[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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

us. >> here's a look at our top stories. flights are canceled in europe as icelands volcanic ash cloud spreads. and a state dinner for visiting u.s. president barack obama. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >>> and other volcanic eruption in icelandic is causing trouble in the skies. 500 flights to and from britain have been canceled, leaving thousands of passengers stranded. in germany, airports in hamburg, bremen, and berlin could be next on the list 2) there is no shut -- on the list to close. there is no shutdown plan yet. it is too early to predict. >> hundreds of people have to wait because their flights have either been cancelled or delayed due to the cloud of ash and billowing across the north atlantic from iceland. airports across scotland and northern england are affected. >> we cannot get any information. that is a problem. we do not get any information. we have to go to a computer p.m. >> -- computer. >> they are just stalling. >> in the days to come, more passengers and more airpo

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

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

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. >> mayor for the city and county of san francisco. >> tonight, san francisco has a new interim mayor. >> a few minutes ago, city administrator now interim mayor ed lee,

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

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

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

first pro business with dimitri stay with us here on archy. oh you want your business are things good to have you have a break just two weeks ago there was talk of a commodity super spike precious unknown precious metals commodities and oil were all posting various records but two weeks is a long time and now all the talk is of bubbles bursting and the end of the boom cycle only thought hansen from saxo bank tells us what he thinks is happening. what we having right now is a bit of a reality check from investors with speculative length in these markets i think come to levels which one sustainable so we're seeing. back from investors a moment and generally seen the economic statistics over the last couple weeks starting to turn a little bit negative and the market's been cautious about these high energy prices and how long it will happen if it starts to have an impact on the general activity level and there are still worries about the chinese inflation is still rising and they're still are tightening their monitor policies out there so so there

me trees are next with the business news stay with us here on r.t. . thanks man just two weeks ago there was talk of a commodity super spike pressure builds and precious metals thought commodities will rule posting various gains but two weeks is a long time and now there's talk of the bubbles bursting and the end of the boom cycle only small had some sacks of bank tells us what he thinks is happening. what we having right now is a bit of a real reality check from investors with the spec and surveillance in these markets i think come to levels with which one sustainable so we're seeing quite a bit of scale back from investors the moment in general we've seen the economic statistics over the last couple weeks starting to turn a little bit negative and the market's been bit cautious about these high energy prices and how long we would have to before it starts to have an impact on the electorate it's a level and there are still worries about the chinese inflation which is still rising and there's still a tightening their monetary policy is out there so so

this used to be someone right here that used to be thought regular was the wind up nice like an up. for several years dean went undercover spying on lumber yards and following knocking trucks. he infiltrated cutting sites and confronted the large retail chains selling cypress mulch illegally and. this dialogue in this op assumption is kind of rubbish and watch a movie of the folks. i want on the water logging them away to twenty thousand acres a year between the us and as he seeks to lower eighty thousand acres that month of all this up the force in coastal louisiana. you know they got serious and c.n.n. political comedy legal logging in brazil you know illegal logging is happening here in across states and the discovery and the difference is you go to a country like brazil and they poor people drug to make a living. there isn't a lot of real news in the world leading roles thought into that because they come across as a screw soul creek. people go to wal-mart only paulo's in the woods when i bought they would have a florida address and they would say made for environmentally harves

i'm finally we arrive here at the barracks best guy in the better us metro and strain station though i pass the love the buildings as the balance here i think is the perfect example of old moscow the new. with an eclectic mix of architecture that combines medieval sidestreets courtyards and striking twenty first century building projects to sky's diversity is the epitome of morton's a moscow who have said the moscow is becoming the new new york might be on to something. here the drilling and constant facelift continues to revive changing metropolis as one of the most expensive street space and commercial rents in the world and seems to press guy still has a long way to go. many stories just streets from sky existed as early as the twelfth century by the way of the next thousand years bring in whatever guys i'm sure one thing is certain discipline street and district full of characters history and life will probably still be here creating a stand and making its continuous contacts on the p.c. capital. but unfortunately that's what how we have on this week's program on the central stree

you know you know up next with sports stay with us here on r.t. . thanks for joining us this is sports today i mean these are some of the stories we're covering this a. long time coming maria sharapova plus reason to celebrate after winning her first w t a crime in twelve months i'll try. play off the clearest k.j. choi plays it cool to claim the richest prize on the golf swing calendar. pick of the bunch we've got each and every goal from the weekend the walls the question the muti. less tickling with ice hockey where finland's are the new world champions after hitting sweden for six in the final the flying fins upsetting me all to russia the eighth time champions by six goals to one finland themselves left to celebrate their second success on the world stage but winners fighting back from a goal john as well to overwhelm their neighbors a dozen different stories getting in on the act for finland in what was one of the country's biggest ever sporting achievements. before that russia were denied a place on the podium losing the bronze medal clash to

thank you, mayor, and the partners for having us here today. it has been so gratifying this morning, hearing the genuine enthusiasm from so many of you about the opening of one of the first targets. i want to tell you about the new concept. we have 1700 stores in communities across the country. we have 46 in the bay area. what is excited about the direction we're headed is that more than ever, they recognize that one size does not fit all. they taylor store design, product assortment and local ownership for the communities. we tailor these stores to the location. as many of you have heard, in the next few years, we will open a smaller format in handful of densely populated urban areas like san francisco. urban residents are already guests who have to travel to suburban stores to shop, which is not always easy. we are trying to use existing urban infrastructure to reach these tests. this stohr record -- perfectly exemplifies this concept. approximately 135,000 square feet, this has most of the things that make this what is, but with the san fran

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

told us here at r.t. this does not justify killing. the whole israeli society not just the government are denying the fact that the palestinians had a catastrophe in the establishment of the state this is why they are continuing to behave in this way towards indians or peace activists or anyone who wants to doing the demonstration in gaza or in the north or in jerusalem in what happened yesterday and the day before in jerusalem was also another just for the killing of the young man eighteen years old because he was in the demonstration or saying that these people were throwing stones so what people might. throw stones on the borders what would happen to this huge massive forces of people who throw some stones on the board this does not justify the killing of innocent people not in the north nothing does nothing jerusalem not anywhere. well the desperate palestinians in gaza say they're being forced to spy and for israel just to get access to urgent medicines and food. reports whether it's just a matter of basic survival in their case t

coming your way in about eight minutes here on our team first of all the business news with a nice stay with us. oh about into business here in our team nordstrom has finished playing the world's longest substate pipeline across the baltic and start pumping gas from russia to germany in the out of some analysts say the eleven billion dollar construction has certain delivery weaknesses as compared with liquefied natural gas supplies but the head of north strange says the project has clear advantages for the consumer. i do not seem pipelines. for pipelines. and for the cost well for them. and the supply oh come on they're so they could. be flexible it's come good this can go. to war for a year and you're in the one hundred one competition in the. pipe and the coast. and especially. let's take a look at a snapshot of the markets performing this our oil prices as back up regaining some ground after seeing significant overnight losses like sweet is currently trading above the hundred dollars a barrel mark while france is a bit below the one hundred twelve dollars per barrel. and in asia japanese sto

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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

but i'll maliki the palestinian foreign affairs minister so thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. the palestinian unilateral declaration of statehood that's scheduled for september the united nations is it still on track because there have been recent noises negotiations between israelis and palestinians work out and it will be canceled well you know first of all. it wasn't our choice to go to the united nations to seek mission for the present state never to be. our intention has been always always until this moment. to get. negotiations with the israelis as a result of the negotiations the militants of them since the. pick place so. states will come as a result off negotiations of an agreement between israel and palestine this is it now since last september. there's release have been avoiding. committing themselves into serious negotiations they have refused requests of the international community to seize and to stop settlement activities as international condition for the resumption of negotiations and since then you know we did not have any kind of negotiations with the i

hydroponic hanging gardens swimming pool water any reportedly uses five hundred years of water every month it's something that angers me here while most are used to seeing the great contrast between rich and poor on a daily basis they believe that it's access and waste that is unfair. you have come to give me memorandum and water collected from b.d.s. slums if there is a shortage or forgo be a grilling to give them more we came here to get him this group is to and for those who have no choice but to plan their day around water retrieval it's a painful reminder that even when it comes to basic necessities the wealthy elite still has the advantage. but i feel bad in the house we get wonderful only one and a half of us whereas they have enough water there one day even to waste. it's a constant battle to me it's prehistory there are t. mumbai india. and if you want to bury her most here on the t.v. you can always find more on our website r t that com here's what's lined up on line for you right now. and april fool's joke sparks a web panic over a comment believed to be this an alien spaceship and covered up by nasa. turned out

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

you with us here live from the heart of the russian capital now kind of has been arrested right here in moscow just as he was about to eat the liver of his dismembered victim he's pretty well has all the details on this a similar story for us and hi peter so tell us how did police actually manage to track down the kind of. well over the past two weeks dismembered body parts of turned up in the rivers around moscow as well as hidden in basements in this part of the west of the city where i am right now note those dismembered body parts included a hand which allowed police to use fingerprint forensic technology to positively identify the victim as forty year old. now an investigation into the circle of friends that you go to let them here to the apartment building i'm standing outside of the apartment nicholai shot in now upon entering that apartment they confronted shot in and arrested him he admitted to having murdered he got off as well as dismembering him placing his body parts around the city and eating part of the policy now police discovered at the scene the tools used to dismemb

be back with a recap of our top stories in a few minutes stay with us here on our. mode for. tomorrow's top shot first come to moscow with dashboards digitized radar of created an automated guided by gyroscopes propelled by powerful new ancients russian motors ready to move. something. we've done of the future covered. more than a month. in one of the most extreme environments on the climbers this is antarctica and people have to be aware that they're far away from civilization sean thomas discovers fuck makes antarctica so special and attractive from the life. and the frontal. extradition to the bottom of the earth archie. wealthy british scientists on hold some time to write. an article to the. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports. he used to.

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

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

thank you all for being here and for joining us on the 33rd annual carnival celebration kickoff hereur other home, san francisco city hall. i want to thank -- i want to thank all of you for being here tonight. our host committee, san francisco cultural arts traditions, our elected family, supervisors wiener and campos and john avalos who is on his way and mirkarimi who is soon here. wanted to say thank you for being here and bringing the community here into city hall. and we're always grateful when our mayor is here to join us tonight. thank you, mayor. i'd like to introduce the treasurer of the organization that's done so much work to make sure that all of us could be here tonight. superviser james camp, thank you for being here. also we have our president of the school board here, i think you're here some place. i'd like to droot treasurer of the organization who has done so much to make sure that all of us are here tonight and are able to celebrate on the weekend in may, carnaval. elena. >> thanks. on behalf of the san francisco cultural art trassdigs board of -- tradition board o

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

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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