really you believe just science and technology from. the future cover. stories on r.t. european powers turned their back on obama and his supporters after the us president refuses to rule out intervention in libya. and that he couldn't british military up points to strike as kind of the japanese forces can of opposition held cities on the sixty eighth insurrection join the police here in a few moments for an update. british p.r. firm has come under fire for devising some of the world's most controversial regimes and taking advantage of a vulnerable climate in the arab world right now as we report plus it's not easy being a space when a crew of six sit down for a stellar exam in

a moscow region the crew they've got the right stuff to meet the next mission to the i s s. i know you're watching the r.t. news channel at eleven pm moscow time this friday night my name is kevin now in our top story fierce battles have broken out across libya today between opposition and gadhafi forces on the so-called day of rage dozens are said to have been killed in the fighting meanwhile the u.s. and u.k. are becoming more isolated as they refused to rule out intervention in libya artie's paula slayer is on the choosing libyan border with more. i am on the libyan she has the on board of ems throughout the course of the day around two thousand refugees made their way through here they come in with stories of intimidation on the other side of the border they've been telling us that gadhafi forces an opposition they're preventing people from traveling through the articles of the day

in libya a lot of violence some violent clashes between gadhafi supporters and anti-government rebel groups and also that fighting happening in the oil rich portion of rust not roofs we've been told that rebels have taken over this town they're in control of the airport and they now say that they making the way to the capital city tripoli in tripoli itself after midday prayers today friday there were demonstrations there was a live ammunition fired and there was also a lot of tear gas dozens of people injured dozens of people killed in these latest rounds of violence the mood certainly is being stated for some kind of possible foreign intervention to american warships had now landed increased there the british and american forces have been messin for days just yesterday four hundred american marines arrived there were also hearing from the local greek media that a torpedo and an american a submarine have also been dispatched to the area now the debate that's happening

in the obama administration is a public debate is over the merits of launching some kind of military intervention here the same kind of debate is happening in european circles the debate has largely justified at least it justifies itself by saying that the reason for some kind of military intervention would be humanitarian reasons but when you ask libyans you know they say that this is simply nonsense and they are very fearful that the term humanitarian assistance is nearly a cover for what really is an attempt by those in the international community to safeguard their interests in libya if you look for example at iraq where a week ago some twenty nine she's full demonstrators were killed the international community particularly washington kept quiet about it and this is because they were killed by government. troops who are backed up by thousands of american soldiers the same is true for brain the brit for weeks now there have been violent demonstrations and nothing is coming out of washington for it and this is largely a game because it houses there the hip forces of its feet there's also debate the

whole question of a no fly zone and here we hearing from the kid of nato that all considerations are on the table but there any kind of decision on this would need to be agreed to by the u.n. security council question we hearing is also considering sending typhoon fighters to cyprus if there's no fly zone is given the green light lastly the u.s. officials say by sending all american equal meant to this region aparna really is putting into place the flexibility to act in any way he determines fit for the future of libya. correspondent there with the latest and other news angle is come out the director of a top u.k. university's quit over the institution's links to the regime it comes after revelations of the london school of economics accepted libyan donations worth millions of dollars it's the latest scandal in a string of reports of dirty money infiltrating the u.k. from dictatorships in the arab world but as i reports noticed london p.r.

firms are cashing in on the rest. the influence of p.r. companies in distorting the truth is well known in hollywood movie wag the dog a p.r. agent engineers a war to distract from the president's plan during. to shoot the it's a pageant. and sometimes truth is stranger and much more damaging than fiction spain 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. and the reason they come here and lack 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 but if you're a foreign government looking for representation in london you get no further than paul to get based in the building behind me although very cagey about who its clients are is believed to represent the bahrain bellary and exiled russian tycoon bodies that is not ski defense 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 governments elsewhere in the region bellport and 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 policies in order to free. but that doesn't always happen libya for one has used p.r. machine before with misleading results in one thousand nine hundred five u.k.

based p.r. agency was pay four million pounds. to try and subvert the evidence that pointed towards libyan involvement in the 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 mcgrath lamb and 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 one can be really sure about all the information that will be 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 burnished and the palatable becomes political

london's top p.r. firms are known to be working under clerics for some of the world's most unpopular regimes but their expertise could be being used to shape the future political landscape of the region nor emmett's r.t. london are all parts of the main thrust of the story as the us nuclear refuses to rule intervention in libya let's bring some of the conversation now dr alexander close amir's sees in the u.k. he's a senior lecturer in politics at coventry university joins me now to talk more about the foreign forces building near libya even to thank for being on r.t. we've witnessed more than two weeks of fighting and bloodshed stories coming out of the situation doesn't seem to be improving falling appears to be getting worse but there is an argument i guess isn't there but maybe the intervention of foreign forces is a good thing it could help stabilize the situation your thoughts about the place. yes i think there's a strong case for military intervention in libya but the issue is not whether one

is in favor of that form of action or against i think the main issue is how military intervention will be organized who will take part in it in what the specific remit or of action will be for example i think it would be important in any form of military intervention to try and involve other factors besides nato or the united states and its western allies such as for example russia or even the arab league in order to give you the necessary legitimacy. do you think we're going to see if there is an invasion if it does happen do you think we're going to see a repeat of what we saw in iraq and afghanistan. well there are fundamental differences between what is happening now in libya and what we saw in iraq and afghanistan i think the first major difference is that the opposition forces in

libya already control an important part of the country and in the case of intervention to support them they would spare the. action in order to enter tripoli and take over how this was not the case of course as we know in iraq the second issue is their intervention or the sort we've seen in iraq and afghanistan with weeks of boarding from will not be necessary in the case of libya the first. the first form of action that is being discussed and this is the what the. libyan opposition forces are calling for is to create a no fly zone in order to protect them from attacks from the air now i think that this is a form of military intervention that will have very. few adverse effects of the kind we saw in afghanistan which you mentioned assuming there is no intervention assuming this buildup is just

a show of bravado maybe just something to tell the gadhafi to cool his boots we don't know if you listen to it or not for the countries who do oppose the foreign intervention like france like germany what alternatives are there on the table to try and end this bloodshed in libya. well precisely i think the countries which oppose military intervention in libya do not come up with credible alternatives and that is what strengthens the case in favor of some form of action the alternative would be presumably to arm the opposition forces in the hope that we will be able to drive back could at least army and eventually enter tripoli but this is quite difficult considering that. the official army is still in control of the air force which gives it significant superiority over the opposition forces in the second major issue is the chemical and biological weapons which might be used and i think

some protection is needed. for the first question those kind of trying to be devil's advocate a bit there are a lot of people as well saying that if there is some sort of intervention here the whole thing could really explode could really get out of hand and yet you are saying it's probably a good move if there is some intervention how you balancing those two things. well i think that intervention should first of all be. discussed with the parties concerned i don't think it should take place without the consent is. going to actual council but judging by what we see the military buildup at the moment you really think there will be that sort of discussion at the end of the day. yes i believe so and i understanding is that the western governments and the u.s. administration has stated that publicly they are in constant contact with the libyan opposition forces and i believe that other european and russian government in the arab league would be so i think that it is important to agree with them

particular plans of action that would serve but they feel they need on the ground rather than in calls on the form of intervention that is planned somewhere in nato behind closed doors and i believe that would be a guaranteed to ensure that the intervention is affect the lives serves the interests of the opposition forces briefly what what do you think tonight the future is for colonel gadhafi went how do you think this is going to play out. when my personal view is that colonel gadhafi will never be able to restore control over the parts of the country that he has lost i cannot predict how long he will remain in control of tripoli in the area around it maybe he can manage to survive for a few weeks maybe for a few months although i would exclude that but he will never be able to achieve his objective which is to restore his complete authority in the country the worst that can happen of course is that he might end up dividing libya into two parts which is something that nobody wants ok dr alexander has me

a single action in politics it's time for university thank you could have been a problem. thank you can pictures of tuck ahead in the program much more laid back we invite you to come traveling with us across russia sees close to the edge of the city of heroes lovell's part two of our program we explore the age old traditions of breathtaking landscapes are transformed into a lucrative business savvy law the rigorous lab is coming up it later in the program. the u.s. state department wants billions of dollars from congress to fight an information war against media outlets like r.t. secretary of state hillary clinton admitted that america is losing the battle it needs to launch a counterattack professor of journalism christopher chambers the from things that washington know will fight through reporting with pure propaganda. the corporatization don't mess to clean up american news has basically thrown out the whole need for news gathering 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 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 news basically to be a true propaganda arm rather than a news gathering and reporting outlet which is what our t. 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. quarter past eleven pm here in moscow let me take you through some international news headlines china will boost its military defense budget by thirteen percent to almost ninety two billion dollars next year the rise in spending is raised concerns the arrival of the country's increasing might the world's second largest economy has been developing stealth fighters in advance this hour system could soon launch its first aircraft carrier to making insists its only modernization programs in place although it is solely for defensive purposes. protests to be facing sarajevo over the rest of the former bosnian general you of our lives was detained at vienna airport after an international warrant was issued by serbia but great authorities wanted to face charges over alleged war crimes if you executed participating in an attack that killed dozens of serbian soldiers at the start of the one thousand nine hundred. if you do appear in a vienna court on friday. bad news for nasa there are seven launch

a rocket carrying its latest to earth observation satellite zealot in failure setting off from california the glory star like make trouble six minutes in when a technical error resulted in the rocket slowing down and then was unable to reach its orbit it's likely to crash deadly ocean in the antarctic at a cost of four hundred thirty million dollars the satellites purpose was to gather new data about factors that affect your climate taurus staying with space matters cosmonauts in russia are hoping to be cleared for an orbital missions in the international space station so the international crew of the main and backup flights are only going final exams at russian star city of his regular school reports for the training center. examinations will take place over the next two days of the team will have to pick out a special examination ticket in x. out according to the instructions in that sequence and they will be graded not just on their performance in usual circumstances but also they will be able they will

have to be able to perform well in emergency situations essentially b. 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 it 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 thirty and 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 and. the ice says is going to be about

essentially the celebration of the anniversary of eureka gardens first flights and in fact the timi two 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 about the fact that they will be flying off into orbit on the anniversary and they consider it to be a great honor but at this point they are going through some examinations and like i said earlier they're absolutely certain they will perform rather well. trouble's of a different color now we invite you to take more the scenery and across russia. whether it's fast motors historic real estate or funny felt 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.

mechanica set up a factory in robbins churning out man's new best friend in the area the russian made. writing. and we have a you know there are three yes i think you can write anywhere. now the company is the number one snowmobile manufacturer in the country with seven hundred employees every machine is fully tested before it leaves the factory down for customers who include 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 saki in two thousand and 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 upscale investor only jara showed me

around and told me why he left a career in science to create a tourist destination in an almost forgotten place he read 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 a russian for eventually experience. i've been here in this project for the last four years and the local population is change their attitude radically they have confidence in me this market has very much economic potential and the people living here are now keeping that attention alive by promoting traditional russian lifestyle choices from bats has never eaten. to the way to keep warm i mean look when people are rediscovering country styles and they want a russian stove in their house faced with ceramic tiles and brick it's widespread i get thirty years warranty back in ribands children are on the minds of creative couple working in the bible business pavel gavrilov

a children's book illustrator thought of another camp as for the characters he created on paper and started adaption and 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. and this region is well to do compared with other regions this is around many people with artistic minds or is important is to find ways to let them be manifest it often is difficult to find how to do that the trouble with all many people your idea of socially important and we're not a ship is oh new we don't understand what it means by believe it's the future of this region. but there is sports history or art there seems to be something here for everybody who wants to make a buck and create new ideas in the outer sagal region lindsey france r.t. . beautiful part of the world join our troubles around russia and less than ten minutes from now the people of el mistrust our guest discuss what's in store for

the middle east and north africa but first let's catch up with all the latest business leaders here. and welcome to business artie's good to have your company shareholders have decided to postpone a decision on whether the british russian joint venture wants to participate in the d.p. arctic exploration deal the meeting was held in berlin on friday after it was initially pushed forward from the original date of february twenty first use of the failing to turn up r.t. correspondent daniel bushell has not. we're closer in the sense that the two sides have met because as you say last week b.p. actually failed to turn up it obviously feel somewhat stuck in a corner in a split of a lose lose situation on the one hand obviously has a case against b.p. the stockholm arbitration course court has suspended the b.p. rosneft deal while the two sides iron out their differences on the other hand if b.p. does give up control of this article it would of course lose

a great deal of the profits that it has a shadow hanging over all of this is the russian government energy minister. says he actually backed b.p. in the b.p. rosneft deal of course rosneft chose b.p. because it has unique expertise in exploring in difficult conditions and that is one reason why they want b.p. to go ahead with the deal the thought in the side really for be dudley the new head of b.p. really hoping that this deal would be the next level of development for the company after its troubles of course with the all spill in the gulf of mexico and not just for the company but also for the world he told me that more on for energy cost the world's expected job forty percent by two thousand and thirty and the arctic is a key way possibly to maintain and fulfill that demand. things daniel bushell reporting prime minister putin says inflation in russia will reach around six

percent by june but alexander from d.c. capital says high oil prices are allowing the government to replenish the reserve fund which could help curb inflation. if the ministry of finance spends less of extra oil revenues that they get from hi all prices are the batteries for inflation because less money will get into the economy less and innocent. and there is also good for the school because a lot investors will see about referees again accumulating reserves misreports estimated that they see there is their front. runner health relend by the end of the year one hundred rubles price of one hundred wresting of that there should be more money in the reserve fund of the minister of finance estimates currently. well as large as that of many and produce a roussel has rejected metals nichols offer to buy out twenty percent of its shares saying you wouldn't be in the best interest of shareholders but last month they offered to buy twenty percent of its shares from to sell for twelve point eight

billion dollars which would lead the out of medium joint majority. with a five percent stake commencing oversells decision that was cynical said it will make no more buyout offers to resell meanwhile in north america always heading for another extraordinary board meeting on march eleventh where the fates of the nickel giants leadership could shift. let's take a look at friday's close on russia's markets the r.t.s. my side saw it in the red on profit taking but overall the week so far was strong as commodities are still high you might experience one percent in five sessions r.t.s. four point one percent the markets will be trading on saturday as it's a working day in russia stocks now on friday sessions per bag has seen quite a roller coaster ride this week heaviest trading stock is down one point six percent friday's close what is gold is down off its week long rally and lukoil is rocking the translight to go point three percent at the close. today we're seeing

some profit taking in the russian markets despite a positive opening of the trading session there are several reasons to the profit taking one thing to keep in mind is that the russian index is up around four percent during this week also today we've seen so much influence u.s. existing seven released towards the end of the trading session payrolls number the number one ninety two thousand. and that's despite the inflation that has been a key issue for the u.s. consumer inflation on food and on gasoline due to the heightens environment of global oil prices so so far we see we seeing that the u.s. consumption has not been hit but by the inflation which is a positive and encouraging signal for the market. the gazprom led nord stream consortium has secured almost three and a half billion dollars for the construction of the second phase of the pipeline generate the funds were thirty percent financed by shareholders and seventy percent from international financial markets with twenty four banks involved construction

of the second phase is to start this may well as the first gas deliveries fruit pipelines first phase lots of comments in north stream is planted live a gas from russia is a europe would be the longest subsidy pipeline in the world once completed. and so from the business team for now coming up next the headlines on our team to stay with us.

mr is that so much definitely huge music is on the mark with the world for change around the globe people are protesting against government. can itself define democratic west learn. close up to spain to the authority and republic. center of russian defense production. now while she heads to central russia. on the crops of become an industry. the harsh winter makes the most even more enjoyable. and well every one can train to be a stump. of a young muslim christian. russia close up on oxy.