[applause] thank you very much for being with us here tonight, bianca. [applause] thank you, carlos. our next presenter, it's quite a treat for me to be able to invite him up to the stage. i've been embarrassed quite often in crowds when he's called me out, but our next category is health and medicine. and as vice chairman of the citizens oversight committee for the california institute for regenerative medicine, my father, senator art torrez, now retired, is a great person to hand off these awards to our two very accomplished honorees. [applause] >> thank you. [applause] >> senator, would you like to say a few words? >> my son said i wasn't allowed to speak. so the program must go on. >> i have the honor of welcoming our new director of public health in san francisco. [applause] as of the last 20 minutes, this is all past tense, barbara garcia has been the deputy director of health for the city and county of san francisco since 1999. while in this position, she has implemented innovative programs, including a medically supervised sobering center and int

what i do stay with us here on our team next hour of march madness walks us through the moscow streets that are steeped in history i continue to draw crowds today. well i welcome all the fish i will get for your latest story a lost its best diet a good way also straight up the washing of the originally away out of the many people think it's a bell not good also today in the sense of the city's night life and fame and i will again this is probably starting a little i was afraid to at play musical a historic rest of the house historical landmark in itself within easy walking distance of most of most was making downtown the marks and attractions such as the crime in the bolshoi theatre to name a few this hotel easily has were the best locations in russia situated at the very bottom of the messiah it's a perfect starting point for today's program when it's my road was extended to st petersburg in seven hundred thirty to sky became unquestionably the city's most important terrorist attack. as the city expanded beyond the kremlin first sky became a residential area populated by wealthy much

here with us here on our teens as our next business. hello and welcome to business this hour here on our north stream has finished laying the world's longest subsidy pipeline across the baltic and is to start pumping gas from russia to germany in the autumn by the head of north stream passes far nick says the eleven billion dollar project will not be able to meet the overall european command. studies from different institutions for i was showing. them supply and consumption and your ruby in the next two years and. not so you can cover fifty five. so this was a quarter before they got. to be no supply of. good news. let's take a look at a snapshot of the market's performance this hour oil prices continue their fall after seeing around state percent overnight losses the drop followed a weak u.s. jobs report and the sell off in other commodities the light sweet is currently trading just below one hundred dollars per barrel mark while brant is bumping around one hundred ten dollars per hour her brother and in asia japanese stocks are trading

i want to thank them for hosting us here tonight. i want to introduce the emcees for tonight. we have the united players. and we have anaconda, and at the camp here in our district. i turn it over to you. >> thank you for being here tonight. this is the first step in the budget process. we are beginning early. we are being engaged. there will be a short time for public comment. it will be a short time. if you are not able to speak or bring your issues to the table, there will be more of these town halls. there will be the budget process. the more we are involved, the more we can work with the mayor and the supervisors to make sure that the budget reflects the priority of said francisco. one correction is that the translation today was provided by the office for immigrant affairs. [applause] >> how are you? thanks for coming out tonight. we want to thank greg wider. i did not read that correctly. the budget director. i could not read my own handwriting. chief good when from the police department, please be respectful. these people have given their time to come and be part of the

americans up next but the business news stay with us here on r.t. . our welcome to business. top story he shares are down in london i met expectations of not meet the deadline for. midnight on monday the two companies reportedly made a new offer to buy b.p.'s russian part. as agencies close to sources close to the talks say they are has. well there's no information available right now from the parties involved but in a fax news agency it's going to go source close to the negotiations as saying that b.p. and rostam all food supply out the russian partners into you and katie that's how bad has been over a group they all but cash and she has and b.p. has a premium to the market price but according to the source they all refused this all but and in turn suggested imposing certain conditions which would quote be impossible for b.p. enrolls you have to accept so it seems right now because stations are still they have been sold for quite a while this deal was signed way back in january that it was blocked in march through an injunction would be still called albatross in court as it

and of course, what brings us here, 116 souls so far lost in this tornado. that's the death toll so far. again, all the numbers here locally will likely change. untold number of injured, and they're hoping for actual rescues. it makes this the single sna t the united states. we're talking about a storm which at its base was give or take about three quarters a mile across. reports of multiple funnels coming off the one anvil-shaped storm. it was on the ground, it looks like, for about a six-mile path while it was here, right through joplin, missouri. winds at the core, at their in height, estimated between 190 miles per hour and 198 miles per hour. in lay terms, about as much energy as mother nature can focus on any one spot at any one time. and it happened in this community, joplin, missouri. behind us, st. john's hospital, the regional medical center here. you may have already heard x-rays and paperwork from this hospital was found upwards of 60 miles from here. that's because the debris cloud went up in the air 18,000 feet. the altitude where some commercia

and reformers up next with the support stay with us here on r.t. . hello there thanks for joining me in the headlines. manage your list anonymous sheets at the russian premier league but if. you coach could take we. look to overturn a two goal deficit here is fierce rivals barcelona in the champions league semifinal . must win game russia at a place slovakia in the crucial contest beyond hockey world championship. but first in our moscow is white for a new manager could take another month the club have shortlisted half a dozen names to replace me that i was a bitch he was sacked weeks ago but interim coach sergei silken says they will not wait until the end of the european season before sharing them well last night still think of his first win since his temporary appointment at free to victory spot that now take alexander sabet to giving an arm or a great start with an early goal then they got two more after the break the door small of finding the bottom corner for number two before alexander scimitar of gave him three no only with around twenty minu

stay with us. here on our team more coming your way including this a night to remember moscow vice opt for a cultural outing as the capital's many museums and galleries open their doors to all are in free entry and a variety of special exhibits. are turning first to some other stories making headlines across the globe new violence has flared in syria with three people reported killed near the city of homs this comes a day after authorities said they're ready for dialogue with the opposition to international pressure mounting on syria over brutal crackdowns on protests with some eight hundred killed more than a thousand arrested in two months you and us have imposed sanctions on a country washington is said to be considering declaring president assad a revenue rule illegitimate. egypt's former first lady said to be recovering after treatment for chest pains suzanne mubarak became ill after authorities ordered her detention for fifteen days on charges of illegal acquisition of well former president himsel

told us here at r t the people will continue to protest even if the government uses force. we have like. everything angel i can include being silly just peace loving god i mean we don't want to leave the country i know the companies use any kind of like that if they will be fair if you believe what you believe it was them to sit like. it is a china if you like. seriously spike up you can't which is coming from the government giving every media that they are receiving and i made. a documentary. nevertheless give me a list tell our people and i'm sure. if you give a shit if. i did a nation really. i think elections into it i mean time according to political experts if you. produce policies are not popular in georgia he's already losing support among his allies. this the words of saakashvili has diminished drastically for several reasons well its economic situation in the country is not good because in the beginning of his presidency the support of the west of the european union and the united states was rather big now it has diminished for several reasons again well there was

a real life spy saga last summer and case up next with sports stay with us here on our quiz. hello welcome to the sports news on this crunch day in ice hockey and european football here are the headlines must win game russia prepared to play slovakia in a crucial point test at the ice hockey world championships. while ultimates el classico rail madrid looked to overturn a two goal deficit against fierce rivals boss alone in the champions league semifinal. and the return of the legend maradona follows a host of other world cup stars and get set to play a football game in chechnya and he's not the only one. first to i saw he and russia are preparing to take on the back here at the ice hockey world championships this tuesday evening knowing they have to win and sure of reaching the qualification round russia bounced back from their opening defeat to germany with a six four when i was living here or go forward alexei for the shank i picked up an injury and won't be fit to play against the slovaks it's going russia court really afford to lose if they do and slovenia beat group avi

here in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story the u.s. is threatening to take new steps against the syrian government in response to the latest bloody crackdown by security forces here many rights groups say at least thirty people were killed in the violence during few jabs high government demonstrations across the country officials blame on terrorist groups for the unrest while protesters say they want an end to decades of oppression and corruption it's now thought more than five hundred eighty people were killed since the uprising started seven weeks ago following on from u.s. sanctions and the threat of more to come the e.u. agreed to freeze assets and impose a travel ban on top syrian officials but work correspondent eric margolis says western countries may have ulterior motives behind their stance on syria. there's great excitement in washington the prospect of overthrowing the syrian government that's been on the front burner washington ever since the bush administration. is that would deliver a massive blow to iran since us if. syri

six thirty pm in moscow good to have you with us here on our t.v. easier headlines was the milestone in the war on terror also a korea election stuff critics doubt all title will crumble after the death of bin ladin but believe the timing was right to strengthen the u.s. president's political games. or maybe it becomes the latest link in america's anti-missile chain agreeing to host part of a u.s. defense system planned across europe. the man who blew and chapman's cover charge investigators concluded their work over the disclosure of eleven russian agents in the u.s. and made for a dramatic real life spy saga last summer. next we assess hopes for a lasting peace between israel and the palestinians the interview coming up. what happens to be aired on maliki the palestinian foreign affairs minister so thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. in the palestinian unilateral declaration of statehood that's scheduled for september at the united nations is it still on track because there has been recent noises that if negotiations between israelis a

concert with the team so he's still anxious about competing in the upcoming serious you could do for us here is. an interesting car because it's brand new and nothing the same phil. thing is here now but there are a new design. and it's quite a bit faster than it was before i love the track and the opening one printer working on the six. thirty three formal one drivers have come through the g.p. to see reason the past four years and i love him issue to make the most of his chance and prove he's more heat of an f one driver as a bat out of our jeep. and as for the sour going to shaun is the weather than the main use and i thought all the our stimulus. a cluster munitions. and inside the container you have a small bomb and you can have anywhere from dozens up to hundreds of them there's a huge market right now for battle area clearance because there are a lot of countries in the world that are contaminated by unexploded ordinance. and so you've got these companies and n.g.o.s that have basically shrunk that have an expertise to get rid of these weapons what they do is they go to these places t

we're glad you're all able to be here with us. we're also joined by leslie rogers, regional administrator of the federal transit administration. we also have jose luis moss covitts of the transportation authority, jim lazarus of our san francisco chamber of commerce is here, along with red rifkin of the san francisco city of public works and melanie from the department of environment. we had a strong partnership. there was no way we could do this work without a strong partnership here within the city planning and the port of san francisco that had a strong partnership with us at s.f. park and agreed to participate in the pilot program. we have a great team of individuals at the m.t.a. who worked on this project for the past couple of years and i need to make sure we especially thank them and jape primus and steve lee. -- jay primus and steve lee. [applause] and i think you saw earlier on we had some of our team that works out in the field, our parking meter shops, those individuals also deserve recognition. they've done a great job

our white house correspondent savannah guthrie is with us here in new york tonight. she has exclusive details, really behind the scenes as to what was unfolding that we couldn't see. >> we have learned actually that this special ops team actually practiced this raid in early april twice as a mock compound here on u.s. soil. they were prepared to take bin laden alive, but expected him to fight and die. he was shot twice in the left eye by a commando who encountered him on the third floor of the compound and instantly recognized him as osama bin laden. >> i think we can all agree, this is a good day for america. >> reporter: the president at a medal of honor ceremony today, one day after ordering u.s. forces to take out america's most wanted terrorist. >> the world is safer, it's a better place because of the death of osama bin laden. >> reporter: today, aides are describing the incredibly tense moments inside the situation room as nbc first reported, the president was able to monitor the 40-minute operation as it unfolded. getting what a top u.s. official described as

back with a recap of our top stories in a few minutes stay with us here on r.t. . to live not only next to the border but come up and egypt but also on the border of peace and war. they're responsible not only for themselves. but also for their loved ones. they are ready to take any risk. coming to. the bottom. of the streets on our deep. down she officially on t f a k should join the phone the i pod touch from the i choose ups too. much all sheesh life on the go. video on demand on cheese minefield comes an r.s.s. feed stock now in the palm of your. questions on the call she told com. c c c c. mum. the big one.

for an answer i used to be here you know measure for say stop was all good if company so as soon as they assigned frenchman two hundred company that is the answer he was expected to be able to run and keep pushing for months so you had to take a guy who spoke with a german and english and from once he was enough to discuss the scout who speak loudly in english not in his announcement in a country that old so that's true but when you are discussing international business you need who understood that the waterway language was going to be some kind of english and there would be no step back because. part i have made in time in here they could jump here and go to david here when we put the shoe on the other foot i mean should native speakers of english maybe delve into this because it'll it'll make it easier for them to communicate with people and then i'm saying just for a limited purposes if you want to go travel around the world as we just it was pointed out in some places and in europe in asia and in south america there's very limited english wouldn't be a bad idea for a native speaker s

three i'm in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story russia should be part of a missile defense shield in europe according to u.s. president who was meeting in poland barack obama reiterated the u.s. is not giving up on his plans to site some of its rockets and planes in that country close to russia's borders are he's a group is kind of has more for more so. it has become quite a conflicting picture here in warsaw because on one hand you have barack obama talking about this new stable and friendly level of relations between a russia and the united states and both him and president komorowski have said that it's very possible that russia will be part of a future joint anti missile defense system in europe but then on the other hand barack obama has just confirmed washington's plans to quit an air base here in poland on its land which would service hercules military transport planes and f. sixteen fighter jets and also more importantly for poles to hal's short range interceptor missiles by twenty eighteen now all this comes after another meeting between b

us. he is here every year with us. now this year we have not only mayor edwin lee, as an historical time in san francisco. we have four asian-american members of the board of supervisors with us. as a representative of district 3, i could not be more happy to introduce my district supervisor, the president of the board, supervisor david chiu. [applause] >> good evening, everyone. it is an honor to be with you tonight. i want to wish everyone a happy year of the rabbit. unless you are vietnamese, in which case, i was a very happy year of the cat. after 160 years, this year is truly history. i am honored to serve with you, not just with the diversity that our board of supervisors represents -- and i want to thank ross mirkarimi, david campos, and malia cohen who are here with us today -- but it is an honor to serve with three other asian-american supervisors. we finally reflect the population statistics that we have here in san francisco. more importantly, it was an incredible honor earlier this year to take part in an h

all of us here are going to have that responsibility. i'm eyeing what the governor every day is talking to everybody in the state and if we don't have those tax extensions we've got huge cuts, we'll not be able to manage today. we'll do our best, but there's kind of a crisis brewing about what the state's about to do and need to forewarn everybody. we're going to have the best minds to deal with it but it's a storm coming that i'm afraid is going to hurt a lot of us. but be very focused on what the state's about to do. that's what we can say today. >> [speaking foreign language] >> district four. home care. name is po. we knows there's 1,800 home care providers. across -- over 20,000. -- across san francisco, over 20,000. including our employer there's about 40,000. in those last few years we think we are with facing salary cuts, benefits cut. if february our working hours have been cut -- in february our working hours have been cut by 3.6%. that means every month if we work 100 hours, our salary will be cut by 40 -- $40. looking for cut

here. this is your neighborhood, your home, and it allows us in government that if you allowed -- and by us here, that means you trust government to work with you, not to work against you. there are so many other years where we said things different and felt differently, and now, we are kind of moving past that and getting to where we ought to be working very closely together more and more. so it is my heartfelt thanks that you invite us to your home, allowing us to then be created, think outside the box, be more supportive of the community needs, so we can possibly change what has historically been a street that people drive through, rather than a street that people want to be on. i want to make sure this transformation continues with every one of you feeling that it is your partnership working closely with supervisor cohen and the mayor's office, making sure things happen the correct way, every level of it, so one of these days, maybe even espanola might buy a house out here. [laughter] but i wanted to signal a number of things that have happened to bring everybody together on this projec

here to work as a. first class i study and assist you by please allow us we'll take the car back here well championship is not just a city in itself must fear itself it's a fan zone and i believe we should take a lot of lessons from the previous championships company and first class advance that was going to be a was we have our he's pretty in some detail work in moscow. effectively in two thousand and ten two thousand and seven but i believe it will get all the lessons and. you can post fear that all the fans will enjoy this is a definitely a green event for russian hockey and for just all the sports lovers out there in the country but it's also part of a whole chain of very successful big soar to two thousand and fourteen and we've got the football world championship in two thousand and eighteen what does all this mean for russia i mean if it's it's appreciation of that all of russia in the world because you can get that for granted. with a very serious company that was was then mark and ok. already owns around the first glass of coke in the nation's. but they decided that was there or because they a

and pakistan on the same page so i'm going to ask you that question again on this program here because why do you use going on here i mean this is just amazing you know i mean you know i came across some analysis that will it least one pakistani official said privately that well it's needed to keep an eye on him because if we killed him or given him up it would have caused more violence i mean what kind of rationale is there to be hiding this person while taking money in one hand and lying to your most important strategic ally the united states i know the sentiment in pakistan is very anti-american. there's a difference i mean the situation and the sentiment in pakistan is anti american but it's the same time the people of pakistan have lived rejected the the ideology that is attributed to osama bin laden a long time ago we have terrorists in pakistan who are working on the same ideology attacking the pakistani state and if you look at the statements that have come from the islamic a lot in camp in the past and from me. as well where they have openly called to attack the pakistani state and the pakis

business update with a nice after a short break stay with us here on r.t. . a moment when the world has changed forever. thousands passed to nothingness. thousands wounded. and noone to suffer today. was the first but probably not the last image or uses of this weapon. how many more will need come. children come and get on in the future. millions die here. and millions look forward to be helped and say. the pain and suffering will never be forgotten. as well as the joy of not ration. here a spring of nineteen forty five on our cheap. wealthy british style. pastime . markets finance scandals find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause a report on r.g.p. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human. face to face with the news makers. but how about come to business here on our t.v. first up this hour russia's largest car maker off the vase has had a strong start to the year the car giant almost double sales from januar

ten am in moscow i match president good to have you with us here on r t our top story the billions spent on france's military authorities abroad have already accounted for the years defense budget with paris only increasing its foreign adventures the political price could be costly for the french president as artie's daniel bushell reports. heat or eat that's the choice faced by murder kids so instead of supporting the elderly frauds the government is accused of using that money for war. france says it doesn't have enough time and attention as must tighten their belts now spends over thirty billion euro a year under france france has more than twenty thousand soldiers currently on foreign soil in lebanon kosovo a new military base in the united arab emirates is fighting wars in libya ivory coast and afghanistan each french have a missile costs hundreds of thousands of euros so just five months into twenty eleven the forces of growth even with madame kitto his pension that's pretty much up the operational budget for the year military excess snaps from his reputation as a careful spender i

stay with us here on r.t. still ahead the forgotten life of the russian provinces professional pastimes have been failing to hold young people in the countryside but change could be just around the corner find out in a few minutes. first though the influx of refugees fleeing uprisings in the arab world is driving a wedge between the states some are calling to reinstate temporary or even permanent border controls within the union unseen since the shang going to greenland came into force sixteen years ago or he's daniel bushell reports in europe might have opened the floodgates for trouble the dream of european integration goes off the royals it puts a feud between two of the e.u.'s founders front looked all train services from its early off to finding carriages full of african migrants it's really a time to the president's visas allowing travel in the european union that's shots at the trust which the e.u. visa free regime is. a kind of truce between two partners between france and italy france considering that

stay with us here on r t dimitris our backs with our latest in the world of business. to business arts and it's good to have your company the chief of b.p. robert dudley says he thinks there's still value in exploring russia's arctic with rosneft through its joint venture and russia's energy minister said go echoes the seven s. saying the deal is attractive enough for a compromise to be found russian shareholders and have already made clear their wish to be involved and that leads ross never to make a decision the deadline for that to happen is monday next week with his agreement to undertake a sixteen billion dollars share swap with b.p. expires the russian oil major has given few clues as to what it will decide except saying it will act in its shareholders best interest. another hurdle looms and russia's eighteen year old marathon to the world to join the world trade organization the e.u.'s tax concessions offered to foreign carmakers to set up assembly plants inside the country the government wants to extend the program started in two thousand and three until twenty

we are also working here. >> thank you so much for sharing your insights with us here on "culture wirefor helping to make san francisco such a diverse community. >> thank you. >> welcome to the 2011 spj town hall. i'm here with my co-host to welcome you to what promises to be a fascinating discussion about the changes taking place in journalism today. tonight's program is presented by the society of professional journalists in collaboration with the san francisco public library and san francisco bay area journalists. after several years of difficulty, we are seeing a lot of activity, particularly involving new media organizations. we have seen patch.com open hundreds of bureaus across the country. yahoo! is expanding its staff across the country. aol bought the huffington opposed. in the middle east, we saw how citizen journalists are reporting on the uprisings, and in papers like the "san francisco chronicle" are finding ways to collaborate with groups like spj's journalist of the year in northern california. his last three of this year's winners were new or nonprofit media, a ratio t

we have cathy lanier with us here now. bring us up to speed on the latest developments today in regard to letters showing up at schools. >> the teams are still very active and we have now recovered an additional ten letters, some were picked up at school facilities and some were intercepted at other places before they reached the school. we kind of expected this. we probably figured through the day today and maybe through monday working on trying to recover the remainder of the letters. but the teams are working very well and we anticipate going through probably monday. >> at this point you've found letters at five schools and five letters intercepted by the postal service, is that fair? >> five or six letters that actually made it through to schools that were recovered starting early this morning about 7:00 and the remainder picked up by the postal inspector before they reached the school. >> it seems the response today is different from what we saw yesterday in terms of fire and police showing up in large numbers at schoo

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i do not know if all of us were here but they are now returning. they will be performing for us and the beautiful traditions of the chinese new year, the alliance stance. please welcome students from the chinese american international school. -- the lion's dance. -- the lion's dance. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> [inaudible] [applause] this is really a unique performance. before we end tonight's program, i want to, on behalf of the city, thank at&t again for your generous sponsorship, making the celebration happening. we would liked everyone to join us for the reception. we want to thank owner of moonstar. we want to thank you for your contribution. [speaking foreign language] >> thank you. >> the public wants to access particular information about your house or neighborhood we point them to gis. gis is a combination of maps and data. not a graphic you see on a screen. you get the traffic for the streets the number of crimes for a police district in a period of time. if the idea of combining the different layerce of information and stacking th

stay with us here on r.t.still ahead tonight cia travel agent for sure we were appalled by the case against an airline accused of making money from flying terror suspects or cross the globe has been dismissed. and the gloves come off the world's biggest emerging economies demand a break from the tradition of putting a european in the top job at the international monetary fund. but first the u.s. government now has a system that can send emergency alerts to everyone from blizzards to terror threats the warnings go straight to people's cell phones but many fields creating a needless panic as artie's marine important. the country that created i phones. has more than three hundred million wireless users and in the name of national security the u.s. government will soon have a direct link to each and every handheld device it's like a piece of this is going to it's there for a good reason to hope that we never have to pull the trigger gathered at the scene of the september eleventh terrorist attacks federal in new y

stay with us here on r t still ahead this hour thought. spinning a small spinners and evil handlers plus much more discover the world life and russia's bolder grab region here on our t.v. i mean you wait a few minutes. first though unrest in north africa and the middle east is causing friction between each new members a recent influx of immigrants into their countries like italy and france has raised concerns there billeted to move around freely within the union has some calling for the reinstatement of internal border controls or he's daniel bushell has more from brussels. the dream of european integration goes off the rails in a bitter feud between two of the e.u.'s founders france blocked all train services from italy after finding carriages full of african migrants italy had handed out president's visas allowing travel in the european union that shattered the trust which the e.u. used visa free regime the lawyers he does shawn kind of literally mistrust between two partners between france and italy france considering that italy has not

time now for the business news with helio stay with us here on r.t. . hello and a very warm welcome to the business news almost a third of russian banks are not able to face another global financial crisis stress tests by the central bank reveal they will be full start of the market if the financial turmoil returns conason but out a lot from alpha buying believes banks will cut dividend payments to beef up that balance sheets. the usual way to include is a capital adequacy is just to generate profit center capital was the profit at the moment gold was the loan growth is quite the same as a result banks and traveled through could generate substantial profit the belief. is that i will see the other kids and this is exactly what the russian base number of russian banks and you know the increasing support of the financial markets except they some profits from rescue its position all of the understand the least profit only gives a good performance of the market don't want marketed as the movement if you're looking for the capital it with rachel from now on w

the trees up next with the business update stay with us here on our. thanks matt a huge oil and gas field in russia's far east look set to come online earlier than expected gazprom says it will be drilling its first production well and certainly in three this year the gas giant had planned to start production and towards the fourteen however the shared view was sped up due to growing demand from asia gazprom also wants to get production underway in time for the asia pacific economic cooperation summit that will be held in russia in twenty twelve. russia's largest private oil company lukoil says the current oil price is not just a fight the government plans to listen to hong kong or the head of lukoil like it that he says it will only happen when the market stabilizes linnik we can use the markets rather the world saw the currency all prices he believed that about twenty percent of the price is speculative capital the current price of about one hundred ten dollars a barrel is perhaps the price to reflect the current costs and the current situation on th

ten am in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story the u.s. is threatening to take new steps against the syrian government in the latest response to a bloody crackdown by security forces human rights groups believe some thirty people were killed in violence during the anti-government demonstrations across the country. armed terrorist groups for the unrest while protesters say they want an end to decades of oppression and corruption. more than five hundred eighty people have been killed since the uprising started seven weeks ago following on from u.s. sanctions on the threat of more to con you has agreed to an asset freeze and travel ban on top syrian officials but war correspondent eric margolis says western countries may have all teary or motives behind their syrian stance. there's great excitement in washington at the prospect of overthrowing the syrian government that's been on the front burner in washington ever since the bush administration but the idea is that with the liver. blow to iran since arrests if syria were collapse then the gov

stay with us here on our t.v. lots more headed your way on the program including this. one take a look at whether young people in russia and europe are learning any lessons from the tragic events of the second world war. from rehearsal to reality a russian rocket prepped for liftoff from a european space port after a successful simulated launch that's all on your way after a short pretty. wealthy british style. market. happening to the global economy with much stronger the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines because the reports on our. vows revenge on the u.s. for osama bin laden's death statements attributed to the terrorist group have appeared on several online jihadi forums they also suggest a successor is mean shows him to take over blogger danielle belton says the u.s. made a mistake in not putting that a lot and on trial. the reality is that american politics it's just very ugly right now and things that normally wouldn't be put aside. have been politicized something it's natural saying hey we have a person who is committing crimes against us le

great to have you with us here there in arizona with us here in d.c. i guess want to break away from arizona well you know over the last twenty years we've had a tax code everything all year and we were a low tax state in the first place to a point where our school now gone from twenty thirty and funding in the country among the states had good laughs and our tuition is gone up ten times for our state. universities and basically they're there pricing middle class kids getting a decent education and frankly i call it reverse robin. debatably stealing from the middle class and giving it to to the wealthy in the form of tax cuts for the wealthy the other thing that we were really upset about in recent years in the special is last legislative session is they've been throwing people off our medicaid rolls to save money but we're losing federal dollars because that we're losing health care workers because of that and hundreds of thousands of people are getting health care including about one hundred. transplant patients and two of them have died since they w

for the worrying after learning that a crowd was heading here about getting the hoses we intended to use them as a last resort they came here and the fact is that high school children as well as university students come here to study. and not day april the seventh many believe it's another so-called color revolution was unfolding in downtown kitchener several former soviet republics had already shared the same fate everybody expected pro western politicians to come to power on the back of protests against. communist president vladimir voronin but the following morning everything fell into place for owen and emerged victorious this is top of the bush if that evening disability which of somebody had result to us gangsters in the crowd why and for those sake they had come there still below and what they knew about the outcome of the election. your story i'm certain that ninety nine percent could not have answered those questions for nothing in the future i would. like to vote for most of the office our discussion today will focus on what caused the events of a perilous seventh two thousand

cost the hour here in moscow you are with us to a recap now about some stories and france's military spending on foreign operations has already accounted for the year's entire defense budget the government is accused of turning up a blind eye to people's needs at home by increasing its expensive adventures abroad . while the u.s. operation to kill osama bin laden is widely hailed as a success the methods washington uses in the war on terror are facing criticism charges of torture in overseas prisons are feared to be motivating terrorists rather than making the world safe for. a court sentences to be russian and nationalists to life and eighteen years respectively for the murder of a human rights lawyer and a reporter. stanislav markelov and i still see a lot of other gunned down in broad daylight in the center of the capital two years ago. and right up next year an aussie people of el asks is guest whether the current dominance of english threatens other languages and helps to export western values crosstalk is next right here today. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technol

great education makes you a case here in the us that solo still in the main circle. display of russian military might sound a little bit hairy in the great lakes states or rates of this here teacher was when she was told to. stay since. it is sadly familiar to me. as they watched. television. cameras let alone. the turn. of their current set theory technician here. which police. and balanced our. brain like to take. us to space center. banks into making their way to a little misleading. that's where it went out because he believes get away without. similar vicinities. minds are. underestimating the audience or. at least that it was. a racing. league and. it is. the ultimate. fascism i don't know it's about violence fascism of the facia isn't is about torturing people one nation trying to as with another it's about germans some kind of movement in germany at a now as shocking indictment of russia's youth unaware of what people like you rena forty against less than seventy years ago she was their age when the nazis invaded the soviet union she immediately enrolled in th

follow us here. its influence in the nasdaq 100 index was reduced as five other tech heavyweights increased their weightings in the index. prior to today, apple's weighting inside the index had grown to more than 20% as its share price rallied from the single digits eight years go to more than $300 dollars. beginning today, its share of the nasdaq 100 was reduced to just over 12%. that means other stocks have increased their influence. among those increasing their weight? microsoft, oracle, intel, cisco systems and google. morningstar e.f.t. analyst robert goldsborough points out it changes the focus of funds using the nasdaq 100 as a benchmark. >> your subsector bolsters toward everything from internet and software are going to be rising whereas your focus on manufacturer, consumer, broad-based consumer hardware like apple, you see that exposure going down. of those heavier weights, microsoft and intel each fell 1%. oracle gained 1% to a new ten- year high. finally, the last 90 sessions of the silve

in a foreign land is valid in only one instance if you are living in destroying them so used to be here you know your for say stop was going to be given to me so as soon as they are saying frenchman two hundred company that is the answer he was expected to be able to run and speech and for months so you had to take a guy who spoke at a german and english and from once he was you know to discuss we scouted your schools. in english not in his or not but in many countries they don't so that's true but when you are discussing international gives business you need to learn who are understood that the war was a language it was going to be some kind of english and there would be no step back because for the first. part i have my content in here they can jump here and go to david here i don't know what issue on the other foot i mean should native speakers of english maybe delve into this because it'll it'll make it easier for them to communicate with people and then i'm saying just for a limited purposes if you want to go travel around the world as we just it was pointed out in some places and

stay with us here on r.t. still ahead this hour until the well runs dry outside the glamour india's bollywood little mumbai thousands are caught in the daily battle for clean drinking water. and weed so you can do a russian city on the banks of europe's longest river to explore how the waterway brings both vitality to the region's hotels and its economy is coming your way. first though there's a festive mood across russia with exactly a thousand days to go before the twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi massive bashes are being planned across the black sea resort and of course here in the capital peter all of our house more on the celebrations. here in russia everybody very excited about the twenty fourteen games that will be held in sochi now we have seen events all around across russia celebrating not just. one thousand day milestone the the clock has now been ten don't insult she counting down to the opening ceremony that will take place in a few years time well there's also other events going on here i