries it's a fault that. it is said that one thousand years ago at the place where the volga

and the coach or so rivers meet prince jaroslav the wise killed a local sacred bear with his battleaxe. and then founded the town of yaroslavl 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 the most prestigious because of the work to some fifteen to twenty historical films with short runs in the area where we are working we even filmed 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 hour slava region so attractive to filmmakers is that the sets have been standing for centuries nearly perfectly preserved so in studios send out their location scouts to find a great historical setting gatos level is ready for its close up. and so is its talent alexander petrovitch is 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 smeg than one nine hundred ninety nine academy award for anime. short film he showed me how he shot the frames with a custom made motion control imax camera system. going you know i've made several films here here i've raised my pupils who 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 so my dream has come true. other movers and shakers in the industry are generating pupils of their own but in a much more physical way roman courts and hollywood and russian movie career has taken his stand schoolyard film to a whole new level. 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 new talents and real stunt men aboard here on this carpet but there are more ways to jump into the movies than playing with fire in jaroslava just go get a bite to eat one of the local cafes one of the most famous of all soviet films was even visited libya 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 the sale of addressed customers get the full cinematic experience this seems 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 even under 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 it's that

of the theater. in the city of yaroslav all is the cradle of russian theatre the famous theater founded here by a short of all course was the first national theatre that opened in russia it reached the heights of creative increased. you know it's time. 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 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 elisa said hello hello nice to see you here give us an idea of what movie making industry is meant to you here and you have a problem there were a lot of movies the show here and they will be more i think when i was

a small school girl they decided to shoot i feel more talk from my school and it's was with a very famous russian actor and i was so here when i saw the whole group there and then later when i saw it on t.v. i was really impressed because it was jaroslav 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 the jaroslava region. on its way an in-depth look into the nabi in crisis from the former russian ambassador to the country but first all the nation's business news with you. hello time to get the latest from the world of business and global oil major total has agreed to buy

a twelve percent stake and russia's independent gas producer another took to increase its share in the company to up to twenty percent in the next three years total has also acquired a one third stake in the liquefied natural gas project on the your mouth peninsula are to correspond to push core has the details. the deal will benefit both companies to tell will become the first and the main international investor and to participate in the development of vast gas resources of the amount than insua while another task will benefit from the investment and experience of the international world giant now it has to be sad that this is not the first time that the child is trying to buy into not attack in two thousand and four the tile already tried to wipe twenty five percent but failed to notice six shares growing thirty percent in the past three months only raising the value of the stake to four point seven

billion dollars it adds today's prices which is obviously more than in two thousand and four however the c.e.o. of the of french company christopher demar jury said that the tile is paying around four billion dollars for the twelve percent stake which they hope to increase to fifteen percent within a year and to nineteen percent within nineteen point four percent within three years r.t. is that it was cool reporting that the new partnership and corp between total and opens a new high is for the global energy industry that's according to alexander and as are at i've seen metropole. currently russia has only one large oil and you've blown it circling to tell will be blown to be able fifty percent larger than cycle and so it will be the largest plant to russia moreover it will be the most northern . plant in the world so basically it will help other companies to create the

technology is it legal for the contras. lots have a look at how the markets are faring that sour european stocks of climbing on thursday as their high close in the wall street and educate wine and oil prices or to invest to sentiment investors in europe are digesting a string of already reports underweight interest rate decision from the european central bank and revised euro zone g.d.p. figures jute later in the day insurance group of the vote against two and a half percent trade said it's twenty term profit surged forty four percent of the energy sector shares of irish all and gas exploration company tullow well are rising three point seven percent as the company confirmed it encountered a major light oil field offshore ghana. and the russian markets are continuing their rise trucking in asian games and as oil prices of pushing up energy shares

the r.t.s. crossed the psychological benchmark of two thousand points during the first ten minutes of thursday's trade it is now gaining one point four percent on the my success point seven percent on the rise. but it's have a look at some individual share moves in russia. showed up more than four percent in morning trading on the news that francisco child is buying a stake in the russian gas major home whether quick profit taking has early gains drained the shares down one percent anti-world prices are backing investor interest in energy shares more than two percent and severus dollars is one percent higher on the mises that's after news that russia's biggest still make up. agreed to sell three of its five based unprofitable still plans to run through group investors also largely ignored the company's fourth quarter twenty ton loss or more than three hundred fifty million dollars severstal also serves a growing demand in both home and overseas markets would boost sales and production

in twenty eleven. and finally japan's largest general trading company mitsubishi has announced its plans to participate in the stockman gas project the field located in the barents sea is set to contain almost four trillion cubic meters of gas the venture aims to build a plant to produce seven hot million tons of liquefied natural gas and really without good beginning but the next five years. ok europe has a knob that set for me join me in less than one else time for more business news and get most or a small west side r.t. dot com slash business.

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itself. this is a key town in libya's oil rich instance reportedly once again targeted by and strong it's. used to resisting or attempts to prise him from growing speculation the u.s. on the cake could intervene in the country with a full. u.s. is warning of a humanitarian crisis is the rising in libya sees it needs one hundred eighteen thousand refugees fleeing across the border to miss the most of them all foreign labor is to m l b l z. and america's reason the information war she wrote foreign media like al-jazeera china c.c.t.v. and also the u.s.

top diplomat hillary clinton voiced the concern is she also called rest for extra cash for a fee u.s. gender around the world. she sits down with former russian ambassador to libya to discuss the potential routes the country may now follow. caught up his refusal to leave peacefully has seriously changed trend of the revolution in the middle east every next uprising in the arab world risks becoming more radical and monitor us for more on the fast moving events i'm joined by the former russian ambassador to libya and the us senate seat by distractions by sea polo and thank you you much mr got out in person lots of times what impression did you make on you. soon look at all normal political he is a very personal story into the politician and he systems enough.