in this frail look he's available in some hotel time periods in hotel jerusalem. international bank has dipped deep into their pockets to inject billions of dollars into egypt's ailing economy but people there say it's unlikely to end up where it's needed. russia's envoy meets the opposition during a mediating mission in libya aimed at putting an end to civil war. this means that council meets intensified day to strikes on colonel can se. here in the capital tripoli for more on that journey refinishing just a moment from tripoli. and the final miles on earth or to find out what's going through the minds of the international crew of space travelers ahead of the trip into orbit. and in business news b.p.

is reportedly looking to sell parts of the stake in the russian joint venture t.m. k b p but analysts tell business see this won't happen find out more in twenty minutes time. international news in comment live from our studios here in central moscow this is good to have you with us this international bankers are preparing to hand out a massive loan to egypt's temporary leaders just months after praising the financial growth overseen by the former regime the money is aimed at relaunching the economy but the number of conditions attached to the cash is likely to weigh hard on ordinary people report some fear 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 and move critics say is absurd i think this is a bribe that the west this is 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 are going to be made with traditional transitional governments and these transitional governments have. become a primarily because of the all regime composed primarily because from your regime for example samir radwan the finance minister in egypt has been negotiating this loan was and barack obama's promise in cairo a billion dollars more in loan guarantees and on top of that another billion indeed cancelation 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 happy gyptian get back on the feet united states and the west are trying to reduce the damage caused by revolutions very are. considerable financial contributions. and the perfect way is 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 orm of american foreign economic policies this. is unstable or. 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 i

believe is a. very. flawed and what is the worst trouble. over syria a country in. the western. bridge or equilibration regime always. 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 huge actions of living below just two dollars a day doubled in february this year the i.m.f. praised the will probably sound fiscal management in egypt as far as libya went if the ultra for the economy remains stable but just days later mubarak was ousted in tripoli with the gulf and he gadhafi demonstrations so it's no surprise of many say

the better the i am it rates the country the closer their country is to having a revolution highlighting just how wrong the organization can be policy r.t. tel aviv. russians envoy in libya says the rebels there have been given strong backing to moscow's attempts to broker talks between both sides in the civil war though the main media is your role in the conflict will remain with the african union despite ongoing nato air attacks on the libyan capital colonel gadhafi remains defiant vowing not to surrender but is more of a notion the reports now from tripoli. the russian special presidential envoy become arguello is now here in leave it to try to mediate in the civil war that has lasted for months already and has already claimed many many allies including innocent civilians we seriously think that airstrikes never political problems and we said it's here very clearly as long as the blood should continue as if the

longer it continues the more difficult it will be to build a national reconciliation process off to the civil war so we are very much in favor of building political bridges so to speak and do we are ready to help that comes from being president but that if announcement after the g. eight meeting in france that's colonel qadhafi has lost its legitimacy and should step down no one can predict how successful this special piece of the russian federation will be here in libya but one thing is clear that will definitely not be easy because of his government has repeatedly strongly rejected the possibility of the colonel gadhafi stands in town while these is the major and the most important of all the rivals the russian peace mediators the arrival coincides with an intensification of nato is

a military activity here in libya we're actually not allowed to leave the hotel where we're staying now in the center of tripoli but from here we can see and hear that nato has intensified its strikes on colonel gadhafi as miter arsenal here in the city just days ago they alliance extended its war against the khadafi regime and has for the first time started to use an attack helicopter as a nation to research foreign secretary has declared after visiting the rebels in benghazi himself that they have no operation against gadhafi here in libya. last beyond christmas russia is very concerned about this saying that nato has actions in levy are beginning to resemble a ground operation more and more this is something russia is strong case to and russia has always been strongly opposed to insisting on diplomatic and political means to suffer this conflict. reporting from the libyan capital tripoli.

france and britain building the diplomatic pressure against the syrian president saying he has lost his legitimacy calling for a special u.n. resolution on syria but russia is strongly against any security council mandate similar to the one used against libya well let's get more on this from author he's joining me live now from brussels on his web thanks very much for being with us here on r t so as i just mentioned france and britain are saying that assad is losing legitimacy and must step aside haven't we heard these words before oh are we heading for another libya perhaps. i don't know it seems to me that there is no limit to how crazy they can be because they were sure that. the weeks not months now there's lasting months this is another key month. so.

i'm sorry i didn't say anything actually john i think maybe there's some sort of cross-line here continued ok yeah it continues and it will continue. so we haven't finished up libya. maybe going to go into another war with syria i don't think. it's completely cases where they don't know how crazy they can need seems to me that. we have a unique. problems in the world. but nato says it's achieving its main goal in libya to protect civilians the syrians need the same sort of help. well what does it mean i mean you know very well that i mean these should millions killed in libya we need to you know i don't think they need that help and there's even being the most haitians are syrians and probably some of us not to intervene in syria so. i don't know it's him to me and that it will work but of course you see the attack syria and libya because these counties are enemies they're in their knees are certainly arguably its enemies of israel and

to some extent of the west and they're not going to any other county where there may be any question. because these counties are considered lending but isn't the syrian situation different to libya there are fears of civil war of course if a sad goes if western powers do intervene but really not too sure who say should be supporting who is the opposition and if there is. a collapse of the regime there in syria wouldn't have that have a big effect in the middle east region have a huge impact more so than libya yes or girls it's going to be maybe another. it seems to me it seems to me that certain people hate the assad regime and want to . limit their work but of course nobody knows what's going to happen after we got to be better to keep a sad in at least perhaps nato and western powers secretly thinking they won't intervene in the way they've done so in libya because of the the repercussions and it's probably better to keep them in power. or do you want to give me keep him in

power if you want it wouldn't do so much they will do so which actually. evaded but of course the problem is that a stronger military. so it would be even more difficult to intervene militarily. insulation and i'm going to remember that it's maybe just. creating but. i don't know i mean. show me. event a u.n. resolution of change and prevent there is a. which will close then we need to a lot of again there again so showing the rest. and cause a lot of friction and of course. cause of further stress and friction between relationships between the countries in the e.u. where in the lorry on the hull of the counties you you know you go home to the

plants and lived under these of yours that hands and feet and almost going back to the gloom you're going to in terms of intervention. i mean sarkozy certainly has been. learning don't mention all along. as you are doing in germany just briefly of course being very hands off with the libyan situation just briefly. germany whether it is. being very hands off with the libyan situation obviously abstaining from that vote of original or not supporting it's our fellow members in the e.u. and nato. germany's it's a more realistic. ok well that would be they would be maybe there would be danger i don't know it seems to me completely and seen what they are doing now that you're in because. you will eventually do a war with syria and they go. again. in.

syria and. thanks very much for joining us it's very interesting what you have to say thanks so much for your input there. thank you. what other news a nineteen gun salute fanfares and drums the german chancellor angela merkel's official visit to the u.s. started with a bang but behind the smiles and warm words is everything sweet and relations between president obama and the leader he calls a trusted partner and a lot more now from our to use a gun a church a car and she's in washington d.c. the two leaders have just had a joint news conference take us through what's being said. well of course when they met the press they focused on the positive in the relations and angle of merkel the german chancellor is being received with great pomp here in washington but many doubt that this is visit means anything more than photo ops given that the true nation is or more divided than ever on the issues of the day including of ghana spent in libya on libya germany chose to withhold its support for military action

in libya the u.n. security council siding with russia and china here despite being under a lot of pressure from the u.s. the u.k. and france on afghanistan germany has supported the war there but now analysts say its contribution is unlikely to survive even the next election cycle but of course the two leaders were rather evasive aggressing the difference is choosing mainly general rhetoric you know about coordinating efforts and so long but analysts say the rift between washington and burlington is not just on wars but on other policies as well on the economy germany has a completely different approach they have high taxes better welfare at prater applause they produce more they export more while the u.s. is head over heels in death and is running a trade deficit of health a trillion dollars and it's interesting during that press conference president obama showed the u.s. expects germany to get behind a plan of a third a lot of the massive greek debt to in order to stabilize the euro was very polite

in saying that germany understands its responsibilities but basically said everyone should mind their own business again in a very diplomatic way take a listen. concerning the situation in the u.s. i think each and every one has to do with you have her own problem i mean you have our hands full with what we need to do and i'm absolutely convinced that is we showed our responsibility so will the united states of america. well angela merkel has won a claim at home for resisting obama's calls for cash dom's to help the poor members of the eagle cover the losses from unsustainable social welfare programs so she is calling for more international participation in dealing with the european debt crisis which threatens to bring a lot of uncertainty in the world economy she she has earlier said washington should not be in a position of calling all the shots of the world bank and the international and the

international monetary fund so there's a certain background of differences and i made all this really splendid reception that she's getting here in washington. two thousand and five started off as a very pro american leader so why is this apparent shift from. the exactly angela merkel when she became chancellor six years ago was expected to be very pro-american because she grew up in communist east germany and she was in many ways at the beginning of her career then with the wars in iraq and afghanistan her support for the u.s. policies as they did in a way when president obama you need to off is that true got off to a rocky start when she refused during obama's than eight presidential campaign to let him speak in front of the brandenburg gate. a cold war symbol famously used as a background by presidents john kennedy and ronald reagan some say he returned this

now be a year later by turning down merkel's invitation to help mark the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall so on the surface it's all smiles and handshakes according to president obama they're having fun working together those are his words but i only say with the new developments in the world go all the revolutions and wars and economic uncertainty the rift between washington and verily and it's getting deeper on our correspondent there in washington going to judge karen thanks very much indeed for that update. well in three hours from now three men will start their journey into orbit aboard a russian soyuz rocket has spent five months in space carrying out hundreds of scientific experiments so as rockets are the first and very soon the only choice for manned spaceflight and in the near future they could be taking an oscar winning director on a flight of fancy avatar creator james cameron is room for a one hundred fifty million dollar ticket for a trip to the moon in twenty fifteen or the time being go from baikonur to russian

and american and the japanese astronauts will head into space lindsey 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 team quarantine a hallmark of any space program. welcome to the good of this. morning . questions we have to work out the chance. to really go flying straight. 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 such. a doctor want to defy new advances in medicine using outer space vall called wanted to follow in his father alexander's footsteps as a cosmonaut but it was a secret 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 and wife would be covered in size picture that's how i feel completely shocked and dumb . founded i genuinely never expected this to happen i feel very proud but it gave way to worry because i know the streets travel is very dangerous i knew 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 and watching that interest my mind just exploding it was something 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 at night 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 to the stars at the time he never expected it would be ross cosmos the russian space agency who'd be helping to take him there with nasa about to wind up in space shuttle program cosmos may offer the only way to space now for astronauts but parts or us it also offers one of the most expensive four day vacations many of them have ever taken it costs thousands of dollars to view a launch in kazakstan but dozens have shown up to do it alexander preview nischelle who left russia for new jersey seventeen years ago wasn't going to miss out on the look it's almost like a rocket society just like an old fly because it's

a lot of people and see where this is so it's really good students 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 cassocks down. well for more on the stories we're covering here on screen you can head to our dot com that's our website other news an eye catching videos are always there for you and here's a quick look here but you should log on right now to see what you can expect to see the shocking story of a young woman who wanted rid of her eleven month old baby and left her on a busy highway you can find out how the boy recklessly survived. plus what if you can dreams about your state the pressure to be he gave the answer to a group of volunteers working at the construction sites for the employees. all that available on our website article some of the international news we're covering at this stage of the day in the world update u.s.

officials have said that yemen's president was more seriously hurt in a rocket attack on his compound last week and previously thought donna salary has burns covering forty percent of his body and bleeding inside his skull the embattled leader is in saudi arabia receiving medical treatment after thirty three years in power has come under severe pressure to resign as anti-government protests continue across the country. the following chief has proposed one hundred fifty million euros of aid to help producers hit by the current crisis. germany against making electric comments about the source of the contamination which is so far claimed twenty two meanwhile a hundred new infections have been reported the number of people affected now stands at over two thousand three hundred. for japan is more than doubled its estimate of the amount of radiation that leaked from the fukushima nuclear plant in the first week after the earthquake and tsunami the country's nuclear watchdog also

said meltdowns took place in three reactors more quickly than it earlier been believed facility is still leaking radiation that plants operators hoping description off by january you know there are fears it may take longer. european parliament stroudsburg has been debating a report into whether calgarian remain a. due to join the visa area. easier to travel to and from those countries within the e.u. but not for the british liberal democrat thinks that without internal borders in the e.u. the problem of illegal immigration can't be solved it's finally up to the e.u. governments to decide whether those countries can join and they're meeting next week to decide but the apartment just has a role of saying whether they agree but of course there has also been migration pressures other pressures other worries about those countries joining the border

free zone particularly arising from the events in north africa the arab spring which of course has been extremely welcome but one of the offshoots of the migration across the mediterranean tragically with hundreds of people dying actually in the med but pressures on countries like italy and greece pressures with which they should have coped better than they have put the fear is that if you don't have internal border migrants can move north and west across the e.u. without encountering passport. checks on the way. up to twenty five minutes past the hour here in the russian capital i'll be back at half past for the summer home in new stories in the meantime dimitri is next with the business of. thanks very much bill alone a warm welcome to business b.p. is taking steps to sell part of its fifty percent stake in russia venture. to state

run ross now that's according to the wall street journal the move could help the british oil majors save corporation deal with russia's largest oil producer and he recently failed to buy out his russian partners a block the deal with ross net now he's partners are objecting to the sale saying they will lose control of the company and the same to you could help the pain improve its financial situation but it may also be a blow to the companies but he will get a good deal from invest in the research doubts whether the deal could take place at all. i do not believe that it will allow for twenty five percent shareholding in to be sold to a strategic competitor such as reznor ultimately to buy b.p. to negotiate a more fair valuation for a share of g.d.p. i think you go she will take place but the reason why he is pressing for a new this is that they're interested in developing the arctic reserves of russia

in joint in joint venture with us next. russia and ukraine and to set up a special working group to deal with natural gas issues between the two countries it's one of the outcomes of an interstate commission meeting held in moscow where prices for ukraine and the charges for gas sent through its territory would remain unchanged. secular the markets now or oil prices slightly higher as opec members gather in vienna to review the targets for oil output that's true from brant lights we just correcting and least a fifty cent starts on the worries over the u.s. recovery underscoring expectations of waning demand for energy. moving on to stock markets we start with the united states because they're trading in positive territory rebounding after a long streak of losses tracking gains in europe alcoa is leading the gains on that was our troops have injuries losing point four percent. stock markets in europe and

the tuesday slightly higher for itself by just the notion of that point three percent miners and retailers were high while the utility companies in frankfurt working in the marsh. and in russia stocks so saw the gains the r.t.s. up two percent my six one point eight percent on tuesday on the back of the oil prices and metals prices look at some individual share moves on to my second as the blue chips were higher this hour rose next climbed on speculation it may acquire stake here no rival oil producing team k v p i think he was also actually right cass braun shares were up four point five percent as it negotiates the prices with ukraine and bellow roos and banking stocks are also on the rise with the e.c.b. up more than a percent. because considering selling fifty percent of its gas pipeline operator bell trans gas they would only happen if moscow agrees to export natural gas prices

set for the domestic russian market privatization of the country's assets is one of the conditions are. billion dollar loan from russia the sale takes place gas from world tokyo belorussian financed by cooling system. also continues to improve its economy and investment climate but some analysts say it's only max profit promotion board may suggest a large scale p.r. campaign could help boost almost every sector of the economy russia does many things right and many capable things that's one of the worst countries in the world for public relations when i'm in hotels all business people are you see c.n.n. croatia egypt turkey for georgia georgia south of russia not georgia alabama but you never see anything about russia and russia does a very very bad job on corporate relations and it's got a reasonably good story to tell you know how for you we will be telling you that

story next hour if you join us. will be here with an update the headlines next. used today violence is once again flared up.