the libyan leader finds himself in double trouble if international criminal court issues the warrant for his arrest for crimes against humanity on the hundred day of need was a bombing of libya more details just ahead. is all promises to six of the taliban for not backing away from rates to punish journalists. it's confirmed fifteen people near japan's fukushima nuclear plant showed signs of radiation exposure last month some of those as government checks and that would go and skepticism.

international news incumbent live from moscow this is a city with twenty four hours a day it appears that libyan leader moammar gadhafi is not only being targeted by nato jets but the international criminal court also has an in its sights two charges in the hague of issued an arrest warrant for gadhafi and his close allies on charges of crimes against humanity by correspondent it in english but has more namely he's being accused of purposefully targeting his 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 the international criminal court and this is only the second time in the court's nine year history that such a warrant has been issued for an incumbent head of state the first such occurrence

. happened in two thousand and nine and the man that they wanted or were after was the sudanese president over that this is and has yet to be implemented in reality and the libyan authorities have already said that they will not comply with the disease decision in this case they actually question its legitimacy and have a reminder that libya is is not a signatory to the rolling treaty which has actually set up the international criminal court we have yet to find out how exactly they will go about arresting moammar gadhafi 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 of 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. until not so long ago denied being at fault 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 the i.c.c. whether that will have any effect on the situation in libya remains to be seen. and constantine caught a job he's the chairman of the state duma's foreign affairs committee here in moscow explain to the arrest warrants cannot be a ploy to the libyan leader. well we can't bring you that statement from the concertina kasich of but we can go live to well we're now going to go live to william engel he's going to talk to us about these attempts by the i.c.c.

to arrest gadhafi thanks very much indeed for joining us there live in frankfurt well as we were going to hear concerts in concert he was going to say that there is concern here in russia that the i.c.c. decision will actually force gadhafi to cling to power even more and lead to more bloodshed would you agree with what he has to say. well i don't i don't know if that would be the case or not i think i think the whole thing is upside down the color of the i.c.c. i think the nato high command including the united states commander of nato ought to be tried for crimes against humanity and given the fact that they've been bombing civilians in libya for more than one hundred days i mean this entire libya intervention by nato is absurd from beginning to end. it's just unbelievable what's going on nato can decide on the basis of responsibility to protect a completely very big sham. doctrine of international law that's been promoted by

certain very politicized n.g.o.s in washington and elsewhere this responsibility to protect overrides national sovereignty and i think the i.c.c. is way off and to protect human beings nature is insisting that this is an mission to protect civilian life in libya does that not override all other arguments in this case well where is the proof of the bombing of civilians there's not even proof for a man stood outside the white house in washington who is the head of the libyan opposition organization back earlier this year and claimed that there was a bombing of civilians by gadhafi is there a force that was never proven independently even robert gates the secretary of defense said that that was never proven so you know we're going on c.n.n. media rumors p b c and whatever but this is obama was overruled his own legal advisors in the pentagon and the cia and went ahead with the nato action against libya so this is really on shaky ground zero thoughts about the situation

but what about now that i mean what would this warrant and issue of an arrest warrant for arrest for gadhafi have any effect at all on that day i mean why are they doing it now the i.c.c. . well i think they're just trying to marshal as much public opinion which is not strong against libya intervention in the united states the population doesn't understand it they say what are we doing another war here this is the nobel peace prize president. you know we're in afghanistan we're still. very heavily involved in iraq and now we're going into libya this is this is madness here so i think it's a propaganda attempt to prop up the sense of justice behind this a very flimsy one at that and. you know it's politically motivated you think it's also a way of legitimizing the use of foreign troops on the ground in order to justify the fact that you can get troops on the ground and then that will lessen arrested or indeed get rid of gadhafi sure sir but just like the g.c.c.

ruling duck the ballot gave the u.n. security council the green light to go ahead with the ascension of china and russia would it be in the interest for the rebels to restain after all many of them would rather see him brought to justice in their own country rather than being sent abroad. well i don't know whether the rebels are being heavily armed and advised by the cia and pentagon special forces and armed you know you have to ask what's going on here is this a grab for the libyan oil away from qaddafi and the state oil company which is used the world to build up the infrastructure of the country over the last forty years and a grab by sarkozy's friends in paris to take the oil out of libyan hands or what is going on here this is really bizarre because it briefly can force rather than bring a closer into this some commentators are saying that this move by the i.c.c. could actually undermine all attempts for a peaceful solution could close the possibility of negotiations why would that be

the case but i don't see any attempt by by the west and nato member countries for any peaceable peaceful resolution of this they had a chance before the start of the nato bombing to bring this into mediation or gaucherie action and it was. never on the table as far as washington was concerned or the british or are you. willing are we are out of time thank you very much indeed for joining us also i'd like to add that so you've written a lot about this matter in fact your put full spectrum dominance totalitarian democracy in a new world order is available right now thank you very much indeed germany based on research at william angle joining us live there thank you and thank you well as i was mentioning a little earlier constantine kasich of the chairman of the state duma is foreign affairs committee he's been explaining to our team why he thinks the arrest warrants cannot be applied to the libyan leader we can now hear what he has to say . the decision of the international criminal court. is not

legally binding for libya for the simple reason that libya is not a member state of the court and as long as mr stace on libyan spirit korea and this decision can not be fulfilled in case the decision of the court stays in power or there will mean that mr inevitably will try to stay in power as long as he can and their country digs the intentions on the international community the way they are worked out why the security council member states russia included. well still to come on the program this is democracy with a character that you know it's a new program to help opposition movements across the globe some suggest is just a convenient way to cope with group missions government. in absentia remarkable court hands out twenty five years in prison for a top intelligence officer and fled to russia after exposing a group of u.s.

based russian agents including anna chapman. a flotilla of humanitarian aid ships carrying supplies to gaza is said to depart from greece it's reportedly made up of ten vessels with some five hundred activists on board israel warns that its military is gearing up to intercept the aid murder but it's dropped earlier threats against journalists that they could be banned or deported for covering the events as the latest now from. israeli government says it is rethinking how it plans to handle foreign journalists that are on boy or with their freedom flotilla to us itself from european waters and heads towards gaza later this week welcome to know is that earlier the israeli government press office is there any journalists on board who would face a risk when faced attention and would also face a ban of up to 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 said to have

said it is problematic he has urged his cabinet to rethink it and he's also said that the way journalists are dealt with is different to the way so-called infiltrators are handled this doesn't know how to answer the question as if and when the israeli government indeed finds the second fertility and violation of international law which is of course what it found the first to tell a guilty of how they were all journalists on board where the security cabinet held an emergency meeting today after that meeting it issued a statement in which the galley government ministers say they were determined to prevent the photo from michonne don. with as little friction as possible we're talking here of about ten ships some five hundred passengers on board representing some twenty two countries will serve you no one wants a repeat of what happened last year and news radio projects are at pains to try and make sure that all the ducks on the road to prevent the same kind of incident occurring that first attempt happened on may thirty first they were six ships

involved they had six from thirteen and then largest of those ships known as mama came in conflict with israeli commandos who were loaded into the ship via helicopters from helicopters there was fighting that ensued both sides blaming the other question is starting the conflict but the fact is that nine turkish activists who were on board were killed and all the israeli government has said again and again that it will not allow internships whether this return or attempt or another one to actually reach causa israeli authorities saying that they insist on actually salting through all the goods on board to make sure that there are no great prisoner and mission there and that once will satisfy that they reasoned they will be personally responsible for transferring herbal goods to gaza it is important to note that the reason why the activists are carrying out the second 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 include

supplies in medical supplies in basic items that people need to keep on living and so this is the second attempt by activists around the world to draw attention she's gone. reporting then you can find footage of last year's israeli aid flotilla assault on our website is r.t. dot com there are also plenty of other stories waiting for the moment including the latest news politics and culture of blogs expert analysis here's what's online right now if you should click on here's a good story for you for a vampire a goblin or an elf and feel your rights are under represented one group is going to fight your cause find out about russia's growing youth movement for in human rights . watch on the web site of the moment animals are having their rights defended to confront a story of a monument to a dog that's raised thousands of dollars to help stray animals across russia. the japanese government is starting radiation checks on millions of people living near the stricken focus the 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 as r.t. shaun thomas found out many no longer trust the safety warnings. only 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 that the japanese people have no trust in the government he wants a coastal city devastated by v. earthquake the tsunami and on the edge of the radiation exclusion zone is starting on the long road to recovery of the people living here say the government just isn't doing enough from the city hall iraq city they said different things like projects are there for different things and the government is that different things . the alligator here or steve part of the country was the of

the are a part but some believe it is too early to tell what the real dangers of the situation or scientists 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 or the radiation level and then you take deep breaths and then you take water you always feel half different by use 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 a 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 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're trying to get a little bit closer but we're supported out by a police officer and

a type of earth will now although this is a perfectly a safe area the radiation levels here are still brain 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 hard 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 and so now the priority has been to profit from energy a 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 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 they 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 and shun thomas. however it's not nuclear energy but shoddy equipment to blame in fukushima that's the view of john rich he's director general of the world nuclear association and he's been speaking to r.t. so if you have an answer about the safety of atomic energy in his interview it's coming up in the next hour but it is a pretty. great irony of what happened at fukushima is that it was the failure of non-nuclear support systems to be available after the shutdown that resulted in this meltdown every nuclear regulatory authority in the world needs to go back and ask the question are all of the reactors under my supervision protected against worst case natural catastrophes like floods like tsunamis like earthquakes like

plane crashes and that those questions are being asked right now i think they will result in some changes i don't think that changes are going to be terribly expensive i don't think they're going to take a long time to implement and i think that the the good of this is that when the world will have drawn a lesson from fukushima a nuclear safety will be even a stronger. the u.s. state department's plans for spreading democracy around the world have been greeted with speculation that washington is planning a program of foreign regime change it will avoid finance and technology to opposition groups but the attach strings could be used to steer other states where america wants them as artie's going to check on 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 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 and with the best of intentions they're promoting democracy but in reality it's just promoting us agenda among other things as a department is financing the creation of stealth wireless networks that would enable activists to communicate outside the reach of governments in countries like iran and syria and libya according to produce opponents 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 elite block websites those double standards. and everybody should be fully aware of things and understand. us or the united states government australian regime change or social service technologies not all the u.s. tries to instigate change in certain countries some opposition movements get a direct cash supply. for example weekend leaks cables show that the state department has for years secretly funded syrian anti-government groups in general to create a world that is more aligned more specifically more controlled allying 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 under way at 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 quote sounds very much like recruiting agents but instead of doing it the traditional secretive way the u.s. there's they're right out in the open and their website health 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. with her. u.s. government even if necessarily. going to check on r.t.e. washington d.c. . members of syria's opposition and human rights movements arrived here in moscow for talks with russian officials to discuss ways to stop the bloodshed back home the situation in syria remains tense with mr mckibben. in three months of

government protests for political reform put forward in the bit to calm the opposition includes a possible change of constitution really quality could also have its monopoly on power strips and one delegate in moscow told r.t. the change in syria can only be imposed from within. we came here to fight moscow for its efforts to stop the bloodshed and violence that's sweeping syria we would like straights and we will continue to maintain friendly strategic relations with russia the mother who is going to be in power in syria we as well as all the other political forces in syria reaffirm our friendly relations with moscow and call in the russian authorities to denounce violence in syria at the un security council all of position forces both inside and outside the country or against foreign intervention in syria we are united in only one thing only the syrian people have the right to resolve the country's domestic problems we are also convinced that russia and the world community must flee a vital role in achieving peace and stability. a man who 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 colonel alexander party have fled the country before the scandal last june which saw ten agents including at chapman arrested. has been following 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 alex out of rights 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 cording 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 voiced in the court room that was a complete surprise to everybody including his wife she found out that her husband had deserted 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 for ever i did something right see it has been working with u.s. intelligence officers for at least a decade out of those people whose cover he blew and of chapman perhaps one of the most famous said the 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. and i'll be back in a few minutes from now to update you on all the top stories and also the. latest business. back into the business program here and i t russet needs to diversify its economy as oil production is not expected to grow in the next decade finance minister excluded and says the key challenge is to create an environment to develop non energy sectors which of course that would mean shift global would. crease its role in companies and give way to private investments the government is going to so most of the cheers and key enterprises in the next three to five years this relates to my natural energy telecom and transports our troops. was dropping further with

a stronger dollar and worries about global demand decline sharply at the end of last week following a decision by the international energy agency to release strategic reserves on the market. the range between eighty and one hundred dollars but it is reasonable. and produces and as long live the prize keeps it reasonably within meeting these limits there is no need for anybody to panic there is plenty oh boy any of those looking that way there's plenty of oil a day in the ground zero so there's capacity available it's limited but it's efficient to moderate the market in case the real difficulties. court is not trading at around ninety dollars a barrel its lowest for about a year grant is hovering at around one hundred four dollars per barrel now u.s. stocks are high after encouraging signs about europe's debt crisis also take on consumer spending canada's expected microsoft corp is that even against a two point nine percent u.s. supreme court on monday struck down a california law banning sales of violent video games to minors microsoft was among

those challenging the all of the naacp and its. european stock markets kept in a tight range on monday as investors awaited greece's crucial vote this week on a steady measures such as a hanes busa azza nobel dropped to a profit warning german chemical giant b s also lost ground even after the jump from reiterated its outlook and french equities rose boy by strong gains for telecom telecom equipment from calcutta and sun. and here in russia stock exchanges closed in the red on negative sentiments over greek sets was extended many percent lower and the r.t.s. lost under eight percent let's have a look at some individual share moves on the rise explorer majors are among their main losers following the downturn in crude cross and have ended in the red well look all finished slightly higher ranking stocks were also under pressure was losing half percent. russia setting up its own national pain and system on the line

aligned with visa and master card and signed into law by president medvedev and it's a good boosting competition in the credit card market but arest chief editor of business new york magazine explains the advantage of creating such a system first from scratch russia has this advantage in so much as a lot of these systems that putting in place they're doing it from scratch so you know it's obvious never had any of the stuff for the cost of exists and so they go straight to states which means they get the best software the best hardware and most of the systems are built in the west have been incremental with you know progress to be adding new function i was a new software new hardware i was new services become available and in that sense they have the opportunity of building a really classy system back you can spend naturally exports to the other members of the c.i.s. and to further abroad to other emerging markets who are coming to this question around the same time. that's

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