suman hotels have various hotel jerusalem. the political cost of twentieth century imperialism french president sarkozy loses ground ahead of next year's election after his poll ratings following military forums in south africa. a major terrorist leader linked to deadly bombings in moscow is killed in southern russia are off to a routine police id check turns into a major flaw fight. and a dumping ground for the developed world electronic rubbish the poor in india resorted dismantling as of this junk as the only means of survival.

to national news from our studios in central moscow this is putting france of 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 a modern imperialist standards 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 would boost. its backfired 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 the pen of the head of the national front party she's expected to knock him out of next year's presidential elections as he wants pledge france will never again kill people in africa the pen told me he's broken that promise so that this won't be seen as

a pos colonial reaction by france by behaving like a well spliced man deciding who's bad and who's good the president's policies a myriad of former colleagues by an inflexible personal style takes finance minister. lift the ruling party this month admitting they called to work together to form a human rights minister runway yet they his quips to sarkozy let colonel gadhafi use france she said as a doormat to wipe blood off his feet while hosting him in paris now he's hunting the same man down so because he 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 to leave nicolas sarkozy with few friends just when he needs them it's become

a lonely life inside the presidential palace of mr sarkozy political opponents pulling apart is for policy even for what allies like nobody could be in power now talk of his serial. to fill pounds work with the president for over seventeen years the former premier fears libya is turning into another afghanistan a deep. the 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 france is facing criticism for what some see as intervention in the ivory coast the result is a presidency experts morte at home and abroad for his arrogance that sounds more like monarchical popular trail in both look pen and the socialists in his bid for

reelection in twenty twelve sarkozy looks unlikely to mellow it leaked memos from a voice as claimed his only chance of winning is to make his policies even more extreme valuable short see paris. in libya's western city of misrata rebels are struggling to lift a week long siege by gadhafi forces and the reports of a humanitarian crisis in the area the opposition forces say they have no chance of resisting without the help of nato air strikes on a base journalist afshin rattansi says there could be another player involved in the libyan crisis to. definitely china is part of this equation that worrying washington i'd say rather more than european union leaders definitely one only has to look at khartoum to see chinese investment in africa and get out he was one person who for all its privatization and later suddenly coming back to the western fold he still didn't like africa calmly american defense network in germany

regarding africa some people would say that china ironically has some some colliding ambitions as it were when it comes to libya because bahrain and saudi are currently in the throes of demonstrations not covered on western corporate media and ironically china needs a stable saudi arabia and bahrain for its own energy needs so u.s. interests and trainee's interests by one in the same to a degree that is why on the in this case abstained according to one national security agency advisor. donal and he said the reason we went into libya one factor was we had. no war could no longer be leader and it would look to iran as if we make threats that we don't follow through on a bizarre wager on foreign policy. still to come in the program seeking gifts

the financial crisis hits the younger generation hardest with graduates push the broader insearch of the job. russian spy in space science is prepared to invent an ambitious telescope project over ten years in the making and look deep into the cosmos than ever before. russian officials are confirmed one of the figureheads for islamic radicalism in southern russia a man widely known as amir her son has been killed in the same region security services have surrounded the building which is harboring unknown number of militants but there are reports of heavy gunfire at the moment ortiz congress's correspondent with caution over is following the latest developments. well everything happened on sunday night to cause a war stop there were checkpoints in dagestan but when the driver refused to open the car and opened fire the police fired back and out the four terrorists

including the emergency leader is that i believe believe john the were killed and these tires cleaned responsibility for a number of terrorist attacks not only but across the russian and north caucasus a value journal also known as. a was a 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. pointed to value john have to be very hard of terrorists in there to stand in a cold war twenty times and even other ways of a major anti terrorist operations is underway here in the north caucasus but still a d.n.a. test showed no evidence of. and these are 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 moscow dumb idea that airport terrorist attack this year and a number over moscow are natural born that happened last year but still after a number of anti terrorist operations that took place here in the north caucasus there is no clear information of where those might be. years eleven billion euro aid budget has come in for criticism some are questioning whether the money is finding its way to the right people especially as the president corrupt regimes are often among the beneficiaries well for more on this one are joined by david o'connell kind of a member of the european parliament and deputy leader of the euro skeptic the u.k. independence party thanks for joining us the book come on surely aid to poor countries is a good thing so can you shed a bit of light of warre that should be any questioning over this contribution from the e.u. to poorer countries. well i think we would agree with you that aid to poor countries is a good thing but our paltry two thirds of these actually goes to non poor countries

i mean the biggest recipient is turkey which is doing pretty well economically and a lot goes missing i mean some is going to terrorist groups like hamas in palestine and you've got incredible figures like in mali where job creation scheme is costing one point five million pounds each individual they actually find a job for so there's a huge amount of waste here but just how can you possibly monitor and ensure where that money goes once it's left the coffin is it's impossible isn't it to to make any judgments and to make sure it's going to the right place. well there has to be a system and through the system isn't working i think this report makes very clear but it's no surprise i mean from our point of view here you have the european union for sixteen years in a row they haven't signed off their own accounts because of auditor's you know so

much fraud in their cars they can't even sign the mavs so it's not a surprise that you know there's a allegations of private jets being bought by certain country leaders shortly after receiving this kind of the u.s. aid the whole thing is a mess it needs discipline i think it's better done by nation states but what about you though you're an m.e.p. i mean for example building dance teachers recruited to teach people in booking afonso. going off to do those sort of projects where people actually living off what lesson seventy p.r. day it's a question of priorities isn't it surely you should be making a big noise about this in the in the parliament there. well we certainly do we do follow these project tree issues very carefully but there's so many examples i'm afraid of you waste and inefficiency this is just one extra story in a whole series of them but it is a disgrace and we will be making a big stink about what about david cameron situation at the moment he's previously

come under fire for cuts and austerity measures. do you think though that really there is a call to say look charity begins at home why should we be helping out other countries when we're in a mess ourselves well this is right i mean we've got rid of our only aircraft carrier working aircraft carrier the ark royal with harrier jets on it which would be very useful in helping in libya we've got rid of it and the money that could be spent in our world is actually being wasted on yet more international aid or international aid budget for the u.k. arms or granddaughters the one which is a waste but that's gone up fifty percent and now cameron was in pakistan offering it yet more money for pakistani schools well there may be some merits of part of that but you know i think the british people are wondering what on earth is going on where money is being thrown away well it's through the e.u. or through the u.k. it needless internationally but nevertheless britain is still better off than many countries and it's was still one of the richest countries so there should still be

an obligation to help partner shouldn't. well look at the scale of debt you know one of every four pounds that we spend government spending in the u.k. it's had to be borrowed you know we don't want to end up like greece or portugal we saw recently spain's in trouble. you know we don't want to be going down that route and we do have to cut back but it shouldn't be the fence which is a very bad cars it should actually be looking at some of this aid i mean we're giving money to certain countries that have their own nuclear programs their own space programs like india and china you know the way we spend this money it should be going to poor countries and finally use trade policies are actually doing a lot of damage to those poor countries cannot quickly ask you another question you mentioned libya a little earlier your leader of the u.k. independence party mr ferrars he's been on in the last couple of days on r.t. since he's been on mr cameron's pledge to cut the number of immigrants entering the country now today we hear that he's agreeing to help over five thousand refugees from libya now is this actually a moral decision for the u.k.

or is it pressure from the e.u. . well i think the key point on immigration is because we're in the european union we have no control over certain types of immigration if it's within the e.u. there's no control if it's outside the e.u. there is some control we can institute these are but as you see is an extraordinary situation where the french are closing the border with this simply not allowing refugees through and is extraordinary but it just goes to the heart of the problem but you know the e.u. allows these many migrants to move around and you know we need a visa system we need to manage to control the numbers let's be humane yes but we need to control the numbers just briefly tell you supporting david cameron's call about addressing this issue and reducing the number of immigrants to britain do you agree with what he's doing now well if he was right to raise the issue but i'm afraid it well when the you we have no control over e.u. immigration and frankly like libyan refugees can be given passports by the

italians and sent away so it's not satisfactory we have to get out the you immigration is a good thing in many ways but we have to manage and control it for david cameron and i'm an m.e.p. and deputy leader of the u.k. independence party good to talk to you here on r.t. thanks for joining us. well 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 its debt the consequence is a drain of the nation's best brains heading abroad to find a future. there was a time when think reason philosophers flocked to greece that however is ancient history to graduation day i think when i think of us that in athens an exciting day for most of the students of course but the irony of the situation is that most of them will not be able to find a job in their home country that's a worrying trend brought about by the world's financial crisis which has lived deep scars on the greek economy. will grow.

migrate abroad from. other stories has two master's degrees in political science and history and an unfinished ph d. but his education seems to have a little here in greece. of some connections things like that going all the better for the public and the private sector. if you don't work very well and especially because of being educated abroad it's very lose the connection because it will be much easier for example there were abroad to come back and it's more difficult to build up the combinational it's up to stillness to spend three years in total looking for a job in this country that's aside from doing mandatory military service now he's thinking it's time to dust off his shoes and the rest i'm going to give the sods in england if it doesn't work out that we come back you know going down but. his

plight is shared by many thirty something greeks some like me hollis rely on their parents for help and for and to find a job in my favor. my job. sometimes i'm thinking of finding something else from something other way believe or something like that i'm very close but i resist i. put the lid of this financial crisis to assist despair may take over the entire country music 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 in mass never to the same here again incomes corteen athens greece. where for more news and

a feature stories you can log on to our website. don't call this a quick look at what's law not for you there right now on the outside at school examination with nothing to do with education russia introduces drug tests for people it's not to catch kids using drugs but to persuade them to stay away from them. also innovation in russian prison is health oriented inmates canel choose to serve their sentence in non smoking souls. and also you can share your own videos and you stories at r.t. dot com just click on the upload your video section and who knows maybe one day you'll see your pretty much on t.v. that's all available on r.t. dot com. the 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 want them it's countries like india that end up as the dumping ground. it's the sound of

americans not just hear the sound of the latest laptop or the newest now studies show that these days the useful lifespan of a computer is a week to year 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 voters is only going to tear out this man using we're going to avoid a government. that's how i make my living mohammad is on this thirty two years old and has been tearing apart this trash for ten years in a d.v.d. good goods world through peaceful hundred to five hundred split between friends as

i 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 fast becoming one of the biggest the waste jumping sites in the world trash from developed countries comes here to india or those with few options first the rival 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 feel that they need the second home computers because if the lives of the. but what they get in exchange

for that is fitting chuck robbie agarwal is the director of toxic slick a group dedicated to protecting migrant workers from the dangers of electronic waste and workers have ring of me putting strong suits exposing themselves and feel . it's a reality most of these workers you know all too well but for them it's a dirty job that at least for now gives them a means to survive i know what i do is not good for my heart nor the source of income nor the job so i have to do something or the horror that those with no choices are sometimes forced to accept preassure either r t new delhi india. time now for a brief look at some other news making headlines around the world stage of the video footage appears to show yemeni security forces violent crackdown on protesters in the capital sanaa witnesses say a row of police used live ammunition into a gas to disperse the street is calling for the president to step. in front of the

months of protests a group from the country's ruling party of new party in support of the opposition movement. the robot sent into the reactor buildings of the fukushima nuclear plant and felt massive amounts of radiation barring any workers from entering the plant operator also announce a new nine month plan to stabilize the situation proposing to cover the reactors with a chernobyl like sarcophagus situation at the nuclear complex remains critical with radiation leaks and difficult access progress. russian scientists believe they could soon be pairing through the looking glass to space is deepest secrets and vicious telescope project brought together the world's top boy and said it all goes to plan will allow galaxies fall out far away to be seen with amazing clarity. over takes a closer look. it's been over a decade in the making but the most ambitious russian space project we hear is.

from science fiction to signs that a massive radio telescope promises to review the mysteries of space doesn't it i wish 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 would you if you just saw it that many people would wonder is as a planet as the sun galaxy we can't be alone no good talk of parallel worlds of time travel may sound like science fiction paralyse we only know it was sent about the universe around us what with hope to be able to look beyond that. there are also known as radio astronomy will be the biggest telescope ever going into space together with its largest earthbound siblings it will create a network able to provide detailed images of the universe the resolution will be a thousand times sharper than that of america's hubble telescope bought the radio national and the limits of human knowledge we might be standing on the threshold of

a revolution with things like dark matter cold start to come. and the heart of the complex is a gigantic ten meter mirror there can only be seen when the telescope is open and it's almost ready to leave its home in moscow and travel to the launch in the next step is in space is what will open its twenty seven that's rules within thirty minutes and will start its exploration. and those who have been working on the project for more than twenty years can't wait to start getting results. and it really is he's devoted to the work of his life in radio astro. initially the interest from nine hundred ninety one from the brink 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 and now that it's been brought up to date everyone in the industry is holding their breath while the emotion as it

will let me tell you frank good we're back to quality speech science and lots of trucks would get words out and with that the whole scientific world which is the mission good luck. mankind will benefit. over r.t. . just turning twenty four minutes past the hour here in the russian capital i'll be back with a summary of our main news stories for in about six minutes from now the meantime the latest from the world of business we're mitri stay with us for that here in moscow. backspin all stock markets around the world are plunging after a sudden pause question of credit where something united states the rating agency has cut the outlook for the u.s. economy from stable to negative amid worries over the lack of political resolve to deal with the country's spiraling debts earlier i spoke to my not about anything else capital i asked him if he was surprised this was the first time since the

world war two the u.s. has had its outlook cut. he would have thought the. negative outlook or even a downgrade it would have happened a couple years ago with the inside banking crisis but simply taking a look at the situation in the us is going 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 credit downgrade and losing that coveted aaa status if the other ratings agencies or the three main all the ratings agencies out there are so used as well i think eighty of them will be so bold as to go out there and to downgrade the u.s. if you are less than aaa certainly not the moment if they do then you could see you go wider sell off going on the equity markets 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 likely to come out from the royal how much time does the

u.s. government have now to get to grips with its public finances. well. a year or so why it needs to start tackling its public finances the standard post comments from earlier on say he said roughly right about two years but then if we start to see the steamroller come into effect whereby you can see you 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 in nice talking. to investors do right now to be moved out completely out of stock. movements of gold and commodities very money into the ground what do you do. disease a sector that's seen a lot of the course of easing money flowing through anyway so if you're buying into commodities you could be buying a very high price already and 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 the other alternative out there is other than a producer old iniquities who look elsewhere could make now is how the markets are faring at the moment u.s. markets are down around one point three percent so big recovered slightly gap is down more than three percent african and sachs recommended something chest biggest clothing retailer u.s. air russia the markets also to complete the r.t.s. my sex ship four percent allergy companies were down madrid freezing oil prices and u.s. data rosneft is down three point subset of the close meanwhile banking and financial stocks were the main losers burbank there are more than five point two percent these are western ads on capital explains why russia's markets reacted so sharply.

that 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 few 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 retreats and therefore the dollar 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 dollar weakness but not significant. that's up from a business that's good for today john my colleague about eighty moscow time tomorrow morning bill thanks for having.

question is that so much as i can recall right on it comes on here today on the brink of bankruptcy time is running out for the american budget deficit failure to raise the debt ceiling would have catastrophic concert. wealthy british style. sometimes violent.