well for british science it's time to. go. to. the market. find out what's really happening to the global economy is really large on our. colonel gadhafi regime brogues a diplomatic solution to the conflict in libya where a fighting continues around rebel strongholds with the oldies on the rise and these are you anyway. in battle insurgents need for the coalition to arm them to compensate for their lack of discipline framing and manpower. a russian pilot is set to stand trial in new york for alleged drug trafficking from moscow maintains the man was simply kidnapped by the u.s.

. and its only have a matter of hours before three space on blast off into orbit marked the fiftieth anniversary since you were guards first why. is a town in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie more than two hundred fifty injured libyans have fled fighting in the western city of misrata aboard a humanitarian ship victim silvio going clashes were transported to the rebel stronghold of benghazi meanwhile a khadafi amboy has told the greek prime minister that the libyan government is seeking a solution to the crisis and wants the firing to stop our correspondent policy or has more from the capital tripoli. the work of bloodshed is increasingly being used to describe the situation in the last rebel held city in the west of this country

the city of misrata now according to doctors on the scene they say that one person was killed and several people were wounded in the early hours of sunday morning when the government forces renewed shelling on a building in the city and we understand from the doctors and that and to a few days ago there were number of civilians being housed inside that building they had been injured in recent clashes between pro and anti gadhafi forces but fortunately there have been evacuated before the shelling began we are also hearing from doctors that in the last week alone hundred and sixty people have been killed in misrata itself from these battles gone been told by doctors that in the month of fighting between six hundred and a thousand civilians have been killed in this city so if you the rebels have been in control of it for more than a month now what we are seeing increasingly is that the government troops are intensifying the shelling and more and more that's likely that the city forward to the hands of gadhafi is mihm ever since the united states handed over command of the military operations here in libya to nato the u.s.

has been decreasing the number of combat missions it carries out here we are hearing from top american military officials that they are also going to begin withdrawing the fighter jets this submarines and the missile ships now this does come across does come against the background of the stalemate in terms of fighting on the ground between those pro and thank you forces around the city of brega in the east of the country it also comes against the backdrop of increasing criticism from within the american president barack obama's own administration over questions in terms of the representation and the capability of those opposition fighters as far as the tripoli government goes that they continue to pull those a quote a crusader route they say that these actions are illegal and immoral and they are not voicing movie concerns that in the future they will be the supplying of weapons to these rebel fighters this will soon be followed by training and ultimately end in the deployment of foot soldiers. our spawn policy are there meanwhile and second document has met with british diplomats to ask for more help and weaponry western

allies have not yet decided on whether to arm the rebels but the u.s. has agreed to expand its participation in coalition airstrikes until monday the opposition admits a lack of organization and training is making it hard to win the war against gadhafi as are facing workers cannot has been finding out a war on this side of the road. you've got to have these armed forces are just a few miles ahead for the rebels this is the time to cool their guns and regroup with everyone men facing ten on the other side discipline is vital but do these men have any. every day in the rebel stronghold of benghazi more pictures of those killed or missing or put up on the walls and for the first time at least a dozen rebels are reported to have been killed in a call in strike still many locals say they realize they have no choice but to

accept the losses. but with. more than two weeks of classes the no fly zone was put into effect over libya and nato planes have been trying to rein in heavy artillery clearing the way for the rebel fighters on the ground and there is even speculation egypt and the u.s. may be secretly training but the front line is still shifting back and forth with the rebels achieving only brief advances west. of the their you anyway. the opposition says they are ready to take weapons from any willing steed in order to get their feet but it's. more weapons will help improve discipline. teenagers training or combat experience

but. it seems that they are think they are not you know very much representative of what's going on on the ground we are seeing very articulate people talking to various governments in europe but also to the americans whereas on the ground we are seeing rebels armed rebels completely disorganized who do not have much of a they do not seem to have any political points to make aside from of course getting rid of gadhafi according to some estimates only twenty percent of the good of these military might have been destroyed despite the efforts instead his forces are reported to change tactics come of watching themselves as rebels to confuse nato pilots as well so let's face it with the current pool level of organization and training the rebels alone are no match for gadhafi superior forces and it's

only with the help of the alliance that something could be achieved but the question is health for its nato itself plenty to go you go to school or forty eastern libya coming up in just a few minutes here in r.t. sweden commits its forces to operate odyssey dawn find out why some swedes are happy about your country's role in the intervention and stop the relationship with nato. in syria and now other arab country torn by anti-government uprising tens of thousands have marched in memory of protesters killed on friday the country's president bashar assad has blamed western influence for the turmoil and apparent journalist james corbett believes foreign military intervention could be on the cards for syria with iran the ultimate goal. the president is being stuck right now with the libyan case and if they're able to get away with it i suppose if the forces of western imperialism are able to get away with this in libya then it's

really just a question of implementing to seem scheme in syria and we've seen how it can be done by for mentoring and funding and training and arming and supplying the rebel forces in the country and in and basically covert attempts to implement regime change and i think that's exactly what an intervention in syria would be about ultimately it would be to isolate iran obviously syria being an absolutely vital strategic partner and a long term partner of rand and providing that land link to have hezbollah. and so it's absolutely a geo strategic location and it's very strategic for rand so i would see say that if the if syria is the next country to fall under this imperialist intervention i think that would definitely be the long term goal would be to isolate iran to hopefully eventually in the imperialist eyes to overthrow are going to judge the regime and about her allies james corbet talking earlier. now aides with his fighter jets have arrived in italy and are now under nato command

they'll be used to enforce the no fly zone over libya despite the fact sweden isn't a member of the alliance swedes are already venting anger at their government for committing troops to afghanistan and feel their national interests are being sacrificed in nato and the us i think so now it reports. sweden widely known as a voice of neutrality and peace and swedish people believe still believe that we are normal and the true. why then just we didn't need antiwar groups like. sweden is very integrated in both and they'd like to tease both in the administration and also with over five hundred soldiers in afghanistan right now but are under their command whatever with previous government.

well apologies for the privilege they're now we are keeping you updated on the latest developments in libya on the air and online and you can also follow our twitter stream any time r.t. correspondents are on the ground in libya bringing you the latest developments and eyewitness accounts of the fighting log on to find out what i was near is here in tripoli with our correspondent going off to date from the rebel stronghold of benghazi also you can follow us on our facebook page as well as check out the latest videos on our you tube channel. disarming saddam hussein. charge of iraqi citizens. this event brings further assurance to torture chambers and the secret police are gone forever. places again over embassy in kabul. chance to launch occupied afghanistan.

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where did it take the. morning's today violence is once again flared up. these are the images from. the streets of canada. china operations are today. what an idea live from moscow aides waiter's fighter jets have arrived nasally and are now under nato command will be used to enforce a no fly zone over libya the spy the facts with is a member of the alliance swedes are already reading anger at their government for committing troops to afghanistan and feel their national interests are being sacrificed to nato and the u.s.

has more. sweden widely known as a voice of neutrality and peace and swedish people believe still believe that we are nonaligned and they have trouble. why then just we didn't need antiwar groups like oh fuck sweden is very integrated in gold in the those activities both in their administration and also with over five hundred soldiers in afghanistan right now but are under nato command whatever the previous government or thing but the fact the government says this about swedish combat troops in afghanistan we see our participation in international crisis management missions in a popular mandate as an expression of solidarity and responsibility of sweden in the world the question is whose popular mandate. and the go go native

strategic concept it's what it's different so they don't have they don't have an old most swedes aren't aware of how aligned sweden is with nato really you have ignored it you have a military and some politicians cooperate in france of the united states of america and the large mass of the population being totally unaware. the public is told its peacekeeping under the program partnership for peace for heaven's sake partnership for peace is just ended chad before late to nato is also. doing military exercises sweden is home to neat or the north european airspace test range twenty four thousand kilometers of restricted airspace past ground room a testing playground for nato and the u.s. and has actually just arguing that this is where war starts right here at home.

neutrality or nato some say the ground time sweden makes the troika critics claim there's so much have gone through port for the alliance the nordic nation might as well join the club officially and give up its unaligned status. and use the now i r t gulf and sweden russian pilot constantine or xango is facing trial on monday in new york for alleged international drug trafficking he was arrested by u.s. officials in liberia last year his lawyers accuse american agents of kidnapping and torturing a pilot and artie's honestly if you're going to reports this is not the first time the u.s. has targeted it russian citizens. a legit tons of cocaine a pilot snatched up and brought to a foreign prison and a wrong fax number this is the case of constantine your shann pro russian pilot in his forty's scooped up by u.s. officials in liberia last year prior to

a manhattan jail and along with four other suspects charged with international drug trafficking. for a long time he did not even know where he was when he was brought to the u.s. he was put in solitary confinement and he didn't even know he was in the united states constantine's wife victoria just arrived to new york she says her husband was kidnapped by american agents well america says your show was smuggling drugs to south america africa and europe mostly from minnesota a lot of liberia the pilot has complained he was beaten and tortured following his arrest. they tried to pick fights with him provoking him constantly close to try to stay away from all that he asked them why are you treating me like this i didn't do anything to you and i have not been found guilty which tory believes the case against her husband was that advocated by the u.s. not also why do you that is involved in this is unclear he has never been to the u.s. in his entire life he never had a u.s.

visa and was in third country upon his arrest. when constantine your shanika was arrested russian officials were not duly notified and moscow cited a breach of international law we have. apologized to russia the state department's excuse we pressed the wrong button on the facts listen. to be brutally for notifying romania instead of russia to observers this seemed a joke and this series of questionable details in this case the idea that there's a bank of buttons they push it i guess if they push the next one they would have gone to rule rwanda which is next on the alphabetical list so that sounds like a. strange story and i don't think anyone would buy that your shank was cases often compared to that of victor boot similarly snatched up by the us in thailand and currently on trial in america for arms trafficking some see a tendency here they can use interpol they can use. picking up the phone to russia

and trying to talk about this just going out and kidnapping people i think this is part of the carry over from the bush cheney administration the defense team has long labeled the case a provocation and unsuccessfully called for its dismissal the prosecution meanwhile has been fighting to limit the scope of issues that can be addressed during the hearings they want to exclude questions regarding the legality of trying your show and a u.s. court allegedly lesions in the investigations leading up to his arrest and official conduct during and after the pilot's arrest essentially all the main arguments of the defense after almost ten months constantine you're shown cause trial is finally here a jury is deciding his destiny if found guilty he will spend from ten years to life sentence behind bars. party new york. take a look at some other stories from around the world to ivory coast now where of

course is back in the internationally recognized president prepare for a renewed assault on the capital supporters of the world to go and back to al assad are battling to remove incumbent leader laurent gbagbo who has refused to leave office after iraq's vote last november earlier the united nations urged investigate hundreds of deaths blamed partly on the supporters something you deny over a thousand people were killed in violent clashes in the west of the country last week. more than four hundred people were injured when police opened fire on a crowd of protesters in a yemeni city. live rounds and here gas to disperse them. traitors who were marching towards the presidential palace the march was in protest at the security crackdown on rallies in the southern city of tire that killed two injured hundreds of some of sunday at a government supporters have been calling for the resignation of yemeni president

ali abdullah saleh since. a double suicide bombing at a soup the muslim shrine in pakistan a skill at least forty two people children were among the dead the blast went off in the punjab province as believers gathered for a three day festival and we say the rest of the third attack over failed to detonate this device the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack so if it isn't just come under attack in the country for as many muslims are liars view the belief as on islamic. preliminary results a cause of stones incumbent year in the chinese are biased one the country's presidential election with ninety five percent of the vote was up against the other candidates more than a thousand international observers for following the ballots say it was well organized with so blatant violations not survive as a power for two decades enjoys the exclusive constitutional right to be elected for

a limitless number of times. the world is preparing to mark fifty years since the first human ventured into orbit and returned to the surface on harms you are good guardians the story flight will also be celebrated properly aboard the international space station three space men are about to depart for the isis from the baikonur cosmodrome in castle stand as her cilia is there for us. before every blast off comes the fanfare so you see i'm a twenty one crew members stand in the spotlight their families close by it's only a matter of hours before they shoot into orbit in a spacecraft bearing the image of god in the first man in space to celebrate the achievements fiftieth anniversary what's more the crew's captain was what's called the guardian when i was in kindergarten they gave us a play rocket i spent all my time inside and i wouldn't let other kids get in there

since then they started calling me girl preparations have been intense both for the crew and they're so used rocket any astronaut can attest to the arduous process. working in training was so hard that sometimes we fall asleep behind our desks we had to take many exams and sometimes we had to repeat those exams after a long a meticulous process of a cell going to space grabber so used to rates what you want is finally in position waiting to take its crew to the international space station well that's a t.v. as the saying of two rushes will make their first a flight to space and in america you will be flying to so used for the first time but far from the frenzy and the glare of camera lights the better halves of the astronauts have been going through preparations of their own albeit more personal ones it's really hard to explain the wave of emotions i've been feeling while anxiety and crime he on the other hand held his own showed no emotions i was more

worried and excited he took off her to graphs with him those that show us and our daughter not stamp ever since the official confirmation that their husbands are going to space every little thing becomes a memento i marry my husband it's moving me thousand people close knit and unity with my husband here all the whys where there have been clouds among the women a close bond is for carmel gerund wife of nasa. astronaut ron garan gave oksana and zoya a bracelet as a symbol of unity. really going to be as united as our husbands have become. because for six months these women and their husbands are literally going to be worlds apart this are still your artsy baikonur in kazakhstan. well so many where you will be able to travel to space all that's needed is good health and a safety conscious mind that's according to the head of the russian space agency

anatoly permanent full interview is coming up shortly on r.t. . so why he did space tourism will continue and develop when we first started sending tourists to outer space and we straightaway noticed that they felt quite well jerry short flights all you need is to be a normal healthy person some of the tourists were over sixty and they felt quite well you only concern i have is that nobody should ignore safety measures safety regulations for space tourists should be the same as for regular nasa we're all schools most space programs. and it's time now for a business update with kareena stay with us. welcome to our business bulletin the russian government is preparing to remove ministers and other senior officials from the board of state owned corporations the move to stop investment interest in russia seventeen russian companies will not be able to

help top state officials on their boards as of the first of july among them but as minister alex a could very well leave the country's second largest lender p.t.b. and gun maker. bertha told we're all ministers and vice premier has to leave the boards of state run companies and be replaced with less c officials or independent directors the move is seen as part of president reagan's bid to improve corporate governance and boost investment. it meant that you and you could disasters could put an end to the development of atomic energy around the world constantin seem enough of the national energy security fund says it may change russia's plans to build new nuclear stations across. there will be no all such serious increase over over new nuclear reactors of course if you have a very serious super power plants. speaking about construction of nuclear stays in the vulgate enjoyed here in the very strange country is the way. we see

obongo of this because of the already announced plans to build nuclear stations for example do you swear when bondholders icing but now we can forget about it i think jay will be more careful with nuclear energy maybe so that is why i was saying that it will do so we can see a reduction of nuclear stations in the rules and of course that's all the plans are for southern outsiders. let's have a look at how the stock markets are performing as a starter started the week on a positive note. two thirds of a percent and the hang seng is gaining over a percent this hour the end is trading at six months lows against the dollar thanks rising general support for exporters canada is up almost one point four percent this and gains around one percent in hong kong financials and property developers are leading the advance on the top gain is china's construction back which is up one point people sat down to the russian stock markets hitting new two thousand and

eleven high on a tide of global optimists last week we are testing the wise it's going to stop more than one and a half percent on friday analysts expect positive trading week withdrawal and gas giants setting the packs. this week we expect the markets to be supported by president nixon they will price as the libyan conflict persists we don't see the resolution to the conflict as a short term scenario as such we believe that the oil and gas exposure is the best idea playing musters expect to guess problem and call to be the beneficiaries of the potential inflows russia would receive from international funds and from gems funds. well for the first time in five years russian companies have changed their borrowing preferences and turn to the country's financial market national firms have cut that overseas draw in sales and boost the google debt corporate foreign currencies insurance fell almost twenty percent to five point two billion dollars

in the first quarter compared to last year on the contrary ruble bond sales jumped almost seventy percent to an equivalent of nine billion dollars that's not to high oil prices bolstered growth and spoke of the local currency. but that's all for now i'll get back with more in less than one hour journey.

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