well you are one large corporation controlling the daily newspapers radio stations television stations the cable outlet you know you told me that that sounds like democracy public opinion versus f.c.c. . blues marching. russian nationalists icon has been shot dead in moscow investigators haven't ruled out it being an attempt to ignite ethnic tensions as the former army colonel had served of prison sentence for kidnapping and killing a chechen girl. made a report of the acknowledges targeting the libyan leader won't france and britain continue to push forward a resolution against the president of syria are to books fate of civilians on the ground caught up in the last so-called democratic mission. and russia will resume imports that's the polls as soon as safety guarantees are provided this is one of the outcomes of high level talks for nato as missile defense plans and in moscow

possible w.p.r.o. membership were also discussed. it's seven pm in moscow this is r t with me and use the now way our top story this hour a disgraced former russian military officer and nationalist movement i call him has been shot that here in moscow you're of the dawn of had spent eight years in prison for kidnapping and killing a chechen teenage girl but officials on the scene of his murder believe it was an act it what it was not an act of revenge but an attempt to ignite ethnic tensions artist peter oliver has the latest. yuri put down of a hugely controversial figure here in russia being a highly decorated military officer the commander of a tancred german jew in the second chechen war he was stripped of all of those those owners following his two thousand and three conviction for the abduction and

killing of an eighteen year old chechen woman now he remains in prison and till late two thousand and nine when he was released on parole around twelve o'clock day here in central moscow as busy busy streets in the center of the russian capital he was gunned down just behind me this through an archway there in the courtyard of a apartment block police are saying he was shot four times in the head the investigation of course now in its early stages but they've already said that they have found a car believed to have been used by the by the killers they call they found a gun with a silencer fits into a vehicle was partially burnt out and they are saying that the driver of that car was slavic ethnicity and they will be giving us more information on that as soon as they get it no downloads lawyer has said this is no way in his opinion this was a revenge killing for the for the crime he committed in chechnya and he believes

that this is as to investigators that this is a crime has been committed to incite hatred in the country which is taking into account donald's personality and his history the investigation's not ruling out that his murder may have been a probe occasion there is also no evidence that one or know of the ethnic group was behind the killing. but don't know if was viewed in some circles in russia and some nationalist groups in fall right groups as a hero an iconic figure for what he did during the chechen war you know we'll have to wait and see if there will be any response from those organizations or to be any protests but yes it does appear that this has what we're hearing from the best gaiters and from the donald's lawyer that this had been done to provoke a reaction from those to those groups and to incite ethnic tensions in the country . well. professor of islamic studies believes that the murder of dawn of could

expose deep rift between the various ethnic groups. doesn't use my will without even knowing who killed him and how exactly it happened it's obvious that there will be both positive and negative reaction to this tragic event i think in the caucuses they will welcome his team is he's very much disliked back but in russia some will see his death as vigilantism at the hands of north good cajuns i think that this will cause a certain amount of tension this doesn't mean we'll see more scattering in the streets although in some places that can't be excluded but this is a tragic event which highlights the abnormal into ethnic relations in sight russian authorities must be prepared to intervene in a sensible way because if we see a significant escalation it will be part of the system intended to destroy russian that multiculturalism and its diversity which would be incredibly destructive force . still to come in the program here on r t top level and top thinker at some of the world's most painful way figures stick together at a meeting of the secretive builder or group giving people plenty to speculate on

just what they're talking about. there goes the liberally targeting the libyan leader colonel gadhafi that's according to media reports quoting the alliance a senior military official he says the u.n. resolution justifies the action because as the head of the military that we as an essential part of the command structure it comes as fresh air strikes and clunes of smoke over the libyan leader's compound and nearby with a character of the libyan army has fought back reportedly shooting down a nato helicopter one hundred and sixty kilometers southwest of tripoli meanwhile the country's rebels will get at least one billion dollars in assistance money promised by donors including the u.s. britain france as well as some arab states authorities rare earth an arsenal reports the only thing some libyans have received for injuries inflicted by nato. suddenly has been we know has breath of death but doctors have performed any

a miracle and the young girl is back home with her family she took a mother's pills to kill herself and. if someone wants to kill me i didn't do it myself. but who wants to cuba teenager somers native city tripoli has been under constant bombardment by nato forces for three months day and night forms have been falling on the city with a population of around a million no one can ever say when or where the next one would land. this week in the most intensive air raid yet there have been sixty eight or airstrikes in just ten hours attacks against civilians must start khadafi must go and the libyan people deserve to determine their own future nato has frequently claimed success in the military operations supposed to protect civilians but the libyan government has repeatedly protested the innocent civilians happening on the dad the

claims have not been independently very high and one thing is clear since march nineteenth the life ordinarily prince has changed forever son was mother will never forget the day when her daughter preferred death so his new life my girl told me before that she thought death is a good thing and i entered her room that day she was lying on the floor there was smoke everywhere could hardly see what happened but i realized immediately he was something terrible this is not fair they told us they want a no fly zone he never said they were going to bomb us it promised to protect us but instead they scariest talking about who they are abu bakar saddam is more precise and it will be world no longer needs nato the second world war ended long ago and we try to live our lives we will need no storage wars and always intervenes in other countries problems we're tired of war our patience is running out let us just live our life has just prolong its operation and leave it all september that

means people here face months more terror from the skies we had of nato is supposed to targets gadhafi his military arsenal actually landed here in this district it didn't destroy the colonel's compound but it's almost damaged the lives of one family as you can see the building has quickly been repaired now the question is whether the people will ever recover. tripoli. for more updates on the violence in the middle east it's on our website or to dot com there you can also watch our interview with nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen and have your say as we're asking today how dark in libya should be resolved but so far the vast majority of around two thirds think nato should admit its failure and withdraw significantly last people fourteen percent say things should continue the way they are unfolding on the bench and others suggest the u.n. should send in peacekeepers. into the minority ten percent or more of ground troops

operation. syria's military has reportedly launched an operation aimed at restoring security in the rubble northern border town of jews are all those who are authorities say at least one hundred twenty officers and government troops were killed there by armed groups earlier in the week according to witnesses dozens of tanks have been deployed to the area and are due to enter the town humans rights groups say more than thirteen hundred people have been killed in the eleven we are rising the un meanwhile was still considering a new resolution against syria something russia is strongly opposing. but to get more on the analysis on turbulent situation in the middle east i'm joined live by alexander coburn an american political journalist he joins us from a live in washington state thanks for being with us we're getting reports today that colonel gadhafi is now officially a legitimate target and nato does a to kill him do you think they have the authority to do that. so

there's absolutely no no possibility that security council resolution one nine seven zero and one nine seven three. the resolutions as you well know were to try and ensure the safety of civilians how this is transferred into an assassination attempt which they've been trying for weeks no cause. is beyond any reason that it's. to claim it but if i were to ask you to go into further detail about how you would describe the alliance's methods for regime change in libya what would you say . well they've. been trying to kill khadafi they've flown think it's ten thousand missions nato missions. which about three and a half to be in bombing actually. what it really is is testament to the futility of

the entire military operation it's clear that the the rebels have no military cloak whatsoever. decoration on the nato into prose which is true overthrew the government of libya which of course the french what right at the beginning of march declared the rebels the legitimate government and. followed suit united states is going to follow suit all this does or think is bring universal discredit on the. synergy between the u.n. resolutions from the security council which were religious and start. the nato into prose which is exactly what we've just said this through the government i spoke to secretary general anders fogh rasmussen on thursday and asked him about the mess and he said that nato in no way is aiming to kill civilians or individuals in any way but at the same time we get reports constantly of civilian casualties do you think we're going to see the same kind of clean up that we saw after you can savia

. well i mean you know when you bomb clean i do not so what you mean by clean up. any damage control on mars in terms of what we saw with the chinese embassy in yugoslavia then our kind of within the alliance not agreeing on what happened and how to deal with it afterwards you know i mean the fact of the matter is that no war in history is over no conflict has ever been shortened by bombing cities from the air it just doesn't happen to you first of all kill people innocent people secondly we defeat the inhabitants of the city you aggravate tensions the other day the international crisis group which is independent fairly reasonable group of. diplomats and so forth said that the entire nato exercise where it's been conducted is ensuring the prolongation of what is internationally illegal enterprise and is making it far more difficult to have any settlement which is obviously true

what is distasteful is to see the collusion of the international criminal court which the day after the accelerated their race last tuesday immediately came forward with these new accusations of his crimes against humanity and international rape program which has been joined almost certainly untrue by amnesty international just now in fact if you look at the entire history there's almost no serious data given to the claims that he was committing so-called crimes against humanity genocide or even major massacres and if they're called there and i mean i decided to turn to syria quickly while we have time simply nato members are pushing for a new resolution against the regime in the country something russia and china are strongly opposed you think it will be passed. i don't think so but obviously i think you know to be a certain amount of caution even the united states will try to get across all right

well thanks very much for your time alexander cockburn joining us live via broadband from washington state. process is ready to resume imports of european festivals if the e.u. guarantee of supplies are not in fact by the deadly virus and it was one of the outcomes of the two day russia e.u. summit r.t. catherine mcgrath has more from the city of new record. it will spoil literally on the table at the press conference the european leaders and host russian president dmitry medvedev were asked whether they had vegetables for a launch the answer was yes they had to join them and moreover a certain breakthrough was reached on the issue of a russian ban on fruit and vegetables imports from the european union recently russia imposed their fall in bargo in the wake of the deadly equalise strain outbreak in order to provide me with option from coming into the country this measure of what's called this proportionate european union officials and they said

that it was going against the policies of the world trade organization i wash it in its turn criticize brussels to provide sufficient information on the source and containment of the infraction and today president made very big country could leave to disband it leave the european union provides certainly legal guarantees about the source of the infraction and is more transparent on the. we are ready to live on european vegetables after we are provided with sufficient guarantees by the e.u. . the russian and the european health officials are following a large initiative think it proves the safety of the supply projects and this is a good result. of the hottest year on the international agenda where the two sides so i believe russia strongly condemns nato's military intervention in libya and again calls for a peaceful resolution of the conflicts and the war which has already resulted in

thousands of casualties as also seriously cheney challenge to the e.u.'s foreign policy is to talk more on those challenges today in an exclusive interview with r t we're joined by higher percent report and a person security policy in the european union catherine ashton and of course the first question was only. one of the big challenges and questions is how to make sure the people of libya way in which we go. on the assuredness of the culture is a fundamental part of moving forward in fact there has been a lot of help to museums surrounding these twenty seventh watched it use summit to music is built largely around resident myth that its quest for radical reforms in russia full modernization and it all resulted in breakthrough agreements between brussels and mosco over the past months like along the way to russia's accession into the world trade organization for seventeen years that is way longer than any other meeting country russia has been in membership talks with w t o and now

finally we expect that by the end of the year russia will join the club today present rivetted urged his european colleagues to sort out all the formalities within the next month and to speed up the process of russia's joining the group. well stay with us for our latest our oath of series this time from a land where people and their broken dreams we take you to the north resists the want and desire of peace and stability into you and ways of restoring normal life to a conflict or republic that's coming out. but first new details have emerged in a case of a russian girl who was allegedly raped by her american adoptive father it came after the russian over cement for children's rights was requested to travel to the us police arrested the adoptive father in two thousand and ten and he admitted to having consensual sex with the girl his lawyer provided russian documents that stated she was sixteen years old and therefore not under age however after russian

authorities looked into the case it turned out the girl's age had been falsified last year moscow banned u.s. families from adopting russian children following several high profile scandals presses child's rights on both men says he's trying to establish where the forged documents in the case came from. it's a deal of. do different dates of birth or size it in the case documents currently being looked at by a court in the state of georgia if it had not been for this legal confusion and the fact that some of sinews documents were missing we may never have heard about the incident the investigation took of an entire year and is now out of the implants were trying to find out who the forged documents came from were also looking into first adoption in two thousand and one i think it was in line with the regulations since it's in use first foster mother martha bound for has already had four children at the time we find that strange and we are looking into it a russian consulate worker is on his way to meet with senior. oh on our website you

get more details on this story and also on other cases of neglect from parents of adopted russian children all at r.t. dot com. and invite only meeting of the world's political and financial magnets the builder bird group is underway in switzerland the annual event has not been stranded in secrecy something that's given rise to a strong protest movement r.t.s. or m. it reports on just what might be on the main agenda behind closed doors. this great big hotel you can see on the hill behind me is the hotel in summer it's in switzerland and it's there for the next couple of days around about one hundred fifty of the world's most powerful people will be meeting behind closed doors to discuss whatever they like it's the builder group you get of course it's invitation only gathering of the world's most influential people the attendees in the past have included kings and presidents captains of industry and heads of the world's most powerful corporations there's no media coverage of the building. nothing not

even a list of people who'll be in attendance there's no publicized agenda no press releases are released during the course of the event. just some fairly high level media moguls going to build a book every single year but there are dedicated both about watches and one of them is a man called jim tucker he says that the arab spring will be a main topic of discussion here he says that the builder broke into looking to create and engineer and mosque to mind a bloody war in the middle east in order to protect the interests of israel looking to prolong not but they will be worried he says because there is increasing opposition to the war in libya in the u.s. congress so that will be worrying that another thing that they'll be talking about he says is dominique strauss card according to jim tucker and many other girls about what is it is the builder group who will decide who the future head of the i.m.f. will be so we'll be looking in the coming weeks and months for any information about the news agenda. well look now at some world news in brief for you this hour

in yemen thousands have come out on the streets of country a week after the president left to saudi arabia only of the us they was forced to seek treatment for injuries received from his compound was attacked demonstrators are demanding a new transitional government be formed once the president steps down hundreds of people have been killed in protests against his rule since the beginning here. for a show is set to get the green light to join the e.u. union's justice commissioner has said that he and reading added that membership is likely to start in truth two in twenty thirteen croatia would be the second post yugoslav country to join the twenty seven state union after slovenia it started membership talks about six years ago. a protest against the planned resignation of somalia's popular prime minister turned violent as a teenager was shot dead by

a security guard the victim was among demonstrators approaching a hotel housing the country's mall makers they had earlier agreed on a deal to extend the government's term in office in order to deal with the security and political issues facing the country the same deal calls for the prime minister to step down it's a long. time now for russia close up series where this time the team travels to north of such a. situated in russia's north caucasus the small republic has been plagued by decades of violence and conflict today tens of thousands of refugees remain stranded unable to return to their ancestral homes for fear of more want to set their hearts he's been seen of course and of course people's heartfelt desire for peace is beginning to bring stability. shacks that look like they're barely holding

together actual houses lying in ruins and these are the far from welcoming images that strike you as soon as you approach the village of country lives one of dozens of residential refugee areas located head thirty four families have lived here for over twenty years in this terrible conditions and your generation has been gone but for them nothing has changed they say they've already lost hope these people came here in ninety ninety two after a bloody atlee conflict between south the science and georgians that lasted two years assertions by origin they were born in georgia but flags of fearing for their lives had been adjourned b. of all was among them her husband became one of the many casualties of the bloody conflicts georgian by origin he was helping in certain people and ask who was killed by his own client along with two small children she received a one off compensation payment from the government but no official recognition as

a refugee and the benefits that would come with it. because it is very difficult to get refugee status that would go through growth and the only thing that i am asking right now is to give us land so we could build roads and leave in normal conditions . just ten kilometers away lives a different house and a group that's also experienced the realities of life as refugees the ethnic conflict between english and this is not in people that have been almost at the same time for over thirty two thousand english people to leave their lands and spread out in the region of the north caucasus with thanks to special government programs the vast majority are back home four hundred ngos tremulously of terror before the conflict and almost half of them have now returned as a man's family is among those who came back that this. the horrors that happen here and still feels it is his native land as

a model lost two brothers in the fighting and his family was forced to move from place to place for several years but that's in the past and now it's all about looking into the future. this is my land i have so many plans in mind and we want to create as many conditions for the youth to work as possible and they will do so only useful and will not have time to think of any stupid things and yes me and my family we are all happy that we came back here as you people here see the same needs to happen for those that feel abandoned in can believe scam so the horrors of recent times are white from the face of the village even if there is still kept in their minds was no question or russia calls up the republic of north to south korea. up next the thought await us in the world of business with.

banks and it's a russia's largest oil producer ross nafta is holding its first big meeting up a very long awaited arctic new york that's now decide what comes next it is there is a lot. in southern russia. it may be warm and sunny for the a.g.m. here in the southern city of cross. spork is during recent months has been in the icy north of the arctic it's failed plans for a toy up with b.p. in the share swap deal cast a shadow over the company and if the deal is dead ross never still has the task of finding a partner to explore the blocks it's acquired and there are two heading up that will be a new chairman of the standing down in accordance with the new russian policy of splitting politicians from jobs heading state wrong companies it's not all bad news for us yet production grew faster than any other russian oil company currently it's pumping eight hundred and forty million barrels of oil and twelve billion cubic meters of gas a year there's been a lot of progress on rosneft improving downstream capacity it's taken germany's

move or will go increase through pointing and giving access to new technology and looking east a joint venture would see m.p.c. to build a refinery in china will greatly improve it's going to trade far east markets so the new leadership will have a lot to smile about but solving the problem. in the arctic will be their toughest task. russia is considering reducing its holding in a number of key state companies to lock in the states the state is looking into privatizing more of oil major roles nafta bigsby banker ross bank and power generating company response for russia's plans to sell assets to more than one thousand three hundred state companies without losing control and the key players. figure out how the markets are performing crude is down almost three percent that's on the back of a stronger dollar and reports that saudi arabia may start pumping extra more oil next month u.s.

markets are heading for their sixth consecutive week of declines longest stretch of losses since two thousand and worries about the economic recovery that was down one point three percent lead by three point four percent drop in travelers company after the insurer said it was slowing its share buyback. in europe stock markets in the red stocks recovered some ground early on the news that german parliament voted to approve a future greek a but this hasn't really seen here in russia markets ended the week on a negative note the r.g.s. down point eight percent of my sex half a percent that's on the back of the declining crude if we look at some of the individual share movers will see that energy stocks were down the most gas from one point three percent rosneft down point four percent despite the fact that it actually boost the dividends for twenty eight satisfied twenty percent max users and corporate wraps up the day straight this week was all bode all in gas you know

surprisingly little people in russia still believe firmly in the domestic story many of the banks and retail would know this week was a bold guess they mention gasper was the one to actually make a very strong performance on the back of the expect the chaney's transaction deal and then subsequently the opiate meeting in on wednesday essentially didn't raise any quarter skins will surely feel that all price might come off. that comes force unisons there was another reason to celebrate in the rush as a strong wall price well that's all for now we will be back next hour with an update. thank you.