on r.t. civilian deaths go unpunished polish soldiers are cleared over the killing of innocent afghans due to lack of evidence to support war crimes charges. nato is implementation of the resolution on libya undermines u.n. authority russia's foreign minister calls on the lines to stick to the original document or move moscow's trust. and fear of europe's killer killed cumbers spreads across the world in some countries including russia banning imports over its dead. but she.

welcomes his r.t. it's eight pm thursday evening here in moscow my name is kevin now in our top story tonight 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 of course in warsaw rule there was not enough proof to support charges of war crimes and as artie's done your bushel reports now it's the people on the ground in afghanistan whose patience is running out. that 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 this including a pregnant woman and a child. on the sixteenth of august two thousand and seven water shells that were fired by polish troops in the city afghan villages. as a result six people were killed and three were severely wounded but the soldiers

were cleared of all charges one of the accused told altie it's all been a big mistake we didn't see people. we were accidents this us again was he. was. something. and it was also a problem we. agree made mel functioned taliban target by five hundred metres claims a shit ski but prosecutors alleged it was revenge for a roadside bomb which killed another polish soldier earlier in the day experts say it's unlikely anything could go so catastrophic only wrong and this is not logical operators 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 command from above but there is no doubt they were shooting at the village nearby. the defendants the commanders who ordered the attack and they should be the

one standing trial i want to sleep for those people should be. maybe they be anything. but activist while the conflict continues civilian deaths from nato bombing are inevitable and will only rise and of 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 stop is ation of this country because the troops western troops doesn't bring stuff that is asian to afghanistan just the opposite as the death toll goes up on both sides support for nato mission. 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 sort of old

boys coming back in coffins is even worse leaving the death of civilians on punished the week of the case the thing afghanistan even the afghan president's turning against nato after the latest fourteen civilians were killed because i delivered his words yet giving a final warning and threatening war if you're to happens again shorty. the way the u.n. resolution is being implemented in libya undermines international law that was the warning from russia's foreign minister who has called on nato to adhere to the resolution or lose trust of his allies had more from. the foreign minister sergey lavrov suggested that a lack of trance was in danger of forging no wedge between russia and the other candidate members of the un security council and that's because of the way disease naysay was implementing the agreed un resolution one ninety seven three it was

imposed on back in march when the russian abstained. the no fly zone seeming to leave you however russia now please today's actions in libya go beyond that maybe implementing them a fly zone and in fact now we're on regime change and allegedly that's a piece of forcing the opposition and that swindling of trust lavrov today suggested only escalated following very recent visits us about cricket president jiang zemin trip pretty soon in trying the case with colonel get down. b. a visit which was then almost immediately followed by a resumption in they say strikes and today lavrov the data growing a lack of trust could cause russia in the future to pause i think twice before agreeing to any such resolution again. typical connection everybody involved in the implementation of the bridge solution must show maximum responsibility for international law and the united nations keeping in mind the authority of the un

security council otherwise god forbid next time anything of the so what happens we will act differently because no one will take what's being said at face value things like creating a no fly zone all these statements of course come in the wake of a very recent u.n. report which slice it puts it to groups that trust the team is that being committed in maybe on the both sides albeit less numerous on the past the opposition and of course it comes very shortly after the last weekend's g eight when that president did of agreed to send the russian envoy to benghazi to attend soon the case exists in spite of that but on syria minister lavrov reiterates it's moscow's position that they are staunchly against any attempts by the international community to force regime change within the country warning that any starts to change it could to destabilize the country and would be catastrophic for the region however the prof did say that russia tell still supports president outside said to continue its

tool and the can you see within the opposition within his own that country i'd also encouraging a president assad to move swiftly and implements in the reforms that he's promised to seeing within syria of his allies have been reported so of flanders new york based activist group international action center told us that nato may be asking russia to mediate really doesn't want to cease fire but nato once 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 million dollars that libya holmes just in our immediate assets from those past oil and gas sales they want control of the whole infrastructure and none of this is about humanitarian defense of the people of libya or any who. really is high risk see on an international scale it's like

a massive sold out when entire country and some return to colonial bridge one hundred years ago. this is r.t. still ahead if you do so picking up the loan have it be the point where the russian authorities have turned this time in attempts to tackle the economic turmoil right now that the country plunging into. as a cause the of pays its last respects to late president so good to get the solti follows the path you took to lead the republic the long awaited independence. next tonight russia's banned all imports of e.u. vegetables following a deadly outbreak of the e. coli bacteria although some are wondering whether the threats overstated causing the latest international bout of health risk hysteria i think sean 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 a thousand people have been killed from that strain germany came out almost immediately and said this new bacteria is coming from cucumbers from spain it's been one of in a month and at this point it cannot find the origin in fact germany came out and said to spain we're sorry we did not really mean we jump the gun we don't really know where this the choli has come from other some speculation that this could all be mass hysteria 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 supernaturalism it all started on the twenty fifth of april so it's now over a month into the crisis jim and health officials still cannot say will cause the outbreak to transfer function of the disease and the main thing that the situation is still under control is to discredit the european health will still. 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 roasted cumbers we're told that these are safe and they're saying all of this over just a simple cucumber. well the pentagon so rapidly swept through europe vegetable supporters losing two hundred million euro a week because people are afraid now to meet their projects now our facebook page we're asking you afraid of this never detected before bacteria is a real threat you think of maybe a stunt staged by pharmaceutical companies well go to facebook dot com slash our team news you can have your say there it was good to hear from.

the president of the european central bank received an international prize for his contributions a european unity meanwhile the struggling to come up with another aid package for greece even amid doubts second ever pay off the first one when girls an economist and author of a book exploring the world's financial tragedies called gobs of money let's talk to him purgative thanks for being on r.t. so then john called fisher gets a prize for keeping the euro stable is it stable not at all the basis of the euro zone is the. misbegotten construct going back to nine hundred

ninety nine. the admittance of greece and italy into the euro zone was that was the huge huge political mistake and it was gone under pressure to do them it's pressure from the banking powers in the larger international banks from wall street on the so-called what the basis of stability in the euro. based on the geonic or usury has done nothing to you and you simply stated supervised. it's of the largest banks european banks the french and the german banks leading among them who were hugely exposed to the debts over debts of greece and other such countries are and that is to my mind a recipe for stability when he's come up with another plan during a speak show about receiving the award he said the e.u. needs to establish a finance ministry yet another institution that helped to deal with the crisis do

you think. no not at all because there's a there's a democratic deficit as is the terminology calls are in the european union structure there is no united states of europe cole said back at the onset of the master negotiations back in the early ninety's when he was rather shocked by the proposal of the french or the italians he said that political union must precede monetary union otherwise it won't work and that still holds today there is no political union simply creating a bureaucracy in brussels called the european finance ministers is not going to change anything. christian also said that international bailout observe a reasonable way to respond to the crisis well let's look at greece and so we have already as we know recipients of an e.u. bailout is struggling to meet and says now it needs more cash we're hearing today that the rating agency moody's downgraded greece again says it may not going to pay back any of its debts and in five years pretty loud from work do you agree with him

no not at all i don't think they're working because what's not been done or what are called haircuts on the original bond holders the largest banks european banks and also u.s. banks the gods of money as i call them in my book those are the ones who are not being touched as long as that's the case you're not going to have any stability they're just going to ramp up the cost of the show in new debt in greece and make a killing in the process greece goes down the tube so this bailout is is absolutely a bailout for the banks and not for greece as a country we went through she steps to. success no matter how you look at it faces a big uphill task what do they have to do to help euro zone states for cover or is it beyond the point of no return now. well i think key europe. really needs a rethink of that of its all over all grand strategy its economic strategy in terms of export orientation in terms of currency stability reserve the other emerging

currencies such as the chinese yuan the russian ruble and so forth because that is where the economic future lies for europe it lies in the east and no longer across the atlantic in the west united states is in a deep depression it's going to be far far deeper over the next five to ten years so that is not going to be in the stability perspective for europe i think that's the only thing that could bring stability economist north of the mail thanks for joining us live from frankfurt thank you. letter is desperately trying to restore its crippled economy and tackle a currency crisis right now after having asked the aeration economic community for a loan the government's now go with his begging bowl to the i.m.f. the international monetary fund what is up his election year yes he reports from next the current political situation might make getting that money far from easy. a rare scene for a usually car 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. english. if you want to live in this country and looking to run away to here 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 financial crisis and the russian ruble devalued to hold 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 three 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 now 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 campaign our government tried to we increase. congress voted no or store five hundred dollars. midst maybe. fifty percent off. of salary as a result was. this balance is currency in belarus it took three weeks into the crisis before the national bank of baroda was 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 blames everyone his government coworkers the us but if you see someone doing some stories to working

with me typically the people working hard and that's why we're in this crisis destroys the russian media inflates this situation or do. these statements came a week after moscow agreed to provide emergency loans to minsk at the euro sex summit having received the sure insist that the russian government also turn to the international monetary fund asking for an eight billion dollar loan it's delegation started working to determine whether it is eligible to receive help but many wonder if the decision is 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 to deliver its decision by june the fourteenth but with all the harsh rhetoric often coming from the russian leadership

it is hard to say cool if any would be able to drag this country from the financial abyss let's see russia r.t. reporting from minsk in valorous. look at the big picture a bit later tonight of his financial guru max kaiser looks at the other ailing economy as he turned to the i.m.f. for help in his latest program he discusses how a multi-billion dollar bailout to threaten the sovereignty of nations is a taste of what's in store for the country of greece is not bankrupt the i.m.f. is bankrupt george progress is bankrupt who knows what money he owes some casino or some drug lord somewhere but he's got we're going to sell as frank 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 graces for pennies on the dollar and annex the entire country and kiri. and that poor girl their sovereignty and their independence now they're just one more

disneyland congratulations you're now in significant their entire five thousand year history just got flushed down the toilet. cause they don't know but here in moscow and also making headlines from the capital tonight a yemeni capital fighting raging on between government troops and tribesmen at least forty people were killed on wednesday according to reports peaceful protests turned violent last week but despite the escalation and leader. refuses to step down in the. last few years parliament is elected for by. its president fifty three employees or voted in favor of ensuring a secret ballot opponent. has become the first president in history not to be reelected for a second term earlier in may that was started to dissolution of parliament after it used its power to ban a search of the whole movement of legibly corrupt m.p.

. former bosnian serb general rock of love which has been fighting cancer since two thousand and nine that's according to his lawyer who claims to have documents proving luggage had surgery and received chemotherapy in a serbian hospital two years ago he's waiting for his trial at the hague war crimes tribunal to start his family say he's not fit enough that it is accused of war crimes during the ninety ninety five possibly of war. the late president of a car's you're so good to gaps has been laid to rest in his home village following his death in moscow last weekend a farewell ceremony in the republic's capital so who was attended by thousands of mourners so good baguettes died at the age of sixty two after major lung surgery lead to complications but he still has glossy looks at how the republic changed during his tell. over to. presence brought his whole bunch of the world stage a long way from his humble beginnings but their cause in president always kept in

touch with those roots so he was born into a family of teachers here in the small applies in village of to 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 his left them so early moose local men generally live well into their eighty's. natural awful war cars here live in ruins he helped rebuild everything we will always remember dismantle the small caucasus republic struggled to get into the national recognition following the war against georgia in one thousand nine hundred two hundreds of people were killed thousands of cause the us were forced to flee their homes but it was first elected in two thousand and four a difficult time for the republic during his presidency uprising against recognition from russia managed to avoid another open conflict with neighboring georgia and established diplomatic ties with several states that nicaragua where policy and president was greeted as another guest.

i personally interviewed sergey and the last time we spoke i asked him what's changed in the republic so my go live with it was the main thing that's changed is people's mood to do it now they are more certain about their future spoke with because of the opposition and that feeling of stability is something sergei gonchar will always be remembered for in a small ski r t so cool. just twenty minutes tonight here on our to united say with news of a big and i mean big retirement from basketball and sports today but there's a big business here. thank you kevin russia's largest private oil company lukoil says it has a war chest to expand operations both at home and abroad and the head of the company's and bessemer department spoke exclusively to business r.t.

this is what he had to say a local has a list probably on the bottom billion dollars and at the moment it's one of the largest investors in russia we do have a great exposure influence and we do have plans to to increase our investment in upstream in russia to stabilize production in this a.b. area we have a large portion such as west corner to the right good will require billions of dollars of new best ones we also have very large investments that are required in those big stones for our gas projects we are going to be field expanding our production in north cusp in the north coast b m is going to become a wonderful our most important areas of production growth this year we are going to eat three say less one program compared to previous year probably by about one hundred billion dollars. silly remark is now we start with oil and the world prices have been pretty volatile as they now they've gone down by one and

a half dollars for light sweet crude below ninety nine dollars per barrel branches at exactly one hundred fourteen. u.s. markets are depressed by the fact that jobless claims initial jobless claims have come in lower but lower than expected at the same time therefore we're seeing the dow down two point seven percent nasdaq point to. its move to european markets and they're tracking the u.s. markets know the footsie down one point four percent tax two percent that's up they get another downgrade for greek sovereign debt that's been spooked investors for one a while now in russia pretty much the opposite picture of the r.t.s. m i six well they were fairing in the red all session long managed to come back by the closing of the session. if you want to get some point three percent by six percent say look at some of the individual share movers on the my sex energy mage's where we're going on the biggest losers gazprom is down point nine percent why that's happening you'll find out in just a second polymaths all was down one point one percent at the close of the sessions

not a pretty volatile session because precious metals were alone and shares are. also actually up point three percent of the close the company increased the number of assembled trucks by almost hof during the first five months of the micro sky another pretty bank wraps up the day straight. russian equities have been saw yesterday and today on the back of yesterday's weak employment report in the u.s. and today's triple knowledge downgrade about greeks credit ratings by moody's in the markets today the russians will stocks are down zero country for this year percent average when you see one of the happiest weakness in gas problem on the back of an incremental signs that the companies tax bill in two thousand and twelve may well go up by more than five billion dollars and that cap ex will be higher than the market would like in our view given the gas pronk 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 you raised 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 operators the company used to find it difficult to attract international partners and investors but that's all changed according to the good in the presence of russian railways. no he do not have this kind of problems to find those who would like to work with the editor there we have the problem oh you know to accumulate and how to provide the facilities for everyone who would like to work with us railway actives became very attractive it gives everywhere from the united states of america to the far east of the globe. and from this point of view russian railways you know. i suppose are being presented as a very very interesting active do you know to buy to participate in the share

category. the author industry remains a bright spot for the state's efforts to attract foreign investment outside the commodity sector and sally in kargil fiat's will invest one point one billion dollars in russia to build two auto plants here plans to build an engine plant in a factory to produce one hundred twenty thousand vehicles a year while she is also signed investment agreements with other groups with a total of five billion dollars russian car market is now rapidly recovering with sales jumping thirty percent to almost two million twenty ten and the save the states approach of offering discounts on import tariffs for companies that build local plants as proof. no business news in the one hours time i'll see you then.

the close up team has been to the world the grand reach thank you own the turning point i'm learning 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 transit in their ancestors camps and where the mysterious city of the deadlocks well come the republic of marcus.