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the children of each college age old cubic. foot you know so chilled created so many hotels you're going to call durable teacher it's no wonder more time. in serbia letters available in good one hundred we can see they are going to. process i'm going to libya says it's clear both could cafes government and the opposition see talking not fighting the only way to end the country's civil war. knock out war it's not the last ones and all the libyan stalemate need is against a u.n. resolution on syria which is being heavily pushed by the u.k. and france. and fears of a nuclear nightmare in the wake of the fukushima disaster britain's persistence with its atomic projects leaves experts wary about amounts of security. and as appropriate means production levels on changed the oil is up helping russia's markets again within half
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a percent on wednesday more on that than the latest business news answer to the time. that seven pm in moscow this is r t coming to you by families now with our top story 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 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
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rebel stronghold and ghazi and cut off his cousin and closest ally in cairo as he has to better understand both sides demands and position and following these meetings he's come to the media to say that sides 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 only be resolved through negotiations mr mackellar that the rebels. would be ready for the trial of qatar. to have a clear picture of the positions we. use cousin and represent some of the political elites in tripoli one thing is. political situation in libya cannot be resolved going military means in the country. and the. only way out of this crisis. in just a few last days we've seen
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a dramatic intensification of nato strikes on the libyan capital tripoli on tuesday night launched at the most intensive strikes since the beginning of operation libyan government spokesperson has come to the journalists saying that at least thirty one people have been killed in sixty strikes and we can expect even further intensification today defense ministers meeting in process 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 contribute to the fight against gadhafi and to states ago. 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 bengazi from where the lead been trouble waters shows us but
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the drug goals first straight hits with the natives actions and frustration is rising as they a war in that nature is taken control over what they think is a national uprising. which is more international in tripoli for us don't forget for the latest events as they unfold in libya you can follow our correspondents twitter posts there are to underscore com you can also keep track of the latest videos on our you tube channel.
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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 ukraine's prime minister announced the move in response to months of violent unrest in syria with protesters demanding that president assad steps down but russia's foreign minister says moscow will oppose any resolution. so this is but those are your thoughts that 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 and international community have already become bogged down we believe that the promises should be aimed at resolving problems politically and not to create conditions for new armed conflicts we should support the process of national reconciliation on accord and constructive peacekeeping roles for neighboring states rather than try to pass more and more resolutions which will fight mean siding with one of the parties in an internal political conflict. well the resolution london
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and paris are seeking doesn't call for either sanctions or military action but investigative journalist says there are fears that if the u.n. security council passes it it could be overstepped. but you have to concede that the reasons why the usa and allies wants to overrule the governments in libya and syria it's because true story james has been since a long time ago polls tilted of the nation of the united states on the middle east . israeli colonialism everybody could see. the promise with the un resolution against libya that they were all they would only protect the civilians and now they are all guarding tripoli they have killed. more people more civilians so-called to protect them is so the image of people who came back from tripoli and the situation is horrible the western media do not show
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the disaster and yes of course everybody can see that the other night and this resolution was only a pretext and they want to overrule they want to cut their feet. now of course this will be difficult to repeat the same lies i think the resolution not only a way to increase the tension and to prepare in the future aggressions. coming up on r t a real life slumdog millionaire or you have an indian man who broke out of the centuries old tradition of a café system to prove anyone can determine their own path and i'll throw. you. off thank our as a three man crew had to the international space station we live the kill ratio and excitement the final moment. the first countries around the world are calling for stress test for all the tomic
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reactors to avoid a focusing mathile crisis at a meeting on nuclear safety in paris germany and switzerland are planning to slap down their atomic plants all. ok committed to expanding its facilities and as for emmett now explains there's a lot that could go wrong. the lake district famous for its quaint 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 picturesque lake district fields nuclear plants improbably it's home to the world's biggest plutonium stockpile a waste product of civilian nuclear fuel plutonium is what a big deadliest substances known to man poisonous and convertible into nuclear
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weapons put nuclear scientists have a plan inside these buildings they take the waste petone him 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 but it's. a tiny fraction of what it was supposed to do and equestrian enormous amount of money cables leaked leaks the u.s. described industrial and virus an inch and a white elephant the majority of the sellafield plutonium stockpile is british but managers were so confident it would work they took plutonium 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
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business in recycle. and the purpose of what's plans of solar field is to make sure. it would be sent back to using japanese kitani and even. the plutonium reprocessing plant 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 government plans for building yet another plant it could cost ten billion dollars much of it taxpayer money really about getting rid of plutonium was never the purpose for. more expensive to produce a subsidy to 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 from the biggest fears eleven is of course that stop and
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pretty soon you 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 will 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 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 box plant your avatar t. sellafield cumbria. they were called. in for thousands of years indian doll with
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were brought out only for work or casting worthy for today they are making their way to the top despite the prejudice of society or met 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. meet of you know is just he's the owner of everest on 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 meanings for words and picking up dead animals from the streets my father my mother the. support of the oldest the motive that we have from this frost and how we have.
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supposed 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 dollar community say that is throwing a lot of dollars millionaires and billionaires to triumph over ingrained societal stereotypes. via a billet was not allowed to be in the same room as a government. next to the door of the lips showed it was constant and it was a club it didn't fall on an up or gust. jumped up 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. of business. in this part three this is a carbon abysses
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a work. from morning to evening and in this factory the millionaires themselves say it's a side effect of india's paul. see they opened up the economy to foreign investment in one thousand nine hundred one since then and many businesses including ones led by talents have thrived the dollar entrepreneur is also say the government's efforts to make quotas for lower caste in schools and government jobs as help them get an education to improve their lives even though many dollars have overcome their social casting 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 good looking i belong to the political people from other customers who go moments i only wish is to study. in the city. people don't get about us and don't come to see her
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own kids of the sea go a man government should take care of them if they have less money and should give them proper education. but the millionaire is believe that if they can do it then other members of their caste can to. do prison he can do a good thing just to his. using their will power to overcome the odds prehistory there are t. india. a look now at this hour's other stories from around the globe germany's not small as the center says the number of people infected and unequal why our breaking storm rising the worst is over infections of so far killed twenty four people and with around two hundred thousand others across europe ill there was close in one hundred fifty million euro compensation for affected farmers but spain which was wrongly blamed as the source says not enough. in
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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. say further measures could ruin greece's banking sector and threaten banks across europe the country agreed one hundred ten billion year old bell out last year but that hasn't been enough to restore the economy. in the yemeni capital protesters gathered outside the vice president's headquarters to demand a transitional government now position wants to prevent the president's return to office problem and his treatment in saudi arabia only of the last sunday was severely hurt in an attack on his compound last week hundreds of people have been killed in protest against his long term group since january. in moscow to catch a cab just stick out your hand and within seconds someone is likely to pull over however it's usually a member of the public you legally trying to make some extra cash so why is
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tightening up but genuine taxi drivers say it's them who will suffer as reports. 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 preparing 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 laws
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market. is perfect and this one might only work half of the time but at least she was here for a taser doing something instead of nothing as in previous years. but according to being in the taxi driver's union the law will achieve exactly the opposite of what it sets up to do you 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 but instead of helping normal cabbies it will make us on competitive. he also worries that the licenses will not be distributed fairly. will remain is a two tier system a few expensive companies who can afford the licenses and the authorized drivers who didn't obey the law and will carry on ignoring it. regulations also close to
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come into force in september anyone who fails to revert to stood before them will be. treated as a little break 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 visited all the interested parties were consulted the goal is low but below lake is cool but will they listen you go girl see most of. the stories we're covering on air are also available on our website r.t. dot com you can find more analysis on some video footage and other stories as well your song what's just a click away for you why many poles believe ground zero trying to drown but both tournament which they're preparing for turned into a national disgrace. plus russell believes a radical leader of a sax that promised to cure cancer and aids by encouraging sufferers support a magazine on their bodies instead of see a doctor. a trio of space adventurers are on their
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way to the international space station the russian american and japanese crewmembers blasted off early on wednesday and will spend five months in orbit they'll carry out dozens of scientific experiments and even tried to grow vegetables in the zero gravity environment artie's lindsey france wants to launch at the cosmodrome in kazakhstan. the three men have been together for nearly two years prep or 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 as it may be the soyuz is is something they've practiced in for so long now that it feels a little bit like old the three men say they will be taking very special i don't see into space with them i'll be very few items pictures of loved ones and so on to
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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 in an amazing emotional thing to watch let's check it out. by first just show up tremendously you can really sense the power in that as it as it took off what experience outside 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 kyra for our main news block here in our in just
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a few minutes we'll look at the cost of the war on drugs in mexico and whether washington's tough methods are doing more harm than good for our business update with dimitri. on welcome to business the russian dream of developing its own hybrid car is one step closer to the construction of the first plant to produce a new generation of vehicles a starter just outside st petersburg but in the course of. this is one of a yarmulke almost and it's the mini proctors two more one is the hatchback and the other one a coupe now these cars were first introduced back in january there were an instant hit their 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 cars per thousand adults in russia and that's compared to
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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 more important ships more in isolation and more local production if these young well below 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 all service business r.t. . i don't feel like inside the joint venture between ford and russian carmakers solis is being given a turbo boost they've secured a two point seven billion dollar loan line of credit from the back almost half of the money will be invested directly into production companies agreed that they were
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intending production will start next year as katrina helps explains. the main goal was the joint venture is to double its market see here in russia of the next five years that's a lot of money man you're. looking at the price it's of. like being just the right nice to take advantage of this exploding money plus russian money thanks results the benefits will be increased production meaning not only more yards keeping that crisscross right here in russia we've put an assumption out there that by the middle of the decade and the russian industry will be about four million plus which incidentally makes it the largest industry in europe and we think that we will not touching that you need to utilize the capacity and we will have capacity up to three hundred fifty thousand by two thousand and twelve the big book reduced two new cars to the russian model ford explorer and transit they're both popular models
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in the u.s. and european markets eventually also produce a brand new model to be plastered dan rather big class will be a contact and its main aim is to compete with folks making home loans and other small accounts here in russia but you'll have to wait till two thousand and fourteen before that one comes off the production line. segment of the markets now we start with oil dramatic change in the situation on commodities markets that. is now up almost two dollars for lights we almost one hundred one dollars per barrel brant one dollar thirty cents this is as opec decides to leave production quotas as is world hike was expected. market stateside trading slightly no no change in the past hour that continues to be shaky off the fed chairman ben bernanke is downbeat comments on the u.s. economy. is down one percent after boarding weak sales the. european stock markets about to close in one hour's time and they're still trading in the red to
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tracking asia and overnight losses in the. and of course the still shaky about those comments from the ninety in russia the markets managed to reverse of from the red where they were trading most today and wednesday session slightly positive continued gains from tuesday that was helped by stronger commodities raw snapped up one point six percent of a close gas from one point two percent of the banking sector was slightly weaker than the market down point three percent. russia's efforts to cope with its headline inflation are yielding fruit at least the world bank has lowered its forecast for consumer price cried from the country now sees inflation about eight percent this year petro al the world bank country director for russia explains what's made them more positive about the country such advice has taken a series of measures both with using liquidity and also increasing interest rates and the to the money supply growth is coming down to rates which are more
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consistent with normal income growth i think the other side of it of course is russia's grain and other food production this year as is expected to be more favorable so that will also help bring down inflation but more generally i think our prospects for russia are positive because i think the efforts of the authorities are true are trying to do in the business climate on increasing competition these are important areas which i think will also improve russia's performance on the supply side and also reduce inflation that way. nuclear crisis forced the world to look for ways to boost renewable energy supply like the head of the russian energy agency has been outlining russians and then chop boil gas it's the the main supply i mean you must mean fuel and hi julie play it so i tell him if he would like to utilize a local fuel to use it in the week and he said look right it will show to treat renewables in russia the biggest potentially serious more high just asians and then
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by sector by mistake of cultural sic that would be essential. that's all for now and we will be back next hour with an update headlines are next nothing. more than a month. in one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is antarctica and people have to be aware that they are far away from civilization sean thomas
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discovers five make some targeted is so special and attractive for many the wildlife in antarctica is opposed and the friends of. the expedition to the bottom of the earth are to. wealthy british science. that's not on the top line of. the. market financed scandals find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to name two kinds of reports. in the czech republic and he's available in a hotel and science central hotel premier in the new sun most regal full stop by you to which i am a taste in bosnia and herzegovina available in.
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