british. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy is a report on. the u.k. thrust itself to the forefront of protecting a libya citizens british lawmakers a rage over why the country sold millions of dollars of weapons to cuddle khadafi in the lead up to the unrest. the witch hunt against the priest finished pastor who's authorities months sacked for speaking out against one of the world's most notorious terrorists. and almost a year after the plane crash that killed poland's president kaczynski and ninety five officials in small moscow hands over new files to warsaw.

with r.t. live from moscow our welcome to the program. may now be behind the arming of the libyan rebels but lawmakers in london a few colleagues allowed weapons to be sold to the khadafy regime as recently as last year it's among several arab nations who bought firepower from the u.k. which later saw uprisings ministers accuse them of misjudging one of those guns would be timed on civilians as artie's or i might expect. security forces put down our rest of the middle east with rubber bullets take gas and other irritant down the mission and they've got plenty the u.k. was still selling arms to libya just months before colonel gadhafi turned them on his own people the government ministers approving a deal for sniper rifles bullets. there are very strict guidelines that

say where where it is likely the human rights violations might take place you're not supposed to solve the weapons i would say looking back through a number of credible sources including amnesty international but it was always likely always very very likely the equipment supplied to colonel gadhafi would and could be used in the brutal crackdown of the past of 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 ports 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 on 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 who said to him look you've been arming these dictators. for becker it's. them out of the weapons shooting of their own population and i was a really good time to go and try and sell them some. i can't imagine what damage. people say. in the hands of the people who are invading. 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 trying to stimulate we are providing the means by which the countries regimes can come down and democracy since the violence began more than a thousand people have been killed in libya and dozens killed and a thousand injured in bahrain circumstantial evidence gathered by reports also suggests much of that damage was done with british weapons when we underestimate it in the middle east the government scrambled to suspend export licenses but this report is evidence that it closed the stable door after the horse in 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 has to be seen but if 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 flowing with colonel gadhafi taking in his heels a string of high profile figures is speaking out in favor of the move bill clinton for instance has said he would be inclined to do it so far the u.k. has officially offered telecommunications equipment to the rebels but many suspect help of a different kind may be on the way to your emmett's r.t. london. we have more insight for you from antiwar activist john reese who you saw enormous power coming your way locals are right here are today. libyan oil is to go on sale from the opposition held areas of the country prices of crude have been over sensitive since the uprisings in the arab world started recently hitting a thirty month high and let's get more analysis on this from marty's business team and demetrius standing by dimitri what sort of impact do you think is the news of

the libyan oil expected to have on the markets well it seems right now the news over the turmoil in the middle east is not having that much of effect because there is of course the high risk premium which is price and therefore we're seeing prices of brant going up as much as one hundred twenty three dollars per barrel but it seems right now that central banks have a higher weight than opec does when it comes to oil prices because everyone is looking at the e.c.b. rate hike decision which is expected tomorrow an increase of twenty five basis points of the benchmark interest rate and therefore a lot of money is going into the euro out of the dollar and therefore all commodities nominated and all this going up in price. will be getting more from you in about fifteen minutes time thanks. a priest in finland faces being defrocked after describing one of the world's most wanted criminals as a terrorist and he was referring to talk whom are off the man behind the moscow metro and airport bombings among other crimes parties met the churchman whose words

are leaving him now accused of inciting religious hatred. yes there is nice maybe the last days these man wears his pastas color you hum while the real face is being defrocked for speaking out against i use the word word dearest they use words. not to morrow and his internet mouthpiece become a center the site was the first to publish the terrorists' words on the tax he claims the businessman school siege the netsky express mosque a matter of war means and most recently the idea that apples attack the website is banned in russia but in finland it enjoys quite a comfortable standing and not only on the internet but also in downtown helsinki the priest was the first openly say this was an outrage and the reaction was quick

to follow. this. e-mail it's hard to preserve through a paper. just what does the letters you slow the evil i don't. know if i'd. got my head away from i promise. you home all are we wanted police but instead ended up being prosecuted himself being sued for criticizing what finland calls illegally operating organization the same people who are promoting. russia they are promoting public opinion against more reclaiming more ease of use and. delivering racist statements or courses actions which is of course not the truth because maurice only consenting the internationally acknowledged. international terrorist in russia a manhunt is on for him are up and people close to him but in helsinki you may end

up dining next to his relatives but also more of who is their brother order call morrow. of rizzoli he lives in stockholm but no it is he doesn't live with all the families and that we can quite often. people walking down these quiet and prosperous streets may be unaware of the disturbing case of you him or 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. a troll it's only a step from extremist rhetoric to action and there is seldom a warning call with biting the minority a group. who wants to do terrible things. if.

there are only one thing the 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 sure and his children at risk is now considering a move to russia we have a double morally here do you feel that you even a democratic country i don't feel excluded aggression over our tea house in finland . so you can catch up on other news that you may have missed here so you can do so any time on our web site that's come up plenty of other views and analysis are waiting for you there as well for example israel allows nearly a thousand homes to be built in a disputed part of east jerusalem that's setting the stage for

a bumpy ride for the troubled palestinian peace talks. fifty years after your car and took mankind beyond my sphere for the first time the latest batch of space travelers make their way to the international space station you can follow their mission i thought t. dot com. now a panel of independent legal experts are now looking into the case. for more oil tycoon who's in jail over fraud and embezzlement president medvedev suggested russian foreign specialists should give their opinion on the most recent guilty verdict handed to the man who ran the oil giant. following this we can join them live and so what's the idea do you think of actually bringing in these experts. well this presidential human rights council comprises experts from here in russia as well as around the world they're going to be looking into the latest conviction of course he which took place in december of last year now this was the conviction

that saw his his jail time the time you spent in prison extended to twenty seventeen time and time again and those that support him and said that his imprisonment is politically motivated and president dmitry medvedev has been asked many times himself to comment on the only case and he said that it is his responsibility as the head of state it would be irresponsible for the problem to comment on it to a legal case to do with the weights that his voice would have out one way or the other he has said and acknowledged the holocaust case polarizes opinions. both here in russia and abroad concerning the imprisonment of because. he said that it would be interesting to see the dea views the findings of the expert panel to have all of the facts in front of them rather than just the opinions of people in the streets.

outside opinions here and some expert analysis but what do you think will likely be the first independent assessment of the case to. well we one thing we do know is we certainly won't be hearing it anytime soon he appealed against his conviction in december last year and until that appeal process is complete we can't see any of the the findings from this probe because that could impact upon their appeal process taking place what is certain is that this is one of if not the most high profile case in russian legal history now since his arrest in two thousand and three is being much interest in the holocaust because we're looking at ten years since that arrest took place in the first conviction taking place in two thousand and five full tax evasion and then this latest conviction and sentencing that took place in december which saw his jail time extended embezzlement. for money laundering now looks of people all around the world of course being many column

inches written and thousands if not hundreds of thousands of television reports comprised compiled all this case so many people very very keen to find out what this investigation will put forward right he's wrong about life in the heart of the russian capital thanks. given poland details documents into the plane crash that killed the polish president and much of the country's political elite took place last april the investigation is still underway on a separate washed. wednesday's ceremony at the prosecutor general's office marks the official hands you gave it to poland all knew him best because of material relating to the plane crash that killed the form of polish president lech kaczynski ninety five all those on the tenth of april last year and the importance of the ceremony lies within what it symbolizes the continued cooperation between russia and poland to a selfish water cools the tragic plane crash it was also

a significance in that it's within the forty you know volumes that were handed over today new fresh eye witness accounts who do that will take in his recently as january and so within those fourteen volumes the russian prosecutor general's office said that they attempted to onset ates requests for information that were put forward by the polish sunlight's continuing to symbolize the levels of cooperation of course poland has repeatedly called for more evidence to be handed over saying that it's with all unable to conclude it saved into penzance probe do you see insufficient evidence we have been expecting the polish sides 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 we anticipate aviation committee which will see a commission headed by prime minister got to admit

a person in which included aviation experts from russia poland and the united states deliver the results of its investigation on the twelfth of january and the commission of found that pilot's era was mostly to blame they say that the crew failed to respond in a timely thanks and poor from the ground it was solved to remove groups the plane to another airfield to use very cold weather conditions it also found that the crew came in so loud that on one altitudes and that they failed to adequately respond to . the warnings to all of the planes the safety systems and the commission also did say that the crew may have been put on very strong psychological pressure to land says no and the crew members were found to be in the cockpit at the time of landings the transcripts from the black box flight recorders show you said that the commander of this was in the cockpit at the time of landing under the international

response to the findings or part commission have mostly been seen except the bits a lot stronger people with colin say that question marks still remain they say that not enough has been done to investigate the actions of ground full staff at the airfield in the small dense could they have done more to prevent the plane from trying to land and of course the great irony in all this is that the reason why the one five four balance the sma let's just go from warsaw that day was too long you know i see it's stage in the russian polish relations all of board that plane which used to attend a commemorative event to mark. the massacre of money team forty one thousands of polish prisoners of war with killed coming still viewed as soldiers and today certainly does come just a few days before this coming weekend commemorative events which will more one year

on since the plane crash in the events to be attended by both presidents. i was supporting right now residents of. the home back bow being stormed by forces loyal to his rifle. incumbent presidents being locked up in his palace negotiating his departure from the country refused to cede power after losing that much disputed election last november tata is recognized internationally. president . followed saw hundreds of people killed and u.n. and french troops launched airstrikes as part of the mission to protect civilians. from visiting for democracy and cooperation in paris says they are pursuing their own goals. basically the crisis is crystallized around the rivalry between two men as you said in your report about poland is so we're tired of what is it is 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 people's conflicts we know that france is not neutral in this political crisis because france has said repeatedly and explicitly that it wants longer back though 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 nations intervention as in this case being used for explicitly political purposes. all right i'm just taking over twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital you would r.t. let's get to some other headlines from around the world now this our schools of

immigrants are feared dead after their boat capsized on route from to new zealand so you and it's hardly an island over one hundred fifty people were on the vessel which was caught in a rough sea and heavy winds while trying to escape the turmoil in north africa rescuers so far have managed to save forty seven they were just a few dozen miles from the lampedusa a tiny island that's been inundated with refugees in recent months. just unease emergency crews have managed to stop radioactive water from leaking into the pacific fukushima plant operator injected a chemical agent which has solidified the soil near where the water had been escaping meanwhile there's renewed fear of an explosion at the number one reactor as hydrogen pressure builds up. tomba tribesmen on a sort of philippine island have freed thirteen hostages eleven teachers a girl and a diver were held for six days in a jungle i doubt the kidnappers were demanding the release of

a tribal leader who was jailed for murder and kidnapping all of this during a long running their clan feud in the same area tribal conflicts are not uncommon in the southern philippines and often result in deadly violence or ransom kidnapping. in the trial of italian prime minister silvio berlusconi on allegations he paid for sex with an underage prostitute has been opened and adjourned there was tight security in milan as protesters and news crews swarmed outside the courthouse as the seven minute hearing took place so let's go he wasn't there he denies all the charges as well as are the claims in the three other trials lined up against him the latest case will reconvene on the main thirty. of the french presidency governing a conservative party has held a controversial debate on whether elements of islam are undermining of france's secular society next week the country's ban on the wearing a full face of males in public takes effect president sarkozy's are being accused

of trying to right wing voters as his popularity hits an all time low and with an election on the horizon france has western europe's largest muslim population estimated at over five million. for the business news the major is here. thanks rory the looming oil prices causing the russian government to revise its economic forecasts for twenty eleven and now sees the average world price for the year of one hundred five dollars per barrel instead of seventy five this means the budget deficit will be much lower than previously forecast at below one percent of the gross domestic product rather than the early expectations of free point six percent at the same time the country's g.d.p. forecast of four point two percent growth remains unchanged but if you get enough m.d.m. bank explains why the oil price is neutral or going to be the solution the

only of which is very significant for the economy grows is the capital flows the revenues created was ill growth in the past i can relate to deduce the study was asian one. means in this among all the revenue is neutral for recovery grows after the grossest we have an increase in the revenue to give this huge caveat all three here were neutral in pickens are going to go so it is a reflection of exactly the forecast of the g.d.p. for just a little. secular get the oil prices that we have right now and they continue to grow amid concerns over supply from libya and unrest in the middle east also the dollar is weakening on the global markets as the world anticipates a rate hike from the european central bank brant crude is over one hundred twenty two and a half dollars per barrel light sweet crude still fairing above one hundred eight dollars at this hour. accenture some coffee 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 there's a real substantial domestic police who are said to believe especially those who have removed as a rule the search for strength is a business occurrences and see calls from those. who will cause among major beneficiaries will be as i mentioned to really banking sector the telecom companies which has been doing quite well as bush has recently posted a call to her sixth round of dreamworld the factors i would say infrastructure companies something chill construction company is also a benefit this has been visible in the market and the post reads and from a retail course human names would also do world money it was very strong earlier this year giving the ex-wife could still catch up as well so overall you know the

overall we. see in the course of the second quarter to quarter. grade you would there reciprocation and gradual shift of large pools to show money in free will so sectors. as well move to the stock markets you start with europe they are trading cautiously wednesday with miners higher across the board that's ahead of the e.c.b. decision on whether they will raise interest rates or not raise of twenty five basis points is expected to come thursday wrangled resources is up two and a half percent after gold and silver features touch you guys retailer marks and spencer group is leading on the footsie gaining more than four percent after a trading day. here in russia markets are gaining in made day trading the r.t.s. up on forty two percent nice six point eight percent most blue chips are trading in the black south on course there's a second look at some of the individual shares energy majors are of course in the

black on the high up world price nucor that's gaining more than one percent volume of sours and on the. one of the biggest again is in the on the my six this is held by of course rising fuel prices up almost four percent and rose telecom is gaining one point four percent following its merger with regional communication company. precious metals have indeed sky rocketed on the slide in the dollar and ongoing investor demand for safe haven assets gold is at an all time high. at around forty nine hundred sixty one dollars per choice pounds silver vaster thirteen one a year high in this trading at around thirty nine dollars sixty eight cents an ounce. three percent inflation in russia in the next few years is a realistic goal according to some gay and accession from the high school of economics but only if the government pursues a more aggressive policy on prices russian government has been more aggressive the

targeting the inflation the decline three percent and all the plays all three percent of the target for the coming years this is possible to achieve because when you voters go down this novel nothing new under the old government has to change the school in d.c. or there is no more no police or gas for railways full of receipts you must work before calling all services after that the government we expect the inflation will go down the central bank will read this one proposal. join me in one hour's time i'll be here with an update on the latest a business news here on our next with headlines to stay with us.

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