holiday is the pool. halls. to feel. the world the ruben's hotels. 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. . 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. 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. statically cleanse them britain's largest gypsy community is booted out of its decades old home all because

there are driving down property prices. international news live from our studios here in central moscow this is r.t. fuel prices in recession hit europe already at record levels but ballooning even further thanks to turmoil across 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 exports but it's not is daniel bushell now 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 me at

least has hit a huge supplies and shot up prices but they could be an alternative you see the early evening north and south screen were already builds supply risks and energy prices will be lower as the age. did he use refusing to back you russian projects to supply energy is continuing to insist on diversity of supply we support especially projects which give us access since this is our priority i would like to have as a big star. and also 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 cells stream gets a bucco cost much more to build its supplies have no resources to spare and the logic 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 what 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 experts to fuel prices to double again that thought 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 if prices double he doesn't know what he will do then he will sure r.t. brussels. europe's economy may end up in the hands of the united states if it keeps avoiding russia as its main energy supplier so says canada based political research

or various other road. we're seeing world economy becoming remodelled figure continent specifically the members of the e.u. they themselves are part of this project and they're driving themselves further into the orbit the united states are knocking away for russia which is an actual. dependable is an actual dependable and stable form of energy. for europe but they themselves when they get involved in such operations as the ones in iraq or in libya know very well strategically what the outcome will be and and so that european leaders are actually pushing europe into the lap of the united states so we're going to see europe becoming remodeled and faded further with the united states when energy analysts will cost crude oil prices are likely to drop

any time soon with the conflict in libya and beyond showing little sign of letting up well for more on the situation in libya that's cause live to chicago based radio host and author steven lemmon good to have you on r.t. stephen i got to you just come off the air from your own radio program i know you were discussing libya in that show there in chicago now nato says it's only possible to provide security to libyan citizens if colonel gadhafi khadafi steps down isn't that right that everything should be done to achieve that goal remove gadhafi. will pay trouble always. erica and nato for a hands. free country called free call to bring me. began last year when i asked here to incite inspiration to. me and. more reason why he want to do it you know another reader i just wrote of

a. i wrote an article i got a couple of days. like this the. list is great man made river i wonder how many of your viewers know the b.s. great man made river. it is an ocean. the sails of libya. describe if water consumption in libya and maybe a little beyond libya continued for you this is a future based on two thousand and seven levels years enough water and he says iraq and libya maybe three other countries as well but i think libya is going to be the main one is enough water to last a thousand years so well i'll go saying this is not a while as many people say you're saying this is about what up. well two it's really about a paragraph but it's not about the power grab. it includes controlling the

resources to explore in the privatizing the state enterprise letting the i.m.f. and the world bank. and structurally just the usual. low wages nestlé us. a. different nation when everybody else can does it no democrat. living is free. free to all this will be so. many ideas and they've been so we have about how many people are challenging saying look this is people power and there are people in there they're preparing to sacrifice their lives suck if i said i support regime change not sacrifice their lives for the us britain and france it's a part of change of life and democracy for them and libya and they would be losing their lives on the ice with they or i believe that the alliances it does to me and . i will leave they absolutely want something better just the way the popular

uprisings across the middle east from the rubble to syria to almost egypt. is destroyed in protests that we want. but people who is leading the libyan insurgents number one if you can call belligerence being on great now is a radical the new york times today in many nato i mean these insurgents. if you say there are a bunch of belligerence and insurgents and nobody's quite too sure who they are how come they seem to be putting in place a new financial and energy institution they seem to be getting some sort of coherence and of course support from abroad they seem to be like a growing force now they're not a political force. well people little has really. made. the leaders he neutral use of this initial reaction if there was anything with

him give me something he was the reason least one near. me and i usually will be the senior when he hears closely i say now i believe he is the nominal military. leading insurgency any syrian absolutely want change but he took the same people all of the modern new orleans well. first of all be an. american or a. say no. sorry we we have got to end but i just want to quickly ask you funny how all this going to end is going to get that thing going to go or not just very very briefly how do you see this deadlock ending now just briefly all the pretty major power wallachian you will be. the neighbor who invade your h.l.l. if they get rid of them. ok we'll have to leave it there chicago based radio host and author steven lemon thanks so much for joining us live here on r.t.

thank you. well still ahead for you the royal wedding fever sweeps the world. this country ran away from england because of of royalty and kings and queens of the british wanted my can do it but the americans the big fascinating. is so ridiculous get a life already american parties roving reporter laurie office is in new york where for some the secretary mood isn't little more subdued. i guess from outer space r.t. goes to russia's most even visited region to meet the eyewitnesses who say the truth is out there. other news now 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 qualities got a child has this report. 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 spores of prostitutes walk to get picked up and children every cage 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 trick when the 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 in delinquency prevention reported one thousand and six hundred juveniles were arrested for prostitution within just one year lawyer say in the us 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 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 we are treating the victims and providing for their recovery requires funding fortunately there isn't federal money for us but some such happened 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 can as as 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 such traffic that those at all around the country there's one hundred thousand about eighty grads which includes mine that's it in the u.s.

and so what they're saying is so for their safety we will arrest them and put them in jail. so the cases. where they don't get any services and we charge the victim almost all of the victims of child trafficking remember being constantly raped and abused both are a pain some 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 do certain employment that pops up in the background check these children is already scarred as it is and the nonprofit organizations that help victims of sex trafficking say by prosecuting their 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. by

the way you get the latest news and feature stories from our team on to our website it's online all the time dot com it's a quick look at the moment a baby seal who funny has become a pet for one russian family it sleeps by the arm and does the girl would you believe. polly's life. the kremlin gods conduct their first mountain the year that spring has finally arrived here in the russian capital city of also watched the service. with. what's it going to be marking the arrival of spring. and look closely the government conservative dates back to the fifteenth century the people. well both in taking part of the old system in the background. of blocking the road with great we've got the. board.

of people here to enjoy. and you can see sarah's report that come to the u.k. now an animosity between the country's largest gypsy community and a nearby town has come to a head the travelers who are being told to leave their home of decades say they won't go down without a fight because reports human dignity is being sacrificed simply to increase 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 traveller site where one of the biggest in british history is being planned and the council's accused of ethnic cleansing for kids living until found has been there for the past ten year. or so lives. 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 travelers 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 god i think that everybody should play in their work in the way of rights and taxes i don't believe they did the people that live around them hurt their parish process go down that's the only thing i think it's a problem and might be some time part only one of mass the apostles rest of us so you know they should be treated as everybody else understand their plight but you know yes just not just you know you shouldn't be there initially growing trees because it is but others say the lands the travelers biltong was scrapyard not greenbelt and the travel is

a big persecuted because of their different way of life so i learned more for protection of the green but i do not think that that particular bit constitutes just trying nato 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 peaceful place compared with many housing estates within the internet settle whatever the truth battles in council voted overwhelmingly seek at the travelers out and of course a lot of backs them up but it won't come cheap with litigation and bailiffs and what could be a two month long continuous operation if some threats to be made by tribal. fights and from other organizations who are not travelers will come down just to have a punch up with the with the authority and the cost. it could cost up to eight

million pounds that figure rises to the. 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 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 parcels in council will match that force with bags of cash and the conviction that the law is on their side you're emmett's hearty battle that exits the british royal wedding is still two weeks away but already reached fever pitch around the world from twitter to newspapers there's no getting away from prince william and kate middleton's big day and ortiz laurie oftenest is a new york reaction to some of polarize with little middle ground.

i used think of the media's nonstop coverage of the royal wedding this week let's talk about bet this country ran away from england because of of royalty and pins and queens just because they're born into a stupid family if the british run it like and do it but the americans the big three are fascinating. it's so ridiculous that a life already emerged eventually this brings a lot of thoughts for reform source things like and something like that. in my opinion really we don't need is that good for people to have thoughts away from serious things or is it just a distraction good to just work because if you always think about the problems you're in you could have in your life then you can kill yourself do you care about the royal wedding yes

a pair you need. not probably because we have a nice a bit of a scone our prime minister backed away these ago. takes all the scene so you have your own big media story yes 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 but the media is that 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.

now to some other stories making international headlines at this stage of the day in our world updates in serbia tens of thousands of people are taking to the streets calling for an early parliamentary election they blame the western leaning government for the deepening economic crisis and alleged corruption at official cellular action will be held only after serbia receives kind of a seat for european union membership in the autumn in response the leader of the most influential opposition party says he'll hold a hunger strike until the request is met. syria's president has addressed his new government say he expects a decades long state of emergency to be lifted by next week this has been the key demand from protesters because a lot of the regime to arrest people without charge the president's televised speech before the cabinet thought of the biggest demonstrations yet on friday thousands of protesters were met with tear gas and buttons on their way to the capital. nato says five coalition and five afghan troops have been killed in a suicide blast in eastern afghanistan a bomber in

a military uniform hit the afghan army base near the city of jalalabad eight people are also said to have been wounded in the attack the deadliest in months against foreign troops. u.s. budget may include thirty eight billion dollars of spending cuts but there will still be a financial boost for the military as he has planned military spending its seven hundred billion dollars while other areas including health care education and infrastructure are on the chopping block a decision came up for a long struggle between nor makers and the pentagon saying military cuts will threaten national security when journalist chris hedges says that the decision was made under severe pressure from some lobbying circles. they're all 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 war. 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 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 that 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 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 are extremely dire we are flirting with the possibility of collapse especially if we suffer a currency crisis. chasing aliens on earth likely to be costing a jealous so it's in southern russia with the number of visitors from space and being caught on camera eye witness is a vitis apparent arrival if we come local celebrities. you know i think that the shape of these projectors made us believe that this flying saucer or 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. tape was immediately aired on local television the villages own channel to have a car ran a feature story about the sighting and published the video on the internet local reporter alexander broke the story a complete change from his usual fare of and local politics now he's ready to take

on the x. files for muslims when we share the video on our website you need to start the copy pasting it so we got responses from accused by eyewitnesses all over the course of the region who also this particular u.f.o. you follow just say this part of russia is like the area rosabelle in new mexico. but some experts like by deem are skeptical about the sighting many can be explained but not all of them that's not just our region has a very high frequency a real extraterrestrial activity always the highest in the whole country and in places like sort cheap which is a big city that stretches along with coast there is of course a better chance to spot something unusual so why all this interstellar traffic in the russian south maybe they're getting sneak preview of the source when pics. or

maybe they're just like the place whatever it is the truth is out there somewhere there is more to be arty cross in the region and a little later in the program hair artie's crew will be meeting the contest of the mountains the river in russia's caucuses. they come in colors and. still want to play with. others want to take spirits. which is the genius of the river. is nothing in her past. bill you're. chasing a dream party. coming away

a little later today here on the economy a prince devotion to judo in skiing have already boosted his popularity in the russians and no he's been put on ice the prime minister to train with some teenage members of a russian ice hockey team and the forty minute session and found the net several times and set up a few goals for all those he's only been learning to skate for the last two months off a promising the russian national team earlier this year that he would improve his skills to think investigate try skating when he was a boy but compared himself to colonise whose whose would end up doing the splits. and by the way get the latest news from the ice hockey and the government cup championship here in russia with kate in our sports update in the next hour and we talk about going to that car with all these top news stories for you in just a couple of minutes from now stay with us life here in moscow.

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