it is stunning that we got to it's a passed resolutions and frankly i think at stenches from russia and china said the best that could have been hell for by supporters. -- frankly i think that abstentions from russia and china are the best that could have been hoped for. >> is an attack is imminent? >> this does raise a point of contact within the resolution. this does talk about a cease- fire and protection of civilians. there is an open question, what happens if they respect the cease-fire? what if they don't engage armor against the cities in the east? would u.n.-backed forces be authorized to take military action? >> you have preempted my question. what happens of colonel gaddafi respects this u.n. resolution and is not attacked benghazi, basically with straws and leaves the status quo? what happens then? >> this is a legal matter. looking at the language in the resolution, i don't think that there would be a mandate for military action. that is clearly in contact with the statements we have heard from european leaders and some american politicians. they are seemingly portraying the possi

it is certainly compensation for their positions besides we don't trust the west anymore so russia china and india will be our allies in the oil sector construction on investments should the west revise their positions are you way and admit it was in the wrong and apologize come and say it was my mistake and the position might stop two was wrong and i therefore doomed the security council to pass the resolution despite my not having understood what was going on in libya and i was transpired is not worth this hype in this case the west will abolish resolution might hundred seventy if they common apologize that they were wrong in this case all good relations can be restored with economic cooperation and oil production construction and joint enterprise as they may return of a priority will always be for russia china and india. and then i have got that we have heard that some leaders of western countries are trying to apologize to let go true are those reports that now they are. this is indeed so we're receiving in direct confirmation of that they say that they were wrong on the ballot for p

strategy and we saw in the situation we showed earlier james clapper you know kind of grouping russia and china together we remember we have this strategic arms reduction treaty with russia we don't have it with china do you think that's going to play or or in like you said making china the next target well i think so but i think actually it's reversed i think the arms reduction treaty was a result of the improvement in russian relations and i think that the reason for that is because u.s. is you know encircling china we're improving relations with india which we were a traditional foe during the cold war and we're strengthening the alliances in the east around china as well so i think you're seeing in and circumvent of china and u.s. russian relations the improvement of those are designed to you know complete the circle and i that's what i was going to ask about you know what's next in the circle what's the next step but i think you know what russian and u.s. relations will continue to improve in the be continued to cop cooperation will be still some differences course of. the countries still

well that's that's often the way these things go because let's be honest russia and china. are certainly against. the u.v.b. assisted toppling of dictatorial regimes for their own reasons. as as far as i'm concerned mr putin should be ashamed of himself for for calling the u.s. forces crusaders while they're over there helping the libyan rebels even at the same time a lot of people would say that he echoes the opinion of rose's pammy and the receipt he would be actually isn't reflecting the opinion of so many billions of people in the world i mean again you see the west make a determining political outcomes in other countries in this is the perception of here there's a there's a lot of people that applaud a very serious which is going to want to return to go right ahead syracuse but the general of the gentleman from syracuse presumes to know what the libyan rebels should be doing while the libyan rebels themselves are the ones that have asked for western assistance in. horace horace who are related by the real quick before we go to the great. at the point is you can only fi

security council and i think the reason that they were hesitant to begin with what we've heard russia china and other countries say is that they didn't want to take any means that would indicate military intervention in libya they want to take more of a diplomatic approach slower steps because in fact sports believe that any military intervention adding to the violence and conflict that's already ongoing in libya can exacerbate the problem of russian ambassador to the united nations vitale churkin didn't make some comments following this occurred a council vote let's take a listen to what he's up. in the desert in essence a whole range of questions raised by the russian federation and to the security council members. questions which were both concrete and legitimate questions regarding how the no fly zone would be enforced would need to be engagement would be limited to the use of force and visions were introduced into the text potentially. military intervention responsibility for the inevitable humanitarian consequences of the excessive use of outside force in libya fair and square on the

but but russia and china might well let's talk about doesn't mean you take a guy like improper certainly older than you and i he grew up in a generation you know a time when russia was a threat when he was conditioned to believe that you know this red scare this is a dangerous place it was a dangerous time do you think that this is just some mentality that's left over do you think he sort of speaks for a generation that is still alive and making important decisions i think so it's generational but i think also in the foreign policy community here in the united states those still some residue among even younger analysts on russia because of the cold war and to some extent china as well because of the history of the cold war you know that's forty some years of hostility and it takes a while to get rid of that and i think the obama administration is moving and it direction i think the intent of the obama administration with the arms control treaty and other improvements in u.s. russian relations i think is moving the policy but you still have people who talk this way and he does probably he

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as they may return of the priority will always be for russia china and india there are some and i now have i that we have heard that some leaders of western countries are trying to apologize to you know how true are those reports that. this is indeed so we are receiving in direct confirmation of that they say that they were wrong on beg for a pardon or another did not think it will all transpire like ours and they are proposing to forget about the sanctions on plans to introduce a no fly zone and will admit their mistakes they are really sending us such signals we found out we have. a goal thank you very much for this opportunity and for not asking questions and because it's a rare thing for a state leader do you think the west was preparing for days or as they call her and that always occur spontaneously well the west could not even determine its attitude to what was going on the map of the faith community i don't think it was planned i'm not a conspiracy fanatic i will happen the way i told you now they are admitted they were on begin to feel confused why it's because there's no inf

there were five abstentions, including russia and china. >> when it came, there was no opposition to e plan that britain, france, and 11 on had presented. sit -- significantly, both russia and china were among the five countries to abstain. afterwards, britain made clear why its government felt it had to act. >> the world should not stand by and accept the dump the hospitality against his own people. this resolution. tonight in the united nations security council is an expression of that resolve. it is a positive response to the call of the arab league last weekend for measures to protect and safeguard the civilian population of libya appeared close friends, too, will contribute a strong contingency for those enforcing the no-fly zone. its foreign minister told the security council that the world cannot let the events in libya continued unchecked. >> as i speak to you now, colonel khadafy's -- colonel gaddafi's troops continue. we cannot let these warmongers do this. we cannot abandon the civilian population. >> responding to the resolution, lydia's foreign minister said it threatened

prove a point to china russia and china who point to mass and i think what we're seeing here is an inside the beltway play with the pentagon saying hey we can do space same as you and that's what's going on it's washington i don't actually people. are getting worked up when they're in from china if they're threatening to build something similar is there any truth to that you know what we see what you experience china more than russia right now because you have a good cooperation with russia but china certainly will say this is our excuse we can be just like them and we want to be just like them and so yes this could take us down a path with a lot less transparency just one which trying to push the chinese to be transparent in this space program shows divisions between military and civilian and here we are saying it's ok for us to do what they're called black programs even if there's not a reason and again i say i think it's just proving a point that troubles me that they are proving this point so very quickly a few more of go let's go back to the space and tell us how this thing flies on

five members abstained -- russia, china, germany, brazil, india. the 10 votes was just one more than the nine needed for passage. and it did not include input from the 192-member united nations general assembly. but international support for the no-fly zone is now waning. the libyan government is alleging that coalition bombings have killed many civilians. doctors on the ground say over 100 civilians have died. military deaths not included. the 22-member arab league this week accused the u.s. and the coalition of ignoring the u.n. >> as far as we're concerned the arab league, we requested the security council to establish a no-fly zone in order to protect the civilians, in addition to safe areas for the civilians to sit in without attacks on them. >> brazil, russia, india and china, the bric nations, are all calling for an immediate cessation of the no-fly zone. u.s. defense secretary robert gates says it's gaddafi that is stained with civilian blood. >> it's perfectly evident that the vast majority if not nearly all civilian casualties have been i

transnet they want to take china's national petroleum corporation to court as they await forty million dollars they say the firm has failed to pay for genuine oil shipments and russia and china signed a contract in two thousand and nine providing rosner transnet with a twenty five billion dollar loan in exchange for a guarantee of shipments of oil through the pacific ocean pipeline that settles the chinese side as allegedly all in short of amounts to one hundred million dollars because of that russia's well pipeline monopoly transnet is now in debt to ross after all that it purchased a live at the china richards one for plants energy agency says it's unlikely this will get out of hand. it does seem strange that what should be a simple commercial arrangement should have this discrepancy over really quite big sums of money so this is a highly unusual but unusual pipeline it's an unusual project the role of trans if it comes in here is the pipeline company they don't own the oil at the start of the chain but they take delivery of it and push it all the way to the chinese border china seems to be lobbying and we're hearing the kind of not happy with the price the impli

passed that vote it was abstained by four or five key states brazil russia india and china were the states which abstained along with germany and germany and turkey are now extremely concerned two key allies of nato say they're extremely concerned by nato involvement they don't want to see that they want to see a cease fire immediately turkey does gloried. why france is involvement by nato member france is involvement in this bombing campaign be terribly another key ally in the region says the resolution it backed is not being carried out in the way that it's supported it's. very different ways of looking at this situation the world seems to be divided daniel has i remember any show of hands from here of citizens. yes just outside this building a war demonstration led by the community the very people who were all scheme for help for humanitarian aid to support the civilians that were being bombed by colonel gadhafi they are now come out very much they. will not they are extremely concerned that the opposite of what they have they wanted is happening they wanted the protection of civilians

protection of civilians or not for the killing of civilians but we also see in countries like russia china latin america demonstrations happening in those countries and people are against this operation you need to remember that was very important for european powers to get the backing of the arab world and the understanding now is that they're backing might only come from the united arab emirates qatar and possibly jordan and that if the backing comes it will be more in the sense of financial aid essentially these countries will be watching the ball rather than participating in military strikes and this does raise questions questions like why are they signing up questions like do they really support the libyan people or is this rather some kind of vendetta against gadhafi or is it even an attempt to get the united states third entrenched in this part of the world people here on the ground to run to the internet. community to get involved and i'm talking here specifically about the rebel groups the opposition leaders they would much rather have the third countries like china z. and egypt c

and other allies should carry >> some have said it is not clear they will get the backing from russia and china- seek a nato mandate for it? >> i don't think you and security council resolutions are required. it is clearç russia and china e likely to support such a measure, but previous cases where the u.s. work with nato allies or even several nato allies, uk, france, if they decide to do this it will be justified. çwe see a massive amount of humanitarian casualty's and civilian deaths increasing. it is incumbent upon the u.s. to act as quickly as possible. >> the american actor charlie sheen has been sacked from the hit tv show "two and a half men." çwarner brothers made the decision after careful consideration. this comes amid a frenzy of u.s. media reports on his controversial personal life. he recently criticized the show's producers. sheen was inevitable. >> judging by charlie sheen's behavior over the last few weeks appearing by american talk shows and the seemingly incoherent ramblings and criticizing me showsç manageme, in very outspoken terms. his language has been very colorful.

the protection of civilians and after the killing of civilians but we also see in countries like russia china latin america demonstrations happening in those countries with people against this operation you need to remember that it was very important for european powers to get the backing of the arab world the understanding now is that their backing might only come from the united arab emirates qatar and possibly jordan and that if their backing comes it will be more in the same financial aid people here on the ground who want to the international community to get involved and i'm talking to specifically about the rebel groups the opposition leaders they would much rather have preferred countries like egypt come into the fore and for this to have been almost like an arab revolution for democracy rather than the intervention of western powers there are very legitimate questions being asked why for example when it's all carried out of a boardman to over gaza in two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine why when was there not a no fly zone imposed by the international communities are thos

voted for it five members of skiing and there were zero no votes now it's important to note that russia china germany india were among the countries who were saying that they're not really happy with putting in place a no fly zone but they did that they were among the ones that ended up abstaining so what's the four bric countries brazil russia india china and germany but nonetheless nine votes were enough to pass this and this is what happens and what this resolution includes is not just a no fly zone but also like you said quote all necessary measures and we're hearing that this includes airstrikes on living tanks and the use of heavy artillery we've got a collaborative effort here as you just mentioned several countries approving this i'm wondering if you have any idea who will be acting first who will be getting in there and also the reaction on the ground in libya have you heard anything. well christine you know i have to say a lot of the details of these discussions of the security council have really been up in the air and since this resolution was literally passed moments ago we do no

a bit i thought iran or north korea were our mortal threats or how about even al-qaeda word russia and china come from. well i you know echoing what he said basically he's talking about capabilities and if you look at the sheer capabilities that russia presents or china presents you know the closest thing to the united states in terms of superpower military capabilities what's missing is the intent and it's really a kind of a cold war legacy argument to be making that you know we can't kind of trust russia on intent there or we have to focus on capabilities i don't think there's any tremendous interest out there that we share or that we conflict over that points to the path of direct state and state or if we could've made it all the way through the cold war without accomplishing something that disastrous i don't see much of an argument in the post-war era to consider him in the same light but this is this is kind of a larger adjustment that we're still having a hard time making and that is looking at the world differently than just our friends from the cold war and starting to realize that t

here in brussels because you had germany abstaining from the vote all the other countries india china russia staining from that u.n. vote which was for a no fly zone and now we're talking about going into held areas and only now is nato talking about putting humanitarian issues first which was the key a the whole operation for the world community will have turkey which is a very important ally within the european and nato community from getting increasingly concerned about what is happening in libya the threats of civilian casualties the bombings that are going on there and so we're really seeing here in increasing problems over the whole operation just outside this building there was an antiwar demonstrations yesterday the first signs of public rift within the european community were expecting them over this week today in in various parts of europe in london were expecting this week various antiwar demonstrations if this war there were. intervention public demonstrations. that would stop gadhafi bombing civilian casualties now that we see the reality of what is happening there there was tal

russia, china, brazil, india, and germany, and they still have doubt about what's going on. and you can expect to hear more about that, although we expect it to be a closed-door session. on thursday when the u.n. secretary-general will brief council members on what's been done so far to implement that resolution. but that will be a chance for all of these divisions that we're hearing, all the questions that are being asked about who will lead this operation, if not nato, then who. are civilians being killed? all the questions and reservations that countries have will be raised here behind closed doors on thursday. >> one of the other key questions that we've been hearing is regarding whether or not colonel gaddafi himself is a target, and a target that should be allowed under the mandate of the u.n. resolution. questions that need to be answered? >> the resolution itself doesn't say anything at all about regime change. it certainly doesn't authorize specifically action to remove colonel gaddafi. on the other hand, it's a very broad resolution. what it does do is authorize ac

tricky issue because the bric countries deducts or brick about some such stuff but brazil russia india and china the only scored in eight their faults in these major happenings that's exactly what happened this time look at the five abstentions two british countries brazil russia india and china plus germany germany they have thought east their misgivings about a military operation for more than a week now the same about brazil but there's another very very important thing so days ago or cut half a given interview to german t.v. by the way and he said explicitly that he was attacked by the west clear by any sort of coalition all the oil and gas contracts material deals will be nor employed except which are many because germany was not conceiver on all flights all and these contracts will pull to the russian indian and chinese companies so they're scared of course a connection and once again we go back to the time tested the lunchroom it's the oil stupid and once again it's very important. and you know again from khadafi saying not just our short term a lot of these things. but if any attack were

rachmaninoff russian conservatory stop list by two of the most illustrious persist of them here will russia china on track man of. the county teaches many of these commencement. to students of various levels and ages it also regularly holds concerts by prestigious musicians from across the globe. rockwell often service was founded in the lighting twenty's after a successful second season just rattle off itself as the first president and for decades this house has provided a cultural link between russia and europe it isn't so casing it's how it's highlighting it imposes this is the old this cultural organization which was created in one thousand nine hundred twenty five to twenty three by all the immigrants coming after the rouge and and as you know. no russian can live without. music or culture. and it was. the place which was going to. the government all russians in immigration. from the dozens of photographs of the use of various french and russian musicians you can see how important this building has been and continues to be thousands of performers. one final location chaos is painful side as

as you say no what are you going to do we have five permanent members usa united kingdom france russia china the other praising emerging countries who say we are to be on the same level india. germany japan brazil four countries have put together in order to ask for permanent seats africa is saying we are the continent who has the least to say and we want to be treated on equal basis we want to permanent seats and beetle and you have on a trail here. yet and if you go on that you will see that you have other countries who say no we do not want new permanence we propose so it's very difficult for the normand to enter into real negotiations what we have done up to now is that we have a facilitator and best of the plan in from afghanistan who has produced a third of a paper well all the different positions are assembled and where we can see today there is broad agreement on that this is the position of the member states but unfortunately they are not of the same the achievement of this session because they are working for eighteen years already and that the achievement of decision would be for

and they're doing so in iran right now, russia, china, south africa they get into it. argentina and brazil are thinking it over. >> well, probably that will happen. >> so it's not a solution for us to lease out to other countries. >> we would have control. >> you're arguing we don't want the world to have nuclear weapons therefore let's forget about the technology. >> no, but i think we should be arguing in international court not to go down this path. >> you've just written my essay that i couldn't in the there was about... and it's important to think about it systematically. you have to part of the technology used to produce fuel, then you have the reactor, then you have to part you might use to dispose of the fuel or to reprocess. the reactor has some proliferation danger but by far the least proliferation danger in the system. so the first focus and the focus consistent across the bush administration and the obama administration has been to try to prevent the spread of those two sensitive parts on either end while allowing or even encouraging the spread of actual r

only heard that now the winds are blowing from japan and this means that the mainland part of russia. china and the korean peninsula. in the near future in the nearest time should there be any. radiation into the atmosphere that's. how dangerous it is. in a new. normal. and you clear reactor is something described by many scientists as. an area the worst nightmare when the core of a nuclear reactor goes into an uncontrollable state. whether it's. failed experiments like it happened. five years ago nevertheless this is one. this causes a chain reaction and on many occasions. a powerful steam explosion exactly what happened. on. the air so you can imagine how powerful this explosion was made. a nuclear explosion. the nuclear plant in. it's really hard to judge. such circumstances because the situations where the. condition happened very seldom in human history but nevertheless. from the japanese government earlier that they've managed to control the situation at the lower the pressure at the reactor so. explosion at the fukushima plant because right now it seems unclear despite the striking r

perhaps they should look at steps going to beyond the north wise resolution while at the same time russia china and jury which is currently a temporary member of the u.n. security council and they are against this resolution while stand for the complete cease fire in the libya when it comes to russia previously it supported to be a set of u.n. sanctions against gaddafi which included travel and financial bans and also prohibited sales of forms to the regime just several days ago russia's president. announced that moment ago that he is persona non grata here in russia meaning he's not welcome here in the country really media also banned him from caney economic activities here in the country him and his family as well just previously at the meeting of the g. eight foreign ministers in paris russia's foreign minister silvio rough outlines that even though most arab states supported this idea of a no fly zone over libya the arab league has not needed a concrete detailed proposal and russia is still waiting for this proposal because it's not clear how this no fly zone will be implemented and if the

and i mean the list of enemies included russia china iran and venezuela walter isaacson the head of the agency which runs voice of america among other media outlets later backtracked on this statement isaacson's pitch for more funding seemed even more unconvincing considering his agency has a budget of seven hundred fifty million dollars and it's way more than the budget of r t iran's trust t.v. and venezuela's tell us your combined probably money alone can't provide global media clout walter isaacson's speech last year sent quite a hostile message to foreign media exposing shortcomings in the us mainstream but accurate clinton statement made it official the u.s. is fighting a global information war and it's also i'm going to check our reporting from washington are two. by the way you can have your say and all the stories we're covering and i mean here on the screen one of them to an article common share your view on the media war debate. the last leader of the soviet union mikhail gorbachev celebrated his eightieth birthday this week and then as a diehard advocate for peace his name ha

department we can't allow ourselves to be out communicated by our enemies the list of enemies include russia china iran and venezuela walter isaacson the head of the. american mungo the media outlets later backtracked on this statement isaacson speech for more funding seemed even more unconvincing considering his agency has a budget of seven hundred fifty million dollars and it's way more than the budget of r t iran's press t.v. and venezuela's tell us we're combining probably money alone can't close by global media clout walter isaacson's speech last year says quite a hostile message to foreign media exposing shortcomings in the us mainstream but secretary clinton's statement made it official the u.s. is fighting a global information war and exclusive i'm going to take our reporting from washington r.t. . and as a war of ideas heats up observers say it's washington's own fault for being on the losing end christopher chambers a professor of media studies at georgetown university says real news is on its way out in the us due to press and t.v. channel ownership by big corporations. the corporatizat

and german retail giant metro plans to open one hundred new super stores this year mainly in russia china and india as atrocious to satisfy consumer demands and those key emerging markets general director of natural caution kerry told business archie about the chains expansion plans the first half to turn ten was due quite difficult i think for the whole we do market we see two thousand and ten in the second half of the trim we just continue to second to the first half of the fall of the eleventh but i think you're quite confident about the future result produce here we have at this moment several plots under investigation we plan to open this number of stores that is more than last year last year was five but we try to do good more stores and accelerate our experts in a version. that wraps up the business goes in joining us and one last time for more business stories here on r.t. and get more from our website our team of com slash business. down field official ante up location. called touch from the i.q. sampson. video on demand keys my old comes an r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your.

and to me the list of enemies included russia china iran and venezuela walter isaacson the head of the agency which runs voice of america among other media outlets later backtracked on this statement isaacson's page for more funding seemed even more unconvincing considering his agency has a budget of seven hundred fifty million dollars and it's way more than the budget of r t iran's press t.v. and venezuela's tell us we're combining probably money alone can't provide global media clouds walter isaacson's speech last year since quite a hostile message to foreign media exposing shortcomings in the us mainstream but secretary clinton statement made it will push all the us is fighting a global information war and its goes unpunished our reporting from washington r.t. . christopher chambers professor of media studies at georgetown university says u.s. news outlets are losing audience because they're putting profit first. basically you have news and entertainment in the united states that has merged and is serving basically and one of maybe three or four giant corporations and all they can o