interesting shoto you goldie little center here still. live judith lucy in this column if you visit. now former head of the international monetary fund is granted bail and placed under house arrest on charges of attempted rape but her fear is that you it won't survive without a. regime replacement obama says he wants an immediate transition of power in syria is giving it speech outlining america's part of the season at least. outrage in predators every case of an opposition leader jailed for allegedly inciting under arrest on election day the supporters say it was a set up about a country's sinning and president.

this is r.t. good to have you with us today well straight to our top story now the former chief for the international monetary fund cuse of sexually assaulting a hotel maid almost a week ago has been granted bail of one million dollars but he strauss kahn will now swap his prison cell in a taurus jail for house arrest and manhattan apartment and also be tracked by g.p.s. what twenty four hours a day for an armed guard strasse can was the driving force behind bailed out to save the ailing economies of greece portugal and ireland but signatories resigned some european states their efforts to protect you open finally sunk so worsening economic downturn auntie's bushell has not. because no euro that's what because a whispering off the police charged the now ex i.m.f.

course with the attempted rape of a hotel maid very differently the possibility that some countries could decide to leave the euro pushed out of the euro and then we've got to understand that. belief that the euro could and should be saved in the face of north steel resistance from richest states stross kornblut this week's bailout of crippled portugal germany and france insist on oil and raises its low corporation tax t.s.k. as he's known was the man arguing it's what is saving the irish economy i think these allegations are going to be. of the i.m.f. as an institution. is different than going to be missed i think. straws call on even persuaded greece's leader to stick with strict spending cuts despite royals on the streets here. some of you had stated

government made a difference he has good contacts for example to the greek prime minister on thursday greece asked for more loans on better terms but now heavyweights europhile d s k has gone few back another bailout. of greece should leave the euro zone that has put under strain the euro joiner is one of the i.m.f. top bikers contributing tens of billions of euro the ruled it wants is an asian chief who is not likely to be as europe friendly can he has been very personally very important in getting the i.m.f. involved and assisting in designing these bailout packages but also coaxing and encouraging 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. when one of the world's biggest investment banks fell three years ago it

triggered a global recession we're still reeling from today but it's phil black driving the euro to extinction will only make matters worse as a consequence probably would be higher enough that was for instance as a bankruptcy or fleeman in two thousand and eight with e.u. economies and deaths door thirteen warns that toppling the world's leading banker comes at the worst possible time this is not just the end of a career dominic fourth column was instrumental in risking the euro zone's most troubled states is a risk does seem to threaten the end of the euro itself r.t. paris. the resignation of scar has put the global financial community in a spin konami sound geopolitics writer. says his down for may well be rail plans to use alternatives to the u.s. border reserve currency. his having left the international monetary fund in such

a dramatic way shows that the powers that be were not very happy with mr stubbs was promoting the special drawing rights which in a way are the mechanism that would make the dollar suffer i think that we are going to see that. the helm of the i.m.f. will keep away from him struck too strongly participation in doing away with the us dollar in other words the u.s. dollar needs to be the key currency and anything which is seen as competition automatically puts on warning lights anything that will trigger countries to sell off the u.s. treasury while holdings is a sign of trouble for the united states because as i say those treasury bonds us treasury bonds is what allows boehner lanky to have this printing process going on twenty four hours a day if that were to be start and if america were to stop printing currency well i could at least financially collapse. coming up in

a few minutes we continue our series of reports from antarctica and discover why many tourists are scared of the dangers of the cold comfort. more than a month. in one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is and charge and people have to be aware that they are far away from civilization sean thomas discovers what makes antarctica so special and attractive for many life in antarctica is. an affront to. expedition to the bottom of the earth. they tell you has hit eight while ships belong to kind of good office forces a number of different courts. you know alliance says that the vessels were trying to prevent the debris of aden that posed

a threat to forces the strikes came as president barack obama was outlining america's stance on the uprisings on the rest across the arab world saying time is working against gadhafi rather he has been confronted by. also delivered to nato to syria's president assad telling him to acknowledge transition of power on the way. it felt like he was talking from a position of a decision maker when it comes to syria hinting that the u.s. could get involved if president assad doesn't step down earlier the u.s. says that if the syrian leader to their black lace by imposing sanctions on him personally where it's all heading is unclear now there may be a debate within the obama administration over those who want to overthrow the syrian government and those who are afraid that whatever comes next after the assad government were to fall would be stabilized syria or perhaps an even more hostile syria but i think the logic of the position is united states personally sanctioned

. the government the president and his closest advisers and offered him the option of either leaving the transition to democracy side while it appears to be an alternative i think the organic tendency within the obama administration is they carry out regime change in syria and i think those who favor regime change have gotten the upper hand the u.s. is now involved in the civil war in leone where he is clearly confined and getting for his support for the opposition leader but a large portion of the leading population is very much opposed to any foreign intervention of washington's. attempts to push certain people to power there could mean years of conflict ahead experts say foreign intervention could create a much worse conflict in syria which is the heart of which is in the very heart of the arab world and iran's closest ally in the weekend and he quotes and shock waves

throughout the whole region on the israeli palestinian issue and that part of the speech was very much anticipated obama pushed harder for the israelis to make concessions to stop building settlements at least he suggested israel go back to pre nine hundred sixty seven border line and that would mean that what happens is giving up completely the west bank is jerusalem and the gavel stream. he was very careful to say that the u.s. is solely an advisor here and cleared washington and basically of any responsibility to act there have been words before but never any action to really push for the two state solution solution that president obama was talking about for fact that israel is the protectorate of the united states and the israeli lobby is very powerful here makes it even harder to extract a balanced approach from washington. our own ground there is a professor of international relations arts and york university he says when

president obama speaking minutes ago there's still going to be any concrete proposals for peace between israel and palestinians sixty four percent of the american public support israel and in an election campaign year no president is going to ignore what the american public wants and wants to see happen so he's not going to go into details about what is required what is going through but i think it would be broken in general terms about the need for a two state solution whereby they need to compromise on both sides their god they need to to end the expansion of settlement but he would not be able or would be willing for that matter to draw any specific road map as to how to go about. to achieve these objectives we have to be clear here you know when you see when the public staying in look at the whole arab world and see their counterpart rising against their own government they are asking themselves why should not we rise against on the occupation and i think this is exactly the rationale behind it the

day of israeli independence without a protocol within a call the knockabout is a provided that momentum give the public policy in the opportunity to demonstrate that they have enough i'll keep patient and they want to bring it to an end but i'm fraid to say that this is maybe only the beginning i very concerned what will happen say if in the next week two or month instead of one thousand or two thousand marching from each side. how about if there are fifty or sixty or one hundred thousand marching from the syrian side we were told in the west bank or from from lebanon or attacks or so this is a major problem for is rather there's going to have to be a program to have a greater it must be willing to address these issues sooner than later. well you can find what isis on the violence in the middle east on our website that's r.t. dot com. right if we stand a log on to the r.t.

picture gallery to see how muslims and christians all join together to rally against with just violence and hit us what are the chances of a new independent state here in europe scottish nationalists considering using recent little gangs to engineer a breakaway from the u.k. . with details of art and tax cuts. to the russian a presidential candidate facing a lengthy prison terms for speaking out against the corruption of the there alexander the christian cup described as europe's last tater he's ruled for almost two decades defying condemnation sanctions and gagging opposition and well. he reports challenging his reign that everybody needs to stay in the states detention

facilities he was running for president in belarus but ended up behind bars both orgies claims were demure nuclei it was among the organizers of election nights to minsk unrest which was brutally dispersed by police his wife was complaining for justice but does not have much faith it will happen. having lived in belarus we've already got used to judges being told from above what i heard to them as deliberate in the first quarter hearings of my husband's case the prosecutor named no evidence no facts which could prove the dimmers guilt and all the claims by the defense were denied by the judge. the country's president has been dubbed europe's last dictator but isn't represents all the way he rules. us for this opposition they will get hit in the head all right if they start to stabilizing the situation in the country the clashes during which several journalists including our g.'s crew were injured by

the police led to a number of arrests or no forty two people who were charged with plotting a coup there are possible prison sentences varying from three to fifteen years. these thousands more it is take their revenge on those who criticize them during the election campaign they had their say and now they wrote pay for that as look assange has once again been reinstated. but. these repressions caused uproar around europe most countries condemned the crackdown and even contemplated sanctions against minsk. firm charging against their will give them maximum prison terms with later it will use them to bargain with the european union this happened before the previous election because lula was released from prison and contact with europe has resumed their look at the experts say the timing of these court cases could not be worse belarus no faces

a serious economic crisis with its currency on the brink of total devaluation with the opposition trials being seen in the west as a strong evidence of human rights violations the export of the russian goods to the european union has halt that along with international loans has been the country's main revenue stream for the past two decades it is the first time in seventeen years that alexander lukashenko has been at power but he finds himself under severe pressure both internationally and at home and even if the opposition leaders get short of prison terms that initially planned many experts say that unless they're set free the public unrest will only expand especially with this financial turmoil . ski r.t. reporting from minsk in belarus. there are some other stories making headlines around the world this hour at least four people were killed and one hundred others injured after a five point nine magnitude earthquake hit western turkey where authorities

injuries were caused by broken glass. no serious. caught it off the shocks article next few days gots to cause damage. released filmmaker lost bone tree has been turfed out of the town film festival of the calling himself a nazi and it was simply thought that this film brings in competition for long term prizes but if it wins the director to attend the closing sermon on sunday he said he regretted the remarks saying they were just a joke. must of. fracturing australians if you remember dozens of who's gotten most wanted flames are caused by five hundred thousand liters of burning motor oil with a great loss to the whole night for fun it was out in the morning no one has

thought that. a roadside bomb was detonated at all of us consulate because there's a cross or i lost since a group of them several passengers and one of the cars the taliban has claimed responsibility for it saying it was revenge for a lot of votes in this process to. start but this is a terribly. the united states is fighting the taliban and it's our associates and afghanistan pakistan and it's our d.n.a. intelligence service supports some of the groups who are killing americans that afghans inside afghanistan and also think of pakistani people inside pakistan as well so what's important to this time is for both sides to align their interests and rethink their relationship because this is not sustainable.

now we continue our special series of reports from earth's southernmost continent there are some luxury resorts still attracts many people who are ready to spend thousands of dollars on a ten day trip there it seems a short thomas reveals why antarctic tourism is for. the guests on board this cruise ship get ready to come ashore to experience something magical an arcade is an area you can visit the young imagination i mean you can reach books look at t.v. shows and try to be. but the experience every trip again once we take people down here they are only way by the center of nature and landscape and weather and whatever is out here in this environment so it's it's

a voyage beyond imagination tourism in antarctica is a major business but because of the end charge a treaty system in international agreement that limits exploitation of the continent i don't expect to see any luxury hotels down here any time soon excursions are mainly limited to cruise ships and small charter flights from the tip of south america. are really coming down here to see something unique it's an ecosystem like no other. and also for the people who do come of these chairs i think bigots. because really it's it's a vision of the world before man had anything to do with it and passengers on board the national geographic explorer can truly get a one on one up close and personal experience with the scenery and wildlife of antarctica keep in mind this is antarctica and people have to be aware that they are far away from civilization i mean our stock today here tomorrow next week was not planned but. medical last night and now we appreciating the systems. that have an airfield in here and then international association of r t

two operators has developed in iraq ration scheme for such a case because of the intense logistics involved in operating in such remote environments and antarctic experience can be quite costly and eleven night adventure on this ship can cost anywhere between ten and twenty thousand dollars and a day in antarctica flight package from points out in his chilling costs around five thousand people who make this journey say the experience is worth it we just got back from being able to go look at look at some penguins look at some seals and you know they don't have like the real fear of humans that animals do in most parts of the world and as you can see there's a lot of just like stark natural beauty out here and it just interesting to see the you know the colonies out of in the middle of nowhere at the bottom of the earth. and those that facilitate these trips say there is more to the antarctic tourism industry and then making a buck it is not only invented in adventure for everybody we are very careful

actually also telling people that they should take something home that may change their life we try him to be aware of how special this environment is in a global climate change and here via video changes we are coming here down here for twenty years or even longer and receive those changes hopefully creating ambassadors that will spread the message about this important part of the world in antarctica sean thomas r t. well that moscow has more creature comforts for travelers wanted to spend some money everything from ultra modern shopping malls to humble from vets stalls more than willing to accept cash at today's edition of must go out but andrews takes no. shopping in moscow doesn't have to break the bank however a little research can lead to some truly every channel and uniquely recession that says it's when the fake sites in place to visit the colors the noise. and

also the smells. right it's a form of it said to me truly bring us the latest this instant sales. hello and welcome to business r.t. with me to be sure that the south stream gas pipeline will be completed on shared by the end of twenty fifteen according to its chief executive now speaking of the european gas form in berlin muscle kramer says the project will go ahead this by

problems getting agreement from turkey to allow the pipe through its territory but with regard to fear is countries participating or not but this is a voluntary project that's a commercial project a number of countries have signed up. a number of companies have signed up as well at least to come to a joint venture dream and that's what they're working on i don't hear today of anyone dropping out or changing their schedule but of course you know the final decision will come when the actual final investment decision is made and it's always possible that there were no to change the project and still tell it he will definitely take place in the schedule also from the gas form and new european rules on the pipeline network have been greeted with vigorous objections from russia the so-called third energy package is intended to prevent the gas supply from also being the means of transport companies such as gas probably claim this will

undermine investment in the sector however the president of the natural gas industry says the intention is not to hinder russian companies. the networks of pipelines in europe the we need to be managed to get away which allows one hundred years to come in the now is the new feeling you can register to make it on the air it's one of those resisting ones but that includes very much russian companies someone who can really benefit throughout europe or in being able to the software there are several acres of the other everywhere in europe i've said however that there must be protection for any new investment is a really good idea that there can be a reservation of the rights of the second to the markets now is start with oil light sweet is trading marginally in the black that softer one point seven percent slump on thursday and downbeat reports from the us on existing home power sales and the leading economic indicators brant is that one hundred eleven dollars in the

hall per barrel light sweet is below ninety nine dollars per barrel. and stock markets in asia they are mixed japan energy slipped into the red on overnight weakness in crude japan to trade in corporation is down two point four percent this hour in hong kong stocks are up with gains and wall street boosting financial stocks with decline and some resources still says weighing on the market and opinion help aeration of china is dropping around two percent the south. here and also the markets will start trading in around five minutes time they close in the black on thursday bouncing back from the losses possibly results and this is hoping for a strong rebound in the russian markets after several weeks of decline and may be in for disappointment at least that's the view of the count from a few bank. the markets will be somewhat stuck at the current levels for some time this release the fact that investors have to figure out several important global

trends that require like witnessing one the commodity price environment the market is asking itself whether the oil price is overvalued as well as the other commodity names and most importantly the u.s. and chinese economies how they will fill in the next commodity environment that we're going to see in the third quarter. from the business stream so we will be back next with an update stay with us and feel like.

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