give you. the whole story media reporting from libya accused of blowing the unrest out of proportion to get headlines as conflicting reports the truth hidden from view. and made fears of military intervention from abroad experts say foreign influence in libya is already happening with the tried and true political tool of freezing get off these assets. and massive inflow of illegal immigrants from violence torn arab countries fuels anti muslim sentiment in the european countries taking them in .

five pm in moscow or bringing you news around the world around the clock this is r t i match reza our top story the fog of war has settled over the stand in libya there's conflicting reports on the number of killed air strikes i could offer you force is the number of cities controlled by the opposition pretty much everything that's being reported last week a wave of correspondence suggested the opposition was in control of almost the whole country and khadafi was doomed or he's outside of boyko went to the opposition held benghazi to find out why these turned out to be exaggerations. of of 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 it on t.v. screens been gazi may look like the center of the rebel resistance the country is

working to another day of chaos you go off you may have lost about half of this country they watched these bombs also in the skies but in reality it's more like a seaside resort than a conflict zone hotels a food book 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. get some reports sent from been ghazi referred to before treason is to really be as war not a conflict zone where rebels are engaged in sporadic and honestly ph battles with pro get out the forces but an all out war moammar gadhafi is striking back forces loyal to libyan leader moammar gadhafi appeared to be advancing east libya's leader moammar qaddafi has fled the country with rebels professing their ragin is just quite good after his regime to the bitter end no wonder news reports a caring predictions of in an uncivil war yet as the rebels inability to mount

a fully fledged defensive becomes more apparent so is the unbalanced nature of the coverage rather than being impartial observers stop an airport stop short of directing the protesters out here the al-jazeera crew is working out the crowd in time for their next live. you know was one of the first reporters to arrive in benghazi for several days she's been traveling with the rebels about two hundred kilometers west of the city. points the pro-government forces opened fire at her crew a focal point of her report there is a war going on and where the real i could or not there is that there is a frontline and now and there are people with guns and there are two sides fighting channels know that gunfire and explosions make for strong t.v. but they also can help to blow things out of their social because the journalist doesn't leave them to report freely from tripoli and all the gadhafi controlled

parts of libya some can find themselves stuck by the rebel sides of the story there are those 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 here in the opposition's press center and because the internet access isn't restricted and because the available twenty four hours the message is on the wall and sometimes finds its way into reports recently border saying government forces need. a weapons depot in many of these one of these cities a weapons depot had already been taken over by rebels and it was a government to begin making rebels took in over the. course he was the enemy and he was the. canadian forces marched into washington d.c. and. nobody would. you know only

interest. many people being one correspondent takes over of courage and hard work but actually. it's much easier and probably more enjoyable than routine journalistic assignments especially when the receiving side is so commentating the problem here and it being god is that some reporter is became not only part of the story but its main driving force and instead of hoping that full of confrontation and block should get her i think that almost calling for it sort of like an artsy in gazi. american radio stephen renmin says the white house is using the media to put a spin on events in libya. the people ok it's very genuine these people want something different they realize that they have a different situation in the egypt and the algerians of the jordanians they realize that the worst thing they can happen to them is western intervention if the

west gets control of their country especially america it will be much much worse they are very wise to what hands off from america and from the west elite instrument of state and in america right surprised some of your viewers the lead instrument is the new york times and i literally call the new york times the closest state in america to an official state ministry of information in propaganda it is put out this race the reports of what he's going on in libya what people want to egypt they don't say very much what we spoke about in egypt no and you read the . most who we are reporting on the other countries. and the u.s. is freezing libya's assets triggering concern about where that money could end up. the question now is what happens to all the its money especially the thirty billion

dollars the united states has frozen more about the fate of cut off these vast cash reserves in our it's on our t.v. in just a few minutes plus we go up the mustard roof top to see what one of the city's highest flying women is up to. as though thousands of illegal immigrants escaping political turmoil in north africa continue to arrive on the southern italian island of lampedusa their presence looks likely to fuel the feeling that multiculturalism has failed in europe also seeing a resurgence of the far right now entering the debate is the new minister of the interior in germany who says islam quote does not belong in the country or he's correspondent daniel bushell has more from brussels. islam does not belong in germany according to the country's new interior minister hans peter friedrich i did the immigrants must learn to speak german first and foremost and know germany's quote western christian origins the country's four million muslims are rocking or

decrying a slap in the face for all muslims and it comes off the charts langley merkel and britain's leader david cameron said the efforts to create a multicultural society in europe had failed the arrival of thousands of immigrants from the middle east and north africa fleeing that violence has inflamed a population already suffering from record unemployment and general economic hardship neighboring italy has perhaps been the worst affected many immigrants have fled there just across the shore the mediterranean if you just look on the streets behind me you'll find record numbers of beggars both whites and also immigrants and that's reflected in neighboring france the extreme right national front party will take first place in the first round of president selections there next year according to a new poll penn is expected to get twenty three percent of the vote that's ahead of

president nicolas sarkozy the incumbent and the socialist opposition as well the party the national front has called for three million europeans to be sent out of the country to give you a flavor of their program both here and in belgium also in france there is next month expected to be positive or law banning the full four years face veil the defenders of the law say that is to stop violent protests for example recently only protesters have performed veils to protest against various things and they say it's not targeting the muslim population but of course many muslims are up in arms about that there's been an astonishing rise in right wing politics there as well. italy's dolce beater is turning bitter unemployment is a near record high and analysts believe much needed economic growth might still be years away moreover fresh scandals engulfing prime minister berlusconi are being

reported on a daily basis during italians traditional distrust of politicians bad news yes but not for everyone grassroots political movements rather than parties are cashing in on this grim state of affairs among them neofascist ones will love it this is italy's cause a pound our plan to take everything this is this we know quarter 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 of it is most prominent it's the fast growing radical right concept. named after the u.s. poet as a pound and unwavering supporter of mussolini's fascist regime this building is home to seventy of the movement's members because of pan support has grown and on the side the unemployment rate 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 the bands present with its brand of revamped third millennium fascism is one of rapid growth through its intense agenda of discussion forums here splitting rock concerts and swat actions the movement is on the up and not we believe that fascism was a grand period in italy's past one of cultural and artistic splendor we can't put a label ourselves as fascists we are witnessing the end of the political parties rule movements 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. the movement's members deny any wrongdoing and came the media and leftist politicians i'm misrepresenting them the disconnect between all make is in the electorate in italy is drawing with an opposition virtually dominated by anti

business going to rhetoric and the shots of ruling coalition seemingly more focused on its leaders legal issues but on the country's fate for some here even. a dead dictator seems to be more appealing matthew stevens room for oxy western governments are frozen the assets are not arkadelphia and other senior figures in libya's government they say the aim is to help bring down a government refusing the will of its people but as artie's laura lister reports history suggests libya may never again see its cash after the international wealth grab. 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 most countries could see. freezing over.

the weapons here the foreign assets of either libya the country or khadafi and his family that some estimate to be almost one hundred billion dollars it's believed to be spread across the globe all 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 marbury are 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 and essentially cut libby off from the entire u.s. banking system for now it stays put while the situation is still uncertain but what is certain the president of the united states is now in control of this money which

gives him a powerful tool. a good deal about this money or some of this money. you have for or. whatever the u.s. . is trying to accomplish. things it's all about control and profit. and empire it's an empire where the greatest profits come from the military contracts and the oil contracts. they will work overtime those corporations their 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 my time 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 khadafi can likely cause the money to buy 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 with uncertain is the divided country it came from lauren lyster r.t. new york. if i more on this in everything we cover on our website r.t. dot com here's what's also online right now reset overloads two years after the

russian u.s. ties renewal experts voiced concern that this reset may ring hollow. and accused of destroying the country and praised her found in russian democracy mixed legacy is explored in archie's exclusive interview. with the. chairman of the senate armed services committee says billions more dollars are needed for the u.s. to succeed in afghanistan carl levin believes washington should not repeat the mistake of thirty years ago what it left behind a power vacuum later filled by the taliban are key military contributive any khrushchev who fought in the soviet campaign says there is a stark difference between then and now. thirty years ago this soviet army

successfully accomplished one of its main mission to build up the professional afghan armed forces and you know why because we taught afghan military officers score there we something to die for for their own country for their own peers and for their own armed forces unlike the soviet military campaign the current american mission in afghanistan has nothing to offer neither to african officers or nor to afghan people it's large why because of the whole american experience in afghanistan he's only had profiteering whether it's for consultant vulture's or for that private contractors or for the drug lords in essence the whole american campaign in afghanistan has nothing to do be an idea ology fighting against terrorism or insurgency it boils down to one thing to procrastinate these low intensity conflict as long as possible and her perch eight and expand

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a very old thing we don't even know if it's possible to paste it sometimes templates can cut the chimney for. apart from the love of rooms galina is also unusual in 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 career. we worked inside the kremlin some old mansions and all chechens i met my profession because i got to see very interesting places others didn't get to see. the e-mail stop make covers the chimney pots and consult billion of some of moscow's especially complicated flumes they say they're full of respect for the bulbs. use mother. she does a great job managing the team and dealing with our heavy workload especially as this work is usually considered only for men thanks kalu used to have

a male business partner but he didn't like the technical nature of the job and left her years of experience no make a specialist in her field which humour's with men to get at the heart of 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 struggling a guild with other chimney cleaning companies she even tells us some of the folklore surrounding chimney sweeps widely believed to be good luck. calls about one hundred ten very puzzled like she had no fireplace or chimney she just wanted to see and touch a real chimney sweep for good luck for some what was going to god is beneath them to others it goes right over their head for her when she's up here he's on top of the world for martin are three. and already dimitri medvedev and co was on top of the world of business he's coming your way next stay with us.

thanks very much madeleine and welcome to business our to your oil prices keep in last week's pay says fighting in libya rages on with concerns of the unrest will spread to other nearby oil producing countries french crews take a look at the latest price did hit two year high as it's now eased down slightly two hundred sixty to ninety one per barrel that says. that one hundred six dollars per barrel investment bankers say prices are higher than real production costs. for oil marketers are in many ways is a perfect commodity markets from the long term price of the term are normally part of the long term marginal direction from which become a place to make good on the need to build a battle and probably world prices much current result it is sort of premium embedded in the world price from the paragraph there is a lot of political instability around the world about fundamentally you know our analysis shows bills bills about the right margin parks and calls for oil and

that's the sort of level that the expects will to be floating around over the long term. this year russian farmers are expected to plant the fewest wheat fields in four years a survey by bloomberg says that's because farmers cannot plant in washington a great export ban on high diesel prices and let's cross live to london with the risk you know discussion on from barclays capital so just give us thank you very much for being with us so what effect has the russian government's ban on grain export had on the economy. will mean absolutely the russian ban has been really crucial for the weak market and i think if you read just rewinding go back to last summer when news broke out about the intensity of the russian crowd and the impact it would have in russian production and that's really when we started seeing value across the greens and wheat in particular started to get kick started to q you had some pretty compelling factors domestically in terms of high c.p.i. inflation levels that led to the domestic ban but internationally it had

a very very solid impact in terms of prices so we're seeing right now with preliminary expectations that local farmers will be planting less this year what kind of effect will that create on global food prices what role does russia play on the global market. i mean over the last few years especially if one looks back over the course of the last decade then russia's importance in terms of being a reliable a very competitively priced exporter for feed greens has really been growing very very rapidly and this is really meant that you know for most years you tend to see the pursuit countries and russia in particular being the source of the most competitive price favorite in the world so you know with the russian ballet in place especially in the last year you have to see countries of the middle east in importing countries egypt for example which additional resources are russian wheat having to import from more expensive providers like the u.s. or possibly so they have been a pretty big reaction in terms of international prices and russia is one of the

countries which is actually crucial in terms of the export side of dynamics but market so for greens in particular and for wheat in particular russia is important as exports are really can't be overstated russia was once one of the largest grain exporters cannot ever regain this. absolutely i think there are a lot of shorter term holders in place which will need to be surmounted before you see russia becoming back to that sort of level as you know the most influential amongst the most influential exporters and i see some of those you really are you know one is going to be the lack of sort of access in terms of credit in terms of peter better access to input costs so you don't just factors that would lead us to commerce to be able to manage their risk management processes better and the other thing really is going to be there in order to be a very reliable and trustworthy exporter we would need to see that russia becomes a bit more reticent about placing these sort of export valves in place because you know in the longer term you are looking at countries looking for other countries

which would be reliable solid exporters so these sort of factors in terms of shorter term export ban stooping to meet important countries a bit more nervous about if you like belittling of russia as an exporter but if you look on the plus side you know you do have the black sea region having amongst the most fertile soils in the world and we have seen a tremendous jump in terms of productive actual production levels so there is clearly a lot of school there for russia to continue to start production and to give become a much more dominant force into the global greens market is a vision one final question i've got for you food prices we've seen global inflation at record highs and barely said to accelerate even further what kind of increase are we looking at the end of the year. no i mean you've seen a very very solid secular trend across our cultural commodity prices over the last twelve months and a lot of this is really come in the back of production sidearm griefs mostly by weather conditions we're in an environment where demand has bounced are quite nicely after the recession and we're also finding ourselves in a period in

a period which is being characterized by thin inventory levels so this is making not it's a lot more nervous a lot more choppy about supply side constraints and we really see the speed of where they're coming and that's really meant the supply side estimates in slash right quickly so even with a pickup in terms of global production levels for most our precaution commodities in the second half of this years we expect we will need at least one or two cycles to repeat starting to normalize a bit so there's still a lot of uncertainty in the market and with. no and so thing you are going to see the markets reacting quite nervously but we do expect the moderation in terms of agricultural prices in the second half of this year so we do think a lot of the good news in a sense is already in the price all right this is actually the integration from barclays capital thank you so much for your comments. and i'm afraid that's all we have time for this hour will be back in less than one with an update.

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