this is. france's president and historic slump in popularity as military adventures in libya and the ivory coast make the country's least popular leader ever all of this ahead about an election next year. the russian security services kill a high level tara target with links to deadly bomb attacks on moscow this happening in an overnight shoot out in the south of the country. in the developed world electronic dumping ground people in the parts of the country risking their health by picking apart hazardous junk. and a euro skeptic mood takes over thinly nationalist strongly opposed to e.u.

bailout projects when a fifth of the country's parliament sits. with r.t. live from moscow where it's now or just after four pm on monday well putting france at the leading edge of western military action is turning into a political bomb explode in the face of president nicolas sarkozy critics are lining up to label him a modern day imperialist and daniel bushell reports sarkozy's prospects for a second term look shaky at best. if nicolas sarkozy hoped intervening in libya and the oil. is perfect for he's no one 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. head of the national front.

she's expected to knock him out of next year's presidential elections because he wants pledge france will never again kill people in africa and the pen told me he's broken that promise so that this will be seen as a pos colonial reaction by france where behaving like a well still east man deciding who is bad and who's 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 called to work together to form a human rights minister run a year they has quit to sarkozy let's colonel gadhafi use france she 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

at the recommend a man told r.t. the president doesn't know how to compromise. there's no place 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 it's become a lonely life inside the presidential palace but mr sarkozy will tell your political opponent pulling apart is for policy even for what allies like nobody could be the talk of his serial ambition. to build 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 in any country without knowing when we will go out i think this is the lesson that we did not to from afghanistan in its global diplomacy it's the same problem unless war france is

facing criticism for what some see as heavy handed into. in in the ivory coast the result is a presidency expert mort at home and abroad for his arrogance settles in warlike monarchical republic trailing both look pain and the socialists in his bid for reelection in twenty twelve sarkozy 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. well on the ground in libya rebels have once again gathered near the key eastern a town. which has been a scene of much fierce fighting they have previously been forced to flee following heavy shelling and it's sniper fire from café troops fighting also continues in misrata the opposition's last major foothold in the west of the country and government forces have been laying siege to the city for weeks and there are reports of

a growing humanitarian crisis rebel leaders say they need more arms and ammunition to resist attacks journalist patrick kennedy says there are repercussions of an unstable libya striking much further east all the way to china. the goals of intervention. stated intervention by the un in nato. are very different than what was drawn up in resolution one thousand nine hundred seventy three and goes a regime change is also the cause of the control of resources in that region and the vix in other words the dismantling of chinese economic interests in africa just in libya alone chinese contracts some valued something like twenty billion u.s. dollars over from these chinese investments in north africa has dropped almost fifteen percent in the first two months of this year 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 the events of the last couple weeks is it wasn't just about a no fly zone its route was really about full on military intervention china doesn't have to have the hyperactive foreign policy behavioral patterns that the west uses to get what it needs to get out of the situation the chinese will sit wait be patient and they'll make their move accordingly. it with r.t. and still to come in the program greeks seeking gifts the financial crisis hits the younger generation hardest with the graduates pushed abroad in search of a proper job. in russia as i in space scientists prepared one veil an ambitious telescope project over ten years in the making that will look deep into the cosmos than ever before. russian officials have confirmed one of the figureheads for

islamic radicalism in southern russia has been killed widely known as. he's been linked to a series of terrorist attacks including last year's moscow metro bombings north caucuses correspondent maybe in a couple of years now following the latest. two cars were stopped on a sunday night at a checkpoint in dagestan but after the driver refused to open the car and a fire the police fired back and at the end of four terrorists including of the militants a leader is that i believe ali jato four were killed the un cording to the national anti terrorist committee underwent training in the top center in change now back in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight these terrorists that were killed on sunday night in dagestan were also claimed responsibility for a number of terrorist attacks in a drug is down an across the north caucasus was also claimed responsibility for

training women to become suicide bombers for future terrorist attacks across the country however still there is a no avodah that adore kumar of russia's most wanted terrorist was killed in one of the recent operations model freshers most wanted terrorist for organizing and preparing different terrorist attacks not only in dagestan but across the north caucasus and he's not only on the list of most wanted terrorist in russia but he's also on the top a list of the most wanted terrorist in the united states but still there is no clear information on where a dog who model from might be here in the north caucasus. is going to cover that. feature stories just log on to our website at starting dot com that's a look at what out for you there right now a school examination with nothing to do with education russia educators drug tests for people's lives or patch kids using drugs but to persuade them to stay away from

. innovation in a russian prison it's health oriented inmates can our choose to serve their sentence. so. you can also share your photos out in. stories at. your screen right now you can see how you can do this you can visit upload your video to the upload your video section and perhaps one day you'll see your footage right here on. there are a few gifts for the young graduates post crisis greece the government is so deep in the red it's being forced to restructure the whole country not just its debt the consequence is a drain of the nation's best brains heading abroad to find

a future. there was a time when thinkers and philosophers flocked to greece that however is ancient history to 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 that's a worrying trend brought about by the world financial crisis which has lived deep scars on the greek economy. and. other stories has two master's degrees in political science and history and a ph d. but his education seems to matter a little here in greece. some comics soon some things like that they're not doing as most of them in the private sector. if you don't work very well in this visit of those who have been educated abroad it's going to lose the connection because we've

all been here for example there are broadly and it's more difficult to get. other students to spend three years in total looking for a job in this country that's aside from doing mandatory military. it is now his thinking it's time to dust off his shoes and go rest i'm going to give you the sods in england if it does become god. go and don't bug. 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 being my favorite. sometimes i'm fading or finding something or something or where. something i'm very close but i resist. but if this financial crisis dear sister despaired me take over the entire country

music business 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 and educated workforce may leave the country and the us never to be sincere again it becomes corti. greece. portugal is negotiating a possible financial bailout where political events in finland could sink their chances nationalist party true finns made major gains in the general election and is threatening to veto any e.u. loans to lisbon you heard from finnish a suit of international affairs says there's nothing unusual in the party starts. previous own finished economic crises in the early ninety's when finland mostly bailed itself out you know way that it survived without support from the others and this is something which goes to the finnish mentality that people and nations

should take care of their own economy and invest since i think it says something about the finns very strongly feel about and this is of course something what is what you can see in other parts of northern europe as well and then of course there is the question in those countries who are receiving funds from the european union the various also very trusted because charity measures and the policies of those governments and the more and more popular these days so yes there are divisions there africa mentation see it in the european union but i think that to come as a surprise because the issues at stake are so huge and the amount of euro is what is needed to save the european economy and the credibility of euro they are huge issues and of course there is political debate within the countries and among the european partners as well. here i'll tell you we compare the eurozone crisis with the situation in the us how critical is america's public debt cross-talk coming up

a bit later to. the us is actually an old greek in the greeks because if you're. funded. it isn't really what this is really about but really the unfunded liabilities of this so-called fiscal. trillion us dollar so in many ways that's. greece is that too bleak of a picture there is a crisis is totally overhyped i mean this idea is like well if we didn't have the dollar we would be greece but we do the dollar we have a fundamentally different monetary system greece greece doesn't control its own currency very subtly borrowing in someone else's currency they have to build up a surplus and then. you would also live from moscow where it's now a quarter past the hour the appetite of the ever hungry u.s. consumer is being fed by a study of subprime goods from developing nations but those items often make the

very same return journey because when americans no longer want them it's countries like india that end up as the dumping ground. it's the sound americans love to hear the sound of the latest laptop or the new was snapped by studies show that these days the useful life span 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 for a predominantly muslim mostly poverty stricken area east where thousands of indians come to turn trash into but they see as a tiny treasure and one of my book. that's how i knew my living will harm it is on the thirty two years old and has been tearing apart this trash for ten years in a d.v.

good goods were three 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 delhi is passed becoming one of the biggest 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 to find 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 if. a few of quitting could go there in the country but what they get in and exchange for that is pretty drug rugby ball is the director of toxics leading a group dedicated to protecting migrant workers from the dangers of electronic waste and 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 but at least for now gives them a means to survive. i know what i do is not good for my health but i have nor the source of income nor the job so i have to do something or do you have a heart that those with no choices are sometimes forced to accept preassure either r t new delhi india. russia as finance minister has warned that high oil prices are not all positive for the country's economy aleksey kudrin was speaking at

a world bank session in washington when he first spoke with us here at r.t. as a preview of what you can watch unfold just a little bit later this hour. so carol the thing is that whenever the preschool significantly over a short period of time russia gets a large employer over the dollars and that really causes inflation which again hinders investment into russia there's inflation causes the interest rates to go up or leads to the stripping of the ruble a stronger ruble leads to explore performance and increased import volumes and makes imports cheaper that's making the imported goods competitive with domestic once this law is doing the domestic production rates and therefore such an influence there two dollars could have a negative impact because that. you would argue lie from moscow let's look now at some other headlines from around the world this hour at the least nine people have been killed and dozens after two suicide car bombs exploded in a baghdad witnesses say both cars detonated as they were queuing to enter the

heavily fortified green zone that's the heart of the capital business and government parliament in iraq has been increasing over the last year by the bombings once again an almost daily occurrence. the robots sent into the reactor buildings at the fukushima nuclear plant have found a massive amounts of radiation barring any workers from entering the plant operator also announced a new nine month plan to stabilize the situation proposing to couple the reactors with h.r. noble like sarcophagus the situation of the nuclear complex remains critical with radiation leaks. and if access progress. a partial vote count has put incumbent leader good luck jonathan on track to win the presidency of nigeria but the prospect of a christian president has put africa's most populous nation on the brink almost half of the country's population is muslim rioting has already begun in a number of regions jonathan ascended to the presidency after the death of the

country's muslim president. while russian scientists believe they could soon be peer in through the looking glass to outer space is deepest secrets. telescope project has brought together world's top minds and if all goes to plan will allow galaxies of thought far away to be seen with amazing clarity steria pushed over takes a closer look. it's been over a decade in the making but the most ambitious russian space project is. from science fiction to signs that a massive radio telescope promises to review the mysteries of deep space. is the founder 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 would you if you just do it that many people wonder and it's the sun our galaxy we can't be alone now good to talk of parallel worlds and

time travel may sound like science fiction but at least say we only know the percent about the universe around us with hope to be able to look beyond that space and are also known as radio astron will be the biggest telescope ever going into space together with its largest earthbound siblings it will create a network able to put my detailed images of the universe the resolution will be a thousand times chart but then that america's hubble telescope schools of thought radio national will expand the limits of human knowledge we might be standing on the threshold of a revolution with things like dark matter. black holes start to come observable. and the heart of the complex is a gigantic ten meter mirror that can only be seen when the telescope is fully open and it's almost ready to leave its home in moscow and travel to the launchpad in the process there is in space this 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 first results and a truly feels he's devoted a good part of his life to radio astro. initially the low interest plan for nine hundred ninety one from 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 the very now that it's been brought up to date everyone in the industry is holding their breath the emotions that well let me tell you frank gold we're back to quality space science and that's a chart would 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. . ok time now for the business news with dmitri.

thanks for the world's largest online marketplace e-bay has more than doubled its wasn't business which has been running less than a rotter together with canada are currently biggest foreign operations that the company's managing director says they have high hopes for expansion. we see there's a long long trajectory the best guess is a long trajectory into the future that we believe that the russian market would go for us are you is our russian translation side you can purchase from european or american sell us to ship to russia and that part of the business is increasing with triple digits from last year more than a hundred percent we launched it about i think nine months ago so ten months ago so now we see this over this period this is a very tremendous uptake this part so it's a very big kind of growth that we see in this market. russia and hong kong a boost in financial times president dmitry medvedev expects up to five russian

initial public offerings to take place in the region this year the president of the hong kong stock exchange says he's interested in close partnership with moscow's moses. moscow is going through some reform process because the your two major changes i believe merging. and the model looks very similar to hong kong both in terms of product and terms of clearing settlements and so on so i think you know from their perspective clearly we have a lot of common interests indeed we signed him or you with my sic several years ago and we're always open to ideas for corporations. so we're going to it's now oil prices are down despite saudi arabia causing output and concerns the market is oversupplied crude is stabilizing after the presidential election nigeria iran peacefully the country's a major oil exporter prentiss trading around a hundred twenty two dollars per barrel. it's around one hundred eight betsy. the

price of gold has set a new record high yet again of one thousand four hundred eighty eight dollars an ounce but it's trading below that now mounting inflation around the globe and concerns about u.s. debt are prompting investors to not into something that holds value so there's also close to the highest level in three decades so you're going to markets stock markets now european markets down the south bank so we go across the board as ratings agency moody's downgraded irish banks to junk status moody's says it remains concerned about government's ability to push through a restructuring of its own debt here in russia the markets are also losing this hour as they have been ever since the opening of the morning. more than well around one percent down actually to go to some individual stocks energy companies are down a month and retreating oil prices ross near is down more than a percent also banking and financial stocks the main losers bank down more than two

percent for south. anyhow the first quarter seen significant value added to russian stocks but it's mostly been driven by. believes a can of crude prices will give a boost to others. but i think if we were to see energy prices either stabilizing or going a little bit lower and that would be good for the global backdrop the fact that oil prices would like to stay above one hundred dollars 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 in branching out. in gas plays in russia looking for board the mystic stories the sort of companies and sectors that benefit from a higher bid from the higher for longer oil revenues like the banks like infrastructure stories like the retailers so i think the 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 the stocks that would benefit from the improving economy to expect to see then from the

better budget in fiscal backdrop will be expected then i begin to second quarters you know we come into the second quarter we 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 prices and global equity markets which will be positive for us russia's industrial output grew around five percent in march year on the year that's the lowest in fifteen months but analysts are positive about growth prospects russia's economic ministry has increased its annual production forecast from four to five percent this year h.s.b.c. says the number of new orders is growing at the highest pace in three years with manufacturers leading the way i was at these business up they will be back in less than one hour's time wars and let's.

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