the. price of beef. from feinstein. starts on t.v. . the libyan rebels rapid advance towards the capital is halted with reports that could daffy's forces are using heavy shelling despite declaring a cease fire. while here in the capital city supplies are running no excuse for food fuel and medicine keep growing as people become more and more desperate. meanwhile foreign heavyweights meet in london to fresh out libya's next chapter but no one's invited from either the libyan government or the rebels even though it's their future it states. russia remembers the thirty eight people killed in the moscow metro blast a year ago when two suicide bombers blew themselves up during the morning rush hour

. the high price for investing in georgia a businessman who's owed millions and waits of course but it's on wednesday and insists the trumped up bribery charges are so that they see can avoid paying up. this is r.t. coming to live from the russian capital where it's now eleven pm and nine pm in libya where after that rapid advance libyan rebels are now being pushed further back from the outskirts of colonel gadhafi is home town there are reports of a heavy bombardment and gunfire being used by pro-government forces despite claims of a ceasefire. has the latest for us from the capital tripoli. plus often tuesday with we are now explosions here in the capital city of tripoli i was actually indoors

when it happened and i continue that we have windows of the building visibly shook this is the tenth straight day that certainly has been the target of coalition airstrikes and as i'm speaking to you we hear in a few gunshots just coming to my right now it's not only tripoli but also the city of misrata that has been hit increasingly so by these coalition planes this also is the last rebel held stronghold in the waste of libya but the latest report suggests if the rebels off last using ground it's very difficult as foreign journalists to ascertain exactly what's happening in misrata because the fighting there has been going on for almost a month and we have some people and able to enter the downtown area of the city the doctors they tell us that it is already days that the hospital ran out of medical supplies that they have been forced to turn patients away that governments micah's are standing on the roofs of buildings and literally shooting at anything that needs and that some of the government tanks that all shelling are actually shelling

into residential areas now one of this is happening on the one hand there's this wall of arms and ammunition there is another war that's taking place parallel to it and this is the view of propaganda it is interesting that the pentagon has been given almost daily accounts in terms of its operations here in libya but only now has it made mention of its propaganda planes and these are essentially planes that fly over in battle towns and cities they drop leaflets and they bore cross messages urging people to stop supporting gadhafi to lay down arms and to return home it doesn't really seem to be anything decisive on the horizon serving off now in terms of the front line which keeps shifting just forty eight hours ago it certain looked as if the rebels were making a quick at vaughn's ultimately here on the part of the city of tripoli not only have they been stopped at the duffey stronghold of sirte but they're not actually being pushed back and the latest word we have is that they are in the town of binge watch but even those kind of reports. keep changing if you always with some of course suggesting that they've actually been pushed even further back to rust and

bridge the problem with the rebels is that they simply do not have enough weapons not only that but that the weapons they do have are insufficient and old and this is why we hear rebels calling to the international community to number one stick up the air strikes and number to supply them with more weapons their own rumors that they are receiving reinforcements of these weapons from the egyptian border we're also hearing that as gadhafi forces would treat and as they want to wait in face of intending is strike they leave a lot of weapons and ammunition behind the rebels of enable to take and use themselves but certainly the opposition need is very much a hoping that they will be a willingness expressed by the international community to continue to be involved in the conflict here because certainly without international involvement the rebels really do not stand a chance of ever reaching tripoli. poulos live there reporting from the capital tripoli in libya foreign ministers and statesman from about thirty five countries have been meeting in london to outline libya's political future not course emmett's

has been following the talks there. the meeting that took place in london on tuesday is now over it was terminated by a media briefing with u.k. foreign minister william hague and the prime minister of qatar essentially the most important thing that they decided was to set up what they're calling a contact group which will provide leadership for what they're calling the international effort to support libya the first meeting of that group will take place in cats are. reiterated again and again that they are sticking to this un resolution one thousand nine hundred seventy three but of course all this has been decided without any input without any participation of the libyans although members of the rebel opposition were present in london on tuesday and they met with william hague and hillary clinton together with the foreign ministers of germany and france to inform the process they were not then invited to the main meeting at

which the sorra ministers of around forty countries met essentially to decide their fate neither were any members of these governments invited to participate in this program despite the fact that of course they are still the government in power in libya and gadhafi himself sent a letter ahead of the meeting to all the countries participating calling on them to end their barbaric offensive again this meeting was very much about reiterating the fact that they are following this u.n. resolution no matter how liberally they might be interpreted in the text of it and also that telling everyone over and over again that this is an international effort it's not just an effort by the u.s. the u.k. and france but many countries are involved in this and it was about drumming up support for the u.n. resolution and for the military intervention into libya. in london moving to developments in syria now where the president's accepted his cabinet resignation

the move comes amid weeks of violent crackdowns and demonstrations calling for liberty reforms and despite a massive president rally on choose day a new government is expected to be in place quickly the country's prime minister will stay on until that happens president assad will make an address on wednesday with a series of reforms are expected to announce the lifting of the controversial state of emergency has been in effect for nearly fifty years there's been eleven days of fighting in the country with more than one hundred fifty people killed while president blames foreign sources locals claim government troops are behind the lethal violence. well while the us has long prided itself as an advocate of democracy around the middle east it seems that countries software firms have different ideas talk level north american universities have found us internet companies known for helping filter traffic assenting to governments in bahrain yemen qatar and others let's talk about this with stuart he's an activist and

journalist for the montreal based the nation magazine thanks very much indeed for joining us live here on r.t. can you give us an idea of just how social networking sites are actually used and have been used in playing playing a role in these recent uprising briefs we've seen in the arab world. well i think they've been absolutely crucial in terms of organizing the mass demonstrations that we've seen sweeping through country after country beginning in to be sure we call that these countries don't have the same level of free media that we in the west of props and enjoyed for a long time and. the advent of new technologies like this that allow people to communicate with many hundreds tens hundreds of thousands millions of other people at the push of a button has has made really one would think maybe that means we're going to these organizations organizing mass demonstrations and movements and contesting entrenched power a lot easier. it reminds me that you know. such

a surprise that we see a backlash in these countries against these technologies or these media since in the past when there's been this kind of state of you know people forces would say go for the telegraph office and then the radio stations and of course on the television and now as we saw in egypt you know last ditch attempts to shut them down the shut down the internet for almost a week and so it's if they're if governments if repressive forces are able to do that obviously these these media and these technologies are playing a big role well the irony is that they have been able to do that with the help of u.s. companies had reclaimed it said recently that american companies need to take a principled stand against censorship and i quote that it should not be accepted by any company from anywhere what actually puts the us in a in a contradictory position doesn't it when we bear in mind that much of the technology is actually being provided by u.s. companies to these regimes certainly not just to us canadian too as as i was just

made to discover in an article in the wall street journal to look at this in fact the competing company net speaker is providing services to the government of yemen which is a very repressive government but essentially they're all doing the same thing using technologies that might. if once used in schools or libraries to stop people from looking at pornographic sites or and you know the could be defensible. you know in the kind of sending now they're being used to censor. the free flow of information and especially at a time when these countries could very well be on the threshold of democratic breakthroughs one would expect that these these companies and the people behind them must be well versed in these issues to maybe take a second of a second thought i really think that a good many would say that surely these us companies really cannot be held responsible for stifling free speech. being the makers of this web filtering

technology because they really cannot have control of how their customers are going to use their products in the f.a. point well well from their point of view i think it's a cop out i mean if if you're an illegal gun supplier and you you and you who provide weapons to a civil war in africa or someplace generally we tend to look askance of that i tend to think that's a pretty similar thing what's going on now give us an idea about you've already given us a very good picture of how social networking is being used in the these uprisings but it is an idea about the dangers of people expressing political views online because we do get reports that bloggers a pain pain and even jail by authorities. it's always taken courage to speak out against repression in repressive governments i think people will take that risk if they think that they have a chance to to overcome this repression but there's there's there's no getting around the fact that if you take the choice to express yourself online even if

you're doing it to what you think is a really restricted audience this is there's a permanent record and governments of course. the other edge of this or governments can also are also online and to look deeper to reasons than your average tomorrow. moxy activist is and they know exactly what we say on the what sites we are accessing and sit and can very easily build a profile on us not way and no go our i mean this doesn't the ironic thing is that at the moment in the meeting east when people are so strongly advocating fighting for democratic regimes we in the west who perhaps take our democracy a little bit too much for granted are letting our governments take away superman books of these especially in the age of advanced technically inferior cations technologies that we're seeing now we're we're letting our government spy on us

where we're letting them in many cases control what we can and cannot see and i think that we the west have a lot of waking up to do and i think it's interesting that people on the street in the mideast are showing us the way well very interesting a way have to say we have to thank internet technology for this interview we've just done here live in our tape thanks very much tony it's fair to say i'm closer thank you for about it thank you joining us there from montreal thank you last year . because a markedly somber atmosphere in moscow's metro this tuesday a year after it was rocked by two terror attacks thirty eight commuters were killed and many others injured when two female suicide bombers blew themselves up and t.v. stations during the morning rush hour a correspondent peter out of another report from outside one of them. it's a busy average tuesday across the metro system but a very somber atmosphere here at park station where i am also at lubyanka in the center of the city we've seen many people turning up with flowers to pay their

respects to those who died in these two suicide blasts as well as remembering those who were injured in these attacks is well known and say many people stop wishing a. makeshift memorial there on the platforms no as a very busy day on the metro the one thing that has come from this is it hasn't stopped people from using the metro system and are still saying that they won't let the terrorists win and won't stop them from using that they're getting on with their day to day lives now my colleague. spoke to some of those who were caught up in the blast a year ago it started off as just an ordinary monday morning for neatly put off she like many others had a certain string in his step knowing the harsh moscow winter was over but little did she realize the nightmare she would be thrown into just a few minutes later suddenly there was a horrible sound as if something huge had formed.

and i woke up and there was a small haze. people were shouting and rushing to. me he had heard it was the start of the worst terrorist attack in the russian capital in six years just before eight am the first of two explosions hit the moscow subway killing twenty four people at a crowded look down crustacean which lies beneath they had quarters of the federal security service forty minutes later the terror trail moved south targeting a station at a crucial city intersection killing twelve more. these last few days they said he. eight thirty eight right in the middle of the rush hour it's truck up the back of the train us commuters try to get on board it was dark there was no life and i just saw people what is that whatever remains of them some of

them were stretched on the floor of the metro train and the sight was horrible it was people. just before the race and there was nothing that would save them with eight million commuters after a day moscow subways one of the busiest in the world that's made it a terrorist target in the past and on this stage a year ago in wants to be a target once again a twenty year old student leader so the horrors for herself the truth fuses tune isn't she a tragic sometimes i feel something like this i think about these bad general i think that we have safe safety. a year ago tires broad moscow to a standstill by bringing horo to our reading life but if they wanted to destroy people's spirits the goal was certainly in order to secure live goal zone and while the terrorists were out to millions both in moscow and across the globe remains at

something well how long to live with the question also moscow well in january moscow again was the target for suicide bombers this time it was adama geode of the airports the blast there killing many and leaving many many more injured this prompted president medvedev to order view of how russia defended itself against terrorist attacks and put in place many new systems to make sure that terrorists couldn't strike at the capital again and yet every day to day to day lives you will be seeing more police around on the metro system as well as on other transport networks across russia but there's also a wider larger scale until terrorist operation ongoing to. been ongoing for a long time now in the north caucuses where russian security forces fighting against fighting against terrorists groups there now both the moscow metro bombing a year ago and the suicide attack on the comedy out of the airport were both

claimed by the same man rushes number one a most wanted terrorist will cool model for now the most recent. operation was the the largest in recent memory now that left seventeen gunman dead in english no among them it was reported that goku amount of may have been killed though it's must be reiterated that these are unconfirmed reports that we can't confirm a model was among those killed but it has been suggested that he may have been amongst those who resisted arrest by russian security forces in english asia and were killed. presumed to bed to be timid yet it has been very strong in his words about what he what he saying to those people who have been involved in organizing terrorist attacks in russia and those who resist arrest saying that they will face the strongest possible penalties. we've identified all the suspects behind this

most horrible of crimes and most of them were eliminated during special operations this is a just punishment the fact that we've managed to get these villains is good i think that we worked well in cooperation with different parts of the government we've been able to bring them serious losses as moscow remembers those who were killed an injured in a suicide bombings on the metro system a year ago president dmitri medvedev vows to bring those who are responsible to justice and any means possible. that was one of the reporting from outside one of the metro stations in. the country is describing the situation at the fukushima nuclear station is very grave. plutonium has been detected in soil near the plant of the highly radioactive water leaked from one of the reactors the government says it's on maximum alert to tackle the crisis it's also considering whether to extend the evacuation zone around the plant which is now

a thirty kilometer radius the battle to restore the cooling system has been underway for almost three weeks but with little progress ever since the reactors were damaged by the earthquake traces of radiation were found in some products and tap water as far as tokyo which is two hundred fifty kilometers south of the question becomes are still struggling to look after communities shattered by the earthquake and tsunami disaster nearly a quarter of a million people are still living in mass shelters. and welty dot com has more in japan's it struggles to recover from disaster we've online video reports from the moment trying to be struck and its aftermath. for the bodies of thousands of victims relatives are being forced to lay their loved ones to rest in mass graves the reports from the tsunami devastated me from paul so. for want of more because most earthquake experts say the seismic pacific could lead to further destruction in the region. israeli investor who put his money in georgia is experiencing

a dramatic change of fortune instead of a massive payout he's been arrested for bribery is owed one hundred million dollars by the government for pulling out of a deal but when he went to connect the cash he was seized and told he faced corruption charges but he's an isa now he explores why investment in georgia is a risky business. you might not know exactly where this small caucus country years georgia the crossroads of europe and asia are chances are if you watch major global news networks you've seen invest in georgia ads. you. not have magnets are investing in georgia capitals even getting a trump tower of its own on businessmen should be rare and getting trapped. you're just spend millions trying to get the world to know it on a mission to cut corruption but why that is wrong the folks and israeli businessman

who george oh is almost one hundred million dollars been sitting in jail for almost six months with no bail in march twenty turned ronnie fuk swan a ninety eight million dollar payout from the georgian government for a breached agreement on construction of an oil pipeline no payment was made instead he was arrested going to motive was to avoid paying. hundreds. of they were instructed by the international arbitration process was abducted on the world bank. securities he is alleged to have set up a street arresting foods on bribery charges after luring him on a visit to ga i was struck they didn't understand what was happening i thought that if they're going to. take for days before it's over and it would. but. the plot behind it would start was

a trip to georgia to end the fifteen year dispute within official invitation from the country's prime minister turned out to be a one ticket to prison there was in fact the. cooperation of collaboration between four important ministries the government and probably with the approval of the president of the ministry of finance the ministry of justice the ministry of the interior and the prime minister's office all of which came together with the plan to and probably phoenix after the businessman was arrested what could be called a ransom was put on the table cukes was that informed through diplomatic channels that he would not be released until the arbitration award was waived georgian human rights activists blame a broken system that is cracked very top but this is actual sacrifice really does not want an independent court system the prosecutor's office dominates the law and the police are the main power and political pressure instrument in the country to

that this is something food says us lawyers are more than aware of the odds of his succeeding in georgia are very very slim and point zero one percent so it's a good warning to businessmen who are thinking of investing in georgia that they should think twice and they should be were making their legal battle not about winning but a warning others not to tango with tbilisi and he said now why r.t. moscow. when in a few minutes it's time to get on the big banks case and delve into the darker side of wall street investor tactics that's going to be in the cards report but first let's have a look at this hour's business news with dmitri. than thanks bill the russian british article oil exploration to your hangs in the balance there's conflicting parties we. prepared to battle it out in court the

stockholm arbitration tribunal will hold a hearing on the case next week on these cuts in intellectual as well. crash believes that his views will not have pat's investment climate in russia and hopes that politics will come to a solution when asked what kind of advice the crown in the key of russia's presidential laid out by did not accord which said on tuesday that this solution should be mutually beneficial for both sides in the first place now too little and gas giants d.p.n. role snouts agreed upon the joint exploration of the arctic shelf and it shares swapping one of the biggest tie ups ever of issue in russian and it was in company but the deal was suspended option a court ruling out a group of russian investors of tame cod b.p. filed a lawsuit they complained that it bridged become passive news of the russian shelf just and that they were unaware of this wound joint venture was told this is

a control bull snafu seek to push through the optic venture and the shares will we be feed believes the deal is good for russia will say no that's prime minister vladimir putin wouldn't be allies now b.p. says it will apply to proceeds with the shares more on his own without the exploration however its shareholders are concerned that to these assets will be closed without the right to develop all divorces in the arctic may not make sense for the british will try the ruling by stockholm cause is obviously a setback for the company's efforts to support one of the world's largest concept tropes and this agreement with ross now was part of a major strategy to revive the u.k. producer after last year's gulf of mexico oil spill. saga the markets now u.s. stocks are gaining this tuesday session despite is a client of consumer confidence but it was pretty much expected therefore go up point seven mass like point nine percent european stocks ended the session mixed banks were driving frankfurt down to encompass micro four point four percent and

the observer speculates that maybe looking to raise capital in london we could be added. pressure after a broken down in the foot sea ended up coffins. and in russia there was a correction indeed we can see that nazi has my sex down one point three percent the session second why energy majors were trading in the red cross nafta was setting two and a half percent lukoil one point eight percent but back to square invest in the market putting up good just a notch as it announces a deal placement will start early the summer. market is dominated by profit taking and which is not surprising we are seen as small oil price correction it's very very small nevertheless it gives investors a good excuse to take some profits from their oil and gas sector names mostly we are seen oil and gas majors dahlan by between two and two

a half percent on the day to day which is again quite logical and explainable given the run up to that they have head over the past three weeks. russia's two billion dollars solver and fund to attract direct foreign investments may be in place as quickly as you know head of russian state development bank be easy says foreign investors welcomed the idea. when it comes to teaching one thank you we've gained support from the leading private unsoldered investment funds including abu dhabi and the investment corporation of china foreign players support the idea of car investment and they're ready for it. so from the business team for today bell is next with the headlines to say about. the book. the bring.

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