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 use channels have been focused on congress one winner is quite shocked for weeks now and there's fear that certain inertia develops in the public perception with regards to the war in libya inertia which some say could be very dangerous and if she can reporting there while they had of 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 and why didn't the president come to congress and the issue is obviously once a war starts you're in the middle of supporting nato when its whole operation is much harder to come off of 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 and this principle a legal issue oh it really reflects the underlying discomfort right now with this war and i think there's tremendous discomfort despite the fact the costs are nothing compared to afghanistan a memory straight affair we're not losing soldiers are getting sick and tired of war the former finance minister in hosni mubarak's ousted 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 kyra court parties lore and it looks at why the u.k. sheltering senior figures from the 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 shame when in the end. because it is a long time now with the british government being. people running oil not just from egypt from all over the world boutros ghali 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 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 pee under the slaughter has demanded the british government does something about it but is disappointed by the response but expect to see some

more action both against the money and other goods has been extorted from egypt and other. arab countries but also against fugitives from justice in this country and that's what i feel pressing the governor here to protect me we do have a very strong tradition in this country of upholding international law and i want to see that continue i do want the current government to neglect that you take many think they're already negligent in 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 going to be would not have a problem to get into the united kingdom for so many reasons and the simplest one of them is the money has got i mean you 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 high she's not a stranger to the west very much one of the websites men in egypt 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 called a million strong tends to hit london to community to say that people assume i agree that's no guarantee took ali will stay safe and the way he remains the more you pay lousy excuse to put christie to support the middle east and pro-democracy movement well paid for it to be oh great great see your avatar t. . well there's plenty more still to come on the program here's a quick taste of what's ahead why you are 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 antarctica one of the most dangerous environments on the

planet. well after a conquering the world of business a lot of russia's richest man may help 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 in 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 that 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 has the story. rachel shites has no reason to like germany she was born there 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. holder get money out of the 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 fifty 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. the story because he is or was a stubborn to become a shill for the jewish people europe becomes the shell of the jew sleeve. this is my place the american heart of tel aviv here you'll hear more english than

hebrew and you'll be forgiven for thinking that you were in the us and not to the promised 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 the american i wouldn't give up because i have family there and i want to go 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 very peak off of the suicide bombings and there was a feeling of insecurity so yes there was an increase both in immigration and in the demand 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 meeting israeli journalist gideon levy people are tired of living in a war zone the israeli leadership bracing its leadership on creating. fear frying. against anything and the payoff is a population that feels unsafe with one eye on europe. damis 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. in world war two the one who are through were the ones who got the. full version is that if you. can help you move. all of danger zone then you do it every year more jews leave israel for europe and the skates 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 point to see a r t tell of of as the us is looking for a way out of afghanistan 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 not fast enough for anti-war activist artie's military contributor says the spike stay in the country for a ten years conventional u.s. war tactics have yielded few tangible results. if anybody was impressed by a barrage of bomb a speech regarding the tempo and scale of u.s. forces withdraw from afghanistan it was afghan president hamid karzai on the one side the afghan leader was

a happy camper regarding the american president announcement and on the other side there was so much apprehension regarding their we action from the u.s. military and from vox populi as far as the military is 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 conventional group thing only a part of the u.s. military and intelligence community who 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 all for us 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 at 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 a 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 his brother. in lebanon and 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 a militant groups claim since empty accusations. new york

lawmakers have voted to legalize same sex marriage this issue and sent hundreds of people to the streets to celebrate what they described as a victory for civil rights new 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 e.u. 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 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 many argue that attempts to rescue greece are too little too late that afternoon stick anomic failure will leave the eurozone dream in tatters. the skeptics who believe the euro is dad and buried. this is

a funeral procession in the center of. russell's where the european leaders are meeting to discuss the future of the greek debts 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'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 unanimously 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 buy her out first time they're wrong drawn by the rope a second time and 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. on the other side of the atlantic things are 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 there is hardly much sympathy for wall street high flyers among ordinary americans but as a financial journalist to watch telly explains they should be concerned as it hints at a new low for the u.s. economy. i think that 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 growing across various sectors and i think that if there's not money being made on main street. kind of a fix the financial sector as well and if you're not making money trading in these banks can keep the bankers on. and business insider concer watched sharing her opinion on america's financial plight but what do people in the streets think about these problems the resident 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 have you felt the facts of a bad economy need a better job of this economy is not get me 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 small 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 yeah greece is looking bad spain 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 u.s. are i'm actually in the military so i feel it at all that's the only perk i. parked my job i've been getting steady paychecks for five years yet i can't see that 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 cut back but we had to cut back even more would show we could take cruises to come to new york this. crucial british a 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 have a couple of other things do 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 what is 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 lower their 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. well don't forget to check out our t. online we have a lot more news and eye catching videos on our website and here's what's lined up for you there at r t v dot com. kind of by any other name correspondents found in a lot of the compound reveals the top terrorist was planning to rebranding organization admitting to losing a p.r. war with the west. at a moscow graduation bash and so with a bang as a boat hosting celebrating teenagers get smashed into by a barge for more on how disaster was narrowly averted dot com and don't forget to check out our other radios our you tube channel.

is. the official. one called talk. video. st now with the palm of your. on the dot com. 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 in the latest in

a series of special reports on 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 pretty bad it was. thirty to thirty but not. just rolling around. you had to let the. kids. in this in between us. so we're rolling around pretty violently trying to make very good road or we can have. 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 why don't want to challenge us to

try to make your big science was a very small amount of equipment because of the hearts and three weather conditions and i think there is considered one of the most dangerous environments on the planet and because of this operating down here logistically it can be more than a convenience it can be downright deadly during the same storm the crew from that would go on t.v.'s base lost one of their team when a jeep rolled down an embankment into a frigid antarctic lake. that was most difficult experience in my career in such moments i start to sing 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 had 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 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 fatal tragedy by a matter of seconds still the southern continent doesn't provide the opportunity to dwell on the difficulties when the key thing is all problems as soon as possible or the opportunity will be lost when there is no immediate response because an avoid actions that me get one of those hurt for example in the airplane engine field we have avoided doing anything that could have gotten any of us hurt in any way so we don't have to airlift anybody else here we have avoided any wrists until another airplane arrives when a system derived from unfortunate necessity which keeps those living and working in the face of danger and safe is possible in antarctica sean thomas. he was called

the father of the revolution and of the highly debated his role in russia's history cannot be underestimated a little later we retrace lands path in moscow. wall street leaders change the course of history and starting off here on red square next to the magnificent moscow kremlin join me most of them roots as we take a look at his epic journey and visit various landmarks associated with his life and damn. well that brings us up to date 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

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hundred forty one these walls were the first barrier from the nazi troops on their way to moscow. sunders rebels were dying one by one under siege the son. was. shot. in the one shoulder an unnamed soldier left a few simple words. very well. i'm dying but i'm not sure. which brightened. the balance from phones to its.

knees for instance on t.v. dot com. welcome back you're watching r t here's a look at the top stories the u.s. congress rebukes president obama military intervention in libya by refusing to authorize it but lawmakers stopped short of cutting off funding for the campaign but. the former finance minister and hosni mubarak's ousted egyptian government has reportedly found shelter in britain the spied being convicted of investment back at home and there is growing anger among egyptians over a london stance which has afforded the revolution overthrowing the old regime. and more and more israelis are lining up to immigrate opting for. the e.u.

or america they accuse the government of failing to make their country a safe place. richard a lame the long term mayor of chicago has helped turn a city once in decline into an attractive cosmopolitan urban hub algor enough finds out if he has some special advice from moscow spotlight is coming right up. hello again and welcome to spotlight they enter the show. alvin hall then today my guest is richard daley. the longest serving mayor of chicago has left office to twenty two years and the trip he managed to turn the declining addressed city into a distillation city pushed through immigration reform and masterfully dealt with

racism issues winning support of the black chicago these problems are characteristic for many big cities so what advice does the experience have for moscow my guest today is a veteran u.s. political war horse and the longest serving mayor of chicago richard daley. richard daley is the patriarch of a very influential political family often compared to the kennedys he was billed as the best mayor out of the five largest cities are you asked for making chicago more issuing business friendly city richard daley belongs to the democratic party he supported barack obama during the presidential campaign three years ago his younger brother william the current white house chief of staff. thank you very much all the thank you very much a pleasure having you be here right.