just after two pm on sunday here in moscow you with artsy research well 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 symbolic as the white house says it doesn't need congressional approval for the mission. has more from washington. 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 he came to voting on cutting funds for that war the majority voted no so some annalise see elements of the show in the behavior of the u.s. 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 it lasts more than three months and involves many civilian deaths earlier this month the congressman had a chance to send an even stronger message that house debated a resolution from congressman dennis kucinich that calls for an immediate end to the u.s. involvement in leap year and the majority of lawmakers again though they know that proposal nevertheless the lawmakers don't like being ignored but even those who truly want 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 ignored 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 made 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 is fear that certain in nair shit develops in a public perception with regards to the war in libya inertia which some say could be very dangerous. as a gun edge can write the now head of the u.s. center for constitutional rights michael ratner says that 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 it's all operation it's much harder to come across them 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 principally a legal issue 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 memory despite the fact we're not losing soldiers you know i'm getting sick and tired of war. you with now the former finance minister and hosni mubarak's ousted egyptian government has reportedly found a safe haven in the u.k. despite the fact that he's been sentenced in absentia thirty years in jail by a cairo court for corruption profiteering and abusing state sets. but looks at why the u.k. is sheltering senior figures from the regime at the same time as it 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 wanted. 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 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 p. andris 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 that's been extorted from egypt and other. arab countries but also against fugitives from justice in this country while still pressing to govern here today but secondly we do have a very strong tradition in this country of upholding international law and i want to see that continue i don't want to be the current government to neglect that you too many think they're already negligent in 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. what is going to be would not have approved them 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 the u.k. if your money. is. meanwhile in egypt people aren't surprised england they

say is where corrupt middle eastern officials go to hide she's not a stranger to the west very much one of the west's 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 a million strong tendency here in london to community leaders say that people assume i agree there's no guarantee be dolly will stay safe here and it will be remain a lousy excuse to crissy support for the middle east and did not let me. bring to the great great sea nor am a tower. and others are plenty more still to come in the program here in our quick taste of what's ahead for you and america's strategy in afghanistan weeks why of iraq obama's withdrawal plans are dividing opinion both within and beyond the country's borders. plus

a look at what it takes to work and survive in. one of the most dangerous environments on the planet. after conquering the world of business one of russia's richest men in the hot off has set asides on politics he's become the leader of the right course political party known to be in tune with the country's business elite the billionaire says his goal is to take second place in december's parliamentary elections after the ruling united russia party. of fortune is estimated at about eighteen billion dollars he's a thirty second on the forbes list and the new jersey nets basketball team in an interview with the businessman explains what's taken him into politics. i'm not the kind of person who tends to dream or plunges into illusion we have particular goals to get into russia's lower house of parliament with the maximum number of votes but i also understand is that i could be a good prime minister if the party successful i would fight for this position. all

right r.t. is coming to you live from moscow it is 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 the e.u. or american citizenship to meet their expectations of a promised land. as 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 it's really. the story because he is or was a stubborn to become a shelter for the jewish people now europe becomes the shell of the. best of my faith the american 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 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 i have canadian israeli and i would never give up my canadian and i probably would give up my israeli the american i wouldn't give up because i have family there and i want to be out 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 big off of the

suicide bombings when 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 is leading israeli journalist gideon levy that people are tired of living in a war zone. basing its leadership on creating all the. frying . against anything and the payoff is a population that feels unsafe with one eye on europe. 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 the fate of the draw in world war two. the one who are favored were the ones who got the wide world for

their leisure. if you're going to go out. that can help you move out of danger zone then you do it every year more jews leave israel for europe and the states then the other way around one in five of soviet jews has already 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 points leader r t television. at least twenty five people have been killed in eastern afghanistan after a suicide car bomb blasted outside a medical clinic dozens more were injured with some in critical condition this comes just after barack obama announced a partial troop withdrawal from afghanistan but not everyone is happy with the president's plan as artie's military contributor says despite staying in the

country for ten years conventional u.s. water. few tangible results. if anybody was impressed by a barrage of bomb a speech regarding the tempo and scale of u.s. forces draw 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 very action from the u.s. military and from walks popularly as far as the military is concerned it was mostly limited only to armchair commandos stand 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 group

think only a part of the u.s. military and intelligence community 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. just running quarter past the hour now here in moscow you with us check out some other international news for you this hour in lebanon hezbollah says the group has captured three spies among its members but it's claimed two of them were recruited by the cia the agents were all considered a serious threat to the movement the u.s. embassy in the country has dismissed the militant group's claims as quote empty accusations. new york lawmakers have voted to legalize same sex marriage the decision we sent hundreds of people to celebrate what i described as

a victory for civil rights new york city americans to come. are officially allowed to have. comes after president obama encouraged lawmakers to support the rights of sexual minorities. thousands of anti-government protesters have marched across syria with twenty people killed in separate cities after security forces fired on syrian state t.v. says an identified government were responsible for some of the deaths this comes as the e.u. has introduced fresh sanctions against damascus for its crackdown on protesters thousands of people have fled to neighboring lebanon turkey to escape the violence . now in the u.s. by because of being laid off in huge numbers almost twelve thousand jobs have already been cut since the beginning of the year there's hardly much sympathy for wall street high flyers among ordinary americans but as a financial journalist cut your watch told explains they should be concerned as it

hits a new low for the u.s. economy. i think of 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 they 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 they thought it was the 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 effects finance the financial sector as well and if you're not making money trading then these banks can keep the bankers on. a no that was a business insider cut your watch told are showing her opinion on america's stuttering financial plight but what do people in the streets think about these problems the residents of talk show host laurie 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 facts of a bad economy need a better job this economy's not get me a better job here does i try to go to college and i can because car my car gas is all expensive at school so expensive so it's money 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 some countries are hurting other countries can prosper more yeah greece is looking bad spain is looking bad but 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 of our

system one perk 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 to cut back or we had to cut back even more would show we could take cruises to come to new york this. crucial british 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're having a comeback 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 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 reach country have to lower their their expectations of. the living standard i think we all

have to go down whether or not even personally impacted the bottom line at the global economy apparently continues to. twenty minutes past the hour now here in moscow let's get back to one of our top stories now one of russia's richest men. has become the leader of a political party with big ambitions for the parliamentary elections later this year let's get more now from our teacher got pissed off it was standing by live for us and. what is likely to mean do you think strong opposition has finally come to russia. well it's actually interesting that. during his speech the meaning of the party of the. deed party he said that it is not wise anymore to use the term opposition because the way things have been working out in russia in

the political life is that according to me the word opposition is not respected anymore or more people he says that this term is usually referred to marginal groups of people who are trying to protest the political regime but not are not strong enough to actually become a proper rival for the leading political parties he says the deed political party which he now heads has a plan to create a whole new political system in the country he's currently. it's united russia party which holds the monopoly over the political life in the country and thinks this is no way to hold politics in a democratic system that's why a second party at least a second party is needed to balance the political life in the country and says

that their party. has the resources and the potential to become the second force in the country now you got a. name for himself as a successful businessman you spoke to him after the party's meeting today what did he tell you about his expectations from a political career. we were able to me to sort of after his speech at the party's meeting here and he said he would never go through with this and start going through this if he was not sure and his own potential in his resources and in the idea that he would be supported by ordinary people in russia and to the party would be supported by ordinary people as well in fact me says that the party has exact goals which are to get into parliament and during the next parliament paul in russia and perhaps even

get the leading spot becoming at least the second most powerful political force perhaps the biggest powerful political force in the country when i asked him if he perhaps was planning to run for president in the future he said it was too soon to talk about that but perhaps he can picture himself on the seat of the prime minister let's listen to what he said. i'm not the kind of person who turns a dream or plunges into illusions we have particular goals to get into russia's lower house of parliament with the maximum number of votes but i also understand is that i could be a good prime minister if the party successful i would fight for this position. let's face it is quite a colorful figure talk about starting from his height which is over two metres high

and two very successful business story here is why. in russia and in the world he's known to be quite keen off's. a lot of hobbies. from jet skis to martial arts he does all the new jersey nets basketball team in the united states so a very successful result is shown by this man in whatever he does including this latest project in the autumn while industry the your mobile which is his latest development in this sense which is not yet being produced but there are already orders for five or even ten years ahead this is according to me and he says. he should be supported by the population of russia because of this party stands for innovation for a modernization and for building

a democracy in the country and for improving the current political regime could make for interesting times for the two thousand and twelve elections europe is going to live in moscow thank you. well i don't forget to check out r.t. online we have a lot more news and eye catching videos on our website has was lined up for you right now. dot com al qaeda by any other name correspondents found in bin laden's compound reveals the top terrorist was planning to rebranding his organization admitting to losing a p.r. war with the west. and a winter fairy tale in the middle of summer moscow prague creates a frosty fun for those who miss the skiing and snowball fights if you're tired of the summer heat head over to see dot com. well it has one of the most unpredictable climates in the world but for people who

go to antartica in the name of science dealing with environmental issue. dreams is a daily reality and in the rather the latest of his series of special reports 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 pretty bad it was. thirty to thirty. so it was rolling around a bit you had to put the. kids. in this in between us. so we're rolling around. trying to make very good writer. 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 is pretty hard to get here good

equipment to get here sophisticated equipment so. one challenge is to try to make your big science was a very small amount of equipment because of the hearts and extreme 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 little guy on t.v.'s base lost one of their team when a jeep will down an embankment into a frigid antarctic lake. it was most difficult experience in my career in such moments i start to think that good just once was 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 but 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 shien's and avoid actions that me get when i was 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 of 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 as possible in antarctica sean thomas hardy. now you can always get extra videos and i'll read more about sean's adventures in all corners of the world on his blog of course on our website at all at sea dot com. more than a month. in one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is and charge and people have to be aware that they're far away from civilization sean paul is discovers for makes antarctica so special and attractive for many the wildlife in antarctica is the bows and frontal. expedition to the bottom of the earth. all right actually moscow out seem retraces the steps of the father of the bolshevik revolution in the russian capital but before about though i'll be about to remind you about top

stories at this hour do stay with us. is easy.

to. see. it's two in the afternoon here in moscow welcome to our to the main stories now one of russia's richest men. has become the high profile new leader of a political party the billionaire is targeting second place in december's parliamentary elections and is even hoping to become prime minister if his party is successful in. the u.s. congress rebukes a president obama's a military intervention in libya by refusing to authorize it but.