this is the first time since the second world war that the japanese people have no

trust in the government of the country's authorities or launch a massive radiation check ups three months after the fukushima disaster local 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 united states last summer and sentenced to twenty five years in prison plus. israel frightens journalists with deportation and their ten year battle for me entering israel if they planted six sales with a. russian spy it's economy is oil production will not grow in the next decade that's according to russia's find its biggest outlets a quitter and made his statement at the investment forum in russia well one thousand discussed at the forum and find out in business in about twenty minutes.

here with r.t. live from moscow where it's now or just after three pm on monday the japanese government is starting a radiation check ups for more than two million people living near the crippled fukushima plant it's part of a long health monitoring program launched over three months after the nuclear crisis started and as sean thomas reports confusion over where is safe and where is and in seeing many lose trust in the authorities. in a culture that is generally non-confrontational and obedient when thousands take to the streets of tokyo against nuclear energy it is a serious sign of discontent if 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 japanese people have no trust in the government a 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 from the city hall iraq city they said different things like perfect or they said different things and the government they said different things. they're not 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 check it out here. or ideation level and then you check debriefs it when you tick water you always feel have 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 edge of the twenty kilometer exclusion zone that the government has set up in fact we're trying to get a little bit closer but were escorted out by a police officer and a tepco of 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 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 shang thomas or teehee. now the japanese government is pushing the people to get back to normal life without creating a safe enough conditions for it that's the view of a greenpeace activist who is part of a team conducting an independent investigation into the fukushima health effects his interview is coming up next hour but here's a quick preview. make sure you find it really what it disturbing because on one

hand you see the japanese are three forcing people and the society to be back to normal kind of sort of work again it's called the squalls virus start to actually plant 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 potentially in the food this is three months after the accident started but the japanese these japanese are thirty sexually be we could hold information they don't know people the tools and they don't provide them with any kind of support. you with are now the man who blew the cover of a group of russian agents in the u.s. last year has been sentenced to twenty five years in absentia for treason and defection the intelligence colonel alexander for managed to flee the country before the scandal unfolded last summer it led to agents of course including chapman being

arrested and swapped for four u.s. spies. has more from moscow. this very high profile case has been deemed top secret and classified so most of the proceedings that took place in moscow's military court were held behind closed doors and every shred of evidence and witness statement that was submitted throughout the course of the trial was also classified and top secret but we do know that except that i see it has been stripped of all of his military ranks and achievements and found guilty of treason and sentenced to twenty five years in prison of course at the moment that really doesn't affect his life that much because of course he's not in russia courting two of the four he's most likely hiding somewhere in the united states and he left for the united states just a little over a year ago and according to information boyce in the court room that was a complete surprise to everybody including his wife she found out that her husband

had deserted her and her family and her country from a text message which he sent to her saying mary i'm sorry i hope you find a way to forgive me this isn't for a while this is forever we know that one of the people whose cover he blew it out of those ten spies and chapman actually recognized the objects on the bikes here and picked them out of a photo lineup saying that this is in fact the man that she met with in the united states according to her statement she felt somewhat uncomfortable after her meeting with him and contacted her superiors in moscow which then confirmed her suspicions but of course by then it was too late and ten people were sent out of the united states being found guilty of being unregistered agents of a foreign government. reporting now a flotilla carrying humanitarian aid bound for gaza to depart from greece israel has already warned that it won't let the calling for reach its destination but also

said that foreign journalists who take part will be banned from working in israel for ten years. more on. the mission has been called freedom of the two and the concept of ten ships comprising some three hundred and thirty 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 that's been called the american boat to gaza the audacity of hope it complains that the greek authorities 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 leverage it has with i image to put pressure on athens with the stage is seeking economic balance in a separate development the israeli government has warned that any journalist who planned to set sail with the tele will be deported from israel and prevented from reentering the country for another ten years that first photo was at the end of may

last year and at that stage the consisted of six base itself from turkey but that attempt in disaster when israeli commando units stormed the lot just off those ships was a boat that was operated by the i h h that israel considers an extremist organization but which turkey says is a humanitarian organization and nine passengers nine turkish citizens on board were killed 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 the latest word we have is that it is saying that it will not allow the ships to dock in gaza but they have the option of either docking at the israeli port city of ashdod or at the egyptian city of richmond already carter has indicated that it would assist the ships that plan will in fact decide to sell 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 the entire. to 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 but since then the citizens of gaza have been unable to receive many basic foodstuffs many i sins in the last israel has eased the strict sense but still humanitarian organizations both inside and outside gaza claim that the situation is deteriorating and they talk about a humanitarian disaster. live reporting right now at ten minutes past the hour here in moscow and senior venezuelan officials deny that the country's president hugo chavez has cancer this comes after a report citing 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 one as well and officials say he's being treated for a pelvic abscess and that he will return home in around

a week or. two things that the u.s. is driving the reports in an effort to destabilize chavez's government. what we are seeing the generalized 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 way of us promoting regime change in various countries in latin america from their point of view a logical country to start with in israel has very close ties with iran a growing movement a very strong movement blue united states out of kabul to do clear and classified as a quote unquote terrorist state apparently the global power elite operating from the united states and from britain said on global regime change as the move i believe closer and closer to a more formal world government. while

a 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 just of course support to opposition groups but only appears to apply to those countries which the u.s. would like to see the leadership toppled guy in a chicken house more on this. the u.s. state department now generously hands out cash and technology to dissidents throughout the world its bureau 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 well as cuba the u.s. claims the best of intentions saying it wants to strengthen independent 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 the u.s.

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 project's other programs include a so-called internet in a suitcase a powerful portable wireless transmitter that activists can use 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 affective lee block websites those double standards system everybody should be fully aware of things and understand the. us or united states governments austrian regime change that's what essentially a revolution is 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 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 their 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. and up the system with. agents of the u.s. government even if they don't necessarily. get a check on r.t.e. washington d.c. . well we have more on washington's and less subtle involvement in other countries later this hour here on r.t. as the u.s. is about to start its troop withdrawal from afghanistan we bring you expert opinion on what legacy the americans and leaving behind. it's a case that surrounds international intrigue and domestic scandal now in the latest twist the head of the hermitage capital hedge fund william browder has reportedly been taken off russia's wanted list prada had been accused of tax evasion like his former colleague sort of magnitsky whose death in a pretrial detention center two years ago spot

a global controversy parties you go to prison office more. this is quite a high profile case william browder is the c.e.o. of over a large for investment fund the hermitage capital and he was personally suspected of being part of this huge tax evasion scheme we're talking about tens of millions of dollars which the authorities were saying i should have been paid to the state budget but now william brought his name has been taken off the wanted list in russia and this case has been taken from the group of the investigators who've 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 high expiration date so we can be closed in the near future secondly there is speculation that this way the authorities wanted to provide a more thorough and objective investigation but there is also an unofficial version

that this could be connected to president meeting with d.d.'s personal supervision all for the case of game of a nice ski and the circumstances off his death was the lawyer who was hired by william browder and he was actually suspected of being the mastermind behind this a waged gigantic tax evasion scheme he himself was saying that he fact managed to reveal a huge tax evasion scheme which included some police officials and some tax officials as well but he died in prison while awaiting trial so he wasn't actually ever found guilty of the crimes he was accused of. going to scoff boarding there where you are with r.t. live from moscow check out some other international news for you this hour two explosions have reported in the libyan capital close to colonel gadhafi his compound that's as the nato operation in the country has ended its one hundredth day with fresh air strikes heavy fighting between his forces and rebels is also

a. away some eighty kilometers from tripoli meanwhile the international criminal court in the hague is to decide whether to issue arrest warrants for gadhafi and his closest allies for alleged crimes against humanity they're accused of opening fire on demonstrators during the crackdown on anti-government protesters in february. the french city of bordeaux has been hit by an eco lie 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 in all of the eating sprouts french authorities say the sprouts was grown from seeds brought in from the u.k. . killed forty four all but one in germany made over three thousand people across europe. a trial has opened in cambodia of former commander rouge leaders on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity the four defendants are believed to be responsible for the deaths of up to two million people during the four year rule in

the one nine hundred seventy s. the regime was trying to create a utopian society but people died from starvation disease and overwork last year the former commander remember comrade was sentenced to thirty five years in prison . well are some u.s. officials are arguing for more leeway over how the country's combat operations in afghanistan are carried out despite president obama's announcement last week of plans to pull out some american troops but artie's a military contributor believes that america's legacy in afghanistan will be that of spreading narco terrorism. during his speech related to the u.s. forces or a configuration in afghanistan president obama has never mentioned his concern or demonstrated his understanding that when it comes to afghanistan the real threat doesn't come from the or its 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 bit afghanistan has been turned into a narco state unfortunately jill carroll called skee who is the us president drug advisor was not involved in formulating the new policy in afghanistan and it boils down to two pronged approach counter-narcotics strategy for afghanistan and counterterrorism for pakistan and integrate both approaches in comprehensive counter terrorism strategy. out of twenty past the hour now here in moscow i'll be back in just a few minutes to update you on our main stories but it's. more than i can stop its knees.

hello time for your business update a variable welcome russia needs to diversify its economy as oil production is not expected to grow in the next decade to find its biggest alexa could dream such as the key challenge is to create an environment for non energy set to develop has been speaking at a forum for investors moscow but no matter how great the ambition or oil will still be a big lump of russia's g.d.p. i'm not joined from the four by i'll go into mr medvedev hello to you richard good to see you so this is the fifteen such contra's how has the idea of investing into russia changed. well actually that's a good question i'm going to really really address it to our guests that steven jennings the c.e.o.

of the nation's capital one of the organizers of the of this forum basically so stephen you've been investing in russia for twenty years now how has it changed investing in the russian bossley and beyond all recognition obviously twenty years ago there was no market there was literally no market no infrastructure no capital market no private sector company to try to change has been virus but i think the point is every every phase of russia has helped perform relative to expectations and if we look backwards of the kind of returns you know russia has been the highest returning significant market in the world by the last ten years so one of the perplexing things is this is a perpetual somewhat negative attitude from the west towards russia but if you look exposed the results have been very favorable over a long period of time well right now recovery has somewhat slowed down we're seeing capital flows out of russia is now a good time to invest into the country it's a very interesting time valuations a lot. with. pakistan which is obviously absurd. but i think interesting

lead is a huge recognition and we heard that today from the advisor to the president we've heard it from the minister finance is a huge recognition that russia desperately needs certain policy changes so i think . in the presidential election the chance of a burst of performance is quite high so are investors right now really looking forward to this election as to what will happen what do you expect you'll think investors are a little confused i think probably they are again underestimating the likelihood of change again it's a syndrome we've had here for twenty years i think russia will follow through with this privatization program i wouldn't be surprised if it's bigger and bolder i think these other areas of reform in the fiscal side for example the development of the moscow financial center where russia will make a lot of progress in the next few years and i don't think investors a fully parsing that into the study of where would you advise to invest in russia actually right now i think there's opportunities across the board is opportunities for efficiencies games and consolidation in the resource sector this structural

growth opportunities and all the new industries financial services retail consumer they're all subscale relative the size of the economy so you see structural growth so is this growth opportunities modernize our modernization opportunity across the board. just a final question if we look outside of russia where do you see kind of the new emerging markets coming from the new brics in the last frontier is obviously africa africa is the second fastest growing region in the world behind asia today we said five or six years ago become the fastest growing region in the world. now agrees with that forecast so you've got very low valuations you're starting from a lyric very low base high growth so it's something that can be appealing for the next several decades all right stephen jennings c.e.o. of races capital talking to business outing at the nation's capital investment for the fifteenth floor here back to you thank you very much for this indeed argues

much for the sake of bring us regular updates and investment forum in moscow moving on down to russia's biggest airline are full it is the latest company to be shuttled for privatization the announcement came. finance minister up there were nation's capital in fact he says the sale will take place within the next three to five years russia stage owns around off the company and the size of the stake to be privatized is unclear the russian government is going to sell a number of assets in the near future in order to raise up to twenty five billion dollars. time for a check on the markets like it's redistributing it over ninety dollars a barrel while grantees hovering at one hundred four dollars. the european stocks are fluctuating between gains and losses as traders gear up for crucial events this week in the greek debt crisis they also way to key economic indicators from around the world investors are looking ahead to u.s. data including personal income and consumption numbers due later in the day all the

footsie is up zero point two percent and the flights to invent it. and finally here in russia the markets are extending the losses on the negative sentiment over the greek debt the r.t.s. is losing your old one percent while the my success down half a percent let's now have a check on some of the individual show moves on the mice it's all major among the main losers following the downturn in crude both. in the run more than half a percent but you can start also under pressure with spare bond down point eight percent. and peter weston at a time capsule explains what russian stocks could potentially see an upswing in the near future. if you have to be in russia in this environment you might want to in the short run at least stick to defensive names and there will be telecoms particular telecom and m.t.s. looks interesting in that respect in the utilities segment it's a very difficult sector as well because you have the problem with the elections but in a downturn it looks like utilities are doing pretty well and over the last couple of

weeks to have actually been performing quite reasonable and in that space would like to hold in for example a go would hydro generators probably better in the in the duration segment or western as on capital there and you're up to date now with more in an hour's time. culture is the same moment taxpayers' money i mean to him

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