t. and since are still not come from so chill in the car on the ground need to hurtle mccunn the release of marco results will do so that the sochi on numa column locational with results much will never lead close to tell like her riviera hotel in the current situation told the. civilian deaths go on punished polar soldiers are cleared over the killing of innocent afghans due to lack of evidence to support a war crime charges are. made of the implementation of the resolution on libya undermines the women are in the process foreign minister call from the alliance to stick to the original document or lose moscow's trust. a major breakthrough in the on the pitch call stack case as a recently arrested chechen fugitive is appreciably tarred with the journalist's murder. and fear over europe's killer cucumber threads across the world and

sometimes reason quoting rostock damning imports over a densely packed thrilling section. my from our headquarters in central moscow for watching r t with me and he's now a thanks for being with us and six pm here in the russian capital four pm in warsaw poland are seven polish soldiers have escaped punishment for carrying out a deadly attack on an afghan village four years ago they killed a group of civilians among them children about a quarter more stall rule there was not enough proof to support charges of war crimes and this daniel was so reports of people on the ground in afghanistan this patience is running out there are civilians killed and nato soldiers go free the same old story in afghanistan on the streets and for a moment just to be different polish soldiers. puts 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 and 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 decides again was because of our. image something. was also a problem we call him a grenade mel functioned in 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 leigh 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 this connection from above but there is no doubt they were shooting at the village not the nearby hills the defendants the commanders told of the attack and three should be the one standing trial run to the sickly for me no those people should be. maybe they be anything. 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 stop ization of this country because the troops western troops doesn't bring stability to afghanistan just the opposite as the death toll goes up on bush. i saw it's support for. me it's

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 because while services are being cut at home the size of our boys coming back in coffins is even worse leaving the civilians on punished the weakens the case to stay in afghanistan even the afghan president's turning against nato after the latest fourteen civilians were killed how many cause oid delivered his strongest words yet giving of point of warning and threatening war if it happens again. r.t. . the way the u.n. resolution is being implemented in libya undermines international law the warning from russia's foreign minister who has called on nato to add here to the resolution for those moscow's trust. has. the minnesota gala brought suggests

a bit of a lack of trust was in danger of forging a wedge between russia and the all the permanent members of the un security council enough because of the way the ship aziz naysay was implementing the agreed un resolution number one mind seventy three that was the photo on the march when the russia abstained and that allows a no fly zone would seem to think that over the libya however russia now but these days actions in libya go beyond that are made in financing and they prize a that in fact now are on regime change and allegedly out of the supposing the opposition that when dealing of trust lavrov today suggested only escalated following the very recent visits about african president jacob zuma to tripoli you see talking trying to go see it with colonel gadhafi a visit which was then almost immediately followed by a resumption in nato strikes and today love rolph rule but that the growing a lack of trial scrooge cools russia in the future to cause i think twice before

agreeing to any such resolution again. to quicken in which everybody involved in the implementation of the great illusion must show maximum responsibility for international law and the united nations keeping in mind the authority of the u.n. security council otherwise god forbid next time anything additional happens we will act differently as no one will take what's being said if i spam you things like creating a no fly zone for the statements of course to come in the wake of a very recent u.n. report which the ice it's it's a good groups of trust the teams are being committed it may be on the both sides albeit less numerous on the part of the opposition but of course it comes very short of the off the rails weekends g.h. when the president medvedev agreed to send her over russian envoy to bengal's to attend a suitcase existence by going on syria minister lavrov reiterates its moscow's position that they all staunchly. against any attempts by the international

community to force regime change within the country warning that any such change could set destabilize the country and would be catastrophic for the region however the prof did say that russia still still supports president outside said to continue to cool and the case state within the old position within his saying that country i'd also encouraging a president assad to move swiftly it implements in the reforms that he's promised to see within syria. during a visit to rome russia's president reiterated he wants a peaceful resolution to the crisis in the middle east north africa he met with prime minister silvio berlusconi actually to watch the grand military parade dedicated to the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of italy's unification i should say are you cutting the grass has more from. vatican city vogel school any need just days after the g eight summit wrapped up in france so course the focus was

mainly on the grants already achieved between the leaders like a common stance on the north africa and the middle east conflicts uprising again dmitri medvedev reiterated today russia's position russia supports a peaceful resolution of the conflicts in league and considers it the country's internal affairs also invited for talks today in rome was us vice president joe biden apart from libya and the middle east conflict they discussed the u.s. plans to deploy and to me sell system in europe you know russia expects more transparency more cooperation from the u.s. on that as this system is to be deployed so kudos to russia's borders from joe biden and to meet their presence in rome today were presided daves from some eighty countries as eataly held a major military parade in the center of rome today and these years parade is special because twenty eleven marks one hundred fifty years since each city was unique by as a country from a patchwork of city states so it was very spectacular and the russian president

seemed to be impressed by these by the celebration of the more than history of italy to at least through the display of its equipment and uniforms of the past. still have for you this hour on our t.v. picking up the loan have a look at where the problems and authorities turn this time in attempts to tackle the economic turmoil the country has plunged into. chaos as a cause we have placed last respects to. it's late president there are the follow the path leading to the public's long awaited independence. but first russia has banned all imports of e.u. that's two poles following a deadly outbreak of the economy bacteria although some are wondering whether the threat is overstated causing the latest international health risk hysteria for more let's cross to our cars that song thomas song what is this all about what's going on. well it really is

a question of is this the attack of the killer cucumber is or just another case of mass hysteria on an international scale and let me give you a little bit of background information of what we're talking about this all started within the past month in germany where a new strain of e. coli bacteria called the she got a toxin emitting strain of e. coli i was discovered about eighteen people have been killed from that strain numerous significant amount of others who have been infected germany came out almost immediately and said it's from spain because this new bacteria is coming from cucumbers from spain thus of course causing a crisis causing people not buying the food supplies from spain and the international community has been looking into where this is come from in fact one cases even popped up in the united states with this new strain of e. coli i but really it's a big political fiasco at this point in time it's been more than a month and at this point time they cannot find the origin in fact germany came out and said to spain we're sorry we did not really need to jump the gun we don't

really know where this eco lie has come from now this has spawned the united arab emirates from the banning cucumbers coming from four different countries in europe including germany and spain and russia of course banning all vegetables coming in from the e.u. a move which brussels has said is a disproportionate response to what is happening right now so there's some speculation that this could all be mass hysteria now one. bushell in russia said that this entire syndrome or this entire incident is bringing into question all of europe's food safety laws and watchdog systems in place this is what he had to say . supermachine was because it all started on the twenty fifth of april so it's now over a month into the crisis german health official still cannot say what caused the outbreak it was a transfer the fact of the disease and the main thing that the situation is still

under control is to get the european health watchdog. of course this is a cause a great big political fiasco within the european union and internationally as well as if the european union cannot export their vegetables it's a big blow to their economy which is already hit especially spain which is looking at a possible bailout in the future so it is a big economic hit it's a big political hit but there's also some speculation that this could be the next big health fiasco from of the pharmaceutical industry if you remember there was the bird flu swine flu sars a whole strain of things that people needed to get vaccinated for needed to watch out for and so there's some speculation that this could be the next big cucumber flu if you will to give people something to scare them into getting the next big medical test now we are here at a facility in the moscow region with roasted numbers we're told that these are safe and they're saying all of this over just a simple cucumber. i thought that i thought you might go ahead and take

a bite to say that this might be a bit of hysteria some prominent live from the moscow region thanks for that. and the panic as rapidly swept through europe like sean was saying that civil exports exporters are losing two hundred million euro a week and people being afraid of their produce on our facebook page we're asking are you were afraid of the never detected before bacteria is that a real threat or a stunt staged by pharma companies are going to facebook dot com slash r t news and have your say. z.-z. z.-z. z.-z. z.-z. z.-z. eat seafood the. illegal. substance.

well roots is desperately trying to restore its crippled economy and tackle a currency crisis after having our. economy economic rather community for a loan the government has now gone with its begging bowl to the international monetary fund this article x. intercepts to give reports from minsk the current political situation might make getting the money far from easy. a rare scene for a usually called minsk people physically prevented a policeman from arresting a student who had not paid for their bus ticket many said this incident was visible proof of escalating tension in. political deserts i do want to live in this country and i'm looking to run away from here i was born in the suv or the country are now living is a joke empty shelves in stores food shortages and hundreds besieging currency

exchanges those have been the all too familiar scenes of the last month in bellerose since the country plunged into financial crisis and the russian ruble devalued two fold sparking people to get rid of it quickly euro goes to a bank in central minsk every day in the hope of swapping his money for u.s. dollars and we could go he was one hundred fiftieth in the queue now he's closer to getting what he wants i have to pay for my daughter's education and i can only do so in dollars so i've been standing here for a week to buy three hundred dollars though i have a chance to do it legally this is a disgrace what's happening in the roost experts say the current financial crisis is down to the government's lame economic policies of the last decade as well as an over reliance on imported goods and foreign loans some also point to last year's presidential can frame our government tried to we.

are going to go a store five hundred dollars. it's maybe. fifty per cent. celery as a result was. this well and since all currency in dollars it took three weeks into the crisis before the national bank obolus finally admitted something was wrong in the eyes of the leadership in minsk everything had been fine and when president alexander lukashenko decided to speak out he blamed everyone but his government what of those if you see someone buying things and stories to the workings of the plethora of them immediately the people working hard and that's why we're in this crisis will decide the russian media inflates this situation says i don't want them. anymore with. these statements came a week after moscow agreed to provide an emergency loan to minsk at the euro sex summit having received these assurances the russian government also turned to the

international monetary fund asking for an eight billion dollar loan it's delegation started work in belarus to determine whether it is eligible to receive the help many wonder if the decisions already been made especially since only a few months ago look at shankar was openly cursing brussels over accusations of human rights violations in the best possible scenario minsk could receive the first one point two billion dollar loan from the you are sacked by next monday the international monetary fund is expected to deliver its decision by june the fourteenth but with all the harsh rhetoric often coming from the belorussian leadership it is hard to say who if any would be able to drag this country from the financial abyss let's see russia ski r.t. reporting from minsk in valorous. well arty's financial guru max kaiser looks at other ellinger connelly's to turn to the i.m.f. for help next hour in his program he discusses how not a billion dollar bailout are threatening the some printing of nations here's a taste of what's to come. back the i.m.f.

is bankrupt george part of grace is back oh now. what money he owes some casino or some drug lord somewhere kind of truck cavities god willing to sell us for it 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 assets for pennies on the dollar and antics the entire country of theories and that they should forego their sovereignty and their independence now they're just one more ride on disney lead congratulations grace you're now in significance and your entire five thousand year history just got flushed down the toilet. a man recently arrested in the chechen republic for the murder of a prominent prominent journalist on the planet has been officially charged the investigators say they have enough evidence to prove the thirty seven year old

suspect is the killer and it's almost five years ago aren't these tests are simply 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 feed the chechen connection to be a murder of russian journalist and up on the sky and 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 possibly 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 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 abducted with the parents but would also say that there was no way that the d.n.a. would match those found on the a weapon used to kill anna politkovskaya nevertheless with all that does not have a believe the background to speak to law enforcement has been on once it's like

that for cases such as murder illegal possession of firearms as well yes and all that it is not based so what this case really has taken a new to say 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 is over happened two days ago the arrest has really given a a positive i received a positive response from people here especially the journalists those who have been working with on the phone with the u.s. ambassador here in moscow and also praised the arrest how he was flown here the date of his arrest so again the plot a tough guy 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 yes 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. a second look at some of world news in brief for you this hour yemen's capital fighting raging on the. government troops are tribesmen at least forty people were killed on wednesday according to reports peaceful protests turned violent last week but despite the escalation and battled leader. but they refused to step down. former bosnian serb general rock on the lot and fighting cancer since two thousand and nine that's according to his lawyer who claims to have documents proving a lot of had surgery and received cannot verify in the serbian hospital two years ago he's waiting for his trial at the hague war crimes tribunal to start a family say he's not fit enough allotted to the accused of war crimes during the one nine hundred ninety five bosnian war. google has accused china's computer hackers are carrying out an attack on its accounts the company said several hundred g. mail accounts have been hijacked some of them belonging to high ranking u.s. officials the chinese government however denies all allegations it's the second

time in two years google has pointed to china as the base of cyber attacks. because iraq has been paying its last respects to the late president sergei bugout who died in moscow last week at the farewell ceremony in the capital so home is being attended by thousands of mourners so good bug ups die for days ago after major surgery lead to complications artie's these warts it looks at how the republic changed during his term. there was no missing children shoulder to give up she just overpowering presence for all she's whole bunch in the world stage though and we focus on the beginnings of the opposing president always kept in touch with his roots so he will go she was born into a family of teachers here in the smaller cars in villages have 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 he's left them so early. and

generally live well into their eighty's. you know george also be ok. later in ruins he helped rebuild everything and always remember dismantling the small caucasus republic struggled to get international recognition following the war against georgia in one thousand nine hundred two hundreds of people were killed thousands of what causes were forced to flee their homes was first elected in two thousand and four a difficult time for the republic during his presidency across the games recognition from russia managed to avoid another open conflict with neighboring georgia and established diplomatic ties with several states that if there were a pause in president was treated as an honored guest. i personally interviewed sergei volkov and the less time we spook like ask him what's changed in the republic because i'm overwhelmed with it was the main thing

that's changed is people's mood now they are more certain about their future spoke was through the opposition and that feeling of stability is something sergei bug option will always be remembered for dinner spolsky r t so cool. all the latest business news is up next here in our. ranks on exam russia's largest private oil company luc while says it has a war chest to expand operations both at home and abroad have the company's investment department spoke exclusively to business r.t. . a local has a list from program of about ten million bills and. at the moment it's one of the largest investors in russia we do have a great expansion plans and we do have plans to do that increase our investment in upstream in russia to stabilise production in was this idea we have for such as was

pointed to in iraq that will require billions of dollars from universal and we also have very large investments that are required in that was based on for our gas projects we are going to be field expanding all production in north just being the north coast being is going to become a one of four most important areas so for production growth this year we are going to eat three said less one program compared to previous year probably by about one and a half billion bills so you look at the markets now we start with commodity you know oil prices have recovered from the impulses light sweet is trading over one hundred and one hundred dollars in the hof per barrel and brant is a problem in fifty. u.s. markets opened mixed with jazz is down point two percent nasdaq point three percent this is as initial jobless claims did go down but the know it then was expected just by six thousand planes. cries move to europe now could see is

showing still a negative picture it's down point eight percent so is the back hong kong three percent that's off the yet another downgrade for greek sovereign debt and in russia the pictures change by the end of the session the r.t.s. is up by a notch so is the my six this is has world prices of recovered in a trading positively cyclical the main movers on the nice legs the slight delay there with the share prices of major companies or gas going to still down one point three percent but that could change and move into positive ground polymaths who has recovered it's up twenty three percent despite flat figures for commodities and shares of come out as a wall. so down half a percent despite positive production data the company increased the number of assembled trucks by almost half. almost a half brother during the five months of this year. russia's privatization plan includes selling twenty five percent of the country's railway operator they are very used to find it difficult to attract international partners and investors but

that's all changed according to the presence of russian rallies you know who do not have this kind of problems to fly and those who would like to work with there should there because the problem oh you know to accumulate it how to provide the facilities for everyone who would like to work with us actives became very attractive actives everywhere from the united states of america to the far east of the globe. and from this point of view russian railways in law. i suppose are being presented as a very very interesting active to you know to buy to participate in the share capital and the also industry remains a bright spot for the state's efforts to attract foreign investment outside the commodity sector italian culture and fears will invest one point one billion dollars in russia to build two water plants he had plans to build an engine plant

and a factory to produce one hundred twenty thousand cars a year masters also signed a dozen agreements with other groups with a thirty five billion dollars the russian car market is now rapid rapidly recovering with sales jumping thirty percent almost two million in twenty time analysts say the state's approach of offering discounts on import tariffs for companies that build local brands has proved effective. always more business news that a website r.t. to come forward slash business we will be back in fifty minutes time with not they don't see that. the.

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