this is. rocketing energy prices caused by turmoil in the arab world that leads a european to scramble to secure its energy future but experts say old school over so phobia could cost the u. also. we say that this child is a victim and yet the same takes in jail somewhere along the line there's something wrong with that the u.s. is accused of failing to protect thousands of child prostitutes at home by locking up those most at risk instead of stepping in to help. the ethnically cleansed version of the largest gypsy community is rooted out of

a decades old home because they are an eyesore driving down a local property process. it was also you coming to you live from the heart of. fuel prices in a recession hit europe already at record levels polluting even further thanks to time more across the energy rich middle east it's made the scramble for cheaper alternatives even more desperate e.u. states appoint billions into their own natural gas pipeline aiming to bypass russia and reduce their dependence on one of the world's top energy exports as a result he said daniel bushell reports europe is likely to pay a high price for that. for frank's truck company the road ahead looks bleak soaring oil prices mean filling up now costs 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 they could be an alternative you see that only for even north and south that screen were already built supply risks and energy prices will be lower the age. he use refusing to back new russian projects to supply energy it's continuing to insist on diversity of supply we support. projects which give us access to new source since this is the book is our priority but i can have as a big shot there's. also have like other countries in the will the e.u. funds and force tracks the gas pipeline from azerbaijan through turkey but not russia's north all cells stream gets newco cost much more to build its supplies

have no no resources to spare and the logic of building it is even questioned by participants. 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 does show that europe does have a reliable energy problem in russia compared with some other places if violence in the arab world continues into next month exports to fuel prices to double again that fills low earners in particular with dread 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 leave him short of money for food and defrost is double he doesn't know what he'll do then you are see brussels and energy analysts forecast crude oil prices are unlikely to drop anytime

soon with the conflict in libya and beyond showing little sign of letting up patrick harris from a political online magazine spiked told r.t. that nato members involved in a cult like have no clear plan in libya and i'm more interested in a publicity rather than protection. 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 endgame whatsoever 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 and actually i think really what they're doing is they're diverting attention away from the kind of the dole. managerial politics

they're engaged in a home fundamentally democratic democracy emerging strange and they think come from people fighting from the streets a grass roots going to battle it can be handed to people on a plate. meantime nato says that providing safety for civilians at libya is impossible while colonel gadhafi remains in power but of course nine among stop the war coalition strikes on their own can and never provided liberation or humanitarian aid. leaving aside the question of the legality of the operation and everything that we have learned from iraq and from afghanistan on tells us and should have told the western governments that you cannot blow my country into democracy or liberation you cannot. you cannot create progress in the country by launching cruise missiles that in fact what you find is the opposite happens civilians die. very often the current regime actually becomes strengthened quality time because gadhafi after all from the start was trying to characterize your

position as being stooges of the west well now that particular characterize i will appear to have a lot more weight with people in libya and you know so far they've got no way when it comes to very tense to remove removed after the start i fail to see how intensifying of all mean 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 i we have more insight into events unfolding in libya in around ten minutes time. lack of leadership are seen as a military contributor explains why nato xp humanitarian mission is turning into maine overkill also there's our guests from outer space i think of history russia as the most alien visited region to meet the eye witnesses who say the truth is out there. there are two or three hundred thousand child sex slaves in the

united states according to a recent human rights report and with that figure growing all the time washington is accused of hypocrisy and failing to protect the young victims of sex trafficking is a guy named chicken reports. 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 where on the street that's known as the heart for lobbyists and lawyers in washington that's by day at night this is where scores 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 u.s. prostitution laws do not examine 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 lawyer saying the u.s. the paradox of the system is that the children are prosecuted for crimes for which they cannot legally give consent we say that this child is a victim and yet we send such a 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 we want to make sure that these children are treated as victims but treating the victims and providing for their recovery requires funding or from there is in 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 rather than fund shelters and invest in their future there's not enough power for such traffic that's at all around the country there's one hundred thousand about eighty beds which includes mine that's it and the u.s. and so what they're saying is so for their safety we will arrest them and put them in jail. cases. where they don't get any services and. almost all of the victims of child trafficking remember being constantly great and abused both 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 persecution and so when they go to apply for public housing they're not eligible for that when they go to certain employment that pops

up in the background check these children is already scarred as it is 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 r.t. . for you this hour here on royal wedding fever sweeps the world. this country ran away from england because so of royalty. if the british want to let them do it for the americans the big prize here. is so ridiculous. to use a roving reporter laurie. celebratory mood is a little more subdued. in the u.k. animosity between the country's largest gypsy community and a nearby town has come to a head trapping those who were told to leave home of decades say he won't go down

without a fight. or ever reports human dignity is being sacrificed simply to increase or court house prices. 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 council's accused of ethnic cleansing and her four kids living in jail found has been you know free passage in year and. it's no lonely it's our it's our lives william wordsworth travelers have been living it 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 it were more guarded i think that everybody should play in their way in the way of rights and protections and i don't believe they did they you people that live around them know their past prices go down that's the only thing i think is a problem i might be some somehow though they were not might be a part of rest of us so you know they should be treated as everybody else i understand it like but you know yes just not you know you shouldn't be there initially brunches because it is but others say the lands the travelers built on was scrapyard not greenbelt and the travel is a big 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 bit constitutes this time 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 traffickers and ship sinks in and in fact dale farm is a considerably in a question of peace. case compared with many states with. whatever the truth battles in council voted overwhelmingly to get the travelers out and of course fax them up but it won't come cheap with litigation and bailiffs and what could be a team of continuous operation. with the authority. that figure rises to eighteen million including the police operation a staggering twenty nine million dollars a particularly huge sum in austerity britain. council 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 communities where they'll fight literally if necessary because they've got nowhere else to go and council will match that force with bags of cash and the conviction that the law is on their site door and its battle to excess. well you can always look at the latest news on the feature stories from what's. going on to our web site that's a look at some of the items that are waiting for them right now and if so you'll call the money. for one russian family by the start of an even dozen gardening details on that. one line the kremlin gone. oh yeah it's a sure sign that spring has a right to use a server so i went to watch the same. thing it.

takes about fifteen. people. taking part but it. does looking there but. it's now a quarter past the hour here in the russian capital you without see. british royal wedding it's about two weeks away the hype has already reached for you. from twitter to newspapers there's just no getting away from prince william and kate middleton. there she is or how often i just was in new york where reactions are somewhat polarized with the middle ground have a listen to this. 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 of royalty and kings and queens and it's just because they're born into a stupid family if the british won it let them do it but the americans the big three fascinating. is so ridiculous carol right already or eventually this brings our thoughts for reform so stings like in and something like that. in my opinion really really is that good for people to have thoughts away from serious things or is that just a distraction good because if you always think about the problems you're in or you could have in your life then you're kind to yourself do you care about the royal wedding yes they care about you need. not probably because we have a nice

a bonus kone our prime minister there that we do. takes all the scene so 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 a 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 down no it does not whether or 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. no. space is going to our national security there is no substance and there

is no alternative to military space. bombs on target time bell minimums clubs will doubtless will easier able to deliver through space ship land and she. better to go to. the film her craft look out her play. and we must. be. several hundred. of the best smile in the peaceful uses of barter space. obviously incredible investment from the united states and from the european union in canada other countries like this all of this stuff is completely in jeopardy if we start putting weapons in outer space.

wealthy british style holds. on to. the. markets why not scandals. find out what's really happening to the global economy in cars or reports on our t.v. . you without your life from moscow now a lot of your putin's devotion to judo and skiing have already boosted his popularity among russians and now though he's been put on ice the prime minister

slipped on his skates to train some teenage members of the moscow a moscow i thought he'd seen in the forty minute session putin found the net several times and even set up a few goals for the other players he's only been learning to skate for the last two months after promising the russian national team this year that he would improve his skills confessed he did try skating when he was a boy but compared himself to a cow on the ice who's. doing the splits. right what are you if i one hundred is now chasing aliens on earth likely to be casting i jealous i am in southern russia but it looks like a number of visitors from space have been caught on camera and i would guess is of eighty's apparent arrival have become look at celebrities. you know i think the shape of these projectors made us believe that this flying saucer whatever it was it was or the large the call because small the only people to film the lights and

have become overnight celebrities the u.f.o. safe was immediately aired on local television the villages own channel to have a car ran a feature story evolved a sighting and publish the video on the internet local reporter alexander broke the story a complete change from his usual fare of milk yields and local politics now he's ready to take on the x. files and burden for wasn't when we shared the video on our website people started copy pasting it with you so we got responses from a piece by eyewitnesses all over the crest of the 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. but some experts like by deem are skeptical about the sighting many can be explained but not all of them are credited or region has a very high frequency a real extraterrestrial activity always placed in the whole country and in places

like salt cheap which is a big city that stretches where 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 a small ski artsy draws in the region right now it's got some other stories here on r.t. that are making international headlines at least sixteen people have been killed as tornadoes ripped through several southern u.s. states it's a deadly storm of the season so far and late on thursday in oklahoma a state of emergency has been declared in some of the areas affected by the disaster. and the biggest demonstrations in a month of unrest in syria forcing a president so press the new government to launch urgent reforms thousands of

protesters were met with tear gas and batteries on their way to the capitol police mr porter to be beaten to death in one part of the clash the opposition is demanding president assad quit and they want greater liberalisation in the country . by before him and for afghan troops have been killed in a suicide blast in eastern afghanistan a bomb in a military uniform hit an afghan army base near the city of jalalabad eight people are also said to have been wounded in the attack it's the deadliest in months against foreign forces. but the u.s. budget may include thirty eight billion dollars of spending cuts but there will be a financial boost for the military this year as planned on military spending is at least seven hundred billion dollars while other areas including health care education and infrastructure are all on the chopping block but decision came after a long struggle between lawmakers and the pentagon saying that military cuts would be a threat to national security award winning journalist chris hedges says the decision

was made under severe pressure from some lobbying circles. there are corporations even though the war we're losing the war they continue to make a lot of money off of this war al a burden raytheon northrop grumman boeing the price the stock price of these plants contract the group since the world. and they don't give a damn how many afghans are killed or even how many americans rather then tighten restrictions. and impose campaign finance or restrictions on lobbyists the power of lobbyists corporations that was in fact been expanded now see obama attempting to raise a billion dollars first billion dollar presidential campaign in history so. you know i am watching these corporations and these imperial wars which are largely being paid for by the way from debt hollow my country out for millions and

destroyed and that's how imperial powers always die our infrastructure is crumbling our public education is a joke our health care system is. lousy. over fifteen thousand americans died last year because they couldn't get proper medical care if cemented into place the kind of permanent underclass one in six workers out of work and they know no limits these corporations they know one word which is more and their tone deaf to the suffering of citizens and so the consequences i think or extremely dire we are flirting with the possibility of collapse especially if we suffer a currency crisis. honest turn our attention back to the libya now where rebels are optimistic about gaining control of the country's strategic oil town of rebel leaders advance to nato airstrikes which we can appropriate moment for sense but the lack of purpose and unity within the alliance and leading the country into

a deadly stalemate despite the latest pictures all of this according to military concerta nato is full of sheer thinking that is a far as libi a conflict he's concerned pepe ever thought who actually he's in charge of that western humanitarian bombing in leave you think about it first what started as a successful for a intelligence. a gainst america does he this year in february god demand to an overtly expanded into the u.n. resolution behind we should the united states and its allies were involved in full fledged western military operation in libya now who ease charge of their western military effort believe france the united states nato

allies in fact even in washington in brussels they can figure out themselves who actually is leading their western efforts this solution to be in a conflict that has been. lost so far between the disunity off efforts among and between the united states and nato allies at large instead of saving a levy and people desperately trying to save their faces and their political careers. because of the headlines in just a few moments to stay with us. they

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