al qaeda flags in evidence that it's barely a week since nato moved out of the campaign to swap a dictator for democracy yet the alliance in the us don't seem too concerned about the shape it's taking by nature karen 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 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 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'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 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 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 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 sighs leaders of the world's twenty

biggest economies got together to seek a way forward they agreed to prop up the international monetary fund and now its chief is bringing the crisis talks to russia and will meet president vet of later on monday catherine that is keeping an eye on developments. the huddle the imei of us 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 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 chris all the recent developments in greece on 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 the euro they haven't agreed on the song but as far as washes concerned we're talking about of the townsell 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 the financial bodies' the russian president also supported the decision by the european leaders to bolster the bailout fund from four hundred forty billion euros to one trillion euros of we should remember as well that russia itself keeps almost forty five percent of its international reserves in euros just like the breaks russia is lobbying for the reform of the i.m.f. and its regulation and moreover the brakes are pushing too was the were distributed in all the i.m.f. membership quotas by january twenty four teams but 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. well the head of the army 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 currently i'm out of commitments amount almost three hundred billion dollars in loans with greece portugal and ireland the major bore was. greece's debt continues to drag everyone else down but it will soon have a new team to try to get out of its financial corp one of 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 later on monday getting

a pm to go was key to securing the main opposition party's involvement in just a few months to force through cuts to widespread protests. the rescues approved then step aside from the election next the coalition plan came after the pm shocked colleagues at home and the board by declaring that the drawing referendum the speculation that the finance minister could get his job and other names may also be thrown into the ring. good the most most evil person to have got to be the leader in this new government will be mr look ask about the most he's us sixty four years old he is x. vice president in that european central bank is not abilities and he is a technocrat according to the plan is to be the prime minister and other politicians make their comrades to be our own team but the most is a personality well respected in the whole of the euro zone 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 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 in 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 slowly diary t. and cook rationing the european union and now we come 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 co-created more poor problems the whole eurozone. e.u. president has repeatedly called on europe's leaders to get closer to each other to save their finances you. doing so but one of four produce government minister tells r.t. later such toys should have been sorted out long before the single currency was born . from the moment is the e.u. is based on fiction because it doesn't have political realities the whole problem of this crisis it was created by the europeans themselves because you could not have a single currency without a political union they knew they couldn't get away of the political union so they disappeared to the equivalent of las vegas and signed up to and maybe a proposition which is to have a unified currency with no unified policy paper going to get rid of on and on 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 happen therefore best thing if i was agree i would be down to get a grant. to get out of this because what happens there still in the euro zone so that french banks check the hakka but there's still stuck with the euro. and we'll have more from britain's no hesketh in just around twenty minutes time here. now a british court 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 at stake x.l. tycoon mary spears all ski wants the cash from chelsea football club ramon a member of each man he usually keeps a public profile was on the ballot reports now it means britons are getting a rare glimpse into the billionaire's lifestyle. 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 p. 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 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 the 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 presence of a benoit image he doesn't really come across aggressively the resale thing 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 ambrym over it for six and a half billion dollars they set up the oil company sit next to gether in the ninety's this debate is also he claims he was blackmailed into selling his stake at a fraction of its true worth a mere one point two million dollars the money here is massive the case is expected to smash the record for the u.k.'s most expensive privately funded litigation is thought to be costing eighty dollars a second in here as for the legal fees mr 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 kazakh one is becky paul israeli one british the crown prince of abu dhabi is suddenly involved for transferring one point three billion dollars from one to the other not to mention future strange deals records of meetings that maybe never happened the whole thing's extraordinarily bizarre you try and place the whole thing together which becomes another difficult task because you don't know how much of this is even anyway true according to mr pease lawyers mr a has hidden his billions in a complex web of offshore holdings so even if mr b. does win he'll have a difficult task extracting any money with so much at stake it's painstaking

progress the battles expected to go on into the new year after bennett r.t. london. also ahead where in india where disaster victims became drug company guinea pigs both pollack chemical tragedy killed thousands for survivors who thought they were getting patients were being tested on instead. moscow is remembering seventy years since one of the major turning points in the second world war with a reenactment of the nineteen forty one raid it's also just not to cross the red square on their way to fight against fascism well for me in a few moments time. afghanistan's a 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 us led invasion in two thousand and one. contributor

believes washington is attempting to shift the blame. have you ever met scientific disinformation as hard all for 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 production in fact it was the cia come pain to promote and forster were just hitting 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 their funds for the united states covert operations the united states is solely responsible for afghanistan converting since the beginning of the operation

enduring freedom into their bottomless pit and the epicenter of the global narco threat to the security and stability of the whole world. and further fallout from one of the wells west industrial disaster in the quarter of a century on the chemical gas leak at a u.s. plant in bhopal india killed an estimated twenty thousand people and the survivors faced the agony being used to test drugs they thought with the treatment and should has been. 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. ok today thousands like srivastav still suffer. very healthy before the gas leaks to the place after this incident we became very sick will 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 to 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 for the medicines hug 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 drop 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 medicine i'm slowly losing last night i cannot work for long and i suffer from breathlessness left to suffer a double tragedy preassure either r t bhopal india. and

we have more stories lined up a few online today millions of russian muslims are marking one of the most important religious festivals with prayers a pilgrimage and celebrations for eight years at auntie dot com. plus hollywood has another spy story in its sights this time the life and death of the points and former k.g.b. officer on it's on when you. look at some other world news for you now further civilian deaths in syria this time nineteen protesters killed by security forces just a solution to the downfall age of most elite class people a day earlier twenty seven anti-government protesters got in homes which is a focal city for the opposition the arab league will make another attempt to tackling the crisis this week both already brokering a peace deal that's being widely ignored. a former army general has won the

presidential runoff in guatemala and more than hoffa for votes it means. become the first x. soldier to leave the country since the civil war ninety nine hundred sixty one year old has promised to fight violent crime with the influx of mexican drug gangs with a monolithic transit hub for drugs from south america to the u.s. . triple blasts have struck civilians in large markets in central baghdad as people gathered to buy food to mark eat at least eight people died and dozens more were injured despite an increase in security iraqi capital has seen more god incidence of loons innocent ones and u.s. troops to pull out all three that's true. floods are continuing to spread in buying cokes a commercial district more than five hundred people have already been killed across thailand in the country's worst flooding in hof a century water levels in the car. well have reached

a meter high forty's saying the subway system is now also at risk government says four billion dollars spent to help the country 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 ati's 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 one nine hundred forty one this is to mark the seventieth anniversary of thoughts march across red square and then on woods to the front to defend moscow against the nazi home salt the dates of the seventh of november for this parade taking place was of 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 cooling calendar would put such dates as the seventh november but that was also an important date not just food the soviet union it was also picked by nazi germany as the day that hitler wanted to be in moscow he wanted to have more skewed taken by this point to march in red square himself in similar ways this 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 easy day parade to seeing soldiers wearing 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 the bottle of moscow itself was very bloody very brutal over a million people killed and injured in the fighting to defend the copper so many of

those people who marched across red square just behind me in nineteen forty want to die as they fell at the front defending the capital from germany. they put all of it there in red square but crossed to the business desk and joined the task. it's twenty four minutes past noon here in moscow welcome to the business program r.t. it's taken almost two decades of talks but now russia has its foot in the door of the world trade organization the countries in a final round as informal negotiations smoothing out the remaining issues and decision on russia's membership is expected by the end of this week peter west said oh that's one bank antón believes the 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

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 do think that these inflows doesn't actually provide a threat they provide an opportunity for companies to make themselves more efficient more transparent at a more effective on the call so there's a 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 regard as the most important thing but it appeared. european debt remains one of the dominating issues for the markets this week as we've heard earlier greece's and battled prime minister george papandreou was stepping down after his a plan for a referendum on the e.u. bailout investors are now waiting to see who is brave enough to step into papandrea shoes the decision is expected later on monday the interim government's main task

will be to pass the european rescue package considered crucial to shoring up the euro. well let's now take a quick look at the markets oil is heading higher light sweet us currently trading at ninety four dollars per barrel while grant is at one hundred thirteen dollars in asia equities or lower exporters are among the main losers in japan the car maker nissan losing almost two percent and property shares are under pressure in hong kong as chinese premier wen jiabao affirmed the government's intention to drive down the real estate prices meanwhile energy majors see newark is losing more than two percent after a deal to buy majority stake in an argentinian oil producer from b p fell apart. the european markets have been in the red the footsies losing half a percent while the dax is down three quarters of a percent. and here in russia the market started the day beat but

failed to withstand the pressure both the r.t.s. and the my six are losing around half a percent eat salad. and here's a quick look at some share moves on the my six strong oil is supporting energy producers rosneft is adding around one percent among financials is very bad it has slipped and to read is now losing around a half a percent in other sectors severstal is up almost one percent of the company as reported a nine percent decline in production in september compared to the previous month. one of the world's biggest gas fields will stay on ice promise tags breaks kick in the stockmen field in the barents sea could satisfy the entire world's gas needs for a year but then we partners in the development say investors would not give cash until the government provides some incentives. i mean given the economic potential we

really also in the the federal support and they're all true to elements enough that there's the monroe extraction texas and at this point the gas exports rooty all but all gas those are the two other elements that we are presently we are in the dialogue with the government to discuss these things and these are also required on the interpreter makes no commercial interest interest. and that's it for now i'll see you back here in less than an hour.

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it with r.t. that's taken the made headlines. also nato's the fight for democracy in libya the country's new chapters show a surge in radical islam a strict sharia law or an al qaeda flags and evidence that washington seems unconcerned about what's next duffy's gone. race to stop in europe and drowning in a sea of debt as i.m.f. chief heads to moscow to see if russia can come to the rescue pressure is offering ten billion dollars to the new through the i.m.f. investment mechanisms. and to the russian tycoon titans are slugging it out over six and a half billion dollars on their reputations and london's high court exiled places where race once the national journal secret club. where none of them.