to swear allegiance to a state they believe explicitly excludes and marginalizes them police here r.t. jeff. i think that is the way the news this hour here on r.t. to go away all the latest business is on the way with daniel. welcome to business and usually uncertain was how ben bernanke he described the prospects for the world's biggest economy the response by the financial markets to the federal reserve chief testimony has also been one of uncertainty as his comments fuel fears about the strength of the global recovery. ben bernanke used testimony did little to reassure the financial markets about the durability of the global economic recovery on the one hand he declared there was little probability of the recession returning but on the other his says it a number of first factors including high unemployment and the weak housing market an important drag on household spending is the slow recovery in the labor market and the attendant uncertainty about job prospects after two years of job losses private payrolls expanded at an average of about one hundred thousand per month during the first

r.t. jeff. now breakthroughs in treating aids have been attracting much attention at an international conference on the disease in the area but activists have also been trying to highlight the need for universal access to treatment campaigners continue to protest demanding more rides for those h.i.v. complaint has been launched dance the west at the united nations on behalf of nineteen organizations that claim president obama's policies favor multinational pharmaceutical companies and make treatment more expensive obama said to be hurt by the accusations. north korea has condemned the u.s. and south korea for this weekend's joint military exercises saying they pose a security risk to the peninsula young here. also criticize washington's decision to impose further sanctions on the country to help prevent nuclear proliferation secretary of state hillary clinton and the new measures during a visit to seoul on wednesday tensions heightened afterwards the sinking of a south korean warship in march wh

to swear allegiance to a state they believe explicitly excludes and marginalizes them police here r.t. jeff. we are running down the top stories of the week day and on wednesday gunmen stormed our hydroelectric power plant in southern russia leaving two guards dead and destroying two generators investigators say poor security at the facility made it vulnerable to attack. as of our reports from the republic of cartagena ball-carrier. it's been reported that the militants laser sure it was behind the storming of this hydro plant in the north caucasus on wednesday morning a group of up to five gunmen forced their way into the rock sound power plant killing two police officers at the entrance members of the surest gang who were reportedly identified by employees of this station as the attackers although there's been no official confirmation so far the gang detonated four bombs equivalent to ten kilos of t.n.t. the explosions didn't damage the planned day and didn't affect the electricity supply of the region security has been tightened at all the energy facilities across russia. this isn't a sp

to swear allegiance to a state they believe explicitly excludes and marginalizes them police here r.t. jeff. a moscow court has delayed its verdict on thirteen people accused of murder and race hate crimes four of the defendants will have to undergo psychiatric tests before the final decision is made the groups accused of ethnically motivated killings and terrible if found guilty members could face life in jail investigators claim the gang was part of an ultra nationalist movement banned for its extremist activities but dozens of people killed in race hate crimes in russia each year. so what drives attackers to commit ethnic violence. this self professed deeply religious woman is full of hate hate for those who are different hate for immigrants. she accuses of occupying disrespecting and contaminating her nation russians she insists are fighting a race war motivated by loan book for love for our home went and our nation of love for our good people families where people don't just date and then break up but rather they get married in church they don't practice abortions the don't support int

r.t. jeff well earlier i spoke to donna pro got she was head of the naga center for victims of crime the academic college and also political journalist and analyst gideon levy about this and here's what they say. i don't think it would have been different the service the president that we heard last year was. the prominent person who misled serry floure. or no women into believing that he would help them. they had sex with him and he was charged today was sentenced to twelve years in prison and he was done think it's a racist thing we are adults people who are grown up people and we know that in any kind of relationship between men and women their big lies and small lies white lies and blake lies he lie here about his age he could tell her he loved her and he didn't love her he could tell her that day he has a car and he doesn't have a car. there really shows that he's a most men will pretend to be a jewel and this is the subtext of the whole thing don't touch all women that's the subtext the j

r.t. the legs here are jeff ski reports. it is fun in the sun in the ukraine in port city offered us hundreds of thousands come here during the height to receive. but for this woman from central africa it became a living nightmare with her identity concealed she told us how she was turned into a sex life. i met a man who told me he'd marry me and take care of me he brought me here then he locked me in a hotel room men came every day and raped me sometimes there were three of them at once later the man said he'd sell me to turkey but i managed to find help. she managed to escape from the man who had been slaves now she lives in the under protection program but many young girls here are not as lucky every day ships bring thousands of tourists in and out of but for many of this harbor becomes a point of no return as many sex slaves are being shipped from here to other countries. turkey italy united arab emirates these are some of the most popular destinations for the sex slave trade and it does so with its strategic port serves