it's barely a week since nato moved out after the campaign to swap it for democracy yet the alliance and the us don't seem too concerned about the shape it's taking on a chicken and explains why. hear first question later not so long ago the u.s. media presented libyan rebels as freedom loving folks yearning for democracy after could obvious killing their 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 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 qaida 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 a 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 working with democracies or working with dictatorships will come with secular

governments or religious governments or we care about is our interest in the region bob greene another u.s. ally in the region it hosts america's fifth. also leaves on the shari'a law and has a. questionable human rights records and 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 and only say human rights in libya was never a top priority for those in washington who called the shots and threw their support behind the currently be in government i'm going to check our reporting from washington our team. embattled greece will soon have a new team to try and the details of its financial course the leaders agreed to

form a coalition it means the prime minister george papandreou will finally step down the successor on monday getting the pm to go was key to securing the main opposition party's involvement they've gotten just a few months to force cuts which sparked widespread protests. approved aside from the election next february the coalition the plan that came off of the pm a short colleagues at home and abroad. and then during a referendum speculation that the finance minister could get his job names may also be thrown into the ring. then you must judge most people presume to have to be the leader in this new government will be mr lookout the most he's sixty four years old his ex 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 make their comrades to be our own team but the most is a personality well respected in the whole of the eurozone in the whole european you . and he's the person who knows very well how to react in this difficult situation with analysts here in greece after the announcement says a say that more austerity measures 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 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 of the selfsame talking about silly darity and cook rationing the

european union and now we come ride out this headline and greece suffers even italy suffers which is a bigger economy and probably will create probably a for sure it will create some more poor problems at the moment eurozone. well the president has repeatedly called on the europe's leaders to get closer to each other to save their finances. doing so but one former british government minister tells r.t. that such ties should have been sorted out long before the single currency was born . from the moment is the u.s. based on fiction because it doesn't have political realities the whole problem with this crisis is it was created by the europeans themselves because who could not have a single currency without a political union they knew they couldn't get away of the political union so they disappeared to the equivalent of las vegas and signed up to a new maybe

a proposition which is to have a unified currency with no unified policies but if we're going to get rid of unemployment in greece you're going to have to get the price down and it's almost everything is priced in europe is that will never be possible to have their whole best change if i was agree i would be down to get a draft. to get out of this because what happens there still in the euro zone so that french banks check a hack. but there's still stuck with the europe. and that would have more from britain's north has been just over an hour's time here no it. leaders of the world's twenty biggest economies very much have greece's dismal finances close to heart as its debts continues to drag everyone else down they agree to prop up the international monetary fund and that its chief is bringing the crisis talks to russia meet president of atlanta on monday well. he's keeping an

eye on developments for us here and because you know what does russia have which could help you rip through struggles. russia has what europe now needs most money the head of the i.m.f. is here in moscow to ask for russia's help russia paid the last portion of its debt to the i.m.f. and two thousand and five and seems that it has been contributing to the organization by providing money to countries which experience it could only have difficulties or even default as it is now the case with chris all the recent developments in greece and the euro crisis in general dominated the g twenty summit in cannes last week and the leaders did agree to bolster the role of the i.m.f. and other financial institutions to save the euro and the euro so and one of the hopes for the euro is called from the munching economies from the brics including russia and although the european crisis doesn't directly affect the deep promise to

come up with financial support for europe they haven't agreed on the song but as far as wash is concerned we're talking about a potential contribution which could exceed ten billion dollars however president medvedev did make it clear that when it comes to how to europe from the brakes there is one condition and that is that these help should be transparent and targeted that means helping the european countries not directly but through international institutions at a by. old the voice of the brakes needs to be heard within the imo and other financial bodies and the russian president also supported the decision by the european leaders to bolster the fund the bailout fund from four hundred forty billion euros to one trillion euros that we should remember as well that russia itself keeps almost forty five percent of its international reserves in euros. but i know of course the world's economic focus does appear to be shifting used to

inside size were saying but what could russia expect to get in return from the i.m.f. . well just like other greeks russia is lobbying for the reform of the i.m.f. and its regulation ability and moreover the brakes are pushing too was the were distributed in all of the i.m.f. membership quotas by january twenty four teen but the main criticism of this international organization is similar to that of the g twenty the g twenty remember it was created at the hate of the international financial crisis in two thousand and eight and it was meant to widen the spectrum of the countries that put in their voices trying to help with global economic solutions but as many critics say this hasn't happened yet well the head of the i.m.f. was now visiting moscow christine lagarde earlier said that she supported the idea of reforming the i.m.f. and also agrees that quotas for the countries with rapidly growing economies should

be in christe the international monetary fund was created in nine hundred forty five and currently i am i have commitments amount almost three hundred billion dollars in loans with greece portugal and ireland the major borowitz. ok r t you gotta try over in central moscow ny for us here thank you. but i still ahead for you this hour where in india where disaster victims became drug company guinea pigs. chemical tragedy kill thousands of survivors who thought they were getting medication would be tested on instead. and that it is lifted on the rise of one of russia's richest men as a movie which opens up in a london court to defend himself from fellow tycoon responds on ski. afghanistan's burgeoning drugs production is being blamed on soviet forces from

three decades ago according to an american report that's in spite of statistics showing the opium industry has soared since the u.s. led invasion in two thousand and one when i contributed to these washington is attempting 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 this sort of 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 production in fact it was the cia come pain to promote and full stir we just had in fighters as war and drug dealers that spurred an expanded drug war right at the beginning of the end i saw rejet in afghanistan and as such providing them funds for the united states covert operations the united states is solely responsible for afghanistan

converting scenes 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. as a further fallout from one of the world's west industrial disasters more than a quarter of a century on the chemical gas leak at a us plant in bhopal india killed an estimated twenty thousand people at the survivors faced by the agony being used to test drugs they thought well for treatment the has the story. even after twenty five years residents say it was a day they can never forget it. i clutched my children drugged my wife and mother to go to the bus station everyone was screaming run run we crossed another village when people got in the car 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. we were very healthy before the gas leaks to the places where after this incident we became very sick never improved after the week 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. profile to be ironic that the victims of the worst chemical disaster in which 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. they didn't tell us the name of the medicine but told us that we were given trial drugs the medicines had numbers 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 in cadiz have not even been assessed let alone treated you are taking a great risk today srivastav still waits for justice. because of the meds and i'm slowly losing my sight i cannot work from home either and i suffer from breathlessness. left to suffer

a double tragedy preassure either r t bhopal india. and of course we have more stories for us to r.t. online you can see it millions of russian muslims one of the most important religious festivals were as part of the rich and celebrations but the news that dot com. also online hollywood has another spies story in its sights this time the life and death of the points and former k.g.b. officer and it's all good men can also head for ati's new to child progress to be ripples. is he. it's. easy. to.

download the official altie application to your i phone on pod touch from the store . watch all the law is on the go. video on demand. broad goals and all registry now in the palm of your. question on the dot com. with a quick look at some of that world news for you know for the civilian deaths in syria this time nineteen protesters killed by security forces just to sort of ration is way down from a major muslim festival a day earlier twenty seven antigovernment protesters died in homes which is a focal city for the opposition the arab league will make another attempt to tackle the crisis this week after already brokering

a peace deal that's being widely. world. triple blasts also struck civilians at a large market in central baghdad as people gathered to buy food to mark eat and the eight people died and dozens more were injured despite an increase in security rockey capital has seen more of our incidents. to. troops. the race is on to find survivors buried by landslides in colombia brought on by the worst rainy season in living memory dozens are feared buried and mountainside washed away and all through the city of one. hundred sixty kilometers west of the capital the severe weather has already forced a quarter of a million people to evacuate the city. floods are continuing to spreading dying caulks 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 forty's saying the subway system is now also at risk the government says four billion dollars will be spent on tree cover. or british courts he is seeing two of russia's richest battle it out in front of the bench and it's no small claim either six and a half billion dollars is stake exile tycoon barry spears or ski once the cash from chelsea football club are not rim on a remote which a man who usually keeps a no public profile bennett reports means britons are getting a rare glimpse into the billionaires last stop. it's been dubbed the battle of the oligarchs in one corner is mr a estimated well fifteen billion assets for your football club and a french chateau in the other corner mr b. 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 her manner which is 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 more you know the only difference between a rotten p.r. and here is p.r. has been very good presents a very big 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 barry spare is all ski claims is 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 a bit as always 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 for the legal fees mr abbott is 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 not 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 billion as five russian one cars 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 few just strange deals because 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 off shore 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. london. all the tasher is here now with all the business news.

it's twenty four minutes past nine am here in moscow you're watching the business bulletin on our t.v. it's taken almost two decades of talks but now russia looks ready to join the world trade organization the countries and a final round of them formal negotiations moving out there were meaning issues a decision on russia's membership is expected by the end of this week at the year over from alpha bank outlines the benefits russia would get by joining. double it to andrew or possible to have access to global technologists and the chip access for some high high technology equipment which had the mormon task force relatively high in produces and in general you know the regime of management that cost them terrorists on these in this area will become more transparent this is definitely was a diff to what investment in russian and i think second big benefits is a w.

and free will put them all possible to russia to become their oyster. air saying their way to a relative or window for what you want of russia to become in the way more important you know on their own the global political political level and peter west bank antón believes a 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 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 on this i mean 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 to be more effective on the cost side this huge

level of restructuring efforts that have begun the russian companies that could offset some of these local threats from foreign players and the major thing here is for the consumer increase competition is lower prices and i would really that's the most important thing but it would. european debt remains one of the dominating issues for the markets this week as we heard earlier greece's embattled prime minister george hope on drought was about to step down after his aborted plans for a referendum on the european bailout investors and now waiting to see who is brave enough to step into shoes the decision is expected late on monday the new government's main task will be to pass the european rescue package a move considered crucial to shoring up the euro. and let's now take a quick look at the markets oil is heading higher light sweet as currently trading at ninety four dollars per barrel while brant is at one hundred thirteen dollars.

in asia equities are trading a lower x. orders are among the main losers in japan with carmaker nissan losing almost two percent the sour and property shares a depression hong kong as chinese premier wen jiabao of the government's intention to drive down the real estate prices meanwhile energy majors see new is losing more than two percent after a deal to buy a major stake in an argentinian oil producer from b.p. fell apart. and here in moscow market players returned to the trading floors after a three day weekend in a less than one hour the markets closed in the black on thursday the r.t.s. and the why six both added about one percent. russia's energy companies are boosting their investments in research and development the stands in line with the country's strategy of doubling investment into the energy sector every year until the twenty thirty the economic development minister explains how the funds will be used. here's the issue with it over the next three years russia's oil and

gas companies will invest around two hundred eighty billion dollars in development around half of this funds will be used to buy new equipment this all means that there's a high demand for energy in the russian economy right now and that's all we have time for and this edition of business i'll be back in less than an hour.

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it's time for the headlines now haron out. off today to fight for democracy in the bia the country's new chapters showing a surge in radical islam in the streets of shari'a door and al qaida flags and evidence that washington seems unconcerned about what's next now that gadhafi is gone. the race to stop europe from drowning in a sea of debt as our m.f. chief heads to moscow to see if russia can come to the rescue russia is offering ten billion dollars to the into the ins investment mechanisms. and to russian tycoon titans are slugging it out of the six and a half billion dollars and their reputations in london's high court. cases ministers offscreen once they catch on the chelsea football club are in a mood claiming he.