oh oh. americans cheered as the government announced osama bin laden's death but many are now questioning how it happened and why there's been an evidence blackout. pakistan is on high alert as fears grow the peace and stability to the struggling through chief will go up in smoke after the killing about fighters leader. and the frozen assets of colonel gadhafi could be released and handed over to help the opposition comes amid accusations the coalition and started the unrest to prevent libya creating a new rival international. news

twenty four seven this is r.t. . has come under attack from critics for failing to deliver proof of osama bin laden's death the president has blocked the release of photos of the al qaeda leader's body citing national security risks the decision was announced today after bin laden was killed by u.s. special forces under buried at sea the exact circumstances of his death remain unclear and it raises questions about the legality and. you can see the killing. has a story. here we began with an international news bombshell proudly dropped by the united states there was. a female who was in fact in the line of fire. that reportedly was used as a shield to shield her. from the incoming fire to escape

a big blunder a major back in the room with bin laden a woman in like a woman rather bin laden's wife rushed the u.s. assaulter and was shot in the leg but not killed america grabbed the world's attention after announcing the assassination of osama bin ladin failing to go. the facts three the u.s. has also facilitated a rapid rise of conspiracy theories what they did is they told a bunch of different stories they took some stuff. and they've just found out the conspiracy machine they were all on a far blaze that inflamed after failing to deliver on promises of person leading the public with proof we're going to do everything we can to make sure that nobody has any basis to try to deny that we got something large i don't think there was any question well to release the photographs for would be presented to the public we have no need to publish those photographs to establish that the summit in line

was killed u.s. president barack obama refused to release any visual evidence confirming bin laden's death for fear it would be used to spark anti-american violence critics say this leaves the public with more questions than answers and when they say we don't want to show the photos because we don't inflame people well fine how about bringing in certain members of the press along with a panel of unrelated a forensic identification experts who can come out and say we've studied this the world was able to study the execution of america's other enemy in two thousand and six when the hanging of saddam hussein went viral on the web shortly afterwards meanwhile bin laden's expedited the burial has been the target of conspiracy and apt u.s. officials say was done in keeping with muslim tradition they were returning to. here is the requirement in islamic law. individual within twenty four hours as many have noted washington broke its own rule when the bodies of saddam hussein's sons

were in armed and held for eleven days after being killed by u.s. forces but there are so many inconsistency in all of this that it's incumbent upon the obama administration to be as forthcoming as they can be about exactly what they do and do not know and did and did not know. well or in this case know what to say before you speak. not just one week ago it was brock obama at the center of a two year conspiracy that died down once america's leader released his birth certificate but now obama's actions surrounding the killing of osama bin ladin have paved the way for a whole new set of myths think questions surrounding the transparency the u.s. government very important i.r.t. new york. now or some of the lawtons demise as he even more pressure on the already strained relationship between pakistan and the u.s. is a lot about claims its sovereignty was violated by the secret mission to eliminate

the terrorist figurehead meanwhile washington is trying to establish whether its ally was sheltering bin laden you have been living in an affluent suburb near the pakistani capital but as our user maria financial reports summer's death won't necessarily mean an end to america's unpopular role in the region. osama's turf couldn't have come much better time u.s. and pakistani relations are going through their worst period since nine eleven the reasons behind it predator drones and private contractors when a cia agent shows to pakistani stand in the daylight earlier this year officials in islamabad said it was the final straw and demanded all american operatives leave the country immediately we have to be doubly sure rather would be a president's order to be in the interest of a guest in the interest of christ. or why not western pakistan just one week before encoders leader was killed and empty u.s.

joan demonstration unitas hundreds of protesters furious that another twenty five people were killed in a strike take in the total number of civilian dollars into the hundreds. karim had lost his son and a brother in two thousand and nine attack a drone operator miles away from here pushed a button when it was night in pakistan and creams how family was sleeping. well you were a real may may may may or meant or. tell these people for gore to laugh but to stan him for would be a cunt with many people sharing this opinion pakistani officials are warning the us has fueled an insurgency rather than cooling it a hot more than they help because of the political damage is their version of these of us who billions in the area america's reaction has been very good and white

house first accused pakistan of not doing enough to counter terror before you asked changed its tactics finally addressing pakistan's calls to x. is america's drone technology but despite signs of a peace offering and general and sentiment has continued rising u.s. plans to extend its military presence in pakistan and ensure its dominance in the region after its troops withdrew from a guy stand seem to have collapsed as he comes the chant card for the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden he's about bin laden's demise just like u.s. drones came out of the blue delivering a direct hit on u.s. critics. and many say marriage has victory will hardly change the life of ordinary people here in the country it's been in the mates the fact that the global war on terror says in pakistan was among the first to be complete i was in two thousand and nine and this is going to be she thinks she's exhibiting. these abilities

she needed compilation. place merely by playing field as you can see people going about their daily lives that we can look at the finish line the front of the way from here and with antennas all around this piece it's very fragile august already . become trees army has always been alert it's now more than ever and. many fear the dearth of a summit in london will spark a backlash and endangered a piece that has been achieved refinishing r.t. pakistan. are now turning our attention to libya where colonel gadhafi his forces are locked in grueling battles with rebels who are being supported by nato airstrikes this is the international coalition that meets in rome agreeing to establish a financial fund to support the insurgents in their fight against the libyan

leader's regime but u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton says washington also hopes to use gadhafi seized assets to fund the insurgency but the rebels want more material help putting up with you can ask you guys to kill the colonel on their behalf but the coalition insists kathy is not their target that's despite bombing his compound and killing members of his family for more analysis on this week and i cross live to paris and talk to john walker and from him to do it for democracy and cooperation. so the coalition's agreed upon a so-called support fund for the rebels all under the flag of protecting civilians of course but what about all of the civilians in the cities held by the who's helping in protecting them. well i don't think anybody seriously believes the idea that this operation is intended to protect civilians we all know that the hostilities against libya were started within the context of the arab revolutions in other words that they were launched the bombing was launched in order to make

the same thing happen in libya as it happened in tunisia and egypt in other words the goal of this responding campaign is quite clearly regime change let's not forget that the british minister of defense said exactly that in the very first day i think after mitt romney started he said that colonel gadhafi was himself a legitimate target although there was there are getting reports of one but among those who are interfering here. he is not the target but if indeed the colonel is killed or even ease ousted the western powers here the western intervention or the local opposition who are put in a new leader in place. it will be one or the other i mean it's obvious from the fact that they as you say now are funding the rebels. that the purpose of the operation is not to excessively and or to impose impose a new fly zone but instead to overthrow the gadhafi regime i mean i think that's obvious to everyone the denials that this is not the case for denial that that fear

is not a target is not true it's a lie it's not i don't think anyone believes it as as we are saying there with the coalition agreeing to put together this rebel bank account to have these reserve funds for the opposition there so they really think they're just giving money out to the rebels is really going to turn the tide here in this what people are calling a civil war. well i suppose they think that i mean it's pretty obvious again i think to the whole world that they're clutching at straws because of course the original intention i'm sure this was never said but it's my interpretation was that the bombing campaign would last a few days and that the gadhafi regime would fall like a house of cards the situation in fact is very similar i think to the nato bombing campaign against yugoslavia in one thousand nine hundred nine where again the nato leaders thought that a couple of bombs would be enough to make it on the last which the then president of the view from surrendering gadhafi has proved to be just as tenacious in the lottery and we're now looking at a campaign which could last many months and could carry on almost indefinitely now

when you talk about going on for many months and you're comparing certain bombing campaigns to let's talk about or the material being used in some of these bombing campaigns there's a request for the international criminal court to look into allegations that the coalition is using banned weapons such as a pleated uranium shells what's your take on that. i'd be very interested to see how the international criminal court reacts to this i wouldn't be at all surprised if the allegation is true certainly depleted uranium was used in yugoslavia as you suggest in your question but what strikes me mostly about the international criminal court is that as ever it proves itself it has shown itself it is showing itself to be the handmaidens of western policy the international criminal court prosecutor has been in new york this we can only guess today he confirmed what we can have long suspected namely that he intends to launch a prosecution against colonel gadhafi and other libyan leaders in other words he is mark in lockstep with the western powers just as he did over iraq he received

hundreds and hundreds of applications to prosecute members of the anti saddam coalition over to iraq war from two thousand and three on moves he didn't take any notice of a single one of them and as you know there's never been any investigation into iraq at all and my suspicion is that the same thing will be true of libya in other words that he will launch a prosecution against libya against the libyan leadership but not against the nato powers waging the war against it now they have has been some talk of the united nations about the need for a new resolution to allow allied forces to start a ground invasion if that happens what do you think we can expect. i don't think they'll get it i think that russia and china certainly russia. very sorry that they did not veto the original resolution. of six weeks ago which authorized the no fly zone and the protection of civilians the problem with these resolutions is that once you've let beliefs let loose the dogs of war it's very difficult to stop what

i mean is that it's very difficult to prevent the countries that are really fighting this war that's to save them from suburban america from sticking to anything that's takes us back to your first question about regime change. levels and in the original resolution now i'm running at once you've left or. you're. just saying once you've let the bombs started to fall it's very difficult to. contain it within the legal framework for a broader scope here and i look at syria we've seen seven weeks now of brutal crackdown on protesters there nearly nearly six hundred of reportedly killed i do think the allied forces are should go there next to perhaps. well of course i don't i mean i think that internal political of peoples of this kind need to be dealt with locally a lot of information came out subsequent to the event that the egyptian and through new zealand revolutions had in fact been heavily backed by various forms of covert

operatives from american financed n.g.o.s to. no doubt be secret services themselves perhaps the same is true of syria i strongly suspected i think this sort of interference is extremely damaging countries should be lift left to sort out their own affairs and the idea that the america that america having as we know in afghanistan for ten years intending to remain in iraq now since two thousand and three the idea that they're contemplating a very different libya and perhaps syria it almost beggars belief you know where is he going to draw from from the institute for democracy and cooperation like in paris thank you. the driving force behind nato as intervention in libya is the subject of constant international scrutiny and now as artie's lore emmet reports there are those who believe the alliance may have been trying to prevent khadafi from burying the american book.

according to some it's about protecting civilians we must not tolerate this regime using military force against its own people others say it's about oil the only reason they're interested in. your oil think we'd be in iraq if there be war there was broccoli but some are convinced intervention in libya is all about courage thief specifically daffy plan to introduce the goldstein are a single african currency made from gold a true sharing of the wealth it's one of these things that you have to plan almost in secret because as soon as you say you're going to change over from the dollar to something else a your going to be targeted there were two conferences on this one ninety six and another one in the year two thousand called the world which are the conference organized by and everybody was interested but i think most countries in

africa were clean we didn't give up in the months leading up to the military intervention he called on african and muslim nations to join together to create this new currency that would rival the dollar and euro they would sell oil and other resources around the world only for gold dinars it's an idea that would shift the economic balance of the world's countries wealth would depend on how much gold they have not how many dollars they trade and libya has one hundred forty four tons of gold the u.k. has doubled that split ten times the population if gadhafi had an intent to try to reprice his oil or whatever else the country was selling. global markets and accept something else as a currency or maybe launch a gold in our currency any moves such as that would certainly not be welcomed by the power elite today who are responsible for controlling the world's central banks so yes that would certainly be something that would cause his immediate dismissal and the need for other reasons to be brought forth for removing him from power it's

happened before in two thousand set up hussein announced iraqi oil would be traded in euros not dollars sanctions and an invasion followed some say because the americans were desperate to prevent opec from transferring oil trading in all its member countries to the euro the u.k. gold is kept here in a secure boat somewhere in the depths of the back the big lead has been most developed countries there's not enough to go around but that's not the case in places like libya and many of the gulf states and the whole deno would have given great african and middle eastern countries the power to turn around to their energy hungry customers in phase three the price has gone up and we want coals some say the u.s. and its nato allies literally couldn't afford to let that happen you were and that's r.t. loves it. portugal's three main political parties have given their consent to

a seventy eight billion euro bailout plan that's been claims the money promised to it by the e.u. and i.m.f. will be enough to help revive the country's economy but quarter course now becomes the third year as i remember to require a financial lifeline and scatter the prime minister says he had one easier terms than those imposed on greece and ireland but although he's so no drastic spending cuts are required the portuguese are fearful they'll be further austerity measures . from the middle stance university of applied sciences in germany says if the bailout works e.u. bureaucrats will control which of. course your goal should go for a short while ago for your area. make a sort of state. bankruptcy and go into the euro area again when it has solved it step to problems a country that is in deep debt and makes more depth every year cannot solve its problems by increasing its depth amount because in future the.

crowds will tell portugal what they have to do and what politics they have to to run to fulfill all the depth regularity regularities and therefore it depends on the aims from the spirit crowds what will be done in portugal and not what the people want in portugal and therefore this is one step further to. state where the bureaucrats are. the more powerful than the countries we do not know whether the enter euro will survive these eight programs you without an eye for a mosque or worse an hour twenty minutes past the hour let's check out some other world news in brief for you and at least twenty people agree or not dozens injured following a terrorist attack in central iraq most of the victims are being policeman reports

say a suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives into the police headquarters in the city of hillah the blast took place during a shift change when the officers were outside the building no one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. hundreds of syrian troops stormed a damascus suburb arresting over three hundred people tanks and troops were also reported to have been sent to other trouble spots amid fresh reports of anti-government demonstrations before the syrian army has begun to withdraw from the southern city of tehran following an uprising against the rule of president bashar al assad self it's been effectively under siege for ten days with electricity and telephone services cut off and snipers deployed on the rooftops. the violence is that after more than five hundred fifty people dead since the unrest began seven weeks ago. british voters are going to the polls in a series of national and local elections today they will also vote on a referendum to decide the way m.p.'s are elected to the commons the public is

being asked if they want to switch to the alternative vote system known as a.v. which ranks candidates in order of preference instead of voting for just one contender for the prime minister has said he fears the can country could be sleepwalking into disaster if the new method it was adopted however supporters say the system would give a voice to the voiceless. and for the first time since the fukushima nuclear plant catastrophe the radiation inside the station is at its lowest level because according to data collected by robots the station operative took the decision to allow workers to reenter the stricken site on thursday let's ask will involve installing a ventilation systems to filter out radioactive particles from the air the operation should take four or five days. but you can always go to r.t. dot com for additional info on all the stories we're covering including more on japan as the country's still struggling to get back on its feet find out how moscow's ex-pats are organizing events to raise money for those left homeless by

the earthquake and tsunami. and the merchant of death and no more russian business when a victim who was known by the provocative nickname has made sure the title can no longer be used by the media. plus the citizens of one russian city in the euro's believe they've seen a u.f.o. it's after a big glowing ball with four extending tails soared over the town check out the footage at r.t. dot com and see for yourself. if . a russian soyuz rocket is preparing for the launch of the crew cosmodrome in french guiana it's part of an ambitious joint project with the european space agency the rocket it will carry satellites for europe's own navigation system galileo into orbit it's the first time

a russian spacecraft is being used so close to the equator which makes it easier to reach orbit soyuz rockets that usually take off from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan carrying supplies and crewmembers to the international space station the rocket in it will go through a simulated test launch later on thursday with the actual blast off for all. our top of the business news with coverage. i don't welcome so our business report here on r.t. thanks for joining me north stream has been a sleighing the world's longest subsidy pipeline across the baltic the eleven billion dollar construction majority owned by gas from his own shadow to start delivering gas from russia to germany and the old some bypassing transit countries such as ukraine now for more i'm joined by a star called pelosi daria president putin has called north stream the russian window to europe what kind of opportunities would open. both of first time russian

gas will be pumped directly to europe bypassing transit countries and thus reducing delivery risks the first section the last section of the first leg is already in place and is ready to be joins together it will happen this summer when the three sections will be welded together into the longest offshore pipeline in the world it will run for twelve hundred kilometers from the shores of the gulf of finland through the baltic sea to directly choose to germany at a time when world events have pledged to increase concerns about nuclear energy and nuclear energy imports of from north africa the project takes on even more importance for both europe and russia according to the north stream managing director europe will soon have the security of the privately financed eleven billion dollars project providing

a fixed link between the european gas grades and some of the world's largest natural gas reserves now the pipeline is designed to carry enough natural gas to meet the demands of seek the twenty six million tonnes in central europe who are in the laws that some analysts believe that it would be that the project. but such an ambitious an expansion expensive project with speeds of all but now we see the results in reality and the first night to become a liberation of the woods at the end of the year while the construction of the second leg is expected to be finished by the end of the next year. ok thank you diapers call reporting on the north stream pipeline thank you very much and light sweet ads to losses up to us that report revealed a bigger than expected rise in weekly crude oil inventories plus the u.s. job data shows gains in employment and a quote below forecasts brant is losing over four dollars this hour gold and silver

again seeing losses the sell off in silver sold the metals recently dropped twenty percent and that's probably not the end of the slump sobers losing around five percent. and here's a snapshot of the market's performance us stocks are down the softer weekly unemployment claims rise to the highest level in eight months jones and the nasdaq the trading lower motors and for now they're among the companies reporting higher profits g.m. said earnings more than tripled and stronger sales in the u.s. and china stocks in europe are lower as well and investors took in the drop of running reports from some of the region's largest companies including lloyds banking group and so situation or rather both companies are down eight and four percent respectively the euro fell sharply after the european central bank declined to indicate that an interest rate hike next month was likely bank of england keeps key interest rate steady at record low half a percent and here in russia markets are treated primarily against the artist

losing almost two percent six is down over eighty percent of the index movers on the rise it's the south pole majors i once again coming under pressure as falling crude prices weigh on the sector it's a similar story for precious metals where protos gold is down sharply and it's also a bad day for the construction group pic which reported losses in the region of one hundred ten million dollars a full. the last. question manufacturing growth may be slowing down but the same is not true for services activity in the sector has risen to its highest level for almost six months according to the latest figures the growth has not been driven by the strong but rest falls and health better than ups . so we that's all the time we have in this edition of business our team but join us in less than one hour.

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