offered. some country house. the. towns. the crew made to feel. the oil coal. british m.p.'s excuse the government of braveness judgement over the selling of russians to arab regimes now using them against their own people. recent finland finds himself under attack for speaking out against chechen terrorists are and scarily borders and elsewhere. breaking the news breaking above us now words count the cost of covering disasters and more but still find the millions needed to pay their star anchor.

of the russian capital you're watching r t with me. the u.k. is considering arming libyan rebels opposition fighters saving a whack the ammunition needed to fight off the forces of colonel gadhafi but britain is already facing accusations from the international criminal court over the weapons sold to libya it believes he was planning to use force to crackdown on protesters long before the uprising began in the u.k. was its main arms provider artie's lore and it has more from london. security forces put down on rest in the middle east with rubber bullets tear gas and other nation and they've got plenty the u.k. was still selling arms to libya just four months before colonel gadhafi turned on his own people the government ministers approving a deal for sniper rifles bullets take out. very very strict set of guidelines that

say where where it is likely human rights violations might say place you're not supposed to sell the weapons and 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 support for test. 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 paul rein 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 to junkets to the middle east to flaunt the wares of british arms dealers i can't imagine who it was in the prime minister's office look. for it's. an amount of the weapon. population that was a really good time to go and try and sell them some. more i can't imagine what damage when people see you know british weaponry in the hands of the people who are invading bahrain and putting down its protesters at the moment reports also say the government misjudged the risk of selling arms 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 around the world over the last ten years has been the

provision of this highly militarized security sector so exactly the opposite about trying to stimulate we are providing the means by which those countries regimes can clamp 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 circumstantial evidence gathered by reports also suggests much about damage was done with british weapons when the un rest started at least the government scrambled to suspend arms 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 o. me 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. is officially off telecommunications equipment to the rebels but many suspect help of a different kind may be on the way to lure emmett's r.t. london. and will bring in more assad from anti-war activists john rees who was feature in laura comments report in an hour's time here on our. mean time a case tara men from the campaign against arms trade says the 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 have been sold weapons quite aggressively 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 there were buying weapons such as crowd control technology tear gas and wall and door breaching equipment which could only be used for internal repression for us the most essential seeing this report does is our search for really tough question how do you reconcile promoting objects ports with staunch support for human rights well we would say irreconcilable we want to see a continuation of an arms embargo right across the entire middle east and north africa and we'd certainly welcome the committee's report and recommendation that this should be a review of all arms sales to authorize regimes i think it's the least they can do

and ask a sterile from a campaign against the arms trade there libyan rebels are preparing to restart crude oil exports as the first tanker arrives in the opposition held eastern port of the group petroleum is expected to go through qatar before it reaches its maiden for the e.u. and according to reports oil hungry european states have asked for the rebels a look or to deal with its handle a dangerous consequences are these daniel bushell explains. use of libyan oil. however there is an all go all trade in libya the e.u. representative here in brussels sanctions only applied to the national all corporation the state's held held energy company and all of the company's business continues as usual there are concerns that this will be used as a smoke forms. in the region of course the u.n. security council has imposed only in the weapons and the truth is questions

about the motive of the coalition raising. the motive in the north and the ruble for the al-qaeda has set up bases in the east of the country trying to infiltrate the rebels and of course among the leadership over the rebels we're all allies of. the west really doesn't know either. and their allegiances. reporting there now lose that leaking oil exports could start. cross lifehacker email accounts finger on the latest developments. tell us how oil prices are reacting to these reports from. well as you were saying earlier marina levy and sank arrived into a brook on tuesday to load the first crude card without

a tanker equator can carry up to one million barrels of oil and still unknown who is going to be the potential buyer of that oil from the rebel territory now just remind you that before the end wesley view was producing around one point six million barrels of oil per day and exported around going point three million barrels per day so since its exports hold to brant crude has risen to around one hundred and two dollars from one hundred dollars now we're seeing a slight drop today. prices going crude is trading at one hundred and twenty one dollars eighty six cents per barrel now light sweet is a little lower one hundred eight dollars per barrel but all in all it was up about prices oil prices they have gained eighteen percent this year now markets are going to see how the russian markets are reacting to these high oil prices because you know russia is the main games money from oil revenues and we'll have to see how energy majors will behave absolutely and russia markets will open shortly and it

will hear more from you will be far less than twenty minutes time here in the city thanks very much to be for this. and you can follow regular online updates on what's going on in libya on our twitter and facebook pages our twitter stream is always running underscore calm and i'll go responses are on the ground in libya bring firsthand news an eyewitness accounts so log on to find out the latest from college near and tripoli and gorgeous and often opposition elven guys and also you can check the latest videos in order to channel that's you tube dot com slash r.t. . coming up here in the program the soaring costs of coverage. by u.s. media outlets have laid off hundreds of reporters find out where all the money is going in just a few minutes. russia's number one eye with large chechen terrorist dockum are is also high up on the international most wanted list it seems one of russia's

northern neighbors isn't interested in helping bring him to justice argues against me to reports from finland where a priest as far as self at the center of the storm for speaking out against omar. juris knees may be the last days these man wears his pastor's color you hum waller faces being defrocked for speaking out against i use working work they use word. no kumar of and he's international of peace because our center the site was the first to publish the terrorists' words on the tax he claims that his land school siege the nafs ski express and also a matter of war means and most recently the idea to apple's 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 i get this by email it's hard to process. this what does the letters the slow the the evil i don't talk to five ok i. got my here. on the real you home all are we wanted police but instead and it up being prosecuted himself being sued for criticizing what finland calls illegally oh prating organization the same people who are promoting. russia they are promoting public opinion against morecambe mori is a recent. delivering racist. actions which is of course not the truth because maurice only consenting the internationally acknowledged opinion of. international terrorist 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 order call morrow. overselling he lives in a store called pablo it is it is a living on families that we can quite often see people walking down these quiet and prosperous streets maybe unaware of the disturbing case of you harm or the rain they're used to thinking of their country as fair and politically correct but it would be 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 does a terrorist acts have to happen on the spot for the various 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 we're fighting against a minority drop minority who want to do terrible things. if. there are only one. who were. there is quite a team after the pasta 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 his now considering a move to russia that we have a double moral if you do feel that you even. i don't feel it's in the church over our tea house and finland. to africa's ivory coast now where in battle president laurent gbagbo generals are and go sheeting a truce after a months of resistance holed up in

a compound in abidjan surrounded by supporters of his rival president elect al assad with tar bows been refusing to cede power ever since november's election and maintains he won't leave despite his dire situation un peacekeepers and supporting french troops have stepped in to protect civilians as fighting escalated over the past weeks the death toll is estimated at nearly a thousand on monday u.s. and french forces opened fire on those positions at the first military action supported which are moscow has questioned the move saying peacekeepers were involved rice to take sides of the conflict john larkin from being so good for democracy and cooperation in paris as friends is pursuing its own candidate in ivory coast. what business is it of the west in my view not at all and yet the west in this case france but by means of the united nations has got into the habit of intervening systematically in other peoples conflicts we know that france is not

neutral in this political crisis because france has said repeatedly and explicitly that it wants 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 is the author of the of the united nations because nobody is ever going to believe the united nations and. 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 cooperation. remember i mean more happening on our website or to dot com including responsible actions that were operable damage the fallout continues after the. u.s. pastor the latest analysis. and for

a population in decline politicians in moscow are thinking up creative ways of persuading couples to start a family. twenty

years ago largest country. in. general. where did it take. so take a look at some of the stories from around the world in a long running of highly radioactive water into the pacific ocean from japan's fukushima nuclear plant has been stopped the local operator it's have to go 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 all were twelve thousand people with some fifteen thousand still missing. president nicolas

sarkozy's governing conservative party has held a conversation debate on the practice of islam in secular france it comes a week before a ban on wearing full face covering veils and public takes effect the opposition described the meeting as an ally for a boy and a pondering to right wing voters out of next year's general election france has western europe's largest muslim population estimated at least five five million. at least nine people have been killed in southern u.s. states after raging storms caused widespread damage some of those killed were crushed by falling trees. and ordered as well as under storms lightning and strong winds thousands of homes lost power. from the chain of revolts across the arab world to natural disasters and potential 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 at his or tease out reports there's criticism over how the money was spent. today when egyptian protesters news pundits are teleporting almost up to speed of light from the safety of their news desks too far away and dangerous places sirens are now going off led by their journalistic colleagues and big bucks to be made and spent egypt tunisia libya you know whirlpool health care us japan in a tremor up to nami and earthquakes i want to err on the side of caution for you here 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 of 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 op risings 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 her for five years who 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 one hundred fifty actual reporter 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 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 that you. as and up receiving there is no doubt that in general quality of any one news organization is lower than it was thirty years ago with a shadow officially cast on what was once talk notch news coverage to pay the enormous salaries to the stars who don't know a lot about the middle east expert some nuclear power they don't speak arabic but there they are chatting 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 bucks for one that's been caught cheating yet again policing shibuya egg man a local nightclub on one map with japan's nuclear reactors as well as going so far as to call new york's times square with a 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 a disaster jet back home in the worst is over leaving viewers in the dark about what leads up to and what happens after the chaos that's the seizure cannot see new york. and i start seeing all the latest business news with kareena.

so welcome to our business and our main story this hour moscow and washington are about to step into a new round of negotiations on russia's joining the world trade organization that's according to deputy prime minister sergey even off hopes a deal will be completed later this year russia's bid to join the w t o has been ongoing for almost two decades and remains the only major economy still outside the organization although controversial like intellectual property rights also making promises it was the large part of being negotiated and agreed with united states european union and more than two hundred countries which are members

of w. to. hold. this summit at the latest in the fall but there are some very who are ready. to accept a russian. it's a look at the markets now japan's nikkei is trading lower this hour and it turned a positive earlier during the day that you managed to gain point two percent ahead of an expected updated for the company on its post quake production and hong kong shares are also gaining this hour with chinese insurers helping to compensate for weakness in property stocks the day after the people's bank of china raised interest rates. and here in russia markets were open soon. both the r.t.s. in the eyes of saw a slight correction while tuesday's session it's followed two days of growth both voices close down around point two percent. and which markets continue to ride on

the back of high oil prices but next in session coffee at capitol police profit taking will be on the horizon. i think that there are two conflicting trance facing corruption market at the moment on the one hand you have very strong commodity prices and positive political three were by grown up coming from you know from different sources within the russian government of the post few days so that's supportive and positive you have strong green flows into the russian fronts to you especially for e.t.f. and she through france this again the you know the russia has been the best performing breed becomes a m market for quite a while we're moving into april may historically a time of. profit taking for 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 i think a sad place in for us a in the next few years is a realistic goal according to some galaxy on the high school of economics i don't know if the government was here is a more aggressive policy on process profit government has been more aggressive. targeting replacing. declining thirty percent and all the baseball thirty percent so the target for the coming year is just possible to achieve it was many others have done this nothing nothing new under the government has to change the school you could say something there are no more looking just for gas for railways for the research if that's what these are all the all services off is that the government makes the inflation people go and if central bent the reach of this one for policy . i think up there for this our journey of trying to back out for more business is here. so.

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