to. see. the opposition reportedly offers kolo garfield way out of libya amid rumors of foreign military intervention and the u.s. defense secretary bombing is close. but i think this just looks good ok. the parties postponed and tripoli in forums of massive support for gadhafi in the libyan capital contradicting international headlines that he's been close to defeat. and how the communings between the u.k. and the libya's government revealed several for the universities are on the far off or engaging with the the regime after receiving controversial cash donation.

from our studios here in central moscow this is a party with twenty four hours a day libya's opposition has told colonel gadhafi that if he leaves the country now they won't put him on trial but libyan state t.v. is broadcast onas that gadhafi offered to quit if his family were not to safely leave the country fans continues in parts of libya more than three weeks after protests erupted paula has more now from tripoli. on the one hand we hear in opposition that moammar gadhafi is in talks but they say that he's asking for an opportunity to escape the country opposed nice enough parliament should we transition period to pave the way for him to beat these opposition groups also saying that he wants immunity from criminal prosecution and permission to take out of the country in large amounts of cash now all of these reports have been rejected

by gadhafi who has denied these kind of names on state television the opposition also saying that you can leads now they would not consider seeking prosecution from the international court of justice but as i say we're not hearing any confirmation of this and exact opposite from the gadhafi regime it certainly does seem as if the west needs it was a quick to bury. them in the capital they are huge amounts of public support for him this is a phenomenon that i explored by talking to people on the streets and ascertaining from him just how right and in this case just how wrong the foreign media were in reporting the story. the warning on the streets of tripoli i want to say to just you know what because you are in deeming you know you can get more much. more to my money get that at the heart of the criticism would fall to the justice will please bombed and killed dozens of protesters in the capital city future of libya appears

to be on a knife edge fighter jets have been bombarding the capital tripoli reportedly on the orders of the leader moammar gadhafi. but it is with force. guns or something. completely lost. her to the truth seems more to be a city of artist is it a business these are hardly the pictures of a city on the brink of war meanwhile libya's capital tripoli is bracing for what could be another night of gunfire explosions and rioting eyewitness. a war planes had been firing at our positions the first from the air when we invited. foreign media to come to tripoli and. to see. who sent the reports because they are trying to as we said. administration or management of the channel and.

what they want from these two course and eliminate or delayed what does not serve their purposes which is why people here are angry mom is taking a few days off from his work as an engineer to join the throngs of kentucky supporters in downtown queens where they hide think this badly despite what's going on no. sort of leave their mama. but examine this it's not just what's being hidden it's also what's actually being sick but what we're getting is a us. one sided picture of the situation which kills me here with the idea that there's freedom fighters involved in media and that there is a government regime and atrocious terrorist government. this is nonsense here just. as it would be afghanistan.

is clearly not in tripoli and just as clearly we still media has been a little too quick to write of gadhafi r.t. tripoli. international pressure is mounting on gadhafi with the u.s. considering military intervention and the u.k. and france drafting a no fly zone resolution for the u.n. and amid this claim some embarrassing off the record remarks from u.s. officials that he's going to teach khan has more. defense secretary robert gates landed in afghanistan troops with the top u.s. commander general david petraeus who greeted mr gates at the airport joking quote welcome back sir flying a little bigger plane than normal it's going to lob some attacks on leave you or something and of quote the u.s. defense secretary responded to the comment by laughing and said quote yeah exactly well apparently the two gentlemen were unaware of the open microphone the world is

now guessing whether that was just a joke or there was a kernel of proof the next trick a lot of people thought that was a highly inappropriate joke mind you this comes from america's top military man although the official position of the us is in order to decide on the military intervention the support of the international community do you want to nato are now you weigh in on the possibility of declaring a no fly zone over libya that would actually involve a large scale military operation including air strikes alleviating. including strikes on levy an air defenses and putting down everything that flies over leave the. boat on a no fly zone could be hard to secure at the u.n. security council where china a permanent member is really cool to the post no fly zone and russia has made it very clear that any foreign military involvement would be unacceptable here's the logic behind the statements made by someone else empowers we can't allow qaddafi killed the rebels so we need to give the rebels a chance and make the fight kind of even because those things are now called out

his armor outweighs everything there's rebels half from russia's perspective for example this kind of intervention even with the best of intentions usually leads to more deaths and destruction then if you let the countries deal with their problems on their own is this monday we heard reports that the u.s. asked saudi arabia if it can supply weapons to the rebels in benghazi the truth is to be really dangerous history shows that the practice of arming the other side of a conflict not only does not stop the violence but inflames it even more especially those arms and. in the hands of radicals americans themselves have estimated that levy especially the eastern part of the country which is where the rebels have reportedly gained control is is home to a large number of your heart is the meter for a fifth of all the heart it's enough to say that one of the rabble a leader is in benghazi was once osama bin laden's personal driver and the question is does the u.s. really want that kind of involvement. for more on this and are joined by the show is the director of the center for research on globalization in canada thanks for

joining us in r.t. what we've heard this joke between robert gates and general petraeus what do you make of it coming from such high ranked officials at this time. well i think we are in a very dangerous course for awards because. essentially the united states and nato are supporting an armed insurrection. in eastern libya with a view to eventually just a prying a humanitarian intervention now there's evidence they're back so you allied forces are already on the ground we've seen reports of the british as c.s. we've seen other reports that say that in fact the number of full of special forces and intelligence agents on the ground is in the several hundred. and the question one has the us with us anita ability advisors and special forces.

theoretically helping the rebels what the supply in terms of international law this is this is an interference in their fares of a sovereign country whatever one's views are with the with regard to get out here. this is not a protest. as in egypt and tunisia this is an armed insurrection and public opinion has be led to believe somehow all their conditions in egypt and. tunisia have some of the states read to libya and that this is a spontaneous insurrection it's not it's been planned well in advance knows probably those special forces were already on the ground prior to the onslaught of the insurrection. and when. the central command.

commander of central command general actually makes the state of there if that is the stablished kind of a no fly zone and he's very explicit all that. this would associate me also a bombing campaign. because you'd have to take over the fence and what's what is implied and what is on the drawing board i'm not suggesting will be carried out that is on the drawing board is an all out blitz critique directed against a sovereign country. in violation of international law sure also what is interesting what do you make of the fact that the rebels themselves the opposition are saying they don't want a military intervention on the ground they have said that surely they do want foreign help but not military intervention on the ground why are they taking a position why don't they need help when after all they're experiencing a massive loss of life. i think i think but majority of the population including

the opponents of the khadafi do not want foreign intervention because then it's an iraqi scenario and. i mean. ironically what happened is that when britain sent a so-called diplomatic mission which in fact was made up of an m i six a secret agent accompanied by escorted by c.s. forces they were arrested not biker duffy's forces but by the by opposition forces and the opposition said look we you should be here this is interference of the country's. sovereignty the fares of of a sovereign country so that i think what is is that stake here is something far more fundamental which nobody nobody is really mentioning at least in the media this is part of the battle boil libya has three point five percent of global

oil reserves twice those of the united states it's one of the major oil producers it supplies large amounts of water to the european union its national oil corporation is among the twenty five largest oil companies in the world and what is involved here is the battle fought oil so it's so you know so you had to stand up but what happens when that battle in effect is over whatever happens to get happy what happens afterwards when we see a further turmoil for those trying to control the oil fields there in libya or indeed an opposition trying to form some sort of government competing against itself and what will happen all through all of this. well i think we we can't really make any statements that affect at this time what i think is is on the drawing board or the pentagon is essentially

a war war theater in in the broader middle east all that african central asian region but rather sweeping palestine afghanistan and iraq and the geopolitical implications of thought reaching it's essentially what is what washington is aiming at is to establish a sphere of influence in north africa. establish control over these oil reserves which constitute billions and billions of dollars of proceeds for the oil companies and on top of that and if we have to make if we have to make some predictions we can make certain predictions the impacts of this crisis are devastating not only on the libyan people but on all the entire world population is why because oil prices are going live high. billions of dollars are being made on the earth on the stake of the bed or in the commodity exchanges and this has been

going on for several months. that impacts on the people's lives is devastating because if you have a increases in the price of crude oil this will trigger bankruptcy as is the real economy it will compress the purchasing power of people throughout the world we're seeing it actually in many western countries in the united states that the price of the pump has gone up in california as of the order for four dollars a gallon so that we must understand that this is a project of conquest it is not a humanitarian undertaking it is applying. strategies that u.s. and nato have applied. if there are. public

opinion has been misinformed ok. and what is actually going on in this country we show shows a very interesting to talk to you thanks very much indeed for joining us director of the center for research on globalization from canada joining us there live in montreal thank you thank you very much on the program. well coming up in just a few moments differences of opinion over the libya crisis top the agenda as moscow welcomes joe biden. as the vice president of the united states arrives in moscow the big question is will the two sides be able to reach a mutual understanding of the situation in libya. and still to come before several british universities have come under pressure over their controversial links with the libyan government a public outcry over donations from the gadhafi regime to the london school of economics is forced to resign when it could have his son started at the university and artes nor emmett's has more now from london. more details of these connections

are emerging all the time the most recent one is another son of his fourth son who was taught at the school of oriental and african studies also known as. the us then following his student ship announced a very lucrative deal with a libyan university where they would give him two hundred fifty thousand dollars in the region or to teach a finance course. we also know of course about saif gadhafi he went to the london school of economics l.s.e. he was seated doctorate from there and then his foundation donated two and a half million dollars to the university the director of course of the university has stepped down revelation of the nation and we've also had another university that has declared its links with libya itself the head of the media finding out that's liverpool john morse which has money donated from libya to run a business school and also a health faculty and neonatal care facilities there seems to be quite a lot of libyan money floating around in british universities there's

a wide range it turns out sports giving money to u.k. universities and according to a report by the center for social cohesion many courses at british universities wouldn't be able to run without this money. include iran saudi arabia and china and i'll just take you through a few of them iran has donated a total of around a quarter of a million dollars across major universities in the u.k. darren in town trees and so out of course that we've already heard about. who is the head of the arabian studies program at durham university and he says that an event organized under the auspices of the deal that they have with the reigning government was monopolized by pro ahmadinejad's speakers and he also said that money from iran comes with strings attached so there is an enormous amount of concern about this money and how it affects academic independence and freedom of thinking at british universities. saudi arabia has given

a total of in the region of sixty eight million dollars to british universities in edinburgh and cambridge they've used that money to build centers of islamic studies and a saudi prince is allowed to choose members of the management committee at both those centers china also around a million dollars he used to form cultural and language centers again so sheffield university and the university of edinburgh has benefited from that money and the chinese government refers to those senses as part of it foreign propaganda strategy so really a wide range of money the same suspects in terms of universities appearing a lot but big powerful and important universities across the u.k. receiving money routinely from government who are and that there are none of them go because you can always have your say on the stories we're covering on our website and today we're asking who benefits most from the wave of riots in the arab world because here for me we have to do is log on to r.t.

dot com and express your view. of the. libyan army become a boon of contention between russia and the u.s. america's vice president is now here in moscow and have the skills of the gadhafi situation an issue which both countries so far don't see eye to eye on joe biden is also keen to push for the warming of relations between russia and the u.s. with the reset button facing a serious test of the. latest details. this is the first visit by joe biden to russia as the vice president of the united states all law is one he's going to meet with the president of russia need to be a different prime minister by june putting as well the reset relations between russia and to the united states has been going on for around two years now there

are definite signs of improvement and the building of friendly ties but nevertheless the views of each side on some key international issues roomy different only beer is no example is no exception since the united states is supporting the idea of getting involved in to the seat in the situation in libya specifically the idea of shutting down the libyan airspace which in reality would mean a libyan planes could be shut down if the tea coffee if this barrel is in force and also libyan eighty aircraft systems could be neutralized too to make it see for me to pilots to patrol libyan skies a rush on the other hand is against all intervention into the situation so we'll have to wait and see if the two sides do to keep boarders will be able to reach some sort of a joint understanding all of this issue and if joe biden's visit will continue this

tendency also building course and from retirees. russia's republic of chechnya for military conflict to stage a prestigious sporting event president eleven from the republic suffered a narrow six four loss against some brazilian world cup whether it's an r.t.s. to watch the match for us. the atmosphere here at the terek stadium in grozny the chechen capital is certainly very intense what is a friendly football game the stands are absolutely packed they were actually people spilling out of there the size of the stands earlier on as everyone pushed to get a space to see this game again as you can imagine pauline not the most breakneck placed on it you've ever seen but certainly not without its excitement quite a few misses fortunately some of those from runs on clear of the leader of chester itself although we didn't i should score a goal in the first off eventually was certainly ranks as one of the more football

games in footballing history i take it five years ago and you certainly wouldn't have been imagining where brazilian all star better team coming all the way to change it just plain awful for much five years ago this city was basically a flattened ruin the remnants of a decade of conflict stretching through the late ninety nine season into the two thousands but certainly a troubled legacy there and one that a lot of work's gone into trying to repair the city and if this game does show anything it shows that now even if it's just as brazilian team they have the confidence to come here and play a football game rather that rebuilding has clearly had some effect tom but reporting there from. the business with dimitri stay with us. no you want your business so he's going to have your company oil prices remain high

as tensions in libya persist however it's more of a risk premium with no real shortage seen so far that's according to date. global oil director from platts agency but are you talking about sin is he a libyan or any of the countries bahrain for that matter or are now on even though people target the loading areas and even when they can the production areas there's more than enough supply out there on the market right now so the supply demand scenario is actually fairly stable and also the kinds of production we're talking about losing right now libya is down by a hundred thousand barrels a day or so was i we're losing a million or so barrels a day of production is supply in a market that is eighty five or even ninety million barrels a day of supply and as such is so so far the impact is limited the question everybody is going to be all market is will saudi arabia have its own problems to worry about over the weekend so that that could change the picture dramatically from current supply and demand and going forward as well soaring food prices are keeping the world central bank is worried as they try to get down and fallacious low crop stocks and poor weather conditions other key factors which are sending

costs up but analysts over the markets will stabilize by the end of the you've seen a very very solid second train across our culture in commodity prices over the last twelve months and a lot of this is pretty common the production side downgrades by the conditions in the environment to a demand has bounced back quite nicely after the recession and we're also finding ourselves in if you were just being characterized i think in retreat at this so there's still a lot of uncertainty in the market and with. no end so thin you are going to see the markets reacting quite nervously but we do expect a moderation in terms of agriculture 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. foreigners who try to make a living in russia have long realized that for all its ups and downs doing business here can prove very profitable it is not going to go over has been following the progress of one french entrepreneur who's life has turned out distinctly rosy.

connect the fuel and fridge it's like see they do something i try to do a different way around us grows roses with an unusual twist and smell it. intriguing smells with the country going prices it's a nice market anyway. so you can buy me the five normal roses and would you would buy one of these and here is where this french business woman built her business in and we did a. three in the event of nowhere. it's a small village two hundred kilometers away from moscow first of think you say ok russia is very good there are lots of fields and you can go anywhere. it was so no laws of this country. of the law you don't go just where you want you go where you know then though it's like

a very very small country even smaller than france florence bought land and built a one hectare greenhouses and her investments doubled to six million euros much to her surprise in russia you have to go through space sure it's you that have a license it can double your costs just because this company can work and then the specialist cannot work her remote location caused all sorts of problems lack of utilities construction delays a long garters when she finally sold her first roses two years ago the main problem had people i'm willing to work it's not only my problem what can be the motivation for people. to be used to it's not the money only right it doesn't work. we have. a higher than average salary you. and. this is not

to these. but it's maybe it sounds pompous but there are heroes in ordinary life a foreigner comes to russia and tries to produce something interesting here fly around says help project should start paying back in about five years plans to expand her business with the dream office offering a tailored service for exclusive clients i can imagine. as a. prison for the eight of march for example is that if it be a business. man if it came down. why. not their unique value to those who did it on the union it's valid in the world and would be called by the name of. this life for florence has been in russia since the ninety's and she's now learned how to do business here i do know this problem like

. that. when i go nearby it'll. be good if i don't have. not made it but because i'm french isn't a woman who they think they need maybe kartel to get it. right at the start of the curve in the rosy life of french business woman making her way in russia and that's up from the business team for now the headlines are next to stay with us.

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