you know it's an odd see the libyan government says the coalition's as strikes on the country have claimed more civilian lives and forces a target of rebel held city in the west. concerns about the hasan agenda behind the military intervention in libya and made conflicting statements from a british official on target saying kano gadhafi. and radiation levels around the japan's fukushima nuclear plant are reported to be over one and a half thousand times higher than normal and fields of food to be of the contamination in the area growing.

hello this is r t it's eight pm here in moscow my name is kevin zero in on the top story tonight international coalition forces have conducted air strikes on libya for a third night the country's government says they've 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 or attacking rebel strongholds in the west of the country artie's paul asli a saw the results of one of the strikes in tripoli. i'm in a place that locals here called the people's fault this was a hit being told us six missiles on monday night but as you can see the place is completely destroyed there is still smoke there is still this acrid smell of burning in the air now the locals if we talked to said that there was no one here so fortunately no one was actually killed when all of this happened as you can see

complete destruction and devastation this here is a missile transporter and there's you can see it's been completely destroyed there's just nothing better remains in other parts of this workshop but there are potential rockets and other kinds of rockets they should be completely destroyed and the locals that i've been speaking to here say that it's a psyche that there was no one actually in the city when those missiles fell they were incredibly angry they don't actually stand while this was considered a legitimate target because they said that none of this equipment was being used in fact they said that there was a bus here they say that there was a worker's car and those kind of vehicles were simply used to take people home at the end of every day but certainly this is machinery that must have been used by the libyan army and whether one of its antiquated or whether or not it's still relevant i cannot answer those questions but it is understandable if he's to some extent by the coalition forces struck here not a crowd has gathered inside the storage facility they're incredibly angry they're holding up pictures of moammar gadhafi they screaming condemnation and criticism at

the international community a little bit further on the hill is locals that have literally come with the children and their families to see what is happening the sense you get on the ground is that this is just a ticking bomb the anger the frustration that is growing on the streets of tripoli is discernible the streets are very very quiet and most of the shops are closed people are very afraid because for three consecutive nights the missiles have fell so the question on everyone's mind here is what next will the international community constitution regard as a legitimate target in tripoli policy r.t. tripoli. what a stir on top of all the action in libya check out our twitter page artie's paula you've just seen there reporting from the country this talk to locals in the region she says they feel the crisis could continue for months you'll also find a link to paula's blog an instant updates on the situation in libya be on top of the story find this is under school call me on twitter. moscow is standing firm

of the crisis in libya saying the no fly zone over the country should be used only to protect civilians and bring peace president medvedev stance has been backed by russia's defense minister who's met with the pentagon chief catarina zone over as more from moscow. the u.s. a good secretary of defense robert gates met with his russian counterpart in moscow today of the day is of course the second day of his visit to russia he spent yesterday and soon piers berg and during the discussion the two men talked about all things relevant to the relationship between moscow and washington and those of course including the start treaty and all the work being done there the collaboration between russia and the coalition forces led of course by the united states and afghanistan the two men of course could not avoid the subject of libya russia once again reiterating its position that the u.n. resolution one thousand nine hundred eighty three was basically enforced in order to ensure a no fly zone that would in fact it in turn to guarantee civilians on the ground in

libya some sort of security and safety that has not been the case so far according to russian politicians and russian officials and u.s. secretary of defense robert gates seemed to agree with that statement saying that the military. incursion into libya and the military presence in libya will have to be significantly decreased and that libyans and only libyans have the power and the whites to decide the fate of their own country for sure president that he didn't actually took the problem even further in the conflict in libya according to him has not only affected that country but also the north african region and also could in fact in danger of the peace process side negotiations that concern in the middle east that of course was said during a meeting between the russian president leader of the palestinian national authority mahmoud abbas which also took place here in moscow the russian foreign

minister also voiced his concerns saying that he believes that if the situation in libya worsens and the military presence in libya does continue it could actually lead to further destabilization of the entire region and possibly even of the spread of international terrorism. in britain there appears to be inconsistency about the aims the coalition's pursuing in libya prime minister cameron says that regime change is not on the table but the u.k. defense and foreign secretaries and said that there is a possibility the troops could target colonel gadhafi artie's lore and it's got the latest from london. the government in front of it seems and also behind the scenes is arguing that gadhafi himself could be construed as a threat to the civilian population and therefore it would be legal 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 or he personally he unequivocally said absolutely not and said that he didn't want to discuss this any further we are seeing in this careful international division as well senior people in washington also say that direct strike would not be permitted under the terms of a security council resolution 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 rule them out but now the the resolution is open to a bit of playing with words a bit of interpretation after the ferocity of the first air strikes that we saw the arab league said this is not really what we signed up thought it also raises the specter of those dreaded words regime change which brings up shades of iraq with not very many people in this country the general feeling would be that we 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 having 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 the government isn't actually doing that and doesn't look like it will. correspondent in london laura india's condemned the invasion of libya by the new coalition saying that not enough time was devoted to a peaceful read resolution artie's prostrated told us the latest reaction from new delhi. the minister of external affairs did say that he believes that airstrikes would be counterproductive and actually harming innocent civilians coronaries can step one. and either watch our full report and get statements on the situation in libya from world leaders on our website our teeth dot com we've also got the latest developments an in-depth analysis as the news comes in once again for you that is.

the u.s. is planning to hand over its lead in the operation in libya and france has proposed to create a special body to take over professor hall gardener from the american university in paris said nato wouldn't be able to handle the role because of internal divides the irony is that the two major allies in nato germany and circulate in the most consistent critics of the post if they were as they always do really call war and become the most reluctant to engage in military actions and after the call so you see that miracle but you also see that in the opposition be any kind of full military participated within a needle context so i think. nato could probably stay in the background but it would be a nato operation. the image of the u.s. as leader of the military operation in libya is already suffering a global backlash but it's the ordinary americans are exposed stands to lose the

most as laura lister reports. one to one point five million dollars the purported cost of this united states tomahawk missile launched into libya. it's only been a few days into operation odyssey dawn and already the costs of the environment from sea and air are skyrocketing the price of day one alone is more than one hundred million dollars then the first two hours they fired one hundred ten cruise missiles so so right there thousands of teachers of course could be paid for coming at a time when teachers not to mention other public workers are fighting to keep their livelihoods close to ten percent of people are unemployed and the country faces fourteen trillion dollars of national debt the u.s. has already committed trillions to ongoing wars in afghanistan. as well as iraq.

it despite all this has moved to the helm of this international intervention but can the country afford getting involved again the united states clearly doesn't have money for this we will end up taking money from other important programs domestically and other lawmakers locked in a constant debate over u.s. money problems are going public it's a strange time and we're almost all of our congressional days are spent talking about budget deficits just problems and yet at the same time they're all this passes which is a very expensive operation this mission was led by the united nations but quickly the united states has emerged at the forefront so you have to wonder with so many cars at stake what is justify this role for the u.s. despite clue. from the top of the humanitarian intervention people from the streets . to the pundits don't buy it the u.s.

mission is to keep the doxy from having any influence on the world price peak oil expert michael rupert says the real reason for the bloodshed all boils down to the one point five million barrels of oil a day coming from libya which the west simply cannot afford to lose you can't take any supply out and not expect the price to go up dramatically for everybody on the planet but not everyone's taking a hit in the pocket conflict is good for some of the most powerful u.s. corporations military contractors they have made literally super profits stick profits off of the wars and iraq and afghanistan so it won't be any different in terms of the war in libya bombing those targets and destroying military equipment in in libya opens up markets for more american british and french arms sales in the world justifying perhaps for some who have benefited

a war that adds to the tool other conflicts have taken on the u.s. economy and reputation in the world we will spend at least a half a trillion dollars right now in afghanistan and no libyan the money we're spending you know for the encouraging of pakistan the united states has to start focusing on things here at home otherwise we're not only broke but we have the rest of the world angry at us a price some believe is too high for america to pay more in mr r.t. new york. just wonderful you can catch up with the very latest on the libyan crisis online anytime you want log on to our youtube think it provides a video footage of the very latest developments in the country including video of a u.s. fighter jet crashing in benghazi plus the lively debates on the fresh allied bombing of libya on our facebook page so you can say there was any time in the storage and see.

next tonight radiation levels in some areas around japan's fukushima nuclear plant a one thousand six hundred times higher than normal so says the international atomic energy agency it comes as engineers resumed the struggle to try to cool down reactors after smoke stalled repair works at the facility we go gordon has been following the events there for us. engineers have been able to resume their efforts to connect power to older 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 subtle have to be taken but eventually the engineers are hoping that the 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 the areas around the plant the radiation levels are one thousand six hundred times higher than the should be normally villages in nearby settlements have been told not to drink water because it contains possible radioactive elements instead they're being given bottled water there's also suspicion that some the marine life around the plant on the coast has been poisoned as well and that may pose some sort of risk to the fishery we also had scares over the weekend and after that i recall szell produce from that area may be contaminated as well now their thirty's are saying that the levels are safe but of course there's still a level of among the japanese people and even people further abroad possible risks of radiation of course there are still the impact of the earthquake and the tsunami which has recently struck japan 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. check out her twitter account for the latest tweets from ego whose report you just saw it says that aftershocks still shaking as thirty of the four hotel rooms had out the first hand experience in the latest updates that our teams twitter account. with nuclear crisis and japan's a vote fears that a new atomic catastrophe could devastate the country the only nation to ever feel the force of a nuclear weapon japan still remembers the horror of the event sixty five years on our desire bennett reports next for now. at least man has borne the scars of nuclear disaster for most of his life as a resident of niggas sucky you sure he has had liver and kidney problems since he was thirty five and he's already beaten cancer twice every time he falls ill now e.p.d. it could be his last battle you should know watch events unfold at fukushima during

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 all for 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 wise thing to do so then the i don't think the public all the governments are overreacting in this situation i think people not take all precautionary measures they can to avoid the worst for the rest of the night a psyche the stands today had to be built from scratch eleven square kilometers

were reduced to dust a cloud of its tragic past still hangs over the city it's a residence 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 like the nation and would help each other especially the people and i guess i feel very very sensitive to atomic power so we are very worried about what happened. and we want to help in. every way turning like a sack it is a memorial to the seventy five thousand died when the topic bomb was dropped here this one that exact moment now the city will forever serve as a reminder of the struct their potential of our and there is here now praying that

the question that we're around in the same way in august sakis transformation has been remarkable ground zero is unrecognisable and 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. i think. people from nuggets. are very sensitive to the incident. we've never experienced such a devastating nuclear accident before and i think everyone is in a free 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 crave by so many after the explosion at the base since tranquility a far cry from the destruction wrought by the tsunami has done its damage this place reminds us the ripples from a radioactive disaster extends for generations to bennett's r.t.

something but you know what japan's nuclear crisis is of course a source of anxiety for millions for it could be a source of profit to later today max kaiser and stacey herbert discuss how much too many lives are worth to a major corporation. either in japanese population going to skyrocket in value because of this theory that the more worse you screw up our economy the higher prices go maxwell speaking of extinction in relation to the japanese nuclear disaster and documentation is emerging from nine hundred seventy two when this plant and this reactor was designed that the three nuclear scientists working on it resigned because it was so on say this reactor billed by g.e. the u.s. government of the department of energy was also aware of this but they decided not to do anything because it would essentially make the nuclear industry extinct because they're reckless and there they are they call them masters of blind

profiteering and human life is worth nothing. ukraine has launched a criminal investigation of a former president leonid kuchma as a potential link to the murder of an outspoken opposition journalist eleven years ago suspected of abusing his power and giving orders which led to the crime as catch up with the latest on this story. in ukraine capital him for us tonight hi there alexi well what are the prosecutors saying and how exactly might the former ukrainian leader been involved in this. but it's hard to say whether this will all go against the country's former president because this story has been dragging on for more than a decade since two thousand and it is unclear whether. connection to this murder will be somehow established i'd like to remind our viewers that a very well known opposition journalist you know you got the went missing in the

year two thousand he's found a month later in one of the forests outside of key of and in this wild chase of an investigation to have been several arrests and several in prison a prison term for several former security offices even the executioner of this case was apprehended. there was apprehended by the police several years ago but experts are now speculating with this new while twist in the story with the country's former president being summoned to the prosecutor general's office whether he could be actually found guilty in masterminding this crime because the only evidence against. which is in the possession of the authorities his audiotapes link leaked by one of the former security officers years ago and that's on those audiotapes and man who is believed to be sounding like the new kuchma is giving out orders to the man who is believed to be the country's former interior minister the problem is

that this interior minister we're talking about here has committed suicide almost five years ago and indeed he was the main suspect in the main witness in this case it is impossible to determine whether it was. they had any hand in this murder so right now all the speculations come to nothing because it is really hard to say. which will mean for the story but certainly will be hearing they can go to mystery continue the mystery which has been going on as i've said for more than a decade already so actually the truth in terms of this a long running story continuing thanks to bring us up to date a luxury jet ski reporting live from ukraine. moriarty the record when he was updated there twenty four seventh's for you here sports tonight in about twenty minutes time units got details of the next big thing in the russian fight but it's business news next for moscow. that's right time for your business update and another piece of the south stream

puzzle is being fit into place jury bottom of putin's visit to slovenia the prime minister is overseeing a serious of agreements concerning the construction of the pipeline in the balkan country the twenty one billion dollar project led by gas brahmans easily if any is intended to bring russian gas to southern europe which in recently cast doubt on its future when he suggested it might be cheaper to use liquefied natural gas tankers but this week south stream gained further support when the german industrial giant be a announced it would be taking a fifteen percent stake in the project for two billion dollars that of president of france is also in the process of becoming a partner with full agreement expected later this year. and the biggest patients are three major european companies and sas dream plus the unrest in libya persian gulf could help reduce your political objections to that project as was the

scene soon enough from the national energy security foundation explains. spread using a part of the europeans used to see south stream as just a sort of get together between russia italy the involvement of winter and e.d.f. which sorry to say memoranda being two thousand and ten means that we'll have three european states in the project that will help people see south stream as a european project that's really important as the e.u. is made of the church and south stream was political because europe was afraid of russia as a supplier i think the events in libya in the persian gulf will bring the europeans down to earth. let's take a look at how the markets are performing u.s. stocks are inching lower investors are hesitance to make any big moves they're running which began last thursday appears to be slowing down. and european stocks retreated from their early gains to edge low on tuesday among the losers was the german retailer metro a.g.

down five percent after giving a cautious trading outlook the weather insurance and financial stocks are rallying . on to russia where the stocks finished choose a straightening of the way as investors were still taking profits after last week's strong gains we are terrorists lost points three percent while the minus its share point seven percent. let's have a look at some individual share moves now we've got shares lost about two percent on news company associated with c has sold two billion dollars worth of lupul derivative stock class from was down just under one percent use of sound stream deal with windows all the fact that alexa miller has been alexa see for another five years hasn't given shares a lift arafat extended. this dropping one percent this hour despite a source at the airline saying it's not profit growth is moving to fold and trying to tempt two hundred eighty million dollars. and

russia's largest mobile phone retailer your sas has confirmed plans to close on the london stock exchange a source close to the deal says the company is looking to raise as much as one billion dollars in the issue you are set has been valued by banks of between three point two and five billion dollars. and finally german retail giant metro plans to open one hundred new super stores this year mainly and russia china and india as it rushes to satisfy consumer demand and those key motion markets general director of metro cash and carry told business archie chains expansion plans the first half to turn ten was due quite difficult i think for the whole we do market we see to go and turn in the second half of the trim we just continue to second top the first half of the product the level but i think we're quite confident about the future results but if you we have at this moment several plots only if this occasion we

plan to open it don't go through as that is more the last few large egos fights that we try to do open more stores and accelerate our exposure they were sure. it's all the business news so this hour join the last one last time for more business stories here on r.t. and get more from our website our dot com slash business.

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