face to face with the news makers. of the. nato says its plans to continue its presence in libya as people on the ground claim the latest threat to their safety now comes from weapons falling into the wrong pounds. two of the suicide bombers who carried out deadly attacks in the capital of russia tragical public have been identified the blast killed at least nine injured one for trying to. land israel trains and reportedly arms west bank sadler's ahead of the un vote on palestinian statehood experts warn it is the anticipation of violence that could actually spark a conflict. ross now have to strike some multibillion dollar deal with the world's biggest oil company exxon mobil just months after the collapse of the type

of b.p. join us for more on that in our business bulletin and twenty minutes time. it's thirty pm in moscow this is coming to you live i'm nice now with our top story this hour and nato says it has no immediate plans to end its operation in libya despite the rebels now control in most of the country the alliance is continuing to bomb the town of syria the main progress afy i should say a stronghold which rebels have given until saturday to surrender meanwhile tripoli remains under rebel control but as are the notional reports but almost every youngster in the country now carrying a gun it's far from safe. hammer is a libyan rebel he got a bullet in and fighting against gadhafi soldiers in secrecy matric me with

a shot coming from the same style and. i didn't even notice until my friend told me that my foot was bleeding triggered by mistake he was himself. one of the biggest stories was discovered at the top security prison in southern tripoli where inmates were released after nato bombed the area. of the country it was with arms it looks like live in peace had already developed nation but the weapons of war. when i ground zero have real life and bad guys like gadhafi in your thirty's you save lives to start gathering up weapons for mosques and well police are back on the streets the young gunman the street the residents. will give it back to them as soon as they ask the system but many here are afraid that this addiction may have

a painful recall the gun has become one of the symbols of the libyan rebels and freedom for a new country though people want more peace for singles it's fear it will be easy for many to lay down their arms when they gone has played such a prominent role throughout libya's volatile history original. tripoli libya. well meter of course and russia's and going to nato of the alliance seems determined to take control of libya is a worrying tendency. but you know. it's a classic situation when separate nato countries are waging war and meddling in an internal conflict of a country far away from nato zone of responsibility of the airlines as an organisation claims not to be involved classic military propaganda nay to use the un resolution as chewing gum probably on purpose to show that the alliance today is equal to the un and tomorrow maybe even more powerful it's a dangerous trend nato is turning into

a world policeman and it's using the un resolutions turning them to feed their interests and not taking into account the interests of the people on the ground the rebels are united on me by the desire to get rid of gadhafi and as soon as the common enemy is defeated the opposition will inevitably face internal rifts and i'm sure that that will be the moment when some western countries will try to secure some military presence aiming to control libya's oil reserves. and patrick a reporter for the online magazines by all these nato wants to stay because it has no clear vision of what lies ahead for the. fundamentally with the transitional government that's being put in place what you have here is a government that's been cherry picked by the west these are people that aren't elected it's also nice try and win the debate with the libyan people about why they're in any way more legitimate thing gadhafi i wouldn't say this is in any way a revolution the west western government basically bombing

a path. of rebels and filling the vacuum left by gadhafi isn't seen anyway what i would revolution but that's something that i think more fundamentally than that there's been no sense from nato from western leaders what they were doing in the first place and they've not at any point had a coherent sense of what the mission is and there's a lot of talk a lot of grandstanding over the last few days about this a job well done there is no use in crete with the examiner with no mission creep going on it was only because they didn't have any idea of what they're trying to achieve in the first place and it's no surprise that now gadhafi is gone they're still hanging around because they're still unsure it's still unclear they want to get some brownie points from this you know and have made some short term political gains as a result spirits. we spoke to british labor m.p. barry gardner who opposed the allied intervention in libya so the interview is available on our website for you at r.t. dot com here's a look at what he had to say. it was very clear in the

original un resolution it was very clear for our prime minister spoke in parliament here that there would be no occupation force one of the things that troubled me all and some was this being unreasonable and so as to whether there should be troops on the ground as the rebels were going into tripoli we heard go left go left go left these instructions being yelled out by what were obviously british soldiers british personnel who were leading that advance group now that i think is where we've overstepped the line. the syrian army has once again deployed to the city of homs in search of opposition activists last month the city was overrun by tank forces leaving dozens dead meanwhile amnesty international has accused syria of killing eighty eight people in presence during the five march ongoing uprising

activists claimed the victims were and present and tortured to death for taking part in anti-government demos this comes out or at least seven people were killed during a crackdown on how they. are meant to transform conflict analysis center in berlin think serious religious tension will begin if the opposition top boss president assad. it were showing signs or. if you are. not it. is against the sects in syria but all. that was issued for sins. and got them all you have after we talk to you good food will be with you because we have we will start to function for the lord. yes for good food and even religious conflict as long as everybody is you know we are successful

when. we may see some. but from moscow you're with parties still to come this hour financial blame game. and the market there are many ball of time he just doesn't trust. politico thrusts and. while you policymakers accuse the markets of threatening the euro zone recovery experts point the finger at the politicians themselves and their indecision. plus a multi-billion dollar war chest wasted by the u.s. we look at where the american taxpayers' money allocated for iraq and afghanistan went and asked the experts if there is more bad news to come. but first nine people have been confirmed dead after three suicide bombings hit the capital of russia's southern republic of chechnya twenty people have also been

wounded in the blast two of the terrorists have been identified with one of them being the brother of a suicide bomber who blew himself up in the republican counter at all last year but in a question of are has more on the story. the capital of the chechen republic grozny was headed by three blasts the first happened late in the evening on the road leading to the cedars and fought a suicide bomber blew himself up when police tried to stop him for an id tag half an hour later as of the same plays of the first blast of this second and the third attacks happened when investigators and emergency workers arrived at the scene this tactic when one suicide bomber blew himself up and therefore attract more people and then and not the attacks that happened as well known tactics for many terrorist across the world and we've seen that happening in iraq and afghanistan the leader of the chechen republic i'm sunk

a bit i've described those behind this attacks as criminals and he said that they have once again shown their true face as they have and nothing sacred with these attacks happening on one of the most important muslim celebrations. but our website we've got plenty on how russian muslims mark the end of the holy month of ramadan watch how thousands of worshipers gathered in the capitals mosques spilling on to the surrounding streets and out of lanes we've got that footage in full for you r t v dot com. to global energy giants america's exxon mobile and russians have struck a million billion dollar partnership agreement the cooperation will range from the gulf of mexico to russia's vast our czech shalt oversleeping deal signed in the

presence of foreign minister putin at the black sea resort of sochi gives the russian property unprecedented access to u.s. energy projects in turn america's biggest oil company will participate in developing vast untapped oil reserves and by. our check this puts an end to the hopes of another giant britain's b.p. to be part of the project the state secretary to the ministry of foreign affairs of norway which also has a big share in the arctic that's told our team what role his country will play in the exploration off the territory. it will need some more energy and it must be taken from some with a dollar tree because one of the missing promising regions norway house it's you know the physical shape of a free articles of how to compensate its extremely valuable both of them. how to create concern to be seen by the russians are inviting not only all the way in but also all the countries same report in the region companies are playing. rose in

different projects also in russia. you can watch that full interview with norway's state secretary to the ministry of foreign affairs next hour here on archie and of course more details of that deal between now and exxon in our business update coming up a little later at this hour. comes a time where israel will be hoping for the best but preparing for the worst the military is training and also reportedly arming west bank settlers as they expect violence when the u.n. votes on recognizing the palestinian statehood next month but i suppose there are reports it's the actions of the jewish state not the ballot that could lead to bloodshed. the united nations might be meeting next month to declare a palestinian state but for more than half a million israeli settlers they couldn't care less there has been so many the

sessions they cleared in the un that have absolutely no meaning and are baseless un only wanted nobody's go home but palestinians say they'll be the ones now going home and like it or not nigeria and israeli settlers will seem to find themselves citizens of palestine once the un recognizes palestine within these borders now there's no argument this is occupation international law apply for months now the israeli army has been fine tuning its response to the un vote. liberal come out of the equipment in order to have a. stronger america and says from also training a lot of reserve soldiers have been around for a million dollars and the separation the army is also training sick lives in self-defense the working assumption of his way to defense establishment is there comes a time but they will be confrontations between israelis and palestinians they fear

that they will be marchers protests and in some cases even violence but it's an assumption and many would say overreaction that threatens to inflame the situation on the ground israel has been doing everything it can to be. useful idea of a board and it's not only the palestinians it's shortchanging is nearer the truth spreading also on the on population growth is not justified because at the end of the water policy or doing the political therapy and trying to achieve legitimacy through politics and i think this is far better. to try to achieve with it and i think through prayer or war and the irony is that the army might just be focusing its real. sources are wrong population you think of we are going to leave out the country the biggest danger though is that as these we defense forces prepare for conflict people on both sides of the border begin to

expect one policy r.t. . but we're always eager to know what you think about our top stories today we're asking you why israel is arming in citizens here's how opinions are divided so far the majority believe it's time to provoke an armed conflict a burst of pito the u.n. program palestinian statehood almost one fifth think israel is just protecting its citizens thirteen percent say the aim is to distract the israelis from the country's economic woes and the minority considers the israeli government to be that's not part of that and have your say. the e.u. is concerned that uncertainty in global financial markets and threatening europe's economic recovery e.u. leaders are now trying to implement crisis measures agreed last month including a second great bell out but with the deal not yet finalized markets are wary of what politicians are doing so as italian business journalists francesco.

in europe the main point is that politics and markets don't see it really the. leadership and peel brass saw coming instead seen with some political real strong nature earth so. still dollars and europe have not come to grips with norbert all solution for both the greek rises but i would say also probably european crises in fact if you in spain are also in dangers and these are much bigger economy and produce therefore much bigger risk and dangerous to your royal we. with financial issues no easier across the ocean peter the ballot his gaffes to be a ways out of the turmoil across talks coming up in less than fifteen minutes for

you here's a look at what's in store. the problem in our economy isn't the lack of liquidity in the world to watch a liquidity it just doesn't know where to go japan's long term prospects are terrible european welfare states are collapsing and of course the big government policies of bush and obama have made the united states very unattractive so i really think the fed is completely out of the picture all they can do is make things worse by giving us i guess the nineteen seventies style stagflation the problem is the banks themselves weren't terribly intelligent so they took the free money they made a great deal of profit out of it and then lo and behold they decided that they'd pay huge bonuses to a lot of traders because these traders they regarded as being superman and i that was very unfortunate because ultimately if you give me money for nothing it's very very easy to make a profit from it and that's all quantitative easing has achieved for all of us. and

. if you go to. the u.s. senate committee on wartime contracting us found that thirty billion dollars of taxpayer money is missing or has been stolen by contractors working in iraq and afghanistan over the past decade a report claims the money was squandered due to poor planning a lack of oversight and outright fraud i u.s. contractors and federal employees the findings will be presented to congress as washington prepares to cut defense spending tackle america's enormous debt the contents of the report on a complete surprise with or consequence of all the reconstruction in afghanistan already confirmed october but as former bush administration official michael o'grady says more money will be squandered for many years to come. thirty more

billion could be wasted because things have been built that won't be able to mean they won't they can't maintain them in countries like iraq and afghanistan you have to when you build something like a power plant you have to be able to maintain an operating and the afghanis simply don't have the ability to do that i predict anyway american firms will have to go over there and they will have to stay there are these power plants. and if the government of afghanistan and if karzai says no no contractors will take care of it we'll end up paying afghan engineers an operators to maintain these things and i feel safe in saying that money will disappear let's take a look now at some other stories from around the world this hour president obama cleared a major disaster in the state of new york due to the aftermath of tropical storm irene a move me if the state can use federal funds for relief for the storm triggered

massive flooding that caused widespread destruction along the east coast a total of thirteen states have been affected them a number of dead now stands at at least forty four a massive rescue and cleanup effort is continuing the start of school in some of the worst affected areas has been delayed. b. you has launched a special operation in the north coast of the union says it's in relation to a criminal investigation into the death of a policeman in crisis last month a violence dispute with serbia erupted when the region's authorities tried to take control of two border crossings on tuesday the un called the situation of course of a tense and unpredictable. a car bomb has exploded in pakistan killing at least ten police say the blasts occurred as hundreds were leaving a mosque in the southwestern city of quetta people had just finished morning prayers to mark the end of the fasting month of ramadan a woman and

a child are reported to be among the dead and at least seventeen people have been injured no one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. but more dramatic footage of the aftermath of tropical storm irene on our website our team dot com is available and on a lighter note check out our free video project for a front row seat to an annual musical. to watch track pipes go head to head with drugs thanks as my musical bad a lot of falls in the very heart of moscow the red square hosting that's just that's how our military topped. and there's a new act in town as these saucy performers leave their suit to be welcomed into their new homes the moscow circus prevent the two had their first steps to. take three. three. three. three.

three. three live video for your media drug free media gondar t.v. dot com. kareen here is your next with a live update on the business desk stay with us. welcome to our business update this cell thanks for joining me russia's role snap has struck a multi-billion dollar deal with the world's biggest oil company x. and mobile deal comes just months after the collapse of the tie up with b.p. the american firm will become main partner and exploring in the potentially huge reserves of russia's arctic sell in turn russia's state run oil group will take part in exploration projects in the u.s. including in the deep waters of the gulf of mexico and texas the initial investment

is expected to be about three point two billion dollars but the partnership could pull out as much as five hundred billion dollars into the project will hold two thirds of the joint venture exxon mobil one. and joining me now to discuss the issues that are set right and chief business year thanks for joining the program so this deal of one thirty two third's who's calling the shots in this deal i think at the end of the day the russians remain in the driving seat. you know you know they need all these international companies and the way the world's developing is in the past the multinationals they were the ones that would extract and there will be more and more so in states where you find this in charge and so they have the right to collapse but at the same time the russians need the technology on their own to mr companies i'm not able at the moment to deal with some of these very difficult conditions particular in the arctic and that's where the multinational stew have the advantage that's where they still needed that's why

they're still being invited and what are the possible risks of this part of the city coming into their great risk i mean in the long term you know is this technology transfer goes on then the domestic companies in russia are more and more able to do this kind of project and who are supporting the veyron writing and giving away some of the profits to someone else so i think a deal like this is it runs particularly runs for a long time. he's always open to renegotiation of various stages further down the road and i think the exxon mobil in this case you know have to have to really negotiate because at the end of the day it's russia's will they can give it to whoever it was the thing that it's it's one company. that's noble and b.p. to us that you think the deal that x. novel has with b.p. now is its position stronger than b.p. had it when it when b.p. was about which was not yes i mean i mean highlights the point i mean the deal with b.p. went sour and so russian just went to the next person in the queue in this case exxon mobil and provided you go in and you you know put the i's and cross the t's in your

contract then you're in a more sort of position the b.p. to ended up being a mess and it was too many games being played there if it had been before before. they would look at themselves in the first place which now they're paying for the consequences well let's talk. about b.p. we see be at least talking lawsuits with main part of tanking b.p. and also ross nast is threatening to file a lot of compensation for the collapse of that deal what do you think is the future of this legal siegel what is going on i mean i think a lot of animosity was was created. just officially on officially that the curtain was a scrappy originally to go ahead with the pm and b.p. knows russia well has been working here for a long time however you know the chemistry of the details of the deal worked against them the fact that the joint venture between the pages fifty fifty split

and the ones in charge is a recipe for disaster by people i've talked to at the company the russian company say that the person maybe even members of the board the minority shareholders in b.p. go on extremely badly service and you have to remember that on the russian side these are all some of the biggest of economies are not in the country and they very much run as their purse. small bases and so that sort of poison the atmosphere as well and with b.p. trying to go into a deal directly with the us navy when it was clear from the beginning the shareholders agreement was going to be a problem but just was the straw that broke the camel's back and now their descendants it's legal mess and you know people are going to throw a little since each other and in russia little suits can drag on forever i mean you can just go around the region of course all ages and ages eight how how likely do you think that b.p. will quit its membership and. i think that's certainly on the cards are a lot of help with the the relationship has become so poisonous and i think that's

certainly a possibility the question is how they would accept i mean the russian. russian side were asking for a massive valuation of the stake and b.p. is in their position and given the events of last year mexico is in no position to come up with tens of billions of dollars so the kind of stuck with it i think they're stuck with each other for the meantime but i can see where each wanted to get a divorce this question is is a divorce a settlement that's going to be the problem we'll see what happens ok well thank you thanks very much ben as every inch of business news here thank you for coming to the program. european stocks shows solid gains in the morning trading british stocks are high would broker recommendations prompting some of the biggest moves those including gains from its own financial man could also among top performers french industrial group who each shares those ten percent up for the company announced its first home for zones along with a share buyback retailer care for drop thirty three percent after two poor first

loss and here in russia call throughout test lies it's a high of a favorable external factors investors are waiting a further stimulus measures from the us federal reserve and here's a quick look at some individual channels on the mindsets the solid have the worst front running against losing half a percent following the two with that small gold gold related stocks are on the rise armstrong the metal prices precious top pharmaceutical company tom standards is adding more than one by one point two percent after posting a fifty percent increase in net profit for the past hopeful thinking. it's all to have time for now business bulletin this hour but stay with us to headline news coming up next.

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