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in the russian capital you're watching r t with me you are in and josh 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 colonel gadhafi of britain is already facing accusations from the international criminal court over the weapons it's 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 made arms provider artie's lore and it has more from london. security forces put down our rest in the middle east with rubber bullets tear gas and all the irritant down the mission and they've got plenty of the u.k. was still selling arms to libya just poor months before colonel gadhafi turned them on his own people the government ministers approving a deal for sniper rifles bullets and. spare a very so strict set of guidelines that say where where it is likely human rights

violations might take place you're 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 to suppress protesters arms export 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 port 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 from said to him look you've been arming these dictators. for back and it's they've spent certain amount of the weaponry and shooting of their own population and i was a really good time to go and try and sell them some. some more i can't imagine what . people say you know british weaponry in the hands of the people who are invading. the moment reports also say the government misjudged the risk of selling on to countries like egypt and bahrain but many would go much further one of the things that you've seen this occurrence or stick with british aid around the world over 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 the countries regimes can come down 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 of that damage was done with british weapons when the un breasts started in the middle east the government scrambled to suspend arms export licenses but this report is evidence that it closed the stable door after the horse 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 everybody's to be seen whether these damning revelations will make them think twice the british foreign secretary has said that the un 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 the telecommunications equipment to the rebels but many suspect help of a different kind may be on the way to your end it r.t. london. and will bring in more thoughts from anti-war activists john rees who was featured in the amas report right after the half hour headline recap. in time k. stearman 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 blow driven 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 there were buying weapons such as crowd control technology cheer gas. wall and door preaching equipment which could only be used through to the repression for us the most of the sensual seeing this report does is our says really tough question how do you reconcile promoting arms exports with staunch support for human rights well we would say irreconcilable we want to see a continuation of alarms and part of the right across the entire middle east and north africa and we'd certainly welcome the committee's report recommendation that there should be a review of all arms sales to autoroute regimes i think it's the least they can do

and that was from the campaign against arms trade or. even the rebels are preparing to restart crude oil exports as a first tanker arrives in the opposition held east of or have to broach the petroleum is expected to go through qatar before it reaches its main and border the e.u. and according to reports oil hungry european states have afeard the rebels they look at have deal with potentially dangerous consequences of his they are bushell explains. a main use of libyan oil the main purchase however there is an embargo on all trade in libya and the e.u. representative here in brussels not. only applied to national all corporation the state held could that be held energy company and all other companies business continue as usual now there are concerns that this oil will be used as a not for arms and that was raised in the region the course of us. has imposed

in both on the weapons and this is always a question about the motive of the coalition raising accusations that control of libya's both also was the mostly in the most memorable of the missiles that the al qaeda had to shop bases of the country and that it was going to infiltrate the rebels and the people from under the leadership of the rebels there are former key allies of gasping so the west really doesn't know who they're dealing with and their allegiances. reporting there oil prices hit a thirty months high a few days ago let's cross live now to our business desk where the count is keeping her fingers firmly on the pulse of the latest developments so corrina what's the latest on the world prices well we know we're seeing a slight drop today prend crude is trading at around one hundred twenty one dollars eighty six cents per barrel and light sweet is lower one hundred eighty eight dollars a barrel and all the prices all in all price have gained eighty percent this year

as you were saying earlier the leading tanker wired into broke on tuesday to load the first crude cargo that the tanker equator can carry up to one million barrels of oil as still unknown who's going to be the potential buyer of this oil now just to remind you before the unrest libya was producing around one point six million barrels of oil per day and exported one point three million dollars per day i don't want you you know to get my you know the figures but since those exports halted brant crude have risen from around one hundred twenty two dollars two hundred dollars a barrel and i will see how the markets and the russian market will be reacting to these two ations in about an hour of course korean thanks very much indeed for bringing us the very latest and looking forward scenes to you for more updates. well 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 and it's hard to score. at our correspondents are on the ground in libya bringing firsthand news an

eyewitness accounts to find out the latest from here in tripoli at the gorgeous going off in opposition helping gaza it also check out all the latest videos and you tube channel that's youtube dot com slash r.t. . well coming up here on the program the soaring cost of coverage. good news organizations are crying because they're saying that the spending their entire budget is gone by march. by u.s. media outlets have laid off hundreds of reporters find out where all the money is going into just a few minutes. russia's number one outlawed chechen terrorists is also high up on the international most wanted list but it seems a lot of russia's northern neighbors isn't interested in helping bring him to justice or he's got to be never charged reports from finland where

a priest has found itself at the center of a storm for speaking out against him are yes these may be the last days these man whereas he's pastas color and you hum one of the really faces being difficult for speaking out against our use of words would appear to resist us would. look moderate and his internet mouth piece becomes central the son was the first to publish the terrorists' words on the tax he claims to be slow on school seach the next ski express the much of warming sea and most recently the idea to. the website is banned in russia but in finland it enjoys comfortable standing and not only on the internet but also in downtown houses. the priest was the first openly say this was an outrage and the reaction was quick to follow. this guy email is hundred percent. worse what does the letters.

if i don't stop to fight. their. way on the heels you one more we want to police but in stands and being prosecuted himself been sued for criticizing what finland calls a legally operating organization and the same people who are promoting. russia they are promoting public opinion against mori is a racist. delivering racist statements about. people of the chechens which is of course not the truth because more recently. internationally a college. 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 who are of the brother. of the seller he lives in stockholm. and we can. have seen the people walking down these quiet and prosperous streets maybe unaware of the disturbing case of you harm or the rape 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 their neighbors in russia only four hundred kilometers away aren't quite so lucky there's a terrorist acts going on be squashed by the british government to wake up to the danger. upshall it's only a step from extremist rhetoric to action and there is seldom a warning call with a minority group minority who want to do terrible things.

only if. it. will work but there is quite a teen after the pastor 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 we have a double moral if you do feel that you even. i don't feel it's even a virtue over our tea house in key finland to africa's ivory coast now or embattled president laurent gbagbo generals and an ego are negotiating a truce after months of resistance the bugger was holed up in a compound in abidjan surrounded by supporters of his rival president elect al assad or tara bug has been refusing to cede power ever since november's election

and retains he won't leave despite his dire situation. u.n. peacekeepers and supporting french troops have stepped in to protect civilians as fighting escalated over the past week the death tolls estimated nearly one thousand and one the un and french forces opened fire on positions in the first military action supporting moscow has questioned the move saying peacekeepers were and are the rights to take sides in conflict and from this is good for democracy and cooperation in paris says friends is pursuing its own agenda 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 from this is not neutral in this political crisis because france has said repeatedly and explicitly that it

wants laurent gbagbo to step down so there is absolutely no shred of neutrality about france's position and yet these u.n. 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 fatally 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. that was john lawton from the use you for democracy and cooperation in paris i'll remember there's plenty more happening at our website r.t. dot com including the responsible actions around for bold damage the fog continues after the koran burning caught a person by u.s. pastor we've got the latest analysis on our web site. and aiming for a baby boom was a population in the politicians in moscow are thinking of creative ways of

persuading couples to start a family. is exactly what you. do. you get to. see. wealthy british soil. spot on to the right of the political. market why not. why no one should really happening to the global economy

with much stronger or a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars report on our. let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world in a long running leak of highly radioactive water into the pacific ocean from japan's fukushima nuclear plant has been stopped the local operator tepco has injected a chemical agent which has solidified the soil in your world the water have 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 fifty thousand still missing. for an eagle eye sarkozy's governing conservative party has held a card a virtual debate on the practice of islam and secular french it comes a week before a ban on wearing full face covered bales in public takes effect position described as an electoral ploy and the pandering to right wing voters ahead of next year's

general election france western europe's largest muslim population has made it at least five million. silvio berlusconi is to face trial later on wednesday accused of having sex with underage prostitute and abuse of power prosecutors allege that a stream of young women were regularly supply for dinners at barrels coney's mansion earlier italian m.p.'s voted to challenge the legitimacy of silvio berlusconi's trial which could derail the case demonstrations against prime minister were staged in rome and melana have a trial. 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 dozens of tornadoes have been reported as well as other storms lightning and strong winds thousands of homes lost power. from the chain of revolts across the arab world to natural disasters am 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 as artie's in the city if you're going to reports there is criticism over how the money was spent. today when it's in protest news pundits are teleporting almost at 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 colleagues and big bucks to be made and spent egypt tunisia libya you know world of chaos japan and the tremor after 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 one could all breaking news records my guess is that you're ok forcing u.s. networks to cough thought they catch the news organizations are crying because it

is saying that his spending their entire budget is gone by march their whole annual budget for covering emergencies and 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 plan it's 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 it enormous salaries you could hire a hundred one hundred fifty actual reporters produce search but instead most networks have them 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 that you. as end up preceding there is no doubt that 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 these stars who 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 then we have and it 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 dying viewership box for one has been caught cheating yet again please think should we have 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 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 cruise jet in for 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 and. new york we have today is here in our tea time now for the business news was carrying just friends.

hello and welcome to our business bulletin this hour thanks for joining me moscow and washington are to step into a new round of negotiations on russia joining the world trade organization which has been to join the w t o has been going on for almost two decades and remains the only major economy still outside the organization to be prime minister sergei ivanov says a deal could be completed later this year. although controversial seems like intellectual property rights autonomy. pharmaceuticals and the like have been

grossly and agreed with the united states european union and in fact more than two hundred countries which are members of w. . but there's something or at the latest in the fall like somebody will be ready to accept russian of course there are different opinions and they're going to come from groups trying to connect trade issues with other questions like non-christian legal system and russian and the like but sometimes nothing to do with w material. agenda. now let's have a look at how the stock markets are performing japan's nikkei plunged into negative shares of tokyo electric power then losses after a mixed reports on progress to stabilize the utilities disaster crippled fukushima nuclear power plant managed to gain point two percent ahead of an expected update from the company on that supposed quake production hong kong shares are gaining

with chinese insurers helping to compensate for weakness in property stocks day after the people's bank of china raised interest rates. and here in russia the r.t.s. has bounced back from yesterday's losses of two point three percent with banking sector leading the growth and isaacs will start trading soon as well on tuesday it saw sly correction throughout the session following two days of growth. russian markets continue to ride on the back of high oil prices but. call for capitol police profit taking will be on the horizon. i think that there are two conflicting trance facing christian morgan at the moment on the one hand you have very strong commodity prices and pulls that if political a free were bred groups coming. you know from different since this was in russian government of the post few days salutes supported from positive you have stronger inflows into russian fonts to you especially from in t.f.

she through france and this again you know the russia has been the best performing breed becomes him watch him or to for quite a while we're moving into april may and strictly a time of. profit taking from russia so a lot of fund managers which have been good on timing in terms of mentoring crucial markets as well as some hedges would be tempted to take some profits over the next few weeks. ah prices have slightly retreated from yesterday's highs on concerns that they were covering fuel demand may falter and the west and china the world's biggest energy users brant crude is currently trading a bit below one hundred twenty dollars a barrel a light sweet is around one hundred and eight dollars this hour. now three percent inflation for russia in the next few years is a realistic goal according to sergei excess and half from the high school of economics but only if the government pursues of more aggressive policy on price and

profit government has been more aggressive. targeting inflation in the decline three percent and all the basal three percent so the target for the coming year is just possible to achieve because when you overstep dulness novel nothing new under the old government has been changed still indexation there are four no more no permissible gas for railways for the receipts you must work before all you'll services off is that the government makes the inflation would go down your central point would reach out that's more than triple the. and that's it for now join me at twenty past the hour for more here not.

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