and the war activists carol turner told r.t. the possible intervention could leave libya into even more disastrous position. i'm extremely rare it could be a foreign intervention led by the united states and britain i think it's very difficult for them but on the other hand if they feel that there's any opportunity of toppling it's a fee and installing a pro western regime or if on the other hand they think feel that oil interests in africa is the interests are in some way threatened and i think ultimately they won't hold back and particularly concerns about the no fly zone policy that's been discuss the comparison would be what happens in iraq in the ninety ninth his at the end of the gulf war of ninety nine he won the united states and britain and so on and no fly zone the net result was that hundreds of thousands of iraqis were killed the infrastructure of the country was see nets the result of a no fly zone was not to prevent the cause the humanitarian crisis and it doesn't take a great leap of imagination to see that sort o

is losing an information war to foreign media outlets including r.t. this week the secretary of state and congress for more cash to step up america's efforts to get its message across and that is going to church can has this report war declared the u.s. is now officially in an information battle with foreign media which provide alternative views on world news views which often running contrast to the coverage of events by the us needs free media we are in an information war and we are losing that war i'll be very blunt in my assessment al-jazeera is winning. the chinese have opened up a global english language and multi language television network the russians have opened up an english language network i've seen it in a few countries and it's quite instructive we are cutting back and the b.b.c. is cutting back some five years ago western media outlets including b.b.c. and c.n.n. had a near monopoly in the coverage of world news things have changed since then more and more viewers across the world tuning in to various foreign media to get a fresh take o

stories on r.t. european powers turned their back on obama and his supporters after the us president refuses to rule out intervention in libya. and that he couldn't british military up points to strike as kind of the japanese forces can of opposition held cities on the sixty eighth insurrection join the police here in a few moments for an update. british p.r. firm has come under fire for devising some of the world's most controversial regimes and taking advantage of a vulnerable climate in the arab world right now as we report plus it's not easy being a space when a crew of six sit down for a stellar exam in a moscow region the crew they've got the right stuff to meet the next mission to the i s s. i know you're watching the r.t. news channel at eleven pm moscow time this friday night my name is kevin now in our top story fierce battles have broken out across libya today between opposition and gadhafi forces on the so-called day of rage dozens are said to have been killed in the fighting meanwhile th

facebook and r.t. . so let's turn our attention to libya where forces loyal to colonel gadhafi are closing in on the rebel stronghold of benghazi which has major world powers are trying to reach an agreement on imposing a no fly zone over libya strikes against opposition forces as well as paulus live reports from tripoli and even if they do reach a decision it could be too little too late. the situation on the ground is very much turning into duffy's favor his troops on our financing towards the bible stronghold of benghazi in the east the government to say that it will have a sixty day with in days and gadhafi himself is again appeared on state television saying that if this is a foreign launch we will crush it if it is to mr march we will crush it resistance inside spin darcy's head on the way to get to the egyptian border which others are holed up in their homes fearing and massive onslaught by gadhafi forces him into the government officials have said that the town of as jabir which is some one hundr

it with r.t. live from moscow just after six pm on friday nato has agreed to assume command of the patrols and forcing the no fly zone over libya is expected to take charge of yes strikes within days officials have warned the operation could last for up to three months now overnight fresh bombs rocked the capital tripoli with reports of yet more civilian casualties. as well. this is the proof of civilians being injured and killed inclusion is strikes we've driven more than forty minutes to see the remains of a rocket and some glass in a big room window where the father says he was very lucky that his family was not at home forgive us for being a little bit suspicious but certainly here the pressure is on for the government to try and show the international community that indeed its claims that more than a hundred civilians have been killed are true and we attended a mass funeral where more than fifty coffins we pulled out we were told that inside we see millions but a government spokesperson later

from our studios in central moscow this is r.t. we're glad to have you with us first to libya where british soldiers were released after being seized by anti can often forces as more western warships and planes move closer to the country at least six special air service soldiers were in the eastern part of the country escorting a diplomat who was supposed to negotiate with the rebels the opposition leadership said they were outraged by the incident seeing it as a foreign intervention into libya's internal affairs and this comes as the country slips closer to civil war with fighting intensifying and reports of airstrikes and heavy weaponry by keys clear. on saturday the libyan leader moammar gadhafi launched a fresh military offensive he's trying to retake some of the towns he's lost in the past eighteen days of fighting there were some seventy people killed those are the latest reports we're receiving and more than three hundred people injured with reports of it strikes and live ammunition and growing fears that libya is descending

watching r.t. coming to life from moscow the russian capital i'm marina joshua welcome to the program fightings intensified in several key cities in libya as procrit off the forces strive to regain control reports say dozens of people have been killed in numerous attacks on the rebel held areas as the government forces are thought to have held out against the onslaught and intangible bans on tripoli and while a mass rally has been held in the capital in support of the regime with thousands chanting broke it off slogans international media say the country is at civil war and the number of victims is heading into thousands but as our teams of some avoid the reports foreign journalists are being accused of exaggerating the reality. of war in comprehensible as it sounds it's present in any conflict just days ago these parents feared for their children's law. lives today they're taking their pictures in front of the tanks the desire to be captured laughing in the face of danger is even stronger in the j

you can find our full interview with macabre a bit about our website any time at r.t. dot com i'll be back with the headlines in a few moments and i will hear from the chairman of russia's foreign affairs committee to get his take on the uprisings in the arab world stay with us here on r.t. . if . brown are here. we hear it because our cash outs that's up. god promised them this linda long stops . will if they are still going to be thinking. and goal chosen people will not believe that god is real stake egypt say look at the standards this for you guys and the sky is as for you. on the corner this is our america research might knock them. up or you. could never imagine them up back to. baghdad.

hello this is r.t. it's eleven pm sunday night here in moscow my name's kevin owen and in the last few hours the libyan army has been ordered to observe an immediate cease fire in their fight against rebels it comes on the second day of an international aerial campaign against the troops of colonel gadhafi it's now been criticized by the arab league following reports the dozens of civilians have been killed but coalition forces say they're acting in line with the u.n. resolution which should receive widespread arab support artie's paula slayer joins us now live from the libyan capital with the latest developments poor evening to you so a second ceasefire now there has just been called the first one of course was breached within hours what is the latest situation in tripoli just now i heard. gunfire over your shoulder. well kevin that's right as i'm talking to you there is and he thought the gunfire happening just a short distance behind me this is the second time in as many hours that we're witnessing t

and you can catch of the full interview with me which of along with many others on our website at r.t. dot com. the u.k. is preparing for a nationwide census to take place later this month the government says it will help provide the services and resources people need but involvement of a controversial u.s. defense corporation leaves many fearing their privacy could be violated our reports . it's census time in the u.k. when every household in the country is asked to provide detailed information about their lives to the government so they can keep track of what's going on and who will be in charge of this sensitive data. yes it's controversial u.s. arms manufacturers lockheed martin and campaigners ranging from religious groups to peace activists to data protection lobbyists are really against it on ethical grounds they are going under of oppressive regimes they also. for us heavily in the wars they fought in iraq and afghanistan are opposed by the majority of people in here and even if supported by the british government hill vows to boycott the census despite the risk of prosecution

r.t. . it is the war of the words and according to secretary of state hillary clinton the u.s. is losing losing to whom you may ask well according to her really losing to international media like al-jazeera and yes even r.t. it's a far cry from the good old days the good old days according to many during the cold war when the u.s. won the war because they simply had the best propaganda that it is you can take a look inside the message machine war declared the us is now officially in an information battle with foreign media which provide alternative views on world news views which often running contrast to the coverage of events by the us mainstream media we are in an information war and we are losing that war i'll be very blunt in my assessment al jazeera is winning. the chinese have opened up a global english language and multi language television network the russians have opened up an english language network i've seen it in a few countries and it's quite instructive we are cutting back th

it's now at twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow you with r.t. let's get to some other world news making headlines now in syria twelve people were killed over the weekend during anti-government rallies in the key port city of. the government blames unidentified gunman shooting from the rooftops deployed troops dozens of died in a week of demonstrations are going to president bashar assad to who's facing the deepest crisis of his eleven years in power he's expected to address the nation in the coming days. german chancellor angela merkel's ruling party looks set for a humiliating defeat in a key regional election exit polls indicate the christian democrats are about to lose in version. six decades of conservatives being in power that it follows a widespread opposition to merkel's utahans on a nuclear power decisions on libya and the euro. italian prime minister is due to appear in court over corruption charges silvio berlusconi is facing a trial linked to one of his media companies he's accused of inflating the price paid to buy television rights

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and welcome to our business update here in r.t. who has steadily strengthened in the past few weeks largely due to rising oil prices the russian currency has jumped almost eight percent to five dollars and roughly five percent to the euro since the beginning of the year because of from b. to b. capital predicts the ruble could strengthen further the coming months. we have good prices spike due to all these. and we also should take into consideration that every ten bucks an increase in oil translates into forty billion dollars. from the current accounts i saw the first quarter waiting to be bullish for the ruble and think of it. at least until the end of march and probably through. as well. for the how the markets are doing asian stocks were lower on monday weighed by the stronger world price the nikkei closed over going to help percent higher exporters weight of the index callen lost one point eight percent and sony shed one point three percent the energy development in fact rose one point two percent in hong kong not energy shares

a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow with me alice had been our top story now japan may be using controlled out of her because she nuclear power plants are rising radiation levels and it tends to stabilize the situation has been halted all smoke has been seen coming from the site which is the way he behaves with explosions and fires since friday's make a quake our correspondent. is following the crisis for she joins us live from tokyo now as you know so what have you been hearing about the situation at the facility. well at this point we know that this morning fire broke out at the fourth reactor at the plant. when it's extinguished and was seemingly on its own about half an hour later however tepco the company that operates the fukushima power plant said that they could not send anybody down to evaluate the fire or determine where the smoke was coming from because of the high radiation level in fact out of eight hundred and out of the even hundred workers which where everything we had originally had pla

r.t. . well russia's former ambassador to libya told r.t. the veris a danger of the uprisings in the arab world could bring a fundamentalists. if the fundamentalists come to power the consequences will be serious they are not moderate fundamentalists like in egypt or tunisia they are extremists they're radicals this means that inside the country till it came to impose a dictatorship on their own people for to put into practice their principles an islamic state of an islamic economy etc it's yet another egalitarianism and utopias are always imposed only by means of a dictatorship and only by force the foreign policy area will be what we've repeatedly seen before will be attempts to exporter islamic revolutions and wherever possible to support fighters for the great joy in the fact that libya is chockablock with weapons and that libya has financial formulas so the consequences of the fundamentalists come to power all the most negative but let me emphasize this if you because they are coming to power is not anything certain but such a possibili

in the region well part and she declined to give us an interview for this story but they've assured r.t. in the past the p.r. can influence questionable regimes for the better for the country frequently will modify. its actions and its policies in order to free. of having better relations with. but that doesn't always happen libya one has used london's p.r. machine before with misleading results in one thousand nine hundred five a u.k. based. our agency was paid four million pounds to try and subvert the evidence that pointed towards the libyan involvement in the lockerbie case and this is what has led to all sorts of alternative theories about lockerbie although of course all the evidence to point to the fact that i'm a grotty and female we're actually responsible so you know how to play these rules they know how to play the game and it's transparency that's lacking in u.k. p.r. information appears in the media but people have no idea who put it there the only way one can be really sure about all the information that will be bombarded with on a daily basis is where does it come from is

just over an hour here on r.t. and also throughout the day you can watch crosstalk where peter lavelle and his guests discuss who else is counted among the forebears of liberalism in russia and what are considered among. much of was actually responsible for peaceful disintegration of the soviet union and i think this is a very important point especially when we see what's happening in the middle east so i that would be my first and secondly i would argue that russian democracy is proceeding on course it's very and if you're providing to you in london i mean it's very interesting because we see it live lived here for twelve years and we don't hear the word perestroika but a lot of people would attribute the attributes what we you all of us here would begin to try to strike is coming about under putin not under yeltsin or got a bunch of. well i was going to say that i don't think it depends on what happens in the future no i think his reputation is there to see he was insured for five years he launched democratic ref

and also there on r.t. dot com driving the first russian in the history of former. one takes his place on the podium after finishing third for team read out all the details on our website and also in our sports update with you in just thirty minutes from now here in r.t. . in japan the focus from a plant operator has apologized for reporting a huge radiation spike at the facility the operator tepco said earlier claims that radiation in the water at reactor number two had sort of ten million times the normal level or a mistake well that news led to emergency crews being immediately evacuated from the site japan's nuclear agency slammed tepco for making a number of mistakes in dealing with the crisis for consumers for reactors were damaged by the massive tsunami that hit the country earlier this month which led to concerns of a nuclear catastrophe the battle to restore the facilities cooling systems a c three workers being exposed to dangerous radiation levels of bennett spoke to a man who knows firsthand what the consequences of a meltdown could be. this man has born

you're watching r.t. live from moscow welcome to the program well first to libya where pro-government troops have pushed the rebel forces out of recently captured territory in their hometown counter-offensive the capital tripoli which has been a constant target for nato they've been reports of further explosions from all its across life. who's in tripoli force narrow paula there were reports of fresh explosions in the capital tripoli what did you hear where you are. well for the eleventh straight day the capital city of tripoli has been on the receiving end of these coalition airstrikes they were a number of blasts overnight loud blasts coming from the residential area of the libyan leader moammar gadhafi as well as from his compound a district that is in the. district now the mood here i think it is quite accurate to say has done almost eight hundred eighty degree flip since the weekend. when the rebel forces began their almost nightwing advancement over libya if it was accurate to say that then people h

leaving its eight pm you're watching r.t. my name is kevin owen here in moscow and one main story dominating the news tonight the northeast of japan has been slammed by a major tsunami following the biggest earthquake in its history at least ninety five people are reported dead but that figure appears very conservative the real number looks likely to be many many more for example police say hundreds of bodies have been found drowned in the city of sendai the capital of the worst hit region the eight point nine magnitude quake off the eastern coast unleashed ten metre high waves which reached miles inland causing huge damage aftershocks are continuing tonight in japan tokyo was brought to its. still paralyzing the capital's transit system meanwhile tsunami warnings have been lifted for some densely populated asia pacific countries like indonesia and taiwan they no longer appear to be at risk. just after the quake hit we had a chance to speak to an eyewitness who was in the capital tokyo. i was working at home and suddenly fell

this hour on r.t. facing a jail term for time to linger with us of need sleep. you're just spend millions trying to get the world to know it on a mission to cut corruption but why ban is running folks and it's really businessmen who georgia owes almost one hundred million dollars been sitting in jail for almost six months with no bare. breasts as you know well into georgia that story just ahead. to japan now radiation levels in the sea watch him near the fukushima plant to continue to rise there now more than three and a half thousand times higher than normal radioactive material has all think we detected in a small well it out there in the sea has government described the situation as serious and unpredictable workers have been successful in china to restore the parts cooling system and what is now the worst atomic crisis since chernobyl out of the space nuclear energy expert who says there are parallels without disaster twenty five years ago it. was a very very dangerous and powerful substance even in very small quantities. it was only if it is ingested by a h

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r.t. . we start this evening with the worsening crisis in japan where throughout the day smoke could be seen building out of one of the nuclear reactors reactor number four at the fukushima new nuclear power plant after a fire there this in addition to an earlier fire and explosion and high levels of radiation seeping into the air for days there is a bubbling undercurrent of anxiety and fear of the japanese people knowing what to possibly expect next artie's ive or bennett has more. this queue of people is a kilometer long they're trying to stockpile what food is left in sendai most shelves are empty now the people here are getting ready to hide fearing an invisible killer radiation explosions at the fukushima daiichi power plant the country on the cusp of nuclear meltdown one damaged reactors outer casing and the final two reactors have now lost cooling capability to radiation levels near the plant at four hundred times the announced normally of salt in a year there are fears it will spre

it with r.t. live from the heart of the russian capital let's take a brief look now at some other international news making headlines this hour. so passes with police are continuing across syria activists are calling for nationwide unrest with tens of thousands marching across the country against the president least twelve people were killed. during demonstrations on saturday security forces and civilians all among them the government meantime blamed. for the bloodshed. palestinian militants have been killed and another injured by an israeli air strike in gaza it happened a day after hamas said it would agree to a cease fire with israel if attacks on gaza was stopped last week was marked by increased violence with at least ten people including civilians and children killed by israeli attacks. and in the ivory coast the man a widely considered to have won the country's disputed presidential elections has rejected the mediator chosen by the african union to steer the country away from civil war. tha

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life from our studios here in central moscow this is r.t. with the twenty four hours a day international pressure is growing against colonel gadhafi president obama says the u.s. and nato is considering military action against libya if violence there continues and the u.k. and france are said to be drafting a u.n. resolution aimed at and posing a no fly zone but also suggestions america has asked saudi arabia weapons to position fighters let's get the latest now from ghana she's artie's correspondent in washington d.c. it seems like pressure on gadhafi is mounting certainly on your side of the ocean. well bill president obama said military involvement in libya is possible he did not specify whether it was talking about direct or indirect involvement the u.s. is reportedly asked saudi arabia if it can supply weapons to rebels in benghazi the saudis have been told that the ponens of khadafi need anti-tank rockets and mortars is the first priority to hold off attacks bipedality his armor and the ground to air missiles to shoot down his fighter

this is r.t. it's ten pm friday night here in moscow my name is kevin owen you're most welcome to the program our top story fierce battles have broken out between libya across libya between opposition and gadhafi forces on the so-called day of rage dozens are said to have been killed in the fighting today meanwhile more updates the u.s. and u.k. are becoming more isolated as they refused to rule out intervention in libya. as i said just now is on the news in the libyan border will be crossing the shortly as soon as we get a line through here on r t tonight should be bringing us up to date with the very latest well another news lines of this something else has come out today the director of a top u.k. university's quits over the institution's links to duffy's regime it comes after revelations that the london school of economics accepted libyan donations worth millions of dollars is the latest scan live a string of reports of dirty money infiltrating the u.k. from dictatorships in the arab world and

you with r.t. let's turn our attention now to the developments in japan with the spread of radiation from the fukushima nuclear facility years raising concern among those in the region high levels have been found in the sea nearby and they are increasing the government's warning people to get out of the area now workers trying to restore the cooling capacity of the plant have been evacuated from reactor number two that that's where the radiation level is ten million times more than the norm three workers have already been exposed to dangerous materials in the continuing battle to avert catastrophe in the wake of the earthquake which destroyed large parts of the country the official number of those killed by the quake and tsunami stands at over ten thousand with many more homeless or missing but fukushima remains at the biggest concern at the moment with the ongoing a possibility of a nuclear meltdown artie's i spoke to a man who knows firsthand what the consequences could be. lease man has borne th

you can find our full interview with mikhail gorbachev on our website r.t. dot com if you manage stay with us for a special report on the so-called global food crisis and why millions are starving despite having an abundance of supplies is coming up next after headlines. that has become common names and mobile home is told me of creation of the global food system the global food system is not created to feed the people of the world is created to maximize the profits. journal trading the actual cash physical grain your trading promises for graeme to be delivered a month or six months or twelve months or eighteen months in the future. for reasons madi likely silver or gold that can be negotiated and accorded to some degree in. some place. yet or. possibly it's not traded now but it could be in the future of. this investment. he needs the new york invest and the media to radium ended up in intensive mode number for the cars because the screen instead of. the most dangerous. radiation that exists in the nature. of all four of the group in the vicinity of known d

and we're joined now by investigative journalist and r.t. contributor wayne madsen for this discussion which is fair to say i think it's fair to say very few people are having and when let's talk about the secretary of state clinton you know what put aside this notion of do gooder stuff president obama has not helped the people what side of the argument do you think is the dominant force in america today well i think secretary of state clinton's probably the one who is really advancing the real u.s. agenda and to hear her talk about real politic reminds me of henry kissinger and is this what is a century kissinger in a pantsuit come back to life here but. it's interesting she talked about papua new guinea we have supported regime after regime in indonesia they have half of that island new guinea under their control was spent poor which has an independence movement freeport more in us mining company talked about exxon mobil is an interesting lolo soetoro who was president obama's stepfather went to work for exxon after he worked for the suhar

cited r.t. dot com. when we take you through some of the top news stories now and forces loyal to colonel gadhafi gaining momentum in the east made international calls for him to step down libyan media reports say that rebel groups have been driven out of several key oil terms hardy's poor sleep is the latest from the region. libyan state television is reporting that forces loyal to the libyan leader moammar gadhafi have now retaken the oil town of brega in the east of the country according to state television this town has been to quote the maclean's armed gangs brigade is the site of a major oil terminal and throughout the day sunday they have been hitting clashes happening there but we haven't as of yet been able to independently verify these state television reports and the cost state television has been faulty in its reporting it based very often preempting the sex pistols of the duffys men before they actually happen but we can confirm that the definition in all it wants and eastwards they are enco

thanks very much kevin alone welcome to business r.t.global oil major troops allies and lead agreed to buy a twelve percent stake in russia's independent gas producers know would say i need to increase its share in the company to up to twenty percent in next three years so it's ours also acquired a one fifth state can the ambitious liquefied natural gas project on the year now been insular artie's correspondent that it was given as an. do you will benefit both companies to tell will become the first and the main international investor in the to participate in the development of vast gas resources of the american insua while another tack will benefit from the investment and experience of the international world giant the c.e.o. of the of french company christopher to marjorie said the tile is paying around four billion dollars for those twelve percent stake which they hope to increase to fifteen percent within a year and nineteen point four percent within three years. is a very attractive country for investors which is even more obvious t

with r.t. live from moscow it's now where twenty minutes past the hour let's check out some other world news in brief this hour and at least twenty people were killed and over fifty injured in a suicide truck bomb attack in afghanistan's paktika province the blast was close to the compound of a construction company and most of the victims were just local workers taliban militants have claimed responsibility for the attack now the incident does come a day after a nato led air strike killed more than ten taliban insurgents in the same area. italian prime minister is due to appear in court of a corruption charges so this county is facing a trial linked to one of his media companies he's accused of inflating the price paid by television rights and then using the difference to fund a political activities the pm is facing a total of four trials and looting one for allegedly paying for sex with an underage prostitute and abusing his power he denies all charges. and of germany's anti nuclear green part

laura lister r.t. new york. all right well lauren lester our chief financial correspondent joins us right now from the new york city studios hi laura how are you doing. well let's get straight to the bottom of this i mean is the american dream as we know it bad. well it depends on what you consider the american dream if you consider home ownership a large part of that and if indeed fannie and freddie are done away with then there's a strong case to be made that yes it will be gone now i do want to say that it's not obviously been determined what will happen with fannie and freddie there are different options and people that i interviewed for this story did say that some are just cosmetic and the government would still be involved in subsidizing housing but there is a large argument in a large proposal being made to wind fit freddie and fannie down altogether and in that scenario it could be a lot more difficult for people to get loans it's going to be a lot more difficult to for people to own a home i mean as it

from the studios here in central moscow this is r.t. with twenty four hours a day international pressure is growing against colonel gadhafi and nato is boosting its surveillance flights over libya to twenty four hours a day as president obama says the u.s. is considering possible military intervention in france is said to be drafting a u.n. resolution aimed at imposing a no fly zone and they're also suggestions america's are saudi arabia weapons to opposition fighters carnality is correspondent in washington d.c. and nor am it in london have the latest. well the no fly zone is very much what it says on the tin it's in which planes are allowed to fly essentially and what it would mean is that it would give allied planes the right to shoot down anything but of course inside libya and the idea behind that is to prevent colonel gadhafi from turning his air force on his own people from attacking civilians so that's basically what it would do now we do know. and france is said to be drafting a u.n. resolution for a no fly zone william hague t

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r.t. . in just a few weeks the rest since unusual spread throughout the arab world and there are growing fears it could go further still concerns that islamic radicalism will come to power. a political analyst from islamabad says that the threats are vastly overestimate. i'm one of those people who are very skeptical about for example see i guess estimates on the strength of al qaeda in the afghanistan pakistan region we believe that it is very very dissipated very very weak right now in fact if we count the actual numbers of members of al qaeda suspected ones who might be on the ground in either of constant or pakistan currently right now i think that would be of a figure much much less than even a figure like two hundred it is premature to speak really off any religious or any extremist groups of any sort really taking over what is largely a popular discontent about issues such as governance and politics and and the performance of politicians i just suspect that some off the reports that w

thanks for staying with us here on r.t. and welcome to the business news for this hour new rules for russian state companies have been spelled out by president medvedev he says regulation needs to be significantly improved in order to help the country's investment climate we are pretty much still it in order to reduce the influence of state companies on the investment climate we need to do three things first of all to publicize the show jewel of state companies privatisation of the next three years then to eliminate practices where government ministers hold positions on the board of directors in competitive companies and thirdly state companies need to establish a procedure for publicizing planned procurement including prices and information about contracts that would you feel that haven't grasped the c.e.o. of russia's largest bank says measures to improve attract investment are critical for the country. the space in russia is this thick skulled the seventh largest economy in the world and it gets around the heart of the s

people will still fight for him and that he can remain in power we're also hearing out of libya this r.t. sister station the arabic language channel has been blocked by forces in libya inside libya the satellite single being jammed so we'll bring you more on that as soon as we get it. thank you very much for that update peter oliver in cairo keep us up to date on events that are folding. now transform caster to says it's not support for libyan people but interest of the country's vast oil fields that's driving he west rhetoric the only reason they're interested in with libya is back to you oil you hear anybody screaming and yelling about all those people last week that were killed in the ivory coast or the sudan and i guess cocoa was that that you know a bunch of a national priority they'll try anything but we already heard hillary clinton say that they're willing to do anything for anybody in libya that needs aid so they appear pretty good out there already they're talking about no fly zones and the hypocrisy is just beyond the belief i mean for example they did has anybody called for a