three. videos for your media projects free media guns are. libyan opposition on boys in paris hope france has more to offer than the us after they left empty handed and without official recognition. while back in washington nato and the us called time on could rule as they push forward with the stalled air campaign but could offer himself remains defiant. and under starters orders russia prepares for the biggest sporting event since moscow hosted the summer olympics in one thousand made. us who are celebrating very important milestone one thousand. and twelve the olympic torch comes to russia the second week olympic games. in such

a way that he'd find out more. and direct from the heart of moscow this is r.t. we're certainly glad to have you with us now envoys that representing libya's opposition council are in paris seeking humanitarian and financial aid earlier the u.s. denied them diplomatic status and during their first official visit to the white house by the anti gadhafi movement rebel representative mahmoud jibril says that they are in desperate need of food and medical supplies in the besieged city of benghazi but they are having trouble getting washington to release colonel gadhafi has frozen assets the u.s. had promised to hand over some of the multibillion dollar funds anti-war activist john reid says any revolution is on shaky ground when the opposition try. to

western countries for help the 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 ends and not hearing any real life of its own or any capacity to actually alter the situation in libya in the way that the truth is you know if you can revolutions dude 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 autonomy and 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 demand a price for that assistance i was always going to be the case that once the west intervened the logic which was running before that the people would see western intervention as a reason to support a guy who perhaps have absolutely no other reason to do so you can see now the

people who even protest the gadhafi 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 that out for you so that revolutions either succeed by mobilizing their own people against the hated unpopular regime or they don't succeed at all there's no easy route to the revolution using the assistance of the western powers and staying with this story more nato air strikes have hit the libyan capital tripoli following a defied broadcast from colonel gadhafi saying he's beyond the coalition's reach washington insists the u.s. will continue its campaign in the country as long as the libyan leader taxes on people police are g.'s lauren lyster reports the motivation of the alliance is under scrutiny. several decades and wars 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 why nato lo and behold reality is that nato is busier than ever. 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 facts that the alliance lost its reason to exist 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 has instead pledged bombs in troops to afghanistan going on a decade and in its latest endeavor lobs 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 hit

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 condominiums a really kind of quest of africa is that 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 fell 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 put it off it needs to go and prop up one more favorable to us foreign

policy interests try to. shift it was of course to screw the humanitarian. intervention the so-called humanitarian intervention that critics argue was never warranted but which now may be calm. being 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 the u.s. is the number one contributor to nato and therefore many would see the us 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 infighting as well as rising costs in every sense that same question people have been asking for decades comes to mind to deal with.

what nato lauren lyster artsy washington d.c. and still ahead for you this hour until the well runs dry. outside of the glamour of india as the bollywood capital moved by thousands are caught in a daily battle for clean drinking water. and we'll take you to a russian city on the banks of europe's longest river to explore how the waterways brings vitality both to the region's folk tales and its economy that's coming up. high hopes and officially competitive streak have united millions of russians for their one thousand big countdown to the sochi two thousand and fourteen winter olympic games to impress and to shine is everyone's dream in three years time but for now it's a chance to party. as you can see it's colder narron raining a lot here in the russian capital but that has not stopped all of these people from gathering in the very heart of moscow to celebrate

a very important milestone with the final stretch just one thousand days one thousand days remain private until the official start of the twenty second winter olympic games which of course will take place in the russian coastal town of this or change a concert here in the russian capital to celebrate this event and of course moscow isn't the only one in a very festive mood in sochi the host city on the twenty fourteen winter olympic games the official countdown began today with the unavailing of the of the show olympic omega watch that will of course be keeping the clock counting backwards all the way up until the very start of those olympic games in twenty fourteen in moscow various other events are also taking place we had a rollerblade for a lots of students celebrating also had the little kids taking part in the festivities as well they drew olympic mascots in parks all over the city of course

a lot of work has been done a lot of work on russia's plates ever since it won the right to host country fourteen olympic games saw it she has been very busy and my colleague that has been lots checked in on the progress. of miracle with the big construction the series the short spell suspend trinkets for the stage to less than two years to make this joint structure like most of the venues here in sochi it's being built on schedule . and all the facilities here except maybe for the main olympic stadium well have to be completed by twenty twelfth so that they can be used during test competitions . because that would be the best of construction effort was launched in two thousand and seven. she won't build a big hit building because struction cites no consume more than half the region's cement supplies over three hundred fifty thousand songs golden age and

a half thousand workers take part in the project three hundred of them are foreigners the venues decide stadiums and ice rinks include fruits tunnels bridges to get the wood you schools and hospitals they believe the lasting legacy of this tropical black sea resort so there's great excitement high hopes subversion city press think of the big event but i doubt oh you can see the preparations there have been go the streets are cleaner and you feel 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. a killer pair pair 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 a lot 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 down to earth completing the mammoth construction now for a long time and in budget there is more security sochi as you can see russia is on track with all the work everything will be ready just one thousand days left until that olympic torch arrives in russia that's when the second when talent to games will finally get the country knows of a reporting there with a story from them in sports now while some are used to clean water as something quite ordinary for millions are just fighting it is a daily struggle in india's mumbai many local families like an adequate water supply although they say some have enough to simply poor away but he's a priya schriever found out how difficult the search for water can be even in the country's economic top. mumbai 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 zero zero i.v. cup at six pm and walk to a village that is one in half hours every too good to go good soft drink in water oh. 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 mormon dad walk as liberals and they have to go out so i have to stay about and walk 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 taf the water only runs at specific times for sometimes as little as ten minutes

. well the people in a couple as 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 mum by housewife despite living in a more modern apartment so wants to has to schedule her day around when she can get water and let up on if. we get water at four am for one and a half us since we just get it for just one and a ha far 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 bar is an issue that seems to about everyone here at five there is

a one man managed to escape the problem is there is more pay somebody to use for twenty seven billion us dollars and hen house there are high for chronic hanging gardens swimming pool water and a reportedly has a five hundred thousand liters 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. they have come to give me a memorandum and water collected from b.d.s. if there is a shortage of for billing to give him more we came here to build 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. but i left but i feel that in our house we get water for only one and a half hours whereas we have enough work to do one day even to waste it

a constant battle to meet their dealing needs preassure either r t mumbai india. and if you want a break from the television there is always more world news and videos on our website here's some of what we've got for you right now or to dot com. an april fool's joke sparks of weather panic over a comment believed to be an alien spaceship and covered up by nasa we've got the entire story for you online plus. god will set you free of jail in south carolina all books except for the christian bible all of these are stories that are more on archie dot com. now at least three people have been killed after a roadside bomb hit

a bus in eastern pakistan it comes just a day after a taliban revenge attack for the killing of bin laden but eighty seven dead is a lot of bad has slandered the u.s. operation of the wideout the al qaeda leader or his military contributor says washington should have been more careful when planning a great. nobody can give the u.s. administration unique capability to model the waters and bundled the message last week the us president obama deployed two 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 whether to direct orders for the you get great 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 into covariance special forces missions in pakistan but in that very quickly compromised the whole nature of the operation which was designed first and foremost as a political campaign not as this special operation authorized somebody had to step up and talk to media make sure that you get together all your national security teams and delegate just one person who will have all nasa sciri information and authority to speak on behalf of the u.s. president and his military contributor you've got a question of commenting that for us now a former belorussian presidential candidate has been sentenced to five years behind bars for organizing a mass protest in the capital minsk last last year on the day summit off claimed not guilty and said the whole case was highly politicized last december opposition

supporters held a thousand strong demonstration to protest against what they called the rigged reelection of president alexander lukashenko the unrest was violently suppressed by riot police more than six hundred people were detained and dozens injured by rubber bullets the east wrongly condemned the violence and imposed sanctions on. president who many dubbed the last dictator in europe. and coming up this hour it's a night to remember. muscovites opt for a cultural outing as the capital's many museums and galleries open their doors to all offering free entry and a variety of special show. now on to some other stories from around the world for you right now. new violence has flared in syria with three people reported killed near the city of it comes a day after authorities said it very ready for dialogue with the opposition international pressure is mounting on syria over brutal crackdowns on protests with

some eight hundred killed and more than a thousand arrested in two months the e.u. and u.s. have imposed sanctions on the country as washington is said to be considering the current president assad's eleven year rule illegitimate. in yemen at least sixteen people have been injured as police fired rubber bullets and live ammunition at protesters clashes in the city of escalated after demonstrators chained up three government offices as part of a civil disobedience campaign the protesters have been demanding the longest serving president ali abdullah saleh step down. singer michel martelly has been sworn in as haiti's new president the new leader now faces the huge task of restoring the country after one of the deadliest earthquakes in history which left hundreds of thousands without homes on friday police and prosecutors clashed outside the presidential palace as demonstrators marched carrying a fake coffin with the name of the outgoing president. of u.s.

envoy to the middle east is stepping down after two years george mitchell is reportedly resigning for personal reasons it comes amid growing frustration at the talks between israel and the palestinians accepting the resignation president obama . called him a tireless advocate for peace and it's 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 divide the proposals to raise it still further and while the government struggles for a compromise our own resident new yorker laurie harvest asked people in the big apple what they would. 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 to having 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 raise the meant 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 expenditure if you have to cut out national parks if you have to try to save turtle or if you have this is a cut out some teachers drop maybe three percent here three percent three were just 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 at all you'd be willing to pay more in taxes yeah a little bit i think it's patriotic i.q. to do what's with that and people you know say that they're 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 and 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 what's happening in america is disappearing this should be happening do you think middle america is aware of the corporate tiling of america it seems like people don't even realize how and finds 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 economy you know any three million dollars or seventy million or whatever or a.b.c. making forty five minute i mean what happens if you make five million that with your money back you and you hire people if you people work you get what i would think would have much more value for everybody the world economies and so. situation you know if you look at what's happening with. the you're. going to be economic situation for the time being a pretty bad so got 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 if they did it's going to be great again very thin. and now we'd like to invite you on a trip across russia you can stay where you are though as our course of team brings you the most exciting stories of life in the world's biggest country. today we continue to explore the photograph of the asian in the south of russia it lies along the banks of the volga river the longest in europe which also gave the area its name the river has played an important part in the life of the russian people and in the countries and it's known as mother volga archies tom martin explains why the giant waterway is so precious to the russian art and economy.

the mighty volga runs deep the ocean so it is providing inspiration for the song. it is the country's main north south central and decades ago she meant ingenuity connected to the dawn river to the west. straits the centuries people dreamt of connecting the two rivers now this canal essentially joins distance east again. the vote the dawn canal is an engineering marvel within a day 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 and cowers the local city of volgograd and sends lots more electricity to moscow the hydroelectric plant behind me is a potent example of how not the fog can provide but harnessing

a river like this isn't without its cost. fishermen have 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 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 are. within a year all these houses will go forward into the river. depending on how many of the hydro electric 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 . let's see if. we can only let you 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 small chips half loaded ones. control of the river flow

by the plans was made building the folders for a plane more attractive serious floods and less likely for 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 spawn don't flood anymore most of the spawning grounds are now gun now at last the voice of the voters of color gene might start being hurt after fifty years of damage the plant may change its regime to release water for the river spent fit not just its own but the crowd for 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 boulder back to life meaning that the mighty logan is treated with the respect it deserves and dumbarton.

onto a night of splendor and marvels that awaited hundreds of thousands of visitors at moscow's fifth annual night of the museum from results to postmodernism masterpieces awaited their chance to shine in the dark. just as it. was good news. that he was yet a chance to believe prophet museums. try to ration all these national museum of the official. scene but. each week of the building. it is the to. be but it's part of the overall some people are. it's a still. quite nice profit seems hard to overcome the reputation for being

a little bit too tight exhibition time to be closely guarded by museum style or sometimes low policy as it is for standing too close to where it's a bar or paintings a number. of museums sat at a gallery is watching. test. that was a nice holder although i think its museums are open only this night and day for wondering how many of those be getting around all of that don't worry because organizers have. several looking at scenery suppose you live you know so some food she says will come out differently it seems to say to entice about spiffy ideal museum not held in the russian. parties you thought that you know what you're reporting there is surely enjoying the festivities now with less than a thousand days left before the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics will everything be ready on time and shortly our team is algren off talks to the head of

the sochi organizing committee to find out but before that i'm back with a recap of our main stories right here on our team. you. wealthy british style. sometimes i despise. the market financed scam that.