twenty years ago or just country. disintegrates it. was how did it turn. into the church began in germany. where did it take. the witch hunt against about priest to finish pastor who's want zapped for a speaking out against one of the world's most notorious terrorists. as if the u.k. thrust itself to the forefront of protecting livia's citizens british lawmakers the rage over why the country sold millions of dollars of weapons to cut off a daffy in the lead up to the unrest. almost a year after the plane crash that killed poland's president and ninety five others in small events moscow hands over new files to warsaw. held by

a stronger rule and of course stronger oil prices russian markets managed a stronger wednesday session the r.c.s. gaining one percent ninety six point six percent join me in twenty minutes time for . you with r.t. live from moscow now a priest in finland faces being a defrocked after describing that one of the world's most wanted criminals as a terrorist police are questioning the pastor after his references to. the man behind the moscow metro bombings and airport blasts among other crimes. met the churchmen whose words are leaving him accused of inciting religious hatred. these may be the last days this man wears his pastas color you have louis faces being difficult. speaking out against i use the word terrorist to use word.

no kumar and his internet mouth piece become a center the site was the first to publish the terrorists' words on the attacks he claims that his land school siege the nafs ski express and also the matter of war means and most recently the idea of a water tank 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 house in cape the priest was the first openly say this was an outrage and the reaction was quick to follow i get this guy. it's a hundred percent through a paper bag as the rest what does the letters is a load of evil i don't stop to fight ok. got my head away from wife on the heels you home all are we want to police but instead ended up

being prosecuted himself being sued for criticizing got finland calls illegally oh prating organization the same people who are promoting. russia they are promoting public opinion against a claim of a more easily researched always. resisting. caucasus people of the tensions which is of course not the truth because maurice only represent 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. with their brother. overselling he lives in a store called blood no it is he doesn't live with. him quite often you see.

people walking down these quiet and prosperous streets maybe unaware of the disturbing case of you harm or larry 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 of 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 by being good for a minority group strong minority who want to do terrible things. if. there are only one thing the where. 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 home all the way has already changed address and divorced his wife to avoid putting sure and his children at risk his now considering a move to russia we have a couple more all here do you feel that you even a democratic country i don't feel it's in the direction of our tea house in key finland so we're getting reports right now that are you hamare were summoned to a police station after we broadcast this story closely following developments and with the laureus case and i will keep you updated as the events unfold. operation may now be behind arming the libyan rebels but lawmakers in london a furious of their colleagues allowed weapons to be sold to the gadhafi regime as recently as last year it's among several arab nations who bought firepower from the u.k. which later saw uprisings other ministers accuse them of misjudging whether those guns will be turned on civilians as r.t. as laurette expands. security forces put down on rest in the middle east with

rubber bullets tear gas and other irritant ammunition and they've got plenty the u.k. was still selling arms to libya just poor months before colonel gadhafi turned them on his own people with government ministers approving a deal for sniper rifles bullets and tear gas. there are very strict set of guidelines that say where where it is likely that human rights violations might say plates for not supposed to sell their 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 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 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 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 minutes. to david cameron led a 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 him look you can organise the quotas. for. the most of the work you gave them shooting up 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 people who are invading bahrain and putting down 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 so exactly the opposite effect of trying to stimulate to see we are providing and meet 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 on rest started a bit least the government scrambled to suspend export licenses but this report is

evidence that it pleased the stable door after the falls to both states 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 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. feels 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 off the telecommunications equipment to the rebels but many suspect help of a different kind may be on the way to nowhere and it's london. and we have more insight for you from antiwar activists drawn into soaring or emirates reporter

that's coming your way you know just over an hour's time. but russia insists it will not participate in any military operations to settle the conflicts in africa but president medvedev says the country will abide by the un security council's decisions. we assume that a number of ongoing conflicts should be settled peacefully without the participation of army formations and on the basis of international mediation and any case does not see its participation in military operations that are now taking place in this rather complex region but we proceed from this in pursuing our foreign policy or making domestic decisions both sticking to the earlier decisions by the un security council. and still have for you this hour here on r.t. how the world under folding the conflicts and tragedies are leaving america's newsrooms feeling the pinch of all but blown their budgets to keep the coverage

rolling but the money's not being of swallowed up by the journalism find out where it's going. bust russia hands over to poland tranche of documents relating to the fatal crash was killed not just the country's political elite. but independent legal experts are now looking into the case of. the former oil tycoon who's in jail the fraud and embezzlement president medvedev suggested that russian and foreign specialists should give their opinion on the most recent guilty verdict handed to the man who ran the oil giant you cos it are all about is following the story. the presidential human rights council comprises legal experts from here in russia as well as abroad and they'll be looking into the latest conviction against you. and his business partner. would see the soul the jail time the amount of time he could spend in jail extended up to possibly twenty

seventeen time and time again the holocaust he 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 waste that his voice would have out one way or the other though he has said that he can acknowledge that the holocaust the case polarizes opinions both here in russia and the broad concerning the imprisonment of healthy how to proceed and he said that it would be interesting to see the the views the findings of the expert panel that household of the facts in front of them rather than just the opinions of people in the street because 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 i'd russian legal history since his arrest in two thousand and three there's been much interest in the holocaust because we're looking at ten years since that arrest took place and the first conviction taking place in two thousand and five ball rolling tax evasion and then this latest conviction and sentencing that took place in december which saw his jail time extended that was full and best moments. for money laundering will be lots of people all around the world of course is the many column inches written and thousands of not hundreds of thousands of tell. comprised of compiled all of this case so many people very very keen to find out this investigation will put forward. you with r.t. now a russian prosecutor's office has given poland new details documents into the plane crash that killed the polish president and much of the country's political elite

the investigation is still underway into the tragedy in western russia last april after use on a separate washed. the importance of the ceremony lies within what it symbolizes the continued cooperation between russia and poland two s selfish more schools the tragic plane crash it was also a significance in that within the forty you know volumes that were handed over today new fresh only witness accounts who did that was taken his recently as january and so within those through cian volumes the russian prosecutor general's office said that they attempted to on sept eighth requests for information that were put forward by the produce always continuing to symbolize the levels of cooperation and of course poland has repeatedly pool full more evidence to be handed a vest saying that it's with all unable to conclude it so independent probe do you

see insufficient evidence we had been expecting the polish sides she released the results of their own 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 the interstate aviation committee which will see a commission headed by prime minister about the image of hussein which included aviation experts from russia poland and the united states to live with the results of its investigation on the twelfth of january and the commission of found that pilot's era was mostly to play bass a bit of the crew failed to respond in a timely fashion supporters from the ground he was so moved to remove groups that claim to know the airfield two story cold weather conditions and also you found that the crew came in so loud that ramon moved to altitude and that they failed to adequately respond the warnings to all of the planes the safety systems that the commission also with did say that the crew may have been put on very strong the

psychological pressure to land says no the crew members were found to be in the cockpit. at the time of landings the transcript from the black box flight recorder is so use it that the commander of the polish air force was in the cockpit at the time all frantic and said the international response to the findings all part commission has mostly been seen except a lot of people with colin say that it's bush tomorrow it's still remain they say that not so nothing's been done to investigate the actions all the ground full stuff that yes fills in this dense could they have done more to prevent the plane from trying to land and so 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. reporting right there you can always catch up on news you may have missed any

time at all to dot com there's plenty of other views and analysis are waiting for you there as well including israel that allows nearly a thousand homes to be built in a disputed part of east jerusalem it's setting the stage for a bumpy ride for the troubled palestinian peace talks. and fifty years after your current took beyond earth's atmosphere for the first time the latest batch of space travelers make their way to the international space station we're going to follow their mission twenty four seven dot com. time now to bring you some of the world's other main news headlines and forces closed to ivory coast incumbent leader have stormed the presidential palace where he's holed up by boat has been negotiating his departure from the country after spending months refusing to quit after last november's disputed election you saw it was led by supporters of the widely accepted new president. french troops launched airstrikes part of their

mission to protect civilians. schools of immigrants are fear. dead after their boat capsized on route from a to z o two in a tally an island over two hundred people were on the vessel which was caught in rough seas and heavy winds while trying to escape a charm all in north africa rescuers have so far managed to save forty seven people but also recovered several bodies from the sea they were just a few dozen miles from douceur it's a tiny island that's been inundated with refugees in recent months. japanese emergency crews have managed to stop radioactive water from leaking into the pacific the fukushima plant operator injected a chemical agent which has solidified of the soil near where the water had been escaping engineers have been pumping thousands of tons of low level radioactive water into the ocean during attempts to cool the reactors. for the trial of italian

prime minister silvio berlusconi on allegations he paid for sex with an underage prostitute that's been opened and adjourned it was a tighter security in milan as protesters and news crews swarmed outside the courthouse as the seven minute hearing took place well as goalie wasn't there and denies the charges as well as all the claims in the three other trials lined up against him the latest case will reconvene on may the thirty first. tribesmen on a sort of philippine island have created thirteen hostages eleven a teachers a girl and a diver were held for six days and i juggle hideout as we're demanding the release of a tribal leader who was jailed for murdering kidnap all of this during a long running feud in the same area tribal conflicts are not uncommon in the southern philippines often result in violence or ransom kidnappings. but 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 the t.v. networks trying to cover them it's left somewhat u.s. and news channels rather short of cash but as our team is on a study a child kind of reports there's criticism over how the money is being spent today in protest and news pundits are teleporting almost to proceed of light from the safety of their news desks to far away and dangerous places sirens are going off all led by their journalistic callings and big bucks to be made and spent egypt tunisia libya in a world full of chaos japan in a tremor after nami and earthquakes i want to err on the side of caution for you here because asters exploding around the world one after the other piece past months of broken all breaking news records my guess is that you're ok forcing u.s. networks to cough on they catch the news organizations are crying because they're

saying it is spending their entire budget is gone by march their whole annual budget for covering emergencies in 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 a week there and you. 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 one hundred fifty actual reporters or do search but instead most networks have been shutting down four and 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 their viewers end 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 jetting over to these countries it's a little silly ben wedeman 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's really

told me who these rebels are they don't seem to know though c.n.n. got to enjoy the highest rating since obama's inauguration after several months of dying do you worship bucks for one has been caught cheating yet again please think should we have egg man a local nightclub on one map with japan's nuclear reactors as well as going so far as to call new york's times square with the lion king ad chiros to read. square in its news coverage in fear of being out heated by others t.v. networks have to be there or be square the wrong square that is and while this is not good certainly cvs a buck or two it can cover up the fact that crews jet 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 and. you are. just a few minutes from the present crosstalk question but in terms of foreign policy

and whether it helps or hinders countries it affects first i mean to say about the business. the booming oil prices causing the russian government to revise its economic forecasts for this year and now sees an average world price for the year of around a hundred five dollars per instead of seventy five dollars this means the budget deficit will be much lower than previously forecast up and over one percent of the gross domestic product rather than the expectations of three point six percent at the same time the country's g.d.p. for cost of four point two percent growth remains unchanged i leave you going to the bank explains why. the oil price is neutral or going to go somewhere should be the only of which is very significant for the economy grows is the capital will be the revenues created was ill grace in the past i can relate it into the study

decision one of. the reason this amount of reading your book is neutral for recovery goes after the greatest we have an increase in for revenue down together this huge capital of the world to have a neutral index funds are going up it will say it is reflective exactly in the forecast of the g.d.p. for just selling the level. of the oil market right now prices the fed's another three months for showing us oil supplies and expect them to tell us great for the supporting market in them with continued concerns about undressed and north africa and in the middle east but we've seen in the past our prices easing up brant crude is hundred twenty two fifty three at the moment light sweet still about one hundred eight and a half so just a graph of a quarter of a percent. actually interesting cough it would also capital says certain industries and sectors of russia's economy that could also benefit from increased oil prices

in addition to. the substantial domestic police burden from the bushies those who are really in the same room as rule the super strength is a reason is a conscious and see call from those. who will cause. among the major beneficiaries will be as i mentioned to really banking sector the telecom companies which has been doing quantiles beacham tears recently released a new called clear we're six down from a dream by the fact as i was saying for a structure company is something children a construction company is also some benefit that has been visible in the market from the past few weeks before a retail course human names would also the world. needs was very strong here is this here good thing good exploitive companies work through you know the who was of the course of the second called the. greedy with their reciprocation and greed

you shift of words google distribution money and free will still sectors. figure to the markets now u.s. stocks edging higher against the backdrop of rally euro and strong and expected german manufacturing rules among top gave us this go systems and american express moving i would say europe now is trading was quite cautious on wednesday night is higher across the board that's easy decision on whether it will raise interest rates on first they wrangled resources up three point two percent after gold and silver futures touch new highs retailer marks and spencer group is one of the top innocent footsie up six point six percent here in russia markets ended wednesday's session on a positive note reality is getting one percent my six point six percent there was a rally pretty much across the board all blue chips and gaining a secular in more detail energy majors were given one strong well priced lukoil up well almost two percent there polymaths all up more than four percent on high gold

prices was up almost two and a half percent following its merger with regional communication companies here's nigel stein from a community bank. will stocks are stronger mostly because of the improvement in oil prices with oil hitting one hundred twenty two dollars a barrel the silver companies are probably matal. are both up more than four percent because underlying silver prices are up strongly against hitting new record highs we saw weaknesses in x five the retail company on speculation of the company mean merged with a global retail giant in a move which would dilute the company's exposure to the fast growing russian consumer market. headlines are next nazi with reuters stay with us for that.

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