as the arab unrest puts the heat on oil prices other countries look for alternatives by the e.u. could be making a costly mistake by trying to avoid affordable russian energy also this hour. i must say that this child is a victim and yet we send to a cio somewhere along the line there's something wrong with that american jobs that shame that fueling fury towards the government over a why under-age prosecutes are being prosecuted instead of protected. and british officials are preparing to evict one of its largest travellers

communities which will route around a thousand people and cost millions. it is ten am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshing those countries are paying the price for the unrest in the oil rich arab world now there's a scramble for cheaper alternatives to head off the rising cost of fuel would you still determined to avoid russia which is one of the world's top gas exporters securing affordable energy is now going to be easy artie's daniel bushell we ports . for frank's truck company the road ahead looks bleak soaring oil prices mean filling up now costs a cool fifteen hundred euros if you're not watching it closely even 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 only if north and south stream were already builds supply risks and energy prices would be lower. use refusing to back you russian projects to supply energy is continuing to insist on by versity of supply we support especially projects which give us access to his soul since this is. what michael had as about john there's a poll also have like couple of other countries in the will the e.u. funds and force tracks the gas pipeline from as a budget on through turkey but not russia's north all south stream gets not much more to build its supplies have no resources to spare and the logic of building it is even questioned by participants. use making

a very expensive mistake of course when there are big economic problems. social changes are receding in the arab world the current trouble in the middle east show that europe does have a reliable partner and russia compared with some other places if oil and sunni arab world continues into next month experts to fuel prices to double again that support feels lower in particular with dread first and foremost use 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 even short of money for food and if prices double he doesn't know what's he will do then you will see russell's fuel prices are on likely to drop in the near future as the foreign intervention in libya shows little sign of letting up after nearly a month of action patrick hayes from the online political magazine spider told r.t.

that it was well thought through and is aimed at publicity now our democracy. what we've seen over the last month now is basically a geopolitical 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 being kind of goading each other on saying when it's going to step in but no one's really want to get to committed so it's very striking that you know it takes a month for effectively for sarkozy cameron and obama to make this statement 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 and 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 very short term goals they don't really know what they want to achieve but they're doing it for their own personal reasons to try and make

themselves look like kind of great international leaders fundamentally democrat democracy emerging change needs to come from people fighting from the streets a grass roots kind of battle it can be handed to people on a plate by basically western leaders swooping 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 be able to make history for themselves and it's only through that process of struggling against tyrants that's as good as the that they can really bring about true democratic trains. of course nine and stop the 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. i mean on the one hand you have people who basically want to stick to the u.n. resolution which is talk which talks about defending the civilians and. you know

how the very very limited items on the other hand you have the u.s. britain and france who have now come clean and come off the face and say that. for example he 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 as far as i can see illegal military intervention doesn't bring liberation doesn't bring progress it creates coinneach it creates misery and and it tends to generate a spiral of violence in a country. and we have more insight into what's happening in libya in around ten minutes time here in our teams are just military 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 two thousand and twelve presidential election race becomes as widely reported met with political have the weights from the country's leading

united russia party artie's thomas has the details. it certainly has been a very interesting week in russian national politics in terms of speculating who will run for that top position of president the head of state will it be made 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 hooten 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 that 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 chinese media and in that he was asked about possible divisions in policy different ways different directions that he might be going away from him

or put it 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 prompted a big part of russia party to start hinting if you will that they would be in support of a vladimir putin presidency come two thousand and twelve this leading to today's discussion so very interesting week indeed and of course in the international community the world likes to see these two put it 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. we've got plenty of election coverage on our web site energy dot com for you to keep the chapter on his likely to be russia from twenty twelve. under-aged prostitution in the united states is organized crimes the third biggest money maker after guns and drugs but

washington's accused of blaming the kids instead of the criminals putting young girls behind bars for walking the streets instead of offering rescue and help our he's damaged account 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 by day like night this is where swarms of prostitutes like to get picked up and killed with the average age of thirteen are also being trafficked here to washington and saw the f.b.i. estimates that each year more than one hundred thousand underage american girls are exploited for commercial sex in the united states but the usual treatment that children get point arrested is either jail time or probation in the u.s. past the usual laws do not exempt 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 lawyers 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 send her to jail somewhere along the line there's something wrong with that and we need to be taken a look at ourselves and a look at the fact that we have we have made the tension and we have made law enforcement 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 treating the victims and providing for their recovery requires funding and fortunately there is a federal money for us for instance 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 tina says it's easier for the government to label the children as prostitutes charge them and send them to detention centers rather. then funk 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 cases further states but they don't get any services and we charged the victims and we don't put rape victims in jail so why would we put our traffic and 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 then i would support for that when they go to do certain employment that pops up in their background check and then 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 scoring their future i'm going to check our reporting from washington our team. still had for us how were the royal wedding bells ringing across the atlantic. this country ran away from england because of royalty and creams and screens and if the british wanted to let them do it for the americans to be fascinating. it's so ridiculous carol why. already are going to ask people in new york if they're in the mood for marriage and that of british monarchy it's a big day. and we had to the side of

a future winter olympics to find out why people there are convinced it's also a u.f.o. hotspot it's a few minutes away from. the residence of one of europe's largest traveler communities are being booted out by british officials more than a thousand people are being told to leave an area of cold home for over three decades as laura ament reports that 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 traveller site where one of the biggest if exceptions in british history is being planned and the councils accused of ethnic cleansing have got four kids living and there found has been no three past in year and yes there is no loneliness our it's our lives as william wordsworth

travellers have been living at dale farm since the 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 most refused to talk on camera saying they fear violent retribution those who did were more guarded i think that everybody should be aware in the way of rights interactions i don't believe they did the people that live around them know their past prices go down as anything else think it's a problem and might be some time ponzo label of mass because the rest of us so you know they should be treated as everybody else i understand their plight but you know yes just not because you know you shouldn't be there really should approach it 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 so although i'm all for protection of the green belt i do not think that that particular page constitutes a peacetime measure in any way i've read 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. quite. case compared with many housing estates. whatever the truth castles in council voted overwhelmingly to get the travellers out and a cool sort of backs them up but it won't come cheap with mitigation and bailiffs and rock could be a two month long continuous operation. from other. than the.

cost of. that figure rises to eighteen million including the police operation a staggering twenty nine million dollars a particularly huge sum in austerity britain cuts a big way to council funding all over the country the cost of the addiction hasn't deterred the council way and nor have threats of violence from the travellers battle lines are being drawn here at dale farm the thousand strong communities where they'll thoughts literally if necessary because they've got nowhere else to go and vassals in council will match that force with bags of cash and the conviction that the law is on their site your emmett's. essex. whatever happens at dale farm intolerance to work after communities in britain is reaching boiling point now the country wants to cut immigration levels drastically . i want to do immigration less immigration.

but is a deliverable a british fuel m.p. says it's impossible to stop people coming into the u.k. while the e.u. allows freedom of movement it's raising fears of ghettos and disjointed society tell us what you think on our website. obama launches his bid for a second term he looks out to change what he pledged americans tell us whether he is delivering the dream he promised it to our team dot com.

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streets of canada. showing corporations rule the day. you're watching r t let's return to events in libya where the rebels say they are hoping to soon take control of the oil port city of bragger an opposition spokesman says you're confident and have what he called weapons supplies from friendly countries argues military contributor says nato is meddling is plunging the country into a deadly stalemate nature is full of sheer. that is a far as lieve be a conflict he's concerned have you ever thought who actually he's in charge of the western humanitarian bombing and leave you think about it first what started

as a successful frame intelligence. against. this year in february got them a man tim and overtly expanded into the u n a resolution behind the united states and its allies were involved in it full fledged western military operation in libya now ease in charge of their western military effort to leave france the united states and nato allies in fact even in washington and brussels they can figure out themselves who actually he's leading their western efforts this solution to really in conflict has been happy with the last so far between the disunity off efforts among and between the united states nato and allies at large instead of saving

a levy and people there desperately trying to save their faces and their political couriers. listen take a look at some other stories from around the world japan's checking the supplies from all of this nuclear power plants after a five point nine magnitude aftershock was felt north of tokyo no damage has been reported 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 sea 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 in the times against demonstrators calling for greater freedoms and a lifting of the decades old emergency arrest law president bashar asad offered concessions two days ago forming a new government and declaring an amnesty for some of those arrested last month.

heavy rains and flooding have claimed eleven more lives in colombia. both thursday's landslide were 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 colombia's history more than two million people so far been displaced. britain's royal wedding is still a fortnight away but excitements already swelling across the atlantic us morning shows are gearing up to pull out all the stops to cover prince william and kate middleton's big day roving reporter laurie harvest 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 right and do it with the americans to be. fascinating. it's so ridiculous that all right already america eventually does brings our thoughts for reform source things like in. something like the world in my opinion really we don't need is it good for people to have dogs away from serious things or is it just a distraction good because if you always think about the problems you are. all you could have in your life then you can kill yourselves do you care about the royal wedding yes i care about you need. not. because we have a nice have been a scone me our prime minister the way these a good. takes it all the seen so you have your own big media

story. but is it good for our 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 come you down it doesn't tell me no it does not but they're not you want to be inundated with 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. and ask to look at whether eighteen feels at home and southern russia recent unexplained lights in the sky which have been caught on camera are among the increasing sightings which have the locals baffled a lot paid a visit. i should note that the shape of these projectors made us believe that this

flying saucer or whatever it was it was or the large the coal because some of the only people to film the lights and have become overnight celebrities the u.f.o. tape was immediately aired to local television the villages own channel to run a feature story about the sighting and publish the video on the internet local reporter alexander broke the story a complete change from his usual fare of milk eels and local politics now he's ready to take on the x. files open for wasn't when we shared the video at our website people start to copy pasting it so we got responses from a piece by eyewitnesses all over the class who also spotted this particular u.f.o. you follow just say this part of russia south is like the area around rosabelle in new mexico. with visitors but some experts like by dean are skeptical about the sighting many can be explained but not all of them and it's not

just the president or region has a very high frequency real extraterrestrial activity the highest in the whole country and in places like sore cheek which is a big city that stretches along the coast there is of course a better choice to spot something unusual so why all this interstellar traffic in the russian south maybe they're getting sneak preview of the sochi olympics. or maybe they're just like the place whatever it is the truth is out there somewhere then as the cross in the region there's more thrill feeding coming up on our trade join us for in and around russia they are in today africa where in the wilds. they come in thousands. so long to play with. others one to take her spirits. but she's the diva

of the river to keep. this in her. feel they are. chasing a drug cartel. and i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few moments.

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