the buildings on the opposite side of this street have also been partially damaged but we were told that no one from there has been heard the libyan government spends person looked at him aside but he has come to the since shortly after this happened and he has this civilian area had been hit by nature takes pride there when attacked by rockets on the sky people were killed children with my own hands with my own eyes i still am helping out with the girls who were killed and get to the boys the father and the mother june whole families that is under this attack you cannot justify just that dark. incident this incident counts i mean it's continuing intense bombardment all believe every 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 protests and leave in conflict has recently signed a peace treaty

a ten to leave it to try to explain the war in size to start talking after missing the rebels in benghazi and pro productive people here in st louis may come and go has said that he believes the release for peaceful solution of this crisis with both sides saying they're ready for negotiations with the knees are now ready to provide an appropriate location for tolls but 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. of course part of the roof notion of their will it was already causing divisions in washington with lawmakers demanding a bomber explain his charging to libya in a code for the expense and lack of progress but political radio host carbon russel's to chance he told us he doesn't believe congress will be ready to pull the plug the problem is that when there was a prior lawsuit during. clintons are foreign to the former yugoslavia dennis

kucinich and the group of other congressmen 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 end of 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 and congress is not going to. come and say that we shouldn't be doing this and try to define 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 it would be it works 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. coming up a bit later this we report on the tragedy of teen suicides russia struggles to raise an epidemic even though experts say there's an all too obvious remedy and there's we discover a bit later in the program also for you russia and china agree on pumping gas for

the price proves to be a problem nonetheless leave the lever subject empty handed and securing billions of dollars in business again details on that story to. the greek prime ministers admitted his country needs another one hundred ten billion euro bailout package to avoid defaulting on its debt the task to convince the you to lend again rests on the shoulders of the new finance minister in athens who says he faces a real war in carrying out a raft of painful austerity measures he'll face fierce opposition from angry greeks to plans to more job cuts services and pay your point it was part of a major public reshuffle to try and calm the widespread fury the violent demonstrations appealing for a vote of confidence the prime minister warned that without another bailout athens would soon be another cash inviting a global financial crisis when i first been following developments for us in a troubled country. the clashes between the planes that. protesters still trying.

to cancel the safety pin head of. buildings fired into the crowd. to such things out along the side flare it was filled and. people have one thing that was going on at the moment the police trying to find the problem violence still breaking out no it's not cheap enough don't buy a lot of the people on the street see famous people dressed in black with a gas mask tell they really don't want any old film that has been said that the people who are behind the provoking the police. people still missing back on the central state even though you can have a trigger still think that's off by the place they turned out to protest against the proposed to start to measure their agony about the economic situation that's been happening in that country and they wouldn't have been all going to be able to have a place for about really got anything the tensions between the people crying things into the crowd the police out there getting ready to retaliate stuff. that.

three ten. was a situation that they didn't care i say that trying to fix the fact that the police are trying to send them managing by the looks of things to push back the police actually of the such a scary itself there's a lot of the protesters who throwing things so i guess since we spoke to some of the main organizers from the t.v. unsupervised protests today they said that they wanted it to be peaceful until the end of june and so any of these measures will cause see the police the letting of take us into the crowd that incredibly hard to breathe only strays not to too pleasant for anyone there's lots of people getting medical treatment around the place. but the violence is really a rope saying we're not entirely sure if these people when the gas masks that are provoking the place are actually part of the main process as we said the people we spoke to said they wanted it to be peaceful and it has been up until now up until it's day when that. the case it happened when the police started. so furthur nason

athens while the greek government struggling to force through new austerity measures eurozone follows ministers are trying to persuade european banks pension funds and other private creditors to help fund the bailout british euro and pay nigel farage told us however they don't really care about the greek people are more worried about the political goals behind the euro project i have been trying with president van ryn poyet with president barroso with all the people that lead the what is plan b. isn't it time we had missive that greece portugal arland are not suited to the euro zone isn't it better that we that they come out they get their own currencies back they have a devaluation other then of course some of the banks have to take a hit but they won't hear of it here because as far as they're concerned in brussels the euro the economic and monetary union is a political project they see it as a stepping stone to the united states of europe are they not prepared to admit

they've got it horribly wrong and for vat frankly they couldn't care less if tens of millions of people across europe lose their jobs that doesn't matter to the european commission provided they can maintain the euro and keep propping up the banks the effect of the greek crisis is starting to hurt other countries across the three prettiest banks pulling tens of billions out of the eurozone lending market a former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament says bailout cash intended to help your of struggling economies instead big pocketed by the wealthy crises. are considered big opportunities by big financial institutions it was true in the past and it is so today where is the money gone well i think you don't have to look far the money has gone to financial institution to wealthy elites who are actually benefiting from this crisis they're not sure which kind of bear large true for what purpose that is the question the bill is that we have short fall was look weak. if

you all this taxpayer money without any conditions so you can keep on going doing what you did that is not the kind of bailout advice was certainly. aleck style or did we got an interview with the german m.p. klaus peter velshi shares his views on bailing out greece why he thinks e.u. countries should look after themselves. the czech republic this last week announced it's backing out of a u.s. missile defense program planned for europe because it was frustrated by the diminished role that was now being offered the original plan to place an advanced radar on the country's been changed to a less important facility the missile shield supposed to counter potential threats from so-called rogue states like iran and north korea but the plan's been facing massive opposition from russia others concerned its safety might be compromised they've also been protests in the czech republic itself and one of the outspoken critics of the project is activist yan tamar she told us such a system would only through global tension the czech people don't want such a thing here in this country we feel that this will actually undermine the security

of both the czech republic and europe as a continent and so we think that it's completely contradictory to place such a such a system here in europe this system without incorporating russia without talking to also other it world superpowers make china like india or the following or the pirates that will be the biggest world economies in the in a falling two years is really going to make a lot of tension there on the global scale and so it we should be wise and just start thinking about building security mechanisms and structures that will include all the big superpowers not just some. denies the colony cured of corruption is one of the top priorities in president medvedev is to do list in which he outlined russia's direction in a simple form this week the international economic meeting was staged to breathe new life into the country's investment climate the other truck in some of the world's biggest political weights. and now it sums up the show case highlights for

us modernization based on stifling corruption de 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 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 official that don't do business according to the law. the noose around my neck of those who practice corruption should be tightened and the whole of russia or agrees with this without any

exception if 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 access into 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 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 it was there of yourself last question of the form and this is what made me to say yes 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 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 use the way our city. a far east also came to russia's north this week as china's leader joined together in some petersburg calling for common efforts to get the global economy back on track hu jintao described the recovery a slow and fragile and said war reforms are needed it followed his trip to moscow where talks failed to decide on a price to ship russian gas directly to china however the country's leaders did

pledge to quadruple mutual trade within a decade and a journalist today least voters see said the closer alliance between moscow and beijing will bring economic benefits for both china to be a hugely important trade partner for russia both in energy terms ending in general trade these are two countries that for many decades shared a political ideology at least to some extent they share the longest land border in the world they ought to be much much greater partners than they are now if we look ahead russia is extremely keen to develop its oil and gas resources in the east of the country exporting those anywhere other than asia just doesn't make logistical or economic sense so really this is about russia spreading its wings. you know everybody who can export anything is looking at the asian market because

that is where the growth is. the u.s. judge this week called the case against an alleged russian gun runner to boot unconvincing and called the prosecutor's evidence against him sane lawyers claim the united states doesn't have jurisdiction to prosecute him and want the charges dismissed at his report neither in new york explains more. he is the russian citizen america fought relentlessly to adopt it or boot was secretly and swiftly extradited to the us seven months ago and this may be where he stays indefinitely if guilty on arms smuggling and terrorism related charges if he is convicted. 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 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 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 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. 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 tie 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 and bilateral laws to

get him. that it's clear to everyone that the case has long been moved from the sphere of lard to 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. in. the country accusing viktor bit of arms dealing now finds itself accused of political arm twisting come october an american jury will decide if the boot future walk to a political pressure at surfside by the u.s. army evidently the arena point nine artsy new york and if you want to furnish yourself with more background and analysis about this long running story head to our call there we got the data at the time one of the old vic to boot case you can see how it all unfolded.

with one of the highest teen suicide rates in the world russia is now being jolted into action to try to reverse a worrying trend but experts say it's not that simple because there are several causes that can lead to tragedy if left i've noticed results is exam a boy to reports no compassion is a cure but sadly it's a remedy that all too often is too hard to come by. just days before final exams a t.v. crew was reporting and students gearing up for the adult lives that lay ahead of them the teachers pointed to bullying or the broader student who it seemed had her future figured out wish it were a stage i want to become a journalist because it's a very interesting and creative profession which would open doors to the world for me with this yet but instead of a school living celebration pulling his classmates gathered for his funeral

something she may not be the best she ended everything and hank herself with agendas and she would have been getting ready for the example weeks than pulling out was the one who worked the hardest of all she saw loads of math problems and she was very nervous she wanted to graduate isn't a great student how many countries this trask's of 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 and a half thousand children and teenagers kill themselves every year that's much higher than the average scene in the united states and britain. the problem is so out of hand that when i was informing the president's about it he found it hard to believe but the figures are truly frightening every year thousand 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. eager is different his try to take his life three times the latest the 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 to end and i want to piece what's driving the problem in russia is what experts call a low emotional literacy psychological or psychiatric help is underdeveloped and not easily available then there is the stigma. most the most suicides are attempted or committed in a state of emotional distress which builds over time there are warning signs but even if parents notice that many would rather ignore them than to take their kid to a psychologist or psychiatrist added to that continuing social and economic shift making it harder for parents to provide for their children and leaving little time

for talking and 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 go with can drive a child to take his or her own life but then the fancher of this overly wicked figure spends one that since policy driving almost commonplace here represents what experts say is the main reason why russia is leading europe in the number of teen suicides and that isin difference seeing no evil hearing now cries out of work or artsy. also making news tonight a suicide bomber struck a german convoy in northern afghanistan the vehicle was carrying german soldiers it was destroyed in the attack but nato reports there are no true casualties however at least two civilians did die in the explosion the taliban said it carried out the bombing. somalia's problem this is resigned from what he called the sake of the

somali people the water one country has been without effective government for two decades now with much of the south controlled by islamist extremists the pyramid earlier refused to go despite a looming deadline to leave in order to clear the air between the president and speak at a low he had public popularity his high level support was pretty divisive in the shaken transitional government which has been extended for another year now. they're the operator of the devastated fukushima nuclear plant will open the doors of one of its reactive buildings to vent radioactive gases it's to try to prevent another explosion tepco also admits it underestimated just how much radiation would have to filter from water the latest setback comes off the u.n. nuclear agency criticized tepco for its slow response ad concealing the truth magnitude of radioactive leaks. journalists he 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 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 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. over the last century the u.s. is established hundreds of military bases around the world and in just a few minutes tonight we bring you

a special report on this expanding web and the risks to the countries hosting the us to come on now for a recap of our main news headlines with me kevin owen in just a moment or two here on r.t. .

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you're choosing to see international thanks for being with us our top stories they to admit since forces killed civilians in a strike on a residential area in tripoli on sunday with gadhafi regime officials say nine died including two babies. also america's accused of twisting thailand's arm as a new york judge cast doubt on the legality of extraditing alleged russian arms smuggling big to the states. greece is new man on the money rolls up his sleeves to steer the debt stricken countries reforms are for a furious public rage against even deeper cuts in athens. the u.s. is encircled the world with a trail of army bases with almost eight hundred military facilities spanning more

than one hundred countries next in the first part of a special report we've got for you on how america's increasing its global influence . 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 minute.