or you're watching r t broadcasting live from moscow welcome to the program carrie johnston libya's post gadhafi world is sharing a lurch towards radical islam with strict sharia law and al qaeda flags in evidence that it's barely a week since nato moved out of the campaign to swap a dictator for democracy. in the u.s. didn't seem too concerned about the shape it's taking on a 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 do here as a move towards democracy but really that's not exactly what's going on it seems the u.s. media just woke up to the young holding human rights disaster in the region libya's new rulers are at risk of being accused of the same kind of abuses before to

overthrow an al qaeda flag planted on a libyan courthouse steered quite some panic and not just that you have the interim leader coming out saying he hoped it would become an islamic state that polygamy was going to be illegal again consistent with sharia law sharia law to include punishments such as cutting off the hands of thieves beheading convicted murderers and rapists stoning to death adulterers sure real long which is about to be introduced in libya is considered to be for the most part incompatible with democratic values especially when it comes to women's rights but many experts believe that whatever the new libyan government's domestic policies it will not stop the u.s. from making nice with the saudi arabia for instance has the most extreme form of sharia law women are not allowed to drive cars are not allowed to vote the crime for adultery for women is the death penalty in saudi arabia and none of this seems to bother the powers that be in washington why because saudi arabia does the

bidding of the united states in this oil rich region being a dictatorship but not a democratic state america's a big alley in a big supporter of saudi arabia that just shows that we really don't care for your democracies or we're working with dictatorships 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 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 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. . where europe's dismal finances were very much in focus as leaders of the world's twenty biggest economies got together to seek a way forward there agreed to prop up the international monetary fund and now its chief is bringing the crisis talks to russia will meet the president's head of data on monday because of the trooper is keeping an eye on developments. the heart of the i'm 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 has been contributing told the organization by providing money to countries which experience it could all make difficulties or even default as it is now the case with grace 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 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 some but as far as washers concerned we're talking about a potential contribution which could exceed ten billion dollars however present the debt 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 other 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 of 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 and moreover the brakes are pushing too was the were distributed in all the i.m.f. membership quotas by january twenty four team but the main criticism of this international organization is 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 our math 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 borderless. well that for more on this we can talk now to our business editor nick poole here in the

studio so what's the god hoping to achieve by coming to russia when he would carry money quite a lot of it. is looking to double its funds to around knowing one hundred million dollars and you need to go where the money is in a sense that's russia do you think she'll get what she wants then russia said it's prepared to contribute to extra money to the i.m.f. clearly a lot of this money is for europe or is needed more for your. north not keen on directly bailing out your people to do it through your i.m.f. through an established mechanism and it said it could previously up to about ten billion more dollars if that happens what will russia got to get out of this that russia is in no one's interest if europe if europe falls apart if you're. basically everybody does we're looking at the second dip of a double dip recession it could be very nasty europe's russia's biggest customer or gas for one of the things provides if europe goes down russia or another tipping

also sinks now i think that china is christine the gods next stop it seems that these developing booming economies is where the money is true there is money still in germany and in other northern european countries but they were already being tapped for quite a lot of money. russia has actually been very prudent it runs a very balanced budget it has money the question is really does it want to spend it is it just want to throw money into a bottom. so it's probably going to want to surance is that europe is going to restructure and make sure the money is not scorn. how do you view the decision of the g twenty countries to shore up the i.m.f. then will that help these the struggling economies that we hear about the spain the rest of it is the new quick fix. short hope in the short term if you believe you'll throw good money off the buyout or does it do it just kick

the can down the road slightly what everybody wants to see is the structural reforms that need to take place in europe now the political situation in europe of course is so complex the lives of the hard decisions are still yet to be so in greece in italy the restructuring the reforms to make those committees more competitive that hasn't really been agreed on yet or taken place and therefore you're going to see a lot of suits from the past of charring or russia about sort of spending money on these things they said it and thank you so much today for that. now it's greece's debt that continues to drag everyone else down but it will soon have a new team to try and lead it out of its financial quagmire out 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 the pm to go he was a key to securing the main opposition party's involvement they've got just a few months to force through cuts widespread protests the rest is approved and

then step aside from the election next primary the coalition plan came off the pm shocked colleagues at home and the poor old arctic air and then withdrawing bailed out referendum. well still ahead this hour in india where disaster victims became drug company guinea pigs the most paula chemical tragedy killed thousands of survivors who thought they were getting a patient being tested on. the head. go is remembering seventy years since one of the major turning points in the second world war with a reenactment of the night. raid it's also just march across red square on their way to fight against fascism well for me in a few moments time. british courts are seeing two of russia's richest backlit turn out in front of the bench and it's no small claim either six and a half billion dollars is at stake exile tycoon barry springs off key once the cash

from chelsea football club and every man every move which a man who usually keeps a no public profile bennett reports it means britons are getting 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 chelsea football club and a french chateau in the other corner mr p. estimated fortune five hundred million he had to sell his yacht but he does still have his trusty stretch my back which he never fails to show off. his rise to riches is a story precious few knew until now his turn in the witness stand has lifted the lid on a life in the shadows he revealed how some of his companies employed primarily disabled staff and a 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 p.r. and here is p.r. has been very good presents a very big he doesn't really come across aggressively the resale nothing at all he wants to go respectable and suddenly we're all of the rather sort of see the origins of his wealth it's a third of that wealth that. claims he's he's still a wanted man in russia he's suing mr and promote it for six and a half billion dollars they set up the oil company sit next to gether in the ninety's this debate 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 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 the cost of nine billionaires five russian one cause 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's r.t. london. rusher is strongly warning against an attack on iran following statements by israel a strike on iran's nuclear facilities is drawing near a foreign minister of believes any such move would be a serious mistake with grave and unpredictable consequences well. across what's being said on this issue. tell you some strong words there from a foreign minister. in fact russia's position. towards reigning in nuclear ambitions hasn't changed over the years russia insists

that. it has to be approached with diplomacy has to be done step by step in a military intervention is not an option the reaction of russian foreign minister comes after israel has been pushing for military action against iran. saying that the clock is ticking and iranian nuclear program has to be stopped right now there in mind that many experts from all over the world are saying that it is absolutely obvious that israel has its own nuclear weapons but no one is talking about that and of course russia insists that a military intervention is going to have consequences for the entire region that is already so unstable. because it's not our view a list issue is well known and the talks would be a serious mistake with very grave consequences we can see proof of that every day when we see how problems are being solved close to iran iraq afghanistan or other countries in the region military interference only leads to a multiple rising death. of the region russia insists that this military

intervention is going to do nothing but of course a civilian casualties an international atomic energy agency saying it's preparing a report in which it's going to prove that iranian nuclear ambitions are not speak after the experts of i.a.e.a. were allowed into iranian nuclear facilities however once again military intervention is not a solution. on. peyote a sense. thank you. for the fallout from one of the world's worst industrial disaster has more than a quarter of a century on the chemical gas leak at the u.s. plant in bhopal india killed an estimated twenty thousand people at the survivors faced further agony being used to test drugs they thought were for treatment the has the story. even after twenty five years residents say it was

a day they can never forget it. i clutched one children drug one wife and mother to go to the bus station everyone was screaming run run the we crossed another village where more people go to and everybody in the village was screaming the room experts say union carbide had faulty equipment poorly trained employees and adequate evacuation plans in the aftermath despite being charged with manslaughter managers were bailed out and flown back to the united states never to account for their part in the disaster union carbide eventually reached a four hundred seventy million dollars settlement with india's government but left without even cleaning up the mess many believe that caused thousands more to suffer and they're angry. again ok today thousands like srivastav still suffer. very healthy before the gas leaks to the place of after

this incident we became very sick 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. profile

to be ironic that the victims of the worst chemical disaster in what some of the largest pharmaceutical largest multinational corporations get 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 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 drop drug trials on

people whose income is have not even been assessed let alone treated you are taking a great risk today srivastav still waits for justice. because of the medicine i'm slowly losing my sight i cannot work for anybody 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 russian muslims mark one of the most important religious festivals with pilgrimage and celebrations but the video is that dot com. and hollywood has another sponsor story in its sights this time the life and death of the poisoned home page the real facade examined and. quick look at some other news now this hour. civilian deaths in syria this time and

nineteen protesters killed by security forces just to celebrations began for the major festival a day earlier twenty seven antigovernment protesters died in homs which is the focus city for the opposition the arab league will make another attempt at tackling the crisis this week after already brokering a peace deal that's being widely ignored. a former army general has won the presidential runoff in guatemala winning more than half of all votes. will become the first to lead the country since the civil war and once again it is sixty one year old has promised to fight violent crime an influx of mexican drug gangs. as a transit hub for drugs from south america to the u.s. . and floods are continuing to spread in bangkok's commercial district over five hundred people have already been killed across thailand in the country's worst flooding in office injury water levels in the capital have reached a meter high of forty saying the subway system is now also at risk government says

four billion dollars will be spent to help the country to recover. a key moment in history is being relived in red square today marking seventy years since soldiers marched in the encroaching not seen baby's head on the front lawn well cheese pizza all of it is in risk with force. 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 all thoughts march across red square and then on woods to the front to defend moscow against the nazi home slaughter the date 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 which

puts that date was the seventh over november but that was also an important date not just food the soviet union it was also picked by nazi germany as the day they did hitler wanted to be in moscow he wanted to have more school 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 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 fronts of fights against the fascists they were able to do just now dictate the 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. yes a poignant parade on red square well time now for the pistons teams with natasha. twenty four minutes past one pm here in moscow welcome to the business program on 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 final rounds of informal negotiations smoothing out the remaining issues and this is a non russia's membership is expected by the end of this week peter weston of investment bank antón says 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 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 i do think that these inflows doesn't actually provide that they provide an opportunity for companies to make themselves more efficient more transparent and to more effectively on the cost side there's a huge level of restructuring efforts that can be done the russian companies that could offset some of these threats from foreign players and the major thing here is for the consumer increase competition is lower prices and i would the most important thing with it would be to. european debt remains one of the dominating issues for the markets this week as we've heard earlier greece's embattled prime minister george papandreou was stepping down after his of what a plan for a referendum on the e.u. bailout investors are now waiting to see who is grave enough to step into the 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 reacting while is heading light sweet is currently trading under ninety four dollars per barrel while brant is under one hundred twelve dollars. the european markets are losing value in lunchtime trading the footsie and the dax are both down around one and a half percent bouncing back slightly over the past hour. the russian markets are failing to withstand the pressure of the r.t.s. is shedding one of the sour the my six is losing three quarters of a percent. and a quick look at the blue chips on the my six most are in the red with lukoil as the only stock managing to stay in the black and the financial sector is very bank is down more than half a percent its rival d.t.b. is showing similar losses metals giant severstal is up just

a launch after the company reported a nine percent month to month decline in productions are. one of the world's biggest gas fields will stay on ice until russia's promised tax breaks kick can the field in the barents sea could satisfy the entire world's gas needs for a year but the region partners say. would have to wait until the government provides some more incentives. to have it given to the economic potential we really also need the federal support and there are up to two elements and that is the mineral extraction tax and it is the gas exports u.-t. of the of gas those are the two other elements that we are presently we are in a dialogue with the government to discuss these things and these are also required to do makes them commercially interesting approachable. and that's all from the business to this hour i'll be back in about fifteen minutes.

from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand severe problem is not enough in-patient beds not enough urgency department beds and not enough nurses to man those deaths to take care of all the people who are the only real health care system that we have in the city of los angeles is the los angeles fire department in fact when i started my venture is

a firefighter i didn't want to ask i started out i want to just do firefighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the florida problem is medical i've had a rescue couple weeks ago waited four hours for big i've waited sometimes three hours but i wouldn't say it's a francis in lynnwood for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall with patients and we have a federal law that mandates that you can't turn no one away who seeks care in an emergency room. we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least.

here with r.t. this take a look at the main headlines that. fight for democracy in libya the country's new chapters show the surge in radical islam strict sharia law and plugs in evidence that washington seems unconcerned about what's next now gadhafi is gone. the race to stop in europe from drowning in a sea of debt on a sheet head to moscow to see if russia can come to the rescue russia is offering ten billion dollars to you through the i.m.f. investment mechanisms. and to russian tycoon titans a slug newtown six billion dollars and their reputations london's high court exiled businessmen response once the cash from chelsea put. them on every move it claiming he was into.