but. to speak eligible. where did it take. the. international criminal court is the place where the west judge is the next tripoli rejects an arrest warrant for colonel gadhafi saying hague based tribunal is just a political tool one has no authority. to be use economic crisis in nations like greece forces countries such as turkey but don't be in sync membership to shift their focus eastwards. boosting the birth rate for breaching women's rights russian lawmakers discussed restrictions on abortion rights good public opinion. and coming up in business with the oil price is still high russia's economy could

improve in the short term but will a lot outlook be as positive join me for the full story in twenty minutes time. for you watching r.t. live from moscow well straight to our top story now libya's justice minister says tripoli is refusing to recognize the arrest warrants for cota doffing it's you've got the international criminal court the hague the dorothy and his closest allies are accused of ordering war crimes to be carried out against their own people but tripoli says the actions by the i.c.c. are just a cover for continued nato bombings. or if a national want to see the effects of yet strikes on the libyan people. they rose from the capital tripoli to greg is lined with the aftermath of war towns and.

bands and as the population fled the involvement. this is what's left of the civilian airport in the siege of. homes in one of the country's key or the highways the last plane to go from this runway just hours before it was hate. to say so it's only hitting the targets of military value locals say these telecommunications tower submit to the blast of the tower have been destroyed in a time gary this is a site two strikes and they've also accidentally and two cars have killed two civilians since there is no t.v. in this area and as we can see. it has also been disrupted. there is no water and no to. what used to be have been mismanaged as we can help towards home now she was unfamiliar. i have nine children and i send them all to my relatives abroad i don't want them to see their mother and such

a condition. from the small poor. gas used to flow to europe. we used to produce feel to send it to them and now see they destroy it all this is terrible and ridiculous at the same time. the closer you get to the front line the more you feel it you can hear the war and you can even read it on major news. just before the bombing survivor. this runs as you can see the reason i have a big night for her is here leave it to inforce and i'll fly zone over the country to protect civilians on the other side there is another sign also in arabic saying that nato can attack any place at any time. this any time happened three times over several hours while we were filming. libbers major allport is where the front line lies dividing the country the two parts into to see where one

side is going to break one flashpoint within the rebels and gadhafi forces it's a very important point as to take the quotation getting a firm hand on this town would mean taking control over the country's economy. both seem to be a rare target the nato bombs never land on. the civilian population can hardly scale. they were like my family not just going to the shop to buy some foods and this happened six of them died i couldn't believe it and this used to be a restaurant company star where friends gathered after work we were eating with my colleagues and there was a we knew what that was we run we try to help those who was trapped then the helicopters came to see you and still cheat to shoot us as if they didn't want us to save your friends from one street to another the stories are repeated.

by our program of. good food very much so that i'm every day every day but i'm going to be killed our civilians. from this country this is from libya well those voices become more and more frequent is the sound of exploding bombs and warplanes a drowns in. r t tripoli. operation in libya has outraged his critics who claim it's the alliance which should be held accountable for war crimes patrick hayes a london based reporter for online magazine spiked says the international criminal court's actions show how many western nations want to impose themselves and the rest of the world. this is actually the first time that the international criminal court has actually pursued someone who isn't actually completely black i don't say this lightly but if you look at the previous kind of five cases of the

international criminal court that they've kind of pursued their investigations they've been in kenya they've been in sudan uganda the central african republic and the democratic republic of congo despite all the other crimes and wars that are going on across the world from iraq the gaza strip the international criminal court has for a focus solely to this point upon black people and obviously you know they seem to be moving you know. focusing on their female but still very much focused on africa there's a sense very much seems to be that the international criminal court is the place where the west judges the rest is for the international criminal courts presumes that they can have this kind of civilized perspective on the world which is lacking in african countries who are unable to determine their own affairs properly and the guiding hands of western lawyers and politicians. it without t.v. and still ahead this hour not practicing what they preach. extraction work

democracy for around the world we're home trying to suppress the citizens of this country this is the poorest city in america state of michigan citizens say it might become a template for a disturbing breakdown of local democracy. and should the world abandon nuclear power of the disaster with the shimming nuclear plant we asked the ex the rector of the international atomic watchdog later in the program. well greek trade unions have begun a general forty eight hour strike against austerity plans in short to go to a crucial vote on wednesday thousands of taking the streets of athens marching towards parliament. dive it was not from athens as some protesters are warning they'll try to prevent m.p.'s from entering the building the twenty eight billion euro package of spending cuts and tax hikes as a condition for the country to get more cash from the new group. played out on the

other charge of last year's aid package when handed over otherwise greece could become the first country to default on its debts. some states like that we're still keen to join the military others are beginning to rethink their membership plans a strong bottom. should people even think it turkey is in asia minor or not in your thirties weise is not a union turkey started seeking integration with europe in the nineteen fifties and was written a new candidate in one thousand. since then from some germany who remained opposed to continue still negotiations turkey. european union. have actually stalled. the relationship for such a long time that turkish public is tired of it

the main reason turks think the europeans don't want them immigration. first well they come and steal our jobs like the polish plumber did. and second well they threaten us culturally but others see the real fear in paris and berlin as a loss of political power and this sort of french german condominium is already under challenge but with the inclusion of turkey in the european union it would be totally impossible to sustain now embroiled in economic crisis the e.u. isn't as strong as it once seemed. turks are starting to feel that our liaison joining us with frustration and more with relief frankly given. the state the european union right now is the inability of thinking decisions the. fragile situation the rising racism and islamophobia in many countries.

it's it's becoming less and less attractive turkey is no longer waiting for europe to change its mind instead many speak of the axis of turkish interest shifting from west to east it's pursued a no problems policy its neighbors in recent years that's yielded impressive results trade and making turkey a leader in regional diplomacy if we want to. combine our. power with others i think we should look at. prosperous behind me has long been seen as a bridge between east and west but with turkey increasingly pushed away by europe over here and pull towards the middle eastern asia over here turks no longer see all their hopes by looking west tom martin r.t. istanbul turkey. i mean while europe is being offered help with its ailing economy

by china the chinese prime minister who's on a tour of the e.u. has offered to buy debt from struggling nations it's seen as a move to secure supporting europe as well as to curb inflation that's simply were jim rogers an american investor profit. to pay become the savior they become the largest creditor for europe and they're going to have a very major seat at the table it'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 if you win 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 going to the europeans and say ok let's be friendly with give you all this money will bail you out you feed 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 if we want more representation in international bodies such as the world bank then you you should listen to. the chinese have huge international reserves ahead of the largest international creditors in the world three trillion u.s. dollars in very various currencies entirely yes they've had too much inflation and they're trying to let inflation up but they're extra on their international situation and got lots of liquidity and can do whatever they want. later today max keiser and his co-host stacy discuss whether the shock waves from the crisis are reaching the u.s. . there's a common theme emerging all roads are pointing to one culpable source of the catastrophe b b i'm not talking about brigitte bardot but ben bernanke he actually says that this will be a small negligible impact of greece defaulting he is telling

a gross lied that's causing incredible global financial damage again i suggest waterboarding. well whether the us is fighting effects of the greek problems on nots and secondly still suffering with massive national debts and high unemployment. city or rents and home buyers trying to do these financial weapons with drastic changes to the way to run the officials are being granted almost on the streets of local powers. examines the needs and state of american democracy. the american state known for its great lakes has seen the middle class speed and automotive industry crumble in michigan's poorest city benton harbor more than a quarter citizens are unemployed and elected officials have lost all of carty to

government as an unprecedented democratic collapse plays out we believe that it's illegal immoral and unconstitutional no one person in this country have that authority the prey of the united states would not have that authority in the face of massive public opposition michigan lawmakers recently reshaped democracy by giving unilateral authority to officials known as emergency financial managers e.m.f.'s have independent authority to fire elected officials closed schools void union contracts public property and privatized assets residents like scott elliott say his city could be the start of a changing landscape in american politics people throw around words like oligarch me and all that sort of thing well i mean that's that's what it already is i think that the average citizen is going to have less and less to say about what is done with public assets these decision makers are appointed by the governor to oversee school districts and cities like benton harbor think financial distress in april

benton harper's e.m.f. stripped the elected city council of its democratic power leaving a city of eleven thousand struggling americans under the rule of a man they didn't allow their hypocritic to. their ex trying to export democracy for around the world but it they're trying to suppress the citizens of this country at least four other cities including detroit have an emergency manager in the motor city the e.m.f. laid off some six thousand teachers and it's pioneering plans for corporations to privately run schools funded by public tax dollars well dr martin luther king. said injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere so it's today. could be really york tomorrow or it couldn't be chicago next week

exit harbor is one of roughly one hundred cities or towns in michigan reportedly on the verge of fiscal clock and economic desperation that paved the way for financial martial law to spread throughout the states critics say that would lead to a deepening demise of democratic rights the u.s. has always claimed to stand for. green up orton i.r.t. michigan. but there is an economic turmoil for an american city and our website has plenty moon this topic let's take a look at it's online. dot com find out why experts are predicting that financial tuesday the home of the u.s. susan said in the rudest person. fires and floods are threatening nuclear plants in america is that million people actually live within range of potential time pleasaunce that we can log onto our web site auntie dot com from.

well to nuclear issues in japan where the president of tepco the company operating a crippled fukushima plant has apologized for the disaster. the company has come under fire at a meeting the shareholders are doing enough to do the situation. workers have begun to install a protective cap at the first reactor aimed at preventing radiation from spreading efforts to cool the reactors are continuing as a key water recycling system has been launched. an ongoing crisis is left europe divided over the future of nuclear power well france has promised further investment in germany france to shut all the bits and. the former head of the international atomic energy agency says despite the risks there's no way the world can abandon anything now. this illusion is not to face is not to shut down your credit energy because it provides what you present a pretty place to demand and. possibly more in the future and in countries like

india like china you know there is no option but to continue to use all the available source of energy including north korea and there are different that germany is working out the france is going through to increase well this this is a question is psychology in different countries you know people are ready to accept a certain degree of risk others are saying you know as i was saying that we would want to walk away but it would be interesting to see how germany is going to. substitute the twenty percent of really this is that comes from from your. brief look at some other international headlines for you now cause about kerry military aid apparently sets greece organize the space hurdles as israel is warning it will prevent any attempt to reach its palestinian territory whether israeli officials have dropped threats to abandon the ports journalism a year ago a similar mission led to a deadly raid by israeli commandos which one activist killed. its national monetary

fund this preparing to name its next boss with christine lagarde expected to bring the french finance minister would be the first woman to lead the organization she manages to be to opponents the central bank of mexico a new i.m.f. head will replace dominique strauss kahn resigned last month over sex assault charges. afghanistan's top banker has resigned and lead the country ahead of the central bank is now in the u.s. claims he feared for his life after the government interfered his efforts to expose corruption within the back and says the resignation amounts to treason also since he was suspected of investing money so much that the collapse of the country's largest that last year. now a drive by the russian government to raise the birth rate to go makers proposing

a bill limiting the pregnant woman's options of abortion just like to say they want to reduce the huge number of terminating pregnancies but there is criticism that the measures will deprive women the right to determine their own future. as the details. when she heard she was pregnant again lena had already been through the center in sections and had. to make her life complete along with her diabetes and and pregnancy. so huge rest now though she can't imagine life without her sasha there's no matter where i live in a little miracle i can't even imagine that once i had thought about getting rid of him i've never regretted my decision when i was able to make a choice freely as she wanted germination nothing would have stood in her way abortion in russia is available on request up to twelve weeks and is permitted at any stage if the pregnancy towards the mother's life in danger the proposed legislation would end free abortions and state clinics and make women week for

a week before the terminations to think over their decision the morning after pill now available at any pharmacy would also become prescription only it's a book i will go with but a good for that if we manage to avert at least twenty percent of abortions annually we have a clear increase in birth rates instead of a demographic of mind women that's young or qualified psychologist working at one of moscow's maternity hospitals says the stress of an unplanned pregnancy often makes women wash their decision they might later regret them as a better writer ask is not just not a woman out of proportion just sure hope they'll turn it is so it she doesn't end up committing herself where with questions like all the baby would have been now and what he or she would have looked like. experts say the only way forward is to give women the security needed to embark on motherhood olga found the help she was so desperate for that in moscow charity. my husband left me when i was pregnant

i didn't have any means to feed the kids already had it alone raise another one. however opponents of the proposed legislation believe limiting a woman's choice breaches her rights both health and human my body is my business is just one of their slogans sappy about what she thought about history shows that being abortions has never worked with a baby born when the soviet union outlawed abortions in nineteen thirty six the result was an enormous increase in the maternal death rate and that's what doctors fear most the restrictions on legal abortions will only push women to find risky backstreet alternatives even if it threatens their health and life the all of those living in russia and forty percent of women decide against pregnancy and if a woman is determined not to have children she won't and that includes simply abandoning them. like the mothers of these babies found another way to skate

burdens of motherhood these children are too young to understand why they were not wanted. these children didn't choose to come into this world and be deprived of their basic right for parental love one day they might find someone to call their family however the question is whether mistreating abortions will lead to more children of violent after being warned against their mothers will carry a wish cobar r.t. moscow. time for the business news so far today with katrina just people stay with us.

i don't welcome to aunty's business bulletin greece's countdown to judgment day is nearing the country will default in july its new you doesn't provide a new bailout a great collapse could cause a chain reaction which and analysts have already called the lehman brothers effect i'm joined now by nigel randall from r.b.c. capital markets to talk about consequences of the greek crisis thank you for joining us nigel now it's a place the greek parliament is considering a five year austerity plan this week while others haven't got around to doing the sooner. world i think they've been trying to do it for quite a long period of time you know stretching back of the last few years the problem in greece is that a lot of political difficulties we've had problems with the statistics which are misinformed both governments and international community so they've been living at the eleventh for quite some time but i think for five minutes to midnight there really is no alternative they do have to proceed with this austerity plan because the alternative is almost too awful to contemplate. now privatized is

a key component but many see this is some sort of fire sale and it's also being compared to the selling off of russian state assets in the one nine hundred ninety s. . yes i guess there are some similarities along that route but when you've got your back against the wall i think the greek government has really a few alternatives to contemplate that they need to raise cash they need to cut spending pretty pretty dramatically and they need to do it very very quickly so maybe a bit of a fire sale but there aren't a lot of alternatives that what are the chances that the greek problems could start a chain reaction. well there's always a risk and the markets are in a very nervous. over recent days in recent weeks that the greek situation dominated sentiment daily basis and of course there could be markets in effect markets in inverse correction there is. risk you push through the store if you program during the course of this we could see

a much more substantial impact on for the true market with a negative reaction obviously no great response to fall what effect will that have on investor sentiment from russia. i think spencer but not just toward russia but from a global basis would obviously deteriorate fairly quickly quite substantially having said that you know we have been talking about this situation for quite some time. or whether we should actually mention default. because there's a chance that we may get some sort of bailout from the from the from the i.m.f. is that a plan that the president the french are sort of started to put together so there are contingency plans the question is can it be real ports into operation quickly enough to save the financial markets well thank you very much for your perspective on this that's nigel randall senior emerging market strategist from r.b.c. capital markets. russia is on its way toward casting its budget deficit and returning to the black in the next three years buoyant crude prices could also help

reduce the three point six percent gap in the budget down to one percent by the end of the year but analysts warn at high crude prices are putting the long term financial stability at risk. it's a good thing for russia but the world's. oil was heading up two hundred twenty hundred thirty dollars on brant in the longer run this will be a boom and bust cycle we saw in two thousand and eight you do not want to see this again in russia much more sustainable for the world economy if the fuel prices say averaging ninety one hundred dollars this is bret's or global economy grows stronger it's a more sustainable story i'm nuts that's how you can make proper plans for the future let's take a look at the markets now oil is starting to close the gap on monday's losses which sent crude prices to their lowest in four months the major drop came on the heels of last week's announcement by the international energy agency that it will release sixty million barrels of oil from the movies hope to counter the effects of hope that exports from libya. european markets opened in the black also on optimism over

greece's debt crisis footsie is up over half a percent this hour and in moscow b r c s n m i six have things in the black she said coming back from monday's losses though investors a hopeful they continue to be cautious due to concern over the situation in greece . and it's not a look at some individual share moves on the my six energy majors a higher helps my slight gains in oil the banks are also in the black it's just an option in the mining sector polly missile is among the main gainers with stronger gold prices supporting stocks. and that's all the business for this hour we'll be back with more in just under an hour's time stay with us the headlines next. the.

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