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the british who want independence from america which calls to close u.s. bases being part of a star wars. europe's open borders hit a dead end brings back the barriers to angering e.u. colleagues who say it was the cornerstone of euro unity also. to supply libyan rebels with. claims they intercepted the boats loaded with weapons from qatar. off the children living in near the fukushima plant had been exposed to radiation you look at how the crisis is leading to a solution in neighboring china. and another hurdle has surfaced on the way. forward you know we're streaming video. thousand business about twenty minutes

. a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow research first independence day march with a difference this time it's the british trying to drive the americans out of a major military facility to become part of a missile defense shield similar to the 1980's star wars project and as r.t. that laura and reports activists demanding the base be taken off british soil accuse us of following a cold war criteria. it's no ordinary fourth of july celebration at this top secret u.s. military base here it's a little piece of america in the heart of the u.k. so yorkshire dales where it's britons who are demanding independence from america this space symbolizes what's wrong with the special relationship between britain

and the united states here we have a base that's on u.s. control of it which the british government and british people have no control menwith hill is the largest intel gathering and surveillance base outside the us there are thirty two satellite dishes housed inside the huge golf ball structures which can eavesdrop on telephone calls faxes and e-mails from around the world it's been operational since the one nine hundred sixty s. but now it's set to become part of the controversial missile defense shield to alert the u.s. to any launch of ballistic missiles as in poland and the czech republic where the u.s. also planned to site bases locals who worry that having the facility here will put the area in danger heightening the risk of an attack by anyone who wants to disable the shield but unlike in eastern europe the government here has put up no. to tall

in fact it doesn't even know what goes on here there isn't a single british official in parliament or in the intelligence service who could give you a full picture of what is happening in this space it's the culmination of former u.s. president ronald reagan's dream as his statue is unveiled in london on monday menwith hill in bodies will rake in in visit in the early warning missile detection system that was dubbed the star wars program it secretive based far away from u.s. soil and some say it's a step towards the u.s. domination and militarization of space people demonstrate here campaigning for the closure of this space and the others like his around the country they want to reclaim this land and bring it back under the control of the british government and its people it's not working though as men with help becomes part of the missile defense shield it's building another golf ball satellite structure bringing the total to thirty three despite some local and international opposition growing not

reducing the u.s. is influence in europe and its r.t. menwith hill yorkshire. now russia has wanted a joint european missile shield solution for quite some time but it's still falling on deaf ears within nato as was proved at a summit in sochi the alliance also wanted to guarantee its own project will not target russia we hear from a leading american scientist who says that obama's team are rolling along with the bush era policies. where the bush plan was first discarded by president obama when he came into power there was no longer a whole new system would be more agreeable to the russians but now that we have actual numbers instead of being less of a concern going from the bush administration to the obama. this is raised all sorts of red flags in russia. now five minutes past the hour here in moscow the free flow across europe borders

has hit the buffers with denmark pledging to restore checkpoints at crossings from germany and sweden e.u. colleagues a furious saying it violates europe's much heralded open border agreement aussies are going to report on how it signals wiring times ahead for the block. the danish officials insist that this is to prevent drug flow and illegal migrants from entering the country but the move has been regarded as a bad sign not just by the left wing politicians and the opposition in denmark itself but also has been severely opposed to why the e.u. i think sells in brussels and especially by denmark's neighbor germany they insist that this is a violation of good agreement all of the open borders in europe and they also say that this is not a wise move at all to make during a particularly volatile time for the european union when countries are bickering over border disputes and over cash and money issues some believe that this actually

may signal the end off the united. but the davis officials insist that this will not cause any damage to the free flow of traffic tourists and transportation across the border we have to remember that this is not the very first border dispute of course the problem of really go margaret this particularly better one right now for the european union earlier this year france and italy have entered a rather bitter dispute over the flow of illegal migrants across their borders and we also have to take to keep in mind the fact that the extremely volatile situation in northern africa is not going to help the situation in any way since most of the migrants could do come to europe could do flood countries like denmark belgium or it's really in france actually do come mostly from the north in the african region so this particular move by the danish officials may actually send quite a worrisome signal to other european countries who may also follow suit.

reporting right there you are with are still ahead for you this hour. is not quite over for dominique strauss kahn before my m.f. chief is about to face fresh sexual assault charges from here how it is likely to be a very different kind of foul play behind the claims. plus the russian children with a skin disease who are deprived of state support for their condition now one parents taking the fight to the heart of the medical establishment. libyan officials say they have intercepted two boats from qatar carrying a cache of weapons for rebel forces in the country and load included about one hundred belgian made assault rifles along with thousands of rounds of ammunition so far only the french admit to supplying weapons to the libyan government forces brian johnson thomas a former arms trafficking expert for the u.n. security council says it's a dangerous violation of the arms embargo. now it seems to me very strange we're going about it i mean i thought the arms embargo was laid down by the security

council was quite clear that it was to both sides were. embargoed we know that for example some of the militants from somalia went to libya for training within the last two or three years just documented we have the fly records and everything else so it seems strange in many ways the whole western support of some of the rebel groups in libya must be questioned because in some cases of it we are effectively arming al-qaeda. and for months on nato as protracted intervention in libya has yet to yield its desired result even as the alliance battles accusations of violating its un mandate but political blogger rick ross off believe that a peace mission was never high on the coalition's priority list. thirteen thousand nato air missions over a country of six and a half million people including with nato itself acknowledges this five thousand combat missions if it's not a war. you know this is not simply a question of protecting libyan civilians from the over the government violence and

so forth this is a concerted long term military action nato it's the world's only military or if it's one that is in charge of the two major wars in the world right now those in afghanistan and libya i think you know we can do this for you with you know minor points of contention but i think we should not be confused about what the nature of the mirthful army really organization. and a middle east expert thinks that the west rushed to support the opposition in libya without really assessing who they are. going to believe that it didn't actually want to get into transition council has to know if you can it's you and you know means you need food and you political configuration again i don't think that will and that awful thing that makes up an equal number of hong kong a few days on full conversation with mikhail is on our website right now of course that is. dot com. a french writer is to follow

charges of attempted rape against a former international monetary fund chief dominique strauss kahn she claims she was attacked in two thousand and two those lawyers say they will sue for slander its image has a strong cons new york sex assault case teeters on collapse as prosecutors question his accuser's credibility a former white house executive a believes the ex official could be a victim of a political foul play. the french press has reported that strauss kahn said before you ever came to the united states. bad tour he expected sarkozy to pay some french woman i million euros to bring sex charges against him. and he said. it was because he was leading the sarkozy in the polls for the presidency and that he. stressed crimes here and that would be a circus his response in the french press has taken this seriously i think he got

in trouble because he began questioning the i am mouse use of its power to force the cost of the bailout of the banks onto the backs of just ordinary people he started questioning that he was meeting in the united states with the economist joseph stiglitz who was a big critic of that way of bailing out the banks and i think he was sending signals that upset the financial community so it may have helped him with ordinary people but john have made him a target for. the establishment but meanwhile the new head of the international monetary fund is officially beginning the job from a french finance minister christine lagarde won overwhelmingly back in the i.m.f. last week having beaten mexico's central bank governor but there's a fool in trade for the first woman to take the fun as a top job in the u.s. financial struggles and of course greece on the critical test. and max keiser and

stacy have a say there's a lot in common between the greek economic troubles and america's mounting debts now here's what's to come in the cars report in about twenty minutes time. times the i.m.f. is after the u.s. next s. and p. one of the rating agencies who work hand in hand with these international banks there's the managing director john chambers spoke to reuters and he said quote if the u.s. government misses a payment it goes to di di di di di that's lower than triple say and that's what they say greece is worth triple saying well why doesn't the greek government come out with their ratings report saying america's that's where the d. therefore sell your american debt you need a place to put that cast by a greek debt and will give you a poor. all the options on the acropolis are stars you don't need i am nervous why blank are the gunmen here.

and you can watch the guys report in about twenty minutes time well radiation has been detected in the thyroid of almost half of all children living in japan's fukushima facility authorities are continuing to study the health effects of the nuclear crisis which of course and safety shutters around the world some like germany have already pledged to close all of its plants but there are countries convinced there's a safer alternative as henry morton reports in beijing. with the global spotlight firmly back on the safety of nuclear power following japan's tsunami and the problems at the fukushima daiichi plant china is looking at spearheading efforts to make the industry safer much safer the chinese are investing millions in research into reactors powered by the elements and metal proponents say as common as lead and one which despite some concerns would lead to power plants with fewer safety issues as well as other benefits. thore and based reactors certainly have

advantages the energy release from the story and is greater than from the rhenium the by products from using story in a less toxic than from uranium and it's much harder to make weapons from those my products. public outcry following the problems at the fukushima plant led to beijing putting a freeze on approvals of all new nuclear power stations and safety checks at the twenty seven currently under construction however with chinese electricity consumption growing at more than five percent a year and its current reliance on fossil fuels to generate that unsustainable it's unlikely the crisis in japan will dampen china's thirst for nuclear power. it's impossible for china to give up nuclear energy and china. needs to make changes to its energy structure which is closely linked to the need to reduce pollution carbon emissions and the overall direction of chinese development other new energies have no advantage in either techniques or resources. no one in china

is under any illusions that the country desperately needs to find alternative clean ways to generate electricity the current reliance on coal which provides some eighty percent of chinese energy needs cost the economy more than two hundred billion dollars a year through air pollution alone and while beijing is investing heavily in of what will turn it into energy supplies nuclear power is seen as the best bet by the chinese government the problem facing authorities is trying to convince a sometimes and jittery public that nuclear energy is a safe alternative so they are investing millions of dollars into foreign research like this in order to try and lay those fears to rest in so doing they may be showing the rest of the world a new path to clean energy henry morton r.t. beijing. coming to life in the heart of the russian capital is now a quarter past the hour here. for more on the stories we're covering here let's take a look at through some of the items that are lined up for you right now and. to

the heavens to get to the. course. of the monastery. clashes between police and. across. the british. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger no holds barred the global financial headlines.

are i tell you with. international headlines for you this hour at least thirty five people have been killed nearly fifty two explosions in a town north of baghdad. government buildings as people gathered on the road a roadside bomb went off and followed monday's attack in baghdad. four civilians died when a rocket was. independence day celebrations at the american embassy it hit a hotel workers complex and sparked a fire. britain's prime minister is promising a surge in financial aid to afghanistan despite a planned withdrawal of u.k.

troops david cameron's in the country for a two day visit where he hoped to celebrate foreign forces progress in fighting insurgents but his plans were marred after a soldier was captured and executed by the taliban. this year has sentenced former president in absentia to a fifteen year prison term for trafficking drugs weapons and archaeological artifacts a fortnight ago ben ali was convicted of investment and sentenced to thirty five years behind bars he fled to saudi arabia back in january after a month long uprising requests for his extradition back to tunisia have not been answered. while they are forgotten few the russian children suffering from a rare and incurable genetic disease which can leave them badly scarred and in acute pain until now it's been virtually ignored by the medical establishment but one mother is hoping to change that we want you may find some of the images in daria pushkar was report upsetting. she likes dancing and no one would guess the

amount of pain lisa goes through to make these simple movements lisa has a rare genetic condition a bigger melissa's blows or be that makes her skin as thin as a butterfly when a slight touch or a hug can cause painful blistering that takes a long time to heal leaving the skin even more fragile. around the world sufferers like lisa are known as butterfly children however in russia it's as if they don't exist right you could the thing is the doctors simply don't know of the disease and when you tell them what it is they might have heard of it but they don't know how to deal with it kenya please is only five but she already knows her dad news is better than any doctor her mother knows. there is no cure with proper medication her daughter could lead an almost normal life but it's way too expensive while using it it's such a rare disease that it's pretty much been forgotten about there's no states that

pool it to there's no money and no specialists. general one of those a dermatologist and admits she's become a specialist by default no one else is dealing with patients but the mothers say her advice can conflict with what they've learned from abroad. or well it's a very complex disease with so few patients suffering from it any doctor that would take it up would have to become a very narrow specialist i myself i'm tied up in many other places so i don't have much time for these patients. two year old nasty is a clear example of what good care and access to proper treatment can do for a butterfly child her mother says she's probably the only girl in russia who from the very first days of her life was taken care of properly according to international standards when she was twenty five days old i took her away from one of the best maternity wards in the country her stomach and feet are all and the marks of the doctor's fingers are still her skin back then she did look like an a

b. patient ever since ny still has lived a life of protection her medication costs roughly one hundred thousand rubles more than three thousand dollars per month she has three people constantly looking after her including her mother julie says life expectancy for such kids in russia is very low and she would do anything to make her daughter's life long unhappy. she's my beautiful and long specters princess and if there is a plea that can hurt my princess i'll take them all away no matter what the cost. julie is also behind a newly created foundation to help other children now people from all over the country are calling her and it seems the number of suffering children is far greater than the previously estimated one hundred s. for louisa she bravely takes on life with a smile despite her deteriorating state as a sign of trust she told me her biggest dream then maybe few children with this disease in russia but each of them needs all the support they can get they may have

learned to live with their condition but just like elisa we all dream of one day waking up to a life without paying. r.t. moscow. and out of the business news with your. followers try time to delve into the world of business a very warm welcome raising agencies are playing hard ball on greece standard reports. say they would consider a plan by french banks draws a privately held greek bonds as a default french banks the biggest holders of greek foreign debts have to renew when they mature and not joined by loose from the g c partners hello to lose so see as already grow some kind of. maybe inevitable but what do you think of the s. and p's and isles is that the new international bailout to push it into into the d.

fold actually. well as you said we saw this plan announced to great fanfare last week by president sarkozy that the french banks would only ask for thirty percent of the money back from the greek state and that that proved to be very popular the german banks came in at the end of the week and said yes we're contribution of a couple of billion of greek debt to this plan and all see that there could possibly be a way out of the crisis for private holders bank holders european banks own greek government debt however that plan came to a shuddering halt when the ratings agency standard and poor's yesterday came out and said i'm sorry but if a french bank plan was implemented in our opinion that would constitute a technical default now they say that for two reasons one greece is negotiating for the position of distress and secondly the plan would mean that the banks who held

the greek debt would effectively get less money back and those those two factors say the s. and p. means it would be a default they're calling a spade a spade effectively. can greece find a solution or is it just for stalling disaster what can be changed what can be done to change the outlook. on i find it quite interesting sitting here on the trading floor talking to the markets talking to the brokers talking to a condom is talking to the city the big diff connect between what all those. people are saying and what you hear from the brussels elite the euro zone politicians they just everybody seems to be saying a default is inevitable greece just has way too much debt and yet those are the words you will never hear coming out of brussels and i think the fear is unless we stop lurching from crisis to crisis from vote to vote from one disaster to another and actually take a bigger picture view of how to deal with greece all the politicians take the

bigger picture then the the worries of the markets will be. a messy solution will eventually be imposed and i think that is the problem this disconnect between what you hear from brussels and what you hear from the real world the financial world. so what is the way out some of your viewpoint. i mean i just think it's it's incredibly difficult because if you look at the amount of debt that greece has you've already had one hundred ten billion bailout package. brussels. meeting to discover to discuss another one hundred ten hundred twenty billion euro bailout package remember this is a country where you twelve million people they just cannot afford to pay back the level of debt that they have and the reform program is terribly important for greece making the country more productive selling off state assets reducing the

size of the public sector getting private. enterprise back going again that is the key to the financial health of greece and yet in a way that reform program gets ignored because we have these dramas every day we have riots we have protests we have late night votes and all of that excitement to just get greece financially solvent from sort of week to week is almost. means we forget about the underlying core problems of the economy that need to be addressed . ok thank you very much louis. from bees you see partners. the russian stream got supply for ships has had a problem well of course has suspended construction of a pipeline which would connected with a european gas network people in the german town of luna both claim the pipeline is not secure enough stream on now considering an alternative route that was believe it's not a big problem but they may be off a similar. to quick check on the markets oil prices the climbing up to solving but

crazy i.e. a decision to release for huge occurred recess seems to be favoring. europe storch markets a flat transformation course shows all the outlook for greece and following reports that china tike interest rates as soon as this weekend and a pretty similar picture here in russia there are two yes on the minus it's flat to fall to flat so now have a look at some of the individual share moves on the minus six energy majors shares on the to crease the solid by oil prices which will trade gazprom is one point two percent down for us enough to sing chinelo point six percent. bank this continuing its losing streak taking to monday its shares up one percent down to nicolas bucking the trend edging point four percent. were structured stock exchange my suit says extending its trading out of the opening bell. earlier from the thrust of september is hopes it will better fill the gap between asian and european markets

it will also close fifteen minutes later to that trade just drive soon american news the new opening allah's will be from six thirty to three pm london time. and that's wraps up the business bulletin you're up to date my corrie my colleague kareena mccown will bring you another update in less than forty five minutes so stay with us for that. to know the would. be. wealthy british style. that's not tied to the title.