we'll. bring you the latest science and technology from the realms of. the future coverage. as nato continues its from bahrain in support of the libyan uprising people in gaza cry out against alleged atrocities committed by rebel forces. president obama unveils plans to begin the withdrawal of u.s. forces from afghanistan but there are concerns that while troops may leave american drone attacks will continue. to e.u. leaders debate greece's second bailout as a greek pm battles to pass new public finance cuts in parliament and public anger over the move. and as oil drops more than one the dollars a barrel russia's markets open the first day session point seven percent in the red

join me in twenty minutes time for. eleven am in moscow this is r t joshua welcome the growing number of civilian casualties in may be caused by nato raises serious misgivings about us intervention even among supporters of a campaign that is not only nato bombs that pose a threat to leave the rebel stand accused of committing atrocities against their own people are these marius an option or has the story. this family hasn't had the war quiet and peaceful like this one for months it was keep on the libyan rebel stronghold of benghazi to hide in this refugee camp in the west of the country after a life in their native town became a nightmare. it's not safe there anymore it's become dangerous and it's not only

because of explosions and can't show people from the government and been you call them rebels we call them terrorists came to me and told me we have to arrest your daughter because we know that she supports khadafi. these kids has been long and hard for the we were in their family but i remember the government that it was i had to hide for some time from them as they've been searching for me and then we knew there was a bus coming from benghazi to the bus with the gravels for their purposes we took that bus with our faces covered and everybody was against gadhafi on it we told them that we were also against him and a lot of soon we kept silent until we went to egypt and from there and biotin as we were sent here. to get them their son was a brother of sabri a surgeon has also fled the city he says they've made three attempts on his life but he only finally left when he saw a healing. from from or from you killing him in front of your

own good his body on the world. but the doctor says people from the national transitional council were behind it this is the rebels official political body that are part of the revolution in libya started in the mid february its members are recognized by many countries throughout the world as they are legitimate representatives of libya there is. being very green you so you would be. oh you are against. about freedom democracy because north with all democracy there is just. the refugees here say the now finally feel safe but it's not. that say from the side of the frontline either. these people have gathered in the west of tripoli to bury those killed in an airstrike eco didn't believe in government officials a bomb landed on a private compound and flattened it killing fifteen people including three keets we

have been calling for peace and negotiation for months and no one wants to listen to us and now we have to k. a very heavy price of. casualties civilian casualties and also military casualties i think the time has come for the world to understand their acts this conflict has to come to an end immediately which is very unlikely to happen any time soon when you dug around in these cemeteries still frash while nato has already claimed but the operation to protect civilians must go on when or if an ocean or r.t. . we really are carol a graphic here is made of murder after a recent airstrike killed civilians investigative journalist of a shark on who was in libya just a few days ago believe the actions of the alliance are only motivated by money.

they are all civilians that's the losses from the initials problems they have kills more civilians the nato bombings so the real idea is not protect civilians the deed is to achieve the economical strategical interest off there of the west us in europe i mean the oil i mean the financial reserves of libya a pretty mind that the us is a bankrupt country and also preventing that kathy would be a sort of paternal used to do i have some buying for african development the old idea is to make the public international opinion accept the idea that nato is the cup of the world or that that nato has the right to make walls where they want to revisit the code in hospitals and we saw victims and indeed this indian population is attacked that must be very clear it has nothing to do with him and

its air and war. what nato is bob's following a lot of people aims to protect the campaign is losing its initial allies italy is now pressing for an immediate halt to the airstrikes are reports of whether nato has trapped itself in a conflict and can no longer escape. civilian deaths in libya are at last making news on western news networks they say has acknowledged that a number of civilians may have been killed in an air strike last night when nato says it regrets the loss of innocent lives and the weapons now function may have caused civilian deaths in tripoli acknowledged one of its airstrikes which of course were snowed in for only and may be to blame for civilian casualties the operation has been going on for three months and according to libyan officials hundreds of civilians have agreed to been killed by nato bombs so why has it taken so long for the major t.v. networks and newspapers to report on the carnage because the big problem with our

media our mass media nowadays is not that they're left wing right it's just that they go along with whomever is in power and goal idea of critical reporting is gone and it's not just media noticing that something is going wrong with the involvement in libya it's only a nato member has already lost faith in the operation in fact wrong has called for an end to all military activity and to allow aid in france and britain have however dismissed the calls for sensation in need to his room and was counting up libya need to do is acting under a u.n. resolution to protect civilians but so many believe the alliances mean aim has always been to oust colonel gadhafi some european politicians from countries back in the campaign say that's not the job for nato but food even people to decide the british public don't really understand why we've been taken into these wars and yes in the while we bomb them now colonel gadhafi is

a murderous vicious dictator and the world and libya will be better off without him but it is our business to go. out of office if the libyans want to have a revolution and get rid of him then good luck to them are there is believe the longer the attacks in libya continue the more difficulties for nato and its bullet . bakker's the only example of nato was to say we will leave when you're going to get if you will be effective in the field is skewed if going in they're going to be the people will at least own ok for me to do with the notion to do is it's it's not the point is they really do exist achieving nothing would truly be full and specially for them than for police it would be politically disastrous need is admission of killing civilians in recent days and they have made the headlines back home but the expressions of regret have not been felt on the ground in libya unlike the western bombs and missiles which continue to fall killing those the alliance

says it's there to protect in brussels it even goes r t. time now for a quick look at what's so i have for you in the program in belarus police crackdown on protesters taking part in an anti-government demonstration it's called the silent revolution. and travel far and western more a new documentary channel from our city brings the best of russia to a global audience. russian aviation experts have ruled out technical failure as a possible cause of the failed passenger jet crash in the country's northwest they're now decoding information from the black box flight recorders to discover what caused the plane to hit a highway on monday night relatives of victims and locals have come together to pay their last respects near the scene one three four exploded killing mammie of the passengers on board

a survivors were rushed to hospital with severe injuries ten year old boy later died bringing the death toll to forty five. the u.s. has vowed to change its mission in afghanistan from a role of combat to one of support president obama has confirmed his decision to pull out a third of ground troops currently deployed in the country by next summer i was going to take our reports the american leaders decision doesn't have the complete support of his military. that's that was numbers there around one hundred thousand american troops deployed in afghanistan right now thirty thousand of them were added by president obama two years ago now he says by the end of next year the western. thirty thousand troops the drawdown will start this year with some pent thousand troops expected to be withdrawn by december many analysts say it's not a groundbreaking move from a strategic point of view after all he is pulling out what he added at the beginning of his presidency but ahead of presidential elections coming up next year

it might be a face saving make the promise that withdrawals to start this year and he had to deliver the big question is what results has his leadership brought so far take a listen we're starting this drawdown from a position of strength. is under more pressure than at any time since nine eleven. together with the pakistanis we have taken more than half of all quite as leadership and thanks to our intelligence professionals and special forces we killed osama bin laden the only leader that al qaeda there will be us the pressure president obama faces with regards to afghanistan once he has to do with the enormous war spending and the number of casualties among american troops president obama was elected as a war and ended up waging more wars and spending more of taxpayers billions on inconclusive battles overseas that's what a lot of americans are frustrated about what doesn't get enough spotlight here is actually the result on the ground if you listen to american military officials

they're cautiously talking about progress fragile progress as they put it various reports on the ground say insurgency is growing among the afghans the systematic killing of civilians by nato strikes doesn't help experts say many of those now fighting against the allied forces in afghanistan are not all cry that they are not terrorists they are fighting against who they see as invaders after one of the recent strides that killed a significant number of civilians including children even the u.s. backed afghan president karzai had to make a harsh face saving statement warning nato that if they continue killing civilians the whole of the afghan population will treat them as occupiers we have to understand that the image of karzai is a proper leader doesn't get him it doesn't get gain him any popularity at home so he has to take a stand here is what he said a few days ago he can no longer play read but can actually do.

action industry got word from find worrying is that i mean these upcoming troop withdrawals the u.s. has actually stepped up airstrikes including growing strikes in afghanistan is thought to be part of this twenty first century intelligent war strategy you know where you have no troops on the ground no. deaths of your soldiers to justify and on so it becomes possible to wage a war without having to face all these accountability issues so many afghans are worried that less troops those and necessarily mean less bombs on their homes it's a common thing in the us media for example when they talk about the war losses they just need a loss is very rarely do they mention the number of afghan civilians killed and that number is so many times higher experts say apart from civilians killed another thing that contributes to a growing insurgency in afghanistan is the failure to effectively deal with the drug issue since the invasion in two thousand and one drug production there has increased enormously and it's known that some of that vast drug trade income goes

to terrorists so many see america as war on terror as a double edged sword when it's fighting and provoking care at the same time kind of reporting their own everyone believes the u.s. will ever leave afghanistan for good we spoke to afghan activist and former m.p. . who says that despite the promises a trail of military bases will remain. i think. this honest politician who continued to. be an occupying my country beyond just miles from one hand they are telling publicly to our people in computer people they will leave afghanistan by mid of two thousand and eleven or two thousand and twelve but from the other hand they're talking because he's thinking she was talking to us in the military because this course we saw. afghanistan as you know my people too sick to. call for warlords taliban and al

corp of course as i think the people of the us i don't therefore they're going to work my people that there are course never come by our completion democracy never by military invasion democracies never attacked by cluster bomb by white phosphorus by my cigar by bumping our wedding parties. and watch the full interview with activists in an hour here on r t. a second bailout for greece is crippled economy will dominate a meeting of leaders in brussels on thursday while the greek prime minister pushes for even more cuts at home which are a condition for the new cash over the last week a sturdy proposal so thousands of angry protesters filled the streets of athens blogger michael snyder warns that economic troubles in greece could trigger at their way in a global financial meltdown. and the greek crisis has been seen as would be another

lehman brothers moment because what you have in greece is a situation where they're just kicking the can down the road if greece defaults a slug only to just a thank you reese is going to affect all of your. banks all over europe are very much exposed to greece and banks in europe are very highly leveraged for example when lehman brothers collapsed they were leveraged thirty one to one which was absolutely horrible now german banks actually hold a lot of greek debt and there are leveraged thirty two to one at this point so greece goes down it's going to ripple effects across the entire world and there are experts all throughout the financial industry who got a warning that this could set off another two thousand a crisis. and you find more views and personal experience of events in greece that's on our website right and here's what else is online at the moment. the european commission puts an end to washington's move to access personal data on

passengers flying between europe and the u.s. saying the proposed ente terror plan is illegal. and a legendary russian a lion tamer roars his way to a world record for a new trick that was two years in the me find out how he landed in the guinness book of records at r t dot com. police in bellerose have reportedly detained up to four hundred fifty people during a series of anti-government protest rallies dubbed the silent revolution demonstrations against president bush and his policies to place in the capital minsk and other cities across the country protesters decided against chanting any slogans or holding placards post on social networking sites including facebook and twitter have been calling on bell russians to rally silently every wednesday the country's currently facing its worst financial crisis years after its currency was significantly devalued few weeks ago we say the protests were not authorized to

disturb the public order. syria has lashed out at further sanctions saying it will ignore europe's presence on the world map the e.u. made its move in response to the ongoing violent crackdown on anti-government protesters former british ambassador to syria basle eastwood says people in the country are divided over president but that there is a strong desire for a political process. there were great hopes that he would lead to a better future he still retains some of that popularity particularly with the urban populations in damascus and aleppo the second big city which had done relatively well with his economic liberalization speech. but in the countryside and amongst the intelligentsia i think there are now no hopes that he can bring about reforms opposition activists are starting to talk about the fall. a

political process what they said at a conference in turkey two weeks ago was that the president should step down and that the vice president should hold the ring pending new elections on the basis of a revised constitution. that is the start of of a political discussion if anybody wanted to take it up but there is obviously no sign whatever of anybody in the regime wanting to take up that sort of idea at the moment now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world and the trial of far right just five fishing years older it reaches its and what the judge said to announce a vertical later on thursday after describing his mom as a fascist religion that allows terrorism and calling for the koran to be banned stands accused of inciting hatred and discrimination while there is insisted his

comments were directed to islamic not of muslim believers it is expected that the dutch man will be acquitted of the charges. federal reserve has cut its forecast for us economic growth it now estimates the economy should grow up to two point nine percent this year that's lower than earlier predictions the central bank also warned of high unemployment fed reserve chief ben bernanke he said the worsening economy sparked by soaring energy prices and reduced japanese production after the quake and tsunami. three people have been killed in the central peruvian city. after students clashed with police and other twenty two were injured while protesting against the building of a new university which they believe will cause an existing one to lose funding protesters blocked a highway and hurled rocks as police attempted to clear the road the riots began on thursday on tuesday rather when protesters burning local government buildings.

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a few minutes watch the kaiser report to discover how to improve your self-esteem one facing mountains of debt all the staff there are the business update with matey . welcome to business scene european q cumbers will soon be back in russian supermarkets the government is netting its ban on vegetable imports from the e.u. which was imposed following the eco lie outbreak imports may resume by the end of this month however there are certain conditions producers will have to fully certify the health of their vegetables russia has been under pressure from europe

to lift the ban saying it had to and protectionist measures as part of its ambition to join the w t l. could i think that we have to close the chapter here we should be there should be the basis for a much deeper corporation a collaboration between russia and the you will be a union in the state of the seven three and five percent of the ships which is very important. for the movement of russia and the government of. russia and the rand may jointly develop energy prospects in resource rich bolivia says iran's petroleum industry the cooperation could help significantly increase russia's presence in south america libya as the second largest gas reserves in the region and significant oil reserves russians gazprom is already working in the country as part of a project developed to newly discovered the poles it's in a self. it's moved to the markets now and start with commodities oil prices are

trading lower with light sweet and brant losing more than one dollar a barrel the correction comes after the overnight gains which followed the us government report showing the decline in the country's credit supplies last week. in asia stock markets are showing slight declines the make a managed to raise a sudden early gains that we saw at the beginning of the session this is off the downbeat u.s. outlook from fed's chief ben bernanke is nice and however is out after going to the c.e.o. said production was almost back to pre levels however exporters are still under pressure with a limpets and source of a declining around two percent homes i'm saying is down just a notch point one percent with the banks losing lots and finally has moved to russia trade kicked off about an hour ago and it's all in the red they are just down point nine percent nice half a percent this is on the back of declining crude prices mostly if we take

a look at the main movers on the my six energy majors. down point six percent banks are also losing twenty five percent there but as you can see that is up one percent. this is all on the back of the speculation whether to join us in future for jets. u.s. federal reserve held rates steady on wednesday not rubenstein i've seen metropole believe the statement by fed chairman bernanke he could help lift russian markets in the coming days. as mr bernanke you see on the market that their exit from the q e two is going to be gradual and that the fed is standing ready to do whatever it takes to move this job market in this economy kaya and so the market can read into that and it's going to add to my contemplate there a q e three or some sort of can be three so what i think this is this this is going

to move the markets higher i think not my child but slightly high at a particular year in the fact that the volumes are a lot more during this time of the year but again i think the value investors are going to come in. all right doesn't say we'll be back next hour with nothing but i lined up next with maria.

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