nato moved out after the campaign to swap a dictator for democracy yet the alliance and the u.s. don't seem too concerned about the shape it's taking the chicken explains why. here 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 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 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 shari'a 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's a big ally 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 all 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 leaves on the shari'a law and has a. questionable human rights records as foully beyond those in power are their only things to need 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 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 out reporting from washington r.t. . but embattled greece will soon have a new team to try and lead it out of its financial quarter mile off the leaders agreed to form a coalition but there's no room for beleaguered prime minister george papandreou

he's agreed to go and be replaced to a twenty one day getting the pm to go was key to securing the main opposition party's involvement they've got just a few months to force through cuts to widespread protests once the e.u. rescue is approved then step aside connection next february because. the pm shocked colleagues at home and abroad clearing and then with a bailout referendum speculation the finance minister could get his job but other names may also be thrown into the ring. the most up most people presumed to have to be the leader in this new government will be mr look at the most he's sixty four years old he acts 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. proud to be our own team but the most is a personality well respected in the whole big. reso mean the whole if you're pm you know 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 means or are expected because nobody will live 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 likes him because they think that apart from this coalition government on february we're going to have elections for a new government but of course we have to pay for the debts maybe the european union should have reacted earlier because in the past we have heard even mr barroso into other officials saying talking about slowly darity and corporation in the

european union and now we have a ride on this deadline 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 the whole euro zone. the e.u. president has repeatedly called on europe's leaders to get closer to each other to save their finances even though most would both doing so well one former british government minister tells r.t. later such times should have been sorted out long before the single currency was born. from the moment is to you is based on fiction because it doesn't have political reality the whole problem about this crisis 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 with the political union so they disappeared because the equivalent of las vegas and signed up to and maybe

a proposition which is to have a unified currency with no unified policy going to get rid of unemployment in greece. you're going to have to get the price down and it's almost everything is prized in your eyes that would never be possible to have that whole thing if i was a green i would be in dallas to get a graph. to get out of this because what happens there still in the overhead.

the organization by providing money to countries which experience it could all make difficulties or even default as it is now the case with greece or 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 zone and one of the hopes for the euro is help from the munching economies from the brics including russia and although the european crisis doesn't directly affect that they promise to come up with financial support for europe they haven't agreed on the some but as

far as washers concerned we're talking about a potential contribution which could exceed ten billion dollars however present the bet it did make it clear that there is one condition helping the european countries not directly but through international institutions and above old the voice of the brakes needs to be heard within the i'm a and r. the financial bodies' the russian president also supported the decision by the european leaders to bolster the bailout fund from four hundred forty feeling 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 just like other breaks russia is lobbying for the reform of the i.m.f. and its regulation board and moreover the brakes are pushing too was the were distributed in all the i.m.f. membership quotas by january twenty four teams of the main criticism of this international organization a similar to that of the g twenty was mount 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 for 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 cool. for the countries with rapidly growing economies should be in christe current commitments amount to almost three hundred billion dollars in loans with greece portugal and ireland the major bora was. in india where disaster victims became drug company guinea pigs. tragedy thousands of survivors who were getting medication living tested on instead. is marking seventy years since one of the major turning point in the second world war with the real. parade which is to cross the red square on their way to the

front to fight against. a british court is seeing two of russia's richest battle it out in front of the bench but it's no small claim six billion dollars no less is at stake. once the cash from chelsea football club. a man who usually keeps a low public profile. means britons are getting a rare glimpse into the. it's been dubbed the battle of the oligarchs in one corner is mr a estimated well 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. 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 in the warmth you know the only difference between a rotten p.r. and here is p.r. has been very good preserves a very but image that he doesn't really come across aggressively that we say anything at all he wants to go respectable and suddenly we're always aware 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 adam overage for six and a half billion dollars they set up the oil company sit next to gether in the

ninety's just about as 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 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 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 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 recordings of meetings that maybe never happened the whole thing's extraordinarily bizarre you try and piece 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 artsy london . afghanistan's burgeoning drugs production is being blamed on soviet forces from three decades ago quoting to an american report that in spite of statistics the opium industry has soared since the u.s.

led invasion in two thousand and one parties but if you contributed believes washington is attempting to shift the blame. have you ever met scientific disinformation as hard drug propaganda campaign well here's the chance van does brown from the brookings institution blamed the soviet army in afghanistan for deliberately eliminating the egg recall channel 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 fullest are we just getting fighters as war and drug dealers that spurred an expanded drug war right at the beginning of the enticing every gen in afghanistan and as such providing them 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. nowadays but the fallout from one of the wells of west industrial disaster is more than a quarter of a century on the chemical gas me at a us planting pot in india killed an estimated twenty thousand people at the survivors faced by the agony 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 drug one wife and mother to go to the bus station everyone was screaming run run we crossed another village wimble people got in the coma and everybody in the village was screaming run the room 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 their angry never have again ok today thousands like srivastav still suffer there was a very healthy before the gas leaks to the plate to the left of 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 of 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 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 before 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 are knowingly took part in the bhopal trials died after taking the drugs when you go drug trials on people whose indies 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 suffered from breathlessness left to suffer a double tragedy preassure either r.t.

bhopal india. now a key moment of history is being really lived in red square today marking seventy years since some march to meet encroaching not seen fate has had on that front nine barty's arpita all over is in red square now for. today's parade will faithfully reenact the one back in one nine hundred forty one was it being staged. well this is the first time that the nine hundred forty one parade is being reenacted in fullish year marks the seventieth anniversary of that march across red square where soldiers paraded in front of the the soviet leaders and on the went on their way straight to the front lines for the bottle of moscow now the dates for the parade the seventh of november is a very important dates that actually marks the anniversary of the october revolution the balls recover lucian in one nine hundred seventeen why it takes

place on november the seventh is because in one nine hundred seventeen russia and he had to the julian calendar instead of the modern day good korean condit in which case they knocked over the falls on the seventh of november taking part in the parade that's going on just behind me all the soldiers wearing the uniforms the same uniforms they were worn by soldiers in one thousand nine hundred forty one also some pieces of equipment of military hardware of being paraded across red square but by the kremlin as well. know the dates of the them picking the october revolution day it wasn't just important to them to be the soviet union the nazis it also seems to sign the seventh of october is the date that they would enter moscow that moscow was one of the major targets for for nazi germany during operation barbarossa when they they invaded the u.s.s.r. they had a hitler had hoped to have been standing on a red square in similar way that he had stood in paris in front of the eiffel tower

victorious. well the soviet union i determined to stop that they put up a big defense a strong defense against them against moscow being taken and this really was a last gasp attempt. even the best estimates place the the soviet union situation is being very precarious at the time it was a real role of the dice to try and go and stop the nazis that time they were able to go out and fight in the battle of moscow one of the bloodiest during the second world war over a million people killed or wounded in not battling not engagement many of those who made that march across red square in one nine hundred forty one would fall on the front line in the bustle of moscow and today the city of moscow and the people are paying tribute to that sacrifice that was was made by those soldiers who fought so bravely taking part also today amongst those soldiers were say wearing the uniforms of the troops of nineteen forty one all youth groups from around russia they're

taking part and showing that they appreciate the sacrifice that was laid down in order to defeat nazi germany. ok. thank you for that and let's take a look at these live pictures. from the red square. so now you're. round and you. ones. that you're down to. but i'm sure. you do but i guess if you're

going to. get not get them. some great poignant moments there in red square let's talk business news now with attention. it's twenty four minutes past ten am here in moscow you're watching the business program on artsy it's taken almost two decades of talks but now russia has its foot in the door of the world trade organization the countries and a final round of informal negotiations moving out the remaining issues a decision on russia's membership is expected by the end of this week peter west at investment bank antón believes a w t o accession 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

outside 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 on the cost side there's a huge level of restructuring efforts that can be done the russian companies that could offset some of this so-called threat 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 with it up here with. european debt remains one of the dominating issues for the markets this week as we've heard earlier greece's embattled prime minister george one drone is stepping down after his avoided plan for a referendum on the e.u. bailout and dusters and now waiting to see who is brave enough to step into pop

under shoes the decision is expected later on monday the interim 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 see how the markets are trading oil is trading higher light sweet as currently trading at ninety four dollars per barrel while gripe is at one hundred thirteen dollars. and in asia equities are trading a lower exploiters are among the main losers in japan with carmakers recently resing almost two percent and property shares are under pressure in hong kong as chinese premier wen jiabao of fund the government's intention to drive down the real estate prices meanwhile energy majors see new kids losing more than two percent after a deal to buy a major stake in argentina old producer from b.p. fell apart. the markets are upbeat after

a three day weekend of the r.t.s. is putting on less than half a percent with ross telecom as the biggest blue chip gainer in the marcellus trade up more than one percent the mice x. is three quarters of a percent higher. 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 twenty thirty the economic development minister explains how the fund will be used. if you could 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. and that's all we have for you in this edition of business will be back about fifty minutes see them.

in canada and the u.s. today it is legal for you to use a bubble bath on your baby that contains a known carcinogen something that causes cancer most of this trying to read my book

independents day are sponsored by the industry and most of the guys they don't claim it's a conflict of interest today an average cancer drug prescription costs nearly one thousand six hundred dollars a month oh my god i'm a nobody with cancer in my five therefore i protect focus because ninety to ninety five percent of cancers occur on the people with the family history of cancer the pharmaceutical industry spends about fourteen percent of their budget on research and development and about thirty one. percent for marketing and administration. in fact there are more pharmaceutical industry lobbyists in washington d.c. than members of congress.

clothes take a look at the main headlines now. often they fight for democracy in their beer countries new chapter sharing a surge in radical islam with strict sharia law and al qaeda flags in evidence their washington seems unconcerned about what's next gadhafi is going to. be braced to stop europe from drowning in a sea of debt as the i.m.f. chief head to moscow to see if russia can come to the rescue russia is offering ten billion dollars to the u.k. to the i.m.s. investment mechanisms. and to the russian tycoon titans are slugging it out over six and a half billion dollars on their reputations in london's high court itself he says when it's over it's also he wants the cash from chelsea football club to move it.