it 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 has become the first civilian casualties officially acknowledged by the alliance only on saturday nato has also admitted it another mistake in a strike this time on the rebel forces neither live in or port bragg the number of casualties not to be disclosed we hope nato will hold mr cameron mr starr was this going to score any mr obama has already and the good response about for the death of these innocent children innocent boys and girls and innocent fathers and mothers you cannot justify this attack would you naming this up about that incident in. 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. r t tripoli. with civilian casualties in libya's mounting them and no end in sight those paying for the intervention might be stumping up more than my bargain for the u.k. isn't that it's taxpayers might see one point six billion dollars of their hard earned cash diverted to fund the intervention results is lower amid reports next there's little patience left among an already disillusioned 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 could take.

this could potentially. the operation. 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. 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. rennick says the u.k.'s likely to have weighed up the cost but with wind blowing westwards from libyan rebels and us movements. billion pounds is

a pretty good investment. and with the u.k. cutting defense spending analysts say they may not be replaced and when you. take a small thing. the food costs may be. so small changes in the number of. produce big changes in cost estimates. and. expensive but the costs back home. 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 into the commitment to continue in libya for however suggests a blank check at

a time when there is little in the kitty 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 the bomb the cost for britain and its beleaguered european neighbors creeps higher and higher lower and it's r t. a repeat of the libyan syria would be unacceptable and everything was done to prevent it that is the view of russia's foreign minister. sure russia will do everything it can to prevent the libyan scenario happening in syria to get the international community we can urge bush's surge to put the reforms into practice as soon as possible to call on the opposition not to ignore suggestions to discuss these reforms but to start negotiating them. it came as syria's president bashar al assad addressed the nation with his third major speech since unrest began in the country in mid march and it has promised liberal reforms particularly on the

go into detail so it was picked up on by the opposition i mean and the president stuck to the foreign influence was behind the uprising he said no change was possible until the violence than. the speech could become a turning point now if the president follows through on his promises by very interested now as well that coming your way shortly tonight at least paid lavelle is guess discuss whether the international presence in libya and other african countries is really likely to improve life for the people there but on air again at nineteen hundred g.m.t. here on. a five day long nuclear security forums kicked off in vienna the japanese atomic crisis has prompted a comprehensive discussion about the future of nuclear power delegates from most of the hundred fifty member states of the international atomic watchdog the i.a.e.a. or at the gathering they were gotye to universal safety regulations for reactive japan's expected to be criticised for its slow response to the fukushima disaster

it's already submitted a report admitting that it wasn't prepared for an accident on such a scale to sean thomas travel to a city well outside the official exclusion zone where locals are still concerned of a high radiation levels. the ominous and constant ticking of geiger counters and scientists working in fukushima city concerned. i'm in charge of the group of radiation detection and survey from fukushima university where now thinking is very protocol and process so. why the 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 family 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 and watch higher than normal. just to give you an idea of the consistency

right now the dagger count is really pretty quite to nine micro ring 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 mud collected the radiation will quickly jumped out and it's still climbing earlier we've got a reading of nigel nile. which is about a thousand times more than a wisely 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. standard 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 actually the standard has changed the new higher levels mean that fukushima can be classed as being outside of the exclusion zone some say that evacuating the city would be simply impractical given the huge numbers of people affected to try and mitigate the circumstances to some degree a group of scientists have teamed up to find simple ways to reduce the radiation levels. we're just trying to do the pilot project do the decontamination work by ourselves and we are not to using especially if we just use normal child both. groups. we just. saw a small effort to bring some security to a community facing a scary and uncertain future in fukushima city sean thomas. well the discussions related to fukushima at the vienna conference will be held behind closed doors with only summaries being released withholding information from the public is ruining

people's trust in nuclear authorities that is the view of malcolm grimston he's a former information officer at the u.k. atomic authority and currently a policy analyst for the chatham house think tank in london. understandably all of us want to know as much as we can about the present situation clearly sometimes you need discussions behind closed doors to. try to discuss things that may not be the case but which would cause a lot of fear if if they were announced and turned out not to be the case but for such a major and meeting of this sort i do believe that a demonstration of openness is extremely important but i think this is the wrong decision people are going to think there are details that they don't want to come out even if that's not the case i don't believe personally that we've seen a massive cover up of information coming from japan what we have seen though i think is a very slow response to questions and attitude which has been far too backward

looking about this is what we think might have been happening two or four weeks ago instead of this is what we think might happen in two or four weeks time and when that is the attitude undoubtedly people are going to think that they're all foreigners are sitting on the information that they don't want to release. and made concerns over japan's government plagued the dangers the number two nuclear official the country's admitted that more needs to be done the spell of the forest to the public got an exclusive interview with japan's nuclear industry spokesman coming your way in fifteen minutes time tonight on r.t. . the japanese government traded to. the studio to. make. available all the information we've got from typical and from our monitoring 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 this situation that's. present. 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 however in an interview with london's financial times newspaper he appeared to rule out putin but vetted face off in next year's election and he's catron is one of the reports now that 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 week there were they decided to keep the suspense of the well off. 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 not a question of whether he would make that decision for himself i suggest waiting a bit longer than keeping the intrigue. of course the main entry of the twenty

twelve presidential election still remains but with him a big if did answer some questions in relations to who will run for office and one thing is certain both he employed him and put him will not run for the same office it will just be one man or still remains to see cool well that man but. it's hard for me to imagine we're putin and i both running for president at the same time for at least one reason we strictly speaking represent the same political force competition between us would bring harm to the goals and tasks we've been working on for the past several years it wouldn't be good for russia and it wouldn't be good in this particular situation it was a very long interview that the russian president gave to the financial times that of course many issues were raised throughout the course of it 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 russia from abroad specifically of course questions relating to the goals that the russian president set out for himself during his term in office but it may say should that only option for snow interviews that is taken by western media source has gone by without the issue of the seat were sealed i will tell you this being raised the us 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 that holds. has the right to an appeal first it wasn't just matters of domestic policy that were touched upon by 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 passed hoping that it will be served and kept as it is

worded but of course the mediator said that basically a very good resolution turned into a meaningless bit of paper with nato as a military intervention in libya precisely because of that no resolution will be passed on syria what do you see serious matters of course that were discussed we do know that the russian president is very fond of his gadgets he's rarely seen without his life many 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. or i will log on to a website. you can find that interview with president medvedev in full you can review. and even though the angry birds gave one of the applications the russian

leader frequently uses he gave a special thank you to its creator fun and well that was. also who's next in the terrorist crossed. the hit list featuring pentagon officials and u.s. politicians we review more about. in greece workers of the state electricity company have gone on a forty eight zero strike against the austerity measures it comes as e.u. finance ministers failed to agree on conditions for releasing with next. instalment of last year's bailout package for the country the decision was postponed now till july with the stipulation that athens implement fresh budget cuts workers tillotson encounter angry government plans to privatise it as part of austerity measures to is crucial if the country is to avoid a default affairs of greece defaulting may british banks hold back tens of billions of euro from the lending market a former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament told me the 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 for the 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 that is the question the bill is that we had so far was 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 for the people not for financial institution it's as simple as that next to mine the story of a russian mother facing criminal charges over the death of her daughter who it's

alleged was not given proper care of to catch pneumonia now the case is sparked widespread outrage when it was revealed that the mother had failed to call in doctors and instead sort of vice on the internet to do a push copas been falling out why some parents prefer to avoid the services of medical institutions. aasiya was an eagle a 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 did want to avoid unnecessary medical intrusion but we're not in a coat we cared about how children's health and wanted only the best for them so this is julia's heartrending response in a t.v. show called let them talk on russia's first channel. in the programme she was

hounded as an irresponsible mother who watched her daughter die on line after her desperate asking for help on the internet to reach the wider public julia's 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 aggressors. there are usually three reasons behind a woman's choice first is when a mother falls under the influence of an alternative group that makes 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 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 docs 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 there are. as for that they're afraid of the complications they might get in maternity wards where the necessary medical intrusion words 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 and my son and i nearly died in that worth i'm likely neither of us ended up going to agree the running is one of those who opted for a home birth with this instance of only a midwife a practice that is unregulated in russia and skates on legal things ice making. the running because midwife barely had any relevant training but declined money and

never asked if the baby survived. despite the control of the c. of a 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. just twenty one have sought you out tonight for the latest sport with kate she's got latest news from day one of wimbledon where russia's top women's players about a second set scare the men's champion through round two so we're about a bit later always knows that those business next though katrina say. hi and welcome to our tease business bulletin increased demand for gas in europe

has largely benefited the russian state company gazprom by the company has been criticized for charging far more than the market spot prices alexander medvedev the deputy c.e.o. of gav prague gas probably believes however that the disparity between spot prices and long term contract prices will soon be minimal. this leadership in the next two years we can expect drugs used to grow significantly higher if you choose what we do twenty eleven twenty twelve and twenty thirteen if they're not already high enough we'll be around four hundred dollars per thousand cubic meters this 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 alec for city needs of countries such as indonesia or egypt. now let's have

a look at how the markets are performing oil was sharply down early on monday but has since made a comeback brant is trading at one hundred twelve dollars a barrel while light sweet is down around ninety three dollars a barrel despite the lower european and asian markets u.s. markets have opened slightly in the black monday though speculation that they will fall throughout trading is high due to continuing concerns over the debt crisis in greece. european stocks are also lower with investors avoiding risks on fear that e.u. finance ministers were unable to reach a solution to the greek crisis that's despite meeting over the weekend and bearish sentiment dominated the russian markets monday both the r.t.s. and the my sex closed more than one percent in the red last heading the markets towards the longest losing streak since two thousand and eight now looking at some individual share moves on the my six ordinary shares in telecom lost almost eight percent the massive selloff followed a rally early this morning when shares rose thirteen percent analysts attributed

the rise to the inclusion of ross telecom shares in the r.t.s. index and on expectations that the stock will soon be included in the in the sci index and as you may just suffered losses dragged down by the oil price gazprom ended in the red despite its announcement of a twenty six percent increase in its folk. as for this year's european exports banking stocks were also under pressure to spare a bank loss point six percent during the day i'm going to cut the capital reps up monday's trade we do not see a significant sell off. all major blue chips of trade in between. those two monist one point. major move rule friday off today telecom. thought a person prided trading today was also sars proved to burst in black. friday. so it's true. no one knows why the screw can induce

talk. this was the major source of volatility all the stocks are trading quite boring. the first russian insurance i.p.o. may happen soon is this year the country's largest insurer also got struck has taken a six hundred forty million dollar 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 lend a sperm bank is teaming up with. russ and russian subsidiary joint fed eventually in-store loan offices in many retail stores across russia then about three years the company is expected to donate what's around a thirty percent market share analysts suggest that the company's key competitive advantage will be rooted in its low interest rates spag is set to seventy percent of the new b.n.p. patty about holding the rest. and that's all the business for this will be back

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economy is causing reforged on our. cost around the world from central moscow this is thank you for being with us in. kevin i would here with the headline update now plato admits it launched the airstrike that killed nine civilians in the tripoli subway while british taxpayers with a reckless spending and the bill for three months of blood and stanley. every head of state wants a second term but it's the people who have the final word so says president but bet if he still hasn't announced whether he'll stand again but did rule out a face off with. the international atomic energy agency is expected to slam japan for poor handling of the fukushima crisis the nuclear safety forum opens in vienna aimed at improving safety regulations and preventing a repeat of the japanese crisis story next to our team takes

a closer look at the nuclear crisis in japan now we talked to the number two nuclear official in the disaster country. we are here with he day he call in the shiite man who is with the ministry of a commie here in japan specifically with the agency that deals with nuclear safety and thank you very much for taking some time to be with us today now as this. devastating event has happened in the news has spread out around the world it's become clear in the past three months that the information coming from the from nuclear plant has gotten worse can you tell us what's the situation on the ground right now this is a sham is improving. for example we're steadily in introducing a water to the reactor as. daiichi you need one two and

three and they're fairly stable in code so already asian. exposure is becoming less and less a problem is the water which originated from. what i would introduce into their reactors so we are now at the find there are testing a process of introducing establishing water pretty fine a system people on the ground say that they have doubts about the information that is coming from the government why do you think they have these doubts and what is the government doing to get this information out there. the japanese government tried to. distribute or make. available or they inform asian way that from that call and from wanting systems so i think we hope that.