following the death of civilians in the straw i got in a residential area in tripoli a while people in the ghazi accuse the country's rebels who are hiding gadhafi of atrocities against the population. president obama confirms his decision to withdraw ground troops currently deployed in afghanistan third will be pulled out by next summer the people in a war torn country fear that fewer american soldiers will not mean less bombing of their homes intensified u.s. drone attacks and the second bailout for greece is rebel economy take center stage at a meeting of the e.u. leaders in brussels on thursday while the greek private still pushes for even more cuts home to secure financial aid and mass and stared protests protests. next r.t. has gained rare access to one of the most courageous women in afghanistan a lot of joy as a former m.p. and activist who braves daily death threats and assess the nation champs tell the truth about what's happening in her country she says people in a ghana stand are trapped between corrupt local politicians and the deadly u.s. military campaign. well ledger thank you fo

and society now stands without the control tripoli and rebel stronghold been ghazi under like brussels which seems very cautious and undecided regarding leave now doing practical steps a couple of days ago it sounded certain boy to be in ghazi and it has said many times that it will only support a political peaceful solution to the conflict and of course for an immediate and unconditional cease fire in libya. also european security is another priority for the european leaders and russia unlike despite moscow and washington signed the use for t.v. comes with the auction treaty last april the two sides are still divided by key differences with washington persuading more screw that the new anti missile defense system poses no threat to russia russian is stern argues that the new system will solve this neutralize its advances. potential and will lead to an imbalance of forces so these two day dialogue today's summit it could lead to some mutually beneficial solutions which when the european leaders and also in the air is russia's plans to shortly leave to a ban on vegetables imported from

the civil war and that's what was going to happen in one ghazi any rebels who are stupid enough to stick around we're going to get killed most of the rebels we're going to flee and the civilians we're going to be left harmless khadafi said this and he proved it in misrata he was not targeting civilians he was targeting rebels so this was propaganda and it was it was it was formulated to entice a nato intervention and it worked perfectly and nato was played for suckers and we should stop doing that all morning when i think that is complete nonsense and that's the thing so now we're stuck in a difficult situation where it's unclear what nato is roll out to be so we understand that right now we're stuck in this limbo situation and you can say the intervention may have caused it but quite frankly i felt like there was a humanitarian emergency where that actually required intervention at the time but that's the thing i think more broadly speaking we can talk about all these things all the obstacles that we're seeing as signs that things might not be optimistic but i think the question we ough

turns out it was a spokesmen in switzerland that decided there was going to be a bloodbath and then ghazi wasn't people in libya who were saying this is the reason well what do you think was going to happen which is his words don't even go to people so you know human your human rights advocate right human rights watch put out statistics and in two months of fighting in misrata about two hundred fifty people were killed in two months two hundred fifty people were killed mainly rebels right so that's not a bloodbath that's. the civil war and that's what was going to happen in may ghazi any rebels who were stupid enough to stick around we're going to get killed most of the rebels were going to flee and the civilians were going to be left harmless khadafi said this and he proved that in misrata he was not targeting civilians he was targeting rebels so this was propaganda and it was it was it was formulated to entice a nato intervention and it worked perfectly and nato was played for suckers and we should stop doing that when i think that is complete nonsense and that's the thing so now we're

top stories continues its bombardment in support of libyan uprising people in an opposition held by ghazi cry out against alleged atrocities committed by rebel forces meanwhile cracks emerge in the coalition strategy in libya with countries that backed the intervention now casting doubt over the mission. president obama confronts his decision to withdraw ground troops currently deployed in afghanistan one third will be pulled out by next summer people in a war torn country fear that fewer american soldiers will not mean less bombing of their homes and it intensified u.s. drone attacks. the second bailout for greece is crippled economy takes center stage at a meeting of e.u. leaders in brussels on thursday and public anger grows as a greek prime minister pushes for even more cuts at home to secure financial aid. while next we talk to those who still remember nazi germany's first offensive against the soviet union which took place in the city of brest in modern. and dressed fortress today it's on the territory of the sovereign republic of belarus formerly the soviet republic of belarus a fo

for about four, ben ghazi being the headquarters of the opposition forces.u sense from the leadership any growing sense of confidence, any sense that time is now on their side as they get more organized, as nato demonstrates its commitment to persevere in this battle? >> reporter: absolutely. the answer to that is yes. they've had a number of nations sign on, saying they are the legitimate representatives of the libyan people. they've been pressing for that and pressing for that from the nations like the united states and the uk. they are still hoping they're going to get that. because with that, think what they will get, are funds. they have constantly said they're desperately in need of funds. they're hoping to get some fund from the united states in particular that were frozen. some of that $34 billion in frozen gadhafi assets, hoping to get their hands on some of that because they have to do things like pay government workers. make sure they have money for those to help fuel the front lines. the front lines are very low on guns. so you're seeing a lot of

bank so that means that of course the banking system that is independent here in tripoli in being ghazi that banking system will be tied to the international banking system they also have concluded agreements with israel now one of those agreements one of those agreements is to provide a base for israel in libya today just secretary general rasmussen told r.t. just a while ago only hitting targets of military value do you accept that no absolutely not a university military certainly the murder of. these son and grand babies is not of military value i went to that house i saw of the swing set the cruise ball said i took the journalists there and there was nothing of military value there is just. innocent people does that mean restlessness military people. through i think there's nothing of the truth what we're seeing here seems a bit personal now with a coup khadafi no matter wats i can only repeat what the nato leaders have said and they have said. the colonel gadhafi is a legitimate target this murder and i don't think that there's anywhere that murder is permitted this is targeted ass

in libya just ahead of marvellous first visit to libya as peace mediator as you've mentioned to bin ghazi nature actually launched the most intensive air raids yet since the beginning of the operation in march and today again just ahead of gallup's arrival to tripoli we've been hearing massive bombardments over knowledge this lawless officials has been able to speak to are saying that this must be stopped and only that they go she could start and they got together has also said that colonel gadhafi is not going to step down any time soon while he is absolutely sure that if the colonel goes the fighting will stop this isn't what he has to say. tripoli is expecting to see an immediate cease fire before a peace process can begin it's also refusing to discuss the departure of colonel gadhafi from the political scene there is a dialogue going on between the warring sides but where those talks to begin to result tripoli's there's a cease fire must be put in place and the international mediators need to keep regulating the process one thing is clear russia is very welcome as a mediator both in t

civilian deaths across libya with nato accused of hitting another long a military target in rebel held by ghazi some say they're being forced to flee because of their support for colonel gadhafi. skeptics in brussels staged a fake funeral for the euro this week it came as the e.u. agreed for another multibillion euro bailout for greece but the new austerity cuts demanded in return spog more fury in athens. right those are some of the headlines from the past week of news here on r.t. but next it's the sports with natasha. thank you rory this is sports news coming to you live from moscow sunday's headlines. mean is the only want to miss out as many as shopify and the other top seeds reached the fourth round at wimbledon ending a rest on middle sunday. all of the pile run away form of the one leaders of us in the tells us his eyes on winning his sixth race this season optically ancient pole of the european grand prix in bali on stand. and then go on boxing found out to enjoy a repro ring middleweight clash last night with retaining his w.b. crown against matthew macklin and. russian football fans

helicopters in this mission meanwhile what we are hearing from the other side of the front line from bin ghazi from the libyan rebel waters shows us but the rivals are frustrated with the natives actions and frustration is rising as they are worrying that nato is taken control over what they think is a national are prizing that is where if a national bring us up to date on a story still to come this far of news with me kevin owen breaking the habit the indian who cast off his car to become a successful businessman beating society's prejudice against the untouchables his stories ahead this is. three explorers headed for the international space station we live exhilaration excitement the final moments for glasgow. next though but an international demand for atomic reactors to face stress tests meeting on nuclear safety in paris in the wake of japan's disaster of fukushima which is already persuaded germany and switzerland to shut down were very nuclear plants but the u.k. is committed to expanding its facilities results as lauren explains next there's a lot that could go wrong too. the lake dist

attempt to bring both sides of the conflict to the negotiating table helmar galv who visit have been ghazi for talks with the opposition says the coalition bombing campaign will not help resolve the turmoil we seriously think that strikes that never slow political problems and do we said it here very clearly that as long as the bloodshed continues the longer it continues the more difficult it will be to build a national reconciliation process off to the civil war so we are very much in favor of building political bridges so to speak and we are ready to help. as more claims of civilian casualties emerge anger and down grows among libyans over the true goals of the alliance in the country the nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen insists only military bases are attacked and exclusive interview artes and he pressed him to clarify how nato defines a legitimate target actually the u.n. security council resolution goes beyond a no fly zone cording to the un security council resolution we are mandated to protect the civilian population in libya taking all necessary measures and that's exac

metric to be seen here in libya just ahead of marvellous first visit to libya as peace mediator to bin ghazi nature actually launched the most intensive raids yet since the beginning of the operation in march and today again just ahead of gallup's arrival to tripoli we've been hearing massive bombardments over knowledge this lawless officials has been able to speak to are saying that this must be stopped and only that they could start looking. tripoli is expecting to see an immediate cease fire before a peace process can begin it's also refusing to discuss the departure of colonel gadhafi from the political scene there is a dialogue going on between the warring sides but where those talks to begin to result to police there's a cease fire must be put in place and international mediators need to keep regulating the process one thing is clear russia is very welcome as a mediator both in tripoli and in benghazi we will keep working together michael mcgill has also stressed that russia's role in mediating peace here in libya is very important but the african union and actually all libya's neighbo

casualties from nato air strikes and tripoli and intensified crackdown of the obvious supporters of the ghazi forced many to flee to say for parts of the country. time to bury their euro anger builds in the e.u. as its leaders agree on yet another bailout for greece while the boss man to impose tougher a budget cuts far mass protests in athens. and perth of a way to learn more about russia from visiting its best beauty spots and discovering some of its most sacred traditions artie's newly launched documentary channel. watching r t line from moscow one more survivor of tuesday's plane crash in northwestern russia has died in hospital bringing the total death toll to forty six i took all of one three four heading from moscow to russia's republic of korea crash landed on a busy major road just a kilometer from its destination six people who survived the crash remain in the critical condition artists are still your reports. are struggling to keep her composure that is in disbelief at the sudden death of a friend. and. i do not understand why it happened she was one of the best people i've ever kn

latest attempt to bring both sides of the conflict to negotiating table or deal of who visit have been ghazi for talks with the opposition says the coalition bombing campaign will not help resolve the turmoil we seriously think that strikes never slow political problems and we said it here very clearly as long as the bloodshed continues the longer it continues the more difficult it will be to build a national reconciliation process of the civil war so we are very much in favor of building political bridges so to speak and we are ready to help. on thursday libyan rebels were promised at least one billion dollars in assistance donors include the u.s. britain france as well as arab states writer and filmmaker patrick henderson believes this move won't help broker peace in the war torn country i don't see how funding the rebels or arming the rebels is going to decrease civilian casualties in fact what we've seen is the opposite by anyone's guesstimate up to one thousand civilians have already died under nato airstrikes thousands of sorties of already been flown and thousands of cruise missiles h

helicopters in this mission meanwhile what we are hearing from the other side of the front line from bin ghazi from the libyan rebel waters shows us that the rebels are kind of frustrated with natives actions and frustration is rising as they are worrying that he's taken control over what they think is a national outcry zing back to you. live from tripoli you've course will continue to bring us the latest on our twitter feed which you can follow it underscore. france and britain are planning to put forward a draft resolution to the u.n. security council later on wednesday condemning syria's government crackdown on demonstrations the u.k.'s prime minister announced a move in response to months of violent unrest in syria with protesters demanding that president assad steps down arrests foreign minister says moscow will oppose any resolution for the causes of those are your thoughts the brunt of comes to the proposal to consider syria in a similar way as was applied to the libyan situation in which the security council and international community have already become bogged down we believe that th

civilian casualties from nato airstrikes on tripoli and intensified greg down khadafy supporters in the ghazi forced many to wait a safer parts of the country. it's time to bury the euro anger of build in the e.u. as its leaders agree on yet another be allowed for greece while they've lost their man some of them poles suffer budget cuts and mass protests in athens. and the perfect way to learn more about russia from visiting its best beauty spots to discovering some of its most sacred traditions on our g.'s new we launched documentary channel. it is ten am in the russian capital and watching our team. russia was shocked this week by a plane crash that killed forty five people at super with one three four heading from moscow to russia's northwestern republic of korea crash landed on a busy major road just a kilometer from its destination seven people who survived the crash remain in a critical condition are just are still your reports. struggling to keep her composure that is in disbelief at the sudden death of her friend william broad claims. i do not understand why it happened he was one of

helicopters in this mission meanwhile what we are hearing from the other side of the frontline from bin ghazi from the libyan rebel waters shows us that the right balls are frustrated with natives actions and frustration is rising as they are worrying that nato is taken control over what they think is a national are prizing. that is roof a national stations in tripoli right now to bring us the latest developments as they happen coming up on the program still breaking the habit the indian cast off his car to become a successful businessman played in societies prejudice against the untouchables as well also. for the three explorers head for international space station we relive the exhilaration and excitement of the final moments just before glasgow. is put in international demand for all the time it reactors to face stress tests at a meeting on nuclear safety in paris in the wake of japan's disaster at fukushima which is already persuaded germany and switzerland to shut down all their nuclear plants no less the u.k. is committed to expanding its facilities and as artie's explains next there's

the rebels and then ghazi and propping up the people here in steeply making money off the side that he believes there is for peaceful solution of this crisis with both sides saying they are ready for negotiations with the knees are now ready to provide an appropriate location for told what people actually do extremely exhausted after months of devastating war which has already taken many many lives and has actually completely destroyed the country's infrastructure. bigly been who is already causing divisions in washington with lawmakers demanding obama explain his charging to libya and account for the expense and lack of progress but political radio host comment russell slim chance he says he doesn't believe congress will really pull the plug. the problem is that when there was a prior lawsuit during clinton's our foray into the former yugoslavia then it's considered a group of other congressmen and even a bad time followed a very similar lawsuit saying that it was illegal and it went to a district court for the district court so the individual congressmen did not have any sort of stan

start talking he's not for that purpose both opposition leaders in the libyan rebel stronghold and ghazi and cut off his cousin and closest ally in cairo as he has to better understand both sides demands and position and following these meetings he's come to the media to say that sides and the radicals agree and understand that there is no any way to end this crisis through military actions through the war and that this conflict only be resolved through negotiations mr mackellar that the rebels. would be ready for the trial of qatar. to have a clear picture of the positions we. use cousin and represent some of the political elites in tripoli one thing is. political situation in libya cannot be resolved going military means in the country. and the. only way out of this crisis. in just a few last days we've seen a dramatic intensification of nato strikes on the libyan capital tripoli on tuesday night launched at the most intensive strikes since the beginning of operation libyan government spokesperson has come to the journalists saying that at least thirty one people have been killed in si

helicopters in this mission meanwhile what we are hearing from the other side of the frontline from bin ghazi from the libyan rebel waters shows us that the radicals are frustrated with the natives actions and frustration is rising as they are worrying that nato is taken control over what they think is a national are prizing. correspondent reflection of there are still ahead here on the program tonight in our city with me breaking the habit. in the media indian man who cast off his cast to become a successful businessman beating society's prejudice against the untouchables is story coming up also got this for you to. ever go through explorers head for the international space station we relive the exhilaration and excitement of the final moments before the last of the. next there's been an international demand for all atomic reactors to face stress tests at a meeting of nuclear safety in paris that's in the wake of japan's disaster at fukushima which is already persuaded germany and switzerland to shut down all their nuclear plants but the u.k. is committed to expanding its facilities i was ar

foreign secretary has made a surprise visit to bin ghazi expressing support for the rebels journalist and author afshin rattansi says the fact that william hague is holding talks with one of the sides accused by some a war crimes is a disaster seems so deliberate the terms of stopping any type of seized peace process all we now know is that william hague the british foreign secretary is seated there and he's with the rebels the u.n. panel in the past few days and said that there are war crimes being committed by some of the rebels. if it ever came to an international criminal court decision i'm sure he'll be being subpoenaed. it's looking more and more like it is still with only russia and china holding any cards to play at the moment. now to the u.s. capitol where hundreds have been dancing at the jefferson memorial in order to exercise their first amendment rights last week r.t. america host kolker was arrested with four other protesters that they learn not for doing the same thing are she's going to stick around as more from our d.c. bureau. this is what i saw the crowd was dispers

definitely not and cars and cars office people to start talking with ghazi or maybe even rather driving them driving them away from peace negotiations ok thank you very much indeed. for an ocean a live from the libyan capital tripoli and no doubt more from over the next few days. well coming up the russian businessman being lined up for jail just as the victim prepares to appear in a new york court his defense accuses politicians of twisting the jury's arms to keep him behind bars. but first two of the world's biggest emerging countries got a bit closer today as russia and china energized their relations hoping to do much more business together because shooting a thirty year gas deal is another reason why the chinese leader is here in moscow well let's cross live to one of the who's outside from headquarters where the talks took place peter what is so big about this anticipated gas agreement. this is a potentially must if agreement which would see russia provide gas to china for thirty years now prime minister vladimir putin and representatives from gazprom welcomed president hu jintao

conflict continue to rise while rebel forces are accused of forcing civilians from their homes in bed ghazi. skeptics in brussels staged the euro's funeral as greece faces public anger over deeper cuts and the country teeters on the brink of bankruptcy. five am in moscow i mattress are bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on our team a man at a teenage girl who were among the eight survivors of monday night's plane crash in northwestern russia had died in the hospital a tuple of one three four headed from moscow to russia's republic of korea crash landed on a major road just a kilometer from the runway the disaster now has claimed forty seven lives artie's tests are so your has more from the crash site. but struggling to keep her composure the town is in disbelief at the sudden death of a friend you know. i do not some the sound bite happened he was one of the base people i've ever known i'm so lost in the sounds maybe it's fight or want to have to happen. the russian premier league football referee i just want of the killed. monday night when he took a live

leaving people in opposition held by ghazi cry out against the legend that he's committed by rebel forces as nato continues its bombardment in support of the country's uprising. president obama unveils plans to begin the withdrawal of u.s. forces from afghanistan but there are concerns that while troops may leave american drone attacks will continue. the leaders' debate greece's second bailout as agreed battles to pass new public finance cuts in parliament public and staring at her grow. and develop business bill to find out how russia is ready to resume imports of vegetables from the e.u. under which conditions join me in twenty minutes time for. watching are you coming to live from moscow with marina joshua welcome to the program the growing number of civilian casualties in libya raises serious misgivings about nato intervention even among supporters of a campaign that's not only nato bombs that pose a threat to the rebel stand accused of committing atrocities against their own people in austin it has a story. this family hasn't had the war quiet and peaceful like this one for months th

often ghazi and talked to his cousin in cairo and certainly both sides have a mutual understanding that a protracted war is not an option and the crisis should be resolved through peaceful means he also cited that he had a feeling that the rebels are almost ready for a dialogue with gadhafi the people in tripoli we have been able to speak to are welcoming russia's afros they are extremely exhausted after months of war which has taken many many lives and has almost completely destroyed the country's infrastructure due to a shortage of fuel gasoline lines stretch for kilometers and kilometers people have to spend hours even days lining up to fuel up their cars and it's tyree more overnight it continues to strike tripoli and we can hear bombardments mess of bombardments almost every night and that scares them as well while people are getting more and more angry and all they want is to get their normal lives back frustration is high among the rebels as well as they feel as though nature is taking control over words to that is the national uprising is to early to say whether russia will be a

delivered while meeting officials in tripoli not gallop previously met with opposition leaders including ghazi as part of a push by moscow to mediate a peace deal between two plays and the french nato air strikes on the even capital and rebel offensive along the crowds. lawyers for alleged on still a big to be prepared to challenge the legality of his extradition to the u.s. from thailand the russian businessman has been awaiting trial since being arrested and the crew has a sting operation over three years ago in thailand the charges against him proved conspiring to aid terrorism trying to kill americans and. that is the headlines now max kaiser is up next with co-host a habit to tell us about some of the lengths islanders growing to for ready cash including conjuring the focal point to sell a scrap that's on the kaiser report coming up next. max kaiser this is the kaiser report money is getting tight i'm reading that the state of ireland is actually scavenging the sea floor looking for a copper left by the telecommunications industry to sell for scrap their drudging their own seabed first sc

to live with it while needs to officials in tripoli get a previously met with opposition leaders in ghazi as part of a push by moscow to mediate a peace deal the talks took place and that fresh nato air strikes on the even capital under rebel offensives along the curb. and lawyers for alleged arms dealer victor booth the printed challenge the legality of his extradition to the u.s. from thailand the russian businessman has been awaiting trial since being arrested in the u.s. and sting operation of the three years ago the charges against him include conspiring to age terrorists as planning to kill americans and of the world. and there's the headlines coming up next because talk about his pile of guests discuss if there's any future for the deeply troubled you. stood. alone and welcome to a special edition of crossfire i'm peter will. be your always in crisis we'll have you with us ten years from now. and. still. to discuss the fate of the euro here at the st petersburg international economic forum i'm joined by alec since he's a professor of economics at yale university and roland no she's

conflict continue rising while rebel forces are accused of forcing civilians from their homes and that ghazi. euro skeptics in brussels stage of the funeral for the currency as greece faces public anger over deeper cuts and the country teeters on the breakup bankruptcy. period in moscow i'm not treasure bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on r t mad at a teenage girl who are among the eight survivors of monday night's plane crash in northwest russia have died in a hospital that simple of one three four heading from moscow to russia's republic of korea crashed on a major road just a kilometer from the runway the disaster has now claimed forty seven lives archies tests are so your reports from the crash site. struggling to keep her composure to john is in disbelief and the sudden death of a friend. i do not see the soundbite happened he was one of the best people i've ever known i do not in the stands maybe it's right the wanted to have to happen. the russian kind of your league football referee vladimir but guy just one of the killed on monday night when he s