british m.p.'s accuse the government of grave misjudgment over the selling of weapons to arab regimes are now using them against their own people. a priest in finland finds himself under attack for speaking out against chechen terrorists. and his terror supporters in helsinki. and the breaking of the news of breaking of the budget the us and networks count the cost of covering disasters the wall could still find the millions needed to pay their stuff. and government is to revise its economic forecasts for two thousand and eleven as oil prices rise that this means

the budget deficit will be much lower than previously forecast mean twenty minutes for more on that and other stories in our business program. this is our seed live from moscow how the u.k. is facing fresh criticism over arms sales to repressive regimes prior to the uprisings in the arab world reports that suggest the same weapons were used to crackdown on protesters and to kill civilians now comes as london is considering arming and libyan rebels to help them topple colonel gadhafi one of britain's of meno former customs lore and it has more. security forces put down our rest of the middle east with rubber bullets tear gas and all the irritant down munitions and they've got plenty of the u.k. was still selling arms to libya just for months before colonel gadhafi turned them

on his own people the government ministers approving a deal for sniper rifles bullets and take out. there are very strict guidelines that say where where it is likely that human rights violations might take place you're not supposed to sell their 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 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 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 promised office who said to them look you can organize the totals. for decades they've spent a certain amount of the weapons shooting at their own population and i was a really good time to go and try and sell them some. i can't imagine what. people say. in the hands of people who are invading bahrain and putting those 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 exactly the opposite of the hope of trying to stimulate and see we are providing the neat things which those 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 under arrest started it a bit least the government scrambled to suspend arms export licenses but this report is evidence that it closed the stable door long after the boston bolted 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 moves 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. . will bring you more thoughts from. and he had worked a wrist joint recently was featured in its reporting in just over an hour's time right here on the world of libyan rebels are preparing to restart crude oil exports as the first it sank arrives in the opposition held the eastern port of tobruk

petroleum is expected to go through cutter before it reaches the main importer the e.u. and according to reports oil hungry european states offer the rebels a lucrative deal with but century dangerous consequences not seen it on a bushel explains. a main use of libyan oil. however there is new all go on in libya and the e.u. representative here in brussels. only applied to the national all corporation the. energy company and all of the company's business continues as usual now there are concerns that. for all. in the region the un security council has imposed limbaugh goes on the import of weapons and it also raises questions about the motives of the coalition raising accusations

that its control of. the rebels. trying to have bases in the east of the country trying to infiltrate the rebels and of course among the leadership all of the rebels their own food the key allies of. the west really doesn't know either. their religion. now or you can follow other regular online updates on what's going on in libya on our twitter and facebook pages we're going to look right now our twitter stream is always running part of our team on the score we have correspondents our correspondents on the ground in libya are bringing you the first hand you witness accounts of the camp or the silly actions in the capital tripoli and how to look after it right there on the screen and of course if you go to prison officer in the opposition help manage gas and also chicago later videos on our. dot com slash r.t. . hour still to come here on our soaring cost of coverage.

the news organizations are crying because they're saying they're just spending their entire budget is gone by march but the u.s. media outlets and laid off hundreds of reporters. find out where all the money is going in just a few minutes. well russia has a number one outlaw chechen terrorists is also high up on the international most wanted list it seems that one over russia is a northern neighbors and interested in helping to bring him to justice it seems you're caught in a pattern of reports from finland where a priest has found himself at the center of a storm for speaking out against. your of these may be the last days these man where is his pastor's call are you home while or face is been defrocked priest speaking out against i use the word would be a terrorist use word. look to morrow and his internet mouthpiece become cost center

the site was the first to publish the terrorists' words on the tax he cleans his lawn school see the nasty express and all scum natural warming sea and most recently the my dear divert water tank the website is banned in russia but in finland it enjoys why is 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 hundred percent. what does the letters the slow the evil i don't stop the fight. they will cut my head away from work on wheels you one more we want to police but instead of being prosecuted himself being sued for criticizing what analysts

calls illegally oprah rating organization those same people who are promoting terrorism are going to be are promoting public opinion against more equal and more equal is a racist who is. there are lingering racist statements of. people of the chechens which is of course not the truth because maurice only representing the internationally opinion of. an international terrorist in russia a manhunt is on for a morrow and people close to him but in helsinki he manned up dining next to his relatives but also more of a crowd though. he lives in stockholm it is a live with all the families and we can quite often see people walking down these quiet and prosperous streets may be unaware of the disturbing case of

you one more the rate 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. after all it's only a step from extremist rhetoric to action and there is seldom a warning call with biting good for minority groups minority who want to do terrible things. if. there are only one. who where. 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 your 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 a democratic country i don't feel it's in the pressure over our t.v. helsinki finland. not to go has handed new documents over to the warsaw officials related to the polish presidential plane crash investigation the air disaster last april killed president lech kaczynski and most of the country's political elite all of this happened as they were on route to moral events in western russia parting ways alice said it has been watching. wednesday's ceremony at the prosecutor general's office marks the official hands of poland's old new investigative material relating to the plane crash that killed perform a polish president lech kaczynski in ninety five all those on the tenth of april of last year and the workers in proportion sold the ceremony lies within what it

symbolizes the continued cooperation between russia and poland to us selfish more pools that tragic plane crash it was also a significance in that within the fulci you know buildings that were handed a bit today new fresh eyewitness accounts to do that were taken his recently as january was repeatedly cooled full bore evidence to be handed over saying that it's been all unable to conclude it's a good independent probe to see insufficient evidence we have been expecting the polish sides she were released results of their own investigation on the tenth of april but they have now lost for a six month extension so we can expect the results of that probe in october will begin to state aviation committee which will see a commission headed by prime minister who said in which included aviation experts from russia poland and the united states said to look at the results of its investigation on the twelfth of january of the commission of found the pilot's era

was mostly to blame they say that the crew failed to respond in a timely fashion schools from brown for the songs to really reach the plane to another airfield was very poor weather conditions and the international response to the findings of commission has largely been seen except the last number of people with poland say the question marks still remain they say that not enough has been done to investigate the actions all round full still off at the airfield in this dense he politicians from both the polish and russian sides have been very keen to stress throughout this investigation. it's a process that promise six month stay out of the investigation and the improvement that we've seen in boston polish relations must continue. and said 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. of.

topics on a supporting now russian human rights council has started an independent investigation into the case so for more oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky russia's richest man he is currently behind bars for four and has appealed against his second prison sentence would now get more from us he's pretty high peter so. of course he has already been convicted by a russian court for most this investigation all about that. a lot of course he case was one of the most high profile in russian legal history he was the first president to be made get it was actually signed off approving this independent investigation into the trials over protocols and his business. to make sure that everything was done according to the rules she sells in five protocols he was convicted of fraud and tax evasion and just at the end of last year he also was convicted of the crimes these were open. money laundering and stealing billions

from the russian government as it stands at the moment he could be released from prison in twenty seventeen this probe will be looking into the both those trials and both of those. both of those convictions will be making sure that everything was done by the book the leader of that progress told us that they currently in the process of gathering together legal experts will be looking into the trials to make sure that they are all ok that he also said that the findings of the probe will be completely non-judicial they will have no impact upon the decisions made by the judge. and he also said that since the arms business partner feels against their convictions the results of the probe can't be made public until those of that appeal process has been completed so is not supplied any fair trial. over thank you. and

a series of planned terrorist attacks have been prevented in russia's north caucasus republic of korea according to the national anthem you terrorism committee three members of a terrorist organization were captured in the operation to homemade bombs from the three kilograms of t.n.t. were extracted by special forces one of those seized is suspected of attacking policemen in the region as well as being responsible for a fatal attack on the security forces in december last year. turning our attention to africa's ivory coast now where incumbent president compound has been stormed by supporters of his rival president elect allison you were caught up by bow is holed up in a bunker in abidjan and is still refusing to surrender he's been clinging on to power with brutal force ever since november's election you are no peacekeepers and you're supporting the french troops have stepped in to protect civilians as fighting escalated over recent weeks the death toll is estimated at nearly one

thousand on monday u.n. and french forces opened fire on baghdad was positions in the first military action and supporting works out of moscow meantime as a question to the move saying peacekeepers weren't authorized to take sides john walker from the institute for democracy and cooperation in paris says france is 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 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 a united nations intervention as in this case being used for explicitly political purposes. and that was i told laughlin from the institute for democracy and cooperation in paris were to remember those are plenty more happening on our website that's our team don't call. irresponsible actions of irreparable damage before that continues after the koran burning controversy by a us pastor we've got the latest analysis on our web site. and aiming for a baby boom with a population in decline politicians in moscow thinking over creative ways of persuading couples to start a family. and

. tomorrow just turning out twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow you with r.t. let's go to some other headlines now from around the world and a search is underway for one hundred fifty people who are missing after their boat overturned in the mediterranean talking about forty miles off the coast of the italian island of lampedusa that's become a major landing. from north africa it's thought that about two hundred migrants were crammed on board the vessel forty eight were found alive when the boat was rescued. a long running a leak of highly radioactive water into the pacific ocean from a chimpanzee fukushima nuclear plant has been stopped by the local operator tepco has injected a chemical agent which has solidified the soil near the water escaping meanwhile there's a renewed fear of an explosion at the first reactor with a hydrogen gas pressure building that will be pumped into the plant as they try to

tackle the problem. and the president nicolas sarkozy's governing conservative party has held a controversial debate on the practice of islam in a secular france it comes a week before a ban on wearing full face covering veils in public takes effect the opposition described the meeting us in the electoral process and it pandering to right wing voters ahead of next year's general election france has 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 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 but it's all to use anastasio going to reports there's some criticism about how the money has been spent. today when egyptian protesters news pundits are teleporting almost the speed

of light from the safety of their news desks to far away and jean jurist police's sirens are now going off led by their journalistic colleagues and big bucks to be made and spent egypt tunisia libya you know world old health care us japan in a tremor of tsunami and earthquakes i want to hear of a certain caution for you here disasters 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 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 hundred half million dollars in just one day in japan well 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 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 the viewer. yes 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 top notch news coverage to pay the enormous salaries to the 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 and we didn't 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 you worship bucks for one has 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 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 not and certainly saves a buck or two it can cover up the fact that crews check in for disaster jet back when the worst is over leaving viewers in the dark about what leads up to and what happens after the chaos as they say intricate r r t new york. opera is here with its business news high corrina hello racer it seems that the russian markets are doing well today what are some of the shows that are gaining at this point or shares of energy companies as you say has trading quite are trading quite well as the price of oil is quite high i will get some figures just a moment about the bullying oil price is causing the us government to revise its economic forecast for two thousand and eleven and now sees as. bridge oil prices for the year 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 the master product rather than the early expectations of three point six percent at the same time the country's g.d.p. forecasts for four point two percent remains unchanged and if you get an r. and d. and back its take on. the oil price is neutral or going to go see if we only would which is a very significant thing for the economy grows is the capital flows in the revenues created was overpriced in the past i can relate it to the solution. means a vis simone's revenue is neutral for government grows after the greatest we have a increase in for revenue going to give the risk of abuse capital of the here when you drove into a country cannot go so it is reflected exactly in the forecast for the g.d.p. for the liver. sic look at how the oil is trading today prices continue their growth amid concerns over supply from libya and unrest in the middle east brant

crude is currently trading below one hundred twenty three dollars per barrel and light sweet is around one hundred and eight dollars. might seem sheinkopf capital says there are other industries and sectors of russia's economy that could also benefit from increased oil prices. in addition to girls' names as ruth substantial domestic police who suitability especially those who give the rules as a rule the search for strength from visit is a commissions and see quotes from those who are similar to the legal cause but most major beneficiaries will be as i mentioned already being considered for anything you can come when you switch has been doing courtrooms pushing them for years recently. to or six term from a dreamworld factors i would say infrastructure company or something. construction company is also the benefit of this has been visible in the market

from the post rigs and former retail christian names would also do world my needs was very strong reasons here moving to explore it could still come for the book so overall you know the overall. theme of the course of the second quarter to quarter of the grid you diversification and gradual shift of large pools to show money in free will so sectors. they collect at the stock market's performance europe is trading cautiously on wednesday with minus high across the board randgold resources up two point four percent after gold and silver futures touched new highs retailer marks and spencer group is leading other footsie gaining four point seven percent after a trading update banks are in the spotlight as well although dax cover spiked up nearly two percent after the bank said over pay around fourteen point three billion euros of state aid i guess. and here in russia markets are gaining already in

midday trading the r.t.s. is up almost one percent bisects is getting over half percent most of the blue chips are trading in the black this hour on both the indices. of both the boys as let's take a look at some individuals movers energy majors are in the black strong price look oil is up more than two percent point level is among the top game. helped by rising gold prize shares are up around four percent also ross telecom is going to have percent following its merger with regional communications companies. imes precious metals have skyrocketed on a slide in the dollar and ongoing investor the nod for safe haven assets going to his at all times high now cost around one thousand four hundred sixty dollars an ounce silver advanced to thirty one year high and is trading at around forty dollars an ounce. so for me this hour joined me to have a denko and more business news here.