libyans in the capital tripoli rage at the nato bombing campaign which they say is robbing them of both their safety and their fuel supply. all of us on the east where members of the shanghai cooperation organization including russia are getting ready to review ten years of collaboration and draw up a blueprint for the future from the ca's a capital i'm tess are still here join me in a few minutes for the details. russia's mir submarines delve into the depths of one of europe's largest lakes softer previously visiting the north pole and filming part of the movie titanic. and then business folks who are going to steps up its presence in the russian market it will jointly produce new cars joining me for more on that and other stories at business update

and twenty minutes. international news and comment live from our studios here in central moscow this is the nato airstrikes in advancing rebel forces a tightening the noose around colonel gadhafi stronghold tripoli civilians in the capital live in constant fear of being killed and now a petrol shortage is making their lives even more difficult now those actions aimed at protecting civilians have succeeded only in stoking people's anger there is. reports. it's may have some of the largest oil reserves on the planet but these days labor has also got some of the longest keys at its pastoral stations the sanctions international. actions imposed on the embattled colonel's regime did not include a few in bargo but nato is targeting ten caloric if suspected the fuel might be

used by gadhafi as military forces with roads closed factories at a stop and foreign workers long since gone from the war stricken country is facing its worst energy crisis ever the new realities ordinarily been drivers now spend vast amounts of time queuing for fuel a month ago this week. in the rich country people have been lining up to fill up their cars even days but this line is a little different compared to the gas station at the end of life here is the limit only and barker is a university student and has volunteered here to help organize the process she stamps a few russian books which allow individuals thirty five liters a week she believes it's a great idea to have women only stations. women have too many things to do they don't fight each other world queuing and never shoot into the year is men

often do so we're able to serve up to nine hundred cars per day for a lot of. this line is long but others are ruben longer still cheaper than water here just a few cents for a litter it's just that is often in short supply. if there is no few we have to live our cars and return reentry appears it could be days. when only gas stations is one of many innovations supposed to ease people's lives in a country in cares there are also special powers for ambulances and police cars. but the needle surrounded us but we should move on we try to do our best to help people get by if we give up will die along with those seeking to oust colonel gadhafi may have been hoping the hardships will incite. bull to rise up against a leader but instead it only seems to be fuel in people's hatred towards what they feel is western imperialism. and they damaged our city destroyed our life

they told us they want to save people is that the way to save the people tell me this is just a crime. while the war in size try to find a way out of months of devastating conflict ordinary people are looking for a way to just leave their everyday lives dreaming about times when these nightmare would be with a distant memory. r.t. tripoli. coalition is slammed by critics for straying from its un mandate to protect civilians in libya some analysts claim that was never even on nato's agenda radio host sherman has told r.t. that the interventions only aim is to divide and conquer with a view to seizing natural resources. it's an imperial agenda the un is a fig leaf for pursuing imperial war and in libya as in africa at large they want

to carve up the country sees its resources and on a basis of constant military intervention and the population itself is the target its resources will be usurped the ploy for the benefit of foreign oil companies in the one nine hundred ninety s. that gadhafi regime was controlled by the central intelligence agency and khadafi privatized three hundred six companies and libyan oil was handed over to the major oil companies exxon show immobile but the uprising was the occasion for the intervention and demonizing khadafi as they had saddam hussein and previously as a cover and pretexts saddam was their man in baghdad for twenty seven years khadafi had worked hand in glove with the cia and with congolese arise from the ninety's on but they demonize him now to give them cover for engender seizing the oil subjugating the population the population does not benefit from their natural resources because they had the disposal of foreign corporations on behalf of the

united states and the western powers the resources go outward to the foreign corporations that control them the population is a missile rated countries with great wealth but they don't enjoy the benefit of it because of the class character of the regime and the nature of imperial power that controls and installs these regimes and maintains them. violence is also raging still in syria forcing the u.s. to renew its calls on damascus to halt its crackdown on protests with the white house strongly condemning president assad's actions government troops are said to be pushing rebel forces further from the northern town of sugar after taking full control of the area the advances sent another wave of civilians fleeing towards the turkish border according to human rights groups at least fourteen hundred people have been killed since the beginning of the crackdown in that march and some ten thousand detained meanwhile britain and france are pushing for a draft u.n. resolution but russia and china oppose any attempts to intervene in the syrian

conflict and said they won't back the move investigative journalist told me earlier that the u.s. is using the opportunity to weaken the regime. well it appears that both russia and china are going to show that there will be no u.n. security council resolution but even i think even if even if one would have been passed i don't think would have much credibility you see the problem is that the those who support the syrian regime and the syrian government can point to. a very simple fact that is the many u.n. resolutions for the middle east and they've always been ignored when they apply to israel and also other people say well yes today it will be this resolution but to have any impact tomorrow they will strengthen and the day after that it will be even stronger and so you'll get an incremental move towards some kind of military intervention so people i think are very very suspicious of the reasoning behind the resolution if it falls in the same way as it did in iraq that is foreign

intervention destroying the country then you can see it plunging into it into a kind of civil war that we saw in lebanon but on a much bigger scale pitting christian against muslim and allowing gays and so on although all the religious sects against each other i think the u.s. . relations with syria was on the list of countries that supported terrorism sanctions over the years so i don't think there's anything on the hand about i think it's quite straightforward. to a certain extent the u.s. would like to see would like to take the opportunity to be able to kind of we can. weaken the regime. around seven thousand people have been arrested on the egypt's military rulers since the country's revolution in february the judge has promised to review military trials of civilians and says it will increase the powers of civil courts have a human rights watch dogs are skeptical saying that not much has changed since president mubarak stepped down well to discuss this joined from cairo by

a freelance journalist austin joining us there webcam thanks for being with us here on r.t. seven thousand people that have been thrown into egyptian prisons in the months since the revolution from what you've seen them from what you've heard do you think these arrests are justified. well it's very difficult to know we know about about five hundred cases of. people who. would most of them have been released just in very public events so the groups here like egypt initiative for personal rights and other organizations could could advocate for them and get them released but there's about but there are thousands more we don't really know the number human rights watch what's the number about five thousand activists put it seven thousand or higher. that who we have very little information about the charges against them it's not clear which of them are are actually being in being accused of criminal acts and which are basically political

prisoners and what overlap there is there. this is all happening in the dark so to speak it's very difficult to be able to get information but although the judge has promised to review military trials for civilians do you think there will be fair trials for these prisoners. well a lot of them already had their trials i mean in the trials of being fast it will in the case of some of the people who've gotten out there describe the trial taking place in the kitchen with the district attorney conducting the trial holding a remote control for television in one hand and a taser in the other and tasing them when they didn't read the statements they've been given correctly. so in these cases i mean if we hope that there's a retrial but it seems it'll be a result of political pressure if it occurs it won't be because of any sort of legal safeguards that are being in force at the moment. during the car at the moment or you live there in cairo tell us what is the current situation like for people there at the moment has the revolution resulted in the changes that many

were so desperately calling for well no i mean the. there's a lot of things that haven't happened if you know what i mean there's there's there's been no real progress on any of the issues that motivated the revolution i mean some people are saying we have to wait and see till after the elections which take place but there is it in terms of freedom of speech it seems that the supreme council of armed forces while declaring itself sort of guardian of the revolution is is clamping down on the on the rights that the revolutionaries were fighting for and in many cases it seems that they are intent on while championing themselves as you know the saviors of the revolution they're intent on maintaining as much of the old system as possible well this is international media here r.t. talking about those human rights issues clearly the human rights watch talks may have a case for concern do you think the egyptian authorities will be listening to those concerns after all they want the worldwide media to be looking them in

a favor way way. well that really depends on the amount of pressure that's put on them both internally. while they concerned about the media i think they're more concerned about the popular opinion here in egypt which has been largely supportive of the army. because there's they were seen as sort of saving the revolution. or joining the revolution at least that's that's beginning to erode some of that the other thing of course that's important is international pressure we saw we saw clinton hillary clinton speaking out. a few weeks ago saying that she hopes that there's due process followed in the trial of mubarak but she's been absolutely silent regarding due process for ordinary egyptians and protesters in this period this is an interim period obviously it's a tricky time in some ways but there are promises of the elections taking place in september now if those elections do take place do you think after that we will see

a truly democratic future for egypt. i certainly hope so and i know there's a lot that's not yet written and really depends on when again pressure from inside and from outside what was almost certain though is that the army will have a huge role in egyptian politics which could be very undemocratic wrong. if they're not kept in line by their own people and by the international community the equipped the question is how much. how big a role that will be and how they will use that role a lot of especially the higher ranks of the army did quite well out of the old regime in a lot of people say that you know the military was the heart of the old regime if you bought it was the head of the faiths and. a lot of entrenched interests that they will probably fight to protect it all comes down to how active and how strong. unified gyptian and the international community are and

pursuing the goals of the revolution very interesting to talk to you that live in cairo no doubt we'll hear from you again particularly as we head towards as elections in september and meantime freelance journalist austin michael thanks very much indeed for joining us thank you. well plenty still to come here and i want to go where few have been before. rushing. to reach to the for some of the largest plague in western europe what you are to use exclusive coverage. of state from some of the players are descending. from an annual summit of the shanghai cooperation organization founded ten years ago brings together countries including russia and china but others are also invited such as iran and afghanistan to work on common threats and challenges to us it is in the capital. they are going

to be reflective to begin with they're going to look back at the past ten years look at that collaboration the cooperation and see if they've actually achieved something they want to assess that and then come up with objectives you objectives for the future now the six member states including of course china russia will kick off the summit to morrow that's wednesday and joining them will be the heads of state of iran india and pakistan that have observer status here at the summit now it's interesting because all three of them do want to become full members but there are some hurdles to be overcome in iran's case for example it has un sanctions against it and the c.e.o. is looking forward to adopting a u.n. resolution improving the relationship between the u.n. and the s.d.o. having more cooperation so this could be an obstacle but nevertheless iran is here as an observer and they are also involved in the dialogue afghanistan is also here but if you want to send is here as a guest of the vs c.e.o. however afghanistan has also applied for an observer status and they were saying that at the end of this summit it is expected that they will come up with

a decision whether or not of ghana's side will indeed become an observer it is an important part of this region and they do want to talk about post nato afghanistan what is the future of ghana said after the nato forces do withdraw in the future and this ability of that country of course is essential to the. ability of the region for this specific summit they do want to give ample time to economic and financial issues they do want to come up with a special account so to speak now china for its part has already given ten billion dollars committed ten billion dollars for member nations should they ever need it this is by no means trying to compete with other groupings of the world they want to be a part of the global dialogue and that is exactly what they're going to try to come up with one voice relation in regard to the issues that are affecting the world today especially what's happening in the middle east and north africa and of course let's not forget the meetings on the sideline it's interesting to see what bilateral agreements will come out of the summit on wednesday. reporting there one more on some of the top stories from around the world in our world update this hour

an attack on a government compound just north of baghdad has left at least nine people dead and seventeen injured. saw the building during a weekly provincial council meeting and. cleared the way for suicide bombers to enter the compound causing further explosions. japanese company approved a plan to help the operator of the fukushima nuclear plant pay billions of dollars in compensation to victims of the disaster. receive government subsidies as well as contributions from the private sector has been waiting for official approval to begin making payments to those affected the japanese parliament has been critical of the way tepco has dealt with the crisis triggered by an earthquake and tsunami three months ago. the international monetary fund a short list of candidates to lead the board the french finance minister christine lagarde and mexican central bank chief agustin carstens will fight it out for the top position of strong credentials but the guard is seen as the favorite and she's

gaining major support comes after the resignation of dominique strauss he quit amid a sex scandal contested race to succeed him later this month. the supreme court has sentenced a local new nazi group leader. and he's accomplice. to life in prison ruling that they pose an exceptional threat to society while the members of the group receive penalties ranging from suspended sentences to eighteen years in prison gang members were convicted of hate crimes including murder and then possessing weapons staging attacks on foreign students and killing citizens of senegal north korea and. the terms of high security prisons the founder of the. was killed in a standoff with police back in two thousand and six thirty said the gang has been active for eight years. i want to find out more about the stories we're covering here. interviews and videos available for you all the time.

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video project. dot com. they've explored the waters of the arctic. to look at the titanic now. for the first time russian submarines of plumb the depths of switzerland's lake geneva one and two would also test just how clean the water thousands of swiss and french every day really is. was there to watch the crew embark on their journey to the deep. for the first time ever two russian deep sea subs the legendary mirrors have made it to the war some of switzerland the largest border to gain a better idea about its job can to make the levels of lake geneva within the next two months research shows from russia switzerland germany france and the united states will carry out physical chemical micro biological experiments given that lake geneva is the main source of potable water in the region well then we are

submersibles more used to call in siberia we also reached the border more ocean in two thousand and seven and back than part of the russian expedition presidential envoy to the north and south poles. planted a titanium capsule on the arctic ocean floor to symbolically claim what could be vast amateur reserves beneath the sea bat and again this time a capsule of the russian joe graphical society was on the lake geneva in his seventieth second to russia's number one pole amounts that he was willing to take to the depths once again. as a politician i feel it's better to meet in the water than to have arms races and anti missile defense. and one of the participants of today's comes from a renowned family which actually invented. hello mr pickard i know you tell us more about your father grandfather. grandfather or. made first

first ride to the stratosphere with a pressurized cabin that you had invented and then he invented the best escape to go to the deepest spot in the ocean he built it with my father and then my father in one. in sixty together with don walsh who is one of the greatest friends of my family he made the deepest dive to the absolute bottom of the ocean eleven thousand meters in the married us trench so i know my father has passed away and do we did the dive do you either do they make of geneva so that was really great and all that you took part in a legendary expedition and the first dive in the marianna trench tell us what does the wolves look like from the boss from from down there different innerspace it's another planet. and we saw another spaceship powered down there trying it the other mir submersible coming out of the dark with the lights on just like

a hollywood movie and getting closer and closer and to spaceships meeting at the bottom of the sea. we look at my new stories in about seven minutes from now the mean time green is next with the business bulletin. how are welcome to business thanks for joining me out top story this hour folks who are going to stepping up its presence in russia's flourishing car market it is agreed to jointly produce new cars with gas group which makes because the brands total investment will be up to two hundred million euros would be a german company contributing more than half of this. assembly volkswagen and. first vehicles are due to roll off the production line from. oil it climbs about ninety eight dollars per barrel as wall street rallies and economic news improves however the gains are being limited by reports china is taking further steps to curb inflation which could slow its economy. u.s.

stocks are taking off for two weeks long after retailers had better sales in may than economists had predicted dow jones and the nasdaq to have their best day so far in june meanwhile the u.s. president barack obama has warned if the country doesn't raise its debt ceiling another global financial crisis could happen. and european equity markets and in the black with swedish heavyweights leading the games such as a renewable energy surge seven point four percent and also up to u.b.s. upgraded the firm to neutral from sell she has finished more about group no ted jump two point two percent the company said it has reached a deal with apple and a long running legal dispute between the two firms. and here in russia markets close with both key indexes slightly lower the proxy has dropped just a notch and the markets last point fourteen percent now let's have a look at some of the individual moves banks finished after announcing that profits more than doubled in the first five months of the year energy mages among the

biggest losers despite their relatively strong bias coking coal. producer spots ended lower on news of a production hold in one of its mines. now russian equity markets are in for a subdued couple of weeks but coffee at capital believes fertilizer stocks could see some interest if you take. three to six months perspective but probably a focus on fertilizer soroka. within the reason of emanate capitalists to essentially. he won her global background is positive the fundamentals of the companies are strong so if i were to select one sector probably peak of the fortune was a cruel and thorough credit. at another fertilizer producer fossil agro has confirmed plans for initial public offerings in london and moscow companies being valued at up to eighty billion dollars with fifteen percent of its shares for placement. says

it needs money for mergers and acquisitions. and facebook could raise up to one hundred billion dollars in a possible initial public offering before say the giant social networking websites i.p.o. is inevitable and looks set to be held in the first quarter of twenty twelve recently russ's so tender young that successfully generated one point three billion dollars and its own i.p.o. . now will be back with more at about forty five minutes statement.

to a substantial degree and one form or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations of europe and the shadow is an approaching liberal. believe early twenty first century military bases a network of military bases all around the former empire that the united states is trying to do that's astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases all around them. we don't have fallen bases on america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have

any french bases or you know we just all american bases in. our base is a fine of the noises our noise and doesn't bother us at all because they're all basics but for other people it's almost like a cancer here for these people. since the end of world war two the spaces i've been . working here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the questions they have thing else get everything you needed they faced it this is not a provocation but war and. pay for it and we should everybody is sure to support for trieste peace they have no idea about the hardships that we face. plate one it's business is it.