well the it's not an old fart it's all true no drive zone no walk to the libyan government says the coalition's terror strikes on the country have claimed more civilian lives as progress after forces target a rebel held city in the west. concerns about the hidden agenda behind the military intervention in libya and made conflicting statements from british officials on targets in colonel gadhafi. and radiation levels around who consume one nuclear plant are reported to be over one and

a half thousand times higher than normal with fears of food and water priming nation in the area a growing. question are to you live from moscow where it's four pm it's three pm in tripoli where international coalition forces have conducted air strikes on libya for a third night the country's government says there have been more civilian deaths a u.s. fighter jet crashed there overnight although american officials say it was not shot down troops loyal to the libyan leader colonel gadhafi are attacking rebel strongholds in the west of the country artist falsely or has more well in the latest coalition is strikes to libyan naval bases and key libyan airports were hit we are hearing from the government spokesperson as to sit with him here in tripoli the number of people were killed in what he says was

a civilian airport in the city of searched and searched state television here has been reporting nonstop that many people have been killed and many people have been injured in these. late as a strikes rebel leaders in the east of the country have been meeting with members of representatives of the united nations in the city of to brooke and there are discussing humanitarian concerns and the latest humanitarian efforts there was a cease fire and nansen and by the government on sunday but this seemingly continues to be ignored on the ground as intensive fighting continues by government in three cities in the city of some ten in the waste where we're being told that government troops continue to bombard a town in the city of misrata for the fourth consecutive day government troops have surrounded the town and they are stopping the supply of all water fuel and electricity to residents inside and then in the city of ajdabiya which is the next largest city after the rebel stronghold city of benghazi where we've been told that government troops continue to ambush that is intensifying and the latest word we

have is that rebel fighters are advancing from being to try and help the comrades and fellow fighters there now overnight here in the capital city of tripoli there were major explosions most of them came from the south of the city there was a lot of smoke in the skies that is where the compound of the gap is situated it has already been hit before a three story building where the controls the command and control center for his operations was we were told agreed destroyed but certainly here for several hours throughout the night monday it was empty aircraft fire canada is the latest to send for fighter jets we understand that they have flown over libya but they haven't actually as of yet participated in any operations they've also seems to refueling tanks here qatar has saved six fighter jets they have landed in crete the british thai food fighters have also participated in the first ever combat mission that took place on monday and we've been told that they will be a not a meeting of united nations security council that will be held this coming thursday

to discuss these latest developments and the latest operations on the ground what is also seeming alarm bells is that we are hearing from rebel leaders there as. they advance worse words to try and recapture some of the towns and some of the cities that they've lost their calling the international community a cover so people are asking well just time volumes and just how long is the international community to going to provide this in cover and what will be the continuous climb of civilians more people on the ground becoming increasingly alarmed that innocent people are going to be killed. close to the action that's taking place in libya check out our twitter page our. reporting from the capital there describes the empty streets of tripoli as the city braces and sell for another night of airstrikes if i don't think it's an update on the situation in libya be on top of this story find us and our team underscore com on twitter. now moscow is standing firm over the crisis in libya saying the no fly zone over

the country should be used only to protect civilians. present a dative stance has been backed by russia's defense minister who's just met with the pentagon chief peter over has more from moscow. for president to me to be made very of said that although russia's initial response was to call for a peaceful solution to the situation in libya through negotiations there colonel gadhafi actions in and persistently it's knocking his own people and force the hand of the international community and this was why russia voted in favor of imposing an arms embargo travel ban on the gadhafi regime and why the country how do you used its veto on the u.n. security council to block the no fly zone allowing international intervention president medvedev said all those involved in these military actions should remain and must remain within the parameters of the u.n. resolution which is there to protect civilians in the called the ground in libya

well the president also said that although russia had no intentions to send troops or military hardware to the country that russia was prepared to step in as a mediator or u.s. defense secretary robert gates is in russia at the moment and he will meet with president agree to madrid of plenty on the table already for them to discuss what the current ongoing situation in libya means that it's very likely to be a main topic for discussion. well in britain there appears to be inconsistency about the games the coalition is pursuing in libya prime minister david cameron says that regime change is not on the table but the u.k. defense foreign and foreign secretaries have said that there is a possibility that troops could target colonel gadhafi forces there and it is standing by in london for joins us live laura how can we interpret all these different aims that are being presented by different parts of the british government here. well whether or not after we talk targeted in this country depends very much on on who you're talking to really which of course means that less than

a week into this conflict we're already seeing a lot of good signs of confusion backtracking and division actually between the government and the armed forces in this country you mentioned david cameron saying that it wasn't on the table targeting gadhafi but other members of his government are saying the opposite they're implying that actually better he himself as a person could be a target for for this action defense secretary william fox said that he could be a legitimate target and foreign secretary william hague left that possibility wide open in an interview that he's done over the last day now of course this is interpretation of what the u.n. security council resolution says it permits the use of the no fly zone to protect civilians against to get out these forces and the government in front of it seems and also behind the scenes is arguing that the dunphy himself could be construed as

a threat to the civilian population and therefore it would be illegal and within the terms of the u.n. security council resolution to endeavor to target him on the other side we've got the army and the chief of the defense staff who when asked if he thought it was permitted under the terms of the resolution to target personally he unequivocally said absolutely not and said he didn't want to discuss this any further now we are seeing in this international division as well senior people in washington also say that direct strikes against gadhafi would not be permitted under the terms of the security council resolution now why is this so important well of course it belies confusion within the ranks as far as this no fly zone and this military intervention is concerned it shows a lack of planning why weren't these questions discussed before they went in were they in fact and the u.n. security council will come out right now the the residue. playing with words a bit of interpretation and also who's in charge in the next few days the u.s.

wants to get control of this mission to someone else will it be nato will it be britain france alliance and if so what will then be the goals of it will they change at all also any talk of toppling the regime is very sensitive it could alienate the arab supporters of this military intervention now the arab league is already wavering in its support after the ferocity of the those first airstrikes that we saw the arab league said this is not really what we signed up for so that's already in the mix it also raises the specter of those dreaded words regime change which brings up shades of iraq which of course turned into a protracted conflict it's still very unstable in iraq and there was lots of opposition to that war in the u.k. and not not very many people in this country the general feeling would be that we that this country would not tolerate another iraq like situation so the government is being urged by factions inside it to stick religiously to the terms of this u.n. security council resolution to avoid this mission creep and to avoid this sort of

open ended commitment to housing military intervention in the region but it seems that with this reinterpretation of what the resolution actually means it's kind of playing with the words of the government isn't actually doing that and doesn't look like it will also be worth noting that this intervention does enjoy quite a lot of support from inside the government but the people on the street seem to feel very differently various bodies are performing surveys of the people practically every day and the most recent one says that fifty three percent think that it's unacceptable for british troops to risk their lives or risk injury in libya. going aren't following the u.k. as of the situation in libya a very conflicting reaction to what's going on there and laura thanks for that update. well we're going to keep the debate going for more on the libyan crisis let's not cross live to confess our whole gardener from the department of international and comparative politics at the american in paris this is the third

day of airstrikes professor gardner have the actions of the coalition been a fish and a fish and i should say so far as you see it well i mean you could strike gold could offer you their power the problem is this is horses on the ground can still do considerable damage but they have at least i would say paralyzed gadhafi due to a certain extent you know allowing the opposition movements to move back into resistance held by gadhafi but it's not clear that. they're going to be a stalemate on the ground for quite a while because of you could hold out for much longer. like we just heard from our correspondent in britain we're seeing inconsistency among top officials about whether the coalition will in fact target gadhafi do you think we could see another regime change operation another iraq perhaps. well i think that certainly that's where you are in between a protective population mode and regime change go in between that is sort of

a negotiation that is the use of force could be theoretically anyway nishida we can be very easy to force it to make concessions to a democratic democratic opposition or the dark polish a group of the least seven opposition parties but it's not clear what their goals are and the same time have to get off the fence and perhaps it's at least nominally to take the take the war now but that's an area of depends on what the opposition will we even consider a compromise with it after you get out the sun. so. i think that the situation probably gone too far for that possible scenario therefore the danger is that all of a continual civil war and with the western coalition forces supporting the opposition movements with more arms on the ground that's the

opposition if it's pretty clear to the world who gadhafi supporters are but who are the opposition we hear so little about them in libya and what do you think will happen if they do come to power. well i think it's not clear who could all be supporters or he has had opposition within his own tribes but he also has considerable support from the immigrants the millions of immigrants who have come. to cafes regime promised higher wages and benefits and they will get their own countries so that he has a considerable support there though he does have a position within his own tribal groups on the other side of the party the national salvation front of libya was created out of nine hundred eighty two thousand five seven opposition groups for the national court conference now that conference those lips around that time and the new. movements it's not clear obviously hillary clinton has met with. the new council. the problem is it's not

clear what the goals or because they're the opposition is tribally oriented that that element of kind of piece of governments has remained pretty much intact despite his creation of what he calls people's committees i think they do want opposition does want a general a real opening to the west it didn't like it is asian it's been demanded and it's an easy in egypt the problem is it can be infiltrated by any kind of forces that might play one of the more hardline and author of terry and approach to politics but i go back to the inconsistency between our members have the coalescence specifically speaking about nato i understand you wrote an article and with some spoke about this in detail can you tell us more about that but i think a nato has some say in the cold war the irony is that the two major allies in nato germany and turkey have been the most consistent critics of the post and they were

best allies during the cold war and become the most reluctant to engage in military actions after the cold war so you see that merkel but you also see that in the in the turkish opposition to any kind. military participated within a nato context i think that nato should probably stay in the background but it would be a nato operation what is most important is the arab league and the arab league support for this but simply having one country like a tar involved in this is not sufficient in my view anyway to show to be arabs are all united against gadhafi that there is considerable could offer himself alienating himself from the arab league and his appeal to a greater african union because of that we since one thousand nine hundred seventy . one a point here is that the basis for the un resolution really came from the arab league's support for the no fly zone but even they have been saying that the u.s. has gone too far in bombarding positions throughout the country and calls in

civilian casualties. just briefly where do you think that leads us in terms of the long term consequences of this campaign and in the region in general are afraid it will continue destabilization process that's the main place with with if you can't get enough aid and assistance to egypt in particular but also tunisia egypt really the key here because if you can move egypt in a democratic direction even if the military is still kind of behind the scenes it will have a general effect throughout throughout the arab world the problem is that the focus on egypt to get it to continue the movement that's already been started and then isolate libya and told you can bring either either and gauge a regime change or bring the war in factions together and there you have south africa promising mediation a just recently had russia promising the so there is

a possibility for a. dialogue there but as long as the two sides continue on the trade we're going to the way they're going to continue. we will. leave you with destabilization process that could bring in more radical groups in the long term frezza whole gardner from the american university in paris thank you very much for your analysis thank you very much thank you from. now as the allied bombing of libya enters day three america is getting involved in another long term war it would seem which will ruin it's a commie that's the opinion of lou rockwell chairman of the u.s. based ludwig von mises institute think tank. they want to divide and conquer just like the romans so they say yes this is and this is not by the way not a no fly zone it's also a no drive zone or no walks and thereby immediately they can keep them as bad as it would be to intervene to keep your planes from flying immediately or attacking

people on the ground or. killing a lot a lot of a lot of people that have blood flowing. we don't know whose blood it is but i believe it's a good thing that we're out of. this is not a good thing that we have another war going on and i must say from the standpoint of america i'm concerned with the fact that our government is broke that the dollar is going down the drain that the government is putting the whole country in the most horrific financial circumstances are starting yet another war to spend who knows how many billions of dollars makes the military industrial complex very happy but i must say among us taxpayers we don't like it so these rebels are being led by former officials of the regime these are not bunch of libertarians so i think yes there's a struggle for power and as one group will want the u.s. helping them be will be regional players whether it's the people in egypt or sudan or some of the other countries in the area that may don't want another u.s.

occupation right in their backyard so yeah i think there could be much more of an open civil war. so you can keep up with a very blank nest on the libyan crisis any time you. don't see from that a video footage of the very latest developments in the war torn country join. allied bombing of libya on our facebook page and have your say. to japan now where radiation levels in some areas around fukushima nuclear plant are one thousand six hundred times higher than normal so says the international atomic energy agency it comes as engineers resumed the struggle to cool down

reactors after a small pair works tapper facility. is falling advance engineers have been able to resume their efforts to connect power to the reactors at the fukushima nuclear power plant yesterday these efforts had to be stopped after smoke started billowing out of two of the reactors as soon as the power is reconnected several more starts to have to be taken but eventually the engineers are hoping that their water cooling systems will be able to be reactivated otherwise the focus has shifted on to the impact of the radiation which has already been released the thirty's are saying that in some of bear is around the plant the radiation levels are one thousand six hundred times higher than the this should be normally villagers in nearby settlements have been told not to drink their tap water because it contains possible radioactive elements and they're being given bottled water there's also suspicion that some of them are real life around the plant on the

coast has been a poisoned as well and that may pose some sort of risk to the fishery you also had scares over the weekend and afterwards that i would cultural products from that area may be contaminated as well but authorities are saying that the levels are safe but of course there's still a level of anxiety among the japanese people and even people brought us to the possible risks of radiation of course there is still the impact of the earthquake and the tsunami which has recently struck japan the police are saying that nine thousand people have been confirmed as dead more than twelve thousand is missing three hundred thousand or more than that remain homeless and of course the number of the confirmed dead is likely to grow over the next few weeks. a nuclear crisis into prayer as of oh here's that a new atomic a tapestry could devastate the country the only nation to ever feel the force of a nuclear weapon japan still remembers the horrors of the event sixty five years our art is over better reports from that cycle lease man has borne the scars of

nuclear disaster for most of his life as a resident of nagasaki your sherry in milwaukee has had liver and kidney problems since he was thirty five and he's already beaten cancer twice every time he falls ill now he feels it could be his last battle you sure do watch as events unfold at fukushima fearing the true nature of the disaster is yet to show itself so you are saying that the result of the contamination won't just end of the event it will be handed down from generation to generation and i have four daughters the first to have leukemia another has breast cancer the results of a disaster will be shown in generations to come. you should know was just eleven when the bomb was dropped he survived the blast but was exposed to lethal levels of radiation on these two trips to the hypocenter first to find his father then to bury him despite everything he's pro-nuclear power but still thinks fleeing from

fukushima is the wife's name to deal with so then the i don't think the public all the governments are overreacting in this situation i think people must take all precautionary measures they can to avoid the worst for the rest of the wagon psyche the stands today had to be built from scratch eleven square kilometers word used to dust a cloud of its tragic past still hangs over the city its residents though know what it means to suffer and are willing to help those in need members of the international volunteer organization the lion's club here collecting for the victims of the earthquake and tsunami everyone's desperate to give we don't nations already ten times higher than normal. we have a custom something happens in our nation we call a clinician help each other especially the people in the recycle very very

sensitive to atomic power so we are very worried about what happened. and we want to help one and only every way it sounded like a sack it is a memorial to the seventy five thousand died when the atomic bomb was dropped here this one mark that exact moment now the city will forever serve as a reminder of the struct they present for every hour and those here now are praying that the question well remembered in the same way nag a sucky transformation has been remarkable ground zero is unrecognizable a city would escape any radiation from a meltdown at fukushima but there is a nuclear plant close by and the incident has left residents living in fear. but nothing people can notice erkki and hiroshima are very sensitive to be incident fukushima we've never experienced such a devastating nuclear arsenal before and i think everyone is now afraid this could happen again i wasn't afraid of nuclear accidents before but now because i can see

it's not under control. this memorial represents the wall to crave by so many after the explosion the basins tranquility a far cry from the destruction wrought by the tsunami that has done its damage this place reminds us the ripples from a radioactive disaster extend for generations. it's our teeth and it's something but we're going to stop this hour here on our bilious here next with the business. that's right time for your business update and germany is one just whole may invest around two billion dollars in the russian led south stream gas pipeline project that's according to deputy prime minister. the energy unit of the dust trail major be a s.f. has agreed to join gas from and italy's any in the twenty one billion dollar project to bring russian gas to southern europe where dissolves involvement could

ensure support for the south through project from the huge gas plants are let's say let's claims how the deal will work. so you got this new modern them according to a memorandum being surf will get fifteen percent of the project so you guys probably stay with its fifty percent share beers will gain its share from any memorandum east or includes new long term gas supply contracts. russia is inviting japanese companies to take part in a range of energy projects that's according to deputy prime minister said this includes building a petrochemicals complex and russia's far east and developing coal and gas fills including the massive big to entry on the fields. and will prices are slightly lower weight by uncertainty about demand from the world's number three consumer how will the system tensions and libya still give support to crude and lists

a tensions in the region mainly to further in the short term but there are no fundamental reasons for the moment why prices should remain currently high. they could go short term. as high as you can think of in other words you could even see the heart of the rhythm in two thousand and eight but longer term i don't think we're going to see a major spark a move unless of course french girl really can extract the scenario and we see libya's oil installations destroy the risk premium in your price my heart being permanently hard from now on but a few months we just hope that it's essentially once in history for whatever governs libya it's it's a country i just rely on so when they switch from it's liable to brutal armed loose there's no way we can afford to reduces all exports should move from there.

let's have a look at all the markets up of forming european stock separate regions slightly from their early morning gains to edge lower the solid among the losers as the german retail and not sure she found two point seven percent after given that cautious trading outlook cold weather insurance and financial stocks are rallying. and here in russia stocks a low of us our investors are still taking office off to last week's strong gains the arch s. is losing more than one percent while my sister is shouting slogans at the center. let's have a look at some individual movements airflows is dropping a thirty percent a source of the airline told news agency interfax that it's not profitable rose more than two fold in trying to turn to two hundred and eighty two million dollars gas from is down point one percent news of south stream deal with wind as well with the fact that that's another has been a lexus suv the other for another five years hasn't given shares a lift and elsewhere in the energy sector it's

a good day for this hydro which is soccer you look to a sense. that wraps up the business book you can get we would source from a website archie dot com slash business. russia would be soo much brighter if you move bounced around from funds to christians from. his friends stance on t.v. don't come. from.