i mean for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. comes a report. in the. new demands natives that says foreign airstrikes in libya are a direct result of colonel gadhafi shameful behavior and the crimes carried out against his people. the aerial campaign targets the government stronghold in tripoli continuing to project strikes is now reportedly killed sixteen people. the bombs may have older duffers headquarters in the capital as a place with lights up the sky with unsecured call supply a i'm told is there in tripoli join me in just a few moments will. follow me here is that coalition forces could be going beyond the u.n. all the whys and the no fly zone measures the u.n.

security council is sitting down behind closed doors to weigh in on the situation really get more on this one we got a shakedown for washington in just a few minutes. also this hour emergency teams are evacuated from japan's fukushima nuclear site amid fears radiation could spread as smoke was seen rising from power last week. and the japanese yen system single also is because slight in six months against to go still on friday morning business interests in minutes. at seven pm in moscow this is r t coming to you live thanks for being with us let's get straight to our top story russia's president says the foreign air strikes in libya are a direct result of the shameful behavior of the country's leadership and the crimes carried out against. people and also to me that it's very difficult to stress that

the no fly zone over libya is aimed at strengthening peace and civilians should not be put at risk let's get the latest from artie's peter all over he's following these latest developments for us peter tell us more about what had to say. well president medvedev said that negotiations and diplomatic channels should be used not violence to try and bring about a peaceful solution to what's going on in libya now he said that the international community should be should cooperate and coordinate their response to bring about that resolution to what's happening in the country now we've seen over the the past few nights over the last two nights. of attacks from from the sky stealth bombers being used also other aircraft also tomahawk cruise missiles being launched at targets into libya from boats and ships stationed in the mediterranean the

president has said. that no fly zone i say should be there to enforce peace and no civilians should be put at risk of being injured. or killed from these attacks that are taking place by a coalition of nations led by the united states. france and britain among others bert's president feel you've also made it clear that the current situation facing libya is a direct result of the actions of colonel gaddafi and his attacks against his own people. everything that's happening in libya is a result of the shameful behavior of its government and the crimes against their own people we shouldn't forget everything else is just a consequence of that we supported one of the un security council resolutions and allowed the other resolution to go through this was done consciously to prevent the escalation of violence but still the events that followed showed any decisions of

this kind should be accompanied by thorough consultations as well as remembering that the use of force should be proportional to what is happening the fact that as a result of these actions civilian targets were damaged and according to unconfirmed reports innocent people have died shows that states taking part in the military strikes haven't achieved. i hope that as a result of co-ordinated actions by the international community that there will be peace on libyan soil and full measures will be taken to prevent the conflict from spreading into africa and other states it was thought that it was done so. well the president went on to say that although russia would not be sending any troops or military hardware to the region to be to get involved with. this operation it's all going they didn't rule out the possibility that russia could step in as a mediator using the extensive time that they have with the region to try and broker a peace there now it has been me the stance of russia pretty much since on rest

broke out in the country around yvonne think oh that's foreign interference should be avoided this appears to be something that russia is sticking to the moment. right peter all of our following russ' reaction to what's happening in libya live from moscow thanks for that. now in libya the international coalition says aerial strikes have successfully halted the forces of colonel gadhafi more than one hundred airstrikes were carried out across the weekend with reports over sixty people were killed by state officials claim to have to strike a command center used by the libyan army in the capital tripoli but tonight after he was a target artist paul slayer has the details. we are hearing from the pentagon that it is extremely satisfied with the way this operation has so far been conducted it says that gadhafi is increasingly under stress that they have managed 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 was because of empty a cross fire that was being fired some libyan forces and also now we receiving confirmation that a missile hit he could afy compound what we're hearing from allied forces is that it struck a control income on building of his operations we certainly are seeing international opposition grow it's not only the arab league that is now coming out with these comforting statement that it's signed up for the protection of civilians and after the killing of civilians you need to remember that it was very important for european powers to be if the backing of the arab world the understanding now is that their backing might only come from the united arab emirates qatar and possibly jordan and that if their backing comes it will be more in the saints of financial aid people here on the ground who want to the international community to get involved and i'm talking to specifically about the rebel groups the opposition leaders they would much rather have preferred countries like china z.

and egypt coming to the fore and for this to have been almost like an arab we have illusion for democracy rather than the intervention of western powers there are very legitimate questions being asked why for example when it's all carried out of bombardment over gaza in two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine why when was there not a no fly zone imposed by the international communities are those kind of questions at the forefront of people's minds and serve 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 severe announcement on sunday night by 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. and you do not believe that 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 isn't here into a cease fire but that it is the rebels at all the ones that are provoking them it is the rebels that are on the offensive and they all the ones who are breaking that the international community is a pains to say that its intention is really just 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 very criticism against that is well then why strike at his compound and the second question is isn't is also well if you do not get the man to step down this kind of impulse save the situation on the ground could continue for weeks if not months. artie's course one of polls we were there reporting from tripoli has been there for two weeks now following every turn in this unfolding story sometimes literally beneath was of artillery fire. the difficulty getting if you can get this intense heat in from the fire is how i mean people in front of me are starting to run probably all is also reporting from the war zone online for you can read her blog on our website or to jump on also are you trying on our dramatic video footage of the bombardment of libya was much more i think the work of you tube dot com slash on t.v.

. news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations room today. well the u.n. security council was to hold a closed door meeting in a few hours time to discuss the situation in libya and was called at the request of russia let's get more from our to his credit she can live for us in washington so we have any more information on what's going to be on the table of this evening well i mean so the fears are that the coalition forces could be going beyond the u.n. authorized no fly zone measures and russia has called

a security council meeting behind closed doors to once again weigh it on the situation and to look at the results of the intervention there are lots of questions on the table as to go limits of the intervention really and also to coalition forces which is. the question that everybody is asking here is could our target now the pentagon says no in fact if i secretary robert gates said targeting gadhafi goes beyond you are resolution on the yet and the u.s. is determined to stick to that resolution but the thing is that the wording of the resolution basically is all inclusive short of occupation we've heard criticism from the arab league they say the military operation has company gantlet the arab league backed also the head of the arab league says well we wanted was civilians protection and not more civilian deaths we know that it was really crucial for western powers to have arab countries assistance so so that it doesn't here is a vicious the west cracking down and yet another arab nation with this criticism

coming from the arab league their support could be diminishing. now washington says to close a supporting role here but so far the u.s. has been at the vanguard of the military operation over libya with american generals we're hearing being in command there a bit of a contradiction here what is the pentagon saying about this. well to you the u.s. military says the forces are right now scattered after the all the air assault coalition forces are currently patrolling the new fly zone the pentagon says they do not rule out more strikes if and when the need arises the u.s. has launched missiles from more shakes and submarines in the mediterranean targeting it could obviously are different systems and clearing the sky to make sure that out is not able to shut down any planes of the coalition forces you know that the u.s. fighter jets along with french warplanes have carried out strikes from gadhafi ground forces those while in currently the u.s. contribution in the strides really outweighs the contribution of all other

coalition forces combined there happy reports of civilian casualties as a result. of those so those are some really alarming reports here and officials here promise it's going to be a fast war obama said there will be there will be no u.s. troops on the ground without his military and it is no match for the capabilities of the coalition forces just hours to cripple his air defenses and how are people reacting stateside to the news of these military operations having been engaged in two military campaigns for almost a decade now on this if you watch american television you get all this really positive impression of america's involvement and how justify it is and so on but if you look at the polls the majority of americans oppose the u.s. involvement. sixty five percent there already unhappy that their government is spending billions of their tax dollars on and less wars in iraq and afghanistan

people are already asking questions about the cost of the involvement just this saturday one day the u.s. shot seventy five million dollars worth of missiles on the doppies air defenses to libya already is definitely are definitely definitely do not cheer to the drums of war here. all right going to stick around live from washington thanks for that. well political wrangling over what's happening in libya is continuing in brussels and meeting of e.u. foreign ministers they've agreed to bring in more sanctions and according to the french foreign minister nato could start supporting coalition forces within a few days our europe correspondent daniel bushnell has more. colonel gadhafi is a legitimate military target that comment just now from the defense secretary of the united kingdom liam fox 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 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 stronghold 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 authorized 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 stained 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 ceasefire immediately turkey that it is worried and they stood where 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's supported just outside this building an antiwar demonstration led by the arab community the very people who are of skiing for help for humanitarian aid to support the civilians that were being bombed by colonel gadhafi they have now come out very much they've been. they're extremely concerned but the opposite of what they happen they wanted is happening all to the protection of civilians and now this seeing record stalled this source of billions caused by nato forming we expect throughout the capitals of europe this week to see increasing numbers of demonstrations in london to see what

they will stray from this plan so the toyed of public opinion is turning against nato involvement in libya. coalition forces carrying out attacks on their b.s. a colonel gadhafi himself is not a target despite a strike on his compound and from the institute of democracy and cooperation in paris questions those claims 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 the extent that they have thought about this at all that 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 and my fear is that the european leaders and the americans who have pushed this attack on libya 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 they gamble for the british prime minister the french president the american administration these people who are so happy to let

bombs fly on countries that 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 the disagreements the the discordant voices that are now coming out of both within western states and also 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. i just want to take a moment to recap the latest developments coming out of libya multinational forces say military operations in the country have been successful knocking out colonel gadhafi air defenses and crippling its air force the allies say pro-government troops have been halted and there are reports that rebels are beginning to move west of conferees including the u.s. u.k. and france are continuing strikes libyan officials report more than six million cracks in the allied assault so far the arab league which initially initially backed a no fly zone over libya has condemned the coalition attacks pressed president to

be getting a drink there so developments in libya are result of the same full behavior of the country's government and crimes against his people. to 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 radiation leak and potential nuclear meltdown engineers have however man is 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 most right all their efforts the systems wracked by the earthquake and tsunami are not yet operating dr robert take up faster of nuclear history at the here seam of peace institute says uncertainty is still surrounding all aspects of the nuclear crisis. and experts who are watching the situation are

going to speculate based on the color of the smoke as to what material may be burning. so i think it also shows that there is uncertainty at this stage because it's the evacuations that. is returning show that the situation is uncertain and that even those in charge of the situation on stage over the uncertainty as to what dangers that you leave with as these. dangers unfold there's not just a danger of more radiation leakage but it's very clear at this point that there is significant radiation leakage that has been happening and significant radiation leakage that has been detected in the fight at this point just to prevent a more catastrophic in the way that the marriage if this story is being treated as is that it's a struggle to be there six six keyed in. are we way that it's looked at is that in a sense if we restore power we can simply plug in the reactors and they'll start

working in the cooling systems will start working again and then we will have fixed it but that's not the way that this situation is this is a situation in which we were tried what we were trying to avert was the entrance of radionuclides radiation into the environment and there's clearly been some extensive entry of and of radiation into the environment. the japanese government has ordered four regions around the toppled fukushima plant spent shipments of products like could contain traces of radioactive iodine researchers nor lista reports those worries of radiation are spreading far beyond japanese shores. as japan works overtime to avert a nuclear meltdown is another crisis in the making maybe maybe think twice second thoughts born of paranoia that radioactive remnants may reach far beyond japan's borders how worried about the seafood may be the seafood is safe and radiation in

the water i would and i want to be very wary of that for quite a while it's the fear of japanese imports going all the way to the top u.s. regulators have said they will increase screenings of food coming in from the embattled asian nation the european union has warned members to do the same and italy was the first e.u. nation to ban food imports from japan all together in the wake of the nuclear scare it's fueling suspicion that besides the quake the tsunami and the nuclear crisis japan will soon have to deal with another problem becoming a trade pariah morgan like we will for reasons that may not be entirely radioactive countries all over the world in tough economic times in the store looking for ways to subsidize their own producers their workers and so on and sort of like the one unfolding in japan gives them quite a good reason to do something that they may have been looking to do anyway this is bad for trade made worse for the country itself if made in japan comes to mean made

a nuclear wasteland to consumers in countries like the u.s. we're here in times square and i wanted to come down here because it is where the rubber meets the road as far as advertising in this country and you can really see the brands to play a major role in the united states i wanted to see how many of them were japanese now take a look at this center opposed to advertize apron top to. that you can see sony c.d.k. toshiba all japanese corporations playing a major role in the us i noticed even our camera and my my clip from my microphone are being factor by sony and with the nuclear disaster there is no telling what the oil will be on but the manufacturing of companies like that but also their brand presence in countries like the us and this data have they made in japan label i would be concerned about like televisions components that might carry the radio active materials. and japan's economy will feel it for

a long time to if trade suffers a major blow this is dragged down already near zero growth rate in japan if it does that it's going to have bigger effects internal globally we don't know exactly what those are but they're potentially quite significant significant because in a global economy which made in japan matters for everyone many of the world's cell phones laptops in cars rely on a poxy computer chips for auto parts from the country stoppages in manufacturing and trade consent shock waves through the system likely farther reaching than the radiation itself lauren mr r.t. new york post business is next year in our. that's right time to have a look at what's happening in the world of business and the yen is extending losses after its biggest slide in six months against the dollar on friday the move follows

an agreement among the world's wealthiest countries to try to control japan's all the tile currency well the yen strongly grows softer the earthquake struck on march eleventh on its stations money would be would have traded to japan and reconstruction costs economists just efforts to prevent the humanitarian crisis becoming a financial crisis are being successful and while japanese growth will be hit in the short term reconstruction will provide a stimulus in the coming years. the economy will take a knock from most disaster and it's very possible that the japanese economy will contract for the next three months possibly even trying quarter its. g.d.p. is expected to still be over one percent from the tree found some rather than revisions have been in the know but it's a downward revisions to growth in two thousand and eleven for the fools in the two

thousand and twelve if this is the reconstruction is fully underway you can expect grace to be studied better next year so there's definitely more forward an overall potential for the economy to benefit well from the reconstruction and of course this will take a particularly long time. let's see what's happening to the price of gold all prices are falling the u.s. led airstrikes against libya are fueling concerns about destructions to supplies branch current distressing at over one hundred fifteen dollars per barrel w.t. i is wrong four hundred two dollars per barrel and analysts expect an increase in demand as more fuel will be composed great reconstruct. and in japan. to look at how the equities are trading at this hour wall street is making a strong start to the week with dollar up just under two hundred points and trading off twelve thousand have been encouraged by a.t.m.

to use loans of position of the u.s. division of team obama in a move that would make it the nation's because wireless provider and there's also some optimism that japan's nuclear crisis is brought under control. but see what's happening in europe people stop stop also higher food see is the wrong one percent while the tax is more than two percent implied telecom shares on the rise led to which telecom it's up twelve percent. and despite strong performance in europe russian stocks saw relatively modest gains on monday the market was consolidating after outperforming during the previous week the r.t.s. closed one sun's out and the most extended ever old hundred percent world relations stocks were mostly and the black hole stronger commodity prices let's have a look at some individual share moves brushless largest gas company castro finished monday's trading point eight percent in the red down on profit taking on spare ponk

and it point four percent off to reach of course as an almost eight fold increase in its net profit for last year up to six point four billion dollars and michael stein from his breeches says the result was one of the highlights on monday. spear being released very strong two thousand and ten net profit figures which came in about six percent ahead of consensus and well above the creature's forecasts of the company also announced plans to roll over depository receipt program which is going to make the stock a lot more investable by a lot of long only investors in north america and in court mental europe in terms of winners we also see street today in the steel companies were helped by the strong industrial. put data four up for february on the losing side we see yes probably speaking of closure after having had a great run last week the stock was up more than seven percent helped by the big improvement in european gas prices ok and news just into richer much

better says a special fund for attracting foreign investors may be set up as early as i think middle of the year the phone will be coming busting with leading international enterprises in the russian economy the top priorities for the states all the creation of new jobs into trucks and money to high tech industries will bring you more in all its time that's it for now europe has a. culture

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