egypt prepares to pocket pins of dollars in foreign funding to put the economy back on its feet those most in need say that cash is unlikely to reach the. russians envoy meets the opposition on his mediating mission in libya aimed at bridging the rift between the sides locked in civil war. this means that council meets intensify day to strikes on colonel gadhafi. here in the capital tripoli for more on. just a moment from tripoli. and it's just before a trio of an international astronauts start their journey into orbit we'll be live at the launch to see the last of.

the international news and comment live from our studios here in central moscow this is the 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 and money in the economy but the number of conditions attached to the cash is likely to write hard on ordinary people and is poor the city reports 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 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 cairo is 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 with only slightly different marketing these ingredients are being made with traditional transitional governments and these transitional governments have. become a primarily out of because of the all regime composed primarily because from your regime for example samir road won the finance minister in egypt it really goes sharing this line was and barack obama's promise in cairo a billion dollars more in loan guarantees and on top of that another billion indeed cancellation of french president nicolas sarkozy has committed the g eight to providing actually ten billion dollars in direct aid it's a commitment the west says it's making to help egypt get back on the feet the united states and the west are try to reduce the damage caused by the revolutions very are. considerable financial

contributions gyptian economy 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 war 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. an epidural could in fact skull trouble over. a tree. anybody except in worse trouble. syria a country loses its sovereignty so big. story corp

seriously no way. mostly gyptian sphere is ever 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 rejections of living below just two dollars a day doubled in february this year the i.m.f. raised it will probably sound fiscal management in egypt as far as libya went if the outlook for the economy remains stable but just days later it was all stood in tripoli with an anti gadhafi demonstrations so it's no surprise that many say yes or the i am it rates the country the closer the 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 given strong backing

to moscow's attempts to procure talks between both sides in the civil war although the main mediating role in the conflict will remain with the african union despite ongoing nato air attacks on the libyan capital colonel gadhafi remains defiant never to surrender and what is more if emotional reports now from tripoli. the russian special presidential envoy 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 serious the things that strikes never political problems and we said it's here very clearly as long as the blood should continues the longer it continues the more difficult it will be to build the national reconciliation process to the civil war so we very much in the sleeve are . building political bridges so to speak and we are ready to help this comes

following president but better said on soon after the g. eight meeting in france that's colonel gadhafi has lost its legitimacy and should step down no one can predict how successful this special peace mission of the russian federation will be here in libya but one thing is clear that will definitely not be easy to conduct his government has repeatedly strongly rejected the possibility of the colonel qadhafi standing down while these is the major and the most important among all the rivals the russian peace mediators the rival coincides with and in tense a pic patient of nature is a military activity here in libya we're actually not allowed to leave the hotel where we have stayed now in the center of tripoli but from here we can see and hear that nato has intensified its strikes on colonel gadhafi as matri arsenault here

in the city just days ago they elian's extended its war against the khadafi regime and has for the first time started to use an attack helicopter as a nation to the research foreign secretary has declared after visiting the rebels in benghazi himself that they have operation against gadhafi here in libya. last beyond christmas this very. same but made his actions elite beginning to resemble a ground operation more and more this is something rush is strong it pays to and russia has always been strongly opposed to insisting on diplomatic and political means to suffer all these conflicts. are reporting from the libyan capital tripoli . france and britain are building the diplomatic pressure against the syrian president saying he has lost his legitimacy they are calling for a special u.n. resolution on syria but russia is strongly against any security council mandate

let's get more on this from investigative journalist joining us live in london thanks very much indeed for being with us here in r.t. so as i was just saying france and britain saying that assad is losing legitimacy and saying that he must step aside while with words like that are we seeing a repeat of possibly what's been happening a possible repeat of what's happening in libya intervention it feels very much that way i think it's very very very risky move by britain and france to interfere in syrian revolution because both countries have a very long history in this region palestine lebanon and syria so i think it will be seen very much as western interference in. syria. and the argument being that the situation is the same in syria as libya where we are seeing the current regime conducting deadly crackdowns against civilians every

thousand already reportedly killed so. one rule for one should be the same rule for the other shouldn't. well yes but the thing is that i think we have to remember the revolution the revolutionary process that is taking place in the middle east is one in which ordinary people are taking time to take control of their societies and what i think is happening in syria and what has to happen in syria is the syrian movement for change has to win over larger sections of society has to win over aleppo has to win over sections of the army and i think this is an internal struggle if you like for the future direction of syria the problem is when foreign powers start interfering then then you can have a regime that then can strengthen its position by saying this out you know what happened to going to have a parent with this movement and so on so i think it's a very unwise move by the west to interfere in the. in the syrian revolution process saying and i'm wise move from the west point of view but certainly france would disagree with that bearing in mind france's role in libya also its

a role in ivory coast recently we've seen it being very assertive haven't we why is it do you think that france is in some ways at the forefront of these overseas campaigns trying in some ways to be the world's policeman instead of the u.s. . well the thing about the middle east i think we have to remember it's always been a place where lots of global powers over the years have attempted to take control and we have to remember of course that france was kind of displaced by the u.s. in the nineteen fifties in ninety six and you feel there's a sense now that from president sarkozy of france is moving like a demon to try and. place back in the side a position of power inside the middle east and i have to repeat we have to remember that france had control over syria in from the end of the first school and there was a very very long struggle for syria to get rid of the french for independence and so the idea that this is somehow some kind of benevolent force coming in to help

the syrian population i think it's very little ice so you're saying then that the people there should be allowed to revolt and have a regime change that themselves isn't there no argument though that the west actually secretly wouldn't want to see a regime change and wouldn't want to see the collapse of the assad regime because of the power vacuum we could leave and of course the negative effects consequences you could have on the whole of the middle east all through syria and fall more important strategically than libya isn't it. yes of course i mean no due respect to the libyans there is eighty two million egyptians between them and israel there's fifty miles between two kilometers i should say five hundred kilometers between. damascus and the israeli border so it's a very different situation it's also i think worth remembering that there is the ongoing palestinian struggle there is the resistance inside of lebanon all these issues all of this is not and can come back to haunt the west so i think i have to be honest i think because halfway between i think i'd love a client state inside of syria that will make

a deal with israel and keep hamas and hezbollah under control but there's no guarantee they will get this but i think more important than that is that who is this resolution for if not for the west it's not for anyone it's called the syrian people and they in their struggle have to determine and shape the future of their country and to do this properly and to loud and to do this properly they have to be allowed to have to have the independence to do it very interesting to hear what you have to say i wish we had more time with you simon but sadly we're out of time thanks for joining us live there in london simon thank you. you're watching r.t. was still. live in moscow with the twenty four hours a day still to come in the program this hour open door policy debates whether you think its borders will do more harm than good in wake of a recent influx of illegal immigrants. now to other news the 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 when everything is sweet in relations between president obama and the leader he calls a trusted partner. has more now from washington. well of course when they met the press they focused on the positive in the relations and angela 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 two nations 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 of germany has supported the war there but now analysts say its contribution is on likely to survive even the next election cycle but of course that full leaders would rather evasive addressing the differences choosing mainly general rhetoric you know about coordinating efforts and so long but analysts say

the rift between washington and burling 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 traits or applause they produce more they export more while the u.s. is head over heels in debt and is running a trade deficit of health a trillion dollars what's interesting during this press conference president obama showed the u.s. expects germany to get behind a plan of a third being a lot of the massive greek get 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 because. it's going to concerning the situation in the u.s. i think each and every one has to do with you have her own problems we need you have our hands full great deal with what we need to do and i'm absolutely convinced that it is we showed our responsibility to the united states of america while angle

merkel has a claim at home for resisting obama's calls for cash and arms to help the poor members of the will cover the losses from an unsustainable social welfare program. 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 that made all this really splendid reception that she's getting here in washington 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 came into office that off to a rocky start when she refused during obama's two thousand and eight presidential

campaign to letting speaking in front of the brandenburg gate be. a cold war symbol famously used as backgrounds by presidents john kennedy and ronald reagan and some say he returned this now be a year later by turning down merkel's invitation to help marked 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 issues of the words but and they say with the new developments in the world all the revolutions and wars and economic uncertainty the rift between washington and it's getting deeper. coach can reporting from washington for more on the stories we're covering here on screen at the moment you could always have to call and you can always watch our reports again there's other news they're catching videos too here's a quick look at what's there at the moment the shocking story of a young woman for example who want to get rid of her eleven month old baby born a whole new way you can find out how the boy recklessly survived. the website of

the most what vladimir putin dreams of the pressures of his job he gave the answer to a group of women. instruction cites for the searching in the placing find out what he said the other side r.t. . well in about an hour from now we'll start their journey into orbits aboard a russian soyuz rocket goes been followed months in space carrying out hundreds of scientific experiments soyuz rockets of the first and will soon be the only option for manned spaceflight in the near future they could be taking an oscar winning director on the flights of fancy avatar creates a james cameron is willing to go to one hundred million dollars for a trip to the moon in twenty fifth. for the time being though from baikonur a russian and american and a japanese astronaut will be heading into space colonies and the problems have 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. work to do that is. not a cause for new. questions it's a chance to work it out. it's. hard 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 volkov wanted to follow in

his father alexander's footsteps as a cost man out but it was the secret bulk of sr only found out by flipping through at. 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 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 you know watching that interest 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 to work 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 got

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 would be helping to take in there with a 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 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 nish who left russia for new jersey seventeen years ago wasn't going to miss out but look it's almost like oh it's just like gold so i suppose it's a logical and see where this is 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 for the adventure to finally begin lindsay france r t if i can or cosmodrome cassocks down. to a motel. here's some other international news we're covering at the moment this hour in our world that face u.s. officials have said that yemen's president was more seriously hurt in a rocket attack on his compound last week than previously thought. has been burns covering forty percent of his body and bleeding inside his skull in battle leader is in saudi arabia receiving medical treatment after thirty three years in power seller has come under severe pressure to resign as anti-government protests continue across the country. he is forming chief has proposed a hundred fifty million euros of aid to help producers hit by the current eco ny crisis. officials warn germany against making inaccurate comments about the source of the contamination which is so far claimed twenty two lines in one hundred. forty eight the number of people affected mass transit over two thousand three hundred.

pounds more than doubled its estimate of the amount of radiation that leaked from the focus shima nuclear plant in the first week after the earthquake and tsunami the country's nuclear watchdog also said no bounds took place in three reactors more quickly than early of the in bali facility is still leaking radiation the plant operator is moving to switch it off by january although there are fears it may take longer. to european parliament strasberg has been debating a report into whether paul garrett and rumania are ready to join the reserve area it would mean that easier travel to and from those countries within the e.u. but sarah a lot for the british liberal democrat thinks that without internal dollars within the e.u. the problem of illegal immigration cannot be solved. it's finally up to the e.u. government to decide whether those countries can join and they're meeting next week

to decide but and your parliament just has a role of say whether they agree but of course there has also been migration pressures other pressures other worries about those countries joining the border freeze particularly arising from the events in north africa the arab spring which of course has been extremely welcome but one of the offshoots of. migration across the mediterranean tragically with hundreds of people dying actually in the med but pressures of 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 borders the migrants can move north and west across the e.u. without encountering passport. checks on the way. well in just a few minutes from now expert on all things finance mexico will be talking about the under tactics of oil traders as well as saudi arabia's plant atomic reactors

that's after the business update with dimitri. and a warm welcome to business r.t. b.p. is taking steps to sell part of its fifty percent stake in russian urgency n.k.v.d. state run rossiya 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. the deal with ross net now b.p. supporters are objecting to the sale saying they will lose control of the company and the sale of you could help b.p. improve its financial situation but it may also be a blow to the company's post. of research doubts whether the deal would take place at all. i do not believe that they are will allow for twenty five percent shareholding in ten people to be sold to a strategic competitor such as the us next ultimately it's tricky to move by b.p.

to negotiate a more fair valuation for a our share team k b p i think you go she will take place but the reason why b.p. is pressing forward to this is that they're interested in developing the arctic reserves so full of russian joined in joint venture with us next. well ukraine has long been asking russia to cut natural gas prices for the time being they will remain the same as world transit tariffs that's one of the outcomes of the interstate commission meeting held in moscow and ukraine which imports about sixty percent of its domestic gas needs in russia and trying to negotiate a lower price street to its economic difficulties. so the stock markets in russia they saw a pretty hefty jump on tuesday with the r.t.s. gaining two percent my six one point eight percent on the back of rising oil and that's also prices separate some of the individual movers on the my six most of the blue chips were higher at the close ross navigating two point four percent on

speculation in may acquire a stake in a t m k b b gas problem was gaining four point five percent as its negotiating prices with ukraine china embellished more and that in the second and the banking sector was also doing well with the z.b. adding more than one percent. minsk is considering selling fifty percent of its gas pipeline operator belle trans gaz only happened at moscow agrees to export natural gas prices for the domestic russian market privatization of the country's assets is one of the conditions surrounding the three billion dollar loan from russia if the sale takes place gazprom will. of elevation gas pipeline system. that's all for now the headlines are next on our t.v. stay with us.

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