the sea entrepreneur resorts to build a magickal hers ok renaissance hotel. in israel is available in some hotel time period. for their developments in libya tonight coalition warplanes resume patrolling the no fly zone as heavy anti-aircraft fire is heard in the capital tripoli is by gadhafi regime declaring an immediate cease fire. the arab league holds an emergency summit in crime a they say they signed up for a no fly zone that protect civilians and doesn't kill them join me to see it from tippy. toe calls for an end to what it terms an indiscriminate use of force by foreign policy in libya and calls for military action to remain within the parameters of the u.n. resolution. and in the u.s.

still insist there will only be a limited role for american forces but that isn't stopping song from drawing parallels with the two thousand and three invasion of iraq. polls show the majority of americans oppose the u.s. involvement in the intervention for more on this joining me. in just a few minutes. broadcasting live from our studios and some from moscow this is our team certainly glad to have you with us well take you up to date on the latest from libya. in the last few hours the libyan army has been ordered to observe an immediate cease fire in their fight against rebels but heavy heavy anti-aircraft gunfire has been heard over the capital tripoli tonight an international aerial campaign to enforce

a no fly zone is still in effect to protect civilians from colonel gadhafi forces are reports from the libyan capital i feel very heart of the conflict. there is anti aircraft gunfire happening just a short distance behind me this is the second time in as many hours that we are witnessing this over the capital city of tripoli and 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 an overreaction from the international community and nobody action from we will forces we don't expect that their reaction will come because the last time they did at around sixty five and it turns out that 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 with the secretary general and

i'm also 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 boston this no fly zone but it certainly 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 what people very much are saying is that increasingly it's likely that it's going to be the united arab emirates qatar and possibly jordan that will be coming forward but mostly in the in the states that 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 of whether some kind of vendetta against gadhafi or is it the other 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 in egypt neighboring

countries come to the fore to help with this arab democratic revolution it's not particularly welcomed in some circles that you have the united states in. still hitting the smooth very gay be happy and see it's off i as i say it's been happening out there nights we still hear exactly why the government is doing that because the parents know incoming fire it's just it's wrong and i continue that it's an open frank thing when you hear it they will no doubt because fruiting on the streets behind me they were hitting early they very much a show of support to get out of 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 more than sixty people have been killed we've been seeing those pictures stop expecting 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 on not directly related to the strikes that we've witnessed and last night chance you can

hear this anti aircraft fire is happening behind me and people in front of me are starting to run for 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 fasces jonas to go they will be prevented from reaching misrata for three weeks now that eyewitnesses there is saying that the tanks of rolled into the town seem to they were saying that the gadhafi forces were going from house to house they claim anything they said it was the same is intention to complete the whitehall downtown office right to. go on the international forces is that british time when a the planes have been seems cheap and can based in it's a beat that means that they're only thirty minutes away from here so they will be able to come here immediately if needed too we are also hearing though that despite the international community's announcement that it has managed to get peter most of

it back he's sophisticated defense missile systems he still has some remote ones and so the international community can operate on its loans in a sea. that if he crossed 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 it will be no support it's 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 is beyond the standing at this stage because we see no incoming fire being to show support for gadhafi he says he is making sure that his men and his supporters understand who is in control in this country and so people 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 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 the size. of his policy we are reporting for us from tripoli and i'm also has called on coalition forces to refrain from using indiscriminate force in libya artie's oliver has details the latest statement that's been 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 them to what they see is the indiscriminate use of force by the coalition there you know here part of 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 eighty three by the security council the passing of which was rather ambiguous for purposes which are obviously beyond its provisions to protect a peaceful copulation stayman continued to say that the foreign ministry here in

moscow has received reports that dozens of civilians were killed in schools wounded in those attacks from the and from boats from ships stationed 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 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 double headed visits to see two of libya's very close neighbors to egypt and then to algeria well of course the it's inevitable that the situation in libya will play a part in not miss the love of it was initially in those two countries to discuss

bilateral trade and other talks between russia and egypt and algeria of course 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 missed all of those visits to those two countries. reporting for us there and us a cruise missiles have been a leading edge of coalition operations in libya despite president obama promising america's role would be limited at the pentagon a military spokesperson called saturday strikes very effective our correspondent in washington has more. the pentagon says they do not rule out more strikes quote if and when the need arises the u.s. has launched missiles from its war ships and submarines in the mediterranean targeting it khadafi air defense systems and clearing the sky to make sure that our p. is not able to shoot down any planes of the coalition forces the pentagon says u.s.

fighter jets along with the french warplanes have carried out strikes on qaddafi's ground forces as well there have been reports of civilian casualties caused by the attacks there are lots of questions as to how long the operation is going to last also as to the limits of the intervention will it be enough for the coalition forces to just bizarre or will they go beyond that call and what will be the outcome of the libyan regime change or what those are the questions everybody is asking and many of those questions remain an answer although the pentagon says they are not going after it could go off easy but the wording of the u.n. resolution that was passed on thursday is basically all inclusive short of occupation of course there's little purpose of intervention is protecting civilians from combat his attacks but what everybody's talking about is the means shooting down kidnappers fighter bombers and attacking these other military assets is one thing it was authorized by the resolution but arming the rebels for example is something very different interests military began shipping arms over the border to weaken rebels and egypt's military as we know is very much influenced by washington

so it's not just the canal the army versus coalition forces but the fear is this could turn into a full fledged civil war and that these arms supplies could even further inflame the situation this really shows that arming the other side of a conflict usually results in more deaths and destruction if you watch american television and you get the impression that america's involvement is really good thing and that there was no other option but intervention but if you look at the polls the majority of americans of course the u.s. involvement in the intervention fox news gives sixty five percent they're already on 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 asking are already asking questions about the cost of the involvement just this saturday the u.s. shot seventy five million dollars worth of missiles and put out in syria defenses officials have promised that is going to be

a fast war obama said that there will be no u.s. troops on the ground could act as military indeed is no match for the capabilities of the coalition forces it took just hours to cripple his air defenses the u.s. is 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 strikes substantially outweighs that of the coalition for that and that of the all of the coalition forces combined so it's really a hard task to create the appearance of not being the leading force also the fact that president obama did not interrupt him straight to lead america is also kind of an indication that he doesn't want to be seen as the man in chief of all this pain so it was a very calculated decision you could say what they continue to stress is that it's not just the western powers going to war in libya but the have to support the arab league as well and now it looks like the support is diminishing the head of the

arab league has already criticised the international strikes for killing innocent people they say the military operation has gone beyond what the arab league backed and also they're saying what happened in the first from the no fly zone objectives and also they're saying but we wanted was civilians protection and not more more civilian deaths we know that it was really cool for western powers to half of the arab countries assistance so that it doesn't appear as if it's just the west cracking down and yet another arab nation but with this criticism coming from the arab league it will be very difficult to count on further on their support. which is going to reporting from washington d.c. you know gadhafi has been launching attacks against his own citizens for weeks killing hundreds of people political analyst a doctor a deal shamu told us foreign intervention could still turn public opinion in his favor. how 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 of months so i am very concerned that this will last much longer than the white house is portraying for idea of reason because they have to now merge together then g.m. change when they say he has to leave and the limited u.n. resolution where it clearly states protection of this is billion forces an occupational forces when there is foreign intervention people nobody everywhere in the world they sort of gather and support of their own government is barrack of their own devil rather than somebody from the outside that we have to remember about me is that that's five an 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 western powers. were encouraged

to do. go in a military intervention it's really unfortunate i have written many times against military intervention because the consequences beth and destroying the infrastructure of any country coalition forces say very trying to stop the bloodshed but political writer diana johnstone believes that's just not always the case. the whole notion that you have a resolution to protect civilians by calling in nato is that third nato is not equipped to protect civilians nato is predicted to pound them to send cruise missiles what nato does and the united states does what it's equipped to do and it is not equipped to protect civilians if the united nations had wanted to protect civilians they would have sent in a neutral observation team they could have done very rapidly from different

neutral nations to find out what was really going on on the ground because in fact we don't know what is really going on the ground there have been reports of atrocities if there were proof and photos of those atrocities committed by the. i think we'd be seeing them every hour on the western television screens we're not seeing them and so i am not sure that that is really the case of course now there will be atrocities and now there will be guess because nato is involved and that always brings about atrocities and death british forces the joint of the action in libya from the very beginning submarines and fighter jets carried out multiple strikes against gadhafi forces our correspondent there and reports on what the u.k. people 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 and 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 gadhafi 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 this is only just the beginning is over one hundred cruise missiles fired at the u.s. and 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 coming 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 are 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 for oil but in fact. there are there's also been an extremely serious situation going on in some years in somalia and the situation continues

there some 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 which is borne out by by three falls and yet the government has seemed to be willing to get involved in yet another war seemingly at the drop of the heart in even after defense cuts have been made in the u.k. william hague the foreign minister has come out and said that there will still be the 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 happened in afghanistan in two wars in which british troops were involved over a long period of time and again it was agreed that what would happen was that troops which go in to establish stability and to ensure the equal distribution of

power and arguably that hasn't happened yet in either of those countries so there is definitely a worry that we will go to libya and start military intervention i'm 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 he's laurent reporting from london there perhaps the closest historical comparison to what's happening in libya right now is the nato air campaign over yugoslavia twelve years ago the bombing also launched with the aim of protecting civilians in this case the kosovar minority resulted in hundreds of civilian deaths though it did manage to force the withdrawal of yugoslav forces from kosovo nevertheless balkans expert marco gossage says humanitarian missions are really just awful. but they only justify themselves in terms of their ability to achieve the aims of the intervenors which are always strategic designs or 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 interventions then led to later thirty years and still ongoing instability of course of our in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine still a fake state of desperate poverty and desperate crime in in all that entire area iraq we know another nightmare and we should remember that the reason lucian 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 the end of the dish and the mission has now become compromised and should be stopped as soon as possible. so here are 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 there is heavy

anti-aircraft over the capital tripoli also witnesses report loud explosions near colonel gadhafi 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 enforce a no fly zone to protect civilians from gadhafi forces a 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 to end what it has described as indiscriminate use of force the allies say there is now effectively a no fly zone over libya 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 allied itself. course you can stay up to date with events unfolding in libya on our twitter and facebook pages regular updates there also don't forget to check. our you tube page

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of the fukushima nuclear plant. it could be an important breakthrough in efforts to prevent a catastrophe a tsunami hit a facility bennett is there with the words. 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 fear the electronics inside those cooling ponds and they have been damaged in the earth and are all the ensuing explosions at those reactors and so what they're doing is they're not just turning on their interest to just yet because they feel if they do it could now function even more in the consummate so that in very wary of for starting a power supposed because they really need those plans to work and that's the only realistic way they're going to get the situation under control and the temperatures inside the reactors that what they're doing in the meantime they're still spraying water into the reactors so good by 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 that the pressure inside the reactor number three is increasing again so they're going to have to vent it which means a controlled release of steam but with that release of steam is the escaper real yet radioactive substances as well now as for the radiation in the regions around for we now know that there have been traces of radioactive substances radioactive iodine that found in the water systems in and they five neighboring prefectures including in tokyo even says traces of radioactive i mean it's not considered harmful if ingested just yet but what's all wiring is that it's there it wasn't there before this disaster happened in fukushima their radiation levels inside the water are considered to be part of what's more it's also spread to food products from the region to taiwan has just reported that an important part of 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 antinuclear protesters joined a demonstration and your antiwar demonstrations in tokyo demonstrating against you . the power they held in placards calling for the end of nuclear power in japan they're lucky to have that demand met but the fukushima plant this situation is under control will certainly be closed because it's being rendered useless now following the news that strain of course inside the reactor and since rescue operation is still ongoing but it's more of a salvage operation as search operation now because they don't know if the the chances of finding people alive are pretty slim as a nine days since the earthquake and tsunami struck how he said that boat and what's been dubbed a miracle an eight year old woman and a sixteen year old boy put found alive amongst the rubble in a town in the me at the prefecture called. which was one of the worst hit areas at

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the before the eleven marja quake the quake on the ninth of march of the soon zone was considerably weaker only seven point seven which is still big goals they decided before christ had been fulfilled didn't they relaxed a much stronger quake occurred soon afterwards. find out what other devastating surprises nature could be keeping up its sleeve for the years ahead the full interview with. him is coming up in just a couple minutes time. also sports is ahead in just over fifteen minutes got news of a tantalizing fixtures set up at the cricket world cup that's how the second half of our hour pans out stay with us here on our team.

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