colonel gadhafi is pulling out all the stops to regain control of his country with fresh air strikes being reported american and british forces are on standby but locals fear the intervention will do more harm than good. of course it killed if the opposition struggles to find tool security forces join me point to stand for the latest on the struggle for power. cuts. also this hour egyptians are struggling to cope with their newfound freedom some are still celebrating others of the morning for the change a mixture which has tourists away in the country millions of dollars in revenue.

and it's fifty eight years since the death of joseph stalin but decades on his legacy still divides opinion as he speaks tonight he went from war hero to a labor camp prisoner on the order of the soviet big. lie from our studios here in central moscow this is a t. with the twenty four hours a day well michael duffy has launched widespread offenses with reports of live ammunition and strikes used to reclaim control over the eastern part of libya and lead the country not to bloody battles the british government has confirmed his troops on standby for deployment to the area as news comes in that u.s. warships carrying the remains the poet create fears over a possible intervention increase among libyans as. was discovered. are you hearing that there's a lot of serious fighting predominantly in eastern libya the cities where the

fighting is concentrated hours away which is some fifty kilometers from the capital tripoli and ras north which is an oil rich port having said that though it's very difficult to ascertain exactly who is in control in each of these destinations 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 tune from the government spokespeople and from official libyan a state media on the one hand while the fighting is happening on the ground there is a very different fight happening in the media it seems as if each side is trying to make its impression if we look at where the rebels were fighting there the smalling we're hearing from gadhafi forces where they seem to reinforcements but we have no indication at this stage as to exactly who is in control there now it's what is clear is there 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 denied reports that the east was in the hands of the rebels they said that they were in control and that any kind of reporting that the government was killing its own people or simply untrue they blamed the western media for what they have to and propaganda 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 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 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 tunisia reportedly they carrying humanitarian. packages in the form of food items or medical supplies for refugees but again people have been speaking to

here on the border thought the course of the day raising concerns as to what else might be on those planes this is the road out of libya but it's also the road that lines the pockets of hundreds of libyans who make a living selling fuel for ten times the price they paid back. the libyan leader after one. more than libya gadhafi let him stay in power for life. and as much as some may support duffy other libyans despise the united states for the moment when i call the u.s. will not enter libya what rights they out they don't want to get the government is libyan for days he's been trying to get a reduction is 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. and that's why

i read i mean like so much in libya with the foreign nations seem to be giving a little concerned to what libyans themselves actually want to 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 be a great help libya for the road was the world this is a problem. if the u.s. russia and other countries get involved was trying it seems like this used by egypt the people here are against foreign involvement they know well the price is often paid for so-called humanitarian assistance. history has shown that many children aid in any war zone is more often than not they need 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 the libyans whether they support gadhafi or not are united on one issue they want the world and america in particular to stay out of their affairs policy r.t. . on the chin is in libyan border. well for more on the crisis in libya we can now cross live to the u.s. until the host stephen thanks so much stephen for joining us here on r.t. now there are conflicting reports on libya some suggesting that daffy's mounted a serious fight back others say the opposition is gaining ground this is a very confusing situation how do you see it at the moment. well i stated very clearly he said it was going on at the ground i don't know but what i do know what it is if the records especially by western media especially by the u.s. media have no basis in fact they have no credibility. it is paul propaganda it is all misinformation it's all based on unclear if i would have

a materially hearing this so-called quote unquote rolls. position for sluice i don't lee these are individuals groups whatever they listed by america enlisted by written and listed maybe by france in a whisper nations primarily you have the us secondarily written to post one yes to put it another one in his face and the libyan people i must say i wrote a lot more savvy than americans because they know with us and mean us we know what humid syrian means when america says we're coming to do this for you it has nothing to do with humanitarian day nothing to do with democracy nothing to do with being a critical is to colonize them exploiting them steal your resources.

lies the people colorized the country by one means or another even a direct participation iraqis afghans no war. or set up a puppet government you controls and colonize a bad way but it's two weeks away in libya then what people in libya are libyans may think of me they will look back fondly on are you saying that the u.k. and the u.s. at the deliberately causing the loss of whatever one thousand lives now in order to pursue their own gains i mean this is a very strong and controversial argument you're putting forward that. or actually believe it or. keep. it a russian military satellite imagery proved to have no means there's no destruction or i quote you in my last article and reports about one side or another there is one study it's the other but i believe the so-called opposition is being

recruited right mary rarely and very important for weeks maybe longer u.s. and british special forces troops inside libya only grow. into the uk and see i need to use it in libya today gave so many many let me just ask you this many we're actually seeing it interestingly designed posters looking quite professional saying that they the libyans don't want foreign intervention and yet if we see this foreign intervention happening on maybe. maybe a subtle scale at the moment as you're suggesting but if we see intervention where poppy got the u.k. and the u.s. forces on standby to do what we could say is an official intervention wouldn't that actually lead to what some people say all out civil war or would it actually though save libyan lives and after all that's surely the main concern here that we will

not see libya well as it will cost. us in the worst state you know we'll see a libyan war i truly believe used to being i think you suggest there's no question about there but good athlete is being attacked and international law is very clear on a computer chair it has the right to sell beers i don't think will you get out used to it he has every right legally to defend himself to defend to be able to defend the people who support him and there were many libyans who supported him some of those rallies that have taken place in tripoli. very very real nice appropriate after supporters and in the u.s. tries to put out would say this is all for a good kid not fair here other people who meet him but i would say if not unanimity at. all i mean between the libyan people is that they do not want to wish to be an adventure they are savvy a not without me it definitely will cost

well what i. could could could pay back the survivors that send do you think oh i don't think you will see i think of it as you said i think intervention is i think a war is coming i think there will be attacks i think there will be you know why so and the no fly zone is an act of war the paper trail we all use is followed but your attacks if you claim to be humanitarian intervention. is the most prominent of one. nine hundred ninety s. was you know one using this is a provocation of to wage war and and destroy the. suspicion that that many people are saying to you though that people are dying we see reports of the libyan saying please help us all right put aside western intervention what about the idea that maybe libya's neighbors tunisia egypt the military there which of course in our in charge of those countries should they not be playing

a part in this along with the arab league well. these countries are very much subservient to washington so if the libyan if the military and tunisian military they would literally be arms all over america but especially egypt we should look at what do you believe goals that you know military. need basically take you all this from. and if they come in it would be crusty force representing what if you did that to me there would be a terrible disservice. many people might say look you're saying leave the country to its own fate there are those who say if you do that that a vacuum will be formed after all where where has there been a coordinated opposition for the last forty two years there in libya and could actually make way for an islamic fundamentalist state and many many argue in the west that that could actually happen what do you make of that oh i'm not worried. but i don't think what you know he always a concern and we're going to have

a leap year. in one hundred percent control they don't clear whether he is religious i mean almost. the one thing they do not want is a democrat democrat is anathema to washington and the fundamental was and what is going to get this off the table. in the end force is coming here and there might be a thought but not the ones the west chooses libyans to speak and of course we will wait to come here to serve is peacekeepers will worry about so let's quickly. right in this argument away from lebanon and see what's going on and in the wider area in north africa in the middle east some are saying that what we've seen in tunisia in egypt is the start of a wave of a democratic movement throughout the region you wouldn't agree with that oh i believe that the passion is very very real so huge that tunisians begin to use the algerians. the people on the street are very real but they want used very real

and in most of these countries all of the ones that you just mentioned libya is a little different libya is just not there to be you know to these other countries fairly but the other countries it's a combination of repression quality unemployment lack of services that they need these are the change into decent changes in a war but they're not getting the churches were nothing we got rid of mubarak and pentagon in the chips in military pushing and what do they get in its place. we've got a military controlled by washington they have to serve and what you see here is not freedom and the same thing is happening in tunisia he got a little bit only he got nothing returned for ok stephen we'll have to leave it there it's been a lengthy conversation with him fairly interesting to hear your point of view thanks for joining us live from chicago radio host stephen lemon thank you so much

. meanwhile in the egyptian capital cholera crowds are calling for the death penalty to be handed to their former interior minister as he stands trial of corruption the country one of the first to rotten popular protests is still reeling from the uprising after topping president hosni mubarak in february and sought his works on the gorkha reports there are some who feel that life will 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 with. even 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 three squares rally in fact the number of tent city residents seems to be getting even higher now he 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 or going to stay here until all the demands have 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 peddle 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 me four square has become a focal point in anding mubarak's culture crotty crew a few profiteering vendors notwithstanding the egyptian revolution comes at a high cost to clear squares packed with protesters again only now instead of resignation demands they're chanting celebrator slogans the peace the revolutionary intoxication while trucks only natural is costing him millions of dollars every day

branded as a symbol of three egypt square. stands in a stark contrast to another egyptian attraction the slave build pyramids the rolling crowds have scary their way visitors with lost revenues already exceeding one billion dollars usually is busy repaid before is a problem is good business after is a problem no good many people here don't believe that kyra protests will significantly alter their life prospects for down freedom comes with 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 four 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 very sweet taste and to realize that revolutionary intoxication is almost

always followed by a headache. artsy cairo fifty years of his death soviet leaders as a start and remains one of the most controversial political figures in history of the warden idolized by some he's despised in school and others stalin led the country to victory in the war but through the heroes who helped him do it and to labor cams what is covered is our of our reports on his legacy out of hitler and the need and . 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. this is something that remind me of the stockholm

syndrome in a way where. after you have been killed in that processes by some bad person you start loving you. the love is not the cruel 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 terrors persecutions and educations he was almost worshipped. by the term the soviet union entered the second world war stalin's personality cult was at an all time high men and women all across the country were 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 good enough i remember being marched for a small lottery into the local women were all standing on the street throwing things at our steering and shouting stalin's bandits that's what they called the port isms and i remember feeling them a sort of pride because being all leaders bend it somehow worse close to him and we all wanted that i had that feeling for a long time until i set things straight. in one hundred forty eight and yet 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 meant he had sold out his country for his life no proof was necessary after three months of torture there was ready to sign any document 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 comply and go for us 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 f. 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. and evokes mixed emotions with his actions still being debated ensuring in some respect his personality cult still survives. catarina r.t. moscow tunnel or nazi for other news making headlines around the world that the israeli soldiers have used tear gas and smoke grenades against palestinian female protesters in an attempt to disperse them thousands of women along with international activists demonstrated in northern jerusalem call for an end to the israeli occupation of the west bank

a palestinian activists say they were inspired by the clothes for democracy to topple it perfect leaders in egypt and chin is an. italian prime minister is back on trial facing alleged corruption charges prosecutors claim the palace carries media empire purchased television rights using offshore companies as part of a tax dodge is one of four trials in italian leader is currently linked to including paying an underage prostitute as sex and abusing his power as he denies all the allegations. also in a world update a shocking video has emerged showing the brutality of the continuing political standoff in ivory coast pro-government forces opened fire at a rally against incumbent president laurent by book is refusing to step down after november's elections seven women were shot dead while many others were wounded in the incident on thursday the u.n. says at least three hundred sixty five people have died since then. well the latest modern andrews explores russia's jewels in the latest edition of moscow but

first the latest business news with dmitri stay with us live in moscow. welcome to business our team good to have your company this week the russian business community and dissipated a resolution on the issue of how t m k v p could participate in arctic exploration together with b.p. and rosneft but b.p. is shareholders have decided to postpone a decision until their next meeting and paris on march twelfth meanwhile prime minister putin said he was quote unaware that 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 b.p. but he added that he had every right to join such projects. but of that we have a law according to which all shelf exploration has been intrusted to rosneft and gazprom if g.d.p.

of the suitable conditions of corporation to either of these two companies why not immutable. and lodging at a hunk of steel from north capitals as flex its muscles during the upcoming meeting seem to be has to pay some dividends and part of this is the evidence will. lead to be because the partner of twenty we. may use the river the new. tool to push. to make a decision in conjunction with our tickets were rationed project 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 b p l abrade the season of this. ruble is steadily strengthened over the past weeks largely due to rising oil prices but gaza from bt capital predicts the russian currency could retreat towards the

end of the year when the looming elections weigh in on investor confidence. our forecast for the end of the year is to enter nine point three so very close to sort you out with think that. i would. make or will be in the second half of the year one of the big goal for all of these . political. elections. right here is the closing picture for saturday's session in moscow trading was on as it's a working day out of the long weekend due to a public holiday in the country the audios an m i six ended the session but there was not much movement as warnings were. triggers and the fact that global investors were on the weaker the outstanding performer of the session was mining company made sure it was up three percent at the close that several investment banks gave a positive outlook for the start energy shares were positive as west texas crude

rose another two and a half dollars by the end of friday's session on tension in libya meanwhile telecoms were looking weaker than the market overall the week was pretty strong. there's been a high correlation to the market activity relative to the escalating price of oil right now as well as increased correlation klute to the overall futures which have been rather of i would always as well we've seen some rather pronounced movements especially in the blue chips as a result of these widespread price swings of some of the more liquid names the second tears well overall turnover has been are understandably decimated and we do expect for this this trend with a mix for more liquid names to be rather pronounced going forward into next week. the world's largest television producer roussel rejected north nichols offer to buy twenty percent of its shares for twelve point eight billion dollars but you must look at it no more a bank says roussel c.e.o. tycoon i like to pass is not about to cede his stake while metal prices are enjoying high levels but since we believe the prime reason for meaning

a shareholder of neural sneakily is that. the current motorcycle so therefore we believe for as long as the middle prices will have been stronger so is likely to be as a shareholder in the rules however because we also believe that new rules will be generating a lot of excess cash these year and next year so therefore they'll have. a buying bed of shares from also as one of the very few opportunities which would actually create therefore i believe that there is a good chance the mere abuse that the dogs by the state. russian investment holding system is in talks to sell twenty five percent of oil giant bass now to india's oil and natural gas corporation but deal estimated at around two point three billion dollars could already be sealed by the end of march earlier it was reported that o n g c had long been considering a stake in the us next with an eye on participating in the world feels that the russian company acquired the rights to last year the indian state company already has a stake in russia's second lien one orlan gas project in russia's far east. that's

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