as a hotel in time i learned this hotel telling us of the three p four points. i would print certain discipline in tight you tell me what your getting a good girl would international. every green hill into who. fears grow up but stalemate in libya opposition to a coalition airstrikes are on the rise in france criticism of the intervention wasn't. brother protecting civilians. forces also support after the all faded air strike killed several government fighters the alliance is refusing to apologize. and britain's prince harry is stuck in the arctic and his charity expedition to a russian basic standard crack in the ice destroy the run.

with r.t. live from moscow where it's now or just after four pm. now conducted more than a thousand combat flights in libya since the alliance took full command off i'm going to treat campaign with the u.s. cutting back its involvement in the strikes the mission has become hugely dependent on french jets daniel bushell reports the longer the campaign lasts the more french people themselves are beginning to wonder about the recent for the country's leading role. france was among the first countries to push for a military solution in libya but now watchers are questioning its justification for going in once again on what i call the imperial condominiums a recurrent quest of africa already having long term connections on the continent

paris called forgive colonel gadhafi for fighting its military in neighboring chad in the 1980's and challenging its corporations in the region ever since. is it a friend or is it a sarkozy party see the way that he tried to do to convince the world that he's demanded. to be their leader of the g 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 as the folks were for france's president the move has backfired french foreign minister alleged 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. with that

piece of course is still standing firm rebel games only called with the heavy hand of nato helping war in libya with both of them a good friend and breastfeeds abroad congress nor the government popularity here forward instead of more he continues oppositional noise is growing these demonstrators say they see through france these noble claims can claim humanitarian intervention but it's really unfair ellison in local elections nicolas sarkozy got thumped he's you and p. party winning just nineteen percent of the votes the french president hoped for ratings lift for the. or 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 past and humanoid.

colonial master. countries that had genuine revolutions genuine brazing 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 out of. the new cultural see paris. nato is refusing to apologize for the airstrikes on thursday which mistakenly killed a number of rebel fighters meanwhile a number of russian journalists have been seized and secret i think forces are course for a policy and has more developments from libya. poppy growing now four major is that they might mistakenly have hit a group of opposition fighters in and around the city of brega that is in a strategic important oil city in the east of this country but nato refusing to apologize for that incident what we're hearing from nato officials is that they say

the situation on the ground is extremely fluid and they were unaware of the fact that in recent days rebel fighters had acquired tanks we're hearing from doctors that at least five opposition fighters have been killed and some twenty two injured what we understand happened is that using this heavy weaponry the rebel fighters had tried to advance in the supposed to be a surprise attack on gadhafi forces that they were then struck by these nato air strikes we are being told increasingly that nato pilots are finding it more and more difficult to be soon who are on the ground particularly now when both sides are using most of the same machinery now that the year has been a lot of the moralization on the ground for some days now against nato rebel fighters increasingly feeling that the international community is not going far enough in its airstrikes but that the moralization is now turning to anger and we're hearing some of the rebel leaders say you came here to protect us not to kill us this is the second such incident in two weeks just last week thirteen people

were killed in a similar nato mistake now we have been hearing reports as well that two russian journalists who work for a popular russian newspaper as well as a russian television crew have been taken by rebel fighters and just a short time ago the editor of one of those one of the editors of that used paper confirmed that he had spoken with his journalist via satellite phone and they said that they were on their way to being ghazi now this is strange response we know this is the first time that journalists have actually been taken by the opposition forces they are usually will be under provide cover to the journalists most illness or invaded with the rebel fighters and that is how they are able to report on the frontline we at this stage know that gadhafi has at least four foreign journalists and that is usually the situation gadhafi forces taking journalist hostage and not ripple forces. what is policy or hyper when i mean time journalist apart from the asia times he believes that because mission has already blundered badly in its actions in libya but should avoid making even bigger mistakes by arming the rebels

he won't call on strengths of gaddafi forces sits in the desert place sitting ducks so they can bomb them at will like this was a replay of theirs it's already in iraq more than twenty years ago this is not going to happen what curfews forces are doing their disguising their remaining tanks in armored personnel carriers inside or around the cities so he's using their real or against the guerrilla the u.s. and the brits basically want to arm the rebels and you can imagine if these rebels are armed by the cia pentagon s.a.'s from britain all that can be measured this is six months we're going to have knowledge or heads into soup and a little on the day here on r.t. there's more on libya and our cross talk about show whether asking has foreign intervention achieved its goals and what's next for international forces. these

massacres taken place in this right there and no one can get to them and can't get to them by seeking to get to them by land and then in jebel nafusa in the west of libya so let's let's let's actually characterize things in the proper context there is no. doubt you're making today mention it is and we really believe intervention is failing to protect people that's exactly the point the people. are making and they're saying we asked for this intervention but it's not working. with r.t. now a dodgy runway has left britain's prince harry stranded on an ice floe in the arctic the incident come just a few weeks before the wedding of his brother william and as he's a peter oliver reports third in line to the throne will be keen to get back from the cold so was a not so missed the important preparations. prince harry is be taking part in a a two hundred mile trek to the north pole is part of his role as the patron of the

charity walking with the wounded those taking part in last walk with included for amputees who were injured during the conflict in afghanistan four british soldiers there know how we had hoped her in the charity how to hope to raise two million pounds from this walk that they've been taking part in and they they just about finished it currently in the russian territory on the on the arctic and we're awaiting a flight home however. crack in the ice on the landing strip that they were due to take off from it's meant that they couldn't do that in a stop there at the moment of course we're hoping that he will be able not only to get back for the royal wedding at the end of the month but he's due to be on duty on monday with his role as a british army officer so he'll be this close to people wanting him back and back on duty puts i think he is not going to need william to fly in and rescue him just yet we're hearing from the organizes this track that a rescue party is on its way and how he should be taken off that i spoke very short very soon. porting right there where there is still lots more to come in the

program here on c n cluing the face of justice the democratic image georgia is trying to project tarnished by the state of its legal system where lawyers are getting prosecuted. but he has begun to thrash out the terms of one hundred billion dollars bailout package for portugal greece and ireland it's now the third nation to see a financial lifeline from its european neighbors with fears that spain could be next and according to john gone off the e.u. referendum campaign euro zone governments are oblivious to the strength of the opposition to their drive to preserve the. we don't have a duty to bail out portugal we did not accuse you to plan our island we made seven billion pounds worth of welfare cuts and then we gave seven billion to ireland go figure that does neither and now spain is going to go the same way and our lousy coalition government will give the british people the right 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 portugal and i say not a penny to portugal not one single penny one single cent well 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 link the economy of an economic powerhouse what the united kingdom or germany would 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 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 very people want

out what do we get the referendum no it's kind of becoming irrelevant because this currency is doomed the old country parson sketch you know this power of his deceased deceased 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. still to come for you here in our more financial trouble across the atlantic. one of the country's top credit agencies telling the feds something has to look at this that growing a lot of america's careless borrowing has credit agency warned of a possible downgrade the country's rating. radioactive water has leaked from spent fuel pools of the nuclear power plant in japan follows the seven point one magnitude earthquake that hit the country on a thursday now the facility lost three of its four power connections after the

quake one of them are most likely restored thomas officials say the leaks of radioactive water would have scuppered eight sections of the plant the only go by site is less than a hundred kilometers from the stricken fukushima station which is still to be safe following last month's quake and it tsunami nuclear energy expert philip white says the authorities now have to choose the least worst option to tackle the crisis. the focus has been so exclusively on the cushion which is certainly in much much more serious condition but nobody has really looked certainly no independent people have really looked closely at what's happening you all know and of course it was isolated by the tsunami a few weeks ago. all around that was. to make sure that that plant is in a sound condition. three and a half years ago. because the recent one that is a large earthquake hit a different planet in japan and it took three or so years to bring the first of

those back online after extensive inscriptions and there's still a lot of criticism about bringing it back online you don't know will take at least as long as that to bring back online and nobody really knows what's going on there . well you can have your say on this and many other stories we're covering he can do so on our website that's. dot com here's what also is lined up for you right now on our web site and it's granny versus the internet how a seventy five year old woman managed to leave a both georgia and on off line. raging inferno as a gas tank flips over and burst into flames at a packed parking lot in southern russia find out the full details and see more of these dramatic pictures at r.t. dot com.

well feuding u.s. political parties are once again in deadlock over negotiations on the country's budget and the dispute is threatening to shut down the entire government which could cost the taxpayer almost a billion dollars a day and as artie's lauren lyster explains there are fears that federal inaction could be the cause of yet another financial crash. well u.s. lawmakers in washington are over the budget and hurled blame across the aisle for the gridlock calling opposing colleagues relatively small extreme group of laws who are an anchor dragging down the budget negotiation process give me a break 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 agencies standard and poor and moody's have been warning for

months that the u.s. debt could threaten that 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 and meanwhile the solutions lawmakers are coming up with to solve this problem are small this tiny 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 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've 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 us 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. pozole 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 at 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 it 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. and economist and mike norman says that political infighting threatens to undercut the very foundations of the u.s. economy as doom and gloom the public expects lactations. the debate is that people have a misunderstanding of this they view the reality in a way which is mired in misconception and myth 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 dipping we're not doing now all right you with us here live from moscow and some other top stories from around the world this hour security forces in pakistan killed at least fifty alleged taliban militants officials say for security personnel also a guide in the clashes the fighting occurred in the troubled northwest area along the afghan border government forces are trying to suppress militants linked to al qaeda. hundred bodies have been found in ivory coast some of them had reportedly been burned alive the alleged killings occurred in the west of the country and are believed to be carried out by liberian mercenaries the un representative said the incidents appear to be at least in part ethnically motivated the slaughter comes amid the current standoff between between the

internationally recognized election when i last on your ouattara and incumbent leader long boat who was received inside his bunker. hamas says that two of its members are being killed by the latest israeli air strike on gaza it comes after the hamas government declared a cease fire in an attempt to prevent a further escalation of violence heavy fighting took place across the border on thursday when israel responded to the shelling of a bus with s trikes and. o. georgia's a legal system is under fire for failing to match its claims of democratic development the number of prisoners has significantly significantly increased since president mikheil saakashvili came to power within the seven acquittals in twelve thousand legal cases over the last year lawyers claim it's practically impossible to get a fair trial. the people of georgia do seem to have the right to speak their mind. but

if you are unfortunate enough to be detained it appears that for many all your rights own right out the window and should the case get to trial there can be very little hope of an acquittal no matter how good your lawyer is. just in the last three years i've managed to win only three cases if we were to look at statistics thousands of cases heard in georgia's courts you would see that acquittals make less than one percent of the numbers. a recent human rights watch report on changes within georgia's legal system of steps there are a lot of concerns as well according to the h.r. w. is like increasing the prison term for administrative offenses and thirty days to three months come in contradiction with all democratic developments as international organizations insist jill can only be used as a last resort debates about the fairness of georgia's legal system continue but the

numbers speak for themselves last year alone out of twelve thousand guilty verdicts only seven work what else various international surveys show that nearly half of the population has no trust in their countries judicial system even the lawyers feel it's a lose lose game understandable since a lot of them end up behind bars themselves. really doesn't want an independent court system the prosecutor's office is dominant and police are the main instruments of power and political pressure there is no need for justice or lawyers is trying to influence advocacy and when he fails he arrests or discriminates against lawyers who don't cooperate ever since we hail center she rose to power with the rose revolution his interests clearly pointed west in a legal system based on fairness and justice does not seem to be a priority. the justice system in georgia today actually measures are worse than

that but the soviet times. georgia holds first place for the highest number of prisoners through captivity in europe which is a very somber fact i remember reagan used to call the soviet union the evil empire and then lead to george bush called george it beacon of democracy but how does these beacon have five times more prisoners per capita than the evil empire it certainly seems as though there are some areas where the beacon of truth does not want to shine can't you know sort of all righty b.c. georgia. our type of business news with dmitri. and welcome to business and arbitration court in london ruling on the legitimacy of this sixteen billion dollars share swap between now has upheld being injunction blocking the deal and tribunals decision appears to mark another victory for alpha

access run over b.p.'s partners in the russian oil for me. strongly objected to b.p.'s proposed a tie up with rosneft saying of broke their shareholder agreements. after discuss the possible outcome of this is now i'm joined by i think it was an oil and gas analyst of a p.c. bank but in thank you so much for being with us on this so well not so good weather we're having today in moscow what do you make of this decision did you expect a different outcome probably. actually i wouldn't expect any different outcomes at this stage i think we currently have is a far less predictable. result and i think the situation he's not over yet and i think what we should be focusing on is a board of directors meeting which will become lee in the form of british petroleum requested next week i think that this board meeting may produce some some results

of the software in the case and on the crowd and shuffle the standoff i will apparently there's a possibility that the two sides b.p. and ross have to may prolong their deadline of fourteenth of april for their share exchange for their share swap do you think that will happen. you know i think i think it's a decision given the current situation of the current the balls to shareholders face sort of know what express it is faction with this decision i think it opened so room for a potential new finding a compromise for a solution to the current to shareholders. it essentially gives more time for both external and b.b. to find some sort of solution which will be satisfactory people who participate including our b.p.m. and will say is how i will live up to it since you mentioned t m k b p and what do you think for them would be

a victory in this case. i think for a car i think they're fighting for some. just if you. there are situations they believe that the b.b. decide which stands violated xmas eve two for the provisions of their circle their agreement so i think they are looking to get some sort of compensation from british petroleum. before they hear the deal with the royals now it's ok what kind of things must be you know. i don't know i think we should ask we should rather. think sister in law but doesn't this this can't be discussed this can take many forms for instance a direct financial contribution from b.p. to our big story no one. i think he can be a form of a special dividend which will be only the two are sort of old for instance but not b.p. . hired by them do you think there's any risk that the deal between b.p.

and rosneft may be canceled altogether. well of course this is a rush and we know that the everything is possible here i think it's highly unlikely given the political support to the situation at the top of the russian government but. i think in the worst case you. know chances are life will be to actually complete this transaction we're all slaves then but these little russian government may be looking for another partner again what about b.p. well what's next move what they're going to be doing now. i think the next move for. b.p. to find some sort of solution which will be acceptable for. our care by the mid arsenal and gas families that are going to bank thank you so much for joining us on this rainy day thank you. how i finally quickly look at the markets oil prices have

extended their rally with ongoing unrest middle eastern africa weakening dollar is also contributing to the growth of our west texas crude that new highs almost two hundred twelve dollars per barrel. france is trading at one hundred twenty four hundred twenty four and a half reports say the oil field in libya has been damaged and concerns the civil war may destroy the country's oil facilities european markets are trading in the black you're going to put so use trading point nine percent higher germany's dax point six percent the mining sector is leading the high of gold silver and copper prices cataclysm b.h.p. billiton all up more than two percent the south aspace sunderbans second also post gains with being a e systems rolls royce group but two percent here in moscow both p.r.c.'s and the my sexy have a good start the final day of the week we are seeing the obvious a nice but up one point four point seven percent respectively and as you majors are leading the way is take a look at them very quickly gas problem one of the biggest gainers more than one

percent one the half percent lukoil more than one percent but the mentality is also on the rise in strong precious metal prices shares are up one point eight percent that because this edition of business i see coming up next the headlines with rory . wealthy british style. sometimes. market. why no one's really happening to the global economy with much stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to conjure reports on our.