f. sixteen fighter jet. flying for just under one as it uses approximately twice as much oil as he every chimeric can citizen uses in his or her kite if we hear. the f. sixteen is just one machine in one branch of the military to take another example the army's abrams tank weighs sixty eight tons and requires two gallons of fuel per mile. all told the united states department of defense burned some three hundred fifty thousand barrels of oil per day making it the world's largest single consumer the defense department uses think somewhat over two thirds of the energy. that the u.s. government. uses it uses them for ships and tanks and planes and heating buildings and a whole host of other things. were probably the largest impact that all the defense effort has is the diversion of intellectual entergy and our monetary resources away from trying to solve an address some of the long term problems. in sea level is also rising and in louisiana we've been losing thirty square miles a year roughly. of land. i mean i

f. sixteen s the libyan military is made out of mirages and makes the air force that is still there and there's also american armored vehicles on the ground trucks from what i've heard as well as apache helicopters so yes the united states is very much involved and like the case of egypt is politically hedging its bets as well it is supporting. opposition officials i won't say the opposition because the opposition and people in an opposition movement are two different things you can have opposition to a dictator but that doesn't mean that you're not this issue. is showing support for them and at the same time we see military support for the in the form of hardware. i'd like to also add that italian pilot i've been told that italian pilots are also manning a libyan fighter aircraft. let's look at the wider picture many say that there is a domino effect occurring across the middle east and indeed north africa do you think the rest will go even beyond north africa and the middle east to other countries well it seems that there are certain parties and people like that. almost daily basis an

f. sixteen so yes the united states is very much involved and like the case of egypt is politically hedging its bets as well it is supporting opposition officials i won't say the opposition to the opposition and people in an opposition movement are two different things and at the same time you see military support for it to death in the form of hardware it's too soon to say whether gadhafi will leave immediately but i think in the long term it is time. more on the repercussions from the unrest in north africa and the middle east shortly first let's take a look at what's ahead this hour at a criminal or a political pawn as we could be founder julian assange awaits a ruling on his extradition to sweden his supporters claim case his political fate and the u.s. and. now we're reduced to being passengers on a russian ship by the end of the year and nasa will no longer be able to send humans into space find out how the americans are dealing with this dance to their national pride later in the program. it's only has declared a humanitarian emergency on a silence of lump it was as the small land ma

f. sixteen s now. to replace it with food subsidies for the poor so we're dealing with very basic problems that if these countries can't secure the basics for bad people it doesn't matter how secure their police forces are these people are going to stand idly by and i think it's a combination of new media and the internet as a social organizing tool that is allow them to second navigate traditional security measures and make these protests as they are so while the battle to oust mubarak has been won the war over the future of egypt has really yet to be force and we see when what happens next in terms of real constitutional change changes to the state of emergency whether political parties can rise out of the ashes of mubarak's authoritarianism what the future will be for egypt so it's about no means any certainty that actually egypt is a model to follow because simply we don't know what will happen next radio host and film director alex jones says one factor forcing people out into the streets is infla

f. sixteen that now scrapped that order to replace it with food subsidies for the poor so we're dealing with very basic problems here if these countries can't secure the basics for their people it doesn't matter how secure their police forces are these people are going to stand idly by anymore and i think it's a combination of new media and the internet as a social organizing tool that has allowed them to circumnavigate traditional security measures and make these protests as they are and it's interesting again in bahrain that they are very conscious of the fact the occupation of the central square gives a sort of focus to these things which i think is why they so violently cleared it last night but the u.s. is interested in some ways my question was a veiled reference to the u.s. because so many say obviously u.s. policy foreign policy has been behind the fall of mubarak in egypt what about the position the influence of the u.s. now in the region is it gaining influence or some suggest actually losing influence what's its main agenda now in the middle east. well i think the u.s. is at