colonel gadhafi for an end to military operations in libya is met with skepticism amid reports that the fighting is still going on international corporations for a no fly zone pressing ahead of confusion and raids in libya where the government says it implementing the ceasefire but the international community says it's still going to hit with a no fly zone and join me in a few moments from the libyan capital from. japan is in a race against time to prevent a nuclear disaster as a team of workers risked their lives to try to restore power to the cooling systems of the paralyzed fukushima power. meanwhile beyond japan shores panic is spreading

fast to the radiation of people in russia's far east stock often preventive medicines needlessly putting their health at risk of. life in the studios here in central moscow this is r.t. with twenty four hours a day just past ten pm here in the russian capital a nine pm in libya where colonel gadhafi says he's declared an immediate cease fire and ordered military operations to start but still there are reports the fighting is continuing france the u.k. and other countries are pressing ahead with preparations to enforce a no fly zone over libya after receiving u.n. security council backing. the latest now force from the capital tripoli. with certain 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 the ceasefire call they point to the fact that crash will 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 a rebel stronghold there were receiving reports of people who have been killed among them children clashes that also continue in the town of the via which is a little bit closer to benghazi we've heard unconfirmed reports that there had been two explosions outside the capital city of tripoli are now the foreign minister was certainly surprised the international community and the coup so when he did that libya would be implementing a cease fire immediately he said that they would be the station of all military activities is it 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 now the international 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 listening

twenty four hours ago that gadhafi son is safe to say that one of this would be over within forty eight hours and he's stepping was alluding to move violence and more protests and more military action on the ground we're hearing from france that they are remain i think we're hearing from london that gadhafi needs to be judged by his actions and not by 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 input implementing this no fly zone key to say but only then can gadhafi be judged in terms of what his real motives are 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 if no fly zone does not work if indeed a no fly zone is not able to stop. he was in some fun to come continuing with these military activities one being will be the next step and experts have been banging the question of when exactly will this no fly zone be implemented we still have no

timeframe how long will it continue for well if all of 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 the core is the civilians to be taken care of but as we saw in iraq in afghanistan and lot of innocent people died 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 course and was voiced by the russian ambassador to the united nations russia of course another country who abstained from that u.n. resolutions the images are in essence a whole range of questions raised by the russian federation and other security council members remain unanswered questions which were both concrete and a legitimate questions regarding how the no fly zone will be phrased and the rules of engagement will be and limits to the use of force provisions were introduced

into the text potentially opening the door to a large scale military intervention responsibility for the inevitable humanitarian consequences of using excessive force and just willful fair and square on the shoulders of those who might undertake such actions if this happens only the civilian population. because of upholding peace and security throughout the whole region middle east there's a need to avoid such destabilizing. so that does ways that its concerns back to the question of where exactly will this no fly zone end many unanswered questions for many fears a lot of concern and certainly a feeling of uncertainty here in libya. for more views on this we can talk to john reid says he's an activist joining us live in london thanks very much for being with us now his government has declared a cease fire so in effect military force his words before it's even started when it

. well i don't think the gadhafi government is observing a cease fire i think if you were a threat of an air attack you might say this could conduct military operations and i believe that that's the situation in libya today so no i don't think it has do you think it's the right thing that there should be a no fly zone and indeed there should be further military intervention now to help the people in libya. no i think it's i think it's a mistake most of all i think it's a mistake for the revolutionaries understand why under the threat of the rhetoric of imminent lation by the gadhafi regime a very moderate different to this conclusion but i think it's going to prove to be an error opposed to fall in the light of this for the first part of the mainstream media sort of really in this country we're actually hearing how limited the gadhafi forces are perhaps ten thousand soldiers not with me on that in terms of taking ghazi for instance which. talk about yesterday which the british media trials for

two days now saying he will be attacked with what they hope will happen we've now got some idea why not because perhaps about five or six thousand troops to range against a city which is. in revolution which actually is going on a million inhabitants there's absolutely no way that could practically be felt by that part of the forth or i think there's a referee in the correct solution has been raised to excessive levels you know what just by the western therefore no matter how big or small that military force is there are reports that death is military has slain a lot of the libyan citizens so how do you stop that sort of action continuing surely violence has to be met with violence you can't just sit back and let it happen. well i certainly think that's true put if you followed closely the reports coming out to libya in the last forty eight hours you will see that for instance the revolution gained an air force during that period you will know that

there have been hundreds of defections from the gadhafi forces that they've gained a significant number of tanks that they've intercepted weapons. designed for gadhafi and diverted them. we know from reports that we can all be pretty surprised on ministration in benghazi so i don't think it was proved to be as one sided people said i don't think it was a no fly zone there's going to be any role worried opened up the revolution can make it all the way tripoli i think the western powers are determined to intervene here not to save the revolution but to stop the revolutions what if i get that these troops actually recognize the ceasefire but the rebels continue fighting where does that place britain and france do you think. you know mess but i hope that's exactly what they do because as i say britain and france have absolutely no interest in the revolution being victorious all the way from the east to tripoli to

the west of libya they do not perceive a successful revolutionary regime in libya there intervening in order to free us the process of revolutionary change at a certain point which is not fundamentally threatening to their interests so i very dearly hope situation is that however much i might be against a no fly zone if it had in any way both of the morale of the revolutionary side that they do not accept any cease fire that they take full advantage of any discomfort that they are good at the end of a straight for tripoli and seek to unify their country under a revolutionary government so quickly i ask you why why has the international community concentrated on its efforts on libya at the moment when we're actually seeing that fighting going on in bahrain and yemen casualties there and why these countries being treated in a different way were in fact largely ignored. yes indeed it's a very good point i understand as many as forty people have guardian you haven't in a single day to day so we could well be asking all the questions that we're asking

about the situation in libya of yemen and we could certainly be asking them in bahrain where side of the and other gulf states how to intervene militarily to crush the revolution i believe. is this the argument for intervention i say mostly humanitarian intervention which was born in kosovo was significantly pleated as an effective political opera body experience about iraq i believe that some of the western governments think that because the revolutions in the arab world or popular with their domestic workers is because nobody in britain wants to see the libyan regime crushed like it awfully but they have a popular augment their intervention once again just quickly just quickly john before we finish afghanistan in iraq and u.s. intervention there also is that obviously nature and space here we're seeing support from the arab league the neighbors of libya that surely makes a big difference just finally well we did see that in the first gulf war well on

the sanctions regime which followed the most fly zones which followed that killed a million iraqis so i don't think about the secular effective example it tells rather more of my father if you are going but it does hold up my problem. very good to talk to you thank you for joining us live there in london from stop the war coalition. or you can follow all the latest news about how the situation is unfolding in libya on our twitter and facebook pages because links to our video coverage and regular updates. it's going. to.

raise the emergency level at the crippled fukushima nuclear facility on a seven stage international scale it's not five that means experts there are the consequences could reach far beyond the plant's vicinity. as knowledge has been reported the plant has been connected to an external power source seen as a key step to restarting the couldn't system. as the latest developments for us. 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 heard clearly the temperature inside is very hot 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 and 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 helicopters from above and water cannons from below and the early hours of this morning the tokyo fire department they sent thirty of their fire engines that are throwing everything a concert 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 international help the government spokesman mr dunn who is the chief cabinet secretary has come out and said that although there are very high radiation readings in some places he says that 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 are doing is actually wanting their citizens not to go within fifty kilometers of a nuclear power plant whereas the japanese government has imposed an exclusion zone

of twenty kilometers telling residents within thirty to stay away yesterday army topic coast a little bit from tokyo up the east coast towards the sheema we think i counter to see what residents thought. this is a town as o.-r. i-a around halfway between tokyo at fukushima still a hundred fifty kilometers south of the nuclear power plant but already the radiation. it was here over double that of those in tokyo the geiger counter i've got just started beeping wildly and shots up to no point five not receive it's per hour it's not harmful so once 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 that people are wearing. very frayed of the radiation who can do their own much. can do media and trust the government is. a tsunami did actually come in this

far inland but the town escaped both of the damage however since the earthquake they've been without drinking water here in the residents have to come and fill up water they need from points like this in the town have been set up by the army further up the coast it's a similar story we've been travelling on this road for the last ten fifteen kilometers looking for a place to have lunch but none of the restaurants are open on here to take you know who we can to we can loop and we have electricity because we can't do anything without water. so this is the start of japan's ravaged east coast and irene life by the very very just lie strewn all over the place here a wall collapsed over here houses of fallen down such as the force of the tsunami this is also the point where we're going to turn back because the guy the county's reading the highest it has done all day one point zero four might receive its plan how important 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 but it's not just about 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 short arrive to inforce. well russia may be willing to help japanese citizens who have been left without employment following last week's earthquake and tsunami president clinton says they could be considered for a job vacancies in russia's far east you go to the details. the president has offered a wide 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 to undergo rehabilitation courses.

across russia and also sad that some of those who lost their jobs because of this catastrophe which happened exactly one week ago the 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 would make sense for us and could be a way out for those affected by the disaster. this is astra 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 the 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 threat to

their lives and called on everybody to remain calm but as already you found out that fears of nuclear contamination have spread beyond japan's shores to june fifth and you know leaving from july is very worrying and by the their plans that they missions from years past and difficulties it's hard not to be great by panic when the world's high and mighty are sounding the alarm the closer you are typical shima the bigger your chances of picking up the party virus which is spreading more so if you're not a physicist or a doctor people in russia's far east divided from japan by a strip of water four hundred miles across well the quickest to react. my friend called me and said that she's leaving the city i'm not in such panichi and i'm already taking iodine just in case. but radiation levels remain completely normal and doctors are fooled into sounding a different kind of

a long list with the president just take anything really serious happens there things like consuming large amounts of oil going here already transporters people often say they're going to do such things will help the reverse they may seriously damage their health because i'm going plot function and it may well happen and probably will as well everything in japan goes west many of our people with problems with their following plans to visit everyone wants to be on top of official reports preparing for the unknown many go even further buying personal radiation meters geiger counters price is no object. and the last three days we sold out there are multiple me still have got it counters we now have to turn to our suppliers for an additional shipment of taking reasonable precautions is not but think at 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 to seeing 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 little stocks of 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 a radioactive cloud that may never arrive exist in a virtual our team of us don't. well the fate of millions of japanese now lies in the hands of just a few dozen men known as the faceless fifty a team of workers putting their lives on the line to stop nuclear disaster the

fukushima plant where for more on this we can talk to randall thompson he's a member of the cleanup team following the three mile island power plant accident but i understand we've just lost our connection with mr thompson and i hope that we can reconnect with him to hear what he has to say a little later here apologies for that meantime the fate of millions of japanese as i say threatened by a nuclear disaster doesn't mind keyed in the hands of just those few people those remaining engineers fifty of them known as the faceless fifty and this is a team of workers as i say putting their lives on the line as we know that they have made some progress by all accounts we've heard that electrical supplies have been restored and there is a chance of reactivating those water pumps will weaken our knowledge join our guest i believe. mr thompson are you there. can you hear me there sorry we lost the connection a little earlier. i can hear you fine great now i am i seeing

a little earlier that you took part in the cleanup operation at the three mile island nuclear power plant that happened in pennsylvania back in one hundred seventy nine can you give us an idea of what those faceless fifty those engineers are going through at the moment in fukushima. i would say three mile island. first just a few days after the accident but it's am i right it was still pretty much because the arctic scene was this senior surveillance technician at that site was the person in charge of changing the. charcoal filters. gases critical it's from. what the people in japan are going it's kind of hard to tell but there's no one has access to them as far as i. i fear for their safety or for their lives but what about you you were presumably risking your life. well. as a health physics technician i think we are better equipped than most people to deal

with radiation exposure we're the ones who you see with the little meters making sure everyone is safe for the people who clean up all the mess with the people to make sure that you stay safe and so in order to do that effectively we of course have to stay safe for three we get burned out radiation exposure in a working environment is very tough in the h.p.'s job the health physics technicians job is to make sure that the workers are not overexposed as they do their job sometimes the radiation is so high that a person going in to us a hot room can only be inside there for maybe three minutes four minutes and then they have to come out someone else has to go in to finish their job so you can imagine the intensity list trying to say trying to change a valve. you go in with a welding machine and. it takes you three or four minutes just to bring that in there you haven't even plugged anything in yet when you have to leave your done for the month. or so there are

a lot of reports in the media saying that these people are indeed sacrificing their lives would you agree with that well we don't know the conditions inside the plant most of us. from the industry confirm that it's very very dangerous in a kind of this. sort of we call it you are so simply caught that's how it's always difficult when these connections that we have got a great deal of time going to succeed you think they they are doing the right thing there at the moment obviously so many people have different views of what's happening and how the crews are handing it but what she will view are they doing the right thing. i think pouring water in in massive amounts and they should be probably poor in boric acid or boron in massive amounts as well is that really the only only thing they have left it's almost like a hail mary pass my only real regret is that the entire area was not effect the way it sooner as soon as the evolution started that would have been the moral thing to do and that is not an accomplishment for that i'm pretty disappointed are you

encouraged by the fact we're reporting now that electricity has indeed been restored and they could be a chance of restarting the cooling system because it all depends on that and it really getting those cooling pumps going again it does one thing that hasn't been mentioned in the media however is the condition of the piping systems with push that coolant goes through after such vicious explosions i have doubts that the primary and secondary systems are intact. it can never hurt to get more water and i heard yesterday i think this morning they got the diesel generators running that's going to help so a little bit helps there's no doubt about it well randall thanks very much indeed for joining us and apologies for a lack of commitment communication and well you know if you could have your own for a bit longer but in the meantime thanks so much randall thompson for joining us there live in nashville in the usa business is next now with the mitri stay with us for.

oh and welcome to business artsy finance ministers from the g. seven group of the world's richest nations have agreed to step into currency markets to try and control japan's volatile currency is the first target a decade of the g. seven members have joined the intervened in the money markets now on wednesday the yen hit its highest level against the dollar since world war two strengthening to seventy six and a quarter in u.s. trading but it fell back in later sessions currently trading at around eighty one dollars and the say a coordinated effort by the world's biggest economies would have a bigger impact than the japanese central bank acting alone meanwhile the bank of japan injected another thirty seven billion dollars into the markets on friday to try and shore up confidence and surely quit its japan central bank has already injected nearly seven hundred billion dollars into the country's financial sector. japan's bird largest card producer nice and isn't talks to buy more than twenty five percent of russian car giant after but the sun reportedly plans to acquire the

stake for two other major shareholders and russian technologies corporation which own roughly twenty five or nineteen percent respectively the japanese carmaker says its partner read no will keep its current twenty five percent blocking stake in russia's. second look at friday's session for the russian stock markets and both the r.t.s. a nice extended this very volatile week on a positive note with a wave of buying similar to those in europe and the u.s. so because some individual stocks banks were some of the top gainers gaining two percent lukoil also gaining one percent the gazprom was down zero point three percent i threw prices are likely to keep boosting energy stocks as analysts say the upward trend is not over yet. because the bowling. action from libya is going to resume normally appearing in the next week i don't think's possible so we need to continue. production out of the world supply situation.

if hangs on for a long prime then the current sanctions would prevent a lot of that oil moving so that creates a situation to the upside in the region for good as well the situation in the middle east is kind of very unstable. and we have seen for instance troops coming in incredible rain so all these things will continue to create the situation for the upside in markets. companies will compile their financial reports in line with international standards from twenty first scene and so it will help investors get a clearer picture of the full state of affairs in central banks deputy chairman says the shift will require efforts from both banks and the regulators. review by substantial number of russian banks already issued internationally accepted financial statements i think that in order to fully transfer to international

financial reporting standards a lot needs to be done for both banks and the regulator the process would be more difficult for medium and small banks however the regulator will also have to do a lot in order to efficiently monitor the market as at the moment we are only using russian and counting standards. and that's all the business news for now had like the next day with r.t. .