finnish priest is charged with inciting a racial hatred interview with our t.v. in which he slammed the man behind major bombings in russia and criticized the terrorists' internet mouthpiece. the u.k. is accused of destroying one of colonel gadhafi as a major oil fields it's causing fresh doubts over the coalition's true motives in libya the government rebels are calling on nato to do more to help them a regained ground. and while the i assess crew prepares to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the first trip to the final frontier those standing on earth share

their own boldest space aspirations. and the european central bank has increased its key benchmark rate for the first time in almost three years could this be the first of the series find out it's not business with us in the round twenty minutes time. just after five pm here in moscow and in london this is not see now a finnish priest is charged with inciting a racial hatred after speaking out against russia's number one terrorist a lot of on his internet mouthpiece all of this during an interview to us here. the pastor also claims that he's been receiving constant death threats from the leader of the chechen militants however finland insists that the priest is the real criminal and saudis are reports. postell you holler is being prosecuted for

inciting really just hatred and for publicly criticizing what the finnish authorities describe as a legally oh praising organization that is the caucus center of russian called a caucus a center of those of all the years and i don't know what the organization is all about this is a media outlet an internet website which made itself a name by being a mouthpiece for terrorist to call mark this website is banned in russia as well as in a number of other countries across the world but in finland it enjoys quite a comfortable location will only tonight and in downtown how simply orders all these organization are in the very center of the city now you have the lhari was the bust and the only man in finland 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 rides from people members of these organizations and those letters was signed by the local market who saw what

he wants a police police and phillis him to be a little interested in. d.c. even in rome don't go and here's the cool motto dearest. and some forty ten percent dismayed is to me that they will cut my head or way if i continue my fight against caucus if you don't have personal investigation you're gonna be so focused on the. finish police chief. they are uncertain and. that. is the president or support of this government and therefore. it's possible person respectable person is going to recap of who this respectable person ease some of his most known atrocities are and yes he express train bombing in two thousand and nine. points in the most a matter systems money time most recently the attack on the country's largest

airport the idea of the talk a lot of us not only russia's most wanted man is also on the internationally stopped paris the us recently acknowledged that he has links to al qaida so with all doesn't mind was the phrase indeed persecuted for citing obvious facts which the rest of the world acknowledges for calling a terrorist a terrorist but then learned deems this man as a pretty fighter. according. standards promote international terrorism that's the opinion of the deputy head of russia's state of tumor security committee cannot be good cause also so that's alarming that finland is among the countries which called church and tara a liberation movement but he says you don't use terrorism is terrorism no matter how it's disguised it is a menace to all of mankind double standards are the reason terrorism still exists country labels militants from illegal armed groups who commit terror acts against innocent people as terrorists for another country to claim them freedom fighters is

just despicable very nice i never expected anything like this from the finnish authorities to me. now moscow was on high alert after two bombs were diffused in separate incidents the first bomb containing almost half a kilo of explosives was taken from a car stopped by traffic police the driver of the north caucasus origin was arrested he was also carrying a pistol and follows the arrest of a member of the international terror group islamic jihad in the capital on wednesday the man score we're going to explosive device in his vehicle. well still to come for you here r t marketing conflict the u.s. spends millions of dollars to justify its wars abroad to the people in those countries who look at why violence makes a tough sell also. it's a fresh move to the leaving of the past behind russia gives poland new levy classified documents that may shed light on the nine hundred forty massacre.

now libyan opposition say nato has hit their camp reportedly killing up to thirteen rebels it comes as the u.k. is investigating accusations that its planes destroyed the arab states largest oil field and killed three guards the site was said to be controlled by colonel gadhafi forces meanwhile the rebels have a send first independent oil shipment to cutter falsely and are has more details on this from tripoli. rebel fighters are the people who nato is supposed to be assisting in their advance waste words but we're not hearing that a nato air strike has struck the frontline position possibly killing as many as the team opposition fighters that happening on the frontline outside the city of breda in the east of this country now eyewitnesses say that the rebel fighters are retreating quickly to the town of i just dug out 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 ambulances on the scene and they leaving behind a number of destroyed tanks a 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 have no more information than that on this front is 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 look 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 guards 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 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 the japanese military might has been destroyed in these airstrikes and they say that they want more information from these coalition powers but it should be government has consistently accused nato of actually taking sides of this operation it says that it is facilitate. a civil war and it also says that it is very clearly not helping protect civilians but rather it is increasingly seeing one more civilians being killed my funny eco system also is based in things as in its course first the whole phenomenon and the role of nato in the schools so that they are. better off the libyan army moved any service all the way to retirement but now he's fighting for the revolution and he's among the few rebels who have a problem with military training and experience that their forces are not either 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 and technicians the u.n. screens around a third of the iraqis forces have now been destroyed despite help from the skies on the ground the rebels are still taking a pounding but if the major is failed there are civilians in a strike and we daily have many more interest and yes they have been doing taking proper actions against the could not be troops by the rebels taking the town of bread that means clearing the way west but just when it seemed they were at the doors of the world which down a new series of mortar attacks by gadhafi forces triggered a chaotic retreat. just

a week ago because it was rubbish to me really seems the entire cd craze nato for its support was the frightening thing is to back your list of girls killed or missing this can be the it seems the regional mean you know it's all good your life history and tactics is rising as well although this one are becoming problems seen me using new. feeling to protect civilians they are asking for help and more the are demanding it. if you will all the way to full for gadhafi to kill or still we demand a new u.n. resolution which would allow this. but experts say arming the rebels alone wouldn't help so when more with the rebels need is not so much arms they can use arms without training anything before starting our servicing that the u.s.

and egypt are all group we trained and even if you force is going on the mandate of the u.n. resolution that established you know why don't you want this going off towards the . libyan. well international involvement in libya is it directly connected with the interests of big corporations that's according to the former governor of minnesota jesse ventura as if it was coming up next hour but for the meantime here's a preview. for you as oil so it's very important to get the oil pocket we didn't intervene in rwanda we showed the documents in our book on there were one but you have a genocide of nearly a million people and nobody lifted a finger because there was nothing to go in there for that they could for lack of better term rape pillage mineral wealth or you know whatever else international corporations would be.

you with artsy now as the u.s. and nato are embroiled in conflicts around the world there's another campaign going on alongside with millions of american taxpayers' dollars pouring into it it seems laura lester explores the information war being waged on the local population. the reality of war and war still and that's why you want to go to war and it's an absolute interest to your national security it's one reason why coalition forces do battle with an information war to fight alongside the real one playing out on the ground in afghanistan for example so what's not widely known by these milestones along toward american history we have surpassed the soviet campaign there we have spent a sectional amount of money but instead carries this message good morning. welcome to the new game of hope and reconstruction in the war torn region which accommodates homesick for peace and 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 our lights a quote strategic communication program across nato troop contributors that 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 still have. some media picked up on this message to

hear time magazine equates pulling out u.s. troops from afghanistan with brutality against women however the thing to remember about this poor girl this happened while he was troops were there and it's not clear efforts. this even work it's absolutely impossible to tell it 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 abroad on state funded t.v. stations unfortunately we are paying a big price for it even though the u.s. has 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 long been just happened percent of you worship i think they know where all showing perhaps you can't sell a war welcome to the new day unless you have a buyer lauren mr r t you your. a saucy lot for most of us now

a quarter past the hour to remember you can always catch the latest stories on the best videos on our website that's our team dot com we've also got all the in-depth analysis updated all around the top let's have a look right now at some of the stories waiting for you on the road going and beyond the call of duty russian policeman who dug up a body in a cemetery and brought it to his profits after suspecting foul play was found himself in deep trouble. and we take you to the heartland of russia as a nuclear like chile i've been trying to foreigners for decades is now open to everyone and there's no shortage of sites for the curious tourists and much more on our website he talks.

russia has handed over new portions of the declassified documents on the cuts in massacre poland around twenty two thousand published officers were killed by soviet secret police and the one hundred forty incident. not reports. the russian prosecutor general's office of handed to the polish government eleven volumes of the full investigation into what happened. happened in one nine hundred forty in the forest near smolensk in the west of russia where twenty two thousand officers were killed by. secret police know the east union has denied involvement in the massacre for many many years claiming the killing. only however elating ninety. that soviet forces had been involved in those killings 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. 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 any memorial service that could work towards russia and poland putting the catty muscle behind them and moving on his two countries we saw documents regarding russia's investigation in that crash to poland investigation continues into what happened. pretty role of reporting but now let's get to some other world news headlines for you this hour six security officers have been killed and at least ten wounded after the taliban militants who launched an attack on the police training center in the afghan city of kandahar an hour long gun battle also saw three suicide bombers explode a full scale of the casualties at this point is unknown kandahar has come with the

heart of the war on terror in afghanistan good dozens killed in recent weeks. and in the ivory coast of forces are loyal to the internationally recognized election when i listen to what tara have laid siege to the incumbent leaders residents comes after attempts to drive by both from the presidential palace where he's been holed up u.n. and french troops continue to conduct as strikes on the military targets throughout every joint attention comes amid failed efforts to negotiate the departure of but both from the country and he claims he still has no intention of stepping down. now as political admits it can keep its economy afloat the eurozone is finding itself coughing up for a third. following a severe but unsuccessful austerity cuts this plan will get take on more debt the e.u. set alone and more than one hundred billion dollars that's hampers in the eurozone are still volatile after the bailouts of greece and ireland. well today on tees

mike's kaiser and stacy herbert will be debunking the superficial compliments and around the u.s. economy and exploring the secret ties between big banks and big drugs because a report is coming your way at three thirty g.m.t. but for the meantime here's a sneak peak. i remember let me tell you something stacey i remember just very vividly when i was working on was the 1980's 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 was 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 will. start another is going to

a story that is quite literally beyond rushers so use a spacecraft has successfully talked with the international space station to the russians and america will now spend five months bringing a total liar says crew to six the site was dedicated to yuri gagarin the first round in space for it took place just a week before the fiftieth anniversary of his legendary voyage. because even today the pioneers legacy is inspiring the new generations to follow their dreams. 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 it and this is the world of business called training they have to go through all the hard men and women put into their professions one of the things they fear is something a little more romantic and that's an unwavering apol good dream of literally reach for something big aspiring cosmonauts retire watched intently as the so you see i'm

a twenty one spacecraft is voice did 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 of the new in the plane was growing up i thought the weight of my body as if i was to intreat i could hardly move my hands but 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 route. to building the massive international space station. but it doesn't stop there next possibly a hotel in orbit yet another space dream which you for this hotel project there

will be four rooms at the station with enough room for seven people they'll be trivial luminaries so that everyone could 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 tours 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 with some large groups of people to run one hundred kilometers above ground with they will be able to seal planets and the coarseness 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 rest planets in the event this global ambitions becomes reality.

and when that time comes young sergei is certain he'll be ready to take on the challenge no martin i want to be the first to travel to mars and to other planets as well to the moons of jupiter saturn they see you can live very future. and like many space men and women he believes it will only be a matter of time that's are still your r.t. baikonur in kazakhstan. time after the business with dimitri. thanks rory for the last decade russia's economic growth has gone hand in hand with oil prices now that link seems to be breaking economic development ministry has upgraded the world forecast for this year by thirty percent from seventy five to one hundred five dollars a barrel but the country's economic growth forecast has been left untouched to discuss what's going on i'm joined by alexandrian stuart senior economist of

capital i.q. very much xander for being with us so what is going on we have oil prices above one hundred dollars per barrel but no extra economic growth. i think the minister for the economy to continue they're quite weak for the first quarter and second second reason for them not a gradient u.d.p. growth this year is probably. a part of. all growth inflate for growth which of stronger consumption or more investment what about what about capital outflows that we've seen in the first couple of months this year is this affecting also konami group altogether. i would think that kept a low flow probably investment because we have we actually have kept you out well for six months already right since september last year and and yes and we're seeing that investment drop sharply in the first quarter why doesn't the government use this extra money that we're seeing from while prices and actually use it with

investment purposes. well it does their launch in the inverse. foreign direct investment fund right here this is not going to be accumulated from from one for oil profits or is it coming from foreign capital the fund as i understand it's coming from the national welfare fund so i know the g eight meeting that's accumulated is if you will rogers all right what will it take for russia to create a brand new investment climate. years. it will it will take time but they're the first the first steps the right direction and they and i think. i found and recent comments i present in various places in come to fishelson in largest monopolies in russia they also very welcomed by wearing the best we can and also for a long time inflation has been a very massive concern of the russian government since we're seeing

a lot of money coming into the country from oil revenues is not going to actually increase inflation. the question is how the ministry of finance will. spend this money right if all the oil or windfall is going into the spending and yes it's of course it's of course inflationary but it looks like the noosphere finances planning at least to save a part in the reserve fund. and the other channel is of course boy high cost precious four or four producers all right well since inflation is going to be still a concern over the bank of russia want to do the same thing we've seen the european central bank do and that's increase rates of the central bank there over russia has increased rates already this year and we're expecting another twenty five basis point hike in april but recent data is a big concern because consumer confidence dropped in the first quarter and

inflation actually stabilized or i would say mild by the central bank average but by the ministry of controls it's still inflation is stable so this can be this can prevent the central bank from tightening further ok look i'm pretty sure a senior economist if you said capital thank you so much for being with us. interest rates as we mentioned in the euro zone have gone up for the first time in three years the european central bank has raised its rate twenty five basis points to one point two five percent this move is likely to put more pressure on single currency nations struggling to pay their debt and it's portugal which is finally asked for a bailout from the e.u. which may amount to seventy five billion euros when you've got countries that idea into or trying to do it or stir as you package is increased taxes and reduce public spending when you try to 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 there is hardly ready for it but there doesn't seem to be any true choice at the moment

and certainly the c b a not factoring that into account when the window of raising interest rates. for a man or the other for media x. capital so if you look at the markets now in russia markets are continuing to slide following a decline in the price of oil in new york trading my sakes is losing a half a percent is the r.t.s. pretty much point six percent energy majors being the biggest drag of say look at their lukoil is shedding around five percent on profit taking it has seen some pretty strong growth in previous sessions m k one point six percent down d.t.b. also banking stocks you can see there also some of the biggest losers. move to europe now european markets are also in the red after this decision by the european central bank to use shedding just point one percent of wellesley pretty much the same value germany construction group the of dropped over five percent after it

warned of losses that it's australian units and we will be back in around fifty five minutes time with an update stay with i think the headlines with rory.