and it was 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 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 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 egotist possible for the deaths of these innocent children innocent was i'm here as

an innocent fathers and mothers you cannot justify this attack the would you name was. sunday's fatal error hickories in the rising concerns within nato about this 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. r t tripoli. as civilian deaths in libya grow balance among the taxpayers footing the bill for the military intervention because it is expected to cost one of its key players the u.k. hundreds of millions of pounds as artie's at lower emmett's reports the blow to britain's budget could 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. 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 furious at 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 us 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 and resources particularly. where we may through the transitional council that seems to be 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 the euro for to take food cost maybe one hundred thousand pounds per hour to fly so small changes in the number of hours us to meet produce big changes a cost estimate for the upper end. was 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 little in the kitty the deployment of apache. 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. well later today our peter the velour 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 you've seen inflation has come down average income gone up the world bank did recently they're talking about roy's in the number of people who are 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 classes there must be. on some other planet i'm afraid. the nuclear security four in vienna begins with a japanese atomic crisis dominating the talks a full report on the situation in the disaster trees to be presented later today is expected to criticize the government underestimated risks facing nuclear plant for a slow response to the events. sean thomas institute a city just outside the no go zone. and safety limits. the ominous and constant ticking of geiger counters has scientists working in fukushima city concerned and or similar 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 evacuated. 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 no much higher than normal. just to give you an idea of the consistency right now the ground is really pretty quiet 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 a lot of it collected the radiation quickly jumped out and it's still climbing earlier we got a reading of night and now i look at my career which is about a thousand times more than what is really 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 on quantum level stand at the levels from one. to twenty minutes even twenty times. the. standards before the accident and now. they raise 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 their 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 work by ourselves and

we are not to using our special men we just use normal child. scoops. we just. have to. be 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. washing up the dangers the number two nuclear official in the country thinks the issue is simply too complicated for the general public 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 of. 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. with r.t. and then a few minutes no easy bailout for greece while you finance ministers post another payment we bring you expert opinion on who actually benefits that money and where it goes plus. the world's leading asho the project has kicked off in paris and a lot of russian companies are participating and of course we're expecting multi billion dollar deals and this show of beating. beating all records any number of participants and deals signed. expected to be signed more in business in ten minutes. now every president wants to run for

a second term but the final decision rests with the people that's according to russian president dmitri 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 prime minister putin would not run against each other country that server has more from moscow. that's definitely the question that the russian president has been asked most frequently in the recent months with him and they decided to keep the suspense of the well off put it in 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 than keeping the intrigue. so the election suspense is still in place but even if they did did reveal some information about next year's election they did say that the first time that he will not be running with the regiment the one

that will go. for a place. it's hard for me to imagine not a mere 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 golden 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. was no interview specifically no interview that is. taken by western media source has gone by without the issues that were sealed will try to speak for a french president reiterated his position that that was his least that it happened not in any way be a danger to society like any russian citizen serving time that he has the right to an appeal which according to the president is what exactly what the state is

planning to file for an appeal first it wasn't just matters of domestic policy that were touched on. from the f.t. the ongoing conflict in the middle east recently of course the us in libya and syria the russian president speaking quite harshly about nato military intervention in libya it emitted or said that basically a very good resolution. turned into a meaningless bit of paper with nature's military intervention in libya and that precisely because of that no presence of syria but the. serious matters of course that were discussed we do know that the russian president is very fond of his gadgets he's rarely see the light and he did slip that he has a special on it that lets him monitor exactly what his employees are doing and which of his staff have already been fulfilled is a very useful thing i personally plan to check out the app store to see whether it's been specifically custom made for the president or whether it's available for

the general public. for that interview in full with present you can visit our website at r.t. dot com. russia and the u.s. both understand that the repeated libyan scenario in syria is not acceptable so says foreign minister sergey lavrov it comes as syria's president addresses the nation of a much anticipated speech. russia will do everything it can to prevent a libyan scenario happening in syria together with the international community we can urge bush's surge to put the reforms into practice as soon as possible and to call on the opposition not to ignore suggestions to discuss these reforms but to start negotiating them. well you finance ministers have failed to agree details for release in the next tranche of last year's massive bailout for greece the decision was a postponement in july dishnet athens budget cuts. greece to make british

banks tens of billions a year in the lending market a former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament claims that cash intended to help europe's colonies is instead pocketed by the wealthy. crises. are considered big opportunities by big financial he should do it was shown in the past and. this so today where is the money gone well i think you don't have to look far and money has gone to financial institution to wealthy elites who are actually benefiting from this crisis bailouts what kind of bailout through for what purpose debt is the question and the barriers that we have so far which look we give you all the stock spare money without any conditions so you can keep on going doing what you did that is not the kind of bailout that i squat 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 fall i think the mocks for

the people not for financial institution it's as simple as that. there are some other world headlines for you this hour and in spain protests against budget cuts are also taking place tens of thousands of marched through the streets of madrid and other major style cities in rallies against austerity measures social spending cuts and massive unemployment the economic crisis in the country has left more than a million families with no income led to youth unemployment nearing fifty percent monday groups all over spangles start a month long march to the capital expressing their anger over the situation. washington has confirmed it's holding talks with the taliban defense secretary robert gates described the contractor as very preliminary and said with pressure is still necessary earlier the afghan president hamid karzai also confirmed that she is with the taliban comes as the 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 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 pushed over 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 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 where you just you know you're going to have to understand we did want to avoid unnecessary magical 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 stance channel for the bush years as he was. the love of my life. losing her is the worst possible punishment other into malice and god as my listeners what happened was the scariest thing in my life in the program he 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 alarmed . 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 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 that birth i'm like neither of us ended up in

a grave the ronnie 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 dope an attorney who's there on his midwife barely had any relevant training but declined 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 healthy and there. are. of course we welcome your say on that and all the other stories here on out to stop or comment to our website at r.t. dot com among other stories on line for you today vandalism or just

a harmless prank a street artist has turned soviet soldiers into american comic book superheroes is given a new costume use to figures in the red army one in a bog area including superman batman and even one donald. ross of find out how a four year old boy one of the lawsuit against the circus afraid to feature a lion and tiger as promised one advances meant that a much more arty dot com. well the latest business news with you guys and just a few minutes stay with us. have

time to delve into the world of business the world's oldest and largest asho no bush again it's on the way in paris today it's hope to return to massive multiple in orders for new that crossed that in a sea of newspaper says russia is expected to sign contracts to sell ten super jet planes and also the country's largest airline are florida's going to buy a new boeing's ahead of the event business archie spoke to the head of boeing a ball to play makers business in russia 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 technologies 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 boeing buy from russia in the sector that i think is critical for the survival of the russian economy. and china and russia are 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 by gas a year that's enough to cover all the audio is just a two leaves of countries such as indonesia. time for a quick look at how the markets not reform encourages extending also saw a stronger dollar is dumping its investment to people brant is trading at one hundred and eleven dollars per barrel while light sweet has slipped in one thousand one doll those. asian stocks declined on monday off to euro zone finance but it's just its own decision on

a greek rescue package while japanese exporters declined to meet concerns over the global economic recovery. and european stocks also know on monday with investors avoiding risks on fears that european finance ministers i'm able to reach a solution to the greek crisis despite the weekend. and of course bearish sentiment has dominated the russian is dominating the russian markets on monday the u.s. is losing more than one percent a solid while the mice it's also lower more than public percent. now have a look at some of the individual moves on the my six ordinary shares and gaining four point seven percent on the my six the rise comes off to ross out of home shaz war included in the r.t.s. index for june sixteenth september fifteenth period and on expectations that first stop will soon be included in there and see i index over the economic development ministry spoken friday of all to possible probably tell you say show sales for the

post merge at ross telecom energy may just saw suffering losses drag by the will rise from this low point eight percent as burbank is also in the red tough percent fall in the company in just a moment. thoughts brush an insurance i.p.o. may happen as soon as this year the country's largest insurer has taken a six hundred forty million dollar loan to pay for the listing and the say the company could be worth more than two billion dollars. back to the country's biggest lenders burbank retail lending in russia is to receive a facelift with the addition of a strong new player the country's largest bank is teaming up with being p. parry boss russian subsidiary the joint venture will install loan offices and many retail stores across russia within about three years the company is expected to dominate with around thirty percent market share and this just that the comfiest be competitive advantage will be rooted in low interest rates or bond is set to

seventy percent off the new fall with being prepared for holding the rest. ok that wraps up the business bulletin although but with another update in less than one last time and you can get most or a small website r.t. dot com slash business.

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live from moscow this is r t the headlines now nato admits to killing civilians in sunday's strike on tripoli claiming a weapon system failed they've been officials claim there been more than eight hundred innocent victims of the alliance's bombing 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 their view criticizes the japanese authorities for the slow response to the disaster accusing them of underestimating the risks of radiation leaks. and in next year's russian presidential election one seed in internet and prime minister putin going head to head the long standing speculation

was finally ended by the russian president and the interview with a british newspaper. well next the emotional crusade of an eighty nine year old us world war two veteran outraged by what he believes is the indifference of his country towards the memory of foreign soldiers. the large concentration of litter on the beach poses an additional health hazard when the refuse is swept out to sea during a storm. despite this danger leon saw no empty aluminum cans or plastic bottles he found a base yos major recycling plant nearby where aluminum cans are crushed in both cans. leon paid a visit to the owner and manager of the plane derek andrew warthe i wrote repeatedly to the washington usual suspects the president and the white house the

secretary of defense the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff members of congress and so on here are two began and hopefully an action program with funding from my government but we've got. to be sorting out there are many. faceted or. call their. way here is in a nutshell what i'm thinking is we should expand your operation clean up the beach on red beach one would be my primary objective because my salty language but you can understand my anger and having seen this desecration of how the ground war on red beach. leon had developed an action plan for be sure that included two phases the first would be to set up refuse containers and collection centers throughout the beaches and employ local citizens.