on out to sea because a growing number of senior libyan officials are reportedly fleeing the country the regime stands with resumed attacks on a rebel held city. georgia wants the world to know it's going to come paying white collar corruption so why is rooney flukes a businessman georgette over seven hundred million dollars sentenced to seven years in prison all the details are coming up in just a few minutes here on our team. of people with the clunkers and they are in danger and yet the government seems. unwilling to. japan's authorities are

under way under fire for the way that they're dealing with the fukushima nuclear plant disaster and the unwillingness to spot the evacuation zone because the latest ahead for you on back to. watching our team from moscow it is now eight pm friday evening here six in the evening in tripoli my name is kevin owen and first more civilian deaths from coalition strikes are being reported in libya with seven people found dead after the recent bombing of the eastern city of brega the u.k. is said to be holding talks with a senior aide to the libyan regime is believed to be seeking an exit strategy for colonel gadhafi after a series of high ranking defections. joins us now from tripoli live bring us up to date with the latest events here paula so is gadhafi going to back down after these

latest developments. well it seems incredibly unlikely that the libyan leader woman gadhafi will step down in face of these increasing defections and also the offer from the opposition of a cease fire deal as far as the defections go the tripoli government is making light of the fact that the foreign minister also qusay is in britain that he has defected they say that he is an old man who is very sick and he asked for a leave of absence which they granted him now we are hearing rumors that is navy and stay in more libyan officials people who are from gadhafi is in a circle could also be thinking of defecting they are in talks reportedly with the british we are also being told that a senior aide to the duckies son has now returned to tripoli after holding secret talks in london apparently he has been discussing some kind of an exit deal for the gadhafi family and we understand that image on the table insists that gadhafi sticks down but so far the tripoli government type lipped about all of that and those officials that we can get to talk simply deny it now the opposition rebels

are offering a cease fire deal but they are insisting that gadhafi first pull back his troops from the western cities of this country and also stop his appearance of in the east of libya they say that if he does not do this they will frighten and liberate this country now there is no reason why gadhafi would actually agree to the cease fire deal because his troops outnumber the rebels by ten to one and after two weeks of tomato airstrikes the rebel fighters have been pushed all the way back to the oil town of radio and at this stage that is where the fighting the same to the around. the border more confirmations of civilian deaths. well the vatican envoy to the b.s. says that the information he has what's the number of civilian deaths in tripoli alone from nato air strikes at more than forty he says that most of these people have been killed in the eastern tripoli suburb of treasurer and he quotes one incident when the house when the roof of

a house collapsed in. on the family and small children inside now we're also hearing from a doctor on that front line the town of he says that in the last few hours different people have been killed in fighting. of his policy reporting from tripoli thanks bring yourself to david cause you can follow up or as well on twitter at r.t. underscore cawnpore i know you give your thoughts have dates constantly on our feed and also check out paula's insides as well in our blog at our main web site r c dot com. or for more on the story today we're joined live by bread alone neal now is editor of the online political magazine spitefulness truly a very good evening to you thanks for being with us on the line from london over

the pretext of intervention if you want the clock back your beer was to stop civilian casualties good now today we've received more confirmation of more severely impaired calls by the coalition air strikes me still really be calling this a humanitarian operation as you see it. no not at all it's a disaster i think from beginning to end it's a very it's i've called it the barbarism of food and what we have here are western leaders who don't know what they want don't know why they're intervening don't have any plan or strategy or even any real leadership and yet they're throwing bombs into a country that was already very volatile it's one of the most reckless actions that western governments have taken for many years and it's going to end terribly for the people of libya and what about the news about libya's foreign minister from the spy chief moose a coup said defecting to grip in a power to shake the foundations of the libyan government it was really a smart move for the u.k. to accept about it accuses of terrorism. well i just think this is. this shows what the west is going to do in libya it's going to back some kind of former regime

former rulers making their own new kind of government this is not going to be an intervention that supports the actual cause of liberation or the cause of democracy or the people in libya who actually want to run their own lives and be free it's going to be an intervention that ends up strengthening the hand of people who have already had power in some form former friends of gadhafi former backers of gadhafi they are the people who are going to benefit people who turn their back on that actually and say they want to run libya in a new way so i think at the end of this we could end up with a situation where libya is ruled by pretty much the same people just about gadhafi himself and that is going to be really proud of the people of libya so britain is acting it's in keeping with what britain has done colonial leaf very many years a lot of concern as well about who the actual rebels are amongst their ranks of nato countries including the u.k. talking about arming the opposition how do they is going to play out in the end if indeed some of those rebels some of those fighters are al-qaeda fighters among

their ranks but i think there probably are some al qaeda fighters i think there are some four former iraqi loyalists i think it's a very mysterious group of people the real problem i think is that western intervention is removing the initiative from the people of libya from people who actually want to be free it's taking the initiative away from them and it's handing it over to people we don't know very much about or to people like cameron cozy and obama who claim to have the people of libya's best interests at heart so the real problem with his intervention is that it's removing democratic initiative from the people themselves who were in the process of liberating themselves and it's giving it to other external actors that's the real problem i think we need to get rid of this western intervention bring it to hold immediately and give the initiative back to the people of libya so do you think this is all badly thought out from the beginning that's what you say again. extremely badly thought out it was a p.r. stunt more than anything else it was a cameron felt that he wanted to prove that he is a proper statesman so cozy wanted to make up for his mistakes in northern africa

for example his support of ben ali regime intern is the obama loss demonstrated he's actually strong minded and is willing to take action what we have is a situation where various different western leaders just want to prove something about themselves and so they're using live as a kind of stage in which to act out a kind of new personality it's a really dangerous strategy they're not thinking it through they haven't got any endgame they haven't got any real strategy they're just using this very opportunistically to say something about themselves and their personalities and their political outlook and they don't really care about the deadly consequences of it all they care about is making some short mileage and some short term gain so proud of their mail editor of online political magazine despite claims being on i'll tell you tonight are you sure you did. well as the camilla. rages on questions remain over how far the coalition might decide to go now and later today in crosstalk. share their views about the issue. to reality is that obama

despite him saying that the goal is natural move could our feet on the ground that's what's happening in the course everyone anyone will tell you behind the scenes that is the goal if you look at the last twenty four hour news cycle you'll see that there are special forces on the ground in libya right now and in afghanistan style scenario that is the first step towards ever greater and. involvement in the conflict on the ground. because of. course later next. seven years in prison that's how doing business in georgia has ended up for one israeli investor who only folks was found guilty of bribery by to police he

caught his lawyers say he was entrapped by top officials so the government could avoid paying one hundred million dollars it owed to the businessmen of his country to groucho over explains more. only a major investor in georgia he's also an on record solent opposition combining both economic development and all diplomacy he worked as an oil trader in new york for some people teen years and yes he he invested huge amounts of cash in georgia back in the one nine hundred ninety s. and quite surprisingly for humanity to go last year he received an invitation to visit george air from the prime minister of the country himself now why surprisingly because for some fifteen years rooney folks has been demanding one hundred million dollars from georgia the money which georgia owes him for a bridge to grammont on construction of an oil pipeline back in the ninety's now a court in london. ruled that georgia indeed should pay the money back but georgian

authorities but obviously didn't want to pay that money to rony folks here believe that invitation is just a formality to put an end to this fifteen year old dispute shortly before that visit in quite a rude sea hotel room and turkey there was an official meeting between. georgian authorities and then they reached a verbal agreement after drinking lots of cognac big roni folks would receive only seventy two billion dollars instead of ninety eight we george owed him but on one critical condition in return he gives seven million dollars back now the agreement was reached only one for melody was allowed to come over to georgia shake hands with the prime minister and finalize the deal the minutes after that happened in front of georgian t.v. cameras row need folks and his business associates were arrested the question is

how did it combat a businessman who georgia owes that huge amount of cash and up in a d.c. prison now the lure of it was a trap very wisely south. by. himself there was in for a. cooperation a collaboration between four important ministries of the government and probably with the approval of the president of the ministry of finance the ministry of justice or the ministry of the interior and the prime minister's office all of which came together with the plan to and for a few fuchs was that informed through diplomatic channels that he would not be released until the orbiter ration award was waived now shortly after roni foods and his business partner were over us to they were all for it runs and what could be called a ransom was put on the table now do just that but he could be released if hugh

admits of guilt and if he gave the money back but rooney folks refused to do either now we know that sure general wants the world to believe that it's on a war against corruption and. personally wants to attract foreign investment into the country so of course he has saved this one hundred million dollars obviously but the question is how much will he lose because now foreign investors will have to thing twice before bringing money into this country. overreporting therefore i am still ahead for you. stephen engineer went missing in ukraine too late to resurface in an israeli prison the scandal is gathering momentum with everything pointing to the ration by the assad which he created authorities had no idea of. all the details in our report from him from here in a few minutes time also for you. if i could back up with everything was somewhat low income into what that great still people here who you make some things which

are being hunted by watch collectors the world over close visits the place where time you see news room stood still but frankly that's not affected the craft of watchmaking join us in russia. officials there are planning to pump out contaminated water from the quake hit reactors at the fukushima nuclear plant authorities hope the measures will help the facilities cooling systems but it comes after radiation was detected in ground at the plant for the first time the levels were in fact ten thousand times higher than the legal limit authorities said they don't plan to expand the twenty kilometer evacuation zone despite the fact that radiation was registered forty kilometers from the facility american writer and japanese. says the action of the government shows it's trying to save face. but one of the biggest problems they are dealing with here is

this whole thing is it left in the hands of the electrical company and in most of the large countries of the world i think if you had a problem of this seriousness you would have to now the central government coming in with all the big resources at their disposal the army the navy the resources of this company are not up to it they don't have the best cars and vans and so on to get to the site well them. in a big wealthy country like japan and there are other ways to do. it and yet the government seems to paralyze just unwilling to make a move beyond what some clear across in the electrical company are telling us that there are many problems not only that relations but one of the curious questions is why are they staying at a facility that is subject to radioactivity just five hundred meters from the site there have been ways to bring in tents to build temporary shelter say one kilometer or even two which would lower the amount of radioactivity that they're exposed to

the issue is not so much the electrical company did it into the right a central government seems unwilling to step in and it's one of the weirder aspects of this that the japanese government seems unwilling to accept reality when it comes to serious danger outside the twenty kilometer limit actually it's not just the u.s. results even the japanese government's own results as published according to a. nuclear radioactivity testing facility which was reported about a week ago announced the same results so it's obvious that people in this hamlet forty kilometers away are in danger and yet the government seems stunned shingly unwilling to move. i can only guess that it's something to do with face saving. made the. government doesn't want to admit. the danger has

gone beyond a certain artificial limit. well as the nuclear crisis in japan continues to unfold some worry the fukushima might turn into another chernobyl and the disaster that ukrainian reactor was the world's worst nuclear accident on our web site you can find exclusive photos too from the area around should noble twenty five years on have been nearly taken for you to see the striking and harrowing images of the follower columns and blogs just head over to r.t. talked on. scandal flaring up after israel confirmed it was behind the abduction of a palestinian engineer in ukraine. accused by television of links with mass is no way to go to trial and israeli prison. he's got the details this story has

definitely more questions than answers and more mysteries than we can imagine the palestinian engineer did out of lucy she went missing in ukraine in the middle of february he was on board a train from hike of to key if when allegedly two men walked into his school argument and removed the man from the train there had been no information whatsoever on his whereabouts until thursday when the israeli prime minister openly admitted that the man was kept in a prison on israel's territory now his connection to the hamas is being named as one of the reasons for such actions and he is waiting for charges to be put against him but his wife and himself are saying that these allegations are not true in fact his ukrainian wife iranica turned to the u.n. high commissioner for refugees to sort this issue out and she believes that this alleged kidnapping was performed by the israeli intelligence service. now what's interesting about the story is how exactly this man was removed from the ukrainian

territory i spoke to one of the former security officers and he told me that in case of a planned operation between the two countries intelligence services this shit this usually is not a problem with a man is arrested then he is quietly deported from the country but in this case both the training intelligence service and the teary ministry say they had no idea of any actions by their israeli counterparts moreover the country's interior minister alexander would you know he's going to israel to sort this issue so the country's in. theory minister has now a very difficult task to tell his israeli counterparts not to do anything like that on the korean territory without letting them now. reporting with three top world news stories in brief now at least twelve people have been killed as the at the u.n. office in afghanistan's mazar e sharif was attacked by demonstrators eight foreigners and four afghan words were said to be among the dead the protest was a reaction to the burning of the koran by an american pastor last month the

demonstrators stormed the compound chanting death to the u.s. in ivory coast fight is supporting the u.n. by posing in the later sun of what's laying siege to the residence of the embattled leader more in baghdad forces loyal to words are of advanced in recent days seizing a key port and the country's capital by been refusing to step down following two feet in of the presidential powers the un has imposed sanctions against him including a travel ban and the freeze of his assets. huge rallies have occurred in the yemeni capital as thousands of supporters and opponents of the president have taken to the streets with tensions high between the two camps hundreds of security forces were deployed at checkpoints across the capital yemeni president ali abdullah saleh addressed the crowd saying that the rule of the country cannot be changed by force the demonstrations come amid a stalemate in his talks with the opposition the transfer of power. time now to

take off with russia closer team who make it their mission to bring us a taste of some of the most interesting places in the country. and this time the focus is the urals it's all between europe and asia chile have been screeching is an industrial powerhouse that's been fueling russian economy for centuries the money is trade now goods are highly sought after military watches and grapes. your weapons but is really when you take a look for a self. time stand still it's like almost. all of this time catherine right away is like being in the time of the tourney anything has to be here over the last thirty to forty years in fact when i look around me some of the archives i'll catch phrases like this one there from back in my childhood they were made in one thousand and sixty nine hundred seventy what's this with

a single was the word incoming it was like oh what's that great still people here don't think you could make things on the fly what the world over you may have heard of these russian divers watches they have been hard by collectors worldwide for several decades now but most can only get their hands on costly replicas which have nothing to do with the originals the real deal is being made right here in the town of the coast. we produced these watches until nine hundred seventy four for the soviet navy then we stopped because there was no need for them but now suddenly they've become popular so we've renewed production now these are the famous drivers watches for watch planes is known for of course there is nothing dainty about them they're extremely heavy and well frankly very bulky so i don't think i could pull them off but for anyone to tell there was in two big things this may just be the ultimate choice and it's not only watch fans taken care of here but those have

something to offer even to modern day swashbucklers. and not from eight hundred fifteen as la coste was the center of calderon's production in the country of return a centrally supplied weapons to the entire russian imperial army. these days the town supplies cold steel weapons widely used by russian special forces and military and student as state gifts and rewards for outstanding service. clients include the army russian federal security service and private collectors who are called still weapons or more recent. rather than a functional one signified power in order to this day so whether you're looking to reaffirm your status with a blade or to keep time with a heavy duty military watch is that almost the town of iron workers who managed to evolve with time but probably have what you want it includes court t.v. should have been screeching. pigs sport in twenty minutes tonight and all great

news for the side salad bad fans this evening we'll have more of that surely then but let's get across the business for moscow next time. that's right time to get the latest from their world of business and business isn't russia could be in for a tax break president medvedev says the social tax rate which pays for health care and pensions should below it it went up to thirty four percent at the beginning of the year and betty analysts say it's having a negative impact on all types of businesses how whether to revert it a partner at ours to young taxation is not the main issue for investors. i don't think the issue is investment on in russia is it taxes to be taxes and it actually is one of the. reasons why russian is important is not as good as a real wasn't to be. done the research should such

a short as major impediment to invest investments in russia both local and foreign is brokers and the purchased. my time to have a quick look at how the markets were fairing the russian stock market has hit a new twenty eleven high on a total global optimism both your chest and my sister dished up more than one and a half percent negative may just pour it on friday with gazprom finishing up more than two point six percent russian markets this week have been quite volatile however the positive bias has prevailed and the markets are closing one percent up a well supported by the growth in the. oil contracts by around two percent as the military conflicts in libya continues to be pressing outside of the oil price environment what we have seen in this week is a mixed bag of statistics from the us europe and china today we have seen a very strong change in my numbers which came ahead of consensus and with lots of

growth for the first time in four months we have also seen renewed concerns of the european sovereign debt crisis with portuguese debt trading at record high yields in the entire history of the european union. now russia about to take off going to big the russian government is going to almost fourteen billion dollars giving them an operation along with air traffic control present verb hopes this will also improve air hotlinks across the country and the world. but i mean you're the one who compared with ten years ago the number of civil airports is full and by almost forty percent the main problem is the infrastructure of many airports does not meet existing requirements in order to improve the situation the government will spend one hundred seventy five billion dollars on aviation in general by twenty twenty that's ten times more than in the last decade . year which is here and canadian or to parts company magna may supply

components for the first russian hybrid car the deal more built is the brainchild of businessman mikhail prokhorov it's aimed at saving energy and being cheap to buy and run production to start next year with plans to produce ten thousand cars annually it's expected the starting price for a gallon of bill will be around sixteen thousand dollars the car will have to abortions a four door so luna just sporty coupe a version like that scene with the prime minister put a behind the wheel. ok that drops out the business both enjoying the last one was time for more business stories here on our team and get more from our website our consular.

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