in total. atrocity unpunished polish soldiers are cleared over the killing of innocent civilians including children and now cannot stand four years ago due to lack of evidence. russia says that it will not stick a six kentucky's departure times and that it could no longer trust him they say see you all told to u.n. resolution it's. also this hour of rising prices and an energy deficit cast a shadow over the european union of germany takes its first steps to get rid of nuclear power. for health most pro abortion as

a global financial center is r t talks to russia calling investment form participants in london some twenty minutes. it's three pm in moscow this is r g coming to you live with me and use the now way our top story seven polish soldiers have escaped punishment overnight attack on an afghan village four years ago which killed a group of civilians including children according warsong ruled there was not enough proof to support the charges of war crimes and while the nato soldiers blamed 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 the threats and for a moment to be different polish soldiers 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 in the afghan village of nine 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 because. we were accidents. there . was damage to sell something. and it was also a problem we. agree made mel functioned taliban target by five hundred metres claims a shit scheme prosecutors alleged it was revenge for roadside bomb which killed another polish soldier earlier in the day experts say it's unlikely anything could go so catastrophic only wrong this is not logical operators of them or could not

make such a serious error with such a large distance the question is did they decide to fire themselves or did they receive his command from above but there is no doubt they were shooting at the village not the nearby hills the defendants their commanders who ordered the attack and these should be the one standing trial one to display for not those people should be accused maybe maybe. it's activists while the conflict continues civilian deaths from nato bombing or inevitable will only rise you know the longer the war. goes on and the war situation is so the answer is i think quite simple to withdraw troops from afghanistan. beginning of any process of the musician of this country because the troops western troops doesn't bring stuff it is a shame 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 a hundred billion euro of course while services are being called. the source 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 delivered his strongest words yet giving a final warning and threatening war if it happens again. russia says that any attempt to repeat the libyan regime change scenario in syria will only spell doom but according to foreign minister lavrov latest statement let's cross live for our correspondent alice cooper chief following developments for us our telephone more about what circular broad had said.

foreign minister sergei lavrov he she did number of statements today during his meeting with his bulgarian counterparts of the russian foreign ministry building behind me on syria he said that the international community must be careful against implementing any provocations and to securing everything changes in the country as he said that that could destabilize syria which would have played to stop taking precautions to the region however he did say that president saddam not to believe that he's implemented the promises promised reforms within his own country this is what's hard to say on syria. just because you would see syria is the key country in the region be changed to to state. it's the situation that may incur disastrous consequences the world community must fully understand this must not provoke this kind of situation to achieve regime change that such attempts

are 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 which tell us what to the foreign minister have to say about the situation in libya he also touched upon that in me. and he will say to a great length film that he is a responsible weston's the kid's head of us the foreign minister was also what he felt the kind of attack he should go at this stage and he said that he wasn't in the position to give any details on that specific point because of course full days of quotes made by president fed upon it may twenty seventh when he said that exactly happened to his right to gallop in his country. was then also wants incentives he felt to be puts a kind of gadhafi you know this make him step down and again that kind of. like apologies to go abroad said that he was in the position silence about so that they question should be put to the nikken people or to the african union there again

echoing points that were made by the seventy second president jacob zuma during his recent visit to tripoli on behalf of the african union and loves the yes the good of wrong issues and now the stall warning saying that these are not squeamish you must really up hold their responsibilities and implementing president should dislike the resolution one nine seven three zero the no fly zone in libya here's what he had to say on the facts. to you with a clinician everybody involved in the implementation of the resolution must show maximum responsibility before international law and the united nations keeping in mind the authority of the u.n. security council otherwise god forbid next time anything of the sort happens we will act differently as no one will take what's being said at face value things like creating a no fly zone and thats it. prime minister of course there circuit lover of on the situation in north africa and alice had her an eye for us from

a foreign ministry thanks for that. well syria's unable to act within u.n. expectations as long as its purse pressurised by the u.s. and its allies says antiwar activists prime back. the assad government is seeking to find a resolution to the political crisis inside of syria and i think that this upset some of the plans by those who seek to destabilize syria even further who seek to carry out regime change in syria from the point of view of the united states the argument will be made in congress within the state department at the white house that the economic sanctions the pressure imposed by the west and by the united states in particular are causing the assad government to be banned and so the conclusion the summary that will be drawn from it is instead of releasing

pressure on syria that the concession by syria to try to reach out to the opposition will be considered to be a step that was a response to pressure so that there should be more pressure not less pressure so i don't think syria can really do anything under these circumstances to satisfy the united states the united states wants to put economic sanctions and use leverage against syria for its own purposes. here is our team line from moscow on the way and later in the program next to mine for a ballet deep in crisis well the roots hold out the begging bowl announced the i.m.f. to help rescue its crippled economy with an eight billion dollars loan. versus prosecutor's office says it has enough evidence to prove that the man recently arrested in the chechen republic was involved in the murder of prominent investigative journalist on the scale of the thirty seven year old suspect who's been on the ground since one thousand nine hundred nine for other crimes faces four

separate charges archies tusshar silly. well certainly for a case that has been going on for about five years they certainly have been moving fast since the arrest of the stomach would all feed the chechen connection to be a birder of russian journalist anna politkovskaya now the prosecutor's office here in moscow has said that they do have enough evidence to what charge them and build the case against him on four separate counts that 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 are the other had of course have said that he is not involved side take a d.n.a. test that they have conducted with the parents saying that there was no way that the d.n.a. would those be a weapon used to kill anna politkovskaya nevertheless moved all that does not have a lead a background so to speak putting to law enforcement he has been on once it's like that for cases such as murder illegal possession of firearms involved but it has

not been so what 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 the arrest has really given a positive received a positive response from people here especially journalists those who have been working with on the politkovskaya the u.s. ambassador here in moscow had also praised the arrest. he was flown here the day of his arrest so again an appellate court sky has garnered 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. and she was heavily involved in uncovering human rights violations in chechnya and it's it is widely believed and seen that her murderer had connections and it was related to the work that she had been doing for her newspaper. well after weeks of panic buying in

shops and bribe a ruse the government has once again gone with its breaking bolt of 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 parties alexy or sex keep reports. despite some improvements in the economic situation and values that we've seen in the past seven days we can still feel here in the country this post of a country is being gripped by the hard financial storm or oh now there are still empty shelves in schools around the country especially girls were 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 playing anything afraid that some of the goods my disappear from the shelves on the shelves of the stalls people attacking the currency exchange offices because of the trade in the gold rush

rubble has decreased a great be ever since the country first filed a bit of financial turmoil now there are many reasons according to experts behind this financial crisis some say this is because of the back of an economic policies of the past decade some say this is because the current president. to try to increase the salaries of the common population during his election complain by thirty percent when her stand that comes fourteenth of july the i.m.f. will decide on another stabilize ation 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 repeating 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 this crisis but we we clearly be seeing some developments in the situation in the course of the next twelve days. italy is

celebrating the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of its unification a grand military parade attended by dozens of top casts including president to make an authentic this is second official visit to the country since the beginning. of the year she's considering a great show is in rome for us live and now joins us you can call living museum of rome has been turned of course into something of a military fortress today we understand what's the atmosphere like in the italian capital. by me so most certainly was a spectacular show featuring not only the national army of peacefully but also for an army base every second day of june italy celebrates the italian day of the republic on the state nine hundred forty six one fashion fell at the out of poor old war to be talents voted to exile it's more arcs and a doctor a public forum of government so these days no one has passed the bill that republican traditionally features these spectacular military parades in the very

center of romania call a stay on and this year's parade as you said is special because at twenty eleven also marks one hundred fifty years since he truly became a unified country from a patchwork of city states so never in a small in history to easily source so many national flags waving in the air as this year unlike of sample to be true day parade in most military type two in rome is not so much of a show of military might and right a nice but a celebration of the recent history of italy through the demonstration of uniforms and equipment of the post and the huge cheer favorite audience favorite was again the military military planes which opened this parade and they painted the skies of rome in rather white and green the colors of the italian national flag high ranking officials from some eighty countries were invited to this event among them the president of russia very few arrived in rome on one stage. i think of five

past any military parade is always the favorite of many but aside from these lavish festivities our president is ready to start to take time out to broker key business deals toast what we should. today and he said president maybe it was about to sit down for talks with prime minister silvio berlusconi here at. pili and this meeting comes just days after the g eight summit wrapped up until the grandsons and other major get together is about to start in the russian city of new norgrove that's russia some days it will take place on the ninth of june so we expect the two will focus mostly on the fears of the upcoming summit succumbs are traditionally that is close economic ties between russia and the european union energy projects but it is a chanel economy if we talk about e.t.a. and france the two over the past years have cemented close political and economic ties with the lhari of deals worth billions of dollars they're together building

a new gas pipeline south stream pipeline to europe working on an ambitious one hundred passenger jet a joint space exploration programs that easily is also russia's third largest trade pot that within the e.u. so indeed the relationship deserves to be told a privileged relationship as soon as it will score any himself described it in february one vision a very it was visiting easily he said that he's the reference point for russia within the european union and indeed that's been for many years when it came to russia's accessions w t o y against terrorism and european security for example but of course the cooperation doesn't and there the two countries have rich culture and history and twenty eleven is big change here of the russian language and culture and easily and betaken language and culture in russia so many wide scale exchange programs are underway this year between the museums of the countries and we of course will find out more within the hour president medvedev along with his

counterpart silvio berlusconi will be giving a news conference we'll bring that to you live for now if you can finish thank you for that update. the shock waves from japan's fukushima nuclear plant disaster has reverberated loudly in germany so much so that despite the fact atomic energy provides nearly a quarter of the nation's electricity still ready to pull the plug or cheese and laura and mitt found out what price called 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 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 into prices and of course always buying the 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 are just some of the other e.u. countries that have nuclear capacity and planning to get rid of it closing down its own reactors avoid 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 in the european union don't have any nuclear plan so it's a lot and we want to make them. at the time maybe to two thousand thirty of them everything's free but are they the wrong goal the e.u. wants to generate twenty percent of it electricity using when you buy twenty twenty and also to reduce the. 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 policy to germany has. 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 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 with effect 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 this of course even 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 amusing just because they're not involved in nuclear power anymore and german shortfall in supply will mean higher electricity bills all european families not just germans. 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 but despite him surviving a no confidence vote in parliament you can find more on that story on our web site r t v dot com and get more details on the devastation of the power plant pictures from the reactor and news and in-depth analysis all of the on our website and more videos from fukushima log on to our you tube page. let's take a look at some other international. stories in grief the colombian president says one of the country's top insurgent commanders has been captured across the border in venezuela torres is among the most senior far google battles court since two thousand and four the u.s. had 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. or people are reported dead after at least two tornadoes swept through parts of the u.s. state of massachusetts the twisters have caused extensive damage in

a state of emergency has been declared by the governor thousands have been left without electricity and the region has requested the help of the national guard. people in across the are paying their final tributes to their late president surrogate bug option died in moscow last weekend thousands have been filing past his coffin as it lies in this in state in the state i should say in the capital sukhumi gosh will be very in his home village next to his parents died from complications following major surgery five days ago the russian prime minister was also when the uprising in capital to lay wreaths in met with the country's acting president alexander. and reassured have russia will continue helping the republic. here is your next with the business. welcome time for your business update building

a world leading financial districts and mosco is one of the key all the russian government so where president study what's required then one of these standards champions are going to be over imports from russia calling for him in the city of london. one of the kids speakers of the british minister of state for trade and investment lord green predicts blomberg will remain a main financial center for years to come watch it will be joined by new hawks in the emerging economies such as china and russia sergei grieve from you have going on next call is equally optimistic me indicator of moscow's becoming the international financial center is a guess. emerging as international reserve currency 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 russia's armed as

a ball of financial system is they know the key to unlocking moscow's potential poor legislation and a lack of financial instruments prevent cash accumulated and shut down the insurance funds from being invested in the markets when i work in the program which i would be sure is going to be first in the country it will be structured notes on shore in rubles which would actually fit most of the criteria that pension funds insurance companies and some other regulations 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 this is a long time wasn't built in a day or even a decade they have told peak to climb but at the bit to be capital for him he'll think the efforts to promote more school loans pay off will be on. time for a check on the markets prices have slightly recovered from light sweet is trading

at one hundred dollars a barrel and brand is that one hundred fifteen dollars. stock site and. see that's a losing point. and one percent. respectively. and let's have a look at the same story here in russia the arch as in the my six caught in the red truck in the worldwide process let's not have a look at some of the individual show on the my sense energy may just are among the biggest losers with gas from ever one percent the solid us despite use additional supply officer in the hot button tons of liquefied natural thousands get to india and the metal is also retrieve precious metal prices and shares of command saw also down despite calls to production data the truck making craze the number of assembled trucks pile most to haul through five months of india. now russia's largest private oil company look or oil says it has

a war chest to expand operations both at home and abroad the head of the company's investments potman spoke exclusively to business arching. his investment program for about ten billion dollars and at 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 do that increase our investment in upstream in russia to stabilize production in the west and say here we have a large forces such as was pointed to in iraq that will require billions of those new investment we also have very large investments that are required and that was based on for our gas projects we are going to be field expanding our production in north just being the north just being is going to become a one of four most important areas so for our production growth this year we are going to increase or investment program compared to the previous year probably by about one and a half billion dollars. more news for you in less than bronze time if you want to

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