the publisher of a finished basement website which supports terrorism escapes prosecution over his links with extremism but does go on trial for helping chechens into finland in the . the actions of nato in libya should return to a diplomatic level off to go beyond the limits of the un resolution so says russian foreign minister sergey lavrov at the summit with the alliance in berlin. the global financial system must be overhauled to prevent future disasters says the russian president at the start of an economic meeting in china the asian davos.

international news not from our studios here in central moscow this is just past eight pm here in the russian capital and seven pm in finland where the publisher of a finnish base website affiliated with internationally wanted terrorists has gone on trial however authorities in helsinki are turning a blind eye to his extremist links and instead prosecuting we call the store sure for allegedly smuggling chechens into finland season lisa now he is following the story from outside the court. my hearing has begun in the criminal case against me store sir who is the founder and main editor of the website called cost center this is a site that according to international law and most certainly according to russell falls into the category of terrorist propaganda that is not what this hearing is about they feel sorcerer is accused of smuggling illegally individuals into finland

some five hundred people which he himself has said are militants here of course calls them freedom fighters charges for smuggling had also been brought against the brother of chechen terrorists. he was on the internationally most wanted list for many years is the mastermind behind many terror attacks in russia including the best song school siege and he was killed five years ago by russian security forces so prosecutors focusing on illegal immigration there are many critics wondering why it's being ignored that this man runs a site that spews propaganda about a man that has made it very clear that one of his main goals is to take as many russian lives as possible he may not look like a supporter of terrorism but torture founded and runs this web site cost center a propaganda mouthpiece for one of the world's most wanted terrorists and declared by the u.n. to have links with al qaida i don't know moreover it's responsible for some of

russia's most horrific recent terror attacks moscow metro blast and the dome and out of the airport bombing which total killed almost eighty people and injured nearly three hundred cycles doku umarov a president transmits messages about those he views as his enemies and carries ads for books about the life of a mujahideen islamic fighter situation is that the congress standard. and he's associated they are working for the politicization of islam used to bring feel about your. they want to make radicals you hail stores or is being prosecuted not for aiding terrorism but for illegally smuggling some one hundred individuals into finland people who he calls freedom fighters the way the people who sent the rights about particular asian. contaminating the finnish media is. slower and slower writing of the same way. underworld be writing rewriting of its

couric to to make territories that are this is the company that houses the website located right in the center of how sinky meanwhile opponents of islamic extremism or those who speak out against it are being persecuted by finnish authorities for allegedly violating minority rights you have a finnish pastor was to frock fired from his ministry with no severance pay and forced to divorce his wife to protect her from the task threats he received these came from doku umarov himself said the pastor and his loved ones would have their heads cut off at the clerk's church decided he was threatening a legitimate website and criminal cases for inciting racial hatred has been launched all the research as he's trying to make something positive out of losing his job because all the guy might have been busy with my work know how to.

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a few minutes in the programmers they were. theory on r.t. . the situation in libya has once again become a leading issue at the nato conference in berlin with russia joining the discussion foreign minister sergey lavrov has stressed moscow's stance over the military operations saying the protection of civilians is the main priority however he was critical over some of the methods adopted by the alliance artie's the taliban is involved in force. russia and nato don't seem to be quite on the same page regarding the operation being carried out in libya now airstrikes continue on simply and secretary general rasmussen has called on countries to provide their fighter jets in order to complete the mission which in his view of nature is for colonel gadhafi to step down but this is not what it's what the u.n. security council resolution initially suggested nine hundred seventy three resolution suggested that the mission would be in protecting civilians in libya and is now surging into

a bloody massacre. today we witnessed. in libya are exceeding the framework defined by the security council it's already being discussed that resolution one hundred seventy three could also be used in ground operations resolution does not provide special josh and does not approve them nor does the u.n. regime change in libya and president barack obama and president sarkozy together with the british prime minister have written a letter to colonel gadhafi to say that the only way that nato forces are going to leave the country if is that if he steps down in fact so far france and britain have been the most active in carrying out bombings in v.b. and they have called on for other countries to also join their operation for saving the civilians there however so far only six out of twenty eight member states of major have participated in the operations in that ration which gives you an idea that perhaps

a major itself is not that unanimous in making the decisions about libya despite secretary-general rasmussen statement that member states are on board meanwhile russia believes that if what rebels and major want to achieve in libya is to form a new government and for a doctor to step down that the only way to achieve that should be to put the two sides to the negotiation table. determine libya's future we need both sides of the conflict to stop chasing one another with heavy weapons and come to negotiations table that would be far better than resorting to intimations which endangered the lives of a huge number of civilians. much has also said there is no watchdog to what's happening in libya and that syrian security council should be monitoring whether the resolution it's implemented it is being implemented correctly. well for more on the situation in libya let's now cross to chris nineham from stop the war coalition he's in london thanks very much indeed for joining us here on r.t.

well with france the u.k. in the united states calling for further intervention there in libya some nato countries like italy have refused to participate in the bombardment so what does that actually tell us about the current status of the alliance well i mean it's clear that there's very big splits in the alliance and on the one hand you have people who basically want to stick to the u.n. resolution which is to which talks about defending civilians and. you know has very very limited and on the other hand you have the u.s. britain and france who have now come clean and come off the famous and say that they are affected they said that they are going for regime change with this intervention which is you know which is something that is not covered in the in the resolution is is as far as i can see illegal. and. ratchets up the situation in a very very dangerous why but i'm not surprised i'm not surprised the resplendence

given given that kind of level of. aggression but if this humanitarian mission has failed as it seems to have done so far surely the humane thing to do is to remove get out from here that'll bring an end to the conflict bring an end to the deaths of civilians so that's a very good reason to topple him isn't it that gives them an excuse to do so. well i mean leaving aside the question of the legality of the operation and everything that we have learned from iraq and from afghanistan tells us and should have told the western governments that you cannot form a country and to democracy or liberation you cannot. you cannot create progress in a country by launching cruise missiles at it in fact what you find is the opposite happens the villains die. very often the current regime actually becomes strengthened by the time because gadhafi after all from the start was trying to characterize your position as being stooges of the west well now that particular

characterization will appear to have a lot more right with people in libya and you know so far they've got nowhere when it comes to their attempts to remove gadhafi so i fail to see how intensifying the bombing is going to do anything more than increase the level of violence increase the level of suffering of the libyan people and kind of entrenched the civil war and make it possibly spread it throughout the country there was an absolute disaster surely as you say a little early and many say that it's got nowhere but surely now looking at the situation bearing in mind what has happened and you can't really change what has happened isn't the best way to end this conflict and do what france is now pushing for and that is create a new u.n. resolution which presumably namely in allowing ground troops into libya and that will end the conflict for good isn't that the right role is you know this is what again this is what we here in afghanistan this is what we have one more push and it'll be all right you know ok it's terrible we've devastated the country we've

killed hundreds of thousands of people but one more push and it'll be ok in afghanistan ok it's a bad situation but we just one more push to kandahar i mean everything will self out the fact of the matter is that military intervention doesn't bring liberation doesn't bring progress creator. it's carnage it creates misery and and it tends to generate a spiral of violence in the country and wonderful is easily i mean i ask you quickly the russian foreign minister is calling for a diplomatic way to resolve this how do you see that working. well i mean you know we have to get a life from the idea as people say in the western powers or in the capitals of the historically the so-called great powers we have to get away from the idea that the future of countries like libya should be determined in the capitals of the of the big powers these questions are questions for libyans themselves it's a very bad situation it's been made much worse by western intervention the basic

democratic position is to say get the west out stop the bombing and let the libyan sort this situation out for themselves. it's not that very difficult when you're not too sure who the opposition is the rebels doesn't seem to be don't seem to be making up and going to a lower station is you don't need to know who the opposition is to start bombing a country we know where libya is we know we're bombing it we shouldn't be we should stop it i mean that's the first step. and in a way that's the thing that we in the west can have most influence over you know i mean this in my opinion you can't reach a kind of a democratic or a peaceful solution to a problem while a foreign country or a series of foreign great powers which by the by have a history of into the colonial intervention into the region going back on hundred years are dropping large amounts of munitions on your population so are the west should back off and stop believing that he has the right to determine the future of

countries in north africa the middle east or anywhere else chris naughton very interesting to hear we have to say thanks for sharing your thoughts with us live here on r.t. chris nolan there from stop the war coalition in london thank you peter. britain is reportedly whoring private contractors to protect big corporations in the event of good ethics departed but the experience of previous interventions shows that mercenaries can become gold diggers in volatile areas just like libya. homeless and displaced people disrupted water electricity supplies decimated infrastructure to the world's tragic scenes of the destruction of lives but to britain's large private security sector a gold mine in two thousand and nine the u.k.'s ministry of defense spending eighty two million dollars on hiring private security firms and now insiders say they're hiring again for libya whereas for the rest of us and for most people these wars these conflicts are just a cause for concern because a great grief for these companies this is

a bonanza time private security briefings in iraq and by two thousand and four the global industry was estimated at one hundred billion dollars private security is an industry populated by ex soldiers where regulation is entirely voluntary that's led to numerous human rights violations this footage he says he found by apparently shows a team of u.k. security contractors taking unprovoked pot shots at cars on a road in baghdad but. formally in the elite s.a.'s paxman did ten years as a contractor in africa and iraq while working undercover paxman says he's even had other contractors open fire on him if you've got loads of security contractors coming into your village. and getting paid. that money in comparison to what the locals will be paid of course is going to be you know

a fair bit of. a fair bit of friction between the groups and i repair it if china can be exploited quite easily by external groups such as should such a terrorist group security companies are typically hired by defense ministries and multinational corporations to protect people and property from insurgents because of the dangerous nature of the work it can easily get out of hand by that security is i think a. the volatile states. libya increasingly looks like being a volatile state for a good while to come and a new conflict zone means a new cash cow for private security companies the reality of modern warfare is that private contractors are now doing the work for parade military force is used to do without many of the rules and regulations that govern on the engagements that could mean a new round of human rights violations in an unstable country and while it would be libya that would bear the brunt of that cost for security contractors it only

brings more business. and igniting prime minister silvio berlusconi has once again found himself in the midst of a series of scandalous headlines but there's one person standing by his side on the right. and claims to be a long time friend and close confidant of the prime minister described as a perfect gentleman she thinks the accusations aimed at him all lawyers designed to tarnish his good name. just friends but close one. says of her relationship with silvio berlusconi which she says is exceptionally warm and friendly she's been against parties which have landed him in rather hot water. places together that. we were together like this but now in much much closer together how did you need to feel a. kind of pressure and it hit me. i can't even

explain what i felt inside when i met him he gave me goosebumps when i saw him because he's a very handsome man it was love at first sight he's such a gentleman one hundred percent in every sense new witnesses and berlusconi is a case of party guests behaved indecently and they were also encouraged to take part in some kind of free will of the game or can you tell us about berlusconi's parties. i once was a his new year's party and we all glided smoothly to the dance floor was a d.j. we just started down someone it drains and cool things floating around the place and they were man not only women as the media sat once he invited the national guard show but it wasn't like anything else rages it was a beautiful new learn russian style show can you tell us about the presence that mr berlusconi gave. silvio gives presents to all women not to

a man with special scarves. and he gives them to women like a memento of visiting berlusconi might be a lot over a nothing expensive or scarf everything is made especially for him so that he can give his own present. who could benefit from the scandal. is being attacked by a special media campaign but the good news it's the communists of course it's that who else would benefit they want to get rid of him a sauce disposable any mean us i dunno they might even bring something from the moon and say they're berlusconi did something there that's all we need right now we're living large what's this interview in full you can check out all to you tube channel. more news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images the world

has been seeing from the streets of canada. corporations to rule the day. to siberia now where an unprecedented warm spell it sparked a number of wild while for as far as are yearly occurrence here in russia authorities usually have a brief pause between winter thaw and late spring when wildfires start in earnest this year a sharp rise in temperatures is let has left a lot is scrambling to halt the inferno weather emergency workers say that they're well prepared to deal with a situation last year that widespread the government organized a statewide upgrade of firefighting equipment. what time now before all business news for a quick look at other stories making headlines around the world in the world update the saudi u.n. tribunals convicted i think of you know a top us relation general for twenty four years in jail for nine counts of war crimes against the ninety five another general was sentenced to seventeen years in

jail and two member accused of masterminding the operation that source and two hundred thousand serbs forced out of croatia hundreds of civilians who refused to leave were brutally executed in croatia where the generals are viewed as heroes a large crowd gathered to hear the fight it to be capital food and denounced the trial. for three people to be taken to hospital after clashes between police and demonstrators and week town of kalak to tear gas was used to disperse the crowd protesting against the construction of a rubbish dump in the area the locals who claimed future site is too close to the residential buildings have been opposing the plan for several months now. only changes will help the global financial system of oil future trouble dmitri medvedev sent the clear message during an annual economic forum in china the event has been dubbed asia's down also as it brings together the political and business elites of the region all these tests any reports now from the venue to the leaders of the a brics countries have come to be a blowout for him would be

a consensus they have reached after summit that they want to see reforms both in the international financial system as well as those of global governance in order to reflect what they see as a stronger reality of. power at least economically moving from the west to the goal for they have brought up the bring up an alternative to be a global reserve currency because apparently dominated by the u.s. dollar nothing gets put into detail but they do want to see reform as well another thing they did bring up in your situation and i think that from the president had better be wants to see our cooperation in the pursuit of a nuclear energy especially safety mechanisms in dealing with the past these as they had seen in japan and i think today that they are really bringing up is that are the issue of social inequality that could arise from there is the economic growth so they don't want to see the rich becoming richer and the poor becoming more that widening therefore they don't want to start a part of the ability in their pursuit of their economic growth or let's get more

insight now i'm joined by mark maitland from goldman sachs asia thank you very much for joining us now we have seen and you can assess this from the brics summit how do you think a pair consensus is going to impact the economic and political well i think this is a very positive development for the world i think the fact that these five major economies across all major of consonants the role of now come together in a coordinated fashion is very positive there's been a general understanding of the rise of the economic power of the four contras and also now with africa included the the rise of these five areas and so i think europe and the us. yes i have been acutely aware of the the inevitable economic strength rising strength of these areas and thinking carefully on how to how to interact and deal with that but it's this reality thank you very much to these that party certainly looking for more cooperation and coordination economically but not

just about all the politically correct eventually all five countries are members of the u.n. security council they do want to see more influence in back council and therefore they want to see the pursuit again of their economic power in line with their political problems as well. that brings us now to twenty four minutes past the hour here in the russian capital crane is next with all the latest business news stay with us for that. hello and welcome to our business report he's not here in our team thanks for joining me the people that he has met the head over all staff in moscow and in bits and personally salish to share swap deal between the two companies figure of forty billion dollars may have come up according to venice and use paper that's how much the piece russians are. he wants to get out of the way. or has the story. b.p. wouldn't tell us what robert dudley was in town to talk about but i think it's fair enough to assume that the sixteen billion dollars share swap deal between b.p.

and ross next might have cropped up somewhere in the conversation what is the future of that deal. and twelve it lies in the hands of p p they've got to come to an agreement with their current russian partners. to buy out their shares in the joint venture t.n. k p p now they offer said they're willing to listen to what they call sensible proposals for their shares what is a sensible proposal they all have put a valuation of eighty billion dollars on t m k p p s twenty billion dollars more than the company is valued on the stock exchange but it getting off the week now they'd be looking for half of that forty billion in order to relinquish their stage in that company no forty billions for more than the twenty seven billion that was offered by b.p. on wednesday so both sides seem to have set out their starting points for negotiations they'll be looking to try and come to an agreement somewhere in the middle for this deal to go ahead the russian shareholders hope t.n.

k p p have said that they want to see a deal between t. and k. p.p. and ross next over the the all important exploration of oil in the arctic now this is where we have a problem because ross nafta said they want to deal with b.p. not sweety n.k.p. be the head of ross never said that they'd already turned down a bid for t n j b p to buy into ross they're not interested in doing the. district them they only want to deal with the three nights p.p.l. nobody it seems is close enough to also ruled out doing any deal with shell so it seems to be freaky have to get their heads together call up with some kind of solution so they can put this put this this old going so it gets a bit and come up with us all important also to their russian partners so that they can go ahead and do the deal with sniffed and explore the oil in the arctic. now the price of precious metals are on the rise as investors hope for them over stocks the price of silver has jumped over the psychological mark of forty two dollars per ounce which is the highest level in three decades now let's have

a look at how the markets are doing u.s. stocks are trading high after a series of economic reports took some of the sting out of disappointing results from bank of america the dow is up point six percent while the nasdaq has a point two percent higher american company and a.t.m. t. held pace gains on the dow and google is shedding seven percent after its reported earnings that will throw at us as expectations parkinson europe are up an evening trading session and retail stocks are among the biggest gainers with you can actually exchange dick says rising almost three percent swedish fashion giant pens for h. and m. said like for like sales fell by five percent in march from the same month a year earlier and here in russia started serious close makes on friday the r.t.s. and hi adam isaacs finished in the red and here are some of the markets movers although my xix who calls finished in the black on news of its involvement in trouble and he told me to the bank was down after reporting a seven percent fall in net profits for the first quarter under russian accounting

standards and precious metals produces enjoyed a good day on the back of strong gold and silver metal gained five and a half percent. and that's our business update for this hour but don't forget you can always log on to our web site that's r t dot com slash business and find more business stories that thanks so much. cool.

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