finnish priest faces charges of inciting racial hatred after an interview with which he slammed a major plumbing's in russia and to criticize to the terrorists internet. the u.k. is accused of destroying one of these major oil fields costing a fresh doubt over the coalition's true motives in libya government rebels are calling on nato to do more to help them a week gaining ground. as the new crew arrives at the international space station to mark a century since man's first flight into orbit to look at the latest space projects

. a very warm welcome to you this is our seed live from the sky now a finnish priest is accused of inciting racial hatred after speaking out against russia's number one terrorist. and his internet mouthpiece all of this during an interview. pasta also claims he's been receiving constant death threats from the leader of the chechen militants however finland insists the priest is the real criminal that's what he's in trouble reports. ah so you hamil are is being prosecuted for inciting really just hatred and for publicly criticizing what the finnish authorities describe as a legally overpraising organization that is the cop car centric russian full because the center of a lot of all the years i don't know what the organization is all about this is

a media outlets and internet what decides which made itself a name by being among these for terrorist local mosque this website is banned in russia as well as a number of other countries across the world but in finland it enjoys quite a comfortable location will only tonight and in down town halls. orders all these organizations are in the very center of the city now you have the lhari was the bust and the only man in finland to openly say that this was outrageous and that finland should not shelter extremist organizing shirts he was not really surprised when ultra short while he was getting death threats from people members of these organizations and those letters was signed by doku umarov who saw what he wanted police police and fillin seem to be a little interested in. using even came from those. and here's the cool motto dearest. so.

continue my fight if. you do any personal investigation you. choose. that. person respectable person. who these responsible person is some of his most known atrocities or they ask express train bombing in two thousand nine. hundred twenty ton and most recently the attack on the country's largest the idea of the local market is not only russia's most wanted man he's also internationally stopped terrorist the us recently acknowledged that he has links to al qaida so we're told doesn't mind what is the phrase persecuted for citing

obvious facts which the rest of the world knowledge is. holding a terrorist attack but finland deems the freedom fighter. now if it makes the point sheltering terrorist organizations and being indifferent to international terror efforts it's likely to reap a grim harvest so says the head of the finnish caucasus friendship society. officially promoting. activities or for. that. we will bring. them into finland which actually is the fact because we have. more for members of terrorist organization. in finland. you with us you live from moscow and still to come for you marketing conflict the

u.s. spends a million dollars to justify its wars abroad to the people in those countries we look at why violence makes such a tough sell also. while the i assess crew prepares to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the first trip to the final frontier those of staying on earth share their own old space aspirations. now libyan opposition say nato air strikes have killed thirteen rebels but comes as the u.k. is investigating accusations that its planes to stroy the arab states largest oil field killing three guards at a site was reportedly controlled by colonel gadhafi is forces meantime the rebels have sent their first independent oil shipment to cuss are now reports from tripoli . rebel fighters are the people who nato is supposed to be assisting in their advance westwards but we're not hearing that in nature

a strike has struck the frontline position possibly killing as many as the team opposition fighters that happening on the frontline outside the city of gregor in the east of this country not eyewitnesses say that the rebel fighters are retreating quickly to the town of arabs w.-o. which is some seventy kilometers away from benghazi which is the headquarters of this whole rebel operation that they were treating with they were injured that they were treating with vehicles that had weaponry on them that there are ambulances on the scene and they leaving behind a number of destroyed tanks the number of destroyed on the vehicles now nature has responded by saying that it is aware of these claims but at this stage we have and they had no more information and now this follows an earlier strike out of 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 trying

to stop the production of the duffys oil perhaps preventing him from being able to access the money he gets from that to continue with his military operation but three dogs were killed in that strike several people have been injured now the foreign ministry is calling that an act of aggression it says that a violates international law it also violates that un resolution one nine seven three which actually sanctioned foreign intervention in this country in the first place increasingly nature 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 thirty percent of the duffys military mights has been destroyed in these airstrikes and they say that they want more information from these coalition powers for the tripoli government has consistently accused nato of actually taking sides in this operation it says that it is facilitate. a civil war i would also say that it is very clearly not helping protect civilians but rather it is increasingly

seeing more civilians being killed my son if you call this an article is based in bengazi explores further the whole phenomenon of the role of nato in the schoolchildren look at. a veteran of the libyan army moved any service all the way to retirement but now he's fighting for the revolution and is among the few rebels at the front with military training and experience. their forces are not evil 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 winds on operation its wings and need more than one thousand sorties into libya including four hundred technicians the un's weans around a third of the various forces have now been destroyed we displayed help from the skerries on the ground the rebels are still taking a bounding. later as field there are civilians in a strike and we daily have many more interest and yes they have been doing taking

proper actions against the gadhafi troops but the rebels taking the town of greg a means clearing the way west just when it seemed they were at the doors of the world which down a new series of mortar attacks by gadhafi forces. retreat. just a week ago because of the revolution e three seems the entire cd crazy neato for its support because the proclaimed kids still back the list of girls missing can't be good seems to reach a long needle it's all good your life history and tactics is rising as well protests way this one are becoming in common seen mean or if using need to off feeling to protect civilians they are asking for help anymore the demanding it

i don't. know you well are they way too full for gadhafi to kill or still we demand a new u.n. resolution which would allow us but experts say arming the rebels alone wouldn't help us win a war with the rebels need is not so much arms they can use arms without really any means we force on our servicing that the us and egypt are called retreat and even if you force is going beyond the mandate of the un resolution that established the north i thought you got this going off r t. v. well far from helping matters in libya nato is most likely making matters worse by drawing out the fight and causing more deaths so says it rather little from the online political magazine despite. we're going to be in this kind of stuck situation where every time we conduct these men and make some progress get shot by the nato airstrikes and they're held back by 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 where they're actually helping some and maintaining a stalemate between two sides and actually probably more people will die as a result of this intervention and the third been no incidents at all either you have a situation where the nato wasn't on able to go any further and actually just made things worse by not actually allowing one side of the year that's when the fights for the slippery slope in which it becomes more and more involved to the point which. is actually very heavily involved just as it was in afghanistan. as the u.s. and nato are embroiled in conflicts all around the world and there's another campaign going on alongside with millions of american taxpayers' dollars pouring into what i think is a lot of mr x. problems the information being waged on the local population. the reality of

war and war is hell and that's why you only go to war when it's an absolute interest to your national security it's one reason why i coalition forces do battle with an information war to fight alongside the real one playing out on the ground in afghanistan for example so it's not guardedly known by these milestones the longest war in american history we have surpassed the soviet campaign there we have spent hundreds of sectional amount of money but instead carries this message the morning after the storm welcome to the new day of hope and reconstruction in the war torn region which accommodates conflict with peace that's the nato version told in this promotional film it was given to international journalists like myself at the annual nato summit presumably to spread the message public relations after it's like these are nothing new and commander of the nato forces the united states spends billions of dollars alone to market its version of the war to the world

including p.r. at home and abroad u.s. funded media as well as psychological operations for example a leaked classified cia document revealed a plan for ally it's a quote strategic communication program across nato troop contributors they could provide a buffer if apathy becomes opposition to fight declining public support for the war from france and germany the cia tapped afghan women as the perfect messenger to make an emotional appeal about the taliban and professed their aspirations for the future as this woman does here and put on some media picked up on this message to hear time magazine equates pulling out u.s. troops from afghanistan with brutality against women however if you remember about this poor girl this happened while he was troops were there and it's not clear efforts. like this even work it's absolutely impossible to tell but i would be

willing to suggest that. it's very ineffective i mean while hillary clinton says the u.s. is losing when it comes to broadcasting its message of broad on state funded t.v. stations unfortunately we are paying a big price for it even though the u.s. is spent one billion dollars alone to broadcast its message to the arab world where it's at war through the state news network. the network has locked in just half a percent of viewership with very you know with all showing perhaps you can't sell a war welcome to the new game unless you have a buyer lauren mr r t u york. along with r.t. and you remember you can always catch the latest stories the best videos as well on our website that's it seems like congress also got our all of the in-depth analysis updated around the clock let's take a quick look now at some of the stories that are waiting for you on the line going beyond the call of duty russian policeman who dug up a body in

a cemetery and brought it to his office after suspecting foul play as found himself in deep trouble. if we take you to the heartland of russia's nuclear site. which shuttles to florida for decades is now open to everyone and there's no shortage of sites for the curious tourists and so much more on our website cost because. it's just past our court past the hour now here in moscow russia has one hundred and you portion of the classified documents on the cats in mexico over to poland around twenty two thousand polish officers were killed by soviet secret police and a nine hundred fourteen incident i think it's pretty well it has details. the

russian prosecutor general's office of handed to the polish government by leavitt volumes of the full investigation into what happened at cats in the county must have happened in one thousand forty and the forest near smolensk in the west of russia where twenty two thousand trollish offices were killed by. secret police no union has the night involvement in the massacre for many many years blaming the killing on the tyranny however it may seem ninety going to charles admitted that soviet forces had been involved in those killings now this led to a warming of relations between warsaw and moscow that warming of relations is 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 political elite now that plane was actually on their way to

the team to take part in a memorial service that had been hoped. towards russia and poland putting the catty muscle behind them and moving on is two countries we saw documents handed over regarding russia's investigation in that crash to poland as the investigation continues into what happened. to some other world news headlines. security officers have been killed and at least ten wounded after taliban militants launched an attack on the police training center in the afghan city of kandahar our source three suicide bombers explode a full scale of casualties is not yet known and has become the heart of the war on terror in afghanistan with dozens killed in recent weeks. in ivory coast forces loyal to the internationally recognized election when i last sunday walked out of a late seem it should be incumbent leaders residence it comes after attempts to drive law by boat from the presidential palace where he's been holed up you are not

a french troops continue to conduct strikes on military targets throughout i'll be joined the tension comes amid failed efforts to negotiate the departure of bad both from the country and he claims he has no intention of stepping down. with portugal admits it can't keep its economy afloat the eurozone is finding itself coughing up for a third bailout package following a severe but successful austerity cuts lisbon will take on yet more debt the e.u. sets alone and more than one hundred billion dollars was in the euro zone are still volatile after the bailouts of greece and ireland. but today's that night skies are stacey where they will be bunking the superficial optimism around the u.s. economy and exploring the secret ties between big banks and the big drugs the report is coming your way at three thirty g.m.t. here on a c but for now it's

a quick preview. well i remember let me tell you something stacey i remember just very vividly when i was working on was it nineteen eighties every friday cocktails on park avenue and watch this parade of limousines travel down park avenue into the basement of citibank everyone knew this was money that was being loaded by citibank from drug money this is an open secret nobody got out of this so i'm glad to see now twenty at least twenty twenty five years later people begin to understand that the global finance community the global banking system runs entirely on cocaine was. just twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow you with r t let's let's go to a story now that is beyond russia's soyuz spacecraft has successfully talked at the international space station to russians and the american also around five months bringing the total crew to six i thought it was pretty good it could guarin the

first man in space and it took place just a week before the fiftieth anniversary of its legendary voyage as artie's tests are still reports even today the pioneers legacy is inspiring you generations to follow their troops. be a part of the astronaut spend most of their lives preparing for the possibility of going to space now russian cosmonaut for example takes about two hundred fifty exams a year and that's an existence of all the residual training will have to go through all sides and all the hard work men and women put into their professions one of the things they fear is something a little more romantic and that's an unwavering assaultive dream of literally reach for something big aspiring cosmonauts watches intently as the so you see i'm a twenty one spacecraft is poised to to its vertical position at only fourteen he's so certain about his future that he's already made headway he went to the u.s. and became the first youngster to spend fifteen minutes floating in the zero gravity environment hoskin arts training. when the plane was going up i took the

food weight of my body as if i was throwing treats i could hardly move my hands this early start is something the first man in space utica garden could himself have related to and his fate fifty years ago marked the beginning of a long list of achievements in manned space exploration. from walking on the moon. to building the massive international space station. but it doesn't stop there next possibly a hotel in orbit yet another space dream which for this hotel project there will be forums at the station with enough room for seven people there will be tribute to luminaries so that everyone can observe the earth and stars i've always wanted to become a cosmonaut that didn't happen but i'm sure that one day i'll travel to space at

taurus price tag is a hefty thirty five to forty million dollars but there is a cheaper alternative another project aims to send 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. to send large groups of people to one hundred kilometers above ground with they'll be able to seal planets and of course most with their own eyes 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 vicious of space projects is the mars five hundred experiment simulating a voyage to the red planet in the event this global ambition becomes reality. and when that time comes young sergei is certain he'll be ready to take on the challenge not march i want to be the first to travel to mars and to other planets as well to the moons of jupiter saturn if they see can live there in future. and

like many space men and women he believes it will only be a matter of time that's our cilia r.t. baikonur in kazakhstan. one of us that will propose to celebrate fifty years of space flight you can join in by entering our competition to create a moments are dedicated to eureka garren it can be anything you choose are with prizes for the best all the details waiting for you at artsy dot com. if. we. are to talk about this i was a business news outlet that matrices. thanks rory interest rates in the eurozone have gone up for the first time in three

years the european central bank has raised its key rates twenty five basis points to one point two five percent tighten on three environments is likely to put more pressure on the single currency nations that are struggling to pay their debts among them portugal which is finally asked for a bailout from the e.u. that may amount to seventy five billion euros let's talk more on this i'm now joined by my knowledge that a senior associate at the easy accepted america thank you very much for being with us well tree she has said it will not be a part of a series of hikes what do you think. employers disagree i think this probably kickstarted the sea be passed down to raising interest rates for the foreseeable future as well ultimately where we are seeing recovery within the euro zone although there is. fear euro zone area being formed whereby you've got countries that are doing particularly well such as germany france and countries such as portugal greece and ireland that are performing so well but ultimately inflation is the main concern for for for the c b four for treaty as well and this is why

they've decided to raise rates first time in three years so i think this is probably the start of things that are not i expect them to be very aggressive part he sees an upward path of rates are what will be tied to monetary policy be a use for peripheral economies are they ready for this. but i think because it does make things a lot more difficult and when you've got countries that are all ideas who all trying to adhere to austerity package is increased taxes and reduced public spending when you try and impose increase interest rates on them as well that's just another factor that's going to hurt them as well so i don't think they're entirely ready for it but there doesn't seem to be any true choice at the moment and certainly d.c. be. factoring that into account when the window of raising interest rates all right what do you make of portugal's asking for a bailout package do you think that this will this is the end for many countries we will see them following this. well there is an argument that portugal is the last

one i know goldman sachs came out with a report earlier today saying that the all in all is likely to end with portugal and where we're not going to go to go down the route of other countries ask for more money but with regards to portugal it was the end of it inevitable likely to happen they needed financing very quick around about ten billion euros before may i think they had a rude awakening yesterday when they tried to get a six month debt to refinance and they find that they found that their refinancing get very onerous rates of interest as well so. they went down the route of doing what they had to do they probably could have done it a lot sooner as well but hopefully this is the end otherwise of both countries such as spain and belgium looking to do the same as well all right what do you see as prospects for the you're. well it looks relatively ok that one four c. level versus the dollar i think it carries on slowly grinding on was a not was certainly if we're we start to see rates continue to move to the upside

within the euro zone so you know but. it's a level if it does it's there that one fifty level then just likely to encounter some serious sailing. capital thank you so much for your answers. all right let's move to the stock markets we start with actually commodities oil prices are rather simply flat after five days of gains on concerns about the you decline in demand from the u.s. and china however the unrest in the middle east and africa is still supporting for west texas intermediate light sweet is over one hundred eight dollars per barrel almost on a nine brant is still around one hundred twenty two dollars per barrel. all right the russian stock markets are continuing to slide following the decline in the price of oil in new york my six is losing ground half a percent so is the r.t.s. pretty much energy majors being the biggest drag or second look at some of those

stocks luke oil is shedding how much of point eight percent this hour this is of course the same the same situation for ross nafta on the back of low oil prices steelmaker m.k. is down more than one half percent after last year's net profit mr expectations then alcohol produces synergy also oppose the net profit below forecasts with its shares down around one percent half a percent on the market. and european markets are also sliding into the red quite flat right now for two years down point one percent dax is down just a notch shares in german construction group dropped over five percent after it warned of losses that its australian units. and that's all we have time for this hour we will be back next hour around fifty five minutes to be exact with an update rory is next with.

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