the nile. which is about a thousand times more than what is really acceptable level of a little. but in order to claim that fukushima is truly safe from leaking radiation the japanese government has had to be creative with the numbers for the government . 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 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 a pilot project do d.d. contamination. by ourselves and we are not using our special equipment we just use normal. scoops. we just. 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 dancers the number two nuclear official in the country thinks the issue is simply too complicated for the general public or the full exclusive interview with japan's nuclear industry spokesman is coming your way next hour here on our. we. we have been. all the information we get eighty percent of that is known by the

government and that. it may be difficult for the ordinary people to understand and so i make. the score. for that wouldn't it people. see. seventy percent. of the libyan government claims fifteen people have been killed in a new air strike in the city of seventy kilometers west of tripoli well this comes after nato admitted that civilians were killed in an attack on a tripoli suburb on sunday gadhafi officials say two babies are among the nine dead if an ocean reports now from the capital tripoli and you may find some of the images disturbing. to. mohammad that hurt his extended family used to be one of the biggest in the neighborhood and they table mean killed five of them his father one

of his brothers his sister and her own family mohammed shows us the picture of little jumana his niece taken on his mobile phone his days before he pulled her dead body from on the day. i woke up when i heard an explosion some stones a piece of the roof fell on me and i ran immediately to see how my family is and many were dead my mother survived another brother is in a coma and we don't know when or if he will recover that how does that not reach they've been living in this agreement this strict entry fully it's home to many hours income people most from one family this is just a regular city quarter why does the populated built up area this is what used to be there had his house but three story buildings are reduced in ruins in just moments after being hit in a missile strike home on mohammed's brother who survived says they will never forgive or forget what nato has done to them destroying their lives and hems that

they should take responsibility for their wrongdoing and 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 do you hold me to you hold mr cameron mr sarkozy is this going to scorn him mr obama has already shown he can be

this possible for the deaths of these innocent children innocent why isn't here an innocent fathers and mothers you can not justify this at dikika would you name wasn't. sunday's fatal error occurs in 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. well as civilian deaths in libya grow anger mounts among the taxpayers footing the bill for the military intervention the conflict is expected to cost one of its k. players the u.k. hundreds of millions of pounds as artie's lore and what 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 west towards 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. 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 far too tight food costs maybe one hundred thousand pounds per hour to fly so small changes in the number of hours you estimate produce big changes in cost estimates to be 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. 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 a bomb the cost for britain and its beleaguered european neighbors create higher and higher your avatar to. moscow and washington both understand that a repeat of the quote libyan scenario in syria is unacceptable well that's the view of russian foreign minister sergey lavrov who's been commenting on the situation. russia will do everything it can to prevent a libyan scenario happening in syria well together with the international community we can urge the 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 which is start negotiating them. it comes as syria's president bashar assad addresses the nation responding to the three months of unrest against his rule all the promised earlier parliamentary elections in august as well as a full package of reforms by september assad blamed the conflict on a foreign conspiracy and said a peaceful protests have been infiltrated by a small group of saboteurs the president also promised to extend an amnesty. and in less than twenty minutes time marty's peter lavelle asked 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 incomes have gone up the world bank did

recently they're talking about a roy's in the number of people who are earning between two and four dollars a day hours for the world bank and apologists who talk about you know the middle classes beginning with two dollars a day a pound a day have you tried living in the rubio of. these guys if you think this is the middle class is there must be. on some other planet i'm afraid. you're watching r t and in a few minutes and no easy bailout for greece while the finance minister spoke on another payment to well we bring you expert opinion on actually benefits from bailout money and where it goes plus. russia and china are going into green business more in about 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 the interview with london's financial times he said it's too early to say if he will stand for reelection next year but he did make it clear that he and prime minister putin will not run against each other artes got that he knows a lot of us has more from moscow. it's definitely the question that the russian president has been asked most frequently in the recent months lots to begin with they decided to keep the suspense of the well off but is it the new leader especially one who walking past the president 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. so the election suspense is built in place but even if they did did reveal some information about next year's election they did say for the first time that he will not be running with the regiment and the

one that will go. for a place in office. it's hard for me to imagine not and we're 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 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 there. was no interview specifically no interview that is. taken by western media source has gone by without the issue of the seat were sealed while trying to speak raise russian president reiterated his position that that was his release should it happen not in any way be a danger to society like any russian citizens currently 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 fire from the f.t. the ongoing conflict in the middle east the suffering of course the us in libya and syria the russian president speaking quite harshly about the nato military intervention in libya with him it is said that basically a very good resolution. turned into a meaningless bit of paper with nato as a military intervention in libya in the first place because of that no resolution will be passed on syria what do you see all the serious matters of course that were discussed we do know that the russian president is very fond of his gadgets he is rarely seen without his eye and he did slip that he has a special on it that lets him monitor exactly what is the employees are doing and which of his tasks 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. or you can get the full interview with president medvedev on our website that's r t v dot com. now e.u. 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 july for the condition that athens implements fresh budget cuts fears of greece defaulting that made the british banks hold back tens of billions of euros from the lead big market a former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament claims the bailout cash intended to help europe's struggling economies is instead it being pocketed by the wealthy. crises like these are considered big opportunities by big financial institutions it was true in the past and it is so today where is the money gone well i think you don't have to look for the money is going to financial institution to wealthy elites who are actually benefiting from this crisis bailouts what kind of bailout

true for what purpose debt is the question there is that we have chills 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 see what all the social achievements of the last thirty years oh put in jeopardy by these financial so-called financial reforms and this is a question about what is democracy and what is democracy for i think the moxley people not for financial institution it's as simple as that. and now some other world headlines and in spain a protest against budget cuts are also taking place tens of thousands have marched in the streets of madrid and other major of spanish cities in rallies against a sturdy pressures social spending cuts and massive unemployment the economic 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 will start

a month long march to the capital expressing their anger over the situation. washington has confirmed it's holding talks with a tall about defense secretary robert gates described the contact as quote very preliminary and said continued military pressure is necessary earlier the afghan president hamid karzai also confirmed they go c.h.s. with the taliban when it comes as the u.s. prepares to begin withdrawing troops from afghanistan next month. now a mother's decision to use the internet and set of a doctor to help her 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 and that's due to a distrust of the public health care system. has 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. which i see was the love of my life show us losing her is the worst possible punishment i've learned my lesson to 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 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 swap of a woman's health a new born for a disabled one are among the moon. 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 grief 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 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 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 that. are. there. and of course we welcome your say on that and other stories just drop a comment on our website that's our dot com and among other stories online for you today that although since all just a harmless prank a street artist has turned a soviet soldiers into american comic book superheroes always giving new costumes to figures in the red army monument in bulgaria including superman batman and even ronald mcdonald. four year old boy.

much more. coming up in a few moments. hello time for your business update the world's oldest and largest and shell of a bush era gets underway in paris today it hopes will spur a return to message to begin

a new craft that are misused safe says russia is expected to sign contracts to sell ten planes and also the contras largest airline there are just going to buy eight new boeing ahead of the event this is r.t. spoke to the head of thing about russia's contribution to the playmakers business. 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 intellectual services we buy engineering we buy technologists we develop technologies together the russian scientists we bought and developed there with 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. china and

russia going into green businesses they have to create to create a new company which will develop energy from ever cultural waste russia has not resources to produce almost seventy billion cubic meters of by gas a year that's enough to cover all the annual electricity needs of countries such as indonesia egypt. a subject a quick look at how the markets are performing so thoughtless shop a dollar on monday because of continued fears over greece's debt crisis and concerns over the u.s. economy brant is trading at one hundred and eleven dollars per barrel while light sweet has to be to ninety one dollars. stocks in europe are also low on monday with investors avoiding risk something is that if you find those but it's just we're unable to reach a solution to the greek crisis despise musing over the weekend. and bearish sentiment is dominating the russian markets the r.t.s. is losing one point four percent this hour on the my six is also low more than one and a half percent while one percent in the right. now have

a look at some of the individual share moves on the my six ordinary shaz and losing more than eight percent a massive selloff followed a rally early this morning when shares rose thirteen percent analysts attributed the rise to the inclusion of real silicon shares in the r.t.s. index and on expectations of the stock will soon be included in the m.s.c.i. index energy majors are suffering losses tracked by the oil price of gas from is in the red despite it has announced a twenty six percent increase before the cost for this year's european exports poncas also down point eight percent more on the company in just a moment. the russian insurance i.p.o. may happen as soon as this year and this will be the first one country's largest insurer drafthouse taking a six hundred forty million dollars loan to prepare for the listing analysts say the company could be worth more than two billion dollar. retail lending in russia

is sore see the face lift with the addition of a strong new player the country's largest lenders vera bank is tipping up with the . russian subsidiary the joint venture will install loan offices and many retail stores across russia but in about three years the company is expected to dominate with around such a percent market share and it's just that the company's key competitive advantage will be rooted in lower interest rates spur braga set to seventy percent of the new phone with being the parent all holding the rest. ok that's wraps up the business bulletin my colleague catherine hopes will bring you more in and also time.

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ever. welcome back here's a recap of the top stories on our t.v. the international atomic energy watchdog prepares to present a report on japan's fukushima crisis and he nuclear security forum in vienna the review criticizes the japanese authorities for their slow response to the disaster accusing them of underestimating the risks of radiation leaks. nato admits to killing civilians in sunday's airstrike on tripoli blaming a weapons system failure libyan officials claim there have been more than eight hundred innocent victims of the alliance's bombings since the intervention began march. next year as russian presidential election a want to see dimitri medvedev and prime minister putin and going head to head the

longstanding speculation was finally ended by the russian president in an interview with a british newspaper. and up next our debate show cross talk with peter lavelle to stay with us. really knew the latest. from. the future. and. lo 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. 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 they termed africa in the new great game the scramble for influence because a lot of people are saying this.