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this is the first time since the second world war that the japanese people have no trust in the government. as the country's authorities launched massive radiation checkups three months after the focus 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 ado to depart from greece and 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 expected to grow 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 and more from the forum in about twenty minutes.

this is our t.v. coming to you live from moscow marina joshie 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 has already shown thomas reports confusion over a where safe and we're isn't seeing many lose trust in the authorities. in a culture that is generally non-confrontational and obedient windows and to the streets of tokyo against nuclear energy it is a serious sign of discontent that 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 have no trust in the government. coastal city devastated by the earthquake the 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 for city hall city they said different things. they said different things and the government they said different things. they end up together or. 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 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 take it here. or ideation level and then breeze in when you take water you always feel half different values because it's so close and it's so changing so you can hardly say but it's really exceeds what a normal person would have by year one of the frightening things about this entire incident is that there are no concrete boundaries that can clearly guarantee your

safety one example is this looks like a beautiful lush green valley behind me but in fact this is the very head of the twenty kilometer exclusion value that the government has set up in fact we tried to get a little bit closer but were escorted out by a police officer and a top. 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 understanding that people who live in the affected areas don't 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 worked out a deal to help each other and that the media has been bought off the t.v. channels need the money from advertisement and the nuclear energy companies pay a lot with at this money they cannot survive and for that reason i have to shut up about the 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. the japanese government is pushing people to get back to normal life without creating safe enough conditions for it and that's a 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 but it's only one of disturbing because on one hundred you see the japanese are three people and the society to be back to normal

kind of. work again kids go to the schools farmers start to actually plant bigger fields because it's a growing season and yet at the same time there are still extremely high. and the complement nation of both in the soil but also potentially in the food this is three months after the accident started but the japanese these japanese are three to six really be we could hold information they don't know people the tools and they don't provide any kind of support. 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 protégé of managed to flee the country before the scandal unfolded last summer it led to ten agents including on a chaplain being arrested and swapped for four u.s. spies are just 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 or panel has been labeled top secret and is classified information regarding matters of the state so not a lot of the information 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 the unregistered foreign agent actually recognized on the bikes and picked him out of the photo a warning that we also know that the next on the right say of 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 that units are reporting there from moscow so do stay with r.t. for all the updates on the spy saugus soon as we get them. a flotilla carrying humanitarian aid bound for gaza is set 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 ten years or for more details we now cross to our polls we are who is in tel aviv paul what else do we know about this mission so far. well the mission has been

called freedom 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 really 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 parties are not allowing you to leave and in a statement that was read out by passengers aboard that ship they accuse the united states of using my bridge of sighs with i image to put pressure on af. and smith the stage is seeking economic balance in a separate development the israeli government has warned that any journalists who plan to stay with the tele will be deported from israel and prevented from really entering 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 state is a chilling message to the international media and also that it raises serious

questions over israel's commitment to freedom of speech. well paula last year a similar humanitarian aid attempt a result of in. the activist of the hands of the israelis how will that affect this latest mission. well that first photo was at the end of may last year and at that stage it consisted of six ships they set sail from turkey but that attempt ended in disaster when israeli commando units stormed the lot just off those ships it was a boat that was operated by the i h h that israel considers an extremist organization but which turkey itself is a humanitarian organization and nine passengers nine total physicians 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 sake of 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 option of either docking at the israeli port city of ashdod or at the egyptian city of rishon already congress has indicated that it would assist the ships that plan will in fact decide to sail their radio farda to saying that they need to check the cargo on board and only off to feel satisfied that there are no weapons and no ammunition while they then take a commitment upon themselves to deliver the goods in their entirety to gaza now it is simple. 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 to be israeli soldier corporal gilad shalit is and this past weekend israel's israelis commemorated five years of his of his captivity but since then the citizens of gaza have been unable to receive many basic foodstuffs foodstuffs many eyes in the last to israel has eased destructions but still humanitarian

organizations both inside and outside gaza claim that the situation is deteriorating and they talk about a humanitarian disaster. or a paul thanks very much indeed for this update post your reporting there from tel aviv. to other stories now here in our senior venezuelan officials have denied the country's president hugo chavez has cancer 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 saying he is being treated for a pelvic abscess and that he will return home and around a week author and research things the u.s. is driving the reports in an effort to destabilize chavez's government. what we are seeing the generalized rejean change promoted by the united states britain france

and even newsreel behind the scenes in north africa. as a whole will now be coming very likely to latin america so i would not be surprised to see a wave of us promoting regime change in various countries in latin america from their point of view logical country to start with you going to zoom in a similar has very close ties with iran a growing movement a very strong movement in the united states at a top level to do clear and classified in israel as a quote unquote terrorist state apparently the global power elite operating from the united states and from britain who said on global regime change as the move i believe closer and closer to a more formal world government. well similar talk about the us 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 it only appears to apply to those countries which the u.s.

would like to see 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 democracy 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 wireless cuba the u.s. claims the best of intentions saying it wants to strengthen independence civil society groups in those countries it's just in 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 and 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 participants 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 affectively block websites those double standards. and everybody should be fully aware of things and understand the. us or united states government austrian regime change that's what essentially color of lucian's our technology is not all the us provides to instigate change in certain countries some opposition movements get a direct cash supply for example we can leaks cables show that the state department has for years secretly funded syrian anti-government groups it's done in general to create a world that is more aligned more specifically more controlled really

aligned 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 possess a 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. does they're 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 their eight years. and be consistent with. agents of the u.s. government even if they don't necessarily think it's worth doing ganesh check n r 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 withdraw from afghanistan i'll bring you expert opinion what legacy the americans are leaving behind. now it's a case that aroused international intrigue and domestic scandal and 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 colleague sergei magnitsky who controversially died in a pretrial detention center in two thousand and nine well let's cross live now tell corresponding or piston up some more details on this week or so the case is reportedly now to be closed why is that. while this is quite a high profile case william browder is the c.e.o. of the over a large four investment fund the hermitage capital

a group when he was personally suspected of being a part of this huge massive tax evasion scheme quoting to the officials so it cost to the the state billions off rubles we're talking about tens of millions of dollars which the authorities were saying i should have been paid to the you state budget but now william broad is name has been taken off the wanted list in russia and this case has been taken from the group of the investigators 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 it nearing its expiration date so it can be closed in the near future secondly there is speculation that this way the authorities want to provide a more thorough. 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 he couldn't meet d.d.'s personal supervision all for the case of city monies ski and the circumstances of his death he's 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 out for the people having been following the story tell us why has it been in the spotlight both in russia and abroad for so long. it was pretty much just a game of needs to his death or that put this case in the spotlight it did cause a huge reaction both in russia and among the international community because the circumstances of michael's to his death are still unclear president reagan made the

order that a separate investigation was held looking into the circumstances of how all of this could have happened and to this man died in prison before having been found guilty or not guilty and if the authorities were accusing said give michael steele being the mastermind behind this huge scheme he himself was saying that he in fact managed to reveal that 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 where this going to. well let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world that we are following for here in r.t.m. the french city of 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 you brought in the u.k. the bog killed forty four all but one in germany and made over three thousand people sick across europe. a trial has opened in cambodia former leaders on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity for the fans are believed to be responsible for the deaths of up to two million people joining their four year rule in the nineteen seventies the regime was trying to create a utopian society but people die from starvation disease and overwork last year the former khmer 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 and get a crucial believes that america should be waging an anti drug war rather than a war on terror in afghanistan. during his speech related to the u.s. forces or a configuration in afghanistan which was supposed to cover the old or new policy you know again mr. president obama has never ever mention he's conserved or demonstrated his understanding of it when it comes to ghana stands for the real threat doesn't come from the right card or its associated but it has everything to do we have the terrorism the us the legacy in their view. and a stance will be mostly measured by the fact that it was due to the u.s. and nato occupation bit again a stand has been turned into

a narco state and the local insurgency has spread out into international narco terrorism unfortunately john kerry kolsky who is the us president dr good visor was not involved in reviewing all 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 to integrate both approaches comprehensive counter narco terrorism strategy. and log on to our t galleries on 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 up today time

now for the business news with us shortly. hello and a very warm welcome to our business update russia needs to diversify its economy us oil production is not expected to grow in the next decade finance minister alex a cauldron the key challenge is to create an environment for norm energy sectors to develop. this with us that would mean. the steep crease its role in companies and give way to private investment the government is going to sell most of its shares 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 but no matter how great an oil will still be a big lump of russia's g.d.p. i'm now joined from the forum by our own trimeter danka hello trade which are so. well and gas topping the discussions this first day of the form. well definitely here is one of the key 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 how much 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 so that has also been driving the world price down and to discuss this and other related issues i'm not i'm joined by the 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. of the timing of the surprise thing because the. price of oil is just not that high in real terms and what is more there is no data shortage in the marketplace where plenty of boards that play what they did to put sixty million better but they took that million better than to the market is equivalent to william best buy date which is. not really very significant compared with the could really consumption to around one hundred s. are better but so they put in before you. started to go to is that it should be. only in case of be in crisis if they go on put in oil just to manipulate the market hoping for in the market the way to do. it is counterproductive and as you can observe in the food because how much more sixty million baht is going to put without jeopardizing the rule the real rule of stability in the market in time of

crisis so why don't we give that. something be done to repair the damage they're doing because so far we have an excellent relationship between opec and we'll talk more to talk more with opec and find a way of doing that opec did try to increase production we didn't agree on leaving the level but the other members of the open admission like saudi arabia u.a.e. and kuwait i in a position to put two and a half million betters to market which is equivalent to what they're putting in but we have seen the price actually being very much affected by this initiative 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 demand when things like this happen the market reacts the speculators come in and they start making calculations and the try to to be on the side of caution and with the price goes down but when things that are down in the

alleged victim does happen in the market was to but i don't do is that the price of oil you can't talk about a fixed price nobody tries to fix the price doesn't try to fix the price we talk about everything to believe the range of between eighty and one hundred dollars but it is reasonable both will consume and produce it and as long did the price keeps it reasonable within this limit there is no need for anybody to panic there is plenty of oil it is no shortage of where there is plenty of oil a day in the ground also these capacity available it's limited but it's sufficient to moderate the market in case of really difficult just what do you make of the present day role of the organization of opec doesn't actually have that much influence as it had before can it affect prices. all piggies 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 never never both with juices and convenience and more importantly to make sure that there is plentiful supply for the time being

and the owners hold back a certain quantity of protective capacity and this excess capacity the only organization that has excess capacity to bring this excess capacity into play when it is needed when the president is doing to put a little bit lonely in the preggers pool if he can to be out and put in to be the president. helping him on the international market by leading this mechanism and the only group who can do it all right rwanda look around thank you so much for your time and for your comments i was the former secretary general of talking to business out to be investment forum back to you know. thank you very much for this indeed to. bring us regular updates from a forum for investors in moscow and now we still have time to have those oil prices light sweet is trading at over ninety dollars per barrel while brand has three to one hundred twenty dollars and european stock saw in the registry just gave up for crucial events this weekend.