they've given pulsar to the mill stone who took some of the old country halls holiday is the big east goldman's holds the ring branch the creamy it used to be the montague the child the oil the reuben surcingle. as more streams in the news new ships and troops closes in libya there's growing concern in the us on the u.k. not only the military intervention in the country. on the rest in the middle east and north africa brings the tallest reputations in the a plane into the absolute power for spoon dollars is being counted on to whitewash the government's image. as top u.s. diplomat here expenses sounds the alarm all the missing america is losing the battle of information we look at what the media cash is going out.

or warm welcomes and this is all seen life from moscow there's increasing speculation the u.s. and u.k. kid intervene in libya with the use of force president obama said he's keeping all options open and is ready to act if the crisis deepens when washington has already increased its mccue presence in the region has more of the situation. u.s. has already sent walsh have reached the mediterranean and are 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 calling for a no fly zone there are many to an 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 been put 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 not this was done in other countries such as iraq and there it proved that it is unlikely to halt 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 up his fighting and his campaigns against people who oppose him there was renewed fighting between government troops loyal to leader moammar gadhafi as well as opposition forces according to residents and eyewitness reports they were renewed air strikes in the town of brega the town was briefly taken over by

government forces but from what we hear it is firmly back in the hands of rebels it is not named two weeks of violence and normal gadhafi is losing control of the eastern half of his country but he has vowed to stay in power and continue fighting . well washington's also not ruling out the idea of a stamp or sharing a no fly zone over libya which has been proposed by its nato ally the u.k. we just recently the president said such a move would be an act of all that's required is the bombing of libya's air defenses linsey german from the start a war coalition so the country is considering intervention in libya should learn from their previous mistakes that's a way for the region i think the international community should actually keep well away from what is going on in the middle east the people of the region in chile is here in egypt in bahrain and all these places have shown with great courage exactly how you do get rid of the haters they have to be allowed to do this in libya the

international community after all of the people who backed hosni mubarak right there with the people who sold. and weapons which is now using against their own people and it's simply a fact that you cannot trust to intervene 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 and when it comes to revamping a damaged image pay are is the weapon of mass destruction whether it's a bloody dictator or a shady businessman they all times companies help away their silent reputation in the last season or and it reports there's no such thing as money. the influence of p.r. companies in distorting the truth is well known in hollywood movie bragg the dog

a p.r. agent engine is a war to distract from the president still wondering. do should the world tragedy i think i'm sometimes truth is stranger and much more damaging than fiction spin has been crucial in middle eastern politics for many many years i mean spain is what took britain into the iraq war for example crass headlines about weapons of mass destruction and in forty five minutes p.r. industry experts reckon the majority of the arab states in turmoil bahrain egypt libya have some kind of representation in london p.r. and the reason they come here and that could regulation while in the u.s. 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 yeah ok but that then bell comes in decades in the building behind me although very cagey about who its

clients are it's believed to represent about the bahrain bellaver east and exiled trust tycoon but he's got his old ski the fact it's also been writing together lists in recent days on behalf of the member of the libyan royal family and it's all based certainly representing government elsewhere in the region bellport injured declined to give us an interview for this story but they've assured r.t. in the past that p.r. can influence questionable regimes for the better a country frequently will modify. its actions and its policies in order to three. perhaps. having better relations with whoever they're looking to improve. but that doesn't always happen libya for one has used its p.r. machine before with misleading results in one thousand nine hundred five a u.k. based. our agency was pay four million pounds to try and subvert the evidence that pointed towards 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 al mcgrady and lyman female were 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 and the only way that one can be really sure about all the information that will be bombarded with on a daily basis is where does it come from and is that person hostile 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 called a tree london's soho is the heart of the p.r. industry in the capital where images of the unpalatable becomes political london's top p.r. firms are known to be working under a cloud for 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 am its artsy london. or with the still to come in the program preparing for an out of this world. the next says he is undergoing final examinations in the bracing for their flight to the international space station on the fiftieth anniversary of the first manned flight into space for details just ahead. of. time we zoom away three hundred kilometers north of moscow to show you how one of russia's all this town's keeping up with the twenty first century. america is losing the war of words to new players are being one of them u.s. talk to promote hillary clinton has lamented that foreign english language media is causing home grown news networks to shame she's asked congress for more cash to

raise america's agenda rolled on his head in ford investigates where the money is actually going. since one thousand nine hundred forty two the us has broadcasted its closure and politics around the world. transmitting in over fifty languages to the tune of seven hundred forty five point five million dollars per year but what happens when people just start tuning out more and more us and the media outlets who designs the most america's image abroad are channels in search of an audience like taxpayers are still footing the bill and only a handful of. america has sunk one billion dollars into alcoa and arabic language news network authors professors will see this as the network's model is stuck in the past when american news was welcomed by the competition to search within the arab world. do you know.

that there really is an audience outside of the right. fifty three percent watch al-jazeera only half a percent of their of viewers watch al-jazeera care which is broadcast from suburban springfield virginia its credibility. arab audience for the most or well stickier about themselves. or arabs critics say that from day one there was a major disconnect executives who didn't speak arabic the staffing the network with lebanese christians to broadcast with overwhelmingly muslim audience. and it audience that associates the channel with the u.s. the architects of the iraq war should 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 viewership is a lofty goal for another u.s. network given market wouldn't feel. they were so.

for twenty six years the rally with david martin has fallen on deaf ears in cuba says cuban journalist my lean alone so chum. it's hard to talk about the impact of radio and t.v. because on television it's not seen and on the radio it's practically unheard and on top of that in cuba the signal is jammed congressional reports point out the miami based channels quote failure over many years to adhere to generally accepted journalistic standards i'm glad you know what i'm 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 you may have had a million dollar budget in two thousand and eight to pay cuban dissidents on the island as its reporters and ran fuel in flight to gulfstream planes that circled island to broadcast t.v. marti 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. says shows like this send a subconscious message to support the military support the police force and 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 a deliberate this is a 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 eagle force propaganda inside of afghanistan is trying to mimic that trying to say that confronting insurgents and confronting terrorists and. it is a good thing and afghans who support what's on screen in afghanistan contrast with the reality off 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 the u.s. should switch out international broadcasting i love 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 and appealing for funding at a time when republicans come to his apartment but media professor chris the chamber's says he doubts the money will act or course of american news outlets affording victim to corporate interests. the corporatization don't mess to clean up american has basically thrown out the whole need for newsgathering and real reporting in exchange for punditry and entertainment and sensationalism because that's going 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 resonate and we are with the people on the ground finding out what the problems the problems are and when you do that you can produce a product that people here and around the world are going to spend 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 buy news basically if it's a true propaganda arm rather than a news gathering and reporting which is what 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 are pretty much where c.b.s. a.b.c. n.b.c. were thirty years ago before things fell apart and record. for all top stories blogs analysis videos to local science dot com here's a taste of what's on you right now just draw suspicion because of religion

america's muslim. f.b.i. agents four hundred families spying on. the second bridge aside from the function of russia's fine subject program who is into the life equipped with some of the most and falls avionics on the problem is that more about this up to date flying machine on the web site also called. now they may soon be going where few have gone before but finale and he plays they're heading back to school the next careers of the international space station and stays down for exams to make sure. that he going to school has more from stealth as you mean well scary. examinations will take place over the next two days of the team will have to pick out a special examination to get an absolute according to the instructions in that secret and they will be graded not just on their performance in usual circumstances but

also they will be able we will have to be able to perform well in emergency situations essentially they will have to be prepared for anything that may go wrong in space on route to the ice says or at the international space station but when we spoke to them they did say that they have spent the last two years training together they are psychologically and physically prepared for this mission and they're really looking forward to that they may believe they will perform to the best of their ability now after the are done with their examinations they will have several days left before they go to kazakhstan to the baikonur cosmodrome where they will take off into space on march thirtieth now again the team is very excited about this particular date because because this comes on the fiftieth anniversary of the first manned flight into space and the man of course being used to guide him and everything this year because at the baikonur cosmodrome ams. the ice says is

going to be about essentially the celebration of the anniversary of the regards first flights and in fact that to me too one capsule is also bearing the name of your garden and also will bear his image on the body of the capsule and the cosmonauts a very excited by the fact that they will be flying off into orbit on the anniversary and they consider to be a great honor but at this point they are going through some examinations and like i said earlier they're absolutely certain that they will perform rather well. i briefly acknowledged of all the international headlines this hour on hundreds of angry stimulus that gathered for the funeral service of a punk a son and government minister killed two days ago a symbolic bus he had long been threatened by his vocal opposition to his country's harsh laws that impose the death penalty for inside. the taliban claimed responsibility for shooting back in a residential neighborhood on wednesday he was the second occultist on the call

attention to love save them up so. i retired f.b.i. agents who disappeared in iran four years ago it was a like them being held in southwest asia according to the u.s. state department robert levinson disappeared during a business trip in march two thousand and seven all saying on the island of krishna the u.s. has asked around to make humanitarian efforts to return him safely say it's iran how it one hundred p.c. denied any knowledge of what. the u.n. security council has will civil war could return to ivory coast after months of political death log on the ouattara is internationally recognized as the winner of last november's presidential election the incumbent leader by brawn refuses to step down the situation has become increasingly violent the supporters of that seabed repeatedly clash the un says fifty people died in bali this week and knowing

pleading six women shot at a rally on wednesday by forces loyal to. the teenager the sense of the trial of italian prime minister silvio berlusconi has stolen the show the vienna opera ball. gets handed the event with a seven inch old millionaire businessman his pulse guest paris hilton and paul anderson well it's going he will sound trial in april over charges he paid the gulf for sex when she was underage then used to influence a cover sell both have denied having a sexual relationship. that's an unforgettable experience now as our brushes his pals as we take you close up. he has travel three hundred kilometers north of los cabos the winds and rain sound as a thousand years old but its residents. of the twenty first century it's

a was one of the largest oil refinery parts of the country employ a third of the ass novels population the smaller cells also fold to help provide the cross with locals that needs those he falls to close a thriving businesses. i whether it's fast motors historic real estate or money found the people of the u.s. loving region are not short of space for their robust emissions 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 and were against churning out man's new best friend in the area the russian made snowmobile in russia actually there is no the trails all the snow mobiles writing. we have a huge north territory yes i think you can write anywhere. now the company is the

number one snowmobile manufacturer in the country we seven hundred employees every machine is only tested before it leaves the factory down to customers from even the local police. 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 sapin 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 the art school investor only a jar of showed me around and told me why he left a career in science can create a tourist destination and 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 i

think. the whole thing began as a hobby gradually evolved into a way of life and then to business projects we can describe it as a social experiment of sorts into reviving our culture in historical heritage i've been hailing this project for the last four years in the local populations change their attitude radically with the now confidence in me that this market has very much economic potential. and the people living here are now keeping up attention on my back noting traditional russian lifestyle choices from baptizing their babies the way they came the more. i learned how to make so far places from my granddad people are rediscovering country life styles and they were a russian stop in their house faced with ceramic tiles and brick generally new villages out that way that's widespread i did very good as we were eating out grandchildren will live long enough joys. that can ribands children are on the

minds of greedy couple working in the dive well business partner who gavriel off 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. because people are very different in rural here this region as well compared with other regions. you see this is around me people with artistic minds well as it goes in sixty five ways to let them be manifest it often is difficult to find how to do that trickle down many people your idea of socially important and it's all new they don't understand what it means and i believe it's to feature this creature. whether it's. 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 with different arty.

i'll be back with ace headlines in just a few minutes but now it's time for the business i'll take. a lot of time to get the latest from the world of business and friday we'll see tame shareholders meeting to decide the fate of the joint venture between b.p. and the true science concluded the deal in january but were forced to put it on hold after a rb because russian partner in the joint venture to b.p. claimed the deal it's exclusive agreement with the oil majors and another bit to end the conflict this week offered three plays in the deal with was snapped all correspond and that will bushel has the story. he wants to buy the british from out

of the rosneft deal chief financial officer jonathan new york claims he can easily raise the eight billion dollars plus needed trouble is posed and the russian government wants b.p. not t. and k. b.p. because only years has the expertise to develop in order to conditions the stockholm arbitration courts to suspended the b.p. wells left agreements while they sort out their disputes b.p. spokesman limited boyan of says it will consider any t. in k v p or five but as it has serious concerns with the financial operational and strategic aspects of the proposals russia has become the polar p.p. caught live with and called live without a country provides a full twenty five percent of its worldwide profits piccy shareholder a a r rid themselves of t.n. k p p russia badly after 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 its value though will be high the world will need forty percent more energy by twenty thirty it's going to be something the world needs both sides have said they hope they can make progress towards settling their disputes in the talks today. and yet another turn in the ongoing struggle for control of another major company the world's largest aluminum producer who saw rejected neurochemicals offer to buy out twenty percent of its shares saying it wouldn't be in the best interest so that shareholders last month offered to buy twenty percent of the shares from. twelve

point eight billion dollars which would leave a medium giant majority owned by an integrated basco with a five percent stake commenting on the new songs decision or old cynical side it will make new move by out of office to result in well known nickel is heading for another extraordinary board meeting on march eleventh where the fate of the nickel giant's leadership could shift once again. brings us to the market's unsure as a result of rising three point nine percent in hong kong on his decision on their roles by about off a japanese stocks followed u.s. equities higher in early friday trading with expert focus shares outperforming on the better than expected to as jobless claims report and the nikkei finished up one percent hong kong shares also climbed all unsoldered overnight gains on wall street with banks and energy producers among the bank gave us. and european forces opened high on friday as an upbeat mood and wall street on thursday and asia

overnights brush to european about stars in investors' eyes also on the key u.s. employment data to signify growth in the world's largest economy the u.s. department of labor is set to release its monthly jobs report with every one. in two. hundred russia they are she has in the my six off loss to positive in the trade shares mixed let me remind you that the r.t.s. across the psychological benchmark of two thousand points and eighty one point seven percent. on thursday. and mazda is considering building as fast as some of the plans end russia this comes after the japanese carmaker said it made her trail its u.s. production choo-choo a drop in demand the south the new plants will produce artists thirty thousand cars a year and create one thousand new jobs the company cert said entering the russian market is now part of the company's new export strategy. ok that wraps up the

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