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a speed of more than two hundred kilometers per. step in babylon she. live from moscow this is r.t. top stories this hour libyans in the capital rage at the nato bombing campaign which they say is robbing them of both the safety and the fuel supply cons of the strikes have led to a shop petrol shortage in tripoli with thousands of civilians bearing the brunt of the war. human rights groups fear nothing is changing for the better in egypt as the country's military rulers announced they've arrested seven thousand people since february revolution. and all eyes on the east where members of the shanghai cooperation organization including russia are getting together to review ten years of collaboration and drop a blueprint for the future. what is nato steps up its strikes on the libyan capital

former u.s. congresswoman and presidential candidate cynthia mckinney is in the country now to see for herself how libyans are coping with the onslaught she expressed doubts about whether nato is forming international nor in an interview on r.t. is next. former congresswoman and u.s. presidential candidate cynthia mckinney has been in libya working with a non-governmental fact finding mission for ten days already she's here at private expense as are the other members of her team to establish real evidence based facts on the reality of life in tripoli and made mates of bombardments and civil war she joins me now thank you very much cynthia thank you for having me well why is fact finding necessary in tripoli i can't remember who it was that said that truth is the first casualty of war but we in the united states are very well aware

that the our country went to war against iraq and encouraged the entire world to go to war with it against iraq nine hundred thirty five times the bush administration lied to the american people in the international community about the reasons for going into iraq and then after the deed was done we had our deputy secretary of defense say well you know we were in a room and we were just trying to figure out which lie of the american people would buy so we settled upon weapons of mass destruction and just like that the international community was drawn into a war that has completely decimated destroyed an entire country the country of iraq so now when our government says that they have

a responsibility to bomb people in order to save them i think it's important for the american people to understand what the truth is you've mentioned iraq so you do think liebig could be like second iraq. what i think is libya could become somalia one in the reaction of the people to. the possibility of foreign ground troops here i don't think that is going to be anything that is welcome by anything anyone other than the libyan nato allies who are called the rebels who have been here for a while already so what have you seen what concerns me is that we have reports that depleted uranium is being used we know that there are the missiles that are coming down the bunker buster bombs that are being used depleted uranium

is being used here then everything that we see in brief is contaminated what are these reports come from actually a member of parliament in the united kingdom was the first person who mentioned the possible nato use of depleted uranium that i am aware of and at since that time i have spoken with some experts scientists scientists who are familiar with the telltale signs of depleted uranium use one is how the particulate matter tastes in your mouth if there is a metallic taste and of course since i've been here in the been a lot lot of bombings i have asked around about the metallic taste one of the persons that i brought with me is an attorney and i asked him he

specifically said yes. he had a metallic taste in his mouth i have not spoken to libyan scientists who have officially confirmed that but of course if we look at nato and their choice of weaponry we know that nato is used to clean. raney aware in eastern europe they've used it in afghanistan they're probably using it in pakistan and why would they not use it here what conclusions. my conclusions will be merely the truth as i see it and of course i just have spoken with the dean of political science at the university also known as nasser university where two out of tory m.p.'s were bombed now while he is nato bombing universities why of a bombing compounds where people gather to express their joy and love and

concern for their leader i don't know why nato is choosing these targets but these are civilian targets and when civilian targets are bombed we have criminal activity awesome against dining triply yes we've also been to. spittle and there we were able to speak with people and see their wounds now i was able to see the wounds of the people and they looked very similar to the wounds of the. experience dime weapons that's a dis inert metallic. weapon that was used in gaza now we've heard this massive bombardment from a distance but what kind of a fact i'll be having on the civilian population this is another aspect of the nato operation and mad like to stress this idea of collective punishment because of course we've heard of collective punishment in the context of israel and its

treatment of the palestinians but what we are seeing here is a kind of collective punishment as well where nato is preventing. shipments of fuel and food and medicine to come in. there have been efforts to actually get medicine into the country that have been denied by nato of course you it is impossible to go on any street and miss the huge queues of sometimes three and four d. of cars that go on for and on and on and on as they queue up to get gasoline from the service station this is a nato policy and this is also a policy of collective punishment this is targeting the civilian population and whenever you target a civilian population you're committing

a crime to be able to speak to people i guess yes i have spoken to people and the one question that they asked me over and over and over again is why that is the question why and so when i go back to the states i'm going to try and ask that question why why is this happening certainly it is not for humanitarian reasons because what is being caused by nato is a humanitarian catastrophe what could be the goal of the strategy do you think what we have to do if we really want to understand the motivations of u.s. policy we have to go back to what ray mcgovern who is a former cia analyst had to say and he described u.s. policy is being driven by all i and l. now once all i am l.

oh for oil i for israel ellis for logistics and so he described the logistics as those logistics that were needed by the neo cons to carry out the. they're policies on behalf of israel and if we look at the behavioral of the nato allies in libya the so-called rebels what we see is they open up a central bank so that means that of course the banking system that is independent here in tripoli in being ghazi that banking system will be tied to the international banking system they also have concluded agreements with israel now one of those agreements one of those agreements is to provide a base for israel in libya today just secretary general rasmussen told r.t.

just a while ago only hitting targets of military value do you accept that no absolutely not a university military certainly the murder of. these son and grand babies is not of military value i went to that house i saw of the swing set the cruise ball said i took the journalists there and there was nothing of military value there is just. innocent people does that mean restlessness military people. through i think there's nothing of the truth what we're seeing here seems a bit personal now with a coup khadafi no matter wats i can only repeat what the nato leaders have said and they have said. the colonel gadhafi is a legitimate target this murder and i don't think that there's anywhere

that murder is permitted this is targeted assassination this is extrajudicial killing. this goes against international law international humanitarian law international human rights law every aspect. of the law and so now has nato become a murder machine a targeted assassination this could off you know that saying well i don't know what he knows. he probably knows far more than you and i. and i plan to meet him. well that if that were to be made available to me i would probably take advantage of that and my last question if gadhafi leaves and it looks like he will have to you know might i watch what will he leave behind while i think that's a question that is more appropriate for the people of libya i know that i am here

on a fact finding mission and soley to understand the truth to transmit the truth . as i see it because the. international press largely are not telling the international community the truth thank you very much. for being with us. wealthy british style it's time to. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy

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top stories this hour on r.t.e. libyans in the capital rage at the nato bombing campaign which they say is robbing them of both their safety and their fuel supply constant airstrikes have led to a shop in tripoli where thousands of civilians are bearing the brunt of the. human rights groups fear that nothing is changing for the better in egypt as the country's military rulers announced they've arrested seven thousand people since february revolution. and all eyes on the east where members of the shanghai cooperation organization including russia are getting together to review ten years of collaboration and drop a blueprint for the future. to bring us up to date with loan i'll be back with more news for us in fifteen minutes from now the meantime the sport is next with kate.

hello welcome to the sports news and here are the top stories rude awakening politicizes that manager after watching his side concede a later one goal in a one zero defeat at one car while top of the pace car beat second place angie to remain top after day approach results in the russian premier league. fighting back so really williams wins her first competitive match after a year long injury layoff as she prepares to defend her wimbledon crown. football first that hundred one it has been fired as coach of chechen side track after his charges last their latest game with a loss made him go to town car this tuesday night saturday a young true course the guilty man in what was the worst case scenario for the dutch trainer he was given an ultimatum to either win this game or go well it's been five months out of his eighteen month deal with the club and failed to impress the bosses during this stint after winning just three out of thirteen league games

in charge the forty eight year old is now leaving after the club posted on their website on monday that anything but a win would send the packing. bottles where the full program of matches on tuesday takes gary maintop after winning three one time to second placed on sheikh money less reluctant to moscow try it three want to have a spotlight now cheek to slip to the bottom in place of creosote off who pulled off a surprising one there when it was their place to bond while in the dying minutes of the last two games twice former champions ribena leading to download moscow on krasnodar rushing volga. well earlier in the day spartak moscow were held to a disappointing one zero draw a tome broke away from tom's defense to put spawn talk in charge after twenty minutes and as they look to have a go one before. last to be in the last gasp equaliser the times their share of the spoils of glory spartacus. the lead cop in there said his young side of that experience. was for different players wrong target the champions and cobbled our

stuff for nail on the turf a glaringly unmarked alexai on up open right after the kickoff to please coach mitch on a sweaty thank you elizabeth who set up that goal then turned score at six minutes before half time to know alexander cares or golf was his assistant in this one also providing the next defense missing passed so what was the to finish it off midway through the second half and alexander who had often made the final score four nil with a scrappy injury time goal. well second half substitute danny didn't score in the meet goal fest but before the game was set pieces back side did ensure their record signing will stay on for another four years of what you call midfielder the pen to paper to extend his initial deal which set the champion's back a staggering thirty million euros three years ago what does it mean to danny has been crowned russian champion boxer save the way for super cup the russian cup and the russians to pick up. now by the end of this month we'll learn

a former russian coach guus hiddink will offer to rule return to english premier league side chelsea the russian i am london club has the analogy just since i can call i'm sure of the last month but the blues are racing to appoint a new boss with the summer transfer window wide open in england and former acting coach hiddink is touted as the front runner for the job with the team's chief executive run goalie saying the time to announce the new coach is nigh as far as the manager is concerned. this is going well. but no religion of the type is ok. for me to call way or the next nobody was going to read. relives things in the usual way. but when the next we go to the beginning position to those who. are good. red bulls formula one champion sebastian vettel has been training with another red bull team this time. the new york soccer side including the former arsenal and barcelona started arie henri his team a car

a top of major league soccer eastern conference and this is in no small thanks to andre he's been banging the goals in one hundred seven in eleven matches but despite his magic touch the french minister delighted with battles help on the training pitch rebels f one stopped in after coming second in sunday's canadian grand prix and only helps bettles appearance will inspire the players to win some silverware. that's all you want you want to win i know i was a junior we didn't win anything yet so you know having him around him is going to bring us a bit of luck to win something and force you know we're far from being successful. we're trying to follow the example it's nice to see him come over here and see what they do is the first time i actually you know had. an idea with the professional players on the on the field and it's amazing you know it's small things that you probably don't see from the outside but how they move and how quick they are and you know they didn't want to step compared to me obviously just to hold the

football player. tennis now and with wimbledon starting next week former world number one serena williams has successfully returned to action after almost a year out she came from behind to outclass but on a par on cover in the first round at the grass court event at east born it didn't look like a winning come by caesarean at first as the american could only take one game in the first set but she was able to turn things around to see that one six six three six four next up for serena is russia's world number three pillars of honor over local teenage wildcard heather watson six three six three. had also the east one is another for the world number one hundred i'm a bitch the serbian shrugged off an early break to come out a six bought six three winner against germany gallagher's stunning in a way next is the elder williams sister venus who is playing in her first tournament since the australian open in january. while a lot of number to kim clijsters is a doubtful wimbledon after again hurting her ankle in

a second round defeat for unicef open in the netherlands reigning us under the strain open champion prices went crashing out in straight sets at the hands of italian qualifier graham you know up around the eighty second in the world clijsters has never won the wimbledon title. now after finishing fourth of that year in winter olympics in two thousand and six russia slipped to the low point of thirteen's in the winter sport rankings after a disappointing display at last year's thank you for games though according to russia's sports minister vitale mutko this situation is heading for a u. turn this season russia's winter sports have already had a major overhaul since those games in canada and in the run up to the next olympics in their own resort of sochi in twenty fourteen last year eight out of eleven heads of various sporting federations will let go and if the country doesn't improve their medals highly next year more heads will roll but the measures now in place should ensure russia will become one of the leading countries that such a program of. our immediate goals are very clear and we have in place

a very comprehensive group aeration bro. graham next year we have to rise to the least sixth place in the world winter sports rankings if that doesn't happen it will be a cause for alarm if this system doesn't work this year it will mean that the problems are rooted even more deeply than we thought. and finally to a charity event of a one off kind which featured russia's world renowned footballer andrei arshavin against giant box that we call a value of in the heart of siberia is mining region and our very own correspondent constantine that's off was that there for us. three thousand five hundred kilometers from moscow in south western siberia is the industrial city of it was built on the banks of the tamari were in the center of russia's biggest coal mining region the basin it's not really a sport paradise as there are a few sporting facilities in summer and deadly low temperatures in winter however the priority of the region's officials is promoting sport in mongst its youngsters

in this year on national russia day their fish was presented their citizens with a treat and exotic charity event with andre arshavin and nick i've always playing the q. roles. i spent three days here and had a tight share deal i visited several often edges and unveiled and you for the stadium i've met the officials and discussed lots of issues in the near future the camera region will probably host several important sporting events and i want to be involved in making sport more affordable in siberia. but it wasn't just about promoting sport in the region as a showman spend time getting to know the locals. i was impressed by the number of weddings i've witnessed here so far and many of the couples had their photos taken with me so i hope that when they look at these pictures and their family albums it will make them smile. so to off russia's most famous athletes over the past decade two time w b a heavyweight champion the guy well you and you are two thousand and eight bronze medalist arsenal midfielder and russia captain and their share in went

. face to face in a friendly football match luckily for the thirty year ghana he had to go up against a thirty seven year old books or poet suffered only two losses in the boxing ring and not on a full page when a sports are more popular in siberia for obvious reasons as the winter last for half a year but is steady on that usually hosts russian hockey kalisch as the match kicked off between russia's do best known sporting st petersburg natives and their teams consisting of four months of millers local officials and businessman. at two meters and thirteen centimeters in height just a formidable shadow and go wow low levels are ok by his favorite position. but the best from least had the misfortune to experience a little keeping home just a few minutes into the game well like old charity matches there was an abundance of goals and penalties sherman's goalie made his captain proud as he stayed two or

three sport keeps a normal time while she was popularity clearly knows no boundaries as a fan broke through and got on to the beach to shake hands with the gunners need filler be happy and surprisingly in the match and he didn't draw in the barents a shootout that follows well they failed to intimidate the keeper and his keep was saved so although he might have been a little disappointed with his own before and the world champion boxer was much more satisfied with the overall day. i was playing as a goalkeeper for the first time and it's a pity i conceded so many goals but the first one was a real disaster i don't know how that happened but i'm happy that so many people came here as it was a real sport and festival so over twenty thousand people turned out to watch a james in the world the boxing against a relative giant in the world of football all the proceeds will go towards promoting sport in the area so regardless of the result everyone is a winner they say about the r.t.

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