from feinstein. starts on t.v. don't succumb. to the. conspiracy theories surrounding us about bin laden's death are running wild around the world following conflicting reports from the us government and evidence of blackouts. you start us on high alert as fears grow the peace and stability it struggling to achieve will go up in smoke comes the beginning of all does need. the frozen assets of colonel gadhafi could be released and handed over to help your position comes amid accusations the coalition started the andress to prevent would be creating a new rival international currency. the top story in business north stream finishes laying the world's longest sea sea pipeline across the baltic the construction will

start deliveries gas from russia to germany bypassing transit countries such as ukraine journey for more on this story now this update. international news live from moscow this is r.t. with the twenty four hours a day. has come under attack from critics for failing to deliver proof of them up in laden's death the president has brought the release of photos of the body of the al qaeda leader so i think national security risks and decision was announced two days after bin laden was killed by u.s. special forces and buried at sea exact circumstances of his death remain unclear and have raised questions about the legality and legitimacy of the killing. as more in the story. began with an international news bombshell cry. we dropped by the

united states after a firefight they killed osama bin laden and took custody of his body there was a female who was in fact in a line of fire. that reportedly was used as a shield to shield bin laden from the incoming fire by tuesday a big blunder and major backpedaling in the room with bin laden a woman enlightens one of the women 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 laden yet failing to get the facts story 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 fed the conspiracy machine they've were all on a prior blaze that inflamed after failing to deliver on promises of providing 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 will stand in line i don't think there was any question that its ability to photograph where would be presented to the public we have no need to publish those photographs to establish what was on a bin laden was killed u.s. president barack obama refused to release any visual evidence confirming bin laden's gaffe 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 want to inflame people well fine how about bringing in certain members of the press along with a panel of unrelated 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. shortly

afterwards meanwhile bin laden's expedited sea burial has been the target of conspiracy and act u.s. officials say was done in keeping with muslim tradition. here is required mention islamic law of the individual very within twenty four hours as many have noted washington broke its own rule when the bodies of saddam hussein's sons were embalmed and held for eleven days after being killed by u.s. forces but there are so many inconsistency is 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 in no or in this case know what to say before you speak and not just in one week ago it was barack obama at the center of a two year conspiracy that die 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 missing questions surrounding the transparency the u.s. government bring up or ny r.t. new york as all of bin laden's demise as he even more pressure on the already strained relationship between pakistan and the u.s. is not claims its sovereignty was violated by the secret mission to eliminate the terrorist figurehead meanwhile washington is trying to establish whether it's being sheltered was indeed sheltering and living in an affluent suburb near the pakistani capital but it's a lot easier if a motion reports the al qaeda leader's death won't necessarily mean an end to america's role in the region. some of bin laden's death couldn't have canada's better time u.s. and pakistani relations are going through their worst period since nine eleven reasons behind it president and private contractors when a cia agent shows to pakistan his dad in broad 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 the president's order be in when. they get in the interest of. pressure why not western pakistan just one week before al qaeda as leader was killed and anti u.s. jones and stray shane united hundreds of protesters fear is that another twenty five people were killed in a strike in the total number of civilian deaths into the hundreds. karim had lost his son and a brother in two thousand and nine attack the drone operator miles away from here pushed the button when it was night in pakistan and creams how family was sleeping . they were a real may may may may or go to a man. for. this. war of

pakistan and the gobi or immigrant or the many people sharing this opinion pakistani officials are warning the u.s. is fuel an insurgency rather than coolin it they harm more than their help because of the color group. is there danger because of the civilians in the area america's reaction has been varied the white house first accused pakistan of not doing enough to counter terror before the us changed its tactics finally addressing pakistan's calls to acts as america's drone technology could despite signs of a peace offering and generic 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 we throw from of guys stand seem to have collapsed in us about bin laden's demise just like us drones came out of the blue delivering a direct hit on us critics. it's nice america's fictionally will hardly change the

life of ordinary people here in a country it's been in the mates to factored by the global war on terror since recently in pakistan wasn't it to the complete opposite of busy night that this is going to be easy. these cities he immediately leap basically like hank hill as you can see the people that are going to follow their daily lives that we have less than a hundred kilometers away from here and with tens round he is very fragile part of. the country's army has always been alert now more than ever. many fear of death over some of bin laden will spark a backlash and endanger peace it has been achieved refinish not see pakistan.

along the way you hear this all set for a joint venture space rocket is gearing up carry some of central europe technology to orbit the thought of what makes the project so special that's in just a few minutes from now. but first to libya where colonel gadhafi forces a locked in grueling battles with rebels who are being supported by nato airstrikes this is the international coalition between rome agreeing to establish a financial front to support the insurgents in their fight against the libyan leader's regime there secretary of state hillary clinton says washington also hopes to use gadhafi seize the assets to fund the insurgency the rebels want more material help including weapons and are even asking the alliance to kill the colonel on their behalf but the coalition insisted affy is not their target but despite bombing his compound killing members of his family charles glass is an expert on the arab world thinks the probability rebels will do more harm than good . the economic that money belongs to the libyan people and there's

a civil war going on in libya and it may not be fair to distribute money to one side or the other in the civil war might be better to preserve that money so when the war is over and the country needs to be rebuilt and go it can go to benefit all of the people not just some of them it will certainly escalate the conflict as we remember from the united states financing the misjudging in afghanistan against the soviets simply raise the stakes and increase the numbers of casualties if they give it to the transitional national council in libya who are fighting a war against gadhafi surely they're going to go to international arms merchants and other work on the black market and buy weapons there calling for regime change and turning it over turning the country over to this rapidly created gnc which. is composed of a lot of ex regime members including solar wind blowing the other way and want to be on the winning side in their commitment to democracy historically has been absolutely nil. the driving force behind nato intervention in libya is the subject

of constant international scrutiny and that was what is laura and that reports there are those who believe the alliance may have been trying to prevent at afi from bearing the american dollar. 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 arabs instead of. your oil think we'd be in iraq if their major adds or if there was broccoli but some are convinced intervention in libya is all about currency specifically kids happy plan to introduce the goldstein are a single african currency made from bowls 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 go to conferences of this running ninety six and another one and. call the world methodical inference organized by that and everybody was interested but i think most countries in africa are working could ask me to 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. it's an idea that would shift the economic balance of the world's countries wealth which depends on how much gold they have notes 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 in the 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 forward through moving him from power it's happened before in two thousand saddam hussein announced iraqi oil would be traded in euro's 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 here in a secure vault somewhere in the depths of the bank of big leds in 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 have called d.n.r. would have given oil rich african and middle eastern countries the power to turn around their energy hungry customers and say sorry the price has gone up and we won

gold some say the u.s. and its nato allies literally couldn't afford to let that happen nor am its r.t. loved it. a year on after the general election british voters are taking part in a referendum to decide the way m.p.'s are elected republican being asked if they want to switch to the alternative vote system it's known as a very well for more i'm now joined by william dartmouth and any independence party in fact the earl of dartmouth joining me in london thanks so much for being with us and i know you've been asked this question a million times could you briefly explain what is the alternative vote and how does it differ from the current first past the post system very u.k. . world the first i suppose system is is incredibly simple which is that whoever gets the most votes on the on the first and only ballot gets selected. the alternative vote is is rather different from that which is the kind of that's

ranked and and. and if the the kind of that with the most votes on the ballot has less than fifty percent of the row the lower ranking votes which most of the preference votes are redistributed until one of the kind of this ends up with fifty percent of the vote now that now we're in london as you can see from the backdrop here and that is the that is the system under which boris johnson the rather famous. mayor of london was elected so so there's nothing very weird and then there's not a very peculiar about it so will you be supporting the a.v. will try to vote. i've supported i cast my vote for it by post on monday actually so i voted yes and the reason is because first class the post works rather

world when there are two dominant parties as the work in britain in the one nine hundred fifty s. it doesn't work very well as when we have a multi-party system which we do in the u.k. at the moment and and. for example. in the ninety's in ninety five which was the high watermark of the two party system ninety six percent of the votes cast for cast either for labor or conservative and the consequence of that was that nine out of ten west of the m.p.'s were elected with with fifty percent of the vote all or all more so is this really if you follow it if you just if you fast forward to the to the may twenty ten dereliction of his recent election. the only two thirds voted either labor or conservative and in consequence only one out of three westminster m.p.'s got over

fifty percent of the vote which means two out of three were sponsored he's working with a lesson from tip of the vote so this is not critical source of problems this is a hard luck story though coming from m.p. saying that with the dog likes of you saying that we want is a good system because the likes of the u.k. independence party may fare a bit better in the next election i mean all this is really driven by the people to the people in the u.k. really want this. well i mean you're absolutely right to say this is only the second nationwide referendum that there's actually there's actually ever been in the u.k. and if we are going to have a net a nationwide referendum we certainly should not be having it on the order of the only alternative vote we should we should for example have had all be having a referendum on our relationship with the european union which the three big parties all promised us attacking a broker sort of surgically speaking larger for plenty of times about that but what about the situation there with the british people do they really understand i mean it's what you just explained it sounds quite complicated to the british people really know what they're being asked to vote for today well i think it's i think

it's very patronizing for for for for our people and as a fellow william i buy. that characterization but i do think it's very patently to say that the british people to deal with really any people or for that matter don't understand this that or the other it's just a simple it's a simple system of ranking which is used for for most elections for trade unions clubs the speaker of the house of commons the mayor of london a very very similar systems are used for if it's for the leader lead leader the conservative party exactly the same to sort of lead is used to the leader the leader of the labor party and so on and so on so there's this is a pretty simple system which is which is we which is use concert because some of it is not but it is good but it is a bit more responsive to the needs of the electorate here literally first election many examples than the u.k. where it's used book how come the only other major democracy in the world is using a system that's not straight all the other major democracies are using the first part of the system so what michael holmes you know what with respect bill that's

the that that's not true there are many many many systems of election and i was for example elected under something called called the the whole system of proportional representation which if you like i'll explain to you in excruciating detail no a lot of time. but there are there are. actually are thirty countries including france which he was a very similar system to a.v. and so they use it over two ballots and not one but look what is probably the only thing and also in addition to that and i'm not sure i can say this on russia today but there are but there are ten members ten of the member states of the european union were former eastern bloc countries and they had a as it were a blank blank page but i converse or should decide which electoral system to use and none of the ten have chosen to use first past the post ok which it was because

it was a signatory to the first very briefly if not a big fan of yours and i want you to be my m.p. can i still just vote for one candidate or do i have to vote for the other not who i may have no interest in whatsoever because if i really wanted you in power i just want to vote for you nobody else is that possible to do that you get yes you can yes you can but everybody we don't forget neither myself nor the u.k. independence party drafted the the original bill i mean that i mean the reason the reason that we're having this referendum is it is because of a stitch up between david cameron and nick clegg who apparently now didn't seem to be speaking to each other but it's interesting they both are voting for obviously different things so that's an interesting reflection on the coalition government which we don't have time to talk. with every player from the u.k. independence party live in london we really appreciate your time and thanks for explaining what's to be quite a complicated referendum being put to the british public today thank you thank you you thank. well time now to update you on some other world news in brief at this

stage of the babies twenty people killed and dozens injured following a terrorist attack in central iraq most of the victims were police when the reports say a suicide bomber drove a car parts with explosives into the police headquarters in the city of hillah at last took place during a shift change when many officers are outside the building now as you claim responsibility for the attack. the syrian troops will start of damascus suburbs arresting over three hundred people tanks and troops are also reported to be sent to other trouble spots amid fresh reports of anti-government demonstrations meanwhile the syrian government rothley subtle city of barrel full not rising because the rule of president bashar assad tell itself as effectively been under siege for ten days electricity telephone services cut off and so that was deployed on the rooftops violence has left more than five hundred fifty people dead since the rest began seven weeks ago. i love to japan where for the first time since the fukushima nuclear plant catastrophe the radiation inside the

station is it at its lowest level this according to the data collected by robots and the station operator took the decision to allow workers to reenter the stricken site on thursday at times will involve installing ventilation systems to filter out radioactive particles from the operation should take four or five days. you know what destroyed you please go to our web site it's r t dot com for additional information all the stories we're covering about including more on japan as a country 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 merchant of death no more russian businessman victor bruton was known by the vocative nickname has made sure the title can no longer be used by the media and. the citizens of one russian city in the urals believe that they've seen a u.f.o. after a week glowing ball with four extending tails all over the town to check out

official nasa dot com to see for yourself all right it will come. from. a russian soyuz rocket is preparing to launch the crew cosmodrome in french guyana as part of an ambitious joint project with the european space agency the rocket will carry satellites for europe's own navigation system galileo into orbit it's the first time a russian spacecraft been used so close to the equator which makes it easier to reach orbit so it's rockets usually take off from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan carrying supplies and crewmembers to the international space station but look at include who will go through a simulated test also later on thursday when the actual blast off shuttle for august. i'll be back with the top stories for you right summary of

the main stories in about seven minutes from now but first the business news with korean that's coming your way in just a few moments stay with us life here in moscow. for the full story we've got it from the biggest issues didn't human voice face to face with the news makers. in most going to be in hotels i'm going to do you know over those a hotel show people promise it is called as much an east west. if was. reticent to say yes lobby and stand. historical hotels of a culture in the city. called small. make their elegant. district less the tropicana hurtado.

welcome to business good to have you with me nordstrom has finished laying the world's longest line across the board take the eleven billion dollar construction majority owned by cast from its to start delivering gas from russia to germany in the autumn bypassing transit countries such as ukraine. stretching from the book in russia to grow in germany the one thousand two hundred twenty four kilometer pipeline is to pump fifty five cubic meters of siberian gas to the heart of europe a majority owned by gazprom the project has received in floozy or stick backing from germany in the past however analysts some doubt that the feasibility of such an ambitious and expensive project plan that there would be insufficient demand in europe and he is russia would not be able to fill it however the nuclear crisis in japan has caused major european countries to rethink their energy and policies thereby pushing russian gas to the fore once again and went for gas in europe

showing signs of rebounding christine just correct. believes the completion of the project is coming up just the right time. the north stream pipeline we allowed security to germany in particular cities goes there and particularly now that libya's gas exports to europe have been disrupted we find that most of europe the storage capacity so about half full so it will come just in time we see predictions of european gas demand increasing by about one point two percent this year and he may go as far as three percent in the beginning of next year it all depends on the economic recovery and once the economic recovery say we will definitely need the natural gas from that pipeline. but look at oil now light sweet losses after u.s. trade report reveals a bigger than expected rise in weekly crude oil inventories the u.s.

drop data shows gains in employment and in april below forecasts brant is losing over four dollars to start gold and silver futures extend thursday the main u.s. metals exchange announced two increases in trading profits for sober so often service over metal recently dropped twenty percent that's probably not the end of the slog it's losing around five percent. and here is a snapshot of the market's performance u.s. stocks are mixed this hour as equities and commodities were hit again after a surprise rise in jobless claims. at the nasdaq the dow jones is trading lower and the nasdaq is just like the higher general motors is the louder the companies reporting profits european stocks ended because they trading session mixed investors took a raft of earnings reports for some of the region's largest companies including lloyds banking group and so theaters in iraq view of fell sharply after the european central bank did not indicate that an interest rate hike next month was likely bank of england interest rates steady at record low after such

a year in russia markets close in the red as well the out years dropped to its lowest level in five months as well stocks slumped way by commodities the best. scott concerned the tightening economic policy will slow economic growth here the indexes movers on them isaac's oil majors once again come under pressure as falling crude prices weigh on the sector a similar story with precious metals where part of the gold coast sharply and it was also a bad day for construction group pick for the court of losses of the region of one hundred ten million dollars for the last year. sold the business i have for you for now but stay with us for headline news with bell just.

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