libyan regime has largely rejected the deal proposed by the opposition who offered this ceasefire exchange for troop withdrawal and the resignation of the dumping. of. satirical take on the middle east unrest a combination of a fairy tale any nation that news headlines come together to create an online hit. and work on cleaning up and securing the fukushima power plant will take longer than expected say the u.n. nuclear forces getting some to question it japan could be doing more.

for a break from the busy life we take you to an authentic ski resort in the new rules area breaks free of its reputation of an industrial region. there that this is r.t. world news and much more well straight to our top story now libya's embattled government has flatly rejected rebel calls for a cease fire describing their terms as mad opposition leaders are demanding the regime withdraw its troops from western cities and grant freedoms to citizens are insisting the daphne steps down. is interesting. it seems

incredibly unlikely that the libyan leader moammar gadhafi will step down in face of these increasing defections and also the offer from the opposition of a cease fire deal they are insisting there could be first to 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 fight on and liberate this country now there is no reason why gadhafi would actually agree to the cease fire deal because his troops off number the rebels by ten to one and up to chew weeks of nato airstrikes the rebel fighters have been pushed all the way back to the oil town of regular and at this stage that is where the fighting is saying to the ground as far as the defections government is making light of the fact that the foreign minister who supports that is in britain that he has defected they say that he is an old man who is very sick and he also a leave of absence which they granted him now we are hearing rumors that as many as ten libyan officials people who are from reduction 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 gadhafi son has now returned to tripoli after holding secret talks in london apparently he has been discussing some kind of the exit deal for the gadhafi family and we understand that the image on the table insists that gadhafi sticks down but so far the tripoli government tight lipped about all of that and those officials that we can get to talk simply to deny it the vatican envoy to their b.s. is that the information he has what's the number of civilian deaths in tripoli alone from nato airstrikes and more than forty he said that most of these people have been killed in the eastern trip in the suburbs of two shura and he quotes one incident where the house when the roof of a house collapsed in on the family and small children inside that we're also hearing from a doctor on that front line the town of gregor he says a seven people have been killed in a strikes so the number of civilian deaths continuing to climb well journalist and

author says the rebels are too weak disorganized to dictate conditions to go his forces. duffy will never step down he's a fighter to the end and it is seems extraordinary that of the losing opposite the opposition forces while they are losing the war we try to dictate the terms of surrender to the party that's winning which is to defeat the united nations has jumped into this conflict before they were before they understood who they were teaming up with they did not understand anything about this opposition force the opposition force is not highly emotive they may be passionate in their politics but they are not highly organized on the battlefield essential you're going to have to have a ground war to remove gadhafi or washington is backing military force in the area

could not get in or bahrain despite all three states using violence to crush public uprisings in advance of the chair research and author from argentina explains why western leaders are very selectively comes to ousting dictators in the arab world. we have to be very careful with the double standards that are being used by the western nations in this case so far france britain and you know stays because these you to make a great differentiation whether we are raising is from a bad guy government. or whether is one of the good guys as we are seeing in saudi arabia we should leave it alone good suppose a good guy bad brain will you know. be you know shoot and there have been no invasions of saudi arabia or there are a worse empowers. people is part of the turmoil that is being spread even on purpose i would say. but some say the policy of double standards may play in the hands of criminals by leaders around the world to rally against. and so the past

few sometimes in this kind of additional crimes they commit. an israeli businessman who invested millions and ends up in jail saying his case was corrupted by the government to avoid payday. almost a million views on you tube in less than a week the fairy tale of the three little pigs is enjoying a comeback turned into a cartoon by a russian illustrator generation satirizes young rest of course in north africa. which built a house of stone. a cartoon parody starring pigs. birds and r t possibly the best and shortest explanation summarizing the uprisings in tunisia

egypt and libya. three big pigs was created by russian illustrator igor's goot a twenty six year old motivated by technology and politics wanted to do. i wanted to do. i just looked. forward. to try for to. put. those things in this three little pigs remake living in charm and moammar gadhafi and the ousted leaders of tunisia in egypt take the form of green pigs hiding in houses angry bird protesters smashed in ali and mubarak but with libya. this so-called freedom fighters sixty victory with the support of an american eagle wearing

a french pack. in less than five days this viral clip has created a global bars and garnered nearly one million hits on you tube says he will likely make a second video and has already been approached about turning his cartoon into a game colorful metaphors and imagery illustrating the story of revolutions as the world waits to see how the real and game plays out we're in a fortnight r.t. . condemnation of the international community has given rise to accusations of hypocrisy recent conflicts that suddenly punched. and for their crimes as long as they hop back in the us. warm welcome and for handshakes for someone who just three years ago gave the order that led to the deaths of civilians in the republic of south the city has been dealing with one of

the great leaders of the world the georgian president with his fluent english is a welcome guest on american t.v. shows where he's never asked the question why in the middle of the night on august the seventh of two thousand and eight a georgia begin the major artillery bombardment of the sleeping city of involved and the peaceful palace nearby. the region which georgia wanted to bring under its control was razed to the ground. hundreds were killed in the attack. nearly lost his daughter in sacrificially as bombings she was visiting relatives in one of the towns in south the city i believe scottish really should be removed from office i think you should be tried in international courts for rule crimes but when it comes to mikhail saakashvili even though the e.u. finding mission determined that he started a war in two thousand and eight and ordered a bloodbath in south of here the georgian president is still supported in the west

they have no strategic interest in. supporting his overthrow the notion that decisions get made on the basis of humanitarian concerns is simply false it doesn't it's not the basis for the decision about libya it's not the basis for decisions about georgia about palestine about kosovo the question of who is held responsible and how is very much a strategic question it's not a legal question as it should be to boost its strategic importance among other things georgia has dispatched one thousand troops to join allied forces in afghanistan and became the leading troop contributor relative to georgia. overall population down lists and as this fox news interview shows almost unstoppable praise of the us is also believed to have played a role in the west supporting saakashvili no matter what his crimes america's like because it's based on bringing some american archer and more war to the

refrigerator for you got religion in this place a fear of regulation the bastard so you are now as the world has declared a no fly zone over libya to stop could our feet many wonder why a no fly zone was never on the table when the georgian president launched his dad lee campaign or when israel bombed the gas of those three weeks in a row on the question for example of gaza where you had a blatant act of aggression clearly a violent massive violation of not only international human rights norms but war crimes crimes against humanity being created fourteen hundred people killed of whom more than nine hundred were civilians more than three hundred were children it was a horrific situation that went on for days the problem there is that israel is the protector protectorate of the united states and the u.s. was not going to allow anyone the united nations or anyone else to actually engage

in a serious way in stopping that massacre you would think if a leader commits atrocities he would be pretty like they would benefit me now and then come to our ball but with myself that's not the way politics works the georgian president killed scores of civilians but was exonerated by the west politicians accept him as a friend business leaders are looking for the best in his country and it seems the worst is happy to continue turning a blind eye to the blood of cyprus he's head i'm very check out reporting from washington r.t. . well still to come for you why the u.s. dollar could be out of the picture and the creation of a new global but if you system. i think it would be which arose what we had were a free country. you can come from nothing and make a million dollars or you can lose it all but you opportunity. other opinions gathered by the residents of the streets of new york.

putting the pieces in place we report on the assembly site of some spacecraft launching. space exploration. un's top nuclear officials has warmed up aeration to solve a crisis at the stricken from the facility will be prolonged more than three weeks after a devastating earthquake and tsunami situation at the site remain serious while the parents prime minister is set to visit a. morale among those working at the site workers have been using fresh water from a barge they tested to try to who down the. authorities say they plan to expand the twenty ration. was registered with the conference from the facility american writer and expert on japan alex says the government is not doing enough to resolve the crisis. and one of the biggest problems they are dealing with here is this whole thing is that 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'd have now the central government coming in with all the big resources at their disposal the army the navy the resources of this film company are not up to it they don't have enough cars and vans and so on to get to the site well them. in a big wealthy country like japan there are other ways to do it and yet the government just seems to a lot just unwilling to make a move beyond what some peer of threats in the electrical company are telling them that there are many problems start only the variations one of the cheeriest crèche . since 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 the temporary shelter say one kilometer or even two which will lower him out of radioactivity that they're exposed to the

issue is not so much what the electrical company did or didn't do but why the central government seems unwilling to step in and. press scandalous and politically charged trial in georgia has ended with an israeli investor sentenced to seven years in jail. who was charged with bribery that he was set up in a government which is the one hundred million dollars. a roni flukes is not only a major investor in georgia he's also an on record so in turkey a position combining both economic development and all the rock diplomacy he worked as an oil trader in new york for some people teen years and yes he invested huge amounts of cash in georgia back in the one nine hundred ninety s. and of course surprisingly poor he managed to go last year he received an invitation to visit george care from the prime minister of the country himself now

why surprisingly because teen 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 that year ruled that georgia indeed should pay the money back for georgian authorities 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 and shortly before that visit in quite a read see a hotel room in turkey there was an unofficial meeting between rooney and georgian authorities and there they reached a verbal agreement after drinking lots of cognac that would receive only seventy two million dollars instead of ninety eight to georgia owed him but on one critical condition in return he gives seven million dollars back well the agreement was

reached only one for a mallet he was allowed to come over to georgia shake hands with the prime minister and finalize the deal now minutes after that happened in front of georgian t.v. cameras rony folks and his business associate were arrested so the question is how did it combat a businessman who georgios that huge amount of cash and are in a prison now the lure of it was a trap. we wisely set out 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 address probably things fuchs was that informed through diplomatic channels that he would not be released until your

patrician award was waived now shortly after his business partner was over they were all for it runs and what could be called a ransom was put on the table now you just said that he could be released if he admitted guilt and if he gave the money back but rooney folks refused to do either now we know that juror 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 think twice before bringing money into this country. the controversial case may well deter other potential investors from doing business in the country that's according to. the conservative party of georgia. right no it's

a signal not only for israeli businessmen but also i think for european business before american businessmen big if you are not being corrupted doing sweet georgia encourage you can you do business in georgia this seems signal was the i think it was four years ago the. resource only in the market the story the center of who he was rated great was supposed it will be very tragic for georgian economy would cave in the right no mr fox inferentially spatially after this case was the move towards by israeli government different international restrictions that was leader of a conservative party of georgia. but to get more news and stories from our team on to our web site at www dot com. what's there for you right now as the snow finally melts in moscow some of the capitals and it is clear the singing season open in the city really it's that. simple. as

you've never seen it before check out the spectacular high resolution images captured by a russian satellite. if . preparations are in full swing for the upcoming so you space launch as the staff and crew make all the necessary checks for takeoff as our city has more on this story. over a few days before the actual launch of the so used to be twenty one and we have been witnessing the assembly of the rocket the big three made more tools that make up the spacecraft now according to be a staff here it takes about ten days or more to put together the spacecraft but today what we've seen it took about seven hours just to a put one piece of the structure to the top most part the very first module that contains the a cabin where the crew will be staying what they put today was

a crew escape system and this is very important because should anything go wrong during the launch this will provide them with an escape plan as we were standing here watching the assembly we were able to see very closely the exterior of that the module carrying the cabin we saw of course the image of utica got in and the number fifty obviously signifying be a fiftieth anniversary of you got his first space flight on april twelfth nineteen a sixty one at that what's very interesting is the captain of the crew captain alexandre there are some he was known as a little guarded what he was so it's if you will a good coincidence on his part of the other crew member cosmonauts i was able to say go and american astronaut ron garan they're going to be testing themselves are basically going to be lab rats they're going to be testing how the human body can survive for longer in space this is of course a further space exploration to see how long human beings can stay in space and to prolong this capability of human being sent another important experiment they will

be doing is observing the earth from an ecological point of view given the natural disasters we've been witnessing recently. the instability in the middle east and the japanese disaster. economic crisis in western show host rip off in the streets of new york used to be done to avoid financial collapse. billionaire investor george soros is holding a conference to be attended by the world's richest and hence most influential people the agenda to reform the global monetary system how do you fix the world's economy this week let's talk about that well number one they are trying to figure out how to fix the economy they're trying to reply to a what's already going on which is the governments of long since lost control of the monetary wealth and it's because. corporate.

when i do. it actually draw a line between the two. corporations and government which right now their line is very blurry my and most important economic trade which is triple bottom line which means you look at what's best for not only the businesses not only for the employees involved in businesses but society as well so that becomes your economic standard then you're improving not only the companies and other global economy but the. area that that that companies working in as well as a lot of people are feeling like it's time for the dollar to step down because there's always been animosity against the u.s. . because we're the best. so is it jealousy of. the i do i think a lot of people are jealous of what we have were a free country you can come from nothing and make a million dollars or you can make a million dollars and lose it all but you have opportunity i just about from italy

and i got crushed by the. you know thirty percent of the dollar's losing weight no matter what we doing well look i remember back then i used to turn to sixty yen to the dollar now it's maybe a hundred they saw the. global monetary system do you think oh now you can hire a socialist i can go down that road no matter what you or i think should be done. and to improve the global economy the bottom line is those decisions will always be made by those with the most money for better or worse. continuing our russian close up series the team heads off to the foothills of siberia to reveal a relaxing get away from. us

we're in for the audience in a southern rural region closed off to foreigners into as recently as the one nine hundred ninety s. but today it's a natural beauty and splendor are on display for everyone just as the region taishan a haven for those who want to get away from the hostile and bustle of day that parties. when the soviet union broke up businessmen ensured and so an opportunity to turn this once closed off region into a major tourist destination after all a good look around shows the southern you have much to offer. was always perceived as a metallurgical region of course it remains so to this day but many people see that there's more to life here than iron works and places such as this one start to attract thousands of people i love is a businessman who on a whim invested most of his capital into building a resort near the national park the russians generally prefer to hit the slopes in

europe are legs surgeon says the number of visitors to his resort grows every season with used to work with you go to the alps and you love it but you come back here because it's home and it's just two hours from moscow by plane. not to mention the fact that you can get away with this in a lot of skerries or it's in europe snowboarding stress relief it's just part of these keepers and which draws young and old alike to the children's krege and. in places like this you really do relax and get away from the fast of a large city which is totally unnecessary and it's all about resting your mind and body the landscape in this part of the year as mountains actually goes a long way towards helping the mind unwind of course there are plenty of boarders in the world that have snow but if you want a true russian winter fairytale and they're going to a national park is definitely the place for you here we met another leg the head of to going i travel and the owner of the hiking camps in the national parks grounds.

we began building our first thoughts eight years ago literally pulling all the ways we carried all the building materials on our backs but even if you use transportation it's still difficult to get all that to our camp sites but thousands of tourists every year do manage because the region previously known as russia's defense stronghold has too much to gain or when it comes to natural beauty interim clearance initially involved r.t. . well now some other international stories making headlines this hour fighting has been raging in their ivory coast's presidential palace as forces loyal to the internationally recognized president of the torah try to bring into power system that are as fighters have gained control of the majority of the country but have so far failed to oust entrenched leader one but meanwhile the red cross reports that more than eight hundred people were killed during a while its investment on the way say fighting erupted on tuesday the day after the

town was taken by opposition fighters. three palestinians were killed and one injured in an airstrike on monday israeli drone in the southern gaza strip on saturday officials say the men were traveling in a car at the time israeli defense officials confirmed it was a preemptive attack on a mass of minutes on an edge of the running to kidnap his remains. but in a few minutes sorties hundreds of hits the russian community in paris stay with us .

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