a finnish increase to spoke out against one of the world's most notorious terrorists and an extremist website operating freely in his country gets into trouble with the police after his interview with r t also. libyan rebels claimed their forces had been hit by a nato air strike reportedly killing thirteen it's fueled a local anger over the alliance's tactics which are resulting in a growing number of casualties. as the new crew arrives at the international space station a century since my first flight into orbit we look at the first space projects.

business the. joint the so-called third energy package under the new regulation of gas and i will have to give up control of pop up in twenty minutes for more. with r.t. live from moscow where it's now or just after three pm. priest in finland is being accused of inciting religious hatred after describe one of the world's most wanted men as a terrorist police have questioned the pastor after he gave an interview to our t.v. in which he discussed the doc. the man behind the moscow metro and. was the one who carried out that interview. ah so you hummel are is being prosecuted

for inciting readers hatred and for publicly criticizing what the finnish authorities describe as illegally operating organization that is because central russian political cause the sun to topple those above yours may not know what the organization is all about this is a media outlet and internet websites which made it sell the name by being a mouthpiece for terrorist local mosque this website is banned in russia as well as a number of other countries across the world but in the learned enjoys quite possible locational on the internet and in downtown houses. quarters all these organizations are in the very center of the city now you have the laurie was the bust and the only man in the months to hold police say that this was outrageous and that finland should not shelter extremist organizing since he was not really surprised when ultra short while he was getting death threats from people magazine all these organizations and those letters was signed by the local market who saw

what he wanted police were using fillers him to be a little interested in. using e-mail came from. and it gives the. dearest. party. to me. you know my fight. you don't need personal investigation. respectable to do anything. respectable person so if you know when atrocities start. train bombing in two thousand nine. hundred twenty turn and most recently this you said warming on the country's largest airports the idea

that. he was not only russia's most wanted man global market was also on the international least of terrorists recently the us knowledge the fact that he has links to al qaida so with all that in mind the question is what is the reason prosecuted for citing various sites which the rest of the world acknowledges were calling it terrorist attack but. britain point. in time. chairman of the finnish friendship society says that. tracking terrorists to the country. we will bring. them into finland which actually is because we have. members.

in finland. well while people like to have their say in finland the world continues to be on the high terror alert just overnight two separate bombs were diffused here in moscow a powerful load of t.n.t. with a truck and it was taken from a car that was stopped by police that's what it's almost half a kilo of explosives the arrest of a driver also heard it nor automatic and still it follows the arrest of a thirty eight year old member of islamic jihad in the capital on wednesday he also possessed an explosive device. much more on that on our web site of course that's all to dot com and so we're also following the developments of the finnish priests case as well as all the other stories that we'll bring you twenty four seven you can also get analysis of the events we cover from leading experts and politicians it's all waiting for you at all is he talking. now rebels in libya say they've been

hit by a nato air strike we have some reports suggesting as many as thirteen people have been killed this comes as a u.k. officials are investigating and libyan claims that british planes destroyed the arab states largest oil field killing at least three guards now it is police we're live from a tripoli for more details on this ok paula so just no good news here coming out of libya we do understand it is just coming in but but what do we know at this early stage. what we're hearing reports of a nato air strike that has gone horribly wrong of course those rebel fighters this are the people who nato is supposed to be assisting in the advantage of voice what look we're not hearing that nato is strike has struck the frontline position possibly killing as many as eighteen opposition fighters that happening on the fine fine outside of the city of brega in the east of this country and eyewitnesses say that the rebel fighters are retreating quicky to the town of dug be able to some

seventy kilometers away from benghazi which is the headquarters of this whole rebel operation that they were treating with their injured but they were. treating with vehicles that had weaponry on them that their ambulances on the scene and they even behind a number of destroyed tanks a number of the story armored vehicles now nato has responded by saying that it is aware of these claims but at this stage we have and they have no more information than that now this follows an earlier strike rather the libyan foreign ministry says with british planes hitting an oil field in the south east of this country now it's not immediately clear what was the target because city an oil field is not a military target but was some here in tripoli suggesting that perhaps they're trying to stop the production of gadhafi is oil perhaps preventing him from being able to access the money he gets from that to continue with his military operation but three guards were killed in that strike several people have been injured not

a foreign ministry is calling that an act of aggression it's a sort of violates international law it also violates that u.n. resolution one nine seven three which actually sanctioned foreign intervention in this country in the first place we're also hearing that the rebels have begun these first exporting of crude oil but a shipment of some one hundred million dollars has lifted off to brooke we understand that it will be making its way to via qatar and from there will be reaching international markets. if it's confirmed that british warplanes are destroyed libya's biggest oil going to be sure to be something about of a massive p.r. disaster for the alliance we know that emotions are running high among many of the locals across libya tell us of course the role of nato being perceived by both sides of the conflict now. what emotions thirty are running high here and increasingly nato is bearing the brunt of criticisms from both sides the rebels are saying that nato is not doing enough to assist them they point out that only fifty

percent of gadhafi is military might has been destroyed in these is strikes and they say that they want more information from these coalition powers but the tripoli government has consistently and. hughes nature of actually taking sides in this operation it says that it is facilitating a civil war and it also says that it is very clearly not helping protect civilians but rather it is increasingly seen one more civilians killed no matter what has defended itself processing that gadhafi soldiers are increasingly hiding among the civilian population that they are closing them selves in civilian clothes metal tickly in a town of misrata in the west of this country where the fighting continues and we're hearing reports of a bloodbath on the go natures responding to claims that it cannot conduct its tri-state because gadhafi soldiers are fighting from within the civilian population and it is simply too risky to do that now the other difficult question of course is that increasingly gadhafi has changed his tactics on the ground so it is becoming more and more difficult for he made to hide it's to actually to see him on the

ground who is who and this might be part of the reason why we see men starting to make mistakes where they seemingly are targeting rebel fighters perhaps thinking that they are gadhafi soldiers not my colleague it'll piss them off he is based in benghazi and expose further the whole phenomenon and the role of nato in the schools here in the bureau. a very libyan army moved very nice reviews going all the way to retirement but now he's fighting for the revolution and he's among the few rebels with the brunt with military training and experience. their forces are not even we are ready to fight to the death but with these weapons we don't stand a chance against gadhafi since needing to control the north whereas one operation it remains and need more than one thousand sorties. including four hundred technicians you are in screens around these forces have now been destroyed with the

support and help from the various on the ground the rebels or. greater israel there are civilians who was trying to. we daily have green marketers and heroes they're building taking proper actions against the good guys your troops for the rebels taking the town ragged means clearing the way west just when it seemed they were at the doors of the world staring a new series of mortar attacks by going after his forces triggered he already could retreat. but with just a week to go get him because it was a revolution we really seemed to be entire seat crazy to for its support but before i think it seems to me that your list of girls feel the missing scale be it seems to reach all me all the us is pretty tactics these are rising as well protests way this one are becoming

a common scene meaning you are using media all feeling to protect civilians they are best known for help anymore the are demanding it i don't think that i don't get all the way to fall for gadhafi to kill a still we demand a new u.n. resolution which would allow all of us. but experts say arming the rebels alone wouldn't help swing the war or the rebels need is not so much arms they can use in arms training not to be anything before someone else servicing that the u.s. and egypt are called retreat and even if force is going beyond the mandate of the one resolution that established blue north winds up you've got to spin off the. media. now nato has intervention has only worsened the situation on the ground in libya that's according to roll from me a line of political magazine called spike he says we're now looking into a long and bloody stalemate. we're going to be in this kind of stuck situation

where every time the kids after these men make some progress you know they'll get shot by the nato air strikes may help but the rebels aren't strong enough to actually get rid of gadhafi either i would just have this prolonged and very nasty civil war going on there in this position i wear that actually helping to maintain a stalemate between two sides and actually probably more people will die as a result of this intervention than this there been no intervention at all either you have a situation where the nato was not on able to go any further action just made things worse by not actually allowing one side or the other to win the fight for the slippery slope or to get becomes more and more involved to the point at which. is actually very heavily involved just as it was rocking afghanistan. the libyan situation requires a delicate balance between respecting sovereignty and facing up to the responsibility of protecting the people there from could have its forces so says it

jesse ventura former governor of minnesota and interview is coming up next hour but for the meantime here's a quick look. libya is difficult because it certainly puts everyone between a rock and a hard place and one here and you feel well that's libya's business it's their country if they want to overthrow their leader or change whatever they do in their country you know it's their business to do so is it necessarily our business you know what here's the rock and hard place of a double edged sword and you also don't want to see genocide or a slaughter take place because let's face it for years all the guns and weapons and by the way where do you feel you can get something from. where. are the biggest arms dealer in the world.

i know that if you with jesse venture is coming your way next hour here on r.t. moscow has handed over new files to warsaw on the cutting massacre of marching forty that was when an estimated twenty two thousand post offices were killed by soviet secret police in western russia it comes a day after russia's a prosecutor general provided poland with information related to the investigation into last year's presidential plane disaster. the crash killed president lech kaczynski and most of the country's political right. now enjoying artie's pretty. cut in massacre is such a sensitive issue for both countries and has been for decades now we see these files being handed over by moscow what do you know about them to this point. well the russian prosecutor general's office of handed to the polish government i lifted it volume the full investigation into what happened at cats in the county massacre happened in nineteen forty in the forest near smolensk in the west of russia where

twenty two thousand officers were were killed by. secret police if the soviet union how did night involvement in the massacre for many many years blaming the killing of the many however elating ninety. if the soviet forces had been involved in those killings now this led to a warming of relations between warsaw in moscow those. relations are taking a turn for the worse in recent times following last year's plane crash near smolensk which killed lech kaczynski as well as ninety five others including many senior members of the polish polish political elite now that plane crash was actually they were on their way to take part in a memorial service a memorial service that had been hoped could work towards russia and poland putting the catty muscle behind them and. moving on is two countries however the subsequent

crash has resulted in a tension some tensions between bilateral agreements between the two countries. we saw documents handed over regarding russia's investigation in that crash to poland's investigation continues into what happened there was something in the fact of seventeen thousand documents of the small plane crash where you had. the right aspect of the thank you. well as such i got some other international headlines and in ivory coast forces loyal to the internationally recognized election and. has laid siege to the incumbent leave his residence that comes after attempts to drive home but both from the presidential palace where he's been holed up u.n. and french troops continue to conduct strikes on military targets throughout your attention comes amid failed efforts to negotiate the departure of both from the

country while he claims though that he has no intention of stepping down. security officers have been killed at least ten wounded after taliban militants morse an attack on a police training center in the afghan city of kandahar an hour long gun battle also saw three suicide bombers sort of explosives full scale of this point of the casualties is you know kind of has become the heart of the war on terror in afghanistan with dozens killed in recent weeks. more than one hundred schools in south korea have shut down over fears of radioactive rain officials say the levels of radiation coming from japan's fukushima nuclear power plant. cautions should be taken and meanwhile says the evacuation zone around the plant may have to be extended its workers are trying to prevent a hydrogen explosion in one of the reactors the confirmed number of data from the earthquake and tsunami in march at this point now it's nearing thirteen thousand.

well there are new arrivals in orbit as a new crew has just boarded the international space station for sawyer's spacecraft brought three astronauts there are for a five month mission the ship docked successfully to the r.s.s. just a bit earlier today they're now a total of six people on board the station celebrating fifty years of manned space travel in next week there's always crafters even being named after the first man in space of course if you're a good guy. and his legacy is inspiring a bold future of further space exploration tester reports. astronauts spend most of their rides preparing for the possibility of going to space now russian cosmonauts for example takes about two hundred pounds a year and after this. training they have to go through all the hard work men and women put into their professions one of the thing they fear is something a little more romantic and that's an unwavering a childhood dream of literally rethink for some aspiring cosmonaut sergei the

retire watches intently as a so you see him a twenty one spacecraft is where he stood to its vertical position at only fourteen he's so certain about his future that he's already made headway and went to the u.s. and became the first youngster to spend fifteen minutes floating in the zero gravity environment hofmann arts training some argue with you on the plane was i thought the weight of my body as if i was to intreat i could hardly move my hands this early start is something the first man in space you regarding could himself have related to and his feet fifty years ago marked the beginning of a long list of achievements in manned space exploration. from walking on the move. to building the massive international space station. but it doesn't stop there next possibly

a hotel in orbit yet another space dream. for this hotel project there will be full rooms at the station with enough room for seven people there will be trivia luminaries so that everyone could observe the earth and stars i've always wanted to become a cosmonaut that didn't happen but now i'm sure that one day i'll travel to space a tourist price tag is a hefty thirty five to forty million dollars but there is a cheaper alternative another project aims a sense. space tourists to lower earth orbit where they'll spend five minutes of zero gravity and see the planet in its entirety for two hundred thousand dollars with some large groups of people to around one hundred kilometers above ground with they'll be able to seal planets and of course. to do this they plan to use the ability of this plane to carry cargo on its body the plane will take off with a small space shuttle which will be released at a certain altitude but arguably the most a bishops of space projects is the mars five hundred experiment simulating

a voyage to the red line it's a big event this global ambition becomes a reality and when that time comes young sergei is certain he'll be ready to take on the challenge not mars for the i want to be the first to travel to mars and to other planets as well as the means of jupiter saturn to see you can live there in future. and like many spacemen and women he believes it will only be a matter of time that's our cilia r.t. baikonur in kazakhstan. and as the world gears up to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the first manned space flight and you can join him by entering our special competition let's create something inspired by the iconic image of the first she went in space of course we're talking about yuri gagarin it could be anything from a to a t. shirt and there are some great prizes right as often as well all those details waiting for you i thought.

you. were talking of the business affairs with korea. so a lot of top business update this liberalization of the european gas market has come in for a sustained criticism at moscow's international energy form the e.u. is urging russia to join the so-called third energy package under the new regulation gas supplies will have to give up control of the pipelines in europe r.t. is making a caution there has been finding out what's the fuss about. actually know one hand to the international and you foreign which is taking place right behind my back is really happy with the recent european union legislation over the gas transportation system now the search and a.g.

package which was approved last month is designed to liberalize as european allergy markets by guaranteeing a third party access to pipelines as well as separating suppliers from owners of the transport infrastructure now as a maniac spirits here say that under the new legislation russia may have to sell some of its pipeline assets and also russia's gazprom strongly opposes this a recent largest lation saying that this will divert the investment flow away from gas transportation pipelines and that's we managed to speak to one of the companies involved in the construction of the south stream gas pipeline or a margarita hole for money which is the challenge over when to solve a ruse learned she says that of this move will also bring in negative impact on the investment will a company which is involved in

a legit chits needs stability in the frame needs confidence to the money which has invested at the beginning of the crew to also suv it's needed the end and. the european politics is currently doing is not only regulating a lot trying to get into into it to prove decisions but also changing the rules of the game ever and ever again currently gas from tries to example to some parties over the south stream gas supply blind away from the new european union legislation and here we're specifically talking about the slovenian part and as maniacs the gathered here in moscow are saying. global investors lose confidence not money that they put in this business very come back to them. russian consumer confidence has declined in the first quarter of this year following the

gains at the end of two thousand and ten the index of consumer confidence well three points tonight is thirteen the decline was driven by rising commodity prices for harvest pushing inflation above nine percent disposable incomes turned negative for the first two months of the year up to sixteen months of gains. oh price of the rosary flats after part days of gains are concerns about the decline in demand from the u.s. and china however the unrest in the middle east and africa is still supporting crude west texas intermediate light sweet is over one hundred eight dollars a barrel brant blend is trading at around one hundred twenty two and a half dollars now let's have a look at how the stock markets are performing at this hour here in russia markets continue to slide following the decline in the price of oil in new york ny xix is losing over a percent so is the r.t.s. with energy majors the biggest right now let's look at some individual share moves here look who is shedding a one point three percent profit taking ross now to maker and i'm k.'s down more

than one and a half percent after its last year's net profit missed expectations alcohol producers sinar g.e. also posted net profit below forecasts with the chairs around one percent of my six . markets in europe slide into the red sea u.k.'s footsie showing a quarter of a percent and germany's dax is down point seventeen percent shares in german construction group dropped over five percent of its want of losses and its australian unit. and as we've been reporting portugal has finally asked for a bailout from the european union the debt ridden country may need as much as seventy five billion euros rightly or portugal rejected financial help but had no choice but had to change. mind as the west think political crisis push polling cost to record highs if the third even but think of rescue agrees i have called bank i explained that contagion could spread further including some of the biggest economy

i think the first question one has to ask is where is the credibility behind the projections of the european union and over here in america we've heard of stress tests we were told that everything was ok banks were turning around and buying this debt thinking that they were going to be backstop and now all of a sudden woops portugal isn't ok and as recently as a week ago we were told they were going to need a bailout so this is the third time and i'm wondering how long before the market says ok that's enough portugal is just simply a matter of we're spending more than we're making which incidentally is what we're doing in the united states as well and finally people are throwing up their hands and saying we don't think we're going to get paid and that's where the problem always comes from. for this but do announce well let's talk you not contest this as any can find the stories that they would have more.

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