nature has done to them destroying their lives and hence. they should take responsibility for their wrongdoing and may take has responded with an apology their. intended target during last night's strike 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 has become the first civilian casualty is officially acknowledged by the alliance only on saturday nato has also admitted and other mistake in a strike this time on the rebel forces neither live in oil port of gregor the number of casualties not to be disclosed we hold natal you hold mr cameron mr thought it was either mr going to scorning mr obama has already and he did

this possible for the death of these innocent children innocent boy is going to jail and innocent fathers and mothers you cannot justify this attack would you naming the couple that incident. 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 raif notion of. tripoli. over the civilian casualties in libya mounting and no end in sight those paying for the intervention might be stumping up more than they bargained for the u.k. has announced that its taxpayers might see one point six billion dollars of their hard earned cash diverted to fund the intervention and as artie's lore emmott reports there's little patience left among an already dissolution of public.

they're already calling it the billion pound 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. and that's . assuming that. this could potentially. extended the operation by another three months that's unlikely to be popular with the british public that government spending like a hawk already seeing services and jobs slashed even so downing street 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 daniel rennick says the u.k.'s likely to have weighed up the cost but with wind blowing westwards from libyan rebels and use movements. billion pounds is a pretty good investment. and with the u.k. cutting defense spending analysts say they may not be replaced. with a small. food cost maybe ninety. hours of flying. small changes in the number of. produce big changes a cost estimate for the upper end. 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 suggests a blank check at a time when. the deployment of apache helicopters doesn't appear to have given the tactical advantage it hoped for and every time a plane takes to the sky or drops a bomb the cost for britain and its beleaguered european neighbors create. a repeat of the libyan scenario in syria would be unacceptable and everything must be done to prevent it well that's the view of russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov. do everything you can to prevent a libyan. syria together with the international community. to put the reforms into

practice as soon as possible and to call on the opposition to ignore suggestions to discuss these reforms which is negotiating them it came as syria's president bashar assad addressed the nation with this third major speech since unrest began in the country in march well in it assad promised liberal reforms but he declined to go into detail something that was picked up on by the opposition the president stuck to his stance that foreign influence was behind the uprising and said no change was possible until the violence died down well experts say the speech could become a turning point if the president follows through on his promises. coming your way a later today artie's peter lavelle and his guests discuss whether the international presence in libya and other african countries is really likely to improve life for the people there that's up to fifteen hundred g.m.t. but here is a short preview. things have gotten better in the past ten years you've seen

inflation has come down average incomes have gone up though the world bank did recently they're talking about a draw is in the number of people who are earning 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 have you tried living in nairobi on a good day these guys are if they think this is the middle class is there must be be on some other planet i'm afraid. a five day long nuclear security for has kicked off in vienna and the japanese atomic crisis has prompted a comprehensive discussion of the future of nuclear power all delegates for most of the one hundred fifty member states of the international atomic watchdog the i.a.e.a. are at the gathering and they aim to work out tighter universal safety regulations

for reactors japan is expected to be criticized for its slow response to the fukushima disaster it has already submitted a report admitting it wasn't prepared for an accident on such a scale marking sean thomas travel to a city well outside the official exclusion zone where locals are concerned over high radiation levels. the ominous and constant ticking of geiger counters scientists working in fukushima city concerned . i'm in charge of the group of radiation detection and survey from fukushima university when i was thinking there it 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. my family and my friends' families are evacuating. officially fukushima city is in a safe area eighty kilometers from the daiichi plant reactor one and

a full sixty kilometers outside the band danger zone but still radiation levels here a much higher than normal. just to give you an idea of the consistency right now the ground is really pretty quite to nine it's about thirty times what it is more than the accepted level but if you come down here to where the soil and the moderates collected the radiation will quickly jumped out and it's still climbing earlier we got a reading of night in the nile. which is about a thousand times more than what is the accepted level of radiation. but in order to claim that fukushima is truly safe from leaking radiation the japanese government has had to be creative with the numbers of the government did they change the. levels from one. to twenty minutes even twenty times. the standards before the accident and now. they raise the. the standard

so that they can say it's safe but 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 simple ways to reduce the radiation levels. we're just trying to do. project do d.d. contamination. by ourselves and we are not using especially if we just use normal child both. groups. just. a small effort to bring some security to a community facing a scary and uncertain future in fukushima city sean thomas. all

despite concerns over japan's government playing down the dangers the number two a nuclear official in the country thanks the issue is simply too complicated for the general public while the full exclusive interview with japan's nuclear industry spokesman is coming your way next hour here on r.t. . the japanese government tried to. distribute or make. available all the information we got from that call and from our systems. it's very difficult to understand for ordinary people how. dangerous those numbers are we have to explain in the manner in which people can easily understand the situation that's a task. president

medvedev is still keeping russia and the rest of the world guessing whether he'll make a bid to stay chief of the kremlin for a second term however in an interview with london's financial times he appeared to rule out a put in a faceoff in next year's election scott that he knows a lot of our reports on what else the president had to say. well it's definitely the question that the russian president has been asked most frequently in the recent months but the way they were they decided to keep the suspense out for a little longer but if you do i'm the leader especially one who has the president's seat has to be willing to run for reelection however it's another question whether he would make that decision for himself but i suggest waiting a bit longer and keeping the intrigue. memories of the main street of the twenty two of the presidential election still remains blocked with did answer some questions in relation to who will run for office and one thing is certain both he

and pledging to put him will not run for the same office it will just be one of their forces still remains to see who will that man be so it's hard for me to. pull through the same time the prettiest one reason. we strictly speaking represent the same course competition between us would bring harm to those goals and tasks we've been working on for the past several years for russia and it wouldn't be good in this particular situation i think it was a very long interview that the russian president gave the financial times that of course many issues were raised throughout the course of it off of course pertaining to russia's national and foreign policies many aspects that are interesting both to people living in russia and to those observing the actual problems he was specifically of course questions relating to the goals that it was that it set out for himself during his term in office i place a ship that only option was no wages that is taken by western media source has gone

by without the issue of these have that seat where c.e.o. will tell you this being raised the russian president reiterated his position that that is the least should it happen will not in any way be a danger to society unlike any russian citizens currently serving time for that holds the. has the right to an appeal to the us it wasn't just matters of domestic policy that were touched upon the russian president speaking quite harshly about the nato military intervention in libya saying that some of russia's partners basically chose to misinterpret the resolution passed by the united nations security council resolution that russia let the past hoping that it will be observed and kept to as it is worded but of course you did just said that basically a very good resolution turned into a meeting was a bit of paper with nato as a military intervention in libya and the first i see because of that no resolution

will be passed on syria what do you lose in 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 i pad 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 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 a log onto our website r.t. dot com and there you can find that interview with president medvedev in full and where you can leave your comments and also on live for you right now even though the angry words of mobile game is not one of the application of the russian leader frequently loses he still gave a special thank you to its creator find out why at r t v dot com. andrew who's next in a terrorist crosshairs. launched its own hit list featuring pentagon officials and

u.s. politicians. now in greece workers at a state owned electricity company have gone on a forty eight hour strike against a sturdy measures or this comes as in your finance ministers a fail to agree on conditions for releasing the next installment of last year's bailout package for the country the decision was postponed until july with a stipulation that athens implemented fresh budget cuts workers at the utility are angry at government plaza privatized the company as part of a stare the measure is seen as crucial if the country is to avoid a default all fears of greece defaulting have made british banks hold back tens of billions of euros from the lending market

a former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament claims that previous bailouts didn't do much to change the policies of receiving countries. crises like these are considered big opportunities by big financial institutions it was showing the past and it is so deep where is the money gone well i think you don't have to look follow the money is going to financially she do she do wealthy elites who are actually benefiting from prices bailouts what kind of bailout true to what purpose that is the question the bill is that we actually saw which 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 this thing is this is a question about what is democracy and what is democracy fall i think the mocks the people not for financial institution it's as simple as that. now here's

a brief look at more of today's main stories one of indonesia's most prominent insurgents has gone on trial charged with plotting assaults on foreigners and plotting the assassination of the country's moderate muslim leaders told it was arrested in december with one hundred twenty other suspects or they were allegedly organizing attacks similar to those carried out in mumbai in two thousand and eight when more than one hundred fifty people were killed. more than five million people have been affected by devastating floods in southern and eastern china with more than one hundred seventy people are dead or missing they've been caused by tarantulas rains which followed one of the most severe droughts in more than fifty years the authorities warn the floods are going to continue and more than ten reverse in affected areas may burst their banks. or russian mother is facing criminal charges over the death of her daughter who it is alleged was not

given proper care after catching pneumonia while the case sparked widespread outrage when it was revealed that the mother failed to call in doctors and instead sought advice on the internet. has been finding out why some parents prefer to avoid the services of medical institutions. aasiya was an eagle a 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 us his mother julia hesitated too long and she's now facing criminal charges for negligence. so you have to understand we did want to avoid unnecessary medical intrusions that were not in a quote we cared about have children's health and wanted only the best children and this is julia's heartrending response in a t.v. show called let them talk on russia's first channel. in the program she was hounded

as an irresponsible mother who watched her daughter die on line after her desperate 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 among the younger sister. there usually three reasons behind a woman's choice first is when a mother falls under the influence of an alternative group or to make a 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 an unplanned amputation of a baby's limb and an alleged swap of a woman's healthy newborn for

a disabled one are among the most recent cases those docs stories often have another side to them but they're scary enough to make young women dread any hospitals drunks 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 i'm lucky neither of us ended up going to grieve the rani is one of those who opted for a home both with this instance of only a midwife a practice that is unregulated in russia and skates on legal things i see making news 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 all through all it is these little people and their health that matters most and their arrival. should be happy and the same for. their. i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few minutes but first the business update with katrina. thanks tessa hi and welcome to our business bulletin increased demand for gas in europe has largely benefited the russian state company gazprom but the company has been criticized for charging far more than the market spot prices alexander

medvedev deputy c.e.o. of gazprom believes however that the disparity between spot prices and long term contract prices will soon be minimal. in the next two years so we can expect drugs used to grow significantly higher if you choose what we do trying to love and when to grow and when to thirteen if they're not already high enough we'll be wrong four hundred dollars per thousand cubic meters is equal to the price for you know long term contracts. china and russia getting into the green business together they've agreed to create a new company which will develop energy from agricultural waste russia has enough resources to produce almost seventy billion cubic meters of bio gas a year that's enough to cover the annual electricity needs of countries such as indonesia egypt. let's have a look at how the markets are performing now oil was shopping down on monday but has since made a comeback brant is trading at one hundred twelve dollars

a barrel while light sweet is flat at around ninety three dollars. european stocks open so low on monday with investors are drilling risks on field finance ministers were unable to reach a solution to the greek crisis despite meeting over the weekend. and very sentiment is dominating the russian markets on monday the ante is a one point one percent this hour while my six is also a large just down i one percent the losses heading the markets towards the longest losing streak since two thousand and eight. ordinary shares in real telecom losing more than three percent the mess of sell off followed a rally in. this morning when shares rose thirteen percent analysts attributed the rise to the inclusion of us telecom shares in the r.t.s. index and on expectations that the stock will soon be included in the end it is in s.c. only in that crowd of energy majors are suffering losses dragged down by the oil price of gas pump is in the red despite its announcement of

a twenty six percent increase in its forecast for this year's european exports bank is also down around point six percent more on that company and just a moment. the first russian insurance i.p.o. may happen as soon as this year the country's largest insurer. has taken a six hundred forty million dollars loan to prepare for the listing analysts say the company could be worth more than two billion dollars. retail lending in russia is to receive a facelift with the addition of a strong new player the country's largest lender sperm bank is teaming up with b. and p. bet paribus russ insensibly subsidiary the joint venture will install loan offices in many retail stores across russia but about three years the company is expected to dominate with around a thirty percent market share analysts suggest that the company's key competitive advantage will be rooted in its low interest rates sperm bank is said to seventy percent of the new firm with b.m.p. paragraphs holding the rest. that brings you up to date with business for

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paul comeback here's a recap of the top stories on our t.v. nato admits it launched the airstrike that killed nine civilians in a tripoli suburb while british taxpayers really of reckless spending are how did the bill for three months of bloody stalemate. every head of state want a second term but it's the people who have the final word so says president medvedev he still hasn't announced whether he'll stand again but did to rule out a faceoff with prime minister portent. the international atomic energy agency is expected to slam japan for poor handling of the fukushima crisis a nuclear safety forum opens even if yet on improving the safety regulations and

preventing a repeat of the japanese crisis. and 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 fallen soldiers that documentary's up next. in the fall of one thousand nine hundred three america began a major campaign against the japanese differences in the central pacific. over thirty five thousand u.s. marines in naval forces were assembled for an invasion. on nov twentieth america launched an inferior says salt against one of the most heavily fortified japanese islands in the world. tyrone. on board

a higgins landing craft ensign leon cooper who was responsible for the lives of hundreds of men. for the thousands of marines riding to the shores that morning no one could imagine the ferocity of the battle to come or the death and destruction that would soon face. in february of two thousand and eight the on cooper a navy veteran of the tower battle and a film crew left los angeles on a journey that took sixty five years. so might. be an eleventh hour. on. a while doing research for my recent book the war in the pacific of retrospective i.