france's president suffers an historic slump in popularity back home as military adventures in libya and the ivory coast make him the country's least popular leader ever just ahead of next year's elections. russian security services killed a high level terror target with links to the deadly bomb attacks on master this occurring in an overnight shoot out in the south of the country. india becomes the develop the world's electronic dumping ground with people in the poorer parts of the country risking their health try taking apart hazardous junk. and a euro skeptic mood takes over finland nationalists strongly opposed to e.u.

bailout projects when a fifth of the country's parliament sits. on the world's largest online marketplace e they is looking to expand one of the most important foreign markets that's russia find out more on business are seeing around twenty minutes. a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow putting france at the leading edge of western military action is turning into a political bomb that threatens to explode in the face of president nicolas sarkozy critics are lining up to label him as a modern imperialist and his arteries daniel pearl reports sarkozy's the prospects for a second term look shaky at best. if nicolas sarkozy hoped intervening in libya's new york free 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 the pen told me he's broken that promise. this oh this in as a past colonial reaction by france by behaving like a well it's policeman deciding who's bad and who's good the president's policies a myriad i'd former colleagues wind inflexible personal style checks finance ministers. lift the ruling party this nonsense admitting they called to work together form a human rights minister remi yet they has quit too so it is a little kernel good that we use france she said as a doormat to wipe

a lot of 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 i have to recommend that 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 who 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 opponents pulling apart is for policy even for allies like nobody could be the talk of his serial. pounds work with the president for over seventeen years the former premier fears libya is turning into another afghanistan. on popular war with no clear deadline we cannot go in 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 and list france is facing criticism for what some see as heavy handed intervention in the ivory coast the result is a president say experts malt at home and abroad for his arrogance bustles monarchical public trailing both le pen and the socialists in his bid for reelection in twenty twelve because he looks unlikely to mellow leaked memos from a voice as claimed his only chance of winning is to make his policies even more extreme than usual see paris. and meantime on the ground in libya rebels have once again gathered near the key eastern town. which has been the scene of much fierce fighting they had previously been forced to flee following heavy shelling and a sniper fire from cafe troops fighting also continues in misrata the opposition's

lost a major foothold in the west of the country government forces have been laying siege to the city for weeks and there are reports of a growing humanitarian crisis rebel leaders say they needed more ammunition to resist and tax journalist patrick henningsen says there are repercussions of an unstable libya striking much to the east all the way to china. the goals of intervention. stated intervention by the un in nato. or very different than what was brought up in resolution one thousand and seventy three goes a regime change. also the goals of the control of resources in that region and the victualling in other words the dismantling of chinese economic interests in africa just in libya alone chinese contracts or some value something like twenty billion u.s. dollars over from these journeys 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 this route was really about full on military intervention china doesn't have to have the hyperactive foreign policy behavioral patterns that the west users to get what it needs to get out of the situation the chinese will see it wait be patient and they'll make their move cordingley. still to come in the program here on r.t. greeks seeking gifts the financial crisis it's a younger generation harvest which graduates pushed abroad in search for a job. and much as i in space scientists prepare to unveil an ambitious

telescope project over ten years in the making it will look deeper into the cosmos than ever before. russian officials have confirmed that one of the figureheads for islamic radicalism in southern russia has been killed widely known as a sign he's been linked to a series of terrorist attacks including last year's moscow metro brownie's let's not cross a large water user north caucasus course one of you know question of us he's been following the latest developments i mean her son was known to be one of the most senior figures in the region the terrorist cells tell us how was he how was he finally caught. well everything have flown on sunday night two cars were stopped at the checkpoint in dagestan but when the driver refused to open the car and opened fire the police fights back and out the four terrorists including the militant leader is that i believe john the were killed according to

the national antiterrorist committee john of underwent training in sunjammer back in ninety one ninety eight and these tires that were killed in douglas gun claimed responsibility for a number of terrorist attacks not only there but across the russia's north caucasus about you john of also known as france son of was believed to be responsible for training women to become suicide bombers for future terrorist attacks across russia and the national committee says that russia's most wanted terrorist. appointed by the john of to be had of. you know two or twenty times. you mentioned. a moment ago of course he is the most wanted terrorist in russia now there is a strong anti terror process going on in the region what do we know now what's the latest about the whereabouts and actions or.

indeed in other ways all of a major terrorist operations is underway here in the north caucasus but still there is a nearly out of a dunce. model for us just most wanted terrorist was killed during one of these operations the latest d.n.a. time found no presence of the model in the latest operation that was carried in into cezanne as of the a march when russian military forces found a terrorist base and after a number of arab strikes over it seventeen terrorists were killed no d.n.a. tests show no evidence of tough and he's a not only on the list of russia's most wanted terrorist but he's also on of the list of most wanted terrorists in the united states he claimed responsibility for most of the other airport terrorist attack the seattle and the number of moscow and

natural bombings that happened last year but still after a number of operations that took place here in the north caucasus there is no clear information of where the water might be right and teams are no focus of course when it might be no question of tax. reform or news and feature stories just log on to our web site i got started our coverage have a look at some of the items that are lined up waiting for you that right now a school examination with nothing to do with education russia introduces a drug tests for people not to touch their kids using drugs pretty persuade them to stay away from. innovation in the russian president's health oriented inmates can choose to serve their sentence in a non smoking itself. and of course you can also wash a your own videos you stories about dot com if you have a look at the screen right now you can see how to go to the upload your video

section and perhaps one day you might see. you are in footage right here on our t.v. tell. you with r.t. live from moscow now there are few gifts for the young graduates imposed the crisis in greece the government is so deep in the right it's being forced to restructure the whole country not just its debt the consequence is a drain all 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 i think all it's 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 teach scars on the greek economy. and they're going really well. migrate from everything we do use could be could have sort of 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've got to have some connection some things like that you know that it's possible that in the private sector. if you don't work very well in the space of those been educated abroad it's very lose the connection because we will be not here for example. abroad they come back and it's more the beef going to be the opposite of the connection let's say of a stylist spent three years in total looking for a job in his country that's aside from doing mandatory military service now he's

thinking it's time to dust off his shoes and go dressed i'm going to give you both sides in england if it doesn't work out that we come back you know going come back on. his part is shared by many thirty something greeks some like me hollis rely on their parents for help and for him to find a job in my favor. sometimes i'm thinking of finding something or something other way or. something like that i'm very close but i resist. the lure of this financial crisis. just despair over the entire country. greece has been badly affected by the crisis you can't reason danger of losing a lot of foreign interest. and not just financially speaking the young energetic and educated workforce leave the country and mass never to be seems here again it

was courting. greece. portugal a possible financial bailout political events in finland could sink their chances nationalist party in truth and made major gains in the general election and is threatening to veto any loans to lisbon you heard from the finnish institute of international affairs says there's nothing unusual in the party stance previous. economic crises in the early ninety's when finland mostly bailed itself out in a way that it survived without support from the others and this is something which goes to the finnish mentality of people and nations should take care of their own economy and in fact since i think this is something worth a feel very strongly feel about this is of course something that is what you can see in other parts of northern europe as well and then of course there is a question in those countries who are receiving funds from the european union the very source or very trusted cost or if you measure the policies of those

governments on the more and more unpopular these days so yes there are divisions there africa mutations 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 euros 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 country is among the european partners as well. so you compare the eurozone crisis with the situation in the united states how critical is america's public debt in our cost or. coming your way in just a few hours. increasing your share going to go and just as a reference on the eurozone there was a limit of three percent of the budget deficit as a percentage of g.d.p. that is normally considered the maximum sustained winds of the u.s. it's not. nearly as we have been warning they are beyond the point of no.

but appetite of the ever hungry us consumer is being fed by a steady supply of goods from developing nations but those items often make the very same return journey because when americans no longer love them it's countries like india and are dumping ground up. 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 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 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 trying to trash into what they see as a tiny treasure and one of the economy and i was really going to take you out this month. and that's how i make my living muhammad is on this dirty two years old and has been tearing apart this trash for ten years in a d.v.d. get goods what's with the school 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 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 eager buyers think they can turn a profit on the goods deli is fast becoming one of the biggest the waste dumping

sites in the world trash from developed countries comes here to india for 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 saying that they need a second hand computers because they've seen lives. or for you. wouldn't have been in the country but what the get in exchange for that is truly junk ravi agarwal is the director of toxics link a group dedicated to protecting migrant workers from the dangers of electronic waste and then the workers who bring will be putting stronger suits exposing them to all kinds of 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 just survive it. i know what they did is not good for me here nor their

source of income nor the job so i have to do something or they are all right that those with no choices are sometimes forced to accept preassure either r t new delhi india. you with r.t. live from moscow russia's finance minister has warned that high oil prices are not all positive for the country's economy but execution was speaking at a world bank session in washington but first he spoke to us here at r.t. as a preview of what you can watch in full next hour. you saw the thing is that whenever the preschool significantly over a short period of time russia gets a large and over head a little worse and that either causes inflation which again is in this raid into russia as 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 commodities of with domestic once this was the only domestic production which is there for such an inflow of goods or dollars could have a negative impact because there is. just

one in twenty minutes past the hour now here on ask are you with artsy russian scientists believe they could soon be peering through the looking glass to outer space is deepest secrets and precious telescope project has brought together the world's top minds and if all goes according to plan it will allow us to see galaxies far far away with amazing clarity. takes a closer look. it's been over a decade in the making but the most ambitious russian space project for years will soon move from science fiction to signs that a massive radio telescope promises to heal the mysteries of deep space. is the father of the project he says within a matter of months floating hundreds of kilometers from the earth it will be scanning the far corners of the universe. many people wonder as ours are planets the sun our galaxy we can't be alone out there the talk of parallel worlds

of time travel may sound like science fiction let's say we only know percent about the universe around us and we hope to be able to look beyond that. there are also known as we asked ron 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 sharper than that on america's hubble telescope store that bought the radio national expand the limits of human knowledge we might be standing on the threshold of a revolution with things like dark matter and black holes start to come observable . and the heart of the complex is a gigantic ten metre mirror there 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 launch pad and the next step is in space this law will open its twenty seven that those within

thirty minutes and will start its exploration piano and those who have been working on the project for more than twenty years can't wait to start getting results and the only things he's devoted a good part of his life to radio astro. initially the launch was planned the nine hundred ninety one the breakup of the soviet union put an end to those problems and brought by national difficulties the project was shelved so fifteen out of those almost thirty years. well lost in very now that it's been brought up to date everyone in the industry is holding their breath the emotions will let me tell you thank god we're back to quality space science and trucks would if it works out and with that all scientific world which is the mission good luck for all of mankind will benefit. over our tea skill so i don't let's check out some other headlines from around the world this hour and at least nine people killed out

of gaza as word after two suicide car bombs exploded in baghdad witnesses say both cars detonated as they were queuing to enter the heavily fortified green zone that's the heart of the capital of business and government violence in iraq has been increasing over the last year where the bombings once again and almost daily occurrence. to robots into the reactor buildings of the fukushima nuclear plant have found massive amounts of radiation barring any workers from entering the plants operate out also announced a new nine a month plan to stabilize the situation of housing to cover their reactors with h.r. noble like the sarcophagus the situation at the nuclear complex remains critical with radiation leaks and that difficult access hampering the progress. national 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 and violent writing has already begun in a number of regions jonathan became leader after the former muslim president guy. i know it was hours of business i think with dimitri dimitri so people have also been talking about it all day on his cross talk program about how the american economy is just a black hole and i hear you have a no good news are regarding that you know that's not because of the huge deficit that the u.s. economy is running the standard and poor's ratings agency has reduced its outlook downgraded from stable to negative while keeping the rating at triple a look at the reaction in just a few minutes of the markets of course but first the world's largest online marketplace has more than doubled its russian business which has been running less than a year russia together with canada currently biggest foreign operations its managing director says they've had hopes for further expansion. we see there's

a long long their trajectory i just don't see that long trajectory into the future that we believe that the russian market would go for us even if you are you desire russian translation side you can purchase from european or american sell us who shipped to russia and that part of the business is increasing with triple digits in from last year more than a hundred percent we are should have our i think in nine months to go so ten months ago so on now we see this over this period is a very tremendous start taking this problem so it's a very big kind of growth that we see of this market. before move to the stock market secular commodities oil prices are down that's the spice saudi arabia coming out on concerns the market is oversupplied crude is stabilizing not in presidential election night year round things feeling this is a very important oil exporter in africa brant is trading around one hundred twenty two dollars per barrel just below that by one cent a light sweet crude is still above our eight dollars

a barrel the price of gold has set a new record high now it's going up because stock markets are going down not inflation around the globe and concerns about u.s. debt of course prompting investors to look into something that holds value so gold and silver are a safe haven both of them seeing record my friends and. our rights to the stock markets now all of them that have taken the hits in the last actually half hour after ratings agency s. and p. cut the u.s. credit outlook to negative from stable still rates the country is aaa but knows that policymakers have failed to free and how to reduce the large deficit in europe without seeing the dax sharply down on the news one half and ships and especially banks are weaker as a ratings agency moody's actually downgrades irish banks of junk status and he says it remains concerned about doubles ability to push through a restructuring of its own best. here in russia also a dramatic turn into. the red deeper into the red i have to say that the audience

in my six are down more than two percent so good some of the stocks energy companies losing out on the low oil prices rose and down one percent but banks are the biggest losers as well bank declining cheap percent the saudis he said. the first quarter however has seen significant value added to russian stocks but that's mostly been driven by oil because we feel from where else it believes connel crude prices will give a boost to other sectors. 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 of which level the russian budget balances i think that would be sort of a good enough backdrop for the russia story and then we could start to see investors in branching out and your link gas plays in russia and looking for more domestic stories the sort of companies and sectors that benefit from higher fuel from the higher for longer oil revenues like 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 will benefit from the improving economy could expect to see then from the better budget in fiscal backdrop will be expected then but the good the second quarter is you know we come into the second quarter 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 the mystic stories and a calmer oil price there and then went global equity markets which will be positive for us. and russia and us throughout the group around five percent in march here and yes the lowest in fifteen knots and that's a positive about growth prospects are about russia's economics minister has increased and said no production forecasts from vice to four to five percent rather this year h.s.b.c. says the number of new orders is growing at the highest pace in three years and if action is leading the way and joining again in around one hour's time will be here with the latest scores for the markets and that reaction to the s. and p.

downgrade the outlook for u.s. economy. the book. living in a country that don't understand that there's more violence in the streets of this country than there are in the streets in afghanistan or baghdad. one night in desperation become a brace of. good vibes the bad .