protest today they said that they wanted it to be peaceful until the end of june until any of these measures were passed see the police the letting of take us into the crowd that incredibly hard to grieve in the face not of so pleasant for anyone there's lots of people getting medical treatment around the play. but the violence is really around saying we're not entirely sure if these people wearing the gas masks that are provoking the police actually part of the main prey said as he said the people we spoke to said they wanted it to be peaceful and i had seen up until now up until earlier today when that provocation happened when the police started to try and push them back. a euro skeptic and british m.p. nigel farage says the reason politicians are so keen to bail out greece and keep it in the euro zone is to protect the banks one of the reasons that everybody is so determined to keep greece in the euro is so that the banks don't have to take a serious. policy so something has gone seriously wrong the banking system is

almost as if there's a little on the holy alarms of politicians and bankers but the people i'm sure that's what the people on the streets of athens today feel like don't think the banking crisis is over i suspect but it's hard to do and in many cases it might have been better to do what i see them and they say look these banks go bust these people lose their jobs these people lose their money that's unfortunate about life and i suspect we're going to regret keeping the banks afloat and imprisoning countries like greece inside a currency union which they're just not suited. and while greeks express their anger at facing further cuts the germans are no less serious about having to pay for it again later this hour german m.p. klaus peter welsh explains why he thinks e.u. countries should look after themselves. and you would treaties. was regulated that there must be any bailout because otherwise you will

ruin the public finances of those countries who are contributing to it as long as each country is responsible for its budgets is to take full responsibility. the right answer to that is no bailout. now at least seven the civilians in libya have reportedly been killed by a nato air strike which hit a residential house overnight and earlier the alliance confirmed it had mistakenly attacked rebel forces but the number killed in that friendly fire attack is not known but if the notion of reports from the capital tripoli and you may find some of the images in this report disturbing. residents of secrecy my district here in tripoli have been woken up by a strike in the middle of the night a mob of several moms landed here the story as you can see behind me several three story buildings as we were told at least four families have been living in the

damaged houses which is from twelve to fourteen people being. under the rubble were able to show children into adults a man and doing the will of those loaded some of the people are still missing as you can see behind me the rescue operation is now undergoing but people here on the ground saying that there is little higher that's someone could be alive the buildings on the opposite side of this street have also been possibly damaged but we were told that no one from there has been hurt the government spends person looked at him aside by him has come to the central just this happened and he has this civilian area had been hit by may take pride they want to look at some of the sky people were killed children with my own hands with my own eyes i still can help pick out little girls who were killed and get the boys the father and the mother

jewel whole families that is under this attack you cannot justify does not die and in. this incident counts i mean it's continuing intense bombardment all believe it by nato bombs are actually being dropped day and night we all the time hearing sounds of having explosions russia which has always been against miss remains to stifle the protests and live in conflict has recently signed a peace treaty a ten to leave it to try to explain the war in size to start talking often make change the rebels in benghazi and prop it up the people here in tripoli make a monkey out has said that he believes there is a higher form of peaceful solution. in this crisis with both sides say they're ready for negotiations with the means are now ready to provide an appropriate location for tolls but what we're seeing on the wrong with may to continue in

mumbai are growing signs people feeling exhausted and angry if i was made to do here we can say for sure compromise could be possible but this is definitely a very long way to go 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 pastoral stations the international sanctions imposed on the embattled colonel's regime did not include a few and. that 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 a few months ago this became a common theme here in the. country people have been lining up to fill up their

cars for hours even days but this line is a little different compared to the gas station at the end of this here is limon only a marker is a university student and has volunteered here to help organize the process she stamps a few russian boots which allow individuals thirty five liters a week she believes it's a great idea to have women on the station whose. women have too many things to do they don't fight each other world queuing and never shoot into the year is now in the so we're. up to nine hundred cars. this line is long but others are ruben longer patrols to cheaper than water here just a few so. as for litter it's just that is often in short supply. if there is no fuel we have to leave our cars and return reentry appears that could be days. women only gas stations is one of many innovations supposed to ease people's lives

in a country that has there are also special problems for ambulances and police cars. for the needle surrounded us but we should move on so we try to do our best to help people get by if we give up will die it's 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 imperialism and need and they do damage to 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 warring sides try to find a way out of months of devastating conflict ordinary people looking for a way to just leave their everyday lives dreaming about times when these nightmare would be with

a distant memory. tripoli. that the u.s. action in libya reaches its ninety day deadline on sunday and a group of congressmen are suing president obama for resorting to military engagement without official approval but voice of russia radio host carmen russell slim chance he says he doesn't believe congress will pull the plug on america's involvement. the problem is that when there was a prior lawsuit during clinton's foray into the former yugoslavia dennis crucifixion a group of other congressman even at that time filed a very similar lawsuit saying that it was illegal and they went to a district court for the district court said in the individual congressmen did not have any sort of standing the reality is i think still a majority of congressmen are are you know going to support the the actions in libya and afghanistan and so on congress is not going to you know in mass come and say that we shouldn't be doing this and try to defund it and besides obama is

currently using discretionary department of funds discretionary funds to get around it anyway so you know it's a question of how effective it would be if it works in the you know to their benefit we do live in a military industrial complex type of world where they have they have the purse strings they have the power and the revolution in egypt at first seemed more successful than the vicious stalemate in libya but since hosni mubarak fell in february around seventy thousand people have been jailed by egypt's military rulers activist david key says the revolution to install democracy has so far changed very little. some have been jailed simply for criticizing the government others have been brought up on 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 you just is going to move towards democracy and liberalism and openness in the west in fact has a very important role to play here watching are still ahead for you this hour at cleaning up fukushima reactors we look at what efforts to decontaminate japan's nuclear crisis and the dangers posed by new radiation. plus the u.s. is accused of using political pressure to extradite jailed russian businessman victor boot from thailand all the details in just a few minutes. now the state should have less of an influence in russia's economy

that was part of president medvedev vision of the nation's future outlined at the international economic forum in st petersburg this week where he joined business leaders and politicians to discuss ways russia and the world should be developing their economies are the same now reports. modernization based on stifling corruption days centralizing power and government reforms all goals voiced by president medvedev at this year's international economic forum here in st petersburg where how russia is going to attempt to become one of the world's biggest and most effective economies was laid out. we shouldn't hesitate to say goodbye to many bad habits we can focus only on a step by step development it's a mistake we should focus on the following improving the investment climate in russia to create new jobs in the regions making progress in the fight against corruption the creation of a modern police service and over security forces improving the effectiveness of the

justice system and finally the modernization of government applying modern approaches and the decentralizing of power of course the main bad habit as the president calls it is corruption which he says is choking russia's economy this was his message to the country's officials that don't do business according to the law . the noose around the neck of those who practice corruption should be tightened and the whole of russia agrees with this without any exception but corruption is very difficult to deal with the government should be purged of corruption in a more decisive way and for that purpose we should in harms way those suspected of corruption are dismissed from public service is another issue that's hampering russia's economic development is it not being a member of the world trade organization lately we're hearing from a lot of officials that exception to the w t o for russia is possible by the end of this year the president agrees but says only under very specific circumstances.

we have long been ready to join the w t o more than many other countries small or large everyone is perfectly aware of that still we are asked to make an unseemly large number of concessions this kind of approach is unacceptable russia will not agree to any evidently unfavorable solutions and of course presumably the one question on all of the minds of the business executives top innovators and world leaders will president medvedev run for reelection well if they have just one question of the forums and this is what medvedev had to say. sure when i consider it appropriate to tell you whether i will do it or not i will come out and say it this forum is not the best place for that one thing you can be sure of is that i will be able to avoid making that statement i will have to tell the people of russia and anyone else who's interested about my decision was that you will not have to wait much longer. every story requires some kind of intrigue otherwise they'll be no interest in living. so let's keep the intrigue

a bit longer. and certainly no intrigue surrounding what platform advantage would run on if he does announce he's running for reelection it will be all about modernization reporting from st petersburg and it's the way r.t. . and among those attending the. but this was the chinese leader who gentile and he said at the world economy is still recovering slowly and that reform of the global financial system is needed hu jintao is visited moscow where a major energy deal with russia was on the table the thirty year supply contract wasn't signed a waiver as the price for russian gas has yet to be agreed but the two leaders did put pen to paper on a number of other lucrative deals and while discussing the wider world they agree that the countries involved in the libyan conflict must stick to the un resolution beijing base political scientist dr king thanks thinks that russia and china's increased collaboration will have global benefits to china russia trade an economic

relationship and huge development between two nations i believe is not only of the impacting the european continent but oversaw the scene i believe the wall these are the crossroads historic crossroads or some may say the wall these are the brink of either being subdued or all the calming the u.s. nato military intervention in libya now moving into possibly syria or even to you wrong if russia or china all of these see all the lions we saw not enough to stop the u.s. . military aggression in north african region so i hope that i see all russia china china russia leaving leading this new global move on to balance the wall so that they can build

a new world order we are no more unilateral aggressive or you conclude methodology being put into a sovereign nation such as libya. it will for a wider outlook at how the emerging powers could reshape the financial landscape check out our website. that's r.t. dot com and the business section you can find expert opinion and the latest updates providing you with a perspective of what's going on in the global economy now just log on to our team dot com. now this week iran attempted to convince the atomic agency that its nuclear program is peaceful it came as the u.n. considered the wider sanctions targeting terror and nuclear plants but iran's envoy to the shanghai cooperation organization dismissed as groundless all accusations that the program has a military dimension all in an exclusive interview with r.t. many allegations was raised by the united states and i approved of the

investigation taking samples and added to go process that all these allegations are baseless in fact before coming to the u.n. i was in charge of escorting all the spectre's and i was with them in this video to size it would prove that these allegations had no basis is a very unfortunate after eight years they are repeating these boring stories one thing is clear that we do not have any program for nuclear weapons we are fully cooperating with. unprecedented. order five thousand mandy's. found no evidence of diversion of nuclear material to prove we did purposes and the statement claimed by lady ocean with due respect i categorically reject. well iran says there is he has them for a nuclear program doesn't seem to have been affected by events in japan there the operator of the crippled fukushima plant says it may take several days before the

system to decontaminate radioactive water can be restarted while the cleanup operation is being hampered by high radiation levels which are now far beyond safety limits it's feared the contaminated water could overflow within a week if a solution isn't found the latest setback promise as an international atomic energy agency report criticized the government's slow response to the nuclear disaster caused by an earthquake and tsunami and james corbet editor of an independent news website says the risk to people's health remains very real. i mean new leaks of any kind are going to be an incredible burden on the efforts that are already on underway to try to clean up the water or decontaminated because they are now running out of space to actually store the contaminated water in the fukushima in the immediate vicinity of the plant and i believe within two weeks they're actually going to run out of space so they're trying to get

a system online for treating the water but apparently the test for that is going to be pushed back another few days it's already been pushed back from last friday there is no such thing as a safe level of radiation exposure that any level of radiation exposure increases the risk of cancer and however negligible that risk may be with any particular person and any particular date any particular spot when it's averaged out over a large population like is living in the fukushima region unfortunately means there will be over time an increase in cancer rates there and it's really just a question of how many. and now for a manmade disasters to natural ones later are to explores the unpredictable risks of avalanches and the adrenaline junkies embracing the danger. one stream can see from. you is miss moment.

but this beauty brings death and a speed of more than two hundred kilometers. long. well this week in new york a judge questioned the validity of evidence against victor boot the russian man america accuse us of being an international gun runner well since his controversial extradition from thailand has consistently said he has little chance of a fair trial. is following the story. he is a russian citizen america fought relentlessly to adopt victor boot was secretly and swiftly extradited to the u.s. seven months ago and this may be where he stays indefinitely if found guilty on arms smuggling and terrorism related charges. he's looking at life there's no parole there's no early release in the federal system really the only way in the federal system to get a reduction in your sentence. a significant reduction is if you cooperate with the

united states government some have argued mr bush needs to be on captain america's team however captain america is being accused of playing dirty and illegally to remove the air cargo business man from thailand according to documents released by wiki leaks all levels of washington top to bottom mounted political pressure against bangkok to gain custody of boot in the us cable dated august thirteenth two thousand and nine u.s. president barack obama was urged to call thailand's prime minister directly about boot the u.s. attorney general and state department were encouraged to call the thai ambassador highlighting the massive drug enforcement administration commitment to thailand and the us ambassador in bangkok urged the thai government to issue a public statement of disappointment at the judge's ruling not to extradite boot america's the world's most powerful nation but it's not more powerful than the

world unfortunately the way things stand right now they're willing to flaunt every international law to get what they want and that means doing all these illegal things in the case of the mood to extradite him or should say kidnap and. was arrested in bangkok in march two thousand and eight during a u.s. sting operation he was charged with conspiring to sell weapons to colombian fark rebels on two occasions the thai court rejected america's extradition request when an entourage of armed u.s. agents removed him from thailand following a decision of the thai government his extradition was still not legally approved the covert operation was kept secret from russia boots family and his attorney. the transfer of victor boot to america was a violation of a very important thai american treaty signed in one nine hundred ninety s. which the political offenders cannot be extradited the case was not finalized and was moved to the us america used various means political. another's outside the

boundaries of due legal process to get victor boot that means that victor boot is not getting a fair deal to this day tires the shells have not provided official documents explaining the legal grounds behind boots extradition this despite repeated inquiries made by the russian foreign ministry that we know for sure that all movember sixteenth two thousand and ten that the moment a little bit to beat was physically taken out of its own prison his case was being considered by the time i call to the appeals that is why there are no legal grounds for him to face a u.s. court. meantime victor boot remains in the u.s. prison held in solitary confinement his wife doubts her husband will receive a fair trial from the country she says violated international and bilateral laws to get him. it's clear to everyone that the case has long been moved from the sphere

of lots of politics i think or rather i would love to think that the american court is unbiased but i have strong doubts about it because i think such pressure could be put on anyone including the jury. the country accusing victor boot of arms dealing now finds itself in a political arm twisting come october and american jury will decide picked up a future well could they have political pressure at surfside by the u.s. army evidently they are far enough apart nine artsy. a full ball is in at the top of the hour but first i'll be back with the headline shortly.

seventy six hours of intense fighting. six thousand dead a. battlefield several kilometers. and now there is only one person who cares. if we are surrounded by garbage everywhere but also there are. on this beach which of course is where most appropriate signification a symbol of everything that's wrong with our goddamn government.

where so many guys died. a new battle is going on. will the history be protected. return to terra what julian cooper story on our t.v. .

welcome back here's a quick recap of this week's top stories on our nato air strikes reportedly hit one of these residential areas destroying a house and killing at least seven going bombing has also led to a fuel shortage of oil rich country. the state's role in russia's economy must be reduced part of the future president of. the international economic forum in st petersburg also reiterated calls to fight corruption more effectively and create a better investment climate. greece has been engulfed in violent protests against a fresh round of government cuts it comes as the prime minister reshuffle the cabinet in a bid to push through a new a sturdy package to secure

a second bailout. and it's not just greeks who are angry at the sacrifices they're being forced into in exchange for financial help from europe germans aren't happy about paying for the financial weaknesses of their neighbors either talk to a german m.p. who thinks countries should look after themselves that interview. what will happen if you keep. you know and you were treaties that was regulated that there must be any bailout because. otherwise you. you would. ruin the popular

finances of those countries who are contributing to it. as long as each country is responsible for its budget it has to take full responsibility and the only right answer to that is no bailout how do the bailouts affect the german economy in germany we are making a lot of efforts to keep public debt under control. we just amended our constitution we put in their so-called truth and dept break. which. defines the steps we have to take with our. budgets. in order to come to the zero nine and then start paying the debt back. and it is dangerous if this is. infected by. all.