vigilant. in the leaves available in the islands resort and spa. in the. polls put in nicolas sarkozy's popularity rating at historic lows but critics say the president is taking france down the powerful than the realist with military interventions in libya and ivory coast. russian security services kill a high level tara target with links to deadly bomb attacks on moscow and a major shootout in the south of the country. india becomes the developed world's electronic dumping ground people in the poorer parts of the country risking their health by picking apart hazardous trucks. and the euro skeptic takes over things and nationalists strongly opposed to e.u.

bailout projects when a fifth of the country's parliament sits. on global stocks are taking a beating with a loss in stocks nosediving four percent just monday's session as s. and p. downgrades its outlook for the u.s. economy from stable to negative find out more in around twenty two minutes time. worldwide news live from moscow this is r.t. getting from the leading edge of western military action is turning into a political bomb the threatens to explode in the face of president nicolas sarkozy critics lining up to label him a modern imperialist. reports sarkozy's a prospects for a second term look shaky at best if nicolas sarkozy hoped intervening in libya and the oil for. he coast would boost his popularity is backfired he's now why 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 pledge france will never again kill people in africa and told me he's broken that promise so that this blog is seen as a pos colonial reaction by france by behaving like it well spell least men deciding who is bad and who's good the president's policies a mirror it had former colleagues by an inflexible personal style makes finance minister. lift the ruling party this month admitting they called to work together. a human rights minister remi yet they has quit too so as he let colonel gadhafi use

france he said as a tool mats to wipe the 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 man that man told r.t. the president doesn't know how to compromise. there's no place for twentieth century colonialism today 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 not only a political opponent of pulling apart is for policy given for why lies like nobody should be now talk of his period. to view 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 go out i think this is the listen that we did not treat from afghanistan in its global diplomacy it's the same problem. france is facing criticism for what some see as heavy handed intervention in the ivory coast the result is a presidency experts morte at home and abroad for his arrogance. warlike monarchical republic trailing both pain and the socialists in his bid for reelection in twenty twelve sarkozy looks unlikely to mellow leaked memos from a voice is clear he's willing is to make his policies even more extreme than you are to see paris. well meantime in libya rebels are struggling to regain control over the key eastern town of. which i has been the scene of much fierce fighting as a place they had previously been forced to flee following heavy shelling and sniper

fire from kidnapping troops fighting also continues in misrata the opposition's last major foothold in the west of the country government forces have been at length siege to the city for weeks and there are reports of a growing in military in crisis rebel leaders say they need more arms and ammunition to resist attacks journalist patrick henningsen 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. three goals or 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 are valued something. twenty

million 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 we took it on face value and said well this is going to help stability in the region but 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 variance of the last couple weeks is that it wasn't just about a no fly zone it's rootless really about the 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 trains will sit wait be patient and they'll make their move cordingley. and still to come here on the greeks seeking get the financial crisis hits the younger generation hardest with graduates pushed out and such a proper job. and the russians are in

a space scientist attacking one failed and ambitious time scale project over ten years in the making but 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. he's been linked to a series of terrorist attacks including last year's moscow metro bombings north caucuses correspondent. he is following the latest developments. well everything happened on sunday night to cause a war start at the checkpoint in dagestan but when the driver refused to open the car and opened fire the police fights back and out beyond for terrorists including the militant leader is that real value john of were killed and these terrorists think responsibility for a number of terrorist attacks not only in doggy style but across the russia's north

caucasus a very jonell also known as the new france run a was believed to be responsible for training women to become a suicide bombers or for future terrorist attacks across russia and the national committee says that russia's most wanted terrorist. appointed by the john have to be very hard of terrorists in there to stand in of twelve or twenty time and even other ways of a major anti terrorist operations is underway here in the north caucuses but still a d.n.a. test showed no evidence of rove and he's a not only on the list of russia's most wanted terrorist but he's also on the list of most wanted terrorists in the united states he claimed responsibility for most kodama did the airport terrorist attack in the sierra and a number over the moscow and natural bombings that happened last year but still

after a number of operations that took place here in of the north caucasus there is no clear information of where those who might have might be parties within a culture that feature stories just log on to our website article right now that's what they are going to have. a school examination with nothing to do with education pressure introduces drug tests for pupils people to catch them using drugs rather persuade them to stay away from. innovation in a rush and in the presence of health oriented inmates canal choose to serve their sentence in a smoking setting. i can also watch share your own videos and your stories with us here at r.t. just click on the upload your video section and i think you'll see some of your footage on.

there are a few gifts for the young graduates in a 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 spending abroad to find a future. there was a time when thinkers and philosophers sought 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 that brought a valid by the world financial crisis which has lived deep scars on the economy.

from every point of view. from. two masters degrees in political science and history in east peace to the present occasion seems to matter a little here in greece. some comics some things like that they're not doing as most of the job in the private sector. if you don't work very well in the space of those who have been educated abroad it's going to lose the connection because there will be here for example there were. they've gone by going in small beef they'll be dubbed the combinational it's very astutely spent three years in total looking for a job in his country that's aside from the tory military service and now he's thinking it's time to dust off his shoes and go i'm going to give you the sides in england if it doesn't come back you know. gumbo got. his point is shared by many thirty something greeks some like me colleagues rely on the

appearance for help. and to find my favor. sometimes i'm thinking of finding something in something or where there are. something like i'm very close but i resist. but if this financial crisis desist the spirit may take over the entire country nears this 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 seen here again if you can score team athens greece you are with r.t. now negotiating a possible financial bailout but political events in finland could sink their

chances nationalist party the true finns made major gains in the general election and is threatening to veto any e.u. loans to lisbon you have looked at from the finish and said here of international affairs says there's nothing unusual in the party starts. previous. economic crises in the early ninety's when finland mostly bailed itself out you know way to survive without support from the others and this is something which goes to the mentality of the people and nations should take care of the only 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 but there is also very trusting of course charity measures and the policies of those governments and the more and more popular these days so yes there are divisions there africa mentation to even the european union but i think that to come as

a surprise because the issues at stake are so huge and the amount of. 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. that later we compare the eurozone crisis with the situation in the united states how critical is america's public debt in our. germany and france increasingly looking shaky on development but just as a reference on the eurozone was there was a limit of three percent a budget deficit as a percentage of g.d.p. that is normally considered the maximum sustained let's leave you with us now at ten point eight percent clearly we have been warning we are beyond the point of no return. i know you can watch fifteen or twenty minutes time from now here and say well the

appetite for hungry u.s. consumer is being fed by a steady supply of goods from developing nations those items often make the very same return journey because when americans are no longer than 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 newest 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 books is really going to tear out this money.

but that's how i mean by living muhammad is honest thirty 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 either buyers think they can turn a profit on the goods deli espouse 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 first arrive all hope to cash in on this job and even

though it's illegal under the paddle convention to ship hazardous material to india companies define the junk as second hand goods or mixed models to customs officials to get away with it many countries seen that they need to second hand computers because. of. of what it could be in the country but what they get in exchange for that is fairly chuck robb agarwal is the director of toxic select a group dedicated to protecting migrant workers from the dangers of electronic waste in delhi workers having a very putting started as it's exporting. nation has it it's a reality of 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 here is not good for me here. nor the job so hard to do something with the horror that those with no choices are sometimes forced to accept preassure either r t new delhi india. 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 i was speaking at a world bank session in washington but he spoke with us first it's a preview of what you can watch in full next hour. as a couple through the thing is that whenever the police grow significantly over a short period of time russia gets a large improve at all hours and that either causes inflation which again hinders investment into russia as inflation causes the interest rates to go up or leads to the stripping of the ruble a stronger ruble leads to performance and increased import volumes and makes imports cheaper that's making the imported goods competitive was a mistake once this was the only domestic production rates there for such an influential dollars could have a negative impact on. the

russian scientists believe they could soon be peering through the looking glass through the outer spaces deepest secrets and ambitious telescope project as proto gather the world's top miles and if all goes to plan it will allow galaxies far far away to be seen 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 also moved from science fiction to size fact 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 four corners of the universe. to do just that many people wonder as ours are planets the sun our galaxy we can't be alone out there to talk of parallel worlds of time travel may sound like science fiction and they say we only know percent about the universe surrounding us but we hope to be able to look beyond that space

there are also known as radio astra 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 director lucian will be a thousand times shot but then that america's hubble telescope or 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 and cold start to become 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 launch pad in the kazakhs is in space this law will open its twenty seven 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

their first results and do a leap years he's devoted a good part of his life to radio astro. initially the low interest plan for 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. well lost in very now that it's been brought up to date everyone in the industry is holding their breath with the emotions and it will let me tell you frank gold with acting quality space science and lots of trucks would get it works out and with that the whole scientific move which is the mission good luck hope for all of mankind will benefit me. r.t. . i cannot as i look at some other headlines from around the world this hour at least nine killed dozens wounded after two suicide car bombs exploded in baghdad witnesses say both cars detonated as they were queuing to enter the heavily

fortified green zone in the heart of the capital's business and government parlance in iraq has been increasing over the last year with bombings once again and almost daily occurrence. two robots sent into the reactor buildings at the fukushima nuclear plant have found 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 cover their reactors with a child mobile like sarcophagus situation at the nuclear complex remains critical of the radiation leaks and difficult access hampering the progress. possible the 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 population a nation on the brink almost half of the country's population is muslim rioting has already begun in a number of regions johnson became leader after the former muslim the president.

and time now for those i was a business update with. and then welcome to business i think stock markets around the world are plunging after is that a pause question that. creditworthiness of the united states ratings agency has cut the outlook for the u.s. economy from stable to negative and one worries the lack of political resolve to deal with country's spiraling debt earlier spoken when i was led from iti x. capital i asked him if he was surprised this was the first time the u.s. had had its outlook. he would have thought that if you saw a negative outlook or even a downgrade it would have happened a couple years ago with the entire banking crisis but simply taking the. situation in the u.s. is looking around about sixteen trillion dollars they said well you know this is pretty unsustainable you something needs to be done about this and you need something needs to be done fairly soon as well otherwise you know it runs the risk

of a severe downgrade and losing that coveted aaa status if the other ratings agencies or the three main other ratings agencies out there all for us uses well i don't think any of them will be so bold as to go out there and to downgrade the u.s. to anything less than aaa certainly not the moment if they do then you could see a bigger wider set of going on in the equity markets and in the commodity markets as well because we see where the money has gone into certainly from forms of easy to see where the money is what has come out from the rubble how much time does the u.s. government have now to get to grips with its public finances. well. a year or so. he needs to start tackling it's probably finance easier than imports comments from earlier on say he said roughly around about two years but then we start to see this steamroller come into effect whereby more and more credit agencies start to revise their outlook negatively as well that's going to have

a weakening effect on the u.s. economy anyway so you need to tackle the situation in east anglia so what do investors do right now to move out completely out of stocks. move into gold and commodities very money into the ground what do you do. not to seize a sector that see a lot of easy money flow into it anyway so if you're buying into commodities you could be buying a very high priced already certainly stocks as well. what would be advisable is to look at aging tactics that are possibly your long. assets that are. a lot more safe in the car environment of the world crude oil is a fantastic one although it has had a very good run black gold is proving to be of some value and could be some store of value going forward as well so although also the mass is other than it was the producer holding the legacies to look elsewhere for a second look at the state of the markets right now and u.s.

stocks up almost two percent after the downgrade the gap is over three percent woman sykes recommended selling shares in the u.s. biggest clothing retailer. and you're of the view on the back so sharply on the news thanks us suffering and double whammy as rating agency moody's downgraded irish banks to junk status moody's says the remains concerned about government's ability to push through a restructuring of the soviets here in russia the markets took a beating to be obvious in my six losing around four percent second some of the stocks energy companies were down in the briefing more oil prices and u.s. data rosner have to three point six percent in the red this hour meanwhile banking and financial stocks are the main losers with burbank more than five percent d.t.d. more than three percent peter weston ads on capital claims why russia's markets reacted so negatively disappears into nothing. the rather negative event russia tends to react to more than other markets even sometimes when it's not justified.

nevertheless this is something which is going to resonate in the market probably for a couple of days until we see what the u.s. political response is going to be in terms of the impact given that russia russia's exposure to trade with the u.s. is very very limited where we are exposed to is through commodity prices which for a feeding through through the exchange rates and therefore the total movement will be quite important for the russian economy so for today following the announcement from a some p. we've seen some reaction of the weakness but not significant. finally let's look at commodities oil prices are also in the news on the u.s. economy brant is trading around one hundred twenty one dollars per barrel light sweet already one hundred six dollars a barrel price of gold however has been setting new record highs take a look at that ford c. one hundred ninety two dollars seventy eight cents that's yet another record high

above the percent so it was also close to record highs forty two point seven this is as investors are looking to put their money into something which holds the value of hard times on the stock markets. and we will be back in less than one hour's time with an update of the latest business news results we had by saying stay with us. culture is that so much time in which are called on it comes again to the brink of

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