and the. million dollar bill for the apps i.m.f. chief accused of sexual assault but there's concern his downfall has already cost europe parable financial damage to the heroes are. all eyes on the israeli view as relations with other side methodology to meet president obama after wrapping on his comments on his back on student borders. prison term instead of the presidential opposition leaders in béla groups accused of inciting the election on the grass roots here if they will be punished for standing up for the country's longtime leader. last reserves of the edge of civilization look at what losers

tourists to the coldest ever bring to this continent on earth. on air and online twenty four hours a day this is our t.v. thanks for joining us now the former i.m.f. chief who's been officially charged with sexually assaulting a hotel maid is to be released on bail of one million dollars alderman extracts con will now swap his cell in a new york prison for house arrest in a luxury manhattan apartment and also be tracked by g.p.s. and guarded twenty four hours a day to stop him seeking refuge at the french embassy card was the driving force behind the bailouts to save be in debt to greece portugal and ireland but some economists now fear his resignation will put the rescue of ailing economies under

question do you have put the euro currency on the block as dad now explains well you know the stress. that's what bankers are whispering all the police charged. with the attempted rape of a hotel maid very differently the possibility that some countries could decide to. if you pushed out of the euro and there were you understand that. belief in the euro could and should be saved in the face of nor still resistance from richest states stross can lead this week's bailouts of crippled portugal germany and france insist on oil and raises its low corporation tax d s k as he's known was the man arguing yes what is saving your issue calling me these allegations are going to be . of the i.m.f. as an institution. definitely 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 as part of the to some of the heads of state governments so that made it clear made a difference yes good context for example to the greek prime minister on thursday greece asked for more loans on better terms but no heavyweights europhile the s.k. has gone few back another bailout. should leave the euro zone that has put under strain the euro china is one of the i.m.s. top backers contributing tens of billions of euro the reward it wants is an asian chief who's not likely to be as europe friendly distress call 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 kind of person with the same kind of convictions coming from the emerging markets when one of the world's biggest investment banks fill three years ago it triggered a global recession we're still reeling from today but it's still the driving the euro to extinction will only make matters worse. it's a consequence of probably would be higher up in the national you know that was for instance as a bankruptcy or fleeman in two saws and eight with a you economy is that this tool 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 woman who was instrumental in getting the eurozone most troubled is a risk to seem to threaten the end of the euro itself no bushel of two paris sells cans doubtful of facts not only europe's financial plans probably entire global monetary system or economics writer. told r.t. about this at the top of the i.m.f.

but also scupper efforts i'll turn it over serve curzon's to the u.s. dollar is having left the international monetary fund a dramatic way shows that the powers that be were not very happy with mr sterling was promoting this question drawing rights which in a way are the mechanism that would make the dollar suffer i think that we are going to see that whoever find we were the helm at the i.m.f. will keep away from him. too strongly participation in doing away with the u.s. dollar in other words the u.s. dollar needs to be in a key currency and anything which is seen as competition automatically puts on the 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 both. 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 america could at least financially collapse. well arty's been hearing reaction for france to be a dominant strauss kahn scandal and the majority of people believe the former i.m.f. chief arrest was a set up only it's what our correspondents written on archie's twitter feed will stay on top of this story by calling also our team on their squawk. it's. the strains definitely showing us is really relations after president obama called

for a palestinian state with it at nineteen sixty seven borders and his middle east policy speech about comments has angered israel's prime minister who said it would make it impossible for his country to contact itself back in september the issue of the israeli settlements of the disputed territories stalled peace talks with the palestinians and later on friday a bit of it netanyahu will meet president obama at the white house parties go to check out reports from old washington bureau. obama pushed harder for these trailers to make concessions to stop building settlements or police is suggested that israel go back to pre nine hundred sixty seven border lines and that would mean that what happens is giving up completely the west bank is truthful him and the gavel straight. 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 has 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. a lot of bad mayor who's an international relations professor 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 year in a 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 but they need to compromise on both sides but they need to to end the expansion of settlement but he would not be able or willing for that matter

to draw any specific roadmap i still how to go about to achieve these objectives we have to be clear here you know when you see when the policy and 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 an occupation and i think this is exactly the russian are behind it the day of israeli independence which they are to the public cynical the knockabout is a provided the momentum to give the the credit of the scene in the opportunity to demonstrate that they have enough of occupation and they want to bring it to an end but i'm fraid to say that this is maybe only the beginning. 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 will probably most bang them from

our from never going to attack iraq so this is a major problem for israel israel is going to have to be prepared and better it must be willing to address these issues sooner than later. in his speech obama also said colonel gadhafi has no control over libya hours later nato hit eight libyan war ships anchored in a number of the country's ports but the alliance says the vessels were trying to prevent the delivery of aid into libya and posed a threat to allied forces leave it officials deny obama's claims it's the libyan people who should decide gadhafi spates obama also delivered an ultimatum to syria's president assad telling him to allow a power transition or get out right back or for the asking for answer coalition says it looks like the american is pushing for regime change in syria there may be a debate within the obama administration but we're 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 so there's a debate within the administration but i think the logic of that position is united states personally sanctioned assad the government the president and his closest advisors and offered him the option of either leaving the transition to democracy or being swept aside 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 within the administration. well r.t. dot com is where to go for reports and videos on the world's biggest stories and here's what's there for you right now muslims and christians in egypt joined together to try and put a lid on the religious violence that's clearing up in the wake of the country's

revolution the details are at r.t. dot com. president medvedev has restated his concerns about american and nato led plans for a missile defense system on russia's borders a lot of former ensuing petersburg he called on the west to consider russia's interests to avoid a return to cold war style relations. with lots of anger in twenty twenty new missile defense system will appear in europe there's agreement now on voltage should be like in this case in twenty twenty we will have a modern europe well adjusted to learn. but if we do not agree what we will get will be the europe of the early nineteen eighties i don't want to live in such

europe and i hope that neither do you russia has already said it intends to take action if the u.s. and nato plow ahead with their plan without taking moscow's views on board or the u.s. is moving ahead with plans to build a missile base in romania washington and the alliance say the shield that will protect europe for missiles from countries like iran or north korea or russia sees it as a security threat and is insisting on an equal say in the project. now an israeli diplomat who's been expelled from moscow was attempting to gather information on russia's military dealings with other countries well that's the accusation from the federal security service arkansas for is following developments . the russian federal security service is this they have all of the talk human materials to prove that israel's military. was engaged in industrial espionage now russia's foreign ministry has released

a statement saying he was called red handed trying to illegally obtain information sensitive information about bilateral cooperation military cooperation between russia and some arab and c.i.s. states and they have the documents as we said that he was looking in most cases two thousand and eight with the rest may twelfth whilst he was sitting in a cafe and israel's defense forces denied the spying allegations but as he said federal security services have said they have evidence and laid him and has since been expelled from russia. and coming up in a few minutes the tourist with a passion for the polar. the beauty of antarctica is something that not many people on this earth will get the opportunity to see which is why it's one of the world's most exotic two or three of the nations i'm sean thomas you know antarctica and coming up on our t.v. we explore why some people are willing to pay big bucks to make it down here. to

meet the siberian captain's mother who knows no bounds by. just loves. that's when are we. losing a presidential election is sad enough for the beaten count of this well or it could even. before men who stood against president bush will find out later on friday rather speaking out will cost them their freedom because sharpton has long faced condemnation and sanctions for his tight grip on anyone who dares to challenge him i think so hugo chavez he reports. he was running for president in belarus but ended up behind bars or authorities claim you can live 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 so yeah a lot of us had little bellerose we've already got used to judges being told from

above what they must deliver in the first court 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 difference were denied by the charge of the country's president has been dubbed europe's last dictator but isn't represented over 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 all the north forty two people were charged with plotting a coup there are possible prison sentences varying from three to fifteen years. that is how the story just take their revenge and those who criticize them during the election campaign they had their say and now they will pay for that as a question has once again been reinstated these repressions caused uproar around europe most countries condemned the crackdown and even contemplated sanctions

against minsk moved to. the storage. firm in charge and there will give them maximum prison terms with weight or it will use them to bargain with the european union this happened before the previous election because it was released from prison and contract with europe was resumed. again experts say the timing of these court cases could not be worse belarus now 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 as 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 that 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. now to some other world news first take a look at this spectacular footage of the american astronauts on a space walk their six hours for all outside the international space station is to carry out experiments and. it's one of the astronauts first time in orbit and he says it's a true. ever shuttle that start yesterday it's on its final journey or retired. the operator of japan's crisis hit of human nuclear plant has made a record loss of fifteen billion dollars it's the country's biggest ever corporate loss and force the firm's director to quit because he was operators have been heavily criticized over its contingency plans after the quake and tsunami and march

which destroyed cooling systems and sent the reactors into belt. in pakistan now the taliban has carried out a bomb attack in two armored u.s. consular vehicles the blast killed a passing motorcyclist a group of passengers in one of the cars the taliban says it will continue targeted nato diplomats and arjun's crosstalk later today the panel focus is on the turbulence to meet pakistan and washington. now it may lack a luxury resorts or palm strong beaches better to talk to because frozen a barren lands are still a hot spot for some in our next report from the southernmost tip of the earth shocked august meets those spending thousands of dollars just walk five star frost . the guests on board this cruise ship get ready to come ashore to experience something magical an arctica is an area to visit. imagination i mean you can

reach folks look at t.v. shows and try to be prepared but the experience every trip again once we take people down here they are only way by the set up 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 an 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. are really coming down here to see something unique it's an ecosystem like no other. and also for the people who 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 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 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 maxwell bay was not planned but a medical emergency last night and now we have appreciated in the assistance of the james here that have an airfield in here and then a international association of our two operators has got open in iraq and skiing 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 port out in his chilling costs around five thousand but the people who make this journey say the. variance 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's interesting to see that you know the colonies out of popped up 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 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 that we try him to be aware of how special this environment is in a global climate change and here via video sync 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 archie. elmore the royals and shells are martinis and talked about expedition here tomorrow so don't join us for that.

more than a month. in one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is and charge it up 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 of the wildlife in antarctica is close if you lived and the friends of. the expedition to the bottom of the earth are. and now for a highly unusual tale of motherly love if you take a look at this few live a mom has taken a bad baby boy to her heart well a couple have been rejected by his actual mother shortly after he was born in a siberian zoo over the desperate zookeepers and their last hope was the only. nurse close to her now the canine called places new mom is the cat's whiskers. and

next we check out the bulls every bears of the business world. hello welcome to our tease business bullets am good to have you with me new york new european rules only pipeline network have been greeted with ficus objections from russia those the so-called third energy package is intended to prevent a gas supplier from also owning the means of transport companies such as got strong claim this will undermine investment in the sector however philip lowy head of energy at the european commission says the intention is not to hinder russian companies. the networks and pipelines in you are in need to be monitored. in a way we should allow small groups of them to come into the now as you can you can read this if you make it on the air that's one of the interesting ones but that includes very money russian companies who can really benefit throughout europe from

being able to get them off the ground so for the actions of the everywhere in europe i've said however that there must be protecting the brain you would press the bill you're going to get it in the resignation of the big. and let's look at the markets european stocks are mixed enough in trading the ghauts is losing nearly half a percent b.p. is up four percent after the oil company reached a settlement with most offshore over the deepwater horizon disaster restaurant operated michel's and but was is down five percent on disappointing profits value stocks are leading the gains in frankfurt with commerce bank supersets. here in moscow the markets are proof rests in some reds of the trading coffee date in positive territory that's as commodities ease on worries about global demand problem is now leading among the losers while it was tops talk all morning down bucketful percent of the company maintains a stance against the e.u.'s third energy package spared bank is down over eight

percent after that you can put an approved for sale of seventy seven point five percent of the state's share in the largest lender and prosthetic home is also is gaining half a percent. now the successful sale of fifty billion rubles of your gods has been hailed by fight as mr x. it could be as a step to making the russian ruble a reserve currency russia now has ninety billion rubles of euro bonds placed in the market that's more than three billion dollars making it one of the world's largest placements in a local currency. coffee prices have set a thirty four year record high above three dollars a pound arabica coffee prices trade in new york doubled in the past twelve months and reduced to being traded in london have climbed eighty four percent cotton prices may encourage international fall was to boost output for next year's crop this could help make make up for a drop in supplies from brazil the world's biggest grow up but before that could

happen the price of a program called is to reach an all time high i mean somewhat according to the head of the russian coffee producers assistance the green coffee market grows so their prices grows so intensely and we will radiate reach they're practically at the peak of pricing since seventy six or seventy seven and by summer time we probably will be an all time high one of the major contribution to the increase in the price first time in particular in history and it's the meaning many years the consumption is higher than quarter production in the world and this is mostly due to old markets countries who produce course for google or they usually drink coffee today the situation changed brazil for example which was continually for the very local level consumption and now it's the second in the

world after this and probably will overcome will be the largest consumer country say we can say about reading producing countries and it's a central america and it's countries in africa and can you go to hear they not only grow quarter but they started to drink it as well. the latest we have for you know business books and always have more and less and want to stay with.

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