rocks so tall my car grown to be a good hotel because of a mission marco resort hotel resort of the salty our new mccall's motel with resorts michael's beverly plaza hotel macau riviera hotel macau cintra hotel macau . the u.s. house of representatives has voted down a measure giving president barack obama the authority to continue american military action in libya. while get be adopted a resolution that dad criticize this president obama on his policies in the i'll be back with more if your moment of. classified documents revealed the u.k. was happy to hand over terror suspects from iraq to the u.s. with little regard to what will be waiting for them in secret prisons. mourning the euro the fate of the common currency is in serious doubt as europe agrees another

plane out the debt laden greece will notice the country to get behind savage spending cuts. the former prime minister of ukraine goes on trial for abuse of power that's a matter of cost her country millions of dollars. around fifteen hundred supporters of good service and called gathered in front of the court building to protest what they describe as a particle hearing join us with the latest details from the ukrainian capital kiev . international news and comment live from our studios twenty four hours a day here in central moscow this is. a majority vote in the lower house of the u.s. congress has turned down a motion to cut funding for the american military action in libya and this came directly after the very same lawmakers refused to grant president obama approval to carry on the campaign live now and he's going to teach current she's in washington

studios a mixed message then coming from the house of representatives what effect if any will this have on america's involvement in libya. not really surprising the house of representatives voted on two things one a resolution that denies obama the authority to continue the u.s. military action in libya a resolution that basically has no actual a fact as you previously said because it just reflects sort of the opinion of the lawmakers but more importantly they voted against defunding the u.s. participation in combat missions there a bill that was also on the table so the resolution adopted by the house of representatives is seen more like a message of censure to president obama rather than an actual war stopper because when it came to voting on cutting off funds for that war the majority voted no so some analysts see elements of the show in that behavior of the u.s. congress saying that many lawmakers they'd need

a chance to snub the president yet knowing that this knobs won't change much at the end of the day as capitol hill observers say when it comes to waging wars congress has generally been supportive they're not the most anti-war people that's for sure they're right. bill they want to support the holes voting against funding of course it did as we've just been talking about polls that motion to the bottom of your sources continue without operation in libya but the question is how much of a four does this really represent between congress and the president. but we see at the resolution that the earlier was a way for the congress to sort of roll their frustration over the white house refusal to come to the lawmakers to seek authorization for the military action on to the us constitution only congress can declare war except the obama administration doesn't call it a war although it lasts more than three months involves many civilian deaths by the

way earlier this month they had a very chance to send an even stronger message the house the beta resolution from congressman dennis kucinich that called for an immediate end to the u.s. involvement in libya and the majority again brought it no to that proposal nevertheless the they don't like being ignored but even those who probably want to stand up against the military actions in libya there is little they can do as one congressman here said you can do resolutions until you're blue in the face but still be ignored by the white house. but it seems it's not just resolutions that can be ignored it's also the voices of the american people the majority of whom are against the u.s. involvement in the there's also one interesting point that some experts have made with regards to the public perception of the war in libya it is off the headlines now american news channels has been focused on congressman weiner's crotchet for weeks now and are those fears that certain. inertia develops in the public

perception with regards to the war in libya inertia which some say could be very dangerous. thanks very much indeed live from the u.s. capital that was our correspondent going to check. for more now on this so i'm joined by voice of russia radio host and analyst ricardo young he's also joining me from the united states from washington d.c. ricardo well here we go on the one hand the lower house is saying about or can't have the authority to carry on in libya but on the other it's saying that they can't be any funding cut of a campaign you know you as an analyst how do you read the message coming out of the house it doesn't seem to know what it really wants doesn't. well that's a good it's a good way of saying it in one way but house says we're not going to cut off funds for this hostility and of course president barack obama is saying that this is not really a war we're doesn't require you know on the ground combat troops and also as i saw it one analyst today he says the bigger issue here though is that seventy democrats

join the republicans in this so this is a very fluid situation and as you say it's almost as if we want a little bit of this but we don't want another part of this i think the big issue here is as one analyst told me earlier today he said the issue is time how long are we going to be we being the united states being in this war so we've got an issue here of a timetable and issue issue of are we going to stay in libya the united states staying in libya or is united states going to set a timetable for this and i think that's not clear of president barack obama has not made clear to the house or the server what about that technical definition of a war you just said above and saying look this isn't the war is he saying this because he's actually saying the u.s. forces are actually supporting nato and aren't really fully hands on with what's going on there and there's a good argument. again as you know he has been accused of overreaching in the nine hundred seventy three war powers act by committing

american forces not an assault on the ground but through nato with this conflict so there is still an issue of criticism that he's overreaching but again he's i think attempting to walk a very fine line in this situation that we need to bring stability to libya the states that is bringing stability to that region and also letting the market off you know the u.s. is not supporting him in any way and the united states is supporting the the protesters but that's interesting i mean this indecision from the u.s. and the lack of support for obama isn't that actually playing into good at his hands. another good question but we have to understand too that there's been no secret as they say the probable main aim of nato has been to quite frankly get rid of moammar gadhafi. bombing that's gone on of course the civilian deaths that have gone on very controversial but the aim has been to get rid of this dictator as symbolic message them from the house so obama would just

carry on can he just ignore what's happening after all the claims of it being illegal or whatever just brush the other side. i think so i had a chance to speak with congressman dennis kucinich last week about his he's one of the authors of this bill one of the sponsors of this bill and he was adamant about the fact that he'd been a democrat that his democratic president was not following the law and that congress should have been informed much more fully about this operation but again we get into the situation of the united states sort of having one foot in this in this conflict another foot out which i think the president barack obama is depending on that kind of thinking that kind of logic to justify the presence of of american influence in these nato strikes is that decision by the lower house. not exactly representing what the american people are thinking at the moment because obviously they're saying about we can't have the authority but they are saying let's carry on with the funding is the american taxpayer getting

a little fed up now with the funding of overseas conflicts. well again that's a great question because in this country a lot of talk shows american talk shows that many people are saying of quite frankly sick of america putting its foot in other countries now obviously there's national security concerns there's issues of terrorism the united states has to deal with overseas to make sure it doesn't come here but a lot of people are saying we have money already on the boards committed we as americans have money committed to rebuild iraq rebuild afghanistan obviously we'll have to rebuild certain portions of libya once this thing is resolved what about bringing some of that money back here to build rebuild american cities or build as an infrastructure for instance a resolution was passed by the u.s. conference of mayors just recently asking president obama to bring more funds to the table hopefully from the money that we will retrieve from the afghanistan drawdown in iraq drawdown bring that money back to american cities and rebuild here

. great to hear what you have to say thanks very much indeed live from the u.s. capitol voice of russia radio host and nic ricardo young good to have you on r.t. thank you. other news in the u.k. fail to track the detainees handed over to the u.s. neglecting to protect them from possible torture in america's secret prisons that's been repealed after agreement between the two states and the treatment of terror suspects captured in iraq was declassified twenty eight year old pakistani going to run the printer is one of the victims of this deal he was seized by british soldiers in iraq in two thousand and four as a suspected insurgent and secretly sent to us detention camp in afghanistan a process dubbed extraordinary rendition and man's laws are calling on the u.k. to help free him as britain was the taming authority british labor party m.p. and peace campaigner jeremy corbett has told us earlier that the spike the close ties between the two countries the u.k. had no excuse for allowing prisoners to be sent to the us for torture. and there is

an extraordinarily close military security and foreign policy relationship between britain and the united states we have sharing of security information and so. i suspect it was quite willingly done by members of the security services in britain who see themselves as being very close to the united states my view is that every country should have its right to its foreign policy and that means that if you believe your partner in a foreign policy relationship is doing something wrong imprisoning people illegally torture him taking them illegally think. of the usa then he should say so and i think it's quite appalling waterboarding and torture completely illegal in britain completely illegal within the terms of the united nations convention on torture they're not illegal within the u.s. jurisdiction in the same way george bush specific we authorized waterboarding and

what they term as robust interrogation techniques my suspicion is that the british security services were happy to keep quiet about the extraordinary rendition happy that these poor people should end up in u.s. jurisdiction where they were being tortured and so this is an issue that is going to come up again i'm sure in parliament next week it will be further inquiries into this because it's quite extraordinary that apparently in europe people who allowed prisoners to be taken out of any jurisdiction that covered the convention on torture to the u.s. where the waterboarding took place. carrie corbin talking to me from london the euro is dead and buried quite literally according to scripture actually fell over the ailing single currency in brussels they argue that attempts to bail out greece or too little too late an athens economic failure will leave the euro zone dream and. members have agreed on the terms of the press and the greek authorities to tighten the purse strings and once again if the money is to be handed over the

government will vote on a proposed twenty eight billion euro budget cut over five years next week and if approved it will mean another twelve billion euros and rescue money. could join those warning the euro's economic worries this is a funeral procession in the center of brussels where the european leaders are meeting to discuss the future of the greek debt and of the eurozone itself they believe the euro can be salvaged but most people including euro skeptics believe that it is impossible and there will be no resurrection of the euro well to me and i think a lot of people it's beginning to collapse around the really seeing bailouts billions of pounds of taxpayers' money especially from the germans putting a lot of this bill and i think the public about enough of it and i think if the leaders of the european union have presented greece with the county and conditions in order for the country to receive the remainder of its bailout unfortunately for greece they will have to take extreme measures which are incredibly popular in the country and that presents

a major challenge for the greek government right immediately after it has just been shuffled the leaders are you know mostly wrong again. maybe i'm wrong about greece from the very start she should never have been allowed to join the euro in the first place she wasn't suited to it they were wrong to bail her out first time they're wrong drum up a second time and it's a great parliament on tuesday except this package then this time next year i'll be talking to you i will be a third bailout so while the european leaders are extremely excited about the fact that the future of the euro could still be resurrected most of the people in europe . do not believe so and unfortunately for the european leaders the common europeans believe that the end of the euro is near. and in english the reporting there from brussels well as far as the future of the euro is concerned roll an economist with the open europe group told me earlier that he thinks that by bailing greece out now the e.u. is merely by itself a few more years existence. this sort of system of bailouts which the e.u.

has been going through has been proven to fail you know kristin with the first bailout and the austerity conditions which imposed an island in portugal are doing much better now that they're looking a second greek bailout that won't really change anything in my by greece a few years but in the long run it looks inevitable that they will default but the most important part of the second bailout is that it is essentially bailing out private bond holders and transferring the debt burden from the probable holders on to the taxpayer backs institutions such as the e.u. and the i.m.f. so that when the eventual default does come and there are write downs and losses on these on this debt and these loans it will be the taxpayers footing a lot of the bill i mean if you look at it in the long term the sort of restrictions which will have to be put on the greek economy if to make them survive in the euro and make them avoid having to need sort of permanent fiscal transfers from the likes of germany are going to be so stringent that there's not really any scope for fiscal policy or economic growth they're going to be limited in their

spending their deficit and you know where they can really allocate their money now is that that may not be the way the degree the economy wants to go and so they really need to consider whether they would be better off outside the euro zone. block of sanctions by the european union over syria have come into force the new round of measures targets syrian companies but also members of iran's revolutionary guard for high ranking syrian officials have put on the black list which includes thirty people the syrian president and the brother top that list as international pressure on the current regime grows violence still continues in the country at least twelve people are being killed the security forces opened fire and used tear gas on crowds of protesters a three month crackdown against those opposing president bashar al assad has left more than a thousand people there but journalist danny has told me that she believes the u.s. and its allies are opposed to any shift of power in the country. any further economic sanctions on syria will have almost no impact whatsoever on the current

situation in syria and on the current crackdown let's not forget that syria is already subject to american sanctions including age restrictions and export ban as . has recently put economic sanctions on the country is well i think syria has exposed in fact the government standard in the international community's approach to all these revolutions sweeping across the arab world in the middle east let's not forget the nato went to war against libya because fear that there would be a potential killing of innocent civilians in benghazi now we are witnessing an actual the massacre taking place in syria and yet the international community has been rather cautious in its reaction towards syria because of its crucial strategic position in the middle east israel is of course one of its near neighbors and close friends include countries like iran and iran is said to her playing

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the former prime minister of ukraine is gone on trial for abusing power during her term in office in two thousand and nine yulia tymoshenko secured a gas deal with russia which is claimed to have robbed the ukrainian economy of millions of dollars she's dismissed the cases fabricated but faces up to ten years in jail if convicted and next year she is in kiev for us. the atmosphere inside the courtroom and around the court building is absolutely elektra find around fifteen hundred supporters of utah cycle as you can see here gathered in central kiev to protest what they described as a farcical hearing of the farcical case against their leader i guess you don't see much angle now of the i really give you credit holders herself started this trial with a little bit of controversy she refused to stand up when the judge entered the room and then she said that this judge was completely unqualified for the case and that it needed to be dismissed clearly at the tension is rising as this case and as its

final stage you to assemble has been summoned to the prosecutor's office for months now for questioning now this case has been taking tools to the courtroom and we will be hearing some developments in the next several weeks or so the krays former prime minister yulia timoshenko is being charged with many different financial crimes including the amateur or professional as described by the prosecution gas deal with russia in two thousand and nine the prosecution claims that due to those deals ukraine lost more than four hundred million u.s. dollars and this is clearly the main charge against the country's former prime minister it is something of a fall from grace for the woman who was once one of the most powerful and prominent politicians in the world several magazines described huge machine glass as one of the most important female politicians on the planet now she she could become a convict and if convicted she could face up to ten years in prison even if this is

that this would be suspended for her then still she would be unable to run for president for the next presidential election in twenty to fifteen this according to its most sankoh makes this case political and she describes it as the one being orchestrated personally by president because you have a quote which it is not the first time that you are to a shadow is based on the trial in two thousand and one she will. was charged with smuggling the russian gas into ukraine but clearly a lot of the supporters of you it's also got our radio to besiege the court building until the hear of any news coming from inside and you will clearly be seeing more public underestimate of this case in the next several weeks or maybe even months but we'll be following all the details of bringing you the latest details as soon as we get it looks here especially reporting there from ukraine and now to some international news in brief before you leave joins us for the latest business news tens of thousands of gathered in the yemeni capital after friday prayers calling for president ali abdullah saleh to go become trees being stuck in

a political impasse since february which has claimed one hundred sixty seven lives currently still recovering in saudi arabia from injuries sustained in an attack on his compound earlier this month meanwhile in the southern port city of aden at least one person was killed when security forces opened fire on a funeral procession it turned into a mass government protest. the former london minister has been sentenced to life for genocide rape and crimes against humanity called the neuron mr hauck the country's former minister for families and women's affairs and her son an ex militia leader were both found guilty of ordering and assisting massacres some eight hundred thousand people were killed during the nine hundred ninety four slaughter most of them ethnic puts it in a man who is the first woman to be convicted by the u.n. backed tribunals a series of nearly simultaneous blasts rocked two cities and. injuring several people the first device went off in the countries i should see in the country's administrate capital night taught to zone housing most of its hotels soon

afterwards a car laden with explosives detonated near man delays main market not yet clear who was behind the attacks have become increasingly frequent there were pro-democracy activists and ethnic groups sort of odds with the military backed regime. those promised time now to check out all the highlights from the world of business with she's next. it's time for a local authorities as business stores and or prices have stabilized after dropping almost five percent on that was on the back of a surprise announcement by the international energy agency that sixty million barrels of oil would be released from strategic reserves all of that time in history the i.a.e.a. has sanctioned the release of reserves the move is intended to accept the loss of production from libya currently engulfed in civil war you know well some members warn of possible counter measures to prop up the world price christian says korea

now from standard and poor's explains why she thinks the i.a.e.a. has taken the unusual action. i think it's three things why it is trying to ensure that when the northern hemisphere is going to the driving season there will be enough supply now a lot of the open member countries have said the reason of the flight and that is correct but what you need is to make sure that prices don't spiral are the second is to ensure that there is a soft landing for the economy what they are trying to ensure is that the world economy does not go into or double recession and thirdly there has been a lot of frustration from oil barrels that have been taking out of the market on speculation so what the saying is listen guys we are going to go and oil in the market so don't try to get prices up because you're going to lose money so that should put a barrier to oil prices a cap which should hopefully ensure that it world continues to. inland and

recover from the recession. let's have a look at the price of oil light sweet just traded just under ninety one dollars per barrel randi is that over one hundred six dollars. and a quick look at the markets here stocks are lower class despite a slight up for additional first quarter g.d.p. figures on the corporate front micron technology disappointing results for its quarter saying chip sales will weak. european markets were mixed at the close the first scenario it certainly gave us investors confidence and banks were shaken by a suspension of trading and some lenders neutrally under pressure from the upstarts crisis projects was on the right point five percent and finally here in russia the markets have rebounded after thursday's sharp losses both are just my six finished up one point five point six percent respectively let's now have a look at some of the individual rules on the my six energy majors were among the main gainers with castro up one point seven percent metro line and on cable slow

are tracked down by metal prices and that's just fine the company positive net profit one hundred thirty four million dollars in. last quarter of the year beating previous forecasts banks were up but was arrested near blank thinnish lower that's after eve b.r.g. said it's considering buying into the bank. now russia's court of course has raised billion dollars in its i.p.o. in london the port operator was surprised at the bottom of the intendant grange the group saw twenty five percent of its shares their profession company to list in london this year. the world's largest private equity firm blackstone group is coming to russia the company maaco invest in a new state backed investment fund set up by president out of the c.e.o. blackstone steven schwartz nonsense a good local partner is essential in russia if the main interest lies in the consumer sector as the risks associated with mortgages are relatively high. and

russia's biggest social network come back to argue is going to hold an initial public offering in new york the company hopes to get the listing completed during twenty twelve analysts say the company could be worth up to three billion dollars given the high demand for tech stocks compact it has around sixty million users worldwide but half of those in russia last month russia search engine again that success were listed on the nasdaq raising one point three but in fact that's. that's it from me you're up to date for news and all that scientology dot com slash business.

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