we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. dozens are reportedly killed in libya with operation odyssey dawn in full swing as foreign forces push forward an intervention against gadhafi. the international community unites against the libyan leader with bush and france the united states launching air missile strikes against his forces can meet on the libyan capital in a few moments formal. washington claims its military involvement in libya will be limited to some americans it's. this over the iraq operation. the pentagon says gadhafi air defenses have been severely disabled all the back

with more from washington in just a few minutes and russia calls on all sides to put an end to the violence while turning for intervention in libya as regrettable join me in a few moments for the latest reaction from moscow. where you're watching on t.v. the very latest international stories and developments welcome to the program three u.s. b. two stealth jets reportedly dropped forty bombs on a major libyan air field as operation against a counter golfer's regime views into its second day the campaign is being led by france britain and the united states on a scale not seen in the arab world since the iraq war. lives in tripoli explosions and gunfire and heard over night. well the latest reports we are receiving say that some forty bombs have been dropped by three american stealth bombers on a major in

a field 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 is a demonstration taking 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 it just because 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've been told some twenty targets now it's not yet clear exactly what damage has been inflicted but we are hearing from the american administration that they have completely destroyed daphne's of surface to air missile defense systems now those

targets were happening along the northern coastline of this country that is way for 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 trolls to ground is a force in this moment in time gadhafi is been holed up in his compound 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 airports and other major installations here to try and ward off and prevent attacks on the international community there cations where they think international fighter jets might be targeting now he did speak on libyan state television feet did not speak on camera but his message was quite clear he said that the regime was. distributing with whose he wanted people to gable to defend themselves against what he is calling crusaders at the same time

he's calling the mediterranean a battleground and he's good with this country did nothing to justify the kind of attacks that are being targeted against it on 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 the bodies that are being presented might be bodies every killed earlier and then literally being taken from the malls 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 there was the use of anti aircraft fire from gadhafi and libya's machinery. but the coalition decision to take military action in libya is being made on the premise or humanitarian mission for globalization on this show. so the use of the arteries suggests a very different agenda. it is no humanitarian operation it

is definitely all what you were seeing was military material and just say that this is there to save the lives of civilians since way to these fighter bombers and save the lives of civilians. to change this of course was no mention of the security council resolution prime minister stephen fry. 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 becoming entirely clear aspect is that in fact this military coalition is already implying they did. the resolution which they themselves have forced on the simple user community

article nineteen zero zero zero the resolution of the united nations security council resolution says to go on weapons on to. to libya where in fact what are they doing there bringing in weapons and then he has this supplying opposition forces with weapons true feel this law is a boil and. united states carol oh there with the intent of the interests of the prince of the oil corporations and the extension of the influence into one big issue into africa this is not. a humanitarian operation it is a war of conquest and it will have devastating consequences are not only our own all the people of libya but most generally. combat aircraft and submarines are based in several countries are involved in operation odyssey dawn the decision to

take direct action to enforce the libyan no fly zone was thrashed out of a summit in paris just hours before the first strikes our europe correspondent daniel bushell has more on the scale of the operation. france is taking a direct role role along with the u.k. it's already employed it's rough and the raj fight suggests in addition to that it's also added shoulder called planes the u.k. is helping with the navy blockade of libya h.m.s. is there and cumberland will be helping with that it's also sent typhoon and tornado fighter jets italy is expected to be a key base for operations naples and sicily also which is being used by american and canadian planes among them fighter jets and scientists that is also sending six f. sixteen fighter jets to help the operation several e.u. countries are coming around and saying they will take part in the operation in various ways belgium here is one is ill and norway is another country so we're

seeing that there is a coming through of the european nations on this operation germany actually abstained from the u.n. vote on imposing a no fly zone over libya airspace which would ground colonel gadhafi is jets and helicopters angela merkel the chancellor of germany it seems was then called into line at the paris summit yesterday and she came out and said that she pulls back the operation even though her country abstained and there's known to be a lot of public dissent in germany about that and here in belgium actually yesterday i saw the first and she was demonstration just outside where i am at the moment so public opposition is building and of course there are fears that this could turn into another iraq the west say that they're going to be very sort of precise and very quick about it but that was expected to be the case in iraq so there are growing concerns about that as well. but several british members of parliament are skeptical about why the country has been dragging on conflicts with

different things the case being selected using webpage intervention is 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 are already died if they strike against. 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 will result in large numbers of alien 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 or removed himself from office. there's been no condemnation worthy of anything against rain saudi arabia yemen or a martin who've also been killing large numbers of civilians totally over the last few weeks and i think that the west has been very selective about this 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 that's 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 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 sort of wonders at the speed of all this and many of those that are now calling for a bombing of libya were only a few weeks ago in libya doing business deals. there are the main developments of our top story this hour colonel gadhafi is promising a long war against the coalition military forces which are targeting his troops of airstrikes and cruise missiles phone call to libyan state t.v.

he claims he's weapons their nation so they can protect themselves from attack. the operation against colonel gadhafi wife runs for the united states on saturday evening. u.s. jets dropped forty bombs on the green field as an american and european forces arrived at mediterranean bases to join the military action forty eight people have reportedly been killed and one hundred fifty others wounded after international coalition forces unleashed war planes and missiles over there about twenty libyan defense targets have been hit in the west of the country by more than one hundred missiles from the sea its national action opposed the un's resolution to allow the no fly zone over libya to be forced to stop bloodshed on the ground. russia along with china and some countries disagree with a decision by western nations to put an apparent intervene nato will decide later today whether to take part in the strikes. president obama is promising not to

deploy american ground forces in there done this it's absolutely necessary he said america's role would be limited as part of the international efforts to protect libyan scrum colonel gadhafi after some there's a real worry that it echoes the u.s. invasion of iraq eight years ago and the devastating consequences that could result in his career trajectory brings us the american perspective from washington d.c. . the pentagon says khadafi air defenses have been a severely disabled as they put it the u.s. has launched a missiles from its war ships and submarines in the mediterranean targeting a canal these 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 of 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 lead to enforce a 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 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 this arm could offer or will they go and that cool and what will be the outcome those are the questions everybody is asking and the fears are that this operation could could be something more than just and efforts to protect a civilian. 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 could out these five bombers and attacking other 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 revels in egypt's military as we know is the area well influenced by washington and reports so it's not just the dollar the army versus coalition forces this was the fear is that this could turn into a full fledged civil war and the arms supplies could inflame the situation even further diplomatically speaking 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 go 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 arabs

a. lot more analysis on the events unfolding in this be a we have all these minutes and contribute to any and all right in the studio thanks for joining us now president obama says the answer americans have a limited role going to be the case at the moment would you say it's hard to believe that according to the us navy spokesmen the first american role use not only backseat driver as they try to. present to the whole world when they use to the ship but with shaping it's the part and parcel of the korean doctrine counterinsurgency doctrine which is the first phase of your shape clear hold and build so in effect shaping. word used by the u.s. navy ramps this in in fact he just displays or actually betrays the hidden agenda of the us a long term commitment in effect it's like another counting insurgency leave the

open ended commitment which might wind up allegedly with the nation building as american successful about nation building look no further than iraq and afghanistan use a long term commitment that what you expect to happen to be i mean will end up being broken up in some miles i believe that's why i strongly supported the very cautious not note that was expressed by the u.s. defense secretary robert gates when he is ready to call a spade a spade what he actually what he really imply that any military involvement is akin to the creeping mission with the open ended commitment which which in effect will result from no fly zone no drive zone then it's a small military he's building peacemaking and eventually it will be boiled down to the again to the american military open ended commitment to africa so in

fact it's also fits perfectly in the beginning of brzezinski theory and doctoring of the menage cows where the americans will thrive on this time i have very very serious reservations given all that then not on russia's concerns about they said but a change agent the russians concerned apart from the russian involvement in economic and infrastructure development north libya is that. by oh by the by the americans have they have opened the pandora's box they created a unique opportunity for the kind of the narrative to piggyback on this. this couse in the country and the second beach is more akin to the russian concern which i believe probably is under reported in the russian media because the rebiya can be turned and so really exploited as the main transit point of cocaine from latin

america to africa and envies tripoli shores effectively use on the disguise of the military an international military presence inseam violence into in the making leave in other afghanistan in other international drug trafficking hub that's the main concern not only for russia but it should be most and foremost foremost for american european allies you mention al qaeda then i come to dothan says that this is what the insurgency is all about isn't truth nothing to think well effect if it hasn't been but i'm sure that the real real this time after this domino effect is spreading in the muslim erratic world in the northern africa they were biting their time after the tunisia and egypt and now for them they built to the heart the colonel qadhafi call and in effect though it was one of the well he was he was one

of the western supporters to pay to stave off the kind of presence on the ground now the situation can draw mention dramatically sleep out of american control so in effect it could be a predicament against which the robert gates was so strongly opposed ironically it was three ladies hillary clinton and the u.s. ambassador and united nations and the third later from the u.s. national national security council who who somehow pull off the coup d'etat and be declared a gross out folks the pentagon and the u.s. intelligence community even. general clapper who is in charge who is the director of national director of american intelligence community even he admitted that american schools have no idea who is the opposition and one of the options. if

they could be sympathizers or they could be heard it. recruited for their interest to. manage a computer thank you very much indeed for joining us a witness or somebody who should thank you please. more activists say the u.n. resolution that sanction the attack on the it was riddled with contradictions jim brann told r.t. that washington's policy now is in disarray. 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 that the whole thrust of the intervention is not just because of the principle 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 holes like you have this thing. for example stayed very largely out of it and then suddenly when the resolution is passed it makes very specific demands which clearly mean 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 a clear intention to. different parties to make of it what they will and i think that we will see that process roll around very similar situation going on in in basra in iraq which is in many ways exactly the opposite features are in the frame you have to create see united states defense secretary goes to the train we can go towards leaves on two days later the. gulf cooperation council especially saudi forces go in and they go in and they intervene on the side of no source or similar

about stopping the war in bahrain by effectively 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 hope the whole position seems to me completely untenable and full of hope. well russia has described the international military action in libya as regrettable but foreign ministry is urging all sides to do everything they can to stop civilian suffering and agree in immediate cease fire because all of that is of course 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 of 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

by britain france and the united states saying that it could be overstepping the boundaries laid out by the u.n. security council resolution. kelo for the federation council and the 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 been taking the resolution a number 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 it nine hundred seventy three resolution is a humanitarian resolution so to speak for a humanitarian resolution then a full militarism lucia my personal concern is there any military operation which is conducted by the west in the arab world can lead to

a very predictable scenario like all the parties in the world 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 g.m. has already lost its internal and international credibility but we think also that . sure the cells solve their problems of themselves well foreign minister sergei lavrov 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 border libya they're going to be watching very closely what happens in the country mr lavrov is there to discuss deals bilateral

deals between russia and egypt and algeria no 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 its partners in the region this suffering these things and this kind of international intervention at the moment. turning out to developments in japan which has struck into restore power cooling systems crippled fukushima nuclear power plant countries earthquake disaster has claimed eight thousand lives many more still missing. fifteen thousand people may have been killed on prefecture other bennett is in for a team joins us live now. what progress are nuclear workers making in stabilizing the situation at the plant. they are making some progress but it's

limited at the moment they have managed to reconnect power cables to reactors number one and two now but in the last twenty four hours they had hoped to restore power itself electricity which they haven't done yet to the cooling systems so they can get a cooling systems up and running again and get the temperatures down inside the reactor because that's the only way it seems they're going to get this situation under control they haven't been able to do that yet because well there's been a lot of damage the reactors due to the earthquake the relation levels they're battling there are very very high what's more it's not guaranteeing that once that if they turn electricity on their parts will actually start working again because they might be damaged in the carrying out these checks now to see if they're elektra's to will function properly once they turn it on so that being very cautious about that in the meantime all they can do is try is to try to keep this situation under control trying to make it not get any worse but it improving that's all they can do so they continuing to spray water inside the reactors last night

the tokyo fire department took part in a thirteen hour operation spring in two thousand tons inside reactor number three to try and keep the temperature down is that all they can do until they have those calling systems up and running again without those all they can try and do is to stop it from getting any worse that being said though reactor three has proved very troublesome and it seems like the pressure inside he's still bill is building once again now and they are considering adding to the density which means that the controlled release of steam and with an escape of steam from back inside the reactor is also has the use of radioactive substances now this whole process has been going on for nine days now workers are trying their best but the public is obviously getting very anxious of radiation spreading as far south as tokyo that's the anxiety they haven't found yet on the streets of tokyo today five hundred and a nuclear protest and joined an annual antiwar demonstration it by. gods calling

for the end of the only prepare in japan they want all stations shut down up about there are nothing to get back to man's net but they're focusing on power plants certainly once or if it's it gets under control that well how can you shut down because it will pull the use of seawater inside the reactor to pull it down has now ended but useless and either you mention radioactive steam there where we stand in terms of radiation in the excel what are the latest indications of how widespread it could be well today they've actually found traces of radioactive substances id which isn't radioactive if you use that for she met inside the tap water systems of five neighboring prefectures because she were and if she resell and more were in her house even traces as far south as tokyo in the tap water then of these traces aren't harmful yet the ones in fukushima are of that missile a little what's worrying is that normally there isn't any traces of radioactive iodine but there are means from traces and also what's more is that

a radio station has also spread to food produce from the local shima prefecture and milk and spinach were tested and they were found to contain harmful levels of potentially not the levels of radiation in them and ingested then it speeds although the idea there has a short half life it could prove risky to human health and it could and damaged by right now in all of these they haven't seen many success stories many miracles but we've had a couple of miracles you might say today nine days after the earthquake and tsunami east coast in the face of it worth it to people were found to survive as an eighty year old woman and a sixteen year old that's all buried amongst the rubble in the town of rishon are now q. now temperature is considered a miracle because in this sort of rescue work of what is considered unlikely you'll find any one of the seventy two hours in the area was more risk than a five percent chance believe you'll find anyone alive up to ninety.