rose colored glasses in the rose garden president obama meets his british counterpart to reaffirm their common foreign policy goals wealth concerns grow the to nations of the only ones benefiting from their joint military ventures. with kickoff of the g eight summit in france drawing in look at how the group will work to solve the problem seemingly created by its own members. and protesters take to the streets of the georgian capital for a fifth day commanding an end to such as previous rule that they call democratic and.

international news and comment live from our studios here in central moscow this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day the u.s. president and u.k. prime minister used their joint speech in london to reiterate their demands for the libyan leader to go once again showing that the special friendship of the two english speaking nations is particularly relevant when it comes to conflicts on foreign soil where emmett's has more now force from london. 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 is an awful lot of sizes and everything they say but in the same sentence both these leaders are reiterating the need as they see it. to go so it's difficult to weigh those two seemingly very different viewpoints said that at the very least it was necessary to disable capacity to attack

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 with many of course are saying that this is a clear case of over regime change one of the major things that's come out of this visit is this setting up of a joint security border between the u.s. in the u.k. and what that will do is open up the defense and security resources of washington to london and voice 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. fight in various wars together and using their different strategy techniques very closely in line with each other but some see that formalization of this working relationship as very dangerous to the rest of the world as my record is 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 be foreign policy any dramatic i regret. britain already shares a huge amount of intelligence with the united states in fact britain's nuclear deterrent can actually nuclear missile on its own so in fact what is happening today is largely symbolic the special relationship phrase contested one. blair was in power and his relationship to push was seen in britain to be much more one of approval rather than a partner and yes in a sense it will describe these unpopular wars. 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 us and the u.k. supported variously by france and other nato allies with terror attacks there's a war ticket prices since i last until they leave but stop supporting the dictators it will soon countries. supporting the parts that are visual the bardos. 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 a deepening of cooperation between the two is something this group of demonstrators of a imminently objects to these are possible. are starting. to look to. the three major we was in ten years those. of us who want peace in the world to see a streetcars corporate involved closely. is outside buckingham palace where obama is staying these protesters are trying to persuade him and push prime minister cameron to stop waging war in foreign lands so far it hasn't worked and cameron we're united in their intention to increase pressure on colonel gadhafi in libya obama's visit and this demonstration need to escalate its involvement in the war in libya francis says it will deploy helicopters bringing fighting closer to the

ground the global war machine grumbles with the alliance of london and washington in the engine room and this new agreements to cool information and resources may only add fuel to the fire your average r.t. . for more let's talk to patrick hayes is a report of a spike magazine in london thanks very much indeed patrick for joining us now cameron on the bond i have been talking about the relations between the two countries as essential is a balanced relationship in your view. as we have this new rebranding of the relationship it was a special relationship it's now being seen to be an essential one and in some ways it is more essential than ever before but i think really historically both have got something out of it historically the u.s. has always used the u.k. since the end of the world war two so kind of lend legitimacy to it through its interventions in other countries so for example in one nine hundred eighty six when the u.s. wanted to make

a targeted attack on gadhafi rather than just making it clear that it was in their own national interest of these so they had margaret thatcher standing by reagan side saying this is in the interest of democracy and the free world so the case by the very useful role for the us to lead its legitimacy to give it give a sense that there's a broader global interest in the us taking action rather than just something that the us is doing support its own interests the u.k. has interests been very different because since world war two billion both an economic and political decline a terminal decline i would say is use this special relationship with america to very much manage that decline so i think the perception that it's still a strong world power by cozying up to the us and keeping a kind of ticket to the top table as it were well obviously diminishing in significance both politically and economically behind the scenes but what about nel

many accuse britain of being a lapdog to the us but what we're seeing in libya for example the us taking more of a back seat and letting allies such as britain take a front seat and being far more proactive in that some may say well this is the price the u.k. has to pay for this special relationship with the us or is this a case of the u.k. demonstrating that it is prepared to play its part in a balance relationship. well i think it's particularly striking here that historically the as i said has used this relationship to manage a line on the world stage keep the appearance of being a global power behind the scenes kind of diminishing economically and politically and what we see you know really is america doing the same thing it's hiding behind this essential relationship. and the same time trying to manage its political decline because as we've seen with recent events in libya in the middle east america is being continually caught on the back foot is reacting to events rather than directing them as historically it might have been so it's actually america i

think is found a new reason for this essential relationship to be used it's one of managing its own decline giving the sense that there are other partners in this kind of global relationship with global dominance that it's historically have and i think this really is a way of masking the fact that it really doesn't have the power it doesn't have the influence it's very interesting you say that because you are talking about the continued decline of the u.s. but a bomber actually candidly and honestly addressed that by saying that he said the rapid growth in leaps and bounds of countries such as china brazil india russia the brics countries will come and it didn't actually mean a declining influence of the u.s. and europe in fact it was the fact that the u.s. and europe have helped those economies in countries develop. well i think that well i think one of the things that we've seen with both the u.s. and the u.k. but certainly from a bomber is really the abdication of responsibility there was a time when america led the world they saw itself very much as you know the global superpower but we see now is this declining kind of confidence and yes i agree this

century's relationship is they are quite explicit about it to some extent obama is saying we're no longer we no longer want to be the top dog in some ways other countries need to step in so yes i think he is actually quite up front about that to a certain extent i would say behind the scenes they still want to try and make it appear like they have a firm grip on things. and you know they are still pulling the strings just very briefly behind the scenes a firm grip on things what about tensions between the two could there be any i mean all this talk about close relationship but there are tensions are there not just briefly i think i thinking increasingly there are certain tensions but what we see more with these two is that they need each other more than ever before because they need to look to reach over for legitimacy that's cameron and obama and the u.s. and the u.k. they're more like two men kind of huddling together in a storm of global events they no longer have the control or direction over so so

yes they could potentially be tensions there certainly was when gordon brown was prime minister he just was an embarrassment on the global stage to be frank and the affair where they released the lockerbie bomber back to gadhafi was obviously a real low points in relation to the u.s. and the u.k. various i think increasingly now increasingly now they do they are dependent upon each other and they need one another more than ever before because influence is declining ok very interesting here we have to say patrick hayes thanks for joining us live there in london from spike magazine thank you. well still ahead for you this hour here on r.t. a new battlefield in the middle east conflict we look at help israelis and palestinians accuse each other of distorting historic facts in pedia articles plus . the top story in business european commission backs our stream gas pipeline project join me for a full ten in about ten minutes from now. so it's just one day to go before the g

eight summit kicks off in the french resort of build the meeting will be hosted by nicolas sarkozy as his country holds the presidency of the group this year and there's only so no reports france under his leadership played a leading role in causing the problems the summit is aiming mel 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 aid to africa on the table then iraq and boosting the euro now it's we're enslaving 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 circles he has rejected entirely the possibility of france playing

a constructive role in a multi multi-polar world and has aligned himself with the single sober power the united states nowadays france is barking much louder with more soldiers involved in foreign military conflicts the brawn then ever before it's a globalist modern colonies and it's not just the friends it's the whole. 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 event that is to participate and to be one of the first. ruler western ruler to go there and just for his political agenda critics say this new global policy was meant to win over french food hers but hasn't worked france is

a kind of small united states with many interventions that are very costly and very little thinking about the relationship between rhetoric and the cost. 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 sex scandal involving i.m.f. had done many extra one might have knocked out a top contender competing against sarkozy for the presidency but experts say d.s. k. was toppled at the wrong time when still 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 libya conflict they don't see eye to eye but they're 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 there will be an appearance. but if there is an appearance of agreement in my mind it will only 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 in this year france's 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 on splitting issues and he's now a r t v france. or to talk more on the upcoming summit i'm now joined by john curtin he's director of the research group at the university of toronto know this summit comes just as the operation in libya remains locked in

a stalemate and the likes of russia and china one of those now having already claimed that the resolution but they let pass through is now being violated will nato countries face a backlash on this issue of these two. so you think. oh i think not but i think what we see is that the momentum in libya day by day is moving in favor of a democratic on the solution and with it the end of mr gadhafi killing his own innocent civilians and with it will cause the need to no longer continue the use of old necessary means to enforce the international responsibility to protect there will be a diverse a difference of opinion about what to do and when to do it but there's a range of views what we do see is that three of the g eight members france britain canada they're in the forefront of the jack being

a military force they've been supported by the more reluctant united states but germany has always been hesitant japan isn't militarily involved and the russian federation will as an equal i ask i think some of the proper and poignant questions but since all of these countries will believe in a democratic outcome where citizens will stop being slaughtered i think we'll see some real unity on the libyan file let's talk about probes and that's the country hosting a summit apart from being involved in libya also took part in the ivory coast conflict of course a role but small questions of a colonial ambitions rising again in the heart of europe willis issue emerged during the summit. oh very much in the leader of ivory coast there will be at the summit to give a firsthand account not just of what has happened but of the future for his country and for the rest of africa as he sees it i think what we see in the ivory coast is

in part an invocation of the u.n. approved international responsibility to protect but again the international community through the u.n. had. a seal of approval for the intervention in the ivory coast so we are slowly moving away from the old military utilize the intervention of the old colonial powers of the past towards a collective responsibility a collective un approved responsibility to protect let's talk about what's going on in the middle east not just in north africa and libya and the rest of the middle east the u.s. is a place to watch countries to join a plan to finance the out of countries where revolutions have. happening and to think perhaps the u.s. is trying to buy itself a sphere of influence here like it did with europe after world war two using money to get itself out of trouble as well. on the whole idea what we seen so far in this

particular case is that it's really the europeans that put their money on the table for a partnership to win the peace in egypt in tunisia and prospectively in libya itself the u.s. did join with a commitment so did the world bank but the united states and their cash strapped treasury and taxpayers would be alighted if all of the other countries of the g eight including the russian federation and the rest of the world would come forward and finance the package so the u.s. taxpayer wouldn't have to do very much a tall and if you look at the hard facts it's really the europeans that depend on libya for a while and energy the united states can get by just fine with all the energy coming from the other energy superpower in the world in addition to russia canada

two americas north well just one day to go before the summit starts clearly plenty we'll be talking about it's very interesting to hear what you have to say at this stage john couldn't the rector of the research group from the university of toronto thanks for joining us. always a pleasure but of course we'll bring extensive coverage of that two day g eight summit as well as expert analysis of the event and of course issues discussed here on r.t. . well 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 who make use of abusing his position to maintain power. the details now from tbilisi. oh the day everyday by it's been canceled but these protesters are certainly still angry can see them marching from their initial site by the t.v.

station they can down the right and heading towards freedom they're actually stopping the traffic now and the numbers are picked up quite significantly from what we saw earlier on the body has gone ahead stay out of the seven feet long by the time you can still see the people wearing the mask carrying this big thing but it definitely from barry angry the opposition calling for an end to what they say is an undemocratic they want saakashvili out there marching to those freedoms and independence tomorrow i can make their voices. they take in the process rights to the steps of the main parliament building it is they were marching along the streets today many more demonstrators joining in this now around five thousand people here listening to the opposition addressing the crowd the decision not the passing the men you know i think those leading this rally today this. some people the silver revolution is the older generation they can certainly be in the crowd

said these people struggling with life and high speed prices there's a lot more people here older generation the weekend when the process started we saw this violent clashes between police and protesters outside of the big arrest the fights breaking out whether that's going to happen again on show yet certainly there are gangs. of that independence and that militia traits are more. surface reporting that was protesters in georgia push harder for search for his resignation they brace themselves for a severe response from the government we're going to our website is all too don't call the previous uprisings in the country and if possible check out the video six . or leaders put it in the turban events in georgia all that and more and r.t. . well while the israeli palestinian stalemate is only strengthened after

his visit to the u.s. another battle is raging online both sides claim one of the world's most popular websites we could pedia is rewriting the history of the conflict saudis poorly reports this fight is far from equal. the israeli palestinian conflict has reached an unlikely new field of battle where there are no borders and no generals calling the shots there is an author. fact checking or a committee or something like that there is no chief editor or anything like that which is why we completely are an online encyclopedia is one of the world's most popular websites with sixteen million entries open for anyone to edit rewrite or even raise the most popular of those pages the middle east there is an article they think village a palestinian village that was destroyed during the forty eight war is really the independence war and there are i think articles about any military operation that

any side launched during the history of the conflict but both israelis and palestinians complain their side of the story is not properly covered and that's why not to these initial council that represents the israeli settler movement has been organizing workshops to teach people how to post who advise and even rewrite some of the most disputed pages online what we do is we monitor our various media outlets and when we see for example that a certain media calls israel an apartheid then we send our people to engage in discussion and to give the facts but the palestinians have a list people to send in which is why the battlefield is not equal according to others are not so who heads the association of palestinian journalists he says he wishes he had the kind of cash the israelis have to train palestinians to brush up on their knowledge of wikipedia later that external in the israeli palestinian conflict will be forced on the pages of wikipedia the israelis control the online

media they control words like terrorist jihad we trainers and finance we can edit and interpret wiki pedia as well. but these wikipedia experts say it has nothing to do with training and everything to do with the truth i think people should stick to the truth and not try to learn how to put their point of view in the article i mean if you have sources just bring them on but in this war every bush ammunition counts it's no secret that the revolutions sweeping the arab world found their support for online hundreds of thousands of people signed up on a facebook page calling for a third palestinian uprising or into fodder that page has since been closed down for inciting violence but the fight online continues policy our team. lead business news is next for you with corinne i'll be back with a summary of our main news stories in about five minutes from now meantime critics of the short break stay with us.

kara welcome to business here in r.t. the main players behind the. line between russia and the e.u. are brussels they're lobbying the european parliament to get the final go ahead for the multi-billion dollar project the telephone call reports from gazprom headquarters here in moscow. gazprom his main mission in europe at the meeting with the european commission was to get a priority status for its future gas pipeline project thousand dream it's a rival project the us back now to come pipeline already has such status and it is important because it makes all the bureaucratic procedures easier and it also gives

the operator an exceptional rights to be the owner of the pipeline and so they distribute with gas imitatively and this is exactly what gazprom needs to feel secure with its investments into the project so gazprom said the physical it's a starter for the project is completed and the gas supplies for it are guaranteed and the european commission in its current pledge it's a poor it and said it won't impose any unnecessary regrets it barriers for the project but still it hasn't given it an exemption from this new european and their joule. per second look at the markets jumps about one hundred dollars per barrel sending energy companies in the standard and poor's five hundred one point four percent investors are waiting on the results of the u.s. oil and energy products reports expected later today stocks in the u.s. are high as shares of commodity producers advance for the second day that helps u.s. equity markets now a three day slow and see what companies are lower going week by costa co wholesale

and polo ralph lauren after earnings news analyst estimates. european stocks closed in the black kong wednesday gains from banks such as commerce bank and carmakers such as fear out for providing support you case benchmark stock index closed slightly higher point by gains from banks barclays gained two point three percent and world bank of scotland was up with the percent cut here in moscow the main stock and it's as close in the black stocks as high an evening session climbing for a second day my six junk one percent reversing from early losses. we've seen a bit of a rebound in the financial sector one. more clarity at the timing and the parameters of g.d.r. program which used to be large enough for a bit optimistic also north dakota for the question only we see a bit of mix that it was and there was a local court over there with me outburst the market generally seems to be consolidating this week having reached the lowest since the beginning of the year

and these do truly look like attractive low as described by the russian market we feel the rebound is about to happen and it is going to be happening much slower than the correction that we're seeing in may because there is a lot of global had one. place in the market. and. you can always find most always just. what the. world's. top choppers come to moscow with josh ford's digitized radar upgraded an automated drive by driver still propelled by wage and. ready to move. to the future. but the. twenty.