long long. the. 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 u.s. called time on could off his rule as they pushed forward with the start of the air campaign but. remains defiant. under starters orders russia prepares for the biggest sporting event since moscow hosted the summer olympics in one nine hundred eighty. plus a. very important milestone on. the olympic torch.

in such a way that she'd find out more. broadcasting live from the direct center of moscow this is r.t. certainly glad you're with us now on voice representing libya's opposition council are in paris seeking humanitarian and financial aid earlier the u.s. denied them diplomatic status during the first official visit to the white house. movement rebel representative mahmoud jabril says 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 and u.s. had promised to hand over some of the multibillion dollar funds anti-war activist john reese says any revolution is on shaky ground when the opposition turns to

western countries for help. the us are interested in stopping the revolution but not helping the revenue. and i think the intervention was meant to corrupt and control the revolution for us sans and not to hear of any real life of its own or any capacity to actually alter the situation in libya in the way that the trinity and egyptian revolutions did the object of the us is to keep the libyan rebels on a very short lead not to allow them any real independence 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 the 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 who perhaps are 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 rainsford aim is to kill gadhafi the revolutions either succeed by mobilizing their own people against the hated them popular regime or they don't succeed at all there's no easy route to the revolution using the assistance of the western powers. more nato air strikes have hit the libyan capital tripoli following a defied broadcast from colonel gadhafi saying he is beyond the coalition's reach washington insists the u.s. will continue its campaign in the country as long as the libyan leader attacks his own people but as our 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. 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 felt 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 instead pledged bombs and troops to afghanistan going on a decade and in its latest endeavor lobs airstrikes into libya despite uniting a new strategic goals back in november libya has launched the allies to dischord some countries don't want to actually you know shoot ground targets. 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 give in on what i call the imperial condominium a really kind of quest of the african or 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 thousand from india are the euro fighter typhoon and the french for a fell the very ones french and british allies have been flying over libya. is it the opportunity to oust the doc the regime that is u.s. policy that gadhafi needs to go and prop up one more favorable to us foreign policy

interests. since it was. of course describe it is a humanitarian. intervention a so-called humanitarian intervention that critics argue was never warranted but which now may be come. in a humanitarian crisis we didn't stop a bloodbath but we are prolonging and perpetuating the suffering of civilians in libya is suffering that is now launching 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 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 allied and fighting as well as rising costs in every sense that same question people have been asking for decades comes to mind after the end of

the year when nato lauren lyster r. t. washington d.c. and still ahead for you this hour until the well runs dry. outside the glamour of india's bollywood capital mumbai thousands are caught in a daily battle for clean drinking water. and we take you to a russian city on the banks of europe's longest river to explore how the waterway brings vitality both to the region's folk tales and its economy that's coming up. high hopes and a fiercely competitive streak of united millions of russians for the one thousand a day countdown to the sochi two thousand and fourteen winter olympic games to impress and 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 now 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 until the official start of the twenty second winter olympic games which of course will take place in the russian coastal town of sochi 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 of the twenty fourteen winter olympic games the official countdown began today with the unavailing already on 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 and twenty fourteen in moscow various other events also took place we had a roller lavery 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 now

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 the twenty fourteen olympic games sort she has been very busy and my colleague that has been lots checked in on the progress. of miracle with the big construction the says she's still sure i still suspend trinket's final stage to less than two years to read this joint structure like most of the venues here in sochi it's being built on schedule. and all of her suitors 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. and this of construction effort was launched in two thousand and seven. she won't deal with big bit deal with the construction sites no consume more than half the region's cement supplies over three hundred fifty thousand plants

more than a do they have thousand workers take part in the project three hundred of them are foreigners the venue's beside stadiums and ice rinks include fruits sandals bridges together with new schools and hospitals they believe the lasting legacy of this tropical black sea resort so there's great excitement high hoops subversion city resting for the big event tonight you can see the preparations there are being built the streets are cleaner. filled more tourists will come the olympics will bring festive mood into town. i think the medals rubio was and russia's team will be formed bertrade home with a polar bear 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 because 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 counted words completing the mammoth destruction now for a long time and on budget then of course the r.t. sochi as you can see russia is on track with all the work everything will be ready just one thousand days later and tell that olympic torch arrives in russia that any second i'm tellin pygame well finally they get. there with us now while some are used to clean water as something quite ordinary for millions of finding it is a daily struggle in india's mumbai many local families lack an adequate water supply of all they say some have enough to just pour away or he's a pretty sure either found out how difficult the search for water can be even in the country's economic up. mumbai india a 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 feel sick fear and walk to a village that is one in half of the new book on soft drink in water. this is shannon mana god she's twelve years old and her life in mumbai literally revolves around finding water is. 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 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

. while the people in the 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 a 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. we get water at four am for one and a half for us since we just get it for just one and a ha for 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 water is an issue that seems to affect everyone here and five out there is

a one man managed to escape the problem is there is no pay somebody and it's worth money is seven billion us dollars and hen house there are hydroponic hanging gardens swimming pool water and he reportedly has a five hundred out there is of water every month it's something that angers me you almost 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 them what on demand water collected from being used if there is a shortage of forth there will be a grilling to give him or we came here to get him busy 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 look i feel bad in our house we gets wonderful only one and a half men as be have enough water there one day even to waste it

a constant battle to meet their dealing needs preassure either r t mumbai india. now if you want a break from the t.v. there is always more world news in videos on our website here's some of what we've got for you right now at our time dot com. an april fool's joke sparks web panic over a comet believed to be an alien spaceship and covered up by nasa you got the interest or for you all my plans. god will set you free jail in south carolina bans all books except for the christian bible all of these stories and more on our tree dot com. a former belorussian presidential candidate has been sentenced to five years behind bars for organizing a mass protest in the capital minsk last year on

a cough pled 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 the 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 but you strongly condemned the violence and imposed sanctions on the president to limit many job the last dictator of iraq. now and some other stories from around the globe for you right now. police in new york have detained of the head of the i.m.f. on suspicion of sexual assault dominique strauss kahn who was taken off a plane minutes before departure to a question about the alleged incident with a hotel maid the thirty two year old alleges that stross khan attacked her but she managed to escape police were called but by the time they arrived the potential french presidential candidate had already left for the airport. new violence has

a flared in syria with three people reportedly killed near the city of homs that comes a day after authorities said they're ready for dialogue with the opposition international pressure is mounting on syria over the brutal crackdowns on protests with eight hundred killed and more than one thousand arrested in two months the e.u. and the us have imposed sanctions on the country as washington is said to be considering declaring president assad's eleven year rule illegitimate. in yemen at least sixteen people have been injured as police fired up the bullets and the live ammunition of protesters clashes in the city of tire use escalated after demonstrators trained up three government offices as part of a civil disobedience campaign the protesters have been demanding a long serving president ali abdullah saleh step down. singer michel martelly hasn't been sworn in as he's a 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 protesters clashed outside the presidential palace as demonstrators marched carrying a fake coffin with the name of the outgoing president. with the u.s. debt ceiling already at a staggering high almost half of america is now refusing to buy into the proposals to raise it still further and while the government struggles for a compromise our own resident new yorker laurie harshness asked people in the big pool what they would do. 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 u.s. past 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 phrasing 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 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 cut out saving the turtle or you have to cut out some teachers strops 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 at all you'd be willing to pay more in taxes yeah a little bit i think patriotic i get to do what's with the 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 what's happening in america as disappearing 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 are 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 the ninety three million dollars or seventy million or whatever or a.b.c. making forty five minute i mean what happens if we make five million if we're going to be doing to hire people to keep people working there what i would think would have much more value for everybody the world economies and so. situation you know you look at what's happening with. you to be economic situation for the time being a pretty bad there so i got to regroup also then just me they say 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 a bet it's going to be great again very thin.

and coming up this hour it's a night to remember. muscovites are outing as the capitals of many museums and galleries open their doors to all offering free entry into the idea of special. now we'd like to invite you want to special trip across russia you can stay where you are though don't have to worry as are closer to the most exciting places and brings you some of the best stories and life and one of the world's biggest countries. and today we continue to explore the volgograd region 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 country's folklore it's known as mother volga barton explains why the giant waterway is so precious to the russian heart and to the economy as well. the mighty vulgar it runs deep in the russian soul it has provided inspiration for songs and poems but is the country's main north south answer and decades ago human ingenuity connected to the jordan river to the west. for centuries people dreamt of connecting the two rivers now this canal in a century joins distance east together. of all the dawn for now 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 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 revel 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 brought in 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 would fall into the river. to 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 canal so . that's the city 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 we could only look through smaller chips or half loaded ones. control of the river flow by the plans was made building the boulders for a more attractive serious floods are less likely to believe that is put into the drains is taken away from the fish that's needed cut the bonus applause when people start building on the flood plain the places where the fish pond don't fly anymore most of the spawning grounds are now gun and now we're at last the voice of the voters of color gee might start being hurt after fifty years of damage the plant may change its regime to release water for the river spent if it not just it soon would. be 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 vulcan is treated with the respect it deserves and dumbarton.

and ours are by john has one of this year's you're a vision song contest in germany. it's the first time the country has scooped the honor and doing it for them with a do well performing at running scared they beat hard favorites of france and ireland and the u.k. chose a former boy band blue to fly the flag in dusseldorf twenty five countries that took part in the final inning to impress of voters at home as well as the music industry professionals in the fifty sixth euro vision project. now a night of splendor and marvels awaited hundreds of thousands of visitors of moscow's a fifth annual night at the museum from renaissance to post modern masterpieces

they waited their chance to shine in the dark i can see catherine approach of what has been. just as it. sounds like to believe russia museums. gratian all these national museum the official. seemed. to sweeten. the. deal but it's hardly the most that. some people are saying it's a step. by nice profit. in part of their reputation for being so tied to silence of the lives you see in south or sometimes no visitors or standing just. for paintings. music.

galleries. watching. the nice little museums are open only this night if you're wondering how to feel who is getting around that don't worry because organizers have. several ways to help you live your beliefs and also some who she says will come. dissipating it's nice about the feet and you'll museum was held in the russian. desert you covered over reporting there for us and of course enjoying all of the last offer now we will be bringing you more on the cultural life of the capital as our moscow team visits some weird and wonderful displays in the city's a modern art galleries that's in a few minutes but before that i'll be back with a quick recap of our main stories right here on our.

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