in the new game outside interest of this continent is immense rich in natural resources in a growing middle class china the us. and the. stories in our teenager admits it launched the airstrike that killed nine civilians of it's a police while british taxpayers wary of reckless spending a hundred the bill for three months of bloody stalemate. japan gets a grilling in vienna and members of the international nuclear watchdog gather to look at ways to avoid another fukushima crisis while people there don't feel safe even kilometers away from the exclusion zone. every head of state wants a second term but it's the people who are the final word so says president but that is he still hasn't announced whether he'll stand again but did rule out a faceoff with prime minister putin.

it's nine pm monday evening here in moscow welcome you watching our team with me kevin now in and first a nato has admitted its forces killed up to nine civilians in a bungled airstrike on a poor neighborhood in tripoli anger over the incident among libyans was heightened when the country's health ministry announced that the intervention of left more than eight hundred civilians dead so far. reports from the capital tripoli next you may find some of the images and i report the stabbing. to sheikh mohammad that hurt his extended family used to be one of the biggest in the neighborhood and they too bombing killed five of them his father one of his brothers a sister and her own family mohammed shows us the picture of little jim on his niece taken on his mobile phone just days before he pulled her dead body from on

the day three. i woke up when i heard an explosion he said 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 is that not free they still live in in the solution with a street in tripoli it's home to many hours income people most from one family this is just a regular six quarter why does a populated built up area this is what used to be there had his house the three story buildings are reduced in ruins in just moments after being hit in a missile strike home on hama's brother who survived says they will never forgive or forget what nature has done to them destroying their lives and hence. they should take responsibility for their wrongdoing and nato has responded with an apology. intended target during our air strike in tripoli was

a military. however from our initial assessment of the facts it appears that one weapon did not strike the intended target uter 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 and other mistake in a strike this time on rebel forces neither live in oil port of brag or the number of casualties not disclosed we hope nato will hold mr cameron mr sarkozy mr going to school any mr obama here again and hear good response about for the deaths of these innocent children innocent boys and girls and she said fathers and mothers you cannot justify this attack would you name me the stuff

about 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 ration option or. tripoli with civilian casualties in libya a man saying no and inside those paying for the intervention might be stumbling a more bargain for the u.k.'s announced that its taxpayers might see one point six billion dollars of their hard earned cash diverted to fund the intervention results is more ammo reports next is little patience left about an already disillusioned public. 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 the. operation by another. that's unlikely to be popular with the british public that's watching government spending like a hawk already furious at 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 have been ordered blogger daniel renwick says the u.k.'s likely to have weighed up the cost but with a warm wind blowing westwards from libyan rebels and use movements britain reckons

a billion pounds is a pretty good investment it's about having control and resources. for the transitional council that. 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 your fight it out food costs maybe one hundred thousand pounds hours of flying so small changes in the number of hours you estimate produce big changes in cost estimate i would go to 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 it's struction to services could run in two weeks the commitment to continue in libya for however suggests a blank check for the 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 they take to the sky or drop the bomb the cost for britain and its beleaguered european neighbors creeps higher and higher your average r.t. . a repeat of the libyan scenario in syria would be unacceptable and everything must be done to prevent it that's the view of russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov. russia will do everything it can to prevent a libyan scenario happening in syria so it was a good deal with the international community we can look at bush's service to put the reforms into practice as soon as possible and to call the opposition to ignore suggestions to discuss these reforms but to start negotiating them. syria's president bashar assad addressed the nation with his third major speech since the unrest began in the country in mid march promise liberal reforms but declined to go

into detail that was something that the opposition the president stuck to his stance that foreign influence was behind the uprising with no change was possible until the violence experts say this region could become a turning point if the president does follow through on his promises. speech by president the savanah what we feel sure might hold for the embattled regime until two pm here. a political science professor at the west universe a west paris university very good friends based on arts a professor so what is your take on this speech to think he will follow through with those promised reforms or is it more an attempt to blunt the rebellions current momentum. well actually it could be both because you know he's a dictator his father was a dictator but there is a popular pressure for things to change in syria so it could be the sign that he's forced into changing something everything will get turned on public opinion in syria groups opposed to him and to various types of pressures from. enemies

of friends like this it's a truth so it's a bit too early to tell but it's certainly a sign thanks probably cannot remain totally stable and in looking at the history of the sum total what he said today his supporters would say that sounds how shown a willingness to compromise before by introducing a number of democratic reforms shortly before this violence kicked off a couple of months ago and the current chaos is preventing him from introducing more would you agree with that well no i think one has to be very careful first we don't know exactly who the opponents are but there is something which is quite sure there is a strong opposition in syria and the government and the opposition they need to talk in order to avoid more violent massacres and conflicts but. i think if you really wanted to talk with the opposition he could do it now. given

the nature of the regime it's very unlikely that it. is not stopped by the violence of the opposition it might be stopped by the pressures . it's a tricky situation. to first look at that speech today do you think it will achieve any of the desired effect or do you think it's more likely to inflame tensions further i mean as mentioned just now in the lead into it some opposition figures already united states saying it wasn't enough detail things going too far for a peaceful resolution as you said. well we've been there to know how things are going to turn out because look at egypt for example for a while and it looks as if. many are it was supported by the u.s. apparently and then things went fairly quickly syria is not like egypt. it's difficult to know which way it's going to go but i think this is where foreign

question is has some impact not just the western precious but if you look at turkey for example or even russia of a precious state today. the nudging the president of syria into negotiations with the opposition so these can be a factor i said alone it may not be able to withstand the pressure and it is also no judge by. russia a neutral by the west i think is going to have to give in on some points at least whether it be driven from power or not we can't know now it's too early to tell and i don't think the west is totally in favor of kicking ass out of syria for israel and the world and the west in a weird kind of way it represents some kind of stability is the devil we know where . if things got out of it and we don't know who we would have power in in

syria you're going to prefer suppressing the son who's talking today about quote foreign influences behind the unrest in syria who's he talking about there is no an all too familiar tune. well that's yet you know why once again it's something which is under very fire and all but we know that for example in libya the british and the american french do have biases on the ground so there might be some people . but there is also obviously popular dissatisfaction with the dictatorial regime so of course my side would lean everything on maybe firing conspiracist but local people cannot be happy with a very serious and murderous to figure out who may have some foreign elements maybe in the north shore but you also have popular discontent prefer sapir go on from the political science department of paris west university

thanks for being on the program you're worth. a five day long nuclear security forms kicked off in the end of the japanese atomic crisis has prompted a comprehensive discussion about the future of the nuclear power industry delegates from most of the hundred fifty better states of the international atomic watchdog me i said gathering the information cotai to universal safety regulations for reactors japan's expected to be criticized for its slow response to the computer disaster it's already submitted a report admitting it wasn't prepared for an accident on such a large scale i'll say sean thomas travel to a city well outside the official explosion so the locals are still concerned over high radiation levels. i.e. ominous and constant ticking of geiger counters and scientists working in fukushima city concerned and the next minute i'm in charge of the group of radiation detection and survey from fukushima university where now thinking beric 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 family are evacuated. officially fukushima city is in a safe area eighty kilometers from the daiichi plant in reactor one and a full sixty kilometers outside the band danger zone but still radiation levels here and much higher than normal. just to give you an idea of the consistency right now the greater counter is really pretty clearly nine. about thirty times what it is more than the accepted level but it will come down here to where it is for all and the largest collection the radiation quickly jumped out and it's still climbing earlier we've got a really good night when i look at my career which is about a thousand times more than it was me accepted level of straight relations. 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. they change the. additional quantum level standard a levels from one. to twenty 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 before actually the standard has changed the new higher levels mean that fukushima can be classed as being outside 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. you're just trying to do pilot project decontamination work by ourselves and we are not using

a specially created man we just use normal troubles. scoops. we just. saw a small effort to bring some security to a community facing a scary and uncertain future in fukushima city sean thomas archly. well she also spoke to japan's number two nuclear official thought i was playing gun inside the country to try to form and protect the general public we've got an exclusive interview for you coming up next in fact here on our team tonight. folks on greece know their work is the state of electricity company have gone a forty eight hour strike against austerity measures with cozy finance ministers have failed to agree on conditions for releasing the next installment of last year's bailout package for the country and that decision was postponed until july with the stipulation that athens implement fresh budget cuts workers in the utility retire we're angry and government plans to privatized the company as part of

austerity measures is seen as crucial for countries to avoid a default fears of greece defaulting may british banks sold by tens of billions of euros from the lending market but still that would join gone through the e.u. referendum campaign if you're missing the one from london thanks for being on r.t. john at this british bank symbolically was going to leave a ball of fire to the flames of the financial turmoil in europe though isn't it well of course it probably will do but you can't blame british banks like park loose who want to reduce their liabilities to greece revolution by about a billion pounds over the last few months they've done it deliberately because they obviously fear another collapse in greece which could be bigger than the lehmann brothers collapse in the states and over here in britain the general public i think now coming round to the conclusion that we've been pushing so long in the e.u. referendum campaign that we can't afford any more played out so that we wouldn't be

directly of calls involved in a further bailout to greece apart from through our membership of the i.m.f. will be very nice not to have to go to the i.m.f. how stated will be serious repercussions if greece isn't bailed out again and i guess is a lose lose situation about how you look at it isn't it john. well it is in of course our chancellor george osborne and david cameron our prime minister is saying they will not put any british past cash into the buyout but they're kind of playing with words really because as you rightly say we've just increased the amount of money we pay to the i.m.f. from ten billion to nineteen billion and if greece defaults and let's face it they are going to focus not only on the first plane out but on the second bailout if indeed it does go through in a couple of months when they think the fault on that will be liable to pick up some of the bill so british taxpayers repaying for it i personally agree with the mayor of london boris johnson some people say he'll be the next prime minister after cameron i say let's greece go now to the wall no more violence greece must be allowed to leave the eurozone let them have the drachma then they can devalue then

they can set their wages where they want to set them then they can begin to rebuild from there if we don't do it now as jack straw our former foreign minister and home secretary said in the house of commons in london today it's just a slow agonizing death of the euro i said oh your program a few months ago the your own is doomed is finished that's why really a referendum campaign say we in britain must have a vote on whether or not or i want to agree in a sense with the words what i'm a crack take a close look at what's my question what about the worries of greece does go the worries it's going to have for the whole global economy and the cost of borrowing in the rest of europe yeah it is a great fear of course you writes that if greece collapses then what will happen spain could well clubs as well certainly portugal certainly aren't already incurred real terms defaulting i take a broader point that the people responsible for that other people trucker's into

the single currency those on the euro skeptic movement said it would never work you can't have a single currency without having clips from the and that was never going to be useful here because most countries do not want to see especially the united kingdom the parts of the united states of europe. it is going to end in crisis it is going to end in a major a problem for pouring right across the globe there are going to be repercussions and i say let's follow that pill now because this we just keep pumping money into greece is only putting off the death of their economy they are already bankrupt we have to wake up and smell the coffee and say enough is enough what about the first bailout to grace one of the money go in the post what's your take on it. i haven't got a clue where that money personally i clearly greece has got a problem it's course pretty focused on the streets of athens at the moment with the riots it's got a problem with flex in taxes always has had a problem but it can't have symbolizes how can you possibly link the economy of

greece with the economy really economic powerhouse like germany or indeed the united kingdom this is why this euro project and the sort of euro project an e.u. is a fistfight simply doomed even before it began let's trade with europe let's be part of europe in that sense but we don't need to be caught of this expensive undemocratic flow which is now full in a part when the any referendum campaign say argument should give us our democratic right to decide whether to be in or not i take no pleasure out of what's happening in greece but we predicted on the story show months and months ago greece is going to go arlen's going to go portugal and of course the big one that everyone is worried about is the state of spying that some of our banks like courses are being reduced to now live is inspiring because clearly the property slump in spain is not bigger than the spanish government is telling painful places and being

a drop of eighteen percent on the radio shows in spain people are losing seventy percent sixty percent in the fire you for homes and their developments spain will be the next one to talk but why should the united kingdom which is already facing massive recession. it must've cookson our social services massive cuts in our essential services and public services cutting down on forces touching down of our police etc etc why should really you pay taxes pay anything to german taxpayer pay for the ineptitude of the greek government i say shouldn't i say let's get out of the euro now john doerr your thoughts very clear of the e.u. referendum campaign as you are things being on the line from both of them tonight thank you very much. present event of still keeping russia the rest of the world guessing where they will make a big mistake chief of the kremlin for a second term however in an interview with london's financial times newspaper here peel to rule out putin would bet of face off in next year's election he's

caterina's of a report somewhere 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 lots with a with a decided to keep the suspense up for a little while. but is it do i need a 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 a decision for himself but i suggest waiting a bit longer and keeping the intrigue. that was the main entry of the twenty two of the presidential election still remains what made him a big if did answer some questions in relation to who will run for office and one thing is certain goals he employs in the field you will not run for the same office it will just be one more still remains to see who will that mandate so it's hard for me to. both running for president of the same time. we strictly

speaking represent the same. competition between us would bring harm to the goals and tasks we've been working on for the past several years. and it wouldn't be this particular situation and it was it was a very long interview that the russian president gave to the financial times the worst many issues were raised without the source of it of course retaining to russia's national and foreign policies many aspects that are interesting both people living in russia and those observing such problems was specifically of course questions relating to the goals that the president set out for himself during his term in office but they say sure that only option was no wages that is taken by western media source has gone by without the issue of the seat where c.e.o. will tell you what's being raised the us president reiterated his position that that was his release should it happen not in any way be

a danger to society unlike any russian citizens currently serving time that also. has the right to an appeal first it wasn't just matters of domestic policy that were touched upon the russian president speaking quite harshly of our t.v. 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 pass hoping that it will be observed and kept to as it is worded but of course you did it said that basically a very good resolution turned into a meaningless bit of paper with nature's military intervention in libya and the first i see because of that no resolution will be passed on syria what you do see serious matters of course that were just us we do know that the russian president is very fond of his gadgets he's rarely seen without his life and he did write 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. also today present that have sent his condolences to relatives of the international renowned human rights activist you know born or she died in the u.s. on sunday aged eighty eight zero for serious illness when i was there with the nobel peace prize winner andre suck it off and well it's who said she'd be buried here in moscow to get more background of analysis of the story we've covered using a website called. the few minutes the story of a us veteran outraged at his country's lack of respect for his fallen comrades business.

welcomes artie's business bulletin increased demand for gas in europe has largely benefits of the russian state company gazprom by the company has been criticized for challenging far more than market spot prices alexander medvedev deputy c.e.o. of gazprom believes how about the disparity between spot prices and long term contracts prices will soon be minimal. but in the next two years we can expect prices to gain significantly higher futures and we've had time to love and when did well when trying to thirteen already will be wrong or hundred dollars thousand cubic meters is equal to the bronze from you know long term contracts. 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 eleven dollars a pop while light sweet is down around ninety two dollars despite the lower european and asian markets the u.s. has opened slightly in the black monday those are speculation that they will fall throughout trading as high continuing concerns over the debt crisis in greece and bearish sentiment dominated the russian markets monday yes and the mice exposed more than one percent in the red the last heading the market's toward the longest losing streak since two thousand and eight looking at some individual share moves on the my say it's now ordinary shares and telecom lost almost eight percent the massive sell off followed a rally early this morning when shares rose thirteen percent alice attributed the rise to the inclusion of ross telecom shares in the us yes index and on expectations that the stock will soon be included in the m.s.c.i. index and as you may just suffered losses dragged down by the oil products gazprom ended in the red despite its announcement of

a twenty six percent increase in its forecast for this year's european exports. and that brings you up to present business for bring you up to date with business but this hour we'll be back in just under an hour's time stay with us now. hungry for the full scale we've got it first hand the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers on t.v. . if. russia would be so much brighter if you found someone from funniest impressions. these flu fronts on t.v. .