from rebels to radicals libya's new chapter sees a surge of extreme is not often nato's fight for democracy but washington seems unconcerned about what's next after duffy's gone. the race to stop europe from drowning in its floundering finances seized i.m.f. chief heads to moscow to see if russia can come to the rescue. the russian tycoon titans slug it out of the six and a half billion dollars on their reputations on t.v. reports on the high cost draw are playing out at london's high court.

but i well knew such twenty four hours a day you're watching r t welcome to the program libya's post gadhafi world is showing a lurch towards radical islam with strict sharia law and al qaeda flags in evidence there it's barely a week since nato moved out of the campaign to swap a dictator for democracy yet the alliance and us don't seem too concerned about the shape it's taking which if you go explains why. cheere first question leader not so long ago the us media presented leading rebels as freedom loving folks yearning for democracy after could alpheus killing the narrative changed you know you talk about this arab spring and many people here as a move towards democracy but really that is not exactly what's going on it seems the u.s. media just woke up to the young folding human rights disaster in the region libya's

new rulers are at risk of being accused of the same kind of abuses before to overthrow an al qaida flag planted on a lady and courthouse steered quite some panic and not just that you have the interim leader coming out saying he hoped it would become an islamic state that polygamy was going to be legal again consistent with sharia law sharia law to include punishments such as cutting off the hands of thieves beheading convicted murderers and rapists stoning to death adulterers shari'a law which is about to be introduced in libya is considered to be for the most part incompatible with democratic values especially when it comes to women's rights but many experts believe that whatever the new libyan government's domestic policies it will not stop the u.s. from making nice with saudi arabia for instance has the most extreme form of sharia law women are not allowed to drive cars are not allowed to vote but crime for

adultery for women is the death penalty in saudi arabia and none of this seems to bother the powers that be and gnashing to n.y. because saudi arabia does the bidding of the united states in this oil rich region sort of being a dictatorship but not a democratic state yet america's a galleon exporter of saudi arabia that just shows that we really don't care for working with democracies or with working with their feet or shoes or working with secular governments or religious governments what we care about is our interest in the region bahrain another u.s. ally in the region it hosts america's space fleet and also leaves on the shari'a law and as a. questionable human rights records and school e.b.m. those in power are their only things to mido and particularly the united states the media here had generally been supportive of the campaign to topple gadhafi but now that he's gone why the sudden concern about human rights in libya maybe out of old habit so well demonstrated in the run up to the iraq war when the media cheered first and then when it was too late when the war was full on started asking

questions and we say human rights was never a top priority for those in washington who called the shots and threw their support behind the currently being government. shutdown reporting from washington. greece will soon have a new team to try and lead its out of its financial quagmire. to form a coalition and means beleaguered prime minister george will fight to step down the successor chosen late on monday. to secure the main opposition party. and go to just a few months to force cuts for approval for the use rescue package. for next twenty twelve. prime minister shocked colleagues at home and abroad to drawing a referendum on the. finance minister the unity government and other names may also

be thrown into the ring. the last post evil person to have to be the leader in this new government will be mr look at the most he's sixty four years old he is the x. prize sprays you don't mean that european central bank is not abilities and he is a technocrat but according to the clown is the most to be the prime minister and out there for you to see us make technocrats to beat our own team. personality all over respectively in the code if you're a zone in the. both european union and he's the person who knows very well how to react in this difficult situation panelist here in greece after the announcement says say that more austerity means are are expected because nobody will give us money because the government is going to change this means that

greece the greek us citizens are going to suffer more now seem to be desperate they want to go on the lake still because they think that apart from this coalition government in february we're going to have the election for a new government but of course we have to pay for the debts maybe the european union should cut reacted there here because in the past we have heard even mr barroso and other of the selfsame talk about silly dari t. and cook rationing the european union and now we've got our arrived at this reply and greece suffers even italy suffers which is a bigger economy and probably will create not probably for sure it's both creates more poor problems the moment you rosalie. well the e.u. president has repeatedly called only europe's leaders to get closer to each other to save their finances even though most would balk at the inception of the former british government minister tells r.t. later but such ties should have been sorted out and long before the single currency

was born the problem remember it is the based on fiction because it doesn't have political reality the whole problem with this crisis is it was created by the europeans themselves because you could not have a single currency without a political union they knew they couldn't get away with the political union and so they disappeared to the equivalent of las vegas and signed up to and maybe a proposition which is to have a unified currency with no unified policy paper going to get rid of one in point in greece you're going to have to get the price down and it's almost everything is priced the neuros that will never be possible to happen therefore best thing if i was agree i would be down to get a drachma to get out of this because what happens there still in the euro zone so that french french a hack. but there's still stuck with the europe. will

have more from britain as though it has in twenty minutes time arundhati. now leaders of the world's twenty biggest economies very much have greece its finances close to heart as its debt continues to drag everyone else down they agree to prop up the international monetary fund its chief is bringing the e.u. crisis talks to russia and will meet president medvedev later on monday russia doesn't offer direct assistance to the evening but has offered ten billion dollars through i.m.s. investment mechanisms instead president christine legarde world service customs to a shift of economic power looking nations will soon become main lenders. also ahead this hour where in india where disaster victims became drug company guinea pigs. for any tragedy killed thousands the survivors who thought they were getting medication would be tested on stand. on the

lid is lifted on one of russia's richest men's will rise to wealth as regards the movie which is on the course to defend himself from fellow tycoon aris. afghanistan's raging drugs production is being blamed on soviet forces from three decades ago american research brought in statistics showing the opium industry soared since the us led invasion in two thousand and one. when she contributed in this trying to shift the blame. have you ever met scientific disinformation as hard drug propaganda campaign well here's the chance vandar brown from the brookings institution blamed the soviet army in afghanistan for deliberately eliminating the egg recall cheryl infrastructure in afghanistan as the main reason and impetus all

their freedom loving ever going to farmers to switch into ophir production in fact it was the cia campaign to promote and foerster we just didn't fighters as newark and drug dealers bit spurred an expanded drug war right at the beginning of the end i saw region hand in afghanistan and as such providing their funds for the united states covert operations the united states is solely responsible for afghanistan converting since the beginning of the operation enduring freedom into their bottomless pit and the epicenter all very global not a threat to the security and stability of the whole world there's a further fallout from one of the wells west industrial disaster as well the quarter of a century of chemical gas make us. india killed around twenty thousand people yet the survivors faced for that i can

e used to test drugs they thought with the treatment as the story. even after twenty five years residents say it was a day they can never forget it. i clutched my children from one wife and mother. everyone was screaming running room we crossed another village where people go to the coma and everybody in the village was screaming. that's heard say union carbide had faulty equipment poorly trained employees and in adequate evacuation plans in the aftermath despite being charged with manslaughter managers were bailed out and flown back to the united states never to account for their part in the disaster union carbide eventually reached a four hundred seventy million dollars settlement with india's government but left without even cleaning up the mess many believe that caused thousands more to suffer and they're angry. ok today thousands like raman

still suffer. very healthy before the gas leaks to the place of work after this incident we became very sick will never improve after the leak many indians were wary of foreign companies but it turned them into prime candidates for clinical trials they thought they were getting treatment but doctors often used experimental drugs without them knowing the patients apparently consented by signing papers in english they didn't understand and many say they never signed anything at all for each participant in a clinical trial the doctor received around two thousand dollars this is both paul memorial hospital the place where the victims from the gas leak of nineteen eighty-four were treated it's also the place where clinical trials of medications took place about eighty percent of those are believed to have been done on gas victims r t obtains documents that show at least six trial programs that took place

in bhopal between true thousand and four and two thousand and eight. profile would be ironic that after the victims of the worst there michael disaster in which some of the largest largest now is the mass of corporations that in war get very victimized by another set of multinational corporations pharmaceutical corporations true past that became suspicious when he was repeatedly asked to bring blood of two bottles of medicine back a common practice in clinical trials anywhere though no one agrees or they didn't tell us the name of the medicine but told us that we were given trial drugs and medicines had numberous repeated requests by archie to speak to the government or bhopal memorial hospital or deny experts say that medical testing on people needing actual treatment is on ethical unsafe and unscientific and documents show that at least eleven people who are knowingly took part in the bhopal trials died after

taking the drugs when you drug pros all. whose into these are not even being assessed let alone treated you are taking a great risk today's srivastav still waits for justice. because of i'm slowly losing. i cannot work for anybody and i suffer from breathlessness left to suffer a double tragedy preassure either r t o paul india. well that's all it's the law and there's more the stories affecting your wallet you can see millions of russian muslims mark one of their most important religious festivals and as i mentioned celebrations but need to visit us in dot com. and hollywood's going to know all the spy story in its sights starting with the life and death of a once and only cage in the office a consultant going into some parties you can channel and see our best to get

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your. questions on the call. a look at some of the world news now the sorrow. civilian deaths in syria this time nineteen protesters killed by security forces just sort of ration is the major reason still. twenty seven antigovernment protesters died in homs is the focal city for the opposition the arab league will make another attempt back in the crisis this week already brokering a peace deal that's being widely. blasts also struck civilians at and large markets in central baghdad as people gathered to buy food eat at least eight people died and dozens more were injured since the political iraqi capital soon little while ago. was and u.s. . troops or their.

race is on the front survivors buried by landslides in colombia runs on by the worst rainy season in living memory dozens are feared buried. in the sorry washed away tore through the city of venice one hundred sixty kilometers west of the terrible severe weather has already forced a quarter of a million people to evacuate safety. and floods continue to spread in bangkok's commercial district within five hundred people have already been killed across thailand the country's worst flooding in awful century also levels in the capital reached a metre high by the fourth they say the subway system is also a risk government says four billion dollars was spent to help the country recover. british court is seen to russia's richest battle it out in front bench and its new

small claim six and a half billion dollars is at stake. that i can research reserves once the cash from a chelsea football club and a man remove it the man who usually keeps a low public profile as i read it reports that britons are getting a rare glimpse into the billionaires that start. it's been dubbed the battle of the oligarchs in one corner is an easter egg estimated well if billion assets for yachts chelsea football club and a print chateau in the other corner is to be estimated fortune five hundred million he had to sell his yacht but he does still have his trusty stretch my bike which he never fails to show off a man abramovich is rise to riches is a story precious few knew until now his time in the witness stand has lifted the lid on a life in the shadows he revealed how some of his companies employed primarily disabled staff and a lucrative thirty percent tax breaks and he came clean on the powers of cash he

paid for protection i think dived into the infamous alamy and walls of the ninety's where we now know someone was murdered every three days not exactly the clean cut image of one of britain's most loved foreign imports he did want to i think it was in the morning for you know the only difference between a rotten people and here is pure good preserves a very banal image he doesn't really come across aggressively when we say anything at all he wants to go respectable and suddenly we're all made aware of the rather sort of see the origins of his wealth it's a third of that wealth but body spirit he claims is he's still a wanted man in russia he's suing mr ambrym over it for six and a half billion dollars they set up the oil company significator in the ninety's to put as also he claims he was blackmailed into selling his stake at a fraction of its true worth a mere one point two million dollars the money here is massive the case is expected

to smash the record for the u.k.'s most expensive privately funded litigation is thought to be costing eighty dollars a second in here as the legal fees mr every moment is a real it'll be sixteen million dollars is noise and if they were cut out there on a no win no fee basis the pair used to be close mr b. . he gave his protege the all important leg up into the world of the super rich and we now know he was paid for his troubles but mr a says that was just protection money denying they were ever business partners it's fact claim this case rides on but there's no concrete evidence after all this was ninety's russia none of their deals were written down five weeks in and i've counted the cost of nine billionaires five russian one kazakh one is becky paul israeli one british the crown prince of abu dhabi is suddenly involved for transferring one point three billion dollars from one to the other not to mention future strange deals records

of meetings that maybe never happened the whole thing's extraordinarily bizarre you try and place the whole thing together which becomes another difficult task because you don't know how much of this is even anyway true according to mr pease lawyers mr a has hidden his billions in a complex web of offshore holdings so even if mr b. does win he'll have a difficult task extracting any money with so much at stake it's painstaking progress the battles expected to go on into the new year after bennett r.t. london. first go back to ease debt crisis now and the i.m.f. and christine lagarde is in moscow to be present with various and of course. for r.t. is across this forest so you catarina what does russia have which could help europe through its struggles. russia how much russia has money to help europe and behalf of the i am happy it's here in moscow to ask for russia's help russia pay the last

portion of its step to the international monetary fund back in two thousand and five and since then it has been contributing to the organization providing money for countries with which economies experience difficulties or even default as it is the case with grace the recent developments in greece that the euro crisis in general dominated the g twenty summit. in cannes last weekend the leaders agreed to bolster the role of the i.m.f. and other financial institutions to save the euro and eurozone and the much needed help of the euro could prompt from the emerging economies from the breaks including russia and although the euro crisis doesn't directly affect the breaks they did agree to call for money to the eurozone they haven't agreed on the sum but as far as russia is concerned we're talking here about a possible contribution which could exceed ten billion dollars however president wasn't it out clearly that there is a condition on russia and its partners within the great. to all for money to the

euro zone and that is that their help should be targeted and transparent that means helping the european countries not directly but through international financial institutions such as i am up and above all the boy says all the breaks need to be heard within the i.m.f. and other institutions why did you try to admit from the get it also praised the decision made by the european leaders last month to bolster the bailout funds by the created by the eurozone from four hundred forty billion euros to one trillion euros and we should remember as well that russia itself keeps almost forty five percent of its international reserves in euros so guess is interested in helping the euro helping eurozone at this moment. of course the the world's economy focus as you say appears to be shifting eastwards but what can russian air expect to get in return from the i.m.f. . well just like other great countries russia is long before

the reform of the i.m.f. in the first place on its regulator board the end of all the bric countries are pushing towards the register beautician of the i.m.f. the membership quotas by january twenty four teams of the main criticism. international monetary fund is the same is similar to that of the g. twenty the g. twenty remember was created in two thousand page of behavior of the international financial crisis and it was meant to widen the spectrum of the countries which put in their voices trying to help. the world with that with common financial solutions but as many critics say this hasn't happened since two thousand and eight all the head of the i.m.f. christine lagarde supported the idea of reforming the i.m.f. and she agreed that the quantum is with rapidly countries with rapidly growing economies need to increase their borders with india. the i.m.f.

was created in one thousand nine hundred forty five from currently its commitments amount to almost week hundred. billion dollars in loans with greece portugal and ireland the main the major borowitz. ok time to hear the truth in a central moscow for us thank you. well in a few minutes time here's how some of the euro zone's money woes could have been avoided if the politicians had sort of the squabbles out before had x. their own decisions. and stray far minutes past eight am here in moscow you're watching the business for our team it's been almost two decades of talks but now russia looks to have its foot in the door of the w t o the country's intro into the final round

of informal negotiations to smooth out the final remaining issues a decision on russia's membership ship is expected by the end that's this week over from alpha bank outlines the benefits that russia would get by george. that were true and full of a possibility to have access to global technologists and the cheap access. high high technology equipment and which had the mormons are hot relatively high in producers and in general you know the regime of management the cost them terrorists this will become more transparent so this is definitely most of just what investment in russian and i think second big benefits is a double issue and for a noble potential or possible to russia they're always. err seeing their way to a really awful window from the rational to become in the way more important you know on their own the global political political level. and peter west and that

investment from out on believes. place would make russian companies more competitive i think the major point to be to be made when it comes to the sort of increased competition from our players is that i have a feeling there's a lot of improvement cost cutting efficiency to be done in russian companies to actually cope with this so if you want to be really hard and it's i mean i i do think that these inflows doesn't actually provide a threat they provide an opportunity for companies to make themselves more efficient more transparent and more effective in the course of this huge level of restructuring efforts that can be done the russian companies that could offset some of these local threats from four years of the major thing here is for the consumer increase competition is lower prices and i would guess the most important thing would it up. european debt remains one of the dominating issues for the markets

this week as we've heard earlier greece's and battled prime minister george of five hundred was about to step down after his plan for a referendum on the european bailout investors are now waiting to see who is brave enough to step into proper grow shoes later on monday. and let's take a look at the markets oil is heading higher light sweet is currently trading at a notch below ninety five dollars per barrel while brant is a one hundred thirteen dollars. in asia equities are trading a lower exporters are among the main losers in japan with carmaker nissan losing more than two percent and property shares are under pressure in hong kong as chinese prime minister wen jiabao affirmed the government's intention to drive down real estate prices meanwhile energy major sea nucleus losing more than two percent after a deal to buy a major stake in argentina an old producer from the fell apart. and

here in moscow market players returned to the trading floors after a three day recanted in the mile two hours the markets closed in the block on thursday the r.t.s. added one percent of all them i said still does. and that's all we have time for in this edition of business i'll be back in about an hour's.