the united states in particular that people here feel is playing a double game as my colleague laura emmott explored from london president obama started a my belief that an orderly transition must be meaningful. it must be peaceful and it must begin now and then fully one after the other one the i. the governments followed suit. to show these democratic change has to start now. it needs to happen now the growth of freedom and democracy in egypt and it seems the theme was contagious as the call for a new egypt spreads uncontrolled across the western mass media there were no one hundred fifty thousand people in the streets of cairo protesting for democracy this is how democracy happens but what right do u.s. and european leaders have to get involved in what's essentially domestic old rest about dissatisfaction with a ruler who cares what they want in egypt certainly not these demonstrators at the egyptian embassy in london basic or did you feel regime for such a long time. you feel regime when now they are talking about democracy and respect the from the right side of this and so obama's spee

business artie's laura emmott reporting and that's it for knowledge you and me unless one one's time more business news. you can. be. with us. this street still keeps its secrets trying to feel. like. it's. the headlines now in lithuania a politician is facing up to two years in jail for denying the official state line . claims that local authorities were responsible for the death of fourteen protesters in twenty years ago and not soviet troops. the western media is finding it hard to abandon best selling cold war stereotypes when it comes to depicting the country's often portrayed as an evil totalitarian state of. vodka. and soaring food prices are highlighted as a major trigger behind. in the middle east and the problem could also be spreading to the world's richest countries. while half of all drugs coming from afghanistan and al being used by people in russia and the e.u. the number of addicts in russia has reached two and a half million most of whom use afghan heroin that's the subject of today's interview with former u.n. chief. his five year plan to eliminate drug production i

critics are accusing david cameron of exploiting the current events there at his correspondent laura emmott reports. it is the timing of this visit that has brought it under so much fire we've seen this is a huge amount of chaos in the middle east across these countries libya bahrain yemen before that egypt and tunisia and the police cracking down on these protests in certain countries and in fact there's a former foreign office minister here in the u.k. a member of the labor party denis macshane who has called the prime minister's visit with defense companies at this time insensitive and crass insensitive and crass to seek to bolster u.k. arms deals with countries in the middle east at this very sensitive time we've seen just just very recently embarrassment for the u.k. after it was forced to revoke arms licenses to. libya amidst fears that british arms had been used against protesters during the trouble though david cameron is now trying to ascertain that they weren't that british arms weren't used in the suppression of protesters one just can't have that kind of control if one is an arm