good as new york. city will be. rocketing energy prices caused by turmoil in the arab world lead to a european scramble to secure its energy future but experts say old school russophobia could cost the e.u. also. say that this child is a victim and yet we send her to jail somewhere along the line there's something wrong with that the u.s. is accused of failing to protect thousands of child prostitutes opposed by locking up those most at risk instead of stepping in to help. especially cleanse the britain's largest gypsy community in the decades old home

pull because the police or driving down property prices. international news live from our studios here in central moscow this is r.t. a fuel prices in recession hit your report ready at record levels are ballooning even further thanks to determine of course the energy rich middle east it's made the scramble for cheaper alternatives even more desperate states are pouring billions into their own natural gas pipeline aiming to bypass russia and reduce their dependence on one of the world's top energy exporters but as daniel bushell reports europe is likely to pay a high price for that soon. 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 only for even north and south stream where already builds 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 the. projects which give us access to new source since this is. what i can have as a big giant there's. also have like other countries in the will the e.u. funds and force tracks the gas pipeline from as through turkey but not russia's north or south stream gets nobuko cost much more to build its suppliers have no

resources to spare and the logic of building it is even questioned by participants analysts say the e.u.'s 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 does 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 to fuel prices to double again that's what feels lowered as 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 his double he doesn't know what's he will do then you see brussels. when energy analysts forecast crude oil prices are likely to drop any

time soon with the conflict in libya and beyond showing little sign of letting up patrick harris from online political magazine spight told r.t. that nato members involved in the conflict have no clear plan in libya and are more interested in publishing 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 and 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 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 dole . managerial politics they're engaged in

a home fundamentally demick it democracy emerging change and these are coming from people fighting from the street a grass roots 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 nineham from stop the war coalition says that airstrikes on their own could never provide 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 tails and should have told the western governments that you cannot bomb a country into the 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 the villains die. 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 with people in libya and you know so far they've got no way when it comes to their attempts to remove removed because after you start 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 the civil war. well we've got some more insights into events unfolding in libya for you in about ten minutes from now a lack of leadership qualities military contributor explains why nato is humanitarian mission is turning into inhumane overkill also this hour yes from outer space forty goes to russia's most alien visited region to meet the eyewitnesses who say the truth is where. they story

still to come but first there are up to three hundred thousand child sex slaves in the u.s. 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 going to count as more in this. 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 walks away from capitol hill where on the street that's known as the heart for lobbyists and lawyers in washington that's by day i night this is where scores of prostitutes flocked 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 underage 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 exam 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 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 sent a chill 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 unfortunately there isn't federal money for us that's in such 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 of 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 fun shelters and investing their future there's not enough housing for sex trafficked 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 so for their safety we will arrest them and put them in jail. the services charged the victim almost all of the victims of child trafficking remember being constantly raped and abused both by payments on clients 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'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 out reporting from washington r.t. . royal wedding fever sweeps the world. three ran away from england because of loyalty to. the british wanted to do it with the americans the big. story there was. parties roving reporter laurie hof and this is a. little more so. still to come first in the u.k. animosity between the country's largest gypsy community and a nearby town has come to a head of travelers who have been told to leave home decades won't go down without

a fight. reports human dignity is being sacrificed simply to increase 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 it is in british history is being planned and the council's accused of ethnic cleansing and i've got four kids living and their fan has been no protest in year and yes there is no like me it's our it's our lives as well your words when all travelers 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 forced 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 and prophecy bally's down most refused to talk on camera

saying they feared violent retribution those who did were more guarded i think that everybody should be aware in the way of rights and protections i don't believe they did the people that live around them know their house prices go down that's the only thing i think it's a problem and might be some sometimes only without might be applause at rest so you know they should be treated as everybody else understand their plight but you know yes just not as you know you shouldn't be there initially growing trees because it is but others say the lambs the travelers built on was scrapyard not green belt 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 bit constitutes just trying to 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 ship

sinks in and in fact dale farm isn't superbly. quite you can. case compared with many states with. whatever the truth councils and council voted overwhelmingly see get the travellers out and of course it would have backs them up but it won't come cheap with litigation and and what could be a team of continuous operation. from . the authorities in the course. that figure rises to eighteen million including a police operation a staggering twenty nine million dollars a particularly huge sum in austerity britain. to council funding all over the country the cost of the eviction hasn't deterred the council vote and no have

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 bustling council will much that force with bags of cash and the conviction that the law is on their site your emmett's. essex. get the latest news and features stories from. our website it's on t.v. dot com online all the time for here's a quick look at. the baby seal who has become a pet for one russian family. and would you believe. the crimean gods conduct their first moment of the year. as a right so first also. see how the pool will come.

to the. pool. taking part. in the back. of voting there was. not available for you to come the british royal wedding is still two weeks away but the hype has already reached fever pitch from twitter to newspapers there's no getting away from prince william's and kate middleton's big day. in this was in new york where reactions are somewhat polarized with little middle ground. 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 just because they're born into a stupid family if the british want it like and do it right the americans could be fascinating. it's so ridiculous get a life already or eventually this brings a lot of thoughts for reform source things like in japan or something like the world 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 because if you always think about the problems you have. or you could have in your life when you came to yourself do you care about the royal wedding yes they care about you need. not probably because we have or have been a scone our prime minister there through a visa. takes it all the scene so so you have your own big

media story. but is it good for our culture does it enrich rest 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 the 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 whether or not you want to be inundated with the media's fat big 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 the backbone of our national security there is no substitute and there is no alternative to military dominance in space and. bombs on target

time bellamy closure in the us will easier able to deliver through space ship land and she. better. company. to film her craft look out her play. 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 to canada other countries like this all of this stuff is completely a jeopardy if we start putting we have consumed outer space.

wealthy british style rolls and sometimes it. is not the. markets why not scandal. why not what's really happening to the global economy in the kinds of reports on our t.v. . going to putin's devotion to judo and skiing have already boosted his popularity among russians and now he's being put on ice that promises slippery skates to train some teenage members of the russian ice hockey team before the recession proof that

several times instead of a few goals for others they only been learning to skate for the most keep him from the russian national team earlier this year that he would improve his skills he confessed he did try skating when he's a boy but compared himself to a cow all night he's whose would end up doing the splits. staying here in russia u.f.o. hunters chasing aliens on earth are likely to be costing a jealous science son in the southern part of the country here what looks like a number of visitors from space have been caught on camera and eyewitnesses an e.t.s. a parent a rival have become local celebrities. i should tell you i think the shape of these projectors made us believe that this flying saucer whatever it was it was one of the launch the cold because small the only people to film the lights and have become overnight celebrities the u.f.o. tape 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 yields and local politics now he's ready to take on the x. files converting from islam when we share the video and i websites people started copy pasting it with you so we got responses from a piece by eyewitnesses all over the grass region who also has particular u.f.o. it doesn't really matter if you follow just say this part of russia is like the area around rosabelle in new mexico. but some experts like by d.m. are skeptical about the sighting many can be explained but not all of them that's not just the crescent our region has a very high frequency a real extraterrestrial activity placed in the whole country and in places like salt cheek 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 in a small ski arty cross in the region. now to some of the stories making international headlines in our world update this out in serbia tens of thousands of people have taken to mean streets calling for early elections that they accuse the west and even government for the comparing economic crisis and then let's corruption official say actions will be helped only after chevy received kind of a fee for european union membership in the autumn in response the leader of the most influential opposition. he says he'll hold a hunger strike until the request is met. a firefighter has been killed and hundreds of people evacuated from and threatened by spreading across the u.s. state of texas the blazes which span around two thousand square kilometers is being planned by strong winds as part of the draws in texas for more than one hundred

years. five forward for afghan troops have been killed in a suicide blast in eastern afghanistan a bomber in a military uniform hit an afghan army base near the city of jalalabad eight people are also said to be wounded in the attack the deadliest in months against foreign troops. the u.s. budget may include thirty eight billion dollars of spending cuts but that will be a financial boost for the military that this year's planned military spending is seven hundred billion dollars while other areas including health care education and infrastructure are on the chopping block the decision came after a long struggle between lawmakers and the pentagon saying military cuts will threaten national security. journalist chris hedges says the decision was made on the 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 defense contractors quadrupled since the world. 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 the power of lobbyists corporations that it was in fact been expanded and 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 inferior 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 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 they're tone deaf to the suffering of citizens and so the consequences i think or extremely dire that we are flirting with the possibility of collapse especially if we suffer a currency crisis well back to libya now here in the let's see where rebels are optimistic about gaining control over the country strategic oil town of brega rebel leaders attribute their violence to nato airstrikes which we can prove government forces but the lack of purpose and unity within the united states leading the country into a deadly stalemate despite the latest victories that's according to a military contributor. maitreya's for sheer thinking that is a far as lead to conflict beasts concern have you ever thought who actually he's in

charge of bad western humanitarian bombing in leave you think about it first what started as a successful french intelligence. against america does see this year in february god demand to an overtly expanding into the un resolution behind we cheat the united states and its allies were involved in a full fledged western military operation in libya now ease charge of their western military effort to leave france the united states nato allies in fact even in washington in brussels they can't figure out themselves who actually is leading their western efforts this solution to be in conflict has been happening with lost souls are between the disunity off efforts and mine and between

the united states nato and allies at large instead of saving daily be and people desperately trying to save their faces and their political careers. now the coldness of the mountains and the. river in russia's caucuses welcomes all t.'s crew that program can help you very same. they come in thousands of songs long to play with. others wants to take her spirit. but she's the chief of the river.

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