dozens are reportedly killed in libya with operation odyssey dawn in full swing as foreign forces push forward with military intervention against colonel gadhafi. international community. there's no need for. washington claims its military involvement in libya be limited for some americans it's deja vu with fears of a repeat of the iraq operation. and russia calls on all sides to put an

end to the violence while terming foreign intervention in libya is regrettable join me in a few moments for the latest reaction from moscow. you're watching r.t. broadcasting live the top stories from around the world will straight to developments in libya the libyan army claims forty eight people are dead and one hundred fifty others wounded after one bargains of cruise missiles and strikes on american and european forces a broad international campaign by france britain and the united states against hundred officers started on saturday evening but that's not to be now for more. paula we're hearing that the capital where you are has been under fire this morning how dangerous is it dead now and what's happening in the rest of the country as far

as you can tell. a lot of finding. we're being told in response to. and here in the capital city tripoli not far from the compound. and death and we do know that thousands of supporters have been there was using themselves as children shield to protect the libyan leader does seem as this operation which has been dubbed operation odyssey dawn is in full swing we are being told as you know that some one hundred ten tomahawk missiles were fired and ships they will say french carrier in the area and other first why it came from french fighter jets we're being told that some twenty targets have been good but will need to wait for it if it wanted to determine exactly what was here because what we're hearing from states in the region is a lot of civilians have been hit we think it was important thirty two people who

have been killed and some one hundred and fifty people who have been injured now we stated that this week in a neat little t.v. explicitly in a missile strikes hit several parts of tripoli in a cord around only to come forward and protect the major installations and some do have reports of people on to the airport and add sensitive locations. to bridge that divide themselves as protection against at least most of the operation at this moment it's limited in the northern coastline obviously because that is really the major cities are the main gas supplies and also the capital. and we position it having started all this naked aggression its allies to come to his influence we know that it started primarily because and finally bernard it was a lot of concern saturday in terms of plants and continuing in benghazi despite a cease fire but has been announced about twenty four hours earlier. but again

we're not hearing reports at least we haven't in the last few hours in terms of what is happening in tripoli. paula what are modern libyans themselves where you are saying about the international effort. people are very frightened here in the capital city tripoli it has not been pleasant for the last few hours when you hear the fine happening people are holed up in their homes people are probably limited to their televisions and most people here certainly the rebels were really seems a national gauge we're never going to see an exit out and evolve into some kind of long term. this is a country where for example they're telling an occupation in the past the last thing they want is a new kind of occupation. aware of what happened in iraq and afghanistan they do not want to see a no fly zone which is where you start in your operation. for years it's not going to stand in the possibility of creating a scenario where you can have. ok for an hour to.

the latest from maybe a thank you. for the coalition decision to take military action in libya is being made under the premise of a humanitarian mission that's globalization amnesty show says the use of heavy artillery suggests a very different agenda. it is not the humanitarian operation it is they believe will it using 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. a war which has the chance of regime change this of course was not mentioned of the security council resolution but prime minister stephen harper health canada and i'm following the canadian

responses has stated that the jet to this operation is to unseat khadafi so that the whole humanitarian underpinnings of this war becoming entirely clear aspect is that in fact this military coalition is already reply elated to. the resolution which they themselves are forced on the so-called international community to call nineteen zero zero zero the resolution of the united nations security council resolution says to go on on weapons on to. to libya but in fact what are they doing then bringing in weapons and supplying opposition forces with weapons through feet of this wall is a poil. united states canada i'll go there with the intent of the interests of the whole

prince of the oil corporations and the extension of the influence in june to into africa this is not. a humanitarian operation it is a war of conquest and it will have devastating consequences are not only on all the people of libya but most generally. coalition aircraft and submarines based in several countries were involved in operation odyssey dawn the decision to take their extraction to enforce the be a no fly zone was thrashed out of the summit in paris just hours before the first strikes with our europe correspondent bushell has more on the scale of the operation. 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 referral 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 been around the area of goals see it 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 powers would go in and it was attended by the heads of the united nations the head of the jarrod bleijie also the area 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 airspace 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 we used by nato previously course italy just across the mediterranean

from libya one of the key 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 in canada saying it's fine it's just already in the region and ready to be deployed within two days they just need to sit 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 . several british members of parliament are skeptical about why their country is being dragged into a conflict opposition and. being very selective in choosing where it is necessary. 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 to this conflict but it was beginning to look as though he was just trying to buy time for himself i must say i absolutely regret the lack of the seas for and i 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 go in the next few hours if they strike against. 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 human casualties this is a terrible situation i think there's a lot of double standards going on here because what is happening in libya is obviously terrible. 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 saudi arabia yemen or amar 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 obvious they have not used the words regime train clearly what's intended 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. and at the same time only six weeks ago britain was selling arms to libya buying oil from libya british companies were investing in libya and indeed libya was investing 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 of speed of all this in many of those that are now calling for the bombing of libya were only a few weeks ago in libya doing business deals. right in. details about top story this hour the libyan army reports that forty eight people have been killed in one

hundred fifty others wounded after international coalition forces on east war planes and missiles that ration against colonel gadhafi regime is on the stand not seen since the iraq war and it's being led by france and britain the united states on sunday morning explosions and gunfire were heard in tripoli colonel gadhafi gave a brief statement earlier saying libyans will confront what he called the attacks including new crusader calling for an agent when security council meeting to discuss the dates and see what the operation international action thought of the un's resolution to allow the enforcement of the no fly zone over libya to start bloodshed on the ground. coming up president obama is promising not to deploy american ground forces in libya unless it's absolutely necessary he said america's role would be limited and it's part of the international effort to protect civilians from don't think but for some there's the real worry that it

echoes the u.s. invasion of iraq eight years ago and the devastating consequences that could result in the ninety's any chance encounters in washington d.c. for us now. what has the u.s. military done in libya. well kerry the pentagon says khadafi air defenses have been severely disabled as they put it to us has launched a missile from its war ships and submarines in the mediterranean targeting it could avi's air defenses and as the pentagon says the goal is to shape the battlefield for the coalition forces to take further action basically what they're doing is they're clearing the sky is so that he is not able to shoot down any planes or the coalition forces in the pentagon also says that this is just the beginning of the operation and in the coming few days more nato ships will converge on to inforce naval blockade and earlier french fighter jets had carried out strikes on these

ground forces and there have been reports of civilian casualties caused by the attacks and really alarming reports where president obama also reiterated is that there will be no u.s. troops on the ground although there are still lot of questions as to the limits of this intervention will it be enough for the coalition forces to do just this arm could be or will they go beyond that call and what will be the outcome those are the questions everybody is asking and the fears are that this operation could be something more than just an effort to protect a civilian viewing as the wording of the u.n. resolution which was passed on thursday is basically all inclusive short of occupation of course and the fears are that certain actions taken by international forces could destabilize the situation even more shooting down qaddafi's fighter bombers and attacking other other military assets is one thing but fighting arming the rebels for example is something very different and we are getting reports that

egypt's military is shipping arms over the border to levy and rebels and they just military as we know is very well influenced by washington and reports so it's not just the could all the army versus coalition forces this could be furious at. this could turn into a full fledged civil war and the arms supplies could inflame the situation even further but beyond the aid is own from iraq there are fears of course that history could repeat itself and over has been choosing his words very carefully do people in the states though believe their country's role in libya will be limited as far as you can tell. well we do know that certainly that the u.s. is playing a critical role in this intervention although we should say people magically speaking the white house has been trying very hard to not to appear as the driving force behind this military actions but they also stress again and again that it is

not just the western powers going to war in libya they stress that they have the support of the arab league older up to this point it is not really clear what the actual input of arab countries is in this action but what they what they need and very much want is the arab countries assistance so that it doesn't appear as the west cracking down on yet another arab state and there's something i'd like to talk about it's rarely mentioned in the coverage of the developments in libya the whole of the international community is really united in can damning khadafi for his actions against libyan people when we take when you think about the leaders who are . with with attacks who have a record of attacking civilian is great going on here in the way those leaders are treated for example if you take israel into two thousand and eight they've been bombing the civilian population of gaza for three weeks in a row and those western powers who are now up in arms trying to protect civilians

in lidia's did nothing literally nothing to stop the massacre of palestinians in gaza or if we take recent developments in reign the same thing the bahraini leadership is cracking down on protesters in a terrible way stores are dead and nothing is being done in yemen same story at the u.s. backed the yemeni government is basically killing protesters on an almost daily basis and again. pakistan for that matter a u.s. drone just this friday killed thirty eight civilians and the question many ask is who will be held responsible for that and then only say the way things are and now the international community seems to be very selective when it comes to protecting civilians in libya that they protect them but in some other countries they turn a blind eye. thank you. well the antiwar activists say the u.n. resolution that sanction the attack on libya is riddled with contradictions jim brown told r.t. that washington's policy in the arab world is in disarray. what on earth you mean

by protecting civilians. presumably it means protecting civilians from both sides because there are clear. suggestions of. of atrocities on both sides it's certainly not a one sided thing. but of course i think the central point is for the whole thrust of the intervention is not really the principal thing and that accounts for the. for the contradictions and the holes in the resolution america think the whole thing is a mess so the resolution itself is full of problems like you have this thing that. for example stayed very largely out of it and then suddenly when the resolution is passed in makes very specific demands which clearly were not 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 you have clear intention to

of different parties to make of it what they will and i think that we'll see the process roll on very similar situation going on in in basra in iraq which is in many ways exactly the opposite features are in bahrain for example robert gates united states different secretary goes through. we can go as talks leave and two days later the. corporation council especially saudi forces go in and they go in and they intervene on the side of those who are some person who are stopping the war in bahrain by effectively intervening on the side of the government whereas in the case of libya they want to stop the war by intervening on the side of the rebels i mean the hope the whole position seems to me completely untenable and full of. well whereas other operatic things in the arab world saw the people take the lead but no longer seems an option in their view ok for

holman snow who is a war correspondent and former u.n. investigator claims the libyan people have been cheated of the revolution and been hijacked by u.s. and coalition. there was no. this is an absolutely sure of immigration it's just another war and the world should really be frightened of the nature of nato and american power in their own dictators there's a popular uprising component of the uprising where the rebels attacked me but there's also a genuine genuine this means but there's also islamic radicals proxy force and there were backed by the united states during the cold during the cold war and there is cia back forces from from the national salvation 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 the real true free popular

uprising people of libya are going to suffer and it won't be very long once they get done enough even for the people through popular uprising. they have no control over the country because the united states france and italy have been again. meanwhile russia has described the international. foreign ministry as. everything they can. suffering an immediate cease fire. in moscow. more. russian response. she said russia has expressed regrets over this international intervention into libya and a statement by the foreign ministry they called on all sides to stop violence as soon as possible while russia has been against international intervention in libya pretty much since the start of unrest in the country around

a month ago now some circles of. the international intervention led by by britain france and the united states saying that it. overstepping the the boundaries laid out by the u.n. security council resolution. yellow for the federation council of foreign affairs committee leader has said that in his own opinion he believes that the they all going too far with this action is being taken now the security council resolution sets out a goal to protect the civilian population of libya to remove colonel gadhafi from power. actually in the resolution and number nineteen seventy three its main goal was to defend the civilian population but not to punish the gadhafi regime or overthrow it so in that respect with think that in one thousand seventy three resolution is mostly humanitarian resolution palaces so to speak for humanitarian

resolution then a full militarism lucian my personal concern he's that any military operation which he's conducted by the west in the arab world can lead to a very unpredictable scenario like holding parties involved in the conflict and they get together and start fighting against foreign invaders there were several examples of such scenarios in the 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 a military solution we think that a conductor regime has already lost its internal and international credibility but we think also that people of libya should sell solve their problems of themselves picked out what's russia's next likely to be. well foreign

minister sergei lavrov visibility begin a visit to the region he's in egypt on sunday before had. north to algeria now both of those countries of course border libya they want to be watching very closely what happens in the country they'll miss a lot of love is there to discuss deals lateral deals between russia and egypt and algeria notice first visit to the to egypt since the revolution there in january and he'll be watching what goes on in libya very very closely to see what russia's next move will be as it deals with its partners in the region this suffering these these these uprisings and this kind international intervention at the moment. with all of our reporting live from the russian capital that for now thank you. for the coalition's mission has he's campaigned as wondering exactly what it's trying

to protect antiwar activists. he's it's more about saving well supplies and civilians. but i think behind this operation there's already. a lot of. probably too. i'm sure a large intervention that will cover the oil fields and actually has to keep all ins i think the goal is anything but you know the chilean. just an awesome tradition maybe and they have to divide the country and probably the. united states england great britain and france aren't really negotiating with. you a new government in the eastern part of libya but they're also doing a great charles a. lot situation was certainly there were

a forward. in the russians. all right you to back off and just see what's what's unfolding now what's unfolding now appears to be. a larger scale military operation as we see in recent wars. they can follow our breaking news on the navy on our twitter and facebook feeds correspondents covering the world's biggest events right now you can rest up buttons on our twitter stream to underscore. the updates on our breaking news for the military intervention in the intersection .

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