british french and u.s. warships converge on libya preparing to launch a decisive strike on colonel gadhafi and his forces and libya's internal of barrow's. the regime is maintaining a ceasefire say they still being bombarded telling me twenty six from inside typically in just a few moments. the washington accused of cherry picking word intervenes rapidly mobilising for libya while innocent civilians die another nation is torn by internal strife. was radiation arrests grow as japan struggles to save its crippled nuclear site eight days after the nation was overwhelmed by the powerful earthquake and tsunami. that dramatize aish new japan's nuclear power is now being

called into question the banks say some say the compromise but. i love it i am in moscow i'm not sure as a good to have you with us here on r t our top story colonel gadhafi forces have reportedly entered the city of benghazi the libyan rebels main stronghold east of tripoli is comes just hours before the u.s. britain france and arab countries meet in paris to decide their next move against the libyan leader under the new u.n. resolution british and french fighter jets are on standby to enforce a no fly zone to stop gadhafi supporters gadhafi supporters from firing into rebels five u.s. warships are also nearby he's 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 and what we've been told is that it could be just a matter of hours after this summit that we could see british and french fighter jets here in libya with the american president barack obama has issued what he's called 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 he will feel the full on sort of u.n. sponsored is strikes with the americans have made it quite clear that they do not want to lead 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 legal ceasefire that's seems to be a reaction to the call and the sanctioning body united nations of a no fly zone resolution we are hearing conflicting reports on the one hand we're

hearing from the gadhafi regime that they are in for see 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 ads jabir as well as in misrata are still concerns here in libya about the question of the most rise of the one hand by the rebels are third and fourth on the other hand that is very real concern and questions being asked whether or not it will not be in large to some kind of some scale 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 thing could develop here in

libya. and she also said ask you from the web site global research says whether or not the western agrees with gadhafi is actions bombing libya would breach international war this is not really a no fly zone or a no fly zone in fact implies a bombing campaign and preparations are 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 made by by france and britain so that in fact. i think what should be understood first of all that this intervention even though it is a doctrine gondor. you you when hospices is interrogation of international law you colors and they go into a country and start blocking the help of the police all of the pretext that you are coming to a good rescue of civilians so from my standpoint and from the standpoint of

international law this is interference and affairs as. a sovereign country i can't be like a coffee or not at the scottish. the revolutionary moods been spreading across the middle east and north africa for almost three months now syria is the latest country where people are marching to voice their anger for them it's about their 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 started out defying a ban on marches in yemen at least forty five people die dozens of others injured after snipers allegedly opened fire on workers we staged a walkout at an anti-government protest in the capital the president declared a thirty day state of emergency but denies his forces were involved in the shooting in bahrain the army demolished the pearl monument which had been a symbol of the month long shiite uprising against the sunni monarchy but the

foreign interference in these countries is noticeably fit on the ground compared to the focus being given to libya right now lauren lyster has more but appears to be tunnel vision of what it comes to turbulent country. god is great. final words of this imported peaceful protesters in bahrain. before he appears to be shot allegedly by buffer any security forces since martial law was declared this week to buffer a new government his crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. clearing them 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 and i want to address the situation in libya when images in reports of violence against protesters that could dockery's hands in libya reached the u.s.

we saw the president take a stand. on are nothing has lost legitimacy to lead and he must leave early on president obama called her plans for a no fly zone over. now here at the united nations the security council has since taken the lead on that meanwhile the united states has already sent warships along with humanitarian aid in libya's traction it's like the tough economic sanctions on the country essentially freezing it out of the u.s. banking system and reports suggest the u.s. has also played a more closed in the north african conflict and opposition. for here 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 pop for 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 and michael libya the 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 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 if the cost of the values of human rights and democracy the u.s. claims to care so much about and some of the. is worthless and the libyan blood is more important it's just ridiculous than. it was the believe it and that's the secret you're looking at american. helicopter gunships you know which are protesters in the capital there and that is where the united states stands on the issue tacitly behind auto pratt's. or against then depending on the threat to us to entrance not to live lauren lyster r.t. new york. the more images we're getting in from libya a plane has been shot down over the main rebel held city of benghazi it went down in flames outside the city early on saturday after the area came under shelling is

despite moammar gadhafi is government declaring a cease fire and it's had to outmaneuver a western military intervention but the opposition says shells rained down well after the announcement and he accused the libyan leader of lying. and you can keep on top of all of the developments in the world's top stories by following r t on twitter and facebook also plenty of video reports and coverage lined up on our you tube channel. if. the evening. comes to. sit.

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a report. first a cream removal cold a clear cut the first second the explosives are used once again later than the fear they'll serve the remainder eaten by machinery. finally one more good soil is deposited in vallecito. on a large. turning now to japan where aftershocks continue rattling the country raising fears of further damage workers at the stricken fukushima power plant are battling against time to restore the cooling systems to stop the reactors from reaching nuclear meltdown or he's ivor bennett is in japan where people are struggling to come to terms with the destruction from last week's earthquake and tsunami plus the massive loss of life. the japanese nuclear agency has now raised the alert level or

the fukushima plant from a four to a five this is on the international scale of nuclear accidents which runs from zero to seven and will be in 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 are rated it because two or 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 plant 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 through power cable from the main grid where the problems they face is the massively higher levels of 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 the water

level inside they used to fuel rods of course is believed to be dangerously low now if it gets too low and iraq's become exposed and there is a. serious danger that there 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 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 after pushing of land in case in a whole lot in concrete like a regular chernobyl to. minimize the risk of the radiation leak mr garner 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 and lessons from nearby strongly us as well. oh another thing is now

being called into question internationally by nuclear experts and that is the question of privatization of nuclear power. plant explosion 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 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 weren't 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 cooling 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 us but once 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 human a guess aster because that threat should never have been located there in the first place and citizens had 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 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 privatized 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 nuclear reactors flown private corporations because private corporations need group is over. for existing is to be next emerged profits in by next mizen profits

in the nuclear sector we're talking about we devise new concerns. and last 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 noble was and i think the state will take over responsibility for that. i think whether the state has it or private companies do it. it's very difficult for anyone to do this to japan is no stranger to nuclear tragedies this is where the second that's all micron was dropped in one nine hundred forty five that's trying everything they can it for the much more first and not that it's austin but because nuclear watchdog is already expecting wider consequences the question is how many will be affects it other than it's artsy like

a sack not everyone's taking japan's 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 within the nuclear industry and town of trading or at least. twisting or misinterpreting the evidence but one example is raising it to five it's been four for a long time which was the level of three mile island where there was nuclear radiation shit but no nuclear material released into the environment this one is at now 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 it is paid for yesterday had an article in which they are not going to add to the plume of white smoke coming out of that one of the reactors and they say the government is saying it's

a plume of white smoke but they really need is explosions i think what we can be sure of is that this mess will take weeks months to clear up. it's really very serious much more than then the government is letting us protein still at fukushima it's a life risking race to head off atomic disaster randall 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 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 about 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 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 pouring worry kesler 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 has not been accomplished and for that i'm very disappointed. i was randal 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 demands but as the crisis unfolds at fukushima people are questioning why they want that danger on their doorsteps.

as to 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 but it's pretty safe you feel like it's safe to but hopefully we ourselves live across the river from a nuclear power plant virginia and 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 to some people you know it's like this go to you know you look at cell phones you know cell phone service where you waste if a report came out tomorrow that says cell phones cause cancer of people to put their cell phones down now they're not so people take their nuclear energy if it is even works people are really interested in you know surfin way and different kinds

of alternative energies we think about those. enough companies put enough money into the research there's enough research dollars that it's not going to be a five alternative and what pays for those there's tax dallas right correct so if you stop spending money and will we can start spending money on energy getting that would never happen. hopefully 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 do you support nuclear energy you know right now. well because the 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

a how can we rule out nuclear energy. why is the many people so afraid of nuclear energy i know that this is happening right now but most plants i'm pretty sure i think it centers on people always thinking the worst and maybe that's the reaction from nine eleven even when 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. remember to give us your reaction to the events shaping the world right now click on r.t. dot com where we have more analysis on today's top stories and a whole lot more including this here that spreading disaster spreading faster than radiation read how those living well beyond japan's shores are right now pharmacies they want to avoid contamination but without proper advice they're actually jeopardizing their. gunning for a new album to symbolize a state utah adopts

a firearm as its token to maybe find out why it. was that he giant gazprom wants to get its point across to st petersburg officials who threw out their plans for this controversial skyscraper next stop the port world all the details on the. 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 violence started after a failure to get militias to join the southern army and the oil producing areas near what will be a new national border so the other in sudan becomes an independent nation in july following a mostly peaceful referendum that almost unanimously chose to secede the no other

governments accused of arming rebel factions. the un secretary general has condemned the increasing violence in the ivory coast banki moon described the situation is it 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 iran who refuses to go despite losing last year's poll sparking months of violence. egyptians are taking part in their first only free of votes in decades and a referendum on constitutional reform is after the uprising five weeks ago of toppled president hosni mubarak his replacement have been chosen in a few months over half of egypt's eighty million people are eligible to vote in the high turnout so expect it performs well after a parliamentary elections in the future. if you moments will be exploring terrorism in russia and why many incidents involved suicide bombers from the north caucasus

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