tv [untitled] April 4, 2011 6:00am-6:30am EDT
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colonel gadhafi regime of probes a diplomatic solution to the conflict in libya where fighting continues around the rebel city. casualties rise in the battle for misrata the last rebel stronghold in the west of this country which neither side table to break the deadlock. in the capital so just me talking in a few moments when you will. be battled insurgents plead for the coalition to arm them to compensate for the lack of discipline training. pilot is a step to stand trial in new york for alleged drug trafficking but moscow maintains
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the man was simply kidnapped by the u.s. . and its just a matter of hours before three spaceman blasts off into orbit to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the guidance first space flight. for the details later in the program. this is our to you live from moscow now more than two hundred fifty injured libyans have fled fighting in the western city of misrata all of this a humanitarian ship the victims of the ongoing clashes were transported to the opposition's makeshift capital benghazi and now as the u.s. agrees to support nato during air strikes on monday the death toll across the country continues to mount. now has more from. the fighting
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here on the ground seems to be located in two primary cities in the east of the country that surround the city of brega but that frontline keeps shifting and at the moment it's actually not clear who 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 if it's to eliminate and he could of his 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 the civilian gift 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 talks to try and seek
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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 just simply refusing to believe even entertain the idea they could have it could be seen some kind of way out of all of this and certainly when you talk to protesters here they are just completely i got asked at the suggestion that gadhafi were able to trade in which is essentially how they would seek any kind of settlement plan we are also hearing move forces from the international stage though that if a plan is to be reached it has to include the duffy sitting down in 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
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find out information about if there. these opposition fighters off the continuous we hear these reports that there are suspicions that there are al qaeda and hezbollah 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 a longing concerns about the fact that the rebel fighters themselves are disorganized as my colleague expose further in this talk which i wore on the side of the road. that he's 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
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a coalition strike still many locals say they realize they have no choice except the losses. maybe. more than two weeks of passed since the no fly zone was put into effect over libya and nato planes have been trying to reign in 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 but the front line is still shifting back and forth with the rebels achieving only brief advances west the sunni shia. and either you can in any way. you see here. the opposition says they are ready to take weapons from any willing state in order to get their feet but it's plainly
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more weapons will help improve the discipline many teenagers would name their training or combat experience but. it seems that they are take they are not you know very much reprise 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 gaddafi is military might have been destroyed despite the efforts instead of his forces are reported to change tactics come of watching themselves as rebels to confuse needle pilots. so let's face it the
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current pool level of organization and training the rebels alone are no match for gadhafi he's superior forces and it's only with the help of the alliance that something could be achieved but the question is well for itself plenty to go you've got to spin off towards the eastern libya. and you are with r.t. and are coming your way in just a few minutes here sweden commits its forces to operation odyssey dawn if you find out why some swedes are unhappy about their country's role in the intervention and stockholm's cozy relationship with nato. well in syria yet another arab country torn by an anti-government uprising tens of thousands of marched in memory of protesters killed on friday the country's president bashar al assad has blamed western influence for the turmoil now independence journalist james accord believes that foreign military intervention could be on the cards for syria with iran as the ultimate goal. the president is being set right now with the
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libyan case and if they are able to get away but 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 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 iran 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 into this imperialist intervention i think that would definitely be the long term goal would be to isolate iran and hopefully eventually in the imperialist eyes to overthrow meeting to judge the
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regime. independent journalist james corbett talking to us here at r.t. just a little bit earlier were eight swedish fighter jets of all arrived in italy that are under nato command that were used to enforce the no fly zone over libya because by the fact that sweden is not even a member of the alliance swedes are already inventing uyghur government for committing troops to afghanistan and they feel their national interests are being sacrificed to nato and the u.s. and he 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 does we didn't need antiwar groups like all fuck sweden is very integrated involving make those activities. in their administration and then also with over five hundred soldiers
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in afghanistan right now that are under their 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 and popular mandate as an expression of solidarity and responsibility of sweden in the world. the question is whose popular mandate. in the native city. it's what it's. doing to. most we aren't aware of how aligned sweden is with nato so you have ignored it you have a military and some politicians cross-breeding intensity with the united states and with nato 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
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partnership for peace is just empty chair before late nato is also active in doing military exercises to aid in is home to meet or the north european airspace test range try four thousand kilometers of restricted airspace across grounds room a testing playground for nato and the us 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 detroit critics claim there's so much hands on support from the alliance that the nordic nation might as well join the club officially and give up its unaligned status. and you still now i r t. we're keeping you updated on the developments in libya both on air and online and having a look at the screen here you can see the you can follow our stream on twitter
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anytime you like lots of information here a lot of a place for you to check out right here on our twitter screen a correspondents on the ground in libya bringing you the latest developments and i would his account of the fighting we're hearing from also you've got of this going off in tripoli go to is in the rebel headquarters. also bear in mind in front of us on our facebook page and check out our latest videos on you tube channel. the russian pilot of constantine yet ocean co is facing trial on monday in new york for alleged international drug trafficking he was arrested in libya last year by u.s. officials who failed to notify moscow claiming a communication blip was to play and one of his lawyers accuse american agents of kidnapping and torturing him but our desire to use honesty of chuck in the reports it will take more than an admin 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
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a wrong number this is a case of constantine your sham go to russian pilot in his forty's scooped up by u.s. officials in liberia last year brought to a manhattan jail and along with who are other suspects charged with international drug trafficking. is now 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 while america says he or she 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 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 badly
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catered by the u.s. . why the u.s. is involved in this is unclear and 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 in. one constantine your show was arrested russian officials were not generally 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 and. to be brutally for notifying romania instead of russia to observers this seemed a joke and a series of questionable details in this case the idea that there's a bank of buttons that they push it i guess if they push the next one they would have gone to rule rwanda which is next in the alphabetical list so that sounds like a bird. strange story and i don't think anyone would buy that for your show because
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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 if 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 niccol in 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 your sham course trial date is finally here
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a jury is deciding his destiny if found guilty he will spend from ten years to a life sentence behind bars and that's the trick in our new york. now tokyo has announced plans to dump nearly twelve thousand tons of radioactive water from the fukushima plant into the ocean a spokesman for the couple for some of them says it's necessary to free up storage space for more highly contaminated water but insisted the waste wouldn't cause any serious harm japanese officials predict months of leaks from the fukushima power plant as workers struggle to plug a damaged reactor radiation levels and seawater and groundwater surrounding the site have reached many thousands of times the legal limit last month's massive earthquake and tsunami has now claimed the lives of over twelve thousand people with some fifteen thousand still missing. but without a live from moscow let's go to some other world news stories making headlines for. at this hour at least ten people have been killed and more than thirty four due to
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a fresh violence in the yemeni city of. thousands of protesters were marching through the area when they were blocked by police clashes erupted security forces opened fire on the rally from the rooftops of nearby buildings and see government supporters have been calling for the resignation of the yemeni president ali abdullah saleh since february. the violence once again rocked pakistan after a bomb blast in a small town near the afghan 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 west police suspected taliban militants with links to al qaeda behind the attack on sunday at least forty two people were killed in a double suicide bombing at a soofi a muslim shrine during festivities in the punjab province. and in ivory coast forces loyal to you went back to our last word target or not preparing for a final push to depose the entrenched leader the incumbent president laurent gbagbo
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has refused to stand down despite losing the election last november. united nations work trying to investigate hundreds of deaths blamed popular support something that he denies however human rights watch says that both sides are committed atrocities as many as a thousand people were killed in violent clashes in the west of the country last week. and the preliminary results say because it sounds incumbent leader. one the country's presidential election with ninety five percent of the vote in us out of by half was up against three other candidates now he's been in power for two decades and enjoys the exclusive constitutional right to be elected for a limitless number of times international observers have sharply criticized the ballot saying because of star had failed to improve on previous elections. which would seem that neither free nor. well just before the
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fiftieth anniversary of man's first journey into orbit a crew of three are about to depart the international space station from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan that's the very same launch site propelled the first into space to test our savior and i was invited all to join us live on high taxes so fifty years after your. remarkable progress we've seen as we continue to reach for the stars tell us how it's a house the crew holding up how they're planning to celebrate your government's first flight. well that's right it's a big so celebration it's a significant date at least in this space history the crew that will be going to space consists of two russian cosmonauts you have. three about to say go and nasa astronaut ron garan now as you mentioned rightly it is the fiftieth anniversary of you guys first place spaceflight will be happening on the twelfth so this mission i pulled in size with a significant date and they do express their feeling of responsibility that they
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carry going on this mission especially because of. garrett actually said it quite well because he said that fifty years ago on that day the human race became a different species no longer confined to the boundaries of the earth quite well because he. said there and also they're looking forward to a participant in a lot of celebrations happening on the twelfth they will be life from space communicating with us earthlings so looking forward to about certainly now with regard to the work that they're going to do with the i assess the they have a very very long task list they will be working in their respective stations the russians of course on the russian side of the americans on their side as the captain is specifically looking forward to monitoring the ecological situation of the earth he made reference to the recent disaster in japan you know we're trying to find ways to a particular place that he is very passionate about the environmental scientists of the earth. while you have. the other head is really looking forward to looking at
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pictures of earth because they have a new module up there it's called the follow which apparently gives very vivid images of earth not very many astronauts have actually tested that so they're looking forward to that ron garan on the other hand america and also significantly happening for him is that he will be welcoming the last two space shuttle missions on the i assess the endeavor and the atlantis it is also the thirtieth anniversary of his first spaceflight so you have quite a number of significant dates and space history coinciding with this mission and so did the crew of this current mission there really feeling a lot of responsibility carrying out their task up there because you talk about a sense of responsibility for the nationals of course most. says what must be an exciting time but also a very no time for the engineers all of those people and what's happening there today just just a few hours before the launch. preparations of course are still continuing it's
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just the last a few hours you know they fall off a lot of traditions here very interesting for a man of science edge of years here following a lot of just a little little details of the astronauts themselves a bit they'll be leaving their signatures in their rooms at the confinement facility it's very interesting because their feet assessors have done the same and therefore they're going to do the same as well and also a russian orthodox priest will be giving his blessing to the crew this has been the i've practiced a lot of the soviet times of course will want to be astronauts in a former mission have requested so now they're carrying on this duty as well then they will board the bus on the way to the launch pad will where everyone will be watching a couple of stops before that building up to the momentum then they'll put on their space suits which obviously will be a looking forward to so the preparations continue but not just for the crew a lot of people on the ground those spectators tourists the medical crew who will be there just in case something goes wrong so everything. being septa their final say just finishing touches and now it's very interesting to see what the people on
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the ground are going through they themselves prepare it i'm joined out by a dimitri he's actually a tense time world record holder in swimming and he's here for his own reasons in relation to space well let's find out what he's doing here exactly so what is a sportsman doing here or what do you have to do with space you know. no i mean i met you for the. initial group for christmas this year old white. house right here. the first of the second time the second time and. anywhere that he motioned. for example during the last visit friends used to teach. our children are there you know. what do you do you have the truck destruction what do you do if you will meet. some. unknown flying objects in this
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piece they didn't ask. don't tell the instruction but always to those who have the instruction i think every. this is very interesting. and now we're here for the new notions ok well thank you very much for that insight well again i love the perforations that are happening it's not just for the crew but i've managed to speak to the families a very important part of the be a celebration for the families of come to say their farewells to the three men going on their mission take a look at this story. 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 utica got in the first man in space to see. all the great the achievements fiftieth anniversary what's more the crew's captain was
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rascal 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 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 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 space rather so used to bates what he wants 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 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 away the emotions are being feeling one
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anxiety and pride he on the other hand held his own and showed no emotions i was more worried and excited he took off her to graphs with him those that show us and our daughter nuts ever since the official confirmation that their husbands are going to space every little thing becomes a memento i married my husband and threw me into close knit community with my husband you know all the whys where their husbands clothes among the women a close bond is for carmel gerund wife of nasa astronaut ron garan gave oksana and sawyer a bracelet as a symbol of unity. we're going to be as a united as our husbands of the congress. because for six months these women and their husbands are literally going to be worlds apart that's our cilia r.t. baikonur in kazakhstan. time now for the business news with current.
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and welcome to our business bulletin good to have you with us b.p. and its russian partners in alpha axis read back in court on monday they are once an arbitration tribunal to throw out b.p.'s proposed sixteen billion dollars share for field with russian state owned. planes the deal breaches it shareholder agreement with b.p. which says tank a b.p. should be its primary vehicle for all exploration in russia and ukraine last month they are succeeded in getting the stockholm arbitration tribunal to rule against the arctic exploration deal with boston. now let's have a look at how the markets are performing asian stocks are high on monday extending the previous sessions strong rise the deal the deal news of helping lift stocks u.k. model network operators vodafone group rose one point seven percent up to agreeing
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to sell its stake in french operated far to the n.t. shares in seoul they also rallied over three and a half percent of the company said the deal will provide a link to earnings from the first year. and in russia markets are trading higher the r.t.s. is gaining point six percent and a nice example over a quarter of a percent energy majors are boosting the indices are higher prices now let's take a look at some of the individual shadows state owned gas monopoly gazprom is up almost two percent this hour ross nast is up more than a percent bucking the trend is lowball that's setting around a quarter of a percent on the r.t.s. . and oil prices a recent not a thirty month high with brant crude currently trading at around one hundred ninety dollars a barrel and light sweet at a roughly one hundred eight dollars price is being supported by positive jobs day there from the top oil consumer of the united states and supply worries over two or
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more oil in the middle east investors are also concerned about comments from iran's oil minister that there was no need for opec to hold an extraordinary meeting other for the rise in oil price. that's right there for this hour but you can always buy most tories just log on to a website called slash business to stay. for the full story we've got it from the biggest.
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