children of each college are being accused of which is what you know. joe mexico children believe killed or a boutique hotel angeles times. is serbia is available in something that we can see . tonight on our t.v. russia's president says the situation in libya is the outcome of colonel gadhafi is crimes against his own people he wants civilians shouldn't suffer because of foreigners strike. the area long smoking time targets a government stronghold in tripoli the torrent of strikes is now reportedly over sixty people there. fighting intensifies while coalition forces insist that gadhafi is not a target but just wait what. i'm called to serve in the capital city of tripoli join me in just a few moments. the u.n. security council meets behind closed doors here in new york to discuss what many

are calling a bombing campaign against libya led by the u.s. and france. had another news tonight emergency teams are evacuated from japan's fukushima nuclear site amid fears radiation could spread a smoke you see rising from one paralyzed reactor. this is artsy for moscow very good evening if you just joined us money is kevin owen it's nine pm here on our top story russia's president as told he only has himself to blame for the current situation in libya to be treated better said the u.n. backed military intervention is a direct consequence of the behavior of libya's leaders and the crimes carried out against their own people but he was critical of the bombing in libya saying the no fly zone should be used only to protect civilians and bring about peace let's get

the latest smarties peter all of it should we. meet the russian leader offered little reassurance for gadhafi did anybody hasn't but the campaign entirely even though. yes that's right president made get if said that although russia's initial response to the situation in libya had been to call for a peaceful solution that colonel gadhafi actions in persistently attacking his own people had forced the hand of the international community and that this was why russia had supported an arms embargo and asset freeze and why russia hadn't used its veto on the u.n. security council to block the no fly zone saying that russia supported some of the elements contained within that resolution. through 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 that 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 unconsciously 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 proportionate 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 have achieved on i hope that as a result of coordinated actions by the international community there will be peace on libyan soil and full measures will be taken to prevent the conflict from spreading into africa and other states. or president medvedev went further to say that the current armed intervention should remain within the parameters laid out by the un security council resolution and that was to protect the civilian population of libya well mr president medvedev also said that russia

was prepared to step in as a mediator to broker a peace between the sides involved in the conflict. and what the u.s. . says. they disapprove cheated ok let's move on now and the u.s. says it's fired twelve more cruise missiles at targets on monday the canadian planes have joined the action coalition forces claim to have destroyed a command center used by the libyan army in tripoli but deny gadhafi was a target there are reports over sixty people have been killed so far at least paula slee is got the latest from the capital. but we're hearing from the coalition forces is that they have hit one hundred and twenty four targets they're saying that the operation has been successful but they've stopped the ground at vance meant gadhafi streets there for two days now is if force has been able to take to the skies we also hear into that the no fly zone is now being extended with woods and southwards over this country but at the same time there is intensified in

misrata it's the last rebel held town in the east of this country it's about two hundred kilometers to the east of the capital city of tripoli we're hearing reports that we've got these men have completely surrounded the town that they've cut off all supplies of electricity fuel and water we hearing reports that at least seven people have so far been killed today monday that some of those gadhafi may not in the city center in civilian clothing and this is raising alarm bells over the whole question of sleeper cells been activated we also received very worrying reports that civilians have been brought in from other cities and towns to act as human shields against any possible coalition strikes this is in stark contrast to the town of bin ghazi which was the focal point of fighting for much of the past few days and weeks that is the rebel stronghold in the east the rebels there saying that they now are leaving the town at dancing with sweets and trying to recapture some of the towns and cities that they lost in fighting nothing's been heard from gadhafi himself since sunday when he gave

a fifteen minute address to the libyan state television he did not appear on camera but he was very defiant in that address saying that he would not down and again calling this international response illegitimate we are hearing from coalition forces or gadhafi himself is he not the target this is despite the fact that they hit his compound on sunday night here on the ground there's a growing confusion in terms of what is the end game of this international operation the rebels are increasingly calling for some kind of a cover as they move eastward as their advantage back over territory they've lost and no doubt the international community that says it is. there to protect the peace we need to respond to those calls in some kind of the manner of death for sponsors might see innocent civilians being killed so is that kind of tension here and it certainly is only made more confusing by some of the statements we saw coming out of bush and she day there we saw the british military saying he remains a legitimate target because he is the hood of the army here now at the same time

the questions in terms of how this will end up being answered here by saying either in a stalemate or in some kind of a failed state where you would see the rebels perhaps holding on to power in the east and duffy remaining under a car in the way is that people are asking the question whether indeed this is in the best interests of libya. paula slayer in tripoli though she's also reporting from the war zone online as well. knows from the pictures you saw was my shoes by reading her blog on our website r.t. dot com that was going on over her head as she was speaking to was also our you tube channels got from i think video footage of the bombardment of a lot more to its you tube dot com science r t. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world

has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing operations to rule the day. the u.n. security council is to hold a closed door meeting in just an hour's time to discuss the situation in libya it was called the request of russia let's get more now of my cars what i'm going to have in your life you know what pushed russia in the call in this meeting. as you mentioned russia did call for this meeting for the un security council they will be meeting behind closed doors what pushed russia to do so is a letter that the security council received from the libyan foreign minister calling for this meeting according to the letter libyan officials say that our barbaric bombing campaign has been launched on their country ever since the security council adopted a resolution last week thursday friday allowing for the international community

impose a no fly zone over libya and paving the way for military intervention a libyan officials say that the bombs have not stopped possibly even escalated that this resolution that was adopted could potentially be a violation of international law and this has made the situation much much worse than it was before the no fly zone was imposed the libyan official did write to the security council saying that the u.s. and some european allies are taking extensive advantage of measures that were given to them by dropping bombs and targeting locations that are necessary and as a result civilians in libya are getting hurt if not killed so this is obviously a pressing issue a matter of concern for the international community particularly when you consider that five of the fifteen security council members abstained from voting for this

resolution because they were very much are unsure whether or not military intervention would help ease the growing conflict that's taking place in the violence taking place right now in libya. and it is playing a supporting role but so far the u.s. has been at the vanguard of the biliteral gratian over libya with american generals in this contradiction. that's right what is being said by officials in washington and what is playing out for the world to see is quite different there's quite a contrast in the pentagon says that they are very happy with the strikes in the strikes that they've taken part in the u.s. taking part in and the pentagon believes it's been the straits of been very far effective in pushing putting stress on moammar qaddafi and his supporters but as of sunday night according to published reports the u.s. and britain have fired a total of one hundred twenty four tom cruise missiles we do know that among many of the targets was moammar gadhafi compound in tripoli there have been various

reports of the amount of civilians that have been injured and or killed due to the ongoing strikes that have been played out by the u.s. france and britain strikes that are continuing. and it's not clear whether or not the european forces will will move in on the ground the u.s. says that they will not be any ground troops that will be moving in on libya but we should remind our viewers that this resolution that was adopted included the phrase all measures necessary to protect the civilians in libya so what will come next nobody knows that is a topic that will be discussed within the security council later on today ok reports. from new york but more discussions going on about it as well in brussels political wrangling over what's happening there is continuing at a meeting of e.u. foreign ministers they have agreed to bring in more sanctions and according to the french foreign minister nato could stop supporting coalition forces. europe

correspondent. the latest about. 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 agreed 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 strongholds of libya and only then as a sort of of two 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 stained by four or five key states brazil russia india and china were the states which. germany and germany and turkey on 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 is worried. whether it's 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 in fact is not being carried out in the way that it's supported just outside this building and i can see war demonstration led by the 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 they kin. although they are extremely concerned that the opposite of what they had they wanted is happening they will to the protection of civilians they'll be seeing reports of deaths of civilians caused by nato forming and we expect throughout the capitals of europe this week to see increasing numbers of and she was demonstrations in london today and she was the restriction is planned so the toyed of public opinion is turning against nato involvement in libya. where we can get more on libya with sara flounders is now and he warned social justice activists she's joining us from new york very good evening to you know the people's revolver libya was breaking against the onslaught of gadhafi forces wasn't it will these foreign intervention put the revolution back on course do you think what's your view on that. you know i don't believe that sarah palin is planning to check one more time sara flounders in new

york a when you hear me it's kevin owen in moscow here we did a little sound yes exactly yes we do great and i was just saying to you sara the people's revolt in libya was breaking against the onslaught of gadhafi forces you think this for intervention would put the revolution back on course. well this has nothing to do with putting the revolution on course this is a colonial war libya has the largest reserves of oil on the african continent and u.s. british and french bombing destruction of libya are meant to gain total control of that and not in any way to help any of the forces in libya both for the government or against and regardless of what you think about the government or of the opposition this attack will be devastating for all the people of libya in the same way that war in iraq and afghanistan the people hate our homeland this and are still paying a horrendous price loot appears that gadhafi would ever listen to what else could

be done to free his people have made their sport like. u.s. bombardment is meant to destroy any struggle through out the arab world it's meant to set it back and if there was a lightest humanitarian concern in any of this it would also be addressing the people struggle in bahrain in yemen will be addressing the israeli bombardment of gaza of course they don't talk about any of those things the saudi backed invasion of bahrain the us backed saudi invasion of bahrain they don't address any of that so this is not meant to help the people of libya it's meant to take it's i'm when there is uncertainty destabilization in libya and in force an entire new colonial regime on the region and also to push back the arrow revolutionary

upsurge that's what they want to do they want to use shock and awe again to demoralize a population that is in motion through out the arab world well if they want to ensure secure lines of oil and natural gas which libya has in great supply well let's talk about this operation and how it might be going got some views on but a lot of the norway's recall the. confusion as to who's in charge of the operation what is your view on how this operation is playing. well this operation is really very much like the war in iraq where they said it was shooting fish in a barrel there's no weapons that libya has that really can stop an onslaught like this that the libyan government. and the the opposition is our whole assortment of organizations and individuals so when you have the firepower coming from aircraft

carriers and jets and cruise missiles just blasting into tripoli and also lots of other sites throughout libya that is not in any way meant to help any of the forces in libya and just to say also that the overwhelming the people of the u.s. are against this and the latest polls are talking about seventy six seventy eight percent of the population against this newest u.s. war a war that was not even debated or discussed in congress a war that is in every sense illegal and meant to destroy the people of libya are not a fool who would welcome for you some people suggesting that situations like resuming in libya now just breed terrorist groups like al qaida is there is the coalition not just causing problems for the future do you think. well very much so these attacks are the essence of terrorism you can imagine for the civilian

population on the ground it's hardly defenseless against us this is seen as sense of terrorism attacks on unarmed civilians who have no way of protecting or defending themselves so when they say later this gives rise to terrorism this is terrorism. and you war and social justice like this sort of flow doesn't belong from new york tonight frank you. mention to the your latest from japan emergency workers there 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 and potential nuclear meltdown engineers have however little bit of good news managed to restore electricity to three reactors and it's hoped that that could enable them to restart the failed cooling systems is likely to be crucial to avoiding a crisis turning into a catastrophe but despite all their best efforts the systems wrecked by the earthquake and tsunami still aren't operating dr robert jacobs professor of nuclear

history of peace institute says uncertainties still surrounding all aspects of the nuclear crisis there. experts who are watching the situation are going to speculate based on the color of the smallest what material may be burning. so it also shows that there is uncertainty at this site because it's the evacuations that happen and then workers returning show that the situation is uncertain and that even those in charge of the situation on site are 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 eat in the way that america we have of this story is being treated is that it's a struggle to either succeed or plastics in. our if we

waited it's looked at its head 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 trying to what we were trying to avert was the entrance of radionuclides radiation into the environment and there's clearly been some extensive the entry of radiation into the environment and japanese governments all to four regions around the trouble fukushima plant has suspended shipments of products that could contain traces of radioactive iodine and as are things that are listed reports next those worries of radiation is 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 maybe the seafood is safe when radiation bought in the water i would i want to be very wary of that quite a while since 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 like we will for reasons that may not be entirely radioactive countries all over the world in tough economic times and the star are looking for ways to subsidize their own producers their own workers and so an incident 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 that play a major role in the united states i wanted to see how many of them are japanese now take a look at this center opposed to advertising from top to bottom you can see sony t.v. 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 of a factor by sony and with the nuclear disaster there is no telling. the board will be on but the manufacturing of companies like this also their brand presence in countries like the u.s. and this data they made in japan label 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 to japan and 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 or 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 looking had this special report about the greatest environmental and human rights catastrophes in american history it's a good report just over ten minutes time this monday we're talking business next.

try time for your business dave german industrial and energy major. assuring you the russian led. plan for shipped when just all were a division of will join gas and utilize any the two main partners in the twenty one billion dollar project to bring russian gas to solve in europe he is sir has not said how much it's planning to invest and three more what sort of stake it might take how whether. it's an investment program worth twenty billion dollars in russia

cost from was also in terms of negotiations with a trip to france were guarding his involvement in the projects prime minister here german chancellor angela merkel welcomed involvement in south tree. oil prices are falling the u.s. led airstrikes against levy are fueling concerns ball just options to supplies french crude is trading at over one hundred fifty dollars per barrel w t i is wrong one hundred ninety seven this expect an increase in demand as more fuel will be needed for post quake reconstruction in japan. and a look at how equities are trading wall street is making a strong start to the week with dow up just under two hundred points and trading above twelve thousand investors have been encouraged by eighty entities blonds of positional figures division of team over the news that make it the nation's biggest rivals play is also somehow to mizzen

a japan's nuclear crisis is big bold. under control. as european stocks finished monday strange and higher has seized gained more than one percent of the tax point two percent in the blood have telecom shares more on the rise led by cheap telecom . despite strong performance in europe russia stocks still relatively modest gains on monday the market was consolidating after all the forming cheering the previous week the r.t.s. close to one percent off m i six had its wrong health and percent world related stocks but mostly end up like one stronger commodity prices. let's have a look at some of the individual shares news russia's state owned gas monopoly gas pawnshops point eight percent on top taking off to posting a seven percent increase last week which boiled peripheral snacks continue to game with in session see the energy markets off point four percent ended up forty four

percent after it for fourteen almost eight fold increase in its net profit from last year up just six point four billion dollars michael stein for much criticized 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 creatures forecasts that the company also announced plans to roll out a 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 continental europe in terms of winners we also see strength today in the steel companies helped by the strong industrial output data for up for february on the losing side we see yes problem is taking a pause 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. michael stein from appearance here and that

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