issues to the cuban voice face to face with the news makers. the problem here in being god is that some reporters became not only part of the story but in its main driving force with. our correspondent in media discovers how journalists the air are throwing away all of the virus stoking the conflict just to get strike headlines. as good office for him cash goes under a lot and he experts warn of the legacy of using frozen assets as a long term political tool. and young people in italy you'll look to inject fresh blood into the country's leadership but some fear it could mean leaning to the nationalistic far right.

it is eight am in the russian capital you're watching r t with memory then joshua fightings intensified in several key cities in libya as procrit off the forces strive to regain control reports say dozens of people have been killed in numerous attacks on rebel held areas and say government forces are thought to have held out against the onslaught and intend to advance on tripoli meanwhile the mass rallies been held in the capital in support of the regime with thousands chanting procrit obvious logan's international media say the country is at civil war and the number of victims is heading into the thousands there's artie's it's not avoid the reports foreign journalists are being accused of exaggerating reality. there of the war in comprehensible as it sounds it's present in any conflict just days ago these

parents feared for their children's lives today they're taking their pictures in front of the tanks the desire to be captured laughing in the face of danger is even stronger in the journalists and the conflict in libya is providing a perfect setting for a moment gadhafi is striking back there we're hearing reports of warplanes bombing opposition camps in eastern libya forces loyal to libyan leader moammar gadhafi appeared to be advancing east into areas held by his opponents on t.v. screens he may look like the center of the rebel resistance but in reality it's more like a seaside resort than a conflict zone who tells a fully booked with journalists and residents go about their daily lives here boys are looking for new things to play with toy guns are in ample supply so a minute we're now at the outskirts of the city and the battle is again. some

reports sent from them ghazi referred to fitri sion is generally beer as war not a conflict zone where rebels are engaged in sporadic and are slated preacher battles with program after forces but an all out war no i don't have any fear life is going on as usual it's ok you know what's one of the first reporters to arrive in ghazi for several days has been traveling with the rebels about two hundred kilometers west of the city at some point the pro-government forces opened fire at her crew a focal point of her report there is a war going on where the real like it or not there is that there is a frontline you know and there are people with guns and there are two sides fighting serious channels know that gunfire and explosions snake for strong t.v. but they also can help to blow things out of proportion with journalists and leave the true. what's really from tripoli and all the good alfie controlled parts of libya some can find themselves sucked in but the rebel sides of the story parables

are just opening up to journalists they just love them and. just whenever they take one city we go with them and then we go into into the other city but reporters need rebels to hear in the opposition's press center in ghazi internet access is under strict id and the coffee available twenty four hours the message is on the wall and sometimes finds its way into reports of the people the cries of each religion the scale so we are really in danger. because we don't trust the drivers we have to be within the horsemeat circle so you as a human being you tell me how could you be objective here is human rights with rebels professing their readiness to provide good after his regime to the bitter end no wonder news reports a caring predictions of imminent civil war yet as the rebels inability to mount a full and flash defensive becomes more apparent so is the imbalance nature of the

coverage media meet call good after delusional but in their assessment of the band's lead they don't show a full grasp of history either. many people think that being a war correspondent takes a lot of courage and hard work but actually. it's much easier and far more enjoyable than routine journalistic assignments especially when they were sitting sideways so accommodating the problem of hearing and being god is that some reporters became not only part of the story but in its main driving force and instead of hoping that confrontation and bloodshed could get her there almost calling for a summit like our see in ghazi. and a pattern journalist keith harmon snow says global media reports from libya lack one fundamental thing and that's evidence of an all embracing conflict. recent reports are saying that government forces name khadafi forces

a weapons depot in one of these on the edge of one of the city's weapons depot had already been taken over by the rebels and it was a government weapons depot to begin with the rebels took it over but when get out of it bombed it then of course he was the enemy and he was the dictator and he said terrorists can eighty in forces marched into washington d.c. and took over the pentagon and we respond that nobody would call the american government a terrorist for protecting our own interests if that's what we're seeing here with gadhafi and some of these so-called bombings it's very interesting that there's very little in the present terms of pictures but actual you know violence another theme in the reporting that i read today was this idea that people in washington are conversing with governments in europe about what to do about this world state libya and that and the need for humanitarian aid instead of military intervention well the military intervention has already occurred by that i mean special forces

have been on the ground in libya before february twenty sixth laying the ground for what's going on there now they're all over the place there's navy seals coming in from the mediterranean and there's special forces coming in from need here on the other side where the u.s. has special forces training but it's not openly advertised in american military journals. world affairs expert steven cohen says what's happening in libya long necessarily bring about democracy here is some of what we'll hear in twenty minutes time here in our team when the new york academic talks to us. the united states and europe want to remain in so many countries in record time very wary as it worked out for. american intervention discredits your prerogative to turn any of it's going to overthrown because if it appears that prior it was overthrown with the backing of the united states forces that were a domestic or something that we've seen. in addition what we're witnessing in egypt

and again in libya. it's not clear that these are pro-democracy movements your views are and the despotic ones they want to get rid of the dictator getting rid of a dictator or that we want to be the country doesn't necessarily turn to marcos and that's a process. the leading government is reportedly running out of money was the council of colonel gadhafi and his inner circle being frozen around the world the u.n. security council has unanimously ordered the travel and assets ban on to leave your leaders regime arches lauren lyster looks at how those resources abroad might be used. but as violence continues in libya the u.s. sends warships and more troops in that direction fueling speculation of a military intervention and meanwhile western countries may have already launched

a war against colonel moammar gadhafi as north african regime countries. the phrase a go over. of war for the weapons here the foreign assets of either libya the country or could be off he and his family that some estimate to be almost one hundred billion dollars it's believed to be spread across the globe oriel money invested through the country's sovereign wealth fund everything from a stake in the company that owns the financial times newspaper to land near the spanish resort town of moore being developed into homes and a golf course to the oil company of your annex and billions of dollars of cash in banks throughout europe and the u.s. the question now is what happens to all this money especially the thirty billion dollars the united states has frozen the most ever in the history of this country

and this type of situation it essentially cuts libya off from the entire u.s. banking system for now it stays put while the situation is still uncertain for what is certain the president of the united states is now in control of this money which gives him a powerful tool book. deal. this money or some of this money. you have to go forward whatever the u.s. support is trying to accomplish. that he thinks it's all about control and profit. this was an empire it's an empire where the greatest profits come from the military contracts and the oil contracts. they will work overtime those corporations are interest to enact these sanctions the u.s. president declared the situation in libya quote an unusual and extraordinary threat

to u.s. national security and foreign policy that's not typical considering there is not a clear aggressive action libya has taken against the u.s. as for libya's financial interests analysts say you could look at the history of countries such as iran their assets were frozen in the wake of the one nine hundred seventy nine hostage crisis their money that was seized from iran back in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine has still you know not been returned to the iranians so it's basically time for a ponder play you know if we can take it away from them we will the money is used most often to pay for the settlements of lawsuits against a leader or a government or to recoup losses could offer can likely cause the money goodbye and we took their nuclear capacity away made promises didn't live up to them claim that was a great victory for peace and now we're in a situation where it's clear that oil is at stake the future of the massive sums of

money reach for libyan oil is now it's uncertain is the divided country it came from lauren lyster r.t. new york. so without a program the name of the ny nightclub throws a party titled after russia's prime minister but while you were aboard it was not exactly flatter it being the face of event palace so. we go up to moscow's rooftop to see what one of the city's highest flying women is up to. it looks like italy's decision makers need to watch their backs with wore a tie and shifting their support to find new people to kick start their country but that could mean a worrying lurch to the far right as rafi stevens reports from rome. italy is dolce vito is turning bitter unemployment is a near record high and analysts believe much needed economic growth might still be years away and moreover fresh scandals engulfing prime minister berlusconi are

being reported on a daily basis fuelling italians traditional distrust of politicians bad news yes but not for everyone grassroots political movements rather than parties cashing in on this grim state of affairs among them neofascists ones you never know this is italy's cause a pound our plan to take everything this is this we know for to the multicultural multiethnic parts of the bustling community of asian middle east and north african residents living side by side but here in this six story building says the headquarters this is most probably the fastest growing radical right because the file. named after us a poet as a pound and unwavering supporter of mussolini's fascist regime this building is home to seventy of the movement's members the walls are covered with the names and posters of their heroes including some surprisingly taken from the leftist media

such as che guevara because of pan supporters grown and on side young employment rate a staggering twenty nine. nine percent of his and in youth currently without a job. italy is a country of all people it is hard for the young to find a job or make their voices heard we're not only a generation deprived of our future but also of our present. because their parents present with its brand of revamped third millennium fascism as its members shamelessly put it is one of rapid growth and direct contrast to the country's economy. through its intense agenda of discussion forums here splitting rock concerts and squat actions the movement is on the up and up a recent membership campaign gathered over two thousand five hundred paying supporters on just its first day new music this is an association of free men and women of every social class and age we believe that fascism was a grand period in italy's past all of cultural and artistic splendor we can't put

a label ourselves as fascists we are witnessing the end of the political parties rule group and such as this one will prevail against them. members also claim there are an anti racist anti discrimination movement but they just playing the political correctness game some fear this might be the case also the pound is a dangerous phenomenon i received a threat over the phone when i opposed public funding to a concert they organized here in rome they sang me some intimidating lyrics of one of their band songs then hung up the movements members deny any wrongdoing and came the media and left us politicians and misrepresenting them the disconnect between lawmakers in the electorate in italy is growing with an opposition virtually dominated by rhetoric and a shattered ruling coalition seemingly more focused on its leaders legal issues there on the country's fate for some here even mussolini

a dead dictator seems to be more appealing matthew stevens rome for oxy. so you have more in our stories r.t. dot com with plenty aligned alfre online. the tasty and traditional way of saying goodbye to winter russian style learn about the muslim holy week. and discover the slavic words know the boogie man it's a grandmother who works for evil on misbehaving children about a frightening fairy tale is heading for the big screen read more in the art section at our team dot com. you can. see.

your social. your own called talk from the. video. no not the one. on the call. when it comes to branding events drawing crowds of young people politicians names don't usually top the list however a moscow ny clogs hosted a successful post and party but a prime minister's office is less than happy about it even though the club's owners say it was the customers choice of tribute archie sara for a while and so on. i

think. that they think. it's a bike now although it's a bit of it's exactly this type of. possibility here. mr prime minister himself and all of us working with him we are trying to be very careful about not letting his name being used. in a proper sense. he himself is favoring the cases where his name is used for the promotion of a healthier way of living for promotion let's say aid to children for promoting whatever useful but certainly i mean using his name for promoting in party and in private in my opinion is. the theme of the party which was the. name of the prime minister was chosen by the public surpassing the

names of to go through a list. of some of the commercial about what we knew might be controversial we decided to throw it anyway but now we see some of the people. there are things like . the night has nothing do with the prime minister oh i think it's a really good idea. i think if you could go back to washington. or something over having a. presidential. making a ton of money but if. they think a lot of. strong. countries a handful of. the great. add to the food bob and i will of the private god. appropriate when i talk to.

the dr and. so. this is really a little bit sad sad. now some more of the world the main news this hour here in our t.v. lava is once again spewing from one of the world's most active volcanoes mancow why why as fire of molten rock nine thousand meters into the air scientists say the heightened activity was spotted shortly after a crater floor collapsed no homes are under threat ok no has been tunstall interruption since nine hundred eighty three. northern chile has been struck by a six point two magnitude earthquake sending shock waves on local residents although no injuries are being recorded the epicenter was in a rural area near the border with peru and emergency crews say damage is minimal the area's endured frequent tremors the country's also still recovering from twenty

tan's massive earthquake that killed well over five hundred people. the discovery shuttle which is about to start her final journey home after almost three decades of space service the crew have said they have goodbyes to those on board the international space station and are now preparing to undoctored discovery will then orbit the earth for the last time taking a few pictures along the way before landing on wednesday. and it's the season for one group of people to head up high and dad dirty for the chimney sweeps of moscow it's a busy time what's more you can forget the stereotypes of it only being man was the brooms on the city's skyline as tom gardner reports it's not just guys doing the dirty work. it's snowy and cold up on this moscow roof but this team aren't here to remove snow they're interested in the chimney sort robert brown yeah this is a very old building we don't even know if it's possible to install fireplaces here

sometimes that beds clog the chimneys apart from the love of room cleaner is also unusual and being moscow's only female chimney sweep she runs the company the art of the chimney sweep cleaning city stacks all over the capitol including some rather special ones rearward. we've worked inside the kremlin similar mansions in all chechens i love my profession because i get to see very interesting places others don't get to see. the old mill stuff make covers the chimney pots and consult the interim some of moscow's especially complicated flues they say they're full of respect for their bulbs. use motherwell before going to move she does a great job managing the team and dealing with our heavy workload especially as this work is usually considered only for men. clearly used to have a male business partner but he didn't like the technical nature of the job and left her years of experience now make her

a specialist in her field in which human one of the men are good at the harsh physical work women are better at ministration and coming up with creative solutions everyone knows our brains work differently for example women can concentrate on many things at once. she's also very proud of her work establishing a guild with other chimney cleaning companies even tells us some of the folklore surrounding chimney sweeps widely believed to be good luck. cause i thought once a very pastoral she'd no fireplace or chimney she just wanted to see in touch a real chimney sweep who could lack the somewhat what going to god is beneath them to others it goes right over her head for her when she's up here she's on top of the world from martin are three moscow. are just a few minutes we'll look at what's in store for libya once the turmoil recedes but first there we'll take a look what's happening in the world of business with korea. hello

welcome sir business update here on r.t. they will have steadily strengthened in the past few weeks largely due to rising oil prices of goods or from getting the capital predicts the russian currency could strengthen further in the coming months. we have good prices spike due to all these . and we also should take into consideration that every. box increase in oil translates into forty billion dollars. from the current account so that first quarter likely to be. at least until the end of march and probably. will. take a look at how the markets are performing asian stocks are lower on monday weighted by the strong well priced exporters the trading in the red in tokyo would tell you

to down most three percent in hong kong on energy shares are lower because of investors concerned over that inflation and here in russia the markets closed for the close for the public holidays stocks finished their last trading session in the black most of the blue chips were higher last week was burbank and b.c.b. up more than gun point two percent. continued growth in all prices and the strengthening ruble look to being the main drivers for us not it's in the coming week. from the credit security says google is giving room to boost the russian retail sector as well. ruble continues to strengthen obviously that's going to prove very supportive for a lot of the russian consumer names and we're getting more optimistic about make mead x five going forward the banks will benefit indirectly from the strengthening of the like spur bank right now but of course i would expect for some of the steel producers to come under pressure being at that they have to pay the majority of

their fees locally here in rubles and they have to for any of the of the big important prices will be would be dollar denominated but the unrest in oil producing nations have led prices hitting the he's over the past few weeks has hit two year highs and is currently trading at around one hundred seventeen dollars per barrel however alexander gonski from a clue to bank says it justified price is significantly lower for all marketers and many ways is a perfect what is markets on the long term price is determined normally by the norm so much unfortunately it's become the first move on me to deal with the battle and some of the oil prices much result it is something pieman better than the world price from the fact that there is a lot of political instability around the world not fundamentally in the soles that's a little bit about it was about the most muslim production calls in the world and that's the sort of where with respect to be floating around the world. turn two

thousand and ten six international banks announced they want to cut back their presence in the banking sector morgan stanley sold its russian mortgage business last year barclays says it's pulling out spain's sound there has left its sector but say the russian banking industry is becoming more competitive for international . state controlled banks have become more aggressive in lending. in these more competitive much more competitive market. of scale matter so what. doctors didn't have enough scale and. a knife steel so they decided to meet for that reason but that does not mean that the russian market became an attractive but still very attractive puts more competitive that's all for knowledge i mean just under one hour from now here.

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