president obama did not rule out military involvement in libya for more on this joint he got a check out in just a few moments. the whole story of the media reporting from libya is accused of blowing the rest out of proportion to get headlines as conflicting reports keep the truth hidden from view. and the massive inflow of illegal immigrants from violence torn arab countries feels antique muslim sentiments in the european countries taking them in.

life or more studios here in central moscow this is r.t. with the twenty four hours a day international pressure is growing against colonel gadhafi president obama says the u.s. and nato is considering military action against libya if the violence there continues and the u.k. and france are said to be drafting a u.n. resolution aimed at imposing a no fly zone but also suggestions america has asked saudi arabia to weapons to opposition fighters well let's get the latest from ghana just you can our chief correspondent in washington d.c. now. what does the u.s. stand to gain or indeed lose in libya why is the administration pushing so hard for change when elsewhere it is quite happy to let events run their course. bogo first of all as you just mentioned president obama said military involvement in libya is possible he did not rule it out but it did not specify whether he was talking about direct or indirect involvement the u.s.

has reportedly asked saudi arabia if it can supply weapons to the rebels in being gal's eat the saudis of have been told that the owners of. tank rockets and mortars those of you as a priority to hold off attacks by khadafi armor and ground to air missiles to shoot down his fighter bombers the situation in libya is critical as it is with hundreds of people bad and with gadhafi saying he will not be he will fight until the last man standing and this reported arm supplied that could come from the saudis upon the request of the united states could inflame the situation even more the saudis assisters again if confirmed would would allow washington. to disclaim any military involvement in the supply chain even though the arms would be american and paid for by the saudis it is also being reported that supply supplies could be could reach within forty eight hours so we could be some two days away from

a full fledged civil war in the here with the involvement of western powers by now we know that the u.k. has decided to send its visors few forces for several days now u.s. surveillance aircraft have been flying around lead and making assessments there clearing a non no fly zone over libya is one option that is on the table of u.s. policymakers now even though the option means potentially potentially a protracted and costly military campaign and by the way worse that we have started getting reaction from from. leaders around the wall. and some of them who we've heard russia's foreign minister say that any intervention any involvement military involvement would be unacceptable in libya well u.s. our knowledge being overthrown across the middle east and africa just how desperate is the u.s. to maintain its influence in the region. well the secular state hillary clinton said one of the biggest concerns that the u.s.

has is becoming a dry in somalia that means power vacuum radical forces all around and more or less credible no more or less credible power band to deal with and really say having that kind of a vacuum in libya is very inconvenient for the u.s. considering libya is rich with orly has to riches for the oil reserves in africa it's very hard to predict who will get hold of the riches that if gadhafi is ousted and the u.s. once branded gadhafi a mad dog later joined european powers and we constantly asian to exploit believe us all what now that dealing with of armies no longer an option experts say the u.s. will try to influence the situation in a different way reports say it could very well be dilatory way through funding through arming the rebels but history shows that the practice of arming the other side of a conflict not only does not stop the violence but really inflames that even more ok thanks very much indeed for the moment garner cohen reporting live from

washington d.c. . for more on this son joined live by american author and historian william broome and he's joining us also from the states you know the reports are true that we've just been hearing that the u.s. is asking saudi arabia to supply libyan rebels with weapons many would say this is surely good news that they're actually helping to get gadhafi out but lost what you make of that. well i wonder what the effect goes beyond the thinking of the rebels in libya if these people are finding construed in a democracy. being being helped by saudi arabia is a very questionable. happening i mean saudi arabia is the most oppressive regime in his home middle east and this is who the u.s. cause o'conner to help these people who are fighting the cause of the for the mozzie remembered the burning of joy. he say supposedly

partly for democracy and freedom the tone in that comment suggests that they're not actually fighting for that well what do you mean what he's suggesting rather not so that they're right or it's very odd are the media courts are all these leaders in the middle east in this in the same category egypt or tunisia or. yemen and libya but the fact is that he does he had a has a long history of having a social conscience this is one of compensating for the right mubarak and so on he actually has a use the world of libya to make to give this calculation a feel good. standard of living but he certainly not displaying any social conscience now is reporter suggesting he's prepared to kill his own people. would

you say there's no point intervention that this could lead to further chaos or should never actually been left to its own fate now. well the problem with current events here and. i'm afraid i'll go you know and i must remind us of all of what happened in iraq with the how to go through i've gone enough already who got thrown here operated by the u.s. and the u.k. in this period of across. the us of u.k. who all of them. as you claim to have a rocket on the ground they go oh and we will have iraq we did it with me again and again and again your mark has killed hundreds of people that they gave the excuse of. being here i say so here i. of the of of iraq attempting to a huge drag on the american the will be. good enough way of course we'll be able

going to attempt to revive her but belive you now will do if they get aid and the end result of ever evolving here to volunteer in iraq and we thought killing all those people may be wiped out a lot of the. military might of iraq i'm going to work over the time a softening of iraq for the expected invasion which came of course it's two thousand and three so we have. to we have got a long time so are you suggesting then really the international community should just step back and let's leave it aside its own fate i'm thinking i'm going to actually. live there on that map where one of the most easily agree. but would it be a massive mistake that ok forget about the no fly zone but to actually send in troops are reports that the u.k. and the u.s. are on standby would that be a mistake to send troops on the ground whether it's humanitarian or in the comforts

of way. that the u.s. senate in the military. it does not. need i remind you. so you are. still in iraq still in progress but. to the end who are bored through there you are very. angry or you are going to die believe what you go with. it there you are the literally how kick you got my. letter from the us very interesting to hear what you have to say thanks very much for offering your perspective american author and historian william bloom live in washington thank you. well the fog of war is settled over the ongoing unrest in libya there are conflicting reports on the number of killed airstrikes by gadhafi forces even the number of cities controlled by the opposition last week

a wave of reports suggested the opposition was in control of almost the whole country and colonel gadhafi was doing. went to opposition held a bengali easy to find out why these turned out to be exaggerations at best. well aware of the war in comprehensible as it sounds it's present in any conflict just days ago the scariest period 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 in gaza may look like the center of the rebel resistance the country is waking to another day of colonel gadhafi may have lost about half of his country they watched these bombs also in the skies but in reality it's more like a seaside resort than a conflict zone bottles of food books with journalists and presidents goes about their daily lives here boys are looking for new things to play with toy guns are in

careful supply. there are some reports some found in ghazi referred to the treatment in eastern libya as war not a conflict zone where rebels are engaged in sporadic and oscillated beach battles with progress after 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 gadhafi has fled the country with rebels professing their readiness to fight good after his regime to the bitter end no wonder news reports a caring predictions of evidence to go to war again as the rebels inability to mount a fully fledged offensive becomes more apparent so is the unbalanced nature of the crupper each other rather than being impartial observers got enough work stopped short of directing the protesters but here the al-jazeera room is warming up the crowd each time for their next life. number so

what's one of the first reporters to arrive in the ghazi for several days she's been traveling with the rebels about two hundred kilometers west of the city. at some point the pro-government forces opened fire and her crew a focal point of her there's a war going on and where the real like it or not there is so there is a frontline now and there are people with guns and there are two sides fighting she's channels know the gunfire and it's really snake for strong disease but they also can help to blow things out of their solution just as a journalist you go through freely from tripoli and all that gadhafi controlled parts of libya some can find themselves stuck there is that the rebel side 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 a city reporters need to travel to here in the opposition's press center and ghazi

internet access isn't restricted because they're billable twenty four hours the messages of the war and sometimes finds its way into reports recently saying government forces need to use forces. in many of these one of these cities weapons depot had only been taken over about a rebels and it was a government where he gave the rebels took it over when get out of the buggy or as he was the enemy and he would see it didn't he see terrorist. forces march dean to washington d.c. and it took over the game to go and we responded nobody would be in your government a terrorist you know only interest many people think that being i want to respond to 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 hearing it being got to be is that some reporters became

not only part of the story but in its main driving force and instead of hoping that full blown confrontation and blood shed could very fit that almost calling for it sort of like. hard theme because the. american radio host stephen leatherman has told me that the white house is using the country's media to put a spin on events and libya. the people who crashed and used very genuine these people want something different they realize that they have a different situation indeed. in the algerians of the jordanians they realize if the worst thing that can happen to them is western intervention to give 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 is going to get in a very this might surprise some if you will is the lead instrument is the new york

times and i literally call the new york times the closest thing 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 would do it will want to egypt but they don't say very much you know exclude about it you know and you really your lawyer. who we've already. well the first expert steven cohen says what's happening in libya won't necessarily bring about democracy there's a full interview with the new york i could make in about fifteen minutes from now here on r.t. . street has intervened militarily in so many countries and i liked or very rarely as it worked out for american intervention discredits an alternative to the tyranny of its being overthrown because it appears the prior was

overthrown with the backing of the united states when the forces of free read of western iraq which we're seeing. in addition what we're witnessing in egypt and libya. it's not clear who these are pro-democracy which are these are and. despotic movements they want to get rid of the dictator but getting rid of a dictator or going to the country doesn't mean necessarily true democracy that's a process. thousands of illegal immigrants escaping political turmoil in north africa continue to arrive on the southern italian island of lampedusa their presence looks unlikely to feel the feeling that multiculturalism has failed and europe also seeing a resurgence of the far right and now entering the debate is the german new minister of the interior who questioned islam's presence in his country party's correspondent then your bushel has more now from brussels. islam does not belong in germany according to the country's new interior minister peter friedrich i did the

immigrants most learn to speak german first and foremost and know germany's quote western christian origins countries four million muslims are up in arms decrying a slap in the face for all muslims and it comes off the charts langley merkel 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 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 the school 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 passed a rule of law banning the full four years face veil the defenders of the law say that it's to stop violent protests for example recently many protesters have of war 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 neighboring italy has perhaps been the worst affected many immigrants have fled there just across the shore the mediterranean from north africa and the middle east and there's been an astonishing rise in right wing politics there as well. it. is turning big. unemployment is a near record high and analysts believe much needed economic growth might still be

years away more of a fresh scandals engulfing prime minister berlusconi are being reported on a daily basis fueling 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 neofascist ones you love this is italy's cause a pound of all our plan to take everything this is this queen of course the multicultural multiethnic parts of a bustling community of asian middle east and north african residents living side by side but here in this six story building sense the headquarters of it is most prominent the fast growing radical right. pass up the. names of 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 side the unemployment rate he will definitely is a country of old 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 bounds present with its brand of revamped the millennium fascism is one of rapid growth through its intense agenda of discussion forums is 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 the disconnect between all mages in the

electorate in italy is growing with an opposition virtually john related by antibusiness where your rhetoric and the shattered ruling coalition seemingly more focused on its leader's legal issues but on the country's fate for some here even. a dead dictator seems to be more appealing matthew stevens rome for artsy. but before we get the latest business news from let's update you on other headlines from around the world at this stage of the day in our world update after years of hiding behind presidential immunity a former french leader jacques chirac has gone on trial for corruption he's accused of masterminding a scheme well mayor of paris in which public money was used to pay for work benefiting his party chirac and his close associates have already been linked to a number of corruption scandals but he's never been convicted. the u.s. space shuttle discovery has undocked from the international space station and begun

its last journey back to earth and the crew said their goodbyes to colleagues on the s.s. orbit the earth for one last time taking a few scenic pictures along the way upon landing the spaceship will be ferried off to a museum and almost four decades of flight. a crater collapse at one of hawaii's most active volcanoes and sent molten lava flowing into the sky it was match point dozens of small earthquakes around killer whale has been erupting constantly for almost three decades with varying intensity and has now been cordoned off and nearby park and close despite reassurances that there is little danger. i just remind you that all the stories you see here on screen can be seen also on a website is a column with many features some blogs and also program share drills on your feedback well next it's a business update with the tree after

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please for instance on t.v. dot com. well you want your business our team is going to have your company this year russian farmers are expected to plant the fewest we feels in four years a survey by bloomberg says that's because farmers can not plant more due to the grain export ban and high ideals of prices and the say this will have an impact on the international grain markets and that russia's role cannot be overestimated over the last two years especially if one looks back over the course of the last decade then russia's importance in terms of being a reliable and a very competitively priced exporter for feed greens has really been growing very very rapidly and this is really meant that you know from last year as you came to see the f.s.u. countries and russian particular being the source of the most competitively priced feed rate in the world so you know with the russian band in place especially from last year you'd have to see countries like the middle east in in fourteen countries

egypt for example which additional resources are russian wheat having to import from more expensive providers like the u.s. of course the e.u. so that has been a pretty big and solid reaction in terms of international prices and russia is one of the countries which is actually crucial in terms of the export side of the dynamics of the global wheat market oil prices are keeping last week's places fighting in libya rages on with concerns the unrest may spread to other nearby oil producing countries but investment bankers so the price is far higher than real production costs. moral marketers are in many ways a perfect what is my concern the long term crisis determined normally by the long term marginal production which took on the first move on me to do it was a battle and there were prices much higher there's already certain pieman better than the world price from the fact that there is a lot of political instability around the world but fundamentally you know it also shows eighty dollars per barrel is about the right margin approaching calls for oil

and that's the sort of where with respect to the floating around of the long term. stock markets now and just a reminder here in russia the markets are closed for a public holiday and so wednesday stocks finished their last trading session which was saturday in the black history chips were higher last week was grabbing thinking to be up more than one point two percent at saturday's. during twenty two and six international banks announced they want to cut back their presence in the russian banking sector morgan stanley sold its russian mortgage business last year barclays says it's pulling out while spain santander has left the retail mortgage sector but analysts say the russian banking industry is becoming more competitive for international players state controlled banks have become more aggressive in lending. this more competitive for much more competitive market. of scale matter so what. darkness didn't have enough scale one could be seen

and i also. decided to look for for a better reason but that does not mean that the russian market became an attractive still very attractive puts more competitive. russia is ranked fifty nine in the list of the world's most competitive countries in terms of tourism report come by and by the world economic forum took into account the environment infrastructure and natural resources of one hundred thirty nine countries switzerland tops the list with germany in second place followed by bronze russia got rows of lehigh mounts for its nature and culture but it's yet soon prove a number of aspects such as security and environmental protection. and that's all from the business team for now the headlines are next on our team to stay with us. the bottom. the be. the be.

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