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 on a chicken and explains why. cheere first question later not so long ago the u.s. media presented libyan 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 do you did hear as a move towards democracy but really that's not exactly what's going on it seems the u.s. media just woke up to the young holding 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 qaeda flag planted on a libyan 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 illegal 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 sure real long 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 the saudi arabia for instance has the most extreme form of sharia law women are not allowed to drive cars are not allowed to vote the crime for adultery for women is the death penalty in saudi arabia and none of this seems to bother the powers that be in washington why because saudi arabia does the bidding of the united states in this oil rich region being a dictatorship but not a democratic state america is a big alley in a big supporter of saudi arabia that just shows that we really don't care for your

democracies or we're working with dictatorships or working with secular governments or religious governments or we care about is our interest in the region bahrain another u.s. ally in the region it hosts america's fifth fleet and also leads on the shari'a law and as a. questionable human rights record as those in power are their only things to nato 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 analysts say human rights was never a top priority for those in washington who called the shots and threw their support behind the currently be in government. reporting from washington.

greece will soon have a new team to china out of its financial. leaders agreed to form a coalition it means beleaguered prime minister. will find a step down the successor chosen late on monday. the. key to securing the main opposition party's involvement just a few months to. secure approval for the use rescue package. for the action of twenty twelve. the prime minister. broad to drawing a referendum on the. finance minister who lead the unity government on the names may also be thrown into the ring. for the most up most 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 x. vice president in that european central bank is not to believe he is

a technocrat according to the plan is to be the prime minister and out there for you to see and make technocrats to be our own team but the most is a personality well respected in the whole of the eurozone in the. european union and he's the person who knows very well how to react in this difficult situation panelists here in greece ofter of the announcement says a say that more austerity measures are expected because nobody but 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 lakes because they think that apart from this coalition government on february we're going to have an election for a new government but of course we have to pay for the debts maybe the european

union should have reacted there here because in the past we have heard even mr barroso and other officials saying talk about slowly diary t. and cook rationing the european union and now we have a ride out this deadline and greece suffers even italy suffers which is a bigger economy and probably will create not probably for sure it's go creates more poor problems the whole eurozone. and the e.u. president has repeatedly called on the europe's leaders to get closer to each other to save their finances even though most would balk at doing sets of one former british government minister tells r.t. later such ties should have been sorted out long before the single currency was born. probably the moment 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 it was i was a political union they knew they couldn't get away as

a political unit and so they disappeared because the equivalent of las vegas and signed up to and maybe your proposition which is to have a unified currency with no unified policies going to get rid of unemployment in greece you're going to have to get the price. and it's almost everything is prized in europe is that will never be possible to have their whole shame if i was a greek i would be. going to graduate to get out of this because what happens there still in the euro zone. so the french branch to hack. but they're still stuck with the euro. i want more from britain's though it has been twenty minutes time here in r.t. . there are leaders of the world's twenty biggest economies very much have greece is finances close to hearts and his debt continues to drag everyone else down they

agreed to prop up the international monetary fund now 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 e.u. but has offered ten billion dollars through i.m.s. investment mechanisms instead president of and christine lagarde also discussed at least to a shift of economic power developing nations could soon become mainland. also ahead this hour in india where disaster victims became drug company guinea pigs. kenya tragedy killed thousands the survivors who thought they were getting medication would be tested instead. and the lid is lifted on one of russia's richest men's rights to wealth. a move which is under court to defend himself from fellow tycoon aris.

afghanistan's burgeoning drugs production is being blamed on soviet forces from three decades ago the american research is in spite of statistics showing the opium industry soared since the u.s. led invasion in two thousand and one. minute you contributor believes washington is trying to shift the blame. have you ever met scientific disinformation as hard drug propaganda campaign well here's the chance. brown from the brookings institution blamed the soviet army in afghanistan for deliberately eliminating the egret cultural infrastructure in afghanistan as the main reason and impetus of their freedom loving ever going to farmers to switch into ophir production in fact it was the cia come pain to promote and full stir were just getting fighters as war and drug dealers that spurred an expanded drug war right at the beginning of the end i saw every gen 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 the bottomless pit and the epicenter of the global narco threat to the security and stability of the whole world. there is a further fallout from one of the wells west industrial disaster as well the quarter of a century on the chemical gas leak at a u.s. planting in india killed around twenty thousand people yet the survivors faced that i can e being 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 dragged my wife and mother to go to the bus station everyone was screaming run run we crossed another village

where more people go to and everybody in the village was screaming. experts 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. again ok today thousands like srivastav still suffer. very healthy before the gas leaks to the place of after this incident we became very sick little house never improved 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 bhopal 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 obtained documents that show at least six trial programs that took place in bhopal between two thousand and four and two thousand and eight. profoundly ironic that off the victims of the worst chemical disaster in what some of the largest pharmaceutical largest multinational corporations the war against

the victimized by another set of multinational corporations pharmaceutical corporations srivastav became suspicious when he was repeatedly asked to bring one of two bottles of medicine back a common practice in clinical trials and no one argues that they didn't tell us the name of the medicine but told us that we were given trial drugs for the medicines had numberous repeated requests by r.t. to speak to the government or bhopal memorial hospital were denied experts say that medical testing on people needing actual treatment is an ethical unsafe and unscientific and documents show that at least eleven people who unknowingly took part in the bhopal trials died after taking the drugs when you go drug trials on people whose entities have not even been assessed let alone treated you are taking a great risk today srivastav still waits for justice. because of the

medicine i'm slowly losing my sight i cannot work for money and i suffer from breathlessness left to suffer a double tragedy preassure either r t bhopal india. well that ought to be on law and there's more the stories affecting your world he can see millions of russian muslims in iraq one of the most important religious festivals as the religion celebrations for that news at all to dot com. and hollywood's going to love the spy story and its sides this time the guy from death of a poisoned former k.g.b. officer is on the move and then cut some qualities you came channel to see our best media reports that. he is he.

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a celebration is began for the major muslim restoral a day earlier twenty seven antigovernment protesters died in homs which is the focal city for the opposition the arab league will make another attempt to tighten the crisis this week after already brokering a peace deal that's being widely and. triple blasts also struck civilians at a large market in central baghdad as people gathered to buy food to mark eat at least eight people died and dozens more were injured and security iraqi traveling as soon. as u.s. . troops. race is on to find survivors buried by landslides in colombia brought on by the worst rainy season in living memory dozens of buried all possible mountainside washed away tore through the city of venice one hundred sixty kilometers west of

the capital the severe weather has already forced a quarter of a million people to evacuate to safety. and floods continue to spread in bangkok's commercial district more than five hundred people have already been killed across thailand in the country's worst flooding in off a century water levels in the capital reached a metre high with authorities saying the subway system is also at risk government says four billion dollars will be spent to help the country recover. a british court is seeing two of russia's richest battle it out in front of the bench and it's no small claim six and a half billion dollars is at stake tycoon laurie said there is a ski on the cash from chelsea football club and from on remove it a man he usually keeps a low public profile with reports that means that britons are getting a rare glimpse into the billionaires lost on. it's been dubbed the battle of the

oligarchs in one corner is mr a estimated wealth fifteen billion assets for your chelsea football club and a french chateau in the other corner mr p. estimated fortune five hundred million he had to sell his yacht but he does still have his trusty stretch my back which he never fails to show off. his rise to riches is a story precious few knew until now his turn 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 landing lucrative thirty percent tax breaks and he came clean on the piles of cash he paid for protection as he dived into the infamous alimony and wars of the ninety's where we now know someone was murdered every three days not exactly that clean cut image one of britain's most loved foreign imports he did want to i think it was the moment you know the only difference between

a rotten people and here is p.r. has been very good presents a very banal image of that he doesn't really come across aggressively that we say anything at all he wants to go respectable and suddenly we're all of the rather sort of see the origins of his wealth it's a third of that wealth that. claims he's he's still a wanted man in russia he's suing mr and promote it for six and a half billion dollars they set up the oil company sit next to gether in the ninety's just about as also he claims he was blackmailed into selling his stake at a fraction of it's 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 for the legal fees mr is a rumored to be sixteen million dollars a barrel lawyers have their work cut out there on a no win no fee basis the pair used to be close miss to be. 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 that 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 a cost of nine billionaires five russian one cast 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 b.'s 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's artsy london. press to go back to ease debt crisis now and christine lagarde is in moscow to meet present an advantage of course. for r.t. is across this for us you catarina what does russia have which could help europe through its struggles. russia help much russia has money to help europe and the head of the i.m.f. it's here in moscow to ask for russia's help russia paid the last portion of a 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 and 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 the eurozone and the much needed help of the euro could come from the emerging economies from the brakes including russia and although the euro crisis doesn't directly in fact the brakes they did agree to all for money to the eurozone they haven't agreed on the some but as far as russia's concerned we're talking here about a possible contribution which could exceed ten billion dollars however president very pointed out clearly that there is a condition on russia and its partners within the break 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 of the breaks need to be heard within the i.m.f.

and other institutions why the g twenty admission that got it also praised the decision made by the european leaders last month to bolster the bailout fund by be 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 yes it's interested in helping the euro faltering euro zone at this moment. of course the the world's economic focus so 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 and it's a regulator board and a balk all the bric countries are pushing to was the register beautician of the i.m.f. the membership quotas by january twenty four teams of the main criticism all. the

international monetary fund is the same is similar to that of the g. twenty the g. twenty remember was created in two thousand pages behave told the international financial crisis and it was meant to widen the spectrum of the countries which put in their voices trying to help book. 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 support should be ideal for reforming the i.m.f. and she agreed that the economy's with a rapidly countries with rapidly growing economies need to increase that modest within b i among the i.m.f. was created in one thousand nine hundred forty five and currently its commitments amount to almost three hundred. billion dollars in loans with greece portugal and ireland the main the major borowitz. ok all teams are here to try the in the

central moscow di for us thank you. well in a few minutes time r.t. here's how some of the euro zone's money woes could have been avoided if the politicians had sort of the squabbles out beforehand makes their own business news . it's twenty five minutes past eight am here in moscow you're watching the business for the r t 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 of the ship is expected by the end of this week. from alpha bank outlines the benefits that russia would get by george. and to offer possibility you know to have cheap access to global technologists and

the cheap access for some high high technology equipment which at the moment are. relatively high in producers and in general you know the regime of management that cost some terrorists on this in this area will become more transparent this is definitely was a diff to support investment in russia and i think second big benefit is that w. and free will potentially are all possible to russia because they're always going to air so in the way it will a really window for putting to russia to become in the way more important you know on the on the global political political level and peter west and that investment firm out on believes the w t o place would make russian companies more competitive i think the major point to be to be made when it comes to the increased competition from 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 on this 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 really that's the most important thing with it. european debt remains one of the dominating issues for the markets this week as we've heard earlier greece's embattled prime minister george papandreou was about to step down after his aborted plan for a referendum on the bailout investors are now waiting to see who is brave enough to step into pup and grow shoes later on monday. and let's now take

a look at the markets more oil is heading higher light sweet is currently trading at a launch below ninety five dollars per barrel while brant is at 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 see new kids losing more than two percent after a deal to buy a major stake in an argentinian oil producer from fell apart. and here in moscow market players returned to the trading floors after a three day weekend then them out two hours the markets closed in the block on thursday the r.t.s. added one percent while the my sex show does similar things. and that's all we have

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