touch with her tell me what your group if it's a good how would international flood to achieve every dream the effort to. france's military initiatives in libya and i rico's backfire at home with president sarkozy losing points at allies over what's being labeled his imperial ambitions. trash for some treasure for others and us turning into an alley tronics waste dump with hazardous computer junk from developed countries illegally sold instead of being recycled. hopes for the deepest cosmic mysteries could be cracked soon as russia prepares to launch a centuries most ambitious space project the biggest telescope to ever scan the galaxy. russia's largest search engine has been given an initial value of up to nine billion dollars ahead of its upcoming i.p.o.

in the view was and could become the most expensive russian interest company for more joint business i see in twenty minutes time. eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r t joshua welcome to the program well it's nearly a month into the operational media and for those countries involved it's causing trouble back home especially in france where the president's feeling the pinch as daniel bushell reports it's not being helped by the country's intervention and its former colony of ivory coast of nicolas sarkozy's career under threat from accusations of imperialism. if nicolas sarkozy hoped intervening in libya and the oil every coast would boost his popularity it's backfired he's now by far the most unpopular president in the history of france's fifth republic according to the latest opinion polls at the weekend the main beneficiary has been marie le pen head

of the national front party she's expected to knock him out of next year's presidential elections sarkozy wants pledge france will never again kill people in africa pen told me he's broken that promise this will messina's a post-colonial reaction by france where behaving like the outspoken east man deciding who is better and who is good the president's policies a myriad of former colleagues one inflexible personal style x. finance minister. lift the ruling party this month admitting they can't work together to form a human rights minister remy yet they has quit to sarkozy let colonel gadhafi use france she said as a door mats to wipe blood off his feet by hosting him in paris and now he's hunting the same man down sarkozy also sacked his integration advisor for disagreeing with

him directly meant that man told r.t. the president does know how to compromise. there's no pleas for twentieth century colonialism today but there should always be room for negotiation it's all leaves nicolas sarkozy with few friends just when he needs them has become a lonely life inside the presidential palace but mr sarkozy not only a political opponent of pulling apart is for policy even for allies like nobody has been the talk of his period. to view pans work with the president for over seventeen years the former premier fears libya turning into another afghanistan. on popular war with no clear line we cannot go. any country without knowing when we will go out i think this is the listen that we did not treat from afghanistan in its global diplomacy it's the same problem analysts warn france is

facing criticism for what some see as heavy handed intervention in the ivory coast that comes after germany china brazil russia and india abstained from voting on a un mandated no fly zone over libya a move from strongly advocated that this is not very safe for the international system that the major problem the world if we take into account the people grab it and the world abstain the result is a president say experts mort at home and abroad for his arrogance for saddles more like. public trailing both look pain and the socialists in his bid for reelection in twenty twelve so because he looks on likely to mellow leaked memos from advisors claim his only chance of winning is to make his policies even more extreme than usual r.t.

paris. on the ground in libya rebel fighters have retreated from the key eastern town. after a heavy shelling out by khadafi forces it continues the series of the opposition's losses on saturday rebels were advancing to the strategic oil port of braga but were forced back after a sandstorm grounded nato aircraft back in march the u.n. security council passed a resolution allowing the intervention but critics say that what's actually happening there is far from simply enforcing it healthwise a journalist patrick having seen says the repercussions are striking much further east in china just in libya alone chinese contracts or some value something like twenty billion u.s. dollars initially from a chinese point of view the original un resolution is vague as it was asking for a no fly zone you know if the chinese initially thought they took it on face value and said well this is going to help stability in the region by having

a no fly zone and hopefully things will calm down and we can get back to business as usual obviously we know from events of the last couple weeks that is it wasn't just about a no fly zone it was really about the on the military intervention on the part of nato. in the region in libya so here this thing all the time the number one economic power in the world is the u.s. this is actually not the case the u.s. is now number two also number three in china and the european common market so china doesn't have to have the hyperactive foreign policy. that the west uses to get what he needs to get out of the situation the fairies will sit and wait patiently and then make their move accordingly. carol is patrick having some speaking from one end there. on the way to you here in r t we'll look into the greek myth of graduate opportunities. graduation day at the economics an aversive

in athens an exciting day for most of the students of course but the irony of the situation is that most of them will not be able to find a job in their home country. a year after the e.u.'s bailout of her dad stricken greece the country's pride us must now look abroad for their future we're with board shortly. a militant leader in russia's southern republic of dagestan has reportedly been killed joining us special overnight operation he's been wanted for suspected involvement in several terrorist attacks including last year's moscow metro bombing started the group is going off can tell us more. for your top militants supposedly killed so what more can you tell us about the ration well the special operation began as a shadow security check of two suspicious peoples all of this happened in a cell that probably got you started with the stuff these stores should be at least most of the passengers they opened fire so police opened fire back and as

a result all of the passengers were killed in this operation and police have also apprehended worse weapons like the eight hundred forty seven stuns a lots of time issue authorities say that it's most likely that one of the killed people was he said i do you would you join a food is a local criminal lord and. a major terrorist leader in the region thought to have organized numerous terrorist attacks in the caucasus and also is suspected that he was linked to the bombing off the demise of the airport in january there's a lot of speculation that his wife could have been one of the female suicide bombers who attacked the mosque or metro in more stars and ten although it still hasn't been officially confirmed police either million to know. i'm percent sure that this. one of these was his watch and said before i'd like to interrupt you now because we've just got to let the very latest information confirming this that

confirmed this by a terrorist committee that this top militant a commander has been killed well now i'd like to ask you about so the end to terror operation that's been happening in the region i mean as we know there have been and tear efforts before and just last month it was thought russia's most wanted terrorist have been eliminated so tell us more about that. authorities have been quite active with offices in some of the fighting there and when it comes to a local motto is a major major terrorist leader. thought to be a link to al qaida and he's wanted in russia he's wanted internationally it's not clear whether this man was killed or not but there was a major major or special operation that could. probably go should still last month where authorities covered the terrorist piece and the seventeen terrorists

were killed as a result of the special operation and at first there was news that the whole lot of it was one of them now there's no proof it was either him or god so it's there's no also no proof if he's alive at the moment but this man organized serious terrorist attacks across the tire pressure like i said he stopped the late to al qaida and he took the responsibility for the eight of them i did avoid the airport. is a major target for the authorities but fortunately they said there's still no confirmation that he was killed in that special mission. or thanks very much indeed for the latest in just one more time we like to remind our viewers who may be just joining us that a militant leader in russia's southern republic of dagestan has been killed during a special overnight operation your thanks very much indeed for the update. and the american consumer avatar fuels thousands of jobs in the developing world but

payback is a legacy of pollution and those dudes are past their best firms are getting around regulations and using countries like india as a dumping ground for you now reports. it's the sound americans love to hear the sound of the latest laptop or the newest snap book studies show that these days the useful lifespan of a computer is only two years and every day americans dump their junk in the hope of keeping up with the joneses tallying up to a total of three million tons of electronic waste every year but where does it all go. welcome to ceylon pour a predominantly muslim mostly poverty stricken area of east l.a. where thousands of indians come to turn trash into what they see as a tiny treasure and one of the. early. outs and dismounting.

and that's how i knew my living homage is on this thirty two years old and has been tearing apart this trash for ten years in a d.v.d. goods works with these four hundred to five hundred split between friends and can sell the raw materials and make about a dollar a day unlike regular trash that can simply be tossed away in many developed countries including parts of the us electronic waste must be sent to a special collection agency that is supposed to responsibly recycle the parts however while it can cost these agencies anywhere from fifteen to thirty dollars to properly recycle a computer they can actually make the same amount if they ship it to a developing country like india were either buyers think they can turn a profit on the goods deli is passed becoming one of the biggest e.u. waste dumping sites in the world trash from developed countries comes here to india or those with few options for survival hope to cash in on this job and even though it's illegal under the basil convention to ship hazardous material to india

companies define the junk a second hand goods are mixed models to customs officials to get away with it many countries feel that they need to save computers because. of fear of putting in the country. but what they get in and exchange for that is pretty drunk rafi our wall is the director of toxic swing a group dedicated to protecting migrant workers from the dangers of electronic waste and the workers. putting stronger suits exposing them to. it's a reality most of these workers know all too well but for them it's a dirty job that at least for now gives them a means to survive. i know what they do is not good for my health but i have no other source of income nor the job so i have to do something or the other the horror that those with no choices are sometimes forced to accept preassure either r t new delhi india hello just a few minutes we hear about plans to unveil the unknown mysteries of the universe.

in space this law will open its twenty seventh that's rules within thirty minutes and will start its exploration known and those who have been working on the project for more than twenty years can't wait to start getting results join us as we take a look at how one of the most ambitious space projects in the history which promises to revolutionize astronomy. in time economic recovery in greece is proving to be a long as painful process nearly a year after getting an emergency injection of billions of euros and it was more a staring measure it's ready to bite at unemployment hard to hold down the country also faces a tide of talent going elsewhere for work. has been meeting graduates in athens. there was a time when thinkers and philosophers flocked to greece that however is ancient history graduation day at the economics interested in athens an exciting day for

most of the students of course but the irony of the situation is that most of them will not be able to find a job in their home country that's a worrying trend brought about by the world financial crisis which has left deep scars on the greek economy. two master's degrees in political science and history and an unfinished ph d. but his education seems to matter a little here in greece. have some comics soon some things like. that for the. if you don't work we thought very well and this president goes for being educated abroad it's very musical nixon because we were not sure for example the broad become by going it's more difficult to beat up the comic and actually it's out of

style is to spend three years in total looking for a job in his country aside from doing mandatory military service and now he's thinking it's time to just stuff his shoes and go west i'm going to give you the sides in england if it doesn't work out the will come back or go in the dog. his plight is shared by many thirty something greeks some like me hollis rely on their parents for help and for and behind the door frame. some berms unfading were finding something and something or were there or believe or something like i'm very close. to the room but if this financial crisis consists despair may take over the entire country. greece has been badly affected by the crisis the country is in danger of losing a lot of foreign interest. and not just financially speaking the young energetic an

educated workforce may leave the country and the us never to be seen here again and you know. greece. well greece isn't the only country that's financially a flatlining economics watchers say the u.s. is lucky to have kept the wolves from the door up to now it's up for discussion in fifteen minutes and crosstalk on r.t. but here's some of what's in store. the united states of america if we didn't have the dollar is the de facto reserve currency of the world we'd be greece and the us is actually all of the greek speedo's if you add all of the i'm funded liabilities to the nation no big figure i mean the nation if. it isn't really what is really a god but really the unfunded liabilities are the sort of fiscal when that's two hundred into a trillion us dollar so in many ways that's. greece the budget deficit is very similar to the same it's crazy of ten point eight percent budget deficits when the

eurozone was formed not as the eurozone is any better i mean they're just blowing up right now a tool so we say stay out of the u.s. dollar stay out of any form of medium to long term u.s. treasuries but by the way also eurozone doesn't look again so the rest of me i'm very optimistic going to. cambridge i'm going to you is that too bleak of a picture there many people like myself have been worried about this for thirty years there's nothing magic about. this year the only thing that's magic about this year is it's become a political issue this year the american political system kind of bizarrely swings back and forth between not being concerned at all about the problem and making it much worse with huge tax cuts. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world two car bombs have gone off and a security checkpoint in baghdad killing at least three and injuring dozens of last

struck early on monday morning near the heavily secured area which houses international presence known as the green zone most of the dead and wounded were iraqi soldiers. there's a surge of support for a nationalist party in finland which is one of fifty seats in a parliamentary election and euro skeptic truth been strongly opposed to rescue plan for a debt ridden european economies and there is a possibility finland could veto any projects the party came third you know. ron bode and just a few seats separate separate the top three now the leading national coalition party will look for partners to form a government. police in yemen have fired on protesters as thousands marched through the capital in a bid to and thirty three you rule of the country's president dozens were injured as security forces shot lie about munition and tear gas at the crowd officials say the clashes erupted after protesters smashed windows and attacked shops gulf countries are currently trying to broker

a timetable for president saleh to leave office. rescuers are searching for survivors in the u.s. state of north carolina after deadly tornadoes killed at least twenty one and injured more than eighty others a state of emergency has been declared after high winds destroyed more than one hundred thirty homes and damaged many more it brings the total number of deaths in the southern states to forty five after the violent storms swept through the region . russian scientists are confidence of being able to see into the deepest secrets of the cosmos and they are a vicious telescope project has brought together in the world that has brought together the world's top minds and will allow the galaxies to be seen with amazing clarity argues their takes a closer look. it's been over a decade in the making good the most ambitious russian space project for years also moved from science fiction to signs fact a massive radio telescope promises to review the mysteries of deep space. is the

father of the project he says within a matter of months thirteen hundred of comet is from the earth it will be scanning the far corners of the universe. if you just know it and many people wonder if it is ours our planets the sun our galaxy we can't be alone out there and talk of parallel worlds and time travel may sound like science fiction but they say we only know four percent about the universe surrounding us and we hope to be able to look beyond that. are also known as radio astron will be the biggest telescope ever launched into space together with its largest i was bound siblings it will create a network able to provide detailed images of the universe the resolution will be a thousand times sharper then that our america's hubble telescope or the radio national will expand the limits of human knowledge we might be standing on the threshold of a revolution when things like dark matter and black holes start come observable. at

the heart of the complex is a gigantic ten meter mirror they're going only be seen when the telescope is fully open and it's almost ready to leave its home in moscow and travel to the launch pad in the next step is in space this will open its twenty seven petals within thirty minutes and will start its exploration of the are no and those who have been working on the project for more than twenty years can't wait to start getting the best results. based on the ground observatory that's boarded the project says he made sacrifices in favor of radio astro and he feels his devoted a good part of his life to it. initially the interest planned the nine hundred ninety one the breakup of the soviet union put an end to those plans and brought financial difficulties the project was shelved so fifteen out of those almost thirty years were lost in vain now that it's been brought up to date everyone in the industry is holding their breath the emotions well let me tell you frank god

we're back to quality space science and let's try it would but it works out and with that the whole scientific world which is the mission good luck hope for all of mankind will benefit. over r.t. . well you can get more on everything we're covering here for unity at r.t. dot com that's our website well let's see what's there right now we hear from the russian side or and who lifts the lid on her close contact with a quart of italian prime minister silvio berlusconi. and why the german tech giant siemens is in the frame over a cyber attack on iran's nuclear industry the details are available at r.t. dot com.

time now for the business of dates with you in just a few moments stay with us. to watch and business great to have the world that's cool to have. a value added to russians talks but it's mostly been driven votto oil and grease we've heard from you're also believes call the crude prices a little gustava sections. i think if we were to see energy prices by destabilizing or going a little bit lower that would be good for the global backdrop the fact that oil prices would likely stay above one hundred dollars at which level the russian budget balances i think that will be some if

a good enough backdrop for the russia story and then we can start to see investors branching out. plays in russia looking for more domestic stories the sort of companies and sectors that benefit for higher from the higher for longer oil revenues like the banks like infrastructure stories like the retailers so i think this second quarter will be a transition we're still looking at a very positive second half for russia we expect to see a much greater focus on the stocks that will benefit from the improving economy can expect to see then from the better budget in fiscal backdrop will be expect there i think in the second quarter as you know we come into the second quarter we're still with a lot of global uncertainties that are affecting the russia story by the end of it i think we will see this move towards domestic stories and a calmer oil price or and global equity markets which would be positive for us russians industrial good grew around a cent in march year in year it's the lowest for fifteen months but i let the positive about growth prospects russia's economics ministry has increased its

annual production full cost up to five percent this year h.s.b.c. says the number of new orders is growing at the highest place in the three years with my factories. it wasn't as moscow becoming one of the world's top financial centers has been raised again this time during president medvedev some visit to the financial make of hong kong russia's came to host several world class public offerings on the head of the world's biggest i mean producer says russia's got great potential for capital development. study the hong kong and you're in the. big leagues it was very unlikely to present all the time to pursue your list of russian because of the receipt for the shares which is here now it's sixty percent hong kong so that doesn't rush at the same you're. ready here. it's only time constant pressure to relieve the trouble of the west from airports

because the traffic is a customs troll i do believe that it's a bit much the progress. of the ship is that. it will create an opportunity to. rush to keep the market. on russian companies are showing more interest in hong kong markets they had a great stock exchange express several new i.p.o.'s. a number of companies including all the from can he said if their interest but you know we are working at it they also were created so you know with a bit of luck we might see one or two wars before the end of this year. all pointers are down despite saudi arabia catching up with him concerns the market is oversupplied crude is stabilizing after the presidential election nigeria around peacefully the country's a major oil exporter brant is trading at nearly one hundred twenty three dollars

per barrel light sweet crude is a hundred and nine dollars per barrel. the price of gold has reached a record high of one thousand four hundred and eighty eight dollars an ounce mounting inflation around the globe and europe says sovereign debt crisis prompted investors to knock into it something that holds value so has also games it's currently trading about forty three dollars an ounce which is its highest level in three decades. let's look now at how the stock markets are forming a function as down this hour the nikkei is point three percent down out stronger as stronger yet is where you go next school says sunny's down around one percent and as is common. here in russia the markets are trading in the red with theosophy is down almost two percent and interest stocks are among the main game is the south while banking and financial stocks are leading the forum. and that result his business update on his form or next hour of of course you could always go into our

website article called slash present tense. wealthy british style. it's not right it's fine if we go back yard. hi guys.