on the. video on demand. my old. man with the palm of your. machine. 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. with what's happening is a shift towards a ground operation. russia's foreign minister slams nato's deployment of helicopters after they hit their first targets in libya. and a huge fire which destroyed an ammunition dump in central russia has been put out leaving over eighty people injured. and hundreds of people down through the jefferson memorial in washington d.c. claiming they're holding their first amendment rights in the action last week led

to five arrests. 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 johns u.s. 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 dollars investment made by tragedy three years ago but as we report now reports from new york the bank has a hardly concerned. long before the u.s. led airstrikes against libya's moammar gadhafi the dictator and one of america's most profitable banks for earth financial friends in two thousand and eight according to the wall. street journal goldman sachs offered me 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 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 stocks plunged shortly thereafter but in any case clearly they saw a gold mine in khadafi when the fund controlled by colonel qadhafi nearly empty goldman ponied up all first 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 by the banks that with the promise of a lucrative annual six percent return for twenty years gave me knew it was about to

head into a nosedive and there they were selling them selling these libyans a 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 boasts that he lied to n.b.c. you the libyan leader in the past i read to them a piece of land he paid me we were there for one reason i don't know where it was worth but all year after two years i don't get a lot of news that way and that's what we should be doing i said over new jersey i use the word extraordinary scrutiny now critics say the libyan people stand to get screwed by wall street trance comments were very interesting in terms of the attitude that american executives and american officials have towards other countries new dear to the. 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 argue plead for gotten out unless one of the world's top financial firms is held accountable americans have been demanding that for years without any success came 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 with libya this is they've done it with america goldman sachs is currently being investigated for playing a major role in the two thousand me. that cost americans millions of their jobs homes and life savings while a military conflict currently provides us libya uniting citizens of both countries

is the financial game wall street has made at their expense. artsy new york. well florida based investment bank of bernie and allman says the bank's operations with libya could be part of a wider cohen we have two percent of the world oil supply you become a target and the sovereign nation funds have been the primary target of some of the biggest investment banks worldwide but the obama administration has created a criminal investigation and it is now getting information or sources tell us they have good evidence that the bakers were told that the materials they were selling in the sovereign nation phones were truly bad assets they knew they were bad assets and they were moving them or their accounts and putting them on the accounts of libya norway and iceland and that's a crime. and as the list of u.s. banks troubles get bigger so does the country's deficit as the possibility that

ceiling be raised becomes more of a reality experts say the move could only mean more economic pain for the country or to report on the we've seen it. 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 the end attitudes towards us decisions british and french helicopters attacked colonel gadhafi forces near the port city of brega i would appoint just days after nato extended its intervention for another three months recent weeks have seen intensified and i dare strikes against the libyan army. there are

indications that the low can 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 the oldest person has to stay bringing somebody in announcing that some particular individual is legitimate the others knowledge of them and then you have to adopt the country just go ahead on the dot the country do another iraq in libya we don't believe that is a little strange to say that as foreign capitals. determine who is going to you the country and what is going to happen there there has to be a political process so how radio is that there must be a ceasefire as far as possible because of can produce a situation where civilians are not going to suffer any longer. and you can a foreign secretary has made a surprise visit to bring gansey expressing support for the rebels there journalist and author afshin rattansi says the fact that william hague is sitting down with one of the sites accused of war crimes is a disaster seems so deliberate the attempts at stopping any type of seized peace

process all we now know is that william hague the british foreign secretary is seated there and he is in with the rebels the u.n. panel in the past few days or said that there are war crimes being committed by some of the rebels. the british foreign secretary if it ever came to an international criminal court decision i'm sure he'll be being subpoenaed. it's looking more and more like it is still with only russia and china holding any cards to play at the moment. the u.s. congress has slammed president obama for launching the operation in libya without its consent but when this change anything. we can predict that it's really going to have very little effect. the root is the editor of the palestine chronicle dot com and check out our website partied dot com for that full interview. when our let's go to washington d.c.

where hundreds of people have been dancing at the jefferson memorial claiming they're exercising their first amendment rights it comes after last week r.t. america adam kokesh and four others were arrested by the police for dancing at the same spot where let's get more now from what is going to challenge she's there in our washington d.c. bureau governor looks like this time they got what they wanted. well this is what i saw the crowd was dispersed sort of pushed out of the jefferson memorial but dozens of people really risked being arrested for just peacefully dancing at the memorial everyone had this fear that it could happen at any time to many it sounded like a joke you know because freedom is you know the first amendment of the u.s. constitution explicitly pretext freedom of assembly and actions that symbolically express a view point if those actions are not harming anybody and one putting what could be more harmless than dancing people who took part in this dance for freedom flashmob say they do it to remind of their constitutional rights which they claim are being

breached recently there was a court decision specifically regarding the thomas jefferson memorial that prohibited they're seeing there that's what triggered the movement if you will last week a small group of people protested the decision would asylum have been a memorial they were brutally restive none of them was an iraq war veteran civil rights activist adam kokesh recently also has his own show on our t.v. just a week later thousands of people after the arrest in different cities by the way not only washington d.c. joined him and others to say no to police brutality take a listen. after everything else over all the other violations of our freedom over the trashing of the economy after everybody who suffered in this country under the boot build the police state it's come down to dancing if that's the only freedom we have lives are going to come in and do it for people who say oh we believe in liberty would lead to these ideals and then when it comes down to something like this and all the summer divided on it something's wrong. you you think.

obviously for a lot of people this flash mob has turned into something very symbolic especially here in washington at the thomas jefferson memorial is one of america's most reviewers founding fathers jefferson envisioned america as a great quote empire of liberty and liberty which as you were saying today americans are getting further away from with every other court decision it's not just about dancing in a public place of course there's a lot more serious stuff many here are talking about the post nine eleven patriot act that has occurred tale to many of their constitutional freedoms and our very new leap introduced laws as well so this day i think slashdot is just one symbolic drop in the public discontent over what they see is while ation of their rights. ok thanks very much indeed for that update from washington d.c. that's our reporter gonna tzschirner. well last week protest has become the process i should say has become a you tube it with more than one hundred fifty thousand views you have to look at yourself and we could go over to america host adam kokesh and four others were

arrested at the morals sparking a wave of outrage on the internet and drawing files and to daunce there today you can find this at all of these. more used today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. before asians rule the day. the russian military says a massive fire at an ammunition depot that's been raging for over twenty four hours and put out the number of those injured in the accident continues to rise and currently stands at six dozens of buildings have been destroyed and almost thirty thousand people were forced to leave their homes. has more now for us from the

region. thousands forced to flee from their homes as a fireball turns the night sky orange. the fire that broke out at a military munitions depo on thursday night left the local population many of whom are elderly terrified and fleeing in their thousands. suddenly there was a big and their windows smashed i thought killing big thunder in that. the bouncing up and down and all through the night like that i'm spraying remembered all the prayers i can so not much help is still alive. two elderly people suffered heart attacks believed to have been brought on by shock and died many of the old couldn't escape so here in whatever shelter was available to them. they mainly elders who hid in basements and were evacuated by rescue teams we going to go over and move them to hospitals in evacuation centers no one understood what was going on so

everybody took cover as best as they could helicopters and other aircraft were used to douse the flames from above while bomb disposal experts removed any damage ordinance authorities say the danger has passed that it will merely mystically myriad behind the ammunition warehouse the station itself was cleaned up to make sure that the sea for the people living around here all the residents will be able to return to their homes by the end of the be. a local shop and several houses were looted in the chaos sugar fled with just the clothes on his back after an anxious wait he can now return home to check on his property. one thing is that we do pains didn't get chatters who inside it all got messed up by the blast all the lights and curtains are down the furniture is all over the place the incident here coupled with a similar fire in bashkirian last week as lead the president medvedev calling for

a full investigation into what happened he suggested that heads will roll would godless of rank if it turns out that safety procedures weren't here too it seems the two fires in two weeks has proved to be too too many for the president peter all of a. and you can follow the situation in russia's republic of not here as well as more spectacular videos of the far online you can log on to the r.t. free video section to check out unique footage of the five taken by unmanned drones the state of the state of the art planes are being used by the emergency services to monitor the situation there at the moment and you can view an even download the definition video that creek video r.t. dot com. mission. critical three storage is free. range from three. three. three. three volunteers to video for your media

project and a free media dog party dot com. right coming out it has a month before he has to enter a plea to charges of genocide during his first appearance at the hague tribunal the former bosnian serb general called the accusations a monstrous and of noxious the former army chief has been charged with eleven counts of war crimes including his part in the massacre of eight thousand muslims it's red and it's in one thousand nine hundred five but it was arrested last thursday after sixteen years and heidi is handing over to the court was seen as a key condition before serbia could join the e.u. still there are many steps to be taken before membership in some experts say it's not always this complicated to join a group. those conditions don't need to be met if the e.u. likes you. and remain you who edited 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 is that the serbian secessionist group province across iraq has not been resolved that's a situation that still needs to be resolved and the e.u. prefers to negotiate regarding that situation while it's on its knees which is a position that mr public is very familiar with those original figure eight thousand came out of here about from these are bigger islam is saif 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 the tribunal is justify its existence it was set up by madeleine albright's to point an accusing finger at the serbs and hide the existence of a joint a criminal conspiracy to destroy the state the science of forms the state of yugoslavia over half a half of the adult population of serbia died to form of elation so he died to form

yugoslavia which was destroyed by the west of ours and the hague tribunal is there's a plane an entirely different picture it's the one tunnel most of europe where people are held for years without trial waiting for trial when they're when the revert it is known in advance in fact is even worse than the guantanamo bay of europe because at least there in the guantanamo bay the judges know what the rules are at the hague tribunal is kind of caught the rules are worked out as they go along and always at the expense of the serbs. and rob nancy deputy editor of the online magazine spight says what's going on in the hague now is a show trial with the outcome already set in stone but i don't think there's anything. fair about this trial it's all about the whole process. i think what's what's happening is. the kind of the outcome is kind of been. set already it's a bit of a show trial i think. as a result i think it's very much about bolstering the west's position and making the

west look like it's free it's a friend of justice and the largest has already been such a bad guy i'm not. allowed to choose our wonderful human being but there were crimes on all sides in that war and to pick out one side was worse than the other is a bit peculiar the situation was much more clear there were opportunists nationalist politicians on all sides and some fairly brutal people behind them as well and some contributors to the anti forma saying the hague tribunal should be dissolved and in their view it has no legal grounds to exist and go to the website have your say on this one with a general recommend it will get a fair trial at the u.n. war crimes court and fourteen people come is the address where you can express your opinion. a huge source of personal data in the palm of your hand that's not a smartphone has become nowadays with all the private information kept on your high

tech device can easily become public knowledge got out there has discovered hell. and 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 step this quote tracked my very graphical location if i don't decide to connect a wife i hotspot nearby cafe my phone records as well if i then decide to send an email perhaps but in some private parts words all of that information is stored in a device itself and this is a treasure trove of private data that's kept there for months and sometimes even years until now it could at least protect itself with passwords little hard to crack but now a company says this is hack the defenses of the i phone four for several thousand dollars will hand over all the data on any protected device. 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 their intentions now they have created more about unity's paulo greenest access private data. the more secure based company which specializes in breaking down security systems so far clients have been police security services and relatives of people who died. that's the privacy concerns the crackers say if it wasn't them it would be somebody else. we can forget about the idea of privacy well together you know you go on the internet you are really revealing everything about your so much as it is becoming that way with using your phone looking like a third of his just one piece of advice if you do buy smartphone make sure you

don't let anyone else get hold of it either there are no artsy moscow. courts find more on all the stories we're covering on our website r.t. dot com also there for you at the moment should you click on labor instead of life imprisonment russian lawmakers have come up with a punishment for serious crimes to replace the death penalty you can find out how the initiative has been received. plus george w. bush alongside adult discover who else made it to the list of the worst people of all time published in an american school yearbook. moody's ratings agencies want the u.s. it may downgrade its credit rating if washington doesn't make progress on dealing with its debt has increased population the u.s.

will have to raise its debt ceiling which was already reaching that may economist peter schiff believes that will only make that situation worse we have to do is stop borrowing all this money you mentioned earlier that one of the problems is that we have to raise the debt ceiling that's one of the only good things out there or better still 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 good the economists are describing this is a soft it's not it's quicksand and the economists who think this is a soft patch these are the same people going to 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 problem of the u.s. economy and they still don't understand them they think that government stimulus made problems better it did it allowed the problems to get worse. the 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 there worth spending hundreds of thousands of dollars for a college education this week let's talk about that how much does college cost in poland. for free. any this day it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. probably it's a problem. i get picked on. and and young people from all over the world are bought 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 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 do you study where 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 heard 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 you where did you go to college i went to college in texas and you use what you learned every day absolutely do you think it depends on what field theory and possibly but let me tell you this without an education you just have a whole lot tougher time in life but we're all told that we all have to go otherwise we won't succeed. that's true that's true but. i chose not to go to u.t. as you call it. certainly the guy is known to be way out of here and if you go to the top. i mean the rich people can afford it why you don't do you think that would fat us back over the long run in terms of what we can produce really is i

think if you look around your economy and the rich are getting rich and the poor are getting for in the middle class is falling away people are seeing this real estate in the new economy i think 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. now let's take a quick look at other news making headlines across the world at this stage then a world update thanks and government troops and reportedly the rest of syrian city of hama activists say security forces have opened fire on protesters leaving at least six comes a day after dozens were killed in a violent crackdown on a massive anti-government demonstration internet services have been restored to prevent the opposition from posting videos of clashes. high radiation levels being observed in the crippled fukushima nuclear plant in japan the operator says it is

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 on the high levels were detected by a remote controlled robot. one our city life can take its toll working hard and playing hard can certainly drain the batteries and artie's moscow out as it's the best places here in the russian capital to get a recharge in the full program is coming away in the next hour but here is a brief preview from. the fish massage he said to the circulation in some of the churches when you see us. roaches that had been dried and then mostly in school to use its influence that the fish is a silly joke or it's. just silly there's so much. merit. to school to sleep restrain.

her. in fact tell you don't have to wait an hour fanatical become your line about four minutes from now yes i must go out for here anality that will be a recap of our top stories in just a moment stay with us life here in the sky. the

close up team has been to the boulder grand reach thank you own the turning point of the war 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 world come the republic of north a second russia follows up on our cheek. twenty years ago the largest country in the world to certain places of. what had been. just begun a journey. where did it take the.