rocketing energy prices caused by turmoil in the arab world that leads to a european scramble to secure its own energy future but experts say old school through so phobia could cost the also. we say that this child is a victim and yet we sense 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. and i asked them to clean

britain's largest gypsy community is uprooted out of its decades old home because there are an eyesore driving down local property prices. global news twenty four seven this is all it's a good night from. both fuel prices in a recession hit europe already at record levels are polluting even further thanks to a more across the energy rich middle east it's made a scramble for cheaper alternatives even more desperate and you states are pouring billions of our own natural gas pipeline aimed to bypass russia and reduce the dependence on one of the world's top and if you export as well as artie's bushel reports europe is likely to pay a high price for that city. 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 that leap or even north and south stream were already built supply risks in energy prices would be lower. the e.u. is 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 peninsulas since this is mine the book is our priority i would like to have as an h.r. as a partner i have like qatar and other countries in the will the e.u. funds and fast tracks the gas pipeline from azerbaijan through turkey but not

russia's north all sell stream gets the bucco costs much more to build its supplies have no resources to spare and the logic of building it is even questioned by participants and list 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 does show that europe does have a reliable energy program in russia compared with some other places if pilots in the arab world continues into next month experts to fuel prices to double again that sort feels low and is in particular with dread first and foremost the e.u.'s lack of confidence in russia it's good 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 if prices double he doesn't know what he will do then he will sure r.t.

brussels. all energy analysts forecasts that crude oil prices are unlikely to drop anytime soon with the conflict in libya and beyond showing little sign of letting up patrick ayers from the online political magazine spike told us here at r.t. that nato members involved in the conflict have no clear plan in libya more interested in public city rather than protection. 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 but no real sense of a strategy no real sense of an end game 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 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 and actually i think

really what they're doing is they're diverting attention away from the kind of the old. managerial politics they're engaged in a home fundamentally democrat democracy emerging change and these are coming from people fighting from the street grassroots going to battle it can be handed to people on a plate. providing safety for civilians in libya is impossible while colonel gadhafi remains in power but chris and i know from the stop the war coalition airstrikes on their own can never provide liberation or humanitarian aid. leaving aside the question of the legality of the operation everything that we have learned from iraq i'm from afghanistan tells us and should have told the western governments that you cannot go in one country and democracy or liberation you cannot. you cannot create progress in a country by launching cruise missiles that is in fact what you find is the opposite happens the villian. very often the current regime actually becomes

strengthened by the time because gadhafi after all from the start was trying to characterize the opposition as being stooges of the west well now that particular characterization will appear to have a lot more weight and people in libya and you know so far they've got no way when it comes to their attempts to remove 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 this civil war. we'll be having a bit more insight into the events unfolding in libya in around ten minutes time here on r.t. possible lack of leadership are to use a military contributor explains why nato who came in at area mission is turning into in humane. also has our guests from outer space r.t. goes to russia's most alien region to meet the eye witnesses who say the truth is

out. now they're up to three hundred thousand child sex slaves in the united states according to a recent human rights report 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 in a checkout 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 why day and night this is where swarms of prostitutes like to get picked up and killed when the average age of 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 trick when the

children get point arrested is either jail time or probation in the us prostitution laws do not exam minors from prosecution the office of juvenile justice in 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 we say that this child is a victim and yet we sent her 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 our fortune in the criminal justice system in the juvenile justice system a default setting for what happens to these kids and want to make sure that these children are treated as victims but treating the victims and providing for their recovery requires funding fortunately there isn't 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 tina 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 housing for sex trafficked victims at all around the country there's. 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 case is done for safety but they don't get any services and we charged the victims 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 these children is already scarred is it is a 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 ahead for you this hour here on our three royal wedding fever sweeps the world world sort of. this country ran away from england because so of royalty and queens and queens if the british wanted to let them do it but the americans could be fascinating. it's so ridiculous carol why. are to use a roving reporter to say whether your celebratory is a little cute. now in the u.k.

animosity between the country's largest gypsy community and i mean by child has now come to a head travelers who are being told to leave their home of decades say they won't go down without a fight. reports human dignity is being sacrificed simply trying to 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 if exceptions in british history is being planned and the council's accused of ethnic cleansing of the four kids live in india found there has been no protest in year and yes there is no likely 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 poor slandered 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 if everybody should find their way in the way of rights contractions 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 sometimes only without might be applied to the rest of us so you know they should be treated as everybody else i understand their plight but you know yes just not just you know you shouldn't be there really should approach it because it is but others say they learned the travel is built on with scrapyard not greenbelt and the travelers 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 constitutes

a 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. critical. school case compared with many times in the states with. whatever the truth battled in council voted overwhelmingly to get the traveller's out and of course sort of backs them up but it won't come cheap with litigation and bailiffs and rule could be a two month long continuous operation if some threats that we might. fall. from other. than the course. 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 where cuts are being made to council funding all over the country the cost of the eviction hasn't deterred the council though 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 fights literally if necessary because they've got nowhere else to go and battles in council will much that force with bags of cash and the conviction that the law is on their site. ethics. later study news and feature stories from just looking. let's have a look right now on what's working for you the moment a baby seal. has become a pet. they've gotten in front of his life so he can't. force

a one liner coming god's conduct their first amount of the year it's a sure sign that spring has now arrived so our fourth was also there to watch the sun. we. think it's going to. bring. it. to the fifteenth century this full of people. well been taking part. in the back. and looking the great we've got the fun out. of. you with a mighty royal wedding that's still two weeks away but the hype has already reached fever pitch from treatments and used papers there's just no getting away from prince william's on a kate middleton's big day. in new york she's gauging their reactions and they appear to be somewhat polarized about the fourth coming quitting.

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 of royalty and kings and queens is it just because they're born into a stupid family or if the british want it like and do it with the americans the. fascinating. is so ridiculous get a life already of having to leave this brings a lot of thoughts for reform in such things like in in japan or something like that . in my opinion really we don't need is it good for people to have thoughts away from serious things or is that just a distraction good it is good because if you will wrist think of all the problems you have been or you could have in your life then you came to you associate or do

you care about the royal wedding yes a carom bad. news there is an author probably because we have or have been to school me our prime minister there we these are moving takes it all the scene so so you have your own big media story yeah 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 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 their hands.

space. more secure there is no substitute and there is no. military. look stuff will doubtless will leave you are able to deliver through space should. get better. company from. the building the faster the coward. and we must. be. so hundred. years of investment in the peaceful uses of to space. this incredible investment from the united states and from the european union we

can add another countries like this this is completely in jeopardy if we start putting we have been seen outer space. i live in a country that don't understand that there's more violence the streets of this country than there are in the streets of baghdad. there's. no breach of. mr. rogers you. speak of the.

it with our team now a lot of the opinions of devotion to judo and skiing have already boosted his popularity among russians but now he's been put out on the ice the prime minister slipped on his skates train with some teenage members of the russian ice hockey team in the forty minute session to confound the net several times also set up a field goal for other members of the team has anything to skate for the last few months after promising the russian national team earlier this year that he would improve their skills and fast he did try skating when he was a boy compared himself to a cow on the ice he was a hooves would end up doing the splits. so what u.f.o. hunters chasing aliens on likely to be casting a jealous. southern russia what looks like a number of visitors from space have been caught on camera and eye witnesses of e.t. is apparent arrival have now become local celebrities. i should note that the shape

of these projectors made us believe that this flying saucer whatever it was it was or the launch the cultic of some of the only people to film the lights and have become overnight celebrities the u.f.o. tape was immediately aired on local television the villagers own channels of a car ran a feature story about the sighting and published their 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 converting from wasn't it when we shared the video and i websites people started copy pasting it so we got responses from at least five other eyewitnesses all over the class who also spoke of 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 are skeptical about the sighting and many can be explained but not all of them are

credited or region has a very horrific when see a real extraterrestrial activity almost the highest in the whole country and in places like sort cheap which is a big city that stretches along the coast there is of course a better chance 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 there is a lot ski r.t. cross in the region. right now let's get to some other stories making headlines around the world this hour at least sixteen people have been killed as tornadoes ripped through several southern u.s. states there are used to one of the season so far on thursday in oklahoma a state of emergency has been declared in some of the areas affected by the disaster. because the demonstrations in

a month of unaddressed in syria are forcing the president pressed governor to launch urgent affairs thousands of protesters were met with tear gas and buttons on their way to the capitol on. its reporters were beaten to death in one clash the opposition is demanding president assad quit and they want greater liberalisation in the country. five foreign and therefore afghan troops supreme 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 do it in the attack it's the deadliest in months against foreign troops. 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 military spending is seven hundred billion dollars while other areas including health care education and infrastructure all on the chopping block the decision came after

a long struggle between lawmakers and the pentagon saying that military cuts threaten national security award winning journalist chris hedges says the decision was made under severe pressure from certain lobbying circles they're all corporations even though the war we're losing the war they continue to make a lot of money for this war our burden raytheon northrop grumman growing the price the stock price of these defense contractors has quadrupled since the war began. and they don't give a damn how many afghans are killed or even how many americans are killed rather than. tighten restrictions. and impose campaign finance or restrictions on lobbyists the power of lobbyists corporations haven't is in fact been expanded and you 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 through hollow my country from the inside out and destroy it 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 of fifteen thousand americans died last year because they couldn't get proper medical care we are cemented into place a 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. without turning our attention now it's libya where rebels are up to mystic about gaining control over the country's strategic oil town of but i go

where i believe there are grounds to nato airstrikes which we can pro-government forces but the lack of unity within the alliance is leading the country into a deadly stalemate despite the latest victories because according to military contributor. you need theories for sheer thinking. that is a far as levy a conflict he's concerned have you ever thought who actually he's in charge of that western communitarian bombing in the lead you think about it first what started as a successful for a intelligence. against america deathy 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 who ease

charge of the western military effort to leave france the united states and nato allies in fact even in washington in brussels they can't figure out themselves who actually he's leading their western efforts this solution to really in conflict has been help with sleep lost so far between the d.c. units the author efforts among and between the united states and nato allies at large instead of saving their levy and people desperately trying to save their faces and their political careers. down here in moscow you would. go to the mountains and the locals call it the river and the russians caucasus welcomes oxys critter. they come

in cars and. still want to play with. the others wants to say spirits. but she's the chief of the river. there. is no in her best move. feel your movement chasing adrenaline archie. i can be back with a recap of the top stories in just a few moments he's there with us.

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