france military initiatives in libya backfire at home with mounting criticism of the country's leadership and protest against a three week intervention which shows no sign of ending. the cleverest spencer generals from the start. nato is accused of incompetency in the view of by and to get obvious forces after an airstrike kills at least five rebels on the frontline. this killing she is dead it is deceased is it is a stain on the north volume. plans to bail out death stricken portugal sparked

anger among europeans concerned as strong economies are once again forced to pay for others to prop up the euro zone. thousands of women die every year at the hands of violent husbands and rush only to calls for a change in the law to encourage those suffering in silence to come forward. in business the ruble has made steady gains against the dollar and the euro since the start of the year so on the oil prices are adding further impetus to this prize joining me for more on that and other stories as well is that it's. eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r.t. with josh welcome to the program the friendly fire of a nato airstrike a skilled at least five and to get off the rebel fighters in libya some sources

suggest it may have been dozens our only add to the criticism coming from the opposition who say the alliance is not doing enough to help them and for those countries who were pushing for this operation three weeks ago a very real chance of stalemate looks likely to bring some grand ambitions crashing down any whistle reports from france. trawled was among the first countries to push for a military solution in libya but now watches questioning its justification for going in once they get in on what i call the imperial condominiums a return chris of africa already having long term connections on the continent paris called forgive colonel gaddafi for fighting its military in neighboring chad in the 1980's and challenging its corporations in the region ever since the french . it is a french policy or or is it a sarkozy see the way that he tried to do to convince the world that he is

demanding in this capacity to be their leader on day twenty. and also the way that it tried to survive in frost reports le pen gold was plotting an invasion already last year have prompted accusations of revoice imperial ambitions calculated there's a photo where the france's president the move has backfired french foreign minister islands you pay says 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 the japanese forces still standing firm rebel games only come with the heavy hand of nato helping war in libya with but for interpreting page abroad congress nor the government the popularity of power instead of the body continues oppositional noise is growing these demonstrators say they see through fraud these

noble claims that they can claim humanitarian intervention but it's really heroism in local elections nicolas sarkozy got thumped he's you and people keep winning just knowing two hundred percent of the votes the french president hoped for ratings lift from. all he's got the opposite of. because of most. 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 the. countries that have genuine revolutions genuine. and then being able to unite i think that is something which the imperial powers don't really want to see with broad spacing of growing backlash and any talk of a quick fix out of it you. don't see powers.

a front line shifting forwards and back uncontrolled weapons traffic and chaotic ally airstrikes r.t.s. policy or who is in tripoli as the latest developments on the ground in libya. nato has denied responsibility for an air 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 to port city of to brook from where the rebels have begun exporting the first consignment of crude oil with some one hundred million dollars to qatar now in a separate major is trying is still confusion over what exactly happened but we hearing from doctors on the ground that at least five rebel fighters were killed and some twenty two were injured what seems to have happened very is that the rebel fighters were trying to advance with heavy weaponry when they came under attack by nato of a quickie retreated to the town of baghdad where it was some seventy kilometers to

the east of the rebel headquarters in benghazi and beets and they were shelled now nato has not directly knowledge once again it seems that that 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 frontline and shifting records throwing 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 here 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 good duffy were removing his soldiers from some of the proceeds 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 pepe escobar from the asia times believes the coalition's actions in libya are leading to steal meat. the nature of going on is nato incompetence number

one ok you know what they want they want a colo tanks of qaddafi forces sits in the desert like sitting ducks so they can own them at will what kind of use forces are doing there disguising their remaining tanks and armored personnel carriers inside or around the cities he's using guerrilla against guerrilla cleverest pensacola generals from the start the knew this would be a stalemate the u.s. and the brits basically want to arm the rebels you know that could happen any fact has already happened they raided some arms depots you know eastern libya and this out there related fringe out there and they already have surface to air missiles and he took these 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

don't have none too soon. so as the foreign intervention in libya drags on the struggle to justify it gets tougher as you'll see on our cross-sectional coming your way in just over twenty minutes time. his 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 a furor so the world has actually moved and saved. lives if i could jump in here john john john if i was going to you i mean if we look at recent memory could i ask he was me with a cold i think we recall but these arguments were exactly the same as the arguments used for the invasion of afghanistan and iraq and nobody thinks that what we've got in either place is a model of democracy and the argument that the very language. that they say is the

symbolic 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 army's one factor is that it's touring the middle east so the weaponry do they want to go to the go to war isn't true but there's some sort of this embodied world community but he's backing this. portugal has asked for a bailout from the e.u. something that could carry have to one hundred twenty billion u.s. dollars price tag heuer the country's plea for help because those of greece and ireland and the fear remains that spain will soon follow suit john daunt of the e.u. referendum campaign told r.t. they have only listing ship the european economy could be sunk by euro zone. we don't have a duty to play allowed portugal we did not achieve our island we made seven billion

pounds worth of welfare cuts and then we gave seven billion to our i don't know figure that does not or are now spain's going to go the same way and our lousy coalition government will 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 the euro is going to crash and burn spain will follow poaching go 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 all germany with somewhere like greece you know well the answer is you can't and it fails and the sooner it collapses love that sound we're having

a referendum on may the fifth on the alternative voting system that's not a referendum we need the referendum needed our great country is it straight in or out should we go should we say to you and the british people want out what do we get a referendum now it's kind of becoming irrelevant because this currency is doomed the old monte python sketch you know this parrot is 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 europe doubts 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 argue worlds out of wedlock as the u.s. tries to agree a toy eleven budget and threats to its credit rating. every year thousands of 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 a family life can help the victims are to read english go reports. at the best we had cried he raised his hand happens so many times i held on for as long as i could but when i realized that he couldn't stand it i found the center where they hope women took my child and ran to save my life. it was this help center. where unit was finally able to cope with the scars left by years of emotional and physical abuse the food he thought had been my child witnessed it all and it's twice as hard for me to understand but i told the rates that all of it i thought i was guilty for something they have done something wrong. research conducted by n.g.o.s 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 hands 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 circle aspect is a plea here traditionally beatings weren't thought of as a problem beating means loving as they are all dressed in seeing gold 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 legislation sort of the government may be able to interfere with the personal rights of citizens in cases of domestic violence in soviet times we had such laws but now every individual has to be able to prove that

he refused to be on the wrong it means many russian women choose to stay silent about aggression towards them sometimes until it's too late even those quality. of people sharing amateur video online are the help bring stories into our lives but there are some good including that of professional quality also available for our the worst to tell all of our previous service or whatever your taste always come out of picture as i am told. stay in siberia where police seized a large stash of heroin. and a puppy that was found alive in a rubbish heap just days after suffering a life threatening injuries. in

the u.s. republicans and democrats can overcome their differences on the spending cuts needed to agree a budget for two thousand and eleven but the proposal seems small fry in comparison to the nation's debt and threats rating agencies that could make paying for it a lot more expensive artie's lauren lyster explains. while u.s. lawmakers in washington bigger over the budget and her blame across the aisle for the gridlock calling opposing colleagues relatively small extreme group of india logs who are an anchor dragging down the budget negotiation process give me a broad another group of decision makers has been weighing in on the debate one of the country's top credit agencies telling the feds something has to get done on this debt ratings agencies 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 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 it's a path the u.s. has been on for a while forty three cents of every dollar we spend this year. we borrowed 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 it would be another crisis it would create global shock waves in part because most models and understanding of the global investment landscape landscape take is their sort of central banker the u.s.

ten year treasury bond as the risk 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 us 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 be able to agree to cut them right now drastic cuts in everything from energy to education to the military and 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

a situation that once would have been unthinkable lauren lyster r.t. washington d.c. . the economists 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 spend it in any amount that it was 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 hold and sold 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 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 some other headlines from around the world a violent aftershock member and seven point four shaking japan threatening a second nuclear plant and water leaked from fuel pools has been detected at the facility and 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 this latest half dog killed three and injured over a hundred and it's now on the border we put in place. for hamas government in gaza says it's declared a cease fire with israel to program a further escalation of violence as follows the latest exchange of fire between the sides and which at least four palestinians were killed and two israelis injured israel responded to the shelling of a bus with airstrikes and tank fire i must says after it seems fire announcement israel carried out more airstrikes. this dramatic footage shows children fleeing from a killer who shot twelve kids dead a hundred twelve others in brazil twenty four year old former student of a public school where the tragedy took place and are the building and open fire into the classrooms and shot himself afterwards and the country's president has declared seven days of mourning for the victims a massacre is the first of its kind in brazil meringues school shootings in the

u.s. . once sands to the front line now forced to fan for themselves georgian veterans of the ninety's of war where the 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 morial is launched in a blaze of pomp and publicity. 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 went through war and highs in the one nine hundred ninety s. a 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 yet to send his family away because he can't provide them with food. here 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 is not alone is right more and more veterans in georgia feel the lack of support from their government but when they try to draw attention to it by calling one hundred shrike they were simply shut down some were even arrested going to officials for refusing to comply with police orders and being under the influence of alcohol who caused the most outrage among veterans and the international media was the fact those detained got slapped with

a two hundred twenty five dollar fine now one of them has that kind of money. and our government bill this. brings foreign dignitaries by to see it is a farce because in reality the veterans in georgia dying of hunger poverty and nobody cares they are being fired from their jobs victims from their homes before the police came and broke up our protest the president drove by he stopped load his window. looked at our sponsor me one hour later we were pushed out of the way like we were nothing with 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 it was just through the reports of police violence no georgian t.v. channel reported on the ranch but opposition parties were quick to make as much use of it as possible. it is essential that the international community reacts strongly to just happening within georgian government and society i don't know about the

political battles continue and the veterans who've already sacrificed so much for a country that largely ignores them are being drawn into this war as we speak out our turn about health care through miserable r t b.c. ga. business news is coming right up with korea. welcome tough as bullets and i'm green america good to have you with me there will has made steady gains against the dollar and the euro since the beginning of the year the stronger or prize has added further impetus to its rise but as i'm very insecure from the city capital believes the russian currency may be close to its

peak. ruble appreciation is probably close to running its course because first you have current account in the first one and then reason for growth specter influencing the ruble will diminish and second we still have can't sell out flows. in a little bit by bit close like this is a structural same right for now and. might continue going forward. the cost of protecting russian bonds against nonpayment has tumbled to its lowest since two thousand and eight as. the country's foreign currency reserves credit default swaps to russia hit around one hundred twenty basis points the five year contracts are priced at a lower rate than those for spain and italy russia's international reserves have jumped to more than five hundred billion dollars the highest since before the credit crisis. what prizes have extended their rally with ongoing unrest in the middle east and africa it would mean dollars also contributing to the growth. is

a new highs above one hundred eleven dollars per barrel brant land is trading have more than one hundred twenty three dollars reports say and oil field in libya has been damaged fueling concerns the civil war may destroy the country's oil facilities. have a look at how the stock markets performing japan's nikkei turned positive from the negative the end of friday's trading session ending one point nine percent higher some retailers benefited from positive earnings reports shares a blowjob seven percent after the company offered a strong earnings outlook exporters saw significant gains with tronics up nearly five percent and auto makers to go to honda and need to be she jumped after news reports that auto shipments out of japan which we've seen for the first time since may march eleventh earthquake. can also be r.t.s. and the noise except a good start this friday morning both indices are trading in the black this hour

energy majors are leading on both the bourses as all trades about the one hundred eleven dollars a barrel gazprom responded one point three percent and look oil is up eight percent . yes prong ski project to develop the rich stockmen gas field is being delayed again but there could be chairman of the company says russia's gas monopoly has not managed to agree the technical details the project with its partners. analysts say the delays mainly due to uncertainty on the gas market on investment decision was initially expected in march but gazprom now says a decision will now come by the end of the year if ur shipment from what is one of the world's largest gas fields is slated to start in two thousand and sixteen so for this hour we'll be following all business stories throughout the day so join me in less than one often are.

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