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 casualty is 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 been disclosed we hope nato will hold mr cameron is the cause of this going to score any mr obama has already and the good response about food addicts of these innocent children innocent why is anything else an innocent fathers and mothers cannot justify just that i would join him in this up with that incident after 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 mounting and no end inside those paying for the intervention might be stumbling a more my 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 result is more ammo reports next as little patients left about 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 gadhafi operation 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 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 westwards from libyan rebels and us movement britain reckons a billion pounds is a pretty good investment. 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. maybe. small changes in the number of hours you estimate produce big changes in cost estimate. and. always expensive but the costs back home. could prove harder to afford next in line to strike a million public sector workers who are being asked to work more and get less disruption to services could run in two weeks the commitment to continue in libya for however 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 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. well she is still national salut russia will do everything you can to prevent the libyan scenario happening in syria or to get there with the international community we can urge bashir percents to put the reforms into practice as soon as possible and to call on the opposition not to ignore suggestions to discuss these reforms but to start negotiating them. when it came to syria's president bashar assad addressed the nation with his third major speech since the unrest began in the country in mid march and it is sad promise liberal reforms but declined to go into detail that was something was picked up on by the opposition and the president stuck to his stance that foreign influence was behind the uprising that no change was possible until the violence died and experts say the speech could become

a turning point if the president does follow through on his promises let's get more thoughts on this a speech by president assad and what the future might hold for the embattled regime until two pm again place a political science professor at the west universe at the west paris university very good even to things based on our table so what is your a take on this speech to think he will follow through with those promised reforms or is it more to tend to blunt the rebellions current momentum well actually it could be because you know tito's father was a dictator but there is popular pressure for things to change in syria so it could be this sign that is forced into changing something everything will depend on public opinion in syria groups opposed to him and various types of pressures. enemies and friends like that is. so it's a bit too early to tell but it's certainly a sign thanks probably not remain totally stable and we're looking at the history

of this on top of what he said today his supporters would say the sad 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 that the current chaos has prevented. again 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 of onan saw but there is something which is quite sure 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 he would bring he wanted to talk to the opposition he could do it now on even the nature of the regime it's very unlikely that it would give a very easy and it. is not stopped by the violence of the opposition it might be

stopped by the pressures on its of their tricky situation. the 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 when as i mentioned just now in the lead into it some opposition figures already united states saying there wasn't enough detail things going too far for a peaceful resolution as you said. well we'll never know how things are going to turn out because look at egypt for example for a while and it looked as if the remaining it was supported by the us apparently and then things went fair they're equipped with syria it's not like egypt. it's difficult to know which way it's going to go but i think this is far in question has some impact not just the western pressures but if you look at turkey for example even russia would pressure said today. in 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 popular pressure and it is also nudged by turkey by russia a neutral quit by the west i think is going to have to give in on some points at least whether it be driven to 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 this is for israel and the world and the west in a we had kind of wait it represents some kind of stability is the devil we know whereas if things got out of hand we don't know who would and would have power in in syria you know want to profess and present a son who is 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

what one must again it's something which is very viable 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 trying. but there is also obviously option section dictatorial regime so of course. everything on maybe firing resists but local people cannot be with it's there. and. you know you may have some foreign elements maybe i'm not sure but you also have popular discontent prefer sapir girl from the political science department of paris west university thanks for being on the program. a five day long nuclear security forums kicked off in the end the japanese atomic crisis has prompted

a comprehensive discussion about the future of the nuclear power industry delegates from most of the hundred fifty member states of the international atomic watch told me i said gathering the into work oh title universal safety regulations for reactors japan's expected to be criticized for its slow response to the fukushima disaster it's already submitted a report admitting it wasn't prepared for an accident on such a large scale how to sean thomas travel to a city well outside the official exclusion zone where locals are still concerned over high radiation levels. the ominous and constant ticking of geiger counters scientists working in fukushima city concerned on the one that i'm in charge of the group of radiation detection and survey from fukushima university where now thinking their vacation protocol and process set up by the japanese government is not enough and myself i think i should evacuate from this area but because of my job at the university i can't my. family and my friends'

families are. 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 on a much higher than normal. just to give you an idea of the consistency right now the dagger count is really pretty quiet tonight micro ring it's about thirty times what it is more than the accepted level but if you come down here to where i just saw it all and i'm not about collecting the radiation quickly jumped up and it's still climbing earlier we've got a really of night when i look at my car and it's twenty years about a thousand times more than it was really accepted level of strict regulations. 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. level standard the levels from one. minute.

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 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 a pilot project and do the decontamination work by ourselves and we are not to using especially 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. well sean also spoke to japan's number two nuclear official to find i was being done inside the country to try to form a 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 workers of the state of electricity company have gone on a forty eight hour strike against austerity measures that comes as e.u. 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 at the utility retire were angry and government plans to privatized the company as part of austerity measures is seen as crucial if the country is to avoid a default fears of greece defaulting made british banks hold back tens of billions of euros from the lending market but still well that would just go into the e.u.

referendum campaign if you're missing the line from london thanks for being on r.t. john this british bank symbolically was going to be even more 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 barclays who want to reduce their liabilities to greece of a little juice them by about a billion pounds over the last few months to do 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. would be very nice not to have to do that but the i.m.f. has stated they'll be serious repercussions if greece isn't bailed out again my

guess is a lose lose situation about how you look at it isn't it john. well it is of course our chancellor george osborne and david cameron our prime minister is saying they will not put any british gas cash into the by now but that kind of playing with words really because as you rightly say we've just increased the amount of money would 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 bite out but on the second bailout if indeed it does go through in a couple of months when they do default on that will be liable to pick up some of the bill so british taxpayers repaying for it i'll 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 by last greece must be allowed to leave the eurozone let them have the drachma about 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 only a program a few months ago the your own is doomed is finished that's why we in the referendum campaign say way in britain must have a vote on whether or not all i want to be in a sense one of the world's more democratic club when i go but it's my question what about the war as if greece does go the war is going to have the whole global economy in the in the cost of borrowing in the rest of europe yet it is a great fear of course you're right that if greece collapses then what will happen spain could well collapse as well certainly portugal certainly aren't already in inter real terms defaulting i take on board your point but 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 political union that was never going to be in the studion because most countries do not want to see especially the united kingdom

because of the united states of europe. it is going to end in crisis it is going to end in a major a problem for boring 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 pay allowed to grace one of the money go you put your finger on the pulse what's your take on it. i haven't got a clue where that money personally clearly greece has got a problem he's got his preferred was on the streets of athens at the moment with the riots he's got a problem with flex in taxes always has had a problem but it can of 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 star 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 spreads but we don't need to be part of this expensive undemocratic plan which is now fall in a part when the euro and the e.u. referendum campaign say argument should give us our democratic right to decide whether to be in or not and take no pleasure out of what's happening in greece but we predicted it on this very show months and months ago greece is going to go all in is going to go portugal and of course the big one everyone is worried about is the state of spying that is some of our banks like boxers are being reduced in our liabilities and buying because clearly the property slump in spain is much 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 for you with our homes and their developments spain will be the next one to topple but why should the united kingdom which is already

facing massive recession. a massive cuts in our social services massive cuts in our essential services and public services cutting down of all forces cutting down of our police etc etc why should really u.k. taxpayer pay energy the german taxpayer pay for the ineptitude of the greek government i say shouldn't i say let's get out of the euro and the john go in 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 whether you'll make a bid to stay chief of the kremlin for a second term however in an interview with london's financial times newspaper he appealed to rule out putin would bet of face off in next year's election he's caterina's of the 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 thought the way they were they decided to keep the suspense up for a little longer but if you do i'm the leader especially one who is 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 but i suggest waiting a bit longer and keeping the intrigue. members of the main entry of the twenty two of the presidential election still remains with him and they did did answer some questions in relation to who will run for office and one thing is certain both he and let him approach him will not run for the same office it will just be one man forces still remains to see who will that man be. it's hard for me to imagine. both running for president of the same time the prettiest one reason that we strictly speaking represent the same. competition between us would bring harm to his goals on tasks we've been working on for the past several years good for russia

and it wouldn't be good in this particular situation 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 of course retaining to russia's national and foreign policies many aspects that are interesting both to people living in russia and to those observing russian problems was specifically of course questions relating to the goals that the president set out for himself during his term in office i place a ship that only option was no way to do that is taken by western media source has gone by without the issue of that seat where she'll will join us 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 for that call to. 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 to as it is worded but of course you did just 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 do you see all 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 mind that any did that slip that he has a special on it that lets him monitor exactly what his employees are doing and which of his staff savile 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 president of send his condolences to relatives of the international renowned human rights activist yelena boehner 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 suckle both relatives said she'd be buried here in moscow to get will background of analysis of the story we've covered is that a website. a few minutes the story of a u.s. veteran outraged at his country's a lack of respect to his fallen comrades business.

hi and welcome to our 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 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. that's leadership in the next two years so we can expect drugs used to go significantly higher gas futures while we do twenty love and twenty twelve and twenty thirteen if they're not already high enough we'll be wrong four hundred dollars per thousand cubic meters this is equal to the price for 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 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 due to continuing concerns over the debt crisis in greece and bearish sentiment dominated the russian markets monday yes and then my six close 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 analysts attributed the rise to the inclusion of telecom shares in the r.t.s. index and on expectations that the stock will soon be. and the m.s.c.i. index and if 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 forecast for the c is european exports. and that brings you have 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. for the full

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feel. me. hello this is our team from moscow my name's kevin owen here with you this hour with a headline update nato admits it launched the air strike that killed nine civilians in a tripoli suburb while putting taxpayers wary of reckless spending and the bill for three months of bloody stalemate. the international atomic energy agency is expected to slam japan for poor handling of the fukushima crisis the nuclear safety form opens in vienna aimed at improving safety regulations and preventing a repeat of the japanese products. at every other state once 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 didn't rule out a face so for the prime minister. thawing thirty pm here in moscow next for you 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 form soldiers. the large concentration of litter on the beach poses an additional health houser when the rough use is swept out to sea during a storm. despite this danger leon saw no empty aluminum cans or plastic bottles he found a base yos major recycling plant nearby where aluminum cans are crushed in both cans. leon paid a visit to the owner and manager of the plant derek and your war thing i wrote repeatedly to the washington usual suspects the president and the white house the secretary of defense the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff members of congress

and so on here are two began and hopefully an action program with funding from my government but we've got. to be starting to see how the army can. basti or will. call their. way here it says in a nutshell what i'm thinking is we should expand your operation clean up the beach on red beach one would be my primary objective because my salty language but you can understand my anger and having sane businesses' creation of how the ground war on red beach. leon had developed an action plan for be sure that included two phases the first would be to set up refuse containers and collection centers throughout the beaches and employ local citizens the second phase would be to establish state of the art incineration systems that would recycle trash as well as provide electricity for the island.