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going to live from moscow on marina joshua welcome to the program the u.k. is considering arming libyan rebels opposition fighters say they lack the ammunition needed to fight off the forces of girl khadafi but britain is already facing accusations from the international criminal court over the weapons it's already sold to libya it believes gadhafi was planning to use force to crackdown on protesters long before the uprising began and the u.k. was its main arms provider lorianne it has more from london. security forces put down on rest in the middle east with rubber bullets tear gas and other irritant ammunition and they've got plenty the u.k. was still selling arms to libya just four months before colonel gadhafi turned them on his own people with government ministers approving a deal for sniper rifles bullets tear gas. there

a very strict set of guidelines that say where where it is likely human rights violations might play place for not supposed to sell the weapons i would say looking back through a number of credible sources including amnesty international but it was always likely always very very likely the equipment supplied to colonel gadhafi would and could be used in the brutal crackdown of protesters arms exports is big business in the u.k. valued at nearly twelve billion dollars in two thousand and nine now a highly critical report by m.p.'s exposes the scale of u.k. arms sales to some of the world's most brutal regimes the libyan export licenses were some of the most valuable according to the reports the u.k. sold nearly three hundred fifty million dollars worth of arms there in the year leading up to september two thousand and ten in the same year egypt bought twenty seven million dollars worth of small guns and electronic warfare equipment from the u.k.

and bahrain ordered more than ten million dollars of guns and crowd control agents dozens of arms export licenses to the region have now been hastily revoked but still days into unrest in cairo u.k. prime minister david cameron led a junkets to the middle east to flaunt the wares of british arms dealers i can't imagine who was in the prime minister's office and said to him look you can organize dictators. for decades they've spent most of the weaponry shooting up their own population that was a really good time to go and try and sell them some. some more i can't imagine what damage. people say. the people who are integrating. protesters at the moment reports also say the government misjudged the risk of selling on's to countries like egypt and bahrain but many would go much further one of the things that you've seen is

a characteristic of british aid around the last ten years has been the provision of this highly militarized security sector so exactly the opposite of that of trying to stimulate we are providing the means by which those countries regimes can come down democracy since the violence began more than a thousand people have been killed in libya and twenty six killed and a thousand injured in bahrain so stansell evidence gathered by reports also suggests much of that damage was done with british weapons when the under arrest started in the middle east the government scrambled to suspend export licenses but this report is evidence that it closed the stable door after the falls to both states when british weapons were probably already being used against civilians in bahrain and libya the government still hasn't ruled out arming the rebels in libya it remains to be seen whether these damning revelations will make them think twice

the british foreign secretary has said that the u.n. resolution on libya made it legal to give people aid in order to defend themselves and the pressure on western governments to arm the rebels is growing with colonel gadhafi taking in his heels a string of high profile figures is speaking out in favor of the move bill clinton for instance has said he would be inclined to do it so far the u.k. has officially offered telecommunications equipment to the rebels but many suspect help of a different kind may be on the way to your emmett's london. i'll bring you more thoughts from anti-war activists john rees who was featured in lawrence report later in the hour. our case erlang from the campaign against arms trade as a military hardware sold by britain was clearly designed to be used against civilians the fact is these governments in the middle east and north africa who are being sold were couldn't quite aggressively by britain i should say who are in fact

undemocratic dictatorial abusive regimes i think it was pretty world know when these weapons were likely to be used for internal repression of course no one knew when it was likely to happen but the fact is they were buying weapons such as crowd control technology cheer gas and wall and door breaching equipment which could only be used for internal repression for us the most essential saying this report does is our sixth really tough question how do you reconcile promoting arms exports with staunch support for human rights well we would say in reconcilable we want to see a continuation of an arms embargo right across the entire middle east and north africa and we certainly welcome the committee's report recommendation that this should be a review of all arms sales to autoroute regimes i think it's the least they can do

i was case pheromone from the campaign against the arms trade libya rattles are preparing to restart crude oil exports as the first tanker arrives in the opposition held eastern port of to broad petroleum is expected to go through qatar before it reaches its main importer the e.u. and according to reports oil hungry european states are after the rebels a looker to deal with potentially dangerous consequences artie's daniel whistle explains. use of libyan oil the main. reason to go on. the e.u. representative here in brussels sanctions only a ploy to do national all corporation the state could be held energy company and all of the company's business continues as usual now there are concerns that. for all arms. in the region of course the un security council has imposed.

and the truth will raise questions about the coalition raising. that control. and the rebels have need to have bases in the east of the country trying to infiltrate the rebels and the leadership over the rebels there or form a key allies of gadhafi so the west really doesn't know. their religion. you can follow regular online updates on what's going on in libya our twitter and facebook pages our twitter stream is always running at r.t. underscore cause our correspondents are on the ground in libya bringing firsthand is an eyewitness accounts log on to find out the latest from tripoli and your this can often opposition held benghazi and you can also follow our facebook page and check out the latest videos or you tube channel. coming up here on r t the

soaring cost of coverage. police organizations are crying because they're saying they're just spending their entire budget is gone by march but u.s. media outlets have laid off hundreds of reporters to find out where all the money is going in just a few minutes. in time russia's number one lot chechen terrorists is also high on the international most wanted list but it seems one of russia's northern neighbors isn't interested in helping bring him to justice are you sick of being a child reports from finland where a priest asked found cell at the center of a storm for speaking out against him are. juris knees may be the last days the so man wears his pastas color you hum lawlor faces being defunct for speaking out against i use the word terrorist to use word. to morrow and his internet mouthpiece become

a censure the site was the first to publish the terrorists' words on the tax he claims that his land school siege the netsky express mosque a matter of war means and most recently the my dear there were our ports attack the website is banned in russia but in finland it enjoys quite a comfortable standing and not only on the internet but also in downtown helsinki the priest was the first openly say this was an outrage and the reaction was quick to follow. this guy. is one of. the best what does the letters is low the evil eye beyond. the five. people caught my head away from work on the deals you home wallaroo want to police but instead ended up being prosecuted himself been sued for criticizing bush

finland calls illegally operating organization the same people who are promoting. promoting public opinion. as a response to. recent statements about august attractions on which is of course not the truth because maurice all you represent internationally a college abroad as an international tourist in russia a manhunt is on for a morrow and people close to him but in helsinki you may end up dining next to his relatives or more of a crowd or order call morrow. he lives in. italy with all the families that we can. see people walking down these quiet and prosperous streets maybe unaware of the disturbing case of you him or larry they're used to

thinking of their country as fair and politically correct but would they remain just as neutral if tragedy knocks on their door here in helsinki people travel on public transport without fear of their neighbors in russia only four hundred kilometers away aren't quite so lucky there's a terrorist acts had to happen on the spot but the british government to wake up to the danger after all it's only a step from extremist rhetoric to action and there is seldom a warning call biting against a minority strong or it wants to be terrible. if. we were. there is quite a team out of the past or now finland's prosecutor's office the church and some of the world's most determined terrorists you home all the way has already changed

address and divorced his wife to avoid putting sure and his children at risk is now considering a move to russia we have a double moral if you do feel that you've given them. i can feel it sitting aggression over our tea house in key finland. to africa's ivory coast now where embattled president long barboza generals are negotiating surrender after months of resistance holed up in a compound in the cowgirl abidjan surrounded by supporters of his rival president elect al assad who ouattara has been refusing to cede power ever since losing of embers election. supporting french troops have stepped in to protect civilians as fighting escalates over the past weeks the death tolls nearly a thousand a month the u.n. and french forces opened fire on those positions in the first military action supporting the tar moscow has questioned saying peacekeepers weren't authorized to

take sides in the conflict john locke and the spirit of these needed for democracy the operation in paris says france is pursuing its own agenda. what business is it of the west in my view not at all and yet the west in this case from but by means of the united nations has got into the habit of intervening systematically in other people's conflicts we know that from this is not neutral in this political crisis because france has said repeatedly and explicitly that it wants not only to step down so there is absolutely no shred of neutrality about france's position and yet these un troops that we hear about are in fact of course french troops and they take orders from paris they don't take orders from the united nations they take them from paris and my concern about this intervention is that it frankly damages the authority of the united nations because nobody you know

is ever going to believe that the united nations intervention in the future is neutral when we can see in the united nations intervention as in this case being used for explicitly political purposes. for democracy and to operation in paris or remember there are so many more happening on our website. including the responsible actions irreparable damage a fallout continues after that kind of u.s. pastor godse the latest analysis. and they mean for the way the population in decline are titian's in moscow are thinking of creative ways of persuading couples to start. wealthy british style it's not. time to cut.

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fukushima nuclear plant has been stopped the local operator tap has injected a chemical agent which has solidified the soil near where the water had been escaping workers have struggled to stop the flow since the plant was damaged by the quake and tsunami last month the disaster has now claimed the lives of over twelve thousand people with some fifteen thousand still missing. at least nine people have been killed in southern u.s. states after a raging storms caused widespread damage some of those killed were crushed by falling trees dozens of tornadoes happened reported as well as thunderstorms lighting and strong winds thousands of homes lost power. president sarkozy's governing conservative party has held and caught a virtual debate on the practice of islam in secular france it comes a week before a ban on wearing full face covering veils in public takes effect yeah position called a meeting an electoral ploy aimed at appealing to voters of next year's general

election france's western europe's largest muslim population estimated at least five million. well from the chain of repose across the arab world to natural disaster example tanjil nuclear meltdown the past few months have been a turbulent time across the globe and for the t.v. networks trying to cover it it's left some u.s. news channels short of cash after blowing much of their budgets as our season is here to look into reports there's criticism over how the money was spent. it's a day when egyptian protesters news pundits are teleporting almost the speed of light from the safety of their news desks to far away and dangerous places sirens are now going off led by their journalistic callings and big bucks to be made and spent egypt tunisia libya you know world full of chaos japan in a tremor up to nami and earthquakes i want to err on the side of caution for you here the disaster is exploding around the world one after the other these past

months have broken all breaking news records my guess is that you're ok forcing us networks to cough up the cash the news organizations are crying because they're saying that the spending their entire budget is gone by march their whole annual budget for covering emergencies in crises with the latest from cairo reports suggest big t.v. networks have been spending as much as two million dollars on each of the middle east uprisings one network is said to have spent an entire one and a half million dollars in just one day in japan while this money is ripping away at their annual budgets it's certainly not ripping away at the pockets of the star pundits when you talk about someone like katie couric who for five years reportedly received fifteen million dollars a year you talk about brian williams ten million dollars a year and some reports now if they didn't take those enormous salaries you could

hire a hundred or one hundred fifty actual reporters producers but instead most networks have been shutting down foreign bureaus and kicking out hundreds of journalists many of whom were on the ground and actually in the know a.b.c. news alone cut twenty five percent of their entire new staff last year begging the question whether the superstars are actually worth more than hundreds of their colleagues and putting a toll on the information if you were. yes and up receiving there is no doubt there in general the quality of any one news organization is lower than it was thirty years ago with a shadow officially cast on what was once top notch news coverage to pay the enormous salaries to the stars we don't know a lot about the middle east they're not experts on nuclear power they don't speak arabic but there they are jetting over to these countries it's

a little silly ben wedeman is standing by getting filled in on events in an unknown land forces networks to play catch up at top speed but often unsuccessfully as far as libya goes you know we're hearing all this talk about the rebels nobody has really told me who these rebels are they don't seem to know though c.n.n. got to enjoy the highest reading since obama's inauguration after several months of dined you worship fox for one has been caught cheating yet again policing shibuya egg man a local nightclub on one met with japan's nuclear reactors as well as going so far as to call new york's times square with the lion king ad kairos to rere square and its news coverage in fear of being out competed by others t.v. networks have to be there or be square the wrong square that is and while this method certainly saves a buck or two it can cover up the fact that crews check in for disaster jet back home and the worse is over leaving us in the dark about what leads up to and what

happens after the chaos as they see it sure can i see new york after a business of days with koreans and go away. hello and welcome to our business oh it's because i have it with russia's deputy prime minister sergei ivanov says he hopes a deal to finalize the country's membership of the world trade organization will be completed later this year which is bid to join the government has been going on for almost two decades and it remains the only major economy still outside the organization all the controversial decisions like intellectual property rights water making promise to missiles and the like have been negotiated and agreed with united states european union and more than two hundred countries which are members of w two. hope that this summit or the

latest in the fall some of them will be ready. to accept russian. now let's have a look at the markets trans nikky turned into positive after early losses during the day touching that is to game point two percent heaven expected update from the company on its post quake production hong kong shares are also getting this hour of chinese insurers helping to compensate for weakness in property stocks day after the people's bank of china raised interest rates here in russia the markets are about to open in just two hours both the r.t.s. and the noise it's saw a slight correction drought tuesday session which followed two days of growth both voices close down around point two percent. person markets continue to ride on the back of high oil prices. rising cost of capital believes profit taking will be on

the horizon. i think that there are two conflicting trance face incursion market and the movement on the one hand you have very strong commodity prices and positive political free were by grown ups coming. you know from different sources within the russian government and with the past few days so that's supportive and positive you have strong green flows in from the russian fronts to you especially for e.t.f. exchange traded funds this game you know the russia has been the best performing breed becomes him watch him market for quite a while we're moving into april may historically time more for profit taking from russia so a lot of fund managers which have been good on timing and some some entering crucial markets as well as some hedges would be tempted to take some profits over the next few weeks. three percent inflation for russia and the next two years is

a realistic goal according to some galaxy from the high school of economics but only if they've got a lot of pursues a more aggressive policy process. russia has been more aggressive. targeting replacing the declining thirty percent and all the base all three percent so the target for the coming year is just possible to achieve because many countries have done this and although nothing new under the government has to change the school he did say something there is no more look in this will gas for railways for the research if that's what these are all the all services after that the government makes the inflation people go and if central banker reads office one for policy. and that's are out there for this hour you can always find more stories on our website. slash prices. the.

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