in the ridea believe that the g.o.p. who kills shirts in new delhi who took. babyhood to carry election removed the clothes of the maidens hotels believe that it was a movie to medicine ships and it was promised to take recounts can this. international prosecutors seek the arrest of colonel gadhafi for crimes against humanity. meanwhile russia calls for an immediate ceasefire in libya and prepares to host talks with representatives opi gets off the regime rebel leader is not so good later on. the euro currency countries cast a worried i toward spain as its record jobless rate and gloomy prospects pushing toward him for a bailout of. blood spills on israel's borders on the anniversary of the state's foundation as thousands of pro palestinian activists come under fire from the army

. and out top story in business b p n roll snatched i'm likely to meet monday's night's tagline for the completing of a chance while the two companies reportedly made a new offer to buy b.p.'s bus and called me a are out of twenty people rejected that offer will have more on that and other stories happens both. nine pm in moscow i mattress so good to have you with us here on r t our top story the war crimes court is requesting arrest warrants for colonel gadhafi and two other senior libyan officials for crimes against humanity this comes as the head of britain's armed forces says nato must intensify its military campaign in libya with direct attacks against the regime party's lawyer and it has more of london. it

seems that this is a u.n. resolution that has been really stretched beyond recognition and that's not according to me that's according to various members of parliament that i've spoken to various groups they say that this is not what the u.n. resolution was intended to do although of course in the defense of this kind of action the people who are proposing us are saying that. he himself is a direct threats to his a people so the aim of this escalation which will target infrastructure and we're not clear water infrastructure actually means but it could include things like bridges power stations water supply things that would put the libyan people significantly on the back foot for the next ten years while those kinds of things all rebuilt the the aim of this escalation is to target colonel gadhafi which does mark of regime change of course we've also seen the international criminal court request for its judges to issue arrest warrants to three people one of them is of course colonel gadhafi himself the other another one is his second eldest son who

of course was educated here in london and have widely been seen as the best chance for a negotiated peace with colonel gadhafi regime and the other man is the new c who is brother in law and the head of the intelligence services now the chief prosecutor is alleging in a statement that he made that these people were directly involved in attacking civilians shooting at demonstrators and shelling various things among them funeral processions and what's going to happen now is that the judge is going to evaluate that evidence that we think that's going to take around four weeks and they're going to decide whether to confirm those charges and issued international arrest warrants which would put his son and his brother in law on the international wanted list simle time is to that debate in parliament that will be a process tells outside downing street to try to bring members of parliament attention to the lights of libyans antiwar demonstrations will be calling for an immediate cessation. over the intervention we've seen

a poll that was done for the daily mail newspaper that shows that seven out of ten britons fear that it could turn into another iraq that process will also try to draw attention to the plight of what people are calling thousands of refugees who are running away from the astronauts who are being ignored completely by nato according to them russia says it's ready for a dialogue with both sides of the libyan conflict to help resolve the crisis and the violence foreign minister sergei lavrov says officials from tripoli and senators from benghazi will come to moscow for more on this the drive by americans peter all over so moscow is ready to make good on its push to use talking to bring both sides together tell us more. well that's right russian foreign minister sergei lavrov issued a statement today wary called for an immediate cease fire in libya and also announce that he would be hosting both representatives from the kids after regime rebel leaders here in moscow to try and come up with

a peace solution no the first of those meetings will take place on tuesday now all of you with representatives of the good stuff the regime with the day to be set later on for the rebel leaders to arrive here in the russian capital but this is really russia making good on the promises they made at the at the outset of this conflict to write several months ago they said they were willing to act as a mediator to grow. these meetings all the between with between both sides and the first signs that we could see a russia trying to create a peaceful resolution to the ongoing situation in the north african country. if you missed it was the last few weeks that we were asked to had a meeting in moscow by officials in tripoli and by representatives of the rebels in benghazi russia is ready to maintain dialogue with anyone who is very interested in the quickest ends to the bloodshed in libya and switching to political negotiations we support the african union initiatives into the cease fire is beginning dialogue

in reaching a national reconciliation in the interests of the entire libyan people in the interest of libya sovereignty and territorial integrity. mr lavrov also reiterated what he said in the past regarding the ongoing military action against libya by nato forces saying that that must remain within the parameters that was set out by the un resolution and called for an immediate halt to any operations that went beyond those parameters that was set out parties peter all reporting from outside the foreign ministry and thanks for that. independent journalist james corden says the plan to issue a cut off the arrest warrant suggest justice may be becoming a political and military tool for the coalition in libya. it would be easy to dismiss the international criminal court's appeal for aid an arrest warrant for his crimes against humanity as that is something of a farce and specially considering that the international criminal court's

prosecutor's office now admits that not a single member of that office actually bothered to step foot in libya investigate the crimes against humanity with which he's charged but i think this is actually that's a very troubling precedent in the realm of international jurisprudence where we see the idea that for all intents and purposes nato geo political foreign policy can now be justified to put them through to recall action in this international criminal court simply by fiat to create and so the the ludicrous nature of the entire operation is exposed in one mast for all to see and that here is a humanitarian intervention that is now literally going to be bombing infrastructure for the libyan people on the basis of humanitarian intervention it's supposed to help the populace again it makes no sense on its face unless it's understood that this is simply an attempt at regime change and it is now being supposedly justified through this very troubling president of the international criminal court being able to dictate what happens within the boundaries of a sovereign country and so again i think we'll see this this president used as

a way of basically allowing nato countries and nato had you want interests to dictate their foreign policy through that score. commentary from independent journalist james corbett will stay with us here on r t coming your way how a sex scandal could be you were all europe's financial or the i.m.f. chief in custody over allegedly assaulting a hotel maid putting his influence on your own battle out talks and his candidacy for the french presidency on the chopping block. but first european finance ministers are likely to have to dig deeper into their pockets to get more help for bankrupt greece as well as finalize a package for portugal as they gather in brussels greece has already been bailed out by the e.u. any international monetary fund needs even more cash as it's failing to grow its economy athens is expected to announce further austerity cuts if it wants to secure more desperately needed funds in portugal the crumbling economy is now awaiting a seventy eight billion euro rescue package over the next three years across the border in spain which is suffering with record high unemployment protests against

deep economic cuts have turned violent as arkansas are fourth reports from madrid the country could be next in line for a handout. that's greece and ireland and now put you go as the u.s. saying fade outs but numbers there are now serious concerns that spain could be the next to talk will create test this throughout europe clamoring toothpaste even though the taxpayers' money being plateaued into risky thing of the. thing again. that. i don't. think that it really. cool a c three hundred twenty five that everyone likes a belated knock a. little tiny thing i think that these going to be in fact this is only the beginning. of the looming we will use them with and we will be nearly zero if you

raise things copeland's lead to no. there is now talk of greece defaulting on its loans even potentially accepting the year. and portugal's recent bailout is reported to be worth around seventy eight billion. spain as the euro things fall for largest economy the different challenge altogether if it fails. if the situation happens the markets would not manage it but being out of spins church is the most catastrophic scenario for the e.u. what will the e.u. do i think in many experts share my opinion that the e.u. will do the utmost to avoid the scenario would any cost because spain is too big to fail you. got a computer the big question now is just how much longer can the usa continue bankrolling those going bust as the spiraling debt crisis continues to escalate

there is a ministers are struggling to maintain a united front. for financial survival for such countries a spin could seriously injure the euro it could lead to the use of two currency zones in europe a strong group of countries using the euro and the rest not using it. thinking chinese that play down speculation would be the next country to ask her about this problems continue to increase ireland and now portugal the possibility of spain becoming the next thing country. very real and right now the european idea and the reality is not to be so far apart. but. right now the euro zone to recovery talks are taking somewhat of a backseat to the trouble on top of the international monetary fund a court has ruled that i am after chief dominique strauss kahn will stay in custody

during an investigation or claims that he sexually assaulted a hotel maid allegations he denies sovereign risk and. randolph is joining us now to shed some light on the ramifications of all this thank you for joining us so leadership of the i.m.f. and the world bank had been shared between european and american respectively now that an american has been appointed as the acting i.m.f. chief if you think this or any way shift the balance. when it is interesting ever since these two programs students were set up there was this implicit paul going to the americans and the europeans that they would share. each other an american the european at the head of these two groups because typically limited by european and the american pop what we see now is growing just quiet among the emerging market nations who become more influential in the sense that when the i.m.f. needed a lot of money to do a lot of lending at the height of the crisis when g. twenty came together it was the chinese and other emerging market nations that.

give it that and they made an emerging market person in the chair for adults. who do you think will take over the i.m.f. after john lipsky departs in july. it's very interesting i'm sure they're doing the soundings the europeans will formally. come together and agree on a candidate the americans will formally do so themselves but it may well be that these new big bondholders. metropolitans the chinese and others that was so generous and important when they came to the aid of the i.m.f. and the global economy they may say well it's actually time for to change this routine and we need an emerging market candidates how do you think that will change things in the eurozone considering all the troubles there. well it's very

interesting because strauss card is obviously european he led from the front right at beginning when he brought the g twenty together and told him how serious the crisis was and they should all cooperate and rescue the global called me and they did and he would be leading the crisis ever since it's it's it's rumbled on and we see seeing it rumble around europe now and he's been very important he has been very personally very important in getting the i.m.f. involved. and assisting in designing these bailout packages but also seeing i mean courage in politicians to do the reforms necessary now you may not get the equivalent of person with the same kind of convictions coming from the emerging markets so the i.m.f. especially after a strauss leader should have a large well organized institution do you think his absence will really disrupt the framework all that much well it's interesting the routine thing to say is that the institution of the i.m.f. and its policies are bigger than any individual but the fact is douglas trust

brought a lot of personal capital to the to the financial rescue measures he was overseeing the crisis from the start he used his personal stature intellects his connections in dealing with for example encouraging the greek prime minister to stick on the reform road and so that personal capital is now lost and very difficult to replace speaking about personal capital if he still does i decided to run for the french presidency how would you rate his our chances were it really depends how he comes out of this situation if he can appear wipes them light and clearly innocent then he may have a second chance but that's still very much an open question for the courts to decide all right we'll have to wait and see thanks very much leon around our sovereign risk analyst joining us live from london. at least sixteen people have

been killed by israeli troops after they shot at demonstrators marking the day palestinians were displaced when the state of israel was founded violence how to write down what's been called not the day when some seven hundred thousand palestinians were forced out riot police used tear gas and rubber bullets to stop thousands from storming the borders from syria robin and gaza and keep them from getting into the country prime minister benjamin netanyahu said israel is determined to defend its sovereignty far off from the mossad was sent here for arabs in israel says it may be time pretty international community to step in. but when we talk about the border there is a phrase that is i don't have border that it's not great is why it is all compiling all these areas and people have the right to you know according to the international agreements is going to have the ability to pick. and all of the people got out a living. and i think it's about time that the international community will act i'm

told is that it's also been such a reaction to nonviolent. think in the international community. and it is going to show that communities acting immediately i'm happy that they put out some community for example is actually going to be a regime i think in the case of presiding we see all over the history that will stand on its own i think it's very important to hold israel to the international community stand outs on don't. you know like we are already over forty years off and. there is i don't know sixty three years without a solution for that if you g.'s problems that have been created all of the in four period so when you talk about their national community the international community you have this whole salute the they couldn't consideration that the creation of the state of his was done by the us i think it's of all time that the un mandate that national community. there is only public and there is the only policy making those

decide what they want they want one state solution to the solution but they can't all three million people. without thinking decision what actually is allowed in war and. remember you can find more and all the stories we're covering at r.t. dot com here's what's online right now. celebrations over osama bin laden's killing take a turn as polls suggest most americans have had a morality check over cheering someone's death. at a moscow official looks to have backed himself into a corner after suggesting. a massive hike in the cost of the car parking rate as the mayor suggests docking it from his salary details are the top. russia has reaffirmed it'll take a measure is if the u.s. and nato continue their european missile defense plans without taking into account moscow's view the foreign ministry says it will be forced to quote take an appropriate response moscow has been concerned over the alliances failure to

guarantee the project will threaten the russia's security washington has been leading efforts for the missile shield in europe saying it will help protect the continent from countries like iran and north korea russia wants an equal part in the project but there's been little progress in reaching a compromise so far russia is on a voyage to nato says moscow was tired of dry talk. we would like to reserve the real good and useful new little stateside because. he. says from that to the missile defense program we spoke against of our so it's ok. to kill confirm it and how it's possible to do it i would like to support real legal good and use through the set up to his neutral ministers from the normal from russian point of view we do understand the principle small to create the kind of system we need a real reason a small community within cities so the russian federation leads to a future to be achieved in the same time we need information the roads are we near

the missile defense base of the planes to which we still do so the system only diva the aegis of missile so it seems to me that you'd like to find the final solution. is going by the united states with open a new industry in the cold for european integration rich and for a key picture of losers from seoul the system. turned out as in other stories making headlines across the globe u.s. space shuttle endeavor is taken off on its twenty fifth and final voyage it's delivering a two one billion dollars particle physics lab out to the international space station's trip is expected to last sixteen days very much ask other astronauts aboard a large force base walks it's the second to last mission in the shuttle program before the three ships meet is retired. saudi diplomats been shot dead by gunmen on bicycles a motorcycle rather in pakistan they opened fire on a security officials on the consulate committee comes days after identified

attackers through an grenades of a saudi consulate in karachi no group has admitted the attack at all tied is the key to the threat in the saudi government after the killing of bin ladin. at a residence from three italian here japan's crippled. nuclear plant have left their homes after the exclusion zone was extended about five thousand people were moved into housing in hotels in nearby cities latest evacuations started after melting fuel rods created a hole in a reactor chamber lebanese engineers are now trying to come up with new ways to stabilize the reactor as radioactive material continues to leak but. japan's natural disaster and subsequent nuclear crisis have had nothing to have done nothing to ease the anxiety for those predicting a looming but for others they fear is an opportunity as. explains huge sums of money are being spent on everything from building bunkers to investing in style

armageddon. check it out. in japan. the earthquake in haiti the gulf of mexico oil spill big disasters are really out of the headlines and many say the worst is yet to come there's only one way to be safe this is a cold war era bun and soviet army personnel were meant to be kept safe from chemical biological and most important. these days apocalyptic fears have changed and the solutions welcome to the. unknown play for the rich just. recently as well as the wrecking how's that resemble fortresses local residents. strong enough to. serve biblical proportions the company that makes them the end of the world waits they can be used as vaults and watch of free negotiation rooms.

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prepared to invest their money in fear. cold war bunkers that very instant likely never have to be used here as empty reminders of fears that never came true you could not see. americans up next but the business news stay with us here on r.t. . our welcome to business. top story he shares are down in london i met expectations of not meet the deadline for. midnight on monday the two companies reportedly made a new offer to buy b.p.'s russian part. as agencies close to sources close to the talks say they are has.

well there's no information available right now from the parties involved but in a fax news agency it's going to go source close to the negotiations as saying that b.p. and rostam all food supply out the russian partners into you and katie that's how bad has been over a group they all but cash and she has and b.p. has a premium to the market price but according to the source they all refused this all but and in turn suggested imposing certain conditions which would quote be impossible for b.p. enrolls you have to accept so it seems right now because stations are still they have been sold for quite a while this deal was signed way back in january that it was blocked in march through an injunction would be still called albatross in court as it violated the terms of agreement between b.p. and his russian partners because this agreement stipulates t n k b p should be the primary vehicle volbeat these operations in russia and ukraine so the deadline is midnight but say it's very hard to say how this deal would come through but it's

quite unlikely that this deal be abandoned altogether as the government sees it as most important it's been labeled the deal of the year and we've also had the energy ministers of nation i've heard say that it's important the solution should be found which would be a big interest of all parties involved. tell us take a look at the markets us stocks take off morning losses a rebound in commodities prices and it's a moment to abuses human mining and people mourn call for and go about gaining in mining shares the national says are also high on intercontinental exchange from six percent leaving the games eighty zero eighty two financial companies european stock markets ended slightly lower on monday while growing so in debt maurice put greek equities on the heavy selling pressure financial shares among the biggest losers leukoma spent twenty three percent on the tax levy shares fell longer run for signs ahead of a midnight deadline for the company to secure a sixteen billion dollars test opting for parts of exploration with russia. and

here in russia markets finished lower as well my six lost nearly point six percent and the r.t.s. game is over eight percent in the red now let's have a look at the individual samuel's on the my six year energy sector gazprom lost over a percent on concerns about the growth in internal tariffs so good to gus was down more than two percent of profit taking out third announced dividend payments in line with expectations rostam also been a slow after deadline to secure shares swap with the people who did worse than at other capital explains the current volatility of the market. but it looks like we have a continuation of machine over the last couple of weeks which is basically ex to grow extreme russia but merely accepting materials and energy names is a continuation of the follow on from russia have to be one of the best performing markets of the last six months but also we have these three new twelve continuation rather concerns of sovereign stress and so for europe and then there's also

concerns about hiking rates given the concerns most a lot of global growth so it's really exiting russia given you know easy to take profits. in this environment and moving into safer assets. russia's economy grew four point one percent year on year in the first quarter but that's below the economy ministries and analysts forecasts the main factors that are keeping the growth back are low investment demand rising. crude oil futures continue to lose ground light sweet is trading at around ninety eight dollars a barrel brant is one hundred ten twelve dollars a barrel of us are. and that's the latest love you back with more in about forty minutes from now.

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