if you move from one stupid. stance on t.v. don't come. dozens are reportedly killed in libya with operation odyssey dawn in full swing as foreign forces push forward with military intervention against colonel gadhafi. the international community unites against the libyan leader with britain france and united states launching a missile strikes against his forces join need want to see from the libyan capital in a few moments from will. washington claims its military involvement in libya will be limited but for some americans it's deja vu here's a peek of the iraq operation. the pentagon says could obviously air defenses have been severely disabled i'll be back with more from washington in just

a few minutes and brush your calls on all sides to put an end to the violence terming foreign intervention in libya as regretable joins me in a few moments for the latest reaction from moscow. around the world and around the clock this is our t.v. the very latest international stories new american and european forces have been arriving at the terrain bases are expected to join the military action against his regime it's been reported that three u.s. b. two stealth bombers dropped forty bombs on a major airfield overnight it was heavy gunfire in tripoli with reports of military facilities and fuel storage tanks hit the korean army claims forty eight people dead and injured and the others wounded officer there's bombardment of cruise missiles and. york aeration against colonel roth as

a regime is being led by france britain and the united states on a scale not seen in the arab world since the iraq war about twenty libyan defense targets have been hit in the west of the country by more than one hundred missiles fired from american and british ships and submarines. in duffy and gave a brief statement saying libyans will confront what he called the attacks of the clune crusader equivocal security council to discuss the due to missing of the operation international action full of the un's resolution to allow the enforcement of the no fly zone over libya to stop bloodshed on the ground. crossing live to what he's promised there who's in tripoli for more later in the hour. for the coalition decision to take a military action in libya is being made under the premise of a humanitarian mission but the globalization of missed shots of those states says the use of heavy artillery suggests a very different subject or. it is not

a humanitarian operation it is really all 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 really a war which has the jets of regime change this of course was not mentioned of the security council resolution. steve of the whole of canada and i'm following the canadian responses has stated that the check to this operation is to unseat khadafi so that the whole humanitarian underpinnings of this war no becoming entirely clear aspect is that in fact this military coalition is already imply elated. the resolution which they themselves

have forced on the so-called international community article nineteen zero zero zero the resolution of the united nations security council resolution says to which it involved go on on weapons on to. to libya but in fact what are they doing there bringing in weapons and supplying the opposition forces with. true feel this war is oil. rich united states canada i'll bear with the intent of the interests of the culprits of the oil corporations and the extension of the inflows into two into africa this is not. a humanitarian operation it is a war of conquest and it will have devastating consequences on not only on all the people of libya but most generally. ok. combat aircraft and submarines are

based in several countries are involved in operation odyssey dawn the decision to take the rector action to enforce the no fly zone was thrashed out at the summit in paris just hours before the first strikes our europe correspondent daniel 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 the most active in this starting with the summit and now in military action they've sent rafale fighter jets neurology fighter jets also surveillance aircraft they say that they key concern is to enforce a no fly zone over libya an airspace in effect grounding colonel gadhafi as jets and helicopters and their number one concern is the civilian population in the around the area of paying goals the 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 off to

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 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 we used by nato previously 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 we support this for example norway netherlands here in belgium we've also seen canada saying it's fine to just all really in the region and really 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 i'm going to merkel of germany disappoints germany's abstention of the u.n. vote for a no fly zone she says she does back military intervention now. several british members of parliament are skeptical about why the country is being dragged into conflicts positioning. just as the case being very selective and choosing their actions necessary. i must say i absolutely regret the lack of the ceasefire and i regret what is happening at the moment a lot of innocent people who have already died if they strike against. military targets of the regime but i suspect the real problem is they're going to have to strike against targets in the cities and that results in large numbers of million 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 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 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 west is being 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 change with us clearly what seemed to it 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 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 at the speed of all this in many of those that are now calling for bombing of libya were only a few weeks ago in libya doing business deals. well now remind the main developments of our top story this hour three u.s. b. two stealth jets have dropped forty bombs on a major field as operation against colonel gadhafi regime news into its second day overnight there was heavy gunfire in tripoli reports of the interim facilities and fuel storage tanks hit operation against colonel gadhafi regime is being led by france britain the united states for a scale not seen in the arab world since the up more about twenty three b. in defense targets are being hit in the west of the country more than one hundred missiles fired from american and british ships and submarines coated our feet gave a brief statement saying the beans will confront what he called the attacks of colonial crusader he called for the gentleman security council meeting to discuss the decency of the operation of international action the thought of the un's

resolution to allow the informant of a no fly zone over libya to start with on the ground well russia along with china and some of their countries disagree with the decision right western countries to start which are operational in the region nato is set to decide later today whether the alliance will join in the strikes on libya. or 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 to us part of the international effort to protect libyans from colonel gadhafi some there's a real worry that if they can use the u.s. invasion of iraq eight years ago and the devastating consequences that could result in each account and brings us the american perspective from washington d.c. . the pentagon says air defenses have been a severely disabled as they put it the u.s. has launched missiles from its war ships and submarines in the mediterranean

targeting it cannot be 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 this 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 a levy to inforce naval blockade and earlier french fighter jets had carried out strikes on the doppies ground forces and there have been reports of civilian casualties caused by the attack some 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 try to just his arm could be or will they go beyond that cool and what will be the outcome those are

the questions everybody is asking and if yours are that this operation could be something more than just an effort to protect the civilian sebelius 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 khadafy fighter bombers and attacking other it's other military assets is one thing but fighting but 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 canal the army versus coalition forces this was the fear is that this could turn into a food. fledged civil war and the arms supplies could inflame the situation even further. the white house has been trying very hard to not to appear as the driving

force behind this military action is what 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 with 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 say. the war activists say the u.n. resolution or sanction the attack on there is riddled with contradictions around told r.t. washington's policy in the arab world is in disarray. what on earth you mean by protecting civilians. 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 that 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 i mean i think the whole thing is a mess so the resolution itself is full of like you have this thing that. for example stay very out of it and then suddenly when a resolution is passed you make very specific demands which clearly were nothing in the resolution that demands for example the government forces pull back from a series of towns. that kind of thing so you have you have clear intentions through of different parties to make of it what they will and i think that we will see that process. very similar situation going on in in bahrain proper ways in many ways exactly the opposite feature so in bahrain for example robert gates united states different secretary goes through. we can go 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 some person who are out there stopping the war in bahrain by effect to be intervening on the side of the government whereas in the case of libya they want to quote stop the war by intervening on the side of the rebels i mean the whole the whole position seems to me completely untenable and full of holes. uprisings in the arab people take the no longer seems they fear keith harmon snow who is a war correspondent. best case claims to be happy. and hijacked by u.s. led coalition. there was no diplomatic activity this is. just another war and the world should really be frightened of the nature of nato and american power. their own dictators well there's

a popular uprising component to the uprising of the rebels attacks there's also genuine genuine this immense but there's also islamic radical proxy forces there were backed by the united states during the cold during the cold war and there's. forces new front for the national review these are also part of the so-called rebels and they're backed by other restroom agencies like the national endowment for democracy were some firstly there so this is really a very manipulated so called conflict people of libya the real true free popular uprising people of libya are going to suffer the most and it won't be very long once they get out there before the people true ocular uprising realizes they have no control over their country because the united states france and italy. is in tripoli for us paula what's been happening around you what can you tell us

about the situation across the country. well the latest reports we are receiving say that some forty dollars had been dropped by three american the twelve stealth bombers on a major libyan if feels now we have no more information about that at this moment but i can certainly tell you that the mood here in the capital city is incredibly tense and incredibly angry there was a demonstration taken place a short distance from where i'm talking to you from men women and i saw even some children who have come out to protest and condemn the international community's reaction and attacks on libya now we do know that later today sunday the top decision making body of nato will be holding a meeting to decide whether or not the coalition is going to be part of these is trying to whether it is going to continue to provide logistical intelligence and other support systems the operation odyssey dawn is clearly underway which is french and american cruise missiles and fighter jets have targeted what we're being told some twenty targets now it's not yet clear exactly what damage has been

inflicted we're being told we need to wait several hours before this can be determined but we are hearing from the american administration that they have completely destroyed gadhafi surface to air missile defense systems now those targets were happening along the northern coastline of this country that is where he has his defense systems it's also where they've been targeting warning radar systems and communication facilities at this stage the whole purpose of the art of this operation is to clear the way for air patrols to ground libya's if force. paula has there been anything from colonel gadhafi himself in the past few hours. well we certainly understand that at this moment in time he is being holed up in his compound which is also not very far from where i'm talking to you from thousands of libyans have gone there to barricade him in almost present themselves as human shields to protect him and no doubt also to provide some protection to themselves there are also people who have taken to the airport and other major

installations here to try and not often go beyond attacks from the international community locations where they think international fighter jets might be targeting now he did speak on libyan state television several hours ago he did not speak on camera but his message which was some three minutes was quite clear he stated that the regime was distributing weapons he wanted people to be able to defend themselves against what he is calling crusaders at the same time he's calling the mediterranean a battleground and he said that this country did nothing to justify the kind of attacks that are being targeted against it and libyan state television is reporting that forty eight civilians have been killed and a hundred and fifty have been injured but we've just started receiving some reports that suggest that some of the bodies that are being presented might be bodies that were killed earlier led literally being taken from the morgues and been presented as victims of last night and this morning's gunfire but certainly this morning

there was a lot of firing here in tripoli that was the use of anti aircraft fire from gadhafi and libya's machinery. for the very latest from tripoli that i thank you for now. russia has described the international military action as regrettable foreign ministry's urging all sides to do everything they can to stop civilian suffering. cease fire peace all of the cross reaction in moscow. 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 well 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 concern over international intervention led by

light britain france and the united states saying that it could be overstepping the the boundaries laid out by the u.n. security council resolution. kelo for the federation council of foreign affairs committee leader has said that in his own opinion he believes that the they are all going too far with this action it's taken resolution number one thousand nine hundred 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 nine hundred seventy three resolution is mostly humanitarian resolution from humanitarian resolution then a full militarism lucia my personal concern is that any military operation which is conducted by the west in the arab world can lead to a very unpredictable scenario like all the parties involved in the conflict 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 regime has already lost its internal and international credibility but we think also that. sure the. problems themselves. is about to begin a visit to the region he's in egypt on sunday before heading off to algeria and both of those countries of course libya they will be watching very closely what happens in the country. is there to discuss deals. between russia and egypt algeria now it's his 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 this in the region this suffering. and international intervention at the moment. protect antiwar activists. about saving. lives. but i think the hundreds of parishioners already. it's probably too late for a large intervention that will cover the oil fields and that was actually a stool strategic balance i think the goal is anything but humanitarian.

it's a standoff situation maybe and they have to divide the country and probably. our forces and united states england. has a negotiating really with a. new government in the eastern part of libya but there's also been a great chance of a civil war situation was biology certainly rethought it and i think the russians. our are right juju to back up and just see what's what's unfolding now what's unfolding now appears to be. a large scale military operation as we've seen in recent wars. mobilizing foreign military against libya has been justified is the one way to safeguard civilians one humanitarian expert says it's the perfect excuse for coalition forces targeting the there has been ostracized by the world community decades. you know it's another person.

in africa. enemies of the most utopian poles and also the arab league and of course the people in the east. so. giving a dinner they never got the first intervention school to school of intervention and we're going to also and it's been so much problems in advance and any attack that i'm going to come back in just if you make. the intervention can be a looser perfect kids because it's not the friend of the west in the event of the it's even though isn't it don't find any sitting in the middle and then the kids will claim to intervene on million pound just because of the. star

some of the main developments in the area they sell three u.s. b. two stealth jets have reportedly dropped forty bombs on a major libyan air field operation against colonel gadhafi regime news into its second day overnight there was heavy gunfire in tripoli some military facilities and fuel storage tanks hit. aeration against colonel gadhafi regime is being led by france and united states scale not seen in the arab world since no one. about twenty libyan defense targets have been hit in the west of the country by more than one hundred missiles from american and british ships and submarines colonel gadhafi gave a brief statement saying libyans will confront what he called attacks on the colonial crusader or call for an urgent u.n. security council meeting to discuss the didn't receive an operation international action followed the un's resolution to allow the force little or no fly zone to stop bloodshed on the ground and russia and then with china and some latin american

countries did. sebree with essential by western countries to start with intra ration is in the region. set aside later in the day when the advance will join in on the strikes on. that day across our coverage of events in the area through our twitter and facebook feeds correspondents are covering the world's biggest events right now also getting expert analysis on policy through twitter and search for our take on the school. change of pace in a few moments we'll take a look at how sports plays a bigger game in shaping the harsher aspects of america's politics and society stay with us.

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