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activists growing more vocal in their opposition to a covert u.s. military sites in northern england. saying they have a right to know what's going on. the shutters are up in denmark as the country passes strict new laws on border controls which already calls from its european neighbors who say it might reach agreements on visa free travel. nato is under fire over claims that the un's libyan arms embargo was gadhafi loyalists intercepted a shipment of belgium made weapons intended. and business rating agencies are playing hardball with greece. french banks to roll over privately held greek bonds. in twenty minutes from.

international news and comment live from moscow this is. calls for independence from us militarization 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 british authorities barely know 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. symbolizes what's wrong with the special relationship between britain and the united states here we have a base that's on us control 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 gold 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 cite 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 a can envisage dimly early warning missile detection system that was dubbed the star wars program it's 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 is around the country they want to reclaim this land and bring it but 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 local and national 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 is also rejected proposals for a joint shield well later this hour we'll hear from a leading american scientist who says a bomb administration is continuing bush era policies. the 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. and that interview coming your way a little later here on r.t. straight to 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 checkpoint to the country's ports and its border with germany some e.u. officials are already condemned the move saying it might contradict mainland europe

so much for him to open border agreement. has this report. 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. officials in brussels and especially by denmark's neighbor germany they insist that this is a violation of the shandon agreement 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 all for united europe but the danish officials insist that this will not 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 really go 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 in africa 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. messerschmitt he's a european parliament member says his country is right to take action to tackle 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 groks 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 an 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 or 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 kroner on this matter because we have seen the increase of criminal activity juicer the lack of control so now we pay a little bit more but we get more control and thereby more safety. by the way on

our web site r.t. 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 the constitution and see what the results are so far want to run the whole think that the end of the e.u. is the only way to fend off an immigration crisis eighteen percent think that europe has failed to find unity in troubled times but the same number say it's just a temporary setback in the integration process where we can see the moment eighteen percent think that the e.u. has proved to be workable to cast your vote to go to 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 belgium eight assault rifles and with thousands of rounds of ammunition so far only the french have admitted to supplying weapons to libya's government forces and the shipment of arms to libya is a violation of international law well that's according to mahdi darrius nasm roa

he's from the center for research on globalization. definitely is violating the united nations sanctions 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 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 is 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 are better weapons then 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 are all the people here are carrying weapons if they don't like a death if they were to turn those weapons on him. well a lot more still to come on the program this hour including brand new ways to satisfy china's energy hunger while some countries are starting against future funding the focus human disaster china searching for advanced technology to make atomic power safer. and before them the children with a rare condition

a fragile skin and their battle to improve treatment for the problem here in russia . those stories still to come but first 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 awarded the government to pay out compensation to the relatives of those killed the victims were support stuff for the dutch un peacekeeping force were among those muslims who took shelter in the un protected enclave the men were executed by bosnian serbs when the peacekeepers forced them out of the compound along with thousands of. muslim men and boys were killed in srebrenica in july nine hundred ninety five but it's not the private she's a political analyst based in belgrade has told me on r.t. that it's the un you should take responsibility. the soldiers who are under un made mandate there's no question about that now on the other hand. i think maybe

somebody is trying to shift the blame from the u.n. to a member state and this is tricky business because if the u.n. is liable to one lawsuit it may be liable to lawsuits all over the world at the end of the day it was under the u.n. flag that the whole mission was being run and the you one had the responsibility for demilitarizing srebrenica however and we have testimony of dutch soldiers several dutch soldiers who actually said that when they tried to demilitarize the zone. this arm of the muslim fighters actually they received instructions from new york from the seat of the u.n. to go easy on the demilitarization so at the end of the day the dutch were left holding the bag so to speak they were there were very to shoulder the blame. there forget we also have plenty of other stories available for you on our website that's dot com online all the time here's a quick look at what's there for you at the moment how maze of pens have become

considered as dangerous as in russia's republic of chechnya whose leader has burned the devices. and also r.t. catches up with an italian marble marvel who can make the stone magically stay afloat and even fly if you believe you can find out more about that and r.t. dot com. the accident at japan's fukushima facility triggered safety fears around the world forcing some countries to think twice about using nuclear energy for energy hungry china it seems its demands are so high the 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 much safer the chinese are investing millions in research into reactors powered by the elements 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 thore and is greater than from uranium the by products from using story in a less toxic than from uranium and it's much harder to make weapons from those by 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 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 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. former i.m.f. chief dominique strauss kahn is facing fresh charges of sexual assault which have been filed by a french writer she claims she was attacked in two thousand and three bodies noise say they will sue for slander becomes a strauss khan's new york sex assault case is reportedly on the verge of collapse as prosecutors question his accuser's credibility well for analysis of strauss current situation i'm now joined live by robert zaretsky he's a professor of french history at the university of houston on his college thanks so much for joining us live there on your webcam now these new sexual assault charges only emerged just as the new york case apparently started falling apart what do you make of the timing here. well. it's difficult to say not

just on but i'm not her lawyer. but in a way that's misleading to say that they're only just emerging bill they started to emerge several years ago. tristan in a novel that she wrote five years ago. presenting an account of of this attack or this alleged attack and though she didn't name stross khan is the attacker it was a well known secret in paris that in fact she was the one you who did attacker according to her account and for the last. three or four years in paris it has been widely accepted that. that something happened between just on by now and dominique strauss kahn. and so what is happening now nine years after the fact is well one can say that they're just getting under the ten year

limit on filing a criminal charge against dominique strauss kahn and also i think david could be her lawyer was very clear that he didn't want his client's case to be in any way attached to the case that is now unraveling in new york by the. chambermaid who is accused of stross cano of the other eight let's not get too involved now what with the legal aspects but what about the general context of a political assassination with the news of these cases by want to. if you were to subscribe to that theory who would you say could be behind this. well there are a number of obvious candidates i should say that i don't subscribe to it but if i were just about subscribe to it clearly it would be asked for cozies part of the un peu would be sarkozy himself he could be. some of his competitors in the socialist

party so if they would i don't think it's i don't think it's political sasa nation and i think it really is a case of political suicide i really think that dominique strauss kahn is at the margins of this case. and at the end of the day. i see introductory auditor up but you say political suicide but there are some saying this could actually pave the way to the french presidency. it could. but to my mind it's inconceivable. according to french accounts it will last three or four days and they are impressionistic no polls of the been taken but it it seems clear as far as the soundings can can tell us that women are beginning to move in droves from dominique strauss kahn. it's significant that just don't bang on smother and months and months or eight who is

a fairly important figure in the socialist party and who urged her daughter back in two thousand and three not to say anything about the attack has now come out of the closet and insist stad stross current and is sexual habits have been long known among socialists won amended by nobody has said anything about them and. so he may emerge a free man but whether his freedom is going to lead to the it leaves a is a completely different story and a number of women in fact if you take a look it's just today it's a new but i see own in france are appalled at the. the elephants which is what they call which they call the grand old men of the socialist party are plotting their clapping one another on the. right now because

strauss kahn seems to be on the verge. of being liberated from our new york city's our judicial system well it's very interesting to hear what you have to say thanks so much for your time robert there at ski professor of french history at the university of houston on a college thanks for joining us thank you bill. it's a rare and incurable disease and in russia suffer say it's ignored by the medical establishment known as the b. it means children have skin so delicate that even just a simple touch can break it down a pushover is met the families who are coping with the 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 lisa has a rare genetic condition epidermal this is below or be 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 lisa was 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 while using it it's such a rare disease that it's pretty much been forgotten about there's no states that put to there's no money and no specialists. yet old man is 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 nice to 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 stuck 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 needs all the support they can get they may have learned to live with their condition but just like elisa the old dream of one day waking up to a life without paying. r.t. moscow. we'll be back with a recap of our main news stories for you will be of the business update with kareena stay with us here live in moscow.

our welcome to our business sports and the south thanks for joining me ratings 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 the default printer banks the biggest holders of greek sovereign debt have proposed to a new vons when they mature louise cooper from b g c partners says a bailout is not the answer economic reform 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 private enterprise back going again that is the key to the financial health of crease 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 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. now let's take a look at the markets prices continue to climb stopping in today's drop that's all speculation there's growing demand for oil in both the u.s. and china the world's two largest energy users light sweet is trading at ninety seven dollars a barrel and brant is at over one hundred thirteen dollars a barrel this hour stocks in the u.s. trade mixed after the dow jones industrial average had its best we can two years it had been up as many as nineteen points after the commerce department reported an increase in factory orders banks are losing on the dow bank of america and j.p. morgan both shedding over a percent and in russia the r.t.s.

and the my six finished in the black let's have a look at some individual share moves on the line six energy may just finished higher by gas from last point eight percent banking stocks were also lower with d.t.b. over two percent in the red bucking the trend though was. the russian potage produces surged almost six percent after the m i c i said it will increase the company's weighting and its russian index marco cast a clue to wraps up today's trade. but i'm to say you had a bit of a pullback with the chinese central bank saying that there remain fresh air pressures so what you've got russia actually going towards the beginning of the trading session and then you've had a nice rally this afternoon. hundred eleven and there's been some positive seem to be investors also names like you had good information coming from the government of the taxation and and then you had names like that's doing very well given that they

didn't announce when they were in policy and then you had as well the world. is going to increase their waiting on the index from two point seven to three point five that's our business stay with us for headline news.