a priest in finland has been questioned by police just hours after our t.v. broadcast the story of how he faces the sack for speaking out against dr one of the world's most notorious terrorists. as the u.k. france itself in the forefront of protecting libyan citizens british lawmakers rage over why the country sold millions of dollars of weapons to colonel gadhafi in the lead up to the unrest. and overseer of the plane crash that killed poland's president kaczynski and ninety five others in western russia moscow hands over new

files to warsaw. now russia's officially upgraded its oil forecast from seventy five to one hundred five dollars per barrel for this year and it will effectively need a much smaller deficit of the budget find out more now business will sit around twenty two bit some. international news live from our studios here in central moscow this is our teachers past ten pm here and nine pm in finland where a priest faces being defrocked after describing one of the world's most wanted criminals a terrorist police have questioned the pastor after his references to the more of a man behind the moscow metro an airport bombings among other crimes. the church from his words leaving him accused of inciting religious hatred. yes you're in

these may be the last days these man wears his pastor's color and you hum waller faces being defrocked priest speaking out against i use the word word here east word president nakumatt of and his internet mouthpiece becomes cost center this site was the first to publish the terrorists' words on the attacks he claims the business school siege the netsky express mosque a matter of war means and most recently the dumb idea davar was 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 through a paper and i guess there was this what does the letter say is a load of the evil i don't. know five ok so there are more here

away from work on the deals you who are more we want to police but in stand and as i've been prosecuted himself been sued for criticizing what finland calls a legally operating organization and the same people who are promoting. public opinion locals more equally morally he is a racist who is. racist the. people of the church and which is of course not the truth of mores all the same thing internationally a college opinion of. an international terrorist in russia and manhunt is on for him are up and people close to him but in helsinki you may end up dining next to his relatives or more of brother order cool morrow. lives in

stockholm. and we can. see 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 say 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 we're providing a good for a minority of bird minority who want to do terrible things. if. there are so many. who were but. there is quite

a team after the pasta now finland's prosecutor's office the church and some of the world's most determined terrorists you home all the way has already changed her dress and divorced his wife to avoid putting sure and his children at risk is now considering a move to russia we have a double moral if you do feel that you leave in a democratic country i don't feel it's in a crash over our tea house in key finland. you have a lorry was summoned to a police station after our t.v. broadcast that report before being released without charge. cold not ok who analyzes global terrorism a conflict told r.t. that by allowing extremist websites european countries are given a green light to terrorists europe doesn't understand that most of the open country doesn't understand that it's actually a link between terrorist action and there was progress in that there is proper and

east of information he said but with global coast action some people in the intelligence communities. and we need to keep them because they keep going and we will scrutinize would be to cool a little bit of you. know acquaintance we can still see exactly which. was which exertion. to go down. through this is an argument for hearsay early even before. the internet existed i was never convinced i think once you can put to those who journeys. after the day after you put us if you have the chance but wait and wait and wait and you say contagions but i do not think it's not true that it's not

a secret. court medicare from the european strategic intelligence and security center and we're closely following the story here on r.t. on screen and also online at r.t. . britain may well be behind the libyan rebels but lawmakers in london a furious that their colleagues allowed weapons to be sold to the gadhafi regime as recently as last year among several arab nations who fought for our power from the u.k. which later saw uprisings the ministers accuse them of misjudging whether those guns would be turned on civilian says they were and that that explains. the security forces put down and rest in the middle east with brotherhood. take gas and other irritant ammunition and they've got plenty the u.k. was still selling arms to libya just four months before colonel gadhafi turned 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 human rights violations might take place are not supposed to solve the weapons so 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 could be used in the brutal crackdown to suppress 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 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 it was in the promises office who said to him look you can organize dictators. for decades. amount of work shooting at their own population and i was a really good time to go and try and sell them some. more like imagine what damage when people see you know pretty. in the hands of the people who are invading bahrain and putting down its program 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 elite around the world over the last ten years has been

the provision of this highly militarized security texas exactly the opposite effect of trying to stimulate some 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 of that damage was done with british weapons when the un rest started at least the government scrambled to suspend arms export licenses but this report is evidence that it clears the stable door long lost to the force of cold states when british weapons were probably already being used against civilians in bahrain and libya the government still hasn't ruled out arming the rebels in libya it remains to be seen whether these damning revelations will make them think twice the british foreign secretary has said that the u.n.

resolution on libya made it legal to give people aid in order to defend themselves and the pressure on western governments to arm the rebels is growing with colonel gadhafi taking in his heels a string of high profile figures is speaking out in favor of the move bill clinton for instance has said he would be inclined to do it so far the ukase officially offered telecommunications equipment to the rebels but many suspect help of a different kind may be on the way to your am it r.t. london. or we have more insight for you from antiwar activist john reese. or he'll be on a little later this. russia insists it will not participate in any military operations to settle the conflicts in north africa at present as the country would abide by the un security council's decisions.

but we were hoping to bring you comment from president unfortunately can't bring that to you just at the moment in the meantime the russian prosecutor's office has given poland new detail documents into the plane crash that killed the polish president and much of the country's political elite investigation still underway into the tragedy in western russia last april and ortiz and this hit has been watching the handover. the importance of the ceremony lies within what it symbolizes the continued cooperation between russia and poland two s selfish more cools the tragic plane crash it was also a significance in that hour within the fourteen the volumes that were handed over today new fresh eyewitness accounts that were taken his recently as january and so within those through. the russian the prosecutor general's office said that they attempt to onset dates requests for information that were put forward by the pope.

continuing to symbolize the levels of cooperation that of course poland does repeatedly cool full more evidence to be counted a verse saying that it's with all unable to conclude it's eight independent probe 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 last for a six month extension so we can expect the results of that probe in october we anticipate aviation chemistry which will serve a commission headed by prime minister vladimir putin which included aviation experts from russia poland and the united states to live with the results of all this investigation on the twelfth of january and the commission of found that pilot's era was mostly to play they say that if a crew failed to respond in a timely factions who are from the ground who will solve to remove groups that claim to know the airfield true story for weather conditions but also you found

that the crew came in so loud that i'm on. to choose and that they failed to adequately respond the warnings to all of the planes the safety systems at the commission also did say that the crew may have been through very strong the 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 that the commander of this was in the cockpit at the time of mounting and to the international response to the findings of fact commission has largely been seen except the last number of people within say that question marks and still remain they say that not enough has been done to investigate the actions of the ground full staff at the airfield in some indents could they have done more to prevent the plane from trying to land and today so just a few days before this coming week

a. commemorative events which will mark one year on since the plane crash in the events to be attended by both presidents from. reporting there now back to one of our top stories this hour the libyan rebels are condemning nato's lack of action in the country claiming the alliance is not doing enough to protect civilians despite because nations efforts gadhafi forces renewed their offensive with continuing in the city of misrata where residents have been under siege from government forces over the last forty three days let's not talk to me he's from the european council on foreign relations which is a continent wide research group focusing on foreign policy thanks for joining us in southampton well in the first days of the operation the coalition claimed it was a success but now looking at the situation do you think the foreign forces are clearly overestimated their potential. when i think success was a fair one i mean the intervention was launched with

a very immediate objective of avoiding a bloodbath and bring the. number who sued to the kurds with hours to spare to achieve exactly that result. what happened thereafter is of course more difficult. the use of power to protect civilians particularly in built up air. it is very problematic i mean i think the rebels probably do have a points that nato has been rather slow to consider what could be done apart from using the power to assist civilians in misurata the turks just a couple of days ago that you can get ships in there they brought out wounded civilians and i think that's the sort of thing that nato war european should be prepared now to do to take in medical supplies food whatever else is needed but shouldn't that shouldn't sorry to interrupt but you say that's one step they should take but shouldn't really now our ground forces be used after all that after the statics

a changing and that the only way to overcome this next military state is surely to bring in ground troops and. well i think there are two major objections to that one is that that is ruled out where the u.n. security council resolution and secondly that it would be the wrong thing to do anyway this is an intervention which is which enjoyed the support of the u.n. security council of the arab league of the african union. done very specifically in terms of defending defending civilians and not in terms of trading the world warm and disastrous path of iraq and afghanistan since we start putting soldiers on the ground in libya you have a propaganda victory to gadhafi you have a propaganda victory to anybody else in the in the muslim world who is determined to represent to misrepresent this intervention as being to do with oil imperialism or a crusade or whatever else you might say so i think it has to be managed from. the

use of position that has been adopted so far but what next i mean there's a stalemate people are still being killed in libya there seems to be no end in sight or could there be an end in sight. but i think you're right that there is an element of stalemate creeping in and i think that is actually quite healthy i think it's important that. those in the west of the country in tripoli realize that they're not going to win this and they're not going to get out of this world and his family remained in power are signs of that happening already with the defections it's important that the people in the east of the country realize that nato is not going to sort of bomb a path for them from benghazi to tripoli they don't have the power to overthrow gadhafi is general support in the west of the country so this will end when both sides in libya realize that the only solution is

a libyan solution which they negotiate between the serbs after a ceasefire. interested to hear what you have to say nick witney we have to leave it there thank you so much for joining us from the european council on foreign relations there in southampton thank you for your time. by the way you can catch up on the news you may have missed any time you want it on t.v. dot com plenty of other views and analysis as well for you including israel allowing nearly a thousand homes to be built in a disputed part of east jerusalem setting the stage for a bumpy ride for the troubled palestinian peace talks. fifty years after unity government took mankind beyond earth's atmosphere for the first time the latest batch of space travelers make their way to the international space station for their mission at r.t. dot com. well back to our top story now a priest in finland faces being de france after describing one of the world's most wanted criminals as a terrorist but he's questioned the pastor after his references to model the man

behind the deadly attacks in russia packman joins me now he's the chairman of the finnish caucuses friendship society who we saw in the report a little earlier on this issue here on r.t. thank you for joining us now is accused of promoting religious intolerance how would you assess his actions. well you know malaria is only fulfilled he's. finished priest priest he has told the finnish public the truth about the activities of. over in finland because in finland the. information channel of terrorists the so-called center it has been operating for several years without any kind of reaction from the government or officials of finland and of course this

raises serious questions about whether finishing the thirty's government of. promoting terrorism against russia and of course the priest tell you how morally in these requests he's acting according to. exactly correct moral of the principle so why would the finnish authorities why would there be this tendency almost this support for this attitude towards russia i mean deed as what you say a possible supporter of terrorism against russia. well of course the finnish authorities are supporting the terrorism against russia because the main informational general information channel of islam mystic terrorism against russia the call for censor he's of physically of the finnish soil the servers of the

website are in helsinki well. of course we should ask them why they are promoting terrorism i would say that the reason is in the lobby there's a very strong and russian o.b. going on in the european parliament especially and also through the european parliament in a wall of european union member states and of course across europe they are trying to. they're trying to recruit. politicians and journalists and other people to. the russian activities and that the russian propaganda let's talk about the situation concerning revan memory is not being arrested we reported today that he was taken in for questioning and we spoke to him shortly after that way do you think this police investigation could go next. willow feels he will he will be charged of several crimes after the rush of today interview with you how maury was

broadcast. today morning. this morning shortly after that the man. for the rights of minorities in finland she gave a press release. claiming accusing me of serious crimes of incitement of i think hatred against chance and after that he was immediately invited to the police seem to regain shunning his thinking and after two hours he came out but you know there are there are several he's facing several charges in a finnish court he may be in a hole through the heart here or one here is very thing that russia is he's facing pressure from the authorities he's like there is that it risks from elements within the caucuses. well he's really being harassed his cause to be being threatened by the terrorist elements residing in finland they are

constantly writing him threatening emails the websites of course the interest of course it's full of fear is kind of very very root propaganda against. against everyone who dares to criticize the finnish government of their pro terrorist activities i understand i was talking to a little earlier there's been a lot of reaction in the finnish press about this a lot of negative reaction from the press but what about the people in finland what sort of reaction and support perhaps is it getting from them is a different story between the people in the media. fortunately he doesn't get much . from the finnish press because of as i told you today the finnish home puts money for the rights of ethnic minorities she gave a press release accusing mori of being a racist and out of this kind of a press release obviously the finnish press only repeated what she said not to say

it and it's very difficult for a mori in this situation to defend himself because the anti russian or b. is trying to get through a public opinion claiming that the terrorists are heroes they are separatists russians so all russians are the villains that's the rush of all the atmosphere in our country and in many countries in europe that the and the russian lobbyists are trying to push out we'll have to leave it there yet and backman from the finnish caucus is friendships and he joining me live there in helsinki thank you. when out richard joins us next with business news this wednesday stay with us live here. meanwhile price is causing the russian government should revise its economic forecast of twenty eleven now sees an average world price for this year of one

hundred five dollars per barrel as that of seventy five dollars this means the budget deficit will be much lower than previously forecast than around one percent of the gross domestic product rather than the early expected three point six percent at the same time a country g.d.p. growth forecast of four point two percent remains unchanged why is that a leg you can from m.g.m. bank explained. the oil price is neutral or going to get worse and. the only which is a very significant for the economy grows is the capital flows in the revenues straight it was over a city or it was to accumulate into the sort of decision for the. means at least among all the revenue growth is new to overcome the negroes after the grossest we have varying degrees of control really in your early years of this leadership of the world to be here when you throw in big guns are going over the rules so it is a reflection of exactly the forecast of the g.d.p. for just so you can believe all right let's take

a look at the oil price as it is right now on the market now prices did see new thirteen month highs but they declined slight of that brant is actually now down point one percent one hundred twenty two dollars per barrel light sweet still up one hundred eight dollars per barrel this is as poor showing us oil supplies and expectedly well last week is further supporting the market along with continued concerns about the best in north africa and the middle east. crisis now moved to stock markets we start with the united states and u.s. markets there are higher against the backdrop of rallying the euro which is at a fifteen year high thirteen month high rather than a stronger than expected german manufacturer for long talk again as well cisco systems and american express in russia. session was positive the r.t.s. was up one percent another year high nice except point six percent most blue chips were again used to collect them lukoil was up one percent at the close in the back

of high oil prices probably led to one of the strongest gain is up four percent or higher called prices also all time highs not two percent less now listen to michael shine from i can see that. oil 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 pulling metal. are both up more than four percent because underlying silver prices are up strongly against a day hitting new record highs we saw weaknesses in x five retail company on speculation of the company we merged with the global retail giant in a move which would dilute the company's exposure to the fast growing russian consumer market and that's it from this express edition of business we will be back next hour with an update joining them.

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