of discontent among libyans riot swept through benghazi at the weekend as thousands took to the streets of the city where the answer could out the uprising began and rage protesters accusing m.t.c. of corruption being slow and bringing in reform and favoring former government loyalists there's also criticism from alice that the council's main goal was to secure western oil interests rather than to establish democracy. mission in libya but why in a country libya already had the highest standard of living in all of north africa where libya does have is the largest were global oil reserves and the top all reserve in africa and that is what the national transitional council are being supported for in order that they should promote western oil companies western financial interests in libya and the people will just have to be rid of the people have already been killed a little veritable genocide has taken place as we've seen in iraq so in a way the same pattern is repeated over and over again that we are there's a double standard they say that they are promoting democracy but what they are

basically doing is promoting the financial and political interests of the global power elite embedded inside the united states britain the european union and israel . a spokesman for british civilians for peace in libya's a confidant says the national transitional council is failing to unite the country the gadhafi regime could control the whole of libya could find peace amongst all the tribes the new regime cannot even control something in one town or one area i mean they turn libya into a war and of the hunting of black skins if they're selling off their oil and natural resources and sovereignty to nato and now the thieves that is the rebels they're all falling out with each other so really this is the chief of freedom and democracy by nato it's all become very clear people of syria and the people of lebanon and the people of the global south have to see what's happening in libya is coming to them if they're not able to defend themselves and stop this rolling western aggression against other countries in the global south. now let's to go to

some other stories from around the world the islamist party which won the most seats in the egyptian parliament a muslim brotherhood has promised it will work with all political parties and also added it's going to cooperate with the country's ruling military council despite repeated calls from activists that power should be handed over to the civilian government islamic parties have captured an overwhelming majority of egypt's first post in the bar parliamentary elections. yemen's president ali abdullah saleh has left the country after giving a farewell speech where he apologized for mistakes during his thirty three year wrong rule is planning to have medical treatment in the u.s. this comes a day after the parliament approved immunity from prosecution for selling part of the deal under which he would relinquish power seller has become the latest to be toppled by the wave of arab spring uprisings. during president goodluck jonathan has visited the site of a series of recent suicide bombings in the north of the country the death toll from

friday's bloodshed and now stands at over one hundred seventy radical islamists. claimed responsibility for the attacks which were aimed at freeing group members held by these or this violence has plagued northern nigeria since december. one solution to joblessness in the u.s. is a scheme where giant corporations create workplaces for local communities and they are even handed government money to there but somehow jobs still get outsourced to a cheaper foreign workforce and as marina board now reports this allows big businesses to prosper while small towns suffer. in one of america's most economically depressed cities resides the world's largest producer of home appliances whirlpool corp is headquartered in benton harbor michigan where sixty percent are unemployed ninety percent live in poverty and per capita income is roughly ten thousand dollars the citizens of benton harbor are living from one day

to the night they're very poor and they're very disheartened i mean there's been very little effort on the part of whirlpool that runs everything to try to. involve the community in two thousand and nine whirlpool received a nineteen point three million dollars grant from the federal government in part to create jobs and i think our u.s. workforce certainly. factory workforce if you will is a is the best among the world so we're very confident in the future of u.s. manufacturing for our kind of products one year later the corporation received nearly twenty million dollars from the state of michigan to expand its facility which now serves as a gateway into benton harbor it's good for the community good for the state and good for your business as well there's a real art to that but as the u.s. based corporation has grown globally you know your last three more jobs have been

outsourced to countries demanding less wages today the former blue collar community of benton harbor remains a victim of america's deindustrialization and growing poor population pool has seventy one thousand employees around the globe but no longer manufactures home products in its hometown it still remains a recipient of u.s. state and federal stimulus funding. whirlpool just closed the factory and that hurt my business my little bit. i lost a lot of clients this is their home base and it always has been and in the beginning of the large development they promised us that they would always be due to the recession the corporate behemoths of home appliances hasn't paid us income tax since two thousand and eight by two thousand time nearly ninety nine percent of benton harbor residents were receiving food stamps while book approximately

eighteen billion dollars in annual sales. that think i've purchased my last world pool appliance i don't even think i'll call for we care because too often in for too long those that have gotten rich has forgotten who's helped them to get there and they're willing to step on us in that just doesn't sit well with my soul a soul living in one of america's poorest cities in poverty and accessorize in corporate success arena porton party and we are up to date so let's see what's happening in the world of business with kareena. hello and welcome to business here in our team european leaders are meeting on monday to discuss the long term plan to tackle the region's debt crisis some analysts say it's a loss of debt write down for greece that could put the eurozone back on its feet

but a western from out on believes that the markets have already priced in the jitters likely to edge higher. well everybody's going to. be sort of. some kind of agreement between greece and its creditors that's going to be the key event to some extent it was last week. again what we saw last week was that any delayed negative news didn't really impact the markets i think we are in a very positive backdrop for russia in general we do have low valuation we do have the under-performance of russia if people are adding to risk the emerging market should do well and in that context russia should be having more support than other mortgage. all is dropping for the fourth day new york investors speculate that actions against a rainy day take effect in six months despite that red line to staying afloat and a quarter of a dollar per barrel. and now into equities asian stocks seesawing between

gains and losses on the one hand it's increasing home sales in the u.s. that i'm for the sentiment on the other it's continuing debt talks in greece so far as we see the upbeat mood prevails hong kong is closed both public holiday today. traders will up their sleeves in about two hours one hour time with throughout last week russian equities enjoyed a robust growth so now it is games on friday and the end of the last trading session the r.t.s. said half a percent. point eight percent. and gold is trading at one thousand six hundred sixty nine dollars that's up point fourteen percent it is already gained more than six percent since the beginning of the year. which made me think a looks at the prospects for the precious metal. is gold on track to become the investment choice of the year now with sovereign debt problems still looming in europe it could be just the right thing the precious metal as seen their remarkable

performance over the past decades take a look at the graphic since two thousand and one the trend has been perfectly positive the peak price was reached last year when gold hits nineteen hundred and twenty dollars an ounce but then we saw a nosedive of twenty percent in just a few sessions as the u.s. credit rating was downgraded a lack of liquidity deflated the bullion bubble somewhat since banks desperately required cash they sold whatever they could and it's at that point that the tables turned for the metal and from a safe haven asset gold shifted into risk appetite choices going in correlation not with t. bills but shares nevertheless gold still gained eleven percent last year take a look at that nosedive that we saw in september last year here it is but the trend is changing we are seeing gold already gaining more than six percent since the beginning of the year it's outstripping most assets and we did see a slight drop during the previous week when jobless claims and us came in with

a decline now why are we seeing gold on the up over here is it going to continue grinding there's a number of factors to bear in mind which makes it quite likely we've got the debt crisis in the e.u. we've got instability in currencies we've got rising demand from china and the upcoming wedding season in india when families offer gold as a traditional gift to the newlyweds if there's no quick resolution to the euro problems and it doesn't seem like there's one on the horizon yet we may just see new heights with a precious metal even maybe close to two thousand dollars an ounce some day well that's all for now i'll be back in less than one hour long meanwhile stay with us for headline news coming up right after this.

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wealthy british style the sun holds a spot on to the tides go. up and down. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy in cars a report on. the back and watching i.q. live from moscow these are the top stories i knew to do with for the syrian leadership the arab league demands the creation of a national unity government and steps up calls for president asad to step down some . thing the regime has allegedly rejected. grey shops to join the european union after a national referendum marked by clashes pala rise opinion and disappointing turnout . russia's policy on internal migration falls into the focus of pm in the

presidential run or whatever putin is he present another set of plans as part of he's election program. that's the top stories here in our team and i'll be back once the half an hour next though it's our special report as we explore a stunning scenery of southern russia and the caucasus nature reserve. southern russia. this faraway place can be reached by helicopter. the first few special permission to travel around.

me trees. such damage. to film the landscapes. of this close read it's all set up i can't tell you how beautiful. weather is right back up. this mountain crossland. this place. has declared a world heritage site. of the total area of the caucuses.

a long time ago the people of the caucuses used to shepherd droves of sheep across the a bug of lambs were often targeted by hawks even today they're. bringing hawks back to this past. july. but i mean this is a bearded vulture. birds of this kind bigger nests on low lying lugs all of thirty or forty kilometers from here. but when they go hunting. fifty kilometers in search of food. they're interesting creatures. the above go is situated close to the great in northern slope of the caucuses mountain range from the grassland you can get a panoramic view of the mountain ridge of the caucuses nature reserve.

there is also a clear view of mt fished one of the highest points in the western caucuses the local problem let's try to get the mountains in fraying filming is best done from the highest point on the bar go it's about nine hundred meters above sea level here dimitri is teaching a son killed how to set up for the filming. look. normal you can see that the lighting is on one side or the mist covers most of the valley. we don't want to film only the mist we need to focus on the foreground look at the grass gleaming in the sunlight and it's light of the valley is dark. so the light strip will show this shot to the best advantage. no. the greater northern slope is

a continuous chain of mountain ridges tops by snowy peaks millions of years ago there was a vast sea in this place the smallest part of it the black sea is now hidden behind mountain ridges they form a shield in the way of warm breezes blowing from the sea the warm air creates a sub tropical climate in the foothills of the southern slope of the greater caucus's ridge there is a moderate zone further upslope the kingdom of eternal snow and ice on the mountain tops is more than three thousand metres above sea level. which is the. i'm going to film these magnificent landscapes we never know in order to show them. to the hundreds of people who never ventured here. or were either because they have no time. when you go because they don't understand the meaning of nature. the. amount to go lives side by

side with the pass translated from the caspian language means the mountain of caucasian goats the reserve is the only habitat of western caucasian goats in the wild here they don't move about very much a small herd might well stay for decades in the same area high in the mountains one thousand eight hundred metres. the only trail leading across the past begins in the embargo grassland. caucuses reserve ranges often use it to make rounds of the area they always do it on horseback a round trip usually takes one week. to come across perches interests on this path is broken europe's the only way here there are rocks on one side and a thick tangle of bread and rain on the other it is very difficult terrain.

all. the ranges camp out in small parts and it's always cold in the mountains at night. or. shortly before dawn dimitri in kill head to a small flat mountain top according to an old caucasian legend do you often meet the

sunrise in the mountains lives a long and happy life. get real you can no see mode you go and you're right. the sun will rise from behind the aspen pass. we're going to choose the highest point for filming we only have ten to fifteen minutes for that. new. form.

is a mystery to the one used to it no single one is ever the same the villain in. its truly wonderful guy. the nearest settlement is far away radio is the only means of communication with human civilization. hey folks if you're listening to our movement of radio show us your host once again and you get to ring and look at it last term and talked about the history of the caucuses nature reserve you get to go to the small studio broadcasting the movement show is in the town of scores of kilometers away from the a bugger for school children tell locals about the caucuses reserve journalists. oversees the programs the children talk about the reserves animals surviving trees mountaintops and rare plants. they draw on their experience as reporters and

engineers working in various protected areas therefore they always fully prepared for the program when they go on there. and there would have then i think when people look at it and they try to imagine what these trees saw a long time ago. as for me i always have this on the county feeling that my agent stature martin significant in front of these or inspiring giant. one of the most famous parts of the caucuses nature reserve is the growth situated close to the black sea coast the oldest tree here is over

a thousand years old. the grove has survived several generations of tourists and many natural disasters. according to scientists the greatest of them took place some eighteen million years ago. a rupture in the earth's crust created a natural labyrinth and the gorge the gorges bed was filled with water from mountain streams. this landscape has undergone no changes since then. visitors are fascinated by the mysterious origin of the grove and the agent trees there in they think of it as a living relic of the distant past. i can tell you that i really do feel mystical about it was that people rarely break the rules here they're not eager to destroy or cut things down with the bush that some people might say i'm crazy but i honestly believe nature herself is at work here and i think this place is protected

by higher forces it's. a small canyon in the outer edge of the grove mox it's natural boundary in the north the west and east in the horns of an infamous mountain river called the hostile joint where the canyon is at its most narrow and the never ending war of war is a sign of its dangerous allure. then you'll love. this canyon is notorious because the water rises quickly when the snow melts or after trench already has been above though the whirlpool formed a strong water splashing against one side of the ravine and then against the other well the water anything that falls into the whirlpool gets sucked down to the bottom people trying to swim walk across it end up drowning were. there have been several deaths as a result. we're live over to be that's why this place is infamously knowing that

it's not the devil's guy in the bottle. there are four major waterways in the caucasus reserve river is one of the deepest which dam has been put something the small hydro power station supplies electricity to the heart's in the upper reaches of the reserves northern sector ranges stay for the night. vote by. claiming there is a. with that when you push through i have a guy here you can get some water from any spray or small river here more than i've got when it sold fit for drinking and. international rafting competitions take place on the bella river every year the route is extreme the rapids a near impossible to clear. culture

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a cargo helicopter flies through a mountain gorge before it reaches the weather station and to go to good is situated in the mountains of the caucuses nature is a has an altitude of more than two thousand meters above sea level it is the optimist station in the western caucuses its total square is two hundred eighty two thousand hectors our reserve is the only one in russia that occupies the territory of three russian regions it's really unique. the direction of the caucuses reserve personally i have a sees the rotation of stocks and food supplies in this remote area. the helicopter rarely stops at juga for more than twenty minutes but even such a short period of time is enough for dimitri says an anchor and his son killed to

get several shots on take. i. most of the world's weather stations located in major cities recalled changes in the atmosphere resulting from industrial waste and vehicle fumes the data collected juga and similar stations is important for fundamental research into how the earth's climate changes in areas situated far away from manmade sources of pollution. now the temperature of juba is fifteen degrees above zero but a couple of days ago trees were falling to the ground under the impact of strong gusts of wind which by the way where the snow is usually one metre deep around this time in december temperatures were unusually high in november and it may well turn

out to be the warmest november in twenty five years. each day courses reserve staff record temperatures wind velocity humidity and amice ferric pressure. one team is on shift for two months. i wanted sway from to go to the ground northern slope the helicopter passes by mt fished the highest point and the western ridge.