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a diplomatic dustup between russia and france reportedly hits out of the french all the libyan rebels saying it was a violation of the un resolution on the conflict details on that just ahead. on the euro took a turn for the worse is portugal gets downgraded to junk status with panic spreading over where it will all end. of japan approves a second disaster recovery. psychological support is grow over radiation levels in the area around fukushima. international news and comment live from moscow this is diplomats from russia and

france have reportedly clashed over nato's handling of the libya crisis at a meeting of the un security council held behind closed doors it's believed moscow criticized the french decision to deliver weapons to gadhafi rebels which russia says was a violation of the u.n. resolution. looks now at the roots of the dispute at the u.n. . no official statements but we do know that there was a discussion and russia says such actions violate the arms embargo that was imposed on libya and the weapons supplies also breached the un mandate that was given to establish a no fly zone and protect the libyan civilians the u.n. authorization was given in the middle of march and since then nato bombings have killed scores of libyan civilians undermining the goal of the operation speaking those goals western powers have their logic of understanding the goals of the operation they say in order to protect the civilians they need to get rid of gadhafi in order to get rid of gadhafi they need to weaken his strongholds which means intense bombing of the country and that's what the forces are now actively

engaged in but by no means alone they say will not bring his desirable and to the conflict which is ousting khadafi so there needs to be action on the ground but the u.n. resolution explicitly says no foreign troops on the ground in any form and that's why the rebels according to the french for example but critics say that logical change takes us very far from the initial goal stated in the resolution which was to stop the massacre and nowhere in that resolution they did say a forceful regime change many say made those actions were meant to stop a massacre have brought about a lot of destruction not to mention that it's a direct and now a long lasting involvement in the civil war there have been reports earlier that the military has been shipping arms over the border to leave in ravelled and digitised military is very much influenced by washington as we know but those reports were never officially confirmed france was the first to acknowledge weapons supplies to the rebels in libya we're talking about rocket launchers assault rifles machine guns and anti-tank missiles there are several aspects that analysts point

out in french in this dispatch apart from the fact that very clearly the arms embargo that was imposed on the one their radical elements among among those rebels was wild and there are unlikely to from mercy for their opponents and those arms supplies most certainly inflame the situation even more and the way it was done the weapons were parachuted from planes got hold of them it could be kids it could. criminals but it seems nobody cares as long as it's the rebellion and that's the phrase used by the french as the reasoning behind the arab league to boost the rebellion but many libyans now think the last thing they want is a boost to the civil war that has taken so many lives and has torn their country apart and the other aspect that experts point out is that. make it almost impossible for the two sides to sit down and talk and find some kind of a political solution because of the constant blotch that any ma city is growing and the rift between the libyan people is getting the. author of the book

humanitarian imperialism says nato will do whatever it takes to get the job done in libya and get rid of gadhafi. if yes we're going to go see action some of what we're going to see asian american. simply don't think this is not only with these things here with negotiations. you need to go through the negotiation and. you're going to get themselves to believe that ability to grow no matter what the elite going to do with the great thinking that would want that. this is weeks not months as there are now it's months we three months there's you that in another few months the wolves will not go on either the. tubes on the ground and then you can go on a lot. more uncontroversial arms flows germany is reportedly sending two hundred tanks to saudi arabia talk of a deal is causing outrage among germany's opposition politicians who claim the government would be breaking its own export rules you have found

a can of foreign affairs expert from germany's left wing party told me earlier in r.t. that the move compromises the country's position on democracy and human rights. we know that even in the ruling parties there's a lot of opposition against this because you know it was this government in the past couple of months went to egypt went to. always say that we have to promote and support the movement for democracy in the arab world and everybody here knows and talks about that it was saudi arabia who invaded baccarin with tanks part of the way. to fight down there and a bloody intervention the democracy movement so it's even in the in the ruling party there are a lot of members who say we can't do this if we know that monitoring for saudi arabia that really threw a white violator then we lose any kind of credit in the arab world so don't do it but whether the government or not will make a u. turn we will see and we had the first demonstrations today i hope that there will

be a larger movement and then yes maybe we can stop it. well coming up in a few minutes from now here in r t shining a light on the web for international russia publishes a declassified list of people and groups its sense of financing extremism in the north caucasus. and next game is the technological revolution boosting the trade of indian fisherman mobile phones have transformed their business and i. story still to come but first europe's ongoing struggle to save the euro has been dealt another blow as portugal has had its debt downgraded to junk status moody's the credit rating agency behind the move says a default is likely unless the country is given another bailout money and of the same question the logic of saddling struggling economies with more debt and speculation grows over whether the e.u. is ready to come to political rescue again. economic analyst and also tells me that if germany were to ditch the euro it would help weak economies deal with their dad

. you don't have to be the chairman of a constitutional court to find out when you discard politically and legal because it's obstructing treaty it's also against elizabeth treaty it's against everything we have a no bail out clause in europe and everybody is breaking it more and more taxpayers of course are getting fed up with what is going on here it's the best solution if germany would withdraw of the euro many experts say that you have to drop greece or portugal or even island or the southern periphery of europe but what what this being at the end of the day it would mean that they will have their debts in europe and. the local currencies then will be devaluated the euro will go up and then the problem is even higher if germany pulls out of the euro then the sum situation is totally different then these ural debts will decrease or will be devaluated and this is exactly that what those countries need. we've got plenty

more pictures of the unrest surrounding the bailouts at our website is dot com online all the time including dramatic footage from athens of one of our correspondents becoming caught up in the fun and showdown between testers and police and continuing to report through clouds of tear gas. on the web site how to find the secret to eternal life we've got all the advice you need if you want to live forever all that and more at altie dot com. the russian government has published a list of all individuals and organizations proven to be sponsoring terrorism it also includes international entities involved in funding extremism their names taken from a u.n. blacklist north caucuses correspondent medina has the details. list of individuals

and companies suspect it's also involvement in financing of terrorism was published in this government own newspaper this morning you know this document was a previously confidential but now part of it is open to public now companies that are present in this list are located in different countries and basically across the globe there are companies that are based in egypt in afghanistan in somalia and even in germany and the united states in terms of individuals the also come from a significant range of countries from the countries of the middle east from african countries from germany the united states and from russia russian citizens primarily komo from of the republics of the region of russia's north caucasus from cheney and from and that done there are also some well known names in this list some well known groups like the most in brotherhood. and russia's most wanted terrorist. you

know this document shows is that some kind of a nod or a cow has been created that connects countries with each other and that's the problem of terrorism has become an international issue now several years ago the world thought off by a chechen terrorists that are present here in this region as of chechen rebels but now the situation has changed with russia's most wanted some models being present on the list of the world's most wanted terrorists and really this document shows how the system works and the problem often turn is far from being sold is an international problem. the mobile phone has become an integral part of everyday life but what's seen as a form gadgets in some countries has proven enough to revolutionize the lives and livelihoods of many people. ortiz pretreated reports now on the indian fisherman who calls to the next generation network for they catch. multan kumar wraps up his

engine for a day of fishing off the coast of carolina the southernmost state in india. i studied in school until the seventh grade but then i had to leave school because we were not economically well off so i had to help my dad was fishing kumar's one of thousands of fishermen in the state who wake up at one o'clock in the morning to earn a living for decades fishermen like kumar rely on luck and prayers to find a good catch but all that has changed since the introduction of the mobile phone in the state more than ten years ago the boy. if the fish is not available where we go fishing or fisherman in other parts of the sea call us and tell us where we might be able to find a good catch then we go to that particular place. in addition because of the new ease of communication kumar is able to find out how much demand is that his local market and the prices the buyers are offering in order to determine where best to sell his fish today he is making double the amount of money he was making before he

started using a mobile phone he now owns his own boat and says he is able to send his three daughters to college india has the fastest growing mobile phone market in the world in the most growth is happening in rural areas what may be seen as a convenience in the last is being utilized by indian fishermen revolutionizing their business and turning them into entrepreneurs and business men in their communities most of these fishermen have been doing this work for generations and never imagined they'd become so tech savvy they had watched their fathers and grandfathers come home from sea several times with no fish at all but today that never happens you know about a little bit of there's a lot of difference between the times when we used to gay fishing with sticks and now when we go fishing with engine the arrival of the phone it's become easier for a little studies show that mobile phones aren't just empowering the fisherman in the community more competition means better prices for consumers on average they fallen by four percent it's

a new quality of life for the people of this community who never dreamed that they would escape poverty and most fishermen there are literate but we want to give a proper education to our children and that is possible because of the earning we get from the fishing business there's no doubts that mobile phones that have helped . providing new opportunities by advancing their tradition with technology preassure either our team carola india. lawyers for the former i.m.f. chief dominique strauss kahn the meeting the prosecutors in his case of alleged sexual assault in a new york hotel maid reportedly pushing to get the charges dropped off to the woman's credibility was called into question during investigation meanwhile prosecutors. in france are weighing up whether to prosecute strauss kahn and similar charges and you complaint was filed by a writer who says he tried to rape her back in two thousand and three as a prominent member of the french socialist party and was seen as a leading contender in next year's presidential election before the scandal broke out but even if his presidential hopes are now over the paris bureau chief of

newsweek magazine says there are still options for him to continue his political career. is certainly a huge story it's dominating all the news it's dominating all the lead up to the presidential elections next year there's a socialist primary that's supposed to be taking place there's even questions about whether strauss kahn will register for that primary which he would have to do before the thirteenth of this month other people think there's a conspiracy against him maybe a conspiracy that involved even the president nicolas sarkozy all of the while this kinds of claims and counterclaims are being made right now and it is completely dominating the political life of the country in truth it doesn't look like he could pursue the presidency that would really be a strange new twist in this but he does want to have a political career and there are various possibilities that will come up over the next year or two or three there's a very good chance that there will be a socialist president although not strong scott and that if he is cleared or at

least of all the charges are dropped against him could serve in that president's cabinet he could also run for president of the european union there are a lot of possibilities that he probably believes are open to him and that might well be if he is absolved of these charges. activists in romania say they want unification with neighboring moldova by next year they say the two countries should be together again as they have been at various points in their history as artie's election going to the reports there are mixed feelings about the plans with many in moldova remaining bitterly opposed. from photo exhibitions to loud bradleys in both bucharest and kisha now since two thousand and nine some movements in romania have been complaining to win back what they see as their land. since april it's been impossible to miss colorful stickers like that in towns and cities across romania besar robbia is romania they say believing that the land which is now the sovereign state of republic of moldova must again be on the book arrest control and indeed it

was until the nineteenth century which saw it pass hands several times with the collapse of the u.s.s.r. moldova declared independence becoming a member of the united nations the council of europe and the world trade organization now in alliance of more than thirty n.g.o.s in romania say these achievements would be sacrificed in the name of reunification. of the romanians from two states from romania and republic of moldova. states because. we are separated unjustly and we want to. bucharest official line is that reunification of the two nations can only happen if the both soviet state becomes an e.u. member but politicians in moldova have expressed concerns that the president a cesspool would not wait for that eventuality and will instead at some point in the future expand his country's borders to absorb moldova the remaining president.

a couple of months ago clearly said that within twenty five years from now. we will integrate. under the. european integration romania but it's actually actually discrediting. the european integration because for most people of european integration is definitely not integration. analysts in the moldova and capital say the law. last few years have served as a clear proof of this intention. after the change of power in two thousand and nine loads of romanian media outlets appeared in most of those include several major t.v. stations and two dozen and we believe the main mission is the urbanization of moldova and the deconstruction of the moldovan identity. next year which marks two hundred years since bucharest last dish now for the first time the action twenty twelve

movement is planning a massive information offensive on mobile was population action twenty twelve says it is not funded nor officially supported by bucharest and that their mission is peaceful form the people of the need to restore the greater romania the majority of people from romania and from the republic will decide that. they want to unify he is. taking the lead possible. if that's the case then it's hard to imagine any reunification in the near future especially with up to forty percent of romanians agreeing to have best rebbie a back but almost two thirds of population wants to remain sober. alexy rushes to see the full g. from book arrest in romania and kisha now republic of moldova. and we've got more on what's happening in the post soviet republics in about ten minutes time we'll explore kurdistan in central asia last year and sort of violent revolution and

ethnic conflict on its way to becoming a parliamentary democracy. almost four months since the massive earthquake and tsunami tore through japan's northeast the daunting task of rebuilding homes and lives continues efforts have been boosted by the passing of a second emergency budget of almost twenty five billion dollars but as well as financial assistance traumatized survivors are also in desperate need of emotional support as sean thomas now reports. as the waves crew should gainst a damage to sea wall on the japanese coast. volunteers work tirelessly to clean up the debris and bring some sense of normalcy back to the area. i want to tell people that we need more help more supplies and things are still here beyond the physical destruction there is a distressing psychological factor as well the city if you want he is right on the edge of the twenty kilometer exclusion zone for radiation contamination in fact in a recent study by japan's nuclear safety commission twenty five percent of one

thousand children tested in the wanky and metering cities have tested positive for thyroid radiation exposure a figure that has parents appalled. at all we have the government has resets the great here is the safety and i'm not concerned with the consequences their reaction is only to help the governments they face that they don't actually take care of the damage and the people here first there was the earthquake then the devastating a wave which rushed in and destroyed this part of the coastal city of it walking also there are the nuclear radiation waves that are coming into this area as well the volunteers that are coming in to rebuild this city certainly have their work cut out for them but just like the city itself the people who live here the community they need to have their spirits rebuilt as well that that my god again in an effort to keep this community emotionally strong and organizers have brought this acting troupe in from tokyo they saved their goal is to provide

something beyond simple entertainment for we have a certain japanese pride and in this destructive situation i would like to bring good things and present the spirit of japan and japanese pride by bringing people together and making people smile. through that shared community experience there is a sense of hope that the city of the walky can indeed recover the convenience of a company close to city hall but it's good to see anything alive is coming back. and with an understanding that there is still much more work that needs to be done the people here are working to keep their community together. i just want them to stay where they want. and the fact can be helpful that i keep doing it. rebuilding the city one step at a time any want the city japan sean thomas forty. when in the wake of the crisis of fukushima japan is going to stress test all of its nuclear power plants

to determine how well the reactors could withstand further natural disasters and he was also into the showing people that the facilities a safe well she spoke to the director general of the world nuclear satiation he blames the media for stirring up public panic in march of pan and that's coming up in just a moment stay with us life unless. you're .

john rich it's great to have you with us today thank you so how much does it make the production technology crude since its first reactor well the history of the nuclear age goes back more than a half century and enormous changes have taken place in that period of time i think the remarkable thing about the history of nuclear energy is how safe it has been almost from the very beginning. when we go back and see the first reactors experimentally being built in the one nine hundred fifty s. we're looking at a very very new technology and now we've had some bumps along the way that is force for sure we had three mile island in america we had chernobyl in ukraine we just had fukushima. but there i think the remarkable thing about this technology which is producing so much of the world's electricity is how essential lease safe it has

been get been it does not emit any emissions into the into the global atmosphere and it has only on very very rare occasions harmed anyone and meanwhile we've had thousands hundreds of thousands even millions of fatalities from the extraction of fossil fuels from the surface of the earth and from the health consequences of carbon emissions so if you look at the history of nuclear technology you not only see a very safe technology but you also see a relatively superior technology because it is essentially emissions free callus always wondering who pays for storing the waste and how can an engineer be tropical when you have to pay for storing away for thousands of years you know that the the question of waste is i think the most fundamentally misunderstood aspect of nuclear energy most people say well nuclear energy might be ok it seems to be pretty safe but you don't know what to do with the waste let me say something that may shock

you. the greatest comparative asset of nuclear power is its waste now why is this. other major energy forms whether it be cold or natural gas or oil what you find is that the atmosphere the global public atmosphere is being used as an enormous planetary waste dump all of those carbon particulate all of that carbon monoxide all of that carbon dioxide is going in there right now we are emitting carbon dioxide at the rate of thirty billion tons a year which is eight hundred tons per second into the planetary atmosphere as an atmospheric. nuclear energy is producing a considerable proportion of the world's electricity one six while producing an amount of radioactive waste the sequel. the size of the fuel which becomes highly radioactive and then must be safely stored but the wonder of nuclear technology is

that it can be managed it can be contained there is a relatively small amount of it and it can be very very safely stored in the immediate term when it comes out of the reactor and it kind of venture will be put in long term storage containers placed back into the earth in a geological repositories that are carefully selected and without any ultimate harm either to people or the environment the climate for christina what happened there and least you keep telling me that it's all safe and i don't keep telling you that it's all safe there was an accident at fukushima look what happened i mean how can how can that nuclear power be the future when it's still so incredibly dangerous for life well it's interesting that you would say that because we've just seen twenty four thousand japanese citizens killed by an earthquake and a tsunami. we've seen the media have a frenzy in covering the accident at fukushima which has not made it had not been very responsible for

a single radiation fatality we have twenty four thousand citizens having died from the earthquake and the tsunami we've had a mishap a serious mishap at the fukushima power plant that has yet to produce a single fatality and yet people are using the word the phrase nuclear disaster nuclear tragedy as if something terribly harmful has occurred relatively little damage done by this event and this was a worst case nuclear event after fukushima you said we need to go back and look at whether those posts shut down cooling systems can survive the worst case events we can imagine what do you mean by go back the japanese made a mistake. the fundamental mistake they made was deciding that the worst tsunami they might encounter would come at a certain height and that would be the worst case to nami that they would encounter and if they defended against that there there are backup cooling. would be say that was a mistake because they misjudged and the result was that they did not have waterproof

backup cooling systems and because they did not have waterproof backup cooling systems those were flooded and rendered inoperable now why is this important how did this happen you have to think of nuclear energy as the equivalent of a racehorse that finishes running a race and then needs a cool down period the reactors at fukushima when the earthquake began shutdown they became essentially helpless on purpose but they still needed some exteriors some external resupply electricity supply to power cooling systems that would get them down from five percent of their overall heat level they had been at one hundred percent they were already down to five they needed some extra cooling to get down to normal atmospheric and ambient temperatures. all nuclear power plants require that outside assistance after they have shut down and the japanese mistake resulted in those out.