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

international news and comment live from austria is here in central moscow this is all to do with you twenty four hours a day the u.s. president and u.k. prime minister to use 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 but emmett's has more now from the. 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 up those two seemingly very different viewpoints obama said that at the very least it was necessary to disable 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 gadhafi is still in power so that's how they're justifying it and many of course are saying that this is a clear case of regime change 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 first 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.k. and the u.s. lighting various wars together and using their defense 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 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. cost to the rest of the world. i don't think it will change foreign policy in any dramatic way i remember that britain already shares a huge amount of intelligence with the united states in fact britain's nuclear deterrent can actually launch a nuclear missile on its own so in fact what is happening today is largely symbolic the special relationship phrase was a deeply tested one when blair was in power and his relationship to bush 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 machine 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 war taking place as we go. out unless and until they leave they stop supporting the countries torturing us supporting the parts that are visual. you know. 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 could demonstrate is a payment lee objects to these other cars go to the forefront are starting to libya . three major wars in ten years those good news for those of us who want peace in the world to see those two hours for breaking ball closely or tree affairs outside buckingham palace where obama is staying these protesters are trying to persuade him and british prime minister cameron to stop waging war in foreign lands say for it hasn't worked and cameron will united in their intention to increase pressure on colonel gadhafi in libya. demonstration come as nato escalates its involvement in the war in libya france is better able to cloyd helicopters bringing fighting closer to the ground the global

war machine crumple zone 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 avatar to. go to discuss the visit in detail a german course in his british labor party and he could see once again mr. cameron certainly don't show away from open calls for gadhafi to go but doesn't this actually contradict previous claims that this operation in libya is not about regime change. cameron told the british parliament quite clearly it was not about regime change obama said much the same in the united states they seem to think that if they quote the un resolution at the same time as they call for gadhafi to go in for regime change it's a kind of like guarantee a sort of lay say. frankly they're involved in the civil war in libya the deployment of helicopters apache helicopters there the intensive bombing of tripoli

that's going on this is a war about regime change and the parallels of deep involvement in libya no involvement hardly or great concern about bahrain or saudi arabia and the rhetoric goes on i think this is largely a reassertion of the western alliance in respect to libya and where there is of course a vast amount of oil as the u.k. applies to be part of what's going on in the likes of libya because of this so-called special relationship many people saying the u.k. has been a lapdog and in fact this isn't a balanced relationship or is it a balance relationship between the two and could be in the future. it's not about it's relationship never has been ever since the first world war when the united states bailed out britain financially at the end of the first world war britain yes led the way in the establishing of nato in the second world war and was instrumental in promoting the cold war with us has always had the upper hand and indeed if you just look at the economic differences the economic imbalance the

military imbalance it is huge and britain is being helped the united states in lots of ways it's interesting his visit is partly also that pressure out of the british government not to cut defense expenditure in the same way that virtually all other areas of expenditure are big cut because he wants to make sure we get a nato northern very high levels of military expenditure is maintained and that future operations can be done jointly the question now is u.s. and u.s. national security council access and so on won't actually make an awful lot of difference it's already it was very very close relationship the issue is that nato is not subject of democratic control is involved in the war in libya is involved in afghanistan was involved in iraq and i wonder where it's going to be next and i suspect it's going to be casting your eyes towards iran and syria as you were talking to me we're showing pictures of obama and cameron addressing the media there in london what about the relationship between the two put any comparisons or

differences of course between blair and bush. well blair and bush was a strange relationship because on the one hand you have this sort of texas oilman alpha male and you have blair who was perceived as a sort of london metropolitan liberal in reality both images were wrong. blair turned out to be an extremely conservative prime minister really preached his way u.s. military seventy's and very happy to get involved in the same way. as bush and blair seminal speech was actually the chicago address. about. interventions undermining the role of the left now the racial being cameron and the promise is interesting because now it's the same levels of baggage that blair and bush and they probably personally care along quite well together but both

have internal political problems and the barman says that he has completely failed to deliver on closing guantanamo. base and didn't really succeed in the health care plan the promise to us people he is an international superstar he speaks very well but he's essentially promoting free market economics and us military involvement and this cameron scoring political points by. increasing this relationship with america and aparna i mean is this helping him on the british people impressed with this relationship with obama. i think there is a lot of support for britain mainly because he's not george bush and he's seen as something different he's seen as something exciting and he certainly delivers a very appreciative addresses monaco today to parliament does it help cameron probably yes but cameron has done quite well over the past year because he's managed to maintain levels of support for his party at roughly the same as they had

in the general election which indicates conservative voters to some extent go on to the cuts labor has picked up a lot of support at the expense of the liberal democrats what cameron has done quite well out of the obama visit i think the obama visit and the military occasions for it and the military cost implications for it do need to be analyzed very closely because i'm fearful that this war in libya is a civil war and we're going to go next term common to hear what you have to say thanks for joining us live there in london. where it's just one day to go before the g eight summit kicks off in the french resort of de ville the meeting will be hosted by consequence he is his country holds the presidency of the group this year and as artie's and he said now reports france under his leadership played a leading role in causing the problems 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 somewhere in the

middle aid to africa on the table then iraq in posting the euro now it's mia 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 a new french president came a new friend circle is a has rejected entirely the path of early a friend 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 are growing than ever before it's a globalist more than. it's not just the friends it's the whole. global

plan to change 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. wanted us 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 voters 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 a cost. and cost is the killer european countries are facing more and more protest over huge spending cuts in an attempt to lower to physics and save

a drowning euro sex scandal involving i.m.f. had done an extra one might have knocked out a top contender competing against sarkozy for the presidency but experts say d.s. caved was toppled at the wrong time when you are still worries about whether 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 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 just to western interests perhaps there will be an appearance of agreement but if there is an appearance of agreement in my mind it will only be an appearance but here and at the g eight is hard not to notice the venue is usually exclusive resort

town where you can't hear protests over the euro and it's easy to forget bombs are falling in libya this year france's beautiful normandy was chosen as 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 fronts. well of course we'll bring you extensive coverage of the two day g eight summit as well as expert analysis of the events and issues discussed here for you on. traffic in germany is resumed hours after volcanic ash from iceland forced the closure of major airports hundreds of flights were also canceled in the u.k. spoiling holiday plans and business trips for thousands of passengers well for more insight let's now talk to a vacation expert and pilot david limit joining me in london thanks very much for being with us here on r.t. now ryanair the arash carrier made a test flight on tuesday and claimed that there was no safety threat for the

aircraft why then were hundreds of flights canceled leaving frozen stranded it wasn't only ryanair who carried out a test flight and found that there was no damage there a plane so did british airways test flights and in fact they took the u.k. civil aviation authority along with them and they did fly in the so-called red zone where it was supposed to be at its worst and they came back and at this point although they still have some examination to go they said the aircraft has not been harmed so why isn't the light saw the civil aviation authority listening to the experts the pilots themselves. well actually nobody's an expert here certainly the pilots aren't and certainly european airlines are not experts in european volcanic ash the only experts in the world really are alaskan airlines because they live they actually live and work all the time in an

environment that is alaska and the east coast to the west coast of the united states where in the rocky mountains and that full range in the lucian chain of islands there's a lot of volcanic activity they live with it it's their local climate they do have rules they are very careful but they are thoroughly familiar with it they train their crews especially to be able to handle this stuff in europe we don't create train our crews to handle this stuff we do not have anything like the amount of surveillance that that in the usa they have for this area and yet the airlines are pleading that they should have the same privileges in europe as this very highly experienced carrier alaskan airlines. in an environment in which the local experience is not much greater the ryanair chief said this is a case of bureaucratic incompetence but when you're talking about something like twenty seven different national air traffic control spaces within europe it's very

difficult isn't it to coordinate and decide when the risk should be taken or not. well as a matter of fact it's very interesting to see who is complaining about the way things are and who is not now british airways has kind of sat on the fence very slightly it did take its aircraft up with. the ashes own with the civil aviation authority observing and when it came back you know willie walsh is who's the chief executive of the new british airways group with iberia airlines he actually went on air and he said well this is what we found we really do need to know more about the situation but actually i'm very glad that this year things are so much better than they were last year he said and this is his own public opinion that last year if the rules that were followed then had been applied instead of

a few flights in scotland being cancelled that's the closest part of the united kingdom to iceland instead of just a few flights the whole of the united kingdom and a lot of northern europe would have been closed down as it was last year so things are different so there was an overreaction then last year an exaggeration of the problem. well last year this is the very first time in the history of aviation that's one hundred seven years it was at the time since the wright brothers invented powered flight there had never been a european incident so the aviation world in europe was completely and utterly taken by surprise of europe as a coordinated body there may be a political union called the european union but we discovered that the aviation community had no system for acting together now since that time not only have they

said look we have established since that time that airplanes can fly very much more dense than we thought and they have allowed that to take place but they they have also europe has now set up an aviation crisis coordination center so when things like this happen at least everybody's talking to each other and singing from the same hymn sheet just finally in crisis like this or a lot of losers passengers airlines and hotels but are there any winners in situations like this. well in the short term everybody absolutely everybody is a loser but in the long term what last year a week without any form of aviation taught europe's politicians is just how vital to the entire european economy aviation is now why should that matter don't they take any notice the answer is europe is being very very heavy on

its airlines to be even more demanding being even more demanding about about the environmental standards which european airlines adhere to their taxing and much higher than the rest of the world does maybe if they if they see all the disadvantages that comes to the economy as a whole when your when aviation gets shut down maybe there will be a little bit easier in the future on taxing aviation too hard as a special case thanks so much your time aviation expert and pilot david joining us live from london thank you. george and on thousands of opposition supporters are into their fifth straight day of protests against the government demanding an end to state sanctioned corruption and the resignation of president because i could really they accuse of abusing his position to maintain power sarah ferguson details now from tbilisi. they are praised by being canceled.

still angry can see them marching from their initial side by the t.v. station the country down the right and then heading towards creedence they're actually stopping the traffic now and then on the cake that quite significantly from what we saw earlier on the rally has going to have a. tough time you can still see the people wearing the mosque carrying the state. police very angry the opposition calling for an end to what they say is an undemocratic. freedom. and independence to my make their voices. they take in the process rights to the status 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 pressing. the decision not. made you know leading

this rally today this being tough some people the still the revolution is the older generation you can be in the crowd said these people are struggling with life and hyphy trifles that most people here of older generation the weekend when the process started we saw this violent clashes between police and protesters some of the being arrested fights breaking out. the happen again until it gets me there are . all of the independents and that military operates more. as protests in georgia push for suckers for his resignation they present themselves for a severe response from the government and you know the website is. the culprit is of crisis in the country and it can check out the free video section for the latest features and things all i can tell you before you know which side of the call.

a lot of business news is next now with kareena stay with us for that. welcome to business here on r t thanks for joining me the european union and els during a presentation of the south stream gas pipeline in brussels on may twenty third that it will give its support to the project the main players behind the south stream between russia and the e.u. are in brussels in their lobbying the european parliament to get the final go ahead for the multi-billion dollar projects in the police reports from casper headquarters 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 south dream it's a rival project the u.s. backed now cooper pipeline already has such status and it is important because it makes all the bureaucratic procedures easier and it also gives those to operate to in exceptional rights to be the owner of the pipeline and of a distributes

a gas symbol to sleep and this is exactly what gazprom needs to feel secure with its investment into the project so gas prom served to the physical it's a start it for the project is completed and gas supplies for it are guaranteed and the european commission in its turn placed its a poor and said it won't impose any unnecessary bureaucratic barriers for the project but still it hasn't given it an exemption from this new european and their jewels. let's take a look at the markets not all just about one hundred dollars a barrel sending energy companies in the standard and poor's five hundred up one point four percent investors are waiting on the results of the us what energy products report now stocks in the u.s. are high as shares of commodity produces and bonds for the second day that help us equity markets now for three days not because you have a consumer companies are lower go away by cost to go wholesale and polo ralph no round of the earnings missed analysts estimate. now european stocks closed in the

black on wednesday gains for banks which is almost bank and coming because it has the outlook reviving support u.k.'s benchmark stock index go slightly higher point by gains from banks orkneys king two point three percent roe bank of scotland was up three point three percent and here in moscow the main stock indexes close in the black stocks edged high an evening session climbing for a second day of my six jumped up one percent reversal from earlier losses. we've seen a bit of a rebound in the financial. but there were no more clarity at the timing that and the parameters of the of the g.d.r. program which is to be lost by the day when mr bit optimistic also north little is to imply strongly we see a bit of mismanagement in the world and calls from older there than the than the others the market generally seems to be consolidating this week having reached the lows since the beginning of the year and the do through if i charted well was

decided by the russian market the bill we feel the rebound is about to happen the it is going to be happening much slower than that then the correction that was seen and they because there's a lot of global headwinds facing the market. that's happening for this hour i'm back with more in about forty five.

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