margetts. find out what's really happening to the global economy cause a report on our. shattered hopes washington dashes libyan rebels expectations of official recognition and seems in no hurry to the opposition more cash. nato planes colonel gadhafi is time is up and pledges to make him stop fighting but the libyan leader says foreign forces will never reach him. the clock ticks down to america's winter olympics into russia with a thousand days to go the country is already warming up ahead of a friend picked off.

of you with us here on r t i matt trezise our top story to us has denied libyan official rebels official recognition this comes after a visit to the white house by a senior member of the opposition council which is pushing for international support the libyan envoy says rebels are having trouble getting washington to release colonel gadhafi has frozen assets the u.s. had earlier promised to hand over some of the multi-billion dollar funds to aid the opposition anti-war activist john a reset as any revolution is doomed to failure when the government turns to western countries for help. us are interested in stopping the revolution but not helping the revolution i think the intervention was meant to corrupt and control the revolution for us aims and not doing any real life return or incapacity to actually alter the situation in libya in the way that the two soon and egyptian revolutions did the object of the us is to to keep the libyan rebels on

a very short lead not to allow them any real independence or ptolemy to use them for us foreign policy ends the rebels were naive if they ever believed that the west was going to have an open hand towards them it was going to help them freely assist them in completing their revolution as soon as you start appealing to the imperial powers for assistance they are going through a price for that assistance i was always going to be the case the once the west intervened the logic which was running before that people would see western intervention as a reason to support who perhaps that absolutely no other reason to do so you can see now the people who even protest look at the regime detest the western intervention even more what is clear is that the west is now engaged on regime change is no engaged on raids whose aim is to kill gadhafi that revolutions either succeeded by mobilizing their own people against the hated and popular regime or

they don't succeed at all there's no easy route to the revolution using the assistance of the western powers or nato airstrikes have hit the libyan capital tripoli after a defiant broadcast from colonel gadhafi saying that he's beyond the coalition's reach washington insists the u.s. will continue its campaign in a country as long as the libyan leader attacks his own people rocky's lauren lyster of course the motivation of the u.s. led alliance is also 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 many people i think today wonder if at the end of the cold war why nato lo and behold they obviously 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. fair

that the alliance lost its reason to exist instead what happened in fact and in violation of even the accords and 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 blob's air strikes into libya despite uniting our new strategic goals back in november libya has launched the allies into discord some countries don't want to actually. 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 for them to also get in on what i call the condominium

a really kind of africa is it the showcase in a new arms race military buyers love to have weapons sort of test and 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 rebel the very ones french and british. lies have been flying over libya. is it the opportunity to oust the khadafi regime that is u.s. policy that gadhafi needs to go and prop up one more favorable to us foreign policy interests try to. shift which of course to screw. the region 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 the 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 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 the allied end fighting as well as rising costs in every sense that fame question people have an athlon for decades comes to mind after the end of the cold war yeah nato lauren lyster r.t. washington d.c. libya's government says a nato air strike has killed eleven muslim clerics in the eastern part of the coalition claims the facility had bombed was being used to coordinate attacks on civilians and to activist rick rose leaves the alliance may be intimidating the world with its libyan campaign. you're talking about and what were those people in

the google or a story corps and you know the world will be with them so these nobody bondservant are really responsible for seventy years ago they bombed would be you know now the world has been for a concert stage and they want to stop until they can see their documents from the other nations around the world to receive to guide us again soon to come over and move the bridges in the united states britain france germany and sweden there were work when you could do the same there are friends who are friends with her he was very honest and since were threatened with this is working from you if you don't play broader the story you are with and more in geopolitical terms this is a dangerous organization that is your problem as the world community through world community needs to grow it was certainly a strong reason for us working out of the united nations and not a u.s. led military it's in georgia resort and ground work so well in the world stay with us here on r t still ahead this hour until the well runs dry outside the glass he

has capital one by thousands are caught in a daily battle for clean drinking water. to a russian city on the banks of europe's longest river to explore how the waterway to bring gold vitale brings by power to both the reasons folk tales and it's economy that's coming your way. but first russians are in high spirits what a thousand days to go before the next winter olympics come to sochi huge festivities are being held across the country carbonating in concerts in the black sea resort and here in the capital moscow are his paper all over has been following the celebrations. here in russia everybody very excited about the twenty fourteen games that will be held in chief now we have two defense all around across russia celebrating i thought. one thousand day milestone the the clock has now been ten don't insult she counting down to the opening ceremony that will take place in a few years time well there's also other events going on here in moscow large group

of people on roller blades and roller skates taking part in a i one thousand meter fun race one skate i guess if you will around one of moscow's biggest parks plying the plug for sochi twenty fourteen more power to you that they've been braving which is a terrible weather right here in the russian capital right now no cost winter sports incredibly popular here in russia and russia has a great track record when it comes to the games however last time out in vancouver they didn't do too well resulted in a lot of changes when it came to personnel and it all can i sing it in training in old and getting people ready for the winter olympics those new people now in place now be looking to make the sochi twenty fourteen games the games where russia gets back on track and gets back winning the gold medals that they paid became so used to over the years but big this russia put forward to the international olympic committee was quite an unusual bit it was something that impress the judges staci

is a resort town known as the russian riviera town though it's more of a sober holiday destination however the mountains across napoleonic are perfect for winter sports and this is a lot of i think has gone really putting the games in see what is a tropical resort so there's a lot of work to be done to make sure that sochi is ready make know here for my colleague dennis pollutes he's in sochi about just how those preparations are coming along. with me construction synchs bush says it's fun to see. then there's this giant structure like most of the venues here in sochi it's being built on schedule. all the facilities here except maybe for the main olympic stadium is well 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 when sochi won the olympic bid believe to

construction sites no consume more than half the region's samantha supplies over three hundred fifty thousand tons more than eight and a half thousand workers take part in the project three hundred of them are foreigners the bad news besides stadiums and ice rinks include roads tunnels bridges together with new schools and hospitals they will leave a lasting legacy for the tropical black sea resort so there is great excitement and high hopes this of the russian city resting on the big event tonight you can see the preparations you will there are being built the streets are clean are being filled more tourists will come the olympics will bring festive mood into town. i think the medals will be ours and roses team will be form better at home. if cooler 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 is completing the mammoth construction effort on time and in budget there's more security sochi there we're hearing that the the work almost complete in some stages and certainly on track els everywhere else to make sure that in a thousand days time when the opening ceremony takes place in the olympic torch is lit in sochi and everything's ready for a fantastic winter games. while some are used to clean water as something quite ordinary for millions it's a daily struggle to find india's mumbai many local families lacking adequate water supply although they say some have enough to pour away rocky's priya sridhar found out how difficult the search for water can be even in a country's economic. no my india the financial center for one of the thousand

describing 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.v. cup at six pm and walk to a village that is one in half ours every to get two buckets of drinking want to go . this is shannon monica she's twelve years old and her life in mumbai literally revolves around finding water. i don't go to school because i have to work at home my mom and 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 a tap the water only runs at specific times for sometimes as little as ten minutes . well the people in a couple's 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. the lawn is mum by housewife despite living in a more modern apartment so wants to has to schedule her day around when she can get water. pani. we get water at four am for one and a half us since we just get it for just one and a half hour we have to wake up early and get all the work done so want has 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 a one man managed to escape the problem is same as the pay somebody is worth twenty seven billion us dollars and fish house there are high for product hanging gardens swimming pool water and he reportedly uses five hundred years of water every month it's something that angers many indians 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 it's unfair. to have gone to give a new memorandum and water collected from. if there is a shortage of bordeaux we're going to give him more we gave him this and produced 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 left i feel bad in the house began to want to feel

only one and a half was when as he had enough watch of the one day even to waste it a constant battle to meet their daily needs preassure either r. t. mo my indiana. if you want to let your t.v. cool down for a while you can always turn on your computer and find more on our team dot com here's what's online right now. u.s. congressman ron paul throwing his hat into the presidential ring for thirty twelve we explore with a tea party candidate has a chance to land america's top job. and a smokescreen for trouble greenpeace activists we are not scared could once again be covered in smaug in just a week unless officials take spreading wildfires seriously let's hope they do find out if russia faces a repeat of last summer's sweltering heat wave that are key dot com.

at least three people have been killed as a roadside bomb hit a bus in eastern pakistan this comes a day after a taliban attack avenging osama bin laden's killing left eighty seven people dead islam a body has criticized the u.s. operation that killed bin laden or his military contributors says washington should have been more careful when planning the raid. nobody can give the u.s. administration unique capability to model the waters and bond build the message last week the u.s. president obama deployed to talk to 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 whether a direct order is for the u b l raid war to kill or capture and then as ministration dispatched the u.s. national security adviser thomas danny. both gave their best to cover political

interference in takeover special forces missions and pakistan but inadvertently compromised the whole nature of the operation it was designed to first and phone most as a political campaign not as this special operation euphoria authorized somebody to step up and talk to media make sure that you get together all your national security teams band delegate just one person who will have all necessary information and authority to speak on behalf of the u.s. president. the former belorussian presidential candidates been sentenced to five years in prison for organizing a mass protest in the capital minsk last year under a semicolon pled not guilty and so the whole case was highly politicized last december opposition supporters held a thousand strong demonstrate in protesting what they called the rigged the

reelection of president alexander lukashenko the unrest was violently suppressed by riot police more than six hundred people were detained injured by the bullets the e.u. strongly condemned the violence and those sanctions on the president many of us the last dictator. appearing out of some other stories making headlines across the globe new violence has flared up syria with three reported killed near the city of homs this a day after authorities said they're ready for dialogue with the opposition international pressure mounting on syria over the brutal crackdowns on protests with some one hundred killed and more than a thousand arrested in two months the u.s. have imposed sanctions on the country as washington is said to be considering declaring president assad a living your rule illegitimate. the former first lady of egypt is said to be recovering after treatment for chest pain suzanne mubarak became ill after authorities ordered her to attention for fifteen days on charges of illegal

acquisition of wealth the former president himself also accused of illegal gains as well as ordering the deaths of anti regime protesters he's currently under detention at a military hospital. center michel martelly has been sworn it is haiti's new president the new leader now faces the huge task of restoring the country after one of the deadliest earthquakes in history that left hundreds of thousands without homes on friday police and protesters clashed outside the presidential palace as demonstrators marched carrying a fake coffin bearing the name of the outgoing president. u.s. envoy to the middle east is stepping down after. two years on the job senator george mitchell is with politically resigning for personal reasons this comes amid growing frustration at the talks between israel and the palestinians accepting the resignation president obama called him a tireless advocate for peace mitchell also helped broker an accord in northern ireland in the late ninety's. with the us debt ceiling already at

a staggering high almost half of america is now refusing to buy the proposals to raise it further while the government is struggling for a compromise our own resident in new york laurie harford asked people on the streets of the big apple what they would do. if the us stop scaring money it could negatively affect the whole world economy if it continues to borrow money to keep me late a burden that's too heavy to carry so as the us fast approaches the debt ceiling over fourteen trillion dollars that congress just put into place in two thousand and ten should it consider raising that that feeling even more this week let's talk about that do you think they 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. too much too much expenditure if you have to try to own national parks if you have to. saving the

turtle or you have to cut out some teachers drops maybe three percent here three percent or three wherever you are with just a small percent off 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 you'd be willing to pay more in taxes yeah a little bit i think it's patriotic i do too what's with that people you know say that they're so patriotic and that they're american and they stand for america but they're not willing to pay more taxes for the country and i think the only political system that's kind of relevant to christianity is socialism and i i don't think jesus would be very happy with us not sharing it's a shame with what's happening in america is disappearing there should be happening do you think middle america is aware of the corporate america it seems like people don't even realize how and finds they are you know i would agree with you i think a little mirror for such good citizens nobody wants to make any do they want to be rabble rousers you know they want to be included in the whole process but when you

see people from a vehicle making any three million dollars or seventy million or whatever or a.b.c. making forty five million what happens to be made by doing it with their money back doing they hire people to keep people working with people who have much more value for everybody the world economies and so. so it's always you know you look at what's happening with trying to. get to be economic situation for the time being a pretty bad there so got to regroup the whole system just me if 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 one thousand nine hundred eighty two i think it's just a bet it's going to be great again very thin. we invite you now on a trip across russia without leaving your seats as our closer to him brings you the most exciting stories of life in the world's biggest country.

today we continue exploring the volgograd a region in the russian south that lies along the banks of the volga river the longest in europe and also gave the area its name the river played an important part in the life of the russian people and it's known in the country's folklore as . artie's tartan explains why the waterway is so precious to the russian heart and economy. the mighty vulgar it runs deep through the russian soul it has provided inspiration for songs and poems and is the country's main north south artery and decades ago schumann ingenuity connected to the dawn river to the west. for centuries people dreamt of connecting the two rivers now this canal essentially joins distance east together. of all the

dawn 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 lots more electricity to moscow hydroelectric plant behind me is a potent example of how much the volga can provide but harnessing the revelent 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. the hydroelectric plant has done significant damage because it stopped fish swimming up river to spawning grounds they turned back and start swimming downstream and now we don't know where they are. within a year all these houses will have gone fall 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 to . that's a city google earth we can only look through ships we have enough water for last year the water level dropped because of this hydroelectric plant and it caused big problems if you could only look through smaller chips offloaded ones. control of the river flow by the plant has made building the boulders for plane 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 because when people started building on the flood plain the places where the fish spawn then flood anymore most of the spawning grounds are now gun now or at last the voice of the voters of color g. 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 will still have a chance to bring the volga back to life meaning that the mighty bogan is treated with the respect it deserves tom watson. coming up shortly we'll explore whether there's a political agenda behind the professed idealist ambitions of wiki leaks that's after a recap of the hour's top stories a witness. yes

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