since we're told my car broke so chill in the car groaned leader who told mcconnell to the nation marco results will result in the snow tiago. results mccall's beverly plaza hotel mccain riviera hotel in the central hotel with. the deleter finds himself in double trouble as the international criminal court issues the warrants for his arrest for crimes against humanity under hundreds they open it was a bombing of libya more details just ahead. israel says its navy is gearing up to intercept a humanitarian aid flotilla heading for garza but backed away from the previous threats to ban and deporting journalists sailing with the flights over. it's confirmed now that fifteen people showed signs of radiation exposure major fans from nuclear plants the latest government checks are met with anger and skepticism

. and in absentia a moscow court hands out twenty five years in prison to a top intelligence officer who fled russia after exposing a group of us opposed to russian agents including an a check up. just after six pm on monday here in moscow you with our hearts he now it appears that libyan leader moammar gadhafi is not only being targeted by nato jets but the international criminal court also has and it cites judges in the hague issued an arrest warrant for gadhafi and his closest allies on charges of crimes against humanity our correspondent are going to go to school has more. namely he's being accused of purposefully targeting kids civilians of killing civilians during the dispersal of the protest in february of this year the court's decision and the

request for the arrest of moammar gadhafi his son and also his intelligence minister has been issued by a lot of the prosecutors of the international criminal court and this is only the second time in accords nine year history that such a warrant has been issued for an incumbent to the states the first such occurrence happened in two thousand and nine and the man that they wanted or were after was the sudanese president. that's a decision has yet to be implemented in reality and the libyan authorities have already said that they will not comply with the i.c.c. is decision in this case they actually questioned its legitimacy and have a reminder that libya. is not a signatory to the rome treaty which has actually set up the international criminal court we have yet to find out how exactly they will go about arresting more of our capacity the i.c.c. did say that the libyan people themselves will arrest gadhafi but of course. he is

told words remain defiant and say they will continue to fight to the very end and they basically said they don't particularly care for this particular decision as a matter of fact there were reports of intensified bombing off tripoli just this morning there were reports that blast have been heard very close to gadhafi compound this was supposed to be an enforcement of a no fly zone in libya and yet already we're talking about. according to libyan government we're talking about hundreds of civilians being killed as a result of the nato airstrikes of course neither with you until not so long both sides of the fold for that at this point it's kind of a situation which is just hanging in the air and whether this particular leader's decision and the i.c.c. whether that will have any effect. on the situation in libya remains to be seen. right now for more on the attempts by the international criminal court to prosecute colonel gadhafi i'm now joined live by ericsson essay

a co-author of an independent report into the war on libya thank you for joining us today also the i.c.c. has issued arrest warrants for more market afy and two of its allies that this mean that the libyan leader is likely to be prosecuted or is it just an empty gesture. well i think in the west mind it's it's one more pressure against carelessly but let me tell you i think it's a very stupid decision because on one side we perfectly know that we have done nothing concerning the sudanese executive on the other side it's closing one more possibility of negotiation between cathy and the other side of the. t.n.c. . or right now. i mean if you just shut some light on this you know the u.s. want to be an issue here so how are they going to arrest him does that kind of open the door for an invasion do you think. this is a problem there is no way to risk it is he because he's living in his broker in. tripoli's or very well protected and we don't send any troops. invasion force in

such saluki impossible to to complete a caliphate so this is only one small way to threaten the libyan leader but it's only promises so if you're saying there's no way to get it after you without sending in troops are on the ground you think that's a viable option do you think that could be the next step and do you approve. no we don't think it's an option because maybe you know that the french army as with other british army and navy we don't have the means we don't have the money we don't have the units to throw in there because most of the troops are already involved in our getting in afghanistan or somewhere else in africa for instance we have some problems with the fleet around the close to the libyan even goes so i think there is no way that we send troops are if we send some troops it's will be only special forces and very small units who are in our conducting his it defied the international community every step of the way so far and one hundred days into

this campaign nato forces still haven't got him he's winning. well it's very difficult to see i think that. in fact care if he's winning because most of the is units are very very well equipped compared to the insurgents without the nato troops are absolutely nothing they don't have any military training they don't have any military organization they are only people who are screaming in the streets and this is why they are asking more and more nato involvement but it's very surprising because you can no revulsion we've got doing the job yourself and this is not the case of the insurgents in benghazi right now the international criminal court says that thousands of civilians have been killed by the khadafi regime but why is it turning a blind eye to the civilian deaths caused by nato. well it's it's very difficult because you know we. are trying. to

to judge some foreign leaders in this specific point i think it's very dangerous because as they say few minutes ago there is one possibility which is a negotiation between the son of. the member to the national transitional council but still we are discounting the fate again cathy with the with the e.c.c. we can all of the door of in the peaceful solution for the negotiation now you've been to libya recently on a fact finding mission how would you describe the situation on the ground do you think the revolutionary movement is a result of democratic ambitions. no i don't think so i think the situation in libya is very absent different from the condition one in the egyptian one it's a region tism i mean the eastern part of libya syria tonight. really react against more than forty years of of all were of the tripoli tonight and

all the western part of that try to find one more time they all independence and they want them by the leadership of the country and. as you see if you go we and back from the evolution mission in libya something is very interesting just on the other side in the front of can i feel we do something which is almost ten years we are the group we where you are maybe twenty five per cent of real democracy but you are also people who are. fundamentalists and radical islamists you have also member of the from the monarchy is groups which are the same you see and you have also former members former dignitaries of the ridge and so i mean seventy five per cent of what we call the t.n.c. in fact are people who are absolutely as i mean as bad guys are still to get to reach them as kind of thieves in south. eric it's an essay a co-author on in the corner report in the war on libya thank you.

the chairman of the state duma's foreign affairs committee explain to our teeth why do you arrest warrants cannot be applied to the libyan leader. good to see you know the international criminal court. is not legally binding for the simple reason that libby is not a member of the court and he was wrong as mr. libby was clearly korea and this decision not to leave. you with are to you still to come on the program democracy with. the u.s. announces a new programs to help opposition movements across the globe but some suggest is just a convenient way to overthrow the nuisance government's. a flotilla of humanitarian aid ships carrying supplies to gaza is set to depart from greece its quarterly made of ten vessels with some five hundred activists on board

if you're a warns that its military is gearing up to intercept the aid armada that has dropped earlier threats against journalists so they could be banned or the quarter for covering the events of these policy you know how the latest from china over us join her live and hello to you paula so what we know about this mission at this point. but the israeli government says it is we thinking how it plans to handle foreign journalists that are on board for their freedom facility to its sales from european waters and heads towards god that later this week what we do know is that the israeli government press office if any journalist on board would face the risk would face detention and would also face a ban of ten years they would not be able to return to israel for at least a decade we are now hearing that the israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu first heard of this only this morning monday on the news and he is here to have said it is problematic he has urged his cabinet to rethink it and he's also said of

the way journalists are dealt with is different to the way so-called infiltrators are handled the country's deputy prime minister moshe ya'alon is also saying that they need. the differentiation between journalists and ordinary members of the public he said that in today's time and age there's no way that you can actually stop the media from doing their work and needs to be alternative solutions found this doesn't know how to answer the question as if and when the israeli government indeed finds the slogan for it so it's a billion violation of international law which is of course the problem because it's only guilty of how they and all journalists on board don't where the security cabinet held an emergency meeting today after that meeting it issued a statement in which the government the government ministers they were determined to prevent the for tella from reaching gaza but also with as little friction as possible we're talking about ten ships from five hundred passengers on board representing some twenty two countries. last year

a similar humanitarian aid flotilla resulted in deaths among activists at the hands of israeli troops who were a global scandal how will that affect you think this legislation. well certainly no one wants a repeat of what happened last year news radio koreans are at pains to try and make sure that all they got on the road to prevent the same kind of incident occurring in that first attempt happened on may the thirty first it was six that's involved they had six cells from the turkey and the largest of those shots known as the mahdi mama came in conflict with israeli commandos who were loaded into the ship via helicopters from helicopters they was fighting that ensued both sides blaming the other freshly sought in the conflict but the fact is that nine turkish activists who were on board were killed now the israeli government has said again and again that it will not allow any ships where this fits into its name for another one to actually reach gaza it says it has made the israeli port city of

ashdod available as well as the egyptian port of elevation we do understand that cairo is party to this agreement and that the ships and sailed there israeli authorities saying that they insist on actually. so to through all the goods on board to make sure that there are no weapons no ammunition there and that once feel satisfied that they reasoned they will be personally responsible for transferring earthly goods to gaza it is important to note that the reason why the activists are carrying out as they can for telling in as many years in two years is that they do believe that the blockade on gaza is facilitating a humanitarian disaster we are hearing reports of increasing shortages in food supplies in medical supplies in basic items that people need to keep on living and so this is the second attempt by activists among the world to pour tension because there are iraqis are so weird i live in tel aviv thank you. well the man here blew the cover of a group of russian agents in the u.s.

last year has been found guilty in absentia of treason and desertion by a moscow court intelligence going on at xander fled the country before the scandal last june which saw turn agents including chapman arrested parties kind of has been following the proceedings. 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 i'm excited by 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 porting to the court 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. 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 said 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 i've extended by steve has been working with u.s. intelligence officers for at least a decade out of those people whose cover he blew and a chapman perhaps one of the most famous said and media. liked characters she picked him 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. right there and so you know here in moscow the japanese government is stopping radiation checks on millions of people living near the fukushima nuclear plant it's been revealed that fifteen people living over forty kilometers from the facility showed signs of internal radiation exposure when examined last month and it's found out many no longer trust the safety warnings. 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 he was a coastal city devastated by the earthquake 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 like york city they said different things like perfect or they said different things and the government they said different things. they're not forgetting the or part of the country last year they are a part but some believe it is too early to tell what the real dangers of the situation or scientists and 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 here here were ideal radiation level and then you could get breeze in when 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 year one of the frightening things about this entire

incident is that there are no concrete boundaries that can clearly be guarantee your safety one example is this looks like a beautiful was green valley behind me but in fact this is the very head of the twenty kilometer exclusion zone that the government has set up in fact we're trying to get a little bit closer but we're supported out by a police officer and attack our personal now although this is supposed to be a safe area the radiation levels here are still brain seven and ten times higher than normal weather for misinformation or me. 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 of 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 deal to help each other and that the media has been blown off the t.v. channels and even money from advertisement and the nuclear energy companies pay a lot with it this money they cannot survive and provide produce and 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 or a t. so now let's get some other headlines up from around the world where you this hour thousands are being forced from their homes in the u.s. state of north dakota this after a river bust its banks emergency services and the volunteers are scramble to build dams and makeshift levees with rather mixed results but major fear now is the contamination of drinking water with people being boiled before drinking water is

still not receding and the worst could be yet to come. lawmakers are discussing deeply unpopular spending cuts and tax hikes today the measures are a prerequisite for a new multibillion bailout from the european union in a last ditch effort to avoid default the vote is being seen as crucial to the future of the whole euro but the austerity plan has angered the public because of its severity and the cost to future generations. and while greek lawmakers to be a controversial cuts face off against a furious public peter lavelle and his guests discussed what the implications of a default may be that's in cross talk coming your way next hour here's a preview. now of those default these tb it's all going to be a simple simple situation of having to ask for this money and this means that the greek banking system has an immediate problem as well now that could push greece to a very quick decision about leaving the euro but i think that part of the reason

we're trying to buy time now i was still trying to buy time is to allow greece to more carefully consider what exactly does it want to do because greece's really zone there is no simple way to a lot of sitters to avoid being on the politicians faces that's the key issue here they don't want to admit that the euro has been a mistake so they're doing anything that they can to try and paper over the cracks and try and hope the problem will go away you really think that you employ you really is in your eyes when the euro you're larry. if. you can see cross talk about internment it's time for now the u.s. state department plans for spreading democracy around the world have been greeted with speculation that washington is planning a program of foreign regime change it will provide finance and technology to

opposition groups but the attach strings could be used to steer other states to where america wants them as are things going into camp reports. the u.s. state department now generously hands out cash and technology to dissidents throughout the world its bureau of democracy human rights and libor has announced a request for proposals on how to faster change in a number of countries in the middle east and north africa as well as cuba the u. . 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 produce a prince in the projects 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 a fact of li block websites those double standards. what is not fully aware of and understand the. us or united states government. regime change this central pillar of. 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

can create a world. war. more specifically more control doing away with 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 because it is preferable for these personnel to speak spanish fluently solid understanding of the cultural context and have prior experience on the island. order to maximize the air of fact it is in this unique operating environment and of quote sounds very much like recruiting agents but instead of doing it the traditional secretive way the us does their right out in new york putting 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 and are sure to get instructions on how to return the favor essentially eight years. would be consistent with your

us government even that's necessarily. going to shut down our t. washington d.c. for a time and be back in a few minutes to update you on our main stories but first though it's karuna with the latest from the one's business. so welcome to our business program this out thanks for joining russia needs to diversify its economy as oil production is not expected to grow in the next decade finance minister aleksei quittin says the key challenge is to create an environment to develop as he said this. a source that would mean trick work would do sleep will decrease its role in companies and given to private investments the government isn't just sold most of its shares and into prizes in the next three to five years this relates to point energy telecom and transport so. his biggest

airline air faught is the latest company to be settle for privatization the announcement came from kind of just couldn't happen in a sense capital investment form he says the sale will take place within the next three to five years the russian state owns around the company 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 you know to raise up to twenty five billion dollars. that was dropping further with a stronger dollar and worries about global demand kind sharply at the end of last week following a decision by the international energy agency to release strategic reserves of the market. the range of between eighty and one hundred dollars per but it is reasonable. and produces and as long as the price keeps it reasonably wouldn't be in disagreement there is no need for anybody to panic there is plenty of boy to boy there's plenty of void in the ground though so this capacity available it's limited

to insufficient to moderate the market is the real difficulties. code is now trading at around ninety dollars a barrel its lowest for about a year and brant is hovering at around one hundred four dollars per barrel now let's look at the markets u.s. stocks are rising in early trading after encouraging signs about europe's debt crisis also data on consumer spending came in as expected u.s. government said that american consumer spent at the weakest pace in twenty months in may that's another sign that economic recovery slowed the spring. and european stocks are nixed the south pole for footsie and the dax are losing nearly a quarter of a percent actually stand down traders are gearing up for a crucial advance this week in the greek debt crisis. and here in russia the markets are down and even trading on negative sentiment from greek debt my xix is losing over half a percent of the oils that below ninety dollars a barrel. now as i look at some individual samples on the minus six or majors and

the main losers following the downturn in crude we have trading in the red while we're going to slightly higher banking stocks are also under pressure with spare bank down one point three percent. latest we have for you here in business r.t. i'll be back with more in less than one hour from. the be. familiar with. the.

culture is the same old next mayor is coming into existence in a real america is going to be early and it's meeting with destiny the greek government survives a hold of confidence as its crushing debt ordeal continues unabated. the be. the is. the be the the bank . the sum up.