r.s.s. feeds with the palm of your. machine on the call. of the. new blow for the libyan rebels as the finance minister returns empty handed from washington after days of trying to convince the international community to release cannot get out these frozen assets. a meeting between the nato chief and the american president prompts questions as to what their real motives are behind their so-called humanitarian intervention in a complicated country. and one thousand days to go the countdown is on to the twenty fourteen winter olympic games in sochi and russians are marking the occasion with a bed so cross the country. asakusa closeups he heads to the hometown of europe's

largest hydroelectric station and find out how locals are trying to repair decades of damage to the rhythms and fishing industry of volgograd a. very warm welcome to you this is nazi live from moscow where it's now a just after three p m. well the libyan rebels have failed to gain official recognition from the us government but top rebel official was even denied a meeting with barack obama in washington on friday mahmoud jibril the first senior member of libya's national transitional council to meet the u.s. after meeting with american officials he comes to say his comments following the meeting word that the rebels are having trouble getting washington to release frozen assets the administration had earlier promised to hand over some of the

multi-billion dollar funds to the libyan opposition meantime a journalist patrick hades says the rebel allegiance with the west is only alienating libyans. robert gates said that he's cautious about understanding who makes up the opposition and to an extent caution is commendable because this humanitarian intervention by the west in libya wasn't a planned strategy was a war without any real i mean it was something that the west jumped into about any real clear sense of who they're doing it on their behalf of who the rebels are and what they want to achieve from it transitional national council of libya now look completely orientated towards the west towards nato towards america they want to try and get acceptance from barmer from western leaders they're not looking towards the libyan people it means that self-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 has come from the libyan people

it can come from the west 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 to be struggled for by the people of libya you can't form libya into a democracy if the solution doesn't come from the west removing their feet and i think it would be absolutely dreadful if this does end up killing me because they get out the should be removed by libyan hands and not by the west. well meantime in libya more nato airstrikes have reportedly struck the capital tripoli following a to find broadcast from colonel gadhafi meeting in washington barack obama and the nato head anders fogh rasmussen agree to continue the bombing as long as the libyan leader puts up a fight but is out he's loyalist reports the motivation of the u.s. like alliance is under scrutiny. several decades and wars later it's still the question it's top of mind when it

comes to the world's largest military alliance any people i think today wonder if at the end of the war why nato lo and behold it was 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 ferret's that the alliance lost its reason to exist instead of what happened in fact and in violation of even the accords in the agreements at the time was nato aggressively expanded. and a larger alliance that once promised peace has 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 church egypt goes back in november libya has launched the allies aided discord

some countries don't want to actually you know shoot ground targets some. air targets which are not. amidst the in-fighting 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 france wants to get in on what i call the imperial condominium a really kind of quest of africa is it to 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. well the very ones french and british allies have been flying over libya. is that the opportunity to oust the gadhafi regime it is

u.s. policy that gadhafi needs to go and prop up one more favorable to us foreign policy interests. simply was. pushed to screw to. a so-called humanitarian intervention that critics argue was never warranted but which now may be causing a humanitarian crisis we didn't stop 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 and the boat load of refugees though the united states has seemingly stepped back from libya he was the number one contributor to nato and therefore many would see the u.s. really as 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 it's like infighting as well as rising costs and every sense that same question people have been asking for decades comes to mind at the end of the

cold war why nato lauren lyster r.t. washington d.c. . now the libyan government claims a nato air strike has killed eleven muslim clerics in the city the coalition says the facility of bomb was being used to coordinate attacks on civilians and nato activists recross off things the alliance is intimidating the entire world with its campaign. you're talking about. your google earth story and you know well they lose face will be. served with your presumably years ago if. you don't think before you can find some states and they will start until they've achieved their objectives from the other nations around the world the reason you do is you do the birds in the united states britain france germany with sweden work lines will do this. for our friends or perviously

i mean this is what you are through this is working for you if you don't play ball with us sir you know when the in geopolitical terms this is a dangerous organization needs to be a problem in the world for the world it really needs to. stronger as a possible candidate the united nations are not a u.s. led military it's a jury of your resolve and grand forks over the world. from syria to libya where security forces opened fire on thousands of protesters killing at least six on friday soldiers tried to head off demonstrations by occupying mosques and blocking public squares all of this according to eyewitness accounts meanwhile international pressure is mounting on the syrian authorities over the brutal crackdowns the united states has warned syria that it would pursue additional steps to hold the country responsible for its gross human rights abuses along with the e.u. the u.s. has already imposed sanctions against the country and started sounding whether president bashar al assad's eleven year rule is legal human rights groups say as

many as eight hundred fifty people have been killed since the start of the revolt against assad's regime. but you can always get all the latest information on everything that's happening in north africa and the middle east on our facebook and twitter page there you can also find more not developing stories as well as photos videos and polls or make sure you have a look next time you're writing. now with. the winter olympics in sochi are underway most of the

construction final stages. and the developments the country's most anticipated sporting event has brought with it. oh this is a fantastic opportunity for russia to show what it can do on a ike a global sporting scale winter olympics in general the biggest thing a round when it comes to sporting events and there's also huge support for the for the for the this will take place those winter games here in russia i mean russia of course has some of the the top athletes when it comes to competing. in winter sports and they're all the people would see to seeing those those athletes perhaps do a little better on home soil in sochi than they managed to do in two thousand and ten in vancouver it is a lot to prove for the for the sportsman taking part this is so they can bring home

moguls on home soil puts him on this one thousand. a month to the to the game starting these events taking place across russia the clocks now ticking down in sochi and. across russia as well is that we seeing people celebrating this eerie moscow i will days you can see behind me chucking it down with rain people have been out in about one of the city's biggest parks they're flying the flag of sochi twenty fourteen taking part in a. one thousand meter fun run a fun space if you will those people take part on roller blades and roller skates and lines like that in the city but you've also been climbing one of the biggest mountains in the area to put the front up like the me at the top there and also to celebrate the games coming made events though will be the two musical spectacular is the plan for both a remote and insult sheet to commemorate the day to all of the woman thousands a mark of the games coming they made

a lot of promises in the bidding process and wowed the judges and the i.o.c. for me it's nationalistic amenity that they could put on something they've never really been seen before she is the the russian rivière it's more of a summer holiday destination however the mountains around because they put on it they are excellent i fulfill winter sports but a lot of. construction has to be done there's a lot of construction underway and some that still needs to be completed not just the the huge stadia that have to be built but also the road networks train networks hotels of course have to rebuild there's going to be thousands of people told from all over the world coming to start chief to watch those games but as my colleague there is course you know reports from such it seems that the constitution is going according to plan. a miracle in the making of construction the synergies fall short spells is entering its final stage less than two years to record this giant structure like most of the venues here in sweden it's being built on schedule. all

the facilities here except maybe for the main olympic stadium well have to be completed by two thousand and twelve so that they can be used during test competitions. and best of construction effort was launched in two thousand and seven in sochi won't be a little bit deal with the construction sites though could soon build and have the region samantha supplies over three hundred fifty thousand tons more than a did they have thousand workers taking part in the project three hundred of them are foreigners the chinese decide stadiums are strings include fruits sawmills bridges 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 is the first city resting for the big event tonight 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. i think the medals rubio was and russia's team

will perform better at home. pooler fair hair and snow leopard have been recently picked as the olympic mascots less than three years time this dream team 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 olympics vision is going to be as grand as russia imagines every minute counts or it's completing the mammoth construction now for a long time and in budget there is more security so cheap. and best of the compass iraq c c volga join us here as we take you want to join the longest river in europe the spin the backbone of the russian economy and an inspiration for its. money by is probably best known as the birthplace of one of india's the greatest exports that of bollywood but like many of the country's more cosmopolitan cities

it's undergoing constant change thanks to an economic boom for the millions of living there there's only one issue that dominates their daily lives that have clean water prius rita saw just how hard it can be their daily life in one by. 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's another story playing out on the streets of india's most populous city . i.v. cup at six pm and walk to a village that does one in half hours of read to get to book good self drinking water. this is shannon monica she's twelve years old and her life in mumbai literally revolves around finding water is cooler than it is that 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 back 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 are entitled to government services like water even after walking hours to get to a tap the water only runs at specific times for sometimes as little as ten minutes . while the people in a got 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. so one is in mumbai housewife despite living in a more modern apartment so wants to has to schedule her day around when she can get

water. only if. we get water at four am for one and a half of us since we just get it for just one and a half or we have to wake up early and get all the work done so want has to fill the to. 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 bar is an issue that seems to affect everyone here at five a girl is a one man managed to escape the problem is they must look a somebody and he's worth twenty seven billion u.s. dollars and his house there are hydroponic hanging gardens swimming pool water that he reportedly uses five hundred thousand acres 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. you have come to give me a memorandum and want to collected from video. if there is

a shortage of for dough we are going to give him more we came here to tell him this and protest it 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. but i feel bad in a house me get water for only one and a half hours whereas they have enough water one day even to waste it a constant battle to meet their daily needs preassure either r.t. mumbai india. it's rooted security forces clashed with palestinians in east jerusalem and at the west bank on friday just ahead of the market today some protesters holed stones at soldiers who responded with water cannons and tear gas reports say at least one person was killed and nearly a dozen rested and that day marks the founding of the state of israel in one

thousand forty eight after which some seven hundred thousand palestinians fled or were expelled in the war that ensued palestinians want east jerusalem to be the capital of the state they intend to establish in the west bank and gaza. egypt's interim ruling military council has vowed to use all means to crack down on what it called deviant groups threatening stability and security meanwhile the wife of asked of president hosni mubarak has suffered a suspected heart attack after being detained for fifteen days in cairo as part of a corruption probe the couple were accused of having abused their position for personal gain with the former president also facing charges over ordering the deaths of regime protesters. three people have reportedly been killed eighteen injured after security troops opened fire on protesters in yemen the shooting happened in the town of that's just south of the capital as thousands attended the funeral of another demonstrator killed on thursday people across the aisle have

been demanding an end to the twenty year rule of president saleh however the leader remains defiant saying he will use all the necessary means to defend his position. but with the u.s. debt ceiling already at a staggering level americans are less than happy about proposals to raise it and while obama and congress struggle to reach a compromise our very own resident in the big apple lori half honest look for a solution on the streets of new york. if the u.s. stops borrowing money it could negatively affect the whole world economy if it continues to borrow money it could accumulate a burden that's too heavy to carry so as the us best approaches the debt ceiling of over fourteen trillion dollars that congress just put into place in two thousand and ten should it can fit or raising that that feeling even more this week let's talk about that do you think we should raise the debt limit again i'm not sure they

shoot 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 going to spend if you have to cut out national parks if you have to cut out saving the turtle or if you have this is a cut out some teachers' jobs maybe three percent here three percent if we were just a small percentage 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 do too what's with that people you know say that there's so patriotic and that they're american and they stand for america but then they're not willing to pay more taxes for the country so 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 what's happening middle america is disappearing this shouldn't be happening do you think middle america is aware of the corporate sizing of america it seems

like people don't even realize how and twines they are you know i would agree with you i think middle america they're such good citizens nobody wants to make it 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 united three million dollars or seventy million or whatever or a.b.c. making forty five minute i mean what happens are going to five going to put their money back doing to hire people that you people working there what i would think would have much more value for everybody in the world economies which we. situation you know you look at what's happening with trying to. get to be economic situation for the time being in a pretty bad there so. the whole system just means it's a deal 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.

we continue exploring russia with our close. the country's most fascinating place. this time we're in the volga grad region. about a thousand kilometers or so south east of moscow the region is divided by the night evolved over the longest in all of europe the river has long been the backbone of the russian economy and an inspiration for its culture but despite providing so much human activity it's also causing huge damage things talk about estimates whether the great river is being harnessed or is being up in. the mighty volga it runs deep through the ocean so it is providing inspiration for songs and poems just the country's main north south launcher and decades ago

schumann ingenuity connected to the jordan river to the west. straits the centuries people dreamt of connecting the two rivers now this canal essentially joins distance east again. of both the john canal is an engineering marvel within a day a vessel can pass the canals thirteen 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 powers the local city of volgograd and sends lot smaller city to moscow hydroelectric plant behind me is a potent example of how much the volga can provide but harnessing the river like 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 popular girls about

a guy hydroelectric plant has done significant damage because it stopped fish swimming up the river to spawning grounds they turned back and start swimming downstream. now we don't know where they are. within a year all these houses will go forward into the river. depending on 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 canal so . let's see if we can only lead three ships we have enough water for last year the water level dropped because of this hydroelectric plant and it caused big problems you could only look through smaller chips or half loaded ones. control of the river flow by the plant has made building the focus for play more attractive serious floods are less likely but the water that is put into the drains is taken away from the fish that need it. when people started building on the floodplain the places

where the fish pond then flood anymore most of the spawning grounds are now gun and now it could last the voice of the voters ecology might start being heard after fifty years of damage the plant may change its regime to release water for the river spent if it not just its own. the first time in fifty years the rules will contain a point on maintaining biodiversity in the river we still have a chance to bring the vulgar back to life meaning that the mighty vogue is treated with the respect it deserves don't dance and. that they're about as much more waiting for you with dot com there's plenty for you to explore including in depth news coverage analysis and blogs for example russia scores find out how moscow and st petersburg won the right to host the world championship in two thousand and sixteen. and if you've ever believed one bit they'd be exhibits in

a museum or secretly come third life after the public goes home now have a chance to find out as moscow's cultural centers. open up all night for free as part of the international night at the museum get more details i don't see don't call. for we are coming to you live from moscow and i'll go off some spotlight is coming up here in our city in just a few moments i will be right off to a recap of our top stories.

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