twenty years ago largest country. the subject of. what. began a journey. where did it take. to unpunished soldiers are cleared of the killing of innocent civilians including children in afghanistan four years ago due to lack of evidence. the u.n. accuses libyan political forces on both sides of the friends of committing war crimes nato has decision to prolong its military action for another three months. of. rising prices and energy deficit casts a shadow of the european union as germany takes its first steps to getting rid of nuclear power. and largest progs owned

company lukoil is expanding operations at home and abroad this is our chief spoke exclusively to the head of its investment apartment that's in about twenty minutes . casting life in the heart of the russian capital you're watching r.t. . seven the polish soldiers have escaped punishment for an attack on an afghan village four years ago and killed a group of civilians including children of course in warsaw rule there was not enough proof to support the charges of war crimes while the nato soldiers forty homes critics say terrorists costing people is not unforgivable. 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 mortar shells that were fired by polish troops hit the afghan villages. as a result six people were killed and 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 people. it's against the socks again was. our. problem. a grenade mel functioned 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 leigh wrong this is not logical.

could not make such a serious error with such a large distance the question is did it it's a turban fire themselves or did they receive this command from a book but there is no doubt they were shooting at the village nearby. to defend the commanders who ordered the attack and they should be the one standing trial. for me not those people should be. maybe they be. attacked while the conflict continues civilian deaths from nato bombing or inevitable will only rise you know the longer the war goes on their war situation. the answer is i think quite simple to withdraw troops from afghanistan. beginning of any process of supposition of this 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 mission plummets a majority in europe say opinion polls now think the conflicts going 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 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 because i delivered his strongest words yet giving of point on warning and threatening war if it happens again don't you push your party the u.n. panel has accused both libyan leader moammar gadhafi his regime and anti government forces of war crimes and crimes against humanity to get is however privations by the opposition or not as numerous counsels of it is based on meetings with

detainees and those displaced them with thousands of pieces of supporting documentation it comes to extended its libyan mission wants to march another three months. worth of military and here it isn't says by intervening on the side of rebel forces nato has made a negotiated settlement difficult to achieve. as long as nato is acting there nobody is acting on the other side and the harbors of nato on their side they have no interest in trying to find a compromise but last very very is very new means alone latin america is on the line here again is on the line india is on that line china is probably on that line even more frankly so i mean most of the world is for a negotiated settlement because they don't want libya to listen to clear they just don't want that and even if there is no he's going to look forward to that and the the west or the nato is going to study those libya after the killing of the difference of gaddafi 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 we are going to get is that i just don't understand why people are so perfect and they're going to solve the problem of libya when they're filled with all those other counties where they are they did topple the regime. but meanwhile russia says it's not going to mediate the terms of colonel gadhafi his exit i mean that has escalating pressure on the libyan leader nancy more activist chris none of this says nato military campaign just become an obsessive quest to oust gadhafi is in fact giving him a boost what they are effectively saying to gadhafi is we're going to. keep killing civilians. in towns and cities until you go it's entrenched because he from the start was saying that the popular movement in the east of the country was was a movement that was sponsored by the west and he used that to post his position the the the wall has been lying. and it's actually he's in. a

strong if not stronger position now than he was when the west first got involved. but on the way later in the program next in line for a bailout deepening crisis is going to root out the. i.m.f. to help rescue its crippled economy with eight billion dollars the. court says it has enough evidence to build a case against the man suspected of murdering russian journalist anna politkovskaya all the details coming up in a few moments. he waves from japan's fukushima nuclear plant disaster britain out of germany so what's the fact that atomic energy provides many of the nation's electricity and stood ready to pull the plug or at what price or both germany and other e.u. countries might pay for such a bad mood. 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 elektra city 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 understandable you know project prices and of course always. industrial goods and all will be paying more for the electricity will be the rumor 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 or just some of the other a you countries that have nuclear capacity and planning to get rid of it so closing down its own reactors would stop germany's suffering from nuclear fallout in the event of an accident elsewhere in europe that the german green party is aiming high we are planning to hold europe to be nuclear free at the moment thirteen of twenty seven nations in the european union don't have any nuclear plants so it's a lot to make them. at the time maybe to two thousand and thirty of them everything's free but are they a minute the wrong goal the e.u. wants to generate twenty percent of it elektra city using when you buy twenty twenty and also to reduce. carbon emissions 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 forcing germany house. is trying to 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 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 biofuels grow in popularity prompting poor communities to grow fuel crops rather than food these are 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's consternation that such a big decision should be taken unilaterally by germany seemingly as a panicked reaction to the frequency of

a disaster but the fact is europeans are all in this together if there is a nuclear accident for example in france germans won't be immune 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 nor ever it's artsy brussels but meanwhile plans prime minister says he's prepared to step down only once the crisis in the country has been contained despite him surviving a no confidence vote in parliament. on that story a web site www dot com. of the terms of the devastation of. pictures from the reactor at news and analysis that's on our website the news from fiction.

the news today. in florida. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to look for asians through today. russia's prosecutor's office says it has enough evidence to prove that the recently arrested in russia's chechen republic was involved in the brother of prominent russian journalist and. the forty seven year old suspect would be on the run since one thousand nine. hundred four separate counts well it seems that joins us live for more on this so what then has emerged from the investigation. well certainly for a case that has been going on for about five years now things certainly have been moving fast since the arrest of the stomach would go if they did chechen connection to be a murder of russian journalist up on the sky about the prosecutor's office here in

moscow has said that they do have enough evidence to what charge him and build the case against him on four separate powers so we do have to get the details from the prosecutor's office but so far they are saying that they do have enough against him that he has been indicted now what his lawyers on the other hand of course have said that he is not involved side take a d.n.a. test that they have the doctor with parents saying that there was no way that the d.n.a. would those found on the a weapon used to kill i know what it cost i nevertheless all that does not have a complete a background so to speak putting to law enforcement he has been on the run since ninety ninety nine for cases such as murder illegal possession of firearms as well as involvement in kidnappings so this case really has taken a new twist it's really going along quite fast now so we have to see what the prosecutors do have to say what the defense will be in. the reaction to his arrest this only happened two days ago the arrest has really given a positive received

a positive response from people here especially journalists those who had been working with anna politkovskaya the u.s. ambassador here in moscow had also praised the arrest he was flown here the day of his arrest so again other politkovskaya has garnered international attention over this case and so burger in two thousand and six so certainly people will be following what comes along next as she was working for. seattle and she was heavily involved in uncovering human rights violations in chechnya and it's it is widely believed in seemed that her murder had connections and it was related to the work that she had been doing for her newspaper so again we have to follow the details of this the latest being that there is enough evidence according to the most important against to stop pulled off. ok thanks for that update. well after weeks of panic buying in shops and their roofs the government has once

again gone with its banking role for 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. despite some improvements in the economic situation in belarus that we've seen in the past seven days we can still feel here in minsk the country disposed to become trees being gripped by the hard financial storm oil 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 with people who treat just trying anything afraid that some of the goods my disappear from the shelves on the shelves of the stores people attacking the currency exchange offices because of the faith in the bill russell

has decreased greatly ever since of the country first but the financial torah moral now there are many reasons according to experts behind this financial crisis some say this is because of the lame economic policies of the past decade some say this is because the current president going to try to increase the salaries of the common population during his election campaign by thirty percent when her stand that come fourteenth of july the i.m.f. will decide on another nation loan to belarus it is still very interesting whether 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 see some developments in this situation in the course of the next ten twelve days. max keiser looks at how.

national sovereignty is for bankers take the reins of a economy watch the food program has a pretty. the country of greece is not bankrupt the i.m.f. is bankrupt george barber dres is back up who knows what money he owes some casino or some drug lord somewhere got a drug habit he's got he's going to sell us reckon country for a few quid the objective of the outside forces that being me which is controlled by the us which is controlled by wall street is to simply grab all of greece is that for pennies on the dollar and the entire country agrees and they should forego their sovereignty and their independence now they're just one more ride on disneyland congratulations you are now in significant their entire park thousand year history just got flushed down the toilet.

and prosecutors in the hague say they want to shorten trial of former bosnian serb general that it's also considering combining his case with that's what the former supreme leader rather than tragedy which has already been ongoing for more than eighteen months both men are accused of war crimes during the bosnian conflict that's killing around eight thousand people in treatment seventeen ninety five. here before the trial friday however his family and lawyers say his health problems and. some of the stuff that's not survive the trial. is political underestimation of it says the tribunal is prejudiced against that which is simply doing america's bidding. the people who actually try this is the judges of the prosecution not subject to the same rules as the cubans i mean the principle of all civilized countries legal the lords would be accused and all those who participate in the

legal process must be subject to the same laws of the it seems no one is above the law the state here everybody but everybody is above the law other than the accused let's consider for example the one being afraid your television serbia in belgrade on the twenty third of april one thousand nine hundred ninety and now sixteen people died as a result of the bombing which happened by a u.s. plane. never actually indicted anyone over that. but are now out of a look at some other news stories making headlines around the world this hour. the colombian the president says one of the country's top insurgent commanders has been captured across the border in venezuela torres isn't really a most senior to rebel school since two thousand and four and out of state said previously awful two point five million dollars reward for his capture his arrest comes of it 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 but just as have caused extensive damage in the state of emergency declared the governor. without electricity in the region has requested the national guard. russia has temporarily banned all fresh vegetable imports from the e.u. the deadly e. coli outbreak which has claimed seventeen lives across europe in germany european commission has criticised the disproportionate appeal meanwhile it's now been proved that was starting to come visit the center of the square where in fact not because of the outbreak planners are considering legal action against me and that is asians are said cost the industry two hundred million last week germany is still trying to source the outbreak which is needed to infect people in the country one

hundred tension in two sentence russia's chief medical officer. thanks the e.u. health watchdog has failed to provide senate is security. disease begins with an acute phase and progresses to a state of coma but the most dangerous aspect is that this why risk is resistance to antibiotics used in europe a month on from downside of this crisis to germany sen thor it is still haven't identified the source of the disease or strands for a factors most important situation hasn't been brought under control very apparent health watchdog has been discredited. people in their cars here are paying their bills today and the president said that he died in moscow last week and thousands have passed his coffin as it rains in state capital so. buried in his

home his parents died from complications of surgery. except the republic changed during his term. of a career in agriculture but instead and did up so when the seeds of democracy in a newly born independent state could help to nurture to law i meant to manage to rise to the highest post in his land but never drifting too far from his roots so he was born into a family of teachers here in the small of his in village of g.r. the most locals knew him personally they say he always cared about people's needs and that was key to his success as president villagers are stunned that his left them so early moose local men generally live well into their eighty's. where so sad about his death we mourn his passing was first elected in two thousand and four during his presidency a policy against recognition from russia managed to avoid open conflict with

neighboring georgia stood by its ally will sell to city it was attacked by georgian troops in two thousand and eight and finally established diplomatic ties with a number of nations around the world. look seemed worked alongside but gosh he says his passing is a great loss for the team and also a personal tragedy it was like a brother for me and we had a very good personal relations and he understood me. in all the new ideas and new projects i first of all we interviewed in the west time we spook asked him what's changed in the republic so most of the main thing that's changed is people's mood now they are more certain about their future spoke with was operational. in a small ski r t. but the latest in the world of business is with us now.

that's right time for your business update building the world's leading financial district in moscow is one of the key ambitions of the government so where better to study what's required then with one of the established champions r.t. says anna nicole reports from the russia calling form in the city of london. one of the keys speakers the british minister of state for trade and investment lord green predicts will remain the main financial center for years to come but they too will be joined by new hawks in the emerging economies such as china russia sergey karim from new academic school is equally optimistic mean indicator of moscow's becoming the international financial center is a guess. emerging as international bodies are forgotten which means certain inflation should be lower should be predictable. this should be a long term yield curve. and for the sorts and the exchange rate

should be dictated by the market known by political intervention on the developed financial system they keep on looking moscow's potential poor legislation and the lapper financial instruments prevent cash cumulated if it can show down to insurance funds from being invested in the markets when i work in a program which would be sure it's going to be first in the country it will be structured notes. which would actually fit most of the criteria that pension funds insurance companies and some other regulators investors have in the country and therefore would enable them to have access to a much wider set of products much wider sort of underlines. wasn't built in a day or even a decade they have told peak to climb to be capital shoreham he would think the efforts to promote small school loans pay off in the. senate over washington from

russia calling investments for london there were suspects for brains a bright spot for the trucks foreign investment. industry. giants will invest one point one billion dollars in russia to build to call plans he plans to build an engine plant. to produce one hundred twenty thousand cars here roger has also signed investment agreements with all the called worth a total of five billion dollars question call market is now a rep of the recovery with sales jumping ship the signs for almost two million in twenty tend to say the state's approach of the free discounts on impulse challenged companies that. take. time for a quick check on the markets or prices a losing ground after we view as jobs and manufacturing data point just to a slowing economy lots with the slip below one hundred dollars per barrel branches

trying to get from one hundred fourteen dollars. european stocks to shop below a truck you've got slower both a good foot see the jets a losing about one percent. and it's the same story here in russia as you can see they are just mice it's all in the rise in a straight tracking growth right losses now have a look at some of the individual show moves on the my six energy majors are among the biggest losers the gas from down of the one and a half percent that's despite news that will do leave off to no million tons of liquefied natural gas to india that you tube and villages want to mention was also treating we're treating them as cheap or precious metals shares of canasta are also down despite calls to production data raised the number of assembled trucks by almost a halt five months of the year. russia's largest private oil company of the coil says it has a war chest to expend both at home and abroad they had all the company's investment

apartments spoke exclusively to the business arching. a local has a lesson for abramoff about ten billion dollars send at the moment it's one of the largest investors in russia we do have a great expansion plans and we do have a well planned stool could it increase our investments in upstream in russia to stabilize so production in the siberia we have a large portion such as was going to iraq that will require billions of dollars so . we also have very large investments that are required in those biggest for our gas projects we are going to be field expanding call production in north cusp in the north korean is going to become a one of four most important areas so far for that shit growth this year we're going to increase a lesson program compared to previous year probably by about one and a half billion dollars. that's all we have time for now you are for the day to get most first of all that side party dot com slash business.

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