you know i don't know what's going on. concrete on the marquee. the. moment of truth. the senate rushes to vote on austerity plans to work clear the way for a new government but many say the debt reduction measures are too late to fix one of the the largest economies. for billions the lucrative contracts nato countries expect to reconstruct libya and new questions over the real motives for military strikes. the eye of ukraine's political storm the nation's mood turns ugly as local outbreaks on the rest of the country a return to the bad old days of.

world wide news twenty four seven this is r.t. live from moscow. italy is rushing through painful austerity cuts set to avert the worst case scenario with a vote and the senate expected on friday approval by both houses of parliament will finally end the era of silvio berlusconi who promised to resign as soon as new laws are passed. reports some say it's e.u. regulations that forced its third largest economy to the brink. see it in fashion it's a country that economy wise it's nice to pitting its best foot forward. but

recently it's least in this economy stagnating has now become the latest country to be dragged into the center of the eurozone crisis is only has a strong economy and is a liquid has. been sorry better than it is now it's leave it now face a similar fate these countries having to seek and they did see parallels despite being one of the year is its largest economy we're not greece we are not greece because we have a lot of savings we are not greece because we have been very prudent in this recession we haven't done it in this recession might not be greece but with a man that soaring pouring costs just how did italy and in this situation right now nobody is spending nobody spending in all or all of europe consumers are not spending they are saving they're scared to death of what's going to happen meeting

here is a demonstrably gees it's that tough reforms to get a large part of what's made with putin growth in the country so difficult it's now kendall of the government being able to bring about positive change we have had too many years of that was not credible outside and very divisive inside i don't think it's only an italian problem i mean there's quite some support for saying that mr berlusconi was not able to deliver what he promised i think there might be a transfer a song called the year of program that's not going to be enough. we need support from europe otherwise everybody on its own and that's the scariest part with the situation in italy right now the u.a.e. think base its biggest challenge yet it's unclear whether days like deals of a peaceful and culturally united europe can survive the failure to adapt and to find decisive leadership at this point and these ideals could be in ruins.

greece is already welcoming a new prime minister the former vice president of the european central bank. sworn in on friday brings to an end days of political wrangling in athens as the main parties struggle to come to an agreement the new coalition government will have to vote for more austerity measures to release another portion of an hour out otherwise greece warns it will go bankrupt within weeks political analyst peter avery believes that the true nature of the deepening crisis is being hidden from public view. i think we have to turn the clock back to the original collapse of the world economy because this was no accident it was a very well planned exercise by the new world order who have the ability to close down any company or any country at will and as we know ireland became a victim portugal and now greece and apparently spain and italy are likely to

follow it really doesn't matter who's in power there are people there to control in this situation the banks are involved who sometimes get unsecured loans and of course the politicians themselves remember that they can take out any country financially or militarily that they want to take out this is a master plan of what i call the new world order their priorities are one to secure the world's natural resources their second is to control the markets for those resources and thirdly to control the gateways the sea lanes and the pipeline routes when you have control of this you've basically got the world in the palm of your hand controls the finances of the world controls the world and this is what we're looking at here. and i while there's a lot of despair among the austerity hit greeks one thing i might help people take their minds off. what price is or not so that people will always

demand their entertainment and their greek approving try and help boost the morale of the entire nation in their really match against russia and we all know how dashing that the greek fans can be watching the entire buildup in our sports bulletin coming your way in about forty forty five. with the debt crisis apparently here to stay world leaders have agreed they need to work faster to save the global economy so we spoke to the director general of the world trade organization and i don't have a pascal lamy but he says russia's long awaited membership in the w t o will help the revival well the economy is not in good shape but one of the ways to exit this situation which i recognize and we discussed that last week in the g twenty is not good one of the ways to move out of this crisis is

to open more trade fight against protectionism and the fact that russia joins the visit very moment is also a symbol of the value of these monti the true system of rules in that it had its economy growing including time which are difficult like the ones we are in in the world economy. europeans meantime are also asserting their eyes on china as a source of cash to bail them out i don't beijing's role in saving struggling western economies is actually something that peter lavelle debates with his guests on cross talk coming your way here on our. next hour. the chinese have been very hesitant because they see that the europeans just can't get their house in order we've created such a mess of their economies are no where near is cutting and strategic as china does and we've got to be clear that finding our moral hazard in keeping us behaving

badly either in europe or the united states is not in china's long term best interest either it's. want to see the rest continue to harm itself are we really in the post given all the problems we have talk talk town to china and say what we've decided is correct and what we think is good and what you would do is. you see crosstalk next now in about an hour and twenty minutes from now nato may have ended its operations in libya but the western presence is far from over with big companies replacing the warplanes of the countries the bulk of the oil rich country and are getting lucrative contracts to rebuild it. as up the profits of war . first british bombs tourists apart now british companies will get paid to put it back together libya is open for business and u.k. firms are being encouraged to join the gold rush the relatively wealthy country.

and i expect. british. companies to get involved in the reconstruction of libya philip hammond is urging c.e.o.'s and sales directors to pack their suitcases and head to the north african country the u.k.'s bill for its part in the nato intervention in libya is estimated at just under five hundred million dollars but according to the u.k. department of trade and investment the value of contracts to rebuild libya in areas ranging from electricity and water supplies to health care and education could mounds to put some three hundred billion dollars over the next ten years and the british government will make sure it takes in leading role in that just as it did in the war and that's raising more questions about the u.k.'s motives in playing such a big role in the recent conflict john hillery of war on want says it has shades of

post-war iraq when companies from countries involved in the allied invasion were awarded all the best gigs. journalist john pilger says there was evidence of battering before nato even got involved. transitional council told the french. they would give over thirty five. u.k. department for trade and investment already has staff on the ground in libya ready to welcome british companies. awarded contracts wanting to get in on the action or oil firms shell and b.p. shares brews on the news they were talking to the transitional government engineering firms carrot and mark macdonald also reportedly keen but the latter

refused to put up a spokesman when asked preferring instead to send three sixty eight minutes which critics say is a new tactic to avoid defending their ethics it's better for them involved in the fallout of public discussion of why that's what they're doing around the world. so far the conflict in libya looks like an excellent investment half a billion dollars to oust a dictator with a return of three hundred billion in business contracts when it's all over now that humanitarian goals no longer need to be touted wall suddenly makes great business sense nor a smith party london it's not going to live in the heart of moscow are still to come for you this hour i will approach the launch to a martian reaches destination or bottom up and hit the ground out of the chance of saving a russian ambitious interplanetary mission after it was hit with serious technical problems. but so if you join our staff or our writer at close up as our team

arrives a very strong help people on the black sea coast to devote their lives to saving animals from exploitation in the tourism. the rule of the orange coalition it was a time of political fireworks in ukraine protests and clashes on the streets i was matched by brawls inside parliament so when last year moderate centrist a picture of democracy was elected to power people were hoping for a card because article accurately reports the legacy might not be so easy to overcome. history appears to be repeating itself in ukraine the left are the events of several years back on the right of just a few weeks ago but the two points of history united by people say belief that the government haven't been working in their favor. and for many it all started with this man because they're usually fist fights in parliament mass street protests and

destruction of gas supplies to europe were common in his era as president and it kept ukraine firmly in the headlines the world's media had been having many sleepless nights reporting on the rollercoaster events in the country back then writer and journalist meeting if we didn't publish a book poking fun at all the major political players. there's times are extremely fun for the media the regime use the media is a drug for society but if you do so you have to braise the do see every year it's fun to watch when the temperature rises in politics but to society it's bad there's a limit to our list wildness which decides he goes magination with you should we surely reach this goal of all the mission of pollution that many now say it was the mass of you should get scared and see which helped which sweeps of power and many felt his arrival would become a breath of fresh air centralizing the power instead allies in the economy were its first priority when he became president of ukraine for more than

a year it had been relatively quiet here but the case of former prime minister units in the south of fourteen months which is presidency propelled ukraine back into the global headlines the culmination of her trial for exceeding her authority while prime ministers shocked many hardly anyone expected to machine go to land such a big sentence seven years behind bars. i want to point that down in a time where there oppressions returns to ukraine with this but direct i'm appealing to all the patriots of ukraine defend ukraine from an authoritarian regime. while the so-called joint of arc of ukrainian politics was stein traveling inside the courtroom perceiving supporters clashed with police outside. days later veterans of the chernobyl clear up stormed the parliament demanding a raise to their ridiculously low pensions they demolished everything in their pride attacking the police with blunt weapons growing social unrest scared the

country's president when your coworker when you were lured for some agencies tell me that people are buying firearms and that they are planning attacks on state bodies nationwide people have completely lost their shine experts say ukraine may again quiet down for a while but with the euro twenty to twelve football championship and the crucial parliamentary election looming the temperature of scandal will most certainly be rising again come next year. see. ukraine. now a quarter past the hour here in the russian capital don't forget though you can always are looking for a web site but many more stories are a couple of items already for you one liner right now a look at why today it's quite literally one hundred giving birth to get married. and you need to know about the date eleven eleven eleven. up for

grabs the people dressed by a russian designer goes under that in los angeles find out what you'll have to pay to dress up to guard our style. dot com. we have the aussie business news in about seven minutes time for now though russian space experts are battling to fix a technical failure inter-planetary station that was heading to the martian moon phobos and the aim of the probe launched on wednesday was to get a better knowledge of how the universe evolves but there are fears the vehicle could crash back to earth having never reached its goal. explores the potential dangers. at the moment the theories around which probably what problem is cause the probe to be stuck in all bit around the earth after its takeoff split into two

camps whether it's a problem with the software of the probe or a problem with the hardware of the probe now it's a problem with the software and that's something that potentially can be fixed now one theory that's been put forward is that it's a problem with the navigation system of the probe these type of probes when they're launched initially used the sun is their main focus point for navigation and then that navigation system switches over towards the stars now that some people believe that this probe has failed in switching from the sun to the stars and if they can send a software patch and upload back to the the probe it should be able to go about its mission just a few days later now the big problems come in the rise if it turns out to be a problem with the hardware the focus program contains seven tons of highly toxic fuel because this fear was intended on sending it from the earth to the moon or mars and then back to earth one nasa expert is referred to the phobias probe as the

most toxic palling satellite ever so this is a problem that last cause most of the russian space agency are facing that they may have to come up with some kind of contingency plan to deal with a potentially toxic problem caused by the fuel that's on board this probe to make sure that it poses no threat to us here on earth. now let's get them on the headlines an hour from around the world time for the world update here about see a u.s. army soldier convicted of slaughtering three afghan civilians for sport as army sentenced to life the jury has however decided to start a sergeant calvin gibbs will be eligible for parole after serving ten years in prison the twenty six year old was the highest ranking of five soldiers charged over the deaths of the unarmed men during patrols in kandahar province early last year. security cameras in the turkish city of van have a captured the dramatic moments when

a five point seven magnitude earthquake struck on when so you can see right here as the tremor here you can see the lights go dark people running from buildings is gigantic clouds of smoke overtake the streets at least ten were killed when two hotels collapsed so far twenty eight have been pulled from the rubble of life the same circus province suffered through another deadly earthquake last month that one had a death toll of six hundred during the twenty minutes past time now to delve deeper into the world's biggest country in our party russia closer. and today it's back to the black sea coast and the people there doing their bit to protect the planet from the art of recycling to rescuing wildlife and discovered

how the environment is being looked after. on hearing i have no need to find construction materials. now a bit of paint and i'll turn this bio into something beautiful. some critics might call nina's art complete rubbish and they'd be totally right everything you see in her gallery is made from little much emotions aside if we are covering our living space with little or no need to have contributed it was good for me to use this waste creatively the friend alexei provided some creative accompaniment also using rubbish as instruments was when i started with just one barrel i was invited to a festival before i even had time to work on my instruments so i just experimented

i just walk around listening to things and what sound they can make nina collects her rubbish from the coastline the winter and spring storms bring her greatest harvest. i come to the seashore every day no matter where the weather or the time of year with all the same to me would ration inspiration conservation but it's not just pieces of rubbish but at a second life one month old live in the here has just been rescued from captivity which i hope to spend the rest of our lives here recovering of a special center where i was nino rescues pieces of rubbish the staff at this park rescue far more vulnerable things and most of these animals were formally kept by street photographers who let people pose with them for money. they are kept on drugs so they remain tranquil have big teeth pulled out so they can't hurt people and starved so they remain small business at the government if we take circus bears

who have finished their usual life it's not a secret that they could well be made into sausages many of the animals we receive we just can't say they've been treated as just a commodity. big cats like rameses more are at home or here make up most of the parts residence there isn't the money to keep them as much space as they would have in the wild but at least here they have some exercise a good diet and the veterinary care they so often need there is about in the park workers try to do something to save the situation so do i try to save the earth from the savagery of people so we're colleagues really. from plastic bottles to line cubs saving the planet can come in many shapes and sizes here on the black sea coast they might be rubbish to some but not to let it. all. come bottom marty. the door ok time now for the business news with carrie.

her welcome top thanks for joining me russia's long wait to become the member of a world trade organization is nearly over barring a few technical issues that still need ironing out the wards of the largest economy outside the w.t. or finally in the cup what changes will this bring. after almost two decades of trying many wonder if russia really need the b.t.o. you can even save manage quite well without it realistically though it will have many benefits for foreign manufacturers wanting to sell their goods in russia let's have a quick look at our average import tariffs will be at seven point eight percent as compared with the current ten percent break back down and you'll see an importer of your agricultural goods drop from thirteen point two percent to ten point eight

percent now input terrorists are already many fractured goods will also drop by almost a quarter to seven point three percent now about a third of all judy's will be reduced the moment russia and says the deal would zero another quarter of the cuts will come within three years with only poultry motor cars helicopters and civil aircraft requiring longer this means it will be easier and cheaper for foreign companies and goods to enter russia's one hundred forty million strong consumer market in addition to tear of cuts russia's also agree its removal limitations on foreign involvement in industries like telecommunications and insurance but most importantly accession to the double cio will ultimately give russia the much needed competition boost which could finally put an end to runaway inflation. and here is a lot of the molecule economists from door to back russia believes accession to the world trade organization will trigger

a change in economic policy making the country. and one of the key changes will be a. liberalisation less state and for bench as the guiding principle of policy making and i think another a paradigm is going to be a change in the way russia pursues its foreign policy because previously say in the past ten years one of the instruments that russia was preferences and terms of world prices i think the new paradigm will be free trade agreements across the world whether in europe and asia but this is going to be possible only after russia becomes an equal player on the eleven a level playing field together with other members of the w t o. president dmitry medvedev says russia's economy is in a stable position compared to other g. twenty nations he made the statement while visiting the far eastern city of.

supports the most was that on your economic situation in our country looks better than in many european countries disappoint recent difficulties we have managed to achieve fairly rapid g.d.p. growth this year it will reach four to four hundred percent while in europe and the us g.d.p. growth range from zero to one percent this year we will also have the lowest inflation in the last twenty years and around seven percent and i cannot say we are protected from danger we need to cut our dependence on fluctuations in commodity prices and develop the industrial sector. we will become a thinking of the markets now markets are rising across europe tracking down gains on wall street and asia stocks in london a higher level by banks products company group two point eight percent i was banking or two hundred percent of the black some resources stocks all the wisest higher couper futures and precious metals of the downside energy group. and line of

real tinto sharing one point eight one percent respectively. but here in moscow markets have reversed from a very again they're trading in the red the out here there was a clump of losing over one percent here's a look at some of the individual shelves on the rise in energy majors and banking stocks are lower all that was there is dropping two percent of it is also over a one and i have one point three percent in the back in the red sorry bucking the trend is falling metal and gaining momentum on i call. russia's heavyweights car maker after hours is moving into kazakhstan the company has agreed to launch full cycle production work local car from carriages it will take one year to design the plant and another to build in four years ninety thousand cars should be rolled from the early it's hopes that the project will meet the growing demand for cheap cars and kazakhstan russia and central asia companies say the project

will require half a billion dollars in investment fly halfway this hour stay with us for headline news coming up right after this. 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 the shanties up most cook in the present day are sponsored by things but it and most of the guys they don't that creates a conflict of interest today an average cancer drug prescription costs nearly one thousand six hundred dollars a month oh my god nobody with cancer in my five therefore i protect focus because the navy to ninety five percent of cancers occur among people with self funding history of just the pharmaceutical industry spends about fourteen percent of their budget and research and development and about thirty one percent for marketing and ministration. in fact there are more pharmaceutical industry lobbyists in washington d.c. and members of congress.