right here in things for much of you for bringing us the latest on the russian chinese relations there in light of the chinese leaders a visit here to moscow. now the fate of libya's leader and a political way out of the civil war will be at stake during talks in truth with as russia's and we will meet colonel gadhafi loyalists gallops visit to try and broker a cease fire comes as the latest nato airstrikes target an area close to cut off his compound are. reports. the visit to tripoli is part of russia's peace mediator a mission in the protracted libyan conflict moscow has been insisting all the time but a nonviolent negotiation is the only way out of the crisis russia has repeatedly criticized nato for starting a military operation here and has never supported a u.n. security council resolution which authorized intervention russian special presidential envoy mikhail margelov was sent here to try to get everybody around the table that's actually very hard to achieve the rubble supported by nature allies wants to force gadhafi out while the colonel himself says that he will fight to th

eastern border well let's get now the latest on this from joins us live good morning caterina so russian chinese relations seem strong enough but where is there room for improvement. leaders a very bright morning here in moscow that maybe it was. all discussions between russian officials are feeling that positive effects that day of course the relations russia and china various at the board but even so both sides still say there is a lot of room for improvement there is more. from the bilateral lesion of course not all but natural but in various aspects of the site there are areas. that both sides the story of the. day where the leader oh it is in moscow. sorry for it technical problems problems there we'll try to reconnect with who will update us on what's happening and will join her later in the program in the meantime we'll turn to other stories and the fate of libya's leader and a political way out of the civil war will be at stake during talks in tripoli later russia's presidential envoy is on his way to leaving capital where he will meet colonel gadhafi loyalists or galv hopes to broker a

let's right now to get back to cause i mean as our who will bring us the latest on the russian chinese relations and view of the chinese leader a visiting moscow country let's pick up from where we left off before we were cut off we know that the two leaders who jintao and president medvedev are meeting hot on the heels of a summit of central asian states and where the question of libya and syria was raised so is there an understanding on this issue. there most certainly is i mean almost. i have to apologize one more time we have some difficulties there with the signal but we're will be bringing you more on the story later in the program so stay with us for that in the meantime let's continue with the other stories that we're following for you fear this morning on our t.v. so still ahead this hour a question of justice as alleged russian dan rather a victim of poor faces a new round in your score battle with the legality of the whole case i was schooled in. and find out how nationality is cast aside by explorers surviving in the freezing waters of the world's oldest continent. then you

yes energy analyst julian the there given his take on the strengthening russian chinese guys. the u.s. president is under fire for congress so the military campaign in libya which is continuing this by not having approval lawmakers bomber has rejected accusations that the war is being broken arguing that america is playing a supporting role through data which makes it legal i think kerry has more. u.s. lawmakers are saying that president obama has to either stop waging war in libya or ask for congressional approval the lawmakers claim that the military action will violate the nine hundred seventy three powers resolution if it does not and by friday and they mean this friday ninety days after the intervention began under the u.s. constitution to wage a long term war the president needs to get authorization from congress analysts say the obama administration will certainly find a way to get around the requirement by referring to his right as commander in chief as well as certain legal speed you know to this day the administration has refused to say when it comes to their actions

some more on russia and china to join in the studio by sort of i like oh if i chairman of the russian chinese center of trade and economic cooperation i thank you very much for coming on the program today so the countries are certainly appear to have an understanding of the economy and foreign policy but is everything is smooth as it seems could there be any shop corners to be looking out for i think you can only call the relationship. it's now . we turn over between two countries there's seventy billion us dollars but it's. for example we can compare we turn over. europe course and germany japan. neighbors should have. this turnover bigger boys i mean it's very interesting as you say i mean two of the biggest bolstering economies here. trade deals and i got status absolutely right and most important is that the structure of these turnover we can see. the the export of russian expertise mostly materials. and import. just. simple things but it would i'm sorry to interrupt it would be fair to say the russia is is one of if not the richest country in the world when it comes to natural resources

to speak to the guests agreement between the russian chinese perhaps the most importantly does look to see who do you think. we've heard from gas from said that the deal of course like you said will not be signed at this forum but they're very confident that it will be signed by the end of the year and he mentioned that this is of course a difficult contract it's going to bring vast amounts of gas to china whose needs are very are enormous the world's largest needs really for power as it rapidly develops and russia basically is the only country that can guarantee stability when it comes to that so the head of gazprom very confident that it will go through but mentioning that that very last step they've done so much work together over the years to plan with the very last part of sealing the deal is always difficult but both sides confident like i said that that will happen. and in terms of the economy really when you look at russia and china they're quite unprecedented in the sense that other countries in europe in the united states are struggling with cutbacks with budgets trying to ge

the supply of energy will remain the very center of russian chinese relations that was the message from president dmitry medvedev of the talks with china's hu jintao and the countries hope to hammer out the ghastly goes with billions of dollars to st petersburg for the city's international economic forum. following the three day business brainstorming event. the economic forum is in full swing here in st petersburg top business executives global innovators and world leaders all gathered together to debate moves forward economically and environmentally on various levels it's considered that this year the big players are hot sauce and china because the euro and dollar are struggling to survive yearly these two countries are not only developing separately but dynamically in their bilateral cooperation in fact it's come out statements from both sides recently that china and russia can say that they've not only overcome the consequences of the economic crisis of two thousand and eight but they have beaten the record levels pre-crisis levels and that can allow them to set ambitious tasks to f

the supply of energy will remain that the very center of russian chinese relations was central to me to madrid after talks with china's hu jintao in moscow to leaders have now moved to st petersburg for the city's international forum. and he said no way is calling the three reasons brainstorming events and joins us now and the president did of his opening the forum in just a few minutes time now there are many issues to discuss well to be the priority. of this of course is a venue that world leaders and business executives and n.g.o.s can get together and really discuss the issues i have to say just from what i've seen so far it's really done in a very informal manner so they really get to talk and it's very open and and transparent . really hundreds of people can watch these discussions openly this year it's expected that russia and china are going to be the big players like you said president medvedev expected very shortly to begin the opening speech and following him will be his chinese counterpart hu jintao we'll be bringing you that live of course here in archie are expected to

distance accepting pakistan at this summit that ended yesterday as a fluke member of yes dear russian chinese still have to discuss how we are going to accept pakistan you still accept to stand and then get together which would be an excellent counterbalance. except egypt pakistan and it's going to stand together so did the u.s. you'll be represented of all the major powers in central asia in the region so it's . insane yes you're. absolutely mess. of course some people are quick to link being perhaps not a rival but maybe. an opposite to nato in terms of a military alliance but it isn't interesting enough talking about the military aspect china has been beefing up its military in recent years the defense budget rising every year why is it doing i mean what's it preparing for. no good so there's a military strategy as well and it's not only related to central asia it's really to do dogs the chinese need you once you have a very strong presents in the media notion and perhaps india really see each speak get chinese vessels to station at the weather what's your arabian sea pakistan pakistan abo

on russia and china ties i'm joined in the studio by sort of yes and i qualify chairman of the russian chinese center of trade and economic cooperation and i thank you very much for coming on the program today so the countries are certainly appear to have an understanding of the economy and foreign policy but interpreting is as it seems could there be any sharp corners to be looking out for i think can we call a relationship should be more than it's no. we go for the turnover between two countries proximately seventy billion us dollars but it's. for example we can compare we have the turnover chain and yes europe of course and training. and. countries in a group. of this turnover bigger boys i mean it's very interesting as you say i mean two of the biggest bolstering economies here lots of lots of trade deals and i'll state it so it's a little wrecked and most important is that the structure of these turnover we can see the. russian expertise mostly materials and there you will in guess. is just. a simple fix it is what i'm sort in trouble would be fair to say that russia is is one of if not t

we're seeing a very friendly meeting between the chinese leader who didn't tell his russian counterparts the chinese leader he met russia's president this afternoon they had a lot of talks behind closed doors i want details you know. well they signed some major trade agreements earlier on. today they currently trade between russia and china and it all time high you know it seems like it's only going to get larger they signed an agreement that by twenty fifteen trade between the two nations will be worth one hundred billion dollars and by twenty twenty less than ten years away it will be worth two hundred billion dollars so good news for people wanting to export import between those two nations there's going to be a huge increase in in commerce between russia and china now it wasn't just business that was on the table the wider world was also being discussed in both leaders both presidents said. they expressed again their opinions on the situation in libya reiterating the call all military action taken against colonel gadhafi must remain within the parameters of the u.n. resolutions that.

people basically they all comparable operate very closely you can very well treated the russians the giants and the chinese fantastic facilities the treaty i think is one of the unique treaties in the world history in terms of that kind of corporation and it is this special bond of working together in such an extreme environment that creates such a lasting friendships that thirty years ago when i came to the station for the first time one chilean put it very well leave the conference of politicians we the polar explorers have to live in peace because if we can't remind ourselves who else can we rely on for help in antarctica sean john is. reporting from the world's coal this continent you can read more about his adventures in antarctica and his blog dot com. more than a month. in one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is antarctica

there was that information take it from those pages that was trucked odd bringing in the russians and the chinese into the discussion revolving around first of all nobody's found a correlation between the hacker groups in those countries and as his guest later points out to him one of the best tricks out there for hackers is make it seem like it came from one place when it really came from another so maybe we should just slow down for one second before we start labeling people terrorists now as of this n.s.a. pilot program i easily argue that this is definitely not the first time the government scanned your e-mails hello there the government and there have been several reports in the past where the government considered keeping tabs on what you do on the worldwide web now frankly i had that money that that's already happened so could this pilot program announcement just be a p.r. move to make it pretend lie. they have already invaded your privacy i'm just predicting that right now the d.o.d. is going to create a cyber terrorism watch list just like they do for the no fly list and the like it's on

from china and russia and to protect our most vital yeah it's my understanding that the russians and the chinese and whether it's efficiently sanctioned by the government or not that's an open question but they are the most active internationally trying to various things in u.s. government systems at what point do we call this what it is which is a former church. well a form of terrorism but let's make a few points crystal clear here when it comes to law security yes they're considered hackers but they've successfully interfered with government sites like senate talk of the cia doc up there was that information take it from those pages that was trucked are bringing in the russians and the chinese into the rip discussion revolving around first of all nobody found a correlation between the hacker groups in those countries and as his guest later points out to him one of the best tricks out there for hackers is make it seem like it came from one place when it really came from another so maybe we should just slow down for one second before we start labeling people terrorists and this n.s.a. pilot pro

but i don't think the russians or the chinese anticipated that every week we would have a video coming out, a horrific video of a child being tortured. and i think really only russian or chinese blocking of these kind of measures can only stand up for so long until they themselves have to look at the situation and see that not only is this -- are these horrific violations of human rights but that it's just incensing syrians and bringing them out into the streets like never before. so of course those powers are watching the situation inside of the country. they have their own interests. we'll see what happens in the united nations this coming week. there will be a big push by the uk, france, and the united states. >> what can the uk, france, and the united states do as a more limited coalition? obviously a coalition among the most powerful nations in the world, even excluding china and russia. what could we do? would trade sanctions be meaningful? would there be any economic pressures brought to bear that aren't already brought to bear? >> the primary instruments thus far invoked by the

but i don't think the russians or the chinese anticipated that every week we would have a video coming out, a horrific video of a child being tortured. and i think really only russian or chinese blocking of these kind of measures can only stand up for so long until they themselves have to look at the situation and see that not only is this -- are these horrific violations of human rights but that it's just incensing syrians and bringing them out into the streets like never before. so of course those powers are watching the situation inside of the country. they have their own interests. we'll see what happens in the united nations this coming week. there will be a big push by the uk, france, and the united states. >> what can the uk, france, and the united states do as a more limited coalition? obviously a coalition among the most powerful nations in the world, even excluding china and russia. what could we do? would trade sanctions be meaningful? would there be any economic pressures brought to bear that aren't already brought to bear? >> the primary instruments thus far invoked by the

yemen i'm talking about solid young men who are opposed to yemen and internationally with the russians the chinese the europeans and more broadly this is our basis. if i could stay with you mr ambassador let's let's say the assumption is that the the u.s. and its western allies would he would support any leader in yemen who would take on al qaeda in a serious way do you think that's a good idea would that back fire on the united states and the west go ahead. i don't think that's true i don't think it's anyone gets our support i think we can be more demanding that listen the yemeni is going against al qaeda is not a favor to us al-qaeda is threatening yemen. it is a shared interest that we have so it's not a something that they can use the blackmail us but our interest in yemen should be much broader than just al-qaeda it should be yemen's development it should be political political stability there if we have a narrow approach i think we're doomed to failure and i think you can go back historically and that's what i do in my book and show from all one two or four when we had a broad sustained appr

very closely you can very well treated both the russians the giants and the chinese. think it's one of the unique treaties in world history in terms of that kind of cooperation and it is this special bond of working together in such an extreme environment that creates such lasting friendships that the years ago when i came to the station for the first time one chilean put it very well leave the conflict the politicians we the polar explorers have to live in peace because if we can't. who else can we rely on for help in antarctica sean thomas r.t. . a series of stories discovering more about life and work and you can follow his blog on videos dot com. more than a month. in one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is antarctica and people have to be aware that they're far away from civilization. so special and attractive for many wildlife. and. expedition to the bottom of the earth. we return to our live coverage of the annual economic forum to stay with us. i match reza live in st petersburg at the st petersburg international economic forum the sun is go

in yemen so you know the political component here is the first of all the soviets and the chinese or the russians sorry on the chinese abstained in the security council the arab league actively called for if there is support from other african countries that this these are case by case judgments in the security council they don't establish precedence and the one key point here was that he was profoundly unpopular with all of his neighbors in a way that the king of bahrain is nuts and bashir al assad isn't quite you could look at salah as well i mean in the end these are some of the there already sanctions in some of these cases so he had what should be done rather what should be done now in bahrain so in what should be done now in libya libyan authorities have accused the coalition of killing over seven hundred people so far as a result of these air raids is the killing of even more people justified for the sake of removing things you think. well i think the credibility of gadhafi and his regime is very very low it's possible that some people have been killed certainly not on that scale it's noti

there are going to be more business deals on the agenda which in power chinese leader will be traveling to st petersburg with his russian counterpart where they will participate in the st petersburg economic forum where most people expect more business deals to reach the table of the chinese delegation of course many more interesting aspects of this relationship to be seen in the next few days the two leaders met just a few days ago in us then during a summit of the a c. old states and of their of the two leaders once again repeated the reiterated the position that violence will only lead to violence said that the military intervention that is currently ongoing in libya led by its nato polish and forces will only bring more violence to the already volatile region on the diplomatic solution is the only possible way to resolve the ongoing conflict in libya of course and we know that that position was reiterated once again here in moscow both sides saying that diplomacy and negotiations are the only possible and acceptable way forward both sides saying that the nato coalition forces are basically doing more harm. but there

general than the us and russian or chinese elite these are the worst of the worst run by a bunch of hedge fund bankers trying to play the part of imperial world government gods so i say down with their i.c.c. this would be and having them go out for gadhafi for war crimes is like hitler sitting in at the nuremberg trials to go after nazis it's a sick joke i want to ask you about a different story that you've been covering and that is something that we covered a year ago and that was the g twenty and the protests and the immense security one billion dollars spent on security and at that time there were reports that it was possible that may be cause for you think agent provocateur or is in some of these protests activities how your website is reporting that documents reveal that canadian cops used agent provocateurs to disrupt the two thousand and ten g. twenty i'm curious what evidence you have that the state may have a ranged some of that property destruction we saw with the black bloc protesters and order to offer a rationalization for that nearly one billion dollars that they spent on s

european union court system is run by a bunch of people even more digenova than the us and russian or chinese elite these are the worst of the worst run by a bunch of hedge fund bankers trying to play the part of imperial world government gods so i sit down with their eyes to see this again having them go up because the be for war crimes is like hitler sitting in the nuremberg trials to go after nazis it's a sick joke and there's no room for the new world order or world government so no it's up to americans and other people around the world to deal with their governments and to take their governments back and then to prosecute criminals it is not the place of each you course and globalist courts that have proven there can group maybe if they were legitimate and i read how like alex i'm getting here but i just i do want to we heard a lot of your opinion on that and i do want to switch gears really briefly goddess and report ok we argue i think everywhere is a kangaroo court on that we've got it we've got your take on i want to ask you about a different story that you've been covering and that

seem to believe there is room for improvement that is exactly what the talks between chinese leader whose intel his russian counterpart made with visit are of focusing on today and of course of the two sides are each other's biggest neighbors so there is a lot of room for improvement a lot of with ten shelves russia's of course one of the world's biggest sources for natural resources and china is very interested in obtaining more of those resources that is why the chinese leader will be meeting with representatives of russian state over the oil and gas giant gazprom we know that according to its c.e.o. alexei miller talks all were under way to have russia supplying natural gas to china and they remained for that contract was supposed to be signed at some point throughout this year about twenty eleven so we know that talks about that particular contract are definitely going to be on the agenda throughout the j we also know that there is a gas pipeline also in the works so it would it's supposed to originate in western siberia to go all the way across to china delivering more gas supplies to that country so

saying all around the world now i think it'll be interesting to see the sign a russian summit over june fifteenth when chinese and russian leaders get together and see whether they can do anything because at the moment what we have is three quarters of a billion dollars spent by u.s. taxpayers one point seven billion of british taxpayer money voted for by the people behind me there and what have we got a refugee crisis hundred thousand estimated to be made refugees britain and france saying they're not going to give them any help and resettlement ten thousand people dead to put them to perspective in a country of six million that is like killing half a million people in the united states based on the war so far well peaceful initiatives have been expressed of course by both russia and the african union why doesn't there for nato listen to this and relax its military operation and allow some sort of mediation to take place at least to create some cease fire it's been a deliberate. seem so deliberate the attempt at stopping any type of seized peace process whether it be from the venezuelan leader hugo chavez or

russian state owned oil and gas giants is considering building a pipeline gas pipeline that will run from western siberia to china and that pipeline will be constructed exclusively to cater to the growing chinese energy needs of course another agreement is to be signed. at some point throughout this year twenty eleven and that agreement will. give us the delivery of russian gas to china once again a very large financially beneficial contract for russia of course energetically beneficial for china so the energy resources that you seem to be taking up most of the. kenda for the meeting of course fueling the relationship between moscow and beijing but as you say it's by far not the only. point of interest for the two sides the two countries are each other's biggest neighbors and both leaders frequently stress that there is so much more room for improvement so much more potential within their relationship and that is of course what is also being discussed as hu jintao is that in russia we know that the two sides have agreed to increase their bilateral trade turnover which is at the moment already at an all time high but the two sides have agreed to increase it to one hundred billion u.s. dollars b

a trio of space adventures are on their way to the international space station the russian american and chinese crewmembers blasted off early on wednesday and will spend five months in orbit but carrying out dozens of scientific experiments and even tried to grow vegetables and zero gravity environment barges lindsay france watch the last at the cousin's row in kazakhstan. the three men have been together for nearly two years preparing for this trip and they've traveled all over the world preparing in different models of soyuz and getting ready for what is really this this final push into space in what they say feels almost a little bit like home as cramped is it may be the soil u.s. is is something they've practiced in for so long now that it feels a little bit like home the three men say they will be taking very special i don't see into space with them albeit very few items pictures of loved ones and so on to also be able to talk with their families every day we've talked to the back up team they're very excited to watch this they say that it's something it's in an amazing emotional thing to

their way to the international space station after blasting off early on wednesday the russian american and chinese crewmembers five months in orbit with plenty of work planned to keep busy while and space are going to france watch the final countdown out because of a drone in kazakhstan. the three men have been together for nearly two years prep or preparing for this trip they have traveled all over the world preparing in different models of soyuz and getting ready for what is really this this final push into space in what they say feels almost a little bit like home as cramp as it may be the soil u.s. is is something they've practiced in for so long now that it feels a little bit like home as they told us just the other day let's listen first of this when you sit in the spaceship you understand that it is yours it was made for you it should bring you to your beautiful and hopefully bring you from and you love this spaceship i'm going stars working you can hear how if the thing is working and running it's his life for you to be honest i have more anxiety standing here in front of a news camera tha

visiting these people they all operate very closely you can very well treated by through russians the giants and the chinese fantastic facilities the antarctic treaty i think it's one of the unique treaties in world history in terms of that kind of cooperation and it is this special bond of working together in such an extreme environment that creates such a lasting friendships that thirty years ago when i came to the station for the first time one chilean put it very well leave the conflict to politicians we the polar explorers have to live in peace because if we can remind ourselves who else can we rely on for help in antarctica sean thomas r.t. . reporting from the world's coldest continent there and you can read more about his adventurous antarctica and his blog at r.t. dot com. more than a month. one of the most extreme environments on the planet. and people have to be aware that they are far away from civilization. so special and attractive for many the wildlife in antarctica is. the frontal. expedition to the bottom of the earth. rushes drumming up business as movers and shakers of the financial world

electricity sector into raw was higher on reports about the company's possible cooperation with chinese. russian financial corp f.k. sistema has boosted its their profit by thirty percent to one hundred two million dollars in the first quarter of two thousand and eleven the company says the results reflected stronger income growth from its core assets and all operations sistema owns a wide range of companies including controlling stakes in russia and top model operator and company passionate. and so we thought that's all the time we have here in business hockey but on back with more in less than one hour so trying to.

that this could push the russians and possibly the chinese to try and restore some kind of balance by arming themselves more of these things that those arguments can be could be discarded by decision makers in washington well apparently they have already. it's sort of a puzzle because the system itself has never actually been tested under realistic conditions so it's never actually been you know for instance a salvo of missiles that incorporate countermeasures and decoys it's never really been tested against that the timing of the tests has always been known to the intercepting so the intercept team knows exactly the trajectory that the. that the missile is incoming on and they know the exact timing so of course in the case of north korea or iran that will not be the case furthermore most seriously perhaps the most of the system is based on ships now these ships have never been tested in rough weather in fact when. the u.s. a one ninety three satellite was being intercepted a few years back it was called off for a couple of days because the weather was too rough for the for the cruise

greater interest and asian affairs and the chinese of course there are russian and georgian. well and gas there's also nuclear energy cooperation a lot of shared security interests so it's expected and the two leaders have this phrase which which i tend to think is an apt description of the relation of these think of the best ever between moscow and eight hundred various governments that's probably true now admittedly that's not necessary very high in metric because of the long history of tension between the two but it's i think really they have made a lot of progress in overcoming some of their differences in recent years you all their emotion is washington the little uneasy about this developing relationship. no there was a time after the cold war when people were watching the expectation that you would see china and russia balance the united states. because of the superpower germany issue and various others what we've seen is losing some cooperation but for the most part the two countries tend pursue hello policies and with with very minimal coordination between them so fo