the children of each village are a child you big but you know what you know soto be able to make their children to be told their ability to turn. in serbia lucy's availability in the lead regency they are going to. target the libyan leader stronghold as they continue the barrage of strikes which are purportedly killed over sixty people. bombs naval gadhafi is headquarters in the capital as his opponents lines up the sky with unsecured calls via i'm told is there in something so i mean just a few moments formal. and washington maintains its intervention will be limited that's despite taking command of the bombing campaign is raising fears of a repeat of the wrong times that. also this hour emergency teams are evacuated from japan's fukushima nuclear site amid fears radiation could spread as

smoke you see rising from a paralyzed reactor. but for moscow you're watching arts he swore top story this hour in libya the international coalition says aerial strikes have successfully halted the forces of colonel gadhafi more than one hundred air strikes were carried out across the weekend with reports over sixty people were killed what sort of officials claim to have destroyed a command center used by the libyan army in the capital tripoli but to my contacts he was the target are just false leader details. we are hearing from the pentagon that it is extremely satisfied with the way this operation is being conducted if there's a gadhafi is increasingly under stress that they've managed to isolate and scatter his forces we're also hearing that washington in

a matter of just days will be ready to relinquish control of this whole operation over the situation remains incredibly tense people are certainly incredibly frightened in the capital city of tripoli at around midnight local time there was a whole scattering of fire in the sky in part this is because of empty a car fire that was being fired some libyan forces and also now be receiving confirmation that a missile hit because rafa compound i want you hearing from allied forces is that it struck the control income on building of his operations was that we are seeing international opposition grow it's not only the arab league that is now coming out with these conflicting statements that it's signed up for the protection of civilians and after the killing of civilians you need to remember that was very important for european powers to get the backing of the arab world the understanding now is that they're backing might only come from the united arab emirates qatar and possibly jordan and that if the backing comes it will be more in the same financial aid people here on the ground who want to the international

community to get involved and i'm talking here specifically about the rebel groups the opposition leaders they would much rather have the third country selection is the end egypt coming to the fore and for this to have been almost like an arab revolution for democracy rather than the intervention of wisdom powers there are very legitimate questions being asked why for example when it's all carried out a bombardment over gaza in two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine why then was there not a no fly zone imposed by the international communities are those kind of questions at the forefront of people's minds insert me against the backdrop of this growing criticism of this operation most people here do not really believe the libyan army when it calls for a cease fire so the announcement on sunday night a spokesperson for the libyan army that there would be an immediate cease fire is certainly being greeted with a lot of skepticism on the ground the rebels themselves. if you do not believe it the international community has yet to respond but it is important though to say that the gadhafi regime is still sticking by its earlier argument and that is that it is appearing to a ceasefire but that it is the rebels that are the ones that are provoking them it

is the rebels that are on the offensive and they are the ones who are breaking that the international community is a pains to say that its intention is really to stop the fighting to stop the killing of civilians and that it's not really at this stage trying to get gadhafi out of power but the the criticism against that is well then my strength is his compound and the second christmas ism is also what if you do not get the man to step down this kind of in call save the situation on the ground could continue for weeks if not months. aren't you supposed to be reporting there from tripoli she's been there for two weeks now following every turn in this unfolding story sometimes literally beneath a barrage of artillery fire. look at the difficulty if you can hear it and see if the fire is happening i mean people in front of me all sorts of ron paul sloan has is reporting from the war zone online you can read her blog on our website arts and you've got also on our you tube channel you have

to magic video footage of the going bargains of libya cost much more take a look at youtube dot com slash two. news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world in seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations room. well dmitri medvedev says developments in libya are a result of the shameful behavior of the country's government and the crimes against his people russia's president also calls for extreme accuracy when judging what's happening in countries like libya. meanwhile political wrangling over what's happening in libya is continuing in brussels that meeting of e.u.

foreign ministers they've agreed to bring in more sanctions and at a nato summit in the same city on sunday the alliance failed to decide what role it's going to play if any our europe correspondent daniel bushell has more. colonel gadhafi is a legitimate military target that comment just now from the defense secretary of the united kingdom has caused outrage here in nato as you say we're in the middle of e.u. and nato meetings which are principally focused on libya e.u. came out and agree to disagree they said and didn't really agree on a strategy for libya and nato in the third day of talks there here in brussels also come out without much agreement of course in a much more menacing tone because they are leading this operation against libya on the first day they did agree on a no fly zone imposing a no fly zone over libya then there was talk of moving eastward to protect the

eastern strongholds of rebel strongholds of libya and only then as a sort of of the thought was the talk of humanitarian support now this was all backed by a u.n. resolution which are authorize the imposition of a no fly zone over libya and even then when the u.n. passed that vote it was abstained by four or five key states brazil russia india and china were the states which are abstained along with germany and germany and turkey are now extremely concerned two key allies of nato say they're extremely concerned by nato involvement they don't want to see that they want to see a cease fire immediately turkey adds that it is worried and disturbed were its words by france's involvement by nato member france's involvement in this bombing campaign the arab league another key ally in the region says the u.n. resolution it backed is not being carried out in the way that it supported just

outside this building an antiwar demonstration led by the arab community the very people who are asking for help for humanitarian aid to support the civilians that were being bombed by colonel gadhafi they have now come out very much a kid. they're extremely concerned that the opposite of what they have they wanted is happening very well to the protection of civilians seeing reports of this so civilians caused by nato folding we expect throughout the capitals of europe this week to see increasing numbers of she was demonstrations in london today and she would demonstrate from his plan so the choice of public opinion is turning against nato is involved in libya. let's get more analysis on the situation in libya we're joined by john laughlin from the institute of democracy and cooperation in paris now the british foreign secretary has said that there will be no occupation forces in libya although earlier he refused to rule out ground operations how far do you

think the coalition could go. i think when he says that he's probably speaking the truth after all the united nations security council resolution itself ruled out any ground forces or any foreign occupation of libya and i'm sure it isn't in the plans of the allies to have such a ground force or occupation i think that they think to extent that they have thought about this at all but the matter could be settled with an air campaign however i think they have gravely mistaken and i think that this escapade will end in catastrophic failure precisely because they have decided to restrict themselves to an air campaign let's not forget that the same policy was taken by hillary clinton's husband bill clinton over kosovo when nato decided to attack you and ninety nine that war was only american and the original idea of that was to bomb for a few days to bring a stop but i'm

a last ditch to keep the campaign ended up lasting seventy four days i'm i fear my conviction in fact is that the european leaders and the americans who have pushed this attack on live on libya have committed the same mistake in other words they think that a quick bit of bombing will sort the matter out but in fact i think they will find that it will last far longer than a gamble for. now that air campaign never the last has been seriously criticized by russia which follows the arab league criticizing the campaign saying that it's gone way beyond what they had backed originally causing civilian deaths do you think that coalition forces will take on board this growing criticism that we're hearing from around the world. no i don't think they will but unfortunately it will of course a major factor in the sense that it will undermine their ability to prosecute the war in the way they want but no i'm afraid i think that these people these people who are and i'm talking about the british prime minister the french president the

american administration these people who are so happy to let bombs fly on countries have almost at the drop of a hat they are determined to get the outcome they want which is the overthrow of colonel gadhafi of libya so it will make the task of the disagreements the discordant voices that are now coming out of both within western states and also as you say in the arab league these will indeed make it very difficult to continue the war but i'm afraid they won't let go now that they've started but there also appears to be a split in the coalition over whether or not colonel gadhafi himself is a target do you think that there are different interests here between the coldish and forces and that perhaps some countries could be using the u.n. resolution as a cover. well there of course that's what they're doing there's absolutely no let's be perfectly clear the purpose of this war against libya because we're going to call it that is to overthrow colonel gadhafi it's to effect regime change the same

sort of regime change that we've had in egypt and in zero there's no doubt about that the west in these fairy tales about revolutions it right so happy ending before the thing is even started and there is no doubt that the end game images gadhafi is over as for differences within the coalition yes. there probably will there certainly are differences within the european union they say you know they treat united states major nato states like. germany are not in favor of this war that will be a major factor undermining it whether there are differences between the powers of great powers actually prosecutable that is to say between britain france and america is a little bit more difficult to say and it's only early days yet. but i have no doubt that their goal is indeed to as you say use the resolution as a cover for their main goals. in the arab world and to manipulate the political situation. the markland that said do you think that the military intervention in

libya is justified. definitely not i am a long standing opponent of military intervention and my view is that firstly that these escapades are always hijacked for all theory and motives whether it be oil or for geo political motives and secondly that they do not in fact improve the situation instead what you do is inflame the situation even more than it already is you i don't believe that the number of people killed will be smaller as a result of this operation i'm sure it will be larger and thirdly we know from past interventions that interventions never ran on after all everybody knows that we're still we nato are still in afghanistan having attacked back country in two thousand and one that's ten years ago the same for iraq we've taken in two thousand and three we're still in kosovo after the attack of nine hundred ninety nine once you start an intervention it's very difficult to win and i'm afraid i'm appalled to see

that once again western states are making this mistake they're going lightly into war and not thinking about the future or how to get out of the situation that they've created and indeed you are not the only expert drawing parallels between iraq afghanistan and libya john laughlin live from paris thanks for that. well to me david video says developments in libya a result of the shameful behavior of the country's government and crimes against its people russia's president has also called for extreme accuracy when judging what's happening in countries like libya. and should give it a whirl and that is because i would like to see viewers worries about the situation that we currently have in libya and iran libya is used to the russian federation from the very beginning little when one in your problem really there is solution of this problem to take place through peaceful means. at the same time works were

very thorough in monitoring the situation and we definitely condemned the actions of the libyan government. with respect to their own people. and based on their rushers supported through the un security council resolution nine hundred seventy three it is a look through the one nine hundred seventy and abstained on the resolution one thousand nine hundred seventy three we did it to protect civilians and to prevent anyone who threw emasculating but definitely believe. taking resolutions five u.n. security council. serve the purpose of straightening. stopping the disability of war and preventing the escalation of. preventing deaths among civilians the way events unfolded at the moment indicates that we are now

seeing a real military action and of course no you cannot allow that with my hope that all countries that are currently involved in the operation. maintaining an no fly zone in libya and then are using their reforms forces just one purpose are you doing all this for the sake of the people of libya to prevent further exists among civilians and disintegration of elian years esteems at the same time the issued remember what was those resolutions that were caused by the actions of the libyan government. that's why we need those decisions and i think those decisions are well balanced and well thought out we supported the first resolution by the u.n. security council and we allowed to pass the second resolution we did it on purpose

. because we wanted to prevent more to munich from escalating with it but yet the following events indicated that any such a decision should. be accompanied by proper consultations. and we should remember that the use of force should always be proportionate to what is taking place. as a result of those actions the civilian infrastructure was damaged and according to unconfirmed reports civilians were killed if all the seen the kids the countries involved in this military operation failed but it's a huge conflict their purpose i hope after coordinated and duties part of the international community believe you will finally have peace and the measures will be taken to prevent the conflict from spreading to other african countries.

with these what if you have any questions you i'm ready to take them. home writing russia is the russian who is going to have such rights here not. the passing of one of the reasons. we didn't use a right not real for one simple reason we didn't think so this resolution was wrong and basically we think this resolution reflects our understanding what is taking place in libya but not completely and that's why we didn't use the right don't you know and as you realize. this was qualified. to veto but the more you with the clear consequences we know you can emotionally deliver nobody should see we didn't understand what we did when we realised and i instructed the foreign ministry to do it this way and they failed nine structures and once again i would like to stress that everything that is

taking place in libya is of the past to do with the terrible conduct by the libyan authorities and be crimes that they have perpetrated against their own people and we should not forget about that everything else is just consequences of that. what could be there for their actions a fresh air may descend meeting some of the spirits here and you feel well concerning russia's actions everything's clear we are not going to participate in any operations like of it he didn't know why so then we're not going to send our detention here if god forbid these operations finally takes place on the ground in i cannot rule out that there were three d. s. for our immediate area for it sorry peacekeeping capabilities we would be happy to use them if they can be of use in this situation and we have good connections in the arab world i just looked at the statement released by the arab league and some

other responsible logicians i think that we all should we sure are joining the team and use negotiations to stop the scandal or to move we should prevent it from escalating and spreading ideally we should we do our best to stop and use the city and some elements of their regime of the resolution nine hundred seventy three served its purpose and that's where russia's position was to abstain during the vote. just. how do you think they did in saigon china. well i think one hundred thirty two is not going to be easy for you considering the we hear on the whole to now that the main problem i think you said that there is no coalition that would have it needed policy didn't even though some countries they some of you are a partner says it's not currently taking their own actions if you put things in

order their actions are not orderly they're not ordinated and as a result you could give your ease with some of the surge damaged and you know before long i think there is no problem the common plan. to strengthen that was new in order in libya and that's a real problem and there's also another problem should we talk to there is up with the two most western countries where you can be the current leader of the revolution who thinks he doesn't have any ranks with him he's a person they will never talk to the russian federation. has not severed its diplomatic ties with libya all visually so our immediate three efforts could be useful in this regard we still have diplomatic ties with the libyan leadership but his doesn't mean that we don't see what the letitia probably b.s. has done is. we should push both in the canister union outside but as we move.

through what he said. there are different assessments of the current events you know we should be very careful what i would our assessment should never use the phrase is there because of so much the shins of civilizations like korea proceed or something and like that one of the other otherwise good things could be getting with worse then what we have twenty we all should remember about that. russia's latest reaction to the situation in libya there from president medvedev let's just take a moment to recap you on what's happening in libya multinational forces a military operations in the country have been successful knocking out colonel gadhafi air defenses and crippling his air force the allies also say government troops that were moving against rebel forces. countries. and continuing strikes libyan officials report more than sixty civilian deaths in the

allied assault so far the arab league which initially a no fly zone over libya has condemned the coalition that. japan now where emergency workers at the fukushima nuclear plant have been evacuated from the site after smoke was seen rising from one of the crippled reactors that's provoked fresh fears of a radiation leak potential nuclear meltdown engineers have however managed to restore electricity to three reactors and it's hoped that could enable them to restart the failed cooling systems that's likely to be crucial to avoiding a crisis turning into a catastrophe but despite all their efforts the systems wraps by the earthquake and tsunami are not yet operating and a resolution could still be some way off. i think it's important to understand that this is an excellent ongoing it is extremely difficult and i am very go full that they stand much chance of getting this situation under control what you have seen

in the last few days rather than trying to manage the nuclear crisis has been quite effective if news management presenting the fact that they have connected that they're making progress it's this is a catastrophic situation not just at one reactor but it four reactors with major potential for a direct releases even above what's already been released and contaminating the environment so i am very very goal at this situation it is anywhere near being resolved and it could at any point become catastrophic. business is next here in our. stay with us. hello and a very warm welcome to the business bulletin the japanese yen is extending losses off to its because slide in six months against the dollar on friday to move follows that agreement among the world's wealthiest countries to try to control the pounds

of volatile currency it's the first time in a decade that g seven nations have jointly intervenes in the chorus of markets the currency world strongly after the earthquake struck cannot shalev and from that station of repatriation flows to japan for insurance and reconstruction costs. ok to discuss the economic challenges faced by japan on joined by under scandal from london capital group mr campbell thank you very much for joining us but there's clearly a humanitarian crisis in japan do you think this is going to be compounded by financial crisis saw is the international community taken enough action to limit the damage. to. the crisis from a humanitarian point of view of say financial point of view is incredibly costly and to. really be the food czar the force of the tsunami has caused irreparable damage which will take months if not years for the

reconstruction to be completed and take place but i think the reaction taken from here monitoring point of view has been relatively swift and. kind of quite good so far the financial side of things over see if there is potential to put more pressure on the strain all the japanese economy in particular if the yen does get higher from these levels and already we see no business within the currency markets i mean to. i g seven but so far the bank of japan has acted very responsibly by pumping money into the system creating a quality. and really from an over a terrible situation things just finally seem to have calmed down the question. mr campbell japan clearly doesn't want investors to flee but do you agree with

warren buffett but they should be moving towards japan. it's difficult not to agree with someone like warren buffett who of course just recently said that the declines in japan present a buying opportunity and both. the move that we saw was over done cory's often financial markets to react to situations like this and to the selling was compounded by fear of a desperate economic catastrophe which for now seemed to have possibly been avoided we're not completely out of the woods here and serve course at some. we could get a japanese stocks were way oversold them already the japanese are on a public holiday today but we expect that certainly the futures markets

indicate that the mikhail will rise some three hundred fifty points from the open say over three and a half percent and it goes to show you that the reaction was overdone so of course it is correct to these levels it does present a lot of value considering where we were weeks ago and just how much has been taken off the value of stocks of. this to come on very quickly do you think the massive reconstruction that will have to take place over the coming years will provide a stimulus to the japanese economy. yes it certainly will the economy will take a knock from this disaster and it's very possible that the japanese economy will contract for the next three months possibly even two courses but g.d.p. is expected to still be around one over one percent for two thousand and eleven and

revisions have been in very little bits a downward revisions to growth of two thousand and eleven but of course in the two thousand and twelve years the reconstruction is fully on the way you can expect growth to be slightly better next year so there's definitely. an awful lot of potential for the economy to benefit well from the reconstruction and of course this will take a particularly long time ok because campbell thank you very much on capital thank you very much for your analysis but so we have time for now join us last time for more business news here on r.t. . for the full story we've got it from. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers on.