nato has responded with an apology. intended 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 the 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 another mistake in a strike this time on rebel forces neither live in oil port of brag or with the number of casualties not been disclosed we hold me to you hold mr cameron mr sarkozy is this going to score any mr obama has already found good response about for the deaths of these innocent children innocent was i'm here as

an innocent fathers and mothers you cannot justify this attack the enemy was. sunday's fatal error he carries i mean 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. while the civilian deaths in libya grow out some of the taxpayers footing the bill for the military intervention the conflict is expected to cost one of its key players the new telly hundreds of millions of pounds in this r.t.s. or emmet 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 one imagines this is not going to end until he. leaves office so this could potentially drag on for months 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 wall 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 west towards from libyan rebels and us movements britain reckons a billion pounds is a pretty good investment it's about having control of north african resources particularly. the 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 cost maybe one hundred thousand pounds per hour to fly so small changes in the number of hours u.s. trade 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 the 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 in the kitty the deployment of apache helicopters doesn't appear to have given the tactical advantage it hoped for and every time they take to the sky or drop the bomb the cost for britain and its beleaguered european neighbors create higher and higher your average r.t. . or next artie's people of el asks his guests whether the international presence in libya and other african countries means a better life for the continent. things have gotten better in the past ten years usually inflation has come down average income gone up the world bank did recently 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 have you tried living in nairobi all of. these guys if they think this is the

middle class is there must be really be on some other planet i'm afraid. but japanese atomic crisis is expected to dominate talks at a nuclear security forum in vienna on monday a full report on the situation in the disaster hit country presented with japan expected to be criticised for underestimating risks facing the fukushima plant and slow government response to the events. thomas visited the city just outside the no go zone the radiation levels are well above safety limits. the ominous and constant ticking of geiger counters has scientists working in fukushima city concerned similar i'm in charge of the group of radiation detection and survey from fukushima university where now thinking their vacation 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 banda danger zone but still radiation levels here are much higher than normal. just to give you an idea of the consistency right now the dagger count is really quite chilling nine of my girl records with about thirty times what is more than the accepted level but if you come down here to where i just saw it all and the moderate collective the redneck you quickly jumped out of 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 what is really except at the level of really going. 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. 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 has changed 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 a simple ways to reduce the radiation levels. you're just trying to do pilot project and do the decontamination. by ourselves and we are not using

a specially equipped man we just use normal child. scoops. you 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 hushing up the dangers the number two nuclear fission in the country thinks the issue is simply too complicated for the general public but the exclusive interview with japan's nuclear industry spokesman is coming your way in about twenty minutes time. we published we have been publishing all the information we get eighty percent. is known by the government and that. it may be difficult for the ordinary people to understand and so i make. the score. for the ordinary people of

say. seventy percent. where every president wants to run for a second term but the fall of the city rests with the people that's according to russian president dmitry medvedev in an interview with london's financial times he said it's too early to say he will stand for election next year but made it clear that he and prime minister putin will not run against each other party's caution that service. recently the question russian president 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 his style russian president maintain the entry but is it him or the new leader especially one who walked upon as 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 unified him approaching could run for presidency at the same signs of president. it's hard for me to imagine loving we are putin and i both running for president of 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 the legal background is to respect the verdict of a court 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 filth that is of course in prison currently serving out his second person. the president however said that he reiterated his belief

that his release would not in any way be a threat to society and that as a citizen of this country because of that of course he has the right to file an appeal which according to the defense so i think what he's going to do speaking on libya russian president with a bit of criticizing quite strongly what is happening in libya right now with the makeup of the military intervention that is why of course russia will not sign any resolution pertaining to syria speak further up syria the russian president said that he understands 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 he believes park obama is a very good president not only in terms of for the united states but also for the

international community itself 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. well for that interview in full you can visit our website. you finance ministers have failed to agree details for the sing the next tranche of last year's massive bailout from greece the decision was postponed until like fish and other things in from the fresh budget cuts phase of greece defaulting on its banks hold back tens of billions of years and then the market the former deputy speaker of the building parliament claims paid out cash tended to help the struggling economy is instead being pocketed by the wealthy. crises like these are considered big opportunities by big financial institutions it was showing 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 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 that i see what all the social achievements of the last thirty years are put in jeopardy by these financial so-called financial reforms and if this is a question about. what is democracy and what is democracy fall i think people not feel financially should do it's as simple as that. now some other headlines for you and in spades protests against budget cuts are also taking place tens of thousands of marched through the streets of madrid and other major starter cities in rallies against austerity measures social spending cuts and massive unemployment moment crisis in the country has left more than

a million families with no income and lead to youth unemployment nearing fifty percent on monday groups all over spain start a month long march the capital expressing their anger the situation. washington has confirmed its holding was a ton of on the fence secretary robert gates described the contract as very preliminary. greater unity pressure was necessary afghan president hamid karzai also confirmed a shift with the taliban becomes as the u.s. prepares to begin withdrawing its troops from afghanistan next month. despite to president obama's plans to start pulling out from afghanistan in washington some predict troops will stay longer than expected after a u.s. military's top official of valid america's continued support the ministration faces a tough challenge to keep its election promises so says artie's military contributor in his latest video blog. the time is ticking for the u.s.

president to come up with their final solution as far as the strategy review for afghanistan is concerned if our bomber wants to avoid paying more for doing this seem and counting on the diminishing returns from against him he has to admit cognitive dissonance between the e.u. as military and civilian force concentrated in afghanistan on the one side and on the other. tower but during the latest farewell conference for us secretary of state robert gates admiral mullen alluded to an idea there the united states cannot leave afghanistan because somehow the united states has a vital interests into this area the bad news the united states does not have any vital interests in afghanistan and except to come politically and

unconditionally eliminate all of them and accountable feels oh a cross of their own to stand. now a mother's decision to use the internet instead of a doctor to help a dying baby a sense of shock waves throughout russia while the case provoked a public outcry growing numbers of people continue to turn their backs on official services due to distrust of the public health care system risk over the details. i see i was an equally weighted 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 doctors say had been hospitalized earlier she could have had a chance of survival however i says mother julia hesitated too long and she's now facing criminal charges for negligence. which you have to understand but did want

to avoid unnecessary. intrusion but 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 other into my lessons to god as my listeners 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 post 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 . they're usually three reasons behind a woman's choice first is when the 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 swab of a woman's healthy newborn 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 any 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 radhika is one of those who opted for home birth with insistence 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 dick the money and never asked if the baby survived. despite the controversy over 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 that there. are.

few moments i would have for the business news with you stay with us. hello and a very warm welcome to a business update the fukushima disaster has made many countries turn to non nuclear energy sources including natural gas but of course spoke to the executive director of the international energy agency about the future of global caus demand out of russia's role in it. currently about three point one three b.n. cubic metres so production willing freeze about five point one three pm means more almost fifty percent increase will happen through truth out of forty five can

renewable sources of energy make an impact renewable energy is feasible picnic 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 more backup maybe gas or coal and also you have to manage very carefully the grief itself how do you see global demand for energy changing demand willing coming out because of the seasonal change in their refineries the refineries coming back from menton and so the demand will increase to the stop water to the some up to date that we think will produce more oil if it's not fast enough suddenly the market is getting tighter and that is something detriment for the economy recovery of the developed countries and also

this product is much heavier to the developing economies in africa india or 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. china and russia going into korean business they have to create a crazy new company which will develop energy from agricultural waste russia has enough resources to produce almost seventy billion cubic meters of five gas a year that's enough to cover all the annual electricity needs of countries such as . egypt. let's take a quick look at how the markets office forming kurds is extending losses on strong . the dollar is dumping its investment appeal the french plan to straighten out one hundred twelve dollars per barrel while a barrel of has slipped to ninety one and helped all those oil lost six percent

last week as create debt crisis raised concerns about energy demand. patience storks the mostly trading on a positive note the latest reports from europe feel hopes the region is moving closer to cut with its debt problems the markets has welcomed extension of greece to reshuffle its cabinet also germany has private creditors to just raise any new creeping out. of the markets. already started trading well they're up to my sixth is close to open in about ten minutes time and we're going to bring in the figures the figures that you see on the screen. closing. and the mice it's worth don and as you can see the archie has lost about half a percent in the fast to the ministries of. insurance i.p.o. may happen as soon as this year the country's largest insurer rules will struck the stake in a six hundred forty million dollars loan to prepare for the listing analysts say

the company could be worth more than two billion dollars. finally the world's leading edge gets underway in paris today it's hoped it will mark or sent a message multiple in order to the head of the event we spoke to the head of boeing about the plane makers 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 boy we talked about the intellectual services we buy engineering we boy did knowledge we develop technologies together the russian scientists we bought and developed their we sophisticated i t. and this is hundreds of millions of dollars that we balling by for all russia in the sector that i think is critical for the survival of the russian economy. that

wraps up the business bulletin join me lesson one last time for more business stories and get more news small website archie dot com slash business.

move. to. more news today violence is once again fled the fighting these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada asher. showing up for a shelter on the day.

time for a look at the headlines now arundhati. nato admits to killing civilians in sunday's airstrike on tripoli aiming a weapon system failed leaving officials who claim they have been almost nine hundred innocent victims of the lots of bombings since intervention began in march . michel inventive has ruled out the possibility of a presidential runoff with prime minister putin in next year's election in his interview with the london financial times the russian who said it's still too early to say that action. and the international atomic watchdog prepares to present a report on japan's handing of the machine across this letter nuclear security forum and the n.s.a.

review criticizes japan's or priorities for the slow response to exhaust queues in the underestimate risks of radiation leaks. but next starts he takes a closer look at the nuclear crisis in japan we talked to the number two you can official in the disaster hit country. we are here with he day he call in the sheehan man who is with the ministry of a colony here in japan specifically with the agency that deals with nuclear safety and thank you very much for taking some time to be with us today now as this. devastating event has happened in the news has spread out around the world it's become clear in the past three months that the information coming from the front nuclear plant has gotten worse can you tell us what's the situation on the ground right now the situation is improving. for example we're

steadily in introducing a water to the reactor as. you need one two and three and their fear is stable and it could. already asian. exposure is becoming less and less a problem is the water which originated from that waterway introduced into the reactors so we are now at the find there are testing process of introducing establishing water pretty fine a system people on the ground say that they have doubts about the information that is coming from the government why do you think they have these doubts and what is the government doing to get this information out there. the japanese government traded to. the studio to. make.