no no we can't give up. the u.k. u.s. extradition treaty was signed in two thousand and three supposedly to bring international terrorists to justice but many feel it's unfair to british citizens it makes it far easier for america to extradite someone from the u.k. than the other way around so far extraditions of five to two in america's favor better and british m.p. simming campbell's leading a review of the treaty by his party or a smaller partner in the governing coalition but what i argue for is that the position of a british citizen should be no worse than that of an american to and at the moment you think it's in balance thank you and i'm in no doubt that. those richer driers are innocently caught up in something which was never intended to deal with people like him gary mckinnon is case is another that's left british m.p.'s crying out for change the asperger's sufferer has been fighting extradition for seven years he's

wanted for hacking into pentagon files that he claims he was searching for evidence of u.f.o.'s a recent parliamentary debate on the treaty was so one sided in favor of changing it that a vote wasn't even needed but what's happening in there is still not enough to stop richard o'dwyer is pending extradition his case is certainly highlighted the need for something to be done but any changes could be too late for him his case is now in the hands of home secretary theresa may who has been accused of abandoning plans to change the treaty richard and his family will get the chance to appeal the decision at a higher court but their options are rapidly running out either bennett artsy london. or before we have to make sure with the business news that's through the r.t. world up there now some other international headlines in brief for you this hour starting with iraq a wave of car bombings has killed fourteen and wounded more than seventy across the rocky. little blasts occurred mainly in shia areas of baghdad threatening to revive

sectarian conflict in the country the violence has dipped in iraq for the past few years attacks are still common more than two hundred people have been killed there in a month since the us military withdrawal. and those soldiers have reportedly being killed in a southwestern somalia after a suicide bomber detonated a lorry full of explosives outside a government building the base is used by ethiopian troops who entered somalia last month to help the country battle an al qaeda linked militant group insurgents now control many areas of somalia. so he has a slight frons for passing an armenian genocide bill cleared both houses of the french parliament under the new law people who deny the mass killing of armenians by ottoman turks nearly a century ago but faced up to a year in prison a media says one and a half million were killed in the massacre but turkey claims the number is much

much lower but the bill still needs to be signed off by president sarkozy before it becomes law. ok not twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow where the priority for emergency crews should be to save lives but in the united states it's being outweighed by rouse over rules and fees for firefighters standing by as homes go up in flames so watching them and drown because of fears they might be sued nine one one responders a standing aside instead of standing by as a guy in a future counterpoints. jeanne chronics house burned down to ashes as firefighters stood by and just watched they refused to save mr chronics home because he hadn't paid a seventy five dollars fire fee that the county requires i thought they'd come out and put it out maybe if you had and i decided in five hours but i was thrown as the house went up in flames the cryonics were begging the firefighters to make an exception saying they were ready to pay whatever it took to put out the blaze but

they were told it was too late thanks my mother for my mother's my grandmother's my great grandmother's well we're in the same happen to vicki belle from tennessee firefighters stood by and idly watched her trailer home burn because she too hadn't paid the seventy five dollars fee no one said they were in fact dispatched that they felt they were all safe. in the us foreign policy varies from state to state from county to county in south fulton tennessee if you don't pay you're out of luck anybody that's not inside the city limits of self interest service that we offer. that although down behind numerous similar incidents lies a problem rigid local rules versus the responsibility of the government to help its citizens when they're in trouble or rather versus basic human compassion we're really poor in terms of humanity i mean when it's seventy five dollars that is the more important thing and i get in

a situation like this it just shows you that we've become far too concerned about about every single dollar and you know and also that it just shows it's really kind of it's an all about me you know we just don't live in the community anymore this is like there's no sense of this like shared responsibility for the individuals in that community in california police and firemen watch the man drown saying they didn't have proper certifications for water rescue which would leave them open to possible lawsuits if they attempted to save him city officials blamed the incident on budget cuts here so as the more. then an hour long tragedy unfolded authorities stood there and did nothing this is the part where rules and regulations defy logic that was the end result of body washing up to the shore. so you think it's horrible how can we allow that to happen in the us is a very litigious society we have more lawyers per capita per capita than any other

country in the world and so you know when you have to worry when you're a rescuer and you have to worry about a lawsuit and you cannot rescue a person as a result i mean that's that's really a problem if the firefighters had rescued the man even saved his life but somehow maybe broke a rib or hurt him in some other way you know they stand to be sued in court and that's just the way our system works even after the serve brought raymond zack's body closer to the shore firefighters refused to get in the water and retrieve the corpse so they waited until a passer by volunteered to do the job the logic you don't get anything unless you pay makes sense to a lot of americans but when you have money and rules on one side of the scale and humanity the human urge to help on the other and money wins this is when one gets the says that something is wrong with the way the system works i'm going to check on reporting from washington r.t. and shortly here on the program we explore ways to wipe out the dangers of civil

wars in some arab countries first though as i promised it's to make sure the business. thanks orient me rally in oil prices has portrayed as await the next move in the escalating this people tween iran and the west tehran has responded to the decision to impose an oil embargo by threatening to close the strait of hormuz twenty percent of the world's crude supply passes through it however hot him on to pick from plants believes the warning and the embargo should be seen as bargaining points. the wording also says that they'll be a review in may so that almost means that i am ready to do something in july but i can change my mind in may i don't think anybody wants this things to happen because europe right now is very weak. financially economically and the last thing that europe really wants is

a confrontation because that would be even more disruptive for the economy here the oil that was supposed to come to europe from iran will go to asia and oil that was going to asia from oil locations like west africa or even russia will now go to europe so europe can always switch place the oil that's not the issue the issue is the level of pain. of the statistics down employment in russia fell at the end of last year the jobless rate dropped twenty basis points from november to six point one percent in december according to a survey by bloomberg analysts to expect the rate to be significantly higher growing to six point six percent. look at the market figures now as fluctuating above ninety nine dollars a barrel in new york as for light sweet speculation the u.s. stockpiles gained last week is weighing as those worries about iran meanwhile brant lead today is that just about one hundred ten dollars a barrel down fifty four cents. european stock markets are down as the greece

ended so private creditors continues negotiate over the terms of a hope debt swap deal in britain the footsie is down more than one percent led by miners and banks we have a lloyds banking group shedding more than four percent this hour germany's dax is also down one point three percent led by commerzbank and that's down around four percent to three percent loss for siemens which reported drop in fiscal first quarter profit. loss markets have somewhat improved from the last two years is down four point point six percent three quarters of a percent loss on the my sex and banking and energy stocks are among the main decliners p.t.b. is down half a percent lukoil is shedding one point six the company is planning to invest more than one billion dollars in oil rich trips to top field in sight. area chemical group up cohen is among the gainers but it's up around one percent reported almost

five percent increase in production for the year twenty of the. financial worries of european banks are affecting their businesses abroad one of germany's biggest lenders commerzbank could be leaving the russian market and selling a fourteen percent stake in one of the top fifteen local lenders a promise whereas the sale is a part of a name for to increase its capital by roughly five billion euros in order to comply with new european legislation all right business r.t. will be back in around fifty five minutes time with plenty more i'll see that.

he.

this is also your life from oscar time for your headlines now fresh rounds of. violent attacks in libya and colonel gadhafi loyalists clashed with supporters of the new regime in several cities all across the country at least five were killed in the former leader's old stronghold of bani walid. gulf states withdraw observers from syria as a troubled country rejects an arab brokered peace plan calling for president assad

to go meanwhile the e.u. slaps more heavy sanctions on damascus. and india reportedly finds a way to buy iran's oil despite the e.u. embargo it's set to pay for black gold with the yellow card reports suggest iran's biggest customer china could follow suit. now here on r.t. an in-depth look at the ongoing strife in the arab world and a few possible solutions so if we say speaks to russia's main envoy to africa mikhail margelov the conversation is now. you know my deal chairman of the foreign affairs committee of russia's federation culson also presidential envoy to africa it's great to have you with us thank you

for having me here so we start from the latest news in libya in the country has been swept with violent protests and government crisis you as an expert what is your version what's going on has nato led to lacasse failed in the country last time i have been to tripoli it was on the twenty first of december last year. i had the chance to meet with all the main players with the most awful of the julian with the prime minister with the foreign minister with the oil and gas minister and i spent the whole day in tripoli and i still have a feeling that i was in a very fragmented city three or four militias hating each other competing with each other sometimes shooting each other and it seems like the pieces of. political puzzle do not get together how to we see life get back to each has to take time and it has to take goodwill from all the sides which were involved in a very long lasting conflict which to my personal opinion was

a real civil war and in some areas of libya this civil war is not the work in the south there is the whole desert area as an area of well to the certain extent no man's land it's out of control of. new governmental forces its own of tribes it's a zone all of the controlled arms trafficking so i think that the difficult time fully b.-a will last for quite a significant period of time if libyan political elite is not ready to sit at the round table that's actually which rushed. i was proposing last summer which african union was proposing last summer which president of south africa jacob zuma will be proposing on the twenty ninth and thirtieth of january in a disavowal that the african union summit african union summit to my mind may play a very positive role in putting that roundtable in the center of tripoli or any other libyan city in order to inspire the process of national reconciliation but

that's all political talk if you look at the last of an ordinary libyan guy was he better off before or now before the ordinary libyan guy it's very difficult to say because there are ordinary libyan guys and big guys the ordinary libyan guys in tripoli and ordinary libyan guys and desert living with that tribes and these are very different ways of living some people are happy to and i saw it physically in tripoli some people are happy to drink openly in the moonshine which was absolutely prohibited in the time of warmer today and some people are really unhappy with that fact because then the favor of sharia laws everywhere in the country some people when you talk to them and dream about so-called dubai scenario they want to see libya as a mediterranean resort with a five star hotels because you know and all that stuff but some people are thinking about the purity and islamic identity some people talk about necessity of establishing sharia law all over the country and all these lawmakers world and all

over the arab world there are so many competing different points of view you can probably see today that you can find in libya even within one family total unanimity of views what are the chances that his son safe islam will actually get a fair trial a lot will depend on that that would show the new face of libya actually i think that he will be in the government and the new libyan judicial system should show that it really share is the. well years of human rights rule of law and democracy in the new libya and that was my message when i was talking to most of the julian in tripoli on the twenty first of december i also asked him about the initiate the of of i.c.c. in hague to bring the case of a system nation of warmer khadafi to international criminal court actually his response was a very reserved and after that they said that it's very important to show to the

international community that you leave does not have anything in common with the previous regime now the western companies are lining up to get lucrative deals with the new libyan authorities where does russia stand with that some of the russian companies have already. started their operations in libya like you guys probably have his working together with any of jeep to extract oil the russian railroads are ready to give back the russian companies are talking to their counterparts in libya about returning to libya i got a very clear message from the political leadership and from the prime minister when i was in tripoli on the twenty first of december that new libyan government welcomes russian companies to be back so why not ok let's talk about syria now that's been top place for a while now what makes syria different from other countries that have been subject to the. arab spring and at this point how big is

assets support base because we don't hear much about that syria is different because syria is a cornerstone for political settlement in the middle east and the geo strategic role of syria is sorry to say that and i don't want to insult anybody but it's more important the more crucial than geostrategic role for the international stability of the many other countries that were covered by so-called arab spring that's why dealing with syria in case we have to play political chess but not american football is that what people want and. i mean and to say i don't think that the idea of intervention into syria is there strategically speaking it's a wise idea i think that what syria needs today it needs more political efforts it needs political dialogue and that's why i heard with the regret that president bashar assad said that he is not in favor of the continuing of the mission of

observers sent by the arab league he got pretty upset when russia seriously think that the observers and by the arab league can play the role as a factor of stability we in russia are also offered several times that the russia can be a docking mechanism between the government and the opposition unfortunately all our proposals are being rejected for the time being can i ask you about the arab league i mean isn't it are they in a position to actually make demands such as i sat ship step down isn't their role really to mediate rather than i demand anything like that but i think that their role is to mediate that's what the secretary general is saying and that's what he's proposing no to mediate to build bridges and we russia strongly believe that regional organizations should play a more important role in today's international politics what is important to mention here is that we are protecting syria but not a syrian regime we are protecting syria as the country we are protecting syria as a nation we want to help syrian people and syria as a country so you bring up

a very important point because at this point if you look at it from the outside it does look like a full fledged war that's been going on for a while do you think a regime change in syria in order to protect the syrian people it's reasonable i seriously think that today in syria the political elite has to understand that the civil war will not lead to any political solution it will produce more blood from both sides it will produce more hatred and it will make a. national reconciliation more and more difficult i think that i would syrian friends from all the camps involved in this fight should look at iraq a scenario should look at the libyan example should look at other sad example spender's lawman world and of a set examples in africa we seriously think of that a civil war can all be a political solution what do you think finances and arms that free syrian army the

syrian opposition delegations and we were meeting here in moscow i think at least for syrian opposition delegations were not hiding sources of finance they were saying that finances coming from different sunni states different kompany as individuals what we see in syria today and i really regret to see that we see more and more of a conflict security and conflict between the shia and the sunni bashar assad belongs to a family which is an ally we family the shia family the majority of the population in syria soon is and unfortunately that is one of the biggest problems of the middle east today we see more and more competition between the shia and the sunni in some cases it is represented by the competition between iran and turkey but in some cases it is represented by the competition between different political and really shows a real religious circles within one state how big is to support base at this point

well i think that the support is rather substantial but it's not enough to arm all the opposition and to start massive war or mason mess of invasion against the syrian army so you just got back from sub-saharan africa are the vibes of the arab spring felt there in the region at all one of the most concerning. results of the so-called arab spring particularly with the war in libya is the problem of arms trafficking in the softer the zone in sub-saharan zone i recently visited. me and morocco and for these four countries and what is happening in the desert where this happening in and the softer the zone is a real nightmare one of the tribal leaders said to me what happened in libya on the mind the market i said what market today saw get the chinese made manpads which is an along for american made stinger costs the price of two kalashnikovs it's for

nothing and i think it's a real problem it's a real problem because uncontrolled thinking may end up somewhere in the south of africa or somewhere in the south of europe do you think the fight for don't mean nation over and the african resources could destabilize the region well the it's not the fight it's a kind of competition. suddenly many countries which forgot about the african continent during the ninety's recognized that africa is the only continent in the world where you can get the assets for the real prize or sometimes for the prize which is on the the market and today we see competition between many countries in the african continent it's not chinese domination like it was in the ninety's we see turkey was the iran we see russia we see western countries we see brazil we see other players india malaysia i mean all the new economies of there and all the new

economy is all the emerging economies want to buy to peace how much thank you very much thank you so much indeed. the elite. league. just seems.

seems. safe. on. her. mission and free to critique a should free cruise for charges free if the maintenance free risk free studio types free. the old free board can split video for your media projects a free media and on to our teeth on tom. seems . more news today violence is once again flared up the

film these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada as the first chinese operations are over they say. the headlines on r.t. fresh rounds of violent attacks in libya as khadafi loyalists clashed with supporters of the new regime in several cities at least five people were killed in the former leader's old stronghold of bani walid. gulf states withdraw observers from syria as the troubled country rejects an arab brokered peace plan for calling a president assad to go meanwhile the e.u. slaps more heavy sanctions on damascus. and india reportedly finds a way to buy iran's oil despite the e.u. embargo as it sets of paper black gold with the yellow kind reports suggest iran's

biggest customer china could follow suit. time now for the hourly update of sports here's kate. hello welcome to the sports is on another big day of tennis from the australian open yes the headlines. top out reigning champion kim clijsters breed's outgoing world number one caroline wozniacki to reach the semifinals of this trade you know . while that express roger federer cruises into the semifinals rebelling curious crates at the triple crown martin del potro will face either rock on the golf ball thomas burdick. from dugout to talk talk on line if you're choreographed not been in court where he denies the charges of tax evasion. the first to tell us in writing champion kim clijsters has beaten our going world number one caroline

wozniacki to reach the semifinals of the astray you know and the twenty eight year old belgian overpowered the dane to win six three seven six in scorching temperatures and ensures wozniak he will lose her number one ranking after sixty seven weeks at the top. you know i was i was happy with that i was playing to try to be a little bit more dominant again. you know she stepped her game up and started serving better in the second so. so i knew that you know i mean we both played a really good day and you know in first errors we really went for our shots and good serving and good returning to. it so i started laughing every time because the media has talked to me sometimes like i'm finishing my career and i only have one year left and you know time is running out but the fire has kind of few years in front of me and i'm still in food and you know.