a strike on iran's nuclear facilities is drawing nearer foreign minister sergey lavrov believes any such move would be a serious mistake with grave and unpredictable consequences artie's. details russia stands firmly on that this issue has to be approached with diplomacy it has to be done step by step through talking no military intervention is acceptable russia's reaction to this comes after israel has been pushing for a military intervention saying the clock is ticking and the iranian nuclear program has to be stopped right now russia's foreign minister insists that it's going to have consequences for the entire region is already so unstable. our view on this issue is well known and the talk 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 rise in deaths. meanwhile international atomic energy agency's preparing

our reports which is going to prove that iran's nuclear ambitions are not peaceful overall iran has been denying this ever since the beginning and mahmoud ahmadinejad has said that if there is going to be a military intervention then iran is prepared for it. all as is being witnessed in libya foreign military interventions don't always bring the desired result the post gadhafi set up a showing a lurch towards a radical islam with strict sharia law and all the evidence there that's barely a week after nato ended its campaign to swap a dictator for democracy or had us get a check on explains the alliance and the us don't seem too concerned about the shape is taking. 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 qaida flag planted on a libyan courthouse steered quite some panic and not just that you have the interim leader coming out saying he hoped it would become an islamic state that polygamy was going to be illegal again consistent with sharia law sharia law to include punishments such as cutting off the hands of thieves beheading convicted murderers and rapists stoning to death adulterers 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 that bothered 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 what democracy is or we're working with dictatorships or working with secular governments or religious governments or we care about is our interest in the region very 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 foully beyond 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 our team. now europe's a dismal finances were very much in focus at the recent g. twenty summit in cannes as the leaders of the world's twenty biggest economies got together to map out a way forward well they agreed to prop up the international monetary fund and i would change is bringing the crisis talks to russia by meeting president medvedev in moscow. is keeping an eye on this for us to eat out so what is the i.m.f. chief receive are looking for here and you think she's likely to get it. the i.m.f. chief is looking for russia's money and russia seems to be determined and we're

going to help the eurozone through i am of michigan voted today reads and waited he wants these help to be to be targeted to be called rehan supposed to be to be direct and to be done through the international financial institutions such as i am out of russia paid the last portion of its debt to the organization back in two thousand and five and sees that it has been contributing to the i.m.f. by providing money for the country as we experience a serious financial economic difficulties or even default as it is now the case with greece at the current euro crisis and recent developments in greece so completely took over the g twenty summit in cannes last week where the leaders agreed to bolster the role. of the i.m.f. and other financial institutions to save the euro and the eurozone and one of the hopes for the euro is help coming from the emerging economies from the breaks including russia and although the current euro crisis doesn't directly affect the

brics countries they did promise to come up with financial support for europe as far as russia is concerned here we're talking about a potential compensation which could exceed ten billion dollars however present that it made it's clear from the very beginning that there is a condition on russia and other partners within the brakes to provide this money to europe and that is that their voice needs to be heard within the i.m.f. and other financial institutions optional russia itself keeps almost forty five percent of its international reserves in euros talking about that a two way street here or so about russia what's it really get in a hoping to get in return for giving its support to the i.m.f. . or russia is likely to ask for a high price tag of its for its offer of support to eurozone countries a particular its search chances of and showing the world trade organization by the

end of this year finally after years and years of beating look more than promising above all russia is likely to to continue lobbying for the reform of the i.m.f. as well as other brics countries and it's its main board to particular the brics countries are pushing towards the registry buescher of the i.m.f. membership quotas by january twenty four teams the thing is that the main criticism of these certain financial institutions is similar to that of the g twenty the g twenty remember was formed during the heyday of behavior of the global financial crisis in two thousand and eight and it was months 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 has never happened in reality behind. christine lagarde said today again that she supported the idea of reforming the international

monetary fund and she also agreed with the fact that quotas for the countries with the rapidly growing economies should be increased the am f. was filmed in nineteen forty five and currently i'm of commitments amount to almost three hundred billion dollars of funds and the major was at this point are greece portugal i'm. ok well thanks very much for bringing us up to date there are. live from central moscow thanks. well it's a greece's debt that continues to drag everyone else down but it will soon have a new team to try and beat it out of it's for national quagmire after leaders agreed to form a coalition but there's no room for beleaguered prime minister george papandreou and he's agreed to go and be replaced later on monday getting the prime minister to go was key to securing the main opposition party's involvement they've got just fifteen weeks to force through cots which widespread protests once the e.u. rescue is approved step aside for an election next february the coalition plan came

after the prime minister shocked colleagues at home and abroad by declaring and then withdrawing a bailout referendum later a former british government minister tells r t that europe's trouble stemmed from a lack of political cohesion. the problem i would use to you is based on fiction because it doesn't have political reality the whole problem with this crisis is it was created by the europeans and so because you could not have a single car with a political union they knew they couldn't get away with the political views so they disappear with the equivalent of las vegas and signed up to maybe a proposition which is to have a unified carbs with no unified policy going to get rid of on in. greece you're going to have to get the price down and it's almost everything is prized in europe as that would never be possible to have that. if i was a greek i would be. going to ground. to get out because what happens there still in

the. french banks. but there's still stuck with. more from britain's lord haskett than just about twenty minutes time right here on our table before that where in india we're disaster victims became a drug company guinea pigs the bhopal chemical tragedy killed thousands but survivors who thought they were getting medication are being tested on instead. go is remembering seventy years since one of the major turning points in the second world war with a reenactment of the nine hundred forty one raid which still searches much across red square on their way to fight against fascism pull for me in a few moments time. british court is seeing two of russia's richest

battle it out in front of the bench and it's no small claim six and a half billion dollars is at stake. wants the cash from chelsea football club owner . a man who usually keeps a low public profile as bennett reports it means britons are getting a rare glimpse into the billionaire slap stop. it's been dubbed the battle of the oligarchs in one corner is mr a estimated wealth fifteen billion assets for your child's a football club and a french chateau in the other corner nice to be 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 walls 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 presents a very benign 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 over it for six and a half billion dollars they set up the oil company sip left together 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 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 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 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 his 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. well there is further fallout from one of the world's worst industrial disasters more than a quarter of a century on the chemical gas leak at a us plant in a bhopal in india killed an estimated twenty thousand people at the survivors face further agony being used to test drugs they thought they were being treated that were treatment artie's appreciator has a story. even after twenty five years residents say it was a day they can never forget it. i clutched my children drugged my wife and mother

to go to the bus station everyone was screaming run run we crossed another village when 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 their angry ever again ok today thousands like srivastav still suffer. very healthy before the gas leaks to the place of work 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 of change documents that show at least six trial programs that took place in bhopal between two thousand and four and two. thousand and eight is profoundly ironic that of the victims of the worst chemical disaster in which some

of the largest pharmaceutical largest multinational corporations the war it get very 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 and. 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 on 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 trials on people who is in kittie's 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 from home either and i suffer from breathlessness left to suffer a double tragedy preassure either r.t. bhopal india. well we've got more stories lined up for you online and here is a few of them right now let's see the millions of russian muslims part of one of their most important religious festivals with prayers and celebrations for eat the videos that are dot com. and hollywood has another spy story in its sights this time the life of the poisoned former k.g.b. officer aleksandr it began. and now for a quick look at some other world news now jailed international terrorists carlos the jackal is going on trial again all this time it's over a series of bombings that killed eleven people in france in the one nine hundred

eighty s. he's already serving a life there for a triple murder a decade earlier this is a two year old became a tourist worldwide for masterminding several fatal bombings assassinations and hostage taking. further civilian deaths in a syria and this time nineteen protesters killed by security forces just as celebrations began for the measure muslim festival a day earlier twenty seven anti-government protesters died in homes which is a focal city for the opposition but the arab league will make another attempt to 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 now it needs perez molina will become the first x. soldier to leave the country since the civil war in the one nine hundred ninety s. the sixty one year old has promised to fight violent crime as well as the influx of

mexican drug gangs. transit hub for drugs from south america to the u.s. . floods are continuing to spread bad cox commercial district more than five hundred people have already been killed across thailand the country's worst the. and half a century of water levels of the capitol have reached a meter high with authorities saying the subway system is now also what risk or 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 me be encroaching and not see a voter's head on the front line or peter all over isn't red square for us. 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 over the last

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 before they spray 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 put such dates was the seven supposed november that was also an important date not just to the soviet union it was also picked by nazi germany was the day that hitler wanted to be in moscow he wanted to have moscow 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 people going off to the front to fight against the punches

they were able to do just you know just a 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 one dite as they fell at the front defending the capital from germany. that was peter all the foreign reporting right now it's time for all the latest business news for that tosh. it's almost twenty four minutes past. two pm here in moscow welcome to the business program it's taken almost two decades of talks but now russia has its foot in the door of the world trade organization the country isn't final rounds of informal

negotiations smoothing out the remaining issues a decision on russia's membership is expected by the end of this week peter west and i've been back at all and says w t 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 our players is that i have a feeling there's a lot of improvement cost cutting efficiency to be done in russian companies to actually cope with this so if you want to be really hard on this i mean i do think that these employers 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 of this huge level of restructuring efforts that can be done the russian companies that could offset some of these so-called threats from former players of 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 appeared. european debt remains one of the dominating issues for the markets this week as we've heard of early earlier greece's embattled prime minister george republican drowse stepping down after adopt a border plan for a referendum on the e.u. bailout investors 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 a crucial to shoring up the euro. let's now see what's going on in the markets the european stocks are losing value this hour the flexi and the dax are down one and house percent each. and the russian markets are failing to withstand the pressure the r.t.s. is shedding one and a half percent a sour the my six is losing three quarters percent. and a quick look at the blue chips on why sex most are in the red with gazprom shedding

more than one of the house percent own lukoil is bucking the downward trend though up just a notch and then the financial sector is burbank is down around half a percent. oil is heading lower light sweet is currently trading under ninety four dollars per barrel while dr is under one hundred twelve. one of the world's biggest gas fields will stay on ice told russians promised tax breaks kick in the stockmen's field in the barents sea could satisfy the entire world's gas needs for a year but that now we just partner in the development says investors would have to wait to give out the cash until the government provides more incentives. to have it given 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 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 make the commercially interesting project. and that's all we have time for in this edition of business i'll be back and now our.

culture is that so much and a lot of people are curious will there is a little more of a difference a flood of renouncing amicable divorce for well over a generation of voters and consumers around the record called the democracy in capitalism. in canada and the us that 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 independence day off sponsored by the industry and most of the times 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 folks because ninety to ninety five percent of cancers kurth among people with health 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 in a ministration. in fact there are more pharmaceutical industry lobbyists in washington d.c. than members of congress. it's. in the czech republic is available in. central. most of the stuff. in. the beach. it's no. use available in.

russia. nuclear facilities. would be a serious. consequences. for democracy in libya the country's. next. to russian. over six and a half billion dollars.