do you hold that is that is that this attack you can not just get why is that ducking. this incident consummates been team here in intense bombardment all believe it or 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 ministry means to stifle the protracted leave in conflict has recently signed a peace mediator to leave it to try to explain the war incised to start talking after missing the rebels in benghazi and broken off the people here in st louis make oh my god has said that he believes there is for peaceful solution of this crisis with both sides saying they are ready for negotiations with the knees are now ready to provide an appropriate location for tolls puts people actually through extremely exhausted after months of devastating war which has already taken many

many lives and has actually completely destroyed the country's infrastructure. it will be a libyan war is already costing divisions in washington with lawmakers demanding obama explain his charge into libya and account for the expense and the lack of progress the political radio host carmen russell so the chance he says he doesn't believe congress will really pull the plug. the problem is that when there was a prior lawsuit during clinton's foray into the former yugoslavia dennis crucifixion of a group of other congressmen even at that time filed a very similar lawsuit saying that it was illegal and it went to a district court but the district court said into the individual congressmen did not have any sort of standing the reality is i think still a majority of congressmen are 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 defense discretionary funds to get around it anyway so you know it's a question of how effective would be it works in 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. well there is still a lot for you ahead this hour including the unmanned warfare in the fall reports of a secret american drone base near yet emerged along with outrage for the lead civilian deaths in the latest attacks. russia and china agree on pumping gas though the price proves to be a problem but neither leave the summit empty handed after securing billions of dollars in business. and the tragedy of teen suicides russia struggles to rein in an epidemic even though experts say there's an all too obvious remedy. both three days into his new job and greece's new finance minister has admitted he

faces what he calls a real war and carrying out a raft of painful reforms to convince his e.u. counterparts to give greece new loans this much bigger task will be to get angry greeks on the side to bear more cuts to jobs services and pay for the appointment was part of a major cabinet reshuffle to try and calm the deep seated fury being shown on the streets of athens r.t. sarah furthur was in the capital this week when the latest violent protests broke out. the clashes between the police on the protesters still going. on the. building the crowd you can see the destruction that the. people here are one thing going on at the moment the police trying to find the crowd behind it i don't rightly know if i. don't my love the people on the street we see many people just them but when they got small still they really don't want

to film but it seems that the people behind the provoking the. people still me think back on the centuries but even though you can haven't got the things that's off by the late. great time. there i agree about the economic situation that's been happening in that country and they want it not going to be able to. play forever. we can really see the tensions between people breaking into the crowd the police out there getting ready to retaliate. with other things to a sense that they didn't care i say that they're trying the fifth fleet back in the police are trying. they're managing by the looks of things to push back the police actually of the century scary itself there's a lot of the protesters who are throwing things wearing gas masks and we spoke to

some of the main organizers from the tea unions who organized protests 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 gas into the crowd that incredibly hard to breathe on the streets not into pleasure for anyone there's lots of people getting medical treatment around the play. but the violence is really erupting and we're not entirely sure if these people when the gas masks that are provoking the police are actually part of the main praise that as we said the people we spoke to said they wanted it to be peaceful and it has been up until now up until earlier today when that provocation happened when the police started to try and push them by that greek journalist illyana scree source to me this was also among the general strike protests and he brings international backers for luring greece into a debt from which it can't escape. we cannot pay all the money they hear it's very interest rates all the money we take is in order to pay the high interest rates this is this is robbery this is theft this is swindle i can describe it

anymore and the problem for them now is that people know that they realize that they see their income don't going down they see taxes taxes taxes and nothing else unemployment you think unemployment is this is what they telling you no real on employment where it's twenty five. sure and this is a chaotic situation and the owner is possible for the situation is the international monetary fund the minister of finance this government has failed. well greeks may be angry at their government for the crisis they're in but the germans are no less serious about having to pay for it all next hour r.t. speaks of german m.p. klaus peter well sure explains why he thinks e.u. countries should look after themselves. when the 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 budget is to take full responsibility you know the right answer to that is no bailout. now a modernised economy cured of corruption as one of the top priorities and president medvedev said to do list in which he outlined russia's direction in st petersburg this week the international economic forum was staged to breathe new life into the country's investment climate at attracted some of the world's business and political heavyweights artes and he said why sums up the show case highlights. modernization based on stifling corruption de centralizing power and government reforms all goals voiced by president made 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 should focus on the following improving the

investment climate in russia to create new jobs in the regions the creation of a modern police service and other security forces improving the effectiveness of the justice system and finally the modernization of government 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 with the neck of those who practice corruption should be tightened on the whole of russia agrees with this without any exception is 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 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 still we are asked to make an unseemly large number of concessions if 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 you need innovators and world leaders will president medvedev run for reelection well it was the official last question of the form and this is what made it if you had to say. when i consider. to prove period 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 thing you can be sure of is that i will be able to avoid making that statement so 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 would run on if you does announce he's running for reelection it will be all about modernization reporting from st petersburg. well the far east to russia's north this week as china's leader joined the gathering in st petersburg calling for a common efforts to get the global economy back on track hu jintao described the recovery as slow and fragile and said more form is needed it followed his trip to moscow where talks failed to decide on a price to ship russian gas directly to china however the leaders pledged to increase trade between the two countries and united against nato military campaign in libya based political scientist dr king believes china and russia will be able to counterbalance western supremacy urgent international problems. china russia trade and economic relationship and huge development between two nations i

believe is not only of the impacting the european continent but oversaw the role of all of the seen. all these at the crossroad historic crossroads or some may say no wallace the brink of either being subdued war although coming to us nato military intervention in libya now moving into possibly syria or even to iran i hope that. russia china china russia leaving leading this new. the robot moving on to balanced of power in the wall so that they can build a new world order where norm or unilateral row aggressive or you can clone your own methodology being put into a sovereign nation such as libya. a u.s. judge says the case against an alleged russian gun water victor boot is

unconvincing and call the prosecutor's evidence then lawyers claim the united states does not have a jurisdiction to prosecute him and want the charges dismissed artie's made a point not in new york explains. he is the russian citizen american 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 fifty years could be. 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 boot 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 a us cable dated august thirteenth two thousand and nine us president barack obama was urged to call thailand's prime minister directly about boot the us 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 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 kidnapping who 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 roy 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 high officials have not provided official documents explaining the legal grounds behind boots extradition. 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 bilateral laws to get

him. it's clear to everyone that the case has long been moved from the sphere of the want to politics i think or rather i would love to think that the american court is unbiased and i have strong doubts about it because i think such a pressure could be put on anyone including the jury. in. the country accusing victor boot of arms dealing now finds itself accused of political arm twisting come october an american jury will decide victor be future today our political pressure . by the u.s. remains evidently the arena point nine artsy new york. for more background and analysis had to r.t. dot com where we outlined the data and timeline in the victor boot case and there you can watch how the story unfolded.

the elections in egypt might be postponed as the country's current prime minister says a new constitution must be drafted first while the country continues under military rule during which around seven thousand people have been arrested since february's revolution activist david king says the uprising to install democracy has so far changed very little. some have been jailed simply for criticizing the government others have been brought up on spirits charges of quote unquote insulting the military but increasingly and certainly given the incredible high number of detentions detentions of civilians not tensions of people who have. 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 described waterboarding they described 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. well let's now check on some of today's main world news a suicide bomber has struck a german convoy more than afghanistan the vehicle was carrying german soldiers and was destroyed in the attack but nato says there are no casualties however at least two civilians died if the explosion and last month two german soldiers. were also killed a regional police commander. argentinian coast guard to seize more than four hundred kilos of cocaine on board a luxury u.s. registered yacht to spaniards from about the boat left the day before the police

raid. weapons were found on board including a machine gun which will supply the vessel capable of transatlantic sailing was about to head to europe. the operator of japan's devastated fukushima nuclear plant admits it underestimated just how much radiation it would have to filter from coolant water well it's no decontamination. after just five hours of operation the latest setback comes after the u.n. nuclear agency criticized tepco for its slow response at concealing the truth magnitude of radioactive leaks james corbat who's an online journalist 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 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 on line 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 in 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 now with one of the highest teen suicide rates in the world russia is being jolted into action to reverse the worrying trend but experts say it's not that simple because there are several causes that can lead to tragedy if left i'd notice and as our reports compassion is a cure but it's

a remedy that's all too hard to come by. just days before final exams the t.v. crew was reporting and students gearing up for their lives that lee had of them the teachers pointed to alina that broader student who it seemed had her future figured out wish away stagers i want to become a journalist because it's very interesting and creative profession here which doors to the waterfall may know what this yet but instead of a school living celebration pulling his classmates gathering cricket. sensing she may not be the best she added everything and hank herself. has been getting ready for the exam for weeks down to lena was the one who watches it hardest of all of her marriage of matt's problems and she was very nice but she wanted to graduate isn't a great student. in many countries this chasseur exams in late december and early june sees peaks in the number of children taking their own lives but in russia it's

a year round problem roughly one in a half thousand children in teenagers killed themselves every year it's much higher than the average scene in the united states and britain. problem is so out of hand that when i was on the president's advantage he found it hard to believe the figures are truly frightening every year thousands children make attempts on their lives. girls are up to four times more likely to attempt suicide yet it's still boys who by a long way actually succeed in killing themselves bigger is different his try to take his life three times the latest that time just six months ago. i just had enough i was tired of fighting with my mom my girlfriend left me i was fed up with studying i couldn't stand seeing the streets and hearing all this noise i just wanted everything and i want peace what's driving the problem in russia what

experts call a low emotional literacy psychological or site. is under developed in north easily available down there is the. given. committed in the state of emotional distress over time. even if parents know many would rather ignore them and to take their kid to a psychologist or psychiatrist which actually added to the continuing social and economic shift between the target for parents to provide for their children moving little time for talking listening this morning meant is that they cater to children who have fallen victim to adult biases alcoholism drug abuse prostitution and i want to those can drive a child to take his or her own life but in the center of this over only wicket bigger stands one that seems qualis frightening almost commonplace yet it represents what experts say is the main reason why russia is leading europe and the

number of teen suicides about ice and difference seeing no evil hearing now cries kind of like an artsy. the u.s. is stepping up its unmanned drone attacks on yemen claiming to target al qaeda militants well there have been reports of a secret cia base being built in the persian gulf with the sole purpose of taking down anti-american terrorists if they manage to win through with yemen's power struggle well it's thought that over one hundred people have been killed in the past two weeks and witnesses on the ground say they could have a lot more civilians than is being admitted in the u.k. attack helicopters and commando squads are being prepared for a possible deployment in the country a british m.p. jeremy corbyn believes the west is doing the direct opposite of what you have a need for stability. if the west goes in with starts bombing on behalf of unclear who and i think that will make the situation markedly worse yemen has huge

poverty and social support this country in the region its median age population is less than a i mean has the greatest social discrepancies of any country in the whole region the last thing it needs is more bombing what it needs is peace what it needs is people coming together and it needs overseas aid to help develop any government or political unity. to bring together all of the factions and all of the interests across the yemen i cannot believe that drove me to bring this about and in their haste to be involved the u.s. looked to me like you're in danger of making all the mistakes they made in afghanistan. you know i mean they rushed in as part of the cold war. and thus was born. well over the last century the u.s. has a stablished hundreds of military bases around the world and in just a few minutes we bring you a special report on this expanding and the risks to the countries hosting them well

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here's a recap of the headlines on r t seven civilians dead in a suspected nighttime nato air strike on a residential area in tripoli as the alliance tries to block libya out of its three month stalemate. reeses move the body rolls up his sleeves to steer the debt stricken country's reforms after a few areas public rates against even deeper cuts in athens. america's accuse of twisting thailand's office as a judge casts doubt on the legality of extraditing alleged russian arms smuggler to the states that wherever the u.s. army walks at leaves its military mark forming a web of bases that span continents next our special report on the impact it's having on host countries.

beginning in the 1980's the belief is slowly taking over the world that new liberal globalization with its builtin self-regulating mechanisms would finally do away with old institutions like the state and the military and would assure the planet into an era of relative peace and prosperity free trade will bring on the great depression nine eleven and the current economic crisis have shown that believed to be largely a myth. but many signs were already there markets have always relied on state power and military might. america's transformation from republic to economic superpower following world war two was accompanied by the creation of a global network of military bases unlike any other in history. according to the

pentagon's base structure report today these amount to seven hundred sixteen in thirty eight countries more than two hundred fifty thousand soldiers stationed on these bases in addition to this the u.s. has a military presence in one hundred ten countries around the world. a year after his election barack obama approved the new administration's first military budget this amounts to six hundred eighty billion dollars thirty billion more than bush's last defense budget and almost equalling the seven hundred eighty seven billion dollars set aside by the new administration for the economic crisis stimulus package why despite the crisis does the military budget keep growing a crises a military expansion related in some way. when we have different presentations or sometimes bands that come.