this is a military initiatives in libya and ivory coast back at home with president sarkozy losing points and allies over what's being labeled as is imperial ambitions. trash for some treasure for others india is turning into an electronics waste dump with hazardous computer junk from developed countries illegally sold instead of being recycled. hopes for the deepest or cosmic mysteries soon as russia progressed from launching this century's most vicious space project the biggest telescope ever scan of the galaxy.

this is r.t. live from moscow where it's now just after two pm on monday. nearly a month into the operation in libya and for those countries involved it's causing trouble at home especially in france where the president is feeling the pinch and starting to die a brutal reports it's not being helped by the country's intervention in its former colony of ivory coast nicolas sarkozy's korea under threat from accusations. if nicolas sarkozy hoped intervening in libya and the oil every coast. is going forward he's no boy for 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 because he wants. pledged france will never again kill people in africa le pen told me he's broken that promise so it will be seen as a past colonial reaction by fans behaving like a welsh policeman deciding who is bad and who's good the president's policies a myriad of former colleagues by an inflexible personal style x. finance minister. lift the ruling party this month admitting they called to work together to form a human rights minister remi yet they has quit too so as he let colonel gadhafi use france he said as a doormat to wipe blood off his feet by hosting him in paris now he's hunting the same man down sarkozy also sacked his integration advisor for disagreeing with him direct meant that man told r.t. the president does know how to compromise. there's no place for twentieth century

colonialism city but there should always be room for negotiation it's all leaves nicolas sarkozy with few friends just when he needs them it's become a lonely life inside the presidential palace but with the sarkozy not only a political opponent of pulling apart his for policy even for what lies like nobody to be the talk of his period with. pounds work with the president for over seventeen years the former premier fears libya turning into another afghanistan a deeply unpopular war with no clear deadline we cannot go. any country without knowing when we will go out i think this is the listen that we did not do 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 off to germany china brazil russia and india have. steen from voting on the 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 of the world if we take into account the ebook read it and the population of the world abstain the result is a presidency exposed more at home and abroad for his arrogance the snows more local monarchical republic trailing both lookin and the socialists in his bid for reelection in twenty twelve so as 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. time on the ground in libya rebel fighters have retreated from the key eastern town of algeria so after having shelling back about a forces he continues

a series of the opposition's losses on saturday i don't rebel so they were fighting to the strategic oil port or whatever but were forced back after a sandstorm grounded nato aircraft back in march u.n. security council passed this resolution allowing the intervention but critics say that what's actually happening there is far from simply enforcing a no fly zone journalist patrick henningsen says their repercussions are striking much further east in china. just in libya alone chinese contracts valued something like twenty billion u.s. dollars initially from a chinese point of view the original un resolution figures 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 of weeks that is it wasn't just about a no fly zone its route was really about foreign military intervention on the part of nato. in the region in libya so you hear 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 its number two possibly number three behind china in the european common market so china doesn't have to have the hyperactive foreign policy behavioral patterns that the west uses to get what he needs to get out of the situation the trains will sit and wait be patient and they'll make their move cordingley. journalist patrick having said that speaking from about the right still to come here are looking to the greek myth of the graduate opportunities. graduation day i think on some of us that 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 bail out of that stricken country's brightest that's not going to grow or that our future. just a few few months here. now a militant leader in russia's southern republic of dagestan has been killed and during a special operation he's been wanted for suspected involvement in several terrorist attacks including last year's moscow metro bombings seems. oh this happened in the republic of the dishonor overnight police stopped two suspicious will be illegals to check the i.d.'s of passengers they open fire police open fire back and as a result. war for militants were killed in this operation and police have now confirmed that one of these men was these that he will be john of who is a local local terrorist leader notorious criminal war that he's thought to be

responsible for organizing various terrorist attacks in the caucasus may be connected to the blast adam idea the airport in january and there's also speculation that he's wife may have been one of the female suicide bombers would start to be more school metro being more two thousand and ten so they've now going from that was this was definitely one of these men was definitely he said everybody john f. and he also found loads of ammunition and guns like a k forty seven hand guns and grenades and more as a result of this operation authorities have been on the hunt for a girl who was in the torrijos cruel war to end terrorist leader he's wanted wolf in russia and internationally he took the responsibility for organizing gurus terrorist attacks across the country including the film with a little boy he's also thought to be linked to al qaida and last month there was a massive joint operation which included the federal security service police and

the on me in which authorities destroyed a terrorist training camp in another republic in the caucasus very probably go straight to they killed seventeen terrorists of course they thought that local motto could have been a mole on these people but unfortunately d.n.a. tests showed that so far they haven't found the food that was among these people but they did confirm that some of the killed man in the. in that operation some of the terrorists who are really close to the world. talking to you could discover courting right that well the american consumer up tight with thousands of jobs in the developing world but the payback is a legacy of pollution those good parts the best firms are getting around regulations and using countries like india as a dumping ground as artie's press 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 telling up to a total of three million tons of electronic waste every year but where does it all go. welcome to see a lump or 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 my work is collecting these electronics crops and dismantling them. that's how i make my living muhammad is on this thirty two years old and has been tearing apart this trash for ten years in a d.v. good goods world for peace four hundred to five hundred split between friends is on 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 u.s. 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 delhi is fast becoming one of the biggest the waste jumping states in the world. cash from developed countries comes here to india where those with few options for survival hope to cash in on this job and even though it's a legal under the basil convention to ship hazardous material to india companies defined the junk as second hand goods are mixed models to customs officials to get away with it many countries feel they need the second home computers because if we of course you wouldn't go there in the country but to get in in exchange for it's

really trunk ravi other wall is the director of toxic swing a group dedicated to protecting migrant workers from the dangers of electronic waste and workers home putting stronger suits exposing them to. racial hazard it's a reality most of these workers know all too well but for them it's a dirty job 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 that those with no choices are sometimes forced to accept preassure either r t new delhi india. i don't in just a few minutes here on r.t. we will hear about the plans to unveil the unknown mysteries of the universe. in space this what will open its twenty seventh that's also within thirty minutes and will start its exploration of the unknown and those who have been working on the project for more than twenty years can't wait to start getting the results to join

us as we take a look at one of the most ambitious space projects in history which promises to revolutionize astronomy. economic recovery increase is proving to be a long and painful process nearly a year after getting an emergency injection of billions of euros with austerity measures already so bite and unemployment hard to hold down the country also faces a tide of talent going elsewhere for work parties are going to go to school now has been meeting graduates and other. there was a time when thinkers and philosophers flocked to greece that however is ancient history graduation day at the economic interest in athens an exciting day for most of the students of course the big 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. from every. other stories has two master's degrees in political science and history and an unfinished ph d. but his education seems to matter little here in greece you have got some connections some things like that in order for the public sector and the private sector the comfort zone here if you don't work with are very aware. of being a good abroad it's very lose the connection with your friends on the other there or abroad they come back and it's more difficult to beat up the combination of spent 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 dust off his shoes and go west i'm going to give you the sights in england if we come back. all about.

his plight is shared by many thirty something greeks some like me hollis rely on their parents for help i'm trying to find the door frame. my job. sometimes i'm saving or finding something i'm from something or work there or believe or something like that i'm very close but i resist. the lure of this financial crisis to cysts despair may take over the entire country . greece has been badly affected by the crisis the countries and danger of losing a lot of foreign interest. and not just financially speaking the young educated workforce me leave the country in the us never to be seen here again in the closed court t. greece is not the only country that's financially flatlining

economics watchers say the u.s. is lucky to have cut the wolves from the door and i'll suffer this caution in cross talk next hour here on r.t. but here's some of what you can expect. the united states of america if we didn't have the dollar is the reserve currency of the world we'd be greece and the us is actually old greek speedo's if you're. funded liabilities to the nation i mean the national debt. isn't really what is really about it but really the unfunded liabilities of the so-called fiscal guy well let's twined it into a trillion us dollar so in many ways they're. angry it's the budget deficit is what is this a mess where is your ten point eight percent by just episodes in the eurozone votes for the eurozone is any better i mean they're just they're blowing up right now top 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 better again so the rest of me i'm very optimistic on it ok jeffrey in 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 bad 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. cost was coming your way next hour here on r.t. let's check out some other headlines now from around the world and the taliban say they are behind the attack on the afghan a defense ministry headquarters in kabul the. left at least two dead in a shootout a suicide bomber dressed as a soldier reportedly broke into the building but was shot before setting off his device but local media however says there was an explosion report such as the

attack may have targeted the country's defense minister and his french colleague who's now in kabul. two car bombs have gone off at a security checkpoint in baghdad killing at least nine injuring dozens of blasts struck early on monday morning near the heavily secured area which houses an international presence known as the green zone most of the dead. were iraqi soldiers. there's been a surge of support for a nationalist party in finland which came third in a close run parliamentary vote the euro skeptic true films strongly oppose the rescue plan for debt ridden european economies and there's a possibility finland could veto portugal aid projects that terms of the bailout are on the table now with e.u. heavyweights meeting portugal's prime minister in lisbon. and police in yemen have fired on the protesters as thousands marched through the capital in a bid to the thirty three year rule of the country's president dozens were injured

as security forces shot live ammo and tear gas into 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. but russia's a finance minister says joining the world trade organization will get underway in the next few months and look sequentially was speaking at a world bank session in washington before then though he talked to us here at r.t. as well here later this hour longstanding trade restrictions with the u.s. went into the process. of. the jackson family commitment there's not any real obstacles to russia's accession to the beach you mean if the lifting of this amendment is the lead it doesn't mean. russia will have to abandon its intentions to join the w cheel it will limit the u.s. presence on the russian market in cooperation between russian and american companies will be affected and russian trade relations with other countries will be

defined by the beach deal regulations that's to say american companies are in the region need of waving them and i think that we are have me on their proposed can recall. it with r.t. live from moscow russian scientists are confident of being able to see into the deepest secrets of the cosmos their telescope project has brought together the world's top minds and will allow the galaxies to be seen with amazing clarity. she takes a closer look. it's been over a decade in the making but the most ambitious russian space project for years also moved from science fiction to signs that a massive radio telescope promises to review the mysteries of deep space. and is the father of the project he says within a matter of months hundreds of kilometers from the earth it will be scanning the far corners of the universe where you just know it and many people wonder if it

does are planets the sun our galaxy or we can't be alone out there and talk of parallel worlds and time travel may sound my science fiction let's say we only know four percent about the universe surrounding us and we hope to be able to look beyond that. that are also known as radio astro will be the biggest telescope ever launched into space together with its largest earth bound siblings it will create a network able to put my detailed images of the universe as a resolution will be a thousand times sharper then that 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 to come observable . and the heart of the complex is a gigantic ten need to 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 kazak step is in space this now it will open its twenty seven petals within thirty minutes and will start its exploration of the unknown and those who have been working on the project for more than twenty years can't wait to start getting the best results and the really base of the ground observatory that's part of the project says he made sacrifices in favor of radio astro and he feels he's devoted a good part of his life to it. initially the launch was 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 with 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 very much you can get out more and everything will come from there i thought so you don't have a look right now and see what i was waiting for you on our website and we hear from a russian spy ring he lifts the lid on her close contact with the corporate prime minister silvio berlusconi. and why the german tech giant siemens is in the frame for a cyber attack on iran's nuclear industry those details at odds in dot com. ok time now for the business news with you.

sorry this is business saucy hello and welcome to the program the first quarter has seen significant value added to russians talks but it's mostly being driven by oil and of course we thought from you will see believe the current prices will give a boost to our set. i think if we were to see energy prices either stabilizing or going a little bit lower that would be good for the global backdrop the fact that oil prices would like to stay above one hundred dollars at which level the russian budget balances i think that would be sort of a good enough backdrop for the russian story and then we could start to see investors branching out your oil and gas plays in russia looking for more domestic stories the sort of companies and sectors that benefit from higher pay for 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 much greater focus on

stocks that will benefit from the improving economy to expect to see then from the better budget in fiscal backdrop that we expect then i think in the second quarter is 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. the equity markets which would be positive for us russia's industrial output grew around five percent and not. fifteen months but i'm positive about growth prospects russia's economics ministry has increased its annual production for cars from four to five percent this year h.s.b.c. says the number of new orders is growing at the highest three years with running stock trades in leading the world. rush's home and home hold of boosting financial ties president dmitry medvedev expects after five russian initial public offerings to take place in the region this year the president of the home construction rangers says he is interested in closer partnership with moscow as. moscow is going

through some reform process because your two major changes i believe merging. and the model looks very similar to hong kong both in terms of production in terms of clearing the settlements and so on so i think you know from their perspective if clearly we have a lot of common interests. we signed a memo you with my ship several years ago and we are always open to ideas for corporations. oil prices are down despite saudi arabia passing out good and concerns the market is oversupplied crude is stabilizing after the presidential election in nigeria around peacefully the country is a major oil exporter brant is trading at about one hundred twenty three dollars a barrel while the light sweet crude is below one hundred nine dollars per barrel.

the price of gold has set a new record high of one thousand four hundred eighty eight dollars an ounce it's trading just below that and take inflation around the globe and concerns about u.s. debt are prompting investors to look into something that holds value silver is also close to its highest level in three decades. let's have a look at the markets now the european markets are in the red this hour by sunday we come across the water as ratings agency moody's downgrades irish banks to junk status moody's says it remains concerned about dublin's ability to push through a restructuring of its debts. and he rushed the markets are also losing this out by the r.c.s. of the my successor around one percent down. and let's have a new. some individual shot moves i will companies i've done and made retreating oil prices across the afters more than one to three percent in the red this hour meanwhile by and financial stocks are in them and then users with parabolic down

around one point seven percent on my six. that was last year's business update join us for more about fifteen minutes time and you can always go outside that's actually the business.

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