markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy because a report on our. situation it's a question a nuclear plant in japan was and is as a hydrogen explosion is reported at the second reactor love did not damage the reactors container but an unknown number of workers have. been while the country braces appelle for yet another tsunami wave following a strong aftershock of six might make cheese over sixteen hundred people have now been confirmed dead after the devastating earthquake and resulting tsunami on friday but there are fears the death toll could soar to tell thousands. this is the latest information from japan for us now and we'll bring you more on the developing situation in the country in about fifteen minutes time starting talks to russia's and avoids nato dmitry rogozin on the situation in libya.

goes in is russia's envoy to nato has expressed concern over his plans for military intervention in the country mr lederach thanks speaking with altie do you support nato and e.u. back in for libya's rebels prince but in principle what usually happens is this in order to store new material operations you have to ask someone to invite you so it's not proper to come in uninvited. there should be a side doing inviting for this side to look presentable it has to be legitimized what is now happening with the libyan opposition is approximately the same thing the problem lies elsewhere no one knows who these people are in reality we know just one person who formerly worked as part of mr gadhafi his entourage but all the others are total strangers more than that there is no information regarding the degree of consolidation of the libyan opposition the case in point quite likely is

different centers in different provinces in our country it must be said incidentally that the latest events in libya indicate that mr gadhafi is not going to surrender quickly there are loyalty problems in his armed forces in the police force but as long as the libyan army retains its positions in libya and wins victories over the libyan opposition it's a mistake to say that the collapse of the gadhafi regime is just around the corner this is why to my mind the west so far has been playing games for its own consumption they hold meetings with all sorts of people trying to invest in their powers but that has nothing to do with the agenda of stabilizing the situation in this north african country. and i think no one knows today what's narea is the optimal one the problem is we don't have the facts or enough information the conflict inside libya has become for tracked and many arab leaders say as much even though the attitude of mr gaddafi in the arab world has always been highly complex and despite the pressure that france the u.k. are bringing to bear on the arab league we cannot say that everyone would be wildly enthusiastic to see

a western invasion in libya there is yet another important aspect that arab analysts are warning about they say that mr gadhafi effaced with foreign intervention will immediately become a martyr a victim in the eyes of the whole arab world in a very popular person and no one wants that to happen are you concerned by france's call for aerial of the country. it's a big problem how to do it from a technical military point of view nato doesn't have a clear idea about the level of training and quality of libya's air defenses let's assume that a country which begins military intervention by launching an air attack. well lou several combat aircraft libya possesses some sufficiently modern including portable anti-aircraft missile systems who will bear responsibility for the first year casualties no one this is why i believe two processes are currently in progress on the one hand aggressive rhetoric is used and political consultations are held inside the western states and in the un security council work is underway to identify reputable opposition figures but on the other hand military planning is in

progress that considers very different options a w.a.c.'s planes are in the air space reconnaissance systems in the whole reconnaissance are fully operational as well trying to reveal the real situation in libya the organization strength of the libyan armed forces and the situation within the framework of regional provincial conflicts the info is fed to nato as relevant military structures but its readiness for action is equal to zero and libya is rich in oil is that's why the us is so interested in the country but. i think if libya were just a banana growing country there wouldn't be so much interest in his domestic situation including in the humanitarians fear of course libya is a big enough energy supplier to europe certain countries like italy for example are heavily dependent on libyan deliveries others are not so much dependent on either way libya's share is considerable we know that nato for example puts energy security matters at the top of its main agenda for this reason i think that this factor has a most direct bearing on the speed of the west decision making regarding libya no

one wants to weapon conflict become for tract it everyone wants it to be over as quickly as possible so as to be reassured about the guarantees of energy supplies to europe i think it's a very important problem aside from that there is yet another factor some major western oil companies have an axe to grind whether concessions in oil development projects in libya are concerned they are quite likely to be pushing certain western countries towards hasty decisions with regard to an intervention in libya they think they'll be able to follow the military and thus get a unique access to libya's oil riches so this factor is also taken into account and discussed. devaney's interior minister says nato won't attack libya soon all you reassured by their statements go to. germany i think is the leader of the group of countries within nato that thinks actions toward libya should be kept to a minimum meaning only the no fly zone and even those actions must be sanctioned by the u.n. security council first of all to germany which has been suffering quite a lot from public protests against its involvement in afghanistan and other wars simply out of the question therefore germany's voice within nato strongly opposes

any intervention in libya would unilateral invasion by nato be a war crime and if that nobody in that area of course any invasion would be be it an initiative of nato as a whole or of any nato member state if an action is not authorized by the un it is an illegal intervention but what i am saying now is not a warning it is just a statement of fact as a matter of fact many people inside nato agree with russia and not the position of the u.s. on the situation in libya washington is being very restrained if not passive here some are laughing at the overly zealous france in the u.k. saying that those two are running ahead of uncle sam nobody knows why this is happening and whether there is some common scenario in place i think that the u.s. administration would not like to take any hasty actions against libya right now most likely they're monitoring the situation closely and preparations to possible military engagement are perhaps in progress but a new war is dangerous for the u.s. now especially with the presidential elections looming ahead i think there will be

many voices telling president obama the risk is too great and there can be no victorious blitzkrieg in libya will be is a big country and its people are warriors who will not let up easily with a foreign invasion besides we need to remember that a civil conflict with libyan civilians is one thing i want a third force appears things become very different when you if nato goes into libya could become another afghanistan or iraq a long drawn out war. that there's a lot of officers you know it's difficult to compare here. because libya after all is a north african country its landscape is not as complex as afghanistan where you never know from behind which rock you're going to get shot and he has no such rocks but has plenty of underground fortifications firing positions and traps that gadhafi has had time to build over his tenure therefore it will be no easy stroll for any investor well that any conditions under which you would support foreign military intervention in libya could go fuck facts that's all only facts on the table of the

un security council saying that weapons were used against peaceful civilians in libya or heavy military machinery was used against humanitarian targets may force the security council to consider measures more substantial than twinkle sanctions against the regime the thing is we don't have any facts we have reports from d.c. c.n.n. and other media featuring some machine gun are firing his machine gun in the air at the same time we don't see any aircraft attacking instead we see people applauding the gunner for looking so cool if there were real aircraft attack in progress they wouldn't be applauding the footage we see on american and british channels looks fake they create an illusion of military action where the aircraft where the bomb raids where is the destruction casualties we hear so much about it all that is true evidence should now be on the table the security council doing that requires carrying out the decisions are already passed by the council including the creation of special committees that establish the facts but unless the facts are established the council cannot take the responsibility of judging something that doesn't exist

. how are the rebels holding out against gadhafi regular army all they already being aided by the west. before we assume that something is being done by the rebels and by the opposition enough special forces that were used to evacuate citizens of western countries from libya have most likely remained there there have been instances of the rebels themselves if any members of special forces combat groups from the west. we are not naive and are well aware that some part of the special operations have long been done in libya on the side of the opposition otherwise gadhafi to whom most of the army and police forces are loyal could long have clamped down on the opposition since he's not done so yet it is a question of secret and illegal military backing by special forces this is my personal opinion i have no facts but i have experience and i can analyze the situation with this two missile defense in an ideal world how integrated with russia's missile defense be with nato in particular. what is missile interception

it's to see the attack on you to track it in and to shoot what stage does the cooperation occur at at the stage of exchanging information on transforming the risks and the threats then at the stage of detection by the tracking stations that started the attack thirdly at the stage of identification of the target that this is attack may be across russia towards europe or u.s. bases or across europe on russia so tracking the identification of the targeting is the third task in the fourth task is to destroy the target jointly some nato skeptics tell us that or russo skeptics rather tell us that nato can't be involved in the outsourcing of security for europe well that's stupid because russia also means europe russia is not only up to a year old and a political sense it's as far as the far east therefore i do believe it's our common european cars and we should think strategic wise about the people's. interests not to dabble in politics but be politicians this kind of a system should be created in such a way that it could equally guarantee security both to russia on the one hand into

its partners on the european continent on the other and let me emphasize there is still time for this. russia's envoy to nato thank you for speaking to r.t. . yes my name is daniel schmidt this is julian assange we're here to make a short presentation about the wiki leaks project and the first step in the fourth day is to get information out about the real world. to him war on and on and. secrecy is the biggest. going to be commercially. if i've ever put it and you saw as this danger you would hunt me down and kill. this is exactly one of the reasons why we

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he is fifty feet. deep in the. sports is political in ways we don't often even notice especially on the level of culture where our ideas and attitudes as a society are shaped. when it. serves the ties between professional football in the us military have existed since the start of the n.f.l. back in one thousand twenty that one nation should grow men slaves during world war two and today that bond is stronger than ever and large we are in turn to go secure all good all good old people very soon can you kill a little bit of recent history is taught us that sports is never just something

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i am. there's been a second explosion as a nuclear reactor said the fukushima power plant in japan triggered by friday's devastating earthquake seven workers the missing at three hundred thousand the last push to do not reach the structure containing the nuclear it was contained in a while the country braces get another tsunami wave following a strong aftershock of six month in truth of the sixteen hundred people have now been confirmed dead often last week's massive trauma and tsunami and friday with fears the death toll could soar to town found. that's the latest on the situation in japan and we'll bring we'll be bringing you more on the developing situation in the country in about fifteen minutes time but now it's time for the sports news was

you know. without your company this is sports today. these are headlines. off the market champions twice in the past three years routine to secure all the points in the first russian premier league game call of the season. on friday three in a row cricket world cup champions a stream make the last eight in the world with a star for a sixty one win over kenya. on savile supremo martin becomes only the third german cyclist ever to win the parse nice to. rest his longest ever premier league season but on the way over the weekend the competition switching to the winter formats for the first time meaning we have fourteen months of football heads sunday saw three games first off was in krasnodar with pre-season

favorites one of them being gaming store successfully in their quest for a third and mystic crown in four years stick is on team doing just that swinging away to down to tresco. ellington saya of chip the first then after the break before christina boyle made sure right at the death the ecuadorian firing him from the spot suffered a flood or was adjudged have been felled in the area to know how it finished. reading russian champions and it's in petersburg also ensure a deal to assure the top table trick draws me away lots of h.'s goal after a quarter of an hour making all the difference down the laying it on a plate for the serve so it's a neat tickets denying cerec manager ridiculous his first win in russia. this guy meanwhile benefited from two goals my defender sure gave me shave it shows this car this is true and she called dropping

a handful of. in the area we're going to shave each rest stop before it's in the thirty one year old netting the second time around after his teammates encroached first attempt cooler a true threat machine which came shortly after our time with the russian international heading home eight bullets to know how to. talk english football now or a cracker of a tie awaits in the semifinals of the f.a. cup manchester city setting up a loss for blockbuster with cross-town rivals united after a victory over reading on sunday for the took care of west ham but the dummy can buy a winner. fulton but it is the other meeting was the most watering because richards the not doing the business for city in the seventy four minutes of eastlands it's true guided by late next wembley stadium will host both semifinals on april sixteenth the concept. of defending concept for hockey league champions akbar's are

on the verge of exiting this year's tournament because on side no three nothing done in their best of seven series with all rivals. the only teams ever left the garden cup going to overtime in new five by two pools to one it could all be over then and she was there for them if can't win again vice regular season top dogs often card were involved a full course load to tolerate before letting rip in the final third leading to your goal to reply their first win in that series two on the overall. in cricket the quest for number four continues for a st the three time defending world cup winners move on into the last eight a spirited effort by opponents kenya in the group a match up but the aussie still managed to meals on a sixty run when really ending on three hundred twenty four for six with some story

. corps has to be said. brad hayden and captain ricky ponting structuring two eighty six runs but hayden did it nicely for six here kenny lost three wickets but tom made mishra as valiant seventy two kept them in the hunt however the champions lost shoot in the end as they held the africans to two hundred sixty four for six mr lee still looking somewhat rusty though very much in the chase for yet more world cup success. he will be in world rugby wrapped up on sunday with a man getting run over scotland following a closely run thing at twickenham in the six nations just two minutes play in london again just five points between the teams but the crucial next score was to go through the hosts jonny wilkinson taking a penalty to make the sport twenty two sixteen press the scots result it means england are within one victory of their first grand slam probably since two thousand and three martin johnson's side take on argentine dublin in their final

match while the only other team who can stop them securing the title wheels to conference in force also some. it's been a bar in the last few years for followers of russian basketball especially fans of the national team after winning their first world title in two thousand and seven the team are expected to push on to similar successes but to little avail artie's rituxan porfiry caught up with team boss david plotz who offered his thoughts on the state of play today. this season hasn't been a kind one for russian basketball but the country's representatives in the yearly sask on him key part of the first hurdle for this was to see the surprising from the on women have been one of the constant houses over the last few years but black believes bay have been unlucky. it's just amazing the amount of injuries and physical difficulties that they've had this year i don't know how you. how you can

calm that out how you can fight against that you know the lose the main players that they have that they've missed throughout the whole year particularly. you know who are two of my guys from the national team you know this is difficult to replace those guys on the other hand you've got to recognize cesco was an eight final fours in a row something that's never been done i don't know if it ever will be done and you got to maybe give them a break. however there have been a few plus points and russian league is one of the twenty's to just beat in yes' and looks like say it's cause eight you don't mince maybe finally challenge this season has seen a reduction in the number of foreign players playing day trade in the country which is certainly good news for russia's head coach but one thing about the league this year is that there's less formal. emphasis on the foreigners or more russian players are getting minutes and time to show themselves and and improving and for me as the russian national coach that's a good thing. i went to some old problem still remains point guard being the key

one jail holding this field russia's present position with distinction for a number of years but it's big ninety it is not thirty four and can be relied on for much longer and black believes it's up to the country's coaches to try and find a solution to this problem point guard position is the most problematic position in russia and has been for many years. and this is something that needs to be not only discussed what needs to be addressed from the teaching and educational standpoint first at the lowest levels and that has. we're come from the higher levels in order to improve life's a pretty hot stove and i'm going to show off a family trying to provide a solution of point gone i would have and no way need to be in the same class as someone like holden let alone the lives to be placed in ninety days so ricky rubio could have a conscience top stars are not as they should i'm glad billy's a country still has some what's a good till it can produce play is a piece count up that's the bridge that varies on this by the way why there are not

natural point guards in russian well some of them are. educational and some of them are. cultural some of them are geographical when just to give you a small example you know ball handling in. freedom of play usually is developed on the playgrounds and how many people are playing outside in the playgrounds in minus twenty five degrees so you know that's a geographical reason it's very difficult to find cancer just out there playing with a bowl and playing free and developing the kind of imagination and openness for the game that you find when working in warm weather countries where guys just off the streets play it all the time as you know it seems like a little thing but it's a big thing maybe one of the reasons we don't see a lot of natural point guards and it's been a lean year for russian basket goal and that will continue to have to make do with a few resources he has of his disposal well it's unlikely the american israeli will find a cure for his problem position ahead of the upcoming european championships in

a few a year meaning is ongoing search will continue which i'm told you don't see. ok that brings us on to cycling where tony martin has become only the third german ever to win the person east of and the twenty five you'll never threatened during the final stage with a sixteen place finish good enough to see little for him morton proving over the course of the race that he's worthy of a nickname which means armored car in german runners played it safe in the rain but valor paid off for the day's stage winner thomas voeckler the local favorite becoming the first frenchman to win to partially stevie since one thousand nine hundred ninety seven he finished twenty first overall and sharing the podium with compacted under his clothing who want to roll back into thaws and while three time olympic gold medalist bradley wiggins was better. and finally the winter sports season may be beginning to draw to a close but super g.

veteran did you couche it has shown he's still got plenty left in his time the thirty six rule swiss winning sunday's event in norway rising to the top of the overall standings with just one race to go they decorated. world cup title every year since two thousand and seven new surprise really when you witness and in action going around the lithium popping course in just over a minute thirty three seconds to austrians were giving chase but close call on. the cell for the lower rungs of the podium will have a chance to take you for all cry next week in his native switch. thousands of spectators following the signs as they gathered to attend the twenty ninth annual u.s. open snowboarding championships and those crowds in vermont got to witness reigning half. dozen here to cuckoo defend his title the japanese star pulling a ray of moves including a rare ten eighty melon grab the overall effort and now for the twenty three year

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