good target during last night's airstrike in tripoli was a military missile site however from our initial assessment of the facts it appears that one weapon did not strike the intended target due to a weapons systems failure although officials in tripoli claim more than eight hundred civilians have died in nato raids then nine people they say were killed in sunday's bombardment of the city have become the first civilian casualties officially acknowledged by the alliance only on saturday nato has also admitted and other mistake in a strike this time on rebel forces near the levin oil port of bragger with a number of casualties not been disclosed do you hold me till you hold mr cameron mr sarkozy is this going to score any mr obama has already shown he could this possible for the deaths of these innocent children innocent was i mean here was an innocent fathers and mothers you cannot justify this attack the enemy

was. sunday's fatal error he carries any the rising concerns within nato about his operation in northern africa only eight out of its twenty eight members have joined the mission to protect civilians in libya which raises the question how many would support one to kill them ration option or r t tripoli. with civilian deaths in there be a grow bigger balance among the taxpayers footing the bill for the military intervention the conflict is expected to cost one of its key players the hundreds of millions of pounds that was out there and it's reports the blow to britain's budget couldn't have come at a worse time. they're already calling it the billion pound war it's calculated that if the war in libya goes on for six months it will cost the british taxpayer one point six billion dollars but that initial humanitarian

mission is now get rid of gadhafi operation and that could take a lot longer assuming that their goal is to simply oust him from power this is not going to end until he or until he leaves office so this could potentially drag on for more and as we've seen they've already extended the operation by another three months that's unlikely to be popular with the british public that government spending like a hawk already feel seeing services and jobs slashed even so downing street swore it is open and it's taking the lead in libya data gathered by britain's guardian newspaper from defense ministries and news reports shows that britain has flown twenty five percent of all sources in libya second only to the u.s. by the second week of may six thousand strike missions had been ordered blogger daniel rennick says the u.k.'s likely to have weighed up the cost but with a warm wind blowing westwards from libyan rebels and use movements britain reckons

a billion pounds is a pretty good investment it's about having control of north african resources particularly. or to be made for the transitional council that seems to be very clear some bombs cost up to one and a half million dollars each and with the u.k. cutting defense spending analysts say they may not be replaced and when you're dealing with such big numbers small things make a big difference you're a fighter type food costs maybe one hundred thousand pounds per hour to fly so small changes in the number of hours you estimate produce big changes a cost estimate for the operant. wars are always expensive but the costs back home . could prove harder to afford next in line to strike a million public sector workers who are being asked to work more and get less disruption to services could run in two weeks the commitment to continue in libya for however low suggests a blank check at

a time when there is literally kitty the deployment of apache helicopters doesn't appear to have given the tactical advantage it hoped for and every time a plane takes to the sky or drops the bomb the cost for britain and its beleaguered european neighbors create higher and higher your avatar to. that in two hours time marty's people as well ask his guests whether the international presence in libya and other countries means a better life for the continent. have gotten better in the past ten years usually in inflation has come down average incomes have gone up the world bank talking about roy's in the number of people who between two and four dollars a day hours for the world bank and their apologists who talk about you know the middle classes beginning with two dollars a day a pound a day he'd have you tried living in nairobi and he these guys are if they think

this is the middle class is there there must be be on some other planet i'm afraid . the japanese atomic crisis is expected to dominate talks of a new security force in vienna on monday a full report on the situation in the disaster his country will be presented there japan expected to be criticised underestimating risks facing the fukushima plant. response to the events. thomas visited the city just outside the no go zone radiation levels well above sixty minutes. the ominous and constant ticking of geiger counters has scientists working in fukushima city concerned and or some of the i'm in charge of the group of radiation detection and survey from fukushima university where now thinking their creation protocol and process set up by the japanese government is not enough and myself i think i should

evacuate from this area but because of my job at the university i can't my family and my friends' families are evacuating. officially fukushima city is in a safe area eighty kilometers from the day to plant reactor one and a full sixty kilometers outside the band danger zone but still radiation levels here are much higher than normal. just to give you an idea of the consistency right now the background is really quite to nine of my girl records which is about thirty times what it is more than the accepted level but if you come down here to where i just saw it all and a lot of it collected a regular quickly jumped out and it still climbing earlier we got a really good night and now i look at my career which is about a thousand times more than a widely accepted level of strictly legal. but in order to claim that fukushima is truly safe from leaking radiation the japanese government has had to be creative with the numbers but the government did they change the

quantum level standard the levels from one. to twenty million per year to twenty times. the standards before the accident and now. they raise the. the standard so that they can say it's safe but actually the standard house change the new higher levels mean that fukushima can be classed as being outside of the exclusion zone some say that evacuating the city would be simply impractical given the huge numbers of people affected to try and mitigate the circumstances to some degree a group of scientists have teamed up to find simple ways to reduce the radiation levels. we're just trying to do a pilot project and do the decontamination. by ourselves and we are not using our special equipment we just use normal child both. groups.

we just. have to adopt. a small effort to bring some security to a community facing a scary and uncertain future in fukushima city sean thomas r.t. . well despite concerns over japan's government hosking up the dangers the number two nuclear fission in the country thinks the issue is simply too complicated for the general public for exclusive interview with japan's nuclear industry spokesman is coming your way next hour. i think eighty percent. is known by the government that we published we have been publishing all the information we got. but. it may be difficult for the ordinary people to understand so i. make. the

score for that wouldn't it people. say. seventy percent. without and then a few minutes no easy bailout for greece. finance ministers postponed another payment to athens we'll bring you expert opinion on actually benefits from plano when it goes bust. business the famous air show low version is getting underway in paris it already breaks records and numbers of participants and exhibits on display and help if will bring massive multi-billion contracts and orders for aircraft and to have an event we spoke to the head of. this business and russia board in about ten minutes. every president wants to run for a second term the final decision rests with the people that's according to russian

president dmitri medvedev and an interview with london's financial times he said it's too early to say if he will stand for reelection next year but made it clear that he and prime minister putin won't run against each other party's country is more. recently the question russian president to be there with a bit of gets asked the most is of course the one about his potential participation in the twenty four presidential elections but keeping true to a style russian president maintain the entry but is it him or the new leader especially one who walk oppose the president's seat has to be willing to run for reelection however it's not a question of whether he would make that decision for himself i suggest waiting a bit longer and keeping the intrigue you like do you think that you're involved in the future and could run for presidency at the same time because if you. it's hard for me to imagine we're putin and i both running for president at the same time for

at least one reason. we strictly speaking represent the same political force competition between us would bring harm to the goals and tasks we've been working on for the past several years it wouldn't be good for russia and i wouldn't be good in this particular situation. russia's president saying that one of the things that he took with him into his political career from his a legal background is to respect the verdict of a court and no political party has the right to use a particular sentence to their advantage which is of course what he believes is happening with the case of the pope that is of course in prison currently serving out his second prison for the president however said that he reiterated his belief that his release would not in any way be a threat to society and as a citizen of this country make certain that you have the right to file an appeal which according to the defense side is what he's going to do speaking on libya russian president with every bit of criticized quite strongly what is happening in

libya right now with the nature of military intervention that is why of course russia will not sign any resolution or taining syria speaking further up syria the russian president said that you understand the syrian. it being a difficult position. but on the other had hopes that bloodshed more bloodshed will be avoided that president assad will manage to apply forward and push through those reforms that. and of course the russian president also spoke at length about his american partner saying that the police barack obama is a very good president not only in terms of for the united states but also for the international community making frankly me that even though i just said that for him personally of course if obama does choose to run for office again and when's the election in twenty two while for him that would be the best case scenario. for the full of version of that interview because our web site called.

the finance ministers have failed to agree details for the next tranche of last year's class of bailout for greece the decision was postponed until today with a condition that athens intervened fresh budget cuts as a government default made this agreement that tens of billions of euros. a former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament claims. to help europe stop me he's instead pocketed by the wealthy. crises like these are considered big opportunities by big financial institutions it was during the past and it is so today where is the money gone well i think you don't have to look for the money is going to financial institution to wealthy elites who are actually benefiting from this crisis bailouts what kind of bailouts through for what purpose that is the question the bill is that we have was look we give you all these tax payer money

without any conditions so you can keep on going doing what you did that is not the kind of bailout advice or all the social achievements of the last thirty years are put in jeopardy by these financial so-called financial reforms and the thing is this is a question about what is democracy and what is democracy for i think the mox for the people not for financial institution it's as simple as that. now some other world headlines and in spain protests against budget cuts are also taking place tens of thousands of march through the streets of madrid and other major spinal cities rally against austerity measures social spending cuts and massive unemployment. crisis in the country is there more than a million families without income and lead to youth unemployment nearing fifty percent on monday groups all over spain will start a month long march to travel to expressing their anger at the situation.

a bomb threat has sparked a full scale one and turn of flight landing in washington d.c. urgency operation began after some. airport claimed there was a bomb on board a u.s. airways plane heading to the u.s. capitol. hill searched by experts who also interviewing the plane's forty four passengers so far no explosive device has been found a person who made the claim is custody. three civilians were killed and eleven wounded after a suicide bomber struck a german military convoy in northern afghanistan the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack and the nato casualties are reported elsewhere in the country the alliance has confirmed eight of its members were killed on saturday number of casualties to two hundred forty four for the year. a mother's decision to use the internet instead of a doctor to help her dying baby sent shock waves throughout russia while the case

provoked a public outcry growing numbers of people continued to turn their backs on official services due to a distrust of the public health care system pushed over as the details. i see i was an eagerly awaited baby adored by her mother and everyone around she was a lively newborn for three months when she became ill and died within a week from a very. train of pneumonia doctors say had been hospitalized earlier she could have had a chance of survival however us his mother julia hesitated too long and she's now facing criminal charges for negligence. you have to understand we did want to avoid unnecessary medical intrusion but if we are not in a cult we care about our children's health and want only the best for them this is julia's heartrending response in a t.v. show called let them talk on russia's first channel. which i see was the love of my

life show us losing her is the worst possible punishment i learned my lesson god is my witness what happened was the scariest thing in my life in the program she was hounded as an irresponsible mother who watched her daughter die online after her desperate those asking for help on the internet reached the wider public. julius tragic story is just one among those who chose to give birth at home and resort to self treatment rather than trust official health care they may be a fraction of russian society but then number is increasing and doctors are alarmed that. they're usually three reasons behind a woman's choice first is when a mother falls under the influence of an alternative group that makes business out of it delivering babies without a license the second group are those who prefer everything natural as it was before

hospitals and the third is the most unpleasant for us when a patient has a bad experience connected to a medical establishment. stories of medical maltreatment or even worse continue appearing in the russian media and unplanned amputation of a baby's limb and an alleged swap of a woman's health a new born for a disabled one are among the most recent cases those dark stories often have another side to them but they're scary enough to make young women dread. ne hospitals drugs and doctors. people who are afraid of clinical medicine have their reasons for that they're afraid of the complications they might get in maternity wards of unnecessary medical intrusion there's quite a large number of deaths and crippled lives. so veronica believed her mother when she told her doctors might harm her and her baby the idea of natural delivery at home sounded very convincing to me until my son and i nearly died in the birth i'm like neither of us ended up in

a grave the ronnie is one of those who opted for home birth with this instance of only a midwife a practice that is unregulated in russia and skates on legal thin ice making it open to abuse the running because midwives barely had any relevant training but took the money and never asked if the baby survived. despite the controversy of the home birth everyone agrees that interface is russia if you want to minimize the risk giving birth in hospital is the answer but with mothers wanting more choice the system as it currently stands could do with a rethink after all it is these little people and their health that matters most and their arrival. should be happy and there. are. a few moments all the business deals with us stay with us.

hello and a very warm welcome to business day the fukushima disaster has made many countries turn to non nuclear energy sources including that chilled gas arches to china pretty cool the spoke to the executive director of the international energy agency about the future of global gas demand and russia's role in it. currently about three point one three b.n. cubic meters so production willing please about five point one three pm means more almost fifty percent increase will happen through two thought of the five can renewable sources of energy make an impact renewable energy is feasible picnic of it but probably very cool street and also because the cost increase because of the

smart grid because it's a very volatile nature of all sources so all you need to back up maybe gas or oil coal and also you have to manage very carefree the grief itself how do you see global demand for energy changing demand really coming up because of the seasonal change in their refineries the refineries coming back from menton and so the demand will increase to the water to the some up to date that we think will produce more if it's not fast enough suddenly the market is getting typed up and that is something did treatment for the economy. developed country and also these products it's much could be true that we've been upping economies in africa india and china to avoid the very hard landing scenario in the global economy some of them say production increase in easing the market or oil is

very important and it's a common interest of producer and consumer countries. have a quick check on the markets kurds extending losses a strong dollar is dumping it that's going to feel the brunt plant is trading at around one hundred twelve dollars a barrel while at barrels i had one thousand one hundred dollars oil lost six percent last week us create debt crisis raise concerns about energy. stocks in asia mostly trading on a positive note asked the latest reports reveal fuel hopes to reach. moving closer to cope with his step problems marcus has welcome to the decision of cruz to reshuffle this cabinet also germany has tried its characters to participate in the new bailout package. and here in moscow the markets will start trading in else time their closed in the red on friday to the r.t.s. was down just under one percent but my six office heavy losses and one of the

health the stand down. the first russian insurance i.p.o. may happen as soon as this year the country's largest insurer strong has taken a six hundred million dollars loan to prepare for the listing analysts say the company could be worth movement two billion dollars. and finally the world's leading as shola version i get sunday in paris today and so food will mark a return to message that in order when you crossed and ahead of the event we spoke to the head of boeing about the plane maker's business in russia. you know airplane sales of the blood of all business when business because the seller of planes in the last year was sold almost one hundred new airplanes over here but not less important maybe for me personally more important that russia is a really great supply for boeing we talked about the intellectual services we buy e.g. near when we buy acknowledges we develop technologies together the russian side that

we bought and developed very sophisticated i t and this is hundreds of millions of dollars that we boeing by for all russia in the sector that i think is critical for the survival of the russian economy. the business bulletin join me in less than one more business stories and get more from a website r.t. dot com slash business.

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dot com. time for a look at the headlines now a hair nazi. nato admits to killing civilians in sunday's airstrike on tripoli claiming a weapon system failure even officials claim there were no more than eight hundred innocent victims of their dances bombings since the intervention began in march. the international atomic energy watchdog prepares to present a report on japan's handling of the fukushima crisis at a nuclear security forum in vienna your view criticizes japan's authorities for this new spawns to the disaster using it underestimating the risks of radiation leaks. and the major many read of says he won't be part of a presidential runoff next year's election if it means going head to head with

prime minister putin has intervened in london financial times the russian leader also said it's still too early to confirm his candidacy. next to the emotional crusade of an eighty nine year old us world war two veteran outright by what he believes is the indifference of his country towards the memory of foreign soldiers . in the fall of one thousand nine hundred eighty three america began a major campaign against the japanese defenses in the central pacific. over thirty five thousand u.s. marines and naval forces were assembled for an invasion. the nov twentieth america launched an infamous assault against one of the most heavily fortified japanese

islands in the world. tyrone. on board a higgins landing craft ensign leon cooper who was responsible for the lives of hundreds of men. for the thousands of marines riding to the shores that morning no one could imagine the ferocity of the battle to come or the death and destruction that would soon face. in february of two thousand and eight leon cooper a navy veteran of the tower battle and a film crew left los angeles on a journey that took sixty five years. to the. point of the one. on which.