the political cost of twentieth century imperialism french president sarkozy loses ground ahead of next year's election after his poll ratings following military thorazine to africa. a major terrorist leader linked to the deadly moscow bombings is killed in southern russia after a routine police id turns into a major firefight. and the dumping grounds of the developed world electronic rubbish in india it's all true dismantling has of his junk as the only means of survival.

international news live from our studios here in central moscow this is he putting france of the leading edge of western military action is turning into a political bomb threatens to explode in the face of president nicolas sarkozy critics are lining up to label him a modern imperialist daniel bushell reports sarkozy's prospects for a second term look shaky at best. if nicolas sarkozy hoped intervening in libya and the oil every coast. 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 in

the pen told me he's broken that promise so that this decision as a past colonial reaction by france where behaving like a well it's beliefs and 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 ram a yes they has quit to sarkozy let's colonel give that we 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 direct man that man told r.t. the president doesn't 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 mr sarkozy will tell you a political opponent of pulling apart is for policy even for what allies like nobody could be the talk of his period. to build pounds work with the president for over seventeen years the former premier fears libya turning into another afghanistan a deeply. 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 treat from afghanistan in its global diplomacy it's the same problem unlist warned france is facing criticism for what some see as heavy handed intervention in the ivory coast the result is a president say experts mort at home and abroad for his arrogance personals

monarchical republic trailing both look pain and the socialists in his bid for reelection in twenty twelve sarkozy looks unlikely to mellow leaked memos from advisors claim his only chance of winning is to make his policies even more extreme than a bushel r.t. paris. in libya rebels are struggling to regain control over the key eastern town of ajdabiya which has been the scene of much fierce fighting they had previously been forced to flee following heavy shelling and sniper fire from get that the 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 the journalist patrick henningsen based in london says the repercussions of an unstable libya striking much further east on the way to china.

because of intervention. stated intervention by the un in nato. are very different than what was drawn up in resolution one thousand and seventy three the goal is a regime change. also the goals of the control of resources in the region and the vix 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 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 by having a no fly zone and hopefully things will calm down and we can get back to business as usual obviously we know from events of the last couple weeks 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 users 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. well still to come on the program here for you on r.t.e. greeks seeking gifts the financial says it's the younger generation hardest graduates pushed abroad in search of a proper job. and russia's in space scientists prepared on bell an ambitious telescope project over ten years in the making that would look deeper into the cosmos than ever before. a story still to come but first 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 artie's north caucasus correspondent dina question of is following the latest developments

for us. well everything happened on sunday night two cars were stopped at the checkpoint in denver stand 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 you'll believe john love were killed and these terrorists think responsibility for number of terrorist attacks not only duggie style but across the russia's north caucasus john the also known as the new france fun was believed to be responsible for training women to become suicide bombers or for future terrorist attacks across russia and the national committee says that russia's most wanted terrorist. appointed to value john up to be very hard of terrorists in dagestan in october twenty times indeed another wave of

a major terrorist operations is underway here in the north caucasus but still a d.n.a. test showed no evidence of a mile off 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 go dumb idea there were airport terrorist attack this year and a number over moscow and natural glomming that happened last year but still after a number of anti terrorist operations that took place here in of the north caucasus there is no clear information of where those who might have might be. more news and feature stories you can log on to our web site is r t dot com here's a look at what's lined up for you right now a school examination with nothing to do with education russia introduces drug tests for pupils not to catch kids using drugs but to persuade them to stay away from them. innovation in russian prison inmates canel choose to serve their

sentence in a non smoking cell. you can also share your own a pretty new stores that are to you don't call them just click on the upload your video section and maybe one day you'll see your put it on the t.v. . there are a few gifts for the young graduates in post-crisis greece the government is so deep in the red it's being forced to restructure the whole country not just instead the consequence is a drain of the nation's best brains having 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 in all its interest in athens an exciting day for

most of the students of course but the irony of the situation is that most of them will mall be able to find a job in their home country that's a worrying trend brought about by the world's financial crisis which has left deep scars on the greek economy it will be required to look young and really were we. were prepared to migrate abroad from everybody who would be us who could have sort of an upper stories has two master's degrees in political science and history and an unfinished ph d. but his education seems to matter a little here in greece. some connections some things like that you know that it's better for the public sector and the private sector. if you don't work very well and especially those being educated abroad it's very lose the connection because it will be much easier for john will never broadly come back and it's more difficult to build up the combinational it's up to students to spend 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 goldust i'm going to give the sods in england if it doesn't work out that will come back you know he's going down but. his point is shared by many thirtysomething greeks some like me hollis rely on their parents for help i'm trying to find a job in my favor. sometimes i'm saving or finding something else and something as a way or believe or something like that i'm very close but i resist i'm not. with the butt of this financial crisis to see. despair he called for the entire country of 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 work force me leave the country en masse never to be seen here again it was quite. greece france's decision to block a train carrying north african immigrants from italy has been criticized as illegitimate by rome but backed by the european commission france rejected around two thousand tunisians who've been given six month resident permits by italy immigrants able to financially support themselves will be allowed across french borders waffle on this i'm not your guy for principle scenary he's head of the research unit on foreign policy and he used it at the danish institute for international studies thanks for joining us there in denmark well as we just heard the e.u. commission says that france was within its rights based on technical and legal reasons but do you think that france in the right way. well i mean the paradox of this situation in a way if you like the tragedy of it is that in

a way both in salute and in france are right in this i mean france of course is backed up by the commission and you may have some reason to believe that evolution is a bit self-serving in this decision meaning that for domestic purposes we'd like to somehow let these immigrants move while on the other hand you can also argue that d'italia nse have a point when arguing that there must be some european solidarity in a situation of. stream circumstance circumstances like the ones we are we are witnessing now so in a way the paradox is that both are really right now one of france's position though it's playing a leading part in the libyan conflict at the moment saying it supports the people there but when it comes to taking in refugees from troubled areas in north africa it seems have a very different point of view i mean why do you think it does though have this

contradiction in policy. i mean clearly the issue of immigration is a very sensitive matter for most western european countries and of course supporting the revolutions in north africa is a diplomatic move which as you probably remember was also rather delayed in terms of the response that france was able to give but it's nevertheless something that remains at the level of diplomacy immigration is something that touches deeply into the domestic context of these countries a domestic context i mean i may recall where far right parties pally an extremely. visible role and this applies both to france and so in both cases the governments are under pressure to deliver something partly you're talking there about immigration policy we're seeing a refugee crisis here isn't that

a different issue altogether where a country has to deal with an influx of thousands of refugees in one go whereas integration policy is something different is no. i mean this is a situation which in many ways is unforeseen. prime minister berlusconi has spoken a few days ago about some twenty five thousand people arriving only on the island of lampedusa in south for me to leave so we are talking about a situation a very. different proportions from the ones that we experienced in the past and i might also add that in philly and france have been cooperating especially when it comes to patrolling the seaboard. but clearly here it becomes a very sensitive political matter ok you should put weight on the fact that these are indeed refugees and that italy is delivering back what they call humanitarian permits the french that say well we don't really know where this is going to end so we have to take some measures sort of rather than later i've been reading on one of

your articles and you may make a reference saying that europe is living in a fairytale world here i actually employ and that all these problems we're seeing in north africa are as a result of europe's policies is it europe as well here. well i mean clearly europe cannot be blamed for governments in north africa being corporate tyrion and close to corrupt so it's not of europe's fault you can argue a god that's that the european policy has been quite complacent in this sphere may i recall here that of course the italian government was very key to negotiating with the gadhafi regime a rather controversial deal precisely gratian allowing the libyan government to do so called forced repatriation of nigerians leaving from libya towards italy and of course now you are in a situation whereby both italy and from belgium out of france are supporting the rebels in libya and they were basically making these vital deals on including.

the government that they no longer support we just we've got to stop it just very briefly could we see europe in disarray we've got different messages now from david cameron in the u.k. different messages from france over immigration policy could there be division and you just briefly sure i mean this is an issue that is gonna play increasingly strongly in the european political arena so i do expect divisions among member states because all of these governments will have to be reelected and immigration is going to. head of the research unit on foreign policy a new study institute for international studies thanks so much for giving us your view there and i think thank you. the appetite of the other hungry u.s. consumers being fed by a steady supply of goods from developing nations those items often make the very same return journey because when americans no longer want them it's countries like india that end up with a dumping ground. it's the sound americans love to hear the

sound of the latest laptop or the new was snapped 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 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 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 book is really good spirits and. that's how i make my living mohamed is on this thirty two years old and has been tearing apart this trash for ten years in a d.v.d. good good works with these four hundred to five hundred split between friends and

can sell the raw materials and make about a dollar a day unlike regular trash that can simply be tossed away in many developed countries including parts of the 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 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 as second hand goods or mixed metals to customs officials to get away with it many countries mean that they need the second home computers because of single. of quitting could go vision in the country but what they get in

exchange for that is really chuck robb the outer wall is the director of toxics link a group dedicated to protecting migrant workers from the dangers of electronic waste and barely workers have been putting strong suits exposing them to all. it's a reality most of these workers know all too well but it's a dirty job but at least for now gives them a means to survive i know it's not good for my heart nor the source of income nor the george will have to do something with the horror that those with no choices are sometimes forced to accept preassure either r t new delhi india. russian scientists believe they could soon be peer in through the looking glass to alter spaces deepest secrets and then pushes telescope projects to give the world's top minds and if all goes to plan willow galaxies fall far away to be seen with amazing clarity but is not a pushover takes a closer look. it's been over

a decade in the making but the most ambitious russian space project for you is also a move from science fiction to signs that a massive radio telescope promises to review the mysteries of deep space. is the father of the project he says within a matter of months hundreds of kilometers from the earth it will be scanning the far corners of the universe where you get a story that many people wonder as ours are and it's the sun our galaxy we can't be alone out there and talk of parallel worlds of time travel may sound like science fiction let's say we only know percent about the universe surrounding us and we hope to be able to look beyond that. are also known as radio asked john will be the biggest telescope ever launched into space together with its largest earthbound siblings it will create a network able to provide a detailed images of the universe the resolution will be

a thousand times shot but then that america's hobbled telescope over radio national expand the limits of human knowledge we might be standing on the threshold of a revolution with things like dark matter i'm black holes start to come observable . at 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 next step is in space with 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 results and a truly feels his devoted and with more in his life to radio astro. initially the interest plan for nine hundred ninety one the breakup of the soviet union put an end to those plans and brought by national difficulties the project was shelved so

fifteen out of those almost thirty years were lost in vain now that it's been brought up to date everyone in the industry is holding their breath the emotions will let me tell you thank god we're back to quality space science and let's trucks 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. r.t. . pretty three minutes past the hour when russian capital i'll be back with the main news stories in seven minutes from now meantime we've got the latest from the world of business with dimitri. has around the world a plunging after standing force question the credit worthiness of the united states the ratings agency has cut the outlook for the u.s. economy from stable to negative and worries over the lack of political resolve to deal with countries that i spoke with and i was like well from the capital i asked

him if he was surprised this was the first time since one thousand nine hundred forty one the u.s. sat it out but cut. he would've thought the. negative outlook or even a downgrade would have happened a couple years ago with the entire banking crisis but simply taking a look at the situation in the us 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 severe downgrade and losing that coveted aaa status if the other ratings agencies or the three main all the ratings agencies out there all follow suit as well i don't think any of them will be so bold as to go out there and to downgrade the u.s. if you're less than aaa certainly not the moment but if they do then you could see a big a wider set of going on in the equity markets and in the commodity markets as well because this is where the money has gone into certainly from points of easing and

this is where the money is like it's come out from the rubble how much time does the u.s. government have now to get to grips with its public finances. well i would say a year or so. he needs to start tackling its public finances the standard course comments from earlier on say he said roughly right about two years but then if we start to see this the roller come into effect whereby more 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 we need to tackle this situation we need to do so all right what do investors do right now do they move out completely out of stocks and move into gold and commodities very money into the ground what do you. welcome or diseases sector that see a lot of the homes to be easing money flow into 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 go along. assets that are. a lot more safe in the current 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 other alternative ass's other than produce a whole new democracies to look elsewhere. so given the markets and now u.s. markets were around two percent after the downgrade one point six one point seven right now is that over three percent after goldman sachs recommended selling shares in u.s. biggest clothing retailer in europe the monday session is over the fortune of dax declining two percent on the s. and p. downgrade for the united states look banks are suffering a double whammy as ratings agency moody's downgrades irish banks to junk status and moody's says it remains concerned about dublin's ability to push through

a restructuring of its own back here in russia the markets took a beating reality is my sending more for around four percent in monday's session second some individual shares energy companies were down in the freezing while prices the u.s. data was three point seven percent the tb and burbank financial stocks were the main news as they were down three point two and five point two percent respectively peter weston adds on capital explains why russia is not as reacted so negatively. we have a negative event russia tends to react here 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 really quick where we are exposed to these through commodity prices which are of feeding through through the actually treats and therefore the dollar of movement will be quite important for the russian economy so far today following the

announcement from us and we we've seen some reaction of dollar weakness but not significant. i mean look at commodities oil prices are also down with news of u.s. economy brant is trading at around one hundred twenty one dollars about light sweet one hundred and six and a half price of gold i was sitting in new records of fourteen hundred ninety one dollars but inflation around the globe and concerns about us that are prompting investors to lock into something that holds that silver was also seeing highs it's down like that. and we will be back at around fifty five with an update. to the.

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