these are the images. from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule today. british french and u.s. warships converge on libya preparing to launch i decisive strike on a colonel gadhafi forces in libya's internal affairs. the regime is maintaining a ceasefire while they both say they still being bombarded joining me point to from inside tripoli in just a few moments. washington hues of cherrypicking where it intervenes rapidly mobilising for libya well innocent civilians are dying in other nations torn by internal strife. but also those are radiation risks grow is japan struggles to save its crippled nuclear site eight days after the nation was overwhelmed by the powerful earthquake and tsunami. the promise signs h.

to japan's nuclear power is now being called into question thanks ations it's a pretty strong remarks from. nine am in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story the united states britain and france have issued an ultimatum for the libyan leader to accept an immediate cease fire or face airstrikes this comes after the u.n. security council resolution to enforce a no fly zone over the troubled country or to use policy or has more from tripoli. well an emergency summit has been planned for today saturday in paris that will see the attendance of all the major players and diplomatic efforts as well as negotiations over libya so attending will be the british prime minister david cameron the french president nicolas sarkozy and u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton as well as the leaders of major arab states that

have formed an ad hoc coalition against libya and what we've been told is that it could be just a matter of hours after the summit if we could see british and french fighter jets here in libya already we've heard from the british prime minister david cameron that he has given the order for the deployment of typhoon and tornado jets to be sent to bases as well as a fueling equipment we've also heard from the french that they are ready for any kind of military strikes so certainly a lot of attention on that emergency summit and what will follow from it on friday the pentagon issued a statement in which is it that libya had some thirty missile sites along its close that pose a significant threat to nato aircraft now we've heard from the the american president barack obama he has issued what he scored a non negotiable ultimatum to gadhafi essentially what he's saying is withdraw your forces from rebel hold strongholds and now the humanitarian assistance to go

through or else you will feel the full on sort of u.n. sponsored is strikes with the americans have made a crack here that they do not want to believe this no fly zone mission they will be participating in it but essentially it will be led by the bush and the french we do know that the americans will really have five in the mediterranean or they could call on at the same time we're hearing from canada that it is ready to deploy warships to this region as well now these developments come just hours after being in the libyan foreign minister announced that they would be an immediate cease fire that seems to be a reaction to the call and the sanctioning by the united nations of a no fly zone resolution we are hearing. fifteen reports on the one hand we're hearing from the gadhafi regime that they are in force in this ultimatum with immediate effect but we're hearing a very different story from the rebels in solves the rebels are claiming that gadhafi forces are continuing their advance towards the rebel stronghold of benghazi but we're hearing those reports late friday night they also claim that

throughout the day friday after the cease fire was announced fighting continued in the town of zim ten which is a mountainous town in the west of the country and in the east of the country continued in the town of which of the air as well as in misrata essentially what the rebels are saying is that you could defeat is bluffing he might be buying time which might be an outright lie they are saying that they will can protest in tripoli and other centers for the supporters to take to the streets in waste in held gadhafi cities and towns and they want to see how they conduct the regime will react because they say that there will be an important litmus test in terms of whether or not the gadhafi regime is serious about enforcing a cease fire but i think it is important to say that it might take time for the order of a cease fire to filter through the gadhafi ryan ranks so it is just possible that those men on the front line have not yet good that is ceasefire is in place it's also important though to say that there are still concerns here in libya about the question of a no fly zone on the one hand while the rebels are calling for it on the other hand there is very real concern and questions being asked whether or not it will not be

enlarged to some kind of seen stale military intervention which all people here in libya do not want to see happen the concern is there the whole label in terms of humanitarian assistance could just be a cover for foreign intervention and also concern that in the same way that civilians were killed in iraq and afghanistan the same things could have delivered here in libya. from the global reserve as whether or not the western agrees with these actions by. the international war. but this is not really a no fly zone or a no fly zone in fact implies a bombing campaign and then the credit relations are ongoing i think the timing of this operation this stage we can't really make any just statements although we have we have the statements made by by by france and britain to that effect that i think should be understood first of all that this intervention even though

it is adopted on the. you you when offices is interrogation of international law you colors and people into a country and start bombing the other place all the pretext that you're coming to a good rescue of civilians so from my standpoint and from the standpoint of international law this is interference and offend as. a sovereign country i thought we like coffee and not at the stock issue. revolutionary moods been spreading across the middle east and north africa for almost three months now syria's the latest country where people are marching to voice their anger for them it's the vote the freedom to speak out five people have reportedly been killed after security forces fired on hundreds of demonstrators in the southern city of daraa the crackdown was launched after multiple protests for about defying a ban on marches in yemen at least forty five people died dozens of others injured

after snipers allegedly opened up on workers who were staged a walkout and then thai government protests in the capital the president's declared a thirty day state of emergency but in the eyes his forces were involved in the shooting in bahrain the army demolished the paul martin much i've become a symbol of the month long uprising against the sunni monarchy but the foreign interference in these countries is notable so we pin the on the ground compared to the focus on libya right now lauren lyster is more in what appears to be tunnel vision and what it comes to a turbulent conference for. god is great. final words of this purported peaceful protest here in bahrain. before he appears to be shot allegedly by both grainy security forces since martial law was declared this week the bahraini government his crackdown on pro-democracy protesters clearing an out of pearl square where they've been demonstrating. and viral videos 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 i want to address the situation in libya when images and reports of violence against protesters they could doppies hands in libya reach the u.s. we saw the president take a stand. as last one to leave and he must leave early on president obama called for a plan. for a no fly zone 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 it's tough economic sanctions on the country essentially freezing it out of the u.s. thinking systems and reports suggest the u.s. has also played a more cofer role in the north african conflict and opposition that the cia has for

thirty years is right now. according to people in direct contact with activists on the ground in bahrain and 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 it came 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 who 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 you political military strategy the u.s. 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 at the cost of the values of human rights and democracy the u.s. claims to care so much about this. some of the blood is worthless and blood is more important it's just a book critical stand. goes against everything we believe in in this country but you're looking at american. gun ships. and protesters in the capital and that is where the united states stands on the issue of tacitly behind kratz. or

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market financials. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to come as a report on. thanks for staying with us here on our t.v. turning to japan now where aftershocks continue rattling the country raising fears of further damage workers at the stricken fukushima power plant are racing against time to restore the cooling systems to stop the reactors from you reach a nuclear meltdown he's i bet it is in your pad where people are struggling to come to terms with the destruction from last week's earthquake and tsunami and the massive loss of life. the japanese nuclear agency has now raised the alert level or thought she would run from a four to a five and it's on the international scale of nuclear accidents which runs from zero to seven and. being the only seven in history what

a rating of five means is they will have wider consequences so now it's not just considered to be a localized problem i don't know exactly what these consequences will be yet but they raise that they operated it because of five because they believe there could be quick damage done to the cause of reactors two and three as for the attempts to call it well they're still ongoing they're trying everything they can at the well they haven't yet managed to reconnect how they've been trying to do that for the last almost forty eight hours now they have all those the true power cable from the main grid but the problems they face is the massively high river levels the radiation which is really hampering their progress with that they're also still using water cannons from military fire engines spraying water into the reactors especially at reactors number three and thought because they're so the water level inside the used fuel rods protocols easily to dangerously low now if it gets too low and the rods become exposed then there is a very serious danger that it could be radioactive substances leaking out as it

stands at the moment the government the japanese government has moved to reassure residents outside the thirty kilometer radius of the plan that there are zero risk of radiation however a number of governments foreign governments spain has now joined the u.k. and the u.s. in wanting to evacuate its citizens and also we do know that there have been ruled out out for pushing of one case in a whole lot in concrete. and all to. minimize the risk of the radiation later mr a done of the government spokesman and the chief cabinet secretary has said that in hindsight maybe they should have reacted faster and so they could have moved more quickly on all of this but listen some new advice from the u.s. as well. another thing is now being called into question internationally by nuclear experts and that is the question of privatization of japan's nuclear power. plant that functional power plant is owned by the tokyo electric power company now

they're the ones who whose employees the engineers are working tirelessly on braving ridiculously high radiation levels there to try and get the situation under control reduce the temperatures inside the reactance to try and reconnect power to the cooling systems but the question now is could this have been averted if it wasn't in private hands and were they even equipped in the first place to deal with this sort of catastrophe. no matter how hard they try disaster still looms at fukushima that tends to cool the reactors have been applauded for bravery but it's been a week since cooling capability was lost and there's no end in sight to this crisis the implications are that really already has spread a fair distance we are probably will be an area around the. world that will be uninhabitable for the foreseeable future it could get far worse than the us a glance cooling systems may have been crippled by a natural disaster but some are now questioning the merits of the manmade decision

to build reactors near the so-called ring of fire this is completely a human a disaster because that should never have been located there in the first place and citizens have pointed out the fact japan's nuclear industries also in private hands has led to accusations profits were put before safety fukushima's owner already has a questionable past with a history of falsifying safety records at the site back in the eighty's i think we also have to review the idea of privatized nuclear power because private a nuclear power means cutting corners and i think we're watching those corners being cut today but we'd like to see as the government take over he's used these nuclear reactors thrown private corporations because private corporations named. only for existing is the next emerged profits and by next month the profits in the nuclear sector we're talking about weed in my eyes in concerns that we can't see it and last private investors maybe need to get the ball rolling it's the other way

around if things go wrong i think it's going to be inevitable on the street will take over in order to contain these plants no they will probably need to be covered with concrete and sand much like a normal was and i think the state will take over responsibility for that. i think where the state has it or private companies do it it's very difficult for anyone to do this drug japan's those strange its nuclear tragedies this is where the second atomic bomb was dropped in nineteen forty five trying everything they can at fukushima to avert another disaster or to cause nuclear watchdog is already expecting wider consequences the question is how many will be affected either bennett's azzi like a sack that everyone's taking your pens assessment of its nuclear crisis at face value alex curran expert on japanese culture says the government is intentionally concealing the severity of the situation. there is

a long tradition of it in the nuclear industry into town. trading or at least. interesting or misinterpreting the evidence one example is raising it's a five it's been four 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 that says amounts of nuclear materials huge radiation and only now wrenchingly is it raised to five than 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 did not pointed to the plume of white smoke coming out of one of the reactors and they said the government is saying it's in the right but they really mean it is something explosion 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 the government is letting us know. and for the team still alive it's a life or a scam race to head off atomic disaster radel thompson was involved in a three mile island cleanup in pennsylvania after a similar accident in one thousand seventy nine he explains what the workers are going through. what the people in japan are going right through right now is kind of hard to tell because no one has access to them as far as i have been able to see and i fear for their safety in fact i fear for their lives sometimes the radiation is so high that a person going into us a hot room can only be inside there for maybe three 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 of power if you go in with the welding machine the say 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 you're

done for the month we don't know the and the conditions inside the plant though most of us. from the industry confirm that it's very very dangerous i think pouring water in in massive amounts and they should be probably poor in boric acid or boron in in massive amounts as well is that really the only country only thing they have left it's almost like a hail mary pass my only real regret is that the entire area was not evacuated sooner as soon as the evolution started that would have been the moral thing to do and that is not in a competition for that i'm very disappointed their. nuclear power is often sold as the clean green solution to meet our burgeoning energy demands but as the crisis unfolds a focus shima people are questioning whether they want that danger on their doorstep . as you pam struggles with a nuclear crisis are you concerned about the stability of nuclear facilities near

you this week let's talk about that. sellafield is coldness a nuclear plant in england which pretty safe you feel like it's safe should. we ourselves live across the river from a nuclear power plant virginia it's it's it's it's it's a concern certainly it's better than spending a lot of tax dollars on a new energy source as you know it's like this though to you know you look at cell phones you know cell phone service where you always worry if a report came out tomorrow that says cell phones cause cancer of people to put their cell phones down rather not so people take the nuclear there's a if it has been works people are really interested in you know surfin weigh ins and the different kinds of alternative energies leaving about. enough to put enough money into the research you know there's enough research tellus that it's not going to be a fiber alternative and what pays for those there's tax dollars right correct so if you stop spending money and will we could start spending money on energy getting

that would never happen. hopefully in my lifetime i find it amazing the amount of energy what's being used here in eric rose in light specifically here in times square so i think people are. maybe a bit too much used to use loads and loads of energy so i guess it's what's going to be quite hard to get them to use. to spend more on green energy because they're going to be more expensive these support nuclear energy you know quite a. while because it's a disaster i think you think it's a disaster waiting to happen absolutely so what should we do because we consume a lot of energy on idea i have no clue i go if you don't know then how can we rule out nuclear energy. why is the many people so afraid of nuclear energy i don't know that this is happening right now but most plants are pretty safe sure i think it centers on people always think of the worst and maybe that's the reaction from nine

eleven even would people always think of the things that could get bad so i think there's that on again feeling whether or not you support nuclear energy the bottom line is that with all of our energy options there comes in one form or another high price to pay. sure to share your reaction with us to the events that are shaping the world when our t. dot com where we have plenty more analysis on today's top stories. the fear about spreading faster than the radiation and read how those living well beyond your pan stores are clearing out pharmacies they hope to avoid contamination but without a product we jeopardize their health. running for a new emblem that symbolizes the dops of firearm has its token image find out why it. was energy giant gazprom hopes to get its point across to st petersburg officials who threw out their plans for a controversial skyscraper next to the court room all the details on why.

turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe there's been heavy fighting between the army and rebels in southern sudan leaving at least seventy dead rylan started after a failure to get militias to join the southern army in oil producing areas near what will be a new national border southern sudan becomes an independent nation in july following a mostly peaceful referendum that saw almost unanimous choice to secede than the northern governments accused over our main rebel factions. u.n. secretary general has been dead the increase in violence in ivory coast banki moon described the situation as urban warfare and a crime against humanity this after the deadly shelling by security forces in

a market in which at least twenty five people were thought to have died the u.n. blames forces loyal to president laurent gbagbo who refuses to go despite losing last year's whole sparking months of violence. polls have opened for egyptians to take part in their first fully free vote in decades in a referendum on constitutional reform this after the uprising five weeks ago that top of the presidency of hosni mubarak is replace going to will be selected in a few months over half of egypt's eighty million people are eligible to vote in high turnout expected the reforms wall for parliamentary elections in the future. coming up we'll take you want to tour of the historic russian city of around that's coming your way in a few minutes stay with us. bryson

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