as the arab unrest puts the heat on the oil prices other countries look for alternatives but the e.u. could be making a costly mistake by trying to avoid affordable russian energy also this hour. we say that this child is a victim and yet we send her to jail somewhere along the line there's something wrong with that america's child sex chain that's fueling fury towards the government over why under-age prostitutes are being prosecuted instead of for texas . and britain's split over the looming eviction of one of its

largest travellers communities which will prove around a thousand people at a cost millions. a day on the russian capital you're watching r t with josh welcome to the program most countries are paying the price for the unrest in the oil rich arab world now there is a scramble for cheaper alternatives to head off the rising cost of fuel but with the e.u. still determined to avoid russia which is one of the world's top gas exporters securing affordable and or g.'s not going to be easy r.t. is daniel bushell reports. for french truck company the road ahead looks bleak soaring oil prices mean filling up costs call fifteen hundred euros if

you're not watching it closely then when you go bankrupt chaos in libya and the oil rich middle east has hit a huge supplies and shot up prices but they could be an alternative you see that a little even north and south stream well really builds supply risks in energy prices will be lower each. use refusing to back new russian projects to supply energy it's continuing to insist on diversity of supply point support as projects which give us access peninsulas since this is. what i can have as an h.r. as a part. i have like other countries in the will. you farms and fast track the gas pipeline from azerbaijan through turkey but not russia's north all sell stream gets a bucco cost much more to build its suppliers have no no resources to spare and the

logic of building it is even questioned by participants analysts say the e.u. is making a very expensive mistake of course when there are big economic problems. social changes like we're seeing in the arab world or the current trouble in the middle east that show that they are europe does have a reliable energy traveler in russia compared with some other places if violence in the arab world continues into next month experts to fuel prices to double again that saw it feels lower as in particular with trade first and foremost the e.u.'s lack of confidence in russia is hurting its own citizens the e.u. makes it hard for normal people to get by alex's high gas bills leaving short of money for food and if prices double he doesn't know what he'll do then you will sure r.t. brussels. field prices are unlikely to drop in the near future as the foreign

intervention in libya shows a little sign of letting up after nearly a month of action patrick hayes from the online political magazine spike told r.t. that wasn't well thought through and is aimed at publicity not democracy what we've seen over the last month now is basically a geo political mayhem where you have countries who are all in this kind of shabby coalition which is kind of flaking off not really knowing what they're trying to achieve with no real sense of a strategy no real sense of an end game whatsoever everyone's been kind of goading each other on saying well we need to kind of step in but no one's really want to get to committed but it's very striking that you know it takes a moment for affectively for sarkozy cameron and obama to make this statement that you know we have this united front which was on the washington washington post the times and the moment but i think this is actually very opportunistic in the way i would characterize this is more kind of p.r. imperialism these are the kind of the western leaders grandstanding on the

international stage for a very short term goals they don't really know what they want to achieve but they're doing it for their own personal reasons try to make themselves look like kind of great international leaders fundamentally democrat democracy emerging trains and these are coming from people fighting from the streets a grassroots kind of so it can be handed to people on a plate by basically western leaders sweeping in like guardian angels in the long term things will be made worse things are always made worse by western intervention coming in people need to be allowed to determine their own fate they need to make history for themselves and it's only through that process of struggling against tyrants that is going to be so they can really bring about true democratic strain. from stop their wars as nato is divided between those who want to stick to the humanitarian ethos of the u.n. resolution and those who want to abuse it. there's a very big splits in the alliance. people are basically want to stick to the u.n.

resolution which is which talks about befriending civilians and. you know how 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 good. bye fake simply said that they are going for regime change in 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 military intervention doesn't bring liberation doesn't agree progress it creates carnage and creates misery and and it tends to generate a spiral of violence in a country. with more insight into what's happening in libya and around ten minutes time here on r t t s military contributor explores why the coalition's heavy hitters are to blame for civilian deaths in the stricken country. russia's prime minister is warning against people getting too excited about his role in the

upcoming twenty twelfth presidential election race comes as widely reported met with political happy weeks from the country's leading united russia party actually chontosh has the details. it certainly has been a very interesting week in russian national politics in terms of speculating who will run for that talk position of president the head of state who would be madonna again for a second term or will it be the current prime minister vladimir putin who has held that position in the past this of course prompted him to go to the united russia party of which he is the head of to speak with top party officials and say look guys it's too early bad election isn't until two thousand and twelve it's still a ways away and we still need to focus on the state duma elections which are coming up this year on december fourth of two thousand and eleven but let me give you a little bit of history about why this has been such a big deal this week and particularly ahead of the brics summit meeting in china we

did have met with the chinese media and in that he was asked about possible divisions in policy different ways different directions that he might be pulling away from watching or putting in terms of how the country is being run he said yes there are some areas where they disagree but this is part of a healthy democracy it's part of a system that works now the two of them have been friends for a long time this interview complicated but not as much a party to start hinting if you will that they would be in support of a bloody near putin presidency come two thousand and twelve this leading to today's discussion so very interesting we can be and of course in the international community the world likes to see these two pitted against each other or say one of them is weaker than the other but too strong leaders of the world's largest country is going to be interesting to see how it plays out. and we are playing at election coverage in our website in our conference to keep the chapters on who's likely to

lead russia from twenty top. under-aged prosecution in the united states as organized crimes third biggest money maker after guns and drugs and washington's accused of blaming the kids instead of the criminals putting young girls behind bars for walking the streets instead of offering breast and health are his gun and she counted explains. the u.s. state department regularly puts out reports on how horrific human trafficking is in other countries but right under the government's very nose in washington dozens of girls and boys are small. just walks away from capitol hill work on the street that's known as the heart for lobbyists and lawyers in washington that's why day like night this is where spores of prostitutes walk to get picked up and children average age thirteen are also being trafficked here to washington and seoul the f.b.i. estimates that each year more than one hundred thousand under-age american girls are exploited for commercial sex in the united states but the usual treatment that

children get when arrested is either jail time or probation in the us prostitution laws do not example minors from prosecution the office of juvenile justice and delinquency prevention reported one thousand and six hundred juveniles were arrested for prostitution within just one year but lawyer say in the u.s. the paradox of the system is that the children are prosecuted for crimes for which they cannot legally give consent the hold up we we say that this child is a victim and yet we sent her to jail somewhere along the line there's something wrong with that and we need to be taken a look at ourselves and i look at the fact that we have we have made the tension and we have made for some in the criminal justice system in the juvenile justice system a default setting for what happens to these kids and that we just kind of lock them up and show them the way and that's the end of our response to this issue is we want to make sure that these children are treated as victims but treating the victims and providing for their recovery requires funding fortunately there is

a federal money for us victims of trafficking tina front works with a nonprofit group in washington which helps the children to get their lives back providing housing and medical treatment she herself was trafficked at the age of thirteen says it's easier for the government to label the children as prostitutes charge them and send them to detention centers where. then fine shelters and invest in their future there's not enough housing for sex trafficking victims are around the country there's one hundred thousand about eighty beds which includes mine that's it and us and so what they're saying is for their safety we will arrest them and put them in jail. so the case is further states but they don't get any services and we charge the victim and we don't put great think some sin jail so why would we put our traffics in jail almost all of the victims of child trafficking remember being constantly raped and abused both by payments on clients and many of the young people that we serve have been incarcerated and charged as an adult under the age

of sixteen and so they have this lengthy fifteen twenty thirty forty arrests both as a juvenile and as an adult for prostitution and so when they go to apply for public housing they know eligible for that when they go to do certain employment that pops up in their background check and you know kind of booted out of an employment training program these children is already scarred as it is and the nonprofit organizations that help victims of sex trafficking say by prosecuting the children by not investing in their recovery it is the government that is their future i'm going to check our reporting from washington our team. still have for us our other well wedding bells ringing across the atlantic. this country ran away from england because of of royalty and kings and queens and if the british want it let them do it but the americans the big prize to native. is so ridiculous get

a light for radio for laurie harkness asked people in new york if they are in the mood for marriage ahead of the british monarchy is the day. we had to the side of a future winter olympics to find out why people there are fans it's also a u.f.o. hotspot it's a few minutes away here on our team. but for that the residents of lot of europe's largest traveller communities are being booted out by british officials more than a thousand people are being told to leave an area they've called home for over three decades as archie's lore and reports the removal operation may come at an immense cost for britain and not just financially. it's an age old story traveller communities being moved on because they're not welcome where they settle dale farm is the u.k.'s largest gypsy and travel a site where one of the biggest evictions in british history is being planned and

the councils accused of ethnic cleansing have got four kids living in jail found there has been no protest in year and. it's no i mean it's our it's our lives as william wordsworth travelers have been living at dale farm since the one nine hundred seventy s. the settlement started off small and the trouble began when new comers came and bought land around it then they built homes without legal permission in the local town feelings run high many people told us the travellers are messy and noisy driving the crime rate up and property values down and most refused to talk on camera saying they feared violent retribution those who did were more guarded i think everybody should play in their way in the way of rights in texas and i don't believe they did they you people that live around them know their parish prices go down that's the only thing after that it's a problem and maybe some sometimes only will are might be

a part of rest of us so you know they should be treated as a reporter i understand it like but you know yes just not just you know you shouldn't be there really shouldn't brunches because it is but others say the lands the travelers built on was scrapyard not greenbelt and the travellers are being persecuted because of their different way of life it's all or more for the protection of the greenbelt i do not think that that particular beat constitutes the steinmetz in any way i agree that there are always people in every community who you know mess up things but this is common in every single community within the country it is not unique to travelers and gypsies and in fact dale farm is a considerably it's right you can. school case compared with many states with. whatever the truth battles in council voted overwhelmingly she kept the charlot out and backs them up but it won't come cheap with litigation and bailiffs and what

could be a two month long continuous operation. from . that figure rises to eighteen million including the police operation a staggering twenty nine million dollars a particularly huge sum in austerity prison where cuts a big may to council funding all over the country the cost of the eviction hasn't deterred the council and north of threats of violence from the travellers battle lines are being drawn here at dale farm the thousand strong community swear they'll fight literally if necessary because they've got nowhere else to go and battling council will match that force with bags of cash and the conviction that the law is on best site your emmett's ot essex. whatever happens the dale

farm intolerance towards africa communities in britain is reaching boiling point now the country wants to cut immigration levels drastically and join debate. to tell us whether you think it will be enough. of british m.p.'s says it's impossible to stop people coming into the u.k. so long as the e.u. allows freedom of movement the fear is that could lead to gatos and i just joined society tell us what you think on this issue at r.t. . bad as brock obama launches he's bid for a second term party looks at the change which he pledged americans tell us whether he's delivering the dream he promised to dotcom.

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for. more news today violence is once again flared up putting these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations around the day. they're watching r t let's turn to events in libya now and focus on who's supposed to be leading the foreign intervention there are his military contributor says nato top brass don't seem to know who's running the show and that's plunging the country into a deadly stalemate and they there is full of sheer wishful thinking. that is a far as lieve be a conflict beast concern have you ever thought who actually is charge of the western humanitarian bombing and leave it think about it first what started

as a successful french intelligence. against. this year in february got the momentum and overtly expanded into the un resolution behind we cheat the united states and its allies more involved and it full fledged western military operation in libya now who ease in charge of their western military effort to leave france the united states and nato allies in fact even in washington in brussels they can figure out themselves who actually he's leading their western efforts this solution to ruby and company has been happy with the real loss so far between the d.c. units the author efforts and between the united states nato allies at

large instead of saving believe b. and people desperately trying to save their faces and their political couriers. beginning of there let's not take a look at some other stories from around the world japan's checking the supplies for all of its nuclear power plants after a five point nine magnitude aftershock was felt north of tokyo no damage has been over quarter but officials want to ensure there are no crippling power outages similar to those after last month's earthquake and tsunami meanwhile the operator of the fukushima plant says the total level of radioactive materials released into the scene earlier this month was lower than previously thought. in syria huge crowds have joined some of the biggest anti-government protests during its month long uprising security forces used tear gas and baton against demonstrators calling for greater freedoms and the lifting of the decades old emergency arrest

law president asad offered concessions two days ago forming a new government and declaring amnesty for some of those arrested last month. heavy rains and flooding have claimed eleven more lives in colombia foals thursday's landslide which slammed into a bus killing at least fourteen downpours have been exceptionally strong during this year's rainy season which the government is calling the worst natural disaster in u.s. history more than two million people have so far been displaced britain's royal wedding is still a fortnight away but excitements already swelling across the atlantic u.s. morning shows are gearing up to pull out all the stops to cover prince william and kate middleton's big day are his roving reporter laurie harmfulness has been in new york to see whether viewers are in the party mood.

are you sick of the media's nonstop coverage of the royal wedding this week let's talk about that this country ran away from england because so of royalty and kings and queens just because they're born into a stupid family if the british want it and i can do it with the americans that they would be fascinated. is so ridiculous get a life already or eventually this brings a lot of thoughts for reform source things like in. something like the world in my opinion really we don't need is this good for people to have cuts away from serious things or is it just a distraction good because if you always think about the problems you have. no you could have in your life when you can kill yourself do you care about the royal wedding yes they care about you need. not

probably because we have a nice have been rusco need our prime minister that we disagree. takes it all the scene so so you have your own big media story. but is it good for her culture does it enrich just as a people i don't necessarily think it hurts us as a people to know what the queen or the future queen is going to wear to haul wedding it doesn't hurt me it doesn't hurt me any it doesn't take anything away it doesn't turn you down it doesn't tell me down no it does not but they're not you want to be inundated by the media's vapid fluffy news stories the bottom line is they're not going to stop with them any time soon the only real answer is to keep that remote control close at hand. thanks we'll look at whether e.t. fails at helm and southern russia recent unexplained lights in the sky which have

been caught on camera are among the increasing sidings which have a local baffled artie's denisov a lot paid a visit i should note that the shape of these projectors meus believe that this flying saucer or whatever it was it was or the large the coal pick of some of the only people to film the lights and have become overnight celebrities the us safe was immediately aired on local television but the largest own channel to have a car ran a feature story about the sighting and published the video on the internet local reporter alexander broke the story a complete change from his usual fare of milk and local politics now he's ready to take on the x. files for wasn't it when we shared the video on our website people start a copy pasting it so we got responses from at least five other eyewitnesses all over the course of the region who also in this particular u.f.o. you follow just say this part of russia is like the area around rosabelle in new mexico. food with visitors but some experts like are skeptical

about the sighting and many can be explained but not all of them. christian of the region has a very high frequency a real extraterrestrial activity is always the highest in the whole country and in places like sochi which is a big city that stretches from. there is of course a pretty chance to spot something unusual so why all this interstellar traffic and the russian south maybe they're getting a sneak preview of the sochi olympics. or maybe they're just like the place whatever it is the truth is out there somewhere there is ball ski our t. cross in the region there's more thrill seeking in our next hour join us for an adrenaline rush as we get wet and a wild. they come in.

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