well news and much more your with r.t. a very warm welcome t. now libya's post gadhafi world is showing a lurch towards radical islam with strict sharia law or another qaeda flags in evidence there is very a week since nato moved out after the campaign to swap with dictator for democracy . in the u.s. didn't seem too concerned about the shape it's taking any chicken 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 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 yet america is 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 bob greene another u.s. ally in the region it hosts america's fifth fleet and also leads on the shari'a law and has a. questionable human rights records as fully b.m. 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 he was too late when the war was full on started asking

questions and they 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. . europe's a dismal finances were very much in focus as leaders of the world's twenty biggest economies go together to seek a way forward they agreed to the international monetary fund and now its chief is bringing the crisis talks to russia and will meet president bed of they too on monday the country is keeping an eye on developments. the heart of the i'm atmosphere 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 since that it has been contributing to the organization by providing money to countries which experience it could all make difficulties or even default as it is now the case with grist for 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 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 watches to the son 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.f. and the financial bodies' the russian president also supported the decision by the european leaders to bolster the bailout fund from four hundred forty feet in euros

to one trillion euros that we should remember as well that russia itself keeps almost forty five percent of its international reserves in the euro just like the brakes russia is lobbying for the reform of the i.m.f. and it's regulation and moreover the brakes are pushing too was the were distributed in all the membership quotas by january twenty four teams of the main criticism of this international organization is similar to that of the g twenty was mounted to widen the spectrum of the countries that put in that was just trying to help with global economic solutions but as many critics say this hasn't happened. well the head of the army was now visiting moscow christine lagarde earlier said that she's supposed to be idea of reforming the i.m.f. and also agrees that quotas for the countries with rapidly growing economies she'd be in christe currently i'm out of commitments amount almost three hundred billion dollars in loans with greece portugal and ireland the major bore was. but it's

greece's debt that continues to drag everyone else down but it will soon have a new team to try and get out of its financial quote mine after leaders agreed to form a coalition but there's no room for beleaguered prime minister george papandreou he's agreed to go be replaced later on monday but 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 you rescue is approved step aside for the election next every. plan that came out of pm shocked colleagues at home and abroad by declaring and then withdrawing referendum speculation that the finance minister could get his job but other names may also be thrown into the ring. there must up most people presumed to have got to be the leader in

this new government will be mr look ask about the most he's sixty four years old he acts vice president in that european central bank is not a politician he is a technocrat but according to the plan is the most to be the prime minister and other politicians make technocrats to be around him but the most is a personality well respected in the whole of the eurozone in the whole european union and he is the person who knows very well how to react in this difficult situation with analysts here in greece after the announcement saying. a say that more austerity means serious 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 lakes and because they think that's

a part 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 into other officials saying talking about slowly diary teeth 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 not probably for sure it's procreates more people problems the whole way goes on. all 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 balk at doing so but one a former british government minister tells our team later that such ties should have been sorted out long before the single currency was born. the moment is the us 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 with a political union they knew they couldn't get away with the political union so they disappeared to the equivalent of las vegas and signed up to and maybe have a proposition which is to have a unified carbs with no unified policies 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 as that would never be possible to have that best thing if i was a greek i would be diving. go to ground. to get out of this because what happens they're still in the euro. so the french branch. but they're still stuck with the euro. yes more from britain's lord hesketh in just over an hour's time here in our team.

the british courts his seeing two of russia's richest battle it out in front of the bench and it's no small claim either a six and a half billion dollars is at stake next of tycoon very spears or ski once the cash from chelsea football club owner roman abramovich a man who usually keeps a low public profile as i have a bennett reports that means britons are getting a reg'lar since the billionaires lost time. 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 b. estimated fortune five hundred million he had to sell his yacht so he does still have his trusty stretch my back which he never fails to show off a 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 in the moment you know the only difference between a rotten people and here is p.r. has been very good preserves the very image 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 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 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 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. 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 clay in 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 who's 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 artsy london . while still ahead this hour. though is remembering seventy years since one of the major turning points in the second world war with a reenactment of the one nine hundred forty one parade it's also his march across red square on their way to fight against bush is a call for me in

a few moments time. there's a further fallout from one of the world's worst industrial disasters more than a quarter of a century on the chemical gas leak in the u.s. planting a pall in india killed an estimated twenty thousand people at the survivors faced further agony being used to test drugs they thought were for treatment the shooter has 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 rum rum we crossed another village when will people go to the co 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 they're angry ever again ok today thousands like srivastav still suffer. very healthy before the gas leaks to the stage of what 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 of 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 with the no one i guess 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 unknowingly took part in the bhopal trials died after taking the drugs when you go drug drug drugs on people who is 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 for money and i suffer from breathlessness left to suffer a double tragedy preassure either r.t. bhopal india. and we have more stories lined up few online see millions of muslims mark one of the most important religious festivals of the

press pilgrimage and celebrations but. it's not common. and hollywood has another spy story in its sights this time the life and death poisoned g.b. office and on its own. well a quick look at some other world news for you now. civilian deaths in syria this time nineteen protest killed executed forces just celebrations began a major one isn't even yesterday a day earlier twenty seven anti-government protesters died in homes which is a focal city in the position the arab league will make another attempt at tackling the crisis this week after a break from the peace deal that's being widely ignored. triple blasts also struck civilians at a large market in central baghdad as people gathered to buy food to eat at least

eight people died and dozens more were injured despite an increase in security iraqi capital has seen or guard incidents of those in recent months. the race is on to find survivors buried by landslides in colombia brought on by the worst rainy season in living memory dozens off it buried off the path of a mountainside washed away tore through the city of. about 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 are continuing to spread in bangkok's a commercial district only five hundred people have already been killed across thailand in the country's worst flooding in off a century. also levels in the capital have reached a meter high authority saying the subway system is now also at risk the government

says four billion dollars will be spent to help the country to recover. a key moment of history is being relived in red square today marking seventy years since soviet soldiers marched to meet the encroaching not seen vader's head on the front line hotties peter all of it is in red square for. this is the first time that the parade is being reenacted as it took place in nineteen forty one this is to mark the the seventieth anniversary over the last march across red square and then only adds to the bronze to defend moscow against the nazi onslaught. the date of the seventh of november for this parade taking place was the historic importance in nineteen forty one it marked the anniversary of the bolshevik revolution the october revolution well it is november it was called the october revolution because it took place in october of the julian calendar we now follow the good guru in

calendar which puts not dates the seven symbol but november but that was also an important date not just for the soviet union it was also picked by nazi germany as the date that hitler wanted to be in moscow he wanted to have also taken by this boy to march in red square himself in similar ways that he had done in paris and other cities in europe the soviet authorities determined to stop that happening and that's why when they could hold this parade on red square and then send people off as a final morale boost before going off to the front to fight against the fascists they were able to do just that no today the parade to seeing soldiers wearing army uniforms all one hundred forty one most same style uniforms to war by those who fought in the second world war also some pieces of military hardware and recreate should be used as military hardware from the time also taking part in this march across the historic center of moscow in red square in front of the kremlin next the same basel the the battle of moscow itself was one of the most brutal and one of

the the most important in the second world war the fact that the nazis were able to capture the capital of the u.s.s.r. was a real problem for them they had hoped to be able to be here for the winter and not the fight against them was able to stop them capturing this important asset. although moscow now the box itself was very broad very bloody very brutal over a million people killed and injured in the fighting to defend the public so many of those people who marched across red square just behind me in nineteen forty one died as they fell at the front defending the capital from germany. peter all of our reporting from red square that peter lavelle and his guests look at what economic model countries could follow to stave off any future credit crunch as though it's the silence of business news with natasha.

it's twenty four minutes past eleven am here in moscow welcome to the business program on r.t.e. it's taken almost two decades of talks but now russia has its foot in the door of the world trade organization the country is in a final round as informal negotiations smoothing out the remaining issues a decision on russia's membership is expected by the end of this week peter west bank atong believes that would make russian companies more competitive. i think the major point 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 employers doesn't actually provide a threat they provide an opportunity for companies to make themselves more

efficient more transparent and more effective on because 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 have 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 and battled prime minister george hope andro is stepping down after his of what a plan for a referendum on the e.u. bailout investors are now waiting to see who is brave enough to step into pop andras shoes the decision is expected later on monday the veteran's government 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 look at the markets oil is heading higher light sweet us currently trading at ninety four dollars a barrel while brant is

a one hundred thirteen dollars. in asia equities are trading only lower exporters are among the major losers in japan with carmaker nissan losing almost two percent and property shares are under pressure hong kong as chinese premier one devour firm the government's intention to drive down real estate prices meanwhile energy majors seem lucas losing more than two percent after the deal to buy a major stake in an argentinean world producer from the teleport to. the russian market sort of beats although the gains are narrower than that the opening the r.t.s. is of just to launch the mindsets is putting on around a quarter of a percent. and here's a look at some shows m i six most of the blue chips are trading in the box store oil is supporting energy producers ross nast is among the top gainers the company is adding more than two percent this hour financials are also strong suburban kids

around and want to help percent higher in the school is among the top losers and that's despite higher precious metal prices its shares are down around half percent . rush's energy companies are boosting their investment in research and development the stanza line of the country's strategy of doubling investment into the energy sector every year until twenty thirty the economic development minister explains how the funds will be used. over the next three years russia's oil and gas companies will invest around two hundred eighty billion dollars in development around half of the strands will be used to buy new equipment this will means that there's a high demand for energy in the russian economy. and that's all we have time for in this edition of business i'll be back in less than an hour and see them.

culture is that so much a lot of people at macquarie almost daily don't worry about the flow of renato amicable divorce for well over a generation of voters and consumers around the world were told that democracy in capitalism. the close up team has been to the men's own region where technological breakthroughs save human lives. now archie goes to the sea. where unusual ways to protect nature are.

where farming pioneers place local cuisine to the highest pitch. and where future developments depend on the way. russia's black sea coast should close up on our.

oh you're with r t that's take a look at the main headlines now after nato has applied for democracy in libya the country's new chapter is showing a surge in radical islam to scripture ial the and al qaeda flags and evidence that washington seems unconcerned about what's next don't he's gone with. the race to stop in europe from drowning in a sea of debt as the i.m.f. chief had to moscow to see if russia hadn't come to the rescue russia is offering ten billion dollars to the imbued through the i.m.s. investment mechanisms. and two russian tycoon titans are slugging it out over six and a half a billion dollars and their reputations and hundreds of exiled this is where he's been since he once the cash from chelsea football club or not and i move it came in here.