even people in opposition held in gaza cry out against the legend that he's committed by rebel forces as nato continues its compartment in support of the country's uprising. 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. new leaders debate greece's second bailout as agreed that also passed new public finance cuts in parliament public and to. grow. and develop business bills and find out how russia is ready to resume imports of

vegetables from the e.u. under which conditions join me in twenty minutes time for. watching or is he coming to live from moscow with marina joshua welcome to the program the growing number of civilian casualties in libya raises serious misgivings about nato intervention even among supporters of a campaign that's not only nato bombs that pose a threat to leave the rebel stand accused of committing atrocities against their own people. has a story. this family hasn't had the war quiet and peaceful like this one for months they've escaped from 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 gunshots one day people from the government and been you call the rebels we call them terrorists came to me and told me we have to arrest your daughter because we know that she supports gadhafi. these kate has been long and hard for they were in the family and i remember. 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 gaza to tennessee and the last of the rebels 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 biogen is here and we were sent here. some as brother has 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 killing. taken were from from from your killing him in front of your

own good his body on the world that. the doctor says people from the national transitional council were behind it this is the rebels official political body so they are part of the revolution in libya started in the mid february its members are recognized by many countries throughout the world as the only legitimate representatives of libya there is no. there will be a new so they will not be. there you are again is. about freedom democracy there is no freedom or democracy there is just war talk there are the refugees here say they now finally feel safe but it's not that safe from the side of the frontline either. these people have gathered in the west of tripoli to bury those killed in the air strike according to lebanese government officials a bomb landed on the private compound and flatten the road kill fifteen people including three kids we have been calling for peace and negotiation for months and

no one wants to listen to us and now we have to pay a very heavy price of. casualties civilian casualties and also military casualties. yes i think the time has come for the world to understand that this conflict has to come to an end immediately which is very unlikely to happen anytime soon and you know ground in the symmetry still fresh well made to has already claimed that the operation to protect civilians must go on griffin or r t. libyan leader colonel gadhafi accuses nato of murder after a recent airstrike killed civilians investigative journalist michel kong who was in libya just a few days ago believes the actions of an alliance are only motivated by money they are skilled at mall civilians that the losses from the initials problems their fuel

is more civilians than little bombings so the real id is not protect civilians the rio de east to achieve the economical structure as you call it interest off there of the west us in europe i mean the oil i mean the financial reserves of libya a reminder that the us is a bankrupt country and also preventing that gaddafi would be a sort of eternal future to the i.m.f. some buy in for african development the old idea is to make the public international opinion accept the idea that nato is a cup of the world over that that nato has the right to make wars where they want to revisit the people in hospitals and we saw victims in the civilian population is attacked that must be very clear it has nothing to do with him in a chair and war. has made those bombs falling on a people one aims to protect and the campaign is losing its initial allies there

have been some calls from for a halt to the coalition airstrikes are courts and 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 here over the an airstrike last night school nato says it regrets the loss of innocent lives and in the weapons now function they have cause civilian deaths and knowledge of one of the of course last night in tripoli 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 held really 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 a left wing right wing it's just that they go along with whomever is in power and

the whole idea of critical reporting is gone and it's not just media noticing that something is going wrong in libya it's only a nato member itself has already lost all three in the operation in fact rome has gone as far as to call for a suspension of all military action and to allow it in to libya france and britain have however dismissed their calls first the station in need to is relentless pounding of libya need to do is acting under a u.n. resolution to protect civilians but 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 even people to decide the british public don't really understand why we've been sightings of these wars and yes in the while we bomb them now colonel gadhafi is a murderous vicious dictator in the world and libya would be better off without him

but it is our business to go in there of office if the libyans want to have a revolution and get rid of him then good luck to them all others believe the longer the attacks in libya continue the move. difficulties for nato and its political backers the only exit option of nato was to say we will leave when it is good if you would leave it to the free. if going there could have the people will at least own ok for me too they will have an option to do exists but it's not going to. do exists or result achieving nothing would truly be for nato and specially for longbowmen for police it would be politically disastrous need his admission of killing civilians in recent days may have made the headlines back home but the expressions of regret have not been felt on the ground in libya unlike it was two bombs and missiles which continue to fall killing those the alliance says

it's there to protect in brussels it is r t. time now for a quick look at what's still have for you in the program and valorous police crackdown on protesters taking part in an anti-government demonstration that's been called the silence revolution. and travel far in question more a new documentary chala from r.t. brings the best of russia to a global audience. russian aviation experts have ruled out technical failure as a possible cause of a 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 the highway on monday night relatives of victims and locals have come together to pay their own respects near the scene two point one three four exploded killing many of the passengers on board eight survivors were rushed to hospital with severe injuries one of whom

a 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 row 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 but as going into account reports the american leaders decision doesn't have the complete support of his military. and that's not what is numbers there are 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 what he's going to pull out those thirty thousand troops the drawdown will start this year with some thousand troops expected to be withdrawn by december many analysts say it's not a groundbreaking move from the 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 week he promised that withdrawals to start this year and he had to

deliver the bigger question is what results has it is that it should clock 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 kinds of leadership and thanks to our intelligence professionals and special forces we killed osama bin laden the only leader that al-qaeda has ever known here in the us the pressure president obama faces with regards to vanish that mostly 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 results on the ground if you listen to american military officials they are constantly talking about progress fragile progress as they put it but

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 strikes 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 of a pocket leader doesn't get him a 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 people can no longer tolerate the attraction their names and that. unilateral action industry got what some 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 when you have no troops on the ground no. deaths of your soldiers to justify at all 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 volumes on their homes it's a common thing in the us media for example when they talk about war losses they just give nato losses very rarely do they ration 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 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 marriage as war on terror as

a double edged sword when it's fighting and provoking terror at the same time. that she can reporting there well not everyone believes the u.s. will ever leave afghanistan for good we spoke to abby an activist and former m.p. mulai joy and says the spider promises a trail of military bases will remain. i think. honest politician who. served in afghanistan and occupied my country just miles from one hand they are telling publicly to our people and. they will leave afghanistan by mid afternoon two thousand and one or two pros and plonked by you soon but from another they are talking about because they started teaching the stopping. us on the military basis of course so. they leave afghanistan arsenal by people who sit. home for these warlords taliban

forces i think the people of us i don't agree with my people that democracy never come by our operation democracy never by a military invasion democracy never by cluster bomb by white phosphorus by muscle car by bumping our wedding party. and watch the full interview with our good activist my joy in just over an hour here on our t.v. . the second bailout for greece is crippled economy will dominate a meeting of even leaders in brussels on thursday and it's while the greek prime minister approaches for even more cuts at home which are a condition for the new cash over the last week a steady proposal saw thousands of angry protesters fill the streets of athens michael snyder warns that economic troubles in greece could trigger a new wave in the global financial meltdown. crisis has been seems to be another lehman brothers moment because what you have in greece is a situation where there is just kicking the can down the road if greece defaults

it's not going to just a thank rhesus going to affect all of your. banks all over europe are very much exposed to greece and the banks in europe are very highly leveraged for example when lehman brothers collapsed they were leveraged thirty one to one which was absolutely for 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 is going to ripple effects across the entire world and there are experts all throughout the financial industry that are warning that this could set off another two thousand and eight style crisis. you can find more views and personal experiences of events in greece that's on our website find it at here's what else is online at the moment. the european commission puts an end to washington's move to axles personal data on passengers flying between europe and the u.s. saying the proposed terror plan is illegal. and

a legendary russian a line team or a roll or is his way to a world record for a new trick that was two years in the making find out how he landed in the guinness book of records. police in belarus have reportedly detained up to four hundred fifty people at a series of anti-government protest rallies dubbed the silent revolution the demonstrations against president bush and his policies took place in cities across the country including the capital minsk protesters tros and not to chant slogans or hold placards at the post and social networking sites including facebook and twitter called belorussians to rally silently everyone state becomes economy faces its worst financial crisis in the years after its currency was significantly devalued a few weeks ago police say the protests were unarmed authorized and disturb the public order. syria has lashed out of further sanctions saying it will ignore europe's presence on the world map the e.u.

made its move in response to their ongoing crackdown on anti-government protesters former british ambassador to syria eastwood says people in the country are divided over president a loss of 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 have done relatively well out of his economic liberalization so. 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 need for. 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 now 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 out that sort of idea at the moment. well now to some other world news we're covering today the far right dutch politician your oldest tried for inciting hatred and discrimination has been cleared of all charges you have reportedly described as long as a fascist religion that allows terrorism and holds for the koran to be banned welder's insisted his comments were not directed at muslims. and they formed a legitimate political debate the verdict was broadcast live on dutch t.v. . federal reserve has cut its forecast for us economic growth it

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a few minutes. but a warm welcome to business out see europeans you come to us will soon be back in russian supermarkets the government is lifting its ban on vegetable imports from the e.u. impose following the break 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 add protectionist measures as part of its limitations to join the w t o. l i think we have to close the chapter here we should be there should be the basis for much of the corporation collaboration between russia and the you know we will

be in union in the sky the seven three and five percent of the issues which is very important. for the movement of russia and the beauty of. russia and iran may jointly develop energy prospects in a resource rich bolivia says iran's petroleum industry the corporation could help significantly increase russia's presence in south america bolivia has the second largest gas reserves in the region russia's gazprom is already working in the country for the project to develop to vast newly discovered deposits in the south. while it's still down like sweden brant still shedding more than a dollar a barrel as you can see there more than one hardboiled russian comes after the guy gains which were seen after a u.s. government report showing a decline in the country's creates a poisonous break up in markets are trading thursday session in the red for the dow

point seven percent the dax one point nine percent miners are down the downturn glencore losing two percent banks are also a drive with lloyds down almost three percent. air in russia negative picture also r.t.m. point eight six point four percent main losers here are energy stocks if you look at those lukewarm is down half a percent banks have managed to recover some wants burbank is up just by a notch and apple is up zero point six percent the company was named the best east european airline at the ongoing luxury show. russia's equity markets are stuck in a low as global events continue to dampen investor sentiment but not rubenstein at metropole i've seen leaves out a couple of stocks worth taking a closer look at. russian market looks. very inexpensive at this point but hey the sentiment rules the market but there are couple names i think

that might be hired hard to resist one is very bank very simple but i think it's a combination of trade investment idea at the same time in the metals sector it's been down of course as well and we are seeing good values there we want to highlight there are several stall and which is the company and that is completely broad sickly integrated and this is it's big big one of the biggest advantages we know we expect coal prices to move higher but given their full integration i'm going to integration of sales doll that should not affect its margins on the company also looks inexpensive on multiples trade so i would about ten fifteen percent discount to other steel makers in russia mike rubenstein from mention for privacy business on scene we'll be back in the fifteen minutes time with an update the headlines the next.

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