member of physicians for the prevention of nuclear war thanks very much indeed for joining us here on r.t. now with the u.s. and british military moving closer to libya at the moment and even reports of u.k. special forces there on the ground what do you think will be the consequences of foreign intervention if that doesn't be happened well we can see the. under torrent intervention just recently interventions we can study it in afghanistan we can studied it in iraq we can study it in hard in pakistan so we can ask the interventionist forces so what kind of humanitarian intervention are you planning to do as like in afghanistan or like what should therefore we leave good athlete to use force against his own people to stand by and let him continue to kill many libyans. but without questions you're already in the calling for action so it's kind of. difficult to answer the question because gadhafi is a consequence of also a consequence of western politics over the last forty years but. then for saying that libya should be left to decide its own fate now even though there's been a lot of western i

have been it's r.t. now there's something. let's now take a brief look at some other headlines from around the world turns off thousands of activists in syria are staging protests across the country as unrest intensifies the government's support groups just below the surface you know the talk here after snipers killed twenty one people as a demonstration there president charles said he will address the nation on sunday night but there are no reports so far he has in the speech he was expected to lift emergency rule that's been in place for almost fifty years. to palestinian gunmen have been killed and three more injured in an israeli air strike on gaza they attack comes a day after hamas dated it would be great to see spy if israel puts an end to attacks on the strip ruled by them that it an organization at least ten people including civilians and children were killed last week alone israel's recent attacks come on top of it sustained blockade of the area adding to the misery of most of who live in poverty. the internationally

own more thoughts on libya now is r.t. hears from britain's former ambassador to the country all over marl says global reaction such as the un's travel ban on gadhafi is highly questionable well that interview is up next. today i'm talking to oliver miles who's a former british ambassador samir bia we're going to be talking about the situation in the country at the moment the west response to it and how it might unfold all of them well thank you very much for talking to r.t. now isn't the west's response to the situation in libya dangerously close to what we saw before the invasion of iraq i'm thinking of this proposed no fly zone these claims that we've heard that's gadhafi has chemical weapons and also this talk around the world of military intervention well there is a parallel but i think there are some important differences and look on the one i think i would focus on is that the although there's been some. rather bellicose talk from both london and washington and perish. the what they've actually done is go to school

it with r.t. . now or london's streets were filled with more than a quarter of a million angry voices on saturday. staged britain's biggest political demonstration in years over the deep spending cuts which are being rolled out there were hundreds of arrests as part of the rally turned violent the windows of shops and banks were smashed down with paint the demonstrators opposed government eighty billion pounds spending cuts which they say will destroy essential services. but ministers insist they're necessary to reduce britain's future deficit the u.k.'s outpouring of anger follows a week which saw intense protests in brussels. portugal parties reports. of more layoffs to pay cuts no retirement the message from angry demonstrators pushed back with. pepper sprayed by riot police the protesters tried to get through to e.u. leaders meeting in brussels. this where there was made. to be used. to. the bank so. that the world's first move to take. prisoners goes across europe voters are saying no. measures por

it's now a fact that a pm here in the russian capital you with r.t. now looks a bit situation critical in all six reactors japan's stricken nuclear power plant and cooling systems are failing and threats of a nuclear meltdown rising to the highest level since the explosions began at the facility the japanese officials are confirming radioactive materials have leaked into the atmosphere and the radiation level currently exceeds the acceptable norm. the death toll from friday's a devastating earthquake and tsunami climbs over three thousand with almost two thousand injured and some of six thousand people believed to be missing. and in a russian regions close to japan residents and emergency services are on high alert despite officials claiming that there is no current radioactive danger meanwhile moscow's boosting its humanitarian aid and energy supplies to japan on increasing the number of rescue workers and it disaster struck as. well coming up next it's our spotlight show we'll be discussing the catastrophe in japan with the head of the scientific seismo

until the host stephen thanks so much stephen for joining us here on r.t. now there are conflicting reports on libya some suggesting that daffy's mounted a serious fight back others say the opposition is gaining ground this is a very confusing situation how do you see it at the moment. well i stated very clearly he said it was going on at the ground i don't know but what i do know what it is if the records especially by western media especially by the u.s. media have no basis in fact they have no credibility. it is paul propaganda it is all misinformation it's all based on unclear if i would have a materially hearing this so-called quote unquote rolls. position for sluice i don't lee these are individuals groups whatever they listed by america enlisted by written and listed maybe by france in a whisper nations primarily you have the us secondarily written to post one yes to put it another one in his face and the libyan people i must say i wrote a lot more savvy than americans because they know with us and mean us we know what humid syrian means when america say

and across the uk is coming your way in about an hour and twenty minutes from now right here on r.t. now european capitals are preparing for fresh until start to protest south of clashes in brussels on thursday e.u. leaders were meeting there to hammer out a set of measures to ease the euro zone's debt crisis but as the single currency is facing a new threat with portugal looking to sell to us for a bailout he's done it we're told is in brussels and he has more on this. in public e.u. leaders are saying they feel people's pain but behind closed doors here in the european commission building they've imposed even more spending cuts slashing spending even further now that even applies to states outside the troubled eurozone places like poland latvia denmark will also participate so you get a sense of the crisis spreading across the european union i've met with some of the protesters out on the streets and asked them why they're fighting the plans. no more layoffs no to pay cuts no retirement a message from twenty thousand angry demonstrators pushed back with water cannons and pepper spray b

stay calm history shows not all of their words could be taken at face value in tokyo here goes r.t. . now all the latest on the economic aftermath of the earthquake and the nuclear crisis in japan that's coming your way in our business program that's coming up in some fifteen minutes time but now let's cross over for a quick preview and hello dimitri. rory it seems that tension about what's going on in japan has eased up slightly on the stock markets we've seen a rebound of six percent in japan japanese markets russian markets of also rebounded slightly but on the other hand tensions still remains in the middle east this is about oil of course will is growing this is positive for the russian market and our finance minister says that it may actually grow to two hundred dollars per barrel you'll find more of that in our business world and around fifteen minutes from. now in russia all eyes are on the country's far east in connection with the nuclear crisis at the fukushima power plant the region of borders and some fear it could be affected by a radioactive cloud and although authorities ar

as they look to maintain their lead of a tall order turning out to be a very tight group played r.t. . now another football use brazilian defended only alvarez has signed a new four year contract with spain's barcelona ending recent doubts about his future at the club the deal will keep mum who can't learn until twenty fifteen before to believe it was entrapment goshi asians and could leave class a right now except to stay there is that why it was he that is a staggering one hundred fifty million euros defender moved to the new camp from spanish while the severe in two thousand and eight. splits which the ice hockey playoffs now taking place here in russia in atlanta have claimed first blood in their opening game of the western conference final against lokomotiv the moscow region outfit beating yaroslavl side six one in the end a lot sided contest to say the least outline got the first meeting period could see a van prayer there and they were too up shortly after it got all caught getting on the scoreboard another followed from was the acting in the second to make it three and before us a

versus evil and increasingly diminishing power to influence what's next in washington christine for r.t. . now in an hour's time with an in-depth look at the weapon of choice for terrorists around the world. now the last leader of the u.s.s. mikhail gorbachev is celebrating his eightieth birthday he's been awarded with russia's highest honor by president dmitri medvedev the order to sing country medal for his work. but many people his name is synonymous with the end of the cold war the reunification of germany and liberalism but with his economic and political reforms he paved the way for democracy in russia his best name policy that is. to revamp the country without destroying the basis of socialism his initiatives also led to the cancellation of state censorship and the creation of free speech received the nobel peace prize in one nine hundred ninety a year later however started a chain of events which led to the collapse off the soviet union got out of step down and brought us yeltsin became president gorbachev critics say he plunged the country into a destructive and chaotic reform the fac

west response to it and how it might sound fold out of the well thank you very much for talking to r.t. now isn't the west's response to the situation in libya dangerously close to what we saw before the invasion of iraq i'm thinking of this place no fly zone these claims that we've heard that gadhafi has chemical weapons and also this talk around the world of military intervention. well there is a parallel but i think there are some important differences and look on the one i think i'd focus on is that the although there's been some. rather bellicose talk from both london and washington and perish. the what they've actually done is total security council straightaway and they got full agreement in the security council you know less support for a resolution which didn't refer of the war to military action or anything of that point so it's not. a close parallel i don't think so many persons at least partially responsible for what's going on in libya and what we saw in egypt previously after all london did support these regimes for as long as it seemed it well i think that's a bit much actual

go r.t. . now we travel even further east later say on where russian. grain which flies the stripes alaska death the nation and all special. it's the secret incursion into the country. it's the invasion by means of. tradition the language the you. the first the peak the beat. culture. the have the germans are still unaware of what's going on in their mind still asking. like. i did last time. an arche. i'm sure will be the first opening his business deals with. that's right time to delve into the world of business a very warm welcome to new regulations aimed at helping russia try to track more investors have been spelled out by president medvedev it calls for juicing government employees and stage companies increasing their transparency and pushing probably sation so denning from variables acid better than just looking for proof and putting. you know right now the the investment climate in russia is improving in the foreign investors these three initiatives are very positive very positive words but again the problem that russia has with these kind of iss

a book on the power industry called keeping the lights on and thank you very much for talking to r.t. now the situation in japan is we've seen several explosions at the christian nuclear power plant what do you think the chances are that we may see more and the situation carrying on sure that the people working on the site hope that they've got it under control but they seem to be releasing an awful lot of hydrogen from at least three reactors and now from a fuel point as well and hydrogen is an explosive gas if it's confined a mixed with air it produces it can produce very dramatic explosions as we've seen so that's clearly a. major concern for them but i think the explosion problem is almost the least of their problems at the moment because what it has done to the reactors we don't know we don't know it hasn't apparently damaged the containment or the reactor pressure vessels themselves although i gather there may be a hole in one of the containers in that unit too but what bothers me and i haven't heard any very good confirmation about it is what it is done through the actual contact b

thank you very much christine r.t. . now there's more insight into the situation in libya coming up in about two hours time and people of all show crosstalk which offers a variety of opinions and some very intense debate this issue to. we're seeing a complete meltdown of authoritarian rule in north africa and in the middle east what is the united states or allies do sit back and let it occur when people are rising up and asking for help in atrocities are being made against their people by their own governments this is essentially dressed up out the humanitarian mission and the days and weeks to come will show that the libyan people will pay a very heavy price not only for a cutout of these crimes and ruthlessness but also for this western intervention without these airstrikes then you can see right now who would be the people benghazi right now would be massacred go to benghazi now. sort of the point i want to try to ignore or not listen this is how much how is this sort of the easier to do and also what is the critical. thi

when the france r.t. . now the second prototype of russia's fighter jet program has successfully completed its best test flight this is a made plane was up in the air for almost an hour while the jet said to some of the most advanced aviation equipment on the planet its capability to be able to run ways and fly in the most challenging weather conditions generation fighters are expected to enter service in russia in twenty if the price tag is estimated at about one hundred million dollars. this hour spotlighting talks about the first russian venture capitalist in a fortune magazine's top fifty thousand but first we're going to start date which major. bottoms of the program global oil major third child has agreed to buy a twelve percent stake in russia's and a kind of gas producer eyeing to increase its share in the company to up to twenty percent in the next three years so that was also acquired one third of stake in the business liquefied natural gas project on the mile peninsula i think we're going to go to di

now in the palm of your. questions on the dot com. luis says. right. from france to. start on t.v. dot com. with r.t. live from moscow it's now where twenty minutes past the hour let's check out some other world news in brief this hour and at least twenty people were killed and over fifty injured in a suicide truck bomb attack in afghanistan's paktika province the blast was close to the compound of a construction company and most of the victims were just local workers taliban militants have claimed responsibility for the attack now the incident does come a day after a nato led air strike killed more than ten taliban insurgents in the same area. italian prime minister is due to appear in court of a corruption charges so this county is facing a trial linked to one of his media companies he's accused of inflating the price paid by television rights and then using the difference to fund a political activities the pm is facing a total of four trials and looting one for allegedly paying for sex with an underage prostitute and abusing his power he denies all charges. and of germany's anti nuclear green party

world wide news live from moscow you with r.t. now japanese officials confirm that radioactive materials have leaked into the atmosphere following an explosion and fire at reactor number four at the u. fukushima power plant the fire is said to have damaged an area used to store spent nuclear fuel the course that or suffer struggling to cool it down and situation at all six reactors is said to be critical after the only two remaining cooling systems failed following the devastating quake and tsunami the blast facility number two which occurred this morning has reportedly dunnage the vessel. all of the reactor stoking fears of a nuclear meltdown which were already high since the explosions began the company that owns the plant has reportedly withdrawn over seven hundred workers leaving only fifty to deal with the disaster engineers have been using its sea water to cool the reactors in an attempt to avert a nuclear disaster but things are better reports from outside the danger zone. it seems like the whole of their entire nation is gripp

thank you very much christine r.t. . now congressman this effort in libya has been billed as a limited intervention but i have to say when you look at history as we've just seen limited interventions are almost like a gateway drug for broader conflict and if you look everywhere from the korea to somalia these these conflicts start out with a single resolution in the united nations but they continually increase and end up with more boots on the ground more forces more bogged down in wars what makes you think if anything that we would be able to get out of this libyan conflict you could look at a war as a swamp or one step in a swamp you can suck in and there is no limited intervention one hundred tomahawk missiles not limited one hundred twenty four sites hit not limited to eighty two thousand pound bombs according to one general to be or have been dropped not limited this is a massive intervention already in the name of a no fly zone which isn't like telling people you just can't park in this space it's really a massive atta

r.t. but now i'm teams in germany. pickering's you have to drink from the news desk arties moscow program is coming your way to first let's talk the business news with dimitri after a short break. in a warm welcome to business the arctic exploration asked us what deal between oil majors b.p. and what steps has been blocked by the stockholm arbitration strike you know the case was brought by a are the russian shareholders of c m k b.p. and the existing partners of the british oil company in russia for more i'm joined by r.t. correspondent tom barton now tom thanks for being with us is the decision by the stock on arbitration tribunal binding. this swedish arbitration court ruled against b.p. saying that its intended deal with rosneft was in breach of an earlier agreement made when t n k b p was for that detail that deal is now on hold. stan tull of us who is the chief executive of a r which represents the russian shareholders in t.n. k b p said he was happy with the court's decision. for a tribunal with very clear. b.p.

r.t. london. now when gadhafi began trying to improve his image in the west here announced weapons of mass destruction and over suspects in the lockerbie bombing and hired us spend afters to lobby congress and sway american opinion and that office wax on k. street had included the livingston group and also the law firm white and case but should we really be surprised km equitorial guinea to saudi arabia k. street lobbyists are unbuffed tarnished reputations with saudi p.r. so does money really trump morals when it comes to political relations earlier i posed this question to graham wizner attorney with the firm patton boggs. there are certain people out there who do seek help in washington from lobbyists and oftentimes their human rights record is so tawdry that it is impossible to cleanse them and no one wants to get involved in that game as well if you go into the state department and make a case for a human rights abuse or and don't fully revealed the depths of those problems you would be laughed o

they'll burn it into a massive bonfire after the final race now that is competitive sportsmanship in the jaroslav the region lindsey france r.t. . and you know always find out more about our stories online here's a taste of what we have there for you right now. morals or money washington debates which of course will effectively secure american interests abroad. god find out what drove one american to sing the russian anthem in russian. and if you want to sing russian to or want to learn more about the country make sure you visit our recipient page at. the nato service member has been killed in a bomb attack in afghanistan it brings the total number of lines personnel killed since january to seventy bogged down in a grueling war with the taliban the coalition is losing more and more troops each year. and as afghanistan's drug production spirals out of control the u.s. is also feeling the impact on home soil the american naval academy has been hit hard by drug abuse and scandal with eight cadets expelled as part of an ongoing investigation artie's military contributor thinks the u.s. could be secretly cashing in on u.s. and dru

it's now at twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow you with r.t. let's get to some other world news making headlines now in syria twelve people were killed over the weekend during anti-government rallies in the key port city of. the government blames unidentified gunman shooting from the rooftops deployed troops dozens of died in a week of demonstrations are going to president bashar assad to who's facing the deepest crisis of his eleven years in power he's expected to address the nation in the coming days. german chancellor angela merkel's ruling party looks set for a humiliating defeat in a key regional election exit polls indicate the christian democrats are about to lose in version. six decades of conservatives being in power that it follows a widespread opposition to merkel's utahans on a nuclear power decisions on libya and the euro. italian prime minister is due to appear in court over corruption charges silvio berlusconi is facing a trial linked to one of his media companies he's accused of inflating the price paid to buy television rights a

now. you know with r.t. and live from moscow it's good to have you with us today coming away in just over two hours here on our cross talk program and people of elena's guests will be discussing whether the west is afraid of democracy in north africa here's a preview of what's coming your way. look at this it would have been much better if the international community that egypt and the others intervened earlier on when political interventions could have been effective probably more effective and less costly in human life and in material destruction than this but they did it nobody did it would have been better if the united states had stayed out of this to begin with we're the ones that have been propping up these leaders we have given millions of dollars to moammar gadhafi then they're not about you know that as you know with the fed does that mean we can not to start doing that i sitting. around we beat up i decided then we beat up you know what i don't know but now we have the opportunity to do something

r.t. it's now eight pm on kevin zero in on the top story this thursday night france says it's recognizing libya's opposition as the quote legitimate representatives of the people and it plans to exchange ambassadors the move is fueling fears of the country may soon see foreign military intervention at a meeting of nato defense ministers just now the alliance has changed as member countries are united in their starts artie's done a bushel of crosses and join the live evening so what was the official response from the nato chief to the situation in libya. and this fog resinous and says that nato is ready to act finally is the most explicit comments so far from nato that it is waiting to send troops into libya but the fact is it's backed into a corner because of course it keeps making more explicit as i say commitments to send troops into libya at the same time there's a growing international backlash which the head of nato has been forced to recognize the secretary general says that he understands the concerns here did that there must be proof and demonstrably commitment from the rebels tha

r.t. earlier now hillary clinton says the u.s. is losing an information war in foreign media outlets including our team this week and the secretary of state asked congress for more cash to step up america's efforts to get its message across and she's going to check out reports war declared the u.s. is now officially in an information battle with foreign media which provide alternative views on world news views which often running contrast of the coverage of the events by the us needs free media we are in an information war and we are losing that war i'll be very blunt in my assessment al-jazeera is winning. the chinese have opened up a global english language and multi language television network the russians have opened up an english language network i've seen it in a few countries and it's quite instructive we are cutting back and the b.b.c. is cutting back some five years ago western media outlets including the v.c. and c.n.n. had a near monopoly in the coverage of world news things have changed since then more and more viewers

of who has the most to win from the wave of unrest gripping the arab world do you vote now on our website that's r.t. dot com. now the target of the global media outlets america is taking hits and losing ground to the new kids on the block including r t the warning from top u.s. diplomat hillary clinton was coupled with a plea for hard cash to get americans message back on track and is going as you can report the secretary of state doesn't believe the home grown news channels are up to the top ask here is what we have learned from hillary clinton's statement we are officially at war information war by we i mean english language nonu west one media which provide alternative views on world news use which often running contrast to the coverage of events by the worsening stream media story clinton was the finding her department budget in congress is as a major reason the state department needs y.b. is because the u.s. is losing the information war and among those media who are winning that war hillary clinton named arche we are in an information war and we are losing that war i'll be very blunt in my as

r.t. but now we time to libya and the international community debate on what measures to take we sat down with the hate them out a spokes person of the arab commission for human rights has been keeping track of events in the country. we're talking today to dr mona a spokesman of the arab commission for human rights in paris. to monitor the arab commission for human rights also the prosecutor general for the international tribunal to begin an investigation into events in libya and their decision to begin the investigation was made how will it be carried out. oh. first of all the investigation will be made under the authority of the un security council in accordance with clause thirteen of the rome statute this clause in tiles the prosecutor general to perform an investigation without any preconditions or limitations and enables him to move freely and used to the benefit of the investigation anything that may be needed and anything at the suspected criminals hiding from the investigation that's what we've achieved by now two of five groups of our representatives have arrived in benghazi and

r.t. new york. now today all over the world people are celebrating international women's day but for many women here in america it seems to be one step forward two steps back while women may have reached a new political heights of working women are still kept back and kept down by a lack of a portable childcare and paid maternity leave and that's just the tip of the iceberg now if you correspondent killing ford has more on how this superpower is leaving its women behind bars kind of just know. the rhetoric is familiar specially word of a group of the always with a difference in every election but this year your voice your pool will be the southern state and forging a new future for but the reality stands in stark contrast for all the talk of female empowerment women in america are losing ground two thousand and nine was a record year for women in congress but it only seventeen percent leave us still trails countries like a rapper twenty five percent of the parliament must be female the u.s. is one of fi

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r.t. thanks for joining us now the u.s. is flexing its military muscle moving its naval forces closer to libya triggering speculation of possible strikes where the u.k. is not is also not ruling out the use of force and meanwhile the u.s. has suspended libya from its human rights council after the violent crackdown against protesters let's get more on the situation in the region from our teams are all for peter the international community certainly is convening on what's going on in libya but could just walk us through the situation on the ground right now. right now what's happening is we are seeing the international community closing in on duffy we've heard from the human rights council that. they basically everybody who stood up had something to say about libya they shouted down the regime of colonel gadhafi however as a remains in libya colonel gadhafi is in power in tripoli alone it seems that is the way but he is launching attacks from there. we have seen it has been some attacks launched against opposition forces fro

forty million dollar contract amounts will go into looking at martins pocket anyway your average r.t. . time now to take a look at some other stories from around the world at least twenty six people have been killed twenty injured. when a passenger bus collided with a lumber truck in the southern brazilian state of santa catarina police report the truck driver lost control of his vehicle and crashed into the bus which had forty seven passengers on board in two thousand and seven two similar accidents on the same road claimed twenty seven lives. a fire which tore through a bar in central taiwan has left nine dead and twelve injured preliminary investigation suggests the blaze list caused by sparks from an allergy towards being used in a performance several of the victims were found in the staircase between the first and second floors. u.s. air force has launched its second and space plane from cape canaveral the blastoff of the atlas five rocket carrying the orbital test took place a day later than anticipated to go bad weather the purpose of the rocket has been kept in mystery leading to much sp

r.t. new york. all right now back to our top story here on the fate of millions of japanese threatened by nuclear disaster now lies in the hands of just a few dozen they're known as the faceless fifty team of workers putting their lives on the line to stop or put a possible nuclear disaster from occurring at the fukushima plant. and i look at how a man sometimes has to sacrifice himself when technology fails. mankind's modern marvels can come to nothing when the church strikes days after the fukushima plants first explosion and pans leaders implore everyone to stay calm helicopters and water cannons deployed to cool the reactors yet the situation remains critical the japanese government has insisted that only a ten kilometer radius was necessary for graduation this was a status quo when the earthquake hit and so were already we were already way behind or so great and evacuating and issuing iraqi asian orders also there is very very little environmental monitoring provided correct information to people i think tha

r.t. . action now from the n.b.a. we're oklahoma claims their first straight win with victory over phoenix top scorer kevin durant was in form once again he recorded twenty two points as his side one hundred sixteen to ninety eight percent since the pointer total score to oklahoma one believes the next round only in the second one but it wasn't enough to hold as fun as one of the first half when the fourth sunday was a three pointer ok to bad times hard also ended up twenty points sports baltimore for sixty eight different. cricket now and india captain henderson dhoni believes his side will have to be at their best to lift the world cup they'll meet. in saturday's final after beating fierce rivals pakistan all twenty nine runs about from around twenty eight thousand fans in the punjab stadium and estimated one billion people tuned in to watch worldwide india won the toss and chose to bat first and such in time daughter started brightly with polo it never ended say right if it's thirty eight tendulkar lived a charmed

r.t. underscore. now in libya colonel gadhafi forces have gained more ground retaking rebel held cities and major world powers as they are dismissed imposing a no fly zone over the conflict stricken country if you still to be discussed by the u.n. poorest areas in the capital tripoli. gadhafi forces have broken through the last major in line of resistance before the town of bint ghazi which is the heart of the rebel stronghold m choose day in a massive land and air assault it off his forces took over the town of edge of the which is just some one hundred and fifty kilometers away from being ghazi what this means exactly duffy's forces are now in full control of the coastal strip a tree in these two towns you need to remember that it was only ten days ago that were able forces had control of almost half this country they were in control in the east and they also had control of civil cities in the waist and now his forces have managed to reclaim most of that land they certainly if we came all the cities in

r.t. london now america is losing the war of words to a new play is being one of them us time to promote hillary clinton has lamented the foreign english language media hoeing news networks to shame she's asked congress for more cash rewrote america's agenda rules artie's can afford investigates whether money is actually going. since one thousand nine hundred forty two the us has broadcasted its culture and politics around the world. to look beyond the full plate. transmitting in over fifty languages to the tune of seven hundred forty five point five million dollars per year but what happens when people just start tuning out more and more us bonded media outlets designed to promote america's image abroad are channels in search of an audience but taxpayers are still footing the bill and. america has sunk one billion dollars into al gore to an arabic language news network author and professor phil see that says the network's model is stuck in the past when american news was welcomed by some competition in. the arab world. that there really isn't much of the audience outside of iraq. if the three p

r.t. from moscow's world news for now the u.s. air force has confirmed two of its servicemen have been wounded in a shooting at frankfurt airport a gunman opened fire on a bus carrying the military personnel when it was parked outside the building following the shooting a twenty one year old suspect from kosovo was arrested by german police the motive for the attack is clear. but the stars will assume for religious minorities as being killed in a gun attack in the country's capital police say alleged taliban gunmen sprayed the victim's car with bullets in a residential neighborhood shahbaz bhatti was a christian has been threatened by islamist militants in the past for speaking out against the country's harsh blasphemy laws it did earlier in the year of punjab governor was gunned down by one of his own bodyguards for his opposition to the same laws. places apologize for killing nine civilians in northeast afghanistan the coalition says preliminary findings indicate that nato forces accidentally killed nine children on tuesday loca

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r.t. equipment that's not our international headlines now pakistan's minister of minorities has been killed and i can assign the country's capitol police a government reportedly from the taliban sprayed in the car with bullets in a residential neighborhood shahbaz bhatti who was a christian and threatened by militants in the past for speaking out against the country's passports only bills in the year governor with guns. down by one of his own bodyguards for his opposition to the rules. in new zealand dust storms whipped up by strong winds the humping recovery efforts in the quake ravaged city of christchurch crews retrieving bodies from schools of collapse buildings have been slowed by repeated aftershocks five more bodies pulled from the rubble bringing the death toll to one hundred and sixty police say some of the victims that may never be recovered. colombia has been removed from the list of countries requiring special observation by the un's a drug control was stocked the international court is control board says the move was a recognition of the country's achievements in fighting the p