atrocity unpunished polish soldiers are cleared over the killing of innocent civilians including children in afghanistan four years ago due to lack of evidence . the un accuses libyan political forces on both sides of the friends of committing war crime from a major decision to prolong its military action there for another three months. and rising prices and an energy deficit cast a shadow over the european union as germany takes its first steps to get rid of nuclear power.

live from our studios in central moscow you're watching archie with me and he's in our. capital twelve noon in warsaw poland where seven soldiers have escaped punishment over an attack on an afghan village four years ago which killed a group of civilians including children a court in the capital ruled there was not enough proof to support the charges of war crimes and while the nato soldiers glane faulty arms critics say errors costing people's lives are on forgivable. civilians killed and nato soldiers go free the same old story in afghanistan for the brits and for a moment to be different polish soldiers are put on trial for deaths including a pregnant woman and her child. on the sixteenth of august two thousand and seven

mortar shells that were fired by polish troops the state the afghan villages have as a result six people were killed three most of it wounded but the soldiers were cleared of all charges one of the accused told r.t. it's all been a big mistake but we didn't see people. we were sudan's government decides again was because of our. damage sell something like that and it was also a problem we've got a grin a malfunction and missed it taliban target by five hundred metres claims the shits the prosecutors alleged it was revenge for. bullish soldier earlier in the day experts say it's unlikely anything could go so catastrophic you're wrong this is not logical. that more could not make such a serious error of such a large distance but the question is did

a dissenter fire themselves or did they receive his command from above but there is no doubt they were shooting at the village nearby and. all due to commanders of the time and the should be the one standing trial one to exclude from the nobels people should be accused maybe maybe. but activist while the conflict continues civilian deaths from nato bombing or inevitable will only rise you know the longer the war. goes on the war 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 this country because their troops western troops doesn't bring somebody zation 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 in the wrong direction. this was already unpopular in the e.u.

there's the hundred billion euro cause 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's turning against nato after the latest fourteen civilians were killed how many calls i delivered his strongest words yet giving a point of warning and threatening war if you tappan zee again daniel schorr. u.n. panel has accused both both libyan leader moammar gadhafi regime and anti government forces of war crimes and crimes against humanity the investigators however noted violations by the opposition were not as numerous the council's verdict is based on meetings with 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. for of humanitarian imperialism says by intervening

on the side of rebel forces nato has made a negotiated settlement far more difficult to achieve as long as they do. nobody is arguing on the other side and the habits of neither on their side they have no interest in trying to find a compromise but most is by no means alone latin america is on that line getting communities on the injuries on that plane carrying those problem back and i knew them all saying please so i mean most of the world is for when they go see if you try to really be good in the world maybe i do they certainly do care if they just don't want that and these movies and do to move forward from durban these little guaranteed their worst of all and they do is going to study those leave after the killing of the deprived of get their feet i don't think i mean i don't think we need to again be defeated for the pouring of having leaving in a bottle but you see we are going to get is that i just don't understand why people are still going through then they're going to solve the problem of libya when they're fleeing to some of those other counties where they have the regime. well

russia says it's not going to mediate the terms of colonel gadhafi exit and nato starts collating pressure on the libyan leader foreign minister sergei lavrov also warned that any attempt to repeat the libyan regime change the scenario in syria but only spell doom. what we've just admitted you syria is a key country in the region be attempts to destabilize the situation there disastrous consequences the world community must fully understand this must not provoke this kind of situation to achieve regime change that such attempts being made and we find it necessary to suppress them as well as continue working jointly with syrian authorities in order to speed up reforms. wouldst here with our seed live from moscow on the way later in the program next in line for a barrel out deep in crisis well roots holds out the begging bowl and as the i.m.f.

to help rescue with crippled economy with an eight billion dollar loan. and the on the political scare murder case moves closer to withstand after investigators claim they have all the evidence they need to prove the guilt of a recently have rested not. but first the stock waves from japan's fukushima nuclear plant disaster have reverberated loudly in terminator so much so that despite the fact that atomic energy provides nearly a quarter of the nation's electricity it's still ready to call the klug argues there and that found out what price both germany and other e.u. countries might have to pay for 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 elektra city in germany which in turn is pushing up prices germany's

now importing power from france and the czech republic and its crisis hit poorest who will pay higher electricity because. quite understand. project prices and of course always the industrial goods you know would be paying more for the electricity will be the. people there is no doubt about it around thirty percent if he uses electricity comes from nuclear generation so ironically the 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 eighty 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 but the german green party is aiming high we are planning to hold europe's going 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 good of the time maybe to two thousand and thirty and then everything's free but all of a 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 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 portions germany has. with the e.u. . it is 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 and 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 we're to 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 is consternation that such a big decision should be taken unilaterally by germany seemingly as a panicked reaction to the fukushima disaster but the fact is europeans are all in this together if there's a nuclear accident for example in france germans won't be amusing just because they're not involved in nuclear power anymore and

a german shortfall in supply will mean higher electricity bills all european families not just germans lower average or to brussels. meanwhile japan's prime minister says he's prepared to step down but only once the nuclear crisis in the country has been contained that's despite him surviving a no confidence vote in parliament you can find more on that story on our website our guard com and also get more details on the devastation our power via pictures from the reactor news and in-depth analysis that's on our website and for more videos from fukushima are going to argue to pitch. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of kandahar. operations around the day.

after weeks of panic buying in shops and belly rooms the government has once again gone with its begging bowl to the international monetary fund and hoping to raise up to eight billion dollars to boost its crippled economy and revive people's faith in the government argues a lexer subsequent report. despite some improvements in the economic situation in belarus that we've seen in the last seven days we can still feel here in the country this country is being gripped by the hard financial storm or 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 buying 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 the faith in the bill russell has decreased a great me ever since the country first felt the 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 campaign by thirty percent when or stand that come fourteenth of july the i.m.f. will decide on another nation loan to belarus it is still very interesting whether minsk would be able to receive this loan given all the statements made by the country's president the arrest 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 last 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 clearly see some developments in the situation in the course of the next twelve days. well our chief financial guru max kaiser looks at how multi-billion dollar value outs are voting national sovereignty and foreign bankers take the reins of alan economy's watch the full program later today here's one. star. 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 got a drug habit he's got he's going to sell a stock and country for a few quid the objective of the outside forces that being the i.m.f. which is controlled by the us which is controlled by wall street is to simply grab all of greece's asked for pennies on the dollar and antics the entire country and that they should forego their sovereignty and their independence now there are just

one more ride on is the lead congratulations grace you are now in significant and your entire five thousand year history just got flushed down the toilet. in the. process prosecutor's office says it has enough evidence to prove that and then recently arrested and russia's chechen republic was involved in the murder of prominent russian journalist. thirty seven year old suspect to spin on the run since one thousand nine hundred nine has been charged on four separate accounts are silly and has the details. well certainly for a case that has been going on for about five years now they certainly have been moving fast since the arrest of the stomach would all fit the chechen connection to be a murder of russian journalist anna politkovskaya now 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 houses we do have to get the details from the prosecutor's office but so far they're saying that they do have enough against him

that he has been indicted now 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 been doctored with harriet's saying that there was no way that the d.n.a. would match those found on the a weapon used to kill anna politkovskaya nevertheless awkward also does not have a complete a background so to speak putting to law enforcement he has been on the run since one thousand nine hundred for cases such as murder illegal possession of firearms as well as an 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 in moscow the reaction to his arrest this only happened two days ago at the arrest has really given a a positive i received a positive response from people here especially a journalist those who have been working with on a ball with u.s. ambassador here in moscow had also praised the arrest and he was flown here the day

of his arrest so again under politkovskaya has garnered the international attention over this case and sort of murder in two thousand and six so certainly people will be following what comes along next as she was working for the fire because he and she was heavily involved in uncovering human rights violations in chechnya and it's it is widely believed and seen that her murder had connections and it was related to the work that she had been doing for her newspaper. prosecutors in the hague say they want to shorten the trial for the former bosnian serb general that caused a lot it's they're also considering combining his case with that of the former serbian leader radovan care of that which is already been ongoing for more than eighteen months both men are accused of war crimes during the bosnian conflict including the mass killing of around eight thousand people in cyber needs in one nine hundred ninety five i've come a lot it's all the peer before the tribunal on friday of this family lawyer saying his health problems you could be unable to understand the case may not survive the

trial parkins political analyst mr governor leavitt says the tribunals prejudice against milan it's as the hague is simply doing america's getting. the people who actually try this is the judges of the prosecution not subject to the same rules as the accused i mean the principle of all civilized countries all legal laws would be used and all those who participate in the legal process must be subject to the same laws as you he was no one is above the law is the state well here everybody but everybody is above the law album the accused let's go instead of for example the bombing of radio television serbia in belgrade i'm a twenty third of april one thousand nine hundred ninety now sixteen people died as a result of the bomb being which happened by a u.s. plane. tribunal never actually indicted anyone or without.

let's take a look now at other news making headlines around the world today the colombian president said one of the country's top insurgent commanders have been captured across the border in venezuela or mo torres is among the most senior fart guerrilla rebels caught since two thousand and four united states have previously offered a two point five million dollars reward for his capture his arrest comes amid improving relations between the two neighboring south american countries. where people are reported dead after at least two tornadoes swept through parts of the u.s. state of massachusetts but trust there is not cause extensive damage and the state of emergency has been declared by the governor thousands have been left without electricity and the region has requested help the national guard. russia has temporarily banned all fresh vegetable imports from the e.u. after the deadly e. coli outbreak which has claimed seventeen lives across europe the majority in germany the european commission has criticized the move as disproportionate and

says it will appeal to the world health organization says that the cole eyestrain is a new bacteria that has never been seen before meanwhile it's not improved that the spanish cucumbers initially at the center of the scare are in fact not the cause of the outbreak farmers are now considering legal action against germany after the accusations are said to have cost the industry two hundred million euros last week russia's chief medical officer. thinks the e.u. helped launched a still failed to provide sanitary solution. you know you were going to the 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 among gone from downside of this crisis to germany cemetery authorities still haven't identified the source of the disease or stands for factors the most important of all the situation hasn't been brought under

control and health watchdog has been discredited. people in our cars are paying their final tributes to their late president who died in moscow trast we can't thousands have been filing past his coffin as it wise in the state capital so whom the gods will be very in his home village next to his parents who died from complications following major surgery five days ago that is the reason the lord's game looks at how the republic changed during his term. of a career in agriculture but instead and did up sowing the seeds of democracy in a newly born independent state it helped to nurture to law is meant to manage to rise to the highest boost in his land but never drifting too far from his roots so gabled up he was born into a family of teachers here in the smaller cars in village of the most locals who 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 he's left them so early moose local men generally live well into their eighty's he said you know oh we're so sad about his death we mourn his passing was first elected in two thousand and four during his presidency uprising 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. what seemed worked alongside bug option he says his passing is a great loss for the team and also a personal tragedy like a brother for me and we have very good personal relations and he understood me a lot and all the new ideas and new projects i personally interviewed sergei bug and the less time we spook like i asked him what's changed in the republic so i

might move to the newest the main thing that's changed is. now they are more certain about their future of course there's a push. to dispel all ski. you're up to date now from the news that serious here the latest business for you next. time to how to look at the world of business and building a world leading financial district in moscow is one of the key ambitions of the russian government so where better to study what's required than with one of the established champions are she says in a political report from russia calling for him and the city of london. one of the case papers the british minister of state for trade and investment lord grant predicts the remains and main financial center for years to come markets will be joined by new hawks in the emerging economies such as china russia.

school is equally optimistic indicator of moscow's becoming the international financial center is a guess. emerging as international government which means inflation should be lower should be predictable. this should be a long term yield curve. and. will change or it should be dictated by the market known by political intervention the developed financial system is. locking moscow's potential legislation and the lack of financial instruments prevent cash. and shut down the insurance calls being invested in the markets when i work in a program which i would be sure is going to be first in the country structured notes. which would actually fit most of the criteria

that pension funds insurance companies and some of the regulations investors have in the country and therefore would enable them to have access to a much wider set of products much wider on the lines. wasn't built in a day or even. may have told to climb but the bits of the capital horo he'll think the efforts to promote small school loans to pay off will be. janet got a call reporting from the investment forum in london london calling and she will bring us what's right the day well the auto sector remains a bright spot for the state's efforts to attract foreign investment outside the commodity industry its own car giant will invest one point one billion dollars in russia to build to cull plants plans to build an engine plant and a factory to produce one hundred twenty thousand cars be a year russia has also signed agreements with off the car groups worth a total of five billion dollars the russian car market is now ready to recovery

with sales jumping thirty percent almost two million twenty ten analysts say the state's approach of offering discounts on import tariffs the companies but build local funds has proved difficult. time for check on the markets oil prices a losing ground doctor weak u.s. jobs and manufacturing data pointed to a slowing economy in light sweet has slipped below one hundred dollars a barrel branch is trading at wrong one hundred fourteen dollars. stocks in europe a shot below are tracking us both of which the other decks are losing point eight percent and one percent respectively. the same story here in russia the r.t.s. m i six in the red truck you worldwide losses now have a look at some of the individual share moves on the my six energy majors are among the biggest losers were down level one percent as you can see that's just spiked news its will to live up to but in terms of liquefied natural gas

a year to india and a thirty two billion dollars deal. is also retreating in cheaper prices for metals bucking the trend is come us at slightly in the black supported by production data company a number of assembled trucks but almost all during five months of the year. russia's largest private or oil company a look oil says it has a war chest to expand operations both at home and abroad the head of the company's investment apartments spoke exclusively to business r.t. . his investment program for about ten billion dollars and at the moment it's one of the largest investors in russia we do have great expansion plans and we do have plans to do that increase our investment in upstream in russia to stabilize production in which to say we have a large project such as was pointed to in iraq that will require billions of dollars of new investment we also have very large investments that are required in

that was based on for our gas projects we are going to be feel that spending of production in north gaspin in north coast b.n. is going to become one of our most important areas so for our production growth this year we are going to increase our investment program compared to the previous year probably by about one of the billion dollars. well we have time for now europe today more news in else time for.

the close up team has been to the old and grand richard thank you all the turning point i'm bringing more to. this time the party goes to the region where half of the area is occupied by a nature preserve. where the young generation transition their ancestors. and where the mysterious city of the deadlocks world come the republic of north the setting up the russian culture of cauchy. twenty years ago in the largest country in. certain places. but had been chosen. to teach began a journey. for.