the book. of friendship and soul calls the ground troops in libya but president sarkozy finds himself pulled in a boat as he struggled to get wins his own people. are critically ill a russian a conflict means to end his suffering by stating his own life that officials maintain euthanasia will remain illegal. veterans in georgia say the country they fought for was abandon them with no means of survival as they hadn't seen this movie called of forward basic necessity. and russian on european stocks are slightly recount ring from monday's losses earlier

they took a big drop after one of the biggest credit rating agencies downgraded the u.s. credit status to negative joined business on scene twenty minutes time. for war this is a line from last year with me on a site that's leading an eighteen member is calling for ground troops in libya even though it's against a u.n. resolution france's foreign affairs chairman is warning the campaign will be correlated with groups on the ground the french public though are unconvinced heeding presence of the finding a new front back home is down zero bushel. france is now fighting in three wars the first foreign state to go into libya the last just force in ivory coast civil war and it's just sent more troops to afghanistan but watch 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. relations to the truth we're told the community is behind us but france just wants africa's resources. this reporter explains how the french government dictates national coverage you will basically follow your editorial line on foreign policy or you will not be invited or included to come back and ask questions of press competence and we will not be here with you when you seek interviews but if you turn to the internet the view of president sarkozy's policies a much more critical fridge people are growing increasingly worried about their country being labeled as imperialist with little regard 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 thousands of civilians killed is finally hitting home born of god. although the media treated. quite positive. the invasion of iraq brought 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 than usual r.t. paris. well nearly a thousand people in the vacuity from libya's western city of the rebel stronghold

go and see the opposition is struggling to lift. its forces saying they have no chance of resisting without the help of nato air strikes calling that how now he writes of foreign policy in focus is. they have no option but to become another player. china between the middle east and africa draws almost all of its imported world up from this region so if you examine the libya invasion in terms of the role of the us military in the fifth fleet in the persian gulf and the red sea and then african in libya what you see is that five out of the six are leading sure says of china's oil and gas are under either u.s. sanction or of the u.s. military control to put it on the juggler game so i think you have to see libya less as a particular incident then as a piece on

a very global chess board i don't think they expected the united states and britain and france to directly involved involve themselves in the civil war i think ok decided was they would go with the no fly zone because very difficult to resist one at their time trying to figure out ok we'll do the no fly zone corneliu and try to you then supposed to sit down and talk with the people before you move to a military operation in fact that includes not even dry before the french started bombing so i think in a certain sense to chinese catch an awkward into doing this. or celeb for you this hour the forces that behind the are prizing are the bad is the listing funded organization sponsor patrols in the arab world we hear why there's a catch to fund change in libya. a tavern here appeared a casting block sense billions abroad there are claims that instead of the policy it's propping up cruel regimes. terminally ill roughs and prisoners

pleading for the right to die doctors say again argue these conditions critical and that he can't get the treatment he desperately needs jail he's already been told anything laser is not an option because it's bound to russia artie's may have an awesome. husbands of it's. in out east forty five and he's dying and insulin dependent diabetic his last sixty killings in ten months now own most blind he can hardly distinguish objects in the backyard of the jail where he's so in sentence for murder his gangrenous legs ferret and doctors forecasts he want need crutches much longer you need a wheelchair. i can't live without pain killers. i'm always on drugs if you defy didn't take them i be able to go to all of. their former saugor and war veteran can argue no longer has the energy to fight for

life when instead of his literally fighting for death. kennedy's health has not always been so bad in the derated rapidly after he was put behind bars in two thousand and seven he was sentenced to eighteen years in prison in other needs specialized treatment and care something he just cannot get here. to die or to me what else do i need i used to be a man now look at me. i'm not even half of a man. the doctor to help him die is officially for britain in russia. but when i start going who could kill who could facilitate a suicide nobody even the most zealous euthanasia supporters that they would do it themselves because they would become murderers of a good order from the point of view of russian legislation nor from the point of

view of international law or ethnic norms can euthanasia be justified. there is a huge debate on whether terminal patients have the rights to and their own life to escape chronic pain against euthanasia and they are the majority claim on other things that even hopeless cases can sometimes be the recklessly healed but a voice from behind bars where miracles rarely happen a change that perspective. usual will warrant if they know that the rest of their lives will be suffering but the reason to prevent them from doing that especially those sentenced to life in prison and that many letters from these people they ask for death as life becomes unbearable conditions there are after all so why not. a strong orthodox believer in 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.

deny his mother can understand what her stand to sit down and she country can sell herself with the reality of that decision. if he dies i die with him what would i leave for all who fall. in ninety nine it is waiting wishing for gas with its natural gas. central russia. the e.u. the eleven billion year budget his comments of stop christensen accusations that it's helping to buy private jets the tyrants of corrupt regimes. david counter-balance says he can't control it but it let alone the money it's as a port. to the system isn't working i think this report makes very clear but it is no surprise i mean from our point of view here you have european union for

sixteen years in a row they haven't signed off their own accounts there because of auditor's you know so much fraud nichols 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 aid the whole thing is a mess it needs discipline i think it's better done by nation states but overall shoot through third of these actually goes to non-poor countries i mean the biggest recipient is turkey which is doing pretty well ecologically a lot goes missing i mean some is going to terrorist groups like hamas in palestine and you've got incredible figures like in ma they were a job creation scheme of costing one point five million pounds for each individual they actually provide a job for thorough there's a huge about of waste here. russian stock markets also rebounding off to both the

r.t.s. and the mice except for the biggest drop in one day markets across the world plugs after a ratings agency. is in on the outlook to negative for the first time since world war two sounded on pools that it was down to a lack of political will to resolve the country's spiraling debts even though it was algerians index and with more than one percent down asian and european stocks also to his home day we've more on how the markets are bearing up today in our business that is in just around ten minutes time. the u.s. that its investigation has found that investment goldman sachs misled guys to boost its own profits fueling the housing bubble chalice that this is the third is a customs to spending them but what distinctions. they made a mockery of their clients why anyone goes birth what color they would acquire gallman for i mean there are fraudsters lloyd blankfein went down to the post

office and he worked from all way to use the route he would get off scot free because he would prosecute me a systemic risk to prosecute. the national security and of course crime to sure i was going to change the law and. wall street bankers legal always wrote their own talk of all it's worth the mark yeah absolutely i thought it was there a cancer and you got a perjury. want to force the kinds reporting just a bit and now it's time here on t.v. now if you want to die for your culture the last thing you'd expect is a culture. that so many veterans in total to things they get as an income of just fifteen dollars a month for this company there's a lot of reports when the soldiers tried to protest they thought the full force of the law. there memorials like these all over the world set up to honor all those in

fact for their countries a sign of respect and remembrance but many of the veterans here in georgia feel that they have been completely forgotten have to. win through war and in times in the 1980's created officer he now has to survive by just fifteen dollars. something was sort of i don't get a pension now and i won't until i'm sixty five but we live to see that money we used to have some sort of support the hospital the free treatment social benefits. the big old got taken away in two thousand and five and i got fired into thousand and three with no explanation whatsoever. lives in a house that he claims is unfit to live in he had to send his family away because he can't 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 am still alive is because of my friends i live in what they

can. and does not alone is like more and more veterans in georgia feel the lack of support from their government but when they try to draw attention to it by calling a hunger strike they were simply shocked at the way some or even arrested according to officials for refusing to comply with police orders and being under the influence on alcohol. is the most outrage among stealth veterans and the international media was the fact those detained got slapped with a two hundred twenty five dollar fine now one of them has that kind of money. for the police came and break up our protest the president drove by he stopped 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 the reasons who've already sacrificed so much for a country that largely ignores them are being drawn into this war as well.

catherine is over r t e c georgia. other plans. here's a taste of some of the stories that. he less of a reading give me the inside of the. pains for touting his new show for other steps of the capitol hill. they've got some of their troubles calming. valid friends from all safety make that out as holiday confidence was that story and also call get access to all banks videos and all i can change the channel. is.

the official anti allocation. from the. video. now in the palm of your. call. allison was that u.s. involvement in the recent uprising runs deeper than it was they thought the new york times reports that government funded organizations ok. and using these technologies and even as american cash poured into song our nations no money was

allocated from libya. contras explains so if anybody had any doubt about the united states meddling interference or guidance of arab uprising there it is revelations about the united states sponsored n.-g. o. has spawned this speculation is to rest really a disclosure about freedom house democratic and republican institutes and spread to war financed by the united state department and the u.s. can. even this carefully leaked media report these two believed the only country that was so elaborately amid it was. a mission ofeibea from this carefully report triggers a very counter-intuitive question if for any peaceful uprising to be successful in muslim and arab world it better be paid guided in

coordinated by the united states otherwise if it is not american left then the peaceful uprising can turn into violent ones like it happened in libya to be successful and nonviolent you'd better make sure they show political opposition carefully selected trained financed and guided by the united states. russian police around two hundred militants killed in security raised in the north caucuses over the past two months the region has been the main terrorist target for my deadly attacks carried out nationwide the head of the chechen republic explains r.c. what drives young people from the caucuses joining street with scripts. they will post it is something that no one understands i spoke to a man who was to become a suicide bomber to sacrifice his life for him i asked why he wanted to do it he

didn't understand but i told him he was encouraging the chechen republic are you not allowed to build mosques or to take the how are you banned from wearing the job at all observing the soldiers he was going to 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 religion where i am an abiding muslim myself i live by the laws of islam preaches what is happening between us you didn't answer me most of the people who chose to become suicide bombers are mentally retarded there is usually blind or deaf they find these people completely disconnected from the outside world and use them but the cause of what is happening in our republic the caucasus russia and all over the world media. watch they can show a lot of things fall into. about ten minutes time here on earth has got a lot of headlines about a wild south by government forces pals of the processes of the syrian city of homs

who are refusing to leave the main square until the president steps down reports say that gas is also also tells how the earlier fired on crowds and counted the funerals of eight people killed in this is on sunday human rights campaign is a two hundred people have died in the missile crackdowns since at the protest that gap. nigeria's president has called for calm after fighting spread following his reelection as leader good luck jonathan took more than fifty percent of the vote in what's being considered a loss if there paul but rioting broke out in the north where the opposition is strong red cross as many people have been killed in the clashes well hows about those have fled the violence nigeria is divided between the christian dominated south and the predominantly was the rule. cubans are being allowed to buy and

sell homes for the first time since the communist revolution in the one nine hundred fifty nine until now people were only able to hand over their home to their children or to exchange them in a complicated process but when the measure was announced during the first communist party congress for fourteen years to try to boost the island's struggling. peoples as an elementary school brazil have returned to classes less than a fortnight after a gunman that killed twelve children the principal says the first few days will involve counseling and therapy same activities all of those killed were aged between ten and thirteen the murder road was a twenty three year old former people shot himself being wounded by police. that is the way the news is this hour here on r.t. more of course on our website r.t. dot com don't go away although it is busy of a way now with india. this

is business see hello and welcome to the program global market that catching their breath after taking a bit hit on the big hit on monday rather the fact that standard and poor's count the u.s. economic outlook from stable to negative over the country it's parling that. has the story from new york. here in midtown manhattan is possibly the best view of america's ugliest economic state right back 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 and now all of this is topping name because us and he says they are concerned over the u.s.

government's ability to agree on a cause consolidated plan to to reduce the u.s. budget deficit 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 cut taxes have been increased markets continue to be concerned if they remain concerned if that concern gets even deeper there's a chance for the u.s. dollar can lose its value which would push super tape another financial collapse in the u.s. and possibly that could spread throughout the world reporting from it's how many. new york. now the warning about the u.s. credit absolute has triggered flooding concerns about the high levels of that in some countries and a look at how this could impact the market journey like in the studio by a growing old notch from bird capital around the stash thank you very much indeed

for joining us here so the dow jones declined just one percent following that standard and poor's warning meanwhile the russian markets lost around four percent this kind of time that there were no really not too many worries about country countries public debt why is that in some ways it really doesn't make that much said russia in that sense in that sense it's it's safe compared to compared to a lot of other places but a lot of the money that's been coming into russian markets over the last three or four months has been quite short and whenever there's an increase in risk people tend to sell risky assets and the world still views russian equity russian markets being responsible for this order so the european markets are on the rise as well as the russian ones and the yields for u.s. treasury bonds are still down from friday's levels it seems that the markets are not taking simply these warnings. not so sure about grabbing a rebound yesterday was

a pretty terrible day actually on the on the markets and this may just be the caps proverbially. at the moment but i think that the s. and p. is not actually the key the key is what's going on in europe right now the restructuring or potential restructuring of the there is something that i think the markets really are concerned about. we're just really reflecting what a lot of people already know which is that you know the u.s. has some serious social the race for russia i think the risks for russia are at the moment on the international side of what's actually going on in europe how about that is what's going to happen whether it's going to be restructured in greece you know the big key right now is spain has a very large economy and the markets are very worried that what's happening in porch with. greece is going to impact spain as well and if that happens there once again will be an increase in risk perception from russia also as well so all sort of other words are with the u.s. and european debt having on emerging economies you just mentioned but i think.

you're emerging economy is or from a fundamental basis looking stronger by what's actually happening in relations what's actually happening in europe and the us and see the emerging economies action toward face the sort of the problems that your commute but they are considered to be risky whenever there's an increased risk insertion flows risk the markets will turn and the road will turn to so unfortunately c r i thank you so much for sharing your views are an old notch chief investment strategist at capital thanks again. and let's have a look at how the markets are performing this hour the european stocks are gaining after heavy selling in the previous trading session lecturing groups are in focus for doing some trading on day burberry's up more than six percent outlet for porter to thirty percent rise in the second half revenue and a positive all year profit outlook in germany can share as a high after new car registrations rose in march and germany and france. the

russian markets are trading in the block with my figures gaining around one and a sound system. let's have a look at some individual share movies most of the energy stocks are on the rise in the last navigating around three point one percent this hour banking stocks are also on the rise of this burbank up more than a percent on the line six dollars gold is also on the report it controls where the new gold mining and angry gold are shanti only possible merger think you could make that russian company one of the world's top gold mining. gold price has set a new record high reaching almost one thousand four hundred ninety eight dollars barrels although it slipped by a trifling mounting inflation around the globe as concerns over you as does sending investors to to look into something that holds finding silver it's also close to its highest. level in three decades are a very different story for while it continues to lose value prices dropped sharply overnight reverberating from the news of america's sovereign rating brain crude is

currently trading at around one hundred twenty dollars a barrel while light sweet as around two hundred dollars a barrel. and that was all she's business up they join us for more next hour and of course when always log on to our web site on business.

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