i don't mean to media conspiracy or belongings the friends to monsoreau the truth about the conflict there with the whole thing which threatened to go through in the country's international standing. a game up within the game arsonists it is whether i see in the middle east in the back for various cars with american strategy to slow the rise of china. or the sick or russia or the prisoners requests for a mercy killing prompts fresh debate on whether euthanasia should be legalized just .

very warm welcome to this is all to live from moscow france has warned its nato allies that they're counting in libya could be a failure on the ground troops as a ploy to the country but that would be against the existing u.n. resolution and could be a major political blow for president nicolas sarkozy the french public is already on happy with his performance leaving him in a fight for his future reports. france is now fighting in three wars the first four states to go into libya the law just falls in ivory coast civil war and this 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

bears no relation to their truth we 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 basically follow 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 frige 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 of drool most a decade of war in afghanistan news of the dozens of french soldiers and thousands

of civilians killed is finally hitting home war in afghanistan is unpopular. although the media treated. generally quite positive. the invasion of iraq the biggest and she will rallies in history there were experts say libya could become so because iraq and disappoints government's efforts the truth. his courage was called milt don't you see paris. russia's foreign minister has joined the criticism of nato strategy in libya the alliance wants colonel gadhafi out there supporting the rebels with aid and airstrikes presenting a lot of rocks there's toppling he is not signed shims by the united nations. the u.n. security council never change for regime change in libya or any other country the forces that are now using the security council resolution to justify regime change

are clearly violating the you would mandate. the opposition is struggling to left weeks long siege by kind of iraqis forces as thousands feet in rest of the cities italy's foreign minister says some ten thousand people have died since the beginning of the conflict pethick is from the transitional national council of libya and syria is lifting its nice to fifty year old sings about is giving one of the main demands of the protesters it's unclear whether the movement is the crux our demonstrators who've been calling for the president to step down human rights campaign the same scene hundreds of have died in the lethal crackdown severus roshan's began because of hostile fire he is used to while the economy of international relations told r.t. the arab uprising of the being instigated by the west undermined his influence and the current. goal of washington in the region is to change.

the regimes even more applying treats you know regimes that were changed in egypt and other conscious they were quite quiet all to the united states but no obama's administration was fulfilled even more pliant regimes and this many countries including russia including china first of all they feel that their interests are being threatened because of these. will be more of the united states and are not likely to fulfill. all the little things to talk about policy of china towards you know the whole situation china has always advocated not involved in policy but what we see now is a general change of china's policy shyly. he's going to play a more active role and as we see americans trying to remove chinese compete issue through many regions of the south asia middle east and africa

a lot of africa but also central african resources so china has quite a lot of options to control first of all of course. china is the major creditor of the united states and today the financial rating for a few days was changed and changed so i guess china has quite a lot of levers still situation both economic and political. journalists asked and the says libya is not the only area where beijing and washington is in traffic. many people say vagina of course is going to be the new. chinese investment in iran turtle's hundred sixty five billion dollars it is rapidly finding problems of un resolutions regarding iran so in that case beijing and washington's interests coincide i think there has been

a cold war since the second world war with china arguably it is certainly being up but the state department of think tanks on capitol hill don't seem to understand what to do according to one national security agency adviser. he said the reason we went into libya one factor was we had said we could no longer be leader and it would look to iran is if we make threats that we don't follow through on. journalists are a town another expensive conflict cons are time for the struggling u.s. economy ratings agency standard and poor's has slashed the outlook on american debts a negative and a move casting doubt on washington's ability to reduce its deficit well that's cause live out of business at some more or less i did you how are the markets been reacting to this negative outlook for the world's largest economy well the markets

have been sensitive the past two sessions there was a pretty big sell off in monday's session all across the board russia was very badly hit it lost more than it did in the past nine months four percent in just one session right now investors are really assessing the audience of this downgrade their understanding pretty much that still the dollar plays a key role in the global economy and that this downgrade of the rating itself it hasn't there is still through play for the united states won't happen to another two years and therefore nothing much is really change that we're seeing actually at all coming in right now and the u.s. markets they've opened just pretty minutes ago and we'll tell you how russia's markets is bearing in around twenty minutes time fifteen minutes in the. case and it's very much to me if you're looking forward to it ok coming up here on r.t. it isn't just america's spending being scrutinized find out why the e.u. is being criticized over how it chooses instead it's an eleven year old.

class these many fall for their country say they're now being neglected and ignored that report from georgia coming up. a russian inmate who was suffering from severe diabetes and asked for a nasty killing convicted murderer a good ninety minsky cannot get the treatment he needs while in jail so far the judges have refused to free him from prison on grounds of ill health but his request for euthanasia. is illegal in russia out his way after russia has. been out east forty five einstein and it's an independent static is like sixty can legs in ten months. now own most blind he can hardly distinguish objects in the backyard of the jail where he's so in a sentence for murder his gangrenous transparent and doctor's forecasts he want the proper trees for much longer you need a real chair because. i can't live without angle is not here i'm always on

drugs if you're if i didn't take them i'd be unable to get all. your work and foremost saugor and war veteran can argue no longer has the energy to fight for life when instead his busily fighting for death. cannot his health has not always been so bad he did derated record after he was behind bars in two thousand and seven he was sentenced to eighteen years in prison he not only needs specialized treatment and care something he just cannot get here. to die or simply what else do i need i used to be a man. now look at me good girl i'm not even half of them around. a doctor to help him die is officially forbidden in russia. when i start going who could kill who could facilitate

a suicide nobody even the most zealous euthanasia supporters would never said that they would do it themselves because they would become murderers if they did in order from the point of view of russian legislation nor from the point of view of international law all ethnic norms in euthanasia be justified also. there is a huge debate on whether terminal patients have the rights to and their own life to escape chronic pain those against euthanasia and they are the majority claim among other things that even hopeless cases can sometimes be the recklessly killed but a voice from behind bars where miracles rarely happen a change their perspective sure. if they know that the rest of their lives will be suffering but the reason to group them from doing that especially those sentenced to life in prison and a good many letters from these people they ask for death as life becomes unbearable

conditions there are awful so why not. fulginiti a strong all of those deliver 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 as well or i will launder sound enough his mother can understand what's pushed her son to sick dad and she country can sell herself with the reality of bad decision. if you don't rise or die with him for good then what would i leave for. good night if he's still alive that is waiting wishing for gas with its natural fall mask. to central russia. or from i'm now joined by an expert on the third. simone that math is really many that are being with us they are lossy now euthanasia possibly hearing there is a highly controversial topic it's illegal in many countries including russia why is

that. because it's a very serious negotiation for example but also very important legal issues for many countries. with very little to do probably closer to books with pleasure is different for example streets of the community is permitted to sort of use it as a tourism people are going one way to switzerland to get this little injection or something. it's a very serious process or for applying for the pool for the special talk to still have the license for you to sort of try to give the so-called call a conditional prediction from some of the political condition. of this of disease and so on so i think in many countries it's easy to for beautiful person ever existed they also groeschel it's illegal if you ever foresee

a situation where it is illegal in russia does the medical and legal framework exists to see you ever enable the things it's to be to become a part of the price of presidents to do it's not possible thing for many years because you know someone can make a mistake in such a thing very consideration also there are different situations where people are subjected to this type of rule of treatment because some people can suffer terrible pain like the. gentleman was so. in this episode but also situations when someone has a cold know who's consciousness for many years or when most of the routines apply for these people who do want to root have to suffer for such a long term. person a person who. saw me. very different different situations this is not all of medical situations this is really just situation also because different solutions or most of the regions argues that it's

a serious political issue because it grows from a new political basis and it's a very serious legal issue who should decide who made this little interaction of the children will you stated that you are against euthanasia or violent decision do you ever. i mean where does the line comfy you where patient is so will that you might consider it to be kind to allow her to die. well there are patients who are good for example very condition called brain the patient who the body is looking for the person is is the this was intuition built patients who are suffering trouble pay for example produce for pain or is this filled with different people. with different level of the same disease could be more or less tolerated by one person who wants to wait for new treatment or common treatments are coming you have to do with a new type of surgery but others can have

a very minor disease but to suffer so much they'll be asked to kill themselves so this is a very serious issue doctors should do so all illegal or authority should decide where is the border where we can advice the patient who contribute grosser patients to this. request for a patient and let's refer now to the bouts of very specific example that we had in that package the last lap out there a convicted murderer here in russia he suffers from severe beatings he's in jail he's requested a mass killing just briefly what kind of after call is she is that particular situation throughout. the militias first of all this is a person who is citizen of the country needs a medical treatment and is a normal medical treatment because he's not going his treatment is the rule of this situation because he's admitted to his injury or his in prison but this is

a patient normal treatment and many patients not along this kind of disease so the doctors can help them there is a problem because he's in jail and he can and will be treated in the normal hospital so this is you know i think in solution or the militarization but this mercy to be with him i don't think it's an option for him i think. i quite like this she's a model of this really nanny back that's me and so are there. now. traditionally all nodes with medals and respect their community but in georgia many former soldiers say they've been neglected by the country they fought for one left and survive on a pittance from tbilisi artie's company now as oliver reports. 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 since sons are went through war

and highs in the one nine hundred ninety s. a decorated officer he now has to survive just fifteen u.s. dollars a month so hard it was for 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 three treatments social benefits the big old taken away in two thousand and five and i got fired into a thousand and three with no explanation whatsoever. lives in a house that he claims isn't fit to live in yet to send his family away because he can't provide them with food. or 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 spare and is not alone in supply to 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 recently shot. some or even arrested going to officials for refusing to comply with police orders and being under the influence of alcohol because the most outrage among 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 a break up our protest the president drove by he stopped load his window looked at us one hour later we were pushed out of the way like we were nothing. doesn't n.g.o.s in human rights groups demanded an official investigation into the actions of the police and those that are ins who have already sacrificed so much for a cause. treatment largely ignores them are being drawn into this war as we. can see b.c. george. take a look now at some of the international news making headlines at this protest of

nuclear power rest of india turned violent the death of a protester from police. and angry mob opposing the government. stones of courses in channels to get back. to visible sleeping on the road to the side i don't think burning tires burning traffic to a standstill positions of the plans has grown since japan's nuclear crisis as it's in an area of high seismic activity. and the people are fleeing their homes after glides a rock to follow the presidential election by geria the red cross as many people were killed and hundreds injured when angry protesters burned homes churches and starts with what i stated off the current president goodluck jonathan is reelected what you see as a largely free and fair poll that all of us appealed for an end to violence on page twenty four hours after. hubris of former president fidel

castro was finally resigned from his post as the longtime leader of the country's communist party. was made up of the ruling pretty sweeping economic changes in an elected new leadership that it's called rest of force and really is now taught in school positions will be limited to achieve five years as i said it's all private property such as the buying and selling of houses has also been the goods. why is that japan's quake hit tomic removing highly radioactive waters from the basement of a nuclear reactor building but should give workers access to carry out repair work so vital cooling systems knocked out by the march snow me but while the operator is expected to bring the crisis under control by the end of the year and rodgers iraqis have been able to handle any of the damage reactor buildings at the fukushima plant since the natural disasters. the e.u.

is being criticized for failing to track how it spends its aid money and is accused of squandering billions of dollars on unnecessary projects and corrupt regimes here and david campbell brown and says brussels is incapable of controlling is in budget let alone the money it sends the world. 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 signed off their own accounts 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. a country leaders shortly 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 of the two thirds of these actually goes to norm for 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 a job creation scheme is costing one point five million pounds for each individual they actually find a job for so there's a huge about a way to. model the details on the stories we're covering on our web site in this next more to discover it all to talk about well if you log on any time to speak his opinion is just pretend supports what he said and then its last pass rational thoughts are for many people that for an adrenaline pumping cold. blast the presidential election is fast approaching even wraps up with the next needed you to another president did six. high and we're bringing

you the latest news and opinions tips for the top job find out at our center. this is now with everything. i don't warm welcome to the program global markets are catching their breath off the big hits on monday about self-respect and polls cut the u.s. economic outlook from stable to negative over the country's spiraling that. story from. 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 happening because s. and p. 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 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 that the u.s. dollar can lose its value which would precipitate another financial collapse in the u.s. and possibly that could spread throughout the world reporting from midtown manhattan . new york. and the warning about u.s. credit outlook is not the main focus for the global markets according to a national vote on capital he believes investors in russia after brought us to mostly european debt problems. the big key right now is spain visit very large economy and the markets are bear worried that what's happening of course with him and greece is going to impact spain as well and if that happens then once again will be a big increase in risk perception and russia will sell to russia in that sense and that it's safe compared to what it 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

as being risk and. stick with the markets we start with commodities and prices dropped sharply overnight reverberating from the news of america's sovereign regs they continuing to drop and brant right now is below one hundred twenty dollars but there are light sweet the low one hundred and six dollars a barrel u.s. markets started trading about an hour ago and they're recovering after a sell off on monday better than expected earnings from companies like johnson and johnson it's up three percent helping investors regain confidence take a look up the european markets and the stocks are gaining after heavy selling in the previous trading session in germany car shares how high up or were just ration is rose in march in germany and france and the russian market itself but also trading in the black they were hit by a four percent selloff but right now they've recovered around two percent on my six one hundred on the outs yes banking stocks are on the rise we're seeing this

burbank up around one percent dollars gold is also on reports it's in talks with newmont mining and anglo gold ashanti on the possible merger the deal could make the russian company one of the world's top gold miners despite well being down the share price of russia's biggest crude producer ross now it's up four and a half percent now why is that happening. here spreading the share swap deal with b.p. apparently. become penny has accumulated stocks in one of the subsidiaries and i hope it can push the deal for the consolidation took place on the thirteenth of april just a day before the initial deadline for an equity exchange with the peak according to the proposed deal was nafta was expected to exchange nine percent of its stock for a high percent stake in b.p. but the deal has been blocked by his boss and others in t.n. paid before you play the pact reaches the shareholder agreement we'll bring you comment and analysis on this story as we get to join us again from around fifty

five minutes time next hour. wealthy british science. sometimes.