to get them closer to the mill stone who took some of the old country house holiday in the blue goldman turns to remember the crumbly it used to be the most secure to the world full of the ruben's original. fresh air strikes pound the libyan capital as nato escalates its gone guardsman to dislodge the final curtain for the half a. minute while russia's envoy to leave yes says both gadhafi and the rebels agree there is no way to end the crises through your journey rich notion of four more in just a few moments. and moscow says the lessons of the libyan stalemate mean it's against a u.n. resolution on syria which is being heavily parsed by the u.k. and france. but fears of a nuclear nightmare amid a global concern in the wake of the fukushima disaster britain's person systems

with its atomic projects leaves experts warning of a massive security threat. but from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching our team with me and use an hour it's four pm here in the russian capital two pm in tripoli and moscow is calling on the libyan regime and the rebels to seek a peaceful way out of the conflict after talks with the opposition and colonel gadhafi is cousin who was representing tripoli russia's envoy says both sides understand there's no solution to the crisis by military means well it comes as nato continues its intense air strikes on the libyan capital let's get more now from our correspondent really from those who live in tripoli and joins us live maria is there any further progress here with russians attempts to mediate this conflict. colonising you're absolutely right what we are seeing here is

a kind of breakthrough precious peace mediator. has indeed visited libya to persuade warring sides to stop talking he's not for that purpose opposition leaders in the libyan rebel stronghold and cause the and this cousin and closest ally. in cairo as he has said to better understand both sides demands and position and following these meetings has come to the media to say good news actually. both sides both khadafi and the radicals agree and understand that there is no any way to end this crisis through. military actions through the war and that this conflict could only be resolved through negotiations of course it's too early for the time being to say exactly when the two sides can't run the table but at least what we're seeing here is

a mutual understanding between the two sides been involved in this conflict about how serious the situation is about how dangerous is the situation here in libya and about how important is to try and this crisis as soon as possible and only through peaceful means here's what mr mccullough has sat. it is have a clear picture of the positions we see. his cousin represents a political elites in tripoli one thing is quite clear. that the current political situation in libya cannot be resolved by military means and the country's with. and libyans can only way out of this crisis. i have to emphasize that mr mcallister has sad that the rebels he has.

bengazi hundred percent ready for the dollar. and with the government i have to point out that russia's envoy hasn't come to tripoli as it was expected before because russia's position is that daffy the colonel gadhafi has lost his legitimacy and has no longer the right to represent this country and he some period this of course all as the coalition has intensified aerial strikes on the libyan capital tripoli where you are what's the situation like there now. when you say you're absolutely right in just a few days we've seen a dramatic intensification of nato airstrikes on the libyan capital tripoli actually i have to say that on tuesday night launched the most intensive strikes since the beginning of operation here in libya in march.

libyan government spokesperson has come to the journalists saying that at least thirty one people have been killed and sixty strikes so that's quite a lot and actually that's quite unusual because. previously. they would only. happen like up to five strikes a day and all the during the night time so what we are seeing here what we are witnessing here in the capital tripoli is that a matter of intensification of his military after it's. actually we can expect even further intensification. to dye their defense ministers meeting in brussels and just ahead of this meeting secretary-general rasmussen has said that he would use this opportunity to appeal to the countries to demand more contribute to the fight against gadhafi and his. days ago nato expanded its war

against gadhafi and started for the first time using attack helicopters in this mission meanwhile what we are hearing from the other side of the front line from bin ghazi from the libyan rebel waters shows us that the rebels are kind of frustrated with natives actions and frustration is rising as they are worrying that he's taken control over what they think is a national outcry zing back to you. live from tripoli you've course will continue to bring us the latest on our twitter feed which you can follow it underscore.

france and britain are planning to put forward a draft resolution to the u.n. security council later on wednesday condemning syria's government crackdown on demonstrations the u.k.'s prime minister announced a move in response to months of violent unrest in syria with protesters demanding that president assad steps down arrests foreign minister says moscow will oppose any resolution for the causes of those are your thoughts the brunt of comes to the proposal to consider syria in a similar way as was applied to the libyan situation in which the security council and international community have already become bogged down we believe that the glue machine should be aimed at resolving problems politically and not to create conditions for new armed conflict but we should support the process of national

reconciliation on accord on constructive peacekeeping roles for neighboring states rather than trying to pass more and more resolutions which will in fact mean siding with one of the parties in an internal political conflict. well arab world watchers insist serious troubles are an internal problem and its people need to find their own way british journalist simon assaf says by interfering in arab affairs the former colonial powers are trying to reassert their influence in the region. it's a very very dangerous move by britain and france to fear in a 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 for the future direction of syria and you feel there's a sense now that from saw president sarkozy of france is moving like a demon to try and. place france back in 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 world war 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 cuts very little ice so i think it's a very unwise move by the west to interfere in the in and the syrian revolution process. here with our team live from moscow coming up a real life slumdog millionaire story of an indian man who broke out of the centuries old tradition of a caste system any one term in their own destiny. and

off they go it's three now three man crew and for the international space station we relive the exhilaration and excitement of the final moments before they set off . countries around the world are calling for stress tests for all atomic reactors to avoid a fukushima style crisis at a meeting on nuclear safety in paris germany and switzerland are planning to shut down their atomic plant thoughts of gather but the u.k. is committed to expanding its facilities and its lore emmet explains there's a lot that could go viral. the lake district famous for its quaint to 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 here right on the edge of the picture escalate distrait is sellafield 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 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. sellafield. approach is a tiny fraction of what it was supposed to questioning your money cables leaked which leaks to us described it became to strew in paris an inch and a white elephant the majority of the sellafield stockpile is british but managers

was so confident it would work they took in from other countries promising to send it back as fuel a major customer was japan which now says it won't buy the marks. has changed the landscape because there is now growing concern here in japan about the whole nuclear. business in particular the business in recycle. and the campus of the last plants are sort of fields it was to make fuels that would be sent back to japan using japanese kitani and even this fall for the p. ternium or. processing 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 is

really about getting rid of plutonium is no where the purpose for. a more expensive to produce. use is to make it work and it produces nuclear waste is much more difficult to deal with for now the stockpiles here to stay posing a massive security threat when the biggest fears since nine eleven is of course that still could be targeted in some way by terrorists 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 to make large parts of london uninhabitable for many many years so the field 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 but the incident

highlighted the hazards of storing such a huge amount of deadly material worryingly that hasn't stopped the government plans to pour billions into a second plant your emmett's r.t. sellafield cumbria. they were called the young touchable for thousands of years indians were found only for work the upper caste deemed unworthy so they are making their way to the top despite the president's our society. one entrepreneur who share his story. yeah 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. he's the owner of every spawn pipes a cement pipe 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

exulted the lowest caste in the ancient hindu caste system also known as untouchables for centuries these people were restricted to work such as meeting sewers and picking up dead animals from the streets my father my mother the. support of local builders or motive that we have from this frost and how we have moved. suppose that. so jumped up 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 of members of the delicate community say that this throwing club of dollars millionaires and billionaires had to triumph over ingrained societal stereotypes. the ability was not allowed to be in the same room as agreement. next to the door of the lips should was constant and it was forbidden to fall on an upward cost.

just that says that these preconceived notions actually motivated him to succeed after completing his education jug business began to grow and today he sells pipes for irrigation purposes all over western india despite his accomplishments he still trumbull about his journey. business to. begin this but this is hard when it is our work to do a work from morning to evening in this factory to millionaires themselves say it's a side effect of india's call. see they opened up the economy to foreign investment in one thousand nine hundred one since then and many businesses including ones led by dallas have thrived. entrepreneur is also say the government's efforts to make quotas for lower caste in schools and government jobs as health and 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 right where they are that is so much i belong to the village goes to people from other customers who go nuts i'm really pushed to study. up in the city give me the card review people don't care about us and don't come to see how we leave but one kid out of the sea go a man government should be care of them if they have less money and should give them a proper education. but the millionaire is believe that if they can do it then other members of their caste can chew the. prison he can do anything just to hear that we are. using their will power to overcome the odds there are t. to name india. a look now at this hour's other stories from around the globe germany's national disease control center says the number of people in fact called

why outbreak is still rising the worst is over infections have so far killed twenty four people around two and a half thousand others across europe the e.u. is pledging one hundred fifty million euro compensation for affected farmers but spain which was wrongly blamed as the source says that's not enough. you know whether it's the european central bank and the i.m.f. germany's finance minister has called for a new aid program for greece he suggested a bond swap to give more time to repay its debt. that's the controversy of ten billion euro in aid last year but that hasn't been enough to restore the economy greece is still introducing more spending cuts and tax hikes angering the public. yemeni officials say hundreds of arms tribesmen have taken control of part of the country's second largest city to ease it follows two days of violence which saw them clashed with troops trying to storm the presidential palace yemen's opposition

is urging the vice president was in power they want to prevent the president returning to office following his treatment in saudi arabia for injuries sustained in a rocket attack. well in moscow to catch a cab just stick out your hand and then someone is likely to fall over however it's usually a member of the public illegally trying to make some extra caps on the side so the law is tightening up but anyone taxi driver saves them will suffer as he reports. it was a lot of those men could protect them instead it's made more scares 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 repairing 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 will soon have to pay in one of a limited number of licenses car color equipment with a meter and sign a written contract with every passenger in theory it should read all the laws market gillis about shit and the law 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 should be and because the taxi drivers union will achieve exactly the opposite of what it sets out to do here reconcile any contract for every trip is unworkable and making every cab including private high cause 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. people. what will remain is a two tier system for the few expensive companies who can afford the licenses and the only authorized drivers who didn't obey the law very little carry on ignoring the. new regulations also place to come into force in september to you one who first to revert just before them will be treated as a little breaker of the moment nobody quite knows how the new law will work in practice but one thing is already clear out of those being designed not all the interested parties were consulted the ball is now back in the lawmakers court but will they listen you go girl see moscow. the stories we're covering on air are also available on our website argued dot com you can find more analysis on scene video

for this and other stories as well here's some of what's just click away. the german chancellor angela merkel enjoyed a very warm welcome in france with salutes fanfares and plenty of our own but what did she bring to share with washington. russia's ruling party throws out one of its members after she made online comments and just think only the rich and beautiful should be allowed into central moscow. trio of space adventures are on their way to the international space station the russian american and japanese crewmembers blasted off early on wednesday and not spend five months in orbit they'll carry out hundreds of scientific experiments and even trying to grow vegetables in the zero gravity environment artie's lindsey france watch the launch of the cosmic drone in kazakhstan. the three men have been together for nearly two years preparing for this trip and they've traveled all over the world preparing in different models of soyuz and getting ready for what is really this

this final push into space and what they say feels almost a little bit like home as cramped is 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 oh the three men say they will be taking very special items into space with them i'll be a very few items pictures of loved ones and so on to also be able to talk with their families every day that we've talked to the backup 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. loud what it's like first just shock tremendously you can really sense the power in

that as it as it took off what we experienced southwest it will take them about eight minutes to hit orbit around the earth two days to dock now to premed when they get there will be undertaking over forty scientific experiments among them cancer research and the ability to actually grow food in space. where up to date now from the news desk dimitris here with the business stay with us. thanks so much unease russia's efforts to cope with the headline inflation i use for it at least the world bank has lowered its forecast for consumer price growth in the country now sees inflation as about eight percent this year however it's too early to celebrate because the bank still doubts inflation will meet the government's target of six and a half the cent let's now talk to the world bank i'm joined by federal but world bank country director for russia thank you so much for being with us how important is it for russia to actually tackle its relatively high inflation. well i think

it's very important i think first thing you need to think that inflation is like attacks particularly on taxes of those whose incomes are. you know go up with inflation so that it's like a tax really income to get clines particular pensioners and others i think the other part of inflation if you think about it is you need i think russia wants to become like them our global market for its currency right financial center of inflation is actually you want to have a stable currency with low inflation rates to be able to attract international investors so i think for russia's invasion it's important to bring inflation down and what makes the bank appear more positive about russia. well i think that's a pretty broad question but let me say first thing about the on the inflation side i think there are two things but i'd like to talk about other issues but on inflation number one is the. government has because central bank has taken

a series of measures both on reducing liquidity and also increasing interest rates and the mtu the money the money supply growth is coming down to rates which are comes more consistent with nominal income growth i think the other side of it of course is russia's grain and other food production this year as it's expected to be more favorable so that will also help bring out inflation but more generally i think our prospects for russia are positive because i think the efforts of the authorities that you are trying to do in the business climate increasing competition these are important areas which i think will will also improve russia's performance on the supply side and also reduce inflation that way i will russia's leaders have actually long wanted to see the ruble as a global reserve currency or at least a regional one what's your opinion on this is that possible. or you know i think it's i mean i don't know if it's possible or not it's i think it could be but i think more importantly you need to look at but it is most of the efforts which the

authorities will do to make the ruble more attractive as a reserve currency are good for the country in general so i think it's a very it's a very interesting objective it's it's a challenge which is always important for objectives and in this way they will be able to tackle it will tackle a series important impediments and capital markets right both on the infrastructure side of the capital markets and also some of the issues regarding corporate governance of the business climate also means making moscow a different city so i think all these things are actually good for everybody i think it's a very interesting objective in that sense what finally what downsides of russia's economy do you see at the moment which are slowing it down. well you know i think russia's vulnerability always its dependence on oil and i think this is something which is recognized by everybody so the downside always is you know. what are your options when oil prices go down from its current from the current levels and they will always have in the always world you'll come down and i think that's the

biggest challenge for russia is to diversify attract new investors. bring new production i think that's probably the most important downside or challenge for the economy. all right mr alba thank you so much for your time and for your answers that was peddled a country director for russia. and i'm afraid that's all we have time for in this bill as in but we will be back in fifteen minutes time with plenty more so join us if you can have something.

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