still telling us it's hard to go to the point of pleasures and i would prefer to be splined in touch with the who tell me touch your world the future a good how would international flood to achieve every dream low for children in tow . colonel gadhafi regime probes a diplomatic solution to the conflict in libya were fighting continues around rebels to. casualties rise in the battle misrata the last rebel stronghold in the west of this country which neither side able to break the deadlock on point two in the capital such as turkey join in a few moments and often you will. be battling insurgents plead for the coalition to arm them to compensate for the lack of discipline training and manpower. of russian pilot is said to stand trial in a new record for alleged drug trafficking but moscow maintains the man was simply kidnapped by the u.s.

. and it's only about her of hours before three space met blast off into orbit marking the fiftieth anniversary of beauty got its first flight. this is r.c. coming to live from moscow i'm marina joshie more than two hundred fifty injured libyans have fled fighting in the western city of misrata already humanitarian ship the victims of the young going clashes were transported to the opposition's makeshift capital benghazi as the u.s. agrees to support nato during airstrikes on monday the death toll across the country continues to mount artie's correspondent paula sleazier brings us more from tripoli. the fighting here on the ground seems to be located in chu primary cities in the east of the country it's around the city of brega but that frontline keets shifting and at the moment it's actually not clear he is in control in the last six

weeks that city has changed control six times 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 his supporters now we do know that a turkish military and ship has taken two hundred and fifty patients civilian casualties to the city of benghazi some doctors on board that ship will say that the injuries are incredibly severe and that the civilian death count is likely to climb we certainly 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 told she try and seek a way out of this crisis we know that this week that envoy will be traveling to malta and to turkey what we are hearing is that gadhafi might be open to some kind of social meant 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 here simply refusing to believe 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 gossip at the suggestion that gadhafi would it will betray them which is essentially how they would see any kind of settlement plan we all sit here and move forces from the international stage though that if the plan is to be reached it has to include gadhafi sticking 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. i think 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 hizbullah members among their ranks so those talks trying to determine how

a way forward in terms of cooperation between the coalition and the opposition there is also a longing concerns about the fact that the rebel fighters themselves are disorganized as likely to expose further in the sky cage a war on the side over all. he's armed forces or 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 would 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 we can strike still many locals say they realize they have no choice but to accept the losses and there's.

more than two weeks of since the no fly zone was put into effect overly nato planes have been trying to reign in 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 week she is nice to be there you anyway. the opposition says they are ready to take weapons from any willing steed in order to be good but it's. more weapons will help improve discipline and many teenagers 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 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 gadhafi is military might have been destroyed despite the efforts instead of his forces are reported to have changed tactics come of watching themselves as rebels to confuse needlepoint. so let's face it when he turns pool level of organization and training the rebels alone are no match for gaddafi he's superior forces and it's only with the help of the alliance that something could be achieved but the question is health for is

nato itself planning to go you've got this going off the 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 swedes are unhappy about their country's role in the intervention and stockholm's cozy 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 in the pan journalist james core bad 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'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 the same 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 your country and basically covert attempts to implement regime change and i think that's exactly what and 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 have hezbollah it 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 i mentioned early in the imperialist eyes to overthrow awkward diena judd's intervene. and about a journalist james corbett talking to r.t. there eight swedish fighter jets have a ride in 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 us but it's an hourly reports. so we do not 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 does we do need antiwar groups like on fox sweden is very integrated and involved in the those activities both in the administration and also with over five hundred soldiers in afghanistan right now that are under nato command whatever with previous 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 who's popular mandate and when they go to vote need a city concert that's what it's. doing to have an. most we aren't aware of how aligned sweden is with nato do you have ignored it you have a military and some politicians crocker reading offensively with the united states the nato and the larger 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 an empty chair before late bill nato is also active in doing military exercises sweden is home to meet or the north european airspace test range twenty four thousand kilometers of restricted

airspace plus 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 of troy's critics claim there's so much hand on support for the alliance that the nordic nation might as well join the club officially and give up its unaligned status. and use the now i r t cough and burke sweden. we're keeping you updated on the latest developments and maybe on air and online and you can also follow our twitter stream times artie's correspondents are on the ground in libya bringing you the latest developments and eyewitness accounts of the fighting of all to find out what policy years hearing in tripoli with a group is going off keeping you up to date from the rubble have waters. and also follow us on our facebook page as well as check out elise videos or you tube

channel. this is r.t. live from moscow russian pilot constantine is facing trial on monday in new york for alleged international drug trafficking he was arrested in liberia last year by u.s. officials who failed to notify moscow claiming it communication blip was to blame the pilots lawyers accuse american agents of kidnapping and torturing him as art he's an associate in a reports it'll take more than an admin error to excuse the actions of the u.s. . i'll let you tons of cocaine a pilot snatched up and walk to a foreign prison under one fax number this is a case of concertina or 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. 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 to write to new york she says her husband was kidnapped by american agents while america says your show was smuggling drugs to south america africa and europe mostly from that is why a lot in liberia a 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 tori believes the case against her husband was fabricated by the u.s. but i have not also why do that is involved in this is unclear he has never been to the u.s. in his entire life he never had the 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 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 seems 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 a. strange story and i don't think anyone would buy that your shampoo is cases often compared to that of victor brooch similarly snatched up by the u.s. in thailand and currently on trial in america for arms trafficking some see a tendency here we 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 but 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 in a u.s. court allegedly by 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 difference after almost ten months constantine your shown 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. new york. and let's not take a look at some other stories from around the world more than one hundred people were opened fire in a crowd of protesters in the yemeni city the diet of police used live rounds of tear gas to disperse demonstrators who were marching towards the presidential

palace a march was in protest of the security crackdown of rallies in the southern city of taiz killed two injured hundreds on sunday as a government supporters have been calling for the resignation of yemeni president ali abdullah saleh. violence has once again rock pakistan after a bomb blast hit a small town near the al gan border at least six people have died and eight others injured when the remote control device exploded at a bus station in the country's north where. police suspected taliban militants with links to al qaida were behind the attack on sunday at least forty two people were killed in a double suicide bombing at a. try during festivities in the punjab province. you know ivory coast forces loyal to you and back to tar 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 the torah to investigate hundreds of deaths blamed partly on his supporters something he denied however human rights watch said 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. literary results a cause of stans incumbent leader knows full time the survivor has won the country's presidential election with ninety five percent of the vote and survivor was up against three other candidates margaret thousand and national service following the ballots say it was well organized with no blatant violations as a buyer has been in power for two decades enjoys the exclusive constitutional right to be elected for a limitless number of times. and a crew of space men is about to depart for the international space station from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan the mission comes on the eve of the fiftieth

anniversary of you regarding the story first like he says or cilia is an icon or. there are three men who will be blasting off to the international space station there. is also be a captain. as well as a not so asteroid garrett and as you have mentioned this launch is happening on the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of utica got his first flight in fact they're going to be launching off from the launch pad which is called god and start to it 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 well read to even saying that fifty years ago on that day of the human race became a different species no longer confined to the boundaries of the earth and also if you ask the astronauts will think they keep mentioning especially coming from russians and americans is the cooperation that they think the space program has really. hated 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 are the american side you have someone 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 had this for him he's very passionate about trying to climb answers on how to health and human being 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 a very worried i think since the start of the the announcement of this two and a half years of trading they've always been by the side of the astronauts going through preparations so as you can imagine everyone is getting ready for more on that let's take a look at this story. before every blast off comes the fanfare so you see of me twenty one crew member stand in the spotlight their families close by it's only

a matter of hours before the shooting to orbit in a spacecraft bury the. image of utica got 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 look over kids going 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 fall asleep behind the desks we have to take many exams and sometimes we have 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 t.v. as a singer to russia's will make their first a flight to space and an american who will be flying with so use 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 one anxiety and pride here 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 nastya ever since the official confirmation that their husbands are going to space every little thing becomes a memento i marry my husband it's through me thousand people close knit community with my husband here all the wise when their husbands clothes among the women a close bond is formed carmel garrett wife of nasa astronaut ron garan gave oksana 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 desert cilia artsy baikonur in kazakhstan. i would like to blast off yourself. al the spirit is good health a strong mind and a small fortune that's according to the head of the russian space agency a telecom enough for interviews coming up shortly. so. i think that space tourism will continue in developing when we first started sending tourists to outer space we straightaway notice 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 so the only concern i have is that nobody should ignore safety measures for safety regulations for space tourists should be the same as for regular nasa or all schools most space program.

and time now for a business update with kareena. her welcome to our business boards we go straight to our top story b.p.'s russian partners are is to make a new attempt to block the british company's proposed sixteen billion dollars share swap with state owned they claim to deal breaches there shareholder agreement with b.p. in russia last month they are want a key ruling from the stockholm arbitration tribunal down the article ration deal between b.p. and was he had reached an agreement outlining take a b.p. as the primary mean for big piece energy exploration russia meanwhile b.p. is trying to convince the courts that the proposed share share swap should proceed . our russian government is preparing to remove ministers and other senior officials from the board of state owned corporations and will be seen as part of president reagan's bid to improve corporate governance and boost foreign investment

seventeen russian companies will no longer be able to have top state officials on their boards as of the first of july among them finance minister aleksey couldn't believe the country's second largest lender d.t.b. and duncan maker also by the first of october all ministers on the boards of the state front companies should be replaced with less senior officials or independent directors concerns natural urge because natural and nuclear disasters could put the brakes on the development of atomic energy around the world because i can see when a head of the national energy security fund says it may change russia's plans to build new nuclear stations abroad. there will be no such serious increase i'm going over new nuclear reactors. to work out the very seriously. absolutely sure to stop speaking about. nuclear stays with the. insert here in the very strange country is the way we always see. this because it was already

announced plans to build nuclear stations for example would you still wouldn't run gold is rising good now we can forget about it i think the change will be more careful these nuclear energy may be easier so that is a wise thing but it will do so we can see a reduction of nuclear stations in the rule of reduction plans of outside the us. now take a look at the markets now european stock markets lower in early trading on monday but you case what seefeld point three percent of the start of the trading session and later we burst the coverage and is trading black now germany's dax is edging higher as well several stocks are up on deal used u.k. mobile network operator vodafone group rose one point seven percent approve green to sell its stake in french operator s. there are two things. here in russia not is the trading higher as well as the r.t.s. is gaining point eight percent of the moment and the market is up point four percent

and majors are boosting the indices on higher oil prices and as far as the index movers are concerned state owned gas monopoly gazprom point nine percent crossed nafta is advancing about the same amount overlook oil is shedding just under a half a percent. now all prices have reached another thirty miles high with brant crude currently trading at around one hundred ninety dollars a barrel of light sweet at roughly one hundred eight dollars prices are being supported by positive jobs data from oil consumer of the united states and supply worries over tone oil in the middle east investors are also concerned about comments from iran as oil minister that there was no need for opec to hold an extraordinary meeting on the for the rise and fall prices. and finally for the first time in five years russian companies have changed their pouring preferences and turned to the country's domestic market national firms have cut their overseas

sales and boosted their wool debt corporate foreign currency issuance 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 up to high oil prices most of growth that sparked appreciation of the local currency. that's all for now if you buy twenty five twenty three minutes past the hour thanks for watching.

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