but you know who to put you know period to make hotels you're good enough to do a boutique hotel and you're like toast. in serbia butties available in moscow and hyatt regency they are going to. colonel gadhafi is all for an end to military operations in libya met with skepticism which reports the fighting is still going on international preparations meantime for a no fly zone are going ahead and. confusion reigns in libya when the government implementing a cease fire but the international community says it's still going to hit with a no fly zone join me in a few moments from the libyan capital formal. japan's in a race against time to prevent a nuclear disaster as a team of workers risked their lives to save the country from a radiation leak and possible meltdown for tara lies power plant. and she's

desperately trying to restore power to the cooling systems. as the head of the u.n. you can watch told there japan must stop going if you look closely and meanwhile beyond japan's shores panic is spreading faster than radiation as people in russia's far east to stock up on preventive medicine is needlessly putting their health after risk. and g seven countries join efforts to stabilize currency markets and bring to get back to is not seen since world war two by the border business with us in the twenty first. without you live from moscow where it's an hour just after seven pm well colonel qaddafi says he has declared an immediate cease fire and ordered a military operations to stop mr. there are reports that fighting is continuing in

the eastern side of the country and france the u.k. and other countries are still preparing to enforce a no fly zone over libya after receiving backing from the un security council etc let's get some more details on this now from our. who is standing by live in the capital of tripoli so what does this announcement by the libyan government mean is it a case of a contradiction in terms here because the government calls for a cease fire and yet the reports of fighting that it's still going on. well we're certainly hearing that rebels feel it's a little more than a contradiction they simply do not believe the gadhafi regime they say that they will not heed this cease fire call if point to the fact that clashes still continue in the east of the west of the country we know that in the town of misrata which is some two hundred kilometers from benghazi which is the rebel stronghold there were receiving reports of people who have been killed among them children they were passionate also continue in the town of ajdabiya which is a little bit closer to benghazi and just a short time ago we've heard i'm confident of port said there had been explosions

outside the capital city of tripoli now the foreign minister certainly surprised the international community mr koussa when he did that libya would be implementing a cease fire immediately gave me this is station of all military activities he said that the government had a responsibility to protect humanitarian assistance to provide humanitarian assistance to protect human life to provide protection to foreign assets and foreign citizens he also called a full open dialogue. community particularly the e.u. was struggling to make sense of what libyan foreign minister meant and what the position of the gadhafi government is you need to remember that it is listing twenty four hours ago that gadhafi son safeguard is some say that one of this would be over within forty eight hours and he said he was alluding to move violence and move protests and move military action on the ground we're hearing from france that day i remain we're hearing from london that gadhafi needs. be judged by his actions

and not on his words and we're hearing from the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton that the international community is still going to go ahead with concrete implementing this no fly zone she too saying that only even can gadhafi be judged in terms of what his real motives are properly when i look at the u.n. security council resolution one nine seventy three it's the resolution status quo that any and all action may be taken to prevent to protect other civilians in libya there are some concern that imposing a no fly zone could just end up with a full scale military intervention is that what people in libya are worried. i think the rebels here really do support the call for a no fly zone but even they are particularly cautious and they are against that no fly zone being enlarged to mean something more the question being asked is if in most my zone does not work if indeed a no fly zone is not able to stop the gadhafi regime from to come continuing with his military activities what then will be the next step and experts have been

banking the question of when exactly what is no fly zone be implemented who still have no timeframe how long will it continue for when it comes up all our libya who exactly will be involved and who will have the chain of command now we are hearing parallels being made with the situation in the operations in iraq and afghanistan here to be cool is cool civilians to be taken care of but as we saw in iraq in afghanistan and lot of innocent people died and as we've heard from germany which was one of the countries to abstain from voting on this u.n. resolution they say it carries considerable dangers and risks the same caution was voiced by the russian ambassador to the united nations russia of course another country who abstained from that u.n. resolution let's take a listen. but it was just covered in the desert in essence a whole range of questions raised by the russian federation and the security council. questions which were both concrete and rigid. questions regarding how the

no fly zone your business leaders gauge what would be and limits to the use of force and visions were introduced into the text potentially opening the door to a large scale military intervention responsibility for the inevitable humanitarian consequences and excessive use of this sort of force unless you just knew full fair and square on the shoulders of those who might undertake such actions if this is only the civilian population but also the cause of upholding peace and security throughout the whole region middle east there's a need to avoid such destabilizing as i look at this that she really does of course . now we are hearing reports that there was a proposal on the table between germany and the united states in which germany will say and reinforcements to afghanistan so that u.s. troops are able to be freed up from there and those troops could ultimately be staying here in libya so that does raise the concerns back to the question of wayward zakk take all this no fly zone in many unanswered questions many fears

a lot of concern and certainly a feeling of uncertainty here in that yes one of the people we have from my ten downing street corners of the prime minister cameron says that the fighter jets the tornado in typhoons are still on their way to darkness and see how this is. not. protecting the libyan civilians appears to have become a priority for the international community including the u.s. but the weeks long unrest and rain is not receiving equal attention authorities there have severely crack down on recent anti-government protests reportedly even preventing demonstrators from receiving medical help and on mr explores the difference and. god is great. the final words of this according to peaceful protesters in bahrain. before he appears to be shot allegedly by bahraini security forces since martial law was declared this. the

bahraini government has crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. clearing them out of pearl square where they've been demonstrating. and birol videos though the details can't be confirmed have been surfacing on the internet appearing to show police shooting protesters. point blank it's reminiscent of another uprising against an autocrat. the situation in libya when images and reports of violence against protesters a doctor's hands in libya reached the u.s. president's he could stand. as lost legitimacy to lead. early on president obama called her plans lies over libya now here at the united nations the security council has since taken the lead on that but meanwhile the united states has already said warships along with humanitarian aid in libya's direction its top economic sanctions on the country as centrally freezing it out of the u.s. banking system and reports suggest the u.s.

has also played a more cofer role in the north african conflict and opposition. here . according to people in direct contact with activists on the ground in bahrain they too are begging for help from the u.s. . the u.s. has a military base in the island country the navy's powerful fifth fleet and six thousand troops are stationed there and in response to the brutal crackdown the u.s. president has wielded his authority to pick up the phone and call the king of bahrain the president expressed his deep concern over the violence in bahrain and stressed the need for maximum restraint. words the forces on the ground now backed by one

thousand saudi arabian troops don't appear to be listening to critics say the talk doesn't amount to any help for the bahraini people it amounts to this absolutely there's a double standard in the way the u.s. deals with friend versus flow unlike libya brain is a strong u.s. ally in the oil rich persian gulf it's all about oil it's also all about geo political military strategy the us has a lot of military assets in the persian gulf right now and we want to make sure they stay there u.s. interests coming at the cost of people's lives and if the cost of the values of human rights and democracy the u.s. claims to care so much about all of the blood is worth this and blood is more important it's just a political stand. because it is the. dispensary you're looking at american courts are actually helicopter gunships you know which are on armed

protesters in the capital and that is where the united states stands on the issue tacitly behind auto pratt's. or against depending on the threat to u.s. interests not to lives lauren lyster r.t. new york. you can always follow the latest news about how the situation is unfolding in libya you can do so on our twitter and facebook pages called links to our video coverage and regular updates.

it without a lot from moscow well japan has arranged the emergency like all the crippled fukushima nuclear facility on a huge international scale it's not five that means experts there are worried about the consequences and that they could reach far beyond the plans for seventy. latest developments. right now they're still trying to reconnect power to the side so they can get those cooling systems up and running and bring the temperature down inside the reactor seems like the only way they're now going to prevent what could be a real nuclear disaster they're now focusing on reactor number two because this morning that they actually saw smoke rising from the reactor they don't know what the cause was about i don't think it was an explosion because that wasn't hurt clearly the temperature inside is very hot so what they've already managed to do was to lay a power cable from the main bridge a kilometer long cable to try and restore power but they haven't managed to connect that up yet the radiation is very high still and also the outer casing of the

reactor the containment vessel was badly damaged in the explosion that happened earlier this week now in the meantime they are trying everything they can to try to keep the temperature down trying to cool the reactors there off of the first four actually had explosions since the earthquake for example yesterday at reactor number three they doused in sixty four tons of water from a copter from above and water cannons from below and the early hours of this morning the tokyo fire department they sent thirty two bit fire engines that are throwing everything they got it is the head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog the international atomic energy agency who's in tokyo right now meeting with the japanese prime minister he came out and said that to prevent this turning into a full scale nuclear disaster they are going to have to cooperate with the international help that government spokesman at least they've done who's the chief cabinet secretary has come out and said that although there are very high radiation readings in some places he says and it doesn't pose

a direct negative effect to the one's health because in these places it's not coming into direct human contact however a number of countries actually don't believe this and what they're doing is actually wanting their citizens not to go within fifty kilometers off a nuclear power plant whereas the japanese government has imposed an exclusion zone of twenty kilometers tell. thirty to stay away yesterday. because the little bit from the east coast who was from we go i counter to see what residence. this is the town of o.-r. i-a around halfway between tokyo and fukushima i'm still a hundred fifty kilometers south of the nuclear power plant but already the radiation levels here over double that of those in tokyo the geiger counter i've got just started beeping wildly and shot up to north point five not receive it's per hour it's not harmful to one's health especially just yet but it is certainly a concern so much so that the army has started to hand out these face masks here

but people are wearing them they're going to hear we're very afraid of the radiation but who can do know much about it all we can do is follow the media and trust him and his team. the tsunami did actually come in this far inland but the town escaped most of the damage however since the earthquake they've been without drinking water here in the residence at the town and fill up the water they need from points like this town says up by the army further up the coast it's a similar story we've been travelling along this road for the last ten fifteen kilometers looking for a place to have lunch but none of the restaurants are open all of the truth they cannot do we can too we can open with electricity bills we can't do anything they don't know. this is the start of japan's ravaged east coast norene life part of their bridges lie strewn all over the place here a wall collapsed over here thousands of fallen down such as the force of the tsunami this is also the point where we don't turn back because they died

a county's reading the highest it has done all they want point zero four might receive its plan how it got in the final my fear is that i won't be able to live here anymore and this is my home obviously for my health of the radiation and i thought it's not just that i'm afraid i will be able to come back here we're only around a hundred and twenty kilometers south of fukushima power plant and if the wind blows this way and even worse if the rain comes in the radiation will shortz arrive to inform us. i was out of better reporting right there but alex care who is an expert on top of his culture he says that the government is intentionally concealing facts about a nuclear crisis there is a long tradition bit in the nuclear industry and down the fading or at least. twisting or misinterpreting the evidence but one example is raising it's a fight it's been for for a long time which was the level of three mile island where there was nuclear

radiation should but no nuclear material released into the environment this one is at now says amounts of nuclear materials huge radiation and only now the wrenchingly is it raised to five in it of course most people believe it should be six so there is still an attempt to play it down children newspaper yesterday had an article in which they pointed to the killing of white smoke coming out of one of the reactors and they said the government is saying it's a plume of white smoke but they really mean is explosions i think what we can be sure of is that this mess will take weeks maybe months to clear up it's really very serious much more than make up and that is that it's one of the fate of millions of japanese threatened by nuclear disaster right now lies in the hands of just a few a person they're known as the faceless fifty team of workers putting their lives on

the line to stop a nuclear disaster at the fukushima plant things are going to go shower not accept how a man sometimes has to sacrifice himself when technology fails. then kinds modern marvels can come to nothing when nature strikes days after the fukushima plants first explosion japan's leaders implore everyone to stay calm helicopters and water cannons deployed to cool the reactors yet the situation remains critical a japanese government had insisted that only a ten kilometer radius was necessary for evacuation this was the status quo when the earthquake hit and so we're already great we're already way behind they are so great and evacuating and issuing iraqi orders also there is very very little environmental monitoring provided correct information to people i think that the japanese government is saying are trying to protect the japanese

people but you cannot protect them from the reality in one thousand nine hundred six the soviet union mobilized thousands of people to battle the nuclear disaster at chernobyl in japan now has the faceless fifty and honest workers putting themselves up against radiation to keep the reactors from nuclear meltdown i don't think crisis can be averted. the radiation exposure is are so high and so i and i don't think human beings can get into the areas that can be accessed in order to put a fire to put fires out and also to get water into locations where the heat is the highest it's the union essentially ordered its citizens to circumcise their allies to radiation when battling the chernobyl the aftermath woodworkers are meaningless because she more are doing so willingly the main question is will their efforts prove to be enough to keep the situation from taking a turn for worse certainly their lives or immediately at stake.

and clearly they have sacrificed any kind of long life by being there to claudia has a nasty habit of turning against humans. and when that happens the equipment doesn't yet exist to send machines in to put things right in the end it takes human risk and sacrifice to prevent a technological tragedy from becoming a large scale catastrophe in tokyo in r t. russia may be willing to help japanese citizens who've been left without employment following last week's earthquake and tsunami president dmitry medvedev says they could be considered for a job vacancies in russia's far east enough as the story the president has offered a wider range of assistance to japan which includes sending medical aid food and water supplies to the country also specialists in nuclear technology to help deal with the crisis around the fukushima nuclear power plant. also said

those in need and willing will be able to undergo rehabilitation courses at centers across russia and also said that some of those who lost their jobs because of this catastrophe which happened exactly one week ago he may be able to find jobs also here in the country. we have to think about the labor potential of our neighbors if need be especially in the sparsely populated areas of siberia and the far east it will make sense for us and could be a way out for those affected by the disaster. this is a disaster affected the entire region russia's far east is still on high alert especially that some of the sports like the coral islands for example are right there in neighborhood and the russian president has once again ordered a local authorities to continue monitoring the situation and informing the locals

of all of the developments. also stressed that there is currently no threats to their lives and called on everybody to remain call but as already found out their fears of nuclear contamination have spread beyond japan's shores. the news arriving from japan is very worrying and by the closing nuclear plant the other day missions of disaster and difficulties it's hard not to be gripped by panic when the world's high and to my city as sounding the alarm the closer you are to the she marked the beginning of chances of peaking out the party choirs which is grabbing more so there are not a physicist or a doctor people in russia spar is divided from japan by a street of water four hundred miles across but the quickest to react. but my friend called me and said that she's leaving the city i'm not in such panic

yet again so i'm already taking iodine just in case. but radiation levels remain completely normal and doctors are into sounding a different kind of alarm just with the president is that if anything really serious happens there things like consuming large amounts of oil going already. people often say they're going to do such things won't help the reverse they may seriously damage their health is only going clock's function and it may well happen and probably will as well everything in japan gave birth to many of our people with problems with their foibles and. everyone wants to be on top of official reports preparing for the unknown many go even further by personal radiation leaks geiger counters price is no object. in the last three days we sold out our monthly still have geiger counters we now have to turn to our suppliers for an additional

shipment of taking reasonable precautions is not but i think that all unless panic threatens to become worse than the catastrophe itself that was the case with the outbreak of the h one n one swine flu virus which helped drugs companies earn billions today in russia spar is the transport companies and pharmacies are cashing in on the panic but at stake is the region's largest business fishing. it accounts for eighty percent of the stocks a corny russia's largest city on the pacific ocean local restaurants offering fresh seafood from the waters off japan are already losing clients customers are afraid of radioactive fish even hysteria continues wholesale fish markets could be next to suffer meaning no silver lining to radioactive clouds that may never arrive it's in the direction of our t.v. good of us the time that will have more global ramifications of japan's earthquake

and tsunami and crosstalk that's coming already a few minutes but first the meter is where the latest listeners. mona warm welcome to business finance ministers from the g seven group of the world's richest nations have agreed to step into currency markets and try to control japan's currency is the first time in a decade at the g seven members have jointly intervened in the money markets on wednesday the yen did hit its highest level against the dollar since world war two strengthening to seventy six and it was the us trading but it fell back and later sessions now trading at around eighty one told analysts say the coordinated effort by the world's biggest economies would have a bigger impact than the japanese central bank acting and low by the way the bank injected another extra thirty seven billion dollars into the markets on friday to try and shore up confidence and ensure the quickest japan's central bank has

already injected nearly seven hundred billion dollars into the country's financial sector. so we're going to markets we start with asia traditionally this week reaction to the g. seven since inventions began saw japanese share jumped three percent while the currency itself tumbled investors were also showing some optimism that the radiation leakage could be contained and that for the sheema nuclear plant stock markets elsewhere they are also gaining and saying up point one percent. u.s. markets are up before a third straight session as tensions in livio this leading to cool down as a good positive move in the industrial companies are some of the biggest gainers this hour with caterpillar and general electric putting on more than two percent in europe the markets are also on the rise with investors appreciating improvements and world stock into more of the markets utilities and miners are leading the way in london while b.m.w. are up to one office and on the back. here in russia both the us yes and the nice x

end of this very volatile week on a positive note with a wave of buying some of those in europe and the u.s. so look at some of these start. banks were the biggest gainers burbank up two percent over one hundred roubles i knew quite well also gaining one percent gas problem was bucking the trend of down point as. crude prices are retreating from earlier gains if we can look at those great there we are currently trading in the red this is as libya's foreign minister declared a ceasefire and said the government would stop military operations the situation in japan is also in the spotlight as reconstruction in the great country is likely to produce world demand given the expanded energy analyst says the upward trend is not over yet. people said boat. show from libya is going to be soon or in the next week i don't think. so we need to continue to count production

out of the world's supply situation. if hangs on for a long time then the current sanctions would prevent a lot of that oil moving so that creates a situation to be upside i forget as well that the situation in the middle east is kind of very unstable. and we have seen for instance troops coming in in cuba rain all these things will continue to create. separation from the outside in markets. and i will be back with an update in less than one hour's time oris next tuesday.

cultures the so much going to be is going to be made in a lot of the play area of japan and so many in the world so when a disaster hits a major economic and trading power the forces of globalization punish speak.