as the arab on rest puts the heat on oil prices other countries look for alternatives and the e.u. could be making a costly mistake right trying to avoid affordable russian energy also this hour. we say that this child is a victim and yet we sent her to jail somewhere along the line this something wrong with that america's a child sex change that's fueling fury towards the government of why underage prostitutes are being prosecuted instead of protect. and british officials are preparing to evict one of its largest to travel as a community spiritual about

a thousand people and the cost of millions. well why don't you live from moscow you without say the most countries are paying the price for the unrest and the oil rich arab world another search 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 energy is not going to be easy. reports. 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 then then you go

bankrupt chaos in libya and the oil rich middle east has hit a huge supplies and shot up prices but there could be an alternative you see the only eve north and south stream we're already building supply risks in energy prices would be lower. hughes refusing to back new russian projects to supply energy is continuing to insist on diversity of supply for support especially projects give us access to the source since this is a book is our priority but i perhaps as a by john as a part. have like qatar and other countries in the will the e.u. funds and follows tracks the gas pipeline from through turkey but not russia's north all cells stream gets newco cost much more to build its supplies have no resources to spare and a lot 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 the current trouble in the middle east show that europe does have a reliable energy problem in russia compared with some other places if boylan's in the arab world continues into next month experts tipped fuel prices to double again that thought feels lower as in particular with dread first and foremost the e.u.'s lack of confidence in russia is a good thing is on citizens the e.u. makes it hard for normal people to get by alex's high gas bills leave him short of money for food and if prices double he doesn't know what's he will do then you will see for ourselves now fuel prices are 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 magazines like told r.t.

that it wasn't well thought through and is aimed at publicity and 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 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 in the morning 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 a democracy emerging change and these come from people fighting from the streets a grassroots kind of battle it can be handed to people on the plates 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 such as get out the so they can really bring about true democratic trains. across an item from the store to walk on a ship so as nato is divided between those who want to stick to the humanitarian ethos of the un resolution those who want to abuse it. there's very big splits in the alliance i mean on the one hand you have people who basically want to stick to the u.n. resolution which is which talks about defending civilians and. you know had

a very very limited range on the other hand you have the u.s. britain and france who have now come clean and come off the fence and say that they are fake simply 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 military intervention doesn't bring liberation doesn't bring progress it creates carnage it creates misery and and it tends to generate a spiral of violence in the country i know we've got more insight on what's happening in libya in around some of his time here at r.t. our military contributor expert coalition having hitters are to blame for civilian deaths in the stricken country. russia's prime minister is warning against people getting excited about his role in the upcoming two thousand and twelve presidential election comes as what they have put it right with the political heavyweights from

the country's leading united russia party sean thomas reports. 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 but head of state would be majed it 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 you've got 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 to get have met with chinese media and that he was asked about possible good visions and policy different ways different directions that he might be going away from him

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 for this interview process but i didn't rush a 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 two strong leaders of the world's largest country it's going to be interesting to see how it plays out. reporting. election coverage on our website that's. you can keep abreast of who's likely to lead russia from a two thousand and twelve. underage

prostitution in the united states is organized crime third biggest money maker after guns and drugs but washington's accused of blaming the kids in stead of the criminals putting young girls behind bars for walking the streets in stead of offering rescue and. 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 sold. just blocks away from capitol hill we're on the street that's known as the heart for lobbyists and lawyers in washington that's why day at night this is where supporters of prosecutors walk 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 under-age american girls are exploited for commercial sex in the united states but the usual treatment the

children get when arrested is either jail climb or probation in the us prostitution laws do not exam for 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 book 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 detention 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 but 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 than 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 that's it and us and so what they're saying is so 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 charge the victim and we don't put rape victims in jail so why would we put. trafficked 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. for that when they go to do certain employment that pops up in the 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 scoring their future i'm going to check our reporting from washington our team. to have for you this hour here on our royal wedding bells ringing across the atlantic. this for you ran away from england because of royalty and kings and queens and if the british want it right then do it but the americans could be fascinated. i

asked people in new york if they're in the mood for marriage i had a british monarchy. and we had to decide it but future winter olympics are about why people there are convinced it's also a u.f.o. hotspot that's just a few minutes away right here on out. now the residents of one 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 laura reports the removal operation made an immense cost for britain not just financial. it's an age old story traveller communities been 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 if exceptions in british history is being planned

and the councils accused of ethnic cleansing have got four kids living and there found there has been no three past in year and yes there. is our lives as you only have words with travellers 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 most refused to talk on camera saying they feared violent retribution those who did were more guarded i think that everybody should play in their way in the way of rights interactions i don't believe they did the people that live around them know their half prices go down that's the only thing after that is a problem i might be some sometimes only without might be

a part of rest of it so you know they should be treated as everybody else i understand their plight but you know you just not just you know you shouldn't be there initially growing trees because it is but others say the land the travelers built on was scrapyard not green belt and the travellers are being persecuted because of their different way of life it's all or i'm all for protection of the green belt and i do not think that that particular bit constitutes a strine measure 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 ships things and in fact dale farm isn't simply. a critical. school case compared with many times in states with. whatever the truth battles in council voted overwhelmingly to get the child out and a cool sort of backs them up but it won't come cheap with litigation and bailiffs and what could be

a two month long continuous operation. with the authorities. it could cost up to eight pounds 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 made to council funding all over the country the cost of the eviction hasn't deterred the council way i know of of threats of violence from the travellers battle lines are being drawn here at dale farm the thousand strong communities where bell thoughts literally if necessary because they've got nowhere else to go and bustle think council will match that force with bags of cash and the conviction that the law is on their side. essex. well whatever happens.

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the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers on. the official t. application your i phone or i pod touch from the ups to. the. keys my old girls. says feeds now in the palm of your. home. you with us here live from moscow let's return our focus now to the events in libya where the rebels say they are hoping to take control of the oil port city of but i got i don't position spokesman says they're confident and that they have a weapons coming in from so-called friendly countries things in that you contribute up so that nato is meddling is a punch in the country into a deadly stalemate in a very useful. sheer. that is

a far as alleviate conflict he's concerned petty ever thought actually he's in charge of the western humanitarian bombing in leave you think about it first what started as a successful for a intelligence us against. this year in february god demand to him and overtly expanded into the u n a resolution behind the united states and its allies were involved in a full fledged western military operation in libya now ease charge of the western military effort believe it france the united states nato allies in fact even in washington in brussels they can figure out themselves

actually he's leading their western efforts in this solution to really in conflict has been helped with silly lost so far between the disunity off efforts among and between the united states nato and allies at large a set of saving a levy and people there desperately trying to save their faces and their political careers. without the locker must go let's go to some other world news a brief note for you in japan efforts to restore a cooling system for a question about how how what by rising levels of accommodated in one of the reactors progs the size it could have been caused by the scope of radioactive the ocean meanwhile of japan's nuclear power plants are being checked after a five point nine magnitude operational just north of tokyo that which has been for her officials went right along to ensure there are no crippling power outages

similar to those often off months. snow. there are reports that a policeman has been beaten to death by demonstrating syria this biggest protest in a month the progress again and some security forces have been using it to bathrooms and crackdowns on anti-government rallies which are calling for greater freedoms the syrian president's going to address the country's new government two days earlier he offered a concessions forming a new council of ministers a cleric an amnesty for some of those arrested last. several tornadoes have been ripping through parts of the u.s. state of alabama with at least four people that's where he killed a state of emergency was declared after the storms broke out on friday the severe weather has already passed through several other states killing nine and causing widespread destruction. britain's royal wedding is still a fortnight away but excitement already swirling across the atlantic u.s.

morning stars are gearing up to put out all the stops to cover prince william and kate middleton's big day parties a roving reporter laurie hofmeister has been in new york to see whether viewers there are in the american market. i think of the media nonstop coverage of the royal wedding this week let's talk about this country ran away from england be quite so of royalty and kings and queens it is just because they're born into a stupid family if the british wanted let them do it but the americans to be. fascinating. it's so ridiculous. thoughts for reform things like. something like that. in my opinion really. is this good for people to have thoughts away from serious things or is it

just that just bad is it good. it was a cruel ruse think about the problems you have. in your life when you. do you care about the royal wedding yes they care that you need. not probably because we have a nice ability to scorn me our prime minister there the way these a good. takes it all the see so there 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 ha 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 go me down 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 the hands. of the next her hottie look at whether she feels at home and southern russia or some unexplained lights of the sky which have been caught on camera are among the increasing sightings which. of us are. i should tell you about the shape of these projectors made us believe that this flying saucer whatever it was it was or the launch the call to go small the only people to film the lights and have become overnight celebrities and you would say was immediately aired on 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 and for wasn't when we shared the video on our website people started copy pasting it so we got responses from a piece five other eyewitnesses all over the crash region who also spotted this particular u.f.o. as you follow just say this part of russia is like the area around rosabelle in new mexico. with visitors but some experts like were dim are skeptical about the sighting many can be explained as a very. extraterrestrial activity always a forest 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 and 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.

crossing the region and there's a more thrill seeking coming up here in our to you can join us for an adrenalin rush in about two hours time as we get wet. they come in thousands. of soldiers wants to play with. the other one to take her spirits. but she is the diva of the river to stick. to it. is no fun in her best move. believe. chasing adrenaline archie. but i'll be back with headlines in just a few moments do you think it's. coming

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ballot and those will are able to deliver true spaceship land and seem to get a. company crammed down to film half of counterfeit. and we must. be. several hundred. years of investment in the peaceful uses of outer space. and this incredible investment from the united states and from the european union in canada and other countries like this this is completely in jeopardy if we start putting referencing outer space.