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criminal court is the place where the west judges the mets tripoli rejects an arrest warrant for colonel gadhafi saying the hague tribunal is just a political tool and has no authority. to use economic crisis in nations like greece forces countries such as turkey but don't be seeking membership to shift their focus eastwards. boosting the birth rate for breaching women's rights russian lawmakers discussed restrictions on abortion split public opinion. and coming up in business with oil prices still high russia's economy could improve in the short term but will a long term 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 counter duffey suit by the international criminal court at the hague the dossier and his closest allies are accused of ordering war crimes to be carried out against their own people but tripoli. as the actions by the i.c.c. are just a cover for continued nato bombings well taiz or if a national went to see the effects of u.s. trikes on the libyan people. the road from the capital tripoli to bragg is lined with the aftermath of war towns abandoned as the population fled the bombardment. this is what's left of the civilian airport in the city of but also home to one of the country's key oil refineries the last plane took off from this runway just hours before it was hate. to say so it's hardly hating the targets of military value well call say these telecommunications towers so if you're going to stop it.

has been destroyed in a time now this is a site they've been to strikes and they've also accidentally burned two cars and killed two civilians since then there is no t.v. in this area and as we can see phone lot has also been disrupted. there is no water and no to. what used to be happen this man says has become hell what was home now suzanne familiar. i have nine children and i send them all to my relatives abroad i don't want them to see their mother in such a condition but from the small poor not far from bread to live in gas used to flow to europe. we used to produce fuel to send it to them you know 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 the fence jobs just before the bombs arrive. this runs has as you can see the reason sign here in arabic nato is here leave it to in force 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 of a several hours while we were filming. regular is major all part is where the frontline lies dividing the country into two parts into to swear one side is going to put one flashpoint between the rebels and gadhafi forces it's a very important point as to take the quotation that's in a firm hand on this town would mean taking control over the country's economy. all facilities seem to be a rare target that nato bombs never land on while it looks like the civilian population can hardly skate. 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 for all companies staff where friends gathered after work we were eating with my colleagues then there was a boom we knew what that was we run we try to help those who are strapped then the helicopters came too and still to shoot us as if they didn't want us to save our friends. from one street to another the stories are repeated. really can serve our problem i don't really. blame not so every madam every day every day bombing a big killed our civilians lived another with this country this is from libya well those voices become more and more frequent as the sound of exploding bombs and warplanes the drowns in. tripoli

rag. one nato operation in libya has outraged his critics who claim it's the alliance which should be held accountable for war crimes war 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 on 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 are they going to pursue their investigations they've been in kenya they've been in sudan uganda the central african republic in the democratic republic of congo despite all the other crimes and wars that are going on across the world from iraq could soon 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. the focusing on their female but still very much focused on africa there's the sense seems to be that the international criminal court is the place where the west judges the rest is where the international criminal courts presumes that they can have this kind of civilized legal perspective on the world which is lacking in african countries who are unable to determine their own affairs properly and in the guiding hands of western lawyers and politicians. you're with r.t. and still ahead this hour not practicing what they preach. ex trying to export democracy for around the world but i don't mean they're trying to suppress the citizens of this country we visit the poorest city in american state of michigan citizens say might become a template for a disturbing breakdown in local democracy. and should the world abandon nuclear power the disaster the fukushima nuclear plant we asked the extra rector of the

international atomic watchdog to later in the program. greek trade unions have begun a general forty eight hour strike against austerity plans which ought to go to a crucial vote on wednesday thousands of taken to the streets of athens on the now marching towards parliament. live pictures now from athens as some protesters are warning they'll try to prevent ten piece from entering the building the twenty eight billion euros package of spending cuts and tax hikes condition for the country to get more cash from the new recruit. bailed out in the other tranche of last year's aid package being handed over otherwise greece could become the first country to default on its debt or some states like that fear still keen to join the military bloc others are beginning to rethink their membership plans as time bought in the polls. ship it down even sank it turkey is in asia minor not in the u.s.

could turkey's voice is not european union turkey started seeking integration of europe in the one nine hundred fifty s. and was made me a candidate in ninety two knowing that since then from some germany have remained opposed continue to stall in negotiations for turkey. and the european union have actually stalled their. relationship for such a long time now that the 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 fray german condominium is

already on the 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 view the delays in joining less with frustration and more with relief frankly given. the state of the european union right now is the inability of taking decisions the euro's 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 neighbors in recent years that's yielded impressive results

boosting trade and making turkey a leader in regional diplomacy if we want to. combine our. power with others i think we should look at eurasia the bosphorus 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 east and asia over here turks no longer see all their hopes by looking west tamasin r.t. istanbul turkey or meanwhile a europe is being offered help with its ailing economy by china the chinese prime minister who's on a tour of the you 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 the view of jim rogers an american investor and author. if they become the savior if they become the largest creditor for europe then 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 our 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 america not cannot save them russia cannot save them so europe is going to be more china friendly than it has been in the past they're going to the europeans to say ok let's be friendly we'll keep 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 the international body such as the world bank then you you should listen to our case the chinese have huge international reserves in the largest international creditor in the world they have over three trillion u.s. dollars and very various currencies internally yes they've had too much inflation

and they're trying to cool that inflation zero but they're extra on their international situation and about lots of liquidity and can do whatever they want. later today max kaiser and his co-host stacy herbert discuss whether the shock waves from the debt crisis are reaching the u.s. . there's a common theme emerging all roads are pointing to one culpable source of the catastrophe be big 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 lie that's causing incredible global financial damage again i suggest waterboarding. well whether the u.s. is feeling the effects of the greek problems or not its economy still suffering

with massive national debt and high unemployment the american city of benton harbor is trying to do these financial woes with drastic changes to the way it's run new officials are being granted almost on a strict local powers tease you know point no examines what needs the 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 looks already 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 all that authority to prove the united states and that here that authority in the face of massive public opposition michigan lawmakers recently reshaped democracy by giving the unilateral authority to officials known as emergency financial managers

even maps have independent authority to fire elected officials close schools void union contracts sells. 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 oligarchies and all that sort of thing 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 budget harbor facing financial distress in april benton harbor z.m. out 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 unless their hypocritical you know their ex trying to export democracy for around the world but at home 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 is benton harbor today but it could be mill york tomorrow or it couldn't be chicago next week bedsit harbor is one of roughly one hundred cities or towns in michigan reportedly on the verge of fiscal. and economic desperation that can pave 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. marina porton i.r.t. michigan. well there are economic turmoil for an american city and our website has plenty more on this topic let's take a look at its online viewer dot com find out why experts are predicting that financial tuesday the home of the u.s. as soon as the second the rudest. fires and floods are threatening nuclear plants in america the fear is that four million people actually live within range of a potential torrent disaster we can log on to our website r.t. dot com from. well two nuclear issues in japan where the president of tepco the company operating the crippled fukushima plant has apologized for the disaster and at the sea head the company has come under fire at a meeting the shareholders for not 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 again been launched. an ongoing crisis has left europe divided over the future of nuclear power while france has promised further investment in germany plans to shut all of its nuclear plants the former head of the international atomic energy agency says despite the risks there is no way the world can abandon nuclear energy now. the situation is not to face is not to shut shut down nuclear energy because it provides forty percent of british 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 available source of energy including nuclear energy. the fact that germany is walking out to france is going to increase well this this is a question of the psychology in different countries and people are ready to accept a certain degree of risk as 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 properly this is that comes from nuclear energy a. brief look at some other international headlines for you now gaza bound carry humanitarian aid are preparing to set greece organize a space hurtles israelis warning it will prevent any attempt to reach its sea blockade of the palestinian territory. is very officials have dropped threats to ban and ports journalists on board a year ago a similar mission led to a deadly raid by israeli commandos which nine activists were killed. its national monetary fund is preparing to name its next boss with christine lagarde expected to win the french finance minister would be the first woman to lead the organization she manages to beat her opponent the central bank of mexico the new i.m.f. head will replace dominique strauss kahn who resigned last month over sex assault

charges. afghanistan's top banker has resigned and fled the country the head of the central bank who's now in the u.s. claims he feared for his life after the government interfered in his efforts to expose corruption within the bag of kabul says the resignation amounts to treason also since he was suspected of embezzling money that almost that the collapse of the country's largest land last year. now a drive by the russian government to raise the birth rate has led to lawmakers proposing a bill limiting a pregnant woman's options of abortion legislators say they want to reduce the huge number of terminated pregnancies but there is criticism that the measures will deprive women of the right to determine their own future prescript has 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 this pregnancy well. so huge risk now though she can't imagine life without her sasha there's a lot over there i look at my little miracle and i can't even imagine that once i had thought about getting rid of him i've never regretted my decision later i was able to make a choice freely had she wanted terminations 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 puts the mother's life in danger the proposed legislation would end free abortions of state clinics and make women wait 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 always but in the dreaded if we managed to avert at least twenty percent of abortions annually we have a clear increase in birth rates instead of a demographic decline. that's yana

a qualified psychologist working at one of moscow's maternity hospitals says the stress of an unplanned pregnancy often makes women rush to a decision they might later regret but the wiser better might ask is not to talk a woman out of abortion just sure how they will turn it is so that she doesn't end up truancy herself where with questions like who are 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 all their found the help she was so desperate for at a moscow charity. my husband left me when i was pregnant i didn't have any means to feed the kids al ready had let 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 that bit about the cynical about history shows that

banning abortions has never let 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 that 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 the years living in russia 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 who found another way to escape the 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 restricting abortions well lead to more

children abandoned after being born against their mothers well sorry i wish her well r.t. moscow. all the time for the business news so far today with katrina just a few that stay with us. hello and welcome to aunty's business bulletin greece's countdown to judgment day is nearing the country will default in july if he you doesn't provide a new bailout a great collapse could cause a chain reaction which and then and analysts have already called the lehman brothers effect i'm joined now by nigel randall from r.b.c. capital markets talk about consequences of the greek crisis thank you for joining

us nigel now to play the greek parliament is considering a five year austerity plan this week why on earth haven't they got around to doing this sooner. world i think they've been trying to do it for quite a long period of time you know stretching back over the last few years the problem in greece is that we've had a lot of political difficulties we've had problems with the statistics which are misinformed both the government and the international community so they've been living at the eleventh for quite some time but i think we really doubt the 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 privatization is a key component but many say 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 like 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. but there aren't a lot of alternatives that one of the chances that the greek problems could start a chain reaction. well there's always that risk and the markets are very nervous but you know over recent days in recent weeks the greek situation is dominated sentiment daily basis and force the markets in effect markets and various directions there is a. don't pursue the storage program during the course of this and we could see a much more substantial impact on financial markets with a negative reaction everything now is great greece downs' default what effect will that have on investor sentiment towards russia. i think but not just towards russia but on a global basis would have to be to write fairly quickly and quite substantially having said that you know we have been talking about this situation for quite some

time. or whether we should you know actually mention default to this stage because there's a chance that we may get some sort of bailout from the from the e.u. from the i.m.f. there's a plan that the present the french are sort of started to put together so there are contingency plans the question is can they be reported to 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 abbey 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 that high crude prices are putting the long term financial stability at risk. it's a good thing for russia that they were. setting up two hundred twenty hundred thirty dollars on brooms in the longer run this would be a boom and bust cycle we saw in two thousand and eight we do not want to see this

again in russia much more sustainable for the world economy therefore if the oil prices say averaging ninety one hundred dollars this is a global economy grows stronger it's a more sustainable story and that's 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 the move is hoped to counter the effect of halted exports from libya. european markets opened in the black also on optimism over greece's debt crisis the footsie is up over half a percent this hour and in moscow the on c s and m i six have opened in the black tuesday coming back from monday's losses though investors are hopeful they continue to be cautious due to concerns over the situation in greece. that is have a look at some individual share moves on the my six energy majors a higher helps my slight gains in oil banks also in the black and spread out just

in the mining sector polymath as among the main game is with stronger gold prices supporting stocks. and that's all the business for the south will be back with more in just under an hour's time stay with us the headlines next.