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international news and comment live from moscow this is a team 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 him in its sights two charges in the hague of issued an arrest warrant for get off in his closest allies on charges of crimes against humanity our correspondent alina going to go 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 of the international criminal court and this is only the second time in nine year history that such a warrant has been issued for an incumbent head of state the first such occurrence

happens 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 disease decision in this case they actually questioned its legitimacy and have reminds us 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 gadhafi the i.c.c. did say that the libyan people themselves will arrest gadhafi but of course. he is called 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 tripoli just this morning there were reports that blast have been heard very close to conduct his

compound this was supposed to be an enforcement of a no fly zone in libya and yet already we're talking about. according to the libyan government we're talking about hundreds of civilians being killed as a result of the nato airstrikes of course the officials have until not so long ago denied being at fault for as i this point is kind of a situation which is just hanging in the air and whether this particular leaders decision in the i.c.c. where that will have any effect on the situation in libya remains to be seen. and in addition to that constantine kasich of the chairman of the state duma's foreign affairs committee in moscow explained to r.t. why the arrest warrants cannot be applied to the libyan leader the decision of the international criminal court. is not legally binding for libya for the simple reason libya is not a member state of the court and has long as mr kite duffus thesis on libya still

retore and this decision can not be fulfilled in case the decision of the courts in for there will mean that mr inevitably will try to stay in power as long as he can and that contradicts the intentions on the international community of the way they are told by the security council member states russia included the new song that after his neck is so tight that he has no option other than to fight to the very end says patrick hayes a london based reporter for online magazine spiked. it does mean that he can no longer decide to go off to a different country in this kind of private hideaway there in a very discreet crime and it means now he's literally in a place of death where he can't escape so and so yes i think the conflict could be prolonged as

a result of this but i mean i think fundamentally the thing i find very striking is this the hundredth day of the libyan conflict now william hague is making these claims today that the foreign secretary secretary of the u.k. saying that the i.c.c. warrant through why it is good i feel has lost all of that i'm a thief and should but basically give up immediately and the idea that the i.c.c. this arrest warrant actually removes any kind of legitimacy from live affy i really find to be appearance really it should be always for the libyan people to decide who haven't gotten his regiment a lot so it shouldn't be for an international court of law to mete out justice to gadhafi the international criminal court is the place where the west judges the rest patrick hayes talking a little earlier on r.t. was still to come on the program democracy where the catch us a new program of opposition movements across the globe some suggest is just the complete way to overthrow the new since governments. a

flotilla of humanitarian aid ships carrying supplies to gaza 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 armada lots of dropped earlier threats against journalists but they could be banned or the ported for covering the events. has the latest now for us from. the israeli government says it is rethinking how it plans to handle foreign journalists that are on board but with that freedom consented to as its sales from european waters and heads towards later this week what we do know is that earlier the israeli government press office said that any journalist on board would face the risk would face detention and we also face a band of up to tame viewers that would not be able to return to israel for at least a decade we are now hearing that the israeli prime minister benjamin 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 it's also sort of the way journalists are dealt with is different to the way so-called infiltrators are handled this does not answer the question as if and when the israeli government indeed finds the second for it said it's a beauty by omission of international law which is of course what it found the first certainly guilty of how they and all journalists on board and don't wear the security cabinet held an emergency meeting today after that meeting it issued a statement in which they got government ministers they were determined to prevent the patella from reaching gaza which as usual friction as possible we're talking about ten ships and nine hundred passengers on board representing some twenty two countries let's let you know when once a repeat of what happened last year in news radio authorities are at pains to try and make sure that all of a ducks on the road to prevent the same kind of incident occurring that first became happened on may thirty first they were six ships involved they had six cells

from thirteen and the largest of those ships known as the mahdi mama came in conflict with israeli commandos who were lowered into the ship via helicopters probably helicopters they 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 navi israeli government has said again and again that it will not allow any ships where this fits into a time for another one to actually. each gaza israeli authorities saying that they systematically saw to through all the goods on board to make sure that they are no great prisoner and missionaries and that once they'll set aside that there isn't 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 fratelli 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 draw attention see gaza. and you can find footage of last year's israeli aid flotilla sold on our web site r.t. dot com there are also plenty of other stories waiting for in addition to what you see here on screen including the latest news politics and culture blogs and expert analysis if you log on now here's what's online in a moment a couple of examples of some stories if you're a vampire or a goblin or an elf and feel your rights are under represented one group is i mean to defend your cause find out about russia's growing youth movement fought in human rights. battles are having their rights protected to confine the story of a monument to a dog that's raised thousands of dollars to help break animals across russia and. the japanese government is starting radiation checks on millions of people living near the stricken 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 as r.t. shaun thomas 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 watched 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 thirty hole like iraq the day they said different things like perfect or they said different things and the government is that different things. they are not together they are all still part of the country. here they 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 glance is a significant health threat but they say there isn't enough information about long term exposure to lower doses of radiation and the types of damage it can do if you check it here or your radiation level and then you should 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 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 one three rally 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 tried to get a little bit closer but were escorted out by a police officer and a couple of earth will now although this is a perfectly

a safe area the radiation levels here are still between seven and ten times higher than normal weather from misinformation or mis 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 working on 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 recently have to shut up about

the situation the newspapers have this problem as well a move that is true keeps the important information hidden from the people saving face for those in charge in japan sean thomas or. however it's not nuclear energy but should be equipment to rein in fukushima that's the view of john rich he's director general of the world nuclear so she should and he's been speaking to r.t. so if you have an answer about the safety of atomic energy in his interview is coming up next hour but here's a preview for you. the 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 back those questions are being asked right now i think they

will result in some changes i don't think the 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 with the world will have drawn a lesson from fukushima a nuclear safety will be even stronger. the u.s. state department's plans for spreading democracy around the world are being greeted with speculation that washington is planning a program of foreign regime change it'll provide finance and technology to opposition groups but the attach strings could be used to steer other states where america wants them as articulate reports. the u.s. state department now generously hands out cash and technology to dissidents throughout the world its bureau of him are crissy 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 us agenda among other things the state department is financing the creation of stealth wireless networks that would enable activists to communicate outside the reach of governments in countries like iran syria and libya according to participate in the projects other programs include a so-called internet in a suitcase a powerful portable wireless transmitter that activists 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 effectively block websites those double standards. and everybody

should be fully aware of things and understand. us or united states government and clustering regime change since we call revolutions or knology 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. war and more specifically more control doing away with. because of the united states i'm now looking at the state department website that promotes grants for those willing to bring about change in communist cuba and here is one of the requirements i'm going to read this it is preferable for these personnel to speak spanish fluently solid understanding of the cultural context and have prior experience on the island in order to maximize their

effectiveness in this unique operating environment and if quote sounds very much like recruiting agents but instead of doing it the traditional secretive way the u.s. knows they're right out in the open on their website health 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 in the system with. us governments even if they don't necessarily. going to check on our t. washington d.c. independent research firm historian jeffries and thinks the claims of democratic motivation is simply a cover for america's quest for dominance. it's not about democracy at all i mean there's one thing that i've learned is that the united states foreign policy. and

how we're a lot the idea that somehow there's going neverland see that there is a caring grandfather figure here in the united states who wants to help. foreign countries become better it is it isn't just what they hope to get in return is to establish a greater empire. i think you know i'm not being overly cynical when i say that there's there's nothing but military power at work here and if they don't right somebody in particular country then they're going to rid of them one way or together and this is just a new technique of how to do it. the idea bombing somebody into submission it's kind of old hat. members of syria's opposition and human rights movements and arrived in moscow for talks with russian officials to discuss ways to stop the bloodshed and the situation in syria remains tense with an estimated one thousand four hundred people killed in the crackdown on anti-government protests over the

last three months widespread political reform put forward in a bid to calm the opposition includes a possible change of constitution the ruling party could also have its monopoly on power strips among the ticket it was in moscow told r.t. that 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 to stress that we will continue to maintain friendly strategic relations with russia another 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 told the russian authorities denounce violence in syria at the un security council all of position forces inside and outside the country are 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 plea a basal role in achieving peace and stability now change isn't always good it

certainly isn't welcome by the so-called garbage people of egypt still reeling after the former regime was overthrown well coming up later in the program a special report on those who say globalization is stripping them of their only means of survival. i was just thinking about my future before the foreign companies came i dreamed of owning a camcorder and factory. but we have less garbage now. somebody that or sue come here make fun of me. figure out garbage boy i'm not bad like people think. i'm a good person. it's just that people don't see me. but i feel it was time people like me. that i feel people will start

to appreciate us. and that special report in the next hour here on t.v. now let's turn our attention to some other stories making headlines around the world in our world update thousands have been forced from their homes in the u.s. state of north dakota after a river burst its banks and the agency services and volunteers scramble to build dams a makeshift levees with mixed results and major fear now is the contamination of drinking water people be urged to boil before drinking the water is still not receiving the worst could be yet to come. greek lawmakers are discussing deeply unpopular spending cuts and tax hikes today and measures are a prerequisite for a new multibillion bailout from the european union and the last ditch effort to avoid default the vote is being seen as crucial to the future of the whole euro of

the austerity plan has angered the public because of its severity and cost to future generations. what china is offering to help europe with its economy the chinese prime minister on a tour of the e.u. has offered to buy debt from struggling nations it's seen as a move to secure support in europe as well as to curb inflation well that's the view of jim rogers he's an american financial investor and author. tip they will come to save your paper cup the large creditor for europe and they're going to have a very major seat at the table that's going to improve their position in the i.m.f. it's going to produce improved their position with the world bank it's going to improve their position in un because you know the europeans are going to have to be more and more friendly to china because china saving american cannot save them russia cannot save them so europe is going to be more china friendly that it has been in the past going to the europeans to say ok let's be friendly with give you all this money will bail you out you feel now friendly and supportive of us instead

of being so supportive instead of listening to washington so much you know you call us first and we want more representation in the international bodies such as the world bank then you you should listen to our case the chinese have huge international reserves had a largest international credit in the world three trillion u.s. dollars american various currencies internally yes they've had too much inflation and they're trying to cool that inflation all but there are extra on their international situation that lots of liquidity and can do whatever they want. twenty three minutes past the hour here in russian capital let's check out the nation's business news now with kareena. hello and welcome to business here in r.t. thanks for joining me russia needs to diversify its economy as oil production is

not expected to grow in the next decade finance minister if he could and says the key challenge is to create an environment to develop no energy sectors. of quirky good to sleep will decrease its ruling companies and give way to private investments the government is going to sell most of its shares in the key enterprises in the next three to five years this will lead to the point energy and transport risks of russia's biggest airline air flight as the latest company shuttle for privatization according to russia's finance minister the sale take place within the next three to five years the state polls around half the company and the size of the stake to be crowded and clear the government has to sell a number of assets in the future to raise up to twenty five billion dollars. who are futures decline on lingering concerns about oversupply this comes after the international energy agency decided to release some teacher preserves on the market . range of between eighty and one hundred dollars per bet it is reasonable both of

them produce it and there's no big surprise keeps it reasonably wouldn't be doing this to me there is no need for anybody to panic there is plenty oh boy there is no shortage of boy there's plenty of worry day in the ground though so this capacity available it's limited with the insufficient to moderate them i think is the real your difficulties. light sweet is currently trading at around ninety dollars a barrel its lowest for about a year old brant is hovering at around one hundred five dollars. stocks in europe and flat on monday as investors awaited greece's crucial vote this week on austerity measures banking stocks among the losers across europe shares a common bank slumped five percent while deutsche bank fell one point four percent upside telecom equipment for a market sell you soft rose three point four percent handset maker nokia at two point eight percent and here in russia stock exchanges closed in the red on monday on negative sentiment over greek debt by six and it came off

a percent lower than the us has most of the signs now let's have a look at some individual shot news from isaac's four majors were among the main news following the downturn in crude cross here and in the red well look call from a slightly higher banking stocks are also under pressure would spread bankers in some. sort of business news for now but don't forget you can always find most stories on our website.

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