we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from the realms. we've. covered. breaking news this hour a multinational force launches more than one hundred new channel missile strikes on libya. more than twenty sites hit as the international community steps up if it's to close and no fly zone over libya and it would pull something p.c. for civilian casualties and it's killing me to see him from the capital city in just a few moments a formal. kind of an emergency summit in paris world powers agree to stop any aggression from colonel gadhafi. strong words from world leaders who say get that females these stilts from call me in the same civilians all the details coming up in a few moments. and russia says the armed intervention in libya is only credible claiming

more blood will be shed to produce calls for a cease fire. russia has called for an instance of the bloodshed orthodoxy and the opposition to sit down and house talks all the details are to. bring you the top news and headlines live from moscow where it is four o'clock in the morning just after three o'clock in the morning in libya where we will bring you the latest news a multinational force has launched a series of strikes against colonel gadhafi his forces in libya the coalition is calling it operation odyssey dawn the libyan government has demanded an urgent meeting of the united nations security council in a brief statement issued late saturday evening colonel gadhafi said libyans that will confront what he calls the attacks of a colonial crusader libyan state television is reporting

a hospital in tripoli. and a fuel storage depot in misrata have of both been hit the libyan government reports there have been civilian casualties after one hundred twelve cruise missiles were launched by the american and british navy jets from a number of countries have attacked colonel gadhafi has ground forces the french president was the first to order strikes around the rebel city of benghazi to prevent attacks against civilians russia has called the decision to take military action in libya regrettable policy or who's in the capital tripoli has more on the developments in libya. well there's just been a blast of gunfire which you heard behind me here in the capital city tripoli it's not immediately clear what's going on behind but a short time ago there were protesters here so we certainly are starting to feel the effect of this military strike on on the reaction from the gadhafi regime here from the capital city now so far we are hearing that more than twenty sides have

been hit by these warplanes from the international community increasingly it does seem as if this is an operation that will be happening in the east and the waist of the country the french defense ministry has confirmed that some twenty french planes have been used in that they've been hard hitting tanks and military personnel vehicles now that operation has been concentrated largely in the rebel held town of been darzi and the latest word there from rebel fighters is ekadasi forces have pushed to the announcements of what we know though in terms of u.s. assistance is that already they have launched paratroopers strikes we know that there were three submarines and twenty five american ships at this point in the mediterranean and that u.s. tomahawk missiles have landed in the west of the country in tripoli and in misrata not libyan state television has been reporting for the last few hours that there are heavy civilian casualties it says these are happening here in the city of tripoli and i continue that we have heard a few ambulances driving past it is there also happening in the town of bint ghazi

they also say that there's been a strike on fuel stores in misrata now the british air force has joined the operations it's not clear exactly what they will be doing but we know that they have a capability to hit targets and also to assist in surveillance it is with also making the point that the pentagon has traced that this is only the slowest phase of what they're calling a multi-phase operation and they're currently there are no american planes flying overhead particularly these reports that we're hearing from libyan state television of heavy casualties this is starting to worry people on the ground on by. sides you do not want to see an operation like this it started to be expanded and broaden into something that last years it was widely understood that the libyan air force is not significant and so it should be very difficult for the international community and to enforce a no fly zone but the question is whether or not under the guise of humanitarian assistance and under the guise of any kind of other arguments this operation will

not continue for years the last thing people here want to see is what they call such soldiers on libyan soil this is something that not only the government but sophie the rebel groups themselves would detail is one of the problems that is facing this whole operation is hard to feel to this to discern on the ground who are civilians and who are legitimate gadhafi targets if you look for example at the pickup truck it's very hard for a pilot to know whether the people on the truck are actually soldiers whether they are people fleeing from being guards even know that so far as many as three hundred thousand people have fled libya many thousands again today making their way out of the game darzi city because there are afraid of the developing violence on the ground and so he will be seen is an increase in violence an increase in is trying to send and what we expect is there was a growing response from the gadhafi regime itself. we're reporting from tripoli libya's capital now world powers decided to enforce a no fly zone at a summit in paris where they were meeting to work out a course of action in libya our europe correspondent daniel bushell has been

following what happened there. reports have confirmed that some twenty warplanes are already on libyan airspace from the french side which has been most active in this starting with the summit are now in military action they've sent referrals fighter jets miraj fighter jets also surveillance aircraft they say the key concern is to enforce a no fly zone over libya airspace in effect grounding colonel gadhafi is jets and helicopters and their number one concern is the civilian population in the around the area of pain ghazi to that effect the first military operation will be to enforce the no fly zone over the east of libya where the rebel strongholds are one hundred one hundred fifty kilometer area it comes after a decision at the paris summit where it was decided that the powers would go in and it was attended by the heads of the united nations the head of the arab league also the emir of qatar several foreign ministers of arab nations for example morocco and the united arab emirates arab states saudi arabia qatar jordan and the united arab

emirates have said they do back the deployment of a no fly zone over libya an air space and the arab states will play a supporting role obviously key their support in the region for the e.u. powers are now falling into line we can confirm italy has offered seven of its air bases that were used by nato previously of course italy just across the mediterranean from libya one of the key air bases that will be used by western powers and we're also seeing other nations coming out and saying they support this for example norway netherlands here in belgium we've also seen canada saying it's five digits already in the region and ready to be deployed within two days they just need to sit up there and western leaders e.u. leaders say they do support this campaign david cameron of the u.k. also anglo merkel of germany despite germany's abstention of the u.n. vote for a no fly zone she says she does back military intervention now they just won't be sending forces themselves germany won't be sending forces but it does support this

. bushel reporting from brussels there now michel chossudovsky who is the director of the center for research on globalization believes that the operation in libya is in fact an act to overthrow gadhafi. it is not a humanitarian operation it is a deadly wall that you are seeing a military material and just say that this is to save the lives of civilians since when do these fighter bombers and save the lives of civilians well it's a war which has the jets of a regime change this of course was not mentioned of the security council resolution but prime minister stephen harper of canada and i'm following the canadian responses has stated that the objective of this operation is to unseat

khadafi so that the whole humanitarian underpinnings of this war you know we're coming entirely here aspect his bets in fact this military coalition is already imply a way to get. the resolution which they themselves have holes. and whole international community. to call nineteen zero zero zero the resolution the united nations security council resolution says to go on all weapons on to. to libya but in fact what are they doing then bringing in weapons this applying opposition forces with benefits through fee of this law is oil. from. the united states canada i'll go there with the intent of the interests of the oil princes of the oil corporations and the extension of the in through. to

allow for this is not. a humanitarian operation it is a war of conquest and it will have devastating consequences all and not only on all the people of libya but most generally. british opposition m.p. jeremy corbyn says it's innocent civilians who will bear the brunt of this warfare . i think it's hard to guess he was to call a ceasefire in order to hope for one hope to bring about a peaceful resolution of this conflict but it was beginning to look as though he was just trying to buy time for himself and i must say i absolutely regret the lack of the ceasefire and regret what is happening at the moment a lot of innocent people have already tried a lot more look as though they're going to die in the next few hours if they strike against. the military's targets of the regime then they might be effective in doing that but i suspect the real problem is they're going to have to strike against targets in the cities and result in large numbers of casualties this is

a terrible situation an awful lot of innocent people are going to die because of the situation i think there's a lot of double standards going on here because what is happening in libya is obviously terrible obviously gadhafi should have heeded the views and ordinary people and come to some kind of accommodation with all removed himself from office . there's been no condemnation worthy of anything against saudi arabia yemen or omar and have 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 was the u.n. has put in place a resolution calling for a no fly zone and that is obviously they have not used the words regime change where there's clearly what's intended and if they go ahead with this and it doesn't work then the next thing is going to be what do you do next do you put your ground forces in if you put in ground forces where do they come from because i can't imagine that any arab league country is going to want to put troops into libya for

very obvious reasons that the same thing could happen to them remember the arab league is led by a lot of people who are all under threat themselves and now there's a worry that we're getting ourselves involved in yet another war and yet another conflict which is essentially an internal civil war in libya and at the same time only six weeks ago. britain was selling arms to libya buying oil from british companies were investing in libya and lead libya was interesting heavily in this country and so it's in a very short space of time that libya has gone from most favored nation to zero and one sort of wonders at the speed of all this and many of those that are now calling for the problem of libya were only a few weeks ago in libya doing business deals and speaking from brazil u.s. president barack obama says it was clear that allied forces had to protect civilians in libya meanwhile a u.s. national security official claims that libya's air defenses have been severely

disabled or at least education has the latest from washington d.c. . the u.s. has launched missiles from its war ships and submarines in the mediterranean targeting it to daffy's air defense systems and the pentagon said the goal is to shape the battlefield for the coalition for forces to take further action they're basically clearing the sky and making sure it could drop is not able to shoot down any planes of the coalition forces and the pentagon also says it is just the beginning of the operation over the next few days more nato ships will converge on leave you know to enforce a naval blockade french warplanes had earlier carried out stripes on could obvious ground forces there have been reports of civilian casualties caused by the attacks those are certainly some very alarming reports or president obama reiterated is that there will be no u.s. troops on the ground but fears are that this operation could grow into something more than just an effort to protect civilians the wording of the u.n. resolution that was passed on thursday is basically all inclusive short of

occupation of course but there are still strong worries as to the implementation of it there are fears that certain actions taken by international forces could destabilize the situation even shooting down gadhafi is five bombers is one thing but arming the rebels for example is something very different than we are coming in egypt's military began shipping arms over the border to leave in rebels and the egyptian military as you know was very much influenced by washington those are small arms such as assault rifles and ammunition experts say this could be very dangerous there are radical elements among those rebels as well and they are in life you control mercyful their opponents and the fear is that those arms supplies together with the foreign intervention could inflame the situation in the region even further you could tell that the white house is very much wary of being seen as the driving force behind the military actions so most of the work is being done behind the scenes france and the u.k. seem to be in the forefront of this here national after and also western powers again and again remind that they have the support of the arab league although that

at the moment is as likely or was. there include actually isn't this action but it's clear that they want to get arab countries assistance so that it doesn't appear as if it's just the west cracking down on yet another arab nation there is one more thing i'd like to talk about it's rarely mentioned in the media coverage of the developments in libya yes the international community is absolutely denied even condemning qaddafi for this for his actions against levy and people but when you think about other leaders who got away with attacks and severely as you see you great amount of hypocrisy in the way the leaders are treated this is true for example it had been bombing the civilian population of the gaza for three weeks in a row in two thousand and eight western powers who are now so often arms operate trying to protect civilians in libya did nothing literally nothing to stop the massacre of palestinians in gaza or we can take a look at the recent developments in bahrain the leadership there is cracking down on protesters in a terrible way scores are dead and there is no potential international effort to

stop it yemen same story yemen troops protesters there on a daily basis and nothing for pakistan just this fight a u.s. drone killed thirty eight civilians the question many ask is who's going to be held responsible for that and only say that things are now it looks like the international community is very selective when it comes to protecting severely as a levy as they protect them in dozens of other places they turn a blind eye or g.'s going to charge you can reporting from washington d.c. for us there now with your concerns that a no fly zone over libya could be a cover up for for full scale engagement anti-war activist jim brown says the u.n. resolution is full of holes. you can interpret so many things and then i mean what on earth you mean by protecting civilians presumably it means protect them civilly and from both sides because there are clear suggestions of the trusts it is 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 it seems to me is not a principled thing and that accounts 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 era of the contradictory then you end up with more and more pitfalls along the way you have this thing that. for example stayed very largely out of it and then suddenly when the resolution was passed yesterday makes very specific demands which clearly were not in the resolution the 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 will say that professor what you have is a very similar situation going on in in bahrain is in many ways exactly the

opposite features are in bahrain you have for example robert gates united states defense secretary goes through. a week ago as talks leave and two days later the. gulf cooperation council especially saudi forces go in and they go in and they intervene on the side of those who are sick or a similar of what we are broadly sympathetic to the whole revolt in the in the region in general. we. i mean for example we want to put it that way to stop the war in bahrain but they're stopping the war in iraq or. i mean by face to be intervening on the side of the government whereas in the case of libya they want to stop the war i intervene on the side of the rebels i mean the whole position seems to me completely untenable. and full of holes. and earlier we spoke with dr yunus who believes it's vital that arab powers are

involved in the intervention. actually it's quite important that the arab community or arab states intervene because if they don't participate this will look exactly the way the market darkie has for trade all this operation that is basically crusade it's colonialism coming back to libya and he would start using it to garner more support for his own tactics to fight. this military intervention i think if this no fly zone was actually imposed two weeks ago from the beginning maybe we'll have something very quick i'm afraid that this is intervening live with each other he has already moved in many cities his his he he almost got close to benghazi i think it's very it's getting more and more

complicated i would i'm skeptical now maybe this will end up going to becoming a protracted conflict which will in this case will play right into his hands and he will become a hero that is fighting against colonialism the first resolution one nine hundred seventy which decided to refer to case to the i.c.c. has basically locked away for any exit strategy for him and for his son for his people so i don't see what how he could decide to earn negotiate or start now because he doesn't have any exit strategy and the second thing is that the libyan council transitional council does not accept any negotiation now because basically what they want what most people live in people wants that this regime has to change he has to go with his family and the people that have been supporting him but i don't think there is any time for that for diplomacy it's i think it's never too late. so with the absolute latest information from libya what we know now is a multinational force has carried out

a series of attacks against targets around the libyan city of benghazi since the u.n. security council adopted a resolution allowing the use of all means necessary to protect the civilian population in libya french fighter jets destroyed several armored vehicles and tanks belonging to colonel gadhafi troops and u.s. claims that libya's air defenses have been severely disabled libyan state t.v. claims forty eight people have been killed and more than one hundred fifty injured the majority of which are civilians u.k. forces are also in action over libya turkey is the latest country making the necessary preparations to implement the no fly zone earlier troops loyal to colonel gadhafi violated a cease fire and reportedly carried out attacks on benghazi. russia's foreign ministry says the international intervention in libya is regrettable it's called on all sides to do what they can to stop the suffering of peaceful civilians and to

put in place an immediate cease fire or g.'s katherina reports. very much. spilling out the military intervention but of course that still a possibility when it became reality as it is now is. still a search for the developments there will be of course calling for and just cease fire. just sat down and try to find a little solution on. libya story. tension increase the number of civilian casualties this military intervention. led by such as france the united states elite forces venting for their son just to share. her house of parliament is so spoken about this ongoing intervention would be a sign that. says courage and their times are not

a simple thing right here actually in the resolution a number in one nine hundred seventy three its main goal was to defend the civilian population but not to punish the gadhafi regime or overthrow it has so in that respect with think that one thousand nine hundred seventy three resolution is mostly air humanitarian resolution palaces so to speak from humanitarian resolution jennifer militarisation my personal concern is dad's any of the military operation which he's conducted by the west in the arab world can lead to very predictable scenario like all the parties involved in the conflict and they get together and start fighting against foreign invaders there were several examples of such scenarios and a history of the greater middle east so i think that we all have to be very cautious now and we all have to think first of all of that the political solution

should go before as a military solution we think that's a cadaver regime has already lost its in general and international credibility but we think also that people of lelio should sell solve their problems of themselves. mcgillis there we're seeing the concern and opinion of many here in russia specials and analysts experts like this military intervention force at least right now increasing civilian casualties but also the stumble live situation ollie's be a bit more so in the region as a whole or just covered in a reporting for us from moscow now keith harmon snow a war correspondent and former u.n. investigator says that the coalition is defending rebel forces which are promote western interests. president sarkozy from france today the libyan people must be

able to choose their own destiny and after he's attacked the french and the united states hundred ten tomahawk missiles in the french flights air flights the air attacks then we can return to diplomatic activity there was no diplomatic diplomatic activity this is an absolute ruler of aggression it's just another war and the world should really be frightened about the nature of nato and american power and attacking their own dictators well there is a popular uprising component of the uprising where the rebels attacked but there's also genuine genuine dissidents but there's also islamic radicals proxy forces there were backed by the united states during the cold during the cold war and there's cia staff forces the front for the national review these are also part of the so-called rebels and they're backed by other western agencies like the national endowment for democracy works and personally there so this is really a very manipulated so-called conflict the people of libya the real true free the

popular uprising people of libya are going to suffer the most and it will be very long once they get going to get out before the people who are truly popularizing out in the allies and they have no control over their country because the united states and france and italy and britain have been again. the story unfolds there is a lot of information for us to jest so let's get a quick recap of our main story this hour colonel gadhafi has said in a brief statement libyans will confront what he has called the attacks of the colonial crusader the libyan government has called for an urgent meeting of the u.n. security council french and british fighter jets are in action above the north african country the french air force has denied earlier reports from libyan state t.v. that one of its fighters had been shot down meanwhile over one hundred cruise missiles have been launched from american and british navy ships and submarines in an editor a. and hitting twenty different sites forces loyal to the libyan leader have

carried out a series of attacks throughout the day on the city of benghazi the main rebel base russia has said it is it regrettable that military action has been taken it also has called for an end to the bloodshed and to have heard all sides it would be at the start talking. follow all the latest developments in our in libya on our twitter and facebook pages we've got links to all of our videos and regular updates as well. as. he has. he has. the. same. question we are going to be sticking with libya as information becomes available

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