holmes discovers fluff to make science articles so special and attractive for many life in antarctica is a place if you live in the slums of. extradition to the bottom of your artistry. artillery or talks nato and russia take different approaches to solving the libyan deepening crisis. the most intense i radiates in tripoli while russia's peace mediator tries to get everyone round the table i'm on drugs i mean raise notion of from tripoli in just a few moments. and france and britain see you want action over syria's brutal crackdown on protesters but russia warns it will not allow another foreign intervention into our internal look players. because britain's times i have plans to expand its nuclear facilities truly concerns that terrorists could be eyeing the sites as targets. as in business

border and russian carmakers solar's given a tour of both to start to end production next year wideout for the two companies get out of the steel business bulletin and twenty minutes. is three pm in moscow this is r t coming to you live with me and he said no way to our top story in libya where nato airstrikes continue throughout the night and what has been the most intense coalition strike since the intervention began in march meanwhile russian special envoys calling on the regime and the rebels to seek a peaceful solution we can all margelov met colonel gadhafi is cousin in cairo after talks with the opposition in benghazi is following developments. nato has indeed changed its tactics and has increasingly intensified.

and particularly because of the cut off is i mean three arsenal intensification of nato strikes comes after the statement by the british foreign secretary william hague inside the entire operation against gadhafi in libya has no sideline and could last beyond christmas day daters defense ministers are meeting in brussels and. the secretary general anders fogh rasmussen is expected to demand more countries conceded to the fight meanwhile what we're hearing from benghazi is that frustration among rivals is rising and they're concerned about nato operation here levy are saying that they have feeling the need to say can control over what is national prize and actually russian peace mediator make out a gallop has this had been garcia has met with the opposition leaders and has once again underlined russia's position we serious of the think that airstrikes never

saw the political problems and we said it here very clearly as long as the bloodshed continues the longer it continues the more difficult it will be to build a national reconciliation process after the civil war so we are very much in favor of building political bridges so to speak and we are ready to help the centrality of the of having. russia things that significant has to be the major piece mediator in this process. artie's wary of the notion out there in the very heart of the conflict in tripoli for the latest events as they unfold in the be a follower chorus on earth including maria at our twitter poll r t underscored harmed. by mediating peace in nato one part of libya russia says it's also determined to prevent foreign intervention in other arab countries

in syria the regime is continuing its crackdown on protesters with france and britain leading calls at the u.n. for accept russia's foreign minister says the kremlin will oppose any resolution so this is a loser in your course when it comes to the proposal to consider syria in a similar way as was applied to the libyan situation in which the security council an international community already becomes goldstone we believe that diplomacy should be aimed at resolving problems politically and not to create conditions for a new arms conflict we should support the process of national reconciliation on accord on constructive peace keeping roles for neighboring states rather than trying to pass more and more resolutions which will fight mean siding with one of the parties in an internal political conflict. arab world watchers insist serious troubles are an internal problem and its people need to find their own way british journalist simon i thought has written extensively about the arab spring he's warning against the former colonial powers from reasserting their influence. it's

a very very dangerous move by britain and france interfere in the syrian revolution because both countries have a very long history in this region palestine lebanon and syria itself and i think it will be seen very much as western interference in the internal affairs of syria we have to remember that a revolution in 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 this is an internal struggle if you like full of the future direction of syria and you feel there's a sense now that france or president sarkozy of france is moving like a demon to try and. place france back in side a position of power inside the middle east and i have to repeat we have to remember that france had control of the syria in from the end of the first world war and there was a very very long struggle for syria to get rid of the french for independence so

the idea that this is somehow some kind of benevolent force coming in to help the syrian population i think that's very little ice so i think it's very unwise move by the west to interfere. regards to live from moscow still ahead held back hindus who are determined to make comment one of india's lower groups is fighting social stigma to make their way for a fair place in society find out how later. officials from thirty nuclear energy producing countries are meeting in paris as governments become increasingly nervous of atomic fuel following the crisis in japan germany and switzerland plan to close all their nuclear reactors but britain is committed to expanding its facilities which as i met explains is leading to security fears. the lake district famous for its queen villages and spectacular views it's

a hillwalkers paradise but one can't help wondering if people would be quite as happy to holiday here if they knew what was right next door. right on the edge of the picturesque lake district seller fails nuclear plants improbably it's home to the world's biggest plutonium stockpile a waste product of civilian nuclear fuel plutonium is one of the deadliest substances known to man poisonous and convertible into nuclear weapons but nuclear scientists have a plan inside these buildings they take the waste p ternium and recycle it into usable nuclear fuel called mox it sounds great in theory but the reality is very different there is an existing plant at sellafield output as being a tiny fraction of what it was supposed to cost an enormous amount of money cables

leaked which leaks the u.s. described it took industrial and virus an inch and a watch elephant the majority of the sellafield plutonium stockpile is british. managers were so confident it would work they took plutonium from other countries promising to send it back as fuel a major customer with japan which now says it would buy the marks. has changed the landscape because there is now a growing concern in japan about the whole nuclear. business in particular the business in recycle. the purpose of the not plans of sellafield was to make sure you think would be sent back to japan using japanese p ternium even before the plutonium reprocessing plant itself field was considered one of the biggest disasters in british industrial history producing just ten percent of its planned output huge cost but that hasn't stopped the government plans for building yet

another plant it could cost ten billion dollars much of it taxpayer money moxy it's really about getting rid of plutonium there's no other purpose for. more expensive to produce subsidy uses to make it work and it produces nuclear waste that is much more difficult to deal with for now the stockpiles here to stay posing a massive security threat when the biggest fears eleven is of course that stockpiling plutonium will be targeted in some way by terrorists either by crashing a craft onto the site or whatever so this enormous concern about it being used by terrorists in some shape or form five kilograms of this material and remember we have something something approaching one hundred tons of it five kilograms of this material would make large parts of london uninhabitable for many many years sellafield has been affected by global events recently in the wake of the killing

of osama bin ladin five men were arrested taking photos here on suspicion of terrorist activities they were eventually released without charge the incident highlighted by. has it storing such a huge amount of deadly material sounds like a good way of getting rid of it but following fukushima there's no markets worryingly that hasn't stopped the government plans to pour billions into a second smoke spawns. sellafield cumbria. in a few minutes on r t the change which moscow taxi driver say is just not fair telling the cab in the capital it's usually a sense but also cabbies are an official now along the real ones prior reports shortly plus. we now have liftoff as approved three had for a lengthy stay on the international space station we explore the relationship

between man and woman care. but first india's crash structure is arguably the world's most rigid people born into lower caste held back from opportunities or even basic liberties but one such group is breaking the mold of thousands of years of tradition the laws on their side buttons are reports climbing accounts water is not easy. it's who wants to be a millionaire indian style and today in india more people than ever feel like they too have a shot at making it big. meet up he's the owner of every spun pipes a cement kite making company worth three hundred fifty million rupees or eight million dollars so what makes him different than any other rich indian well he's a doll is the lowest caste in the ancient hindu caste system also known as untouchables for centuries these people were restricted to work such as being

sewers and picking up dead animals from the streets my father my mother. support a lot of the oldest or most of the you know from this frost and how we have to go of one group for that. so just put made it his mission to get an education he worked on his business during the night and went to college during the day while just the claims that he didn't feel any sort of discrimination members of the delicate community say that this growing up of dollars millionaires and billionaires had to triumph over ingrained societal stereotypes being. a dalit was not allowed to be in the same group as agreement he had to sit next to the dog it gives you an ability to is constant and it was forbidden to fall on an upward gust . jumped up says that these preconceived notions actually motivated him to succeed after completing his education just spend this began to grow and today he

sells pipes for irrigation purposes all over western india despite his accomplishments he still troubled about his journey reborn finger. for business to people working in this factory this is fragmented this is a work i would be. doing this for three millionaires themselves say it's a side effect of india's paul. see that opened up the economy to foreign investment in one thousand nine hundred one the sin standard many businesses including ones like idolaters have tried to doll it entrepreneur is also say the government's efforts to make quotas for lower castes in schools and government jobs has helped them get an education to improve their lives even though many dollars have overcome their social caste in become successful entrepreneurs most of them still live right here in the slums despite these examples of success many of them feel that the indian society is structured to keep them bright where they are it is so much to

look i belong to that the list goes on and people from the customers don't notice i'm going to study. in the city. people don't get about us and don't come to see how we live but when you get out of this you go man the government should take care of them if they have less money and should give them a proper education. but the millionaires believe that if they can do it then other members of their caste can chew it with the. president he can do anything just to his. using their will power to overcome the odds pre-history there are t. o. ne india. a look now at this hour's other top stories from around the world pakistani officials say u.s. missile strike near the afghan border has killed twenty people the strike occurred in a tribal region rest of the capital islamabad this area's know to be home to several

militant groups connected to attack on nato forces across the border in afghanistan pakistan is growing increasingly angry at nato strikes regarding them as violations of its sovereignty. yemeni officials say hundreds of armed tribesmen have taken control of part of the country's second largest city it follows two days of violence which saw them clash with troops trying to storm a presidential pick. i was there in the capitol protesters continue to rally to demand president and they stays away is currently in saudi arabia being treated for serious injuries following a rocket attack. the u.s. and its human rights chief has condemned israel's deadly response to want to grasp on the syrian border were up to forty people have reportedly died in recent weeks now b.p. they also expressed concerns over reports that syrian authorities encourage people to protest even though the area is filled with landmines israeli police fired on civilians who were protesting on the anniversary of the one nine hundred sixty s.

and middle east war which saw a land seized from syria. and germany's health minister says the outbreak of the deadly new strain of e. coli i has peaked and the worst is over infections of so far killed twenty four people though left a further two thousand four hundred ill across europe the e.u. is pledging one hundred fifty million euros compensation for affected farmers but spain which was wrongly blamed for their produce being the source says that's not enough. now to get a cab in moscow just stick your hand out and in only a few seconds someone is likely to pull over and over it's usually a member of the public trying to make a few extra rubles tell them why is tightening up genuine fact the drivers then who will suffer as a group now. it was a law that was meant to protect them instead it's made moscow's registered taxi drivers take to the streets. with the best will in the world there's no way i or

anyone can comply with the new regulations so just appearing to lose my job. we want to changes but not these changes the new law was written to kill small businesses like ours the new law was meant to stop legitimate taxi drivers being undercut by so-called gypsy cabs which dominate russia's big cities these are all buying it's often operated by immigrant drivers who lack local knowledge and pay no tax at the risk of large fines all drivers all soon have to pay in one of a limited number of licenses paying their car color equipped with a meter and sign a written contract with every passenger in theory it should ring all the market. is perfect and this one might only work half of the time but at least it shows the authorities are doing something instead of nothing as in previous years. but

according to get a full of shit of being in the taxi drivers union the law will achieve exactly the opposite of what it sets up to do you reckon signing a contract for every trip is unworkable and making every cab including private hi cars the same color will be expensive and unnecessary. this is pure bureaucracy and instead of helping normal cabbies it will make us on competitive. he also worries that the licenses will not be distributed fairly. if it is. what will remain is a two tier system for a few expensive companies who can afford the luxury and the only authorized drivers who didn't obey the law very little carry on ignoring issues. new regulations are supposed to come into force in september and anyone who fails to reregister before that will be treated as a little breaker out of the woods nobody quite knows how the new law will work in practice but one thing is already clear as it was being designed all the interested

parties were consulted the ball is now above the law and make its court but will they listen. about see moscow. there's more on making the most of life on our website look out for the russian section here's what else we're covering in our dot com at the moment it is how people are rushing the mayor of the far north wants his home for sleeping rough to highlight on lack of cheap housing. and starting the streets in the driver board duck watch our report on this wise cracking artist who's turning heads it's. also the ultimate transformer with details on how china has turned her fairground attraction into an ocean going to war machine. this.

week. three men are on their way to the international space station after blasting off early on wednesday the russian american and chinese crewmembers five months in orbit with plenty of work planned to keep busy while and space are going to france watch the final countdown out because of a drone in kazakhstan. the three men have been together for nearly two years prep or preparing for this trip they have traveled all over the world preparing in different models of soyuz and getting ready for what is really this this final push into space in what they say feels almost a little bit like home as cramp as it may be the soil u.s. is is something they've practiced in for so long now that it feels a little bit like home as they told us just the other day let's listen first of this when you sit in the spaceship you understand that it is yours it was made for you it should bring you to your beautiful and hopefully bring you from and you love

this spaceship i'm going stars working you can hear how if the thing is working and running it's his life for you to be honest i have more anxiety standing here in front of a news camera than i do sitting on top of a rocket the three men say they will be taking very special items into space with them i'll be a very few items a pictures of loved ones and so on to also be able to talk with their families every day and we've talked to the back up team they're very excited to watch this they say that it's something it's an amazing emotional thing to watch let's check it out. for you.

it will take them about eight minutes to hit orbit around the earth two days to talk now to three men when they get there will be undertaking over forty scientific experiments among them cancer research and the ability to actually grow food in space while one aside the earth just shook tremendously you can really sense the power in that as as it took off what an experience that was. well up soon our debate show crawls talk tackles the war on drugs before that though kareena joins us with the latest business. her rock and to business here in r.t. thanks for joining me in a moment we'll be talking about a deal among established comic but the manufacturer of hybrid cars in russia is one step closer to the construction of the first plants to produce

a new generation of vehicles has started just outside st petersburg and of course iraq has. this is one of. those and it's been many truckers through more one is the hatchback and the other one a coupe now these cars were first introduced back in january and there were an instant hit the company got over one hundred thousand advanced orders and if you're wondering about the price tag this car was about twelve to fifteen thousand dollars this will provide a much needed boost for the russian car industry at the moment car ownership amounts to two hundred thirty cars per thousand adults in russia and that's compared to about eight hundred in america but as the economy recovers the market is growing steadily the boston consulting group says the russian core market could become the world's largest by twenty twenty selling about four million cars a year this will come on the back of more important ships modernization and more

local production these young will be a hybrid cars prove to be a success then there will definitely help russia revive its auto industry and as the country's first hybrid it will be a step forward during that call serve all business artsy. venture between ford and russian comic a saw as is being given a turbo boost they have secured a one point four billion dollar line of credit from the bank the two companies agreed the deal in february with the intention production will start next year and i'm going by van going to from. now i don't hear about what is for installers each get from the state. oh that's a very interesting project because in this case. is being launched is not a conventional hybrid car which is already sold at substantial volume soon other

parts of the world. like loop are actually sequentially different technology whereby you have a super condenser generating electricity during friction when you break and also when you celebrate so basically it replaces the very expensive lithium batteries with much smaller and inexpensive ones this affords actually to position the car at the much lower price in any case in it's a new product so let's see how the consumer will react to eat i from what i see there are a lukewarm expectations from the russian car drivers who are normally strongly biased towards a canal which foreign brands and this is actually well attested boy of car sales statistics. ok or how important is this new joint venture between ford and sellers

to the russian market i mean we know that ford has assembly lines in russia why do they need a joint venture. well for a number of reasons i would imagine most importantly. even we look at forts from force perspective basically although they were the first one to enter the market. with their new greenfield investment banking two thousand and three friend not mistaken they already lost their number one position to other foreign brands so in order to catch up with the rest of the leaders they need a quick or a stab listening to their positions so obviously you've they go on their own it will take longer and secondly it will be more expensive so having a strong local partner with good distribution network access to additional capital and also very good to existing facilities is definitely an advantage

actually to name but a few from solar spur space it provides them also with access to new technologies a very strong global player. is so replacing their other contender with whom they've been dealing for a number of years and looks like unfortunately they were unable to reach an ultimate agreement for a train venture ok now we're saying that the russian kamarck it is expanding how crucial and important is it for this like venture to work. well actually another reason for the joint venture to a to b. facilitate is the recently amended to invest three zero assembly legislation allowing for carmakers to receive a number of benefits provided they need certain i mean affecting conditions so one of the major ones has been a substantial increase of the annual volume capacity that they need to have which

makes it. unlikely for single players to meet them so this is why a number of alliances have been treated sort of a folder for sellers being one of them. and why from what from your point of view are international carnegie's showing an increasing interest in setting up joint production in russia instead of building their own plans for instance. like i said from an investment perspective to mean so much stronger commitment in capital raise. currently there are no capacity so of the russian are we and so assemblers which could be used under certain conditions and circumstances and in the case of seoul there's. actually the newest production facilities in the special economic zone the addition for their older facilities

which makes a very good fit. ok head of automotive practice and ernst and young thanks very much for that. that's all from me this hour dmitry medvedev in about forty minutes from now for more updates here. if you really. really take three. more charges read.