anomie much stronger the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause a report on r.g.p. . battles a rug in libya's colonel moammar gadhafi pushes ahead to regain power in parts of the country locals fear foreign forces will intervene but with a sinister hidden agenda. makes demotions in egypt as people refuse to leave the streets since all their demands are met but their ongoing fight is hurting businesses and costing the country millions of dollars. fifty eight years since the death of joseph stalin decades on his legacy still divides opinion parties speaks to a man who went from a war hero to leave her camp prisoner under orders of the soviet union.

five pm in moscow i imagine as a good to have you with us here on our t.v. our top story moammar gadhafi has launched widespread offensives to regain control over the eastern part of libya dozens reported killed as the opposition struggles to fight off security forces more troops were sent to the town of zawiya on the outskirts of the capital tripoli after rebels repelled at its hacked by the soldiers saturday morning and is libya's locked in while you battles the british government has confirmed its troops are on standby for deployment to the violence torn country the u.s. is also gathering its naval forces in the mediterranean close to libya triggering fears of possible intervention will be joining artie's policy or for more details in a few moments. first though a member of the u.s.

house of representatives dennis because senate tells our team of washington steps into libya that people are not khadafi may be the ones who suffer. 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 that 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 we're going to be doing is let's say we intervene and 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. more on the crisis gripping libya in the entire region stay tuned for some opinions from the streets of the big apple coming your way in a few minutes. we choose was good so we move more khadafi with this guy

it was just a matter of time before these dictators who are. the things people want change the people were hurt people hurt we've moved to action the people are angry. they believe it's more about power and the unfair distribution of power than it is about real democracy. meanwhile in egypt's capital cairo crowds are calling for the death penalty to be handed to their former interior minister as he stands trial for corruption the country one of the first to iraq in popular protest is still reeling from the uprising after toppling president hosni mubarak in february as artie's excited boyko reports there are some who fear that life may be even harder than before. loading on freedom after decades of protest abstinence egyptians are tasting their newly found liberties still unable to get enough of it.

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 their free squares rally in fact the number of ten seats your residence seems to be getting even higher now as me 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 slow the process is taking longer than expected the revolution is not yet over but it's already becoming a brand street vendors who cuddle mubarak's portraits just two months ago have now switched to the revolution in more a billionaire. 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 here

a few profiteering vendors notwithstanding bijection revolution comes at a high cost tucker squares back with protesters again only now instead of resignation demand they're chanting celebrators dog and a piece of revolutionary intoxication rock totally natural is causing injury of millions of dollars every day branded as a symbol of egypt square stands in a stark contrast to another egyptian attraction the slave built pyramids the rolling crowds have scary their way visitors with lost revenues already exceeding one billion dollars usually beach. before is a problem is. business after. problem. many people here don't believe that car approaches will significantly alter their life prospects for them freedom comes through 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. seven percent of the clients and most of them are coming from middle east not 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 sort of work of art see cairo. back to libya and our market after years large widespread offensives with reports of live ammunition airstrikes used to regain control over the eastern part of the country where british troops are on standby the u.s. is also gathering its naval forces across the mediterranean triggering fears of possible intervention or more and as we go live for this policy who is standing by with the latest power so libya's on the edge of civil war and we're hearing about the situation and tell us what you're hearing about the situation where to cross

the border from here. what we saw be hearing that there's a lot of serious fighting predominantly in eastern libya the cities where this fighting is concentrated are there we are which is some fifty kilometers from the capital tripoli and rest in the north which is an oil rich port having said that there it's really difficult to ascertain exactly who is in control in each of these states to nations it really depends on which media you access according to western media most of the east of the country is firmly in the hands of rebels but we're hearing a very different shooting from the government spokespeople and from official libyan state media on the one hand while the fighting is happening on the ground there's a very different fight happening in the media almost an inflammation kind of war it seems as if each side is trying to make its impression if we look at so we're the rebels were fighting there the smalling we're hearing from gadhafi forces that they seem to reinforcements they way it is strikes we know that live ammunition was killed but we have no indication at this stage as to exactly who is in control

there now it's what is clear is that colonel gadhafi is really going to all extremes to push back to make his presence felt in an interview he gave an interview his son gave today saturday both of them tonight reports that the east was in the hands of the rebels they said that they were in control that everything was calm and that any kind of reporting that the government was killing its own people was simply untrue they blamed the western media for what they have termed propaganda it is worth saying though that there. no official figures been given in terms of how many people have been killed we do understand that dozens of people have been injured and dozens of people have been killed but it certainly will be some time before we have any kind of independent verification on those numbers. what are the libyans who are where the trouble areas saying about the possibility of foreign intervention. if humans are increasingly concerned i've been speaking to libyans on this side of the border and here to express what we're hearing coming

out from the other side people here simply do not want the foreign community to get involved they believe that any kind of humanitarian assistance very often is an excuse for military aid and military intervention the latest news we have though is that the british government today saturday confirmed that it was deploying to libya within the next twenty four hours we know that they say that this deployment is for evacuation and humanitarian purposes but as i mentioned in many people here concerned that it will also come with some kind of military aspect it is very doubtful so people here that i've been talking to that the international community will respond purely on humanitarian reasons we also know and we're hearing that american planes have landed in. reportedly they carrying humanitarian packages in the form of food items and medical supplies for refugees but he gave people i've been speaking to here on the border throughout the course of the day raising concerns as to what else might be on those planes i did speak to people and this is

what they had to say. this is the road out of libya but it's also the road that lines the pockets of hundreds of libyans who make their living selling fuel fourteen times the price they paid back. libyan gadhafi your work. and libya gadhafi let him stay in power for life. and as much as some may support duffy other libyans despise the united states at the moment of course the u.s. will not enter libya what rights they have they don't get the aftermath is libyan for days he's been trying to get to the tunisian side of 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 care was . another thing that i read i mean like so much like in libya the

foreign nations seem to be giving a little concern 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 look for to be a great help libya for the world was the world this is a problem. if the u.s. russia and other countries case involved it was time it seems like this used by egypt the people here are against foreign involvement they know well the price it is often paid for so-called humanitarian assistance history has shown that humanitarian 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 khadafi or not are united on one issue they want the world and america in particular to stay out of it with his policy r.t. . on the chin asean libyan border. as a wave of anti-government or of all its rocks the arab world it's unclear how and when the uprisings will end across the ocean our own resident in new york got a snapshot of the opinion on the ongoing protests. did all of the insurrections revolutions and uprisings in the middle east catch you off guard this week let's talk about that are you surprised i'm not surprised. i will say seven weeks ago invited. i reported to the board the political situation in the middle east was very very unstable one week off the whole

thing collapsed and tunisia and egypt you know change was coming right we all knew cheese was going to remove market off with 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 and 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 do you think they all these are going to lead to more on 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 that's always like an ongoing question

when it comes to separate this and i think we have to wait and see if this is going to be a good test for everyone and how 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 what i hope 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 will have to be a police country anymore all the social networking that's. can no longer hold their people and beat them 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. because you're prepared for it but i think. it's a little scary to know that people anyone can have so much influence now i don't want that leader giving me private and i but it's a little unnerving to know that anyone with a computer can have that kind of. power to you have to be one 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 but bottom line is that there's no denying this is a time of statements. stay with us here on r t a little later the closer team shows you a different side of one of russia's oldest cities find out how old spice things up in the winter and how sports put jaroslav on the map as one of the top tourist destinations of the country we've got all the details in a couple of numbers. first though for some other stories making headlines across the globe the suspect in a shooting spree in arizona has been indicted on forty nine counts including the murder of a federal judge and a congressional aide jared lee loughner is due to appear in court next week in the city of tucson to be officially charged he could face the death penalty if convicted six people were killed thirteen wounded including a u.s.

congresswoman who was shot through the head and remains in the hospital. shocking video has emerged showing the brutality of the continuing political standoff in the ivory coast pro-government forces opened fire at a rally against the incumbent president laurent gbagbo who is refusing to step down after november elections seven women were shot dead by many others wounded in the incident on thursday the u.n. says at least three hundred sixty five people have died since november. italy's prime minister is back on trial facing alleged corruption charges prosecutors claim that certain silvio berlusconi's media empire purchased television rights using offshore companies as part of a tax dodge is one of four trials that the italian hermia is currently linked to including paying an underage prostitute for sex and abusing his powers all charges that he denies. those carnival has officially kicked off with the mayor handing the

symbolic heat of the city to the so-called king of the festivities the annual five day long celebration is considered by many the highlight of brazil's calendar event seize the city's burst into life with music theater and dance rio its traditional sabo schools will compete on sunday and monday nights in a colorful spectacle you see at a carnival is expected to draw on your early eight hundred thousand visitors from around the world. and it's the final test day for a six pacemen that russia's cause may not training center in star city near moscow here national crews of the main and backup flights to the i.s.o.'s are hoping to be cleared for the next orbital mission if all goes well blast off from the by connor launch pad in kazakhstan at the end of the month the mission will be devoted to the fiftieth anniversary of the first night in space yuri gagarin the crew will spend one hundred seventy days on the i s s and meet to u.s. shuttles and three russian cargo ships a spacewalk is also planned during the mission. time now for the latest in our special series of travels across russia heading your way next this time focusing on

the historic city of jaroslav. a closer team travelled some three hundred kilometers northeast of the russian capital to the millennium old city of yarra solve all day three of our journeys there we've already seen it's historic architecture and culture one thing we haven't talked about yet is its fascination with sports in our lives the friends want to check out how the region's landscapes are not just great to look at but right on to. i everyone's going crazy for sports in the jaroslava region of russia just ask the roster of professional athletes speeding through the international ski federation's cross country world cup at germany now a center of winter sport and leisure situated on the pristine banks of the volga river poland's olympic gold medalist just smoked past the other women in the first

day of the races are this is where the race. condition or the form of the classic what if you spoke with him next was the men's race where valentino cherished over herself her first female astronaut was welcoming the finishers. anything new it's a great event of course i want the women steam to be even better than ities but they didn't form well we have very glad for russia with over four hundred children in the world here terminal offers the average middle class russian a chance to realize their dreams as a sportsman and offers the foreigner a chance to see this place what it really is. like was wanted to be the new winter destination one that will fill the surrounding restaurants and hotels just within the school this is the front desk of the city thousands of people come and spend their time here every year and we're sure to expand opportunities because this will inevitably affect the number of people and go in for sports in general

and even for winter sports in particular. not far away in the historic march in city of festivities are just getting underway to celebrate the winter during a season when most cities are pretty quiet these people are making a party of it not as a venue at the but all year i've been i swimming for thirty years i love it there is no need for any of the home will have its that are widespread nowadays. and massive down on the volga river powered moscow with like tricity throughout world war two a tall. action of churches greet tourists parents on their first start from 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 fifteen ninety one the place is steeped in tradition but it has a way of breaking out of that shell back in time and now between the skiing and the snowmobiling which they were kind enough to teach me there waiting for

a good burn at the end of the world cup races a frightful wind storm the summer of two thousand and ten knocked down ninety percent of the surrounding forest locals retaliated by stacking the fallen wood twenty two meters high and then registering it in the guinness book of world records they'll burn it into a massive bonfire after the final race now that is competitive sports and ship in the jaroslav in region lindsey france r t fifty years after his death joseph stalin remains one of the most controversial political figures in history he's adored and idolized by so despised and scorned by others stalin lead the country to victory in war but through the heroes who helped him do it into labor camps or he's carried out our reports on his legacy. and of hitler. benito mussolini joseph stalin some of history's most notorious dictators who for years

were adored by the people of their countries the cult of personality phenomenon has intrigue 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 stockholm syndrome and it worked. after you. can the processes. some person. you started more than them. the love is not a true love but it's a way to save yourself to keep your balance ok. the so-called people's father ruled the country with an iron fist and despite the terrors persecutions and executions he was almost worshiped. by the time the soviet union entered the second world war style of personality cult was at an all time

high men and women all across the country or willing to lay down their lives for only believing that bravery and ultimately victory guarantee them stalin's approval . 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 spinning and shouting stalin's bandits that's what they called the port isms and i remember feeling then a sort of pride because being all leaders bend it somehow worse close to him and we all wanted that but i had that feeling for a long time until i said think 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 captivity which to stan's mind man he had sold out his country for his life no proof was necessary after three months of torture and if there was really 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 can let them go so i agreed a few months later i was on my way to the polar region to the rules labor camp. eight years later the effort turned 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 the stage style and evokes mixed emotions with his actions still being debated ensuring in some respect his personality called still survives. catchiness our of

our tea and oscar stay with us here on our team dimitri medvedev goes up next with a business or. watching business are live from moscow this saturday it's a working day here in moscow b.p. shareholders have decided to postpone of the session on whether the british russian joint venture wants to participate in the b.p. and rosneft arctic exploration deal but now planning to convene in paris on march twelfth in order to address the issue yet again meanwhile prime minister putin said he was quote unaware. he could lay claims to participating in the project this is the first time the russian prime minister has commented on the widely discussed conflict between the russian british joint venture and b.p. but he added that you gave you had every right to join such projects in those regions of we have a lot according to which all shelf exploration has been intrusted to rosneft and

gazprom if team g.d.p. of the suitable conditions of corporation to either of these two companies why not some use in the book but you russian investment holding system is and talks to sell twenty five percent of oil giant bass net to india's oil and natural gas corporation that deal estimated at around two point three billion dollars could already be sealed by the end of march early it was reported that n.g.c. had long been considering a stake in slept with an eye on participating in the arctic will feel that the company acquired the rights to last year the indian state company already has a stake in russia and one dollar gas projects in the pacific. and let me just remind you again it's another working day for the russian markets ahead of the long weekend due to a public holiday in the country the r.t.s. m i six was at it but there's not much movement has more news remain low due to the lack of triggers and the fact that global voices on the weekend outstanding

performance of the session is the mining company magical to three point four percent of a session that's a. as several investment banks have given a positive outlook for the stock and the shares a positive as west texas crude rose another two and a half dollars by the end of friday session on tension and libya therefore was never the point two percent the wild salmon farms are looking weaker than in. the ruble as steadily strengthened over the past weeks the last week due to rising oil prices but nikolai because of from the capital predicts that the russian currency could retreat towards the end of the year when the looming election wait weighs in on the investor confidence our forecast for the end of the years twenty nine point three so very close to sorting out with think there probably are there. i would for we'll make or will be korea and the second half of the year one of the vehicle for all of these. political uncertainty their head of elections

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