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russian foreign minister islam as they tell you members for their actions in the conflict toward the arab world and a meeting with his french counsel. also criticized batteries for sending weapons to the libyan rebels saying to take this u.n. resolution allows it to be twisted and this insurgency. if your goal the goal is to control libya. is to really get this is the target. of the libyans will not allow them to do that. so the fires will continue. targeted by nato a no good ses on reveals his take on why libya is that war in an exclusive interview with. greece is doing the e.u. to hand a very it's promised to parliament approves deep spending cuts and estate assets sell off despite days of violent protests. on the russian markets. finished friday

trading up tracking global gains the r.t.s. again about one and a half percent and my sense was johnson the two percent up more on the market's performance this friday in our business bulletin by twenty minutes. a very warm welcome to this is also a line from the russian capital moscow as alarmed by the way the u.n. security council resolution on libya has been interpreted after france supplied weapons to the rebel forces russia also the international community not to enforce a regime change in syria but instead to help the rival sides political dialogue our correspondent in nova more on the story. libya was the key issue discussed during a meeting between two foreign ministers that's following france's deployment of

arms to libya france admitted it air dropped guns in order to help civilians protect themselves and according to french foreign minister when it comes to protection of civilians measures are justified they claim that u.n. security council's resolution allows them to do so while she believes it isn't it is unacceptable that it violates arms embargo to libya and russian foreign minister has said even though soon ministers two countries have similar view on libya's future that has to be peaceful and democratic state that's a u.n. security council resolution can be easily misinterpreted the resolution nine hundred seventy three contains chapter full which allows anyone to do anything this very chance it was the cause of our problems with the mandate in all other aspects we support it and as we have warned now we're facing a rather unpleasant situations when it can be interpreted in most different ways i think moscow and paris and other u.n. security council members. are interested for the body to release concise documents

the international law does not need to put up with ambiguity meanwhile representatives of the african union have already spoken out about this saying that they are afraid of proliferation they fear that those guns make and up in the hands of terrorists and that's going to be a threat to the insider region russia's envoy to made to have said at a press conference in moscow that he fears that the on grounds operation is just around the corner and that operation is only going to prolong this conflict and worse and situation in the whole region in general meanwhile when it comes to syria the two foreign ministers are not quite on the scene between guarding that uprising moscow stands firm against a u.n. security council resolution towards syria while france has been going on with the council to take action more still believes only the political solution of this crisis is possible and as foreign minister lavrov said the opposition in syria to

sit down and talk with the saudi government instead of the concessions. or with the war in libya the focal point of international relations also has gained access to kind of gadhafi son in they say telegraph tripoli saya found things his country's wanted for its riches but says the people who keep fighting to make sure libya doesn't fall into foreign control. today i was swimming and fishing was very hard at what we went to the beach. so we are in our country. fighting for our country living with our people. we live with our country we would if we die we go to have a they destroyed our house in the middle of. it is the. small house so long surrounded by many houses people are living here there is a small school next to them the bomb that house for. the kid my brother. he

hung civilian he had nothing to do with the war with politics he was studying in germany because of the war he came back to libya he was there sleeping because. what nato said it. a command and control center. was a two bedrooms a kitchen living room small house is it give you an example for my family let alone many other examples one week ago they had the house of our friend of my father killed the whole family. the wife pregnant died two young girls of the day and said again we are hitting a military site a plane a president. with her. controlling and commanding libyan troops come up. with them. have one target

this country is a piece of cake rich full of guys oil and we have more than one hundred billion dollars deposits abroad so we have to share this cake that it need to travel. and harry we want to put in the soonest possible because the are hungry. tired they want to share the cake. slake for them levy is lake fast food like mcdonald's past because every should be fast fast fast airplanes fast bullets fast victory but we are very patient because we are no country so our country. we live here we are here so we were very patient their goal is not good as the goal is to control libya. is to control it this is the target and the libyans will not allow them to do that. so the fight will continue.

but you can watch our full exclusive interview with colonel gadhafi in just over three hours time but if you don't wait simply log on to r.t. dot com to download it right now. germany is the latest nato member to replenish the dwindling arsenal of alliance weapons in the libya bombing campaign well despite its refusal to participate in direct military action but lin has announced that it's ready to quote make as vailable precision weaponry components for for more on this as cause live to political analyst hall so he was in germany for us many thousands speaking to us in the halls don't know why do you think germany has agreed to this despite opposing the mission in libya from the stars. let's germany has come a long way our foreign minister. previous to the security council

resolution authorizing the attacks on libya. to withdrawal of all nuclear and nato war heads from german soil and it has obviously angered the americans and then germany came up. did not support the war on libya that. in a way put him out of his job as a party head of his liberal party here in germany this happened seven days after germany voted with russia and china. china in the last days has voted to keep contacts with the opposition and germany to make good on the flaw see in political germany. you know

replenish the empty arsenals of some of the nato allies which is usually a normal thing to do but in this case it has a certain smear on it and very definitely germany is under a lot of pressure the media accused mr vest and the government not to be able to conduct a coherent strategy where of course it's very clear that we do not take part in warfare with soldiers but replenish of allies is normal thing to do but what we see here is that the media in germany under our fears u.s. influence is also accusing germany of being in bad company by voting together with russia which is not reflecting the good position of our bilateral connections and contacts or looking forward mr hostility think that germany is likely now to get further involved in the conflicts. it is possible in case the

other allies expressed the need for it but this is not very likely to happen right now and of course there is the cost question because eight countries are now bearing the financial brunt of the action and therefore it is also not to be excluded that germany will by itself after being asked to do so pay something to the allies what we have here in the background of the german decision to do this is very clear that at first hand our. ministries the foreign affairs minister don't go into libya it's a very bad conflict it was started by the cia and it's a dirty business don't go there so this is why he voted with russia and china have now the backlash from washington is so tough obviously we are under pressure to do something to make up for this decision well if germany has been else replenishing nato. that means that the coalition is running low. the galician definitely

is running low but are to say there enough global arsenals to fill this so there's no urgent. need for any hasty action but in any case germany was asked it has complied in some ways and others not and by the way the guiding part is i have read for the g. twenty for guided bomb units and these are your indian weapons and their heads a very difficult taste for german politics now with only eight nato members taking active part in air strikes in libya how long do you think they'll be able to sustain the campaign financially. since all of. germany for example and some other restraints are behind this it is clear that those who are doing it may be requesting some support from the others so there will

be a long breath but in fact what we see here is that deliberately the country is being destroyed which is by far by far transgressing the decision by the security council and that's a very bad story right now. many things are speaking to us from germany. now dozens of militants have reportedly crossed into russia's north caucasus from across the border this comes as russian officials warn of an ongoing terrorists in the country all of the details. we've been hearing reports quoting sources inside the russian security services that say between fifty and seventy armed militants have crossed from georgia into the russian republic of dagestan now it's believed that one of the group had been captured and interrogated by security personnel revealing that the militants had. being trained in the punk easy chair of georgia

by arabs the pankisi gorge area has become something of a hub for terrorist training since it the georgian army stopped patrolling that particular part of the border crossing now it's the ideal site for the militants wanting to get into dagestan from georgia very poorest border due to the mountainous terrain that exists there very easy for that group of this type to slip on notice through the mountains and into dagestan the caucuses are essentially russia's frontline on their war on terror operations are ongoing there and the security forces have so far this year killed two hundred plus militants in the armed bottles in that area it's not just digressed on this goes across the whole of that area we're looking at english it via chechnya and dagestan at the end of may this year we saw a major hole for the security forces there they they captured a massive amount of arms and munitions as well as what they say were seven very

large bombs around two hundred kilograms of t.n.t. each of these means to to stick though coming from the authorities is that terror attacks across russia are up thirty five percent and the first half of this year. those include of course the the devastating suicide bombing on the airport right here in moscow which killed almost forty people. the greek prime minister has urged the european union to release a third the wave of bailout funds which the debt ridden country needs to avoid to defaulting in july to qualify for the cash athens has approved a package of radical tax increases and spending cuts which triggered three days of massive protests as aussie sarah first reports up plans to sell off greek assets to the highest bidder all say fanning the flames of public anger.

greece is not for sale the message from a furious public has plans to sell off many greek assets pushes ahead quick so incredibly proud of their heritage many people fear that the privatization proposals stripping grace of public efforts potentially up for grabs for the lenders banks water companies and train operators among many more at stake in the large telecommunications company aig he is also the sale with the we're going to go to you there's been a continuous crime for the past twenty years they've sold off our company piece by piece and now we only own a small percentage but that small stake is extremely important to the greek people but they want to sell even that. is a huge turn for the present government who were heavily opposed to the sale of eighty shares when they were acting as opposition. they called it a national crime when the previous government sold shares now they want to do the

same and sell the shares now at a low price we don't think we'll see investment or any development of it to you we think the only thing others will care about is profit profit profit. big continuous calls from the public to refuse the aggressive privatization proposals set forth by the choice to seemingly gone unheard of the european union is the remember we would talk about blackmail i guess the greek government critics have argued that the backing of bailouts acting out of self-interest keeping profits private must the last is to say she lies nothing new here it's not like greeks have to stretch back into deep history to figure this out we can look at latin american we can look at countries all over the world where the i.m.f. has come in and sacrificed and plunder the nation for corporate consolidation and prime minister pap and jase take of avoiding the country's current apps at all cost but many are now asking just how high a price he. willing to pay someone dies there's something very tragic occurs that's

going to be a catalyst for i think of all this government the e.u. has stated there's no plan b. to be a stereo he measures being an actor. but is shiri bills on the streets might be time they thought of one. r.t. athens. where you have more stories to you online just log on to our website dog access to fresh updates videos and much more his text. artie's correspondent is reporting firsthand from one of the boats of them from this freedom for teller which is set to sail to the blockaded gaza. also on line for you really can see you blind their craft pilots with laser pens will soon face time in jail for the life threatening crime. stories now from around the world in brief into new york where prosecutors have agreed to waive bail

for the former i.m.f. chief dominique strauss kahn all money is six million u.s. dollars will be returned to the french politician who will be released on his own recognizance while the move comes amid news reports of a case against calm in connection with an alleged assault on a new york hotel maid might be weakening prosecutors raise questions about the credibility of the housekeeper who claimed to have been raped by the former head in may but they haven't reached any conclusions about the allegations and have not decided whether to downgrade the charges. jobbers is long gone life saving surgery to remove the tumor the thirty six year old venezuelan premier has made his first t.v. appearance since treatment three weeks ago speaking of his condition he called his recovery slow and careful but said he expects to make a full recovery government officials later confirmed the venezuela will continue with its socialist reform program despite but. chavez's health. it's

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hasty to embrace a capitalism while in second place the time between basically said that china is a dictatorship and they think it's because china didn't wage across the rules all sponsor southall i regimes and finally the least popular is because it has a lot more hardworking people in them. well as the us and its allies prepared sheeple thousands of troops out of afghanistan washington's turns its sights to the home front america's new counterterrorism strategy calls for refocus of resources to combat domestic terror threats before more i'm joined live from the u.s. capitol by lawrence wilkerson who served as chief of staff to former secretary of state colin powell many fans of being with us here on our see you know do you think that this change in security strategy is warranted as the. threats of domestic

terror we need growing in the us. i don't think so i do think that the situation in afghanistan and for that matter in iraq based on strategic necessity we caused a disaster in the persian gulf by destroying the balance of power between iran and iraq and we are now that balance of power so we're not leaving iraq any time soon we may say we are but we're not in afghanistan we destabilize pakistan we stayed too long we lingered too long we've drone strike into the into the pocket proper so we're destabilizing pakistan and it is probably never been so fragile and such a powder keg as it is today and where the principal cause so we're not leaving afghanistan either despite what the president might say to the contrary well then you counterterrorism strategy does will say mean fewer american boots actually on the ground in conflict zones with more drone strikes in special forces raids do you think that this is the right shift in minutes the strategy. was to shift secretary

gates put in motion and a lot of people intellectual weight and otherwise agree with i'm a little bit concerned about it because we can't afford to do both that is we can't afford to do preparation for what might be a larger war a more conventional war the usual target there of course is john over taiwan and do this rather sophisticated counterterrorism war which consists of coin drone strikes and so forth as you pointed out we can't afford both we're in physical straits right now that indicate we might and might not even be able to afford one strategy so it concerns me that we are sort of forfeiting the ability to fight the big one for the ability to fight a lot of little ones what's happening at libya now the u.s. is aware he deployed on drains that that i do think at best i mean both many see that washington. some suggesting could be preparing special forces for. trying

even though that would violate the u.n. mandate. as a military officer i i can't doubt that at all because i don't see that we're swinging the balance there i don't see that we're winning in other words i don't see that we're forcing could offer to lily and as senator jim webb to ask in a hearing not too long ago three or four days ago when are we going to introduce ground troops because that seems to be the only way we're going to change this precarious balance that we've set up between the revolutionary forces of the war and the gadhafi regime on the other side. and it's heading out to another country the u.s. is extending its train strikes somalia a fly on manned combat operations in six countries into how warranted. all these drone strikes. are these drone strikes are an incredible development i

often look at people who are so ardently in favor of them and say like to have them over manhattan. to have them over houston or los angeles because that's what's going to come in the future of the chinese are already working hard on developing their own armed drones i'm sure other countries will do so in the future so if the if this becomes a principle development in warfare we're going to get it thrust on us at some time in the in the future perhaps not the distant future on the other other side of the coin if you will i'm really worried that the law of war has not kept up with this and our own constitution our own interpretation of that constitution and the war powers has not kept up with this look what you have now you have the president preposterously or the president's lawyers arguing that these are not hostilities in libya part of the war powers act that's nonsense certainly there are still these so

. this kind of thing drones and drone like apparatuses of warfare lead to these crimes of parsing the number of angels on the head of a pin and that's not very healthy in my view looking back at the us that war on terror as a whole house washington d.c. been successful in achieving its goal since nine eleven. we've been to a certain degree successful i think we have brought al qaeda to the rack of ruin i think bin laden's death was. anticlimactic i think we'd already reduced al qaeda to probably two hundred operatives if that meaning we got them down to a manual level you're never going to eliminate terrorism and in that regard i'm very concerned with what's crawling out from under that powder keg i just mentioned in pakistan we've got. we've got other groups around that scenario that are crawling out from under that powder keg for example looks like it could be just as bloody as pakistan and were it to gain global capability and be

more or less allowed to go global i'd be more concerned about it than i would al qaida is so are we winning perhaps we are reducing it to a manageable level but we've sacrificed an enormous amount of our liberties we've sacrificed laws we've committed war crimes we've done all manner of things in this iraq plus we spent about three point seven trillion dollars mr lawrence wilkinson the from the u.s. capitol many thought with fuel food said the former chief of staff to the former secretary of state colin powell many thanks for your thoughts. i can say with. these now with you yeah. that's right time for your business update well russia's continued to ease european vegetables back onto its domestic market produce from spain and denmark have been given the green light from russia's public health watchdog

a ban on all vegetables from the e.u. the us put in place a month ago after an equal i'll break. russia began lifting the ban resuming vegetables imports from whole and. and another much longer standing ban has come to an end russia has returned to the. global grain market inspired by optimistic harvest forecasts grain next fall's were put on hold last year because of a serious drought the bent caused world prices to rise to the highest level for two years whether in this believe the end of the band will not have a reverse impact on the market. supply has been affected globally by poor weather conditions so there is there is a healthy shortage in crops so this comes as a welcome rest by in the short term the increase in russian supply but you only need to look across the border of ukraine and see that their figures are down roughly forty three percent on the year you know the will be snapped up pretty quickly so short term i think you'll see the prices cool

a little bit longer i think you'll probably see prices spike higher as demand dictates for a quick check on the markets stocks have opened strongly on friday after a national gauge of manufacturing in june exceeded expectations and european stocks are higher law it's stopping the index for the second day bank shares are up almost four percent after soaring nine point seven percent on thursday as markets gave a thumbs up to further cost cutting measures and a new strategy for the lender out of friday the russian markets bounced back from their earlier losses the r.t. has gained one point six percent my six try to break the seventeen hundred mark just before the end of the session but quickly slipped back again over the some energy majors were in the right a drop in oil prices and we cook at some of the individual show moves on the mice it's russia's largest oil company was in the right at the close ross telecoms six percent increase in the first quarter net profit failed to impress investors the result shares a flat tire.