libya's in deadlock as thousands flee via an arrest but many fear possible foreign intervention could only add to the problems. we're going to stay here until all the demands have been max people's voice is still sounding loud in the streets of egypt but in one of the first arab states to demand democracy it's the end do businesses that are now feeling the bitter aftertaste of revolution. and almost six decades after joseph stalin sadat a controversial soviet leader is so idolized in demonizing equal measures in russia .

two pm in moscow i'm not treasurer good to have you with us here on our c our top story well libya's locked in bloody battles u.s. and u.k. forces remain on standby amid fears they could intervene as thousands flee the troubled land many of its residents say they don't want international involvement hearing it as another form of oppression artie's parsley reports this is the build up of libya but it's also the word today it lines the pockets of hundreds of libyans who make their living selling fuel in tunisia fourteen times the price they paid back. the libyan gadhafi or one. and libya long live gadhafi let him stay in power for life. and as much as some may support gadhafi other libyans despise the united states for the moment and of course the

u.s. will not enter libya what rights they have they don't get that often it is libyan for days he's been trying to get into the community inside the border to check up on his family who on the other side you know some of them have been injured the answer he says is not with foreign intervention. people libyan people they don't the world. another like ari i mean like so much right in libya the foreign nations seem to be giving a little concerned to what libyans themselves actually want a debate for a no fly zone is continuing and u.s. warships are sailing not far from the libyan coast they're ready to come help libya not sure to be based help libya for the road was the world this is a problem. if the u.s. russia and other countries get involved in the not this time next scenes like this i used just i mean should the people here are against foreign involvement they know

well the crisis is often paid for so-called humanitarian assistance history has shown that many children aid in any war zone is more often than not thinly disguised military aid during the war in bosnia it was discovered that u.n. trucks delivering aid were in fact transporting military equipment in afghanistan the very weapons america gave to the taliban in the early eighty's came back to haunt the u.s. army following its two thousand and one afghan invasion so it's no wonder libyans whether they support gadhafi or not are united on one issue they want the world and american particular to stay out of the roof is policy r.t. . on the chin is the libyan border there is a senator a member of the u.s. house of representatives says if washington steps in in libya the country maybe lost a tyranny. all over the middle east north africa you see people rising up and challenging their governments the right of self-determination is an inherent right because it

doesn't become self-determination or become something else had any nation intervenes on one side or the other so the fact of the matter is there are times that intervention is not called for no matter how we much we'd like to do it because if we intervene then what we're going to be doing is let's say we intervene on those who are challenging mr gadhafi then he could point to that and say this is the united states trying to knock me off and try to then create more intrenchments which would cause at least half of libya to be lost in you know oppression. meanwhile egypt which was one of the countries that started a domino effect of protest of rolling into the arab world is still feeling the echoes of its older adults hundreds continue to demonstrate whipped up by their earlier success but as archy's ox on a boy who reports there are concerns uprising is may end up costing the jobs of more than just the president. loading on freedom after decades of protest abstinence egyptians are tasting their newly found liberties still unable to get

enough of with. god. given the resignation of hosni mubarak's close associate as prime minister one of the key demands of the opposition didn't take the steam out of geoffrey spreaders rally in fact the number of ten secure residents seems to be getting even higher nazli has been camping on the square for three weeks formerly a special needs educator she quit her job to be here and so far has no intention of looking for a new one we're going to stay here until all the demands are been met the demands are being met one by one but it's still the process is taking longer than expected the revolution is not yet over but it's already becoming a brand street vendors who paddles mubarak's portraits just two months ago have now switched to the revolution in more a billion. a lot of people love revolution everyone wants to be a part of the largest selling world. means liberation in arabic

a fitting the four square has become a focal point in anding mubarak's autocratic rule yet a few profiteering vendors notwithstanding the egyptian revolution comes at a high cost to clear squares back with protesters again only now instead of resignation demands they're chanting celebrators slogans the kiss of revolutionary intoxication about totally natural is costing injured millions of dollars every day branded as a symbol of egypt square stands in a stark contrast to another egyptian attraction the slave build pyramids the rolling crowds have scary their way visitors the lost revenues a ready exceeding one billion dollars usually to speech a million repaid before is a problem is. business after. problem. many people here don't believe that cairo protests will significantly alter their

life prospects for them freedom costs for their ability to feed their families that for now remains far from certain the business is growing very slow at the moment we have almost like five or seven percent of the clients and most of them are coming from middle east none coming from europe it's not that they don't support their revolution they're just the first to discover it's bittersweet taste and to realize that revolutionary intoxication is almost always followed by had a somewhat artsy cairo later in the program we'll take you to new york to gauge reaction to the protests. were hurt when people heard we moved to action to the resident laurie harf in his finds out how people are taking a look at the demonstrations from the other side of your glass. box. we raced away to jaroslaw going to see how locals of those old time rock in town tackle extreme

sports. first though he was praised in idolized by some despised and scorned by others joseph stalin was the father of the nation who brought the country through war but locked away in labor camps the heroes who helped him do it here fifty years after his death the dispute over his legacy is loud and clear as perino as our reports and often are we need a mussolini joseph stalin and some of history's most notorious dictators and for years were you ordered by the people of their countries the cult of personality phenomenon has intrigued historians and psychologists alike. but the simple sounding question of how one person exact such influence over millions still does not have a simple answer and is something that remind me of the stockholm syndrome

in the work. after you have been killed in the processes by some bird person. you start moving. the law reasonable through lot but it's a way to save yourself to keep your balance ok this is called people's father ruled the country with an iron fist and despite the chairs persecutions and executions he was almost worshipped. by the time the soviet union entered the second world war stone's personality cult was at an all time high and men and women all across the country were willing to lay down their lives for only believing that bravery and ultimately victory would guarantee them stalin's approval but the survivors didn't know is that for most of them life after the war would be much much worse. there was twenty three when he returned home from the

battlefields having survived dozens of attacks partisan missions and months in captivity he was proud to be coming back alive proud to have accomplished what comrade stalin had asked of him. i remember being marched through a small lot into the local women were all standing on the street throwing things that are spitting and shouting stalin's bandits that's what they called the court isms and i remember feeling down a sort of pride because being all leaders banded somehow were as close to him and we all wanted that i had that feeling for a long time until i set things straight. in one thousand forty eight live near there was accused of being a traitor and sentenced to twenty five years in a labor camp the charge was simple he survived to get to the which the stones mind meant he had sold out his country for his life no proof was necessary after three months of torture yet there was ready to sign any documents whatsoever with you i

refused to sign this so-called confessions even after all the torture they put me through but then they said if you don't sign will bring your parents here and i couldn't let them go for us so i agreed a few months later i was on my way to the polar region in the real splay but camp. eight years later left returned home and the new secretary general of the soviet union denounced alan's personality called the man who had twice been named time magazine's person of the year had all his carefully sculpted glory taken away to this day style and evokes mixed emotions with his actions still being debated ensuring in some respect his personality cult still survives catchiness r r t not. and u.s. military may slowly be succumbing to drug abuse with use of synthetic marijuana but he's rapidly gaining popularity among rip currents eight midshipmen have recently

been expelled from the naval academy for possession of a substance artie's military contributor says the problem stems from the u.s. long term involvement in afghanistan it's been almost a year since their high seas has acquired a totally new connotation for the us navy in march two thousand and ten it was the beginning of the corruption of the u.s. naval academy at annapolis by synthetic drugs since then dozens of the navy and shipment has been separated or expelled from their cabin unfortunately it was not an exception neither for the u.s. navy north for other branches of the u.s. armed forces so in a way the latest drug abuse investigation is only an attempt of the iceberg of the per knishes and negative influence of the american involvement in afghanistan indeed what could motivate future u.s.

navy leaders to buy and to resale the drugs among their peers there it could be several reasons for such a reckless and criminal action the most of this is that the us navy are jealous of the us marines who are enjoying their party feels in helmand and kandahar and as a result they just fall back on the artificial stuff situation of the organic murray who want to however it did legitimize all kinds of criminal activity and also legitimize the cult of impunity and profiteering and that is probably the hidden agenda of the us open ended commitment to afghanistan. you know as find more analysis from our military contributor online here's a taste of what else is lined up for you now at r.t. dot com. nov lori in space a technical glitch means a lot of nasa is latest weather satellite crashes into the ocean minutes after

a blast in four hundred million dollars goes down the tank. in. russia bidding a hot farewell to the cold winter as pancake week kicks off with both dances and traditional food for more festivities be sure to click on our own. take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe the chinese premier has promised to clamp down on inflation and urgently raise incomes in a bid to ensure social stability wen jiabao was addressing the parliament's annual session in a move aimed at sharing the country's rapid economic growth he said the working class and rural rural residents would get more help from the government and higher wages he outlined a plan to turn the economy away from exports to one driven by domestic consumption . italy's prime minister silvio berlusconi back on trial today this time on corruption charges he's accused of fraud and bezel made over the purchase of

television rights by one of his media companies is one of four separate trials berlusconi is currently embroiled in in the most high profile he's charged with paying an underage girl for sex the seventy four year old it denies all allegations against him. the man accused of shooting a u.s. congresswoman has been given a new charge over the death of a federal judge killed in the same attack twenty two year old jared lawfare now faces forty nine separate counts related to the shootings six were killed as gabrielle giffords held a constitution constituency event in arizona in early january if convicted lawfare could face the death penalty. shocking video has emerged showing the brutality of the contain. doing political standoff in the ivory coast to rally against the incumbent president laurent gbagbo these were used to accept the results of november's elections pro-government forces opened fire seven women were shot dead many others to the incident on thursday the u.n.

says at least three hundred sixty five people have died since the disputed elections nearly all of them supporters of the internationally recognized what are called. and six people have been killed in a plane crash in central russia all of the dead were crew members the engine of one forty eight was carrying out a test flight when it came down on the border between verona and belgorod regions two of the pilots who were killed were seat citizens of myanmar russia's emergencies ministry says there were no casualties on the ground the plane was intended for the me on our air force with long standing leaders already toppled in the arab world and others under pressure it's uncertain when or how the turmoil will and if we read journalist laurie harford also known as the resident at the streets of new york to gauge reaction to the protests. did all of the insurrections revolutions and uprisings in the middle east catch you off guard this week let's talk about that i used the prize i'm not surprised.

i'm going for a moment i was seven weeks ago and by that. i reported to the board that the political situation in the middle east was very very unstable unstable one week after the whole thing collapsed in tunisia in egypt you know change was a common we all knew change was going to come. with you this guy it was just a matter of time before these dictators were you know things change people want change and people were hurt and people hurt we moved to action people were avery they moved to action do you think that the world leaders are caught off guard by this. i think they're caught off guard in knowing what how to react because they i believe they know the world is going to be more unstable but they have to support the idea of freedom so it's a mix a mixed blessing for you think all these are going to lead to more and raster more

instability yes i believe it's more about power and the unfair distribution of power than it is about real democracy oh i think it's you know does the time make the leader does the leader make the times though that's always like an ongoing question when it comes to stuff like this and i think we have to wait and see this is going to be a good test for everyone in power right now to see how they come out yes what do you think the effect is going to be around the world what i think it's really not going to make much difference. is that when different people come into power that they'll say you know they'll start treating our people right and everybody in this world we will have the united states want to be a police country anymore all the social networking that's going on they can no longer hold their people and feed on the propaganda that they used to do you think this is something that could happen here or in europe or in other places definitely

that's scary you know. so you're prepared for it but i think it'll definitely happen it's a little scary to know that pete anyone can have so much influence now i don't want a leader giving me proud again but it's a little unnerving to know that anyone with a computer can have that kind of power to you have to be swann enough to know what to listen to and what to ignore whether or not you think anyone has any idea of what's to come next the bottom line is that there's no denying this is a time of. time now to get to know closure russia closer. you're taking out and you are sol region some three hundred kilometers north of moscow thousands of tourists from all over the world rocked there for its striking

views on millennium old churches and monasteries but it's not just history that attracts the people winter means almost thirty seven thousand square kilometers covered in snow making it a spot for sport lovers or he's losing friends for the slopes. i everyone's going crazy for sports in a young a small region of russia just ask the roster professional athletes speeding through the international speed federations cross. at germany a center winter sport and leisure situated on the machine banks of the volga river poland's olympic gold medalist just passed the other women the first day of the races this is a race. condition was heard just before the classic but i feel split with what you think about the course oh you see the. hoops not supposed to talk to the media yet i admit i snapped behind the lines before i was in my next was the men's

rings valentino tennis court by herself the first female boss may not was blocking the finish. you can you it's wonderful if you look at this one but all of them skied well it's a great event of course i want to winning seem to be even better than a tease but they did perform well we have a very glad progression with over four hundred children in roles here terminal operators the average middle class russian a chance to realize their dreams as a sportsman and offers the foreigner a chance to see this place for what it really is. locals wanted to be the new winter destination one that will fill the surrounding restaurants and hotels business but he was going to go to this is a front desk of the city thousands of people come and spend their time here every year and we're short we expand opportunities because this will inevitably affect the number of people can go in for sports in general and in for winter sports in

particular. not far away in the historic merchant's city of glitch festivities are just getting underway to celebrate the winter it's massive down on the volga river powered moscow with what tricity throughout world war two it's collection of churches greek tourist spots on their first stop for moscow from the church of john the baptist to the church of prince dimitri on blood built in commemoration of young prince dimitris gruesome death in fifty ninety one the place is steeped in tradition but it has a way of breaking out of its shell during a season when most cities are pretty quiet these people are making a party of it in the most colorful way possible for most of anya because they're all you know i've been i swimming for thirty years i love it there is no need for any of the home food habits that are widespread nowadays to set them aside and go down for a dip in the pond. back in time and know between the skiing and the snowmobiling

which they were kind enough to teach me there waiting for a good burn the end of the world cup races thanks to a frightful wind storm the summer of two thousand and ten ninety percent of the surrounding forest was knocked down locals retaliated by stacking the fallen ward twenty two meters high then registering it in the guinness book of world records they'll burn it into a massive bonfire after the final race now that it's competitive sportsmanship. winter sport is making big changes to the community out here and ribbons and here to set more light on that is local winter sport enthusiasm alexander sergei zero zero so a little light on that for us why is it making such big changes to our business. well it's developing city and democrats to develop every develops more and more something more different drags rebukes in. there and

you have all the. skiers here get great opportunity to train there even in summer i would have an opportunity to roller skate so it's great to me i do it myself i like it very much alike skis sounds i think a lot of a lot of citizens like to ski on top of the fun sports it's very important to your national character yeah yeah of course thank you for joining us and here for close up and see for. stay with us here on our team is up next with the business now. hello and a very warm welcome to the business update team k.b.p.s. shareholders have decided to postpone a decision on the world of the british russian joint venture wants to participate

in the andrew sniffed arctic exploration deal they're now planning to convene in person on march the twelfth in order to address the issue once more meanwhile prime minister putin said jane p.v.p. may joined offshore projects if they'd offer straw snapped and gas from suitable conditions this is the first time that russian prime minister has commented on the widely discussed conflict between b.p. their agenda of the next. march twelfth will include different questions. but also as this may become ace in the company's hand. given he has to pay some dividends and part of the world a major relieved to be paid because b.p. is a partner to the team gave me use the dividends you. took to b.p. to make a decision in conjunction with this were

a surprise i don't think it's necessarily going to happen but that's probably be the most powerful tool in the hands of. shareholders to press the elaborate the season on this and the world's largest producer to sell rejected neuros to nichols offer to buy twenty percent of its shares for twelve point eight billion dollars zero zero. zero tycoon alexander pascoe is not about to cede his stake while metal prices are enjoying a high. since we believe the prime reason for meaning a shareholder of the rules nuchal. is highly bullish on the current motor cycle so therefore with the way for as long as the middle prices were being stronger so is likely to be the shelf in the us however because the rules of the work but the rules will be triggering the world's excess cash this year and next year's over for . buying back the shares from the sols one of very few opportunities which will

actually create there for i believe that there is a good chance the reviews of the talks about the state of the ruble has steadily strengthened over the past weeks largely due to rising oil prices. from v. to be capital predicts the russian current situation towards the end of the year one of the looming elections weighs in on investors' confidence our forecast for the end of the years twenty nine point three so very close to soar to go out with think that probably the. wood for the. maker will be in the second half of the year on the back or for all these. political uncertainty for elections and more than a third of russian companies claim they have employees there are too smart and whose intellect brings more harm to the company than good

a smart employee may cause trouble if you develop bad manners personal problems or progressive banishes sickness meanwhile forty two percent of companies say they do not have such employees they turn them away during the job application interview that prefer an ordinary plush hard working people such employees adapt to the work force that has been very intelligent once well too smart workers will soon start dictating better terms to the boss. that wraps up the business bulletin board news announced time.

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