in israel. further developments in libya tonight coalition warplanes resume patrolling the no fly zone as heavy anti-aircraft fire has burned in the capital tripoli this despite kid off his regime declaring an immediate cease fire. the arab league holds an emergency summit in crimea they say signed up for a no fly zone that protect civilians and doesn't kill them join me police here from tripoli. bosco calls for an end to what it terms of been disproven the use of force by foreign policy in libya and calls will military action to remain within the parameters of the u.n. resolution. and in the u.s.

a barrage obama still insists there will only be a limited role for american forces but that isn't stopping some from drawing parallels with the two thousand and three invasion of iraq. polls show the majority of americans opposed the u.s. involvement in the intervention for more on this join me. in just a few minutes. right casting live from our studios in central moscow where it is just after two o'clock in the morning just after one o'clock in the morning in libya let's get the latest details from there in the last few hours the libyan army has been ordered to observe an immediate cease fire in their fight against rebels but heavy anti-aircraft gunfire has been heard over the capital tripoli tonight an international aerial campaign to force a no fly zone is still in effect to protect civilians from colonel gadhafi forces

archies palace leader is in the libyan capital directly under that barrage of anti aircraft gunfire. there is anti aircraft and gun fire 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 most 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 no b. action from the international community and nobody action somewhere before says we don't expect that that reaction will come because the last time they did at the same constancy time it turns out and meet the people into thinking that this time around it really perhaps is just a delaying tactic all that's nothing more than just an outright lie now the arab league has been holding an emergency summit in cairo the secretary general on the most or says 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 in school saying this no fly zone but it certainly is raising concerns about what is happening behind the scenes is the confusion or is there just seems within the ranks when you gauge the mood here on the ground what people very much are saying is that increasingly it's not 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 sense that they'll be pushing the boat rather been 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 over some kind of vendetta against gadhafi or is it rather a way to try and further entrenched the united states in this part of the region most people here who support a no fly zone would rather have seen countries like china zero and egypt neighboring countries come to the fold to help with those arab democratic

revolution it's not particularly welcomed in some circles that you have the united states in. spear hitting the smooth barricade be happy and see it soft fire as i say it's been happening around the night we still hear exactly why the government is doing that because it's no incoming fire it's just not strong and i continue that it's a lot of frightening when you hear it there will no doubt be cause for you to on the streets behind me that were he to a very much a show of support that they could ask the regime i do want to add though that state television throughout the day has been showing pictures of victims of these airstrikes they came to move and sixty people have been killed we've been seeing those pictures stop in fact as the foreign media we were invited to go to some 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 on not directly related to the strikes that we witnessed a last night chance you can hear this and see aircraft fire is happening behind me

and people in front of me all 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 street and we're hearing the same kind of sounds coming out of the city of misrata today difficult for us as journalists to go they will be prevented from reaching misrata for three weeks now that eyewitnesses there is saying that the tanks have rolled into the town same to they were saying that the gadhafi forces were going from house to house they didn't think they said it was the same city as intention to complete the whites wolf downtown office roster they split though on the international forces is that british time here in tornado planes have been same's to pick a base in the to be that means that there are only thirty minutes away from his they will be able to come here immediately if needed to we are also hearing both that despite the international community's announcement that it has managed to pete most of the japanese surface to be

a defense missile systems he still has some remote ones and so the international community can respond as long as you see. that if it passed over libyan airspace is free and 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 what we hear into a no fly zone they will be no support if it's extended into foot just to keep those who are feeding the concern will turn their support back to gadhafi but afaik 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 you hear people shouting i do hear because he is always a sense of confusion when this kind of gunfire erupts in the skies so the situation here in tripoli incredibly tense people are incredibly nervous and i suspect that

in the coming hours we'll continue to hear these kind of sounds erupting from size . moscow has called on coalition forces to refrain from using indiscriminate force in libya artie's has the details the latest statement that's being released by the russian foreign ministry the ministry says that it's unacceptable for military force to be used for anything other than the protection of civilians in libya they also called them they see is the indiscriminate use of force by coalition there you know he of course that foreign ministry statement. we strongly call upon 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 three by the security council accosting which was rather and us for purposes which are obviously beyond its provisions which were to protect a peaceful population stayman continued 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 against the use of force by foreign powers in the in the libya situation is repeatedly called for dialogue and not military intervention circular for all 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 is very close neighbors to egypt and then to algeria well of course the it's inevitable that the situation in libya will play a concert not just love it 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 a situation in that country will be watched very very closely and inevitably as i say play a part in visits to those two countries are just better all are reporting their u.s. cruise missiles have been at the leading edge of coalition operations in libya as by president obama promising america's role would be limited at the pentagon a military spokesman called saturday strikes very effective our correspondent in washington which again has. pentagon says they do not rule out more strikes and cold if and when the need arises the u.s. has launched missiles from its war fix in submarines in the mediterranean targeting it could out its air defense systems and clearing the sky to make or could help it's not able to put down any planes of the coalition forces the pentagon says u.s. fighter jets along with the french nor planes that carried out straits strike some crude out his ground forces as well there have been reports of civilian casualties

the idea that there are lots of questions as to how long the operation is going to last also through the limits of the intervention believe enough of the coalition forces to disarm could operate or would they go beyond that call and what will be the outcome is that it would seem strange or what those are the questions that everybody is asking and most of those questions remain unanswered although the pentagon says they are not going after gadhafi but the wording of the u.n. resolution that was passed on thursday he's basically all the inclusive one of arcade these people are going to be tension is protecting civilians from caracas attacks but what everybody's talking about is the means shooting down put up his fighters bombers and attacking his other military as it is announcing it was authorized by the resolution but arming the rebels for example is something very different if it's military training arms over the border illegally and rebels and egypt's military as we know is very much influenced by locking him up so it's not just the canal the army versus only three choices but the theory is that this is going to be any way it's going to war and that these arms supplies the good further

inflame the situation history shows that arming the rebels are mean the other side of a conflict usually results in more deaths and destruction because he has been launching attacks against his own citizens for weeks killing hundreds of people but political analyst dr abdul shamu told me foreign intervention could still turn public opinion in his favor. long that will go on and so you know it's very difficult to predict that will determine whether they can afford it probably does the reason why president obama says this is going to be days rather than weeks or months so i am very concerned that this will last much longer than the white house portraying as you reason because they have to now merge together then change when they say look without he has to leave and the limited you have resolution where it it's clear the stage for the action of the syrian forces cannot be. when there is

foreign intervention people who normally everywhere in the world they follow god and so forth bill is very high level rather than somebody from the outside that we have to remember with offie is that that spot and ass killed many of his b.-ball and has squandered its economy so he's not an angel it's a low hanging fruit and that's why the west them as it's all were encouraged through to. go in the military intervention it's pretty unfortunate i have written many times against military intervention because the consequences of death and destroying the infrastructure of any country violence against protesters continues in other arab countries like bahrain and yemen where the coalition forces are only focusing on libya stephen a chicago based radio host of a political talk show says it's because the u.s.

only acts on its own political interests. but it really is going to be attention because whomever supports the marquis who are in support circus or in star you know hero but just our support because there are speed it's very ironic because around two thousand and three. establish were approached washington relations were firing he had meetings with u.s. officials including secretary of state clinton who expressed very warm regards for the recently seeming it because what's going on there are levels playing in nearly eight months there with. each one flake america undertakes does not establish it isn't when we are two weeks in advance this is playing months in us during which spirit i did stupid proud troop deployments and this is the massaging

of public opinion in america appearing in the us public for america. to the two to go it war illegally is needed a gracious against another country but he american people had to be convinced this humanitarian intervention of british forces joined the action in libya from the very beginning its submarines and fighter jets carried out multiple strikes against gadhafi forces our correspondent laura emmett reports on what the u.k. public to 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 sounds in in the perception of that a no fly zone sounds to your mind on the street like a relatively low key thing it just sounds like people won't be allowed to take it take off planes but of course i think what people didn't fully understand was that in order to stop it after these planes taking off from would actually have to shoot them down and certainly what we've seen so far in this military intervention and we

should remember this is only just the beginning is over one hundred cruise missiles fired at the u.s. and dropped conventional 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 staying 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 in the civil war we are 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 there's also been an extremely serious situation going on in song 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 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 and yet another war seemingly at the drop of hearts in even off the defense cuts being made in the u.k. william hague the foreign minister has come out and said that there will still be there have been a will still have the fourth largest military capability in the world the british people are also worried about what's become known as mission creep happen. in iraq it happens in afghanistan two wars in which the streets were involved and known period of time again it was the creed that what was happening was that was going to establish stability and equal just abusive 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 stop military intervention and just you know not be able to be for

a period of years there is certainly if any of. this intervention or g.'s war and that reporting for us now from london now perhaps the closest historical comparison to what's been happening in libya is the nato air campaign over yugoslavia twelve years ago the bombing also launched with the aim of protecting civilians in this case the course of our minority resulted in hundreds of civilian deaths though it did manage to force the withdrawal of u.s. law of forces from kosovo nevertheless balkans expert marco gay sick says humanitarian missions are 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 intervention then later as later thirty years and

still ongoing instability in one nine hundred ninety nine still a fake state of desperate poverty and desperate crime in iraq it's already 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 bombs instead the bones are not necessary for the peace what we need is a cease fire for the peace and that really should be the aim of the mission so the extent that it is not there with additional admission has now become compromised and should be stopped as soon as possible a lot as happened in libya in such a short amount of time so here are the latest developments catch up to date 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 there's heavy anti-aircraft fire fire fire over the capital tripoli also witnesses report loud explosions near colonel gadhafi

compound but the pentagon claims that the libyan leader's residence is i'm not being targeted all this comes on day two of an international campaign to enforce a no fly zone to protect civilians from gadhafi forces the multinational coalition says it is 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 have caused civilian deaths russia has also called on international troops and what it described as indiscriminate use of force the allies say there is now effectively a no fly zone over libya but could not he has vowed a long war against the international coalition libyan officials say at least sixty four people have been killed and one hundred fifty wounded in the ally the son. step today with events unfolding in libya on twitter and facebook pages regular updates there also don't forget to check out our youtube page for the latest video

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cables to two of the damaged reactors and it could be an important breakthrough in an effort to prevent a catastrophe of the tsunami that facility i have abandoned has the latest. even though they have attached power cables to two reactors reactors one and two there's no guarantee the cooling systems will actually work because they feel the electronics inside those cooling comes and they have been damaged in the earth and are all the ensuing explosions of those reactors and so what they're doing is not just turning on actress t. just yet because they feel if they do it could now function even more in the consummate so living very wary before starting a power supposed 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 reactor is that what they're doing in the meantime they're still spraying water into the reactors so to our department thirteen hours straight two thousand tons of water interaction number three but there's only so much that can

do because already this evening we've heard the pressure inside the reactor number three is increasing in so they're going to have to vent it which means controlled release of steam but with that release that steam is the escape or radiate radioactive substances as well now as for the radiation in the regions around. now know that there have been traces the radioactive substances radioactive iodine in fact found in the water systems in and they five neighboring prefectures including in tokyo even says traces of radioactive i.v. it's not considered harmful if ingested just yet but what will bring is that it's there it wasn't there before this disaster happened in fukushima there radiation levels inside the water are considered to be harmful what's more it's also spread to food products from the region to taiwan has just reported that some imported fiber beans 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 five hundred anti nuclear protesters joined the demonstration an annual antiwar demonstrations in tokyo demonstrating against you. how are they holding placards calling for the end of nuclear power in japan they're unlikely to have that demand met by the fukushima plant the situation is under control will certainly be closed because it's being rendered useless now following. spring of watching 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 don't know obviously what chances of finding people alive are pretty slim nicely nine days since the earthquake and tsunami struck how they said that no big hand was being dubbed a miracle an eight year old woman and a sixteen year old boy were found alive amongst the rubble in a town in a reality prefecture called ishinomaki which was one of the worst hit areas at least two people have been found alive in dhaka miracle because not only were these

sort of things to search and rescue operations following natural disasters like this incident after seventy two hours pretty unlikely to the line five percent survival rate up to ninety six hours equal survival for more than double that amount and that was even unseasonably wintry conditions for those artes i have been reporting there now one world renowned earthquake expert has told r.t. while japan have failed to predict the sheer size of the most powerful quake in its history before it happens. full force to several negative posters coincided first the japanese are perhaps best equipped in the world against or at least as they are living on a continuous seismic hotbed they predicted an earthquake with nobody expected of michael jordan which is unique you normally magnitude ages for us to the difference between eight and nine is a log rhythmic scale each digit increment means of ten time increase of energy so nature played a mean joke with which the before the eleven march quake

a quake on the ninth of march in the soon zone was considerably weaker only seven point seven which is still big goals they decided the forecast had been fulfilled and they relaxed and watched. quake occurred soon afterwards. you can find out what other devastating surprises nature could be keeping up its sleeve for the years ahead the full interview with if gainey or golden is coming up in just a couple minutes time also sports is ahead in just over fifteen minutes unions got news of a temple izing fixture set up at the cricket world cup that's now the next half hour hands out him right here on our team from moscow.

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