today violence has once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations ruled the day. there's a new blow for the libyan rebels as the year finance minister turns out to hang out of from washington after days of trying to convince the international community to release colonel gadhafi is frozen assets. a meeting between the nato treaty than the american president francois sions asked why they are real motives are behind their so-called humanitarian intervention in conflict countries. plus where the thousand days left until the twenty fourteen winter olympics officials in russia's resort city of sochi are working around the clock and pulling out all the stops to competitors and spectators ally. and our teams close

a team has to the home town of you upset largest hydroelectric station and finds out how locals are trying to repair decades of damage to the rivers and fishing industry of all grab. it is not the russian capital you're watching r.t. with joshua welcome to the program. the libyan rebels have failed to gain official recognition from the us government a top rebel official was even denied a meeting with barack obama in washington on friday but a mood you brill is the first senior member of libya's national transitional council to visit the u.s. after meeting american officials there gravels are having trouble getting washington to release colonel gadhafi is frozen assets administration earlier promise to hand over some of the multi-billion dollar funds to the even opposition

journalist patrick hayes says the revolutions for the west is only alienating libyans. robert gates and so he's cautious about understanding who makes up the opposition and through an extent caution is commendable because this humanitarian intervention by the west in libya wasn't a plan the strategy was a war without any real i mean it was something of the with i don't think. any real clear sense of who they're doing it on behalf of who the rebels are and what they want to achieve from its transitional national council of libya now completely orientated from the west through of nato towards america they want to try and get exemptions from obama from western leaders and not looking towards the libyan people it means that so determination doesn't come from the libyan people it comes from this kind of political elite in libya who basically just tried to tell the west what it wants to hear recognition from the libyan people it can't come from

the way it's not just about getting rid of gadhafi it's about bringing about a democratic libya which is very much a process that has struggled for by the people of libya you can't form libya into democracy the solution doesn't come from the west removing gadhafi and i think it would be absolutely dreadful if this bombing killing gadhafi because gadhafi should be removed by libyan hands not by the way. in libya more nato air strikes have reportedly struck the capital tripoli following years of fine broadcast from colonel gadhafi being in washington grok obama and nato had anders fogh rasmussen agreed to continue bombing as long as the libyan leader puts up a fight but as archie's lauren lyster reports the motivation of the u.s. ally alliance is under scrutiny. for. several decades and more is later it's still the question that's top of mind when it comes to the world's largest military alliance many people i think today wonder

after the end of the cold war yeah nato lo and behold they have you said nato is busier than ever. set up to counter perceived threats from the soviet union the north atlantic treaty organization has plowed ahead without an enemy after the end of the cold war. some favorites that the alliance cost its region. instead what happened in fact and in violation of even the accords and the agreements at that time was nato aggressively expanded. and a larger alliance that once promised peace is instead pledged bombs in troops to afghanistan going on a decade. and in its latest endeavor the largest air strikes into libya despite uniting a new strategic goals back in november libya has launched the allies did discord some countries don't want to actually you know shoot ground targets some.

air targets which are not. amidst the infighting it's unclear what motives are really behind the planes flying in the name of nato over the african country is that the personal aspirations of a leader france was among the first to push for intervention but once you get in on what i call the imperial condominiums a really kind of africa is it the showcase in a new arms race military buyers love to have weapons that are tested in war if your weapon system does very well in the war you can count on sales going up in fact the only two planes now in contention for a ten billion dollar order of one hundred twenty six planes from india are the euro fighter typhoon and the french for felt the very ones french and british allies have been flying over libya. is it the opportunity to oust the gadhafi regime that is u.s. policy but that offer needs to go and prop up one more favorable to us foreign

policy interests try to. cater. to the subject which of course describe it as a humanitarian. intervention a so-called humanitarian intervention that critics argue. was never warranted but which now may be causing a humanitarian crisis we didn't start a bloodbath but we are prolonging and perpetuating the suffering of civilians in libya suffering that is now washing up on the shores of nato allies by the boatload of refugees though the united states has seemingly stepped back for libya he was the number one contributor to nato and therefore many would see the us really of being nato now this comes at a time when the conflict in libya on the ground more and more people are calling a stalemate and fighting as well as rising costs in every sense that same question people have been asking for decades comes to mind after the. nato lauren lister

r.t. washington d.c. the libyan government claims a nato air strike has killed eleven muslim clerics in the city of bragg the coalition says the facility it bombed was being used to coordinate attacks on civilians and i nato activist rick ross of saying c alliances intimidating the entire world with campaign. you're talking about where there is. no global story and there are you know world it was very smooth it was four years. ago was last year for seventy years ago a bomb would go through the forty three piece of stage he was struck. from the other nations around the world in recent years. the british in the united states britain france germany and sweden where we're going to resume. our principal abuse going on and this is what you are through with this is working for you if you don't

believe all of this. and your political terms this is a dangerous organization minutes in the world. needs to know certain strong response went down to the united nations and the military was in georgia resolving ground working over the war in syria security forces opened fire on thousands of protesters killing at least six people on friday soldiers tried to head off demonstrations by occupying mosques and blocking public squares according to eyewitness accounts meanwhile international pressure is mounting on the syrian authorities over the brutal crackdown data stays of the war in syria that it will pursue additional steps to hold the country responsible for its gross human rights abuses along with the huge the u.s. has already imposed sanctions against the country as washington also examining whether president bashar lost its eleven year old is legal human rights groups say as many as eight hundred fifty people have been killed since the start of the

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the developments that the country's most intense again at sporting a vast broad was it art is dance velocities in the region following the action. a miracle with the making of construction the city's bolshoi high spells is entering its final stage to less than two years to record this joint structure like most of the venues here in sochi it's being built on schedule. all over cities here except maybe for the main olympic stadium we want to be completed by two thousand and twelve so that they can be used during test competitions. and massive construction effort was launched in two thousand and seven and sochi won't build in pick bid believed to construction sites no consumable don't have the region's cement supplies over three hundred fifty thousand tons more than a did have thousand workers take part in the project three hundred of them are foreigners the good news despite stadiums and ice rinks include roads tunnels

bridget's together with new schools and hospitals they believe the lasting legacy of this tropical black sea resort so there's great excitement high hopes this of the russian city resting on the big event but i bet you can see the preparations you will there are being built the streets are cleaner. more tourists will come the olympics will bring festive mood into town. and i think the medals rubio was and was this team will be formed better at home. the polar bear hair and snow leopard have been recently picked as the olympic mascots less than three years join this dream she will greet the athletes and visitors of the two thousand and fourteen sochi winter games. one of the greatest sporting spectacles on the planet is just one thousand days away but if the sochi olympic vision is going to be as grand as russia imagines every minute counts or is completing the mammoth destruction effort

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for. the show to be soon which brightened if you move soon from phones to gratian it's. nice to start on t.v. don't come. what an hour to live from moscow run by is probably best known as a birthplace of lot of india's greatest sas ports bollywood and like many other countries more cosmopolitan cities it's undergoing constant change thanks to an economic boom but for the millions living there only one issue dominates their daily lives clean water are these greatest leaders are just how hard life in mumbai can be. by india the financial center for one of the fastest growing economies in the world. and the heart of india's beloved bollywood film industry but beyond the glitz and glam there is another story playing out on the streets of india's most

populous city. i think up at six pm and walk to a village that is one in half can get you a book of soft drink in water. this is shannon mana got but she's twelve years old and her life in mumbai literally revolves around finding water is going it at the end i don't go to school because i have to work at home my mormon dad work as liberals and they have to go out so i have to stay about and work at home from morning to evening in this slum it's actually more common to see a satellite dish bringing these people cable t.v. than it is to see a working tap to bring them water one point two million people in mumbai live in an authorised slums and aren't entitled to government services like water even after walking hours to get to attach the water only runs at specific times or sometimes as little as ten minutes. well the people in the got close community have managed

to find a broken pipe in a gutter not far from their homes many indians are spending up to ten percent of their salaries to buy usable water water access isn't just a problem that affects people living in the slums actually thirty five percent of households in mumbai receive less than the desired one hundred liters of water per person per day and many of those people live in middle class communities. of sawan is a housewife despite living in a more modern apartment so want to have to schedule her day around when she can get larger. we didn't want to at four am for one and a half us since we just did it for just one and a ha far we have to wake up early and get all our work done so want us to fill the tank on her roof during the time the city gives her access to water and if she needs more than the tank of water she's able to fill she's out of luck barter is an issue that seems to affect everyone here and five there is one man that managed to

escape the problem has been is will pay somebody and he's worked twenty seven billion us dollars and has house there are hydroponic hanging gardens swimming pool water and he reportedly has a five hundred hour leaders of water every month it's something that angers many here while most are used to seeing the great contrast between rich and poor on a daily basis they believe that it's access and waste that is unfair. we have come to give a monument on demand water collected from being used if there is a shortage of forth to be are going to give him more we came here to get him this and protested and for those who have no choice but to plan their day around water retrieval it's a painful reminder that even when it comes to basic necessities the wealthy elite still has the advantage. i feel bad in a house we get water for only one and a half of us whereas they have enough water than even to waste it

a constant battle to meet their dealing needs preassure either r.t. mumbai india. larger national news and great for you the sour. agents injuring ruling military council has vowed to use all means to crackdown on lot of call deviant groups threatening stability and security while the wife of ousted president hosni mubarak has been detained for fifteen days in cairo pending further investigations into corruption allegations comes after the couple were questioned on charges of profiteering the former president is also accused of ordering the deaths of ansar regime protesters. and three people have reportedly been killed and eighteen injured after security troops opened fire on protesters in yemen the shooting happened in the town of south of the capital as thousands attended the funeral of another demonstrator till last thursday people across yemen have been demanding an end to the twenty year rule of president saleh however as a leader remains defined saying he will use all necessary means to defend his

position. europe is getting ready for tonight's final offer your vision song contest this year or some one hundred twenty million fans are expected to watch the show with twenty five are just ready to fight it out for votes according to bookmakers germany france and ireland among the favorites russia's helmets are panda. was expected to repeat the success of two thousand and eight when russia one the contest. a u.s. drone strike has reportedly killed five people in pakistan the attack comes despite the recent year aeration and relations between washington and islamabad pakistan's lawmakers have slammed the american operation that killed osama bin laden two weeks ago washington still hasn't apologized for keeping islam about in the dark over the rate are his military contributors things the u.s. should have been more cautious. nobody can be of a u.s. administration unique capability to model the waters and bondo the message

last week a u.s. president obama deployed to top u.s. officials to negate the negative impact from the overkill verbosity of that has come from the white house first it was u.s. attorney general eric holder who tried to change that perception about where the direct order is for the u b l raid war to keel or capture and then as ministration dispatched the u.s. national security adviser thomas danny. both did their best to cover political interference into a cold bird special forces missions and pakistan but in advertently the compromise of the whole nature of the authorization it was designed first and foremost as a political campaign not as of this special operation before you author a son but if to step up and talk to media make sure that you get together hold your

national security teams and jilly gauge just by one person who will have all necessary information and authority to speak on behalf of the u.s. president. whether you as dad ceiling already at a staggering allow americans are last than happy about proposals to raise it and while bombing congress struggle to reach a compromise our own residents and the big apple or harvest looked for a solution on the streets of new york. if the us stops bearing money it could negatively affect the whole world economy if it continues to borrow money it could accumulate a burden it's too heavy to carry so as the us past approaches the debt ceiling of over fourteen trillion dollars that congress just put into place in two thousand and ten should it consider raising at that ceiling even more this week let's talk

about that do you think they should raise the debt limit again i'm not sure the should but they will because they really have to that's how do we get to a place where we have to keep doing it. because. to unlink too much expenditure if you have to try to out national parks if you have to cut out saving the turtle or cut out some teachers drops maybe three percent here or three percent or three were ever worth just small percent of everything have to cut everyone has to give up something would you be willing to give up two more percent of your salary no tax no tax raises at all you'd be willing to pay more in taxes yeah a little bit i think is patriotic. i you do what's with that people you know that say that they're so patriotic and that they're american and they stand for america and they're not willing to pay more taxes for the country but i think the only political system that's kind of relevant to christianity is socialism and i don't think jesus would be very happy with us not sharing it's a shame with

a little miracles disappearing this should be happening do you think middle america is aware of the corporate sizing of america it seems like people don't even realize how enshrines they are you know i would agree with you i think middle america they're such good citizens nobody wants to make any they want to be rabble rousers you know they want to be included in the whole process but when you see people from the economic you know three million dollars or seventy million or whatever or a.b.c. making forty five minute i mean what happened to me by doing that with their money back doing to hire people if you people working with you would have much more value for everybody the world economies in the same situation you know you look at what's happening with trying to. get the economic situation for the time being are pretty bad they're. going to regroup the whole system just needs to take whether or not you think the u.s. should raise the debt ceiling the bottom line is given the fact that we've done it seventy four times since nine hundred sixty two i think it's safe to say that it's going to be raised again very soon.

a time now for some prowling but you don't have to path or backs just join our closest team as we show you a bit more off what life is like in russia. well today we are and of all the grab regions sun run thousand kilometers southeast of moscow the region is divided by the mighty of all the river that's the longest in europe the river has long been a bad bone of the russian economy and an inspiration for its culture but the spy providing so much human activity is also causing huge damage items town barred investigate whether the grey river is being harnessed or abused. the mighty volga that runs deep through the russian so it does provide inspiration

for songs and poems but is the country's main north south function and decades ago human ingenuity connected to the don't revert to the west. rates over centuries people dreamt of connecting the two rivers now this canal essentially joins distance seas together. to vote the dawn canal is an engineering marvel within a day a vessel can pass the canals thirty blocks ten million tons of shipping does so every year. another concrete giant is this finished fifty years ago it's the biggest hydroelectric plant in europe it was the local city of volgograd and sends lots more electricity to moscow the hydroelectric plant behind me is a potent example of how much the volga can provide but harnessing the revelent this isn't without its cost. fishermen who've been watching fish stocks for years they see the slow damage the downing of the river has done especially to russia's prized

sturgeon the source of caviar work and the president of the hydroelectric plant has done significant damage because it stopped fish swimming up the river to the spawning grounds they turned back and start swimming downstream and now we don't know where. they all. within a year all these houses were gone fallen into the river. pentagon how many of the hydroelectric plants turbines are on the water level can change suddenly and dramatically too suddenly for the banks to absorb it plays havoc with the canals who. that's a stupid little if we can only look through ships we have enough wool to full last year the water level dropped because of this hydroelectric plant and it caused big problems you could only look through smaller ships offloaded ones. control of the flow one of the planters made building the bogus flood plain more attractive serious floods and less likely but the water that is put into the drains was taken

away from the fish that need it. when people started building on the flood plain the places where the fish pond don't flood anymore most of the spawning grounds are now gone now but lost the voice of the voters of color gee might stop being good after fifty years of damage the plant may change its regime to release water for the rivers benefit not just. the first time in fifty years the rules will contain a point to me biodiversity in the river will still have a chance to bring the boulder back to life meaning that the night you vote is treated with the respect it deserves don't box and. remember there is much more art and dot com there spying for you or including in death news coverage and analysis and blogs all russia's core is moscow and saying that is worthwhile how's the hockey world championship in twenty six. and i feel like staying up all night and i

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for the full slim we've got to eat first the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers m r t. s my name is daniel schmidt this is julian the founders we're here to make a short presentation about the we can fix project. the first step in the fourth effect is to get information out about the real world playing jordan war on syria and long after the rivers was the biggest. going to be in the market you're going. to find a difficult and you saw as this convention you would hunt me down and kill.

this is exactly one of the reasons why we left russia because it has become a war of all of this all the games. then of all the actual information. but thank you. to all the people around the wold. be. for some this is just a parliament building in britain. but then sixty six years ago it was the final targets. and the last major offensive for the red army. its capture became the symbol of the fall of the fascist citadel. and the victory over nazi germany.