in business since one thousand minutes. international news and common live from my headquarters here in central moscow this is to be the us and remain you have signed a joint missile defense pact in washington the agreement formally authorizes deployment of u.s. ballistic missile interceptors in romania or it's part of the u.s. is planned to build a broader nato defense shield in europe intended to possible the turks from the middle east let's cross live to washington and talk to our correspondent. so the states have just signed that missile defense pact what does this agreement actually entailed. well bill what they've signed as part of america's revamped plan to build a missile shield in europe with elements of it deployed in different countries in

eastern europe romania will host america's land based s.m. three interceptors the shield will be unfolding fairly close to russian borders as you can imagine needless to say that's always been an irritant in the relations between washington and moscow the new u.s. missile defense plan that we're talking about is of course a plan where the first two stages envision the installation of s.m. three interceptors full word capability and the last two of higher capability is the last two. especially bother the russians the more advanced wants because russians have a different analysis of the weapons that the so-called rogue states have and what they don't have and moscow doesn't want the system to be eventually directed against russia the war of words a missile defense has been going on for quite some time now with washington saying we need powerful missile interceptors against a possible attack from some dangerous ac usually a name you ran in north korea and moscow saying why would you need interceptors for weapons that feels wrong. they still would have but russia does and russia views

america's missile defense plans as an attempt to breach their very precious parity principle that was said by the start treaty russians have been quite persistent and for years have been saying ok if it's not against us listed together let's build a missile shield in europe together and the response they get is always a no polite no but no they say yes to they will cooperate but not on equal terms to that russians say then give us a legally binding guarantees that the defense system will not be directed it will not be used against us because words are good but words in a legally binding document are better but besides the purpose the mere effectiveness of the shield is now in question last thursday the first for the first time the u.s. tested its advance their seven three block one interceptor missile and it failed to hit a target by the way the federation of american scientists has recently come up with a report their costs for review of american and of america's missile defense plan

and based on the inconsistency between goals between needs goals and means the report touched upon some very interesting points for one it says. the effectiveness of those interceptors is or if you will from a scientific point of view and be that it could push the russians and possibly the chinese to restore some kind of balance by arming themselves more secure well thanks very much indeed. talking to us live there from washington d.c. and a little later we'll be getting reaction on this proposed missile defense shield from prague. but first let's go to libya where the transitional authority has given residents of the. stronghold two days to evacuate or face a full scale attack the strikes help the rebels to secure a key oil town in the east the leader of the u.n. to see in his first speech since the colonel was urged libyans to strive for. a

civil democratic state based on moderate islam. international has called on the country's new leaders to prevent human rights abuses accusing both sides of the conflict a violent concern grows over the humanitarian situation in libya that seen over two thousand six hundred killed since the uprising began ortiz more of a notion has been talking to the people of tripoli about the outcome of the revolution. few free tripoli just can't stop chanting to celebrate the birth of new libya. all reminders of a recently overthrown dictatorship are suppressed what used to bring nightmares to some for decades is now a cause for laughter. ship shoot for his curly hair we call him because his hair is so long and he doesn't cut it it's ugly actually but someone out smiling believe in the post gadhafi freedom is nothing but the mirage

a crime has been the rest of three times in the last two weeks rebels interrogated him and took his documents the reason the twenty seven year old copilot says is his family's ties with gadhafi his regime we cover his face and change his name in supposedly free libya this man is afraid of being thrown to jail again or even killed. what you can say about wars and about could be like of what they are talking about democracy this is not. a crime says libya didn't get rid of a dictatorship but only fell into another one of the rebels weapons in a city where the gun has become a common accessory just like a cell phone and where one can only cross the town's numerous checkpoints with an obligatory a large bar to the winners this is a reality not hard to believe. no. everybody we are happy we are freedom

good there feels good run away this is not true believe me because they are afraid to war if good for returning back to tripoli you see the same people same people same percentage they are supporting a. revolution can bring much hope but what comes afterwards is often different. those who drove egypt's revolt this year was two of the streets this weekend seven months after toppling president mubarak angry at a lot of progress on the reforms future too is still far from clear the post gadhafi libyan capital has been the scene of euphoria with celebrator gunfire and singing heard here around the clock for more than a fortnight already like all parties however some believe they could be serious hangover after wards in the form of retribution and uncertainty as to how the future country will be governed. tripoli libya.

the latest on the developing story in afghanistan now where at least six people have been killed and twenty wounded in an ongoing taliban attack in the government district that's according to reports coming out of the capital the american embassy and nato led coalition headquarters in kabul have come under heavy fire several other sites in the city were also attacked including police posts and the office of iran's press t.v. news channel insurgents stormed in and occupied an empty high rise building from which they've been firing guns and rocket propelled grenades afghan and nato forces have surrendered the or i should say surrounded the scene and several insurgents were reported killed but at least one still remains inside the building and this comes just weeks after twelve people died in an attack on the british counsel's office in the same district the taliban has been stepping up its advance across the country since nato began handing over to afghan forces in. stay with us here in r.t. for more developments from kabul throughout the course of the day. time of you will

continue to abide by its peace treaty with egypt despite the attack on its embassy in cairo well that's according to israel's prime minister he spoke following the salton which three people died in clashes with security forces on friday angry crowds stormed the compound in response to five egyptian officers being killed by israeli troops in a border clash last month meanwhile the turkish prime minister who is on a three day visit to cairo warns israel it is facing growing regional isolation and let's talk more on this with. he's a fellow with the foundation for political economic and social research joining us live in very much indeed for being with us here on our team but he's taken a harsh stand against israel's actions downgrading diplomatic ties to the lowest egypt is following suit could we actually see ankara and karo developing a united strategy to to pressure tel aviv now. first

of all the visit is a kind of critical of visit and when he was. in. i was in caro he did alone talk about israel but you know the latest crisis with israel is still very hot everyone's attention is on prime minister prime minister's words on israel but off course this is one of the indicators that turkey and egypt is in the process of creating mutual understanding on regional issues and israel for sure is one part of mutual understanding you know turkey has been criticizing their regional system for some time now and it was saying that a change to transform ation is needed not only in political sense in domestic sense but also in foreign policy too because there has been why get between the.

impulse abuse of the people ordinary people and of governments and mubarak government was one of the examples for that and if you remember turkey actually approach to egypt before you nor to a kind of high level strategic cooperation council but mubarak refused this proposal but this time during this process of democratization the process where the real of the egyptian people are making you know into their way into the politics turkey approached egypt again in order to establish this kind of high level strategic cooperation coliseum and of course this will have direct implications for israel but of course. the israeli prime minister netanyahu is trying to defuse the situation in some ways because on

a trip to israel southern border with egypt he did actually say that. relations with turkey would go back to normal and common sense and cool headed this that's what he said he hopes that that will prevail eventually or do you think that he is really being realistic bearing in mind you're saying the sentiments from the likes of turkey and in egypt are people driven not necessarily from officials from governments. of course at this point we should separate two things. like egypt and turkey at this moment do not want to you know get their relationship with israel at all in its totality what they want to do is just to drag israel into international or in this school of the international law and the problem with the israeli government is they don't abide with international law and they interpret interpret international law just for their sake for their interests that is the point and both countries at this moment want the israeli government to

revise their policies first against palestinians and then against those who have been injured and who have been killed by the israel attacked a year ago on the only. mavi marmara. we are not in the process of the alleged demise ng israel instead we are in the process of finding vase for israel to push israel back to the international community so. let me just because i want all the time but then they wait for israel to do that is of course ready to accept that statehood bid which is coming up in just over a week's time at the u.n. something which of course the turks are pushing the prime minister of the turkish prime minister is very outspoken against that again an air of tension of course between israel and but do you really think that if that does go ahead that vote does go ahead in a positive way and they do get that statehood what effect would that have on the

whole of the region with that really defuse the tensions between israel and of course turkey and egypt and its neighbors. do you mean do you mean a vote in the united nations for the palestinians yes. yeah of course it would definitely help and you know the opals it conclusion or oppose it. where the application for a statement is refused this is going to create a further tension not only between turkey and. israel and the palestinians but also between israel and turkey because when you look at the you know the historical you know this is a line of turkish is relations we see that turkish is rather relations have always been conditioned. israeli treatment of the palestinians and then there is a kind of improvement in the peace process like the also courts or. the gaza

or syrian the peace talks sponsored by turkey we see a kind of a good day between turkish israel turkey and israel about when there is a tension between israel and palestine this will definitely reflect very strongly on rather relations really interesting where you have to say go for it thanks very much for your thoughts and tash joining us live there in ankara. we're now back to our top story here naughty the u.s. and rumania sign a missile defense agreement that will now for money allow the deployment of ballistic missile interceptors in romania moscow says that the deal proves the need for legal guarantees that the system will not be aimed at russia well for more on this let's talk to an activist from the humanist movement she's in prague for us good to see you here on our team now the obama administration scrapped bush's plans which saw the czech republic where you are and poland as the host countries for the anti missile defense bases and said the whole concept would be revised but doesn't

the signing of this agreement actually prove that nothing's changing the plans are indeed going ahead after all. well actually i am very disappointed by this new development. exactly what for the reason that you mention the fact that obama. scraped the bush plan a big hole brought a lot of hope here in the czech republic here in europe and we were hoping for a better future also the fact that obama all for nuclear weapon free world was there was a lot of hope unfortunately what we see now is is a movement in a different direction or you see a movement that goes again and again in the way of armament begin in the way of using force not only in countries where there are armed conflicts like iraq and afghanistan and now now other countries in there in northern africa and around the military and but also here in europe and that i see very as it is

a very dangerous develop to go because if we build up more military equipment here in europe we are moving closer to a conflict some would say some would say confessing to that that do be a dangerous development not to have some form of missile defense system based on the perceived threats from north korea and iran i mean you do need one that any. no you don't because there are much much more dangerous weapons of mass destruction around the world nuclear weapons there is of nuclear warheads around the world there are and they are just a ticking bomb waiting for a disaster. one that is planned or one that is caused by an accident so working there is a real threat much bigger threat and. could be north korea or iran yes of course we have to deal with those threats but we have to deal with in accordance with the important i think what was going on in the past is that those countries that only

acquire weapons and the united states above all where. sidelining the issue of nuclear weapons even though they committed themselves back in the seventy's in the new non-nuclear in the nuclear nonproliferation treaty that they will get rid of those weapons and they are all right let me quickly ask you though that the czech republic had actually earlier pulled out of the plan saying it wanted a much bigger role about what you're saying are you saying that actually all you'll work you're very much against this plan and i know indeed that you went on a hunger strike a couple of years ago over it do you see this actually actually as a done deal and all your sentiment shared with the majority of the czech people are they concerned about this in the way that you are and is going to go ahead. well i i think what we did certainly was was a good thing and it had some positive effect in the original plan was scraped and did not go on so that's that's a good thing. in terms of what the check people think here it's hard to tell

because there's very little coverage here on this issue in fact since we started. criticizing the original plan also president bush and later president obama the czech government and i think also years government changed tactics and instead of openly talking about the negotiations that have been going on between the united states and the other government check of remains a romanian government and they are now holding most of these talks in secret and they release very few information so not very much is known and and therefore there is not a lot of opposition of course a lot of time all of the interest quickly a lot of tension between russia and nato and the u.s. over this what it make your position any different if you saw a shared plan between russia and nato or not. yes definitely wherever there's a corporation it's always better than when it's one party talking without consulting the other part it so that that's for sure but overall i think of what we need to talk is about is is about the fundamental threats the most important

threats and reassess the threats based on their importance and i think yes long range missiles are a threat but without nuclear weapons and without. nuclear warheads that can be mounted on top of these these. iranian missiles or any other missile then with all those nuclear warheads there really isn't a big big threat but on the other hand we do have a nuclear warhead there are ready to be launched and we need to talk about those how do we get rid of them i think that's the real danger or just finally very briefly obama you want to nuclear weapon free world leader that's what you want but realistically that's not going to happen is it. i think it is think just lake albert einstein and bertrand russell in their money first so they talk about the choice that we have to make as a human being and species extinct ourselves with the technology that we invent or will find ways to do to come to

a nuclear weapon free world i don't know where we have to go thanks a lot thanks for your time so we have got longer to talk to you always good have a chat to you again this issue to mash joining us live there from prague thanks to time about. germany has called on the eurozone members to stick together in an attempt to settle nerves over the potential greek default the chancellor says that greece must stay aboard the block to avoid causing a domino effect the statement came after fears of greece declaring bankruptcy cause the shop for the global markets on monday was triggered by reports that germany was preparing for greece to leave the euro zone has been struggling to bring its debt crisis under control despite stringent austerity measures financial journalist dimitri kovtun it says that there is no easy way out. but there are different ways that. the european central bank and the e.u. could go about dealing with a default of greece or an exit of greece portugal or some of the peripheral countries they could break the euro into two different types of euro and put the

fact that no one is willing to talk about that option openly and kind of admit that that's where we are with an unsustainable debt like greece has and now the fact that you have a country the size of italy which is no longer really able to access the markets the way they're accessing it for the markets but the e.c.b. isn't there buying italian spanish debt so the fact that you have these countries on able to issue debt paper on their own is frightening for the european union for the eurozone there is no real exit mechanism from the euro if you're part of the new you're part of it supposedly for life ok and so we saw how chaotic it was when argentina. default on its debt and exit of the dollar peg in the case of greece it's not even a peg they've given up their currency their french banks that are that are potentially on the hook with a lot of greek debt now who's exposed to those french banks and who's exposed the banks that are closed the french banks a lot of the banks prefer an environment like they've had now which is we can lever up as much as we want doesn't matter and if we lose we just get bailed out there

they're structurally adjusted their business model and their profit making mechanism to this new environment which has been perpetual bailouts that we've seen since one nine hundred eighty. in the meantime it's really burdened by its own debt crisis. turned to china for a possible rescue top level talks were held with beijing after italy moved closer to the epicenter of europe's financial turmoil rome's treasury refused to give out details but it's understood that china was offered an option to buy a stake in the italian sovereign debt the government is pushing a fifty four billion euro austerity package that includes changes to pensions government spending cuts and a special review on the rich the lower house of parliament is expected to approve it by wednesday. well ahead of the business news with marina let's quickly now check out some of the other news from around the world making headlines. with the school bus in the pakistani city of peshawar killing four children and the driver was taken to fourteen year old students home when the gunman struck we know claims

responsibility for the attack so far northwest in pakistan is torn between government supported tribal armies and islamist militants with links to al qaeda have carried out hundreds of attacks against civilians in recent years. two passenger trains and a bus collided in the argentinian city of killing nine people and wounding two hundred twelve some of them critically the crash took place during rush hour one of passenger bus drove around crossing barriers in an attempt to save time and was hit by a train throwing it onto a platform express then and hit another that was going the other way. sex abuse victims of submitted claims to the international criminal court and for sixty cardinals to be investigated for possible crimes against humanity that even officials are being accused of negligence in supervising priests and turning a blind eye to sexual crimes against children thousands of individual cases abroad each year but the court has never before opened a single formal investigation into the catholic church.

i'll have a wrap up of the day's top stories here in just a few moments from now but first as promised marines with us next with the latest business. hello and welcome to business here on the right see the clouds all of uncertainty continue to pile up in europe rising expectations of a greek default and the possible downgrade of french banks are causing the financial bar on the charts to drop sharply russia is not immune with the ruble now trading at an eight month low however jacob now from morgan stanley here in russia believes there are reasons not to be too pessimistic. if you look at what's happening to reserves which is the kind of results of the entire set of. transactions between russia and the rest of the world every week we've been seeing an increase in into the school reserves and if you think of oil exports at these

prices and what's happening. i think you'll fall into the current to kill continues to be very strong. on the capital carol it's a little bit less predictable but i think with the uncertainty around the election it may have been an increase in capital flows though not to the level that you saw earlier this year so actually we expect the ruble to strength from the u.k. and from current levels going forward. now let's take a look at the markets now we'll start with oil prices there are maxed fall and rebounds in the euro and in stock markets international energy agency cut its estimate for the man growth and some of that supply expectations. in the u.s. markets are trading in positive territory the dow is up with point two percent of all the nasdaq is adding almost one percent this hour. and in europe investors are concerned by the weakness of the global economy pod markets they're close in positive territory with banks among the top performers following the heavy losses

in the previous session. and here in russia markets bounced back from earlier losses and ended the dreaded session also in the black both the arts yes and the my sex at a point three percent so let's take a look at some index movers on the my sex most energy majors were down this wide strong crude bucking the trend was a north nicole the company's board has approved the terms of a new share buyback it started to spread four point five billion dollars to buy a seven point seven percent stake from minority shareholders all service also as it's ready to discuss the sale of its seventy five percent stake in the us critical if the price is right. while a giant gas from that is preparing a deal which could be less is fears that russia will. i'll be locked out of libya following the revolution gas from sources say the company will proceed with its plan to develop an oil rich field called elephants last year it agreed to buy one third of the project from its allies and the full one hundred sixty three million

dollars there had been concerns rawson farms could suffer from moscow's slow recognition of the rebel governments and. that's all the business news for now the headlines are next with bill. well when one deals with water it has to realize that this tremendous amounts of

damage that are done not just human damage but damage to the physical environment in which the battlefield takes place tremendous amounts of damage done by early bombs by napalm boy coming from the city whether it's a sonic boom city factory marine mammals or it's the burning oil field syria and iraq or it's destroyed coral reefs in the pacific for purposes the list just goes on and on the geneva conventions and forty nine states that there shall be taken in the war to protect involved against widespread long term and severe damage unite. states although it is accepted almost all of the provisions of protocol one has taken exception to that.

this is. time to update you on our top stories the u.s. . defense pact and will now formally authorize the deployment of ballistic missile interceptors in romania renews its demands for legal guarantees that the nato system will not be aimed at russia. libyan transitional forces have given residents of the proceeds gadhafi strongholds two days to leave. as amnesty international report from war crimes committed by both the loyalists and rebels the new leadership to restore order and security. ukraine questions the legality of tools to the nuclear disaster sergeant.