tonight in the program a government media conspiracy of lies the french to know the truth about the conflicts that are involved in brewing the country's international standard. so we gave them a game arctic schools where the fighting in the middle east and north africa is actually part of american strategy to slow the rise of china. and the sick russian prisoners request for mercy killing from fresh debate about whether euthanasia should be legal.

this is our team kevin know and will welcome if you just join this this is coming live from moscow it's now ten pm here tonight i'm not top story at r.t. france has warned its nato allies that their campaign in libya could be doomed to failure unless ground troops are deployed to the country that would cause me against the existing u.n. resolution and could be a major political blow for president nicolas sarkozy the french public somebody unhappy with his performance leaving him in a fight for his future bushell reports. france is now fighting in three wars the first four states to go into libya the laws just force in ivory coast civil war and this just sent more troops to afghanistan but what's the french media and this is what you kids americans are responsible for the rise in 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

beers and no relationship to the truth we're told the international 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 fridge 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 thousands of civilians killed is finally hitting home war in afghanistan. although the media treated. quite positive. the invasion of iraq the biggest and she will rallies in history there were experts say libya could become so disease iraq and disappoints government efforts. current rules is also coming out the new bush will see paris. russia's foreign minister join the criticism of nato strategy in libya the alliance wants colonel gadhafi out and is supporting the rebels with eighteen air strikes and sergei lavrov says toppling gadhafi is not sanctioned by the united nations. that was this to go to the u.n. security council live or 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 u. when landing. suits meanwhile in libya the opposition is struggling to lift a weeks long siege by killer gadhafi forces as thousands flee fighting in western cities figures from libya's transitional national council suggest ten thousand people have died since the beginning of the conflict elsewhere in the arab world syria is lifting its nearly half a century old state of emergency giving it of course one of the main demands of the protesters there earlier in the day security forces opened fire to disperse an anti-government demonstration in the country's third largest city video you're looking at now taken on the streets the homes during heavy gunfire before dawn on choose the in fact that video is coming up just about their human rights campaigners say more than two hundred people have died in the lethal crackdown since demonstrations began it comes as you disclosures attained by wiki leaks suggest that the us has been secretly financing some syrian opposition groups intent on toppling president bashar assad. but many share the opinion of

washington's pursuing a larger goal than just regime change across the arab world let's bring into the picture from brazil the asia times correspondent pepe escobar ask you about the role some countries are playing in the uprisings if any one of your recent article just been reading you cite china as one of gadhafi has major financial partners does that mean therefore car in this one through this train of thought that beijing has a vested interest in keeping the status quo. if it goes way beyond libya and working on a story at the moment good parents are going against china this is the big story in africa for the next fifty years i would say starts in the beginning of the two thousand the african union and the future looks very important here. this mechanism it was a mechanism to give a political force to africa in terms of a unified africa in terms of political decisions and not know of course economic

integration then china started investing much more than it was investing during the ninety nine east. african at least thirty countries they have more than nine hundred projects all over africa the number one zero zero zero m. to work through from under with from for instance being court. material blacks and materials and metals from at least a dozen different african countries and then came the reaction from the pentagon who knows it and said it's it doesn't it would be african command which has just launched its first african war when we launched a tomahawks three weeks ago against i guess tripoli basically so now this is the chessboard it's the better gunfire african i guess the chinese investments in the. i would say at least fifty african governments and be scrambling to see ok we're

going to come down to just focusing a bit here ok so you say there's an opinion the. there is a push and opinion actually isn't the run is washington's endgame here after libya and maybe syria tonight taking into consideration the chinese investment you've been talking about let's focus in on iran can we expect to see china take sides maybe if the threat of regime change reaches. yes or no with the things that we're seeing there because the next domino to fail if we fail or the agenda established by russians of syria. ok i would say that let's let's look at the window of opportunity for the past for the next five or six weeks in syria if the lifting of the state of emergency by president bashar assad spills. and so the protests you know we going to have major trouble because not only the u.s.

is trying to destabilize the bashar assad government like the recent reports and the weekly leaks cables prove it with also saudi arabia is financing the whistling brotherhood in syria and the muslim brotherhood its decency is a weapon used idea where to go on a saudi arabia b. would love to have a very very close ally you syria in the form of a muslim brotherhood government so i would say the attention to syria in the next five six weeks and how full washington ever push this china is of course making credits for the u.s. how far would washington go in competition with beijing where the problem is good dissent washington agendas white house and national security agencies cia the pentagon the pentagon these interesting africa agenda the one two windows were in libya install an african b. in africa where we have to remember the african headquarters and structure in germany because nobody now africa had quite its peace you know an african country

and then the dominoes libya i do we coast we trade sea badly so my salt he said the next day i mean us to fail according to the african pentagon agenda and then leader own the big dominoes the countries where china has substantial investments example. nature i want you. to get a real game so we have to watch how this is going to play out in the medium term the picture you better be certain about it get counter-strategy if they see that they are floundering you know africa because of the military station of a constant being renewed ties with south america and with central asia. so they have really come out states let's focus park in libya and syria and syria the kids here in egypt they got what i wanted the people i talk all the leaders do you think the

lives of the syrians will be as successful in their thirst for change what you think the picture is going to play out here like well you mentioned that it's not certain we still don't know what's going to happen in egypt like we're still getting requests that. the transitional military council is not doing these icky anything they're choosing the reins of the government the only concept major concession would be to try and mubarak concerns for alleged corruption let's not fight corruption standards corruption but we don't know what's going to happen the elections if we take place this year beginning of next year the plenty will or happens in egypt as i was thinking greek two thousand and eleven arab folks who have a second wind and it will all over the place and this ruling clew certainly syria it will dream crewed go read up right from the counter revolutionary offensive by

the saudis and hopefully this is what any progressive folks. will reach the media because this is the essence of the whole thing. as long as we still have the house of south controlling the persian gulf next week over reagan day off you know this is a reactionary seven century rejean allied with washington and western powers in nothing substantial cheesed. you know we're bouncing around imagining a lot of countries actually all those countries you are talking about of china let's focus back in on china or the source of the melting pot here and china's international policy you know today has been rather neutral did you expect to become more vocal on the international arena as these things develop but you're talking about you know careful you know because chinese diplomats see it's. it's a game of chinese this is very sophisticated it's fascinating it's a steady we in from the outside because you know you.

see christian faith you know if a subtle manner they don't antagonize specially the hyper power of us at the moment i was c.p.r. playing on wheat and see to see what's going to happen especially in libya that's going to happen in the persian gulf so you really get to call the king live with that because it's still a member exporter of saudi arabia you know it's between saudi arabia and go and legally going to see me to africa and the pentagon wins if the country is back on ice as long as they keep their oil contracts intact it's good for them if they can also profit off the western oil corporations to strike deals somewhere else another due to play another deal with russia for instance another view with venezuela and that they're doing which is going to be exporting oil in five six years as you say

you know they just action so there's so much of a melting pot isn't there we're out of time for now it's a pleasure to have your program pepe escobar asia times correspondent joining us live from brazil thank you to. well another expensive conflict comes at a bad time for the struggling u.s. economy a ratings agency standard and poor's slashed the outlook about american debt negative in a move casting doubt on washington's ability to reduce its deficit some thoughts on this the business does for more demand and there was a sensitive reaction on the markets on monday was a massive selloff pretty much all across the board on the news but then the kind of assessment came in on investors in investors' minds that the united states still have two years to actually come up with some kind of decision to resolve the debt problem until their rating which is the aaa the highest level rating bacon how it is actually slashed so therefore they've seen that they're seeing that there's

still a lot of problems with european debt and therefore the role of the u.s. in the global economy and the role of the dollar as a reserve currency will not be changed so we're seeing today a pretty good recovery on all markets including russia's markets and we'll have more on that and around ten minutes time and i was ok good stuff good to see you think it but also coming up on the program it isn't just america's spending being scrutinized final by the big criticize about how it chooses to spend its eleven billion euros a budget we take a peek into the books that report coming up for you plus these men who fought for their country say they're now being neglected and ignored the report coming out from georgia on the program to. a russian inmate who suffering from severe diabetes is asked for a mercy killing convicted murderer minsky can't get the treatment he needs while he's in jail so far the judges have refused to free him from prison on grounds of ill health but his request for use amaziah is illegal here in russia to. the story

. get out east forty five and he's dying and he's still independence diabetic his last six to ten months. now almost blind he can hardly distinguish objects in the backyard of the jail where his second sentence for murder is getting to understand charity and doctors forecasts he want new crutches for much longer he'll need a wheelchair. anymore i can't live without pain killers were you i'm always on drugs you're a diff i didn't take them will i be able to walk at all but. you're a former soldier and war veteran and i do you no longer has the energy to find her life instead it's italy fighting for death. in that is how it has not always been so bad it deteriorated rapidly after he was put behind bars in two

thousand and seven he was sentenced to eighteen years in prison cannot he needs specialized treatment and care something he just cannot get here. to die or to believe what else do i need i used to be a man. now look at me you get there and i'm not even heart of them around. a doctor to help him die is officially forbidden in russia. but when i stand in who could kill who could facilitate a suicide nobody even the most zealous euthanasia supporters villa 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 international law or ethic norms can euthanasia be justified plus. 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 mere recklessly killed at a voice from behind bars where miracles rarely happen may change their perspective sure jurors will build walls if they know that the rest of their lives will be suffering was 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. forgiveness a strong all of those believer is in asia 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 or that our will not. enough his mother can understand what's caused her son to say that but she country can solve herself with the reality of that decision. if you guys are die with him

so what would i leave for all who fall. in id is still a lie and is waiting wishing for death but it's natural all mask. grief notion are too central russia. and the police have reportedly opened fire protest as they can. for the government it's killed at least three people injured hundreds of others the latest violence comes as the u.n. security council meets for talks about the country's crisis for the first time i want to say riot police fired of demonstrators who some stones unsettled by the security vehicle the demonstrators are demanding that president allie of the celebs step down almost one hundred twenty protesters filled clashes with security forces since january. thousands of people fleeing their homes after the riots erupted after the presidential election in north korea the red cross says many people were killed and hundreds injured when angry protesters burned homes churches and shops

the riots escalated after the current president goodluck jonathan was reelected as leader in what's seen as a largely free and fair poll jonathan has appealed for an end to the violence and has imposed a twenty four hour curfew. cuba's former president fidel castro has made a public appearance during the country's come his party's congress and van finally resigned from his post as the long time party leader with his brother raul replacing him meetings approved sweeping economic and political changes including limiting political positions to two five year terms a decades old ban on private property deals such as the buying and selling of houses has also been lifted. next tonight war veterans were traditionally honored with medals and respect in their community but in georgia many former soldiers say they've been neglected by the country they fought for and left to survive on a pittance from tbilisi artie's petrina zone of reports. there 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 bayley and sons or went through the war and highs in the one nine hundred ninety s. and created officer he now has to survive just fifteen u.s. dollars a month so i don't get a pension now and i won't until i'm sixty five but will i live to see that money we used to have some sort of support a hospital with free treatment social benefits the big old taken away in two thousand and five and i got fired in two thousand and three with no explanation whatsoever and the league lives in a house that he claims is unfit to live in yet to send his family away because he can't provide them with the resources of 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 does not alone is right 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 hundred they were simply show. some or even arrested according to officials for refusing to comply with police orders and being under the influence of alcohol who cause 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 not one of them has that kind of money. for the police came and broke 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 it's a dozen n.g.o.s and human rights groups demanded an official investigation into the actions of the police and their ins who have already sacrificed so much for the. it largely ignores them are being drawn into this war. johnny cash you know there are

eighty b.c. ga. the e.u. speak criticised for failing to track it spends its aid money and it's been accused of squandering billions of dollars on unnecessary projects and corrupt regimes. david campbell bannerman told us of brussels is incapable of controlling his own budget let alone the money it sends abroad 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 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 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. or these

e.u. aid 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 . you've got incredible figures like 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 amount of waste here two or three minutes per cent here in moscow no money top next to me trees got the latest business update from moscow. welcome to business r.t. good to have your company global markets are catching their breath after taking a big hit on monday that's after standard and poor's cut the u.s. economic outlook from stable to negative over the country's spiraling that rolan asked from verna capital believes investors in russia and abroad are still most

looking at the european debt problems. and the big key right now is spain this is a very large economy and the markets are worried that what's happening of course with greece is going to impact spain as well as them once again will be a big increase in recession and russia will sort out russia in that sense in that sense is it is 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 of people trying to sell risky assets and the world still views russian equity russian markets as being risky. in the russian markets that they could get the closing picture for choose the search and then they did manage to recover after a massive selloff monday the r.t.s. and two percent my thanks to. take a look at some of the individual stocks banks were pretty strong as burbank up one point three percent paula it's called managed to gain two point four on reports

it's in talks with newmont mining and anglo gold rush on a possible merger now that deal could make the washing company one of the world's top gold miners despite what all being down throughout most of the tuesday session the share price of russia's biggest crude producer ross now was up it was paying four point eight percent at the close top money from a creepy bank says russia likely has already digest the downgrade of the u.s. rating now. we had a very sharp selloff in russian rockets towards the end of the trading day yesterday after the that's and p. downgrade of the u.s. . credit rating outlook that's right it's a russia trying to cool a lot of that bad news yesterday so today this morning even though asian markets are trading down russia had a little bit of a rally got back some of the losses yesterday so i think the market actually felt quite comfortable ultimately with a downgrade from the u.s.

ross now one of the outstanding performers of today's lesson seems to be preparing itself for share swap with the. the company they had accumulated stock in one of good subsidiaries in the hope it could push the deal for the consolidation place on the thirteenth of april according to a company report that's a day before the initial deadline for the equity exchange with b.p. got into the proposed deal rosneft was expected to exchange nine and a half percent of its shares for a five percent stake in the peak but the deal was blocked by b.p.'s russian partners in the british joint venture t n k b p you claimed the pact reaches their shareholders agreement and that's it from the business team this hour coming up next on our sea the headlines do stay with us.

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