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crisis the world is still struggling with economic woes journey for that and more stories in our business bulletin placing. a very warm welcome here this is r.t. live from moscow now as president obama enjoys the very best of british welcomes the two nations are once again keen to stress that friendship particularly when it comes to waging wars on foreign soil thirty leaders echoed when it came to pressuring the libyan leader to go laura majoris us live from london for more details on this and laura hi so obama incoming that there was not exactly shying away from their open calls for gadhafi to leave but how does this add up with the previous claims of the operation is not a regime change it was all supposed to be about a humanitarian mission wasn't it. it wasn't i mean that it is all still saying that

this is about protecting civilians but as you mentioned again david cameron said during this news conference very categorically gadhafi must go but as i say they are still insisting that they're complying with the u.n. resolution they talk about an awful lot the syces and everything they say but in the same sentence both these leaders are reiterating the need as they see it for the to go so it's quite difficult to way out of those two seemingly very different viewpoints said that at the very least it was necessary to disable gadhafi capacity to attack his own civilians and then of course there's the issue of moving him from power and possibly targeting him directly but what they're saying is that it's impossible to comply with the resolution to protect civilians if indeed he is still in power so that's how they're justifying it but many of course are saying that this is a clear case of over regime change another interesting thing that happened was

a slight disagreement that appeared to unfold despite this very carefully orchestrated news conference david cameron talked about turning up the heat in libya and he neatly dodged the question about whether they would be sending helicopters apache helicopters into fight closer to the ground as we heard reports in the media yesterday on the refuse to commit to turning up the feet of the heat and in fact he talked about maintaining that momentum that they had already built up and saying that was enough to force sooner or later to leave power so there's no further commitment from the u.s. in libya there which is something that ahead of this visit the u.k. was reported to he wants them to commit. a lot of the president and the prime minister talking about such a special relationship between the two countries i mean it's just been so rosy all these big smiles these because every time i. was speaking marco and he was so the u.s. president barack obama is absolutely right absolutely right it is just about the

u.k. agreeing with everything the u.s. has to say. it has been this visit certainly and there has been a lot of talk about this special relationship which there is every time the leaders of the u.k. and the u.s. meet they call this relationship unique they've called it essential they say it's not just a historical relationship it's also about the present day it's about ensuring that the nation's security and prosperity and as you've seen the weather has also been beautiful which lots of commentators have been saying it's made a huge difference to the pictures that will be beamed back to the u.s. and that will support his reelection campaign one of the major things that's come out of this visit is this setting up of the joint security border between the u.s. and the u.k. and what that will do is open up the defense and security resources of washington to london and voice now some people are saying that's just a formalization of an informal agreement that was already in place of course we've seen the u.s. fighting various wars together and using their defense strategy techniques very

closely in line with each other but some see that formalisation of this working relationship as very dangerous to the rest of the world as my record shows. all smiles and handshakes as the u.k. and the u.s. take their special relationship to the next level washington's preparing to open up its highly secretive national security council to london as the two countries pledged to deal jointly with perceived security and foreign policy challenges but what cost to the rest of the world i don't think it will change foreign policy in any dramatic way now remember that britain already shares a huge amount of intelligence with the united states in fact britain's nuclear deterrent can't actually launch a nuclear missile on its own so in fact what is happening in lottery symbolic the special relationship phrase was a deeply detested one when blair was in power and his relationship to bush was

seen in britain pretty much more one of approval rather than a partner and yes in a sense it will be sky's and popular was. not everyone welcomes president obama's presence in the u.k. a range of groups are using it as an opportunity to demonstrate against what they see as the anglo-saxon warmachine and islamist fringe organizations linked aggressive foreign policy led by the u.s. and the u.k. supported variously by france and other nato allies with terror attacks there's a real ticket prices to go somewhere since i last until the leak was allowed to stop supporting the dictators it was in countries that are cautioning us supporting our sort of his role. models. the u.s. and u.k. have been involved in two major wars in the last ten years in both iraq and afghanistan

america persuaded britain to come in with the reinforcing britain's reputation as the us is lap dog. but this time it's different in libya it's britain taking the lead in nato with the us keen to keep its role to a minimum the deepening of cooperation between the two is something this group of demonstrators of a imminently objects to these are cars. are starting to see to. the three major he was the ten year those got really bad news for those of us who want peace in the world to see those two cars cooperate in more closely. outside buckingham palace where obama is staying these protesters are trying to persuade him and push his prime minister cameron to stop waging war in foreign lands so far it hasn't worked she's day and cameron we're united in their intention to increase

pressure on colonel gadhafi in libya. and this demonstration need to escalate its involvement in the war in libya francis says it will deploy helicopters bringing the fighting closer to the grounds of the global war machine bumbles with the alliance of london and washington in the engine read this new agreements to pool information and resources may only add fuel to the fire your average r.t. . for more on president obama's agenda in the u.k. let's not talk to a robert naiman from the u.s. just foreign policy organization it's a think tank that calls for american foreign actions to be based on greater. cooperation. continues to pound targets in the libyan capital tripoli while president obama and prime minister cameron agree to quote turn up the heat on the country to force me to step down it seems that you don't have much faith in these methods. no you know the new york times which is you know is the

flagship newspaper in the united states openly called last we called it out if this is an illegal war the the war was never authorized by the united states congress more than sixty days have passed since the u.s. began bombing libya and we have a law in the united states called work hours resolution which congress passed during the vietnam war in order to try and constrain where make the president and first of all says there any war has to be authorized by congress unless the u.s. is directly attacked and secondly it says that if the prison involves. u.s. forces nostrils those forces have to be withdrawn in sixty days unless the way you are talking about it. and illegal war but i thought it was just a humanitarian mission. well. regardless of the motivation or

claimed motivation united states has been bombing libya helping others to bomb so it's a war you support or or oppose it it's still or it's illegal under united states law and this is being openly said new united states it's never been authorized by congress there is now a vote finally exploded expected in the house in the next three days on an amendment by representative conyers there would explicitly prohibited the introduction of u.s. ground troops in libya to the temp by some members of congress to put soem perimeter on what the what the u.s. media so the bombing administration in terms of this dialogue with camera turn or a good position to quote unquote grandpa to heat up you can say let's look if we were let's wonder what they're going to be this or that and out of our prime minister david cameron the u.s. and the u.s. and the u.k. say that they've drawn lessons from history they understand that people in

countries for themselves pave the way to democracy but have they really learned this lesson some might say they've just failed miserably. well it's spectacularly obvious then the united states and its friends have different policies for different countries in the region notwithstanding the president's speech over course we've heard a lot of rhetoric about human rights in libya because france britain and the u.s. wanted to intervene while these countries have been proportionally silent silence about the crackdown in bahrain finally the president's speech last week we heard something about bahrain this this country is of course a major u.s. our ally simply is there it's part of the u.s. lives in year a. plot against iran when you spin no quite during this crackdown on a regime that is. dominated by

a monarchy for charged years then he's based in a minority of the population a sunni arab minority while the. majority is disenfranchised and u.s.s.r. so the idea that the u.s. britain and france are just you know supporting any demand for democracy human rights in the region is. absurd obviously that as as we see up president obama coming to london he's he's i received a lavish royal banquet all sorts of companies circumstances rosy smiles friendly handshakes and yet the u.k. is still perceived as being america's a lapdog how do you assess the relations at this stage well certainly true that the u.s. is the lee overall and britain is behind it is your is your point in your book pointed out in the case of bolivia war it was really britain and france they were pushing aggressively for action much more so. then you see i do think we all have

to be you know keep our eyes focused on the actual policy so it's always possible blah about special relationship of course the issue. whether we want us in britain to cooperate i certainly do is cooperate to do what i don't want them to cooperate to bomb invade other people's countries i want them to cooperate to support peace democracy and human rights in the world now that we've seen for example one of the things how to present an agenda is what they're going to do the israel palestine conflict because the ins are threatening to come to the asians in september and president obama has indirectly threatened to veto the palestinian request for recognition so what about the palestinians what is what is western europe what is really in western europe going to do about the palestinian demand for freedom and recognition of an independent state and september so if the if there is special relationship means cooperate and do bad things then it's not in the interest of the

majority of people in either country if needs to cooperating to support democracy and human rights and policy then in diplomatic resolution of conflict then you know that's that's a special relationship that we can all support robert naiman from the u.s. just foreign policy organization thank you. well for more stories to come here still this hour on our. ten minutes time we travel to russia's republic of dagestan for rather a rare acquaintance. this path leads to a man who has walked through three same trees was thirty years biography and it is possible terms of the development of the country's history people come to visit and talk to him and his name again and has agreed to share some of his secrets to a long life with us to. get r.t. now it's just one day to go before the g eight summit kicks off in the french resort of the meeting will be hosted by nicolas sarkozy whose country holds the

presidency of the group this year and i was artie's and it's in our reports from on sunday his leadership played a leading role in causing the problems that the summit is now aiming to solve. the g. eight has gone full circle the last time the summit was held in france eight years ago the agenda looked almost the same. war the economy and somewhere in the middle aged africa on the table then iraq and boosting the euro now it's libya and saving the euro. two thousand and three france had a very different stance on global politics then it was staunchly opposed to the u.s. invasion of iraq french fries quickly became freedom fries after france u.s. relations soured despite summit smiles but with the new french president came a new friend turkey was a has rejected entirely new path a good way of france playing a constructive role in

a multi multi-polar world and has aligned himself with the single superpower the united states nowadays france is barking much louder with more soldiers involved in foreign military conflicts a brawn bent ever before it's a globalist modern. it's not just the friends it's the whole. global plan to change governments as they want. france played a central role in ivory coast's bloody presidential stalemate and is considered the unspoken leader of the intervention in libya this great sarkozy wanted us to participate and to be one of the first. ruler western ruler to to go there and just for his political agenda critics say this new global policy was meant to win over french voters but hasn't worked trances

a kind of small united states with many interventions that are very costly and very little thinking about the relationship between rhetoric and the costs. and cost is the killer european countries are facing more and more protest over huge spending cuts in an attempt to lower deficits and save a drowning euro the sex scandal involving i.m.f. head germany extra's come on might have knocked out a top contender competing against sarkozy for the presidency but experts say diaz k. was toppled at the wrong time when you've still got worries about the euro will still be the currency of all these european countries in the next twelve to twenty four months and at the same time spending hundreds of millions forcing their way into the conflict they don't see eye to eye but they going to try to regroup around. the idea that it's a humanitarian intervention and the u.n.

resolution a resolution that china and russia didn't veto but it claims has been manipulated to suit western interests perhaps there will be an appearance of greenman but if there is an appearance of agreement in my mind it will be an appearance appearance at the g eight is hard not to notice the venue is usually some exclusive resort town where you can't hear protests over the euro and it's easy to forget bombs are falling. this year france is beautiful normandy was chosen to house leaders as they sit down to debate some of the world's ugliest problems and once again are faced with the question of whether the g eight can regroup and split in its years and he's now a r t v france. and of course i will be bringing you extensive coverage of the today g eight summit as well as expert analysis of the event. discussed right here razzi. now in georgia thousands of opposition supporters are into their fifth

straight day of protests against the government there demanding an end to state sanctioned corruption and the resignation of president mikheil saakashvili accuse of abusing his position to maintain power. has more from tbilisi. ok said that ousting president fact is they now in their fifth day they demonstrated maintaining their vigil outside the public t.v. station that what we saw when the process started a for the weekend what thousands of people turning out to join in these demonstrations with opposition leaders calling for an end to what they say is no third tarion and undemocratic regime now we saw some quite violent clashes break out among the protesters and the police protestors covering their faces with masks and fighting with the sticks that they were carrying now you know that you now see and heard democratic movement united. has continued to hold a rally say the rally today is going ahead and what they plan is to me from the

area here where they are sanctioned to be down tools freedom square ahead of tomorrow's day of independence military parades now that way besides and so is unsure at the moment whether they'll meet resistance from the police and they do that so that they probably will and again we're going to see more of these violent clashes that we saw happening over the weekend. now as the protesters draw. circles for his resignation really themselves for a severe response from because look on the web site of the top kong on how previous uprisings in the country came to an end. the free video reception. talking to the press all of that of course much. as he told. you.

do you believe. just after twenty minutes past the hour now here of moscow let's check out some other headlines from around the world now france's finance minister has officially entered the race to become the next head of the international monetary fund she is following dominique strauss cancer resignation over a sex scandal christine lagarde is reported to have the backing of all the e.u. states and the u.s. that's as the fastest growing economies known as the brics countries have receded joint statement calling for a selection process based on competency and not nationality. traffic in the north of germany has resumed hours after major airports were closed due to the high level of volcanic ash from iceland to act or to you know call it remained shut however

with hundreds of flights cancelled european meteorologists say there has been a sharp decline in the volcanic activity responsible for the disruption they predicted flights in the european airspace will be back to normal as early as tomorrow. where when he was born the world was a different place and that's not surprising when you consider it was the nineteenth century nancy's medina cotton about has met a man whose staking a claim is the oldest person on the planet. the october revolution of the russian civil war the birth amde out of the soviet union even two world wars this man has seen them all because he claims to be one hundred twenty one years old. than of says he's the alders person living in russia and perhaps across the globe people come to visit and talk to him and today madame here has agreed to share some of his secrets to

a long life with us to. this point only humble surroundings madame answered as his neighborhood has provided him with a legacy or off life. by eve only what i raise myself i drink milk milk products vegetables from my garden all my life i was a former i worked a lot with buffaloes and horses hard work is good for you. well his body may not be as nimble as it once was his soul remains strong and determined all his life his strictly followed all religious traditions he prays five times a day and all the preparations himself. the official information that we could find about one grammy of dates back to the nine hundred sixty s. when he moved to go to stand in these documents it is sad that he was born in eight hundred ninety and there's also a database about him and his family however the rust of the archive to prove his

path in life was destroyed in a fire in the 1930's in change now where he was born recently the title the all just living person was awarded by the guinness book of records to a brazilian woman might be a grimace violin tim who is one hundred fourteen years old but more than its family remains under the turret and wants to see him crowned with the title this is awful we have thought a certain application particulars records. we all our entire family believes it truly is a. ninety nine percent of claims about people being one hundred fifteen or over are said to be fools and documentable the guinness book of records applicants must have original proof of birth issued within twenty years of that birth and prove that the person alive today is the same person in their original certificate

with the nati alva gets official recognition when it comes to tracing your roots named will always stand proud of his family tree. in the courts now r.t. that he's done hard to recover i have lived this coming here just a few minutes though it's the latest. zerkow love to talk international film festival event of the russia from may twenty third to twenty ninth featuring two hundred films from forty eight countries thirty five russian premiers and fifteen tries winners from the berlin chance venice film festival appearances by ray fines andre cultural ski. dozens of forums discussions of workshops desert international film festival fine cinema for a demanding audience.

welcome to business here in r.t. thanks for joining us our russia still struggling to cope with the consequences of the global economic recession the government estimates that the country's budget will be in deficit for four more years but the organization for economic co-operation and development is much more optimistic it believes higher than expected or revenues could see the country achieve a budget such hospice here always cd expects russia's economy to expand almost five percent in two thousand and eleven compared to four percent last year european debt crisis hasn't yet hit the global currency markets but if that happens russia could see the slice and its side. the foreign reserves in russia held in your bank here is moving toward the euro so any impact that this crisis would have on the euro let's say for example should be europe the value of traders take a short position on the euro but would you buy you that the russian. foreign

reserves for another instance would be very significant for russia but also of course any destabilization of the eurozone itself has much wider implications for you know for russia as a trading partner for certainly in oil and gas from the neck on the other energy problems which are russia trade and. now let's take a look at the markets could prices continue to fluctuate as the u.s. dollar strengthens with investors waiting on the results of the u.s. oil and energy products report expected later today. now you have his ducks are low this hour investors are concerned about a possible greek default and its potential impact on other debt laden eurozone countries low prices weighing on energy shares but banking shares are mostly high across europe mccomas bank up over one percent after the quiet with his research upgraded the german bank to all perform in london barclays is up one point seven percent and world bank of scotland group is trading one point three percent higher

than here because stocks are trading makes to have the r.c.a.'s and it's a sliding as well falls and isaacs is trading in the black investors have pulled three hundred fifty three million dollars from russian stock funds last week that's the biggest outflow since two thousand and six and here the markets movers on the isaacs this hour energy majors a bounce back from early losses lukoil is gaining over one hundred percent. is up point one percent and other sectors airport is adding more than one hundred percent on reports but its net profit has almost tripled since two thousand and ten. well that's our update for this hour we'll have more for you in less than forty five minutes from now so stay with us.

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