in a place already synonymous with tragedy the world witnessed another disaster that left the country devastated. and united two nations in grief. question more on. france's military initiatives and maybe a back fire at home what was mounting criticism of the country's leadership and protest against a three week in a mansion which shows no sign of ending. the cleverest pensacola junior strong daystar the new disc. maidens accused of incompetency a media bias to get out the forces after near strike kills at least five rebels on the frontline. this currency is dead it is deceased is is it is extinct it can not survive. plans to bail you out desperate workable sparking anger among

europeans concerned that strong economies are once again forced to pay for others to profit off the eurozone and. the thousands of women dying every year at the hands of violent husbands in russia to calls for a change in a law to encourage those suffering in silence to come forth and. i rule has made steady gains against the dollar and the bureau since the start of the year stronger all prizes are adding further impetus to its rise join me for more on that out of the stories in our business. what you are to live from moscow nine am here in marina joshing the friendly fire of a nato airstrike has killed at least five and to get out the rebel fighters in libya some sources suggest it may have. only add to the criticism coming from the

opposition say the alliance is not doing enough to help them and for those countries who were pushing for this operation three weeks ago very real chance of a stalemate looks likely to bring some grand crashing down reports on france. france was among the first countries to push for a military solution in libya but no watches a questioning its justification for going in and wants to get in on what i call the imperial condominiums a recurrence of africa already having long term connections on the continent paris can't forgive colonel gadhafi for fighting its military in neighboring chad in the 1980's and challenging its corporations in the region ever since the french quarter . is it a french quarter see or or is it a sarkozy see do with at least try to do to convince the. man in

this capacity to be their leader on day twenty. and also the way that he tried to survive in frost reports the pentagon was put to good invasion already last year have prompted it because asians of revived imperial ambitions calculated as a coach would offer france's president the move has backfired french foreign minister a leisure paces the invasion could last days or weeks but not months into a third week war in libya is turning out longer and harder than wanted. with gadhafi forces still standing firm rebel gains only come with the heavy hand of nato helping war in libya with both the printing press and the broader congress nor the government the popularity of instead of the continues oppositional both the oil is growing these demonstrators. they see through frauds these noble claims that

they can claim humanitarian intervention but it's really. in local elections nicolas sarkozy got thumped he's u.m.p. party wing just nineteen percent of the votes the french president hoped for a ratings lift from the war he's got the opposite a sarkozy has because of more incorporeal presidents forever for the last forty years given france's troubled history in the region many fears some countries may remember their common past and unite against their former colonial master. countries that have genuine revolutions genuine uprisings and then being able to unite i think that is something which the imperial powers don't really want to see with france facing a growing backlash at home and abroad any talk of a quick fix sounds out of tune. the new bush will see paris.

now it's cross live to tripoli to talk of course on paul's lior who is there. whole story weeks into the operation so why the russian is calling for going in there what's your perspective there. was well the latest we're hearing is that nato is denying and a strike on an oil field in the south east of this country instead what nato says is that the death of the lives of all the others again as you are now seven hundred outlook or else it was introduced in the heart of this country in the u.k. usually doesn't say to you the world but the way we've seen our bibles say that they focus on saddam and our crude oil could harm their stupid decision over a different nature against frankly which touches on the ground so that it is easier to find the rebel forces are actual and moving between the people injured and what it doesn't seem to happen is that major functions are trying to balance with leaving with some risk when they came under attack by the nature of a strike still we understand a bit of a retreat back equal to the town i just which was some seventy kilometers west of

little headquarters in being gone but there surely are able shelves now major has not yet met a direct involvement with the sponsibility in this it hasn't acknowledged that but it has said that the situation on the ground is extremely and key at the front line is very very clear to it and is the constant so very backwards and forwards we do know that in the last two days that window has hampered nato operation as you know in libya now the latest move on the diplomatic front that the turkish prime minister has destroyed a roadmap for peace here in libya this morning for you gadhafi was cornered he says some of the siege cities establishment of humanitarian corridors also and also the intimidation of some kind of him a question hostesses of the mood is of the rebels are rejecting this proposal because they say that nothing short of conducting himself stricken down and even this country would be acceptable to reckon moment we meet alternation began it's a slice of the situation is in the stalemate the fighting is seen in and of on the

top. bridget in the offing see we trot along with nancy training as a tactic isn't meeting these items is managed to change tactics and he certainly is managing to put it. all right thanks very much indeed for bringing us to something from traveling journalist from the asia times believes the coalition's actions and media are leading to stalemate the nature of going on is nato incompetence number one for ok i've you know what they want they want colo of tanks of cut off the forces in the desert place sitting ducks so they can bomb them at will what the gadhafi forces are doing there disguising their remaining tanks and armored personnel carriers inside or around the cities he's using curial or against the guerrilla cleverest pensacola general strummed to start the new this would be

a stalemate the u.s. and the brits basically want to arm the rebels you know that could happen in effect it's already happened they raided some arms depots eastern libya and this out there related three now there is in the already have surface to air missiles in the soup this out of libya so it's probably somewhere in shot in central africa so this is already happening can you imagine if these rebels are armed why do cia pentagon s.a.'s from britain and all that can be measured this is six months we're going to have more jets into super. as a foreign intervention in libya drags on the struggle to justify it gets tougher as you'll see you know cross talk show coming your way in two hours time. that the terrorists his kids around. and their government as a whole is something that the whole entire wall does not happy with doesn't really

want to have you have that if you rule so the world has actually moved and saved lives if i may jump in here john john john john if i was to go to you i mean if we look at recent memory he was being brought out of the cold recall but these arguments were exactly the same as we are going to use for the invasion of afghanistan and iraq and nobody thinks that what we've got in either place is a model of democracy on the argument that the very line we cheer is that this is a dissembling language to say that the world community there is no world community i'm a citizen in this country my country is at war a majority of people in the opinion poll don't want to be bombing libya our government on the almost on a factor is that it's good touring the middle east saudi weaponry to they want to go to the war to go to war isn't true but there is some sort of this embodied world community and he's backing this.

portugal has asked for a bailout from the e.u. something that they carry a half of the one hundred twenty billion u.s. dollars price tag for your country simply for help actos those of greece and ireland and the fear for it means that spain will soon follow suit. the european economy could be sunk by the eurozone. we don't have a duty to portugal we didn't have a duty to tell our island we made seven billion pounds worth of welfare cuts and then we gave seven billion for ireland go figure that does not work and now spain is going to go the same way and our lousy coalition government won't give the british people the right kaveh vote and you know the reason they won't give us the vote because they know that seventy five percent of people in a recent a referendum campaign and congress poll say they want to get out of this expensive undemocratic club and the euro is going to crash and burn spain will follow

portugal and i say not a penny to portugal not one single penny one single cent one single euro it's nothing to do with the united kingdom we want our country back thank goodness we know there ever joined this madness how can you link the economy of an economic powerhouse like the united kingdom or germany with somewhere like greece good no well the answer is you can't and it's failed and the sooner it collapses let that sound we're having a referendum on may the first on the alternative voting system that's a little referendum we need the referendum we need in our great country is a straight in or out should we stay or should we go should we say to you and the great people won't but whether we get the referendum law is quite a becoming irrelevant because this currency is doomed the old country parson sketch you know there's power to cities to see such power is no more well let me tell you this currency is dead it is deceased is is it is extinct it can not survive spain

will go next. and coming up it's not just you we're in trouble. here was the problem is big fourteen trillion dollars big meanwhile the solutions lawmakers are coming up with to solve this problem are small. party looks at the gridlock as u.s. tries to twenty five and by that and threats to its credit rating. every year fourteen thousand women die as a result of domestic violence in russia even more decide to suffer in silence lawyers say only a change in the law allowing greater involvement in family life can help the victims arches or renegotiate reports. it was a cycle. we had fried he raised his hand that happens many times for as long as i could but when i realized that he couldn't stand it i found out about the center where they help women took my child and ran to save my life. it

wasn't this helps and only the ideas that were in it was finally able to cope with the scars left by years of emotional and physical abuse with the thought of my child witnessed it all and it's twice as hard for me to understand that i told her aides said all of it i thought i was guilty for something that i've done something wrong. research conducted raise your shows fourteen thousand women lose their lives to domestic violence in russia every year that means that every forty minutes a woman dies it hears of her husband tens of thousands more continue to suffer the abuse but the numbers are all the proximate because often victims choose to stay silent about their plight. as torkel aspect is a plea here traditionally beatings one thought of as a problem beating means loving as the old russian saying goes ninety percent of the time women don't turn to authorities for help going to the police is viewed as

betrayal by their husbands the woman is afraid to destroy the marriage whether it's because she can't provide for her self or for the sake of her children. unfortunately existing laws make it hard for victims of domestic abuse to get adequate protection. we must change the legislation so the government may be able to interfere with a personal rights of citizens in cases of domestic violence in soviet times we had such laws every individual has to be able to prove that they were abused on the wrong it means many russian women choose to stay silent about aggression towards them sometimes until it's too late to negotiate r.t. . people sharing out of her video online often help bring stories into the live but there are some food including that of professional quality also available for our viewers to dealt with artie's free video service whatever your taste always god dramatic picture is. and as a drug sting in siberia worth police seized

a large stash of heroin. and a puppy that was found alive in a rubbish heap just days after suffering life threatening injuries. in the u.s. republicans and democrats can overcome their differences on the spending cuts needed to agree of budget for two thousand and eleven but the proposal seems comparison to the nation's debt and the threats from rating agencies that could make pay for it a lot more expensive artie's lauren lyster explains. while u.s. lawmakers in washington baker over the budget and her blame across the aisle for the gridlock calling opposing colleagues relatively small that string group of

india logs the war and are dragging down the budget negotiation process give me a broad another group of decision makers has been waning in on the debate one of the country's top credit agencies telling the feds something has to get done on this debt ratings agency standard and poor and moody's have been warning for months that the u.s. debt could threaten the country's golden aaa credit rating telling investors in u.s. bonds essentially they may have to worry about getting paid the u.s. debt problem is big fourteen trillion dollars big meanwhile the solutions lawmakers are coming up with to solve this problem are small this time any dot represents even the larger sixteen billion dollars in cuts republican lawmakers originally proposed meanwhile the u.s. government each year continues to spend a lot more than it takes in resulting in more than a trillion dollars in budget deficit so with all of this there rating agencies as unsustainable and a concern and its impact the u.s.

has been on for a while forty three cents of every dollar we spend this year. continuing on this trajectory of borrowing and spending however would not be an option according to financial analysts if the u.s. was downgraded as it is the interest the u.s. pays on its debt is staggering it was one hundred eighty seven billion in two thousand and. proposal it increases to eight hundred forty four billion that number would grow exponentially faster with a downgrade because the u.s. would likely have to pay higher interest rates to borrow money meaning less money to spend at home whether the u.s. would really be downgraded is up for debate the u.s. has the exorbitant privilege after all of printing dollars the global reserve currency to pay its global credit card bill the scarier scenario may be that the

u.s. has even reached this point i think much more disturbing of course and in my opinion the fact that the u.s. financial situation already possibly merits a situation that once would have been unthinkable perhaps a downgrade for the u.s. whether it happens or not lauren mr bharti washington d.c. . mike norman says fears of a looming debt crisis and the u.s. are being overplayed and causing panic. the debate is that people have a misunderstanding of this they view the reality in a way which is mired in misconception and myth and this is this is pervasive from the common person on the street all the way up to the highest levels of policy including our own president who goes out there publicly and says we are out of money that is an impossibility the united states of america issues the u.s. dollar it could spend it in any amount that it was to with

a nine percent unemployment rate and millions of people at a work and industrial capacity far below what our potential is and millions of on whole unsold homes and all this other excess capacity that we have what we should be doing is increasing demand and the way that we do that in an economy where most people are trying to cut back their dead is for the government to step in and stimulate demand by spending on infrastructure on education on health care basic research and development on transportation on alternative energy these are the things we did in the past these are the things that created the real capital that was passed along from generation to generation it's what made this country rich and it's exactly the thing we're not doing now because we've been conned we've become sidetracked on this nonsensical issue of the government of the united states running out of money when it isn't a possibility. now is a look at some other stories from around the world and hamas government in gaza

says that once a ceasefire with israel to prevent a further escalation of recent violence it's called the latest exchange of fire between the sides and which five palestinians were killed and two israelis injured is will respond to the shelling of a bus with airstrikes tank fire there's been no official reaction from tel aviv to the cease fire attempts. buildings across japan have been shaken by violent aftershock measuring seven point four these pictures are from the miyagi television offices in the city of sendai one of the worst hit areas in last month's huge quake and tsunami tremors were felt as far away as tokyo and it's an army warning was briefly put into place there's also a threat to the honor of our nuclear plant after the main power supply there was dissing don't force you to resort to emergency backup. this dramatic footage shows children three from mexico were shot eleven kids dad and one to thirteen others in brazil

a twenty four year old former student of the public school where the tragedy took place and enter the building and opened fire into classrooms shot himself afterwards in the massacre has become the first of its kind in brazil mirroring school shootings in the u.s. . once sands to the front line now forced to fan for themselves georgian veterans of the ninety's war with a posse are now having to fight their own government they say they're forced to live on next to nothing while the country spends big money on a string of memorials launched in a blaze of pomp and publicity are he's cutting as our has a story. there are memorials like these all over the world set up to honor all those who fought for their countries a sign of respect and remembrance but many of the veterans here in georgia feel that they have been completely forgotten captain bayley and sons are went through war and highs in the 1980's and decorated officer he now has to survive just

fifteen u.s. dollars a month so i don't get a pension now and i won't until i'm sixty five but will i live to see that money we used to have some sort of support the hospital the free treatment social benefits but they got old taken away in two thousand and five and i got fired in two thousand and three with no explanation whatsoever. lives in a house that he claims is unfit to live in here to send his family away because he can't provide them with food. or my house has no gas no running water i can't pay for any of it i can't get a job the only reason i'm still alive is because of my friends i live in what they can. and he does not alone is like more and more veterans in georgia feel the lack of support from their government but when they try to draw attention to it break on a hunger strike they were simply shocked at the way some were even arrested according to officials for refusing to comply with police orders and being under

the influence of alcohol. is the most outrageous of veterans and the international media was the fact those detained got slapped with a two hundred twenty five dollar fine not one of them has that kind of money. our government building. brings foreign dignitaries by to see it but it's a farce because in reality the veterans in georgia are dying of hunger poverty and nobody cares they are being fired from their jobs evicted from their homes before the police came a break up our protest the president drove by he stopped loaded. looked at us one hour later we were pushed out of the way like we were nothing but a dozen n.g.o.s and human rights groups demanded an official investigation into the actions of the police even the us ambassador to georgia officially stated he was disturbed by reports of police violence no george until each hour reported on the event but opposition parties were quick to make as much use of it as possible that

it is essential the international community reacts strongly to what is happening with the georgian government and society i don't know the political battles continue and the reasons who've already sacrificed so much for a country that largely ignores them are being drawn into this war as we. can't you know serve our tea b.c. ga we have today now time now for the business news with korea. and iraq and our business out there as our good to have your way the ruble has made steady gains against the dollar and the euro's as the beginning of the year the

stronger all prices added further evidence as to that rise but xander if you go from b. to b. capital believes the russian currency may be close don't speak. ruble appreciation is probably close to running its course because first you have this new strong current account in the first quarter and then resume for growth this factor influencing the ruble will diminish and second we still have kept still outflows. from the little bit by bit close like this is a structural saying right for for now and. might continue going forward. while prices of extended their rally with ongoing unrest in the middle east and africa are weakening dollar is also contributing to the growth he doesn't die as a new highs above one hundred eleven dollars per barrel brant land is trading at more than one hundred twenty three dollars per barrel reports say an oil field in libya has been damaged during concerns civil war may destroy the country's oil the

saudis now let's have a look at how the stock markets are performing asian stocks are trading higher this hour japanese stocks reversed course later friday morning to trade higher helped by weaker yen and some causative financial results in retail sector share that glow are up around seven percent after all for a strong earnings outlook exporters on the rise as well with grimaces tronics up you five percent in hong kong property developers were lower priority on a week outlook of late rising mortgage rates. and this is what the cause and picture for the odds as the noise x. looks like a last minute selloff caused the bourse to close one percent who are mostly by energy stocks now let's look at some individual shambles lupo said around one point six percent of profit taking calls by ross now have steelmakers advocate was down more than one a half percent on thursday after its last year's net profit missed expectations and

bt declines two percent. russian stock markets continue to rise on the wave of high oil prices and michael oliphant. financial group says the interest rate hike could play on investors' minds. it seems like the rate increase in europe with the impact of risk. across the world and i think that if there or would give us some attention over or at least keep it as peaceful as often russia will feel support all over the next week i think again to be always talks and i'm thinking of transnet because for the recent convert a pronouncement about replacing government officials on the board i think it is one of the bed managed companies which should have been a future of this decision could be the possible beneficiary so i think it's the stock which is going to be the best are probably coming several days.

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