cookie crumbles quality encircled the. whole of the in the social scale hotels. in the indian country club so boring sure to find this piece of the first book called sure can switch search will close in the whole. scope golden eagle chico to . los angeles are seized by opposition forces in libya nato explains with great thoughts hacking says i'm going to see you in the capital city of took me to join you in a few moments and i'll bring you more. as fears grow of a stalemate in libya opposition to the coalition airstrikes is on the rise in france i mean criticism of the intervention was an act of impulse and imperialism rather than protecting civilians. hairy situation for prince harry the british royal in his charity expedition gets stranded in the arctic after a crash on an ice runway scuppered their words on her. george's attempts to project

a democratic image by the state of its legal system what even the lawyers are getting closer to. and following the commodities rally of russia's markets in the week on a positive note bringing all the all together games on the r.t.s. to two point two point from two point two five percent my six point seven percent more than twenty minutes time now but it was. just after seven pm on friday here in moscow your with our team now at least four russian journalists are being cut short by libyan rebel fighters russia has a voice is concerned about the situation and is taking steps to resolve it including asking for help from nato coalition. has more from the libyan capital.

two russian journalists working for a russian newspaper have been seized by opposition fighters in the east of this country we are hearing that among them is also a captured from russian television crew but we have no independent verification of this and we are receiving some reports of that and might have been released we have been told that the journalists are now in the city of benghazi the rebel headquarters where they are facing questioning they were able to put a cord on the satellite phone t.v. news but since then the communication has died now this is the first time that we are aware that rebel fighters have actually taken journalists captive normally it's the other way around a pretty thing for the opposition forces try the upmost to try and assist in this certainly we've seen a very different picture on the other side of the coin with the duffy soldiers at the moment they have had these foreign journalists in big hands now the russian foreign ministry is following the story very very closely it says it is

a very war if that's what the russian foreign minister had to say because the proof of course we are worried about the fact that our journalists have been seized in eastern libya by the opposition i think if we can turn to the leadership of countries that reportedly might have their special forces on the ground this is a serious matter and we don't want to miss a chance which will allow was successfully reduce our journalists. on friday the nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen expressed deep are great for nato is strike that targeted opposition fighters early at nato said it was not going to issue an apology at that stage it said it might have mistaken me hit the rebel fighters but we are hearing from doctors on the ground that five people were killed and more than twenty two people were injured and what we think might have happened is the rebel fighters were trying to make some kind of surprise attack on gadhafi is men they were equipped with heavy armor and we they were using tanks and this is what we're now hearing from reading from nato that they did not receive any

information before that the rebel fire. because we're actually using tanks and it's becoming increasingly more difficult for pilots from the skies to be able to tell the difference between rebel fighters and libyan soldiers because more and more they using the same tactics and the same weaponry the feeling on the ground among those level fighters towards nato is go is growing from the sunnis a mentor to anger what we know i think from some of the late in the revolution is is that nato came to them and instead is actually starting to kill them this is the second time in two we think nato has made a mistake last week it killed some t.v. rebel fighters in a similar incident when it's a strike targeted the rebel fighters instead of gadhafi is in. his policy reporting right i mean time a journalist. from the asia times believes that the coalition has already blundered badly in his actions and libya should avoid making an even bigger mistake by arming the rebels the nature of going only is nato incompetence number one ok you know what they want they won't call on off of gadhafi forces in the desert like sitting

ducks sold a can at will like this is was a replay of theirs it's already in iraq more than twenty years ago what kind of use force they're going to be or disguising their remaining tanks and armored personnel carriers inside or around the cities so he's using their real or i guess the guerrilla the u.s. and the brits basically want to arm the rebels and can imagine if these rebels are armed why do you. say yes from britain all they're going to measure this is six months we're going to have mujahideen to suit. with the u.s. cutting back its involvement in the strikes mission has become a huge lead opponent french jets that artie's a daniel bushell reports a lot of the campaign lasts the more french people find themselves beginning to wonder about the reasons for the country's leading role. france was among the first countries to push for a military solution in libya but now watch as

a questioning its justification for going in once again on what i call the imperial condominium a recurrent quest 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 friend's party or or is it a sarkozy. tried to do to convince the world that he is the man in this capacity. the leader of the g. twenty. and also the way that it tried to survive in frost reports le pen gold was putting an invasion already last year of trump today his ations of revived imperial ambitions calculated as a folks were for france's president the move has backfired french foreign minister

a leisure paces the invasion could last days or weeks but not months into its third week war in libya is turning up longer and harder than wanted. with gadhafi forces still standing firm rebel gains only come with behavior head of nato helping the war in libya with both the french and british abroad congress nor the government the popularity of power instead of the bombing continues oppositional both sides is growing these demonstrators say they see through france these noble claims that they can't claim humanitarian intervention but it's really in heroism in local elections nicolas sarkozy got thumped he's you have people too willing just nineteen percent of the film it's the french president hope for a ratings lift from the wall. he's got the opposite. because of.

for ever for the last forty duels given france's troubled history in the region maybe fear some countries may remember the past and unite against their former colonial master. countries that have genuine revolutions genuine upraising 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 and ruled any talk of a quick fix some altitude. i'll see paris. later this hour here on r.t. there's more talk on libya in our cross talk of guests there are people available be asking us how does a foreign intervention achieve its goals and what's the next step for the international forces. the massacres taken place in this right there and no one can get to them and can't get to them by seeking to get at 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 more than. you're making today mention it is and we believe that motion is failing to protect people and that's exactly the point people. are making they're saying we are for this intervention but it's not working . at a cost of is coming your way in about twenty minutes time or so now the e.u. commissioner has announced that portugal would need about one hundred ten billion dollars to stay afloat after greece and ireland it's now the third nation to seek a financial lifeline from its european neighbors with fears that spain could be next and according to john gold of the e.u. referendum campaign in the u.k. eurozone governments are oblivious to the strength of the opposition to their drive to preserve the troubled euro. we don't have

a duty to play allowed portugal we didn't have a duty to quell our island we made seven billion pounds worth of welfare cuts and then we gave seven billion to ireland go figure that there's another and now spain's going to go the same way and our lousy coalition government won't 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 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 should you know well the answer is you can't and it's failed and the sooner it collapses level

that's out 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 british people want out but whether we get a referendum now it's kind of becoming irrelevant because this currency is doomed the old monte python sketch you know this power to see such power is no more well let me tell you this currency is dead it is deceased is is it is extent it can not survive spain will go next. still to come here on r.t. more financial trouble this time from across the atlantic. one of the country's top credit agencies telling the feds something has to get done is that growing along over america's careless boring credit agencies one of a possible downgrade of the country's rating. is a case of

a granny versus the internet our seventy five year old woman a balance to cut off the web connection for huge swathes of both georgia and armenia. that ordinance legal system is under fire for failing to match its claims of democratic development the number of prisoners has significantly increased since president mikheil saakashvili came to power with only seven acquittals and twelve thousand legal cases over the last year or is claimed 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 gone 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 she doing better 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 george'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. steps but there are a lot of concerns as well according to the w increasing the prison term for administrative offenses and thirty days to three months come in contradiction with all democratic developments as international organizations insist kill 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 whittles various international surveys show that nearly half of the graduation there's no trust in their countries traditional system even the lawyers feel it's to 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 instrument of power and political pressure there is no need for justice or lawyers he's trying to influence advocacy and when he fails he arrests or discriminates against lawyers who don't cooperate every since we actually rose to power with the rose revolution his interests clearly political west you know a legal system based on fairness and justice does not seem to be a priori according to some the justice system in georgia today actually measures are worse than that of the soviet times. georgia holds first place for the highest number of prisoners pro-capital in europe which is a very somber fact i remember reagan used to call the soviet union the evil empire and then later george bush called georgia a beacon of democracy but how does this beacon have five times more prisoners per capita and the evil empire. it certainly seems as though there are some areas where

the beacon of truth does not shine catherine is over r t b.c. georgia. staying with georgia here with her story of how the internet was brought crashing down in two countries apparently all by one elderly woman blackout lasting several hours in georgia. officials say seventy five year old woman was scavenging for copper when her digging accidentally damaged a broadband cable on the ground has been charged with but the struction of property and may face community service but she's deny that she had anything to do with. you know you want look at me i'm sick and tired of this you don't have any witnesses show me those witnesses who can so you was me who damaged the cable. as well as what you see on screen here on r.t. we're covering up many other stories on our website of course that's all it's all coming here are a few of the items we have lined up for you there right now raging inferno as

a gas tank of flipped over and bust into flames a parking lot in the southern russia quite out of full details and see more of the dramatic pictures caught on. and the two elephants from moscow zissou on an extended holiday to spain decided they're just having a bit too much fun and they don't really feel like it's running home quite yet and join the stampede get all the details out of politics dot if com. if . now feuding u.s. political parties are once again in deadlock over negotiations on the country's budget the dispute is threatening to shut down the entire government which would cost taxpayers almost a billion dollars a day that's all teams or a list of expires there are fears that federal inaction could be the cause of

another financial crash. while u.s. lawmakers in washington bigger over the budget and hurled blame across the aisle for the gridlock calling opposing colleagues relatively small extreme group of laws who are dragging down the budget negotiation process give me a breath 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 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 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 then resulting in more than a trillion dollars in budget deficit so with all of this there rating agencies as unsustainable and a concern and in the past 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 but it would be another crisis it would create global shock waves in part because most models and. the standings of the global investment landscape landscape take is there sort of central aim for 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 at home than we have to start cutting really aggressively and for many things that are 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 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 foreign minister r.t. washington d.c. . economist mike norman says that political infighting threatens to undercut the very foundations of the u.s. economy as doom and gloom cloud the public's expectations. 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 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 you are not doing now. all right you without your life in moscow where it's now we're twenty minutes past the hour let's get to some other world news headlines for you now and in syria at least seventeen protesters have reportedly been killed in clashes with police or statewide demonstrations against the government continue

for a third week security forces are reported to have used tear gas and live ammunition to stop the rallies from growing friday has become a traditional day of protests against autocratic rulers all across the arab world. a prominent muslim leader has been killed in india controlled kashmir in a blast outside a mosque after many sharp words of vocal opponent of the violence and condemned of the common practice of throwing stones at the military activity was often criticized by separatist groups at this point though no one has claimed responsibility for the blast. the british naval officer has been killed and another severely injured in a shooting on board the u.k.'s fleets rather newest nuclear submarine the incident during a changeover of guards when the sub was stationed in the port of southampton local officials saying it could in the city's mayor were visiting the vessel at the time of the incident the gunman who was also in the navy was disarmed and arrested.

britain's prince harry has managed to escape the icy clutches of the arctic after being stranded there and he's now up on his way home the third in line to the throne have been taking part in a charity expedition to the north pole he was supposed to leave the arctic station about two days ago but all flights were grounded because of a crack on the ice runway the incident came just three weeks before the wedding of his brother william but now it seems that the prince will be back in plenty of time for the preparations and to make the best speech. dimitris here with the business news. thanks for your not attrition court in london ruling on the legitimacy of the sixteen billion dollars share swap that we've been hearing was left has upheld the injunction blocking the new york tribunals decision appears to not another victory

for our access renaud think its partners in the russian british joint venture t.n.t. b.p. they are strongly objected to be proposed higher up with was the after saying it broke their shareholders agreement and london correspondent lorena's has more. well this is as you say essentially yet another victory for. the consortium of russian shareholders in b.p. it means that b.p. doesn't get what it wants that b.p. rosneft cannot at the moment go ahead we remember that the share swap part of the agreement refers to gross naphtha receiving five percent of b.p. shares and b.p. in exchange receiving nine and a halt percent. and this is merely out holding an injunction that was already made earlier we saw a court say that the entire deal which also involves a tie up between b.p. and to explore parts of the arctic shelf where there are believed to be huge

reserves of oil. what they've already said that that couldn't go ahead then b.p. came through and said well maybe if we can't go ahead with the exploration deal maybe we can just go ahead with this. on its own and the court has today are held the injunction saying it current b.p. . b.p. the a.o.l. consortium of peace that the deal between b.p. and ross never breaks elements of their foundation agreement when they first set up here in haiti pete which saves any business and he worked at b.p. wanted to undertake in russia had to be agree that seeing how first refusal or not what they say that this breaks the terms of that contract this is probably not the end of this story b.p. is looking to extend the deadline for the shuswap which was supposed to be the fourteenth of april that was when they had to take place under the terms of the original deal they're now looking to extend that and see if they can go ahead it's a later date so they probably will be reapplying to the court to see if they can

still work in some way. to get some sort of compensation from b.p. or others on the north capitol since it will most likely be in the form of these records. b. finished the year with this is not is extremely unwilling right now to pay the cash probably he would offer for b.p. to buy. gas stations were not even say that you want to acquire the a d.p.s. gas station because i don't think it's adoptable it's reasonable but probably they would consider b.p. to solve them their network of gas station area discounted price and therefore team k. theoretically will be better positioned in the market of the retail gasoline. to move to the markets now let's start with commodities oil prices have extended

their rather you were there on the middle east and now we can do all this also contributing to the growth we're seeing light sweet one hundred eleven dollars in the heart of barrel brant is up two dollars twenty cents reports and oil field in libya has been damaged this is your inference that the civil war the story of the country's world is on its heels and it's howell prices are putting a downside pressure on the economically sensitive stocks u.s. stocks are modestly showing some losses but this down by one percent nasdaq point one percent. european markets still in the black the footsies up point six point three five mining stocks of course needing with record gold and silver and copper prices. billiton are there for being more than two percent also out airspace defense sector stocks systems and rolls royce group.

here in moscow the markets closed private session on a strong note the market follows the rally on commodities bringing overall we can against a two point two five percent for the r.t.s. one point seven percent for the my six closer look now at friday's. gas problem is one of the best performing heavyweight stocks up more than two percent at the close that start or announcing it hasn't yet purchased the stake in the libyan elephant deal from any falling out also strong it's up to a half percent on those record high gold and silver prices. russia is set to join the world trade organization by the end of the year however prime minister putin says the country will only start to comply with w.t.r. rules once it's a four member it struck us of some schools of i've already said it hundreds of times we cleared it everyone during the accession process we will only implement the beauty of gay sions when we become

a full member but before that we can do as we wish if we start implementing w.t. obligations without being a member of the solution the incentive to give is except it gives you a new budget it but it was used actually as the camera come out next on our thing the headlines with laurie please stay with us. the big.

question is that so much given to each musician on the mark with the logic or getting much of humanitarian intervention as would be uprising to stalemate well outside powers find themselves pulled deeper into this. wealthy british. sometimes. margetts line and. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the cosmic war on. the back.