the u.s. congress refuses to authorize president obama's military intervention in libya but stopped short of cutting off funding for the campaign. they backed the revolution so why are they sheltering mubarak's cronies the u.k. is under fire as a top official want an agent for fraud is reportedly living in london. british passport or european passport is a doorway to opportunity is an pulling out of the promised land more and more israelis are considering immigrating accusing the government of failing to make their country a safe home. m.e.m.

in the russian capital you're watching r t joshua welcome to the program the u.s. congress has refused to grant president obama also already to continue their military campaign in libya but the very same wall makers have turned down a motion to cut funding for the american action in the country the votes are being seen as largely symbolic as the white house says it doesn't need congressional approval for the mission or he's going to chicago as more from washington d.c. . the resolution adopted by the house of representatives is seen more like a message of rebuke to president obama rather than an actual war stopper because when it came to voting on cutting funds for that war the majority voted no so some annalise see elements of it showing the behavior of the us congress saying that many lawmakers don't miss a chance to snub the president yet knowing that this now this 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 supported the resolution was sort of a way for the congress to show their frustration over the white house refusal to come to the lawmakers to seek authorization for the military actions under the u.s. constitution only congress can declare war except the obama administration doesn't call it a war although we last more than three months and involves many civilian deaths earlier this month the congressmen had a chance to send an even stronger message the house debated a resolution from congressman dennis kucinich that calls for an immediate end to the u.s. involvement you believe the majority of lawmakers again so we know who that proposal nevertheless the lawmakers don't like being ignored but even those who truly wants to stand up against military actions in libya there is little they can do as one congressman said you can do resolutions until you are blue in the face but still be

ignored by the white house but it seems it's not just resolutions that can be more it's also the voices of the american people the majority of whom are against the u.s. involvement in libya there is also an interesting point that some experts have mate with regards to the public perception of the war in libya it's off the headlines american news channels have been focused on congress on for weeks now and there is fear that certain inertia develops in a public perception with regards to the war in libya inertia which some say could be very dangerous. reporting there now they have the u.s. center for constitutional rights michael ratner says president obama is staking his political career on the war in libya. the perspective i have is why didn't the president come to congress on the issue because obviously once a war starts you're in the middle of supporting nato when it's all operation it's much harder corrosive and i think you're seeing a really strong opposition building to the war what's interesting is that i think

obama looks like he made a real mistake going to an illegal war that's contrary to the u.s. constitution and contrary to the war powers resolution which is a statute that was passed by congress a number of years ago and is principally a legal issue of the really reflects the underlying discomfort right now with this war and i think there's tremendous discomfort despite the fact costs are nothing compared to afghanistan america. soldiers you know i'm getting sick and tired of war. and foreign finance minister hosni mubarak's ousted egyptian government has reportedly found safe haven in the u.k. and that's the spy the fact has been sentenced in absentia to thirty years in jail for corruption profiteering and abusing state assets by a cairo court r.t. for an it looks at why the u.k. sheltering senior figures from their regime at the same time as a publicly backs the arab spring. when egypt abrupt

it into violence at the start of the year the u.k. was among the first to support the uprising out with the old dictatorship and in with a new era of democracy the old guard was swept aside but many running in fear for their lives ran straight to a new life in london and the local egyptian community is horrified angry disappointed some of them call it she won in the end. because it is a long time now that the british government been allowing people running away not just from egypt from all over the world you said trust goalie is just one the former finance minister instead of beginning a thirty year prison sentence for embezzlement in egypt he said to be running around london a prima and boutros ghali was convicted in absentia of corruption profiteering and abusing state and private assets he's also been ordered to repay more than ten

million dollars and he andrey slaughter has demanded the british government tell something about it but it's disappointed by the response but expect to see some more action both against the money and other goods that's been extorted from egypt and other. arab countries but also against fugitives from justice in this country and that's what i feel pressing to cover here today exactly we do have a very strong tradition in this country of upholding international law and i want to see that continue like it will be that the current government to neglect that you take many think they're already negligent and boutros ghali is case an international arrest warrant has reportedly been issued by egypt but critics bail money and connections secure a ticket to freedom in the u.k. which is very would not have a problem to get into the united kingdom for so many reasons and the simplest one of them is the money is cause i mean you can get to remain with your money in the

u.k. if your money. meanwhile in egypt people aren't surprised england they say is where corrupt middle eastern officials go to hide he's not a stranger to the west he's very much one of the websites men in egypt was one of the west's many troops so that means sound refuge in london is not surprising to anybody pitch in diaspora in the u.k. it's called the million strong tends to hit its young and it community leaders say that people assume i'm great there's no guarantee took ali will stay safe and the longer he remains the more you pay lousy excuse to put chrissie pledging support for the middle east and pro-democracy movement while the patriots bring to the polls great great see your avatar to. push plenty more silicone for you on the program here on r t but here's a quick taste of what's happening. why something your skeptics think the european

currency has no future and decided to bury quite literally. plus we look at what it takes to work and survive in a target one of the most dangerous environments on the planet. well it's a state created for millions of jewish people from all over the world to call their home but now growing numbers of israelis are lining up to leave fears over security mean mannie are opting for you or american citizenship to meet their expectations of promised land obviously or has the story. rachel shites has no reason to like germany she was born a before the second world war and within six years had been expelled and most of her family killed but the irony is she now wants a german passport. or money another join citizenship to help my children and grandchildren which might be shocking if it wasn't so common in israel today in the last decade some thirty thousand israelis have applied for us citizenship

a quarter of a million already have a second passport it's unlikely that any other country in the world has such a large percentage of new immigrants preparing to leave. because these are the stubborn to become a show. that. we can sleep in it's. path of my faith the making heart of tel aviv here you'll hear more in the thing and you'll be forgiven for thinking that if you're in the us and not the promised land most israelis here have a second passport many of them grew up abroad who have a parent who came from another country. and i would never give them a canadian and probably would give up my israeli the american i wouldn't give up because i have family. i want to be able to go there any time british passport or european passport is a doorway to opportunities eight years ago the bar was blown up by a suicide bomber three people were killed and fifty injured the bar didn't close

down but some say the rush for new passports heated up in because of bombings there was a feeling of insecurity so yes there was an increase in immigration and in the man for passports and that demand has only grown in the last five years israel has been in two wars and many fear another is not far off and the government's policy of settlement expansion has only isolated the country internationally so it's no surprise this leading israeli journalist gideon levy their people are tired of living in a war zone. seeing its own creating. fear of crime. against anything and the payoff is a population that feels unsafe with one eye on europe more than a son has processed nearly five thousand applications for a second passport in the last ten years that works out at about forty passports a month and he's only one lawyer working in the field for focal good in world war

two the one who are the one who got the wide berth for the laotian who. can help you to move. out of danger zone. every year more jews leave israel for europe and the states then the other way around one in five or so if you choose has already returned home and with no israeli palestinian peace talks on the horizon and growing israeli and security about the arab demonstrations on the doorstep this so-called insurance passport is unlikely to lose popularity any time soon twenty slee r t television as the us is looking for a way out of ghana stana everyone is happy with president obama's troop withdrawal plan pulling out ten thousand soldiers by the end of the year and twice as many by next summer is considered premature by military commanders but now are fast enough

for anti-war activist artist military contributors as the spied stay in the country for ten years conventional u.s. war tactics have yielded few tangible results. if anybody was impressed by brock obama's speech regarding the tempo and scale of u.s. forces withdraw from afghanistan it was afghan president hamid karzai own the one side the afghan leader was a happy camper regarding the american president announcement and on the other side there was so much after hanchen regarding there we action from the u.s. military and from vox populi as far as the military prevention is concerned it was mostly limited only to armchair commandos and the u.s. secretary of defense robert gates in fact of the admiral michael mullen opinion represents the bunker mentality and conventional wisdom conventional group thing

the only part of the u.s. military and intelligence community to have a grasp of the situation less likely to step up to the t.v. cameras and to spill their guts that after ten years all few s. uphill battle in afghanistan it turns out that ninety percent of the failure of a conventional force is due to conventional thinking. and now to some other international news this hour thousands of anti-government protesters have marched across syria with the least fifteen people killed in separate cities after security forces fired on crowds syrian state t.v. says identify gunmen were responsible for the deaths this comes as the e.u. has introduced fresh sanctions against the mascot's for its crackdown on protesters for more syrian companies and seven new to vigils were added to the blacklist

talked by president bashar asad and he's brother. is the leader of hezbollah says the group has captured three spies among its low level members it's claimed two of them were recruited by the cia although the agents were not considered a serious threat to the movement the u.s. embassy in the country has dismissed the militant group's claims as empty accusations. new york lawmakers have voted to legalize same sex marriage the decision to send hundreds of people to the streets to celebrate what they described as a victory for civil rights the york has become six american states were gay couples are officially allowed to marry and have families comes after president obama encourage lawmakers to support the rights of sexual minorities. well to greece now where people are facing tax rises and fresh cuts to services as leaders calling politicians to support slashing spending if they want more rescue cash to be handed

over the government will vote on a proposed twenty billion euro budget cut over five years next week if approved it will mean a second bailout of twelve billion euros the money will save the country from defaulting on its debt an option the prime minister has repeatedly ruled out is that maggie argue that attempts to rescue greece are too little too late and that happens in homage failure will leave the euro zone dream in tatters our kids are going to go back to skeptics who believe the euro's dead and buried. this is a funeral for such an innocent. 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 your 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 see in 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've had enough of

it if the leaders of the european union have presented greece with draconian 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 unpopular in the country and that presents a major challenge for the greek government right immediately after it has just been for shuffled the leaders are you know mostly wrong again. maybe i'm wrong but 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 buy her out first time they're wrong drawn by the rope a second time if the greek 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. the reporting they're now on the other

side of the atlantic things aren't looking too promising either bankers are being laid off in huge numbers almost twelve thousand jobs have already been cut since the beginning of the year and there's hardly much sympathy for wall street high flyers among ordinary americans but as financial journalist carter watched planes they should be concerned as it hints at a new low for the u.s. economy. i think what happened was there was kind of an idea that was happening that maybe a recovery was on the way because banks were making money again there were huge bonuses being paid out last year and that was an issue there was a lot of backlash and i think that's one of the reasons actually salaries instead of keeping bonuses the fact now that they're not making money shows that perhaps the economy isn't growing as fast as i thought it was numbers keep coming out suggesting that chokes on growing across various sectors and i think that if

there's not money being made on main street that usually kind of effects finance the financial sector as well and if you're not making money trading in these banks can keep the bankers on. that was a business insider concha launched sharing her opinion on america's financial plight but a lot of people in the streets think about these problems the resident talk show host laurie harvest finds out in new york. all the latest data indicates the global economy is going limp are you personally affected this week let's talk about that the fact that a bad economy need a better job this economy is not a better job year does a try to go to college and i can't because car to my car gas is all expensive at school so expensive so it's more nutritious cycle is really bad but i'm happy because brazil is growing like for me to go so is that kind of the way it goes when

some countries are hurting other countries can prosper more yeah greece is looking bad sprain is looking bad i feel like we're on the right. so they're just exaggerating not in greece and spain no no i feel like the reports in the us are i'm actually in the military so i do not feel it at all that's the only per anum one perk my job i've been getting steady paychecks for five years yeah i can't the american military is going to go out of it if they do any time soon and i guess we have bigger problems to worry about the economy. we have back even more so we could take cruises you come to new york this. crucial first time in new york city today so that doesn't sound like you're hurting that it sounds like you're doing ok we haven't cut back on a lot of other things you think that we've seen the bottom of this crisis or are we headed for bread lines and even worse things like we've seen the bottom what is the

bottom look like. well it was pretty bad during the great depression that is a bottom that we can compare it to i don't know if we'll get that bad but i don't think we're there yet so do you think we can fix it i'm a global level or do you think it's time countries started looking at themselves first i think we have to fix it on the global level but i think we are each country have to know where they live their expectations of. the living standard i think we all have to go don whether or not you've been personally affected the bottom line as the global economy apparently continues to fall flat so. don't forget to check out our t. online we have a lot more news and eye catching videos on our website here's what's online there right now. all caught up on any other name correspondents found in the lot and compelling reveals the top terrorist was planning to grant the organization

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to go among all keys mine. streets now in the palm of your. as one of the most unpredictable climates in the world but for people who go to antarctica in the name of science dealing with environmental extremes is a daily reality and the latest in a series of special reports are a t. shirt on thomas as witnessed how people survive at the ends of the earth. antarctic storms are known to be fierce sometimes forcing those who have to endure them to take safe harbor it was pretty bad it was. and it was thirty to thirty five. years rolling around. in that kids. and it didn't mean this we're. rolling around.

trying to make a good road or we can get here the crew of this ship was able to pull through the tempest and even work with nearby stations to repair their damaged vessel but they were lucky operating in such a remote environment means that replacement parts aren't always available and the workers here have to make do with what they can it is pretty hard to get here good equipment to get here sophisticated equipment so one on one challenge is to try to make your breaks as it was a very small amount of because of our hearts and it's very well friends are very proper is considered one of the most dangerous environments on the planet and because of this operation down here we can be more going to. be downright deadly during the same storm the crew from that would have until this base lost one of their team when a deep wall down an embankment into a frigid antarctic lake. that was most difficult experience in my career and such

moments i start to think that god just wants us to try it out here. but in antarctica time is a valuable commodity and work crews have limited time to prepare the base for winter after the accident happened we didn't even have time to make a stop which the moment required a stop to think to express compassion we have to go on with our work which we finished at about four am the next day the incident sparked an outpouring of international support from the surrounding bases but in a twist all too appropriate for the harsh realities of working in antarctica the chilean air force plane that was to airlift. the body back to south america suffered an explosion in the left engine as it was taking off the pilots on board of hurting another field tragedy out of seconds still the southern continent doesn't provide the opportunity to dwell on the difficulties when it was the key things all problems as soon as possible with your projections he will be lost when

there is no immediate response cautions and avoid actions that me get one of those hurt for example when the airplane engine killed we have avoided doing anything that could have gotten any of us hurt in any way so we don't have to hear that anybody else here we have avoided any results until another airplane arrives when put into a system derived from unfortunate necessity which keeps those living and working in the face of danger and safe as possible in antarctica shantaram is hard to. but he was called the father of the bolshevik revolution and their highly debated his role in russia's history cannot be underestimated a little later we retrace lens paths in moscow. more strictly to change the course of history by starting off here on red square next to the magnificent moscow clearly to me martin as we take

a look at his picture only a visit various landmarks associated with his life. a mascot here around five minutes time and i'll be back with a reminder our top stories in just a few moments status. hungry

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