hungry for the. we've got it first the biggest issues get the cuban voice face to face with the news makers on. a major u.s. bank allegedly loses a billion dollar investment by libya putting the financial woes of the american and libyan people in the same boat. we think what's happening is a shift towards the ground operations russia's foreign minister slams nato's deployment of helicopters after they hit their first targets in libya. a huge fire which destroyed an ammunition dump in central russia has been put out sleeping over eighty people injured. and smartphones to secure phones as a moscow technology firm claims it can retrieve personal data from any device for

some. international news and comment live from our studios here in central moscow this is r.t. libya could be another name on the list of alleged victims of the joint us investment bank goldman sachs the bank is currently being investigated by the american government for its part in the two thousand and eight financial crisis it supposedly lost a one billion dollar investment made by tripoli three years ago i was in the report now reports from new york the bankers are hardly concerned. long before the u.s. led airstrikes against libya's moammar gadhafi the dictator and one of america's most profitable banks were first financial friends in two thousand and eight according to the wall street journal goldman sachs offered khadafi the chance of

becoming a huge shareholder only after losing ninety eight percent of libya's one point three billion dollars sovereign wealth funds in just a few months they have lost a staggering percentage i don't know how you'll lose ninety percent of something it was a bet on options on european banks and energy companies starts plunged shortly thereafter but in any case clearly they saw a gold mining. when the fund controlled by colonel qadhafi nearly empty goldman ponied up offers to recoup losses according to the journal libya would get five billion dollars worth of goldman shares in return for making a three point seven billion dollar investment in the securities firm libya agreed to buy the banks debt with the promise of a lucrative annual six percent return for twenty years gravely knew it was about to head into a nosedive and there they were selling them selling these libyans piece of junk

which was themselves libyan sovereign wealth fund officials are reportedly accusing goldman of misrepresenting investment deals and making trades without proper authorization but others proudly admit playing fast and loose with gadhafi is money american real estate and reality show tycoon donald trump that he lied to and deceived the libyan leader in the past i read to them a piece of land he paid me were there for a reason i don't know where this room but all year after two years i don't get a lot of news the way and therefore we should be doing more sort of a new job here are you sure it's crap very screwed up now. now critics say the libyan people stand to get screwed by wall street trumps comments were very interesting in terms of be added to that american executives and american officials have towards other countries to dear to be screwed and he said it publicly and he

advocated it as a policy and he did it personally due to frozen assets and financial sanctions imposed by the us europe and the united nations libya's sovereign wealth fund could arguably be forgotten about unless one of the world's top financial firms is held accountable americans have been demanding that for years without any success can't get them off the achieve what the american people and the american government can't or won't achieve i don't think so i think that they're going to get away with this you know big billion dollar boondoggle with libya just as they've done it with america goldman sachs is currently being investigated for playing a major role in the two thousand and eight financial crisis a crisis that cost americans millions of their jobs homes and life savings while a military conflict currently divides the u.s. and libya uniting citizens of both countries is the financial gain wall street has

made at their expense. artsy new york. and florida based investment banker bernie goldman has told me that the bank's operations with libya could be part of the colon. when you're two percent of the world oil supply you become a target and the sovereign nation burns the primary target of some of the biggest investment banks worldwide but the obama administration has created a criminal investigation it is now getting information our sources tell us they have good evidence that the daters were told that the materials they were selling in the sovereign nation firms were truly bad assets they knew they were bad assets and they were moving them or. in putting the money accounts of libya in norway and iceland and that's a crime and as the list of u.s. banks troubles gets a bigger so does the country's deficit as the possibility of

a debt ceiling being raised becomes more of a reality experts say the move could only mean more economic pain for the country r.t. report on that in a few minutes from. the first nato helicopters have hit their first targets in libya russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has denounced the deployment as a step towards a ground operation. we expressed our opinion over this escalation of the military operation we think what's happening is a shift towards a ground operation this would be very regretful because the violations of the security council resolution already taking place are more than enough to think about it to choose to or to unions decisions. repartition french helicopters attacked colonel gadhafi forces near the port city of brega but they were deployed just days after nato extended its intervention for another three months recent weeks have seen intensified our night air strikes against the libyan army. there

are indications that the start which will produce a genuine libyan political process if you simply keep dictating things from the outside by supporting the rebels by saying that this person has to go all this person has to stay bringing somebody in announcing the son a particular individual is legitimate the other is more legitimate then you have to adopt the country just go ahead on adopt the country do another the iraq in libya we don't believe as a i was trying to say that as foreign capitals determine who is going to leave the country and what has happened going to happen there has to be a political process so our idea is that there must be a ceasefire as quickly as possible because it can produce a situation where civilians are not going to suffer any longer well to discuss this latest development in libya i'm now joined live from london by journalist and author option return see good to see you there london afshin thanks for joining us so helicopters are now hitting targets in libya russia as we've heard has denounced

this as a precursor to ground operations do you agree with. i think some people are saying there are already ground forces there acting obviously that would be in violation of u.n. resolutions i think. lots of people saying all around the world now i think it'll be interesting to see the sign a russian summit over june fifteenth when chinese and russian leaders get together and see whether they can do anything because at the moment what we have is three quarters of a billion dollars spent by u.s. taxpayers one point seven billion of british taxpayer money voted for by the people behind me there and what have we got a refugee crisis hundred thousand estimated to be made refugees britain and france saying they're not going to give them any help and resettlement ten thousand people dead to put them to perspective in a country of six million that is like killing half a million people in the united states based on the war so far well peaceful initiatives have been expressed of course by both russia and the african union why

doesn't there for nato listen to this and relax its military operation and allow some sort of mediation to take place at least to create some cease fire it's been a deliberate. seem so deliberate the attempt at stopping any type of seized peace process whether it be from the venezuelan leader hugo chavez or indeed the african union we didn't really hear much about that trip we now know is that william hague the british foreign secretary is seated there and he's even with the rebels the u.n. panel in the past few days and said that there are war crimes being committed by some of the rebels sort of britain we have of the british foreign secretary john trudell call whenever they send him he's actually saying he is supporting the libyan people are supporting the national transitional council the question is who are they who makes up that council. well whoever they are the un panel said that some of them are responsible for war crimes given that we have british politicians

of that rank visiting with trans national transitional council shows that well if it ever came to an international criminal court decision i'm sure he'll be leaving subpoenaed. it's looking more and more like a disaster with only russia and china holding any cards to play at the moment and we also know that a lot of developing leaders will at least give me a goldman sachs story realize that a leader like you daffy the corruption in the good after the regime usually spells disaster more with the west. decision but who should russia and china be talking to if negotiations should take place obviously could happy hasn't show much cooperation apart and indeed the rebels they don't want to see far do they they don't want any negotiation they want to see this military campaign ending the way they want to see it be dead lots of country lots of countries are looking at what's happening in libya would alone because they don't want to be caught on the wrong side there has been no joy nice talking to rebel or going to some of the rebels as well so what would have to happen is an international peace process of

a kind notice how the un has shown itself to be utterly lacking that resolution should have actually been voted for i think that iraq should be arguing about whether they should have. allowed that resolution to go forward because what we're now seeing is like a yugoslavia rerun and get afy the corrupted paper itself who used to be such a beacon you know of belsen mandela's friend. in recent years he hasn't been and he's still there and i don't think us european us well the americans don't particularly like it as we know from the vote in the house or wait and hear what president obama tells the house of representatives in washington as to the scope of the generation and the costs of this war because it's not going well and there what we need now is a comprehensive peace process apache helicopters probably you know. help by israel the arab world must be looking at these apache helicopters and begin more about gaza frankly and how this looks like an attack by the developed world on the

developing world and everyone's i know there's a lot of resources just briefly you know i've talked a lot about the libyan conflict and of course the arab spring throughout the middle east why is it though from a journalist point of view do you think that libya's getting more media attention like yemen and syria at the moment with regard to yemen it was quite amazing our international networks didn't focus on the fact that the president himself had been injured i mean that's a big story and i think what's happening in yemen will certainly figure much much more greatly with saying al qaeda taking over a town wasn't really news presence i was deliberately allowing that things are interesting there as for syria there's no way russia will try to which action any attack on syria and it being such a beacon when it comes to the middle east against the nuclear power of israel makes it a particularly difficult flashpoint for the west so i don't think they'll be any attack on syria soon live from london journalist and author afshin rattansi thanks very

much indeed for joining us here on r.t. . well know or let's go to washington d.c. where we understand that people don't see the jefferson memorial claiming they're exercising their first amendment rights and as you can see there on screen we're getting streaming global pictures from the jefferson memorial where a flash mob has taken over the chamber there and party america kokesh addressed the crowd before the event say it is aimed at praising the freedom of expression last week he and four others were arrested by the police for dancing at the same spot and videos of that incident sparked a wave of outrage both for and against the internet and we'll be keeping an eye on the story of the developments there in washington d.c. the jefferson. you know. the russian military says

a massive fire and ammunition there probe it's been raging for over twenty four hours it's been put out by the number of those injured in the accident continues to rise and currently stands at eighty six dozens of buildings have been destroyed and almost thirty thousand people were forced to leave their homes all of it is in the region and brings us more in this. we're actually at the moment on the edge of the security perimeter that's been set up around this munitions holding facility we've seen helicopters and airplanes dousing the smoldering area around it there are no flames there we can see just now firefighters said that they had the situation localized it contained now from what we've seen we've been here this morning that is exactly the case they are few areas of the forest around with the storage facility is that are still smoldering they are not on fire netting calloused from the sky there are however explosions still going off about three or four an hour now these on six of the same type of explosions we saw from the fire that started

over twenty four hours ago these are controlled explosions being carried out by special forces bomb disposal experts they've been working round the clock to make sure that any ordinance that was damaged by fire can be safely put out of harm's way and we've been hearing some horrific tales from the villages about the evening when when this buy it took place. right now inside some of us who are still wearing our sleepers and my guns. and i was putting on my jacket when i heard a shell rammed into the wall the plaster began falling off i grab whatever i could and started running. when we arrived we saw a huge flames and some massive explosions. now the pictures that we've seen from this displays when it was at its height the shells exploding all around some horrific scenes of course many people were injured some of those have been released from hospital some are still receiving treatment but this village is home to a lot of elderly people when this fire started they they sought shelter in

a basement it had to be rescued. then mainly elders who hid in basements and were evacuated by rescue teams we didn't choke over and moved them to hospitals in evacuation centers no one understood what was going on so everybody took cover. there's places they could just last week there was a fire in cheery and a similar type of facility to this one where i am now president dmitri medvedev has been scathing in his comments suggesting this is in two weeks just too many to be allowed to think he saw a trend was beginning to appear now he's promised a full investigation into how this was allowed to happen this promise that heads will roll if you find out there's any people in power flaunting the safety procedures as president has said this if any senior military personnel are found to be to be negligent they will be removed from their positions. or you can follow the situation in russia's republic of material as well as what spectacular video is all

that father online you can log onto the video section to check out unique footage of the far taken by man drones the state of the art planes are used by the emergency services to monitor the situation and you can view and even download the high definition video and free video r.t. dot com. three. for your video. card. recommended it has a month before he has to enter a plea to charges of genocide during his first appearance of the hague tribunal the former bosnian serb general called the accusations monstrous and obnoxious the

former army chief has been charged with eleven counts of war crimes including his part in the massacre of eight thousand muslims. in one thousand nine hundred seventy one others was arrested last thursday after sixteen years in hiding it was handed over to the court seems a key condition before serbia could join. you well still there are many steps to be taken before membership and some experts say it's not always this complicated to join the group but. those conditions don't need to be met if the e.u. likes you ask around romania who admitted for very obvious strategic reasons and didn't meet any particular conditions at all in so doing the real reason that serbia is outside the e.u. club as it were is that the serbian secession is province of course or has not been resolved that's the situation it still needs to be resolved and the e.u. prefers serbia so negotiate regarding that situation while on its knees which is a position that mr partition is very familiar with those original figure eight

thousand came over here about from these are bigger which islam is side they were prepared in advance. thousands of people were hidden soldiers and drafted back into the. just forces without their families even being informed so there is certainly a great deal of exaggeration in the figure i do know is that justify his existence it was set up by madeleine albright's to point an accusing finger at the serbs and to hide the existence of the joint criminal conspiracy to destroy the state of the serbs and form the state of yugoslavia over half of the heart of the adult population of serbia died to form get emails of relations so we died a former yugoslavia which was destroyed by the west of ours and their hatred of you is there to train an entirely different picture it's the one time obey of europe where people are held for years without trial waiting for trial when they're when the overt it is known in advance in fact is even worse than the butt of europe because at least there in the guantanamo bay the judges know what the rules are at

the hague tribunal is kangaroo court the rules are worked up as they go along and always at the expense of the serbs. and contributors to the artsy forum saying the hague tribunal should be dissolved in their view it has no legal grounds to exist and you go to our website have your say on whether general recommend it will get a fair trial at that u.n. war crimes court or r.t. dot com is the address where you can express your opinion of people to hear from. a huge source of personal data in the palm of your hand well that's what a smartphone has become nowadays but all the private information kept on your high tech device can easily become public knowledge what on earth has discovered. what does your i phone four know about you and who can access this information. even when i'm not making a phone call and just walking around with every spare this phone tracked my dear

graphical location if i don't decide to connect to the hotspot in this nearby cafe my phone records up as well if i then decide to send an e-mail perhaps within some private passwords all of that information is stored on a device itself and in fact this is a treasure trove of private data that's kept there for months and sometimes even years until now you could at least protect yourself with passwords that will hard to crack but now company says it's hacked the defenses of the i phone four for several thousand dollars will hand over all the data on any protected device. sammy we are a force for good we don't just give the data to anyone we require people to fill in a twenty page form to say that they need it. despite these reassurances many see development as a cause for concern. for them to do this is a bad idea whatever do intention now they have created more about unity civil law

greenest access and private data. the moscow based company which specializes in breaking down security systems so far clients have been police security services i'm relatively people who have died. that's what privacy concerns the crackers say if it was and it would be somebody else. we can forget about the idea of privacy altogether will you go on the internet if you are already revealing everything about two or so but it is becoming that way with using your phone bloody america has just one piece of advice if you do buy a smartphone make sure you don't let anyone else get hold of it either and no. and . by the way you can always find more and all the stories we're covering on screen on our website that's our team dot com online all the time there for you today for example if you click on hard labor instead of life imprisonment russian lawmakers

have come up with a punishment for serious crimes to replace the death penalty the initiative has been receiving. plus the george w. bush alongside at all fittler discover who else made it to the list of the worst people of all time published in an american school year. movies ratings agency has won the u.s. it may downgrade its credit rating if washington doesn't make progress on dealing with its debt there's increased speculation that the u.s. will have to raise its debt ceiling which was already reached in mid may and economist peter schiff believes that will only make a bad situation worse. but we have to do is stop borrowing all this money you mentioned earlier that one of the problems is that we haven't raised the debt

ceiling that's one of the only good things out there that feel it is still there unfortunately they're going to raise it we're going to go deeper into debt which means bigger problems and this is not you know the economists are describing this is a soft patch it's not it's quicksand and economists who think this is a soft patch these are the same people who when two thousand and seven said the u.s. economy had never been in better shape they didn't see this crisis coming right never understood the problems of the u.s. economy and they still don't understand them they think that government stimulus made the problems better it did it it allowed the problems to get worse. number of people finding a new job in america is at its lowest level in eight months and our very own new york resident has hit the streets this time finding out if it's worth paying for an education when there are no jobs at the end of the line. with today's tough job market is it worth spending hundreds of thousands of dollars

for college education this week let's talk about that how much does college cost in poland college for free. any of this they do it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. from gravity is a problem. gigantic con and young people from all over the world are caught off on it and it needs to stop now i'm not going to say that the government needs to pay for it but i think young people need to wake up and look around them and say you know it's not an accident that bill gates was so self taught maybe if kids took two or three years before they went to school and had a little life experience and then had some purpose to their study might make more sense. what is the we were hundreds of thousands of dollars even at that point i don't think so i live on one year of accounting i took undergraduate. i wrote millions of dollars on that one cause which i only paid two hundred dollars for i own a business i hire the best people i can get if you're not if you have

a college if you don't have a college education don't even come to my office and apply to what you where did you go to college i went to college in texas and you use what you learn there every day absolutely do you think it depends on what field you're in possibly but let me tell you this without an education you just have a whole lot tougher time in life but we're also told that we all have to go otherwise we won't succeed. faster than a straight sets win out of a choice not to go to the beauty as we call it. stronger if i certainly it's a guy and he is known to be way out of range and if you go to the top schools thing and he the rich people can afford it why is that don't do you think that would set us back over the long run in terms of what we can produce really is. i think if you look around at your economy and the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer and the middle class is falling away you people are seeing this in your real estate in the deep to new economy i think the american people are

suffering the bottom line is that most employers still think a college education is important and ultimately it's their opinion right or wrong that matter. now to take a brief look at other news making headlines across the world at this stage of the day in our world update thanks and government troops are reportedly moving towards the restive syrian city of hama activists say security forces have opened fire in protesters leaving at least six that becomes a day off the dozens were killed in a violent crackdown on a massive anti-government demonstration internet services have been restored after being cut to prevent the opposition from posting videos of clashes like. high radiation levels have been observed in the crippled fukushima plant in japan the operator says it's the most elevated radiation level ever detected in the air inside the number one reactor steam has also been coming from that part of the plant high levels were detected by a remote controlled robot. what brings up the date for them and i'll be back with

a recap of our main stories shortly followed by the latest edition of well weekly guide to the russian capital it's moscow of. the.

morning news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada after. trying to look for asians or today. for. the russians would be so much brighter if you know about song from feinstein's passion than some.