a plane has been a shut down by the libyan a rebel stronghold of benghazi when this is reported renewed shelling despite colonel gadhafi is a sure instead of a cease fire. it could be the move that starts a push from france the united states and launching a decisive strike on the refuse regime under a united nations resolution calling me want to see it from the libyan capital in a few moments from all. washington is accused of cherry picking where it intervenes rapidly mobilising for libya while innocent civilians die in the other nations this morning by the channel strike. also this hour new

a powerful aftershocks in japan struggles to bring its crippled nuclear site back from the brink take decades after the nation was overwhelmed by the severe earthquake and tsunami. and power cables have been restored to two out of the six reactors at fukushima and they hope to bring electricity to the cooling systems later today. it is just after two pm here in moscow and one pm in tripoli you without saying welcome to the program well there are conflicting reports from libya fierce fighting is allegedly underway in the rebels' main stronghold the city of benghazi but the libyan authorities claim cuffy troops have nothing to do to win the attack policy that has more from. according to the gadhafi regime it is

a hearing to that immediate ceasefire that a call for yesterday friday afternoon it is contrary to reports that we're hearing from rebel fighters it is not attacking the rebel stronghold of benghazi in fact the gadhafi regime has gone so far as to say it is the rebels who are not hearing to the cease fire and that they're the ones who are on the offensive a very different story emerging from opposition leaders there insisting that the city of benghazi is under attack they say they conduct the soldiers have taken a position around the southern parts of the town that they firing from tanks there they're also reporting that they have been is strikes since last night and that many of the targets are civilians we're hearing from rebel leaders that many people have been injured many more have been killed early this morning assigned to jade was shot down over there in gaza it's not that clear who's trying to get this was and who shot it down but all these reports conflict you know as they are concerning because they come just hours after the libyan prime minister said that the gadhafi regime was implementing a cease fire that followed

a decision by the united nations for a no fly zone should be implemented as soon as possible but we certainly have heard an increasing urgent calls by opposition leaders for the international community to get involved in light of what they say is fighting that's happening on the ground caused by the gadhafi regime emergency summit estates to be held in paris the leaders attending have indicated that if gadhafi is in fact great the cease fire there will be very soon to act and then i guess we could see a no fly zone being implemented as soon as tonight saturday which one has already indicated that its interests typhoon a tornado hits to this part of the world they also say that they are on board to launch military strikes as soon as possible the same word coming out of france now the american president barack obama has given an ultimatum to be daffy he says that if in fact his forces are fighting if they are not adhering to the cease fire and if in fact they are not allowing for humanitarian access within the international community will act immediate. there is

a growing concern certainly on the ground here that the naval fields are being created for much more foreign involvement it is true that the rebels want to see a no fly zone implemented as soon as possible but no one in this country wants this to be an excuse for foreign intervention there is growing concern that under the banner of humanitarian assistance we could see through scale foreign intervention happening here the whole idea of a no fly zone has shortcomings you need to remember there were no fly zone was implemented in iraq saddam hussein remained in power they were another ten years in bosnia after the no fly zone was implemented then we had this weapon it's a massacre these kind of examples can be used to illustrate the limitations of a no fly zone and that is why people here in libya are very fearful that the international community might decide that a no fly zone is not enough and simply use it as the beginning for a full scale military intervention in this country which nobody feel once. policy or the latest report right now is that the british prime minister david cameron the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton and french president nicolas sarkozy are set to

meet in paris in about twenty five minutes to discuss the next stage of intervention with our so you can propose to discuss its next move with libya the british opposition m.p. german coroner says that the country has very selective when deciding whether to treat intervention is necessary. i think there's a lot of double standards going on here because what is happening in libya is obviously terrible and obviously gadhafi should have heeded the views of ordinary people and come to some kind of accommodation with them all removed himself from office. there's been no condemnation worthy of anything against our aim saudi arabia yemen or martin who've also been killing large numbers of civilians totally over the last few weeks and i think that the west has been very selective about this it's all about securing future status with whatever government comes out of libya libya has been fast will be hosting libya also has the potential of being

a very big investor in the rest of the world indeed it has been for a very long time i think this is much more about european and western influence in the new new emerging countries of north africa and i think the west is trying to assert itself in libya and i am also suspicious that we might end up with a division of libya almost a partition into an eastern part led by those that are currently ruling the roost and the western part led by gadhafi and the remains of his government this is a very sad very tragic situation. 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 voice 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 sprung up defying

a ban on marches in yemen around fifty people are reported to have been killed and hundreds of others injured after snipers allegedly opened fire on workers who stays or walk out of an anti-government protest in the capital the president's declared a thirty day state of emergency but did not use his forces were involved in the shooting and in the army demolished the so-called pearl monument which has become a symbol of the month long shiite uprising against the sunni monarchy but the foreign interference in these countries that is noticeably thin on the ground compared to the focus being given to libya right now it's a long list and has more on what appears to be a case of tunnel vision and it comes to talk of the 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'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 that could doppies hands in libya reached the u.s. we saw the president's take a stand. i think as lost legitimacy to lead. 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 the u.s.

banking system and reports suggest the u.s. has also played a more cofer role in the north african conflict and opposition that the cia has for thirty years 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 a friend versus fellow a michael libya the rain is as 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 we want to make sure they stay there u.s. interests coming at the cost of people's lives and if it cost at the values of human rights and democracy the u.s. claims to care so much about and some of the blood is worth this and maybe even blood is more important it's just critical a stand. against everything we believe in in the spreadsheet that you're looking at american old helicopter gunships you know attacking protesters in the capital and

that is where the united states stands on the issue tacitly behind auto krauts. or against them depending on the threat to u.s. interests not to lives lauren mr r.t. new york you can keep developments on the world's big stories by following r.t. on twitter and facebook and also hours of video reports and coverage lined up for you on our you tube. in.

he would ask you live from moscow now let's turn our attention to that of japan where another powerful aftershock was struck the country as follows last week's double hit which killed over seven thousand people and crippled the fukushima nuclear plant that are of course to raise fears of a meltdown. is across developments in japan forced another process live you've been out there for a number of days now traveling around the region bring us up to date what's what's been happening over the past hour. the latest development is this large earthquake that hit me iraqi prefecture just north of tokyo just south of the fukushima prefecture where those nuclear reactors are now this is rated six point how to say point one magnitude than one that caused all the damage eight days get was nine point zero so pretty large we haven't heard of any damage and there was some worry about a nuclear reactors due to its proximity to those with that there's really no damage and no injuries no as have been hundreds of aftershocks in the last eight days and

this is one of if not be the large the largest though buildings in tokyo was shaking what into reports here in i guess i can give felix but let's say hundreds of our shops based there was believed to be what is expected it will be a very large aftershock following that and original earthquake and this is probably it thankfully right now was the fear it would bring a tsunami with it thank you that's not the case either for five days now our emergency workers have been trying to cool down the reactors in the fukushima nuclear plant we've seen the footage of our airplanes dropping massive amounts of water we've seen the trucks the water cannons the fire engines we understand that they are they are having some level of success with calling the reactors one of the achieved so far. well i've been trying everything they can as last eight days now finally they seem to be getting some a because the day they are out taken a power cable if you try to do the last two days to these their reactions they've connected the power cable to two out of the six reactors now they haven't turned on

electricity but they hope to soon what this will do is get the traveling systems up and running again those are the cooling systems of the knocked out by that earthquake eight days ago and that's what's causing the problems because they have you know to keep their reactors cool an attempt has been rising and that's what's led to the explosions at four six reactors so hopefully they'll get the electricity on in in the next few hours they reckon all of the reactors in the meantime what they've been doing is again pumping in water far in water from the military fire engines from the ground into the spent fuel pools inside the meticulous reactors three in four because inside there the water levels are believed to be dangerously low now if that was low actually goes below but fuel rods are never exposed to the year that's when it's real danger of radioactive substances leaking out so they're still trying to pull those with water and hopefully the electricity will be on and he's cool insistence will be working soon after the radiation levels will test so

been done on milk and spinach in a neighboring prefectures to fukushima and according to the government spokesperson is that it one of the chief cabinet secretary levels of radiation of those that actually succeed safety standards however he did say that he would pose a risk to human health as for the radiation in the plant itself last fluctuation is still very high but while the flow of love actuations this morning at eight o'clock is money eight hundred thirty eight make it might receive it's per hour sorry and then hour later it went down to three hundred sixty four not received as broward so still fluctuating wildly but outside that thirty kilometers out the radiation levels are pretty low i like that so let's talk about the blame game here some people are blaming the american company general electric they're the ones who designed the fukushima nuclear plant there others are saying it's the japanese government that should be held to account what are the people saying on the ground when you ron. the questions now being raised about the private eyes ation of

japan's nuclear power is this the fukushima power plant was actually owned by the tokyo electric power company and the questions being raised now were said was safety standards compromised the profit out of any private enterprise profit is the main target obviously and the questions also being raised now although they've got fifty of their employees that a little known as the fukushima figure in law who is not called state if they're trying now is to get this done under wraps but and under control but the problem is it was a question being asked is it what are they were leading up to this sort of catastrophe in the catastrophe in the first place and work profits was placed over safety is buildings from twenty two meters above no matter how hard they try disaster still looms it from. 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 more that will be uninhabitable for the foreseeable future it could be a far worse than earth the plant's 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 made disaster because that should never have been located there in the first place and citizens i 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 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. these nuclear reactors from private

corporations because private corporations name for existing is due next emerged profits and by next amazing profits in the nuclear sector we're talking you know we're in my eyes new concerns but we can see it 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 we're going to be inevitable in the state will take over in order to contain these plants will probably need to be covered with concrete and sand much like normal was and i think the state will take over responsibility for the. i think whether the state does it or private companies do it it's very difficult for anyone to do this dr japan is no stranger to nuclear tragedies this is where the second that's i wrong was dropped in nineteen forty five they're trying everything they can at fukushima to avert another disaster but it has nuclear watchdog is already

expecting wider consequences the question is how many will be affected i bet it's not see eye to seche on what it was taking japan's assessment of its nuclear crisis at face value alex cohen who's an expert on japanese culture says that the government has 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 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 really a ship but no nuclear material released into the environment this one has that now says amounts of nuclear materials huge radiation and only now wrenchingly has it raised to five in it of course most people believe it should be six so there is still an attempt to play it down children newspaper yesterday had an article in

which terry let's pointed to the plume of white smoke coming out of one of the reactors and they said the government is saying it's a plume of white smoke what they really mean is explosion but i think what we can be sure of is that this mess will take weeks maybe none ths to clear up. it's really very serious much more than the government is letting us now for the teams still out the fukushima product life risking race to head off a comet because austin randall thompson was involved in a three mile island cleanup in pennsylvania after a similar accident in one nine hundred seventy nine explains not the work it's 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 can 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 trying to say trying to change of power you go in with a 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 your turn 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 gas 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 supporting. our nuclear power as often sold out clean green solutions to meet our budgeting and huge amounts but as the crisis

unfolds our function or people are questioning whether they want that danger tossed her head next. 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 cold not a nuclear plant in england it's pretty safe you feel like it's safe. 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 there's something about you know it's like this though to you know you look at cell phones you know cell phones there's radio waves with if a report came out tomorrow that says cell phones cause cancer if you're going to put their cell phones down now they're 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 what you think about us. 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 is tax alice right correct so if we stop spending money and will we can start spending money on energy given that whatever happened. 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 do you support nuclear energy we know right now. 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 got if you don't know then how can we rule out nuclear energy why are so many people so afraid of nuclear energy i know that this is happening right now but must say. plans are pretty stay show 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 armageddon 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. i would like to get your reaction to the events that are shaping the world right now just kind of put you off the dot com for the record i'm not some analysis on a sneeze isn't the figure that's spreading fast the problem with fear and panic is spreading faster than that of radiation resolvers living well beyond japan shores

all for now pharmacies want to avoid contamination but without advice actually jeopardizing their right health. i'm gunning for a new emblem to symbolize a state utah cops firearm has had so much reply and also called. us energy giant gazprom wants to get its point across to st petersburg officials who are throughout plans for the controversial skyscraper next to the cliff also details on the online. it with artillery from moscow is an hour twenty five minutes past the hour let's check out some of the other world news headlines in brief for you this hour though there's been heavy fighting between the army and rebels in southern sudan at least

seventy people have died 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 following a mostly peaceful referendum which almost unanimously chose to secede the northern governments accused meantime of arming the rebel factions. the un and secretary general has condemned the increasing violence going on every coast thank you describe the situation as quote urban warfare and a crime against humanity because after the deadly shelling by security forces in a market in which at least twenty five people are thought of died the u.n. blames of forces loyal to president laurent gbagbo who refuses to go despite losing last year's poll it's just out months of violence. and adoptions are taking part in their first fully free votes in decades it's a referendum on constitutional reform that's been organized by about military

leadership were choosing charge following it for breweries uprising which topple the presidency of mostly mubarak over half of egypt's eighty million people are eligible to vote and people have been forming a long queues since this morning reforms will allow for parliamentary elections in the future. well there we look at russia's romance with the city of love in just a few minutes here on out.

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