the. colonel get out his regime probes a diplomatic solution to the conflict in libya we're fighting continues around rebel cities. casualties rise in the battle misrata the last rebel stronghold in the waste of this country was not the side table to break the deadlock on course in the capital city of tripoli joining in a few moments often you will. be in battle insurgents leave for the coalition to arm them to compensate for their lack of discipline training and now power. to russian pile of the set to stand trial in new york court for alleged drug trafficking but moscow maintains the man was simply kidnapped by the u.s.

. and its only a matter of hours before three spaceman blasts off into space marking the fiftieth anniversary of you to go got its first flight will join me for more details later in the program. it is ten am in the russian capital you're watching our team of miriam joshie 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 opposition's makeshift capital benghazi argues correspondent paul's lior brings us more on the changing front line from tripoli. fighting here on the ground seems to be located in cheap primary cities in the east of the country it's around the city of brega where pro and he could have the forces have been fighting it off weeks now

but that frontline keets shifting and at the moment it's actually not clear who is in control of the city of brega in the last six weeks that city has changed control six times so just gives you a sign of how quickly that front line 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 if it's to eliminate and he could have his supporters now we do know that a turkish military and ship has taken two hundred and fifty patients civilian casualties she the city of benghazi took some doctors on board that ship are saying that the injuries are in creative use of you and that the civilian death 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 hours 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

but since 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 we have witnessed an increase in diplomatic it to the to your 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 molten and to turkey what we are hearing is that gadhafi my feet open to some kind of stairs woman fled that that plan would see someone from his inner circle taking over power it is interesting though because the women here in tripoli and i'm talking to officials they are all tight lipped about any kind of settlement deal people here something. refusing to believe would even entertain the idea that gadhafi could be seeing some kind of way out of all of this and so when you talk to protesters here they are just completely at last at the suggestion that gadhafi

would be able to trade him which is essentially how they would see any kind of settlement plan we're also hearing more forces from the international stage though that if the plan is to be reached it has to include duffy stepping down now in the rebel held stronghold of benghazi they have been talks between key opposition members and members of the british 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 their ranks so those talks trying to determine how the way forward in terms of cooperation between the coalition and the opposition there is also alarming concerns about the fact that the rebel fighters themselves are disorganized they have admitted that in a recent coalition air strike that killed thirteen rebel fighters that that was actually their fault as my colleague explores further in this package

a war on the side of the road. and forces or just a few miles ahead for the rebels this is the time to move your guns and regroup with everyone. on the other side is why don't we do these men. every day in the rebel stronghold of benghazi move pictures of those killed or missing or war and for the first time at least a dozen rebels are. still mean you will realize they have no choice except the losses. more than two weeks of passed since the no fly zone was put into effect over libya

nato planes have been trying to rein in get after these heavy artillery clearing the way for the rebel fighters on the ground and there's 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 this isn't something that either you anyway. the opposition says they are ready to take weapons from any willing state in order to be good i feel but it's. more weapons will help improve discipline mean teenagers with nato 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 the sides from of course getting rid of gadhafi according to some estimates only twenty percent of gadhafi is military might have been destroyed despite the call it is efforts instead his forces are reported to have changed tactics come of watching themselves as rebels to confuse nato pilots above 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 how far is needle itself planning to go you've got this going off forty eastern libya. coming up in just a few minutes here in r.t. sweden commits its forces to operation odyssey dawn find out why some sleeves are

unhappy about the country's role in the intervention and stockholm's cozy relationship with nato. and in syria and the 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 in the pan a journalist 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 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 the same scheme in syria and we've seen how it can be done by for mentoring and funding in training and arming and supplying the rebel forces in your country and 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 iran so i would see see that if the if syria is the next country to fall under this imperialist intervention i think that would definitely be belong to reveal would be to isolate iran to hopefully eventually in the imperialist eyes to overthrow our mena jugs regime. in apparent journalist james corbett talking to r.t. earlier the eight swedish fighter jets have arrived to italy and are now under nato command they'll be used to enforce a 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 u.s.

and the somalia reports. sweden widely known as a voice of neutrality and peace and swedish people believe still believe that we are nonaligned and the truck. why then for us we didn't the antiwar groups like on fox sweden is very integrated and they pose activities. in the administration and also with over five hundred soldiers in afghanistan right now that are under nato command whatever the swedish government 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. when you go to the major

strategic concept it's what incentives to change course to do it they don't have an . most we aren't aware of how well line sweden is with nato really you have ignored it you have a military and some politicians crocker the influence of the united states of america and the large mass of the population being totally unaware. the public is told its peace keeping under the program partnership for peace for heaven's sake partnership for peace is just ended chambre for late to nato is also. doing military exercises. sweden is home to neat the north european airspace test range twenty four thousand kilometers of restricted airspace last grounds room for 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 ground time sweden makes the droids critics claim there's so much support from the alliance that the nordic nation might as well join the club officially and give up on the lines. and use them now i r t gough and burke sweden we're keeping you updated on the latest developments in the air and online and you can follow our twitter stream anytime you like his correspondents are on the ground in libya bringing you the latest developments and eyewitness accounts of the fighting in log on to find out what we're is here in tripoli with the workers cannot keep you up to date from the rebel stronghold of benghazi and you can also follow us on facebook as well check out the latest news in our you tube channel. russian pilot constantine here shankill is facing trial on monday in new york for alleged in an international drug trafficking it was arrested in liberia last year by u.s.

officials who failed to notify moscow claiming a communication was to blame the pilots lawyers accuse american agents of kidnapping and torturing him and authorities in essence he took in reports it'll take more than an administration error to excuse the actions of the u.s. . 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 shine pro 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. is now or 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 to write 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 it is who a lot liberia a pilot has complained he was beaten and tortured following his arrest. detroit to pick fights with him provoking him constantly trying to stay away from all that he asked them why 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. but i have not also 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 upon his arrest him. when constantine you're shankill was arrested russian officials were not julie 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 honest 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 rwanda which is next in the world alphabetical list so that sounds like. strange story and i don't think anyone would buy that here shimkus case is 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 in the u.s. court allegedly by a lesions in the investigations leading up to his arrest and official conduct during and after the pilot's arrest and sensually over meena arguments of 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. or to new york. let's take a look at some other stories from around the world and more than four hundred people were injured when police opened fire in a crowd of protesters in a yemeni city who died a police live rounds and your gas to disperse demonstrators who were marching towards the presidential palace the march was in protest of a security crackdown or rallies in the southern city. that killed two and injured hundreds on sunday as a government supporters have been calling for the resignation of yemeni president

ali abdullah saleh since february. a double suicide bombing at a sushi muslim shrine in pakistan has killed at least forty two people children were among the dead as well but the last one off and from job province as believers gathered for three. a festival police say the arrest of the third attacker who failed to detonate his device the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack sophism it's come under attack in the country before as many muslim hardliners view the belief as this longing. and i worry coast forces loyal to un back tell us some of tara are preparing for a final push to depose the entrenched leader incumbent president laurent gbagbo has refused to stand down despite losing the election last november earlier the united nations urged to investigate the deaths blamed partly on the supporters something he denied however human rights watch that both sides have committed atrocities as

many as a thousand people were killed in violent clashes in the west of the country last week. preliminary results a cause of stones incumbent leader and will turn to survive as one of the country's presidential election with ninety five percent of the vote now survivor was 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 were brought it has been in power for two decades and enjoys the exclusive constitutional right to be like that for a limitless number of times. while a crew of three are about to depart for the international space station from the baikonur cosmodrome and castle stand of that mission comes on the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of man's first orbit test are still years and like you're enjoying this life and more on this world you task so tell us how's the crew

holding up there and how are they planning to celebrate you were good guardians first flight. oh as you rightly said there are three men who will be blasting off to be international space station alexander someone who was also the captain go to say as well as an asteroid garrett as. you had mentioned this launch is happening on the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of you got his first flight in fact they're going to be launching off from the launch pad which is called god and starts with is very significant for the three men of course as expected they have been asked several times about how they felt about the significance of their mission is happening so close to this important day in space history and ron garan actually put it quite cool when he was saying that fifty years ago one bad day human race became a different species no longer confined to the boundaries of the earth and also if you are. mentioning especially coming from russians and americans is the cooperation that they think the space program has really propagated because between

the two sides even at the height of the space race with regard to the work they're going to be doing at the international space station the russians of course will be working on the russian side the american on the american side you have us saying that he's really looking forward to the experiments it will be doing with regard to ecological monitoring of the earth even he made reference to the recent disaster in japan and he. he's very passionate about trying to find answers and how to help human beings to deal with environmental problems on the other hand you have to say simply looking forward to taking pictures of earth there's a new model up there baby call it the law which apparently gives a very very vivid pictures over there looking forward to this is to russians to russians this is their first flight to space so you can imagine the anticipation that they're feeling right now and they're feeling excited of course a bit of worry be dissipated of what it will look like up there well this is for the first time let's hear from

a russian cosmonaut he's been to space and back. before . if you should. be. understand that you're. here for. the. what is it only three hours remaining before of the launch so what's planned to be done there. although it's going to be a very busy day for a lot of people for everybody in fact as far as the astronauts are concerned they're going to be going through the usual traditions that their predecessors have also followed but one thing will be signing the doors of their rooms quarantined

facility they're actually looking quite looking forward to this being a very important tradition after that a russian orthodox priest will of bless them then they will board the bus and make that trip to the launch pad but there are still a few steps a few stops along the way he will be reporting to the state commission bench aging into their spacesuits if they're all looking forward to and then go off to the launch pad but they're not the only ones busy with preparations you know everybody here the tourists are for example that we've met pair franticly getting ready to make sure they get the best view of the launch that will happen at four in the morning also the we've spoken to the head of the russian aviation team here they are the ones who are getting ready in case something goes wrong so you have helicopters on standby military personnel you also have doctors just in case something goes wrong of course the families of the astronauts they have been very worried i think since the start of the the announcement of this two and a half years of training they've always been by the side of the astronauts going through preparations so as you can imagine everyone is getting ready so for more of

that let's take a look at this story. 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 utica 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 would let all the kids get in there since then they started calling me god and preparations have been intense both for the crew and their so use rocket any astronaut can attest to the arduous process. working in training was so hard sometimes we fell asleep behind don't fancy 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 the international space station well that's a team has a sig of two russians 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 where 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 anxiety and cried he on the other hand held his own he 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. ever since the official confirmation that their husbands are going to space every little thing becomes a memento i'm wearing my husband its ruling means our computer close knit and unity with my husband here all the wise man her husband clothes among the women

a close bond is for. gerund wife of nasa astronaut ron garan gave oksana and zoya a bracelet as a symbol of unity if. 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. r.t. baikonur in kazakhstan and will of course be updating you on what's happening there is a day before their account will bring us the latest from the world of business. and .

our welcome to our business because the russian government is preparing to remove ministers and other senior officials from the board of state owned corporations and bid for the stock investment interest in russia seventeen russian companies will no longer be able to help top state officials on their boards of the first of july among them finance minister alex equally and he will leave the country's second largest lender b. to b. and diamond makers. first of all ministers on the boards of state run companies are to be replaced with less senior officials or independent directors the move is seen as part of president reagan's bid to improve corporate governance and boost for investment. that nuclear disasters could put an end to the development of atomic energy around the world because the semen of head of the national energy security fund says it may change russia's plans to build new quest ations abroad. there will be no such serious increase of them of new nuclear reactors of course if

you have the very seriously in our plans absolutely sure that you stop speaking about. nuclear states when the vulgate in turkey in the very strange country is the way. we see. this because of the saddam already announced plans to build nuclear stations for example that you swear when bongos rising but now we can forget about it i think cheney will be more careful nuclear energy may be easier so that is why assuming that it will do so we can see a reduction of nuclear stations in the ruled and of course with the plans of the southern outsiders. it's like let's have a look at the markets in asia markets are gaining on monday japan's nikkei finished point one percent higher hong kong stocks a bounce but some export focus companies gaining strength in the u.s. dollar naturals and property developers are leading the advance among the top

gainers as is china construction bank which is up zero point three percent. and russia's r.t.s. index little change at the start of the trading session on monday on friday we are tears and in my eyes it's finished up more than one and a half percent last week the stock market hit a new two thousand and eleven high on a type of global optimism. and finally for the first time in five years russian companies have changed their pouring preferences and turn to the country's financial market national firms have cut their overseas bond sales and boosted the ruble that corporate foreign currencies ensures issuance fell almost twenty percent to five point two billion dollars in the first quarter compared to last year the country little ball sales jumped almost seventy percent to two equivalents of nine billion dollars that's not a higher price is posted growth it's part of the transfer. so for now i'll be back in less than one hour with operates.

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