rachat aliyev is currently believed to be residing in malta. >> as 2012 gets underway, the future ofhe euro is on everyone's find -- mind, but for many in the channel island of jersey, it's welcome. despite g-20 leaders declaring war on tax havens two years ago, nothing much seems to have changed in jersey with its huge numbers of international banks and financial insurance institutions. >> for centuries the channel islands were disputed between the english and french. today they're famous for bringing people from across the world together, investors. miguel rodriguez moved here from -- eight years ago. he's food and beverage at a hotel. only a minority of his guests come here for the island's attractions. >> the tax-free status makes it very popular. there are opportunities here that you don't find else where. it's a bit like switzerland or monocofment there's a mixture of pro-rich and traditional british charm. >> on the island, money talks. banks from across the glope have banks in the capital. banks only pay a rate of 10%. foundations have also been set up to hide assets from the

they amounted to three flights to take 100 grateful oil workers, 20 of them british, from libya to malta. >> when we got on the plane, two locals tried to rip the tires. the special forces challenged them to stop. fortunately, somebody brought these guys down and took them back. >> in the footage of the taxing plane, there was footage of a special operations helicopter awaiting its mission. the government decided to back the national transitional council, or the ntc, that worked for the overthrow of gaddafi. >> this is an illegitimate regime that has lost the consensus of its people. >> the next phase involves a highly sensitive unit of british special forces made up jointly sbf.e saf ansd they operate closely with mi-6. six members flew to a base near benghazi. they were going to meet rebel leaders. why do it that way when there was a british frigate sitting in a harbor nearby? apparently,mi-6 wanted to avoid going year and a symbol of british power. >> a british diplomatic team detained by rebels have been released. >> despite carrying everything needed for a covert mission, the britis

downgraded as you said nine of the countries including cyprus and malta are among others and of course they're saying that the russian markets closed on friday before the news came out so what we're seeing right now is basically a delayed reaction but strong crude prices are helping prevent those deeper falls that we saw a little bit earlier but numbers could change because the fitch ratings agency has announced that it has revised its outlook for russia's credit rating from positive to stable and that's mainly due to political uncertainty and global concerns over growth in general but the level of the triple b. level has remained unchanged but we could see some more jitters because of that. thanks so much for the update that was business artie's courser vibe and now let's take a look at the actual numbers europe is mixed the footsie is losing around a third of a percent germany's dax is why don't beat its. gaining around less than a quarter of a percent. and this choppy trade for the russian markets there in the walk this hour with the r.t.s. gaining around two tons of a percent and t

global climate change other nations around the world are preparing including the tiny island nation of malta. floating right in the middle of the indian ocean multi-verse is afraid that rising temperatures and thus rising sea waters are threatening the very existence of the nation itself last week the president of all the small had not she'd warned australia to prepare for a wave of immigrants should the nation fall below new sea levels as now she'd said quote it is increasingly becoming difficult to sustain the islands in the natural manner that these islands have been and quote there are roughly three hundred fifty thousand people who called all these homes in the nation could be the first casualty in fast approaching freak global weirding. it's time to stop ignoring the reality of climate change orning tom had for us a few weeks back. what will we're doing weather has become a total reality and it's going to get a lot worse fast here are some of the numbers thomas jefferson wrote the declaration of independence global c o two is around two hundred eighty parts per billion we're at that an

downgraded nine european countries including cyprus austria and malta and because the russian markets closed on friday before the news came out so we're seeing a delayed reaction right now and some analysts say that see the markets stay in the red throughout the day but the falls won't be as the because of the strong oil prices. thanks for that update that was business artie's course rick costa rica and now on to the actual a numbers europe first to the indices are recovering after opening in the red that saft are series of s. and p. downgrades of u.s. we've heard just now the footsie at the moment is a third of a percent germany's dax is about half a percent higher. and now on to the russian markets and they're currently trading slacked off to open it sharply down. and now on to the major movers on the my six the sour blue chips are mixed better give majors is supported by stronger crude the largest private oil company alou core oil is around a third of a percent oil pipeline operator trans nafta has slipped into bread struggling to keep up wost weeks momentum one gained about fourte

downgraded nine european countries including malta and cyprus and of course the russian markets closed on friday before the news came out so what we're seeing right now this nervousness is the delayed reaction but we could see the numbers go back down because richard ratings agency just announced that it's revised its outlook for russia's credit rating from positive to stable it hasn't changed the triple b. level but. the outlook and that's mainly due to political uncertainty as well as the global concerns over growth so we could see those numbers go back down later in the day ok business studies marina closer thanks very much for that and now on to the actual numbers europe is making a comeback the foods he's now flat to positive and germany's dax obviates gaining more than a third of a percent comic as are posting the biggest gains as investors await death sales in france and it's choppy trade for the russian markets there in the black this hour with the r.t.s. gaining nearly point four percent and was expressing positive and now the may movers although my xix this chips are mixed an

tear gas versus malta property remain your joints of state seeking the resignation of the arab leaders as the country faces its worst protest in decades. and the brutal killing of the ousted libyan leader remains without any investigation for two months now to give you one more reason why i have to call for more. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is pressuring you or to impose an embargo on iranian oil immediately or the country's nuclear ambitions the e.u. will decide on the sanctions if you do. but may delay their effect until july while countries look for a new oil supplier iran has been threatening to block the strait of hormuz a vital world fuel supply route if the sanctions are imposed a move the u.s. has lead to military action it's been building up its navy forces near the persian gulf with two aircraft carriers and their ask or it's already there caleb maupin from anti-war group international action center says washington's determined to get its hands on a radio while after losing control of it decades ago. the motivation for the us to continue repressing the iranian p

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downgraded nine european countries including cyprus of malta austria and the russian markets closed before the news came out so now we're seeing the delayed reaction but strong food prices are preventing deeper falls but we could see the numbers change again and that's because the french ratings agency has just announced that it has revised its outlook for russia's credit rating from positive to stable it hasn't changed the level which is triple b. that's remained the same and they're saying that that's mainly due to political uncertainty and global concerns over growth so that's where the situation stands at the moment we'll see where the numbers go next hour. thank you for that update that was business hearties courser off and to now let's check out the actual numbers let's take a look at your first the footsie is losing a war of percent this hour germany's dax is beat it's actually gaining more percent . and now on to the russian markets they've slipped into bread again after bouncing to positive territory last hour the r.t.s. is now losing around half a percent of the my six is shuttin

power and protect themselves from what i see is going to be a very very difficult and to multiples to malta osier ahead of us atenolol to us here thirdly it same to talk just a little bit more about what some of the central banks are doing to push on us during just quickly despite the l.t.r. which is supposed to get cheap money to banks to then buy sovereign debt despite all that we see deposits at the e.c.b. deposit facility reach new highs does this signify that banks are scared and does this support bill gross says paranormal analysis. yeah it does it does indicate that banks are scared in the sense that they don't want to listen to other banks and i remember this very well back in one nine hundred seventy three in one nine hundred seventy four when there are a number of major bank failures back then you saw these unusual developments but it's much more extreme this time around because there's much more leverage in the system than there was back in the early one nine hundred seventy s. . and check back on our web site to see what else he had to say about central banks that was james turk

what happens is when the new piece of malta where trips into his space, a line will pop up on his monitor work because all these readers defining what this is but one of which is a column which indicates how will recognize this virus is to the major antivirus industry in the vendors but and this one was recognized i none. that's the first thing he got his attention. the next thing that happened was replicating so rapidly that within 24 hours it was shoving every other piece of malware out of his honey pot prefilled readout on his screen was conficker, conficker, conficker. he said i literally have nothing else to work on at that point. what they discovered that as our eyes when they began to dissect it was that it was very, very sophisticated piece of malware, highly encrypted. one of the things they did was kind of trees was to check was to check to see if the computer it was about to infect had a ukrainian keyboard and it would self-destruct if the computer did. but basically of course what a worm like this does is penetrate to the core of the operating system and replicate itself, send

the moon is too small and a resource for -- to make left malta planetary.st have a little base. of the base is not that interesting. the self sustaining human civilization upon multiple plants, much can continue even in the event of a calamity on earth is the real thing. yes. so i think this is pretty exciting. and i think everyone in america and arguably the rest of the world should be pretty fired up about what were doing. hopefully was as well. we will do our best to succeed in this regard. yes. definitely going to be an adventure. and also one final thing, which is what is the business model for mars? and sometimes i think a lot well, can you mind mars and bring things back? that's not a realistic business model. far cheaper to buy things on a trip to mars. but i do think that there is a business model or if you can reduce the cost to a flight to mars are moving to mars to around the cost of a middle-class home in california, it does seem to be rising. maybe not recently, but certainly. maybe to around half a million dollars. then i think he would have

you could hear in malta and accurate and or library in the caucuses of 50 people may join him >> mity eight votes and i haven't eaten little discretion to have that right there shall let rick santorum won iowa and not mere running--and not mit romney. >>reporter: according to the iowa republican poll website reach but the past 22 votes for mit romney. kemper and >> this is a huge this essentially changes to one. --who won. >>reporter: will political analyst says even if these results are wrong this is not the end of the world. >> this will make i will do foolish was already questions the seriousness of this caucuses. but in terms of the results here, but caucus has made him a player in presidential politics. if he should enough ahead of governor romney for the final results that is not going to make any significant difference at this point. >>reporter: true who says he is a ron paul supporter hoped it was a mistake. but he says he would not stop talking about it until this date by his count against the numbers right. >> i personally witnessed them being counted. >>catherine: although