people in the libyan capital tripoli remain defiant in the face of the almost daily nato airstrikes in fuel shortages that a paralyzing life in this city. is most important diplomatic and security organizations i meet in because our capital our stand on. 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 because our capital i'm still here join me in a few minutes for the details. the u.s. presses a head with a drone base to time militants in yemen despite the use of be unmanned aircraft being blamed for the deaths of hundreds of civilians in afghanistan and pakistan.

international news live from moscow this is the with me thanks for joining us another day at fierce fighting between pro khadafi forces under rubble zain levy or has left twenty four insurgents dead and while nato forces are continuing to tighten their grip on colonel stronghold tripoli civilians in the capital live live in constant fear of being killed and now a petrol shortage is making their lives even more difficult as archie's maria and ocean reports nato's actions aimed at protecting civilians have succeeded only stoking people's anger. it may have some of the largest oil reserves on the planet but these days labor is also god some of the longest queues at his petrol stations the international sanctions imposed on the embattled colonel's regime did not

include a few in bargo but nato is targeting. 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 reality is ordinarily been drivers now spend vast amounts of time queuing for fuel to months ago this became a common thing in libya in the arab country people have been lining up to fill up their cars even days but this line is a little different compared to most the gas station at the end of life here is women 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 on the station as. women have too many things to do

they don't fight each other world cueing and never shoot into the year is men often do so we're able to serve after nine hundred cars for the 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 leave our cars and return reentry appears that 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 problems for ambulances and police cars. for 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 a lot of those seeking to oust colonel gadhafi may have been hoping the hardships will incite people to rise up against their leader but instead it only seems to be

fueling people's hatred towards what they feel is western imperialists. need and they do damaged our city destroyed our life they told us they want to save people is that the way to seize the people tell me this is just a crime. while the warring sides 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. violence is still raging in syria forcing the u.s. to mount pressure on damascus to halt its crackdown on protests where the white house strongly condemning president assad's actions government troops are reportedly pushing rebel forces farther from the northern town of syria should do after taking full control of the area the advance has 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 mid march some ten thousand detained in britain and france are pushing for a draft u.n. resolution but russia and china oppose any attempts to intervene in the syrian conflict has said they want back their lives and investigative journalist simon assaf says the u.s. is using the opportunity to weaken the regime. well it appears that both russia and china are going to sure that there will be no un security council resolution but even i think even if even if one would have been passed i don't think would have much credibility but the problem is that those who support the syrian regime and the syrian government can point to. a very simple fact that is there be many un resolutions for the middle east and they've always been ignored when they apply to israel's and also you know the other people say well yes today it will be this resolution but it won't have any impact tomorrow they'll strengthen it on 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 in the story in the country then you can see it plunging into it into a kind of civil war that we saw in lebanon the u.s. would like to see would like to take the opportunity to be able to kind of we can. feel to weaken the regime. this is our shia plan to still to come for you this hour as we go where few have been before. russian deep seas to reach the border some of them are just playing in western europe to watch or to use exclusive coverage of that died from lake geneva in switzerland. and civil rights in question as thousands of egyptians face trial under the interim military leadership.

heads of state from some of the east's key power players descending on kazakhstan for an annual summit of the shanghai cooperation organization founded ten years ago the c.e.o. 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 see baze and because a capital i stand now for. 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 so 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 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 u.s. sanctions against it and the c.e.o. is looking forward to adopting a u.n.

resolution improving the relationship between the u.s. 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 said it 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 stability 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 that 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 the less off forget the meetings on the sideline it's interesting to see what bilateral agreements will come out of the summit on wednesday. the cia is set to launch a time drones against al qaeda militants in yemen the agency says it's concerned militants will exploiting and rest in the country to seize towns in the southern part of the country while she's again next chicken explains. the decision to task the cia with tracing down given marks a major escalation of america's covert war in yemen which is not really covert it's one of the on an undeclared wars that the u.s. is waging against terror but up to this day in yemen it's been the u.s. military that was running the show that was carrying out the drone strikes sort of in cooperation with the yemeni counterterrorism units but now amid the power vacuum

and all the political turmoil in yemen the cooperation is falling apart and according to u.s. officials because the cia operates under different legal authorities than the military the cia will have quote greater latitude to carry out strikes no matter what the political climate there greater latitude in other words they don't have to ask anybody's permission to bomb the country the yemeni leader who is now out of the country after months of violent popular revolt against him and his government for many years had been supported by the u.s. in exchange for letting americans go after all yemen as we could make of cable shows often taking credit for the u.s. drone strikes we have to remember that scores of civilians were killed in those strikes so the support of the yemeni authorities was much needed for the u.s. should carry on with the operations on the other hand the government the alley abu . salim who'd been in power for some thirty years was so unpopular in recent years among the people of yemen that many analysts say it was only due to the u.s.

support that sally had stayed in power for so long so for years sally needed the u.s. and the u.s. needed solly but now with the political turmoil there the u.s. shows they will continue to bomb yemen whether or not they have the commission to do so from. actually the people of the country pakistan is one example of a popular revolt against the cia drone strike thousands of civilians were killed by the u.s. drone drone attacks and no one was held responsible for that even though the pakistani parliament has demanded to stop the strike the country's leadership continues to allow the americans to carry out the operations although the pakistani leadership criticizes the killing of civilians but they do little to stop it many analysts say their support for the bombings will continue as long as they continue to receive billions of dollars from washington people there are furious in one year the u.s. u.s. drone drones killed seven hundred civilians in pakistan but they netted only five

actual militant leaders numbers that some experts are giving more gruesome the former chief counterinsurgency strategist with the u.s. state department has estimated that drone attacks kill fifty non targeted persons for each intended target nonetheless we now see the rapid expansion of the cia drone war. around seven thousand people have been arrested by egypt's military rulers since the end of the country's revolution in february the interim leadership has promised to review the military trials of civilians and says it will increase the powers of civil courts however human rights watch dogs are skeptical saying not much house changed since president mubarak stepped down executive director of advancing human rights activist david keyes says his organization also found evidence of torture some have been jailed simply for criticizing the government others have been brought up on spiritus charges of quote unquote insulting the

military but increasingly and certainly given the incredible high number of detentions detentions of civilians not attentions of people who have you know tried to undermine the regime but people simply criticizing the military this is a very dangerous trend egyptian dissidents and bloggers who were imprisoned in military prisons and they describe incredible torture they describe electrocution they describe waterboarding to describe regular beatings and this was the egyptian military that stood behind mubarak until the last minute so while there have been gains and we hope that egypt has a brighter future ahead of it there are still many many challenges that it still has to overcome if egypt is going to move towards democracy and liberalism and openness in the west in fact has a very important role to play. and common russula chance to keep from the voice of russia radio station one hopes that the majority of the prisoners will very. this is a very transitional period so we can you know you have to expect that some of these

things are going to happen doesn't mean we have to allow them one of the first things that the newly elected government is going to have to look at and one of the things that the egyptian people are going to have to demand that basically you know they go through those seven thousand cases on a case by case review send them to civilian courts and honestly my guess is you would see maybe even the majority of them found to just not even be worth the trial because you know they were sent to you know high sentences with highly questionable evidence and for minor crimes. and more than some of the top stories around the world and a time when a government compound just north of baghdad has left nine people dead and at least fifteen injured two car bombs went off outside the building during a weekly provincial council meeting in book coober the blast cleared the way for suicide bombs to to and to the car to bombers to and to the compound causing to fire the explosions. the japanese coveted how the land to hold the operate or the fukushima nuclear plant pay billions of dollars in compensation to victims of the

disaster tepco will now receive government subsidies as well as contributions from the private sector the firm has been waiting for official approval to being make making payments to those affected but he's 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 has a short list of candidates to lead the board french finance minister christine legarde and mexican central bank chub gaston carstens will fight it out for the top position both have strong credentials but legarda is seen as the favorite as she is gaining major support it comes after the resignation of dominique strauss kahn who quit and made a sex scandal the hotly contested race to succeed him well elder later this month. it's a petersburg court has sentenced a local new nazi group leader alex

a boy avoided and he's a cold place on proscar and co to life in prison ruling that they pose an exceptional threat to society other members of the group received penalties it ranging from suspended sentences to eighteen years in prison the gang members were convicted of hate crimes including murders and illegally possessing weapons and were responsible for staging eight attacks on foreign citizens and convicts it isn't of senegal north korea and is because stan and may well serve their. as in high security prisons they found all the new notes a gang dimitri recalls killed in a standoff with police in two thousand and six the authorities say the gallant has been active for eight years. and there are plenty of other stories waiting for you on our website at home including why egypt's interim government is rethinking its economic ties with israel and can see it is counting of gas supplies to the church state find out about this and other stories at home. and

nato war games and the u.s. warship in the black sea causes concern in moscow as plans for a missile defense shield come to the forefront. they've explored the waters of the arctic and lunched down to look at the time tonic for the first time russian submarines have plunged the depths of switzerland geneva mia one and two with also attached just how clean the water drunk by thousands of swiss and french every day relieved. was that crew in bank on their journey. for the first time ever to russia and the legendary mirrors have made it to the border some of switzerland the law just to gain

a better idea about its job. levels of lake geneva within the next two months research shows from 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 the near submersibles were used to call in siberia we also reached the border all ocean in two thousand and seven and bug 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 water could be vast and that you reserves beneath the sea but and again this time a capsule of the russian joe graphical society was blown to on the lake geneva in a seventy second year russia's number one paul amounts that he was willing to take to the depths once again. as

a politician i feel it's better to me. and one of the participants of today's comes from a renowned family which actually invented. hello mr old you tell us more about your father and grandfather. first first ride to the stratosphere. kevin that he had invented and then he invented about the scaife to go to the deepest spot in the ocean he built it with my father and then my father in one thousand sixty together with john 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 trench so i know my father has passed away and do we did the dive you know do you know there are two there in the lake of geneva so that was really great and all that shoots at boston the legend breaks position and the

first dive in the marianna trench tell us what does the wolves look like from the boss from from down there different inner space is another planet. and we saw another space ship while we were down there. 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. and coming up a little later in the program financial pundit mike's kinds of things he's found an apt way to describe the boss of goldman sachs. think about people like lloyd blankfein c.e.o. of goldman sachs he's like that he's like that monster from alien you know it's starts to drip through the spacecraft like yours lloyd blankfein is like. system. and he's just destroying things because of the toxicity of the derivatives

that goldman. out of their talks of organs into this brain. stuff all right up to date on the back with a recap our top stories in about ten minutes from now and as nato steps up its strikes on the libyan capital former u.s. congresswoman and presidential candidate cynthia mckinney is in the country to see for herself how libyans that coping with the onslaught express doubts about whether nato is following international or interviews after next.

former congresswoman and u.s. presidential candidate cynthia mckinney has been the media 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 encourage the entire world to gold 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 law of the american people would be. i 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 in the rock and roll 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 expert 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. that 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 depleted uranium where in eastern europe they've used it in afghanistan they are probably using it in pakistan and why would they not use it here what will your conclusions be 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 auditoriums were bombed now why is nato bombing universities why of a bombing compounds where people gathered 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 asa meetings dine in tripoli 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 inner metallic. weapon that was used in gaza now we've heard this massive bombardment from a distance but what kind of a fact are they having on the civilian population this is another aspect of the nato operation and i'd 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 a few all and food and medicine to come in they have been efforts to actually get medicine into the country that have been denied by nato thank you very much. for being with us. today vorlon in florida. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada.