as washington mews more ships and troops a close it's a libya there's a growing concern to us from the state you'd need a military that's in the country. obsolete our be our reserve goldstraw most clueless in the middle east and north africa it's burson spends alternate being rich it's unfortunately clubs. with top diplomats and return to town pains to fawns off that missing americans losing the media war look at how the us is currently spending the castrator next it's a message and. a

very warm welcome to me this is all in life for a mosque a growing speculation the u.s. and u.k. could intervene in libya with use of force the u.s. president says he's keeping all options open and is ready to act if the crisis deepens washington has already increased its military presence in the region spending will ships and marines for the aussies policy has more on the situation in the region. the u.s. has already sent warships that have reached the mediterranean and on making their way towards libya we're hearing that four hundred u.s. soldiers are in the mediterranean right now really to board these warships at the same time the british prime minister david cameron called for a no fly zone there were many of the international community who are against this including the arab league as well as russia they say that it creates an aria where you have to have some kind of short term solution in court on the table but no long

term prognosis in terms of how this will play out we are hearing the same from locals here there are against any kind of international intervention with opposition leaders saying as much they say that it will spread the conflict it will undermine the democratic movement and at the same time we're hearing that a no fly zone will involve military attacks on libya's air defenses now this was done in other countries such as iraq and there it proved that it is unlikely to hold the regime's helicopter and ground operations if anything it runs the risk of expanding the violence here as gadhafi will then have the justification he needs to merely stick type his face in and his campaigns against people who oppose him after all today thursday there was a new fighting between government troops loyal to leader moammar gadhafi as well as opposition forces according to residents an eyewitness reports they were new

airstrikes in the town of brega the town was briefly taken over by government forces before last we hear it is kill me back in the hands of rebels it is no means two weeks of violence and one other duffy is losing control over the eastern half of his country but he has vowed to stay in power and continue fighting. and washington's also not ruling out the idea of establishing and they fly zone over libya and idea proposed by. the u.k. as recently the pentagon said the move would be seen as military intervention all season so another cover from selling person to major cases the locals here are saying that they have seen unusual activity around the two minutes or bases that are located here on the island of cyprus they're saying that a large number of planes have been lending rosalie bringing military forces through the islands in order to be on standby to be sent to libya however that information

has not been confirmed by any of the nationals we do know however that so far q. your worship's have already passed through the suez canal we also do know that some four hundred u.s. marines were dispatched to u.s. base on the greek island of crete some major countries saying about that song to close an air embargo over libya but in order to do that they would have to have a clear mandate from the u.n. security council and russia in that respect has a reach to right russia has already spoken against such a decision and we do know however that the u.k. soldiers are currently helping. refugees to flee the country but the question remains whether the u.k. intentions are purely humanitarian in the region or whether there is

a political agenda to it. eludes the german from the stop the war coalition says the country is considering intervention in libya should learn from their previous mistakes and stay away from the region. i think we international community should actually keep well away from what is going on in the middle east the people of the region in tunis here in egypt in bahrain and all the places of show with great courage exactly how you do get rid of dictators they have to feel out through this in libya the international community of the rule of the people but hosni mubarak right so with the people who sold. on and weapons which is now using against his own people and it's simply a fact that you cannot trust to him to green we've already seen in iraq we've already seen in afghanistan the terrible mess the americans and the british have made and they really should not be even thinking about trying to intervene in any

way here or they'll see still to come in the program losing ground in the billions of dollars allocated to us media dollars being pumped into who gets the message. and say brave assy is the closeout team takes you see the industrial heart of the youngest level it's very easy to strong program concentrate its. when it comes to revamping and damaged image is the weapon of mass distraction whether it's a bloody dictator or shady business men they also compound companies to help polish their own way something's reputations floor and it reports there's no such thing as dashing money. the influence of p.r. companies in distorting the truth is well known in hollywood movie why the dog a p.r. agent engineers

a war to distract from the president's plan during the debate to shoot the over the country. and sometimes truth is stranger and much more damaging than fiction spin has been crucial in middle eastern politics for many many years i mean spin is what took britain into the iraq war for example these crass headlines about weapons of mass destruction and within forty five minutes p.r. industry experts reckon the majority of the arab states in turmoil bahrain egypt have some kind of representation in a london p.r. firm and the reason they come here and knock of regulation while in the us if a p.r. company takes on a foreign government it has to register the fact with the department of justice in the u.k. there's no such rule. if you're a foreign government looking for representation in london get no further than bell pubs in decades in the building behind me although very cagey about who its clients

are is believed to represent the love of god rain belive reason and exiled russian tycoon bodies that is the old state the facts also been writing to journalists in recent days on behalf of a member of the libyan royal family and it's all based certainly representing government elsewhere in the region well part and she declined to give us an interview for this story but they've assured r.t. in the past the p.r. can influence questionable regimes for the better for the country frequently will modify. its actions and its policies in order to free. of having better relations with. but that doesn't always happen libya one has used london's p.r. machine before with misleading results in one thousand nine hundred five a u.k. based. our agency was paid four million pounds to try and subvert the evidence that pointed towards the libyan involvement in the lockerbie case and this is what has

led to all sorts of alternative theories about lockerbie although of course all the evidence to point to the fact that i'm a grotty and female we're actually responsible so you know how to play these rules they know how to play the game and it's transparency that's lacking in u.k. p.r. information appears in the media but people have no idea who put it there the only way one can be really sure about all the information that will be bombarded with on a daily basis is where does it come from is that person partial or impartial and in that way we get a much clearer idea of what it is that we're being told although there is a new body in the u.k. designed to regulate the p.r. industry declaring clients is still voluntary london's soho is the heart of the p.r. industry in the capital where images of but list and the palatable becomes palatable london's top p.r. firms are known to be working on declared to some of the world's most unpopular regimes but their expertise could be being used to shape the future political

landscape of a vulnerable region nor abbott's r.t. london. is news ing of a war of words to new players are being one of them us tons of money into the house laments that foreign english language media is putting homegrown news networks to shame she's asked congress for more castro's americans and broadwell while he came forward investigates where the money is actually growing. since one thousand nine hundred forty two the us has broadcasted its closure and politics around the world . how about the full weight. transmitting in over fifty languages to the tune of seven hundred forty five point five million dollars per year but what happens when people. start tuning out more and more u.s. funded media outlets designed to promote america's image abroad are channels in

search of an audience but taxpayers are still footing the bill and. america has sunk one billion dollars into al who are an arabic language news network author and professor bill see that says the networks model is stuck in the past when american news was welcomed by sam the competition in. the arab world dominated by zero zero zero zero zero that there really is an. outsider there was. fifty three percent watch al jazeera only half a percent of arab viewers watch out florida which is broadcast from suburban springfield virginia for its credibility. the arab audience for the most or secure about. zero. critics say that from day one there was a major disconnect executives who didn't speak arabic staffing the network with lebanese christians to broadcast to its overwhelmingly muslim audience. and it

audience that associates the channel with the u.s. the architects of the iraq war soon a new television service will begin providing reliable news and information across the region and supporter of unpopular and repressive regimes throughout the middle east but even now what has small viewership is a lofty goal for another u.s. network b.m.r. think. there's a washington. for twenty six years and gave a mighty have fallen on deaf ears in cuba says cuban journalist my lean alone so champ. it's hard to talk about the impact of radio and t.v. marti because on television it's not seen on the radio it's practically unheard and on top of that in cuba the signal is just how many congressional reports point out the miami based channels. failure over many years to adhere to the generally accepted journalistic standards i'm like i want to know are we talking about a radio show that tells people to go into cuban leaders from the point of view of

journalistic ethics it's very troubling to me it had a fifteen million dollar budget in two thousand and eight two paid cuban dissidents on the island as it to reporters and fuel in flight to gulfstream planes that circled island to broadcast t.v. of our teams and the u.s. isn't just paying for news u.s. state department dollars also finance eagle four and afghan police drama former marine j. dilla barito says shows like this send a subconscious message to support the military support the police force in this sort of thing and in many ways it does on a broad scale what twenty four did here in the united states ten years into the u.s. war in afghanistan it says forty five percent of the media is run by rupert murdoch's news corp. creators of twenty four a series designed to drum up support for the war on terror in the u.s. twenty four was also created to support the doctrine of torture much of much of it

will force propaganda inside of afghanistan is trying to mimic that trying to say that confronting insurgents and confronting terrorists and what. is a good thing and afghans who support what's on screen in afghanistan contrasts with the reality all screen with little sign of afghan support with a staggering one point four trillion dollar deficit at home and propose cuts in everything from medicaid to education so merican they're saying that we should switch off international broadcasting and let the rest of the world watch what they would be watching anyway killing ford r.t. washington d.c. . u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is raising the alarm appealing for funding at a time when republicans plan to cut his opponent's part of the media professor chris chambers says he doubts the money will be used to produce factual reporting as american news outlets are falling victim to corporate interests. the

corporatization don't mess to clean up america new has basically thrown out the whole need for news gathering and real reporting in exchange for punditry and entertainment and sensationalism because that spin to deliver the demographics to the guys who pay for the commercials what's happening is we've opened up these huge gaps because we're more concerned with reality t.v. and people arguing and people attacking the president than we are with having people on the ground finding out what the problem the problems are and when you do that you can produce a product that people here and around the world are going to respect the amount of money we're talking about she could literally set up an entire. voice for america on steroids a real state run news network she's not that's not what's going to happen they're going to try to go into these countries and probably try to bind is basically be a true propaganda arm rather than a news gathering and reporting outlet which is what or t.v.

al-jazeera and the chinese network are going to be yes they're going to have their messages but they're real news networks they're pretty much where c.b.s. a.b.c. n.b.c. were thirty years ago before things fell apart and the record. for all our top stories that blogs and analysis on video do you log on to our website. he's a tosser for now as strauss unsuspicious because of religion and their business one of whom is in flames the f.b.i. agents that is spying on russia i am. the second phrase is either fifteenth of russia as i said program rules and it's a knife or quit the some of the names in advance avionics on the planet more about as a flying machine on our web site art into. everything else not international headlines at this hour a retired f.b.i. agent disappeared and around. four years ago is alive and being held in southwest

asia according to the u.s. robert levinson disappeared during a business trip in august two thousand and seven all stay on the island of kish the u.s. is almost ten rounds made that it's heading efforts church and safety to his family iran however has repeatedly denied any knowledge of what happened. the u.n. security council has warned civil war could returns ivory coast of the months of political deadlock on a song that was holiday seasons a nationally recognized the winner of last november's presidential election the incumbent leader in the on bug bone refuses to step down a situation has become increasingly volatile disapproves of the to the political class the u.n. says fifty people are dying on the street and if you think six women shot at a rally on wednesday. the teenage out the sent off the trial of its

own interim prime minister silvio berlusconi has made an appearance at the end goal . moon it was invited to the ritzy event by seventy eight year old millionaire and businessman because paul says included paris hilton ellis gay people of found shot and ate related charges he paid the thank you that is when she was under age then uses influence to cover it up for the night having a sexual relationship. with. an unforgettable experience of sour brushes his pals as we take you closer. he has travel three hundred kilometers north of los. remains out as a thousand years old and its residents uncertain up at the top subtree it's home to

run up and largest oil refinery in the country and boy. population this was house also forge ahead reviving diane crawford walked into the default of a place in the driving business. i whether it's fast motors historic real estate or funny fount the people of the jaroslava region are not short of space for their robust ambitions take the landscape for example almost thirty seven thousand square kilometers covered in snow in the winter months so back in the one nine hundred seventy s. rusco mechanica set up a factory in verbinski churning out man's new best friend in the area the russian made snowmobile in russia actually that is not all the trails all this norm about writing. and we have a small territory yes i think you can write anywhere. now the company is the number one snowmobile manufacturer in the country with seven hundred employees i agree

machine is only tested before it leaves the factory down to customers but even the local. over four hundred thousand of these have been manufactured since the company began in one nine hundred seventy one and with the winter olympics hitting soft twenty fourteen it's hoped that they will be used exclusively in running those winter games. moving at a slower pace is the sleepy village of yachts go investor only showed me around and tell me why he left a career in science to create a tourist destination in an almost forgotten place he wrote about just a few years ago he has sunk a cool million dollars into an antiques museum restaurant hotel and revive neighborhoods to attract travelers seeking the russian provincial experience. the

whole thing began as a hobby gradually evolved into a way of life and then to business projects we can describe as a social experiment of sorts into reviving our culture in historical heritage i've been feeling this project for the last four years in the local populations change their attitude radically but they now confidence in me that this market has very much economic potential. and the people living here are now keeping up intentionally lied by quoting traditional russian lifestyle choices from baptizing their baby to the way they can quote. i learned how to make sounds and fireplaces from my granddad people are rediscovering country life styles and they were russian stove in their house faced with ceramic tiles and brick generally new villages are that way it's widespread i did thirty years where eighty grand children will live long enough to enjoy it. back in ribands children are on the minds of greedy couple working in the wool business. a children's book illustrator

thought of another campus for the characters he created on paper and started adapting them into felt the funny felt company is now something between art and factory mass production it employs single mothers so they can work from home and raise their families. people are very different in rural here this region is well to do compared with other regions. you see this is around me people with artistic minds well as opposed to a celeb and the manifest it often is difficult to find how to do that. with our many people your idea of socially important and shared is all new they don't understand what it means and i believe it's the future of this region. whether it's ports history or art there seems to be something here for everybody who wants to make a buck and create new ideas in the jaroslava region lindsay france r.t. .

i'll be back in just a few minutes with the latest headlines. hello and the very warm welcome to the business of dave's friday we'll see ten k. b.p.'s shareholders meeting to decide the fate of the joint venture between b.p. and cross net the two sides concluded the deal in january port were forced to put it on hold after a our russian partners in the joint venture g.n.p. be reclaimed the deal by late its exclusive agreement with the british world major in a final best to end the conflict this week offer took place the british world giant oak correspondent daniel bushell has the story. he wants to avoid a british firm out of the rosneft deal chief financial officer jonathan moore

claims it can easily raise the eight billion dollars plus needed the trouble is both rosneft and the russian governments want peepee not seeing k b p because only its has the expertise to develop in conditions the stockholm arbitration called suspended fifty p. rules nifty agreements while they sort out their disputes p.p. spokesman for yarn of says it will consider any t.n. j.p. people for it says it has serious concerns with the financial operational and strategic aspects of the proposals russia has become the paul new p.p.p. called live with and can't live without the country provides a full twenty five percent of its worldwide profits a key shareholder a rid themselves of t a k p p russia dudly of the saying he favored the british side they also accused b.p. of blocking international expansion of the joint venture now this threatens to

derail these new exploration plans in january the head of b.p. told me how important the arctic was to the future of the company if you look out to the year twenty third of the growth in oil production will be fairly limited in its value that will be high the world will need forty percent more energy by twenty thirty it's going to be something the world needs a piece chief executive there both sides have said they hope they can make progress towards certainly in their disputes in the talks today. but so look at how the markets are performing japanese stocks followed u.s. equities high and changing on friday with exports focus shares out there forming after a better than expected chavez jobless claims report take a is up point eight percent this hour hong kong shares also climbed on solid as night games on wall street with banks and energy produced. among the big gayness. and piss off commision was also c n n rush on prostate r.g.s.

across the psychological benchmark of two thousand points and gained one point seven percent in my six and a day at college point two percent on the rise mark reuss time for magical live see is off to mystic off the outcoming trading. today is a very important day for the markets because we're going to get i guess the most important quarter piece of statistics coming our in ited states and this is their suggestion from the labor department. regarding the labor market on the other hand we have been seeing the markets going high this week after their short correction last week and earlier they're straight and we could face a situation where you know we'll buy in the room and sell on the fact if we see some profit taking and the bars are likely to step in and if there is indeed profit taking the correction over there decline is going to be very mild. that wraps up

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