how would international house flood to change every green little hotel in talk of. the am. developments in libya tonight heavy anti-aircraft fire is being heard in the capital tripoli just why gadhafi is regime declaring an immediate cease fire in the past few hours a multinational coalition is continuing to enforce a no fly zone above the country. the arab league holds an emergency summit in cairo they state signed up for a no fly zone that protect civilians and that's what killed him join me please feel free to be completely. false go calls for an end to what it terms an indiscriminate use of force by power of powers in libya it calls for

military action to remain within the parameters of the u.n. resolution. meanwhile america's says its role in a military intervention will be limited but that's not sort of comparisons to the beginning of the two thousand and three iraq invasion. polls show the majority of americans opposed to you i think both men in the intervention for more on this join me down in just a few minutes. welcome this is r.t. it's one i am now here in moscow my name is kevin zero in and in the last few hours the libyan army has been ordered to observe an immediate cease fire in the fight against rebels but heavy anti-aircraft gunfire is nonetheless been heard over the capital tripoli and international aerial campaign to force a no fly zone still in effect to protect civilians from colonel gadhafi his forces are says paul asli is in the libyan capital directly under the anti-aircraft fire.

there is anti aircraft gunfire happening just a short distance behind me this is the second time in as many hours that we're witnessing this over the capital city of tripoli it's not quite clear why the government is firing we have seen no incoming fire so the understanding here is that this might be a show of strength a sign of support for gadhafi gadhafi army spokesperson has announced an immediate cease fire but there has been nobody action from the international community and movie action from rebel forces we don't expect that that reaction will come because the last time they did and non-citizens time it turned out again is that people see you thinking that this time around it really perhaps is just a delaying tactic perhaps nothing more than just an art rock why now the arab league has been holding an emergency summit in cairo the secretary general a most astute he's been misquoted he was quoted as saying that the arab league signed up for the no fly zone to protect civilians and not actually to kill them

now whether or not there's been a misunderstanding because the latest word we have coming from this meeting is that the arab league is still involved in this no fly zone but it's ok is raising concerns about what is happening behind the scenes is there confusion or is there dissent within the ranks when you gauge the mood here on the ground not people very much are saying is that increasingly it looks likely that it's going to be united arab emirates qatar and possibly jordan that will be coming forward but mostly in the in the states if they'll be footing the bill rather than participating in military strikes and this raises very real questions why are they doing this is it a genuine concern for the libyan people is it one of the some kind of them greater against gadhafi or is it more than a way to try and further entrenched the united states in this part of the region and most people here who support a no fly zone would rather have seen countries like china india and egypt neighboring countries come to the ball to help with those arab democratic

revolution it's not particularly well comes in some circles that you have the united states in. spirit hitting the smooth very gay be happy and see it's off i as a statesman have rocked the night we still hear exactly why the government is doing that because it's no incoming fire it's just it's wrong and i can see that it's a vulgar frightening when you hear it they will no doubt be cause for eating on the streets behind me there was heating only a very much a show of support that they could die for the regime and i do want to add though that state television throughout the day has been showing pictures of victims of these airstrikes they claim that more than sixty people have been killed we've been seeing those pictures stop in fact as the foreign media we were invited to go to funerals it's not clear though whether the funerals have been staged there is some suspicion that some of the pictures and that some of the people being buried are not directly related to the strikes that we witnessed in last night's tense you can hear this anti aircraft fire is happening behind me and people in front of me are

starting to run most of the focus of the fighting today was in the city of misrata which is the third largest city here now behind me i can hear people screaming in the streets and we're hearing the same kind of sounds coming out of the city of misrata today difficult for us as journalists to go there we've been prevented from reaching misrata for three weeks now that eyewitnesses there saying that the tanks have rolled into the town center they were saying that the gadhafi forces were going from house to house basically main thing they said it was the same city its intention to completely wiped off the ten town of misrata relates to some the international forces is that british high speed into a nato planes have been st she can base in the city that means that they're only thirty minutes away from his they will be able to come here immediately if needed she we are also hearing though that despite the international community's announcement that it has managed to deplete most often duffy's so to speak a defense missile system she still has some remote lines and so the international

community cannot waste on a soldier to see. that if it cost over if you're here space is free and it is completely safe nobody really wants to see foreign soldiers on the soil here and although the mission at the moment is limited in terms of a hearing to a no fly zone it will be no support you can see extended interest to see those who are feeding that concern will turn their support back to gadhafi but i think people here are frightened to signs like this to be understanding at this stage because we see no incoming fire being to show support for gadhafi he said he is making sure that his men and his supporters understand who is in control in this country and certainly who is in control here in the capital city of tripoli now behind me i do hear people shouting i do hear because he is always the same some confusion when this kind of gunfire erupts in the skies so the situation here in tripoli incredibly tense people are pretty nervous and i suspect that in the coming hours we'll continue to hear these kind of sounds erupting from the skies. in the libyan

capital for us tonight well moscow's called on coalition forces to refrain from using indiscriminate force teams played or all of the details the latest statement that's being released by the russian foreign ministry the ministry says that it's only acceptable for military force to be used for anything other than the protection of civilians in libya they also called they see is the indiscriminate use of force by coalition there you know here part of that foreign ministry statement. we strongly call palm the relevant states to stop the indiscriminate use of force we believe it is unacceptable to use the mandate laid out in resolution one thousand nine hundred eighty three by the security council a passing of which was rather ambiguous for purposes which are obviously beyond its provisions which were to protect a peaceful population. continue to say that the foreign ministry here in moscow has received reports that dozens of civilians were killed and scores wounded in those

attacks from the and from boats from ships stations in the mediterranean they also said that they've received information that no military targets have been hit in these attacks on saturday night these include a medical facility as well as roads and bridges now russia has been a dense the use of force by foreign powers in in the libya situation is repeated we call for dialogue and not military intervention so you lover of the russian foreign minister is in the region at the moment this is part of a a double headed visits to see two of libya's very close neighbors to egypt and then to algeria of course the it's inevitable that the situation in libya will play a cost and not just the love of all was initially in those two countries to discuss bilateral trade and other talks between russia and egypt and syria because the

with them bordering libya the situation in that country will be watched very very closely and inevitably as i say play a part in. those two countries. people over there with the moscow angle u.s. cruise missiles have been of the leading edge of coalition operations in libya despite president obama promising america's role would be limited at the pentagon the military spokesman called saturday strikes quote very effective let's get the latest from washington culture without his gun and. hello there what is the pentagon saying there for about the state of the operations and i was late as you got for us about that are there any renewed estimates about the length of this campaign. but how does the pentagon says they cannot rule out more strikes then quote if and when the need arises the u.s. has launched missiles from its low shift in submarines in the mediterranean targeting it cut out these air defense systems and clearing the skies to make sure

it goes out is not able to shoot down any planes or the coalition forces the pentagon says u.s. fighter jets along with the french are more planes that carried out straight from strike them could out his ground forces those rather there have been reports of civilian casualties fight the attack there are a lot of questions as to how long the operation is going to last also through the limits of the intervention in libya enough political solution which is disarm saddam a little beyond that call and what will be the outcome is that it would seem to change a lot those are the questions that everybody is asking and most of those questions remain unanswered although the pentagon says they are not going after could daffy but the wording of the u.n. resolution that was passed on thursday is basically all the inclusive sort of occupation the official purpose of the convention is protecting civilians from productive pacts but what everybody's talking about is the newness shooting down khadafy side of bombers and attacking these other military assets is one thing it was authorized by the resolution but arming gravel for example is something very

different it's military is fifteen arms over the borders we read in gravel and egypt's military as we know is very much influenced washington so it's not just the qaddafi army versus coalition forces but the serious that this could turn into a full fledged civil war and that these arms supplies could even further inflame the situation history shows that arming the rebels are i mean the other side of a conflict usually results in more death and destruction and go there on the ground where you are there was a public response towards america's exhausted by two major military campaigns in iraq and afghanistan now the u.s. is involved in yet another foreign operation. well kevin if you watch american television you get the impression that america's involvement is a really good thing and that there was no longer option but intervention but if you look at the polls the majority of americans have polls the u.s. involvement in the intervention fox news gets sixty five percent there already are happy that their government is spending tax dollars on inconclusive wars in iraq and afghanistan and adding one more hot spot is the last thing they want people are

already asking questions about the cost of the involvement just this saturday just this saturday the us shot seventy five million dollars worth of missiles and corvallis air defenses officials have promised that it's going to be a fast lure obama says that they will be known to us troops on the ground without his military indeed is no match for the capabilities of the coalition forces it took just hours to cripple his arrogance and says the u.s. is all very careful not to appear as the driving force behind the military actions but as of now we know that the u.s. contribution in the sprites substantially outweighs that of all the coalition forces combined so it's really hard it's really a hard task. not being a leading voice also the fact that president obama did not interrupt his trip to latin america is also kind of an indication that he doesn't want to be seen as the manning chief of this whole thing so is a very calculated decision you could say what they continue to stress is that it's

not just western powers going to war in libya but that they have the support of the arab league has evolved and now it looks like the support is the menacing the head of the arab league has already criticized the international strikes killing innocent people they say the military operation has gone beyond what the arab league backed and what happened the first from the object is from the no fly zone objectives they are saying. also saying what we wanted was sibelius protection and no more not more civilian deaths we know that it is really crucial for some. i was happier but i know what i'm afraid looking after rather. i'm afraid because after rapid there we've simply one other time but it's always good to get your take on what's happening in washington and we will be back to you of course throughout the course of the day as well here on earth are you going to carry a correspondent in washington. well coalition forces stress the mission in libya is strictly humanitarian and claud money came from the european strategic intelligence

and security center believes that's what they should limit the operation. we have to focus on one thing the operation and. the question of what will happen in libya after all this is clearly the problem of the league and it's a problem of the nation i consideration it's a problem of the leadership the leadership of the been busy concealer i tell you we don't know what is diluted political leadership of the been busy concede it's extremely costly will cost the gates a treadle country as you know it's extremely possible that actually when the leader ship in the influence of the benghazi consider just apply in the eastern part of libya and not on syria tripoli or the west some part so clearly disputed it will be complicated but for the moment to point to to to fix is posting the stock at half an hour after the conflict when the when the first who settled on probably

everything will depend of the simple after the arab countries if a deal of the day we are alone in the west on block the so-called western bloke in libya we thought any arab support it would be very difficult to explain the situation but if we can think we will be we have to we still see part of our country's an opinion on too many casualties i think the film could be good. parlance against protesters continues in other arab countries like bahrain and yemen where the coalition forces are only focusing on libya stephen lemon the thoughts about that he's a chicago based radio host of a political talk show it's all this it's because the u.s. only acts on its political interests. but maybe it's going to be attention and be close america supports the marquee member in support circus and star in yemen but it does not support gadhafi it is very ironic because around two thousand and three. establish reproach and what washington relations with ari here

is the jewish officials including secretary of state clinton who expressed very warm regards for the piece of meat receiving it because what's going on there i was playing many times. each minute flake america undertakes and it is not just now that it isn't when we are two weeks in advance this is playing months in its purity each period spirit gets to paper out your troop deployments and there's no massaging of public opinion in america appearing to you with public for america. to the two to go war illegally this is needed a gracious against another country but the american people have to be convinced in this humanitarian intervention british forces join the action in libya from the

very beginning it's submarines and fighter jets carried out multiple strikes against gadhafi forces u.k. correspondent laura reports now on what the u.k. public think about being involved in another conflict. what we heard before this started and what has actually happened now there's quite a big difference both in what actually happened guns in in the perception of that no fly zone sounds to your mind on the street like a relatively key thing it just sounds like people won't be allowed to take take off planes but of course i think people didn't fully understand was that in order to stop it after these planes taking off one would actually have to shoot them down and certainly what we've seen so far in this military intervention and we should remember just the beginning is over one hundred cruise missiles fired at the u.s. it dropped. bombs on libya the u.k. alone they have fired missiles launched from submarines which are currently stationed off the coast of libya and we've also seen bombing from the sky from

tornado jets which were flown all the way from the u.k. people are saying on the street why are we going to libya when we're not going to other places that is seeing large scale civilian casualties caused by governments and civil war we're seeing a lot of casualties thousands of casualties in the ivory coast where of course the main export is not spoiled but in fact cocoa and there are those also been extremely serious situation going on and something is in somalia and the situation continues that very volatile again no intervention from from the u.k. or from the u.s. and of course given the general economic backdrop that we see here people are talking a lot about the cost of war they have heard their government saying repeatedly over a series of months we have got no money we've got no money for pensions we've got no money for public sector wages for higher education the cost of which is going up by by three fold and yet the government has seemed to be willing to get involved in yet another war seemingly at the drop perhaps even off the defense cuts to be made

in the u.k. william hague the foreign minister has come out and said that there will still be the have a will still have the fourth largest military capability in the world british people are also worried about what's become known as mission creep you have to. in iraq it happens in afghanistan two wars in which pretty streets were involved only period of time again it was the creed that what was happening was that was going to establish stability and to ensure the equal distribution of power and obviously that hasn't happened yet in either of these countries so there is definitely a worry that we will go to libya and start military intervention and just not be able to leave for a period of years there is certainly a fear here in the u.k. that this is just the beginning of this intervention. or perhaps the closest to store of comparison to what's happening in libya right now is the nato campaign if you can solve your twelve years ago but bombing then also launched with the aim of protecting civilians in case the cost of

a minority and resulted in hundreds of civilian deaths but we did manage to force the withdrawal of yugoslav forces from kosovo nonetheless balkans. told me humanitarian missions of rarely justified. they only justify themselves in terms of their abilities or achieve the aims of the intervenors which are always strategic designs of position themselves into occupation positions in strategically vital areas of the world so in terms of how they benefit the local population the answer is not at all in fact they're always very negative afghanistan in one thousand nine hundred ninety two bench and then later as later thirty years and still ongoing instability in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine still a fake state of desperate poverty and desperate crime in all that entire area iraq we know another nightmare we should remember that the resolution calls for dialogue it requires two sides both to be around in order to engage in that dialogue so it

shouldn't be about getting rid of colonel gadhafi we need dialogue we need a ceasefire we've got problems instead the bombs are not necessary for the peace what we need is a cease fire for the police and that really should be the aim of the mission to the extent that it is not there with addition the mission has now become compromised and should be stopped as soon as possible. well let me bring you up to date just joining us on the latest developments in libya in the last few hours the head of the country's armed forces says he's ordered all units to observe an immediate cease fire but this heavy. fire heard over the capital tripoli also witnesses reported explosions near colonel gadhafi is compound but the pentagon claims the libyan leader's residence is not being targeted all this comes on day two of an international campaign to force a no fly zone to protect civilians from gadhafi forces multinational coalition says it's following the u.n. resolution by carrying out military strikes in libya but earlier the arab league criticized the attacks by the u.s. u.k. and france because they cause civilian deaths russia's also called on international

troops to end what he described as indiscriminate use of force the allies say there is now effectively a no fly zone over libya but get our fears about a long war against international coalition and libyan officials say at least sixty four people have been killed and one hundred fifty wounded in reality so. opportune time to you instead today with all the events unfolding in libya on our twitter and facebook pages regular updates there and also of course on you tube you've got the best videos to. he has. to.

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guarantee the cooling systems will actually work because they feel the electronics inside those cooling ponds may have been damaged in the earth and are all the ensuing explosions at those reactors and so what they're doing is not just turning on extra city just yet because they feel if they do it could mouth function even more in the pumps and they said that in very wary of for starting a power to both because they really need those plants to work and that's the only realistic way they're going to get the situation under control and the temperatures inside the reactors down what they're doing in the meantime they're still spraying water into the reactors so our department thirteen hours two thousand tons of water into reactor number three but there's only so much that can do because already this evening we've heard the pressure inside reactor number three is increasing into the going to have to vented which means a controlled release of steam but with that release of steam is the escape or radiate radioactive substances as well now as to the radiation in the regions

around because we now know that there have been traces of radioactive substances radioactive iodine in fact found in the water systems in the navy neighboring prefectures including in tokyo even says traces of radioactive iodine it's not considered harmful if ingested just yet but will wiring is that it's there it wasn't there before this disaster happened in fukushima radiation levels inside the water are considered to be harmful what's more it's also spread to food products on the region and to taiwan is just reported that it's an important are the pings from japan do contain trace the radiation as well so it's a bit of a wind development there and that the anxiety now is regarding this radiation is now spreading to anger on the streets because today i understand the nuclear protesters joined them astray ssion and your antiwar demonstrations in tokyo demonstrating against you. power they hold in black arts calling for the end of nuclear power in japan they're unlikely to have that demand met by the fukushima

plant once the situation is under control will certainly be closed because it's been rendered useless now chloe said that spring of we're seeing inside the reactor it's it's a rescue operation is still ongoing but it's more of a salvage operation a search operation now because they know obviously the chances of finding people alive are pretty slim now it's a ninth day since the earthquake and tsunami struck having said that they've had what's being dubbed a miracle in eight year old woman and a sixteen year old boy were found alive amongst the rubble in a town in the riyadh prefecture called ishinomaki which was one of the worst hit areas at least two people have been found alive in the miracle because not only with these sort of things with search and rescue operations following natural disasters like earthquake this incident after seventy two hours pretty unlikely to live five percent survival rate after ninety six hours easy people survive for more than double that amount and that was even in unseasonably wintry conditions because

what a story of a got to tell one world renowned earthquake expert told us with r t y as he sees it japan failed to predict the sheer size of the most powerful quake in its history as it turned out to be before it happened. so sure to several negative fighters co-incided first the japanese are perhaps best equipped in the world against earthquakes as they are living on a continuous seismic hotbed of what they predicted an earthquake but nobody expected to my concern with knowing which is unique you normally magnitude eight is forecast the difference between eight and nine is a logarithmic scale each digit increment means a ten time increase of energy so nature played a mean joke with them before the eleventh of march quake a quake on the ninth of march in the same zone was considerably weaker only seven point seven which is still big. they decided the forecast had been fulfilled and they relaxed a much stronger quake occurred soon afterwards which. was

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