colonel gadhafi regime probes a diplomatic solution to the conflict in libya where fighting continues around the rebel cities. casualties rise in the battle for miss ross had the last cripple stronghold in the west of this country but not the side table to break the deadlock on top of such a tricky time in a few moments when you will. be embattled insurgents or plead for the coalition to arm them to compensate for the lack of discipline the training and manpower. of russian partners is such to stand trial in a new york court for alleged drug trafficking but moscow maintains the man was

simply kidnapped by the united states. and this is just a matter of hours before three spaceman blastoff the orbit to mark the fiftieth anniversary if you regard its first space flight. here in business b.p.'s russian partners to make a new attempt to block b.p.'s proposed sixteen billion dollars share swap the state on ross there details coming up after the course at. just after three pm here in moscow one pm in tripoli with r.t. now more than two hundred fifty injured libyans have fled fighting in the western city of misrata a humanitarian ship the victims of the ongoing clashes were transported to the opposition's makeshift capital of benghazi i was the u.s.

agrees to support nato during airstrikes on monday the death toll across the country continues to rise of course one and now has more details from tripoli. the 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 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 efforts to eliminate anti gadhafi supporters now we do know that a turkish humanitarian ship has taken two hundred and fifty patients civilian casualties to the city of benghazi that 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 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 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 here are simply refusing to believe even entertain the idea that gadhafi could be seen some kind of way out of all of this and so he when you talk to protesters here they are just completely i was at least 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 could defeat scaping down in gaza they have been talks between p. 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 if there. who these opposition fighters are we continuously hear these reports that there are suspicions that there are al qaida and his fellow members among their ranks so those talks trying to determine how and 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 my colleague expose further in the stack which i wore on the side of the road. that have these armed forces are just a few miles ahead for the rebels this is the time to cool their guns and regroup with everyone men facing ten on the other side discipline is vital but do these men have any. every day in the rebel stronghold of benghazi more pictures of those

killed or missing or put up on walls and for the first time at least a dozen rebels are reported to have been killed in a coalition strike still many locals say they 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 and nato planes have been trying to rein in heavy artillery clearing the way for the rebel fighters on the ground and there is even speculation egypt and the u.s. may be secretly training them but the front line is still shifting back and forth with the rebels achieving only brief advances. this week. things that either you give him anyway. the opposition says they are ready

to take weapons from any willing steed in order to beat get their feet but it's. more weapons will help discipline many teenagers training or combat experience but. it seems that they are think they are not you know very much representative of what's going on on the ground we are seeing very articulate people talking to various governments in europe but also to the americans whereas on the ground we are seeing raggles 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 the better he's military might have been destroyed despite the efforts instead his forces are reported to change tactic

camouflaging themselves as rebels to confuse needlepoint. so let's face it with the current pool level of organization and training the rebels alone are no match for gaddafi superior forces and it's only with the help of the alliance that something could be achieved with the question is health for its leader itself to go you've got to get off the eastern libya. coming your way in just a few minutes here on r.t. so we do know commits its forces to operation odyssey dawn find out why some swedes are unhappy about their country's role in the intervention and a cozy relationship with nato. now 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 assad has blamed western influence for the time while independent journalist james corden believes

that foreign military intervention could be on the cards for syria but 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 i suppose if the forces of a western imperialism are able to get away with this in libya then it's really just a question of implementing this seems 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 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 hezbollah it and so it's absolutely a geo strategic location and it's very strategic for iran so i would see say that if the if syria is the next country to fall under this imperialist intervention i

think that would definitely be the long term goal would be to isolate iran to hopefully eventually in the imperialist eyes to overthrow are going to judge the regime. and that is our independent journalist james called but he was talking to us just a bit earlier here on r.t. now eight swedish fighter jets have arrived in italy and are now under nato command for you to enforce the no fly zone over libya despite the fact the sweden sweden isn't even a member of the alliance swedes are already venting anger at their government for committing troops to afghanistan and they feel their national interests are being sacrificed to nato and the u.s. are to use any so now 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 oh fuck sweden is very integrated involved in the those

activities. in their administrative and also with over five hundred soldiers in afghanistan right now that are under nato command or whatever the previous government or thing that the fact the government for this about swedish combat troops in afghanistan we see our participation in international crisis management missions and a popular mandate as an expression of solidarity and responsibility of sweden in the world. the question is whose popular mandate welcome when you talk about need it's a concept that's what it's sticking because you don't it. most swedes aren't aware of how aligned sweden is with nato the media have ignored it you have a military and some politicians cross reading intensively with the united states of america and the large mass of the population being totally unaware. the topic is

told its peacekeeping under the program partnership for peace for heaven's sake partnership for peace is just an empty chair before late and nato is also active in sweden doing military exercises sweden is home to meet or the north european airspace test range twenty four thousand kilometers of restricted airspace ground room a testing playground for nato and the u. mass and has actually this arguing that this is where war starts right here at home . neutrality or nato some say the ground time sweden makes the choice critics claim there's so much how long report from the alliance that the nordic nation might as well join the club officially and give up on a line status. and he's now i r t coffin group sweden.

we are keeping you updated on the latest developments in libya on air and online of course you can follow our twitter stream any time because we have look at the pages now correspondents on the ground in libya the latest developments with our eye witness accounts of the fighting of paulus leader in tripoli going off you can be found in the rebel stronghold headquarters of big girls a lot of outrage and information here if you're trying to put a page but also our facebook page and of course our very own you tube channel all the latest videos there for you twenty four seven. 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 a communication with it was to play the part of the lawyers accuse american agents of kidnapping and torturing him and it's also used on a see a truck going to reports it will take more than an admin area to excuse the actions

of the u.s. . a legit tons of cocaine a pilot snatched up and brought to a foreign prison and one fax number this is a case of constantine your shann pro 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 more other suspects charged with international drug trafficking. is now 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 well america says your show was smuggling drugs to south america africa and europe mostly from this way la and liberia the pilot has complained he was beaten and tortured following his arrest. they tried to pick fights with him provoking him constantly close to trying to stay away from all that

he asked them why are you cheating 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 fabricated by the us. why do you this is involved in this is unclear he has never been to the us in his entire life he never had a u.s. visa and was in third country upon his arrest him. constantine your shankill was arrested russian officials were not duly notified and moscow cited a breach of international war we have. apologized to russia and the state department's excuse we pressed the wrong button on the fax machine. to be brutally honest 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 they push it i guess if they push the next one they would have gone to 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 shirt because 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 and 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 a 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 essentially all the mean arguments of the

defense after almost ten months constantine your shown cause trial date 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. new york. with r.t.i. from moscow now the company in charge of japan's stricken fukushima nuclear plant has begun gulping now nearly twelve thousand tons of radioactive water into the ocean exposed for the facility so it isn't necessary to free up storage space for the 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 the damaged reactor radiation levels in seawater and the groundwater surrounding the site have reached many thousand times the legal limit of last month's massive earthquake and tsunami has now claimed the lives of twelve thousand people with some fifteen thousand still missing. but other scripts and

other news from around the world this hour at least ten people are being killed more than thirty wounded in fresh violence in the yemeni city of tire thousands of protesters were marching through the area when they were blocked by police clashes erupted and security forces opened fire on the rally from the rooftops of nearby buildings and said government supporters are calling for the resignation of yemeni president ali abdullah saleh since. random violence has a right to get a rock star 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 suspect it's not about militants with links to al qaeda for behind the attack on sunday at least forty two people were killed in a double suicide bombing at a muslim shrine this happened during festivities in the current job province. you know ivory coast forces loyal to us back to our son what are preparing for

a final push to depose the entrenched leader the incumbent president laurent gbagbo has refused to stand down despite losing the election last november. united nations . to investigate hundreds of deaths blamed partly on this is something he denies however human rights watch said that both sides had committed atrocities as many as a thousand people were killed in clashes in the west of the country just last week . and the preliminary results a incumbent leader tom that's not a player has won the country's presidential election with but it's not ninety five percent of the vote and as a player was up against three other candidates he has been in power for about two decades and enjoys the exclusive the constitutional right to be elected for a limitless number of times international observers have sharply criticized the ballot saying kazakhstan had failed to improve on previous elections which were

deemed need. free nor fair. just days before the fiftieth anniversary of man's a first in journey into orbit a crew of three are about to depart for the international space station from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan happens to be the very same launch site for the first into space test our studio is there and back in zero four. the crew that will be going to space consists of two russian cosmonauts you have a. day about his cycle and nasa astronaut ron garan now as you mentioned rightly it is the fiftieth anniversary a few guys first place space flight it will be happening on the twelfth so this mission a pool in size with that's a significant database do express their feeling of responsibility to carry going on this mission especially because of this it dates now as dr garrett actually said it quite whether he said that fifty years ago or that day the human race became a different species no longer confined to the boundaries of the earth quite poor to

be said there and also they're looking forward to a participating in a lot of celebrations happening on the twelfth they will be life from space communicating with us earthlings so looking forward to that certainly now with regard to the birth of 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 was specifically looking forward to monitoring the ecological situation of the earth he made reference to the recent to the disaster in japan you know we're trying to find ways to a particular threat so he is very passionate about the environmental sciences of the earth while we have. the other hand is really looking forward to looking at pictures of earth because they have a new module up there it's called the cucolo 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 and america and also a significant happening for him is that he will be 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 of space history coinciding with this mission so did the crew of this current mission there for i really feel a whole lot of responsibility carrying out their task. up there the preparations that are happening is not just for the crew and i've managed to speak to the families a very important part of the be a celebration for the families who've come to say their farewells to the three men going on the 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 celebrate the achievements fiftieth anniversary what's more the crew's captain was west called

the guardian when i was in kindergarten they gave us a play rocket i spent all my time in saw it and i wouldn't let other kids get in there ever since then they started calling me god and 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 don't turn six we had to take many exams and sometimes we had to repeat those exams after a long and meticulous process of assembling the spacecraft the 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. business to get to russia's 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 everywhere 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 watery

anxiety and primate 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 nuts ever since the official confirmation that their husbands are going to space every little thing becomes a memento. it's pretty dumb it's moving me. with my husband you all the wise man there has been clothes among the women a close bond just for carmel garrett wife of nasa astronaut ron garan gave oksana and sawyer a bracelet as a symbol of unity. really going to be as a united as our husbands have they come. because for six months these women and their husbands are literally going to be worlds apart this are still you are t. baikonur in. i don't mourn the final preparations for the launch which marks the

story of course and all of that on our web site of the article com also pictures from space and you've never seen. it and check out the spectacular images of the earth captured by a russian satellite in the highest resolution ever achieved certainly certainly see those on a website called and also russian made superheroes without hollywood touch we the people inspired by the likes of batman and superman who are bringing law and order back to the streets. right now operating here with all the latest business news hype arenas hello ori so when i'll see the next chapter in the troubled of b.p. or soccer there were rifts over the two wanting to jointly top the natural resources of the arctic that's right laurie and b.p.

and its western partners and alpha axis are no are back in court and a lot of that now they are ones and arbitration tribunals to throw out these proposed sixteen billion dollars share swap deal with russia if they don't profit playing the deal which is its shareholders even with b.p. which says thank you b.p. should be its primary vehicle for all. exploration is a russia and ukraine laos not a r succeeded in getting the stockholm arbitration tribunal to rule against arctic exploration deal with moscow. and deputy prime minister in research and one of the principal architects of the b.p. deal could soon be forced out of his position as chairman of a board that's up to dmitry medvedev signed a new order that prohibits ministers and other senior officials from being on the board of major state awards corporations a total of seventeen russian companies are on the restricted list they will have to remove top state officials by the first of july the move is seen as part of the

president's bid to improve corporate governance and boost foreign investment and at least for some visiting businessmen it appears to be a step in the right direction. the trends and the direction that the president he's giving to the rich and the population of the rich and i would say even companies and managers is the week to open really the country to. open your mind to participate to the globalization and the true please refer. to this movement. the second of the market european stocks are higher on monday extending the previous sessions strong rise. news are helping lift stocks you can know about that for operator vodafone group rose one point seven percent after agreeing to sell its stake in french operating as a part to be twenty shares and so they also rallied over three and a half percent of the company said the deal will provide

a lift to earnings on the first year. of russian markets are trading higher the algiers is gaining point six percent and the my it's actually over one percent now the market is up point six percent energy majors are group sitting in this is on high oil prices now let's take a look at some of the individual share moves state owned gas went up because brown was up almost two percent and you have some dancing more than a percent or so bucking the trend is look all that's sharing around a quarter of a percent on the r.t.s. . now oil prices are reached another thirty five high with brant crude currently trading at around one hundred nineteen dollars per barrel and light sweet at roughly one hundred eight dollars prices are being supported by positive jobs data from top oil consumer the united states as supply worries over toward war and at least. japan's natural and you could disasters could put the brakes on the development of atomic energy around the world consumption seaman of head of the

national security fund says it may change russia's plans to build new nuclear stations abroad. but there will be more all such serious increase in the new nuclear reactors of course and it will have a very serious impact on our plants absolutely sure that we will stop speaking about our nuclear states on the vulgate in turkey in the very strange country is the way these are. because of the already. built nuclear station for example that you would bundle those icing but now we can forget about it i think will be more careful these nuclear energy may be sold it is wise saying that it will do so we can see a reduction of nuclear stations in the role of course but that's what the plans are for something outside of us. and as we. always find. that site. at twenty.

you're. not sure is that so much of it which are called on it so here is us president obama still an honorable recipient of the nobel peace prize to be fair game here to two wars resuming office.