artie's facebook page you can always find latest updates on the stories and first hand accounts from our correspondents and remember we're always interested in what you have to say on the stories we're covering today we're asking our viewers what the arrest of right cold blooded means for a victory for justice or betrayal a national hero. or a facebook dot com slash r g news that matters. is . the. thousands are taken to the streets of georgia's capital protesting the government's violent crackdown on peaceful rallies two days ago of silence commemorating the victims of the crackdown whose numbers they claim is being downplayed by officials protesters also adopted to state in which the dispersal was called an illegal operation of intimidation and a promise to gather again sunday earlier my colleague henri sushi spoke with r.t. sarah ferguson was covering events in tbilisi. the opposition have taken to the streets again this time that main focus is an announced things like a fairly protesting against the violence the disease when states cracked as he said at the time the deployment of

as for enticing the young into the countryside artie's close of team travels to the rural side of the volgograd region where locals are pulling out all the stops to get the new generation it into out of the city and into the field. to pm in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story syria's government is taking steps to stop anti-rejection protests as people pour into the streets across the country after friday prayers damascus has ordered troops not to fire on the opposition after dozens of civilians were reportedly killed by snipers earlier in the week activists on the ground put the death toll from the two month long uprising at eight hundred the international community has strongly criticized the syrian government for the brutal crackdown washington is even preparing to examine whether the eleven year rule of president bashar al assad is lawful as artie's got a sticky on reports many believe the u.s. may be laying the foundation for more drastic action against the regime. who easily jeered him an international leader and who is not it seems america will

campaign's biggest battle is likely to be voter apathy artie's contributor and r.t. contributor is among those who's not so enthusiastic. i'm shocked with that i'll turn it evolved paranoia among british politicians the whole debate for and against the a.v. system is hugely exaggerated and the a.v. is simply an upgraded version of that exist and first past the post system and the world as i understand it that's why there is such a low interest in this referendum among the public. let's imagine that this referendum goes in favor of delton it evolving what will actually change. in the next general election in may two thousand and fifteen most people will vote for one candidate anyway only a tiny minority will spend days comparing one candidate to another trying to prove i'm trying to rein them in the order of preference. this is a very time consuming exercise. having said that i am in favor of alternative voting simply because it leaves more choice to the volga. i so often hear something like i'd like to go green but what's the point my vote will not count with any of

that was artie's alarm at reporting from the british capital now moving on and nato planes have launched their heaviest air attacks on libya's capital tripoli since the start of the coalition's campaign but even officials say three people were killed and dozens injured the main target reported to be colonel gadhafi compound the margin comes as france and the decision to deploy helicopters to escalate their strike power but moscow says the alliance acting in libya has so far failed to act in accordance with the u.n. resolution the russian foreign minister met the rebel representative said moscow was part of attempted peace negotiations talking about nato has ramped up aerial campaign in libya investigative journalist simon isaf says the coalition has other interests in the region other than gadhafi. the way it's going i think for nato is . beginning to feel that they're preparing the ground for more ground troops reuter they're all already offices offices and so on inside of eastern libya and you just feel that they're beginning to prepare the way i think ground troops but was originally

is now awaiting trial after being released on bail and placed under house arrest in new york and artie's dido bushell reports without a star scott at the top of the i.m.f. europe's for national survival now hangs in the balance. call no euro that's what because the whispering off the police charge the now ex i.m.f. course with the attempted rape of a hotel maid very differently the possibility that some countries could decide to leave the euro pushed out of the euro and there were you got to understand that. belief that the euro could and should be saved in the face of north steel resistance from richer states stross can lead this week's bailout of crippled called siegal germany and france insist on oil and raises its low corporation tax years k. as he's known was the man arguing it's what is saving your rich economy allegations are going to. be i am as an institution and. going to be honest i think. strauss kahn even persuaded greece's leader to stick with strict spending cuts despite royals on the streets but he has a good card to some of you heads of state in government so that made i

entry and as artie's got that in as out of all reports a lot of his arrest is seen as a sacrifice the country's very willing to make. success or sellout the arrest of former bosnian general our own luggage has put serbian headlines once again for years no nato action un demands or even a five million dollar bounty put out by washington could help snare him but the prospect of billions of dollars worth of aid slipping out of reach was too much for belgrade a leaked u.n. report stating that serbia refused to cooperate in the search for europe's most wanted man led to assume membership negotiations would be cancelled and just a week later serbia achieved what it couldn't for the previous sixteen years. if it wanted to hand him over as the price of entering the european union had every interest in doing it as quickly as possible and the targets government which came into power in two thousand and eight should have done it then and they would have done it i'm sure if they'd known where he was which was in belgrade very much hope that they can finally get a piece of the euro pie the people

a perfect opportunity to throw the question into the ring but he threw it straight back out again artie's got there you know as a lot of us has a deep sense. one hundred thirty seven minutes eight hundred journalists seventy two questions and one man to answer and. question president meet him and he did have his first major press conference on wednesday getting many a chance to voice their questions but while some were serious what would you say is there a chance to give to each of our actions well deserved accommodations and sound more light hearted. i know all of that your wife has to parking lots on i've no right to park my own car so maybe i could borrow one of these that it has washing machine like. it was the question of a possible second turn that everyone including the president expected the most extreme year and he goes with the decision over the presidential race is not made in this kind of format it should be made when the situation is right this will have a greater political impact and i will follow this principle serve i want to make a statement i will make it a bit iffy for

certainly very simply than what we've been hearing since is that this crackdown has continued now artie's crew have actually received a text for someone who says he's not in a pigeon sun the leader of that opposition he let the rally i what he's takes three to r.t. is that it's really very serious situation according to him he's there's a number of people including opposition leaders who are missing he's talking about people who are still being arrested essentially saying that the opposition are still being silenced by secularly and his government. people have beaten to death some of my friends have stood there are dozens of opposition supporters can't reach each of my friends have simply disappeared. i used. to for support. one of the opposition leaders which is really. the everybody who did. so because his dictatorship in the days leading up to wednesday what we saw the numbers turning out the demonstrations were markedly less now there are actually divisions among the opposition themselves originating in a picture nancy and her party against comes together some of the other opposition

campaign buttons that deem to be newly emerging democracies could be rewarded with cash support but artie's the only chicken reports wreckers dealings in the region have a habit of stirring up a hornet's nest words could be about democracy actions are about interests as the wild fire of public rage spread throughout the middle east and north africa at the beginning of this year analysts say america's foreign policy in the region has seen a major crisis well you also have learned thoughts or think that this is the way the policy has been formally for fifty plus years out of this country is that we are. and look for somebody we would like to see in our back but washington's all policies could now be seen unfolding in libya a large portion of the leading population is opposing any foreign meddling in their affairs and analysts say washington's efforts to propel its man into power in libya could result in infighting that's going to last years puppet governments tend to be corrupt. and not to meet the needs of the people. across across the region and that's because of governors a government that

operation that killed bin laden artie's military contributor says washington should have been more careful about planning the raid. nobody can be the us administration unique capability to model the waters and bond over the message last week the u.s. president obama deployed to top u.s. officials to negate the negative impact from the overkill verbosity of that has come from the white house first it was u.s. attorney general eric holder who tried to change that perception about whether that direct order is for the you'll be able to raid war to kill or capture and then administration dispatched the u.s. national security adviser thomas danny. both gave their best to cover political interference in to covertly special forces missions in pakistan but inadvertently compromised the whole nature of the all that was designed first and foremost as a political campaign not as this special operation before you authorize somebody to step up and talk to media make sure that you get together all your national security teams and delegate just one person who will have all necessary information and author

suggest the temptation is big for washington to declare mission accomplished and pull out but as artie's marine important i reports bin laden's death is unlikely to improve life in the war torn country. nine and a half years on the war in afghanistan has grown visibly worse while u.s. rhetoric surrounding it has consistently spun in circles we are making progress that is what it was unable to make the progress that we have made i think it's possible that by the end of this year he'll. since two thousand and three washington has repeatedly per cleaned turning points for a conflict that critics call a failing. reality is that things are still mean that things are worse than they were this time last year every year we send more troops every year as we spend more money on. the insurgency grows in size karzai government gets weaker in the violence gets worse nearly fifteen hundred u.s. soldiers and ten thousand afghan civilians have been killed in a war costing america two billion dollars per week meanwhile after assassinating the man it's been hunting since two thousand and one the united st

today in the memories of those given kindness and shelter thought from home in wartime lore and its arty west sussex. the price of freedom from the most. st. louis who fought to win the city in pro. against the tide of history being written. sixty six years of victory on our team. and if you want to know more about me than i just had i would say you are to talk on for more victory day coverage and memories. there are moving accounts old living through the second world war cost thousands of pictures and videos of the parade preparations right here in moscow you'll find that among on line galleries. plus two russian billionaires make it to the top three of a british unusual rich list and find out who they are and how they got it all to dot com. just for. all right with all to you live from moscow let's check out some other stories making headlines around the world on this sunday egypt's fragile interim leadership has been tested with a sectarian clashes overnight that killed at least twelve and injured over two hundred the violence erupted when muslims attacked a church to release a christ

around the blast site lies cold and desolate a grim reminder of the dangers of nuclear negligence as artie's like sarah shares your reports it will stay that way for centuries to come. it's not every day you can see the chernobyl exclusion zone in ukraine as crowded as this hundreds and looting the russian and ukrainian presidents came to the more newman beside the nuclear plant to mark the date which changed the world the twenty fifth anniversary of the chernobyl fallout. i believe has a huge amount of sense as news from ukraine and russia and putin to deal with the aftermath of this tragedy in the face of such disasters we should be honest it's the government's obligation to tell people the truth we need to admit a good back then the government was not always doing the right thing nowadays the zone looks like this deserted streets and abandoned houses however a quarter of a century ago it was the place to be in the soviet union salaries for the residents of the town of p.p.h. were higher living standards better and infrastructure more developed the communist paradise changed on april the t

deal between two rival palestinian factions hamas and fatah that's proving worrisome for israel as artie's policy reports there's an irony that the western backed revolution has backfired for the u.s. is a longtime ally. most of the o.t. is happier than he's been in a long time a political activist used to be a member of fatah but switched to hamas because he feels betrayed by fatah dealings with israel and one who must be considered a terrorist organization by israel and the united states only says the movement shares his goals goals that are now being furthered by a new friend kibo. it's not only me who's happy gyptian president hosni mubarak has gone all the arab world is never had a connection with any muslim organization he had the same hate israel israelis should be worried and israelis are the reconciliation deal between but her rivals hamas and fatah signed recently in cairo took him by surprise and could never have happened if mubarak was still in power i think there was a lot of mistrust between the hamas and mubarak and his regime have nuked. barak not. because of his. deal in h

other more thrills and chills from artie's antarctic ice conditions here tomorrow an r.t. shaun thousands final report for us. the above. is one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is antarctica and people have to be aware that they are far away from civilization sean thomas discovers what makes antarctica so special that attractive for many life in antarctica is. an . extradition to the bottom of the earth. great series and put together that for all the unusual tale of brotherly love this feline mum you're about to see she's taken an abandoned baby ruth heard me correct about a couple been rejected by his actual mother shortly after he was born in a siberian rule for the desperate zookeepers their last hope was this four legged nurse who was thankfully close to hand now the canine. is the cat's whiskers and the pictures you and me. well we've got the cream of the cat walk almost when moscow goes on a russian shopping spree in a few minutes time later to create scott the fight for the top of the russian football probably only going to sport here on out see

the latest issue of artie's cross talk peter labelling gets discussed how the world will change after bin laden's death and what will happen if the u.s. withdraws from afghanistan immediately. what is the vacuum that you're going to leave behind and are you going to wind up having afghanistan become again a haven for groups that will attack the u.s. or western interests so i think he might do that and hope and pray that the next major attack doesn't come from afghanistan and doesn't come on his watch but you know i think have a way of repeating themselves you know the water flows the same way down to the ocean if you don't change its course and unfortunately i think that's what would happen. if you look at. many different points of view on the story you can find many of them on our website our team. there today is an interview with political expert max in the shift change though he thinks so song that rodney became a mythical figure in u.s. politics implying service significance in the bag that he was buried at sea in our blog section u.s. base blogger may not balances the deficit a l

plus enticing the young to the countryside artie's close the team travels to the world side of the polgar grad region where locals are pulling out all the stops to get the new generation out of the city and into the fields. up next martin andrews takes you wanted to the headline grabbing contemporary art in the russian capital coming your way. hello and welcome to the program and this week's arts and culture show will be taking a look at russian contemporary art galleries constantly opening up in the capital such modern day creativity has exploded onto the country's art scene and we started here at one of the most famous innovative art spaces in the capital carriage house in a wonderful example of twentieth century russian architecture it's still a form of. sound advice there is looking for certainly going to town that presents a prism of exhibitions by international and christian artists and serves as a catalyst a meeting point for moscow's immersion policy one of the current displays is called new york new it's split into three main themes st patrick's configuration and you have stracha

he was in the first revival 25 years ago, playing ronnie, artie's son.ller says the play still resonates. >> themes in the play about fame and celebrity and need for validation in our culture is as relevant if not more than when the play was originally written. >> reporter: in the end we learn bananas. >> are you going to the looney bin? >> may be the sanest of the bunch. >>> it's a good show, the house of blue leaves is on broadway in a limited engagement through july 9th. >>> and good morning, thank you for watching 9news now at 5:00 a.m. i'm andrea roane. >>> thank you for waking up with us this thursday i'm mike hydeck. angie goff will have traffic in a moment. meteorologist howard bernstein says grab a sweater. if you don't like it when it's chilly on a walk or run, it may

the commandos who carried out the mission against bin laden praising them on a job well done but artie's military contributor says the white house is handling of the aftermath was humbled and is now fueling conspiracy theories. the u.s. president obama has expressed his frustration about the media coverage of the u.s. special mission against osama bin laden he has nobody to blame but the u.s. administration itself the way it managed the media convery each of the u.s. special operations the us administration has committed one cardinal sin somehow the white house decided that this is a unique opportunity to take a political advantage of this particular mission and it has backfired and feel not only conspiracy theories but it also demonstrated the credibility gap of the u.s. administration in general and white house civilian dwellers in particular barack obama should have thought not as the u.s. president but as the u.s. commander in chief when it comes to special operations of this magnitude you had better keep your mouths shut and instead of provoking controversy you'd better withhold bei

demanding access to his three wood is the thing they could be valuable sources of intelligence as artie's wintery honest explains that the bin garden could have been far more effective. nitrate against the u b l in pakistan. demonstrate to what extent they u.s. foreign policy he's driven by their political agenda not by the in this says city that is dictated by counterterrorism there were two ways to deal with some of the ludden when actionable intelligence were reported to the white house they were political way and special forces way and this special forces option was to snatch osama bin laden alive for the purpose of interrogating and recruiting him we had to follow up psychological and information operations and to condition osama bin laden to denounce all very terroristic activities that's going to be the most important long term benefit both taking him alive and step a bomb up to for political action he authorized to waste osama bin laden in pakistan on the spot to reap sure term political benefits small wonder that a security and intelligence community in the united states is savin

and artie's close a team has to the home town of europe's largest hydroelectric station and finds out how locals are trying to repair decades of damage to the rivers and fishing industry of all grab. their smart andrus takes you on a tour of some headline grabbing contemporary art right here in the russian capital . hello and welcome to the program on this week's arts and culture show will be taking a look at russian contemporary art galleries constantly opening up in the capital such modern day creativity has exploded onto the country's art scene and we started one of the most famous innovative art spaces in the capital garage house in a wonderful example of twentieth century russian architecture it's set in a form. founded by. signally god's plan that presents a problem of executions by international and wishing hartis and serves as a catalyst a meeting point to moscow's emerging policy one of the current displaces cold communities into three main themes street punks while configuration the new abstraction south coast guards health concerns because in russia there's so you go we hav

congress well according to the constitution american military action over libya is now illegal but as artie's lord lister reports few on capitol hill seem concerned. fifty eight. fifty nine. sixty said at the outset that this was want to be a matter of days and weeks. and days have turned to months in libya the battle rages on but in washington time has run out. and this rhetoric is running up against a real growth block. and think there's a war powers act war powers act a resolution that says sixty days marks the deadline for an american president pull u.s. forces from hostilities or get congress's approval for a formal declaration of war yet neither appear to be happening and according to the president publicly time seems to be the enemy only for someone else now time is working against gadhafi. he does not have control over his country but it's unclear who or what has control over this one the law or the will of the president the president did not seek in a war begin with. nor really has there been much discussion of the war powers there nor does it seem there will be when pressed by the m

washington's role in the region's recent turbulence could backfire by clearing the way for extremists artie's parsley or has more from tel aviv. which these kind mean mean business and they're upping the stakes just that little bit higher than these years the egyptian regime i design is the enemy trying to stop us foreigners and girls are and we always got the weapons we needed to find his way and it's the enemy. and now they give more than they could ever hope for but for me gyptian president hosni mubarak's ning gone the borders couldn't be easier to get through today the big wins in the. world. who. have much more freedom to do whatever they like. and they doing it smuggling weapons into gaza the result two attacks in three months on a natural gas pipeline that supplies a quarter of israel's electricity which is why is the u.s. claims it's bringing a new tomorrow to egypt most israelis would rather remember years to year begin at the united states to topple the former egyptian president hosni mubarak and bring about regime change has ironically most harmed its closest ally in the region is

behind the scene to try and fix the crux of the shaky relationship but consensus one country was artie's christine for. these things you should keep your friends close. and your enemies closer and as far as where china fits perceptions continue to evolve at this year's u.s. china strategic economic dialogue an attempt by officials from both the u.s. and china that friendship the purpose to open communication on concerns like the debt ceiling in the u.s. and the rate of currency appreciation in china and joint concerns about the environment we don't have a great state encouraging find a change and charting a clean and secure energy future currently china is the second highest producer in the world of renewable energy technology the us seventeen the overriding theme for day one of the us china strategic and economic dialogue we to respect and understanding that just because there is competition doesn't mean there can't be cooperation competition is not. competition it's healthy is good. this is the reason why i have held the view for so many years we continue to hold the view that a rising

in the war or clashes with police continue on the streets of laval and lazy it is just is therefore arty leg say veterans being humiliated it sounds as shocking as it is disrespectful to tell us what's going on. clearly this doesn't look like a holiday at all here in the west in ukraine in the capital city of. definitely not like in moscow and the rest of the former course soviet space it looks more like a hotbed of ultra nationalists and even sometimes turning into neo nazis and in fact several hundred i would say maybe even more than a thousand supporters of the radical nationalist party struggle to gather in the streets of wolf in particular here in front of the so-called hill of the glory that's where the great pressure usually come to lay their flowers and commemorate those who died they gathered here to block the entrance of the veterans to the facility to the cemetery where the red army soldiers were buried now there had been there has been lots of verbal abuse saying death to the muscovites death to the communists and other things like that and even some physical abuse now wearin

over former russian intelligence officers believed to have informed washington about the spiraling artie's catarina has the details. the courts will be looking into his case the date has not yet been set according to work officials but we do know that it will be a close to a military tribunals because of the sensitive nature of the charges that are brought to alexandre plights he is a former colonel in russia's foreign intelligence agency who defected over a year ago prior to meeting with agents visit to washington precious federal security service the f.s.b. was originally in charge of the investigation they were responsible for gathering most of the evidence which charges would see him receive over twenty years behind bars he became very featured of figure in of the media after the so-called supply scandal of last year when eleven people were charged with espionage in the united states all of those were tried and found guilty of espionage they were later returned to russia as part of an exchange between moscow and washington some of course even enjoying quite a. interesting lifestyle lik

from building a bunker in the back garden to investing in a no work style armageddon proof arc as artie's are discovered county inventors are more than willing to cash in. the tsunami in japan. the earthquake in haiti. the gulf of mexico oil spill big disasters are really out of declared lawrence and many say the worst is yet to come there's only one way to be safe. this is a cold war era bunker. army personnel were meant to be kept safe from chemical biological and most important nuclear attack these days apocalyptic fears have changed and so have the solutions. comparable of an enclave for the rich just outside moscow recently as well as erecting hows that resemble fortresses and some sort of the gold bunker strong enough to withstand a disaster of biblical proportions the company that makes them both to the end of the world waits they can be this vaults and watch our free negotiation rooms work just as it was before flying to successful person thinks he's free from fear he has the reinforced doors the body guards the money but then suddenly events happen that outside their control and

and human rights organizations have been lobbying in attempts to help eradicate the problem but as artie's jacob grieves reports in some cases it's simply too late now we must warn you that this report contains footage of graphic violence. it's a disturbing sight and one that's on the right in the russian army. it's called hazing ability or it's too familiar with its consequences you can hear that in the reports about forges suffering physically and mentally are coming in every day. she runs the committee a soldier's mothers an organization partly funded by the government on a day to day basis her job is to protect soldiers from the harsh realities of service and you stand there from protection rackets when a boy have to make announcements or say seventy dollars a month to be able to have normally be freed from wanting a fortunately as we met one more cases added to our workload serving could have died at age twenty in suspicious circumstances the military claims it was a road accident but his family want to know why forty minutes passed before medical attention was sought his loved ones n

knew that an explosion happened the site was in ruins that's about it but we invite you to watch artie's exclusive interview with one of the men who became known as the liquidators but then it's streaming on a website r.t. dot com we've also got lot more background as well about all of the end of the whole disaster including a special documentary from the heart of the exclusion zone. other top stories now this week russian security forces carried out a series of attacks against the terrorist network in the north caucasus the latest operation ten militants including two i rank in warlords killed as artie's but in a culture never reports from the region the al qaeda linked groups believed to be behind many attacks against civilians. this biggest achieving operation was carried out on the border between region and about the republic when ten militants including at least two women were killed and among some high profile terrorists with links with international terrorist group al qaida in this region their d.n.a. task would probably be required to identify some of the militants or some leadin

of stabilizing the situation in the country the clashes during which several journalists including artie's crew were injured by the police led to a number of arrests but that is how this story has take their revenge and those who criticize them during the election campaign they had their say and now they will pay for that has once again been reinstated these repressions caused uproar around europe most countries condemned the crackdown and even contemplated sanctions against minsk experts say the timing of these court cases could not be worse. faces a serious economic crisis with its currency on the brink of total devaluation with the opposition trials being seen in the west as a strong evidence of human rights violations the export of the russian goods to the european union has caused that along with international loans has been the country's main revenue stream for the past two decades it is the first time in seventeen years that alexander lukashenko has been a power that he finds himself under severe pressure both internationally and at home and if the opposition leaders get short of pr

of what was happening that needed an explosion happens the site was in ruins that's about it was artie's exclusive interview with one of the men who became known as the liquidators that's on our website our team dot com there's also plenty more on chernobyl there for you including a special documentary from the book heart of the exclusion zone. first. and. this week russian security forces carried out a series of attacks against the terrorist network in the north caucuses the latest operations on ten militants including two known warlords killed as artie's medina a question of reports from the region the al qaeda linked group is believed to be behind many attacks against civilians. this biggest achieving operation was carried out. between the region and about the republic when ten militants including at least two women were killed and among some high profile terrorists with links with international terrorist group in this region further d.n.a. tests would probably be required to identify some of the militants some leading figures in a so-called box on gang were already identified. with w

and in a few minutes artie's intrepid sean thomas puts the heat of global warming on ice. scientists all over the world are debating the global warming is it happening or is it not i'm john thompson answered to go drumming up on r.g.p. we explore with people down here are saying about the subject. a look at some world news in brief now greece's senior politicians have failed to agree on a very set of deep cuts and reforms which are necessary to stop that slide into the fold but the party leaders say that the measures will ruin the country's economy and destroy society and their conditions for the brass a bailout from the e.u. and i.m.f. with other eurozone countries eager to make nice take more of the string. the exiled former leader of one douras is due to return to the small central american country on saturday in the hope it might end the nation's political deadlock bungles a liar was overthrown by the army nearly two years ago but he remains popular among hundreds of the military has struggled for international recognition following the crew and it's thought that the l

time for happy hour so joining me tonight had matt welch out there and chief of reason magazine and artie correspondent lauren lyster thank you for joining me with evening if you're having i am going to let you get happy i was going to write out very i don't know if i'm don't play with all of you play with all the waiter down there you guys can have my let's move on to michele bachmann who obviously likes to rant and rave and preach about the constitution and how much she loves well it turns out there is a tenth grader who decided to write a letter and she wrote a letter as i amy myers do hereby challenge representative michele bachmann to a public forum debates and or fact test on the constitution of the united states united states history and united states civics i think that's pretty great i bet it is. tenth grader would absolutely has to school i mean i think that you see the late breaking news bachmann's in a few days you know you are you messing. around the world you know what all you're busy doing your show a senior adviser said now the huckabee bachmann is it breaking news here fo

washington even said to be considering declaring president assad's eleven year rule on more full and its artie's a guy nature can report so many believe the u.s. is laying the foundations for drastic action against the regime. who easily international leader and who is not it seems america will this. i align house source said the obama administration is edging closer to declaring assad's ruling syria illegitimate and that it would be just the first there we will continue to work with our international partners in the e.u. and elsewhere on additional steps to hold syria responsible for its gross human rights abuses sounds familiar united states is helping to lead an international effort to defer deter further violence put in place unprecedented sanctions to hold the gadhafi government accountable when the u.s. says it's going to hold someone responsible expect action once the u.s. has officially declared the syrian government illegitimate. it it would open the door. true various steps taken to remove that government but the self proclaimed position of the us as the world's policeman and judge of

it was artie's katrina czar of reporting from belgrade knowledge his lawyer says he's now mailed the appeals of the cole review the plea before deciding whether to ship it climb to the hague for a policy analyst boy in british told us so even if knowledge does make it to the tribunal through and we have got faith that works well many process is there have been first of all very long and we can talk about the efficiency of the tribunal the people have spent enormous amount of time in the hague and a lot of people here in serbia are skeptical about the some of the practices of the high hague tribunal and some of its records for instance. because slobodan milosevic the late president of yugoslavia and serbia actually died in prison without a conviction then for us war criminals that are generally knowledged as war criminals here in serbia. but i deny from course of all like some muslim commanders have actually been acquitted after. sudden death or witnesses or after the tribunal simply concluded that there was not enough evidence so basically many serbs do not consider the hague tribuna

and stealing tens of billions of years dollars worth of world war i thank you very much for that artie's correspondent. now nato planes have launched their heaviest air attacks of libya's capital tripoli since the start of the coalition's campaign will have an official say three people were killed and dozens injured the main targets reported to be colonel gadhafi compound but the bargeman comes as france announced its decision to the poor helicopters to escalate their strike power moscow says the alliance began in libya has so far failed to act in accordance with the u.n. resolution the russian foreign minister met rebel representatives in moscow just part of attempted peace negotiations talking about nato is wrapped up aerial campaign in libya political analyst says he sees no and big for the coalition. there has to be political solution to this crisis. was the least of all on the side of neutral it was that good which should be the balance of power to the local consumer but so far with all of this without official capacity built underground samples this conflict. once and for all i don

the north caucasus the latest operation saw ten militants including two go and warlords killed as artie's movie reports from the region the current group is believed to be behind many attacks against civilians this biggest achieving operation was carried out on the border between region and about the republic when ten militants including at least two women were killed and among some high profile terrorists with links with the international terrorist group all in this region the d.n.a. task would probably be required to identify some of the militants or some leading figures in a so-called box on gang were already identified because big truth was believed to be involved in a number of across the area now another think and mount terrorist jump who if it was believed to be involved in attacking tourists from moscow in the district in february twentieth loven then earlier in the week and now the special operation was carried out. and the leader of the republic ramadan could be that of was personally in charge of this operation and militants were killed. later identified ask close associates to

here watching artie's we continue to feel welcome to the program but first an angry and government demonstrations sweeping spain afterthoughts is lost the battle to impose a ban on public protests countries are voting in regional elections today with the ruling socialists expected to suffer major losses but tens of thousands of people ok part of central square grid similar protests have sprung up in other cities as the country struggles to overcome the session do you record high unemployment and ses there first reports it's crumbling economy spain next tonight from rescue. that's greece then. and now portugal as the u.a.e. things play out. there are now serious concerns that spain could be the next to topple. a testis throughout europe i can arrange to pace even more taxpayers' money being plowed into rescuing others. that if i had done that very. thing again. that this was. my breakthrough that employee was forty three percent under twenty five so that is why i didn't like the whole labor market because i was a i think that there's going to be inside this is so. overwhelming we will lose where w

ten militants suspected of links with al qaeda and carrying out deadly attacks against civilians artie's medina cochon of it has more from the north caucasus. this biggest achieving operation was carried out at the altar between the region and about the republic when ten militants including at least two women were killed and among them were some high profile terrorists with links with the international terrorist group all in this region of d.n.a. task would probably be required to identify some of the militants are leading figures in a so-called box on gang were already identified because big truth was believed to be involved in a number of terror attacks across the area and nothing among terrorists who it was believed to be involved in attacking tourist from moscow in february twentieth love and then earlier in the week and now the special operation was carried out. and the leader of the republic runs on could be that of was personally in charge of this operation militants that were killed that were later identified ask close associates to russia's most wanted terrorist the mind of iran

obligations well needs to step up its economic reforms to help reduce its huge national deficit and as artie's caterina as our reports tensions between the country and its creditors are fast approaching boiling point. has been missed greek businessmen aristotle onassis once said to be successful keep looking tanned live in an elegant building even if you're in the cellar be seen in smart restaurants even if you only nursed one drink and if you borrow borrow big grease certainly borrowed big but it hasn't helped its success a modern country built on a glorious ancient civilization is on the brink of national financial disaster and some e.u. members which helped bail it out are no longer happy with the anti-crisis measures taken by happens. we can't just show you solidarity and say that these countries can't continue as before we can't have a common currency but some get lots of education time and others very little that won't work in the long term. to the people of greece already suffering from severe job and wage cuts this statement was a slap in the face of the ideologies that greeks are thos

calling to reinstate temporary or even permanent internal border controls within the union and as artie's daniel bushell reports europe may have opened the floodgates for trouble. the dream of european integration goes off the rails in a pizza feud between two of the e.u.'s founders france blocked all train services from italy after finding carriages full of african migrants italy had handed out visitors visas allowing travel in the european union that shattered the trust on which the e.u. visa free regime lies it has shown a kind of neutral mistrust between two partners between france and italy france considering that italy has not implemented in a good way the rules. for thousands fleeing the violence in north africa italy is the nearest e.u. border security experts who've studied the country's patrol say they're on the strength but fellow member states argue they shouldn't have to pay for italy's mistakes we have responsible of the fact that he tell us just from the sea with people coming from outside and not able to fix the problem we are not criminals terrorist madmen we don't want t

in the wake of the counter terror crackdown artie's tog travel to the north caucasus he looks at exactly what drives young people to join a terrorist cell. university in russia's move caucasus these students are learning about culture and language they're trying to prove. presence so was so filled. until radical islamists took a hold on him. i saw the way his stare changed he became alienated from everyone but brainwashing teaches them to be ready for the next world so they stopped paying attention to this one by the end of university he had started to take food to militant friends and hiding in seville warned him to stop it he left home forever as local say he had gone into the forest. i already felt something inevitable and sad was coming but i didn't know what to do i didn't have a chance to stop him when he left home for more chinos it was a month later the police surrounded a group of militants there dug a stems capital they were ready to surrender but the leaders started shooting to provoke the deadly gun battle in which they all died including romilly in another of the region's ca

hello and thanks for joining me for artie's business news rush it is aimed to become the fifth largest economy in the world within a decade one of the main objectives is to move away from resource dependency analysts are stressing this means adding value by exporting refined products. i don't think russia is any different than a lot of other countries that have an abundance of crude oil they didn't build refineries in now they find themselves in a position of saying do we want to go to invest billions of dollars to to build these refineries because we want to be able to sell the crude views that we want to put a crude into those refineries and get the higher value products out of them and put it into the world market right now there are other countries that are rightfully doing that refining and taking a piece of those profits and i think i think russia saudi arabia vietnam was looking at i think they're all looking at it is a way for them to increase their portion of the take over crude oil with their producer. let's take a look at the markets now oil is on the rise on speculation the

came from the ground they have a new thirty thousand seat stadium but artie's. watched the action unfold. the winners of the celebrity match is the russian team that won five two and this point the rain hundreds of people stayed here at this stereo and waited for almost a full hour and they did receive quite a spectacular show with the fireworks that with musical performance are answered with a football match that they were waiting for so long with the soundness of football superstar sit taking part at this event during the first half of the game of the leaders i'm thinking was at the international seem to have sent by here tomorrow in the meanwhile during the a second half of the game the leaders of the football match was the russian team among the players so for the russian team or was that he not just tired for a famous a russian goalkeeper of the team was the captain to bomb a presidential envoy to the north caucasus alexander for poignant and the chechen leader runs on could be well first ban hazards of the match among these superstars were leading figures