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activist group more vocal in their opposition to u.s. military sites in northern england and the reagan era star wars project saying they have a right to know what's going on there. the shutters are up in denmark as the country has strict new laws on border controls which have already caused from its european neighbors. agreements visa free travel. nato stands accused of violating its own libyan arms embargo and gadhafi loyalists say they intercepted a shipment of belgian made weapons intended for. international news and comment live from moscow this is r.t.

calls for independence from us militarization a getting louder in britain one of america's most trusted strategic allies peace activists have targeted a top secret u.s. military base in the u.k. which is due to become part of a european missile defense shield they say britain barely knows what's going on there putting the country's security risk. here it's a little piece of america in the heart of the u.k.'s yorkshire dales where it's britons who are demanding independence from america this 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 which the british and british people have no control menwith hill is the largest intel gathering and surveillance space 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 plan 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 fight a 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 services 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 embody reagan 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. and withheld becomes part of the missile defense shield it's building another gulf satellite structure bringing the total to thirty three despite some local and international opposition growing not reducing the u.s. influence in europe. menwith hill yorkshire. the prospect of a u.s. led missile defense shield in europe is also set alarm bells ringing here in moscow nato is failing to provide legal guarantees that the system won't be aimed against russia and has also rejected proposals for a joint shield well later this hour we hear from a leading american scientists who says a bomber's administration is continuing bush era policies. bush

plan was first discarded by president obama when he came into power there was a lot of hope that the 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 assertion. this has raised all sorts of red flags in russia. strict border controls are to be implemented in denmark as the country's parliament has voted in favor of permanent new legislation it will mean more security checkpoints at the country's ports and at its border with germany some have already condemned the move saying it might contradict mainland europe much vaunted open border agreement. he explains. but 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. officials in brussels and especially by denmark's neighbor germany they insist that this is a violation of the good agreements 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 united europe but the danish officials insist that this will last cause and the 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 illegal migrants is particularly bitter 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 who do come to europe could do flood countries like denmark belgium or italy and france actually do come mostly from the north an 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. morton messerschmitt he's a european parliament member for from denmark he says that his country is right to take action to tackle rising immigration. all over the european union where more and more people are realizing that the solutions we have been given by brussels are not the right where the right ones for a modern world where fighting trafficking which is the one of the most horrible

crimes we see of course we're fighting drugs we're fighting smugglers in various kind and illegal immigrants it's clear that we see what we see in the entire middle east is to shoot pressure on the european borders and i think we have a national as well as international responsibility to avoid that that illegal immigrants come to our country so that they create a very modern and environment environment that is hostile to those who are legally here i think it's reasonable to use public spending to ensure the everyday lives for the danish population i mean that's one of the main reasons why you want to pay tax that you want to police a customs control the army here and whatever publicly funded institution to protect you so i think it's reasonable that we are spending some. one hundred million. on this matter because we have seen the increase of criminal activity due to the lack of control so now we pay a little bit more but we get more control and thereby more safety. and on the website dot com we're asking for your opinion about what the revival of border

controls between e.u. members means for the future of the union and looking on screen at the moment around a half think that the end of the e.u. is the only way to fend off an immigration crisis we see there that eighteen percent think that europe has failed to find unity in troubled times and sixteen percent say it's just a temporary setback in the integration process and the same number say that the e.u. has proved to be workable because to hear from you cast your vote dot com. libyan officials say they seized two ships on route from qatar carrying weapons intended for gadhafi rebels said to have been carrying over one hundred belgian made assault rifles along with thousands of rounds of ammunition so far only the french of admitted to supplying weapons to the government forces and the shipment of arms to libya is a violation of international law that's according to various he's from the center for research globalization. definitely is violating the united

nations sanction as well as international law there's something called the a t t and under the a.t.t. they cannot supply arms to the rebels this is not new news either they've been saying this from march that they've been sending arms to the rebels and i haven't been restricted here and in libya i've i've i've traveled i've seen the frontier from tunisia to tripoli. the people that are resisting this are the actual people libyan people there's no real organized military here it's the people the people of libya have taken arms to defend this country against nato if you go to the checkpoints you're going to see the regular people they called people people who are volunteers that it's not strictly a military a military force that's being fought against by the rebels or whatever you want to call them the transitional council forces revolution or whatever you want to call them they are a minority and they are being armed by the outside and in some cases they have better weapons than the actual libyan military that the ball is in nato support the

ball's not in libya's court they're fighting defensively that's the reality of the situation the ones who are being bombed they don't want to have planes overhead it's not it in their hands so right now i don't see nato winning unless they invade or they continue to arm the rebels put it's way it's frankly it's too soon to say and i heard that hillary clinton said we're going to follow this to the end i don't think this is looking good for nato and if they invade they have to be fools every house in tripoli is armed they have neighborhood defenses set up in every single houses aren't all the people here are carrying weapons if they don't like it if they were to turn those weapons on him. well a lot more still to come on the program for you this hour including brand new ways to satisfy china's energy hunger while some countries siding against the future following the fukushima disaster in china searching for advanced technology to make atomic power safer. and we report on the children with a rare condition

a fragile skin and their battle to improve treatment for the problem here in russia . on a visit to russia's north caucasus president dmitry medvedev has declared that the death of the lawyer said again magnitsky in custody has highlighted the problems facing human rights in the country he also touched on extremism and intolerance which he believes must be fought by the whole spectrum of society. has this report . a lot of issues were on the table at this meeting president need to be to focus on the role of the civil society in combat terrorism in preventing on resolving ethnic conflicts and also be discussed the investigation looking into the death of city monies he a lawyer who was accused of being for over huge money laundering scheme in russia but died in prison did huge wave of criticism both in russia and among the international community for talking about extremism and even mediated said that even though a lot of progress has been made over the past few years there's still

a long way to go before this problem could be fully resolved and just one of the latest examples connected to extremism in russia is the death of beauty got a former russian army officer was serving with the field after having been found guilty of killing a girl sort of the state long sentence was released was killed just around a month ago and even though it's not clear police sponsible for this murder they did trigger some racist comments this meeting was being held in the city over in the caucasus of course a very important region for the authorities when it comes to combat terrorism to russia's police chief this year alone managed to eliminate over three hundred militants in the caucasus and now starting from the fifth of july. major a five month wall of operation so quite a lot of things are happening in the caucasus and quite

a lot of things are discussed at this meeting as well. you go to reporting that a dutch court has ruled that the netherlands was responsible for the deaths of three bosnian muslims after the fall of. the bosnian war the judges have ordered the government to pay out compensation to the relatives of those killed the victims were support staff for the dutch un peacekeeping force and among those muslims who took shelter in the un protected. the men were executed by bosnian serbs when the peacekeepers forced them out of the compound along with thousands of others where more than eight thousand bosnian muslim men and boys were killed in srebrenica in july one thousand nine hundred ninety five it's now crossed a line to alexander puppets he's a political analyst based in belgrade thanks very much for joining us marty what a court had previously ruled that the netherlands was not responsible for those deaths as its soldiers were operating under un mandate so why do you think there's been a guilty verdict now. well i think this may have something to do with some sort of

political pressure being born against the dutch state perhaps because the dutch soldiers were under un made there's no question about that now on the other hand. i think maybe somebody is trying to shift the blame from the un to a member state and this is tricky business because at the end of the day we have some lawsuits being launched other lawsuits not this one against the united nations itself and it's going to or european court because the dutch courts refused to rule against you so this may be just a shift somebody is trying to shift the blame over to holland rather than the u.n. because if the u.i. is liable to one lawsuit it may be liable to lawsuits all over the world but the implications of this could be huge could they not i mean does this now mean that the relatives all those eight thousand victims in the massacre could demand the same compensation from the dutch government. well theoretically this could happen

also we must bear in mind the following we also have. families of serve the thames who are victims of moslem forces from serbia needs in the period of one nine hundred ninety two to ninety ninety five also suing the dutch state themselves also for failing to provide protection. from what was supposed to be a demilitarized area and stubbornly and this militarization never actually took place so actually this is a very very complicated situation with possibly far reaching consequences but the thing is the dutch government has always insisted that its troops were abandoned by the un which provided them with no support at all they say it was extremely difficult situation for them so should really the dutch government the dutch be responsible for this as you said earlier lawsuits are indeed being held against the un should it not be the u.n.

picking up this responsibility and being accountable for this. at the end of the day it was under the u.n. flag that the whole mission was being run and the u.n. had the responsibility for demilitarizing srebrenica however and we have the testimony of dutch soldiers several dutch soldiers who've actually said that when they tried to demilitarize the zone disarmed the muslim fighters actually they received instructions from new york from the seat of the un to go easy on the demilitarization so at the end of the day the dutch were left holding the bag so to speak there were they were there to shoulder the blame they were patrolling with three hundred poorly armed soldiers against four thousand well our muslim soldiers who were never disarmed even though it was the mandate of the dutch soldiers and all other u.n. soldiers to disarm them so actually hala does have a beef against the u.n.

but it's another matter of whether they're strong enough to to enforce it because now they are the ones being under pressure instead of the u.n. who is really the responsible party in this because it was to repeat under their flag that this whole. ugly event took place but this could have a negative impact on the un itself the future un peacekeeping missions could it not if you see a country brought to account and being brought to trial and having to compensate victims in an incident like that that could put off countries being involved in future missions. absolutely absolutely and if one looks at the testimony of hundreds of dutch soldiers who testified as to what happened in seventy two you could see that they were actually put in a quite a difficult position. politics were being played. high politics with people's lives you know you get a mandate to disarm and then they're telling you actually well don't disarm and then battle broke breaks out and you're the one left responsible the other

interesting thing that could happen as well is somebody in holland may decide that to clear their own name to clear the name of their state can actually start getting into what really happened it's there but it's there which is a whole different matter altogether because you know we keep talking about eight thousand being killed but you know eight thousand bodies have never been recovered so far less than two thousand bodies have actually been recovered of that most have wounds indicating casualties in a battle and not by any sort of execution so this is something that might actually come up if hollande is being pressed strongly enough either their own courts or from the outside and examine the passage very interesting to him we have to say thanks very much indeed for joining us live from great pleasure. the accident at japan's fukushima facility triggered safety fears around the world

forcing some countries to think twice about using nuclear energy but for energy hungry china it seems its demands are so high there's simply no alternative as henry morton reports it's focusing instead on developing new technologies to make atomic plants safer. 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 and much safer the chinese are investing millions in research into reactors powered by the elements for him a 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 release from the story and is greater than from the rhenium the by products from using thore and 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 other alternative energy supplies nuclear power is seen as the best bet by the chinese government the problem facing authorities is trying to convince a sometimes. 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. it's a rare and incurable disease and in russia sufferers say it's ignored by the medical establishment known as means children have skin so delicate that even just a simple touch can break it all over has many families who are coping with illness you may find some of the images in this report disturbing. she likes dancing and no one would guess the amount of pain liza goes through to make these simple movements

liza has a rare genetic condition epidermal this is billows a or b. that makes her skin less than 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 we're putting 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 she knew lizzie is only five but she already knows her diagnosis 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 isn't it it's such a rare disease that it's pretty much been forgotten about there's no states the port to there's no money and no specialists. yelled 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. so 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 am 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 a newbie 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 alongst back to 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 liza she bravely takes on life with a smile despite her deteriorating state as a sign of trust she told me her biggest dream there may be few children with this disease in russia but each of them leaves all the support they can get they may have learned to live with their condition but just like lisa they all dream of one day waking up to a life without paying. r.t.

moscow. to bring you up to date for the moment coming up next the latest in the world of business with kareena stay with us for that live here last. hello and welcome to the south thanks for joining me rating agencies are playing hardball with greece standard and poor's say they would consider a plan by french banks to roll over privately held greek bonds as a default french banks the biggest holders of greek sovereign debt have proposed to a new bonds when they mature louise cooper from b.b.c. partners say a bailout is not the answer it canonical form is the key to its financial health. if you look at the amounts of debt that greece has you've already had one hundred ten billion bailout package remember this is a country of only twelve million people they just cannot afford to pay back the

level of debt that they have. 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 points off enterprise going again that is the key to the financial health of cory's 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 our excitement to just get to greece from actually so over from sort of week to week is almost. means we forget about the underlying core problems of the economy that need to be addressed. tell us take a look at the markets oil prices are climbing this are holding a two day drop that's on speculation of this growing demand for oil in both the u.s. and china the world's two largest energy users light so it is trading at ninety six dollars a barrel and brand is that over one hundred thirteen dollars about. u.s.

stocks retreat from a five session winning stretch to after the government and of after the government said factory orders rebound the point eight percent in may the benchmark index has turned briefly higher for the commerce department said orders for u.s. airplanes cars and other industrial goods rose in may ask casually corporations invested in equipment and the rest of the r.t.s. in the mars it's finished in the black let's have a look at some individual shambles of the my six most energy majors finished higher but last point eight percent banking stocks were also lower would be to be over two percent in the red bucking the trend was carly us uses surged almost six percent after the m.s.c.i. said it will increase the company's waiting in its russian in this market. wraps up today's trade. the trend clearly remains up were brought in to say you had a bit of a pullback with the chinese central bank saying that there remain the inflationary pressures so what you've got russia actually tumbling towards the beginning of the

trading session and they've had a nice rally this afternoon three. hundred eleven and there's been some positive so you know investors also names a gasper you have good information coming from the government about the taxation and then you had names like that's doing very well given the dividend announcement there in policy and then you had as well the world. is going to increase their weight in the index from two point seven to three point five. inflation russia in the first six months of the year has topped five percent the biggest price increase was in cereals and vegetables which became almost twenty percent more expensive in non-food tobacco is up twelve percent and petrol ten traditionally inflation russian grows faster in the second half of the here but authorities still expect it to be around seven percent. that's all the business for now i'll be back with more and just less than an hour.