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 need eleven allport of bragger with a number of casualties not been disclosed we hold nato we hold mr cameron mr sarkozy and mr better scorning mr obama was already down here getting this possible for the deaths of these innocent children innocent was i'm here i'm innocent fathers and mothers you cannot justify this attack if the enemy wasn't.

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. civilian deaths in libya growing anger mounts among the taxpayers footing the bill for the military intervention because it's expected to cost one of its key players the u.k. hundreds of millions of pounds resulting is war and 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 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 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 to tight food costs maybe one thousand pounds per hour supply 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 nato 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 t. . but in about twenty minutes time artie's people a bell asks his guests whether the international presence in the other african 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 as 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 all of. these guys if you think this is the middle class is there must be really be on some other planet i'm afraid.

the japanese atomic crisis expected to dominate talks and security for the other on monday full report on the situation in the disaster hit we presented with japan expected to be criticised for underestimating risks facing the fukushima plant and for a slow response to the events. thomas this is a city just outside the no go zone where radiation levels with 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 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 battleground is really pretty quite tonight micro ring it's 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 i'm not about collecting the regular quickly jumped up but it's still climbing earlier we got a really good night in iowa my career which is about a thousand times more than what is the accepted level of state regulation. 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 redish

a 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 house 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. we're just trying to do. project. by ourselves and we are not to using especially men we just use normal. scoops.

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

seventy percent. you know we've got here in a few minutes no easy bailout for greece well you finance ministers from other paint runs experts here actually benefits from. where it goes plus. the world's leading edge solo today his kicks off in paris a lot of russian leading the space and firms already participating on the show already breaking records in both numbers of participants and exhibits on display more in business in about ten minutes. every president wants to run for a second term but the final decision 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 if he will stand for reelection next year but made it clear that he and mr putin will not run against each other. joins us live from

moscow for moral it's really looks as there are still waiting for that big question to be answered that. indeed well it is a question that has most recently been most frequently put to the russian president whether in fact will run for a second term in office but russian president john. keep the suspense out for a little longer. because you don't feel the new leader especially one who occupies 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. well for a while everyone does wait for him to answer that specific question russian president wants come forth coming with a lot of answers to many different questions including one where he said he will not be running with the democrats in office. it's hard

for me to imagine driving we are putin and i both running for president of the same time for at least one reason the thing is 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 it wouldn't be good in this particular situation. because it wasn't all about the election was it i'm sure some other tough questions were asked as well. indeed of course questions that forward by the financial times concerning russia's domestic and foreign policy alike many questions to which with limited. detail lengthy answers of words concerning russia's interests national interests and its interests abroad many issues ranging. russia's position on the ongoing conflict in the middle east to the questions of rupture the sesame of reforms and what needs to be done in order to see those words actually take if there were no went to

especially one with the western source would happen without the question about the former c.e.o. of will try to speak out that all speak with him if they did read raise his position once again that that was his release was not in any way be a threat to society and that just like any other russian citizen he was so. serving time that will stay has the right to file an appeal which according to the rhythm and they did was something that the book still does plan to do but of course a lot of time was also developed devoted to many other aspects that russia has interests in such as its relations with its biggest neighbor china and russia as potential involvement in the ongoing conflict in the middle east talking about that russian president drew attention to the fact that many of russia's partners have chosen to interpret recent resolutions made by the united nations security council as they see fit not as the resolutions of the so that themselves stand of course

russia did let pass a resolution on libya which later was interpreted by several major member states as basically an invitation for a military intervention something that russia has been vehemently opposing ever since it started and said that it's following those developments russia will make sure that no similar resolution on syria is allowed to pass of course because of that misinterpretation of the united nations security council resolution which is very unhappy with the way that that has handed out we also know that the various other aspects were of course brought up brought up during the course of that interview with the f t. a many of them serious but some relatively light hearted everybody of course knowing that the russian president is fond of his gadgets and he did manage to find a way to keep track of all of his tasks said whether they're being fulfilled

apparently he has a new app on his i pad the second i pad that lets a monitor whether his tasks have been fulfilled or whether they're being carried out definitely something to look forward to are certainly going to be looking for it in the app store hopefully it's not presidential a tailored. live from moscow thank you for that. and for that interview in full with president we've got a very you can visit our website at r.t. dot com. finance ministers have failed to agree details for releasing the next tranche of last year's massive bailout for greece the decision was postponed until nine. things implement fresh budget cuts. greece defaulting banks everybody of billions of euros from the lending market former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament claims bailout cash intended to help europe struggling

economies is instead pocketed by the wealthy. crises like these are considered big opportunities by big financial issue dushan 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 for the money has gone to financially should do shit to wealthy elites who are actually benefiting from this crisis bailouts what kind of a large true for what purpose and that is the question we actual fall look we give you all these taxpayer 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 this thing is this is a question about what is democracy and what is democracy for i think the mox full of 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 marched through the streets of madrid and other major spider cities in rallies against austerity measures social spending cuts and last of unemployment the economic crisis in the country has left more than a million families with no income led to youth unemployment nearing fifty percent on monday groups all over spring start a long march to the capital expressing their anger with the situation. washington has confirmed it's holding talks with. secretary robert gates to scarborough to act as a very preliminary and said greater military pressure was necessary earlier afghan president hamid karzai also confirmed cations of the taliban comes as u.s. prepares to begin withdrawing troops from afghanistan next month. a mother's decision to use the internet instead of a doctor to help a dying baby has sent shock waves throughout russia and while the case provoked

a public outcry growing numbers of people continue to turn their backs on official services due to a distrust of the public health care system prescriptions the details. asio 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 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 didn't 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. watch as it was the love of my

life show us losing her is the worst possible punishment other into my lessons god is my listeners what happened was the scariest thing in my life in the programme she was hounded as an irresponsible mother who watched her daughter die on line 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 alone. there 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 swab of a woman's healthy newborn for disabled one are among them. 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 was 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 rani is one of those who opted for home both with insistence of only

a midwife a practice that is unregulated in russia and skates on legal thin ice making it open to abuse their own because midwife 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 in today's 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 that. they're. well that we welcome your say on that and other stories just to talk a comment on our website at r.t. dot com among other stories online for you today the founders and the or harmless prank soviet soldiers are turned away comic book superheroes by street artist.

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hello and a very warm welcome time for your business update the world's oldest and largest air show no bushay gas on the way in paris today is hoped it will spur a return to message multi have been in the new craft event business archie spoke to the head of of all the planes makers business and. you know airplane sales of the blood of all business when business because we'll sell our 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 engineering we buy knowledge as we develop technologies together the russian scientists we bought and developed there were sophisticated i t. and this is hundreds of millions of dollars so that we boeing by for all russia in the sector that i think is critical for the survival of the russian economy. china

and russia going into green business they have agreed to create a new company which will develop energy from agricultural waste russia has not resources to produce almost seventy billion cubic meters of gas a year and that's enough to cover all the end of the two needs of countries such as indonesia egypt does not take a quick look at how the markets opt for move this hour kurt is extending losses a stronger dollar is down putting its investment appealed brant is trading at one hundred and eleven dollars a barrel while light sweet sweet to ninety one dollars. asian stocks a mixed solvent saying it's trading in the red the nikkei is flat to positive as the latest reports from europe you hopes that richard is moving closer to cope with this debt problems the market has welcomed the decision of greece to reshuffle its cabinet also germany has brought its creditors to participate in the new greek

bailout. and here in russia there are just as losing just under one percent the solve my six is also injured a bit less than half a percent lower oil prices are dragging energy company shares down. and russian insurance i.p.o. may happen as soon as this year the country's largest insurer drafthouse taken a six hundred forty million dollars to prepare for the listing analysts say the company could be worth more than two billion dollars. the fukushima disaster has made many countries turn to none nuclear energy sources including natural gas are two such of course spoke to the executive director of the international energy agency about the future of global gas demand russia's role in it. it's currently about three point one three b.n. cubic metres 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 the video image is feasible picnic of it but probably very cool street and also because of the cost increase because of the smart grid because it's a very volatile nature of all the 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 really coming down because the seasonal change in their refineries the refineries coming back from that meant that and so the demand will increase to the stop for the some out to the date that we think opec will produce more if it's not fast enough suddenly the market is getting tighter and that is a sudden detriment for the economy recovery of the developed countries and also

his father is much heavier too that we've been upping 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. and that wraps up the business bulletin for this hour that could move business story next hour and you can find.

live from moscow this is out of the headlines now. nato admits to killing civilians in sunday's air strike on tripoli blaming a weapons system failure in officials claim that more than eight hundred innocent victims of the dances bombings since intervention began in march. the international atomic energy watchdog has to present a report on japan's handling of the fukushima crisis and create security for in their view criticizes the kinds of currencies the slow response to the results that using them underestimating the risks over radiation leaks. and next years of russian presidential election well it seemed to me tremendous and

prime minister to head to head stand in speculations for me ended by the russian president's interview with british newspaper. the next debate show cross talk with people about. bringing you the latest in science and technology from the ground floor. we've got the future of coverage. if you can. follow and welcome to cross talk i'm peter all about africa in the new great game outside interest in this continent is immense rich in natural resources and

a growing middle class china the us europe and other powers are scrambling for influence and whilst there can africa avoid another wave of imperialism and neocolonialism. you can. still see. the rostock the future of africa i'm joined by robert guest in london he's a business editor at the economist and author of the book the shackled continent africa past present and future in washington we cross to jendayi frazer she's a professor at the carnegie mellon university and in oxford we have produced manji he is editor in chief of the pound those who can news all right this is cross talk lady and gentlemen and that means you can jump in anytime you want and i know they have difference of opinion so i want my viewers to see it if i go to you first in oxford i do like to go to the term africa in the new great game the scramble for influence because a.