is available in the. joint be a children's movie that's the great it's a grand imperial. torch which is clearly until you can the essential measure which suggested to go. read this in the committee was there as a retreat. the now former head of the international monetary fund is granted bail and grace under house arrest on charges of attempted rape but there are fears the euro brought up survived without any. real replacement of almost says he wants an immediate transition of power in syria he was given a keynote speech outlining america's policies in the middle east. outrage in belo rousseau over the case of opposition leaders jailed for allegedly inciting on the rest of the election day for their supporters say it was a setup by the cartoons seemingly permanent president.

you're watching r t coming to you live from moscow welcome to the program the former chief of the international monetary fund accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid almost a week ago has been granted bail of one million dollars. his prison cell in a mature use gangland jail for house arrest in a manhattan apartment will also be tracked by g.p.s. and watched twenty four hours a day by an armed guard style's khan was the driving force behind bailouts to save the ailing economies of greece portugal and ireland but now he's resigned some european states fear efforts to protect the euro could finally be solved so worsening economic downturn. bushel has more. no strauss called no euro that's what because a whispering off the police charge 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 or be pushed out of the euro and there where you got to understand that. belief that the euro could and should be saved in the face of north steel resistance from richer states stross kong live this week's bailout of portugal germany and france insist boyland raises its low corporation tax p.s.k. as he's known was the man or doing it's what is saving the irish economy these allegations are going to be. of the i.m.f. as an institution. is different from going to be honest. strauss kahn even persuaded greece's leader to stick with strict spending cuts disappoint royals on the streets but he. says some of the new heads of state

governments made it made a difference he has good contacts for example to the greek prime minister on thursday resourced for more loans on better terms but no heavyweights europhile p.s.k. has called a few back and not the bailout. should leave the euro zone that has put under strain the euro china is one of the imus top bikers contributing tens of billions of euros the reward it wants is an asian chief is not likely to be friendly strolls because he has been very personally very important in getting the i.m.f. involved and assisting in designing the 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 market. when one of the world's biggest investment banks phil three years ago it

triggered a global recession was still reeling from today it is filled with troy being the euro to extinction you make matters worse it's a consequence probably would be higher in that area that was for instance as a bankruptcy or fleeman in two thousand and eight with e.u. economies at death's door this is a team that toppling the world's leading banker comes at the worst possible time this is not just the end of a career the woman who was instrumental in getting the euro's the most troubled states is a risk to seem to threaten the end of the euro itself. or to. the resignation of the many excel scan has put the global financial community in the stand or economics and politics writer adrian says his downfall may well derail plans to use alternatives to the us dollar as a reserve currency his having left the international monetary fund in so she

dramatic way shows that the powers that be were not very happy with this system 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. so sort of the whole of the i.m.f. will keep away from getting. too strongly participation and doing away with the u.s. 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 bond holdings is a sign of trouble for the united states because as i say those treasury bonds u.s. treasury bonds is what allows boehner langley to have his printing presses going on twenty four hours a day if that were to be stopped and if america were to start printing currency well i could at least financially collapse. and coming up in

a few minutes we'll continue our series of reports from antarctica and discover why many tourists are not at all scared of the dangerous to the core concept. more than a month. in one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is antarctica and people have to be aware that they're far away from civilization sean thomas discovers fox makes special detracted from the wildlife. and frontal. expedition to the bottom of the earth. now nato has hit eight warships belonging to colonel gadhafi forces in a number of different ports. the alliance says the vessels were trying to prevent the delivery of aid in libya and post a threat to allied forces well the strikes came as president barack obama was

outlining america's stance on the uprisings and unrest across the arab world saying time is working against gadhafi that he has no control over libya well obama also delivered an ultimatum to syria's president assad telling him to allow a transition of power or get out of 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. has added the syrian leader to their blacklist by imposing sanctions or any personally where it's all heading is unclear now there may be a debate within the obama administration over it between 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 and i think those who favor regime change have got the

upper hand the u.s. is now involved in the civil war in leone where it is clearly kicking side and giving full support for the opposition leader but no large but a large portion of the leading population is very much opposed to any foreign intervention in 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 the area which is in the very heart of the arab world is iran's closest ally in the weekend and he could send 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 there what happens is giving up completely the west bank is sure slim and i gather strange. he was very careful to say that the us is soley 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 the 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. obama's comments of the israeli palestinian borders angered israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu insisted that returning to preven nine hundred sixty seven war lines would make it impossible to protect israel. a professor of international relations at new york university says the u.s. president lacks concrete proposals for the peace process 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 to grow but i think he would be talking in general terms about the need for a two state solution there but they need to compromise on both sides but they need to. be expansion of settlement but he would not be willing for that matter to draw any specific roadmap as to how to go about to achieve these objectives we have to be clear here you know when you when the public thing and look at the whole our board and see their counterpart rising against their own government they are asking themselves why should not rewrite against are not ok and i think this is exactly the. chanelle behind it the day of israeli independence was that of the policy called the knockabout is it provided momentum to give the the private eye was seen in the opportunity to demonstrate they had enough of a key provision and they want to bring it to an end but i am free to say that this is maybe only the beginning i very concerned what will happen say in the next week

to all month instead of one thousand or two thousand marking from each side. how about if you get fifty or sixty or one hundred thousand marching from the syrian side be it with great noise and bang the coming out from never going to etc so this is a major problem for is around the reds going to have to be prevented and better it must be willing to address these issues sooner than later but you can find more analysis on developments in the middle east on our web site that's r t v dot com and also online for you neither to be stacked log on to the arts and picture gallery to see how muslims and christians are joining together to rally past religious violence in egypt. plus what are the chances of a new independent state appearing in europe scottish nationalists consider using a recent political gains to engineer a breakaway from the u.k. or find all the details r t v dot com.

now to belorussian presidential candidates are facing a lengthy prison terms for speaking out against the corruption of leader and expand well described as europe's last dictator he's ruled for almost two decades defying condemnation and sanctions while gagging the opposition at will and its archies and exterior shots the reports challenge of his raid inevitably leads to a story about this state. attention facility he was running for president in belarus but ended up behind bars or authorities claim vladimir nuclei if was among the organizers of election night street unrest in minsk unrest which was brutally dispersed by police his wife was complaining for justice but does not have much

faith that will happen. without having lived in belarus we've already got used to judges being told from above was merging them as deliberate in the first court hearings of my husband's case the prosecutor named no evidence no facts which could prove that diminished 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 represent over the way he rules the us for this opposition they will get hit in the head all right as they start to stabilize 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 all the north forty two people who were charged with plotting a coup there are possible prison sentences varying from three to fifteen years. these housing authorities take their revenge on those who criticize them during the election campaign they had their say in any now as they go pay for that as looking

as once again been reinstated. by these repressions caused uproar around europe most countries condemned the crackdown and even contemplated sanctions against minsk. storage used and will stand firm in charging at least they will give them maximum prison terms with leader who will use them to bargain with the european union this happened before the previous election a mystery because it was released from prison and contact with your resume. experts say the timing of these court cases could not be worse bellerose 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 belorussian goods to the european union has heart 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 a 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. alexi russia ski r.t. reporting from minsk in belarus. and now to some other stories making headlines around the world the first we have pictures from. members of the international space station its crew are carrying out the first spacewalk since the docking of the shuttle endeavor well they are trying to install new antennas very wireless communication system as well as carried out other much real. well the walk is expected to take six hours. a massive fire broke out of an old factory in the israel and city of melbourne dozens of fire crews battled an

enormous wall of flames caused by five hundred pounds of reverse of burning motor oil the battle with the blaze last of the whole night before finally being put out early morning no one was thought to have worked. on pakistan a car bomb was detonated near two armored u.s. consulate vehicles as they passed by the blast killed a passing civilian and wounded several passengers in one of the cars the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack saying they will continue targeting diplomats for mental member states parties crossed all coming your way next our focus is on the turbulent relationship between pakistan and washington. the united states is fighting the taliban and it's our associates and i began as to why pakistan i mean it's already an intelligence service supports some of the groups who are killing americans and afghans inside afghanistan and also victimizing

departments any people inside pakistan as well so what's important in a distance from is for both sides to align their interests and retaining their relationship because this is not sustainable. if you go in. and now we continue our special series of reports from earth southernmost continent although antarctica lacks luxury resorts is still attracts many people who are ready to spend thousands of dollars on a ten day trip there largely shot thomas reveals why antarctic tourism is for shit . the guests on board this cruise ship get ready to come ashore to experience something magical an article that is an area to visit beyond imagination i mean you can meet books look at t.v. shows and try to be prepared but we experience every trip again once we take people

down here they are only way by the side 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 antarctic treaty system and international agreement that limits exploitation of the continent 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. really we coming down here to see something unique it's an ecosystem like no other. and also for the people who do come on these journeys i think they get spellbound because really it's it's a vision of the world before man had anything to do with 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 but keep in mind this is antarctica and people have to be aware that

they are far away from civilization i mean our stop today here to mexico was not planned but. medical last night and now we appreciate in the assistance of the chileans here that have an airfield in here and then any international association of an arctic to operate us has in iraq ration scheme for such a case because of the intense logistics involved in operating in such remote environments in antarctica 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 telling is chilling costs around five thousand but the people who make this journey say the experience is worth it we just got back from being able to go 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's interesting to see the

you know the colonies out of 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 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 shunts honest our team. will moscow has more crucial conference for travelers wanting to spend some money on everything from ultra modern shopping malls to humble fruit and vegetable stands are more than willing to accept your cash on today's edition of moscow our martin adams takes

a work. thing in moscow to suggest to break the bank however a little research can lead to some truly original and uniquely bush purchases it's a wonderfully exciting place to visit and is the noise great is and also the smells. of the one on the. other back are the headlines but first the latest in the world of business the dmitri. thanks hello and welcome to business the south stream gas pipeline will be completed on schedule by the end of twenty fifteen according to its chief executive speaking of the european gas forum in berlin mars or kramer says the project will go ahead despite problems getting agreement from turkey so loud the pipe through its territory. with regard to various countries participating or not this is

a voluntary. project a number of countries have signed up. number of companies have signed up as well at the joint venture that's what they're working on. i don't hear today of anyone dropping out or changing the schedule but of course you know the final. decision will be actual final investment decision is made and that's always want to change but the project in its totality well definitely take place on the schedule. also from the gas forum and good new european rules on pipeline networks have been greeted with vigorous objections from russia so called energy packages intended to prevent the gas supply but also opening the means of transport companies such as gas from playing this will undermine investment in the sector however philip lowe the head of energy at the european commission says the intention is not to hate and

russian companies. the networks and pipelines in you are the need to be managed in a way which allows one hundred years to come in the now is that when you when you compare this to make it on the air that's where the simplistic money but that includes very much russian companies who can really benefit throughout europe from being able to the offshore grass enough electricity and everywhere in europe i've said however that they must be protected by a new investment with me so that they can be a reservation of the us of a. circular going to markets now we start with the oil light sweet is trading in the black that's after one point seven percent slob on thursday and downbeat reports from the us on existing house sales and eating some kinda cases. ninety nine dollars and a half this one below brands is up. just below one hundred twelve.

thirteen stocks are also trading in the positive territory b.p. is up four percent after the oil company reached a settlement with the expulsion all over the deepwater horizon disaster a restaurant operator michel's about this deal c. is down five percent on disappointing profits banking stocks are leading the gains in frankfurt with commerce bank of supersets. there most of the markets are also ending the week on a positive note says shares generally up yes putting on point two percent my six point three percent. gazprom is one of the biggest gainers itself the three quarters of a percent as the company maintains its stance against the evil. third energy package of burbank is all just a notch point two percent of the vote in a crucial approve the sale of seven point five percent of the state's share in the largest lender. is the leader it's up twenty eight percent. the successful sale of fifty billion rubles worth of a euro bonds has been hailed by the finance minister. as

a step to making the russian ruble a reserve currency russia now has nineteen billion rubles worth of euro bonds placed on the market that's more than three billion dollars making it one of the world's largest placements in a local currency the merger of two main or russian bosses the r.t.s. and the nice x. could be announced as soon as next week the deal goes through it could result in a substantial payday for the major shareholders of the nice ex. machina with the shareholders have come to a decision to pay three hundred thirty million dollars to give it its go over the biggest part a bit of money will be paid if the shareholder meetings at my selection years agree all nurture and it but they grew into monopoly service except these three and should be completed by. only staying awake has become more expensive coffee prices have set of thirty four year high above three dollars a pound arabica coffee price the price as a trade in new york have doubled in the past twelve months and robust the bins

trade in london have climbed eighty four percent higher coffee prices may encourage international farmers to boost our push for next year's crop this could help to make up for a drop in supplies from brazil the world's biggest but before that can happen the price of green coffee is tipped to reach an all time high by mid summer according to the head of the russian coffee producers association. agreed of course the market growth of the prices rose so intensely and we will radiate reach they're practically at the peak of pricing since seventy six seventy seven and by summer time we probably will be an all time high one of the major contribution to the increase in price first in practical history and maybe years coffee consumption is higher than quarter production in the world and this is mostly due to old markets countries and produce quarter growth quarter they

usually get the drink of the day the situation changed brazil for example which was continued to read a little level of consumption and now it's the second in the world of us and probably will overcome will be the largest consumer country say we can say about reigning in producing countries and it's a central america it's countries in africa. you appear. not only to grow corn here but they started to drink it as well and russian billionaire alexander mahmood is to buy british book retailer waterstones the eighty six million dollars deal comes ahead of a deadline for the books chains parent company h.l.v. to meet commitments on bank loans. for profit warnings so far this year i'm struggling to refinance debts of two hundred million dollars. business our team will be back next hour with the headlights next.

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