tell you learned this hotel telling us of inside the hotel points pleasures and how would prince or to the splendid hotel in touch with the hotel in touch your world the future of the guru how would international floods achieve every green little her children in tow. france's military initiatives in libya backfire at home with mounting criticism of the country's leadership and protest against the three week intervention which shows no sign of ending. the cleverest generals from the star. is accused of incompetency in the view of by the forces after an airstrike killed at least five rebels on the frontline. this currency is dead it is deceased is is it is it. survived.

plans to bail out a debt stricken portugal stark anger amman europeans are concerned that strong economies are once again forced to pay for others to prop up the euro zone. and thousands of women dying every year at the hands of violent husbands in russia calls for a change in the law for courage those suffering in silence to come forward. this is r.t. coming to live from moscow i'm marina josh welcome to the program of a friendly fire of nato air strike has killed at least five and get off the rebel fighters in libya some sources suggest it may have been dozens 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 the very. real chance of

a stalemate looks like we could bring some grand ambitions crashing down there are reports from france. france was among the first countries to push for a military solution in libya but now watch as a questioning its justification for going game once you get in on what i call the imperial condominium a really kind of quest of africa already having long term connections on the continent called 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 friend's party or or is it. your way that we try to convince the world that he's demanded in this capacity to be their leader. and also the way that he'd tried to survive in frogs reports le pen gold was plotting an invasion already last year of problem today his ations of revived

imperial ambitions calculated as a coach with arthur france's president the move has backfired the french foreign minister island paces the invasion could last days or weeks but months into its third week war in libya is turning out longer and harder than wanted to. with that peace force is still standing firm rebel games only come with the heavy hand of nato helping the war in libya with putting french and british abroad congress nor the government's popularity here forward instead of moving continues oppositional both sides his growing these demonstrators say they see through for all these noble claims that they can't claim humanitarian intervention but it's really in paris and in local elections nicolas sarkozy got thumped. he's you have

people to just nineteen percent of the votes the fridge president hoped for ratings list for the war he's got the opposite. because the more. presidents for ever for the last forty years given france's troubled history in the region maybe fear some countries may remember they called the poles and unite against their former colonial. countries that had 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 withdrawals facing a growing backlash at home and abroad any talk of a quick fix altitude. then you see paris front line shifting forwards and back uncontrolled weapons traffic and chaotic allied airstrikes artie's probably your who's in tripoli has the latest developments on the ground in libya. nato has denied responsibility for

a strike on an oil field in the south east of this country instated says it was gadhafi trying to sabotage oil supplies to the east imports city of two broke from where the rebels have begun exporting the first consignment of crude oil with some one hundred million dollars to qatar not in a separate major is right there is still confusion over what exactly happened but we flew in from doctors on the ground that at least five with all fighters were killed and some twenty two were injured what seems to have happened is that the real point is we're trying to advance which heavy weaponry when they came under attack by nato of a quickie retreated to the town of baghdad it was some seventy kilometers to the ways for the rebel headquarters in benghazi and the they were shelled the nato was not the direct knowledge on its ability to think there is a strike and for the casualties that have brought but it does say that the situation on the ground is extremely fluid at the front line shifting which was

flowing forward and backwards and that it's not clear what's actually happening the last few days have seen bad weather so no doubt that too has hampered nato operations on the diplomatic front there is a proposal on the table from the turkish prime minister a road map for peace that does include the establishment of humanitarian corridors it would also see the reveal his soldiers from some of the besieged cities and the implementation of some kind of democratic processes but we are hearing that the rebels have already rejected this proposal because they say nothing short of gadhafi stepping down and leaving this country would be acceptable journalist purpose cobar from the times believes the coalition's actions in libya are leading to stalemate. the nature of going on is nato incompetence number one ok you know what they want they want a colon of tanks of qaddafi forces in the desert like sitting ducks so they can well on them at will what kind of resources are going there disguising their

remaining tanks and armored personnel carriers inside or around the cities he's using guerilla against that they're really cleverest pensacola in general strummed to start the new this would be a stalemate the u.s. and the brits basically they want to arm the rebels you know that could happen in fact it's already happened they raided some arms depots eastern libya and then this out there related french presently already have surface to air missiles and b. two pieces 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 by the cia pentagon s.a.'s from britain and all that can be measured this is six months we don't have new just to suit. so as a foreign intervention in libya drags on the struggle to justify gets tougher as you'll see on our cross talk shell coming your way in just over an hour's time.

that their regime is kids around here and their government as a whole is something that the whole entire world does not have the word doesn't really want to have if you rule so the world has actually moved and saved lives if i may jump in here 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 i think we recall that 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 he's a model of democracy and the argument that the very language. is it 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 and the obvious one factor is that it's touring the middle east so the

weaponry to they want to go to the want to go to war isn't true but there is some sort of this embodied world community but he's backing this. portugal has asked for a bailout from the e.u. something that kerry have to do one hundred twenty billion u.s. dollars price tag for europe the countries we for help at those those of greece and ireland and the fear remains that spain will soon follow suit john gaunt the e.u. referendum campaign told r.t. they're heavily listing ship of the european economy could be sunk by the eurozone . we don't have a duty to portugal we didn't have a duty to prowl our island we made seven billion pounds worth of welfare cuts and then we gave seven billion to ireland the figure that does not and now strange going to go the same way on our lousy coalition government well give the british people the right to have a 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 e.u. referendum campaign and congress poll said they want to get out of this expensive undemocratic club and that 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 never ever joined this madness how can you link the economy of an economic powerhouse like the united kingdom or germany with somewhere like greece you know well the answer is you can't and it fails and the sooner it collapses labatt's out for having a referendum on may the fifth on the alternative approaches system that's not a referendum we need the referendum we need in our great country is it straight in or out should we stay or should we go should we say to you and the british people one found but whether we get a referendum no it's kind of becoming irrelevant because this currency is doomed

the old want you part in sketch you know this power to cities to cease this 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 here in our just europe that's in trouble. 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. as the u.s. tries to reach twenty eleven budget and threats to its credit rating. and 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 are. reports. it was a vicious cycle at the press club we had clients he raised his hands it happened so

many times held on for as long as i could so when i realized that it could end up then that i found the center where they hope women took my child and ran to save my life. it wasn't this help center named ideas though where he was finally able to cope with the scars left by years of emotional and physical abuse. my child witnessed it all and it's twice as hard for me to understand that i told the rates at all that i thought i was guilty for something that i've done something wrong. research conducted shows fourteen thousand women lose their lives to the mystic violence in russia every year that means that every forty minutes a woman dies at heels of her husband tens of thousands more continue to suffer the abuse but the numbers are all the proximate because often the victims choose to stay silent about their plight. as torkel aspect is

a plea here traditionally beatings one thought of as a problem between 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 used as betrayal by their husbands the woman is afraid to destroy the marriage whether it's because she can't provide for itself 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 the government may be able to interfere with their personal lives of citizens in cases of domestic violence in syria tell us we had such laws but every individual has to be able to prove to be refused on your own it means many russian women choose to stay silent about aggression towards them sometimes underwood's to wait. quality of.

people sharing amateur video online after help bring stories into the why but there are some political data professional quality all sorts of ale for our viewers to download and artie's free video service whatever your taste. for that is. an anti drug sting in siberia work police seized a large stash of heroin. poppy that was found alive by robert 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 a budget for twenty one but the proposals need small fry in comparison to the nation's debt and the threats from rating agencies that could make paying for it

a lot more expensive archies long list or explains. all u.s. lawmakers in washington baker over the budget and hurled blame across the aisle for the gridlock calling opposing colleagues relatively small the string group of india logs who are an anchor dragging down the budget negotiation process give me a brought another group of decision makers has been weighing in on the to be 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 sixty billion dollars in cuts republican lawmakers originally proposed meanwhile the u.s. government 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 see as unsustainable and a concern and if the path the u.s. has been on for a while forty three cents of every dollar we spend this year. we vote against the future of our children continuing on this trajectory of borrowing and spending however would not be an option according to financial analysts if the u.s. was downgraded so what would happen but it would be another crisis economist max broadwell says even putting the u.s. on official downgrade watch would be devastating 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. it increases to eight hundred forty four billion

that number would grow exponentially faster with a downgrade because the west would likely have to pay higher interest rates to borrow money meaning less money to spend it home then we have to start cutting really aggressively and for many things they're too important for americans really to to be able to agree to cut them right now drastic cuts in everything from energy to education to the military whether the u.s. would really be downgraded is up for debate the u.s. has the exorbitant privilege after all of printing dollars it will 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 out of court and by 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 lyster or t. washington d.c. . economist mike norman says fears of a looming debt crisis in the u.s.

are diverting the government's attention from what really needs to be done. 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 stand 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 on basic research and development on transportation on alternative energy these are good 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 come 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. and now is take a look at some other stories from around the world but hamas government says it's declared a cease fire with israel to prevent further escalation of violence if i was late as exchange of fire between the sides in which at least four palestinians were killed and two israelis injured israel responded to the shelling of a bus with air strikes and tank fire hamas says after its use fire announcement

israel carried out more airstrikes. while an aftershock measuring seven point four has shaken japan threatening a second nuclear plant and water leaked from fuel pope pools has been detected our facility and these pictures are from the miyagi television offices the city office in die one of the worst areas last month and tsunami the tremors from the aftershocks were felt this way as tokyo and its nami warnings were briefly if you like. this dramatic footage and i was children fleeing from a killer who shot eleven kids debt and wounded thirteen others in brazil a twenty four year old former student of a public school where the tragedy took place entered the building and opened fire into classrooms shot himself after wards and 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 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 them orioles launched a blaze of pop and called was city. has a story. there 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 davidson sons and went through war enough times in the one nine hundred ninety s. created all. he now has to survive just fifteen us dollars a month. because 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 all taken away in two thousand and five and i got fired in two thousand and three with no explanation whatsoever and dirty clothes in

a house that he claims isn't fit to live in yet 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 does not alone is like more and more veterans in georgia killed a lack of support from their government when they tried to draw attention to it by calling one hundred shrike 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 but will cause the most outrageous veterans and the international media that that those detained got slapped with a two hundred twenty five other fine now one of them has that kind of money. and our government. 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're being fired from their jobs evicted from their homes before the police came a break up our protest the president drove by he stopped his window looked at us later we were pushed out of the way like we were nothing i just. write scripts demanded an official investigation into the actions of the police even the u.s. ambassador to georgia officially stated he was disturbed by reports of police violence you know george and teach our. poured it on the event position parties were quick to make as much use of it as possible. it is essential that the international community are extremely tight which is happening with the georgian government and society and i know that the political battles continue and the gatherings who've already sacrificed so much for a country that largely ignores them are being drawn into this war against what we

know nothing about health care trainers or about r t b she tortured. time now for the business of date with kareena. welcome to business thanks for joining me this hour the ruble has made steady gains against the dollar alie euros as the beginning of the year strong oil price has added further impetus to its rise but i was wondering if if you have only to be capital believes the russian currency may be close to its peak ruble appreciation is probably close to running its course because first you have his new strong current account in the first quarter and then we think for growth this factor

influencing the ruble will diminish and second we still have kept the outflows and they are abating a little bit by close like this is a structural saying right four for now and the capital of four might continue growing going forward. the cost of protecting russian bonds against nonpayment has tumbled to its lowest since two thousand and eight as high oil prices boost the country's foreign currency reserves create default swaps for russia hit around one hundred twenty two basis points a five year contracts are priced at a lower rate than goes for spain and italy russia's international reserves have jumped to more than five hundred billion dollars the hudsons before the credit crisis. gasper on ski project to develop the rich stockman gas fields is being delayed again and he chairman of the company says russia's gas monopoly has not managed to agreed the technical details of the project with its partners and start all but analysts say the delays may be due to uncertainty and gas market

a final investment decision was initially expected in march gazprom now says a decision will now come by the end of the year the first shipment from what is one of the world's largest gas field is slated to start in thousand and sixteen. oil prices have extended their rally with ongoing unrest in the middle east and africa weakening dollar is also contributing to the growth. at new highs above one hundred and eleven dollars a barrel brant blend is trading at more than one hundred twenty three dollars per barrel and reports say and all feel the media has been damaged during concerns that the civil war may just story becomes the world it's. now let's have a look at how the stock markets are performing asian stocks are trading higher this hour japanese stocks turned around from a negative open fighting to rally in the afternoon with some retailers benefiting from positive earnings reports she has a weekly around seven percent a strong earnings outlook exporters are on the rise but when he says that with

electronics up nearly five percent in hong kong property developers were lower early friday on a week amid rising mortgage rates. let's cross over to moscow where the r.t.s. index advanced an early friday trading heading for its full. we have games as all trades about the one hundred eleven dollars a barrel m i six is still open but energy majors are leading at the start of the trading session on the r.t.s. gasp when i look all this stuff. the russian stock markets continue to ride the wave of oil prices but michael i love the ranko ad thousand national group says the easy interest rate hike could play on investors' minds. rate increase in europe with the impact of risk. across the world and. that if the oil would give us some tension over or at least keep it as peaceful russia

will we will support all over the next week i think again to give you all talks and i think transnet because of the recent convert a pronouncement of gold replacing government officials from the board to preserve one of the. managed companies which had been future of the fusion could be possible in the future so i think for stock which is going to be a good start probably pumping several days. off and i want stories coming up in less than one hour so stay with us. the be.

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