stepping over the line in libya a french official calls for ground troops but sarkozy's biggest battle is convincing his own people. live and let die a critically ill russian conflict the east enders a lot but officials are adamant they say it's not an option. veterans in georgia say they've been abandoned by the country they fought for many on able to afford basic necessities using them struggling to survive on charity. you know recently stocks took it back to one of the biggest credit rating agencies downgraded the u.s. his credit stated a lack of faith in the country to address the budget deficit by five goes on join

business can see in about ten when. you're watching our t.v. broadcasting live from the heart of the russian capital welcome to the program there's the clearest indication yet that foreign forces are eager to get the ground troops in libya even though it's expressly forbidden by the un resolution france's foreign affairs chairman is warning the town painful corner that without boots on the ground the french public unconvinced even president sarkozy fighting a new front back home. france is now fighting in three wars the first four states to go into libya the last just falls in ivory coast civil war and it's just sent more troops to afghanistan but what's the french media and this

is what you get the americans are responsible for the rising civilian death toll and there's no mention of the french contingency the locals welcomed their western liberators with open arms. we're being for propaganda good relations to the truth we're told their community is behind us but france just wants africa's resources. this reporter explains how the french government dictates national coverage you will of. our editorial line on foreign policy or you will not be invited or included to come back and ask questions or press conferences and we will not be cooperative with you when you seek interviews but if you turn to the internet the view of president sarkozy's policies a much more critical french people are growing increasingly worried about their country being labeled as imperialist with little record for its victims opposition

to the war centers on the rising number of casualties and the damage it does to france's reputation activists say france's media coverage is one sided but the real story will eventually get through after almost a decade of war in afghanistan news of the dozens of french soldiers and tells of civilians killed is finally hitting home war in afghanistan is unpopular. although the media treated. quite positive. the invasion of iraq the biggest and she will rallies in history now experts say libya could become sarkozy's iraq and disappoints government's efforts the truth on france's current wars is also coming out the new bushell r.t. paris. libya's western city of misrata nearly a thousand people have been evacuated to the rebel stronghold of benghazi the

opposition is struggling to lift their weeks long siege like dolphins saying they have no chance of resisting help me right journalists are. also in the area of china is part of this equation that worrying washington i'd say rather. than union leaders but definitely one and we have to look at khartoum to see chinese investment in africa and get out he was one person who for all is privatization and later suddenly coming back to the western fold he still didn't like africa only 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 trainees interests are one in the same to a degree according to one national security agency advisor dawn when he said the reason we went into libya one factor was we had to get out of it could no longer be leader and it would look to iran is if we make threats that we don't follow through on. also ahead for you this out of course is that behind the uprisings which is the u.s. state funded organizations sponsored revolts in the arab world we hear why there's no cash to fund changing here. and keeping a tab on european aid traps along sends billions of rewards but there are claims that instead of beating privacy it's popping up cruel and humans.

i live in a country that don't understand that there's more violence in the streets of this country than there are in the streets a letter sent to baghdad. want to discourage the liberation. movement from. crowd gathers the real. street with.

a terminally ill russian prisoner is pleading for the rights to die but to save another human skin his condition is critical that in college at the treatment he desperately needs while in jail he's already been told euthanasia is not an option because it's bad when russia teens reformation or husbands meeting. canady spotify he's dying and he's sitting dependent static he's not sixty canaries in ten months now only explained he can hardly distinguish objects in the backyard of the child right he's sitting functions from narrative his gangrenous legs harriet's and up his full cross he won't need crosstrees much no longer. imago read your post in the. they're putting the blame if i did. it's the one. i despise your work if former soldier and war veteran

cannot do you no longer has the energy to find a life when instead he supposedly fighting for traffic. and that is health has not always been so bad he deteriorated rapidly after he was put behind bars in two thousand and seven he was sentenced to eighteen years in prison in early needs specialized treatment and care something he just cannot get here. for to be sure. your bill sure vehicle but the bigger portion of the. what cannot is calling for a doctor to help him die is officially forbidden and it's not popular in russia especially. when i starting who could kill he could facilitate suicide nobody even the mysel a few major supporters what ever said that they would do it themselves or they

would become murderers if they did as we ordered from the point of view of russian legislation willfulness with a view of international law if it means the new phonies here be justified also. there is a huge debate on whether terminal patients have a right to and their own life to skate chronic pain goes against euthanasia and they have the majority claim on other things that even hopeless cases can sometimes be erected. but a voice from behind bars when miracles rarely happen they change the facts are you sure your children were well born if they know that the rest of their lives will be suffering was the reason to prevent them from doing that and especially those sentenced to life in prison i got many letters from these people that ask for death as life becomes unbearable conditions they are awful so why not a war. a store of those a labor of euthanasia has been

a hard decision and it won't be without its victims on the other side of the prison bars. no i will not allow him to die i will not. cannot his mother can understand what's her son to sick that she country can silence out with the reality of that decision that. if you dies i'll die with him what would i leave for all who fall because. he is still alive but is waiting wishing for death but it's natural all ask. me for two central russia. he use eleven billion euro aid budget has come in for some a shot criticism of waste and accusations that it's helping to buy private jets to tyrants of corrupt regimes your m.p. david campbell bannerman says the e.u. can't control its own budget let alone that money it sends abroad. clearly the

system isn't working i think this report makes very clear but there is no surprise i mean from our point of view here you have the european union for sixteen years in a row they haven't off their own accounts there because of auditor's you know so much fraud in their cars they can't even sign them off so it's not a surprise that you know there's a allegations of private jets being bought by certain country leaders surely that after receiving this kind of the u.s. aid the whole thing is a mess it needs discipline and i think it's better done by nation states but our two thirds of this 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 sam is going through terrorist groups like hamas in palestine and you've got incredible figures like him are they where job creation scheme is costing one point five million pounds for each individual they actually

find a job for a third there's a huge amount of waste here. of course there are plenty more reports blogs and analysis just a click away at r.t. dot com it's a taste of some of the stories there like a former u.s. marine accused of you from the inside of the real effect of americans fighting thrown on planes you can watch cartoons and shouted from the court and shout from the steps of capitol hill. and they've got their trunks packed and coming back a pair of elephants for must make their spanish holiday permanent and watch this story r.t. dot com and get access to all our best put it on our you cheap shot. if you.

the official on the application. you called touch from the. geology. the. mine. and streets are now in the palm of your. dog's collar. if you're prepared to die for your country the last thing you would expect to see a country turned its back on the like the many veterans in georgia all the thanks they get is an income of just fifteen dollars a month and this country never server reports when the soldiers tried to protest they felt the full force of the war. there are memorials like these all over the

world set up to honor all those who fought for their countries a sign of respect and remembrance but many of the veterans here in georgia feel that they have been completely forgotten captain and sons are went through the war now has in the one nine hundred ninety s. and decorated officer he now has to survive just fifteen dollars a month. because i don't get a pension now and i won't until i'm sixty five what will i live to see that money we used to have some sort of support the hospital the free treatment social benefits but big old got taken away in two thousand and five and i got fired in two thousand and three with no explanation whatsoever and lives in a house that he claims isn't fit to live in yet to send his family away and provide them with food. my house has no gas no running water i can't pay for any of it i can't get

a job the only reason i'm still alive is because of my friends i live in what they can. and their leader is not alone is like more and more veterans in georgia feel the lack of support from their government when they try to draw attention to it by calling a hunger strike they were simply. some or even arrested according to officials for refusing to comply with police orders and being under the influence of alcohol who caused the most outrage among staff veterans and the international media was the fact those detained got slapped with a two hundred twenty five dollar fine not one of them has that kind of money. for the police came of break up our protest the president drove by he stopped lowered his window looked at us one hour later we were pushed out of the way like we were nothing but a dozen n.g.o.s and human rights groups demanded an official investigation into the actions of the police and that arinze who have already sacrificed so much for the.

it largely ignores them are being drawn into this war as well i don't. care to know that about r t b c two and. it's a match that u.s. involvement in the recent arab uprisings runs deeper than previously thought and the york times reports that government funded organizations coached and activists campaigning and using new technologies even as american cash poured into egypt and bahrain their money was unaccounted for the teams continue to explain the significance if anybody had any doubt about the united states meddling interference or guidance of their uprising their wages revelations about the united states sponsored n.g.o.s has been speculation as to rest really a disclosure about freedom house democratic and republican institutes in fact it was financed by the united state department and u.s.

congress to this carefully leaked media report these two believed the only country was so elaborate wait a minute it was only be a mission from this carefully report triggers a very counter-intuitive question if for any peaceful uprising to be successful in the muslim and arab world it better be paid guided ordinated by the united states otherwise if it is not american left then their peaceful uprising can turn into a violent one like it happened in libya to be successful and nonviolent you'd better make sure that your political opposition carefully selected your and trained financed and guided by states. russian security

forces have reportedly killed a terrorist suspect related to one of the moscow metro suicide bombers for militants have been killed in a large scale terror operation russia's southern republican guard start one of the figureheads for islamic radicalism in the region and the widely known as there are some others among the dead but in a culture or false. to cause a war start with a checkpoint in dagestan but when the driver refused to open the car and opened fire the police five and out beyond four terrorists including the militant leader is that i believe john the were killed and these terrorists think responsibility for a number of terrorist attacks not only in douglas style but across the russia's north caucasus a value john of also known as the new first fun of was a believed to be responsible for training women to become suicide bombers or for

future terrorist attacks across russia and the national antiterrorist committee says that russia's most wanted terrorist. pointed to value john have to be very hard of terrorists in dagestan in october twenty times and even other ways all of a major anti terrorist operations is underway here in the north caucasus but still the d.n.a. tests show. and he's a not only on the list of russia's most wanted terrorist but he's also on a bill is the most wanted terrorist in the united states he claimed responsibility for moscow dumb idea the airport terrorist attack of the seattle and moscow and natural born names 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. golf courses

has been the main it terrorist hard for with texting carry out missions but the head of the church a republican explain to us me what it is destroyed some of them from the regions joining straightest. do something to lower the distance. who was to become a suicide bomber to sacrifice his life i asked why. he wanted to do it or he didn't understand me i told him yes lamas encourage the chechen republic are you not allowed to build mosques or to take the hard shell what are you banned from wearing the hijab or exerting the soldier for you know why do you come out and say i fight in the name of allah we are all muslims everything we do is for the good of muslim people and all religion there where i am an abiding muslim myself i live by the laws of islam which is what is happening between us that you didn't answer me or you know most of the people who chose to become suicide bombers are mentally retarded they are ill usually blind or deaf they find these people completely

disconnected from the outside world and use them that's the cause of what is happening in our republic the caucasus russia and all over the world media. in fact you can. have a nazis full interview with the chechen leader in our next hour here not. look around the world now at some other international news this hour. nigeria's president. of the fighting spirit following his reelection as leader good luck jonathan took more than fifty percent of the vote in what's been considered largely their problem but brought in broke out in the growth of positions the red cross says many people have been killed in the corruption is that europe is divided between a christian dominated ceral from a predominantly muslim north. pro-government forces have thought of hundreds of protesters in the syrian city of homs refusing to leave the main square into the president steps down reports say the tear gas has been used soldiers had

earlier thought on crowds who had gathered for the funerals of people killed in the city on sunday human rights campaigners say two hundred people were killed and thirty dollars to protest began. pupils at an elementary school in brazil have returned to classes there are still a fortnight after a gunman killed twelve people the principal says the first few days will involve counseling and cuticle activities all of those killed were between ten and thirteen years old the murder was a twenty three year old former pupil who shot himself got release. cubans are being allowed to buy and sell homes for the first time since the communist revolution not in fifty nine until now our people were only allowed one day with their children to exchange them a complicated process was announced to the first christmas party congress for fourteen years to try and boost the island's struck the community. up next all the

latest business news with you there because of the short break stay with us. hello and welcome to business santee thanks for joining its stock market sort of wild white selloff on monday after one of the big rating agencies question bigger ited states credit staters standard and poor's cut them america's economic outlook from stable to negative and war is that there is no political will to tackle the country is planning to its overnight the dow jones ended over one percent down on she's marrying a porsche nine hundred story new. here in midtown manhattan is possibly the best

view of america's ugliest economic state right there is the u.s. debt clock ticking away above fourteen point five trillion dollars and that is the reason why leading credit agency standard and poor's has downgraded america's government debt from stable to negative the first time since world war two the u.s. long term credit outlook has been downgraded to negative now all of this is happening because us and he says they are concerned over the u.s. government's ability to agree on a cause consolidated plan to reduce the u.s. budget deficit now of course this speaks to the landscape of american politics these days where policymakers lawmakers democrats and republicans are butting heads over every issue regarding finances now all parties agree that the u.s.

is spending too much money they just can't agree on where to cut their spending from now we've seen in europe how austerity measures have been put in place social programs have been caught have been increased but here in the u.s. the republicans refuse to take such measures that the democrats so far don't seem strong enough to push through those measures now this debt as it is rising markets continue to be concerned if they remain concerned if that concern gets even deeper there's a chance that the u.s. dollar can lose its value which would pursue protégé another financial collapse in the u.s. and possibly that could spread throughout the world reporting from its how manhattan . archie new york. i'm looking further down the road peter vest that out on campus of explains it things will happen to measuring markets it be us that situation worse. the general trend before this was that people were moving

back into emerging markets were going to be moving into a lot of notes the last couple of months they were not moving back into emerging markets russia had been the biggest performer it seems to be the people rotating with russia on the energy for the sectors and also seems to be some indication there was also a rebalancing will perform in favor of other other markets should the story develop in the us all bets are off the table i think emerging markets is an asset class will become good my chair away from that again but i also don't believe you will see a huge support for developed market equities it will be other assets currencies spawn's but will be at the forefront and again if this can situation in seniors. let's have a look at the stock market reaction on the news from the us asian shares saw significant losses with their energy sector pacing and across the board for conic it's also among the word for the move down around one point three percent while the

year old has dropped nearly two percent. here in russia will open in about one hour's time the r.t.s. in my thoughts took a beating losing almost four percent on monday russian. oil continues to lose value as well prices dropped sharply overnight reverberating from the news of america's rating braintree it is currently trading at around one hundred twenty one dollars a barrel by light sweet or below one hundred and seven dollars for about. a very different story for gold prices there have set a new record high reaching almost one thousand four hundred and ninety eight dollars per ounce although it slipped back slightly. around the globe and concerns of the u.s. debt offending investors to look into something that holds value silver is also close to its highest level in three decades. there was also his business update join us for more next hour and of course you can always log on to our website i

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