the u.s. congress votes against president obama's policy of military intervention in libya but stopped short of holding funds for the operation. the back of the revolution so why are they sheltering mubarak's cronies the u.k. is under fire as a top official one of an agent for fraud as we poured in we're living in london. and heading for the exit the growing number of israelis for leaving your country accusing authorities of failing to bring peace to the promised land.

financial news live from moscow watching our t.v. was marina joshie welcome to the u.s. congress has refused to grant president obama's sorties to continue the military campaign in libya botts the very same lawmakers have turned down a motion to cut funding for the american action in a country the votes are being seen as a largely symbolic as the white house says it doesn't need congressional approval for the mission artie's guidance to count 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 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 yet knowing that this numbers 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 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 us 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 u.s. involvement in leap year and the majority of lawmakers again so they 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 u.s. involvement in libya there's 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 quite sharp 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. then it should count there and 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 perspective i have is why didn't the president come to congress and the issue is obviously once a war starts we're in the middle of supporting nato and its whole operation it's much harder caracal 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 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 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 or a straight affair we're not losing soldiers who are getting sick and tired of war for a fan of finance minister in a hostile bartz 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 cairo court parties or an it looks of why the u.k. sheltering senior figures from the regime at the same time as a publicly backs the arab spring. when egypt erupted into violence at the start of the year the u.k.

with 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 grants. because it is a long time now that the british government be allowing people running oil not just from egypt from all over the world used to trust goalie is just one former finance minister instead of beginning a thirty year prison sentence for embezzle months 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 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 to get fugitives from justice in this country that would like to press him to govern here today exactly we do have a very strong tradition in this country of holding international law and i want to see that continue right when the current government can elect that you too 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. but is there we 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 can get to remain with your money in newquay if your money. it is real meanwhile in egypt people aren't surprised

englands they say is when corrupt middle eastern officials go to high she's not a stranger to the west is very much one of the west's men in egypt or was one of the worst men in egypt so that he's found refuge in london is not surprising to anybody the chips in diaspora in the u.k. is familiar troll ten kids here in london community to say that people assume i'm great that's no guarantee took ali will save face and the way he remains the more they pay lousy big cues that hypocrisy such exist court for the middle east and pro-democracy movement well paid very close to the old great crazy you were at a coffee mug. well there's plenty more still to come on the program here's a quick taste of what's ahead why some euro skeptics think the european currency has no future and have decided to bury it quiet literally. plus look at what it

takes to work and survive in antarctica one of the most dangerous environments on the planet. after conquering the world of business one of russia's richest man may help robber of his set asides on politics has been elected the leader of the right cause political party known to be and today was the country's business elite a billion or says he's goal was to take second place in december's parliamentary elections after the ruling united russia party profs future fortune is estimated at eighteen billion dollars he's thirty second on the forbes list ows the new jersey nets basketball team is also considered russia's most eligible bachelor. it's a state created for millions of jewish people from all over the world to call their home but now a growing numbers of israelis are lining up to leave fears over security mean many are opting for edu or american citizenship to meet their expectations of

a promised land policy or as a story. rachel shites has no reason to like germany she was born a before the second world war and within six years have been expelled and most of her family killed but the irony is she now wants a german passport. 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 fifty thousand israelis have applied for european 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 it's really. because these are rules established to become a show. in. europe because the show. this is my faith 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 u.s.

and not 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. and i would never give them a canadian and i probably would give up my very the american i wouldn't give up because i have family. i want to go to go there any time british passport or your password 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 because of the 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 into 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 as leading israeli journalist gideon levy that people are tired of

living in a war zone. releasing its own creating all the. fear from the income against anything and the payoff is a population that feels unsafe with one eye on europe. damn 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 wide berth for you if you can go. can help you move out of danger zone then you do it every year more choose leave as well for europe and the states then the other way around one in five or so if you choose has a really returned home and with no israeli palestinian peace talks on the horizon

and growing israeli insecurity about the arab demonstrations on the doorstep this so-called insurance passport is unlikely to lose popularity any time soon princely or r t television as the us 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 but not fast enough for anti-war activist artie's military contributor says despite staying in the country for ten years conventional u.s. war tactics of yielded few tangible results. if anybody was impressed by brock obama's speech regarding the tempo and scale of u.s. forces is drole 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 at for hanchen regarding there we action from the u.s. military and from afghan vox populi as far as the military effort hanchen is concerned it was mostly limited only to armchair commandos and the u.s. secretary of defense robert gates infective the admiral michael mullen opinion represents the bunker mentality and conventional wisdom conventional groupthink the only part of the us 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 of us uphill battle you know afghanistan it turns out that ninety percent of the failure comes to the conventional forces the conventional thinking. we're watching our t.v.

to greece now where people are facing tax rises and fresh cuts to services as calling politicians to support slashing spending if they want more rescue cash to be handed over the governments will vote on a proposed twenty eight billion euro budget cut over five years next week if approved it will need a second bailout of twelve billion euro and the mine will save the country from defaulting on its debts an option the prime minister has repeatedly ruled out may argue that attempts to rescue greece are too little too late and that afterwards you know nick failure would leave the eurozone dream in tatters i guess waiting list of skeptics who will win if you are standing there. this is a funeral procession in the center of brussels 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 getting 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 conditions in order for the country to receive the remainder of its be allowed 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 know mostly wrong again. they'd 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 side 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. read english glory boarding there and 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 report have already been part since the beginning of the year and there's hardly much sympathy for wall street i flyers among ordinary americans but as financial journalist carter watched all 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 but 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 i thought it was the numbers keep coming out suggesting that jobs on growing across various sectors and i think that if there's not money being made on main street that usually kind of affects crime and the financial sector as well and if you're not making money trading then these banks can keep the bankers on. i was business insider carter watched all sharing her opinion on america's stuttering financial plight but what are people in the streets think about these problems the resident talk show host laurie harshness 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 have you felt the fact that the bad economy need a better job this economy has not given you

a better job yet as 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 only vicious cycle is really bad but i'm happy because brazil is growing like for me is good so is that kind of the way to those 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 from us are i'm actually in the military so i do not feel that at all that's the only per annum one perk my job i think in steady paycheck 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 is. bad but we have to come back even more so we can take 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 come back 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 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 on 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 the their expectations of. living standards i think we all had to go down whether or not you've been personally affected the bottom line is the global economy apparently continues to soft lads.

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to. jump to your social altie obligation to join a phone call charge from the choose option. which all she logged on the go. video on demand on she's my old goals. and omissions for you now in the palm of your. question on the call she told cong. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world now at least fifty people have been killed east of the afghan capital after a suicide car bomb blast outside a medical clinic forty five others are reported injured and some are in critical condition it's thought that a clinic in a low guard province treats mainly women and children these sold comes after u.s.

president barack obama announced a partial troop pullout from afghanistan. in lebanon the leader of his boss says the group has captured three spies among its low level members its claims 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 a country has dismissed the militant group's claims as empty accusations. new york lawmakers have voted to legalize same sex marriage the vision sent hundreds of people to the streets to celebrate what they described as a victory for civil rights group has become the six american state where gay couples are officially allowed to marry and have families comes after president obama encourage lawmakers to support the rights of sexual minorities. 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 mascot for its crackdown on protesters for more syrian companies and seven new individuals were added to the blacklist taught by president bush and his brother. it has one of the most unpredictable climates in the world but for people who go to antarctica and they evolve science dealing with environmental extremes is a daily reality and the latest in a series of special reports are to shine 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 thirty thirty. years rolling around he had to. get in between us. but we're rolling around because i am trying to make

a good rider you can get us 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 it's pretty hard to get here and good equipment to get here sophisticated equipment so. one challenge is to try to make your break science was a very small amount of. hours and for weather conditions. considered one of the most famous on the planet and because of this operating down here. it can be downright deadly during the same storm the crew from that would lie on t.v.'s base lost one of their team when a jeep wall down an embankment into a frigid antarctic lake. that was most difficult experience of my career in such

moments i start to think that god just wants us 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 happens we didn't even have time to make a start 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. 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 by a matter of seconds still the southern continent doesn't provide the opportunity to dwell on the difficulties. under the key things that all problems as soon as possible or the opportunity will be lost when there is no immediate response to

precautions and avoid actions let me get one of those hurt for example when the airplane engine fields we have already doing anything can you gotten any of those hurt in any way so we don't have to hear that anybody else here we have void in your wrists until another airplane arrives when we need a system derived from unfortunate necessity which keeps those living and working in the face of danger and safe as possible in antarctica sean thomas. i get i always get asked for videos and read more about shah's adventures in all corners of the world on his blog and that's on our website r.t. dot com. more than a month. in one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is antarctica and people have to be aware that they are far away from civilization sean told his discovers what makes antarctica so special and attractive from the wildlife in antarctica is. an.

expedition to the bottom of the earth. well you was called the father of our street revolution and though highly debated his role in russia's history cannot be underestimated a little later we retrace lands past in moscow. or st leaders change the course of the straits of starting off here on red square next to the magnificence of moscow from the journey marta boundaries as we take a look at his epic journey and visit various landmarks associated with his life and death. almost god is here in around five minutes time station for that before the ad there

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nine hundred forty one these walls were the first barrier for the nazi troops on their way to moscow and. cutters and restless were dying one by one under ceaselessly. water. pillows. in the last shelter an unnamed soldier left a few simple words farewell mother i'm dying i'm not surrendering. an invitation clustering disinterest curious what you see as gravel missionary.