and you know much of the film the millennium hotel in china you can seal a t. in censored film account broke social maternal granted the to her children come to the mission marco results will do so that the snow tiago. local child will result michael beverly pulls a photo of her revealing to tell the truth central hotel mccann. civilian deaths go on punish the polar soldiers are cleared over the killing of innocent afghan students should lock up evidence to support war crimes charges. nato's implementation of the resolution on libya undermines new m.r. carney russia's foreign minister called on the alliance to stick to the original document or lose moscow's trott's. a major breakthrough in the on the cases of recently arrested chancellor the fugitive is officially charged with the

journalist's murder. thoughts fear over europe's killer cucumber spreads across the world with some countries including russia banning imports over a deadly bacterial infection. of the fairing in the red pretty much all day long rough markets managed to come back at the close the first day session with banks among the top again to find out more on the markets and the latest business news begins with a bit. at seven pm in moscow this is r.t. coming to you live on news now with your top story this evening 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 but according warthogs well there was not enough proof to support charges of war crimes and as daniel bushell reports of

people on the ground in afghanistan with patience is running out. civilians killed and nato soldiers go free the same old story in afghanistan on the streets and for a moment to be different polish soldiers are 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 villages. as a result six people were killed and three were severely wounded but the soldiers were cleared of all charges one of the cues told r.t. it's all been a big mistake we didn't see because. we were accidents this us again was because it. was. something. and it was also a problem we called a grenade mel functioned taliban target by five hundred metres claims

a shit ski but 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. could not make such a serious error with such a large distance the question is did they decide to open fire themselves or did they receive can and from above but there is no doubt they were shooting at the village nearby. the defendants their commanders who ordered the attack and these should be the one standing trial one thing is clear for those people should be. maybe baby and it's because i don't but activists the conflict continues civilian deaths from nato bombing or inevitable will only rise you know the longer the war goes on their war situation is so the answer is i think quite simple to withdraw

troops from iraq. beginning of any process of study is ation of this country because the troops western troops doesn't bring stability to afghanistan just the opposite as the toll goes up on both sides support for nato whose mission plummets the 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 of course while services are being cut a hole the size of our boys coming back in coffins is even worse leaving the death of civilians on punished for the weak of the case sustain afghanistan even the afghan president's turning against nato after the latest fourteen civilians were killed because i delivered his strongest words yet giving a final warning and threatening war if you tappan zee again.

the way the un resolution is being implemented in there be undermined international law that was the warning for russia's foreign minister who has called on nato to act here to the resolution of those moscow's trust arsons as have great has more. the foreign minister sergei lavrov suggests a bit of a lack of trust was in danger of forging no wedge between russia and the all the permanent members of the un security council enough because of the way the ship is sees nato is implementing the agreed un resolution number one mind seventy three it was the folks who don't get mobbed when the russia abstained and that allows the no fly zone seemings it over the libya however russia now but these days actions in libya go beyond that medium financing and mayflies a that in fact now are on regime change and allegedly actively supporting the opposition and that swindling of trust love are off today suggested only escalated following the very recent visit to south african president jacob zuma to tripoli

you see talk and try on the case today with colonel gadhafi a visit which was then almost immediately followed by a resumption in they say strikes and a lot of wrong move that growing a lack of trial scrooge cools rostrum if you just pull as i think twice before agreeing to any such resolution again. to look like an issue everybody involved in the implementation of the bridge dilution 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 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 for the statements of course come in the wake of a very recent u.n. report which the ice it's it's a good proof step trust the team is it being committed it may be on the both sides albeit less numerous on the part of your position but of course it comes very short appeal to balls weekend's g eight when the president meets head of the week to send

the russian envoy to benghazi to attend to the case existence by phone syria minister lavrov reiterates its moscow's position that they all staunchly. against any attempts by the international community see force regime change within the country warning that any such change could destabilize the country and would be catastrophic for the region whether that prompted say that russia will still supports the president at sad said so you can see the tool and the state within the opposition within his own no country i don't so encouraging of president assad to move swiftly it implements in the reforms that he's promised to do within syria. well for more on these latest statements out of the russian foreign ministry on the situation in libya we're joined live by and sara flounders from the new york based activist group international action center thanks for being with us this evening the foreign minister was pretty clear moscow is running out will with concern nato

and its mission in libya well nato has just announced an extension by ninety days of the criminal bombing of libya are bombing that has focused on attempts to assassinate. the which is in itself a guy aleisha of every possible agreement that has resulted in infrastructure of schools and hospitals being bombings that have resulted in an attack on a large religious delegation where you live and. were killed and forty seven were injured and so it has been one targeted killing and after another all absolutely criminal conduct by the largest powers in the world against an african country and it's really essential that all of this all of this and all russia has agreed to mediate cease fire efforts of course after president medvedev was asked by g eight

leaders to step in but now nato like you said has extended the operation today even want a cease fire. you know what nato once is regime change they want absolute and total control of the largest oil resources in africa they want ownership of the billions of dollars more than seventy billion dollars that libya holds just in and mediate assets from those past oil and gas sales they won control of the whole infrastructure and none of this is about humanitarian defense of the people of libya and any who have it really is piracy on an international scale it's like a massive hold up of an entire country and some are charged to colonial. one hundred years ago. now back in the u.s. there's talk in the congress criticizing the intervention in libya do you think

this operation because it's slowly becoming unpopular at home will meet any difference in the action that's taking place in libya. well certainly the u.s. is determined to continue it although this is also an violation of the u.s. work hours and that is important because that was passed the huge opposition against the vietnam war. the president took the country to war a war that lasted years and years and led to millions of deaths and vietnam and fifty thousand u.s. military deaths here we are in the third war and. tween iraq and afghanistan and now into libya actually no discussion with the people of the us or with the congress it's a violation of the war powers act it's illegal and it is really strong demands that

congress play the role of which they are elected to. pressure is also mounting on syria although russia has said it won't back another intervention do you think nato countries i will take action anyway and what do you think the consequences of something like that would be. well it's important to recognize that the u.s. is already taking action in syria but there is a real destabilization growing there for years there has been sanctions on syria syria is occupied. by israel all with u.s. funding so there has been a long time u.s. intervention u.s. sanctions u.s. destabilization it's even been reported in the us press the washington post here in the. us. actual intervention funding of the opposition groups within syria orchestrating.

programs who thinks look through a lot of social networking programs doing everything they can do in opposition to destabilize the country now syria like every country has internal problems that must be dealt with and the country must absolutely take the time as they themselves are now or for that mustn't be read out sarin imperialist intervention and that's what's going on now with real intervention from the outside attempting to destabilize syria and attempting to set the groundwork for another disruption within the region there are founders from the new york activist group international action center thanks for being live on the line. russell has banned all imports of events the goal following a deadly outbreak of e. coli bacteria although some are wondering whether the threat is being overstated

causing the latest international bout of health risk hysteria are to some thomas reports. 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 this all started within the past month in germany where a new strain of e. coli bacteria was discovered about eighteen people had been killed from that strain germany came out almost immediately and said this new bacteria is coming from cucumbers from space 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 the choli has come from there's some speculation that this could all be mass hysteria and now one official in russia said 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 super mature with just. twenty feet of

a pool so it's now over a month into the crisis health officials still cannot say will cause the outbreak was the transfer function of the disease and the main thing that the situation is still under control is to discredit the european health system which 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 the pharmaceutical industry if you remember there was the bird flu the 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 facility in moscow region with grossly cumbers we're told that these are safe and they're saying all of this over just a simple cucumber. of the panic that's rapidly swept through europe festival exports are losing two hundred million euros week because people are

afraid of their produce on our facebook page we're asking are you afraid of the never detected. bacteria is a real threat was done stays by former company florida facebook dot com slash r.t. news i have lost. the. battle ruth is just probably trying to restore its crippled economy and tackle a currency crisis after having asked to raise an economic community for a loan the government has now done with its spreading ball to the international monetary fund but authorities alexei yourselves give reports now from thence the

current political situation might make getting the money far from easy if. a are seen for use in a car minsk people physically prevented a policeman from arrest in a student who had more pay for their bus ticket many said this incident was visible proof of as collating transition in belarus. ineligible deserts a place that i do want to live in this country me and looking to run away from me that's the way i was born in the soviet union in 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 point national crisis the russian ruble devalued to a fault 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 and fifty years in the queue now he's

closer to getting what he wants i have to pay for my daughter's education which the . i can only do so in dollars so i can stand here for a week to buy three hundred dollars now i have a chance to do it legally this is a disgrace what's happening in baton rouge experts say the current financial crisis is down to the government's main 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 campaign our government tried to increase. under its ok go are still five hundred dollars. it's maybe. fifty percent of. your salary as a result was. this balance is currency in dollars it took three weeks into the crisis before the national bank of belarus 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 to everyone but his government to what was asked but if you see someone buying things in a store instead of working in singapore find them with immediately the people working hard and that's why we're in this crisis the size of the russian media inflates this situation or do. these statements came a week after moscow agreed to provide an emergency loan in minsk at the euro sex summit having received these assurances the bill the russian government also turned to the international monetary fund asking for an eight billion dollar loan if their education 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 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 were sacked by next monday the international monetary fund is expected. deliver its decision by june the fourteenth but with all the harsh rhetoric coming from the by the russian leadership it is hard to see who if any would be able to drag this whole soviet country from the financial abyss. keep reporting from minsk the invalid was. well later artie's financial guru max kinds are looks at other eileen o'connor meets return to the i.m.f. for help less than fifteen minutes in his program he discusses how a multi-billion dollar bailouts are threatening the song from t. of nations here's a taste of what's in store. for the country of greece is not bankrupt the i.m.f. is bankrupt george bob addresses bankrupt who knows what money he owes some casino or some drug lord somewhere tried cavities we're going to sell as franken 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 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 day lead congratulations you're now in significant and your entire five thousand euro history just got flushed down the toilet. you can watch the price report at half past the hour here on our t.v. meanwhile in other news the man recently arrested in russia's chechen republic for the murder of a prominent journalist. has been officially charged investigators say they have enough evidence to prove the thirty seven year old suspect is the killer who shot. years ago artists are still has the details certainly for a case that has been going on for about five years now and they certainly have been

moving fast since the arrest of. the chechnyan connection to be a murderer. 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 counts and we do have to get the details from the prosecutor's office but so far they are saying that they do have enough against it 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 conducted with the parents would also say that there was no way that the d.n.a. would match those found on the a weapon used to kill on the public last i remember the last word of does not have a leader back or also to speak to law enforcement has been on once it's like that for cases such as murder illegal possession of firearms as well as and all that it did not think so was 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 only happened two days ago the arrest has really given a a positive i received a positive response from people here especially journalists those who have been working with anna politkovskaya the u.s. ambassador here in moscow had also praised the arrest now he was flown here the day of his arrest so again other politkovskaya has garnered international attention over this case and sort of murder in two thousand and six so certainly people will be following god comes along next as she was working for the fire because you have to 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. but now some other stories from around the world in brief this hour yemen's capital fighting is raging on between government troops and armed tribesmen at least forty people were killed

on wednesday according to reports peaceful protests turned violent last week but despite the escalation embattled leader of the of the less than a refuses to step down. former bosnian serb general has been fighting cancer since two thousand and nine that's according to his lawyer who claims to have documents proving a lot of surgery and recent therapy in a serbian hospital two years ago is waiting for his trial at the hague war crimes trial starts this family saying he's not fit enough a lot it is accused of work on it was during the one nine hundred ninety five bosnia war. google has accused china's computer hackers of carrying out an attack on its accounts because he 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 china as the base for cyber attacks all the

latest from the world of business is up next here in our tease with dimitri stay with us. norm welcome to business saltine russia's largest private oil company lukoil says as a war chest to expand operations both at home and abroad the head of the company's investment department spoke exclusively to business elsie. a local has a list program for about ten billion dollars and at the moment it's one of the largest investors in russia and we do have a great exposure influence and we do have plans to go to increase our investment in upstream in russia just otherwise so production in which to say garia we have a large portion such as west corner to get the right good will require billions of dollars new investment we also have very large investments that are required in those biggest for our gas projects we are going to be field expanding all production in north just in the north dustbin is going to become

a one of four most important areas so for production growth this year we are going to increase a lesson program compared to previous year probably by about one and a half billion dollars. so going to the markets now with commodities for us to world prices are recovering somewhat from earlier losses light sweet is up twenty three cents at one hundred dollars and hot brant is at one hundred fifteen and the hospitals but the. u.s. markets are still trading flat with the dow jones down point three percent the pressed about the recent u.s. jobs data initial claims went down six thousand it was expected that they closed out by another five thousand added to what they had actually nasdaq is up zero point one percent this hour. european stocks are still trading in the red and it seems they're going deeper into negative territory with every ounce of these down almost one percent the dax among point three percent this is all on worries about

yet another downgrade for greek sovereign debt. aaron rusher the markets managed a comeback at the close of thursday session with the r.c.s. up point three percent myself up a sense that the main drivers of the session gas problems still down one percent at the close as this right news there were additional supply of seven and a half million. and liquefied natural gas a year to india all the lead so pretty volatile trade that's still down one point one percent on the flat so prices in precious metals. point three percent the company increased the number of assembled trucks by almost a half during the first five months of the michaels time that the police here wraps up the day straight. russian equities have been soft yesterday and today on the back of yesterday's weak employment report in the u.s. and today's triple i'm not young greed of greeks credit rating by moody's in the

markets today russians will stocks are down high both times three quarters from percent on average we see what want to happen in gas prom on the back of incremental signs that the company's tax bill in two thousand and twelve may well go up by more than five hundred billion dollars and that cap ex may be higher than the market would like you know our view given the gas problem shares are down more than ten percent over the past month and given that more than twenty five billion dollars worth of market capitalization has been erased we think that a lot of the concerns are more or less priced in russia's privatization plan includes selling twenty five percent of the country's railway operates up their companies to find it difficult to attract and that's not partisan investors but that's all changed according to the presence of russian authorities. you know we do not have this kind of problems to find those who would like to work with as you do because the problem oh you know to accumulate it how to provide the facilities for

everyone who would like to work with us railway act use became very eclectic picked is everywhere from the united states of america to the far east of the globe. and from this point to a few russian railways you know. i suppose are being presented as a very very interesting active too you know too wide to participate in the share capital. the auto industry also remains a bright spot for the state's efforts to attract foreign investment outside the commodity sector and certainly in college i think it will invest one point one billion dollars in russia so built to auto plants we have plans to build an engine plant and a factory to produce one hundred twenty thousand vehicles a year russians also signed investment agreements with other which are groups were total of five billion dollars the russian cannot is now rapidly recovering with sales jumping first percent almost two million in two thousand and ten and of say

the states approach of offering discounts on import tariffs for companies local plants as predicted. and we will be back next hour see you then join if you can. he uses.