these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations are today. pro-government forces in libya reportedly advance on the rebel stronghold of benghazi despite clearing a cease fire. dismisses the u.n. no fly zone resolution. it could be the move that starts question france the united states into no inching a decisive strike on get out his regime under a united nations resolution telling me i want to see it from the libyan capital in a few moments from all. the international community is accused of all standing with world powers focusing their attention on libya largely ignoring violence in bahrain and. engineers looking desperately to avoid meltdown japan's tsunami

damaged fukushima power plant struggle to restore electricity. and so the cooling systems could be functioning on some very small traces of radiation and now going to take it in tokyo tap port said. very well we'll continue this is our see it live from moscow now reports from libya suggest forces loyal to gadhafi are carrying out attacks on that rebel stronghold city of benghazi despite the so-called government ceasefire colonel gadhafi has called a u.n. resolution to enforce a no fly zone over the country as invalid all this foreign powers meet right now in powers to decide on what action will be taking against libya french officials say it's possible military action could begin it within hours of the end of today's

summit are things policy or not reports from tripoli. according to the gadhafi regime it is and hearing to their immediate ceasefire that accord full yesterday friday afternoon it says 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 at hearings of 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 the gadhafi soldiers have taken up positions 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 a fighter jet was shot down over benghazi all these reports conflict in as they are all 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 to 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 going to miss happening on the ground caused by the gadhafi regime the leaders attending to emergency summit in paris have indicated that if gadhafi is in fact breaking the cease fire they will be very soon to act and then i guess we could see a no fly zone being implemented as soon as tonight saturday britain has already indicated that it's into its typhoon and 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 the daffy he says that if in fact his forces are fine if they are not adhering to the cease fire and if in fact they're not allowing the humanitarian access within the international community will act immediately there

is a growing concern certainly on the ground here that the level fields are being created . so 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 a full scale foreign intervention happening here the whole idea of a no fly zone has to show countries you need to remember there were no fly zone was implemented in iraq saddam hussein remained in power there 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 here once. but with concerns the no fly zone over libya could be a cover up for a foreign force agent and see what john brown says u.n.

resolution is full of holes. if you can interpret so many things and then i mean what on earth you mean by protecting civilians presumably it means protecting civilians from both sides because there are pretty suggestions of atrocities on both sides and certainly not a one sided thing but of course i think the central point is that the whole thrust of the intervention is not seems to me is not a principled thing and that counts for the for the contradictions and the holes in the resolution i think the whole thing is a mess so the resolution itself is full of holes because i think you have to question the whole process and once you start on a process that is the arab league contradictory then you end up with more and more pitfalls along the wife you have this thing that. for example stayed very largely out of it and then suddenly when the resolution is passed yesterday he makes very specific demands which clearly went off in the resolution that demands that for

example the government forces pull back from a series of towns. that kind of thing so you have a clear intention to of different parties to make of it what they will and i think that we will see that process roll on. well violence is raging across the arab world as government forces attempt to suppress large scale revolts in yemen police have used tear gas and live rounds while storming a protest because the latest attempt by pro-government forces to growing our grasp of questions in the rain rebellions so-called monument amongst. giant white sculpture was the symbol of a month long shia uprising against sunni monarchy but the u.n. security council is only moved on maybe. changes in other countries have been left to fend for themselves it seems a long list of explores the difference in attitude you may find that something

which is. just. god is great. the final words of this purported peaceful protesters in bahrain. before he appears to be shot allegedly by balcony 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 my role videos though 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 in reports of violence against protesters take a job his hands in libya reached the u.s. saw the president take a stand. as last week germicide to lead and he

must leave 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 meanwhile the united states has already said warships along with humanitarian aid in libya as iraq said it's not the topic. next amess on the country essentially freezing it out of the u.s. banking system and reports suggest the u.s. has also played a more covert work role in the north african conflicts 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. . but we're. going to. 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 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 foe unlike 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 the u.s. says 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 it could cost at the values of

human rights and democracy the u.s. claims to care so much about and some of the blood is war. and blood is more important it's just a critical stand. because it is the believe in the spreadsheet your look in your the mirror. hold. on ships you know attacking honor and protesters in the capital that is where the united states stands on the issue tacitly behind kratz. or against depending on the threat to u.s. interests not to lives or in mr r.t. new york i mean time british opposition m.p. jeremy corcoran says his country has been very selective deciding where military 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 but. there's been no condemnation worthy of anything against bahrain saudi arabia yemen or amman who've also been killing large numbers of civilians totally over the last few weeks and i think that the worst is being very selective about this it's all about securing a future status with whatever government comes out of libya libya has vast oil reserves 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 and 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 to bring garcia in the western part led by gadhafi and the remains of his

government this is a very sad and very tragic situation. but you can follow the latest developments in libya on our twitter and facebook pages record links to one of our videos and regular updates. he says. the official only allocation. called talk from the. shoulder like. the.

old girls. on the call. it was also a lot from moscow let's turn our attention now to go to japan where they may be absorbing a dangerously high levels of radiation but the fukushima power station the battle to restore that trust again to the plant's crippled reactors it's believed that key to restarting the cooling system and of fighting a nuclear catastrophe these are the bennett now has more on this. some power actually has been restored to parts of the nuclear plants not the crucial areas cooling systems in the reactors if that's what they're aiming to get but what are doing and what they have done is connect our cables to reactor number two trying to get the other reactors electricity hasn't yet been turned on because if they do that they fear that it might now function so what they're doing now is doing the

checks seeing if they if their electricity will go through without any problems if that does happen i think they will hear that it leaves cooling systems and cooling pumps will be a massive relief for those states the workers who are doing everything they can because that's what they were trying to do for the last eight days get those calling systems up and running get the temperature down in the meantime what they've done is try to call water into the damages and today we've had again military fire engines on the ground shooting canons of water into the spent fuel pools of else the reactors number three and thought because the water levels in those believed to be dangerously low if it falls below the fuel rods and explode exposes those to the air then there is fear that radioactive substances could escape as early as last saturday a week ago when there was these are these the first explosion of the year one of the reactors at fukushima it would buying bottled water in bulk even in tokyo as far as as that as an east came out and the government was issuing warnings that

people just in the area of the saying don't bring them often case of contamination so that they were spreading south and it had all the way up there up as far as sendai where or so it's weak a lot of water as it was in sort of why even a few days ago and take it. into there as people were trying to avoid taking tap water containers of contamination now those is spread stuff as well and the government did send checks on milk and spinach in neighboring prefectures to fukushima and they found radiation levels be above normal again no danger to. one's health but there is is obviously now mr diallo the government spokesperson a-g. cabinet secretary has said that radiation it will outside the thirty kilometer exclusion zone and not harmful to thirty min health but a lot of governments are believing that they're getting it their nationals out and also an image of really the fingers are being pointed now questions being asked who was to blame for this could have been avoided in the main issue is coming up now

months tick exit experts well why is the issue of privatization of japan's nuclear power because. electric power company owns the gun and the questions now being asked if it was safe to compromised for profit. 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 will that will be uninhabitable for the foreseeable future and it could get far worse than the us the 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 human made it's aster because that plant 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 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 he's these nuclear reactors from private corporations because private corporations main purpose for existing is the next profits and by next making profits in the nuclear set that we're talking about we're amazing concerns of public health and safety 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 that the state will take over in order to contain these plants they'll probably need to be covered

with concrete and sound much like a normal was and i think the state will take over responsibility for that. i think whether the state goes it or private companies do it. it's very difficult for anyone to mystra to parents no stranger to nuclear tragedies this is where the second atomic bomb was dropped to nine hundred forty five trying everything they can at fukushima to furthur not a disaster but it has nuclear watchdog is already expecting wider consequences the question is how many will be affected either bennett's r.t. back a second but i think missions and emergency teams working at fukushima know that their mission to avert a nuclear disaster could kill them rattle thompson was involved in a three mile island cleanup in pennsylvania after a similar accident inviting seventy nine tells us what the workers are facing 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 list trying to say trying to change a valve you go in with the welding machine. 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 if they pour in water in massive amounts and they should be probably poor in work acid or boron in in massive amounts as well is that really the only correct 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 is soon as the evolution started that would have been the moral thing to do and that is not an accomplishment for that on principle. oh meantime robert how far as who is an expert on environmental and energy policies says that there are many dangers lying with a stricken for my station situation that are difficult to control the. japanese authorities appear to not still have control over the situation they are taking measures that are of desperate nature that are i guess you would call it improvisations on the playbook and it doesn't appear at this time that they're working the concerned that i've had about this is the hazards of the spent fuel storage pools the water has either completely or partially drained and it's likely that the spent fuel. has is

to catch fire is already caught fire cesium one thirty seven is really the bad actor in this because if volatilize is and it has a half life of thirty years it gives off external penetrating radiation so if it lands on the ground in any significant quantities and you're standing nearby the gamma rays coming off it are exposed to your whole body multiple organs that once when it over time it mimics pet potassium and is accumulated by accumulated in biota in the food chain and so it sticks around for a long time the rule of thumb is that it takes about ten have lives for this material to get decay down to levels that are presumed to be safe. supporters of nuclear power say it's a clean and relatively safe way to produce energy but the current crisis unfolding at fukushima people are being forced to balance the benefits and potential dangers

. that we have. as you pam said us with the nuclear crisis are you concerned about the stability of nuclear facilities near you this week let's talk about that. so the field is cold not a nuclear plant in england but it's pretty safe you feel like it's safe should. we ourselves live across the river from a nuclear power plant in 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 is why some people you know it's like this go to you know you look at cell phones you know cell phone service where you always were if a report came out tomorrow that says cell phones cause cancer people 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 way and different kinds of alternative energies do you think about this. enough companies 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 tax alice right correct so if you stop spending money and we can start spending money on energy saving that would ever happen. hopefully my lifetime i find it amazing the amount of energy what's being used here in eric rose in light specifically here on times square so i think people are. maybe a bit too much used to use loads and loads of energy so 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 we know right now. well because this is 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 are so many people so afraid of nuclear energy i know that this is happening right now but most plans are pretty safe sure i think it centers on people always think of the worst and maybe that's reaction from nine eleven even people always think of the things that can get bad so i think there's that 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. now you cannot give us your reaction to the events that outstripping the world right now is having some article com where we have a lot more analysis on today's main news and if it's spreading faster than radiation read how those living well beyond japan's shores are clearing out pharmacies they want to avoid contamination but without advice practically jeopardizing their own. gunning for

a new emblem to symbolize the state of utah adopt a firearm as a token image why at r.t. dot com. that's an article about some other stories making headlines around the world this hour and egyptians are taking part in a referendum on constitutional reform if approved the changes will shorten the president's term in power from six to four years and allow no more than two times overthrown egyptian leader hosni mubarak to lead for thirty years the reforms will aim for parliamentary elections in june and presidential elections in september of this year. gaza a member of hamas has been killed by an israeli airstrike after more than fifty rockets were reportedly fired into israel police say it was the heaviest attack by gaza militants in two years with two israelis reportedly being injured four civilians were also hurt in the israeli response to the attack is according to the

health ministry girls. a former u.s. secretary of state warren christopher has died of cancer at age eighty five he had been a key negotiator in the former yugoslavia and was praised for his efforts in ending the bosnia herzegovina war and also try to promote peace in the middle east while serving under president bill clinton after retiring from office christopher produced practice rather law and international affairs. the u.n. is secretary general has condemned be increasing violence in ivory coast the moon described the situation as quote urban one. warfare on a crime against humanity itself with a deadly shelling by security forces in a market which killed at least twenty five people the u.n. blames forces loyal to president bush who refuses to go it's right losing last year's told them sparked months of violence. all right in just a few minutes we'll take you to the historic russian city of vote on our special

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