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 of our scrawlings the u.k.'s under fire as a top official wanted in egypt for fraud is reportedly living in london. british transport or european passport is a doorway to opportunities and pulling out of the promised land more and more israelis are considering emigrating accusing the government of failing to make their country safe home.

it is eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r t was nearing an joshie the u.s. congress has refused to grant president obama authority to continue the military campaign in libya but the very same lawmakers have turned down a motion to cut funding for the american action in the country the votes are being seen as largely some dog as the white house says it doesn't need congressional approval for the mission he's going to check out has more from washington. the resolution adopted by the house of representatives is seem more like a message of rebuke to president obama rather than an actual war stopper because when he came to voting on cutting funds for that war the majority voted no so some analysts see elements of a showing the behavior of the u.s. congress saying that many lawmakers don't miss

a chance to snub the president knowing that the snubs want 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 congressman 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 the 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 us involvement in libya there's also an interesting point that some experts have meet with regards to public perception of the war in libya it's off the headlines american use channels have been focused on congress on for weeks now and there is fear that certain inertia develops in the public perception with regards to the war in libya inertia which some say could be very dangerous. reporting there while the head of the u.s. center for constitutional rights michael ratner says president obama is staking his political career on the war in libya. the respect i have is why didn't the president come to congress and the issue is that 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 to go into 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 i miss principally a legal issue oh although it really reflects the underlying discomfort right now with this war and i think there's tremendous discomfort despite the fact that costs are nothing compared to afghanistan remember we're a straight affair we're not losing soldiers who are getting sick and tired of war the former finance minister and haunting of our thousand egyptian government has reportedly found safe haven in the u.k. that's despite the fact he's been sentenced in absentia to thirty years in jail for corruption profiteering and abusing state assets by cairo courts are his war atika looks at why the u.k. sheltering senior figures from their regime at the same time as and publicly backs

the arab spring. when egypt erupted 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 calling she won in grants. because it is a long time now that the british government be allowing the people running away not just from these you from all over the world you said goalie is just one the former thought announce minister instead of beginning a thirty year prison sentence for embezzle and in egypt he said to be running around london a free man 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 under the slaughter has demanded the british government does something about it but it's disappointed by the response but it's actually some more action both against the money and all the 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 and secondly we do have a very strong tradition in this country of holding international law and i want to see that continue like it will be that the current government to neglect that you to many think they're already negligent in picturesque ali's case an international arrest warrant has reportedly been issued by egypt but critics feel money and connections secure a ticket to freedom in the u.k. what is going to be would not have a problem to getting to the united kingdom for so many reasons and the simplest one of them is the money has got i mean you can get to remain with your money in the

u.k. if your money. it is clear meanwhile in egypt people aren't surprised england they say is where corrupt middle eastern officials go to high she's not a stranger to the west very much one of the websites men in egypt there was one of the worst men in egypt so that he's found refuge in london is not surprising to anybody the egyptian diaspora in the u.k. is hot for millions troll head and said here is learn to community leaders say that people assume are angry that's no guarantee took ali will save face and the only he remains the more the pay is lousy be accused of hypocrisy but to support the middle east and for a democracy movement to. bring members of the old great great see your avatar see. understanding more still to come on the program here's a quick taste of what's ahead why some you or skeptics think the european currency

has no future and have decided to bury quite literally. plus we look at what it takes to work and survive it in charge of one of the most dangerous environments on the planet. well after conquering the world of business one of russia's richest man may help wronger of has set his sights on politics he's expected to become the leader of the right cause political party known to be in tune with the country's business elite the billionaire says he's goal is to take second place and december's parliamentary elections after the ruling united russia party for her fortune is estimated at thirteen point four billion dollars and he's thirty nine on the forbes list and owns the new jersey nets basketball team is also said of russia's most eligible bachelor. now 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 many are opting for american citizenship to meet their expectations of a promised land policy 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 i think it. was a german 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 you or 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. the story because these are the stubbly who become a show of. europe because the show. but we can sleep in it's.

both of my face the making heart of tel aviv here you'll hear more english than hebrew and you'll be forgiven for thinking that you're in the us and not on this land most israelis here have a second passport many of them grew up abroad or have a parent who came from another country canadian israeli and i would never give up my canadian and probably would give up my israeli immersion i wouldn't give up because i have family. i want to go to go there anytime british passport or european passport is doorway to opportunities eight years ago the bar was blown up by 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 vain because of the bombings when there was a feeling of insecurity so yes there was an increase in immigration and into demand for passports and that the mind has only grown in the last five years israel has been in two walls 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 his leading israeli journalist gideon levy their people are tired of living in a war zone. releasing its own creating. feel for and. against anything and the payoff is a population that feels unsafe with one eye on europe. than the sun 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 but in world war two the one who are were the one who got the. call. if you can go. and help you. move. out of danger.

then you do it 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 are the arab demonstrations on the doorstep this so-called insurance passport is unlikely to lose popularity any time soon point c a r t television as the u.s. is looking for a way out of afghanistan and 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 by now are fast enough for anti-war activist artie's military contributor says despite staying in the country for a ten years conventional u.s. war attacked a seventy year old a 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 their afghan leader was a happy camper regarding the american president announcement and on the other side there was so much after hanchen regarding their we action from the u.s. military and from vox populi as far as the military branches it's concerned it was mostly limited only to armchair commandos and the u.s. secretary of defense robert gates in fact to the admiral michael mullen opinion represents the bunker mentality and conventional wisdom all conventional good thing only a part of the u.s. military and intelligence community really 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 both u.s.

uphill battle in afghanistan it turns out that ninety percent of the failure comes to the conventional forces due to conventional thinking. and now to some other even national news this hour thousands of anti-government protests are as have marched across syria with at least fifteen people killed in separate cities after security forces fired on crowds syrian state t.v. says identified gunmen were responsible for the deaths this comes as the e.u. has introduced fresh sanctions against the masters for its crackdown on protesters for more syrian companies and seven new individuals were added to the blacklist taught by president bashar asad and he's brother. in law of it and the leader of has 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 of the country has dismissed the militant group's claims as key accusations . new york lawmakers have voted to legalize same sex marriage this is and sent hundreds of people to the streets to celebrate what they described as a victory for civil rights here york has become the sixth american state where gay couples are officially allowed to marry and have families that comes after president obama encourage lawmakers to support the rights of sexual minorities. 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 euro the money will save the country from defaulting on its debts an option the prime minister has repeatedly ruled out of many argue that attempts to rescue greece are too little too late that half unstick

anomic failure will leave the eurozone dream in tatters. the skeptics who believe that you are his dad and buried. this is a funeral procession and was 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 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 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 of it if the leaders of the european union have presented greece with giacomini 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

for shuffled the leaders are you. wrong again. they be 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 drawn by the second time and if the greek parliament on tuesday except this package then this time next year i'll be talking to you. so while the european leaders are extremely excited about the fact that the future of the year old 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 . on the other side of the atlantic things aren't looking too promising either bankers are being laid off in huge numbers are almost twelve thousand jobs have already been cut since the beginning of the year there is hardly much sympathy for wall street high flyers among ordinary americans but as financial journalist carter

watch telly explains 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 our 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 they thought it was the numbers keep coming out suggesting that child's on growing across various sectors and i think that if there's not money being made on main street that usually kind of affects finance the financial sector as well and if you're not making money trading then these banks can keep the bankers on. and there was business insider cards are watched all sharing her opinion on america's studdard financial plight but one of people in the streets think about these problems the residents talk show host

laurie harvest find out in new york city. 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 here because i try to go to college and i can't because car my car gas is all expensive at school so expensive so it's more in the vicious cycle is really bad but i'm happy because brazil is growing like for me it's good so is that kind of the way it goes when when some countries are hurting other countries can prosper more. greece is looking screen 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 that at all

that's the only per anum one perk my job i've been getting steady paychecks for five years yet 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 and we had. a we have come back even so we could take cruises you come to new york this is crucial to show first time in new york city today that it 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 that we've seen the bottom the bottom look like. well it was pretty bad during the great depression 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 reach 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 at the global economy apparently continues to fall plaids. well don't forget to check out our timeline and we have a lot more news and eye catching videos on our web site here's what's lined up for you there at our t.v. dot com. kyra by any other name correspondents found in bed a lot in this compound reveals the top terrorist was planning to leave grannies organization admitting to losing their p.r. war what the west. had a mosque a graduation bash and with a bag as a boat hosting celebrating teenagers get smashed into by a barge for more on how disaster was narrowly averted dot com and so forget to check out our other we use our you tube challenge.

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to antarctica in the name of science dealing with environmental extremes is a daily reality in the latest in a series of special reports r.t. sean thomas has 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 very bad it was. thirty to thirty. so it was rolling around. the head of. it as anything as well so we're rolling around. trying to make a good rather. guess 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 replacement parts aren't always available and the

workers here have to make do with what they can and it's pretty hard to get here until they're sure sophisticated equipment so. one challenge here is to try to make your big science was a very small amount of a thousand a hard and it's very radical difference. is considered one of the most dangerous environments on the planet and because of its operating down here could be more than a convenience it can be downright deadly during the same storm the crew from that would go on t.v. or space lost one of their team when a jeep well down an embankment into a frigid antarctic lake. that was most difficult experience in my career and such moments i start to think that good just once is to try is 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 as 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. it was to airlift of 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 sac it's still the southern canton and doesn't provide the opportunity to dwell on the difficulties when a key things are all problems as soon as possible or the opportunity will be lost when there is no immediate response to cautions and avoid actions let me get one of those heard for example on the airplane engine field we avoided doing anything that could have gotten any of us hurt in any way so we don't have anybody else here we have void in your wrists until another airplane arrives when the system derived

from unfortunate necessity which keeps those living and working in the face of danger and safe as possible in antarctica shan thomas. he was called the father of the also gravel ocean and of their highly debated his role in russia's history cannot be underestimated a little later we retrace lance path in moscow. more straightly to change the course of this trade and starting off here on red square next to the magnificent moscow from in germany most of them roots as we take a look at his epic journey and visit various landmarks associated with his life hands that. cover. well that brings us have today here in our t.m.o.

scott is here in about an hour abides in just a few moments get to know what advice the longest serving mayor of chicago as for the russian capital spotlight is next after a break and the headlines. hungry

for the full story we've got it from. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. more than a month. in one of the most extreme environments on the planet as this is and large adults and people have to be aware that they are far away from civilization sean told his discovers flight make sense articles so special the destructive from nearly wild life in antarctica is a blow and from the. expedition to the bottom of the earth artsy.

today children play war in the old piecemeal. but in june nine hundred forty one these walls really first barrier from the nazi troops on their way to moscow. the funders embrace those who are dying one by one under siege and going through one and. then the rash under an unnamed soldier left a few simple words farewell motherland i'm dying but i'm not surrendering. the.