british piece accuse the government of a grave misjudgment over the selling of weapons to arab regimes now using them against their own people. a priest in finland that finds himself under attack for speaking out against chechen terrorists. and just telling supporters in helsinki. and breaking the news of breaking the budget u.s. networks count the cost of covering disasters and war but still find the millions needed to pay the star because.

just after two pm here in moscow eleven am in london this is artsy the u.k. is facing fresh criticism over sales to press its regimes prior to the uprisings in the arab world reports suggest that the same weapons were used to crackdown on protesters and kill civilians now it comes as london is considering arming the libyan rebels to help them topple colonel gadhafi one of the main former customers . on this. security forces put down on rest in the middle east with such a gas and irritant ammunition and they've got plenty of the u.k. was still selling arms to libya just pull months for colonel gadhafi time to mourn his own people the government ministers approving a deal to snipe. rifles bullets and tear gas. there are very strict guidelines that

say where where it is likely that human rights violations might take place you're not supposed to solve 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 that equipment supplied to colonel gadhafi would and could be used in the brutal crackdown of 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 report 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 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 who said to me look you can organize the quotas. for becker so they've spent a certain amount of the weaponry that you gave them shooting at their own population and i was a really good time to go and try and sell them some some more and i can't imagine what damage when people see british weaponry in the hands of the people who are invading bahrain and putting down these 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 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 to see we are providing the neat things by which those countries regimes can come down and 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 of that damage was done with british weapons will be on rests darted a bit least the government scrambled to suspend export licenses but this report is evidence that it clears 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 ukase officially offered telecommunications equipment to the rebels but many suspect help of a different kind may be on the way to your emmett's r.t. london. will bring you more thoughts. as featured in more emirates reports. on here on libyan rebels are preparing to restart crude oil exports the first tanker arrives in the opposition held eastern. petroleum is expected to go through cutter before it reaches its main importer. and according to reports on oil hungry

european state of rebels a lucrative deal to potentially dangerous consequences daniel bushell expects. a main use of libyan oil the main purchase that there isn't a ball go on in libya and we represent the here in brussels not. only applied to national all corporation the state held that we held energy companies and all other companies business continues as usual now there are concerns that this oil will be used as a swap for. oil in the region the us. has imposed involved on the weapons and this is always a question about the motive of the coalition raising accusations that come from. one of the most lethal alone and the rebels have admitted that the outside has

their shop bases in the east of the country that has infiltrated the rebels and the top among the leadership of the rebels there are all more key allies of gadhafi so the west really doesn't know either dealing with their religion. he started pushing reporting right there were no oil prices hit a thirty month high just a few days ago that sort of course a lot of the business that's going to check how reports that libyan exports could soon be resumed and how that might affect the markets. what's the latest on the oil prices keeping us updated well we're seeing a slight rise this hour brant crude is trading at nearly one hundred twenty three dollars per barrel the light sweet is lower one hundred eight dollars a barrel and let me remind you that the russian market is closely tied to prices since it's dominated by the oil and gas sector so it's only natural that the market is reacting to the unrest in north africa and the middle east now because of these booming oil prices the russian government is thinking of you know revising the the

its economic forecast for two thousand and eleven and it now sees the average or price for this year. one hundred five dollars a barrel instead of seventy five dollars previously thought so although no i just want to say that. oil prices have gained eighteen percent this year and i'll bring you more on that in our business all right really will see you in about thirteen or fourteen minutes time thanks. so you can always follow the regular on my plates on what's going on in libya you can do so on our twitter and facebook pages our twitter stream is always running it's underscored com you can check out the items right here on your screen correspondents are on the ground in libya there bringing you the first time news and eyewitness accounts we're going to find out the latest from the policy of police in tripoli you. can find him in the opposition held bengazi and of course so you can also check out all the latest videos on our very own our team you tube channel that's still.

coming up the cost of coverage. the news organizations are crying because they're saying that the spending their entire budget is gone by march u.s. media outlets have laid off hundreds of all. reporters find out where all the money's going that's coming your way in just a few minutes. now russia's number one after more church and terrorist attack umar off is also high up on the international most wanted list but it seems that one over russia's northern neighbors isn't interested in helping to bring him to justice. the reports from finland where a priest has found himself at the center of a storm for speaking out against whom are off. you know as these may be the last days this man wears his pastas color you hum lawler faces been defrocked for sticking out against by us working word dearest use word president look to

morrow and his internet mouthpiece become a central site was the first to publish the terrorists' words on the taxi claims to dislike and school siege the netsky express all school natural warming sea and most recently the dome idea of a pause attack the website is banned in russia but in finland 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 by email it's how to preserve. this what does the letters is lower the evil eye gone. to five. they've got more here. from work on wheels you home lawler e one to police but in stand and out being prosecuted himself being sued for criticizing what philip calls

illegally operating organization and the same people who are promoting the pressure they are promoting public opinion against morally is a racist who is a. racist the. caucasus people of the chechens which is of course not the truth because maurice only representing internationally acknowledged opinion about. 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 but also more of with the crowd the morrow. overselling he lives in stockholm he doesn't live with all the families and we can quite often have single people walking down these quiet and prosperous streets maybe unaware of the

disturbing case of you harm or the rate 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 their neighbors in russia only four hundred kilometers away aren't quite so lucky. after all it's only a step from extremist rhetoric to action and there is seldom a warning call with by doing good for minority ocurred drop minority who want to do terrible things. if. there are. no words but 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 her dress and divorced his wife to avoid sure and his children are at risk he is now

considering a move to russia that we have more of it here do you feel that you even a democratic country i don't feel its in a pressure over our tea house in key finland. you are with our team moscow has landed in new documents over the wausau related to the polish presidential plane crash investigation that air disaster last april killed president lech kaczynski and most of the country's political elite or groups who are more of a presence in cutting the rest of russia these others have it has been watching the head of. wednesday's the prosecutor general's office mocks the official conjugate. all that knew him best because of material relating to the plane crash that killed the film of polish president lech kaczynski in ninety five on the tenth of april last year and the importance of the ceremony lies with what it symbolizes the

continued cooperation between russia and poland to a selfish more schools the tragic plane crash it was also a significance in that within the forty you know volumes that were handed a bit today new fresh eyewitness accounts included that were taken as recently as january has repeatedly called for more evidence to be handed over saying that it's been all unable to conclude it's a independent probe to see insufficient evidence we have been expecting the polish sides to i released the results of the road investigation on the tenth of april but they have now last for a six month extension so we can expect the results of that probe in october while the interstate aviation can mysie rituals a commission headed by prime minister got to have a crusade in which included aviation experts from poland and the united states to deliver the results of its investigation on the twelfth of all that january and the

commission of found that pilot error was made states of play they say that the crew failed to respond in a timely fashion schools from the ground from the songs to release the plane to another airfield use very cool weather conditions and at the international response to the findings that commission has been see it step the a lot stronger people within poland say good question marks still remain they say that not enough has been done to investigate the actions all the ground full stuff at the airfield in smolensk and they also say more needs to be done to look at the conditions at the airfield since relents itself the politicians. from both the polish and russian side i've been very keen to stress throughout this investigation to exist this politics must stay out of the investigation and the improvement that we see the russian polish relations must continue to abort and today certainly does come just a few days before this coming weekend commemorative events which will mark one year

on since the plane crash in the events to be attended by both presidents come off the meds that. are supporting a series of terrorist attacks have been prevented and russia's north caucasus republic of congo. according to the national antiterrorism committee three members of a terrorist organization were captured in the operation to homemade bombs with the equivalent of three kilograms of tuna and so we were struck to by special forces one of those seems to is suspected of attacking policemen in the region as well as being responsible for a fatal attack on security forces in december last year. now to ivory coast where incumbent president goes compound is being stormed by supporters of his rival president elect. but go is holed up in a bunker in abidjan is refusing to surrender at this point he's been clinging on to

power with brutal force ever since november's election un peacekeepers and are supporting french troops have stepped in to protect civilians as fighting escalated over recent weeks the death toll is estimated at nearly a thousand on monday and a french forces opened fire on a black goes positions in the first military action supporting data moscow was questioned the move saying peacekeepers were not authorized to take sides from there is a food. ration paris says france is just pursuing its own agenda. what business is it of the west in my view none 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 once long ago 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 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 and we can see in the united states nations intervention as in this case being used for explicitly political purposes. when they're speaking from the institute for democracy and cooperation in paris well or do you remember that there's a lot more happening of course on our website that's our team com including there were a sponsor of all actions in. the fallout continues. controversy by us we've got the latest analysis on our web site. aiming for a baby boom with a population in decline politicians in moscow thinking of creative ways of

persuading couples to start a family. i was just turning twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow you without see us give us some other international headlines now this hour the search is underway for a hundred fifty people who are missing after their boat overturned in the mediterranean it happened about forty miles off the coast of the italian island of lampedusa that's become a major landing migrants for or from north africa it's thought that two hundred hundred migrants were crammed on board a vessel or forty seven people were found alive when the boat was rescued. along with running a 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 in the soil near where the water had been escaping meanwhile there is renewed fear of an explosion at the first reactor with hydrogen gas pressure building nitrogen it will be pumped into the plant as they try to tackle the problem of. the president nicolas sarkozy's governing conservative party has held a controversial debate on the practice of islam in secular fronts it comes a week before a ban on wearing a full face covering the veils in public takes effect the opposition described the meeting as an electoral ploy aimed at pandering to right wing voters ahead of next year's general election from the size of western europe's largest muslim population estimated at least five million. well 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 t.v. networks trying to cover it it's left to some u.s.

news channels short of cash after blowing much of their budgets he's honest reports there's criticism about how the money is being spent. it's a day when egyptian protests and 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 of tsunami 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 of growth could all raking news records my guess is that you're ok forcing u.s. 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 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 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 it enormous salaries you could hire a hundred or one hundred fifty actual reporters or do search 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 they view. as and up receiving 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 chatting over to these countries it's a little silly and we do 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 it 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 box for one has been caught cheating yet again precinct should do your bag 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 when the worst is over leaving us in the dark about what leads up to and what happens after the chaos as they see should i write t. new york. right up with headlines a few moments i will be after the business news with coverage.

hello and welcome to our business. the booming oil prices causing the russian government to revise its economic forecast for two thousand and eleven it now sees average prices for this year of one hundred five dollars a barrel instead of seventy five dollars this means the budget deficit will be much lower than previously forecast at below one percent of course the mastic product of an early expectations of three point six percent now taking a look at the oil market prices continue that growth and it concerns over supply from libya and rest of the middle east brant crude is carty trading below one hundred twenty three dollars per barrel while light sweet is around one hundred eight dollars that's out. how much steam shushing cost capital says there are other industries and sectors of russia's economy that could also benefit from increased oil prices. in addition to loosen the rules substantial domestic police who set the burden for especially those who use rubles through the

search for strength from reason loses a conscience and sleep because from those rules from a little coast. region if issues would be as i mentioned really being considered to be critical in conference which we've been doing courtrooms for sram few years recently released a new cold cruel sixth dreamgirls the fact that i was three infrastructure companies something june construction come from you stole some of the benefit this has been visible in the market from the post rigs and former retail consumer names would also do world news was verse two reasons here moving the export of split kitchen companies look so over all you know will be over. in the course of the second quarter pickups from quarter. grid you would be reciprocation and grid you shift of words google's terms for money and free will sue sectors. now let's have

a stock markets european stock markets are trading cautiously on wednesday with minus high across the board right gold resources up two point four percent after gold and silver futures touched new highs retailer marks and spencer is leading other thoughts a gaining four point seven percent after trading update banks are in the spotlight as wow on the dax commerzbank up one point eight percent after the bank that it will repay around fourteen point three billion euros of state aid by june and here in russia markets are trading higher as well the odds he has his bounce back from yesterday's losses up to almost one percent this hour why the market is gaining over point six percent most of the blue chips are trading in the black this hour in the seas let's look at some individual movers energy majors are in the black on strong oil prices look oil is up more than two percent. holy metal it is the top gaining on him isaac's help by rising gold price and shares are up around four percent also telecom is gaining more than three percent following its merger with

regional communication companies. precious metals have skyrocketed on a slide in the dollar and ongoing investors and not for safe haven assets gold is now at almost one thousand four hundred fifty nine dollars an ounce after it hit a second record in a row silvered bounced to a thirty one year high and is trading at around forty dollars an ounce. and that's all the business news for no good remember you can always find no stories just log on to a website that's ok dot com. wealthy

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