the idea of bahrain is somehow going to turn into this fundamentalist islamist. state i think it shows a real ignorance of bahraini politics i should quickly add there are divisions within the administration on this issue i know for a fact because there's been a real battle in fact about where well u.s. policy should be in bahrain and thus far the more hawkish elements secretary of state clinton's are going to defense a gates have ended up winning but i think this could change the american people as we did in terms of u.s. support for all salvador and u.s. support for indonesia very high the repression in those countries doing enough people raise enough of a fuss and this is reflected in capitol hill i think there is a chance of changing u.s. policy so i really really i so i really think there's a hope in this administration for more and the right and the right you know i'm afraid we have to gentlemen to hear from people would run out of time many thanks to my leslie san francisco new york and pensacola and thanks to our viewers for watching us here at r.t. see y

is going for bahrain is misstating the. right it's misstating that . i think that the fact is we are supporting brain. cancer that are used against the peaceful protesters in bahrain made in the united states there are weapons sold and on. rain rain get aid from us every year equal to twenty million dollars we pay them aid any well run to run their base so saying that we're not we don't have influence or we cannot change the situation on our hands are tied i think it's inaccurate because we have a lot of say so and we have a lot of influence on the regime there because we basically for them they are in power because we are supporting them matthew one of the things i find very interesting is that the united states and many of the you could say the united states waffles from country to country and is it just because the united states wants to make sure there's an outcome that it can live with actually have an ally or new ally with a more democratic face or a new ally that will attempt to reform real or imagined i mean that's what the waffling is all abou

the idea of bahrain is somehow only i'm sure in into this you know fundamentalist islam this. state i think there's a real ignorance of bahraini politics i should quickly add that there are divisions within the administration on this issue i know for a fact because there's been a real battle in fact about where what u.s. policy should be in bahrain and thus far the more hawkish elements secretary of state clinton started defense of gates. winning but i think this can change the american people as we did in terms of u.s. support for el salvador and u.s. support for indonesia during the high the repression in those countries i think enough people raise enough of a fuss and this is reflected in capitol hill i think there is a chance of changing u.s. policy so i really really i so i really think there's a there's a hope in this administration for more and all right john i'm afraid we have to hear from people would run out of time many thanks to my guests the san francisco new york and pensacola and thanks to our viewers for watching us here at r.t. see you next time and remember a

the idea of bahrain is somehow going to turn into this fundamentalist islamist. state i think there's a real ignorance of bahraini politics i should quickly add there are divisions within the administration on this issue i know for a fact because it's been a real battle in fact about where the u.s. policy should be in bahrain and thus far the more hawkish elements secretary of state clinton's are going to defense of gates have ended up winning but i think this could change the american people as we did in terms of u.s. support for el salvador and your support for indonesia during the heart of the repression in those countries i think enough people raise enough of a fuss and this is reflected in capitol hill i think there is a chance of changing u.s. policy so i really really i so i really think there's a there's a hope in this administration for more in writing be the right joe i'm afraid we have to be have to hear from people would run out of time many thanks might actually san francisco new york and pensacola and thanks to our viewers for watching us here are t

the idea of bahrain is somehow going to turn into this you know fundamentalist islamist. state i think there's a real ignorance of politics i should quickly add there are just visions within the administration on this issue i know for a fact there's been a real battle in fact about where well u.s. policy should be in bahrain and thus far the more hawkish elements secretary of state clinton started defense a gates have been. winning but i think this could change if the american people as we did in terms of u.s. support for el salvador and u.s. support for indonesia during the height of the repression in those countries then of enough people raise enough of a fuss and this is reflected in capitol hill i think there is a chance of changing u.s. policy so i really really i so i really think there's a there's a hope in this administration for more and the right and the right you know i'm afraid we have two gentlemen to hear from people would run out of time many thanks to my leslie san francisco new york and pensacola and thanks to our viewers for watching us here at our peak

has walked a fine line in bahrain. during a visit last month, defense secretary gates urged the kingdom to go beyond "baby steps" toward reform. in washington today, hundreds of bahrainis gathered outside the saudi embassy to protest the saudi involvement in their country. >> saudi arabia is actually helping them. they sent troops, weapons. they're helping them, and we want to stop this. we don't want anybody helping them, because this is wrong. >> brown: others said the u.s. needed to live up to its own ideals on a consistent basis. >> we cannot pick and choose which peaceful revolution to support. we need to support the values that we stand on, which is human rights, justice, democracy, and that's exactly what the people of bahrain are asking for. >> brown: the marchers then headed to the white house to deliver that message in person. >> lehrer: coming up: more on the middle east and u.s. policy in the region; plus, shields and brooks; the environmental costs of the gulf oil spill; and a look ahead to robert macneil'

the idea of bahrain is somehow going to turn into this fundamentalist islamist. state i think it shows a real ignorance of bahraini politics i should quickly add there are just visions within the administration on this issue i know for a fact this has been a real battle in fact about where the u.s. policy should be in bahrain and thus far the more hawkish elements secretary of state clinton's or her defense a gates have ended up winning but i think this can change if the american people as we did in terms of u.s. support for all salvador and u.s. support for indonesia during the height of the repression in those countries i think enough people raise enough of a fuss and this is reflected in capitol hill i think there is a chance of changing u.s. policy so i really really i so i really think there's a there's a hope in this administration for more and all right john i'm afraid we have to hear from people would run out of time many thanks might actually san francisco new york and pensacola and thanks to our viewers for watching us here at r.t. see you next time and

interests bahrain is really the dangerous thing it's like august one thousand fourteen your audience don't want to war there the saudis don't want to work there the americans don't i don't work there but it's has a momentum of its own if the shia keep demonstrating do you think anybody i don't know who's just a killer in the cia and the obama administration is anybody talking about that on the inside in a way that your i don't know if they're yes i would imagine that they were because it's not rocket science it's there for you to see it's not going to be a surprise when it happens it'll talk to people that you know if that's on the radar in a way that you're talking about it i talk to very few people but people a few people that i do talk to it's clearly a very strong concern because we don't have any troops that's the problem where are the troops going to come from if they come from iraq sectarian violence goes up there if they come from afghanistan we lose even quicker to the taliban we're going to bring them from korea or from germany i don't know but the problem for the united st

right now would be very interested in creating a firewall on bahrain for example i really want to say more u.s. corporations already censor the internet and leave the government behind oh absolutely absolutely where we want to support that regime because we have a huge naval base there and want to keep it there same thing with saudi arabia oman and what leads you to believe that there's actually that exact line where the u.s. government can actually influence a corporation when things hit the fan of bahrain to say hey that's it and all of the cooperation between the u.s. government and us take companies is legendary eighty into google it's across the board we see this kind of. situation in the cia even the cia has its own venture capital firm called in-q tel that actually provide seed money for a lot of these high tech firms they come up with some of the sensor ware and then there's the power of corporations that they have over washington which also influences that the other way so it's difficult to see how to think that out thanks very much lane that was investigated very last wayne

similarly, it's a problem because the protestors in bahrain are part of the majority shi'a population, for the most part. and the sunni government, like the bahraini government, is sunni.

and in bahrain. and at the time that i was there, the u.s. military had two destroyers that occasionally came in and out of the region. and we had a flagship that couldn't fight its way out of a paper bag with a -- with an admiral who rode it around and we made port stop to remind people that there was a united states of america and don't forget that we actually exist. that's changed a bit. and today we have the largest military footprint of any country in the region. we are dominant in their economy and their diplomacy and everything that's going on. and we have a string, if nothing else, just look at the string of bases. we have, i think, 30 or more bases up and down the gulf starting in iraq and running down. some of them really enormous. i don't know how many of you have been to alludade but this is right outside of doha and nobody wants to talk about it and they try to keep it quiet but my god it's the biggest air base i've ever seen. it's really miles and miles of airplanes parked and actually fighting two wars from there. my question i

and bahrain ordered more than ten million dollars of guns and crowd control agents dozens of arms export licenses to the region have now been hastily revoked but still days into unrest in cairo u.k. prime minister david cameron did junkets to the middle east to flaunt the wares of british arms dealers i can't imagine who was in the promises office who said to them look you can organise dictators. for decades. spent a certain amount of the weaponry that you gave them shooting at their own population and i was a really good time to go and try and sell them some some more i can't imagine what damage when people see british weaponry in the hands of people who are invading bahrain and putting those protesters at the moment reports also say the government misjudged the risk of selling arms to countries like egypt and bahrain but many would go. much further one of the things you've seen as a characteristic of british aid around the world over the last ten years has been the provision of this highly militarized security sector she said to the office it's a case of trying to stimulate some see we

bahrain is a unique case in many ways because in the cay of bahrain, there's one-third of the population of iranian di sent. people who left iran in the 1920s, and when i'm in bahrain, when they know where i was born, they play me persian music because there's a strong culture affinity in many ways. 30% of are iranian dissent, not just shia. i'm skeptic about the idea. >> [inaudible] >> yeah, i agree with you. i don't think -- iranian culture influence is far greater than the political message of the islamic republic which you have to go into sort of, you know, isolated pockets like hamas and so forth and cultivated the ties, but often they bring one to the table. >> the whole aspect in 2005 when i visited southern iraq, i saw the pictures all over the place. i walked up, asked the iraqis what's the deal? we don't want an islamist republic, but he was a cool guy and looks like sean connery. [laughter] it was the supreme leader, religious spiritual leader, and unfortunately you will hear from the u.s. reporters or journalists who read into that saying this iraqis are trying to establish a

and bahrain ordered more than ten million dollars of guns and crowd control agents dozens of arms export licenses to the region have now been hastily revoked but still days into unrest in cairo u.k. prime minister david cameron. leaded junkets to the middle east to flaunt the wares of british arms dealers i can't imagine who it was in the prime minister's office who said to them look you can organize the. spend a certain amount of the weapons and shooting at their own population and i was a really good time to go and try and sell them. some more and i can't imagine what damage when people see you know british weaponry in the hands of the people who are invading bahrain and putting down these protesters at the moment reports also say the government misjudged the risk of selling arms to countries like egypt and bahrain but many would go much further one of the things that you've seen is a characteristic of british aid around the world over the last ten years has been the provision of this highly militarized security sector so exactly the of course it's about trying to stimulate to see we a

it's not a video it's not happy with what is happening it's on it's unfortunate what's happening in bahrain but it's not going to do anything more to saudi arabia because it's afraid of saudi arabia's reaction because the united states just has gotten so used to working with dictators that are due there will. well i think you have a couple issues here and i think i agree that you know the whole like barclays who authoritarian rule is to try and play up what will happen after them we know that in the confine of conversation between president obama and then president mubarak about whether he should step down he kept repeating the word muslim brotherhood muslim brotherhood muslim brotherhood despite that i think then the next day then obama came out and said no it's time to step aside i think some of the other rulers have learned a somewhat i think the president of yemen doesn't want to end up like mubarak being on trial so he cut a deal that says ok i'll leave put you know no prosecution no for me and even in syria they did try it in the emergency emergency law but i think when it comes to wh

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really you know it's not happy with what is happening it's on it's unfortunate what's happening in bahrain but it's not going to do anything more to saudi arabia because it's afraid of saudi arabia's reaction because the united states just has gotten so used to working with dictators that are due there will. well i think you have a couple issues here and i think i agree that you know these people like barclays who authoritarian rulers do try and play up what will happen after them we know that in the final conversation between president obama and then president mubarak about whether he should step down he kept repeating the word muslim brotherhood muslim brotherhood muslim brotherhood despite that i think then the next day then obama came out and said no it's time to step aside i think some of the other rulers have learned. i think the the president of yemen doesn't want to end up like mubarak being on trial so he cut a deal that says ok i'll leave but you know no prosecution no for me and even in syria they did try it in the emergency emergency law but i think when it comes to whether x.

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think maybe approaching a revolution a real revolution a change in the guard there and then maybe the bahrain model backed up by the saudi arabia they wrote the script there and maybe reluctantly with american supporting two different paradigms we have right now dictators that fall and dictators that are really clamping down well i would call that because you have. very different situations actually thinking. this is. different countries. i mean if you mean countries where. that succeeded the were throwing the. country where the fight is still going. basically only two countries where this has been successful and now if i could stay with you. is because of maybe tunisia and egypt what is the learning curve for. some of the autocrats in the arab middle east i mean we look at syria we look at yemen and they've what lessons have they learned when they look at the knees when they look at egypt. no but that's the problem here is you have really different situations that is in a country like tunisia for instance. the ruling clique was more like a kind of. you know more imposing its record even on t

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in the hands of people who are invading bahrain and putting those protesters at the moment reports also say the government misjudged the risk of selling arms to countries like egypt and bahrain but many would go much further one of the things that you've seen is a characteristic of british aid around the world over the last ten years has been the provision of this highly militarized security sector exactly the opposite of the hope of trying to stimulate and see we are providing the neat things which those countries regimes can come down. since the violence began more than a thousand people have been killed in libya and twenty six killed and a thousand injured in bahrain circumstantial evidence gathered by reports also suggests much of that damage was done with british weapons when the under arrest started it a bit least the government scrambled to suspend arms export licenses but this report is evidence that it closed the stable door long after the boston bolted when british weapons were probably already being used against civilians in bahrain and libya the government still hasn't ruled

is it's not a video it's not happy with what is happening it's it's unfortunate what's happening in bahrain but it's not to do anything more just saudi arabia because it's afraid of saudi arabia's reaction because the united states just has gotten so used to working with dictators that are due there will. well i think you have a couple issues here and i think i agree that you know these people like barclays who are thorough kerry and rule is to try and play up what will happen after them we know that in the final conversation between president obama and then president mubarak about whether he should step down he kept repeating the word muslim brotherhood muslim brotherhood muslim brotherhood despite that i think then the next day then obama came out and said no it's time to step aside i think some of the other rulers have learned a somewhat i think the the president of yemen doesn't want to end up like mubarak being on trial so he cut a deal that says ok i'll leave put you know no prosecution no for me and even in syria they did try it in the emergency emergency law but i think when it come

in the hands of the people who are invading bahrain and putting down its program at the moment reports also say the government misjudged the risk of selling arms to countries like egypt and bahrain but many would go much further one of the things that you've seen is a characteristic of british elite around the world over the last ten years has been the provision of this highly militarized security texas exactly the opposite effect of trying to stimulate some see we are providing the means by which those countries regimes can come tell them democracy since the violence began more than a thousand people have been killed in libya and dozens killed and a thousand injured in bahrain circumstantial evidence gathered by reports also suggests much of that damage was done with british weapons when the un rest started at least the government scrambled to suspend arms export licenses but this report is evidence that it clears the stable door long lost to the force of cold states when british weapons were probably already being used against civilians in bahrain and libya the government still hasn'

and there were divisions within the sunni family in bahrain. there were factions within the sunni family in bahrain on the conference and some of his supporters who wanted to have a dialogue and mechem to the more reasonable approach and the other side of primarily insist on the crackdown and it's a red line as you say. >> we've got five more minutes i think. >> one of the big strategic questions brought up this morning i would like you to address and i'm going to put in a plug because you have a piece coming out with james on iran and syria. the reaction development in syria, so that seems to be the big question what would be the strategic impact on iran sugar regime fall and you can talk about it but also alex because the strategic dimension address what it would mean really and if you could just address how the saudis might react because that seems like that might be the equivalent of the berlin wall if one could make an analogy to what happened in 1989 >> i read this piece a few days ago and this man argues of syria goes iran is going to ha

people see british weaponry in the hands of the people who are invading bahrain and putting down these protesters at the moment reports also say the government misjudged the risk of selling arms to countries like egypt and bahrain but many would go much further one of the things that you've seen is a characteristic of british aid around the world over the last ten years has been the provision of this highly militarized security sector to the office it's about trying to stimulate to see we are providing the means by which those countries regimes can can tell. since the violence began more than a thousand people have been killed in libya and dozens killed and a thousand injured in bahrain circumstantial evidence gathered by reports also suggests much of that damage was done with british weapons when the un breasts started a bit least the government scrambled to suspend export licenses but this report is evidence that it plays the stable door after the fall of the cold states when british weapons were probably already being used against civilians in bahrain and libya the government still

something approaching a revolution a real revolution and changing the guard there and then maybe the bahrain model backed up by the saudi arabia they wrote the script there and maybe reluctantly with american supporting two different paradigms we have right now be catered for and dictators that are really clamping down well i would call that because you have very different situations actually even though. egypt and tunisia the situation. different countries. countries where the succeeded the overthrowing the paper and countries where the fight this thing going on yes indeed you have. basically only two countries where this has been successful. if i could stay with you. is because of maybe tunisia and egypt what is the learning curve for. some of the autocrats in the arab middle east i mean we look at syria we look at yemen and what lessons have they learned when they look at tunisia when they look at egypt. no but that's the problem here is you have really different situations that is in a country like tunisia for instance. the ruling clique was more like a kind of. you know we're imposing i

did by and its protesters died in bahrain the u.s. urged humanitarian help in libya analysts pointed out the reality looking at american old. i'm sure you know richer protesters in the room that is where the united states stands on the issue. analysts such as rose off drew the conclusion gates would have had to know about the saudi intervention and that the u.s. was therefore complicit in it an effort to counter a bronze influence in the region just a reminder bahrain is a sunni ruled but it has a shia majority believed to be sympathetic to iran now reports came out that bahrain needs were concerned to they thought they were becoming the target of a proxy battle between the us and sunni arab countries versus shiite ruled iran so we're waiting to see what comes out of the gates meeting with saudi arabia he told reporters that he has evidence iranians are trying to exploit the situation in bahrain we want to know what's going to happen now meanwhile thousands of protesters have taken to the streets yet another day in yemen against their

and twenty six killed and a thousand injured in bahrain circumstantial evidence gathered by reports also suggests much about damage was done with british weapons when the un rest started at least the government scrambled to suspend arms export licenses but this report is evidence that it closed the stable door after the falls to both states when british weapons were probably already being used against civilians in bahrain and libya the government still hasn't ruled out o. me the rebels in libya it remains to be seen whether these damning revelations will make them think twice the british foreign secretary has said that the u.n. resolution on libya made it legal to give people aid in order to defend themselves and the pressure on western governments to arm the rebels is growing with colonel gadhafi taking in his heels a string of high profile figures is speaking out in favor of the move bill clinton for instance has said he would be inclined to do it so far the u.k. is officially off telecommunications equipment to the rebels but many suspect help of a different kind may be on the way to

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it's not a video it's not happy with what is happening it's on it's unfortunate what's happening in bahrain but it's not going to do anything more to saudi arabia because it's afraid of saudi arabia's reaction because the united states is gotten so used to working with dictators that are due there will. well i think you have a couple of issues here and i think i agree that you know these people like barclays who are far terry and rulers do try and play out what will happen after them we know that in the final conversation between president obama and then president mubarak about whether he should step down he kept repeating the word muslim brotherhood muslim brotherhood muslim brotherhood despite that i think the next day then obama came out and said no it's time to step aside i think some of the other rulers have learned somewhat i think the president of yemen doesn't want to end up like with barak being on trial so he cut a deal that says ok i'll leave but you know no prosecution no for me and even in syria they did try it in the emergency emergency law but i think when it comes to whether

the falls to both states when british weapons were probably already being used against civilians in bahrain and libya the government still hasn't ruled out arming the rebels in libya it remains to be seen whether these damning revelations will make them think twice the british foreign secretary has said that the u.n. resolution on libya made it legal to give people aid in order to defend themselves and the pressure on western governments to arm the rebels is growing with colonel gadhafi taking in his heels a string of high profile figures is speaking out in favor of the move bill clinton for instance has said he would be inclined to do it so far the ukase officially offered telecommunications equipment to the rebels but many suspect help of a different kind may be on the way to your emmett's r.t. london. will bring you more thoughts. as featured in more emirates reports. on here on libyan rebels are preparing to restart crude oil exports the first tanker arrives in the opposition held eastern. petroleum is expected to go through cutter before it reaches its main importer. and according to r

and bahrain ordered more than ten million dollars of guns and crowd control agents dozens of arms export licenses to the region have now been hastily revoked but still days into unrest in cairo u.k. prime minister david cameron led a junkets to the middle east to flaunt the wares of british arms dealers reports also say the government misjudged the risk of selling arms to countries like egypt and bahrain but many would go much further one of the things that you've seen is a characteristic of british aid around the world over the last ten years has been the provision of this highly militarized security sector so exactly the opposite of trying to stimulate similar see we are providing the means by which those countries regimes can come down democracy since the violence began more than a thousand people have been killed in libya and dozens killed and a thousand injured in bahrain circumstantial evidence guy. i reports also suggests much of the damage was done with british weapons be on rest started it least the government scrambled to suspend export licenses but this report is evidence that

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and bahrain ordered more than ten million dollars of guns and crowd control agents dozens of arms export licenses to the region have now been hastily revoked but still days into unrest in cairo u.k. prime minister david cameron led a junkets to the middle east to flaunt the wares of british arms dealers i can't imagine who was in the prime minister's office from said to him look you've been arming these dictators. for back and it's they've spent certain amount of the weaponry and shooting of their own population and i was a really good time to go and try and sell them some. some more i can't imagine what . people say you know british weaponry in the hands of the people who are invading. the moment reports also say the government misjudged the risk of selling on to countries like egypt and bahrain but many would go much further one of the things that you've seen this occurrence or stick with british aid around the world over the last ten years has been the provision of this highly militarized security sector so exactly the opposite of that of trying to stimulate we are providing the means

supporting quote unquote but not crecy activists in libya but fighting against democracy activists in bahrain and saudi arabia doesn't really make sense locally on a personal note i guess i want to ask you to speak for your generation for others like you you know second or third generation generation muslims living in the west you seem and you have seen for many months angry about what's going on do you think that this is a sentiment shared you know by your peers by people like you. i think it's important to also understand that one side of my family is english you know i had. a great aunt on one side of my family who was married to a man in the military that lived on the british military base in libya as a human being i don't believe it is right for britain or any other country in the world to have any type of military base in libya and believe me if these powers get their way when all is said and done there will be a foreign military base again in libya and i don't believe that is acceptable i don't expect any human being should be asked to accept that and i also feel that if britain is int

and bahrain ordered more than ten million dollars of guns and crowd control agents dozens of arms export licenses to the region have now been hastily revoked but still days into unrest in cairo u.k. prime minister david cameron led to junkets to the middle east to the wares of british arms dealers i can't imagine who it was in the prime minister's office and so time look. when these dictators. for decades they've spent a certain amount of the weaponry that you gave them shooting up their own population and there was a really good time to go and try and sell them some. i can't imagine what damage when people see british weaponry in the hands of the people who are invading. the moment reports also say the government misjudged the risk of selling arms to countries like egypt and bahrain but many would go much further one of the things you see this occur it's a risk to the british aid around the world over the last ten years has been the provision of this highly militarized security sector so exactly the opposite of what we're trying to stimulate them and see we are providing the means by wh

journalists were arrested and today is the day we're doing a program here the independent wrote about bahrain one doctor an intensive care specialist. was held after she photographed weeping over a good protester. and another arrested and they feed her room while an operation on operation on a patient was going on i mean i seems like that's a very blatant double standard there and it's only going to get worse so if i start out by asking what we're going to be great are different reactions to what is fundamentally the same phenomena. i think very much so the united states has a clear double standard when it comes to human rights abuses by autocratic regimes we don't like autocratic regimes that are considered allies we seem to be willing

back a few weeks you may recall gates was in the region recently visiting another persian gulf ally bahrain that was back on march eleventh he had a meeting with the king there and just days after he left what happened saudi tranks what role didn't really see him right there and a thousand troops they wrote to the country to help the monarchy suppress anti-government protesters the bahraini government declared martial law and what you see right there violent images of a crackdown hit the internet protestors being shot apparently point blank now the u.s. stood by and as protesters died in bahrain they also urged for humanitarian help in libya a totally different position and with pointed this out about the reality of looking at american. i'm sure you know checking on on protesters in the capital drew and that is one of the emergency changes on the issue. now analysts that just rose off drove the truck through the conclusion rather that gates would have had to have known about the intervention by the saudis and that the u.s. was therefore complicit in it an effort to counter iran's influence

interests bahrain is really the dangerous thing it's like august one nine hundred fourteen your audience don't want to war there the saudis don't want to work there the americans don't want to go over there but it's has a momentum of its own if the shia keep demonstrating do you think anybody i don't know who's does need to in the cia and the obama administration is anybody talking about that on the inside in a way that your i don't know if they're yes i would imagine that they were because it's not rocket science it's there for you to see it's not going to be a surprise when it happens you still talk to people don't you know if that's on the radar in the way that you're talking about it i talk to very few people but the people the few people that i do talk to it's clearly a very strong concern because we don't have any troops or that's the problem where are the troops going to come from if they come from iraq sectarian violence goes up there if they come from afghanistan we lose even quicker to the taliban we're going to bring them from korea or from germany i don't know but the problem

the government's own bahrain says it will dissolve the country's main shiite opposition group. since february when anti-government protests began, at least 30 people have been killed and more than 400 detained. the country is now under martial law, but our security correspondent frank gardner who used to live there was able to get around and talk to people. some of you may find his report distressing. >> in a shiite suburb, a body arrives from the north. he had handed himself over to police. six days later, he died in their custody. they say he fought his jailers. his family are seeing his battered body the first time. his wounds are shocking. the people behind me are chanting "down with the king." a man who died in their custody a martyr. i took this case to the health minister. i told her we had seen them ourselves. >> i will try as a person, also a minister in charge of human rights, that we will ask for an investigation. >> the foremost arab state has seen the biggest clashes in the gulf. over 30 reported killed this year. it's polarized the country. under martial law, many

saudi arabia and bahrain. some experts say that suppression of protests there will lead to further revolt, including possibly even in saudi arabia, which has been a longtime key ally out there. are we concerned about that? and what are the obligations of what is happening in bahrain for the fifth week? which, of course, has a major installation there, headquartered there i guess. and do we have contingency plans for the fifth fleet if things will turn bad in bahrain? >> i travel in that area several weeks ago right at the height of the bahrain crisis. and a couple of things really struck me. first of all, how strongly the gulf cooperation council has come together, all of the countries, and the message to me was that bahrain is a red line very specifically. secondly, there was a belief that iran was behind this. i just don't agree with that. all the information that tells us i've seen is iran had nothing to do with what happened in bahrain, like the other countries it was an internal issue. and i do agree abou

say that china ironically has some some colliding ambitions as it were when it comes to libya because bahrain and saudi are currently in the throes of demonstrations not covered on western corporate media and ironically china needs a stable saudi arabia and bahrain for its own energy needs so u.s. interests and trainees interests are one in the same to a degree according to one national security agency advisor dawn when he said the reason we went into libya one factor was we had to get out of it could no longer be leader and it would look to iran is if we make threats that we don't follow through on. also ahead for you this out of course is that behind the uprisings which is the u.s. state funded organizations sponsored revolts in the arab world we hear why there's no cash to fund changing here. and keeping a tab on european aid traps along sends billions of rewards but there are claims that instead of beating privacy it's popping up cruel and humans. i live in a country that don't understand that there's more violence in the streets of this country than there are in the streets a letter sent

the force of both states but british weapons were probably already being used against civilians in bahrain and libya the government still hasn't ruled out arming the rebels in libya it remains to be seen whether these damning revelations will make them think twice the pressure on western governments to arm the rebels is growing with colonel gadhafi taking in his heels a string of high profile figures is speaking out in favor of the move so far the u.k. is officially off the telecommunications equipment to the rebels but many suspect help of a different kind may be on the way to lure emmett's r.t. london. which country following libya's footsteps. with libya being torn apart by the war and anti-government protests gaining momentum in syria the question on everyone's mind is who might be next but he explores if the protests sweeping across the region are part of a covert strategy. if so. the priest in finland is facing charges of inciting racial hatred after openly criticizing the world's most wanted interview with the tape alleged crime the core of the man behind the moscow airport bombings