the. british french and u.s. warships converge on libya preparing to launch a decisive strike on colonel gadhafi forces and libya's internal affairs. the regime is maintaining a ceasefire while they both say they still being bombarded jointly point to sin from inside tripoli in just a few moments. in washington accused of cherry picking where it injured means rapidly mobilizing for libya well it is and civilians die another nation is torn by internal strife. was the radiation risk rose japan's struggle to save its crippled nuclear site eight days after the nation was overwhelmed by the powerful earthquake and tsunami. the privatization of japan's nuclear power is now being called into

question thanks to stations sake the stronger more so from. news around the clock from around the world it's ten am in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t in a few hours the u.s. britain france and arab countries will meet in paris to decide their next move against the libyan leader under the new u.n. resolution the u.k. and france claim their fighter jets are on standby to enforce the no fly zone up on command to stop credit off these forces firing at rebels five u.s. warships have been deployed to the mediterranean as well he's policy leader has more from the capital tripoli. well an emergency summit has been planned for today saturday in paris that will see the attendance of all the major players in diplomatic efforts as well as negotiations over 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 the american president barack obama has issued what he's scored a non negotiable ultimatum to gadhafi essentially what he's saying is withdraw your forces from rebel hold strongholds and now humanitarian assistance to go through what else you will feel the full on sort of u.n. sponsored it strikes with the americans have made it quite clear that they do not want to leave this no fly zone mission they will be participating in it but essentially it will be led by the british and the french these developments can't just hours after being in the libyan foreign minister announced that he would be any leader in ceasefire that seems to be a reaction to the call and the sanctioning by the united nations of a no fly zone resume lucian we are hearing conflicting reports on the one hand we're hearing from the gadhafi regime that they are in forcing this ultimatum with

immediate effect but we're hearing a very different story from the rebels themselves the rebels are claiming that gadhafi forces are continuing their advance towards the rebel stronghold of benghazi 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 job yet as well as in misrata there are still concerns here in libya about the question of the most eyes are on the one hand by the rebels are pouring forth on the other hand there is a very real concern and questions being asked whether or not it will not be enlarged to some kind of some stale military intervention which all people here in libya do not want to see happen the concern is there a 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 thing could develop here in libya. michel chossudovsky from global research website says whether or not the

west agrees with it are these actions bombing libya would breach international law . this is not really a no fly zone or a no fly zone in fact implies a bombing campaign and good preparation is our ongoing i think the timing of this operation this stage we can't really make any clear statements although we have we have the statements mean by that by france and britain so that in fact. i think what should be understood first of all of this intervention even though it is adopted under. you you when hospices is interrogation of international law you colors if you go into a country and start bombing the hell out of the police. that you're coming to the rescue of civilians so from my standpoint and from the standpoint of in special lot

this is interference in the affairs of a sovereign country will be like a coffee and not at the scottish. the revolutionary mood has been spreading across the middle east and north africa for almost three months syria is the latest country where people are marching to boyce their anger for them it's about 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 were not defying a ban on marches and yet made at least forty five people died dozens of others injured after the snipers allegedly opened fire on workers who staged a walkout at an anti-government protest in the capital the president's declared a thirty day state of emergency but denies his forces were involved in the shooting in bahrain the army demolished the pearl of the monument which had been the symbol of a month long shiite uprising against the seen the monarchy but the foreign interference in these countries is noticeably thin on the ground compared to the focus being

given to libya right now lauren lyster as more and what appears to be tunnel vision when it comes to turbulent countries. god is great. the final words of this purported peaceful protesters in bahrain. before he appears to be shot allegedly by bahraini security forces since martial law was declared this week the bahraini government has crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. clearing them out of pearl square where they've been demonstrating. and viral videos the details can 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. when images and reports of violence against protesters they could doppies hands in libya reached the u.s. we saw the president take a stand. for margaret i think as. early

on president obama called for plans 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 u.s. banking systems and reports suggest the u.s. has also played a more coworker role in the north african conflict an opposition that the cia has for thirty years is right now. 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 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 the brain is a strong u.s. ally in the oil rich persian gulf it's all about oil it's all about 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 at the cost of the values of

human rights and democracy the u.s. claims to care so much about and some of the main blood is worthless and blood is more important it's just a critical stand. because it gives everything we believe in in the sense of you're looking at american old. gun ships you know checking on armed protesters in the capital and that is where the united states stands on the issue tacitly behind an auto parts. or against depending on the threat to u.s. interests not to lives lauren lyster r.t. new york. keep on top of developments on the world of big stories by following our t.v. on twitter and facebook we've also got plenty of video reports and coverage lined up on our huge of china.

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for staying with us here on r.t.e. eleven minutes after the hour and moscow turning now to japan 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 reaching nuclear meant to melt down or he's ivor bennett is in nagasaki where people are still struggling to come to terms with the destruction from last week's earthquake and tsunami and massive loss of life. the japanese nuclear agency has now raised the alert level at fukushima plant from a four to a five it's on the international scale of nuclear accidents which runs from zero to seven and chernobyl being the only seven in nuclear 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 are rated it because two or five because they believe they could be quote 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 plant they haven't yet managed to reconnect how they've been trying to do that for the last well that forty eight hours now they have all those through power cable from the main grid where 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 the mess that was once a level inside they used to fuel rods of course is believed to be dangerously low now if it gets too low a number of that come exposed and there isn't a serious danger that they 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 plant that they are busy a 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 as a question of land in case in a whole lot in concrete like they did at chernobyl to. minimize the risk of the radiation leak mr a done of the government spokesman a 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 and listen some new advice from the u.s. as well. oh 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 option a power plant is owned by the tokyo electric power company now they're the ones who use employees the engineers are working tirelessly at it one braving ridiculously high radiation levels there to try and get the situation under control reduce the temperatures inside the reactance are trying to reconnect now it's a bit 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 attempts to cool the reactors have been applauded for bravery but it's been a week since tooling capability was lost and there's no end in sight to this crisis the implications are that radiation already has spread a fair distance there probably will be an area around the plant like turn or wall that will be uninhabitable for the foreseeable future could get far worse than most the plants cooling systems may have been crippled by 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 threat should never have been located there in the first place and citizens have pointed that 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 has nuclear power means cutting corners and i think we're watching those corners being cut today what we'd like to see is the government take over these is east nuclear reactors own private corporations because private corporations need were disturbed . for existing is to maximize profits and by next minute profits in the nuclear sector we're talking about you know in my eyes the concerns the public can see and lost private investors may be needed to get the ball rolling it's the other way around if things go wrong i think it's going to be inevitable that the state will take over in order to contain these plants though they'll probably need to be covered with concrete and sand much like a normal was and i think the state will take over responsibility for the. i think

whether the state has it or private companies do it it's very difficult for anyone to destroy japan's no stranger to nuclear tragedies this is where the second that's like bomb was dropped so nineteen forty five they're trying everything they can at fukushima to avert another disaster because nuclear watchdog is already expecting wider consequences the question is how many will be affects it either bennett's azzi like a sack not everyone is taking japan's assessment of its nuclear crisis at face value alex curve who is an expert on japanese culture says the government is intentionally concealing the severity of the situation. there is a long tradition within the nuclear industry and town of 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 but no nuclear material released into the environment this one is that now says amounts of nuclear materials huge radiation and only now knowledge 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 chill to the newspaper yesterday had an article in which they appointed to the plume of white smoke coming out of one of the reactors and they said the government is saying it's pulling the right smoke but they really need is explosion i think what we can be sure of is that this mess will take weeks maybe months to clear up it's it's really very serious much more than and the government is letting us. what it came is still if it's all right for us to raise to head off atomic disaster randall thompson who was involved in the three mile island cleanup in pennsylvania after a similar accident in one nine hundred seventy nine he explains what the workers

are going through. what the people in japan are going right through right now it's kind of hard to tell because no one has access to them as far as i've 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 a valve you go in with the welding machine let's 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 for in water in massive amounts and they should be probably pouring worry cassar boron in in massive amounts as well is that really the only catch 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 has not been accomplished and for that i'm very disappointed. randall thomson sharing his firsthand insight into what's involved in tackling a crisis at a nuclear plant nuclear power is often sold as the clean green solution to meet our burgeoning energy needs but as the crisis unfolds of people are questioning whether they were a bad danger on their doorstep. as your pants joined us with a nuclear crisis are you concerned about the stability of nuclear facilities near you this week let's talk about that we have one solar field it's called muscle nuclear plant in england but it's pretty safe you feel like it's safe should. 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 because something about you know it's like this go to you know you look at cell phones you know cell phones or just radio waves with if a report came out tomorrow that says cell phones cause cancer people to put the cell phones down and other not so people take the nuclear energy if it has been work people are really interested in you know certain wins and different kinds of alternative energies but even about those. five enough to put enough money into the research there's enough research dollars that it's not going to be a viable alternative and what pays for those there's tax dollars right correct so if you stop spending money and will we can 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 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 when i. will 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 to go that this is happening right now but most plants are pretty safe sure i think it centers on people always thinking the worst and maybe that's the reaction from nine eleven even with people always think of the things that can get bad so i think there's an 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 a high price to pay.

sure to give us your reaction to the events that are shaping our world click on our g dot com for more analysis on today's top stories. a fear that spreading faster than radiation read how those living well beyond your parents' shores are clearing out pharmacies to avoid contamination without proper advice directly jeopardizing their health. gunning for a new album to symbolize the state. firearm as it's. an energy giant gazprom wants to get its point across to st petersburg officials throughout plans for the controversial skyscraper next stop the courtroom details on why.

him. 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 bed the violence started after a failure to get militias to join the southern army in the oil producing areas near what will be a new national border southern sudan becomes an independent nation in july after a mostly peaceful referendum that almost unanimously chose to cede the northern governments accused of arming rebel factions. u.n. secretary general has condemned 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 are thought to have died the u.n. blames forces loyal to president. who refuses to go despite losing last year's poll sparking months of violence. polls have opened for egyptians they're taking part in their first fully free votes in a decade and

a referendum on our future reform is after the uprising fried weeks ago that toppled the presidency of hosni mubarak his replacement will be chosen in a few months before half of egypt's eighty million people are eligible to vote in a high turnout expected performs well after parliamentary elections in the future. up next we'll look at russia's romance with the city of lights in just a few minutes.

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