just after three pm in the russian capital this is r.t. now russia is strongly warning against an attack on iran following statements by israel that a strike on iran's nuclear facilities is drawing near or foreign minister sergey lavrov believes any such move would be a serious mistake with grave and unpredictable consequences artie's the thought of it of a house of details. russia stands firmly on 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 russian 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 rising death. meanwhile international atomic energy agency's preparing 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 it's being witnessed in libya foreign military intervention could bring about disastrous results the post gadhafi set up a showing a lurch towards a radical islam with structural law and all the flags and evidence there that's barely a week after nato ended its campaign to swap a dictator for democracy it was artie's gain a check on explains the alliance of the u.s.

don't seem too concerned about the shape libya is taking. here first question later not so long ago the u.s. media presented libyan rebels as freedom loving folks yearning for democracy after could alpheus killing the narrative changed you know you talk about this arab spring and many people here as a move towards democracy but really that is not exactly what's going on it seems the u.s. media just woke up to the young holding human rights disaster in the region libya's new rulers are at risk of being accused of the same kind of abuses before to overthrow an al 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 shari'a long which is about to be

introduced in libya is considered to be for the most part incompatible with democratic values especially when it comes to women's rights but many experts believe that whatever the new libyan government's domestic policies it will not stop the u.s. from making nice with the saudi arabia for instance has the most extreme form of sharia law women are not allowed to drive cars are not allowed to vote the crime for adultery for women is the death penalty in saudi arabia and none of this seems to bother the powers that be in washington why because saudi arabia does the bidding of the united states in this oil rich region being a dictatorship but not a democratic state america's a big ally in a big supporter of saudi arabia that just shows that we really don't care for working with democracies or we're working with dictatorships or working with secular governments or religious governments or we care about is our interest in the region but very another u.s. ally in the region it hosts america's fifth fleet and also leaves on the shari'a

law and has a. questionable human rights records as will leave 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 only 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. europe's dismal finances are very much in focus at the recent g. twenty summit in cannes as leaders of the world's twenty biggest economies got together to map out a way forward or they agreed to prop up the international monetary fund and i would chief is bringing the crisis talks to russia by meeting president medvedev in

moscow are. keeping an eye on this for us. russia seems to be determined and willing to help the eurozone through i am up but mission the bet of today reiterated he wants these help to be to be targeted to be called brianne supposed to be to be direct and to be done through the international of financial institutions such as i am up for russia paid the last portion of its debt to the open eyes ation back in two thousand and five and since then it has been contributing to the i am up by providing money for countries which experience a serious financial economic difficulties or even default as it is now the case with grace that the current euro crisis and recession developments in grey's completed took over the g twenty summit in cannes last week but the leaders agreed to bolster the role of the i.m.f. and other financial institutions to save the euro and eurozone and one of the hopes

for the euro is help coming from the emerging economies from the breaks including russia and old though the current euro crisis doesn't directly affect the brics countries they didn't 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 if made it 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 of russia is likely to ask for a high price to cope with so for its overall support for a particular its search chances of and showing the world trade organization by the end of this year finally after years and years of feeding with more than promising

at bob dole russia is likely to continue lobbying for the reforms. yeah my o.b.'s was formed in nine hundred forty five and cut currently i'm of commitments amount to more three hundred billion dollars of funds and the the major war was at this point are greece portugal and ireland. well for more analysis we can all talk to our business editor and make a pool so dick what's your take on this what's legard looking for here in russia clearly she's looking for money the purpose policy states of europe means that they need more for their bailout funds and they need to come to where the money is and to a certain extent that's russia yeah so do you think she's actually going to get that money that she wants from russia will there will be conditions attached and the principle of precondition will be the europe needs to sort of ourselves needs to improve implement the structural reforms necessary so the money spent on the

bailout is not just wasted money yeah you know what's interesting is russia did go through what tough economic times but right now it's in a position to help out it manage the previous crisis and the financial crisis itself how did it get through it is now in this position the two thousand and eight financial crisis by being prudent to do also had quite a loss reserve fund although it should be noted that russia's economy contract it sharply during that time by about eight percent is fact it's come out of it quite well that's perhaps why you look god is here. also russia's. reserve fund was sufficiently strong that it was able to prop up its ruble and is now in a position where it could actually help out europe right and of course we know that legard so next step is china do you think that the cash is really just coming from the east now that this is really the place where western countries should look i think that's probably an overstatement on the t.v. so the countries in northern europe are still quite healthy. or australia there is

money still in the world. and russia are also quickly emerging economies with healthy healthy budgets the question is really is do they want to spend this money of europe and europe is regarded as relatively wealthy and it is so with the money better spent on russian people or on greeks. people secure it's ok let's look at where all this money is going to end up and they're propping up the international monetary fund do you think at the end of the day that struggling economy the i.m.f. is supposed to be helping which will actually benefit from this well without structural reforms i mean if you just throw good money after bad it's lost money there is no quick fix to at least the political situation in europe is sufficiently complex difficult to greece and italy the every time they tried to impose new measures structural reforms there's a resisted heavily by the populations which is understandable because it leads to

sort of long term hardship but with. how those economies are become the place to go the whole person tells us it's not just about a cash it's structural reforms you're talking about them thanks very much for your insight our business editor nick poole thank you. well it's greece's debt now that continues to drag everyone else down but will soon have a new team to try and lead it out of its financial quagmire after leaders agreed to form a coalition but there's no room for beleaguered prime minister george papandreou where he's agreed to go and be replaced later on monday and getting a prime minister to go was key to securing the main opposition parties involved that 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 came out for the prime minister shocked colleagues at home and abroad by declaring and they're drawing a bailout referendum. and still ahead this hour though we're in india where disaster victims became

a drug company guinea pigs and the bhopal chemical tragedy killed thousands but survivors who thought they were getting medication are being tested on instead. go is remembering seventeen years since one of the major turning points in the second world war with a reenactment of the. great. cross red square on the way to fight against fascism well for me the few moments time. all the 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. but he spit it solves he wants the cash from chelsea football club owner. a man who usually keeps a low public profile was artie's i bet it reports that means britons are getting a rare glimpse into the billionaires lifestyle. it's been dubbed the battle of the oligarchs in one corner is an easter egg estimated well 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 but 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 need 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 rat in the dumpster is p.r. and here his p.r. has been very good presents a very banal image that he doesn't really come across aggressively doesn't really

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 but. claims is he's still a wanted man in russia he's suing mr and promote it for five 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 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 a 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 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 born 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 r.t.

london. and there's further fallout from of the world's worst industrial disasters more than a quarter of a century on the chemical ghastly get a us plant in bhopal in india killed an estimated twenty thousand people in the survivors face further agony to test drugs they thought were for treatment artist british writer has this story. even after twenty five years residents say it was a day they can never forget it. i clutched my children drug one wife and mother to go to the bus station everyone was screaming run run we crossed another village when will people got in the car 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 a 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 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 trials on people whose entities 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 do have more stories lined up for you on the lioness such as a cd millions of russian muslims marked one of their most important religious

festivals with prayers pilgrimage and celebrations for all the video is out our team doth car. and the hollywood has another spy story in the sights of this song the life and death of the poisoned a former k.g.b. officer except that they've been there. and now for a quick look at some other world news now jailed international terrorists carlos the jackal is going on trial again well 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 life there for a triple murder a decade earlier the sixty two year old became a torrijos worldwide for masterminding several fatal bombings sasa nations and hostage taking. further civilian deaths in syria at this time nineteen protesters killed by security forces just their celebrations began for the major muslim festival

a day earlier twenty seven anti-government protesters died in homs which is a focal 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 it means 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 fire with fries as well as the influx of mexican drug lords is a key transit hub for drugs from south america to the u.s. . floods are continuing to spread and bangkok's commercial district more than five hundred people have already been killed across thailand at the country's worst flooding in half a century water levels in the capital have reached a metre high but authorities saying the subway system is now also at risk the

government says a four billion dollars will be spent to help the country to recover. now a key moment of history was reenacted in red square today marking seventy years since soviet soldiers marched to meet the encroaching nazi invaders head on the front line r.t. speaker all over reports now from the heart of moscow. well this is the first time that the parade is being reenacted as it took place in nineteen forty one this is to mark the seventieth anniversary all thoughts march across red square and then on which to the front to defend moscow against the nazi homeschooled the dates of the seventh of november 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 date was the seventh hope of november but that was also an important date

not just food the soviet union it was also picked by nazi germany was the day that hitler wanted to be in moscow he wanted to have more skin taken by this boy 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 budgets they were able to do just that no easy day 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 battle of moscow itself was very bloody very brutal over a million people killed and injured in the fighting to defend the top of so many of those people who marched across red square just behind me in nineteen forty one who

died eight as they fell at the front defending the capital from germany. i'll be back with a headline shortly but first the business for the tosh. it's twenty four minutes past the hour 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 countries in the final round of informal negotiations smoothing out the remaining issues a decision on russia's membership is expected by the end of the week peter weston out of beslan bank antón says a w t o accession would make russian companies more competitive but i think the major point to be to be made when it comes to the sort of increased competition from outside players is that i have a feeling there's a lot of improvement cost cutting efficiency to be done in russian companies texaco put this so if you want to be really hard on this i mean i do think that these

inflows doesn't actually provide that threat 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 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 the guts the most important thing with it i would would double it to european debt remains one of the dominating issues for the markets this week as we've heard earlier reeses embattled prime minister george papandreou stepping down after his aborted plan for a referendum on the e.u. bailout investors and now waiting to see who is brave enough to step into shoes the decision is expected later on monday the coalition government's main task will be to pass the european rescue package a move considered crucial to shoring up the euro. and let's celtic look at the

markets the european stocks are losing value in afternoon trading the footsie is shedding around one percent the dax is down just under one percent. the russian markets are failing to withstand the pressure the r.t.s. is shedding half a percent the sour wall the why is sex is flying too negative bouncing back from earlier logs. and a quick look at some of the blue chips on the my sex most are in the red with gazprom shedding more than one and a half percent rosneft in lukoil a bucking the downward trend just a notch and then the financial sector spare a bank is down around a quarter of. twelve prices a mix this hour light sweet is currently trading just under ninety four dollars a barrel while brant is over one hundred twelve dollars. one of the world's biggest

gas fields will stay on ice told russia's promised tax breaks kick in the stock when sealed in the barents sea could satisfy the entire world's gas needs for a year but the norwegian partner in the development says investors would not give cash until the government provides some incentives to be given the economic potential the real show in the the federal reserve board and there are two good two elements in the that is the main road which direction texas and it is the biggest export you deal with that will get us and those other 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 moment a commercial interest in which we. and that's as for the business team my colleague cutting the minute count will bring you an update and less than our.

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here's a recap of all the main stories we're covering for you today are to russia sounds the alarm over israel saying it could soon bar the rods of nuclear facilities warning that any such move would be a serious mistake with grave and unpredictable consequences. after nato spied for democracy in libya but countries are showing a surge in radical islam with strict sharia law and flags in evidence there washington seems concerned about what's next now that gadhafi is gone. and that two russian tycoon titans are slugging it out over six billion dollars and their reputations in london. businessmen but he wants the cash for chelsea football club.