video on demand. exceeds my old costs and history with the palm of your. fresh fire fights breaking out across libya as the country spirals toward civil war come with gadhafi tends to extinguish the upsurge of opposition force amidst fields of a mounted spread from abroad we have the links of. the us is amassing its naval forces even closer to libya as international voices continue to raise concerns as a foreign intervention. we are in an information war and we are losing that war the u.s. state department says it needs billions of dollars to fight off the onslaught of global media outlets including r.t. . and then all russia close of series will take you to the ancient city of the

beautiful place because of the story taste and drama. for a good evening from moscow if you just joined us one is kevin owen it's nine pm now here and our top story the international criminal court an investigation into the actions of libyan leader moammar gadhafi and some of his supporters too for alleged crimes against humanity it's the first time the courts launched a probe into an ongoing event meanwhile the battle for the oil rich east continues today with reports of strikes over the town of breda rebels claim they took one hundred gadhafi supporters hostage during the fighting the country's witnessing the most deadly of all the arab revolts from over two thousand reportedly killed now during more than a fortnight of fun. the international community has condemned the harsh methods

used to crack down on the opposition this comes as the u.s. deploys troops to two warships already approaching libyan show was a move that raised fears of foreign intervention and the un has warned of the growing humanitarian crisis on which it is in border where hundreds of thousands of stranded after fleeing libya are these policy reports night from cheeriness as the capital struggles to cope with a huge influx of refugees it's seeing. some one hundred eighty thousand people have fled libya with seventy five thousand of them already reaching here engine is yet another thirty thousand are waiting at the border to follow through after other day tuesday there was renewed fighting between government troops loyal to leader moammar gadhafi as well as opposition forces according to residents and eyewitness reports there were new air strikes in the town of brega where just yesterday fourteen people were killed and that now the town was briefly taken over by

government forces but from what we hear it is clearly back in the hands of rebels it is not name two weeks of violence and more moderate duffy is losing control over the eastern half of his country but he has vowed to stay in power and continue fighting against this backdrop it is becoming increasingly imaginable that it could be some kind of foreign intervention in libya the u.s. has already sent warships that have reached the mediterranean and are making their way towards libya we're hearing that four hundred u.s. soldiers are in the mediterranean right now really to gould these were all ships at the same time the british prime minister david cameron for a no fly zone there are many of the international community who are against this including the arab league as well as russia they say that it creates a scenario where you have to have some kind of short term solution been put on the table but no long term prognosis in terms of how this will play out we are hearing the same from locals here they are against any kind of international intervention

with opposition leaders saying as much they say that it will spread the conflict it will undermine the democratic movement and at the same time we're hearing that a no fly zone will involve military attacks on libya's air defenses now this was done in other countries such as iraq and there it crucial that it is unlikely to halt the regime's helicopter and ground operations if anything is runs the risk of expanding the violence here as gadhafi will then have the. justification he needs to merely stick is fighting and his campaigns against people who oppose him. a sliver of the voters on the situation in north africa or your former intelligence officer for m i five only mushroom told of foreign intervention will push through to crack down even harder on his people therefore turning libya into rogues. we've seen this happen in iraq before now where the insurgents have been supported by special forces since the occupation and invasion and it's just not

a good way to go it will create resentment it won't foster the local democratic will and it will give the dictator a pretext to crack down even harder so i think it's definitely a very dangerous path to go down i think for an intervention for the libyan people will be a tragedy because we've seen what happened in bosnia we've seen what happened in iraq where the general population suffer it's not the government which you know the sanctions initially imposed against itself it's the general population they're already in dire straits they're suffering violence they're suffering hunger as well so they will be the ones that have to bear the brunt of any international intervention in terms of what might happen for the west well this is a difficult one it's very much dancing with the devil dictator who is rogue who has no way to go now because his assets in prison in the west he can't flee he's now wanted potentially in the international criminal court for war crimes so he's got nothing to lose he will fight to the death and even if you were to win even if he

cracks down incredibly brutally and crushes the rebels in libya and maintains power yet again then we have a situation where someone who was welcomed back into the international diplomatic fold is going to be very angry and very very cynical about his former allies in the west so once again it will become a rogue state or become a breeding ground for terrorists backers and things like that is going nightmare. russia for its part finished evacuating its citizens from libya together with nationals from twenty six other countries who are working for russian firms in the troubled region president dmitry medvedev praised the ministry of emergencies for the professionalism and success of that operation. with libya is on the brink of civil war and our task was to save all our citizens before it turned into chaos in fact that we managed to do that fast and according to plan deserves the highest praise we were the first country to start the evacuation others were late and face difficulties as a result of. the libyan crisis is now being felt far beyond its borders to

thousands of immigrants already fled to neighboring countries where the unrest has seen the price of oil skyrocket is ridiculous have maps out the latest situation. let's look at the implications of the ongoing unrest in the northern african region and what it means for the rest of the world geographically libya tunisia egypt a large area and these are just some of the countries affected by the civil unrest there just across the sea from europe and this to me that hundred forty thousand people have already fled unrest in libya into neighboring tunisia and egypt but the likelihood will actually stay there is rather slim italy has already received as many of thousand refugees who continue to pour into the country france greece and spain may just be next in line even before. the prospect of massive immigration has always been europe's wars. in real

terms it has never been substantial and we have always been below thirty thousand. possible and every year. clearly the overthrow of the governments poses a whole different set of issues and what europe will be able to do. depends on the ability of actually chord among some of the governments that are most affected i mean imagine if time call a good budget is not overthrown i mean business cannot proceed as usual after this something will have to be done. on the map of libya in terms of oil production facilities will see that eighty percent of the world producing territories right now are under rebel control now europe takes over eighty five percent of libya's crude exports more than thirty percent of libyan oil goes to italy fourteen percent in germany ten percent to china in france and five percent to the united states the unrest has already promoted

a spike in oil prices which climbed it to over one hundred dollars a barrel the highest point in two years and this summer analysts say is just the beginning or prices have a knock on effect june. the cost of. most items because of course you need energy to. make products and deliver them to the shop so. if prices continue to state they stay high that will have significant inflation pressures. on europe and the world finally if a civil war breaks out in libya with the country breaking apart geopolitical implications for the region and for the world cannot be underestimated the major peril now is coming is the islamists are radical islamists interpol all over the region you know these revolutions in egypt in syria in tunisia all of the arab speeds they have been. you can see thirty million radical islamist parties

who have been suppressed by previous regimes like muslim brotherhood in egypt for instance. al-qaeda in libya you know al qaeda is there is strong in libya libyan department is one of the strongest of the world maybe it's the second strongest after the new one one of the greatest dangers is that al qaeda and other could use their dogs to try to get use of it so they're highly volatile situation in this northern african region really bears significance not just for libya but really for the rest of the world. for picking up on the energy side of it an agreement between russia and the global oil giants giving some hope to those who fear the tension in north africa in the mid east will slow down economic recovery for the latest on this multi-billion dollar deal that said catch up with our business there's dmitri medvedev is there even de mint now how is this deal likely to affect the global

energy industry what's in it well first of all it's very important for russia's energy sector because no one has finally grew to become a big international play out in securing this partnership with. france and. multibillion dollar deal as you said it's going to get the foreign expertise to build another second liquefied natural gas plant it will actually be fifty percent larger than the existing elegy plant and sack the lead and it's also going to be the northernmost elegy plant in the world therefore the whole world will learn about building such facilities in these means you raj ical conditions so it seems like a win win situation for everyone ok thanks for that i know it was again in twenty minutes top fifty minutes with all the rest of the business news as well the thought of that see a bit later. ok coming up in a couple of moments time before everything else exploring russia's great cities this time or a closer visit to the central russian city of garros level beautiful places to

there's a glimpse of it stay with us to find there was a cultural hub is often in the limelight that said this hour. more news now though how because those has known things civilian casualties in the afghanistan war are a serious problem which washington is not doing enough to address the president made that statement during a video conference with barack obama on thursday it comes a day after nato apologized for the killing of nine boys in afghanistan preliminary alliance findings indicate they died in an accidental airstrike estimates suggest that nato has killed over nine thousand afghan civilians since two thousand and one political activist. spoke to us he says innocent afghans have become the target of the u.s. led war on terror. these are casualties that have been happening for too many years and there are too many civilian casualties and also the people of afghanistan the civilians are the victims of both the nato civilian casualties and the terrorists

who come with bombings and with industry targeting of civilian areas and the people of afghanistan are tired of both the hearts of the people of afghanistan or in the hands of two incompetent players one player is the international community and one player is the afghan government and both players are incompetent and ignorant about the true meaning of hearts and minds the intention of this war was to fight terror but the people of afghanistan have become the victim of terror the united states and coalition forces have to do much better and they have to also hold the afghan side also at a higher standard in this case what the afghan government and the international community are held responsible in their eyes and in the eyes of the people up honest. next the us is losing an information war will turn into media outlets including us t.v.

that is the message from hillary clinton to congress members who are questioning the state department's forty seven billion dollars budget request for next year and is artie's going to encounter reports the us secretary of state says washington needs to step up its propaganda efforts 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 the b.b.c. is cutting back some five years ago western media outlets including the v.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 can into various foreign media to get a fresh take on events clearly the united states feels on the go through and says in part because it can no longer monopolize not only the terms of you know the soroti in these countries but also the terms of the debate there's other information out there are other points of view and those points of view are profoundly damaging to a country that believes that its point of view is the only point of view or should be the only point of view r.t. presence on you tube is one example almost three hundred million views as opposed to c.n.n. that has around three million archy's constantly growing audience is already an indication to many that the days of media monopoly are over and people demand a multi-polar approach to news into the real commitment to the kind of freedom of the u. verse speech that we really need if we're going to be in

a democracy at home and in a you know a community of nations overseas to maybe hillary clinton speech a few weeks ago on freedom of internet seemed contradictory to the treatment that sources like we cue leaks are getting us legislators are not crafting a lot it would give the administration increased flexibility to go after week leaks and the likes and now the administration is seeking more funding to step up u.s. propaganda efforts of grog during the cold war we did a great job in getting america's message out after the girl and wall fell we said ok fine enough of that you know we're. we're done and unfortunately we are paying a big price for it last year the head of the agency that manages the u.s. government or an international broadcasting asked for more money for his department we can't allow ourselves to be out communicated by our enemies the list of enemies included russia china iran and venezuela walter isaacson the head of the agency

which runs with of america monger the media outlets leader backtracked on this statement isaacson speech for more funding seemed even more unconvincing considering his agency has a budget of seven hundred fifty million dollars and its wave more than the budget of r t iran's press t.v. and venezuela's tell us we're combining probably money alone can't provide global media clout walter isaacson's speech last year so it's quite a hostile message to foreign media exposing shortcomings in the us mainstream but secretary clinton's statement that it will push the u.s. is fighting a global information war and it's also i'm going to strike our reporting from washington our chief. news in brief to update you on a suicide bombers blowing up a bank in northern iraq has killed at least eight people and eight of those were wounded in the blast of a turnover do you think reports of the terrorist targeting people queuing at a bank to collect security personnel were also said to be among those killed it is thought to be the first major attack in the term since october two thousand and nine vend five died they were killed by

a suicide bomber. three hundred christine's took to the streets in pakistan to protest against the assassination of the country's minorities minister shahbaz bhatti was killed on wednesday when militants going down in his car this is the second assassination in two months of a high profile opponent of the country's strict blasphemy laws meantime elsewhere in the country a powerful explosion targeting police in northwestern pakistan killed at least three officers and four civilians in new zealand dorothy's have given up hope of finding any more survivors after last week's devastating earthquake in the city of christ church and. mitchell said they've now switched from a rescue to a recovery operation and will now look for the remains of victims the death toll currently sits at one hundred and sixty one but police estimate final figure could be as high as two hundred forty and most died in multi-story building which came crashing down within away from the rescue operation will also allow the teams to use heavy machinery on collapsed buildings. now we invite you to sit back and

relax a little to enjoy a brand new tour or russia courtesy of our close up. here we go this time we travel some three hundred kilometers north of moscow to the city of yaroslavl with a thousand years of history of breathtaking views as you can see the attraction for two recent year is obvious it is a lovely place of freedom of self couple of times locals take great pride in their commitment to preserving the city's architecture with jaroslav the home of russia's oldest theater well anyway as art is lindsey france has been finding out history and cinema go hand in her own this cultural. it is said that one thousand years ago at a place where they evolved in a culture so rivers meet prince yaroslav wise killed a local sacred bear with his battle axe and then founded the town of jaroslav the

town and region its name for has been known for drama ever sence local filmmaker yuri vacs man gave me a tour to show me why are you the thoughts of what some fifteen to twenty historical films were short right in the area where we're walking or even filming its location to recreate moscow in nineteen forty one with stalin being driven around in this car from the kremlin to the church of the prophet elijah to the embankment time has stopped in a frame of a camera what makes the arse of a region so attractive to filmmakers is that the sets have been standing for centuries nearly perfectly preserved so in studios send out their location scout stuff idea great historical setting get a slab is ready for its cost. and so is its talent alexander petrovitch in a business of setting scenes with paint and a heavy dose of romantic realism. here adapted ernest hemingway's the old man and the sea into an animated film on twenty nine thousand painted plates of glass and

snag the nine hundred ninety nine academy award for animated show. fellow he showed me how he shot the frames with a custom made motion control imax camera system. i've made several films here here i've raised my pupils and now it is in the making of my films i hope that soon they're going to have their own ideas and will start working on their own projects so my dream has come true. other movers and shakers in the industry are generating pupils of their own but in a much more physical way roman current sense hollywood and russian movie career has taken his stand schoolyard film to a whole new level. to be over the past five years we've been training people mostly boys and men and want to master this profession they come from all over russia training for a four or five times a week with complex stunts it's very intensive new talents a real stuntman aboard here on this carpet but there are more ways to jump into the

movies than playing with fire in jaroslava just go get a bite to eat at one of the local cafes one of the most famous of all soviet films was even brazil of its changes profession a screw and ivan the terrible in it the moscow of the sixteenth century was played by the yaroslavl town a rough stuff and of even to say were good restaurant customers at the full cinematic experience this seems of the film are set throughout the restaurant but if you'd like to sleep on it the attached hotel is watch all fall for it caters to the movie mind it with its time honored blockbuster themed rooms evander seeley bitch being the most popular for his part yuri backs men's recent film hydraulic is packed with blockbuster action but his other local repertoire is not in that of the theater or for the city or the heiress lobel is the cradle of russian theatre the

finest theatre founded by short of all course it was the first national theatre that opened in russia it reached the heights of creative and professional. in its time. and that may be but as long as the one thousand year old city of yaroslav will is internationally protected as a historical site it will forever be known as the silent ingenue gracing the background of thousands of cinema and television screens the world over. wednesday france r t let's catch up with the business leaders here after a very quick break. much

brighter if you move the song from funds to christian. t.v. don't come. home welcome to business r.t. with me to be sure but the global oil majors hotel has agreed to buy a twelve percent stake in russia in the kind of gas i think the no votes are going to increase and share in the company to up to twenty percent in the next three years so that was also quite a one hundred stake in an ambitious liquefied natural gas project on the peninsula i think that it will go as details. the deal 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 amount that insua while another tag

will benefit from the investment and experience of the international world giant the c.e.o. of the of french company christopher do marjorie said that to tyler is paying around four billion dollars for the twelve percent stake which they hope to increase to fifteen percent within a year and to nineteen point four percent within three years. russia is a very attractive country for investors which is even more obvious to me the instability that we're currently facing the amal l. and g. aims to start production of the ellen g. in two thousand and sixteen and is designed to produce around fifteen million tonnes of gas per year the project needs twenty eight billion dollars of investment and others c.e.o. of the noble tag because sun says that they will soon start soon start looking for

other participants in the project we're consuming bringing in several other foreign partners into the amal project they will be able to get up to forty nine percent we're now negotiating with a number of possible partners and we expect to make a final decision by the end of the year however towel will stay as the majority shareholder in the project the analysts say that it is good that a towel was picked as it is it will only compliment the implementation of the project. so i go to the markets now to the united states the only trading market the united states labor department says first time claims for unemployment benefits fell to the lowest level since may two thousand and that's way better than expected for the hike as optimism also seen in russia because of. course the psychological gridlock. two thousand points up one point three percent of the clothes my six point four percent of the clothes some stocks now no i would say most interesting after the securing that deal with totality it went up four percent but then it

slipped into the red by med session to close one percent down lukoil is up twelve point nine percent because of high commodity prices and such a stall is also up from three percent of. the market showed some resilience to some profit taking bed it was about to begin this morning on the bars came in and the dynamics changed completely to the positive russian market went against their world price today and that's a good sign. there was a batch of strong market economics since the six coming out of the united states the later in the afternoon and from that foreign russian market sort of build on the gains. in that it simply made during during their a late morning. that's often i'll be back next hour with an update kevin is next with the headlines to stay with us.

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