ambassador to the hotel the points pushers and poet prince or to discipline brutal in tight you will certainly try to bring the future agree good how would international help flood to change every brain lol he told in talk of. the punished soldiers are cleared of the killing of innocent civilians including children enough to understand four years ago due to lack of evidence. the un accuses libyan the political forces on both sides of the fence of committing war crimes and nato is decision to prolong its military action for another three months . rising prices and an energy deficit cost of the european union as germany takes its first steps to get rid of nuclear power. plant tax burden on the russian gas by more than seventeen billion dollars that's

according to deputy prime minister alexey quarter and more in business in about twenty minutes. around the world and around the clock this is r t a welcome to the program but our top story hour seven polish soldiers have escaped punishment over an attack on an afghan village four years ago which killed a group of civilians including children of course in warsaw rule there was not enough proof to support charges of war crimes the nato summit was blamed faulty homes critics say errors costing people's lives on forgivable. civilians killed and nato soldiers go free the same old story in afghanistan the threats and for a moment to be different polish soldiers were put on trial for deaths including

a pregnant woman and a child. on the sixteenth of august two thousand and seven water shells that were fired by polish troops hit the afghan villages. as a result six people were killed as three were severely wounded but the soldiers were cleared of all charges one of the accused told r.t. it's all been a big mistake we didn't see. first also. not to. be self-sufficient. we were accidents to decide. our. problem we. agreed on

a malfunction and taliban target by five hundred metres claims a shit scheme but prosecutors alleged it was revenge for a roadside bomb which killed another polish soldier earlier in the day experts say it's unlikely anything could go so catastrophic even wrong this is not logical operators of the mortar could not make such a serious error with such a large distance the question is did they decide to open fire themselves or did they receive this command from above but there is no doubt they were shooting at the village nearby hills and the defendant's commanders who ordered the attack and these should be the one standing trial. for me those people should be thank you maybe maybe. because i don't know but activists warm while the conflict continues civilian deaths from nato bombing or inevitable will only rise and the longer the war goes goes on and the situation is so the answer is i think quite simple

to withdraw troops from afghanistan as a beginning of any process of stubbies ation of that country because the troops western troops doesn't bring stability to afghanistan just the opposite as the death toll goes up on both sides support for nato whose mission plummets a majority in europe say opinion polls now think the conflicts going in look wrong direction. this was already unpopular in the e.u. there's a hundred billion euro because while services are being cut a hole the size of our boys coming back in coffins is even worse leaving the death of civilians on punished the week of the case to stay in afghanistan even the afghan president turning against nato after the latest fourteen civilians were killed how it cause i delivered his strongest words yet giving a final warning and threatening war if it happens again don't you bushel r.t.

. the u.n. panel has accused both libyan leader moammar gadhafi and government forces of war crimes and crimes against humanity investigators however noted by the opposition groups cancels it is based on thousands of detainees and those displaced along with thousands of pieces of supporting documentation it comes as nato extended its libyan mission launched march for another three months. worth of humanitarian periods and says by intervening on the side of rebel forces and has made a negotiated settlement difficult to achieve. as long as nato is acting there nobody is acting on the other side and the others have made on their side they have no interest in trying to find a compromise but must carry by is by no means alone latin america is on that line your forgiveness and india is on that line drawing a line even more silently so i mean most of the world is for a negotiated settlement because they don't want to be out of this and need to clear

if they just don't want that and deal with this new he's going to look forward to that and there is no guarantee that the west or the nato is going to study those libya after the killing of the get a free i don't think i mean i don't think nato can be defeated to the point of having leaving him in power but you see with the argument against i just don't understand why people are so confident that they're going to solve the problem of libya when they're filled with some of those other counties where there are deep deep purple the regime. russia says it's not going to mediate that office exit and it has escalating pressure that they believe that the antiwar activists christmas says the richie campaign which has become an obsessive quest oust gadhafi is in fact giving him a boost. we're going to. keep killing civilians. in towns and cities until you go it's interesting because he from the start was saying that the popular movement in the east of the country was a was

a movement that was sponsored by the west and he used that to bolster his position the war has been lengthened the war is being deepened and it's actually. a strong if not stronger position now than he was when the west first got involved. but with the libyan war later. find out how illegal cluster bombs may have fallen into the hands of his regime which is really cute of using it for its military goals also the south. deep in crisis is going to roost holds out the. i.m.f. to help rescue its crippled economy with an eight billion dollars. the shock waves from japan's fukushima nuclear plant disaster loudly in germany so the spike the fact that so much energy provides nearly a quarter of the nation's a city and stood ready to pull the plug. and it also lets prices both germany and

other e.u. countries not have to play such a bold move. germany raises a lone voice in the e.u. to usher in a new era of known nuclear power generation as chancellor angela merkel vows to close all its reactors by two thousand and twenty two but it's already created a shortfall in electricity in germany which in turn is pushing up prices germany's now importing power from france and the czech republic and it's the crisis hit poorest who will pay higher electricity because. quite understand. you know project prices and of course always. industrial goods you know be paying more for the electricity will be the. people. around thirty percent of the e.u.'s electricity comes from nuclear generation so ironically electricity

germany ends up buying will be generated at nuclear power plants the majority of european countries aren't giving up their nuclear programs switzerland is phasing it out but france which has a long and successful history of nuclear power generation sees it as a solution for the future britain sweden spain and belgium are just some of the over a you countries that have nuclear capacity and planning to get rid of it so closing down its own reactors will stop germany's suffering from nuclear fallout in the event of an accident elsewhere in europe the german green party is aiming high we are planning to hold europe strong to be nuclear free at the moment thirteen of twenty seven nations and european union don't have any nuclear plants so it's a lot and we want to make them. at the time maybe two or three thousand thirty of them everything's free but are they aiming at the wrong goal the e.u.

wants to generate twenty percent of it electricity using when you buy twenty twenty and also to reduce carbon him. sions nuclear power was a good way of bringing emissions down but germany will need to go back to its coal fired power stations to make up the shortfall in terms of climate and you have. a. business trying to reduce you to levels and if you switch off nuclear energy as an option and you have to call. which is a lot more polluting in that. respect experts say the biggest price to pay in switching off power is the uncertainty of what will replace it in the short and long terms how will it affect the gas price what if ploy fuels grow in popularity prompting poor communities to grow fuel crops rather than food these are unknown although one expert said it could cost three trillion euros for the whole of europe

to start using green technologies here in the heart of the e.u. there is consternation that such a big decision should be taken unilaterally by germany seemingly as a panicked reaction to the fukushima disaster but the fright is europeans are all in this together if there is a nuclear accident for example in france germans won't be amusing just because they're not involved in nuclear power anymore and german shortfall in supply will mean higher electricity bills european families not just germans laurette it's hard to brussels. meanwhile japan's prime minister is now under increasing pressure to resign over his handling of. the crisis and find more on that story a website called also. get more details on the devastation of speeches from the area. in-depth analysis that's on our website for more videos from. you

tube which. today. these are the images. of canada. operation. public buying has been sparked in shops and the roots of the government's friends with the international monetary fund is hoping to raise up to eight billion dollars to boost its crippled economy and revive people's faith in the government. reports it's sinful having the opposite effect. despite some improvements in the economic situation in belarus that we've seen in the last seven days we can still feel here

in minsk that the country this country is being gripped by the hard financial two or more now there are still empty shelves in stores around the country especially those who are meant for the imported goods there are still people queuing up at the currency exchange offices willing to buy just about any currency preferably u.s. dollars or euros now over the last month we've seen some crazy scenes in stores around the country people who treat just buying anything afraid that some of the goods my disappear from the shelves from the shelves of the stores people literally at sacking the currency exchange offices because of the faith in the value of trouble has decreased greatly ever since the country first felt but their financial tormato now there are many reasons according to experts behind this financial crisis some say this is because of the. economic policies of the past decade some say this is because the current president. tried to increase the salaries of the

common population during his election complain by thirty percent under stand that come fourteenth of july the i.m.f. will decide on another occasion loan to bellerose it is still very interesting weather means would be able to receive this loan given all the statements made by the country's president the arrests of the opposition leaders and other former presidential candidates which happened in december seriously irritated the european union the russian leader has been something on the warpath with the european union for the past six months or so and it is hard to say who would be able to help means to get out of from this crisis but we we clearly be seeing some developments in this situation in the course of the next ten twelve days. financial group. looks at how a multi-billion dollar bailout. a foreign bankers take the reins of the economies watch the full program later today here's a preview for you. the country of greece is not bankrupt the i.m.f. is bankrupt george palmer dreyfus is bankrupt who knows what money he owes some

casino or some drug lord somewhere a drug habit he's got going to sell his rock and country for a few quid the objective of the outside forces that being the which is controlled by the us which is controlled by wall street is to simply grab. for pennies on the dollar and addicks the entire country and that they should forego their sovereignty and their independence now they're just one more ride on disneyland graduations we're now in significant and your entire five thousand year history just got flushed down the toilet. at the funeral of our presidents presidents surveyed by corruption is to take place later on thursday for his death in moscow. as the second head of the state of st he had also served as prime minister the post he held when the state first declared independence from georgia but will be remembered for avoiding

a full scale conflict they've received the same few during his rule the de facto independent republic gained international recognition. was sixty two when he died i think colleagues that continue to do a shaking for. the ones in japan. during all the complain in that in america and central america pacific resume central asia every week every week we try to choose and we agree with those countries to recognize it was you to say it was diplomatic relations there is always a very strict and strong american position against governments of those countries not to recognize it was here.

prosecutors in the hague say they want to shorten trial for the former bosnian serb general back and that it's also considering combining his case with that of the former serbian the graduates which has already been ongoing for more than eighteen months both men are accused of war crimes from bosnian conflict for the last killing around eight thousand people in its. coverage here before the trial. clever his family and lawyer say it's health problems he will be unable to understand it takes lots of by trial. and i missed most of the tribunal is a prejudice towards me that it is that he is doing it now because being. the people who actually try this is good judges of the prosecution not subject to the same rules as the accuse i mean the principle of all civilised countries with legal

laws will be accused all those who participate in the legal process must be subject to the same laws as he was no one is above the law is the statement well here everybody but everybody is above the law he was let's consider for example the bombing of radio television serbia in belgrade on the twenty third of paper of mine to ninety nine now sixty people died as a result of good bombing which happened by a u.s. plane. you know never actually indicted anyone over that. about libya now i work with office troops are under fire for allegedly using cluster munitions against rebels but the bombs could eventually explode in the face of nato summit some members reportedly saw the rationing. and since two thousand and eight the teams that surface the story. which is one strike it possible one can spread pals in the smaller explosives if

a wide area is fired into populated areas if they were in misrata recently they always guarantees civilian deaths one of the many reasons more than one hundred countries bans their production markings on the shells found in the libyan city belong to a spanish company instead. there were arms one twenty's that are prohibited that were purchased by gadhafi that were used against the residential areas in these are and they were produced by a spanish company and finance for spanish banks. the forces come to acquire spanish made. in two thousand and seven hours and made the most of the lifting of sanctions against libya as the tripoli regime fell back into the very west. spanish company won a contract to supply get out these forces with their quest. did so until two thousand and eight and spain signed up to the international convention banning the yeas.

with libya now once again the enemy spain is part of nato finds itself fighting a regime that it itself helped to arm. and the trail goes back much further to spanish banks which provided the financial fire how it insta laws are to make their deadly weapons of war if you want to supreme listening forward use this as kind of a way to illustrates what think there is between a bank. civilian deaths and conflicts the same initials may now be banned in many countries the banks continue to invest in companies which make over controversial weapons and without legislation there remains a direct connection between civilian deaths the weapon produces and the banks that finance them and therefore to the banks customers really transparent about what they are using the savers money for so it's not very easy to find

a recent report by spanish engineers at ten revealed that as many as fourteen banks in stayed over the funding weapons produces the p.v.a. is the spanish bank this being most active in financing producers of controversial weapons and it's exactly this kind of large scale financing they complain is now trying to rein in pushing for the development of more a purse policy to ensure the banks are held accountable many of the banks named in the investigation and now coming forward to say their policies on funding arms production are to change with or without legislation that's until that happens in the murky world of arms production all of profits of business sarah firth r.t. the trades. time now for the some other news stories making headlines around the world this hour. the colombian the president says that one of the country's top insurgent commanders has been captured across the border as well. as even the most

senior. levels court since two thousand the average stateside previously offered a two point five million dollars reward for his capture residence the rest comes and improving relations between the two neighboring south american countries. four people are reported dead after at least two tornadoes swept through parts of the u.s. state of massachusetts it's have caused extensive damage the state of emergency has been declared governor thousands have been left without electricity the region has requested the help of the national guard. another person has died and more than three hundred fifty cases of pension have been reported in germany. all across europe has risen to seventeen total number infected more than one thousand two hundred because of the rate remains unknown germany initially cumbrous the

spanish government says it's not considered legal action. it's extremely dangerous business but it doesn't deter smugglers moving much needed goods from egypt to gaza tunnels and a daily basis. for us that report there today. to the. border. they are responsible not only for themselves. but also for their loved ones. they are ready to take any risk. on our. buffet updates on the business needs to get.

our time for a look at the world of business and we stop of then r t exclusive the government is once again turning to the gas industry to help puts on its best the tax burden on the sector will by more than seventeen billion dollars in the next three years the proposed in curses causing concern for gas promise of something very the deputy chairman of russia's biggest company explains. the company it was a weeks. ago. for the. poor player with the question whether for the sake of the company across the street from the other side of this product and from the fresh look at the record that was i will confuse it's.

the chicken. and it seems the government is aware of the danger of overtaxing gas from its ultimate compromise has been found thoughts acceptable to both sides. one program with. russian government. which i'm critical of the. promotion go with. the ball in the budget for the for it could be a fury. program. and you can watch the full version of that interview with gazprom separate chairman on monday here on r t and it will also be posted on the web site r g dot com slash business let's take a look at the markets all prices a losing ground for a gauge of u.s. part of that trend to this he pointed to a slowdown in the sector and also employment data shows two years economy added

fewer jobs than expected nights we've had below one hundred dollars a barrel and branch is trading at around one hundred fourteen dollars. haitian markets tumbled after a week u.s. reports editor fears the economic recovery is stalling toyota and recent i've done other three percent often reported massive drops in a car sales in the us starts joins us along with a hand saying losing one of the hopes. china's biggest p.c. maker learned of a curve is dropping over three percent and h.s.b.c. is losing of one and a half percent. and here in moscow the markets will start trading in less than one time they closed in the red columbines day with the my six down almost one percent . russia's largest private oil company look or oil sands it has a war chest to expand operations both at home and abroad they're all the company's investment department spoke exclusively to business archly. a little his investment

program for about ten billion dollars and. the moment it's one of the largest investors in russia we do have a great expansion plans and we do have four plans to to increase our investment in upstream in russia to stabilise production in which the say we have a large measure such as west or not to iraq that they were acquired billions of dollars of new best ones we also have very large investments that are required in those bigger stone or our gas projects we are going to be fielding expanding gulf adduction in north korea spin in north justin is going to become a wonderful or most important area so for our production growth this year we are going to increase a lesson program compared to previous year probably by about one and a half billion dollars. through the term rains a bright spot for the states efforts to track foreign investment outside the commodity industry and seven car giant fiat's may invest one point one billion

dollars in russia to build two car plants he plans to build an engine plant and patrick to produce one hundred twenty thousand cars b.v.m. russia has also signed investment agreements with all that water groups worth a total of five billion dollars the russian coal market has no revenue recovering with sales jumping thirty percent to almost two million in twenty ten in the savings states approach of offering discounts on imports terrets for companies that will local plants house approved. more news for you online dot com slash business and i'll be joining you in less than one us time for more business stories here. the books. the books. the book to.

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