as the u.k. thrusts itself to the forefront of protecting libyan citizens british lawmakers are already huge over why the country sold millions of dollars of profit. in the lead up to beyond. the witch hunt against a priest finished past these authorities once sacked for speaking out against one of the world's most notorious terrorists but if. i don't most of year after the plane crash that killed poland's president kaczynski that night my father's in small screen moscow hands over new files to warsaw. russia

has officially upped its forecast of crude prices from seventy five to one hundred five dollars per barrel for the year this needs a much smaller budget deficit find out more than twenty minutes time now this is. just after five pm here in a moscow you with hearts he. may be behind on the libyan rebels but lawmakers in london a few colleagues allow the weapons to be sold to the regime as recently as last year it's among several arab nations who report fire from the u.k. which later saw uprisings the ministers accuse them of misjudging whether those guns would be turned on the civilians and it explains. security forces put down on rest of the middle east with rubber bullets tear gas and other irritant

down munition and they've got plenty of the u.k. was still selling arms to libya just four months before colonel gadhafi turned them on his own people with government ministers approving a deal for sniper rifles bullets and. there are very strict guidelines that say where where it is likely rights violations might take place you're not supposed to sell the weapons and i would say looking back through a number of credible sources including amnesty international but it was always likely always very very likely the equipment supplied to colonel gadhafi would and could be used in the brutal crackdown of protesters arms exports is big business in the u.k. valued at nearly twelve billion dollars in two thousand and nine now a highly critical report by m.p.'s exposes the scale of u.k. arms sales to some of the world's most brutal regimes the libyan export licenses were some of the most valuable according to the reports the u.k.

sold nearly three hundred fifty million dollars worth of arms there in the year leading up to september two thousand and ten in the same year egypt 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 arms export licenses to the region have now been hastily revoked but still days into unrest in cairo u.k. prime minister david cameron led to junkets to the middle east to the wares of british arms dealers i can't imagine who it was in the prime minister's office and so time look. when these dictators. for decades they've spent a certain amount of the weaponry that you gave them shooting up their own population and there was a really good time to go and try and sell them some. i can't imagine what damage

when people see british weaponry in the hands of the people who are invading. 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 you see this occur it's a risk to the 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 what we're trying to stimulate them and see we are providing the means by which those countries regimes can come tell them 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 about damage was done with british weapons when the un rest started it a bit at least the government scrambled to suspend export licenses but this report

is evidence that it closed the stable door after the force 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 it remains to be seen whether these downing 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. is officially off telecommunications equipment to the rebels but many suspect help of a different kind may be on the way to your emirates r.t. london. we have more insight for you from the antiwar activist. or emirates reporter that's coming your way in just over an hour's time right here. well russia

insists it will not participate in any military operations to settle the conflicts in north africa but president medvedev says the country will abide by the un security council's decisions. money is what it was that washed or we assume that a number of ongoing conflicts should be settled peacefully without the participation of army from nations and on the basis of international mediation in any case which it does not see its participation in military operations that are now taking place in this rather complex regional with each will proceed from this in pursuing our foreign policy or making domestic decisions sticking to the earlier decisions by the un security council but he scored. it with r.t. now a priest in finland faces being defrocked after describing one of the world's most wanted criminals as a terrorist police are questioning the pastor after his references to doc will not off the man behind the moscow metro and airport bombings among other crimes. at the

church a man whose words are leaving him accused of inciting religious hatred. yes these may be the last days these man wears his pastor's color you hum lawlor faces been defrocked priest speaking out against i use the word word dearest use word president not to morrow and his internet mouthpiece become a central site was the first to publish the terrorists' words on the tax and claims that his land school siege the nab ski express mosque a matter of war means and most recently the dim idea divert our ports 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 guy. it's hard to preserve. the artist what does the letters he's lowville the evil i don't. know five ok so there are more here away from what's on the walls you handle or we want to police but instead and are being prosecuted himself been see you for criticizing what finland calls a legally operating organization and the same people who are promoting terrorism against russia they are promoting public opinion against mori. remembering racist statements about. the church and which is of course what the truth maurice all you represent internationally acknowledged. as an international terrorist in russia and manhunt is on for a morrow and people close to him and in helsinki you may end up dining next to his

relatives but also more of with your brother or morrow. overselling he lives in stockholm but no it is he doesn't live with all the families and we can met him quite often we have seen people walking down these quiet and prosperous streets maybe unaware of the disturbing case of you harm or the rain they're used to thinking of their country as fair and politically correct but 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 biting are good for minority ocurred brought minority who want to do

terrible things. disturbing. if. there are only one. who went. there is quite a team after the pastor now finland's prosecutor's office the church and some of the world's most determined terrorists you holloway has already changed address and divorced his wife to avoid putting your and his children at risk his now considering and move to russia we have a double morally do you feel that you've even a democratic country i don't feel it's in a virtue of our t.v. house in finland. now you can always catch up on the news you may have missed any time you want it dot com that's a plenty of other views and analysis so waiting for you there as well including israel allows nearly a thousand homes to be built in a disputed part of east jerusalem setting the stage for a bumpy ride with the trouble that palestinian peace talks. and fifty years after

you're going to mankind beyond earth's atmosphere for the first time the latest batch of space travelers make their way to the international space station you can follow their mission twenty four seven knots he thought. now a panel of independent legal experts are now looking into the case of mikhail khodorkovsky for more oil tycoon who's in jail over fraud and embezzlement president medvedev suggested that russian and foreign specialists should give their opinion on the most recent guilty verdict and it's the man who ran the oil giant if you cross peter out of and i was following this for r.t. . the presidential human rights council comprises legal experts from here in russia as well as abroad they'll be looking into the latest conviction against you. and his business partner. would see the jail time he could spend in jail extended

up to possibly twenty seventeenth time and time again the holocaust and those that support him is said that his imprisonment is politically motivated and president dmitri medvedev has been asked many times himself to comment on the on the of the holocaust the case and he said that it isn't his responsibility as the head of state it would be irresponsible for from him to comment on it it would be to a legal case to do with the with the rates that his voice would have out one way or the other he has said this and acknowledged that the holocaust the case polarizes opinions both here in russia arms abroad concerning the imprisonment all over because of the full speech and he said that it would be interesting to see the the views the findings of the expert panel that have all of the facts in front of them rather than just the pinions of people in the streets 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 stuff could impact upon

a fifth appeal process taking place but what is certain is that this is one of if not the most high profile case russian legal history since his arrest in two thousand and three there's been much interest in the holocaust really ten years since that arrest took place and the first conviction taking place in two thousand and five for fraud and tax evasion and then this latest conviction and sentencing that took place in december which saw his jail time extended investment. for money laundering. looks of people all around the world of course being many column inches written and thousands of the hundreds of thousands of tell. well it's comprised of compiled all of this case so many people very very keen to find out what this investigation will put forward. i was a reporting there you are without seeing the russian prosecutor's office has given poland new details we're talking winds into the plane crash that killed the polish

president and much of the country's political elite the investigations are still underway into the tragedy in western russia last april he's out of syria watched. the importance of the ceremony lies with what it symbolizes the continued cooperation between russia and poland two s selfish water cools the tragic plane crash it was also a significance in that within the fourteen volumes that were handed over today new fresh eyewitness accounts that were taken his recently as january and so within those three machine volumes the russian prosecutor general's office said that they attempted to onset ates requests for information that were put forward by the pows some continuing to symbolize the levels of cooperation of course poland has repeatedly called full more evidence to be handed a vest saying that it's been all unable to conclude it's owed independent probe you

seem 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 the interstate aviation committee which was a commission headed by prime minister got the image of hussein which included aviation experts from poland and the united states to live with the results of its investigation on the twelve january and the commission of found the pilot's era was mostly to blame they say that if a crew failed to respond in a timely function to poor from the ground for the songs to remove groups the plane to another airfield was very cold weather conditions it also found that the crew came into the lounge room and moved on to choose and that they failed to adequately respond to the warnings of the planes the safety systems at the commission

also did say that the crew may have been put on a very strong psychological pressure to land says no other crew members were found to be in the cockpit. at the time of landings the transcript from the black box flight recorders so that the commander of the polish air force was in the cockpit at the time of landing and the international response to the findings on that commission has not been seen except a loss on people within the polling say the question marks still remain they say that not enough has been done to investigate the actions of ground full staff at the airfield in smolensk could they have done more to prevent the plane from trying to land and today so does come just a few days before this coming weekend's commemorative events which will mark one year on since that plane crash in the events to be attended by both presidents.

residents of ivory coast's embattled who. has been stormed by forces loyal to his rival. incumbent president sgrena locked up in his palace negotiating his departure from the country refused to senior power after losing that much disputed election last november war tara is a recognized internationally as the legitimate president the violent clashes which followed saw hundreds of people killed. french troops launched airstrikes as part of a mission to protect civilians from the institute for democracy and cooperation in paris says they are pursuing their own goal. basically the crisis is crystallized around the rivalry between two men as you said in your report about mr ouattara what is it what business is it of the west in my view not at all and yet the west in this case france by means of the united nations has got into the habit of

intervening systematically you know other peoples conflicts we know that france is not neutral in this political crisis because france has said repeatedly and the. explicitly that it wants not on the back of both 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 now is ever going to believe that a 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. you would r.t. it's good to have your company today and. other world news headlines now this hour and scores of immigrants are feared dead after their boat capsized on route from.

tally an island over one hundred fifty people were on the vessel which was caught in a rough sea in heavy winds while trying to escape the turmoil in north africa rescuers have so far managed to say forty seven their work they were just a few dozen miles from a. tiny island that's been inundated with refugees in recent months. japanese or go to sea crews have managed to stop radioactive water from leaking into the pacific fukushima plant operator injected a chemical agent which was solidify the soil near where the water had been escaping engineers had been a pumping thousands of tons of low level radioactive water into the ocean during attempts to cool the reactors. at the trial of italian prime minister silvio berlusconi are 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 but it's

going what's not there and he denies the charges as well as all the claims in three other trials lined up against in the latest case will reconvene on a may first. from the chain over adults across the arab world to natural disasters and potential nuclear meltdown the past few months have been a turbulent time across the globe and for the t.v. networks as well trying to cover them it's left some u.s. news channels short of cash and as artie's i see a church going to reports there's criticism over how the money is being spent. if protester knew hundreds are teleporting almost 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 in a world full of chaos japan in a tremor up to nami and earthquakes i want to err on the surge of 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 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 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 current 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 a 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 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 were. yes and the preceding there is no doubt there 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 jerry go over to these countries it's

a little silly and 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 dined 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 the slogan 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 us in the dark about what leads up to and what

happens after the chaos as they see. new york. back with the headlines in just a few minutes time. of the business update with dmitri. thanks for the very well prices causing the russian government to revise its economic forecast from twenty eleven and now sees the average world price for this year of one hundred five dollars a barrel instead of said. the five dollars this means the budget deficit will be much lower than previously forecast or below one percent of the gross domestic product rather than the expectation of three point six percent at the same time the country's in g.d.p. growth forecast of four point two percent remains unchanged i read you given up m.d.m. bank explains why. the oil price is neutral or going to go solution the only of which is very significant for the economy grows is the capital flows

between the revenues created was overpriced in the past i can relate it into the study decision for me. means that this amount of revenue is new to overcome or grows after the grossest we have an increase in full revenue to give this huge capital feel to hear when you drove in to configure the vehicles so it is reflected exactly in the forecast of the g.d.p. for just a little. second of the oil market as it stands right now prices are continuing their growth brant is just below one hundred twenty three dollars a barrel this is all on concerns over supply from libya and the rest of middle east and also on the dollar weakening on the global markets against the euro notably as the world anticipates a rate hike from the european central bank. and actually. capital says there are other industries and sectors of russia's economy that could

also benefit from increased oil prices. in addition tone gas names substantial domestic plays course at the benefit especially those who have revenues and roubles as a rule set to strengthen his elisa's occurrences and say a quote from those. old will cause. most major many fissures will be as i mentioned already a banking sector the telecom companies which has been doing quite a sham fear has recently lost a nickel too was six times about three miles in fact as i would say infrastructure company is something film construction company is also set the benefit that has been visible in the market in the past few weeks and form a retail consumer names would also the world needs was very strong earlier this year briefing the ex-wife of start catching up as well so overall you know the

overall we hope is that in the same the course of the second quarter perhaps through quarter will be a great deal better reciprocation and gradual shift of large pools commercial money in free will still sectors. i plan to move to the stock markets european stock markets are trading cautiously wednesday with mine is the high over of the blue about the head of the c.b.s. decision yet again on thursday wrangled resources it's up more than two percent after called the silver futures touch new highs we'll look at that later retailer marks and spencer group is leading on the footsie gaining more than four percent after a trading upgrade. their russian markets are gaining in midday training actually one hour fifteen minutes left to go in the session the r.t.s. is up more than one percent my sex office sent those blue chips are trading in the black this hour on both courses second look at those stocks down as you majors are in the black of course on the strong well priced new coral up one point two percent

colleen that's our one of the strongest to the stocks today four and a half percent on the high and gold price and also teller call me is gaining one point five percent as its merger competes with regional communication companies precious metals have skyrocketed on the slide in the gold and ongoing investor good mental safe haven assets gold is now at an all time high of fourteen hundred fifty nine and nine see this out silver bronze so you are thirty one year high in this trading around thirty nine dollars sixty one cents prochoice alex. said we will be back next hour with rudy's next we have one thing stay with us here.

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