bringing you the latest in science technology from around rush limbaugh the future coverage. this is the first time since the second world war the japanese people have no trust in the government. as a country's authorities launch massive radiation check ups three months after a difficult human disaster global people are angered by the late response and the lack of transparency. a russian intelligence chief has been found guilty of treason for exposing a group of russian sleeper agents in the u.s. last summer. and israel warns foreign journalists against joining a gaza bound political of view that apart from greece threatens to ban them from entering the country if they get aboard the humanitarian convoy. russia needs to

diversify its economy as oil production is not expect its approach in the next decade that's according to russia's finance minister who made his speech at the investment forum which is underway in moscow move from the for about twenty minutes . this is r.t.d. coming to you live from moscow i'm writing to joshua welcome to the program the japanese government is starting radiation checkups for more than two million people living near the crippled fukushima plant it's part of a long term health monitoring program launched over three months after the nuclear crisis started and is already showing thomas reports confusion over aware safe and were isn't seen many lose trust in the authorities. any culture that is generally non-confrontational and obedient windows in the streets of tokyo against nuclear energy it is a serious sign of just continue after this crisis it is true that the people are

more conscious and we need to take advantage of it this is the first time since the second world war the job. people who have no trust in the government be walking a coastal city devastated by the earthquake of a tsunami and on the edge of the radiation exclusion zone is starting on the long road to recovery but the people living here say the government just isn't doing enough from the thirty hole or like iraq the day they said different things not perfect or they said different things in the government they said different things . the alligator the or stiff part of the country. they are a part but some believe it is too early to tell what the real dangers of the situation or scientists who know that large doses of radiation were given in one blast is a significant health threat but they say there isn't enough information about long term exposure to lower doses of radiation and the types of damage it can do if you

check it here or a radiation level and then you could get breeze and then you take water you always will have different values because it's so close and so changing so you can hardly say but it's really exceeds what a normal person would have by a year one of the frightening things about this entire incident is that there are no concrete boundaries that can clearly bear into your safety one example is this looks like a beautiful rice green valley behind me but in fact this is the very head of a twenty kilometer exclusion zone that the government has set up in fact we try to get a little bit closer but were supported by a police officer and a typo or personal now although this is supposed to be a safe area the radiation levels here are still between seven and ten times higher than normal weather for misinformation or mis understanding the people who live in the affected areas always take the proper precautions here a volunteer works to clean up toxic radioactive hot spots with hardly any protection at all

a problem that some say is compounded by government propaganda accentuating the benefits while neglecting to inform about the dangers of nuclear waste the first thing the government should do is let the citizens know the real cost of nuclear energy until now the priority has been to profit from energy the p.r. machine of the government has been emphasising the benefit of nuclear energy and the citizens have been brainwashed to believe it now in the wake of an international crisis and there are allegations that the government and the power companies have working on a deal to help each other and that the me. has been blown off the t.v. channels need the money from advertisement and the nuclear energy companies pay a lot without this money they cannot survive and for that reason i have to shut up of a bad situation the newspapers have this problem as well a move that if true keeps the important information hidden from the people saving face for those in charge in japan showing thomas or teehee. the japanese government is pushing people to get back to normal life without creating safe enough

conditions for it and that's the view of a greenpeace activist who's part of a team conducting an independent investigation into the fukushima health effects is interviews coming up next hour but here's a quick preview. i actually find it disturbing because on one hundred you see the japanese are three piece forcing people and the society to be back to normal kind of. work again kids go to schools farmers start to actually plants your fields because it's a growing season and yet at the same time there are still extremely high levels of radiation and the contamination of both in the soil but also with ensuring the food this is three months after the accident started the japanese piece japanese authorities are truly information people the tools and they don't provide any kind of support for. the man who blew the cover of a group of russian agents in the u.s. last year has been found guilty of treason by

a moscow court the verdict is being announced in absentia as intelligence colonel alexander party have managed to flee the country before the scandal unfolded last summer it led to ten agents including ana chapman being arrested and swapped for four u.s. spies are discarded as are or has more from moscow. the trial of former colonel alexander accused of betraying his country and abandoning it has of course attracted a lot of media attention but despite all the attention not much information is available because of course every single document in that trial every single shred of evidence presented to the military panel has been labeled top secret and is classified information regarding matters of the state so not a lot of for the formation is available but there are some salient details coming out such as. the fact that anna chapman. one of the alleged spies deported

from the united states found guilty of being a unregistered foreign agent actually recognised objects on the flights here and puts him out of a photo lineup we also know that it's on the cards here who previously was assumed to have sent out his family before leaving the country and so has not done any such thing and in fact the news of his departure was as much a surprise for his wife and family as everybody else he sent a message to his wife when he was already on the way to the states saying mary i hope you understand and forgive me i'm not leaving for a while i'm leaving for ever so big surprise for his wife who did however come to testify on his behalf in the moscow military court judges are reading the verdict as we speak and we are expecting more information on that in the nearest future those units are reporting there from moscow as we do stay with r.t. for all the updates on the spy saugus soon as we get them. after a killer carrying humanitarian aid bound for gaza to depart from greece israel has

already warned that i won't let the convoy reach its destination it also said foreign journalists to take part will be banned from working in israel for years well for more details we now cross to r.t. poetry or who is in tel aviv paul what else do we know about this mission so far. well the mission has been called freedom flotilla two and it consists of ten ships comprising some three hundred and fifty activists from twenty two countries now the plan is for them to set sail from greece later this week but we're already hearing from one of the ships which is an american ship it's been called the american boat to gaza the audacity of hope it complains that the greek will thirty's are not allowing you to leave and in a statement that was read out by passengers onboard that ship they accuse the united states of using the average it has with the i admit to put pressure on athletes with the stage is seeking economic balance in

a separate development the israeli government has warned that any journalists who plan to states with the tele will be deported from israel and prevented from reentering the country for another ten years the foreign press association which is the umbrella body that represents all foreign journalists working here in israel has issued a harsh statement saying that this is a chilling message to the international media and also that it raises serious questions over israel's commitment to freedom of speech. paula last year a similar humanitarian aid attempt a result of in. the activist at the hands of the israelis how will that affect this latest mission. well that's first photo was at the end of may last year and at that stage it consisted of six ships base itself from turkey but that attempt ended in disaster when israeli commando units. told the law just off those ships it was

a boat that was operated by the i h h that is all considered as an extremist organization but which turkey says is a humanitarian organization and nine passengers nine total citizens on board were killed not in an effort to prevent a similar kind of outcome the israeli security cabinet has been holding an emergency meeting today the state of the such meeting in two days it's trying to look at alternative ways of dealing with this for tele but the latest word we have is that it is saying that it will not allow the ships to dock in gaza that they have the options of i will docking at the israeli port city of ashdod. city of our original really carter has indicated that it would assist the ships that plan when decide to sail there is radio party saying that they need to check the cargo on board and only after they all satisfied that there are no weapons and no ammunition will they then take a commitment upon themselves to deliver the goods in the in time would teach gaza now it is important to remember that this blockade that israel has imposed on gaza

has been in place since two thousand and six at that stage extremist elements were inside gaza kidnapped an israeli soldier corporal gilad shalit and this past weekend israel's israeli's commemorated five years of his of his captivity but some say and citizens of gaza have been unable to receive many basic foodstuffs food stuffs and many eyes films in the last two it's all has ease restrictions but still humanitarian organizations both inside and outside gaza claim that the situation is deteriorating and they talk about a humanitarian disaster. or a call thanks very much indeed for this update both for your reporting there from tel aviv. travel stories now here in our t.v. senior venezuelan officials have denied that the country's president obviously has cancer and this comes after a report signing a u.s. intelligence source saying the staunchly anti-american leader is in a critical condition after undergoing. surgery in cuba chavez has been in cuba for

more than two weeks but as well an official say he is being treated for a pelvic abscess and that he will return home in around a week either in research or advance of goods he thinks the u.s. is driving the reports in an effort to destabilize charges government what we are seeing the generalized change promoted by the united states britain france and even israel behind the scenes in north africa in the middle east as a whole will now be coming very likely to latin america so i would not be surprised to see a wave of us promoted regime change in various countries in latin america from their point of view a logical country to start with you going to assume that there's another has very close ties with iran a growing movement a very strong movement within the united states and a cop level to declare and classified as a quote unquote terrorist state but apparently the global power elite operating from the united states and from britain he's said on global regime change as the

move i believe closer and closer to a more formal world government. well similar talk about the u.s. fostering regime change has appeared after the state department announced its new programs aimed at spreading democracy around the world it's going to provide finance and technology to opposition groups but only appears to apply to those countries which the u.s. would like to see your leadership toppled or he's going to take on has more of the u.s. state department now generously hands out cash and technology to dissidents throughout the world its view of him ocracy human rights and labor has announced the request for proposals on how to foster change in a number of countries in the middle east and north africa as well as cuba the u.s. claims the best of intentions saying it wants to strengthen independence civil society groups in those countries it's just been really another form of provoking regime change they're just trying to do it under a different guise under a different facade saying that somehow with the best of intentions they're

promoting democracy but in reality it's just promoting us agenda among other things the state department is financing the creation of stealth wireless networks that would enable activists to communicate outside the reach of governments in countries like iran syria and libya according to participate in the projects other programs include a so-called internet in a suitcase a powerful portable wireless transmitter that activists king used to set up their own networks in order to circumvent state control but at the same time american companies provide authorities in bahrain saudi arabia and kuwait with the technology to effectively block websites those double standards. and the. only way or. another standard. us what the united states government lost during regime change since we told her to knowledge is not all the us provides

to instigate change in certain countries some opposition. movements get a direct cash supply for example week it leaks cables show that the state department has for years secretly funded syrian anti-government groups in general to create a world. war. more specifically more broadly. with the views of the united states i'm now looking at the state department website that promotes grants for those willing to bring about change in communist cuba and here is one of the requirements i'm going to read this it is preferable for these personnel to speak spanish fluently solid understanding of the cultural context and have prior experience on the island in order to maximize their effectiveness in this unique operating environment and of quote sounds very much like recruiting agents but instead of doing it the traditional secretive way the u.s. goes there right out in the open on their website help most often comes with

strings attached many say opposition leaders in libya who now get financial and political support from washington are sure to get instructions on how to return the favor essentially. with. u.s. government even that's necessarily. going to shut down our t. washington d.c. . well we have more on washington's less subtle involvement in other countries later this hour as the u.s. is about to start its troop withdrawal from afghanistan x. part of what legacy the americans are leaving behind. now it's a case that aroused international intrigue and domestic scandal in the latest twist the head of the hermitage capital hedge fund william browder has reportedly been taken off russia's wanted list rather have been accused of tax evasion like his former colleagues their human need ski who controversially died in

a pretrial detention center in two thousand and nine well let's cross law. now i'll tell responding officer no more details on this your son casey is reportedly now to me close why is that. well this is quite a high profile case william browder is the c.e.o. of the over a large for investment fund the hermitage capital group and he was personally suspected of being part of this huge massive tax evasion scheme cording to the officials that cost the state billions of rubles we're talking about tens of millions of dollars which the authorities were saying i should have been paid to the stage budget but now william broad is name has been taken off the wanted list in russia and in this case has been taken from the group all theme vested gaiters have been working on it seems to thousand and seven to a higher police authority you know there are several several reasons possibly for

that the first one is that this case is nearing its expiration date so we can be closed in the near future secondly there is speculation that this way the authorities want to provide a more thorough and object of investigation but there is also an unofficial version which actually has links to the police themselves and that is that this could be connected to our president making the gifts personal supervision all for the case of the city monies he and the circumstances of his death was the lawyer who was hired by william browder and he was actually suspected of being the mastermind behind this alleged gigantic tax evasion scheme but he died in prison while awaiting trial so he wasn't actually ever found guilty of the crimes he was accused of. playing here for the people having been following the story tell us why has it

been in the spotlight both in russia and abroad for so. well it was pretty much a city by the needs to ease death of that port to this case in the spotlight it did cause a huge reaction both in russia and all the international community because the circumstances of my tuesday's death are still unclear president even if they did order that a separate investigation was held looking into the circumstances of how all this could have happened and that this man died in prison before i've even been found guilty or not guilty and if the authorities were accusing city of michael steele being the mastermind behind his huge scheme he himself was saying that he in fact managed to reveal a huge tax evasion scheme which included some police officials and some tax officials as well and this was also backed by the hermitage. fund itself and by

their supporters so it is quite an important case and it's really important to getting to the bottom of this and how it all happened. absolutely adore thanks very much indeed for bringing us the details on to see what is going on there. well let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world that we have fallen for here in r.t.m. the french city our bordeaux has been hit by an e. coli outbreak similar to the one that led to dozens of deaths in germany eight people have been taken to hospital with at least two of them found after eating raw sprouts french authorities say the sprouts were grown from vegetable seeds and brought me in the u.k. in the car i'd bog killed forty four all by one in germany and made it over three thousand people sick across europe. a trial has opened in cambodia former marriage leaders on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity before to fans are believed to be responsible for the deaths of up to two million

people during their four year rule in the nine hundred seventy s. . the regime was trying to create a utopian society but people die from starvation disease and overwork last year the form of their rouge member calmer a dutch was sentenced to thirty five years in prison. some u.s. officials are arguing for more leeway over how the country's combat operations in afghanistan are carried out it's despite president obama's announcement last week of plans to pull out some american troops are his military contributor again a crucial believes that america should be waging and drug war rather than a war on terror in afghanistan. during his speech related to the u.s. forces for a configuration in afghanistan which was supposed to cover very old or new years policy you know again a state. president obama has never ever mention he's concerned or

demonstrated his understanding of it when it comes to afghanistan the real threat doesn't come from that are you card or you associate but it has everything to do we have narco terrorism the us legacy in afghanistan will be mostly measured by the fact that it was due to the us and nato occupation evgeny a stand has been turned into narco state and the local insurgency has spread out into international narco terrorism unfortunately john clearly kolsky who is the us president dr good guys are was not involved in their reviewing of the old and formulating the new us policy in afghanistan and it boils down to crunch approach various counter-narcotics strategy for afghanistan and counterterrorism for pakistan and great both approaches in

a comprehensive counter narco terrorism strategy. and log on to our key galleries in our website for an exclusive set of pictures from afghanistan covering every aspect of life in a war torn country that's at r t v dot com. while i bring this out today time now for business news with us shortly. hello and a verbal welcome to a business update russia needs to diversify its economy as world production is not expected to grow in the next decade finance minister. the key challenge is to

create an environment for normal energy sectors to develop. so that's that would mean should close the state will decrease its role in companies and give way to private investment the government is going to sold most of the chairs and key enterprises in the next three to five years this relates to financial energy telecom and transport sectors. speaking at a forum for investors in moscow no matter how great condition or a will still be a big lump of russia's g.d.p. i'm now joins from the form by our own retributive bank a hollow tree which are so of his stock well i'm cast talking discussions this first day of the four. oh definitely is one of the key top excuse in that we've seen west texas crude actually go down below ninety dollars a barrel so it's been pretty volatile this year definitely and given how much. russia relies on resources and of course on the oil price almost dependent it is

also last week we saw an initiative from the international energy agency to inject an extra sixty million barrels of oil from its reserves the best has also been driving the world price down and to discuss this and other related issues are now i'm joined by one look man he's the former secretary general of opec i want to thank you so much for being with us and so what do you make of this recent initiative has it been a surprise for you. not really because. the timing is the surprise thing because the. price of oil is just not that high in real terms and what is more there is no real short each in the marketplace where plenty of words a place where they do put sixty million barrels a day to fix a million barrels in the into the market is equivalent to million by this budget which is. not really very significant compared with the good deal of consumption go around naked as part of that budget so they're putting these oil away for to the go

to the is that it should be. only in case of be in crisis if they go on putting knowing just manipulate the market hoping for them i could do it again. it is counterproductive and michigan and saving the food because how much more sixty million dollars can they put without jeopardizing their rule their real rule of stability in the market in time of crisis so what i would give that. something be done to repair the damage that it did because so far we have an excellent relationship between i operate and we've talked more into talk more with opec and find it within opec to try to increase production didn't agree on their lives in the level back to adam and within the organization like saudi arabia u.a.e. and kuwait i in a position to put up two and a half million beggars to market which is equivalent to what they're putting in but we have seen the price actually been very much affected by this and this affair has

now gone down as i mentioned before to below ninety dollars per barrel which is almost one year low pretty much what do you make of the current price doesn't really reflect supply and the night when things like this happen the market reacts the speculators coming in to start making completions and the city try to to be on the side of course with the price goes down but when things that are down in the alleged victim has happened in the market was there but i don't do is that the price of oil you can talk about a fixed price nobody tries to fix the price doesn't try to fix the price we talk about that rate to believe a range of between eighty and one hundred dollars a but it is reasonable both of consumers and producers and there's no good the price keeps reasonably within this limit there is no need for anybody to panic that is plenty of oil it is those sort of the way it's going to avoid in the ground zero so there's capacity available it's limited but insufficient to moderate the market in case the grid your difficulties what do you make of the present day role of the

organization of track doesn't actually have that much influence other have before can affect prices. the culprit is not to control the prices or board in the marketplace it is there to help them ordered the price to make sure that you see within reason the level who produces and can do much. more importantly to make sure that it is linked to supply for the time being and the owners hold back a certain quantity of productive capacity and this excess capacity the only organization that has excess capacity to bring business is because if you do play when it is needed then the president is going to put a little bit annoyed when the brokers who will keep going to be out and put into the the president. had to get one hundred international code might get you just making the and that only google can do all right you want to look around thank you so much for your time and for your comments that was the almost like a very general of opec talking to business out to be investment for him back to you

know. thank you very much for this indeed. bring us regular updates from a forum for investors in moscow and now we still have time to have a check on those oil prices light sweet is trading at over ninety dollars per barrel while brand has to make to one hundred twenty dollars contravenes talk saw in the registry just gave up so crucial events this week in the quickstep prices they also wage key economic indicators from around the world investors are looking ahead to u.s. days including personal income and consumption numbers too later in the day that would see on a juxtaposed point four percent. and here in russia the markets are standing also some negative sentiment over creaked at the archdiocese losing around one percent while the my sense is down point three percent let's not have a check on some of the individuals on the my six oil majors on among the main loses pulling the downturn include both look. in the red more than half a percent banking stocks also on the pressure will scare a bank down going to.