this is. plain a revenge or an attempt at provoking ethnic tensions russian nationalist icon is a gunned down in the center of moscow the man was a former army colonel and had served time for kidnapping and killing a chechen girl. a nato official says it's perfectly justified to target the libyan leader by france and britain continue their campaign against the president of syria party looks at the fate of civilians on the ground caught up in the west's so-called democratic machine. that russia will resume imports of even new vegetables as soon as they guarantee to be infection free that as well as nato's

missile defense plans and moscow's move for w t o members of war on the table during the latest high level it's. just after ten o'clock friday night here in moscow you without c m a recent show welcome to the program a disgraced former russian military officer nationalist movement icon has been shot dead here in moscow yuri had spent eight years in prison for kidnapping and killing a chechen teenage girl authorities of security in the capital to head off possible and nationalist marches police say the murder may have been an attempt to ignite ethnic tensions are all about has more on this. you're a put down of a hugely controversial figure here in russia being a highly decorated military officer the commander of

a tank regiment during 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 it around twelve o'clock day here in central moscow is busy busy streets in the center of the russian capital he was gunned down just behind me this throughout our trade 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 be in used by the by the killers they call they found a gun with a silencer if it's a two it was partially burnt out and they are saying that the driver of that car was slavic ethnicity and. more information on that as soon as they get it

no. lawyer has said this is no way in his opinion this was a revenge killing for the for the crime he committed in chechnya but he believes that this is as do investigators that this is a crime to speak committed to incite hatred in the country which is taking into account personality and his history the investigations not ruling out that his murder may have been a probation there's also no evidence that one or another ethnic group was behind the killing. done of was viewed in some circles in russia and some nationalist groups and fall right groups as a hero an iconic figure for what he did during the chechen war no we'll have to wait and see if there will be any response from those organizations or to any protests but yes it does appear that this has what we're hearing from investigators and from the battles. lawyer this had been done to provoke a reaction from most of those groups and to incite ethnic tensions in the country.

reporting right there well meantime alexian a professor of islamic studies believes that the murder of an author could expose between 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 reactions to this tragic event i think in the caucuses they will welcome his death he's very much disliked there but in russia some will see his death is vigilantism at the hands of north pole 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 insight russian authorities must be prepared to intervene in a sensible way because if we see a significant escalation he'll be part of a system intended to destroy the russian that multiculturalism and its diversity which would be incredibly destructive force. it without a live from moscow and

still to come for you in a program a top level top secret some of the world's most influential figures sit together at a meeting of the secretive build the proof it's giving people plenty of us that they don't trust what are they talking about. nato is it deliberately targeting the libyan leader colonel gadhafi that's according to media reports quoting the allies as a senior military official he says that the u.n. resolution a justifies the option because as head of the military the thing is an essential part of the command structure as comes as fresh air strikes sent plumes of smoke over the libyan leader's compound and nearby military barracks where the libyan army has fought back forty three down and nato helicopter about a hundred and sixty ground southwest of tripoli meanwhile the country's rebels will get at least one billion dollars in assistance that's money promised by donors including the u.s. britain france as well as some arab states because that is maria for a national accord the only thing that some libyans have received our injuries and

put there by late. summer has been really you know has breath of death but doctors have performed any a miracle and the young girl is back home with her family she took her mother's pills to kill herself. if someone wants to kill me i'd be to dig myself. but who wants to kill the teenager so most native city tripoli has been under constant bombardment by nato forces for three months. 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 ideas there have been sixteen nato airstrikes in just ten hours attacks against civilians must stop khadafi must go and the libyan people deserve to determine their own future major has frequently claimed success

and the military operation is supposed to protect civilians but the libyan government has repeatedly protested that innocent civilians have been among the dad the claims have not been independently verified but one thing is clear since march nineteenth the lives of ordinary libyans has changed forever son was mother will never forget the day when her daughter preferred death for this 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 be almost a promise to protect his but instead they scare us talking about who they are. the is more precise and the world no longer needs nato the second world war ended long ago and we try to live our lives from all new 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 prolonged its operation and leave it in september that means people here face months more terror from the skies one of nature's 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. r t tripoli. now for more details on the unfolding situation in libya we now joined by five william blum american author and historian thanks for joining us today one month ago nato stated that it was not targeting colonel gadhafi now we're getting reports that the alliance is actually trying to directly kill him why the flip flop in opinion and do they do they have the authority to go off because i feel like this

but. it would be obvious from day one when there were any to kill gadhafi i think you'll find someone who has a need to run them a two. million years such. nature we must understand nature is the international law unto itself and charge anyone lines for any reason that one's going to run for as long as it runs i know that sounds very harsh but that's that's the way it is that's what they've done enough gang of them elsewhere. and there's no one to stop them so there's a no want to really to rein in and control nato and you're saying here but let's let's talk about the end game do you think nato has mission in libya will end after the alliance sees the crappiest kills. as a rummy controlled it was sure that the sort who are rebels. and

and loyal to. you need to look at the assets the really the far go along. so you could dump your just the clothes going to go if you make sure that it's going and how in libya that is beholden to nature now when you talk you know when you are when you are going to have to sell but when you talk about that the rebels are being put in power by the allied intervention in your life force in syria let's go thought on that because the oil is now flowing from the libyan opposition to the united states and why does washington stop short of officially recognizing the libyan opposition. or of doubt will come in time and it doesn't really matter. how do you know a great deal they have now they have now not begun to use money which libya had particularly in red lines the u.s. is going to use that money to finance it means this is known as bank robbery it's

outrageous a sound money here in the hundreds of signs in a problem frank and in there from private use of that money to hire the people who do argue over whether the government may be different that it's not this is unknown before well i mean there are there are some analysts out there who say you know if you're going to give a billion dollars to the opposition to the rebels in libya it's just going to go to the same to the same essential people for example a reshuffling of the finest in tripoli now talk to me the outgoing u.s. defense secretary robert gates he said recently that nato has a strategy in libya is failing and things that the military might of the alliance has been undermined by a poorly armed regime and its costly populated country what do you make of that. i don't know what he means he engaged in. mystery from.

nato highlighting how our to continue bombing in chilling and learned it takes to make. the libyan government cave in completely that's it is not known to two to cut short and. conversely they look at the people i mean i read a until this they told me that the and not only literally the mind eventually and the government will surrender in the government has actually ride concert to surrender or to lead negotiator i may have hasan is gone now but. later in the us how do you see yourself that i guess it will survive least khadafi is there now there are a lot of parallels between join a team in iraq afghanistan now libya what about a group out of putting our attention on syria france and england at a pushing for legislation a resolution against the regime of us what's what it ended that because this is how

they started the whole conflict in libya in the first place syria next in line for an allied intervention. i hope not but you can tell the people who run the nato and the us in the u.k. and france they don't accept any kind of killed mcgovern their power. drop or power in the force and that's and i don't i can't predict how far they'll go. they could possibly be attacking syria in the near future but libya this special case because they don't have long wanted to remove gadhafi he has been a strong underside of the west and jacket in decades mainly because he was used to be a good. client. religious large ok i would assume that

they were cleary every group leader is interesting how you say that i could have been a thorn in the side of the west for many many years and yet it was barely a year ago we saw former british prime minister tony blair and the e.u. president point hugging him and clutching them. to william i'm sorry that's all the time we have for american author and historian william bloom thank you thank you. syria's military has reportedly launched an operation aimed at restoring security in the rebel northern border town of just gotta say at least one hundred twenty officers and government troops were killed there by groups earlier in the week according to witnesses dozens of tanks are being deployed to the area human rights groups say more than one hundred people have been killed since the uprising began with at least twenty one protesters reportedly dead on friday the u.n. meanwhile is still considering a new resolution against syria something that russia continues to strongly oppose.

but russia is ready to resume imports of european vegetables if the e.u. guarantees that supplies are not infected by the deadly e. coli life virus the move was one of the outcomes of the two day russia e.u. summit. has more now from the russian city of initially that's right where the talks were being held. vegetables were literally on the table at a press conference the european leaders and host russian president dmitry medvedev were asked whether they had pledged to bills for lunch the answer was yes they had enjoyed 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 train outbreak in order to provide me with action from coming into the country this measure of what's called a disproportionately european union officials and they said that it was going against the policies of the world trade organization to watch it in its turn

criticize brussels both ways to provide sufficient information on the source and containment of the infractions and today president medvedev so that the country could leave to disband leave the european union provides certainly legal guarantees about the source of the infraction and is more transparent on the computer impulse we are ready to live on european vegetables after we are provided with sufficient guarantees mind the e.u. that much is certain the russian and the european health officials are finalizing their city think it proves the safety of the supply of projects and this is a great result. of the hottest issue on the international agenda where the two sides so i. russia strongly condemns nato's military intervention in libya and again calls for a peaceful resolution of the call flakes 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 high representative for and a person security policy in the european union catherine ashton and of course the first question i asked europe was only. one of the big challenges and questions is how to make sure the people of libya way in which they go. those are the assuredness of that departure is a fundamental part of moving forward in france that has been a lot of help to museums surrounding these twenty seventh russia e.u. summit and these all to music is built largely around president misread of his quest for radical reforms in russia modernization and it also resulted in breakthrough agreements between brussels and mosque over the past two months like a long awaited russia's accession into the world trade organization for seventeen years that is way longer than any other beating 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 a very rich to use european colleagues to sort out all the formalities within the next month and just speed up the process of russia's joining the group. how to use your competitor over reporting right now a well planned terrorist attack has been foiled in the southern republic a russian republic rather of cut off you know about it by local police killed a gang of six militants who were caught planting explosives they were planning to blow up a large hole in the police that was a shuttle to travel through the region two of the going were on the federal wanted list once i was one was killed and five injured. one invite only meeting of the world's political elite and financial magnates build the group is currently underway in switzerland if you want and has long been shrouded in secrecy it's something that's given rise to a strong protest. laura amid reports and i want to start what might be on the main agenda behind very closed doors. the exclusive ski resort of santa

ritz in june is perfect build a territory out of season and crucially practically deserted there are two hives of activity in town though one's the luxury hotel subrata where around one hundred thirty of the world's most influential politicians businessmen and so friends are meeting behind closed doors and the other in a much cheaper hotel where concerned activists are determined to break that wall of secrecy down they've set up what they believe is the world's first alternative media center they'd work for mainstream outlets too but they're not here just not enough. western media not enough from the u.k.'s it's quite appalling news agency is just really some names of this year's attendees and on the list is the chancellor of the exchequer george osborne i would have thought that makes it news

other bills about regulars include david rockefeller the editor in chief of the economist magazine the greek finance minister and the president of the world bank they're all rumored to be here this year unlike another regular former i.m.f. chief dominique strauss kahn on bail in new york for alleged sex attack there has been interest from the swiss national press this year builder burke which is widely believed to support big government and economic consolidation runs entirely contrary to the swiss idea of independence local government and neutrality blogger manfred petritsch has run a successful campaign to that effect playing on the reported ten million euro taxpayer bill for securing this spanish builder. except that a private meeting because that's what they call themselves the private. security has. by the taxpayer and i think a lot of people understand that especially when the government. we don't have money

for this or that and here we go and it costs a lot of money to secure this private meeting of these people the agenda is secret along with everything else but building is a believed to be just riding on who should replace their friend d s k at the top of the i.m.f. that was concentrating on how to save the euro which was the show that brainchild we don't want to be don't want to go but these are all the things that they actually create music is a construct of because europe is a construct of the building but i guess this will still do but is different from last year's spanish one securities much lower key first start and there's no kilometer wide cordon around the hotel but secrecy still dominates with process just saying even the swiss government is attending every year there are more and more activists and increasing media attention they're saying if you told us what

was going on we wouldn't have to speculate you are and it. is coming to you live from the heart of moscow time after our russian close up serious where this time the team travels to north of city. situated in russia's and north caucasus public has been plagued by decades of violence and conflict today tens of thousands of refugees remain stranded people to return to their ancestral homes for fear of more bloodshed that is already in our culture the courts people's heartfelt desire for peace is beginning to bring back some form of stability. shacks that look like they're barely holding together actual hauser's lying in ruins and these are the far from welcoming images that

strike you as soon as you approach the village of can believe square one of dozens of residential refugee areas located where thirty four families have lived here for over twenty years in this terrible conditions and new generation has been born but for them nothing has changed they say they've already lost hope these people came here in ninety ninety two after a bloody ethnic conflict between south sudan's and georgians that lasted two years and says he knows by origin they were born in georgia but flader fearing for their lives had been the gebbie of all was among them her husband became one of the many casualties of the bloody conflict georgian by origin he was helping in certain people and ask who was killed by his own kind along with two small children she received a one off compensation payment from the government could no official recognition as a refugee and the benefits that would come with it. it is very difficult to get

refugee status that we hope my family still grow and the only thing that i am asking right now is to give us land so we could build roses and leave a normal conditions. the just ten kilometers away lives a different out in a group that's also experienced the reality is of life us refugees the ethnic conflicts between english and this is not in people that happen almost at the same time. over thirty two thousand english people to leave their lands and spread out in the region of the north caucasus but thanks to special government programs the vast majority are back home four hundred anguish tremulously of terror before the outbreak conflict and almost half of them have now returned as imus family is among those who came back he says that despite the horrors that happened here he still feels it is his native land as somewhat lost two brothers and the fighting and his

family was forced to move from place to pleas for several years but that's in the past and now it's all about looking to 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. people here see the same needs to happen for those that feel abandoned england believes god so the horrors of recent times are why trump the face of the village even if there is still kept in their minds made in the question or russia calls up the republic of north or south. you are up to date on the latest news and headlines here are to do stay with us for the business news that's coming your way next with dmitri.

alone a warm welcome to business r.t. russia's largest oil producer ross may after holding its first big meeting after the death of the long awaited arctic deal that's now to decide what's coming next season is a lot skiis at the company's a.g.m. in southern russia. it may be warm and sunny for the a.g.m. here in the southern city of cross. focus during recent months has been in the icy north of the arctic it's failed plans for a tie up with b.p. and the share swap deal cast a shadow over the company if the deal is dead or all snapped still has the task of finding a partner to explore the blocks it's acquired in the arctic heading up that will be a new chairman because section is standing down in accordance with the new russian policy that splitting politicians from jobs heading state run 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 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 route oil will increase three pointing and giving access to new technology and looking east a joint venture with the n.p.c. to build a refinery in china will greatly improve its penetration of far east markets so the new leadership of grozny have to will have a lot to smile about but solving the problem. in the arctic will be their toughest task. reporting that russia is considering reducing its holding in a number of companies so blocking stakes the state is looking into privatizing more of a major role soon after big t.v. bank roll cellphones bank and power generation company ross hydro russia's plans to sell assets in more than thirteen hundred say companies without losing control in the key players. if you look at the markets here in russia they ended the week on a negative notes this was on the back of declining oil prices and this from the

gold some of the individual movers on the my sex most energy majors were losing with gazprom down one point three percent will snap also snapped four days of gains one of the biggest heavy weight loses at the close on friday despite boosting dividends for twenty ten by twenty. percent overall the week was very positive for both embassies putting on more than three percent of what's interesting call federal said bag wraps up the way. this week was all well and gas you know surprisingly little people in russia still believe firmly in the domestic story really of the banks and three pale words though this week was a more over on gas as i mentioned gas from was the one to actually make very strong performance on the back of the expect the cheney's turn section deal and then subsequently the meeting in the runs the as i'm sure he didn't trees any quarter ensconce will surely feel as a door prize might come or it will corey to come for sooner so there was another

reason to celebrate the rush of the strong world price and that's it from the business desk for now coming up next on the headlines two statements. from. the. reviewer.