more than one hundred missiles fired on libya by britain and the u.s. as foreign forces push forward operation odyssey dawn vowing to get burnell khadafi out of the picture. as the international community steps up again fights to stop code on the force is it need a hand with his nation for protection on points given in the capital city of tripoli just a few moments days. washington claims its military involvement in libya will be limited but for some americans it's deja vu with fears of a repeat of the iraq operation. the pentagon says gadhafi air defenses have been severely disabled i'll be back with more from washington in just

a few minutes and russia calls on all sides to put an end to the violence while terming foreign intervention in libya is regrettable joins me in a few moments for the latest reaction from both sco. three pm in moscow i'm match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story an american military official says american and allied forces have effectively established a no fly zone over libya and halted an offensive by colonel gadhafi forces on rebels in benghazi meanwhile witnesses in the opposition held city of misrata say they're under heavy shelling from the army we go live now to tripoli where he's parsley or is standing by. a lot of hala sort of coalition says its efforts in libya are proving successful the witnesses record further violence against the rebels what's the situation from your perspective what whiteness very moment we are

hearing reports of new in strikes the american army has confirmed that it used the two stealth bombers to drop some forty conventional bombs were not here not worthwhile goods but we do understand that among them were libyan air fields at the same time we know that american warplanes are refueling may loading with weapons that american bases in italy were also being told that pushed planes on a process of taking off now the international community says that this is the first phase of what they want in a nazi phase operation we understand that it has been successful we're being told that the no fly zone is effectively in let's go now to suppose in a moment our five countries the united states bush and find canada and it's only for the moment the united states is in charge but it has made the point that very silly wants to hand over command and control to other nations now we are hearing reports that there is heavy shelling in the town of misrata at this time it does

not seem clear that the forces have in any way struck near the town or any any places inside the town from say we're hearing from eyewitnesses they say that a national is underway that forty people have been injured and that team people have so far been killed we're hearing up in city center in all but razed to the ground now the taliban guard yesterday sunday also came under heavy clashes during a game it was no idea understood that the international community made that decision to attack yesterday to train stop the fighting in going r.z. but we are still hearing reports coming from being garzon some of the questions nama ground is a little bit of frustration particularly among the rebels who are. saying. if there is we've lost palos stay with us here on our t.v. we're going to. hear me if i can all right what i was are saying is that we've all said you don't go on but also you know what's funny television are

a high number of civilian casualties they're reporting that some four. people have been killed and a hundred and fifty people have been injured so i'm not quite sure where we lost contact but certainly the concern on the ground. in. twelve international but i'm. hoping the rebel fighters in the town of misrata which is the third largest town here we are hearing eyewitness reports reports coming from from since that and nothing but i got is under way what is khadafi himself saying about these latest developments have we heard from him. or some time ago he once again a televised address on libyan state television he spoke for about fifteen minutes and he spoke with a very strong results are essentially giving him influence on the ground he says he's going nowhere in these air raids are an act of terrorism he also said you know arming people against you know we will not feel our country we will stay here to

liberate it now the other point he made was not only for the support system to see that he has a strong will from the country and we certainly see this from state television a constantly film and covered demonstrations and protests marches but he also said that there were asian and african countries a large significant because he wants people here to know that he has international support. for his policy there live with the very latest from tripoli thanks for that but. the coalition decision to take military action in libya is being made under the premise of a humanitarian mission the mobilization analyst michel chossudovsky believes the use of heavy artillery suggest a different agenda. it is not a humanitarian operation it is deadly wall what you are seeing runs military material and it just say that this is there to save the lives of civilians since when do these fighter bombers and save the lives of civilians.

which has to publishing change this impulse was not mentioned of the security council resolution prime minister stephen. and i'm following the canadian responses has stated that the objective of this operation is to unseat the coffee 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 to. the resolution which they themselves have holes. and will international community article nineteen zero 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 that

bringing in weapons and supplying opposition forces with benefits through fees of this war is oil and. the united states canada i'll go there with the intent of the interests of the prince of the oil corporations and extension of the influence. into africa this is not. a humanitarian operation it is a war of conquest and it will have devastating consequences are not only on the people of libya but most generally. coalition combat aircraft and submarines 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 at a summit in paris just hours before the first writes our european correspondent daniel bushell has more on the scale of the operation france is taking

a direct grant role along with the u.k. it's already employed its rough and b. raj fighter jets in addition to that it's also added shoulder called planes the u.k. is helping with the navy blue cade of libya h.m.s. is westminster and cumberland will be helping with that it's also sent typhoon 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 danish scientists said it's 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 isn't and norway is another country so we're seeing the there is a coming through all of the european nations on this operation germany were actually abstained from the u.n. vote on imposing a no fly zone over libya an airspace which would ground colonel gadhafi is jets and

helicopters angela merkel the chancellor of germany it seems was then pulled into line at the paris summit yesterday and she came out and said that she tells 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 the administration just outside the 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 as well so there are growing concerns about that as well. president barack obama is promising not to deploy u.s. ground forces in libya unless it's absolutely necessary he said america's role would be limited as part of the international effort to protect libyans from gadhafi forces but first some there is worry that it echoes the u.s. invasion of iraq eight years ago and the devastating consequences that could result

if he's got a champion has more from washington. the pentagon says could doll feest 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 could be as 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 guy 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 inforce naval blockade and earlier french of fighter jets have 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 bizarre and could be or will they go beyond that cool 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 efforts to protect a civilian civilian 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 khadafy 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 know if there is we know is there influenced by washington and reports so it's not just the canal the army versus coalition forces this could the fear is that this

could turn into a food. 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 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 olga 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 russia describe the international military action in libya as regrettable the foreign ministry is urging all sides to do everything they can to stop civilian suffering and agree on an immediate cease fire or to peter all over has more for 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 have started to concern over international intervention led by by britain france and the united states saying that it could be overstepping the the boundaries laid out by the u.n. security council resolution. gallow for the federation council the foreign affairs committee leader has said this in his own opinion he believes that they have they are going too far with this action it's taken resolution a number of nine hundred seventy three its main goal was to defend the civilian population but not to punish the gadhafi regime or withrow it so in that respect with think that one thousand nine hundred seventy three resolution is mostly

humanitarian resolution to speak for humanitarian resolution than a full military resolution 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 the military we think there. has already lost its internal and international credibility but we think also there .

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're going to be watching very closely what happens in the country. is there to discuss. between russia and egypt and algeria notice first visits 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 the suffering the peace. and international intervention at the moment. we're going to sum up for you now the main developments in our top story this hour an american military official says u.s. and allied forces have effectively established a no fly zone over libya and halted an offensive by moammar gadhafi forces on the rebels in benghazi meanwhile witnesses in the opposition held city of misrata say

at least ten people have been killed in heavy shelling by the army the libyan leader earlier spoke on state television saying weapons are being distributed to armed people so they can protect themselves from coalition strikes a military campaign against the coffee or sheen was launched by france britain and the united states saturday evening about twenty libyan defense targets have been hit in the west of the country by more than one hundred missiles fired from sea forty eight people have reportedly been killed one hundred fifty others wounded after international coalition forces unleashed war planes and missiles over libya the u.s. confirms its jets struck forty bombs on major libyan airfield earlier on sunday the international action followed the un's resolution to allow a no fly zone over libya to be enforced to stop the bloodshed. russia is among those urging the international community to refrain from using military force against the khadafi regime and the from the peace action organization joins me now from brussels to discuss how this could be could this could all be had without

armed intervention thank you for joining me so fighting inside libya has been going on for a few weeks now now there came a point where something had to be done to stop people getting killed but what other options are there do you think besides military action. well of course the military option we are not for do or. what are your thoughts and of course it's a political option we we decided to bring the kids to support the libyan government so cut our feet so a couple of months ago was two birds and was selling weapons to feed and of course these can maybe see begins with it so we were supporting is always no big surprise of what happened there are no so of the earth are we still critical possibilities hands of military possibilities of the white way to response to these results certainly the main goal of all of this is to help the civilians a soon as possible talking time to go she take time and you think words are strong enough to prevent someone else's civil war of course negotiation time to try and negotiate that

since the kids so of course. we should need more time in the military intervention is what these are. but the way to respond to the show and to try to resolve this conflict which of course but in we do not have solutions and always the accident find military solution but that's not the way to. do this we've all to this conflict if not military solutions you feel are more effective then why would britain france and us be spending so much money that they can that they can ill afford an action in libya of course us spending a lot of money but front of the money in memory can also in even use our enfolding you know the wars like in afghanistan. the spending money of course in the train new planes and new yorkers they were saying that it was trying also you bombs and for them it's also a way to play on political and economic you can make a little you know that even if that spending would be

a time and money that would receive more seriously result than personal interest in this war for every country and for every head of state what involving it's called. how do you think this is all going to develop over the next couple of hours. in fact it's quite at the moment they are in the fields one but we can see already and that is one that's he's not really agreement about what is the fees once the americans are targeting like say twenty points important points for difference of libya but we see we see already that the french people from leaving all the disease this is doing their own things on the field for example by going to times so it's not really appreciated by the coalition that france is leading and doing their own things in libya and also is a phase one will continue doing weeks but should certainly doings in the next days a lot of things will happen and we will see the future we will be able to see

a future the next day right then walk postmen from the peace action organization thanks for a perspective. turning to developments in japan which is struggling to restore power to the cooling systems of the crippled fukushima nuclear plant the country's earthquake disaster has claimed more than eight thousand lives many more are still missing police believe up to fifteen thousand people may have been killed in one prefecture alone are granted as a nagasaki where locals are hoping nuclear workers will manage to prevent meltdown . they have managed to reconnect power cables suit 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 the cooling systems up and running again and get the tensions down inside the reactor is 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 radiation levels they're

battling there are very very high what's more it's not guaranteed that once that if they turn electricity on 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 keep this situation under control trying to make it not get any worse but it's improving that's all they can do so they're continuing to spray water inside the reactors last night the tokyo fire department took part in a thirteen hour operation. only 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 is still below is building once again now and maybe they're considering going to. see it which means that the

controlled release of steam but with that escape of steam from inside the reactor is also has the scale of radioactive substances now this whole process has been going on for nine days now workers are trying their best that the public is obviously getting very anxious of radiation spreading as far south as tokyo as the anxiety they haven't found yet apart on the streets of tokyo today five hundred and three nuclear protesters joined an annual antiwar demonstration that blackguard's calling for the end of that and you could power in japan they want all. and shutdown after about there are nothing to get that demand met but the focusing on power plants certainly one so if it's it gets under control that will have the shutdown because it will pull the use of seawater inside the reactor to cool down has now rendered but useless they've actually found traces of the radioactive substances i had seen which isn't radioactive fuel use that because she met inside the tab or systems of incentives and they recreate that just a machine or and if

a machine resell and more and perhaps even and trace as far south as tokyo in the tap water there now these traces aren't harmful yet the ones in for her she must have thought that with all of that all what's worrying is that normally there isn't any traces of radioactive iodine but there are means through traces and also what's more is that radio station has also spread to food produced from the fukushima prefecture the milk and spinach were tested and they were found to contain harmful levels of potentially harmful levels of radiation in them and that if ingested then it's although the idea has a short half life it could prove risky to human health and it could and damaged by road. let's sum up again for you our job to the developments in our top story this hour an american military official says u.s. and allied forces have effectively established a no fly zone over libya and halted an offensive by moammar gadhafi forces on rebels in benghazi meanwhile witnesses in the opposition held city news ouattara

say at least ten people have been killed in heavy shelling by the army libya's leader spoke earlier on state television saying weapons are being distributed to arm the population so they can protect themselves from coalition strikes and military campaign against gadhafi regime was launched by france britain and the u.s. saturday evening about twenty libyan defense targets have been hit in the west of the country more than one hundred missiles fired from c forty eight people have reportedly been killed one hundred fifty others wounded after international forces unleashed warplanes and missiles over libya the u.s. confirms its jets dropped forty bombs on major libyan airfield earlier sunday international action follow the u.n. resolution to allow a no fly zone over libya to be enforced to stop further bloodshed but you can keep across our coverage of the latest developments in libya through to our twitter and facebook feeds our correspondents are covering the world's biggest events right now you probably know what they're witnessing step by step on light ahead for twitter and search for r t underscore. and in

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