cancer rates it is really business that you found that prison is the only payback for altering the georgian government or the foreign investment it's. a very warm welcome this is live from moscow with me on a civet now we start in libya where pro-government troops have pushed rebel forces out of several recently captured territories after heavy counter offensive. countries including the u.s. and france are suggesting they could be open to all making the rebels but there's criticism that this would go beyond the terms of the u.n. resolution paula slee has more from tripoli. global fighters have now been pushed back to the city of ras lanuf we are hearing that this is strategically important oil city it's been in the hands of gadhafi is made now there are numerous reasons being bandied about as to why the rebels are being forced to retreat and retreat so quickly part of that is because gadhafi forces are simply base organized they better trained or they have base of leadership and this is posing some real dilemmas to the international community in terms of what it should do next when it's bec

cancer rates of israeli businessman who's a found that prison is the only pay for arms from the georgian government schools for foreign investment. and some new faces in california's silicon valley and they are russian some of the biggest russian companies have opened their offices in the heart of the high tech rack up more in business in twenty minutes. this is aussie live from moscow with me alice habit when we start in libya where pro-government push rebel forces now just several recently captured territories a direct heavy counter offensive this comes as native countries including the u.s. and france are suggesting they could be open to arming the rebels but criticism that this would go beyond the terms of the u.n. resolution the policy has more from tripoli. global fighters have now been pushed back to the city of ras lanuf we are hearing that this is strategically important oil city as the only in the hands of the duffys men now there are numerous reasons being bandied about as to why the rebels are being forced to retreat and retreat so quickly part of that is because gadhafi forc

being cancer rates of israeli business where he's found the president is the payback falls from the georgian government schools to foreign investment. than the person central bank because reconfirms expects the annual inflation rate to fall from eight point nine percent last year to between six and seven percent this year but the world bank is a small saw it will choose the scope for business in twenty minutes. a very warm welcome to you this is live from moscow with me allison but now we start in libya where pro-government troops have pushed rebel forces out of several recently captured territories after heavy counter offensive well this comes as some nato countries including the u.s. and france are suggesting they could be open to arming the rebels but there's criticism this would go beyond the terms of the u.n. resolution asking support from tripoli. the fighters has now been pushed back to the city of ras lanuf we are hearing that this is the. t.t.t. important oil for the city is firmly in the hands of gadhafi is made now there are numerous reasons being bandied about as to why the rebel

in a concentrated israeli businessmen use a column of prisoners you only paid for on sort of the georgian government's foreign investment yes. indeed this is aussie line from moscow i'm honest have it now we start in libya where pro-government troops have pushed rebel forces out of recently captured territories after a heavy counter offensive but this comes as some nato countries including the u.s. and france are suggesting they could be a prince to all make the rebels but there's criticism this would go beyond the terms of the u.n. resolution will also joins us live now from jeff and some more on this point of the rebels seem to be losing their positions despite these allied strikes the what's the situation like on the ground. well the latest word we have in terms of the front line is that rebel fighters have now been pushed back to the city of ras lanuf we're hearing that this is strategically important oil port city is firmly in the hands of gadhafi his men now there are numerous reasons being bandied about as to why the rebels are being faced to retreat and retreat so quickly part of

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and israeli investor eight hundred million dollars by the georgian government has entered his sixth month of incarceration in a to b.c. jail without conviction he says he's being held up i'm trying to talk charges with a businessman is accused of bribery even says he was special because your thorazine don't want to pay that debt the verdict in his controversial trial has been postponed twice now i would stores like me who received the not spend penalty of eight years behind bars because as he's now we reported george is desperate for cash and he says will chance of a fair conclusion. you might not know exactly where this small caucus country years georgia the crossroads of europe and asia are chances are if you watch major global news networks you've seen invested in georgia ads. in. knots of magnets are investing in georgia capitals even getting the trump tower of the phone on business men should be rare getting trapped even the c. ter just spend millions trying to get the world to know it's on a mission to cut corruption but one band is romney folks and it's really business men who geor

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through diplomatic channels that he would not be released until the arbitration award was waived georgian human rights activist during a broken system that is cracked at the very top but is a national sacrifice really does not want an independent court system the prosecutor's office dominates the law and the police are the main power and political pressure instrument in the country still that this is something folks as us warriors are more than aware of the odds of his succeeding in georgia are very very slim and point zero one percent so it's a good warning to businessmen who are thinking of investing in georgia that they should think twice and that they should be were making their legal battle not about winning but warning others not to tango we could really see and use in our way our tea. there are some other international stories making headlines this hour. south korea cross-member thousands gathered a little sort of by. the side step. so they need to appreciate your survival rate to shootings are exhausted right into the on rest explosion or mission in the suddenness of general hundr

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through diplomatic channels that he would not be released until the arbitration award was waived georgian human rights activists blame a broken system that is cracked at the very top but is a national suckers really does not want an independent court system the prosecutor's office dominates the law and the police are the main power and political pressure instrument in the country is to get this is something folks is us noirs are more than aware of the odds of his succeeding in georgia are very very slim and point zero one percent so it's a good it's a good warning to businessmen who are thinking of investing in georgia that they should think twice and they should be were making their legal battle not about winning but mourning others not to tangle with tbilisi and he's now away r t . but a quick look now at some other international stories making headlines protests across the women with. the. steps down so the question. i think. the on the rest explosion i mean. six. hundred fifty people dead more than eighty injured. or seized by a militant group was in the process of being looted by civ

through diplomatic channels that he would not be released until the arbitration award was waived georgian human rights activists blame a broken system that is cracked very top but this is actual sacrifice really does not want an independent court system the prosecutor's office dominates the law and the police are the main power and political pressure instrument in the country to that this is something food says us lawyers are more than aware of the odds of his succeeding in georgia are very very slim and point zero one percent so it's a good warning to businessmen who are thinking of investing in georgia that they should think twice and they should be were making their legal battle not about winning but a warning others not to tango with tbilisi and he said now why r.t. moscow. when in a few minutes it's time to get on the big banks case and delve into the darker side of wall street investor tactics that's going to be in the cards report but first let's have a look at this hour's business news with dmitri. than thanks bill the russian british article oil exploration to your hangs in the b

the united states insisted diplomatic immunity was inappropriate in this case and pressured the georgian government to turn him over to waive immunity so he could be arrested and prosecuted now let's compare that with what's going on in pakistan these individuals who were involved the in the in the extraction mission and mr davis i think very now it's very clear they're not diplomats in fact the even the claim that the state department put out in the first two days after the concert.

code was about reflecting the shaking level that are now understood to occur during earthquake are georgiane buildings will withstand shakeings. buildings built pre-earthquake code are collapse hazard and you can drive around san francisco and you can see unreinforced buildings. we are still trying to replace the bay bridge. so having modern code doesn't address buildings that were erected pre-code. those buildings are of course at ris risk. >> david how long does it take l typically with earthquake of my magnitude, how long does it take for you folks to really nail down what the magnitude really is, where it was epicenter specifically and all the critical information. >> p.m. well, you know, the search for rapid information is conflicts with seismologist desire to get it right f.there weren't people pounding on our door we would probably take about two hours to study an earthquake of this size to try to get a pretty good estimate of the magnitude. >> we are the ones pounding on your door. >> just looking at the energy in the first few seconds of a seismic graph and come up with an estimate

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the bottom line is, we, as atlantans, as georgians, don't have a choice to protect the river. we need to leave it better than we found it, and it's really been a political advantage for me, not a disadvantage. people laugh about me being the sewer mayor, but they remember what i'm doing. griffin: we want people to understand, when they see one of our work crews out working on the mains, that that work is necessary in order for them to have good clean drinking water or to have a good, functioning wastewater system. franklin: you don't put a roof on the house one time. you don't fix the plumbing one time, any more than i get my hair done one time. if we don't continue to invest for the next 20 years, we'll find ourselves back at the same point that we were in the late '90s. if we don't protect water, we will be without water. we will be without industry, we will be without jobs, we will be without a healthy economy, and our people will be sick. so we don't really have a choice. we're going to find out why that's important. it's a question of, who's going to pay, how much you're

time is now in over drucker which will replace georgian federal as well now but soon axed week after beating the swiss in the semis and maintained wells. jock rich also extended his perfect record this season to seventeen grains and no defeats with a thrilling three sat victory the pair spent just over two hours in court joker to be opening sat six three while federer was stronger in the second plane hit with the same score so it went to decide to withdraw conviction leaving three time without a federal legal challenge brecht up a sixth to go in to set up another highly anticipated match top seeded rafael nadal in the final. this but is doubts two thousand and nine he was open champ and one part of the good showing the other semifinal the world number one and two time winner innings and wells who also had to ground from four one down in the first sad before clinching a six zero six zero victory and singing three much newsies trick against the arjun time in the pros. the age is blank unbelievable you start a business and let them seems like he's winning very easy on the matches where

actually and they just wanted to get out of soon as they thought it was practically possible the georgians hated russians as well and of course the north cookies in peoples and yet in central asia you find people who really didn't want to leave the soviet union look tollway had no reason for do so and ukraine was somewhere in between you claim with was split to simplify things a bit on the whole western craniums felt rather like the baltic peoples whereas east ukraine is very much wanted to stay with russia in the soviet union we had at that time a human chain which extended from we wish to keep if but no further east protesting about ukrainian membership of the soviet union so it was really they were very different in their in their approaches to leaving the soviet union and they history has been similarly very different i think one could say ok steve you've got thirty seconds left but his legacy well i was astonished by your uncle's report there paul shows that fifty one percent of russians today think he did have even if he made mistakes in three change the best interest of his country

about human rights again because in slight you very much with the very close relationship between georgians gadhafi no no fly zone was ever proposed over israeli attacks on gaza any more than any support to the opposition in bahrain i get the feeling was more about geopolitics playing itself out rather than became concerned for the. correspondent for the asia times says gadhafi is former allies are scared that whole eventually speak out the international criminal court against. jimmy imagine it's got that's so it's on a journey for said would be to collaboration of libya that took care of the scrawny trio that you know brought gadhafi back to the international community all the shady deals the walls all the shady financial deals with italy specially eighty eight which has invested at least fifty billion dollars oil interest in the media and to dodge a relationship so they're actually every european government summation the u.s. an arms deal is from the brits that would be a fantastic show wouldn't. you can always find more on the developing situation in libya on our web site r.t. that the l

so that it proves here was a guy who was, he was georgian, he wasn't russian, he was georgian, he was pretty close to what's going on. it's impossible to predict. i asked once, could you predict what was going to happen in poland when you started solidarity? no way could you have predicted this. and this was a guy who was very close to it. so i just would find it very difficult to make a prediction what's going to happen. but i do think from an american point of view staying engaged, working with the forces of positive change is where we have to be. not so much that we'll have enormous influence over all of them, but that we can have a constructive influence, and i think that's what we're going to have to do. yes. >> my question is -- [inaudible] and that is i'm wondering why the state department and our intelligence services were so caught off guard without any contingency plans whatsoever over these events and what's being done now to maybe not be that surprised when the next hot spot erupts? >> well, i think it's because -- and, you know, i'm not in the intelligence part of the sta

. >> reporter: fellow georgian and former speaker of the house newt gingrich echoed that message. >> and i strongly endorse his cutting out all funding for planned parenthood, which has become a major source of abortion in america. >> reporter: former minnesota governor tim pawlenty supported the defense of marriage act. >> we have people in washington, d.c. saying we'll define marriage however we feel like defining it. no, it won't. it should be defined as between a man and woman. >> reporter: other participants included buddy roemer and rick santorum. real estate tycoon donald trump did not attend but did send an aide to iowa to gauge interest in his candidacy. sarah palin is undecided. she told the bbc it depends on what the american people want. >> will the american electorate be ready for someone a bit unconventional in terms of a candidate who will call it like she sees it and who will not be beholden to special interests or such obsessive partisanship to let a political machine get in the way? >> reporter: the iowa faith and freedom coalition hosted that forum. while many cons

there was a guy who was georgian, not russian, pretty close to what was going on and it is impossible to predict. aias let woolens the what he thought would happen when he started solidarity. and he said, no way. from an american point of view, staying engaged, of working with the forces of positive change is where we have to be, not so much that we would have enormous influence over all of them, but that we can have a constructive influence, and that is what we have to do. >> i am wondering why the state department and our intelligence services were so caught off guard without any contingency plans whatsoever over these events, and what is being done now to not be that surprised when the next hot spot erupts? >> i think it is because, and i am not in the intelligence part of the state department, but there were people who understood there had to be changed in many of these countries, but i do not think very many people i am aware of who were experts in this area anticipated it would come so quickly or the way that it did. it was not just the state department intelligence people. many