margaret why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy cars reports on. fresh air strikes pound the libyan capital as nato escalates its bombardment to dislodge a defiant colonel gadhafi. meanwhile russia's envoy to leave yet says both gadhafi and the rivals agree there is no way to end the crisis through war during the race 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 pushed by the u.k. and france. but fears of a nuclear nightmare amid global concern in the wake of the fukushima disaster britain's persistence with its atomic projects leaves experts warning amounts of

security threat. and join the business of the later this hour as we speak exclusively to the world bank about the outlook for russia's economy and the recently upgraded forecast for russia the place from. its five pm in moscow this is archie coming to you live on news now a with our top story this hour moscow's 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 cousin who is representing tripoli russia's envoy says both sides understand there's no solution to the crisis by military means it comes as nato continues its intense air strikes on the libyan capital has more from tripoli. precious peace mediator. gallop has indeed visited libya to persuade warring sides

to start talking he's not for that purpose both opposition leaders in the libyan rebel stronghold and karzai and his cousin and closest ally. in cairo as he has said to better understand both sides the months and position following these meetings has come to the media to say a good news actually that both sides both kids are free and the rivals 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 mr mcallister has sad that the radicals say that they are ready for that all of. it is to have a clear picture of their positions with a. cousin who represents the political elites interested in one thing is.

well aware that the current political situation in libya cannot be resolved by military means and the country. and libyans can find a way out of this crisis. in just a few states we've seen a dramatic intensification of nato airstrikes on the libyan capital tripoli actually i have to say on tuesday night launched at the most intensive strikes since the beginning of operation here in. libyan government spokesperson has come to the journalists saying that's at least thirty one people have been killed and sixty strikes and actually we can expect even further intensification. today defense ministers of nato seen in

brussels and just ahead of this meeting the secretary general rasmussen has said that he would use this opportunity to appeal to the countries to demand more also contribute to the fight against gadhafi and just days ago nato expanded. a war against gadhafi and started for the first time using attack helicopters in this mission meanwhile what we're 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 the natives actions and frustration is rising as they are worrying that he's taken control over what they think is a national our prize and we have to notion of reporting there from tripoli don't forget for the latest events as they unfold in libya and you can follow our correspondents twitter posts there are 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 and u.k.'s prime minister announced the move is in response to months of violent on grass in syria with protesters demanding that president assad steps down russia's foreign minister says moscow will oppose a new resolution because it is proposing a new approach when it comes to the proposal to consider the syrian in a similar way as was applied to the libyan situation and which the security council

and international community have already become bogged down we believe that diplomacy should be angels resolving problems politically and not to create conditions for a new armed conflict we should support a process of national reconciliation on accord and 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 . over more on the events unfolding in syria we can talk now to investigative journalist michelle cologne who joins us from brussels thanks for being with us this afternoon france and britain are calling on the u.n. security council to condemn the government crackdown against protesters in syria saying that president assad is losing the children to think about the way the military involvement in libya began. yes you're right it's exactly the same and you have to consider the reasons why the usa. the law is formed to overrule

the governments in libya in syria because true these two regimes have been since a long time ago pulls to the nation of the united states on the middle east to the israeli colonialism and it has been demonstrated recently also in the worst thing to post that all these groups in a position media were financed by the usa themselves by the cia and the national endowment for democracy and for example a cable leaked by we can leaks recently said that the embassy was very afraid. it would be opened publicly all this position we established kate upton financed by the us you have of course social problems and democratic problems in these countries i do not deny but if you want truly to establish justice and democracy.

is that you is doing nothing against. the most backward saying repressive regime in the world the resolution london and paris are seeking arpa moment doesn't call for either thanks or for military action but they know russia and china are strongly opposed to any kind of resolution so i do trying to quest there with this watered down person now only to interpret it perhaps in a different way later like we saw with the no fly zone in libya yes you are right everybody could see the. promise with the un resolution against libya will they would only protect the civilians and now they are bombarding. you have killed . more people and more civilians so-called to protect them and i have recently. people who came back from tripoli and. it's interesting

is horrible the worst of the media do not show the disaster then yes of course everybody can see that they have lied and this resolution was only a pretext they want to overrule they want to kill gaddafi. now of course this will be difficult to repeat the same lies i think there is a resolution our only way to increase the tension and to prepare indeed future aggressions. an atomic watchdog is also closing in on syria if that's something whether a facility destroyed by israeli warplanes planes rather in two thousand and seven was a nuclear site do you think this is also a way to put crush trying to mask it from another direction per se i think this is true. for egypt's this is a petition of their weapons of mass destructions if you are really concerned about nuclear weapons. the us keeping them serves the us is the only country to use them

and if you consider the case of the middle east you. mean used already i mean in the middle east you have israel who has nuclear weapons and more than two hundred seats were refuses to be deemed a treaty of nonproliferation and refuses to inspection nobody speaks of that everybody speaks about iran who doesn't have nuclear weapons who signed a treaty accepting inspection and so this is just to take people food to have a pretext to demoralize a country and to me to people in public i can't briefly i want to go back to a possible u.n. resolution on syria if the security council path is that what will happen as you see it. well it depends because the aggression against libya is not successful they already repeated. he had to go are some.

accept that there will be a negotiation so i don't know our weeks we'll i kind of say how we'll do it. in the evolution but the fact is that you've got now a big offensive of the united states and the saudi arabia do not forget that so dear india it is financing paramilitary groups in syria to provoke tensions and do not forget that dozens of policemen have been killed by these kind of groups saudi arabia and other emirates are organizing the privatization of war and put it out and they are working for the cia sue do not forget that it's difficult to tell who's going to win on the one side u.s. is risking to lose its allies egypt and others and on the other side of the try to counter attack to benefit of these the evolutions to overrule tourism's that are

very resistant to their. own lives that's on the line now from process of investigating journalist thank you very much for your analysis. well coming up here on our to real life slumdog millionaire the story of an indian man who broke out of the centuries old tradition of a caste system to prove anyone can determine their own past me. and off they go once the three man crew head for the international space station we relive the exhilaration and excitement of the final moments before the satellites. but first countries around the world are calling for stress tests for all atomic reactors to avoid a focus she must crisis at a meeting on nuclear safety in paris germany and switzerland are planning to shut down their atomic clients altogether but the u.k.

is committed to expanding its facilities as more emmett now explains there's a lot that could go wrong. 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 care right on the edge of the picture escalator straight is sellafield nuclear plants in probably it's home to the world's biggest plutonium stockpile a waste product of civilian nuclear fuel can you tell us one of the deadliest substances known to man poisonous arms convertible into new clear weapons but nuclear scientists have a plan inside these buildings they take the waste key turn him and recycle it into a usable nuclear fuel called mox it sounds great in theory but the reality is very

different there is a existing. solar field but. history. a toy a fraction of what it was supposed to do and it cost an enormous amount of money that cables leak. leaks the u.s. described it as a big industrial embarrassment when a white elephant the majority of the sellafield p. tony i'm struck pile is british but managers were so confident it would work they took him 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 a growing concern in japan about the whole nuclear business in particular the business in recycle. and the purpose of the plans in solar field was to make fuels that would be sent back to japan using japanese kitani and even before

the p. tony and reprocessing plant at sellafield was considered one of the biggest disasters in british industrial history producing just ten percent of its planned output at huge cost but that hasn't stopped 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 there's no other purpose for. a more expensive to produce a subsidy to users 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 on the biggest fears since nine eleven as a cause of that stockpiling plutonium will be targeted in some way by terrorists either by crashing a craft onto the cycle whatever there's an 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. and have a school for many many years so it appears has been affected by global events recently in the wake of because 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 how's it's of storing such a huge amount of deadly material worryingly that hasn't stopped the government plans to pull billions into a second smokes. sellafield cumbria. where they were told the untouchables and for thousands of years indian were brought out only for work to work rather for the upper caste are worthy but today they are making their way to the top despite the projects of society. one entrepreneur who shared his

story. 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. he's the owner of every spawn types a cement pipe meeting company worth three hundred fifty million rupees eight million dollars so what makes him different than any other rich indian well he's a dollar the lowest caste in the ancient hindu caste system also known as untouchables for centuries these people were restricted to work such as these two words and picking up dead animals from the streets by far the more though this support of their owners or motives that you have from this crossed how we have pulled one. of the. still jump needed 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 daleks community say this is throwing club of dollars millionaires and billionaires to triumph over ingrained societal stary. it takes. a village was not allowed to be in the same group as a government. next to the dog ate their problem another let's shed was gone stood behind it was folded into fall on an outcast. jumped up says that these preconceived notions actually motivated him to succeed after completing his education job business began to grow and today he sells pipes for irrigation purposes all over western india despite his accomplishments he still trouble about his journey. business. being in this factory this is our fragmented this is our work to do our work from morning to evening in this factory to millionaires themselves say it's a side effect of india's policy that opened up the economy to foreign investment in

the one nine hundred ninety one since then many businesses including ones led by jealous have tried to tell it entrepreneurs also say the government's efforts to make voters 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 kasten 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. people from the customs go moments and my only wish is to study. up in the society. if you don't get about us and don't come to see how relieved own people of p.c. go on the government should take care of them if they have less money and should give them proper education. but the millionaires believe that if they can do it then other members of their caste can chew the person who's. in prison he can

do anything just because. we will. be using their willpower to overcome the odds preassure either she india. or the stories we're covering on air are also available at our website our too dark column you can find more analysis on some video footage and other stories as well here's some of what's just a click away the german chancellor angela merkel enjoyed a very warm welcome to the e.u. brass with salutes fanfare some plenty of pomp but what did she bring share with washington. and also russia's ruling party throws one of its members throws out one of its members after she made online comments suggesting only the rich and beautiful be allowed into central moscow. look now at some world news in brief for you this hour germany's national disease

control center says the number of people in fact it in an e. coli outbreak is still rising but the worst is over and factions have so far killed twenty four people and knocked around two and a half thousand others across europe ill the u. is pledging one hundred fifty million euro compensation for a fact of farmers but spain which was wrongly blamed as the source says that's not enough. in a letter to 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 our friends more time to repay its debts the concert received 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 armed tribesmen have taken control of part of the country's second largest city to ease its problems two days of violence which saw them clash with troops while trying to storm

a presidential palace yemen's opposition is urging the vice president to assume power they want to prevent the president returning to office following his treatment and. saudi arabia for injuries sustained in a rocket attack. a trio of space adventurers are on their way to the international space station the russian american and japanese crewmembers watson off early on wednesday and will spend five months in orbit they'll carry out hundreds of scientific experiments and even tried to grow vegetables in the zero gravity environment artist lindsey france watch the launch at the cosmodrome 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 light cold and 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 we've talked to the backup team they are very excited to watch this they say that it's something in an amazing emotional thing to watch let's check it out. loud what it's like first just show up tremendously you can really sense the power in that as it as it took off and what the experience tells us it will take them about eight minutes to hit orbit around the earth two days to talk now with this 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. time now to cross over to the business that is there and he'll bring us a life. thanks a mix of russia's efforts to cope with the headline inflation of healing for at least the world bank has lowered his forecast for consumer price growth in the country and now sees inflation to about eight percent this year petter albo well bag country director for russia explains what's made them more positive about russia. central bank has taken a series of measures both on reducing liquidity and also increasing interest rates and the money the money supply growth is coming down to rates which are concerned more consistent with the family income growth i think the other side of it of course is russia's grain and other food production this year as base expected to be more favorable so i 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 the truth are trying to do in the business climate increasing competition these are important areas which i think will also improve russia's performance on the supply side and also reduce inflation in that way. so you look at the markets and we start with the oil crude fell in new york are raising money again and speculation opec might increase that stock the output light sweet is trading at around ninety eight dollars a barrel brant says that around one hundred sixty. european stock markets are trading in the red investors are tracking asian overnight losses in the u.s. of up to the fed few cents about the sustainability of the economic recovery very much of the picture in russia the r.t.s. my six managed to come back into positive territory banking and energy shares pushing the markets forward sick of it some of the vigil movers. gain for a second day one point three percent on speculation that it might acquire stake

from b.p. and c n k v p s promised also gating as it negotiates prices with its partners in the c.i.s. and bt b. is down along with other banking stocks more than one percent. the russian dream of developing its own hybrid cars is one step closer to the construction of the first plot to produce a new generation of vehicles has just started outside st petersburg but in the course of the details. this is one of the young will be on board also and experimenting truckers two more one is the hatch i can 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 actually back 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 forty 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 car market could become the world's sixth largest by twenty twenty selling about four million cars a year this will come on the back of foreign partner ships modernization and more local production if these you know will be a hybrid cars prove to be a success and that will definitely help russia revive its auto industry and as the country's first hybrid it will be a step forward bring up cost service business are seen. in. germany between ford and russian car makers sold as is being given the bruised they've secured a one point four billion dollar lot of credit from the if your company's agreement of a deal in february and time in production will start next year. the benefit is that

forty's gaining from the joint venture agreement with solar so basically access to cheaper financing ready made production facilities stronger this review sion player and also strong political support in the face of solars for solar so on the other hand ford is actually quite a good replacement of their stipulate they. are partnering with it in the face of chrysler ford is enjoying a much larger share of the market they also have a good portfolio of models and they're ready to provide certain technology to the russian markets and overall there's a good strategic fit between the two companies. say without so you for the headlines with any such.

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