moscow says it's ready to assist the peace talks in libya to end of months of violence meanwhile nato is sending a combat advisers to the country the move is seen by analysts as the first step to a ground invasion. terror takes up a lot russian police eliminate two high ranking militants in the north caucuses both suspected links to deadly attacks in moscow. the massive gulf of mexico oil spill is a sparking allegations and court cases a year on while those in charge of play the blame game cleanup workers and a coastal residents are starting to feel the impact on health after the disaster.

with their top stories of today and the week this is r.t. but moscow says it's ready to assist peace and dialogue efforts in libya in order to prevent further civilian casualties in a telephone conversation with the libyan a prime minister russia's foreign minister said that a peaceful solution is possible but only if all sides of the conflict in accordance with the u.n. mandate things are bennett reports. in terms of what concrete support russia can actually provide in reaching a peaceful resolution to this conflict so again lever of russia's foreign minister has offered to send observers to help monitor a cease fire deal between the rebel forces and get that these troops in telephone conversation he had with libya's prime minister al baghdadi our math moody at the behest of the libyan government following his announcement now was ready to reach

a ceasefire agreement with the rebels this is a position that russia has advocated continuously during this conflict which the peaceful resolution to is taking it into the political realm this is something this again lavrov champion of the russian nato summit earlier this month in berlin for this to happen he said that all sides in this conflict including the coalition forces must one of the un security council's resolutions regarding libya so that arms in prague on the no fly zone today russia is offering concrete support to help monitor a peace deal and ceasefire to help take this conflict into the political realm. reporting their time on the ground in libya the first us a predator drone strikes have reportedly destroyed multiple rocket launchers along to get a few troops near the coastal city of misrata in the latest fighting at least twenty four people have been killed following the army's promise to retreat tribal

forces deal with rebels a seven a siege by gadhafi troops in misrata has left a thousand dead and for the city on the verge of a humanitarian disaster fighting in other parts of libya is out a stalemate despite nato airstrikes aimed at blocking advances by government troops however many now fear that those countries involved in the military action in libya may face a severe backlash. if nicolas sarkozy hoped intervening in libya and the oil for the coast would boost his popularity is big fired he's a little boy for the most on president in the history of france's fifth report. according to the latest opinion polls the main beneficiary has been marine le pen head of the national front party he's expected to knock him out of next year's presidential election because he wants pledged france will never again kill people in africa le pen told me he's broken that promise so that this will be seen as a past colonial reaction by france by behaving like

a well it's policeman deciding who's bad and who's good the president's policies a mirror it out former colleagues one inflexible personal style x. finance minister. lift the ruling party this month admitting they can't work together to form a human rights minister remy yet they has quit too so as he let colonel gadhafi use france he said as a tool mats to wipe blood off his feet by hosting him in paris now he's hunting the same man down sarkozy also sacked his integration advisor for disagreeing with him at direct command told see the president doesn't know how to compromise. there's no place for twentieth century colonialism today but there should always be room for negotiation it's all leaves nicolas sarkozy with few friends just when he needs them it's become a lonely life inside the presidential palace but mr sarkozy not only

a political opponent of pulling apart is for policy even for allies like nobody now talk of his period. to view plans work with the president for over seventeen years the former premier fears libya turning into another afghanistan a deeply unpopular war with no clear deadline we cannot go. any country without knowing when we will go out i think this is the listen that we did not come from afghanistan in its global diplomacy it's the same problem and. this war france is facing criticism for what some see as heavy handed intervention in the ivory coast the result is a presidency experts more ked at home and abroad for his arrogance personals more local monarchical republican trailing both lopin and the socialists in his bid for reelection in twenty twelve sarkozy looks unlikely to mellow leaked memos from

advisors claim his only chance of winning is to make his policies even more extreme . r.t. paris meantime and nato military advisers have been dispatched to libya in a move which many say is the first step towards a ground operation however helen and a columnist for the online publication of foreign policy in focus believes that foreign action in libya interests one part of a larger agenda. china between the middle east and africa draws almost all of its imported oil from this region so if you examine the libya in the asian in terms of the role of the u.s. military in the fifth fleet in the persian gulf and the red sea and then africa column in libya what you see is that five out of the six or leading sources of china's oil and gas are under either u.s. sanctions or of u.s.

military control to put its thumb on the juggler vein so i think you have to see the libya less as a particular incident and as a piece on a very global chessboard. experts fear that conflict in africa may trigger a new economic downturn which would be devastating for the united states. america's financial management is best defined by a nonstop pouring been six feet of the walk over there it's a running ticker of u.s. debt we explore the grim financial forecast for america that's coming your way in the next hour here on r.t. . also a gadget a fever for some and a tide of waste caruthers has developed countries russia to keep up with technology people in poor states are left to dig through obsolete electronic trash to survive those stories coming your way in the next hour here on r.t. . a year after the notorious oil spill in the gulf of mexico those

implicated in the accident are playing the blame game as b.p. sues other companies involved but last hour the rig caused millions of gallons of oil to gush into the ocean but as artie's a guy in a chicken reports the impact of the environmental disaster on it human health is being ignored. five million barrels of oil in combination with almost two million gallons of highly toxic chemical dispersants used to fight the oil spill a cocktail that contaminated not just the water in the gulf but found its way into people's blood a year after the disaster and environmental group tested the blood of dozens of cleanup workers as well as residents of coastal areas they found levels of ban seen thirty six times higher than normal courtroom that aren't true. are truly want to work and i'm going to open a bottle of want to go. back there and work as

a boat engineer he says he was in perfect health before he was exposed to the toxic chemicals in the gulf now he's fighting a bouquet of illnesses car the little god a little trouble for yourself or clayton is not alone in his fight george price owns a small boat yard in louisiana perfectly healthy just a year ago he has lost thirty pounds in the last few months george was diagnosed with severe anaemia us earlier and must still hold of this story and we'll be no you know dr michael robbie chom has been practicing medicine in louisiana for forty years says he's never had such an influx of patients with respiratory and blood issues he fears the worst it's a distance treatment tourist recalls robbie cha is one of a few doctors who is outspoken about gulf coast residents symptoms connection with the toxic chemicals that they've been exposed to many other doctors refuse to

recognize the cause as dr robert shaw says either because they don't have the necessary training or they don't want to be caught up in court don't want to be. programmers and environmental just his group polled residents in several coastal communities almost half said they had experienced health problems like coughing skin and eye irritation or headaches that are consistent with common symptoms of chemical exposure it's very clear when you look at the ingredients both of which is considered so. it is considered as rather a hazardous material couple with the ingredients in the toxic dispersants and when you mix those together it actually creates a substance or at times more toxic and these are exactly the types of chemicals that are truly literally in people's blood and many of the fact that gulf coast residents and those involved in. cleanup of the gulf say beer alone in their fight with the consequences of last year disaster marine biologists are saying it's going

to take at least twenty years for the gulf ecosystem to recover president obama signed the country's environmental agency to investigate health effects of the spill but many of course residents are sure agency will do its best to sweep the findings under the rug i'm going to check out reporting from washington are. well let me of course a shooter from the u.s. a center for particle diversity who says that significant changes must be made in the u.s. to prevent future mistakes but as government has played a role in having more oversight of our show oil and gas there promised regulatory reform to really rein in this industry that's kind of gone wild and yet at the same time we're seeing a year later permits going forward with still no net of the output comes by and for the environmental laws that the commission found was some other problem that led to the b.p. disaster in the first place so they really need to change the culture of the u.s. government and and start doing the proper analysis and looking at alternatives

to shore oil drilling not quite miss. the consequences of the gulf of mexico oil spill likely to stay in the area for years to come as is the case with another manmade disaster twenty five years on the legacy of china mobile games that are remind the world of history's worst of nuclear catastrophe we report from the exclusion zone. seeking death we follow the story of a terminally ill russian convict and his desperate plight for euthanasia. this weekend seen a major breakthrough in the fight against terrorism here in russia the country's security forces killed two key militant figures in the north caucasus region both have links to al-qaeda and were believed to be behind many attacks in russia as r.t. and some of the question of reports. but russia's north caucasus witnessed a number of successful anti terror operations last sunday

a key militants leader is that people believe john up was killed in that is that russia's on teacher is committee says that the most wanted man who might have had personally pointedly john as the hand of militants in dagestan in october last year now it's also believed the believe john up wasn't involved in almost every terror attack that happened in the region and was also linked to the most school month from bombings last year he was among the four terrorists that were killed a week ago and i guess does lead to hailed the operation a success ounce out that the militants already understands the language of force. some of the militants are willing to engage and they reject us when we urge them to lay down weapons and we. have we committed so many movies and terrorist attacks they know you understand the language of force meanwhile and nothing a taurus terrorists figure was killed as saudi militant known as smug i knew was so

identified as a chief out quite an agent in the north caucasus he was also perceived by the militants as the absolute religious authority as well as an influential field commander despite the strength of high profile success russia's security forces still say there is no evidence that russia's most wanted terrorist martyr has been killed told him we eliminated one of the operations in english and still were shot at when d.n.a. tests found no presence of him among that meanwhile he has claimed responsibility for a number of terror attacks but what russia and closing the moscow metro suicide strikes and the bombing of the capital main airport still there is no clear information of just where russia's most wanted terrorists might be hiding in the north caucasus. more special forces cracked down on her. dr stan can be found on our website also

suspect in last week's blast in the russian capital were found with the help of c.c.t.v. cameras from washed up a bit from a metro after he got. a son over russian antivirus software guru you have got me kuspit a scheme has been released after being kidnapped last week police have arrested five people in connection with the abduction eighty three million a year was originally demanded for the man's release but the twenty year old was freed following a special operation by russian security forces eve on the youngest child the type had been missing since tuesday and no comment on the situation has been made by the business owner whose personal wealth is estimated at eight hundred million dollars . is known for developing security software his firm is the largest antivirus company in europe with offices worldwide. but obama said that the soldier accused of handing secret depending on files to wiki leaks broke the law the president's

words come with another twist in the fate of bradley manning who's been held in custody for almost a year last wednesday u.s. officials announced he will be moved from a marine corps base in virginia to fort leavenworth in kansas a soldier who's charged with leaking classified documents to the web site had been held in a maximum security jail for nine months the decision to move him follows criticism that his detention conditions amounted to torture kevin is he's a member of the bradley manning support network says the case portrays the u.s. as an abusive. there's no question they want to make an example of him there are one other people documents wiki leaks and he may be trying to pressure them to look at julius onto a plea deal the result is he's you know for nine months in solitary confinement. the u.s. torture investigator legal academics the united states. and thousands and thousands of people have frolicked him as president obama to move them to

a more appropriate place this is a victory for those who care about bradley manning and hear about human rights he was never going to treat for the quiet. or incapable of being fair and he fort leavenworth prison has been moved to has a pretrial detention area where we much more appropriate probably in the in the prison population at the meals of the people will be much more. appropriate place for someone who's never been convicted of any crime and we don't believe this prosecution should continue all the years as a whistleblower it was exposing war crimes and other misdeeds by government officials. you're watching the weekly here on r.t. debate over euthanasia and russia has been reignited by the plight of a convicted killer in our school suffers from a painful terminal illness and is asking to be released from his misery but the practice of assisted suicide is illegal in the country as i think it's oriya a national reports. forty five and he's dying and

saline dependence diabetic is not sixty canapes in ten months. now lined he can hardly distinguish objects in the backyard of the jail by his second sentence for murder his campaign is less herit and doctors forecasts he want we've crossed trees much longer here in a wheelchair if. i can't live without pain killers. i'm always on drugs. if i didn't take them i'd be unable to walk and all of. a former soldier and war veteran can now do you no longer has the energy to fight for a life when instead of his italy fighting for death. cannot his health has not always been so bad he deteriorated rapidly after he was put behind bars in two thousand and seven here. sentenced to eighteen years in prison in other needs specialized treatment and care something he just cannot get here. to die.

what else do i need i used to be a man now look at me i'm not even half of a man had a doctor to help him die is officially forbidden in russia. when i start being who could kill who could facilitate a suicide nobody even the most zealous euthanasia supporters never said that they would do it themselves because they would become murderers if they did there is a huge debate on whether terminal patients have the right to and their own life to escape chronic pain there is against euthanasia and they are the majority claim among other things that even hopeless cases can sometimes be the recklessly healed but a voice from behind bars where miracles rarely happen they change their perspective . 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. for a strong all of those believe very 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 stretched her son to see. that she can't reconcile herself with the reality of their decision. if he dies i'll die with him what would i leave for all who fall. he's still alive but he's waiting wishing for death whether it's natural. central russia. without you live in moscow was running on the top stories or today end of this week

for now let's check out some other headlines from around the world this hour opposition supporters in yemen have rejected the president's plans to exit office in thirty days time thousands of protesters in the country's capital are demanding that. has been in charge of the state for thirty three years should step down immediately mass street protests in yemen have been going on since january with about one hundred thirty people killed in clashes between opposition and royalists . several hundred people over marched through the center of tokyo in another wave of protests against nuclear power most of the protestors and moderate full switched to clean and natural energy sources demonstrations against atomic energy have been regular in the weeks following the quake and tsunami which damaged fukushima power plant causing radiation leaks. from the onset of the japanese nuclear crisis the unthinkable was that fukushima could become the next china over which the twenty

fifth anniversary will be marked on this tuesday but it also has a look see you're assessing reports the passing years haven't made the world's most infamous exclusion zone any safer. and there still remains their world's biggest manmade nuclear disaster and. happened because of a failed experiment when the employees at the juggle nuclear power station tried to bring the reactor to a temporary stop and the experiment failed and resulted in an explosion the whole area around the plans of thirty kilometer radius was contaminated some parts of belarus and everywhere across the european continent traces of radiation were felt even reaching the east because the united states now indeed this is still remains a historical landmark still some people trying to draw parallels with fukushima accidents and nowadays it's many experts agree that the accidents have been completely different going only in the causes of the disaster but also in the immediate aftermath because the levels of radiation which were detected incher in

the chernobyl area twenty five years ago were still much higher than the ones that . are right now ukraine he has managed to persuade several world countries to invest over five hundred million euros into building a new circle for gas which would last for another hundred years it was safeguard the chernobyl reactor from emitting more radiation to the atmosphere so indeed it's twenty five years old but the legacy of the lives on and the chernobyl story still making the headlines everywhere across the world but it's absolutely horrifying to be in the exclusion zone i've been a regular visits of the since i say two thousand five. recently went for there for a week to film a fresh documentary which as you will be able to see on monday and walking through these dead empty streets always gives me a creepy feeling despite that i've been there more than a dozen times the area is completely deserted and just thinking that this was once a communist paradise a role model city for those who are living and working at the chernobyl nuclear power station now it's completely deserted and lifeless this feeling is of course

a very frightful and horrifying indeed this area will never be inhabited again because the full out period of many nuclear particles can reach up to twenty thousand years and indeed just looking. that's out of. the exclusion zone in general you realize how costly how costly a man's mistakes can be and that is definitely the main purpose of the exclusion zone right now to remind the world that such mistakes must be made again. the operator of the fukushima plant has a reputation for bypassing safety procedures for its own benefit now that's a quarter to christopher simons of the international christian university in tokyo . there certainly are cases to be made for negligence that tepco already each has a record of serious problems in accidents in two thousand and two we were accused of falsifying data from their reactors and that was proven to be correct they were falsifying data the government shut down some of their reactors but soon after they

reopened again so again the pressure that business places on government may lead to a lack of safety standards and there's a lack of oversight here in particular the way in which we measure radiation which causes people to misunderstand the international commission on radiological protection which uses an average values when they calculate takes a gritty ation of people who are exposed to and those average value is can actually in some situations such as after chernobyl and currently in fukushima make it appear as though people are receiving lower doses of radiation and they actually are. a consequence of japan's catastrophic earthquake and tsunami the world figure skating a championship in our kicks off in moscow after it was chosen to replace tokyo. power the event didn't only change its host city but was also forced to postpone for one month however despite the short period of time available moscow still

managed to get ready for the top competition the u.s. canada finland and of croatia and austria austria were also getting to replace. the two thousand and twelve host has expressed its readiness to let japan organize a championships next year. on our web site r.t. dot com you can find more news stories and plenty of features let's have a look at the website right now and see what's waiting for you at this one but you can get a party's exclusive coverage of easter sunday celebrations at russia's main cathedral as christians all over the world mark the holy holiday also explore what looks like russian style also. russia's president rocks the policy check out this video that can retreat meant he had to fish airing it in his movie of the sort there were you know with university friends on the seat and you tube page. all

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