international bankers and dip into their pockets to inject billions of dollars into egypt's failing economy people that say it's unlikely to end up where it's needed. russia's envoy needs the opposition during a mediating mission in libya aimed at putting an end to the ongoing civil war. this means that consummate intensified need to strikes on colonel gadhafi has been tree osnos here in the capital tripoli for more on that journey refinishing just a moment from tripoli. and the final hours on the policy find out what's going through the minds of the international crew of space travel instead of that upcoming trip and. also in business news b.p.

may be considering selling its stake in the russian joint venture t.m. k.b.p.s. find out why in our business goes in twenty minutes time. worldwide news a live from moscow this is not now international bankers of repairing to hand out a massive loans egypt's temporary leaders just months after praising the financial growth overseen by the former regime the money same gotta read launching the economy but the number of conditions attached to the cash is likely to weigh hard on ordinary people as aussies paula reports some people fear that egypt's sovereignty is being sold off. as if the international monetary fund doesn't have enough on its plate it's agreed to loan three billion dollars to cairo

a move critics say is absurd but i think this is a bribe that the west this trying to give to the regime lest the new one lest it turns against the west but climbers insisting the money will help stabilize the country's finances especially now with mubarak on and the country going through a transitional period but observers say it's the same skin but only slightly different marketing these greens are being made with traditional transitional government transitional governments have. become a primary out of leaders of the old regime composed primarily from your regime for example samir radwan the finance minister in egypt has been negotiating this loan was a mubarak appointee dharmas promise in cairo a billion dollars more in loan guarantees and on top of that another billion in debt cancellation french president nicolas sarkozy has committed the g eight to providing up to ten billion dollars in direct aid it's a commitment the west says it's making to help egypt get back on their feet the

united states and the west are trying to reduce the damage caused by revolutions v.o.r. . considerable financial contributions. economy and the perfect ways through the i.m.f. which is heavily influenced by the united states for. many many years the i.m.f. has been considered as an warm of american foreign economic policies this. is unstable. would could be considered is a waste of money on something that is very shaky what's more it comes with particular strings attached. and that the deal could in fact skull trouble over the leaders of egypt. if. anyone really except the worst

trouble we could all get syria a country really loses its sovereignty so we're still. really sure equilibration the regime nowhere. but most egyptians fear is that the money will get used up long before it reaches the pockets believing it's likely to be only a small elite as well as international banks who benefit from the loans the last time the i.m.f. injected a large amount of money into egypt was twenty years ago but since then the number of egyptians living below just two dollars a day doubled in february this year the i am is placed in the mubarak regime as the sound fiscal management in egypt as far as libya went it's the ultimate for the economy remains stable but just days later mubarak was ousted in tripoli with an anti duffel demonstrations so it's no surprise it means they the better the i.m.f. rates a country the closer the country is to having

a revolution highlighting just how wrong the organization can be policy r.t. tel aviv. well moscow's mission to get the two sides in libya and in the conflict talking is underway with a russian envoy now in the country the hallmark of off is in a benghazi meeting with the opposition but the libyan capital is not a safe place right now with people who are living under constant threat from an intense ongoing nato gun bartman out it's worth a national reports from the capital. the russian special presidential envoy may counter gallop is today here in lever to try to mediate in the civil war that has lost it for months already and has already claimed many lives including innocent civilians what you've been talking with opposition members of russia's position in the context of what's happening now in libya and rebel leaders of russia to the u.n. security council and at the g eight summit and the unique role of russia we. have

a russian embassy there and we've established with the national transitional council in benghazi we are ready for a mediating role able to build a bridge between the broken libyan society. was also expected first to visit the capital tripoli as well but now many say that's unlikely to happen for both political and security reasons present but following the g eight meeting in france has a tough they should step down after that the libyan government here in tripoli has started just to russia aligning with the western powers in its attempt to unseat khadafi while before russia abstained from voting on them even resolution in the un security council authorizing nato military operation here the rival of the russian special envoy to libya coincides with intensification of nato airstrikes on. here in tripoli when we arrived in the city we heard branch holds and sounds very

very have a bombardment just days ago the alliance expanded its war against the gadhafi regime and has started to use an attack helicopters for the first time in this nation intensification could also be proven by the statesman's we can hear from nato secretary general rasmussen that's when he meets with the alliance's defense ministers on wednesday he'll be demanding more countries contribute to the fight against gadhafi. just ahead a russian special visit to libya to reach foreign secretary has declared off to visit him south rebels in benghazi but the whole operation here in leave here could last beyond christmas so we can say for sure that this tradition here in leave it is a very difficult and let's hope that the mission by russian special envoy here will be successful but his mirth an awful reporting right there from the libyan

capital tripoli well you always are it's good to have your company today there's still more news to come here in the program including education. probably of like sixty thousand dollars. over like ninety thousand easy we report on how american graduates to fork out for the future are getting a little back on their investments. in about six or seven hours from now start their journey into orbit aboard a russian soyuz rocket but spend five months in space carrying out hundreds of scientific experiments soyuz rockets are the first and very soon the only choice for manned spaceflight and very soon they could be taking an oscar winning director on a flight of fancy avatar creator james cameron is rumored to a book from a one hundred fifty million dollars ticket for a trip to the moon in two thousand and fifteen for the time being though from baikonur a russian an american and a japanese astronaut will head into space things and see france has been finding

out what drives them to head for the final frontier. it's go time for the crew of expedition twenty eight to the international space station in the final days and hours leading to blastoff it's all come down to one thing for the chain quarantine a hallmark of any space program. to the good of the. morning. classes we have a chance to work out with a chance. to really get ready to fly in space. that's right. shooting pool. working out. and playing with their custom made space suits in a fight to retain muscle mass for the six months in zero gravity physical exercise occupies a surprising amount of time and it's difficult seto she is a doctor want to defy new advances in medicine using outer space. volkov wanted to

follow in his father alexander's footsteps as a cost no not but it was a secret bulk of senior only found out by flipping through applicant files. i saw a personal file with the name sergei volkov on it but it didn't even dawn on me until i flipped the cover page and saw his picture that's when i feel completely shocked and dumbfounded i genuinely never expected this to happen i feel very proud but it gave way to worry because i know the space travel is very dangerous and you i would worry whenever he's on a space trip. for mike fossum as an american boy growing up in texas watching the moon landing paved his way to the stars and i remember you know watching that and just my mind just exploding it was a few months later through the schools we had a program where you could buy very simple little paperback books and i got a book on the first moon landing and i remember sitting in my bed reading this book

just just dreaming about it i was twelve years old at the time when i pulled out a pen and i wrote inside the cover of this book you know you know i've witnessed all of the things that took place in here and someday i too will reach for the stars at a time he never expected it would be ross cosmos the russian space agency would be helping to take him there with nasa about to wind up its space shuttle program cosmos may offer the only way to space now for astronauts but for tourists it also offers one of the most expensive for date patients and many of them have ever taken it cost thousands of dollars to view a launch in kazakstan but dozens have shown up to do it alexander preview nischelle and left russia from new jersey seventeen years ago wasn't going to miss out look it's almost like oh it's just like in the old side because there's a lot you can see where there's a glow so it's not a cool experience back in quarantine the crew don't get to see their rocket yet

they're separated from loved ones by glass waiting just hours for the adventure to finally begin lindsey france r t baikonur cosmodrome has its that. it's twelve minutes past the hour now here in the russian capital and without saying it's a tight jobs market in the united states especially for newcomers trying to find their way and with half of last year's graduates still unemployed the class of two thousand and eleven also has to be facing a grim future and with a heavy burden of thousands of dollars of student loans and no jobs to pay them off with they're entering a vicious circle. as more. america is home to the world's most expensive and prestigious universities and yet paying for them has created a nation where the majority sign on to lifetime payments of loans probably of like sixty thousand dollars student. over like nine hundred thousand easy. yet

i make you nervous yes. every american graduate is launching into a dwindling job market saddled with at least twenty four thousand dollars in student debt the that really led to great job or start a great company or a very seriously in the hole according to the economic policy institute the us economy currently has one job for every five applicants meanwhile business for bankruptcy attorney get ninety lippmann is surging half of his clients are unemployed degree holders drowning in debt anyone going to college the socially is gambling once again from an investor's point of view right now the way the dollar is the way inflation is going up and the way the job market is a college education just isn't a good investment and not a good return on your money even economics professors on the inside like richard wolfe say enslaving students to banks is a disaster for america's economic viability the future of any country in the world

economy because that is the pens first and foremost on the probably and the quantity of. new young workers and the major institutions that produce that or the car would use a new. versa thinks you're pricing them out of that today diploma no longer serves as a guaranteed cost more to prosperity for america in the meantime the number of foreigners studying at u.s. colleges and universities has reached record highs according to the latest statistics nearly seven hundred thousand international students going in from all over the world to study in america and the majority are transplanting from america's economic competitor according to the institute of international education chinese students studying in the states surged thirty percent in two thousand and nine most foreign families reportedly bypassed financial aid and pay full tuition

since one nine hundred seventy eight the cost of u.s. colleges and universities has reportedly increased more than nine hundred percent while household income rose just one hundred fifty percent what you're seeing is american universities particularly the elite are happier to have foreigners who tend to a their way because they come from the very top of those societies. will forgo the americans who care and afford it the way way according to the pew research center fifty seven percent of americans say college is not worth the price but with a widening workforce of untrained and educated many wonder what the u.s. economy will eventually be worth growing up or deny r.t. new york. and for more on the woes of american students and other stories that we're covering on air of course you can always go to the website that we have it's r t dot com more news and eye catching videos always there for you at twenty four seventh's have

a quick look and see what's waiting for you right now and as drones become washington's weapon of choice abroad fears mount that the inhuman i have an unmanned aircraft will soon keep people in line. and age two oh no russian office staff could soon be forced to pay for the water they drink and word find out how the penny pinching bosses are planning to do that before story at r.t. dot com. there's been an explosion in the model of his capital which is there now a car with russian registration plates blew up right in the center of the city the chairman of the open tennis federation who was severely injured in the blast has now died in hospital special forces at the scene are investigating whether the car was packed with explosives police are also considering a possible assassination theory here as the victim was a businessman moldova is europe's poorest republic but attacks like this are extremely rare. but not. by not as good as some

other international news we're covering for you this hour the e.u.'s farming chief has proposed a one hundred fifty million euros of aid to help producers hit by the current eco drive crisis earlier other e.u. officials warned germany against making inaccurate comments about the source of the contamination which has so far claimed twenty two lives meanwhile a hundred new eco infections have been reported the number of people affected now stands out over two thousand three hundred. syrian authorities have promised a strong response after one hundred twenty policemen were reportedly killed by armed gangs in the north of the country the government said it would act with force and inside the law to restore control state t.v. reports that the security forces died. an ambush in a town near the turkish border now responding to residents calls for protection from militant groups over twelve hundred people have died in protests against president bashar al assad since late march. the european parliament in

a strasbourg is holding a final talks on the report into whether the area and romania are ready to join the area it would be easier travel for people from those two states across most countries in the e.u. although there is strong support within the parliament for giving the go ahead doubts remain over whether bulgaria and romania could guarantee the security of the e.u.'s borders a decision has previously been delayed because of corruption and problems with judicial reform in the two countries. japan has more than doubled its estimate of the about over radiation that leaked from the fukushima nuclear plant in the first week after the earthquake and tsunami the country's nuclear watchdog also said that meltdowns took place in three reactors more quickly than you have been believed the facility is still today leaking radiation the plant operator is hoping to switch it off by january although there are fears it may take longer. now

a russian woman is battling the courts under society's attitudes to be recognized as the guardian of her baby grandchildren the controversy over her case stands from the fact that the children were born using her late son's sperm surrogate mothers party talks on a boy explains. it was only after fifty seven that lamar understood the true meaning of having her hands full and accomplished scientist a wife of three decades and also a devoted mother now of these roles kept her as busy as she is now her tragedy she became a grandmother only after she'd lost everything else. you know the death of my son created a hole in my life that i will never close but the birth of my grown children certainly provide some solace is god's gift to me the mar son died of cancer three years ago before his first chemotherapy session joc to conserve his sperm the help of

surrogate mothers two sets of twins were brought into the world. the march has meant a lot of her her scientific career was put on hold yet lamar's says they're all trifles compared to be revenged granted powered by her son's death. it's love which is fed by grief but it's love nonetheless three years ago i couldn't imagine myself even smiling let alone laughing or singing songs but the little ones pulled me out. this abyss of despair. with her large family support lamar says she has no financial or parental concerns about raising her grandchildren her main problem now is the reluctance of the russian state to recognize her as the mar there of these children and her deceased son as their father. her maher has taken the issue to court with a ruling expected and runs the lord believes the law is in their side. ok

according to russian law there are no limits on who can become a parent through the use of surrogates mother who'd of course cases like this one are still very unusual in russia that's why some restriction offices or court officials meet me confused and refuse to register children with the law is definitely in our a fever. that maher is the third woman in russia who use the sperm of her deceased son to continue that family's lineage yet whether it is due to her age or the sheer number of children involved her story a good many russians questioning the affix of this kind of parenting order to your . exercise employer mechanics ultimately lead to this very ambiguous situation we can really tell the difference between a son and a grandson there are so many orphans in russia so she wanted to be a mother she could have easily realized her maternal instincts i think ultimately it's a very selfish drive to pass your genes no matter what you couldn't care less about

societal attitudes too much suffering for the loss of your only son persuaded her that there is no such thing as too many grandchildren russian law has no age cap for people who are willing to adopt children the only cabbage is that a potential parent could be a police sixteen years older than the child in law muskies these days difference is almost sixty years this doesn't sit easily in a country where most people become parents before they turn thirty the rain. even to kids is often seen more than a handful from going to artsy moscow. all right in just a few minutes here on our t.v. talk to the head of the world nuclear association about atomic energy fears of course in the wake of the fukushima disaster in japan that's coming your way after the business news with dmitri. thanks rory being p.

could be taking steps to sell its fifty percent stake in russia vanity and katy perry to state run rosneft the move could help the british oil majors save its landmark corp deal with russia's largest oil producer b.p. recently failed to buy out its russian partners would block the deal with ross nat and now the peace partners are objecting to the sale saying they will lose control of the country and the save you could help b.p. improve its financial situation but it may also be a blow to the country's. economic policy making in the new russia is very similar to what it was like in the old soviet union that's according to a study by a research group. for economic policy and these it says in both cases growing state expenses are balanced by extra oil revenues ben arest from business new europe magazine explains it just amplifies the need for reform. in the beginning you need the states to do a big push where you spend heavily on infrastructure you get with the promise

turning you put some money in the system and then once you get this sort of green shoots of free enterprise then the state least rank and chip business and that's not state spending that's about tax codes and labor codes and bureaucracy coming in red tape and what have you rush is a stage now where it's transitioning out of the state spending and it needs to nurture business and it's not very good at it this way if we still thinks in terms of the big push you know we'll just put more money in the economy as i said it will that will lead to a more inflation and more imports and i'm going to give you any growth from just cause you're going to refuse. to give the markets now we start with commodities and or oil is showing a mixed picture light sweet is declining twenty five cents opec members gather in vienna to review the oil output also worries over the u.s. recovery underscored speculations of the man for energy but brant has corrected and

is now growing forty two cents to reach almost one hundred fifteen dollars per barrel. just off markets in europe they are higher they help by miners rio tinto is gaining more than one percent on the foot c h m v's up more than five percent in london after the struggling company said it has secured new financing greenness from its banks it's all these stocks are also higher with german electricity producer jumping back that's a un is jumping about three percent on attacks. here in russia some hefty gains we're seeing from both the r.t.s. which is up one point eight percent and the my stocks up one and a half percent this is on the back of higher brant second look at some of the share movers most new ships are ross snapped up more than two percent gas prong is up almost four percent as the company negotiates gas prices with its principal transit partners bugaboos and ukraine. and banks are also. eight percent.

london and seeing a boom in russia is now the turn of a pauper it's a global course and try conquer the market the company is going to list twenty five percent of its shares giving a preliminary valuation of around two billion dollars a range of firms seven out of the national public offerings in london another range has cancelled previously announced i.p.o.'s waiting for better market conditions. the quake and tsunami disaster forced a number of countries to reshape their nuclear plants the most far reaching is germany saying it will bitch atomic energy by the end of twenty twenty two but john rich from the world nuclear situation says the evidence goes against the german decision in one nine hundred sixty there are three billion people in the world today there are nearly seven billion and we're moving rapidly toward nine billion by the middle of this century as we make that continued growth in population and world economies like those or japan and india are catching up and we're going to be seeing a tripling in world energy consumption over the next forty or fifty years at the

very time when our climate scientists are telling us that we must curtail carbon emissions by eighty percent triple energy consumption reduce carbon by eighty percent how do you do that there's only one major expandable clean energy technology now available to countries and that's a nuclear power and this is precisely the reasoning that has is maintaining their commitment to nuclear power in all nations that are engaged in responsible rational debate about it germany is the exception. and you can watch the full interview with john rich in our spotlight program later this hour here on c.n.n. that's it from this edition of the business news on us in the headlights and.

in one thousand nine hundred two dr ralph grinstead university of pennsylvania said what if i can take the gene responsible for growth in human beings and put it into amounts. on all the main risk issues that can there is a ninety five percent of all competent scientists in these fields are working for the produces side and only five percent are really genuinely

independent. there is not a lot of science that says train genic fish is unhealthy for people to consume which is what the food and drug administration looks that there is a lot of concern about the environmental impacts if the transgenic fish escapes what kind of horrible impact will it have on the rest of the fish population don't know what this might do to us or our children or our children's children in our congress here in the united states or our legislatures rather will be void. all these different laws tax laws and corporate laws what could be more important than deciding on the permanent genetic future of life on earth.