colonel gadhafi regime probes a diplomatic solution to the conflict in libya worth fighting continues around rebel city. casualties rise in the battle misrata the last rebel stronghold in the west of the country was not on the side able to break the deadlock on point to see in the capital city of tripoli joining in a few moments i'll bring you more. of the embattled insurgents plead for the coalition to arm them to compensate for the lack of discipline training and manpower. that a russian pilot has said to stand trial in new york or for alleged drug trafficking of moscow maintains the man was simply kidnapped by the u.s.

. that's only a matter of hours before three spacemen blast off into orbit to mark the fiftieth anniversary since you were guardians first wife. of the business side the russian government is preparing to remove ministers and other senior officials from the board of state owned corporations the move is intended to stoking best interests of russia one that coming up you know this is. nine am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me rena joshie a more than two hundred fifty injured libyans have fled fighting in the western city of misrata aboard a humanitarian ship the victims of the ongoing clashes were transported to the rebel stronghold of benghazi we're going to cross live show correspondent paula you're give a very latest. paula how has the front line shifted over night. the bottom

witnessing is that the fighting here on the ground seems to get a catered in cheap primary cities in the east of the country it's around the city of brega where pro and he got the forces have been fighting it off for weeks now but that frontline keeps shifting and at the moment it's actually not clear who is in control of the city of grego in the last six weeks that city has changed control six times so just gives you a sign of how quickly that frontline is moving in the west of the country most of the fighting is happening in and around the town of misrata and there we are hearing that the government has stepped up efforts to eliminate and he could have the supporters now we do know that a turkish humanitarian ship has taken two hundred and fifty patients civilian casualties to the city of benghazi doc some doctors on board that ship are saying that the injuries are incredibly severe and that these civilian deaths count is likely to climb now over the weekend there was a request from nato to the united states to extend its participation in these

airstrikes for another forty eight hour was that deadline expires today monday with the u.s. increasingly saying that it wants to withdraw from the operations as the president barack obama comes under increasing criticism from within his own administration the sense on the ground though more and more is that there is a stalemate being reached which is why people here are looking for some kind of political solution to get them out of this or or part of the battle for control seems to have reached a stalemate what measures are gold sides taking to change the situation. well we saw we have witnessed an increase in diplomatic activity on behalf of the gadhafi regime in the most recent attempt a former libyan prime minister has headed a libyan envoy to the greek city of athens and there he's been holding talks to try and seek a way out of this crisis we know that this week that envoy will be traveling to motor and to turkey what we are hearing is that gadhafi my feet open to some kind

of settlement plan that that plan would see someone from his inner circle taking over power it is interesting though because when i'm here in tripoli and i'm talking to officials they are all tight lipped about any kind of settlement deal people who are simply refusing to believe would even entertain the idea that gadhafi could be seen some kind of way out of all of this and certainly when you talk to protesters here they are just completely and gassed at the suggestion that gadhafi would be able to trade in which is essentially how they would see any kind of settlement plan we are also hearing move forces from the international stage though that if the plan is to be reached it has to include the defeat him down now in the rebel held stronghold of benghazi they have been talks between key opposition members and members of the bush administration their main question at the moment is the whole question of whether or not to supply the rebels with weapons and also the british have been trying to find out information about exactly who these opposition fighters are we continuously hear these reports that there are suspicions that there are al qaeda and hizbollah members among the ranks so those

talks trying to determine who how and the way forward in terms of cooperation between the coalition and the opposition there is also an alarming concerns about the fact that the rebel fighters themselves are disorganized and they have admitted that in a recent coalition air strike that killed thirteen rebel fighters that that was actually the fault as my colleagues always further in this package. a were only. good if you. 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 walls and for the first time at least

a dozen rebels are reported to have been killed in a call it can strike still many locals say they realize they have no choice but to accept the losses. but when. more than two weeks of passed since the no fly zone was putting to effect over libya and nato planes have been trying to rein in get out these 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 them but the front line is still shifting back and forth but the rebels achieving only brief advances west this is. in any way. the opposition says they are ready to take weapons from any willing state in order to get afy but it's highly unlikely more

weapons will help improve the discipline. teenagers with neither training or combat experience. it seems that they are take 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 including to some estimates only twenty percent of the gadhafi is military might have been destroyed despite the cauldrons efforts instead his forces are reported to have changed tactic camouflaging themselves as rebels to confuse needle points above so let's face it with the current pool level of

organization entreating the rebels all are no match for gadhafi his superior forces and it's only with the help of the alliance that something could be achieved but the question is health for is needle itself planning to go you've got this kind of already eastern libya. crisis team has also been set up in the city i think ozzy by the opposition fighters it includes such as a patient of this country is full make interior minister who is also now the chief of staff of the armed forces they are going to try and attempt to run those parts of the country that are now in rebel hands. paula thanks very much indeed for bringing us the subway was near there. but you know if you live from moscow coming up in just a few minutes so we've committed forces to operation odyssey dawn now why they're unhappy about their country's role in the intervention and. the relationship with nato. in syria and other arab country torn by an

anti-government uprising tens of thousands have marched in memory of protesters killed on friday the country's president bashar asad has blamed western influence for the turmoil and apparent euro was james corbett believes foreign military intervention could be on the cards for syria with iran the ultimate goal the president is being set right now with the libyan case and if they are able to get away well 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 training and arming and supplying the rebel forces in your country and in basically covert attempt 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 the rand and providing that land link to hezbollah. and so it's absolutely a geo strategic location and it's very strategic for rand so i would see 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 even the imperialists to overthrow or to diena judd's regime. as independent journalist james corbett talking to r.t. earlier a swedish fighter jets have arrived in italy and are now under nato command they'll be used to enforce a no fly zone over libya despite the fact sweden is a member of the airlines so we've they're already venting anger at their government for committing troops to afghanistan and feel their international interests are being sacrificed to nato and the u.s. and he's an alley reports. sweden widely known as a voice of neutrality and peace and swedish people believe they still believe that

we are nonaligned and the truck. why then just we didn't need antiwar groups like oh fuck sweden is very integrated in the throws like that it is both in the administration and also with over five hundred soldiers in afghanistan right now but are under nato command whatever the british government thing but the fact the government says this about swedish combat troops in afghanistan we see our participation in international crisis management missions on a popular mandate as an expression of solidarity and responsibility of sweden in the world the question is who's popular mandate when you talk about need to strategic concept it's what it's sufficient to do and they don't have in. most we aren't aware of how line sweden is with nato do you have ignored it you

have a military and some politicians property in france of the united states of america and the large mass of the population who probably don't know where. the public is told its peacekeeping under the program partnership for peace for heaven's sake partnership for peace is just ended chambre for late to make though is also active in doing military exercises sweden is home to neat or at the north european airspace test range twenty four thousand kilometers of restricted airspace plus grounds room testing playground for nato and the you were asked and i was actually just arguing that this is where war starts right here at home. neutrality or nato some say the brown time sweden makes the detroit critics going there's so much have gone support from the alliance that the nordic nation might as

well join the club officially and give mark on the line status. and use the now i r t gothenburg sweden. but we're keeping you updated on the latest developments in the air and online you can follow our twitter stream any time r.t. correspondents are on the ground in libya bringing you the latest developments and eyewitness accounts for the fighting log on to find out what i was sleepy years hearing in tripoli with your workers and are keeping up to date from the rebel stronghold of benghazi you know also follow us on our facebook page as well as the latest video i'll use for you tell. russian pilot constantine your shampoo was facing trial on monday new york for alleged international drug trafficking he was arrested by u.s. officials in liberia last year as lawyers accuse american agents of kidnapping and torturing the pilot and as artie's an associate you're going to reports this is not

the first time the u.s. has targeted a russian citizen. 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 you're shango a russian pilot in his forty's scooped up by u.s. officials in liberia last year brought to a manhattan jail and along with four other suspects charged with international drug trafficking you know on. a long time he didn't 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 iowa or liberia the pilot has complained he was beaten and tortured following his arrest. they try to pick fights with him provoking him constantly close to trying 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 or tory believes the case against her husband was fabricated by the u.s. . why the u.s. 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 up on his arrest. when constantine your show was arrested russian officials were not duly notified and moscow cited a breach of international law we have. apologized to russia and the state department's excuse we pressed the wrong button on the facts and. to be brutally for notifying romania instead of russia to observers this seemed a joke in a series of questionable details in this case the idea that there's a bank of buttons that they push and 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

. strange story i mean i don't think anyone would buy that here sean combs case is often compared to that of victor boot similarly snatched up by the u.s. 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 legal the case of 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 the

difference after almost ten months constantine your son calls trial is finally here a jury is deciding his destiny if found guilty he will spend from ten years to a life sentence behind bars and that's in. new york. now take a look at some other stories from around the world and in ivory coast forces loyal to lend back telethon atar are preparing for a final push to depose the entrenched leader incumbent president laurent gbagbo has refused to stand down just by losing the election last november earlier the united nations to urge the atar to investigate hundreds of deaths blamed hardly any supporters you deny however human rights watch said that both sides had committed atrocities. thousand people were killed in violent clashes in the west of the country last week. more than four hundred people were injured when a police opened fire on a crowd of protesters in the yemeni c.e.o.

of who died police used live rounds and tear gas to disperse the most. readers who were marching towards the presidential palace the march was in protest of the security crackdown rallies in the southern city of tire used to kill to injure hundreds of sunday and government supporters have been calling for the resignation of yemeni president ali abdullah saleh since february. a double suicide bombing at a sufi muslim shrine in pakistan a skilled at least forty two people children were among the dead and the blasts went off in the punjab province as believers gathered for a three day festival police say they arrested a third attacker who failed to detonate his device the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack so it is and has come under attack in the country before as many muslim hardliners view the belief as an islamic. eliminate results a cause of stars and come and leader an old school time the robot has won the

country's presidential election with not a five percent of the vote as revivals up against three other candidates more than a thousand international observers who are following the ballots say it was well organized with no blatant violations that survive has been in power for two decades and enjoying an exclusive constitutional right to be good for a limitless number of times. of the world is preparing to mark fifty years since the first human ventured into orbit you regard it's historic flight will also be celebrated appropriately aboard the international space station three space men are about to depart for the i says from the baikonur cosmodrome and castle stamp test are silly is there for us. before every blast off comes the fanfare so you see i'm a twenty one crew member stand in the spotlight their families close by it's only a matter of hours before they shoot into orbit in

a spacecraft bury the image of you to god in the first man in space to celebrate the achievements fiftieth anniversary what's more the crew's captain was once called the guardian when i was in kindergarten and they gave us a play rocket i spent all my time in saw it and i would let all the kids get in there since then they started calling me guardian 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 sometimes we fell asleep behind our desks we had to take many exams and sometimes we had to repeat those exams after a long and meticulous process of assembling the spacecraft are so used to your mates what you want is finally in position waiting to take its crew to be at your national space station well that's a t.v. consisting 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 are being feeling watery anxiety and pride he on the other hand held his own he showed no emotions i was more worried and excited he took our photographs with him those that show us and our daughter nothing. ever since the official confirmation that their husbands are going to space every little thing becomes a momento i'm wearing my husband's jumper it's moving me close knit and unity with my husband here all the wiser and their husbands clothes among the women a close bond is for carmel gerund wife of. also astronaut ron garan gave exxon and sawyer a bracelet as a symbol of unity. we're 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 that's our cilia r.t.e. baikonur in kazakhstan all of you like the last of yourself. all that's needed is good health a strong mind and a small fortune well according to the head of the russian space agency i'll tell you coming off a forgery is coming your way in about an hour's time. the space tourism will continue on developing when we first started sending tourists to outer space and we straightaway noticed that they felt quite well during short flights all you need is to be a normal healthy person some of the tourists were over sixty and they felt quite well the only concern i have is that nobody should ignore safety measures safety regulations for space tourists should be the same as for regular nasa. space program. well time now for a business that they thought was coming our way in just

a few moments with kareena stay with us. oh all consumer business boards the russian government prepares to remove ministers and other senior officials from the board of state owned corporations the move is intended to stoke investment interest in russia seventeen russian companies will not be able to have top state officials on their board as a person to live among them finance minister alex he could remain will lead the country's second largest lender v.t.v.m. diamond maker of a person the top were all ministers believe the board of state run companies and be replaced with less senior officials or independent directors the move is seen as

part of president related bid to boost foreign investment. the russian partners of tanky b.p. will make a new attempt to block b.p.'s proposed sixteen billion dollars share swap with state owned ross near ft a art claims it contradicts the existing shareholders agreement. a want a key ruling from the stockholm arbitration tribunal found the article spiration deal between b.p. and boston in reaching an agreement outlining tainted b.p. as the primary mean for b.p.'s energy exploration russia he will now try to convince the court that the share swap should proceed taking into account its partnerships in the arctic japan's natural and nuclear disasters could put an end to the development of atomic energy around the world constantine semen of head of the national energy security fund says it may change russia's plans to build new nuclear stations across. but there will be more such serious inquiries

a new nuclear reactor. it will kill the very seriously our plans. to stop speaking about construction of nuclear states with a ball game in georgia here in the very strange country is the way. because of the already announced plans to build nuclear stations for example use well when one world is rising but now we can forget about it i think we will be more careful because nuclear energy may be yeah so that is why assuming that it will do so we can see a reduction of possible nuclear stations in the rule with the plans of a sudden outsiders. have a look at how the stock markets are performing asian stocks have started the week of positive note in the case of over a quarter of a percent or so our head sank is gaining over a percent then is trading at six month lows against the dollar as the rate provides a general support for exporters can and has up almost one point four percent and

this and again around eight percent in hong kong financials and property developers are leading the your grandson on top gainers is trying as construction back up one point three percent. and the other stuff markets hit a new two thousand and seven hi i'm tired of global optimism last week yes and i'm isaac finished up more than one and a half percent on friday analysts expect a positive trading week where the oil and gas giants setting the pace. this week we expect the markets to be supported by president nixon the world price as the libyan conflict persists we don't see the resolution to the conflict as a short term. as such we believe that the oil and gas exposure is the best idea playing musters we expect to get spam and call to be the beneficiaries of the financial inflows russia will receive from international funds and from gems funds . for the first time in five years russian companies have changed their powering

preferences and turned to the country's financial market that's not firms have cut their overseas bond sales and boosted the ruble debt corporate foreign nationals fell almost twenty percent to five point two billion dollars in the first quarter compared to last year of the country will move on sales jumped almost seventy percent to an equivalent of nine billion dollars that's up the high oil prices pause to growth and appreciation of the currency that's right there for this hour but you can always find most stories on our web site but he dot com leftists.

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