tonight an r t the libyan government says the coalition's airstrikes on the country have claimed more civilian lives as pro-government forces target a rebel held city in the west. concerns about the hidden agenda behind the military intervention in libya and these conflicting statements from a british officials on targeting colonel gadhafi. and radiation levels around japan's fukushima nuclear plant are reported to be of old one and a half thousand times higher than normal fears now of food and water contamination growing.

hello this is r t it's nine pm here in moscow my name is kevin zero in on the top story tonight libya is bracing for another night of airstrikes as international coalition forces continue their operation with the country's government saying there's 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 policy or saw the results of one of the air strikes in tripoli. i mean ok said locals here call the people is false this was hitchhiking told us six missiles on monday night 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 but as you can see complete destruction and devastation this here is

a missile transporter and as you can see it's been completely destroyed there's just nothing that remains in other parts of this workshop and there are katyusha rockets and other kinds of rockets then he'll be completely destroyed and the locals and i've been speaking to here say that it's likely that there was no one actually in the city when those missiles fell that they were going to be angry they don't actually stand why this was considered a legitimate target because they say that none of this equipment has been used in fact they say 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 that suki and this is machinery that must have been used by the libyan army and where they want out is antiquated or whether or not it's still relevant i cannot answer those questions but it is understandable at least to some extent why the coalition forces structure 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 the 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. now to stay on top of all the action in libya check out our twitter feed. reporting there from the country will be staying all the in libya despite the difficulties of reporting from you can find a. school with. moscow 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 very much discussed the issue with the pentagon chief in the russian capital let's get more from artie's people. seems those made by the libyan campaign is the order of the day everywhere including here in moscow. well that's right u.s. defense secretary robert gates has been in moscow meeting with president dmitri may get it now this was a meeting that had been scheduled for some time there's already plenty on the agenda to discuss but the own going situation in libya taking center stage in that meeting between the u.s. defense secretary and the russian president dmitri medvedev used the meeting to reiterate rush's position on the ongoing situation in libya he said the international intervention that's taking place in the country must add here to u.n. resolution nine hundred seventy three that imposed the no fly zone in the country and the action should remain within the parameters of the u.n. resolution that is only to protect the civilian population president made get of

did say there was a possibility that russia could act as a mediator to broker a peace between the sides in this conflict using their diplomatic ties and connections in north africa to do that however the kremlin are telling r.t. that under it not at all to the question russia being asked to send any troops already military hardware to aid in this ongoing military action it's going on there that question not raised in the meeting between the u.s. defense secretary and the president. president medvedev did raise concern over the amount of air strikes that on. taking place looking at just what is being hit on the ground there by those strikes from aircraft and from ships stationed in the mediterranean. first image it had quite a busy day also met with the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas meeting president

medvedev expressed concern this the on going situation in libya could hamper affect the ongoing middle east peace process so looking at that situation in north africa in libya stretching into having an effect on the greater middle east in spreading beyond the borders all libya completely. also in the region at the moment in north africa is the russian foreign minister. he's been meeting with leaders from around the arab world. talking to the arab league in egypt of course and now in algeria he's said this the if the conditions and the situation in libya continue to worsen then there is the risk that we could see a potential new stock of international terrorism coming from this situation. bring us up to date there from central moscow thank you. 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 have said there is a possibility the troops could target colonel gadhafi. 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 illegal and within the terms of the un 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 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 against iran would not be permitted under the terms of a 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 but now 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 for so 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. india's condemned the invasion of libya by the new coalition the

saying that not enough time was devoted to a peaceful resolution of things pretty straight of course 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 for an area and f one. and let you know you can watch the full report and get statements on the situation in libya from world leaders on our web site r t v dot com we've got all the latest developments in that fanaticism as the news comes in you'll be the next to know it r.t. dot com. 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 told us that nato wouldn't be able to handle the role because of internal divide the irony is that the two major allies of germany and turkey have been the most consistent critics of the post they were always really cold war and become the

most reluctant to engage in military actions after the call so you can see that miracle be you also see that in the military coups our position being any kind of military participated with in new york context i think. nato should probably stay in the background but it will not 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 american taxpayer that stands to lose the most is a list of reports next. one to one point five million dollars the reported 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.

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 to most likely and other lawmakers locked in a constant debate over u.s. money problems are going public it's a strange time and which almost all of our congressional days are spent talking

about budget deficits really just problems and yet at the same time though all of 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 justifying this role for the u.s. despite. claims from the top of a humanitarian intervention people from the streets. to the pundits don't buy it the u.s. mission is to keep doxy from having any influence on our progress 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 out 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 spectacular profits off of the wars and iraq and afghanistan so it won't be any different and terms of the war in libya but every news story isn't destroying military group when 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 toll 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 and for the encouraging of pakistan the united states has to start focusing on things here at home otherwise will not only be 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. you can also catch up with the very latest on the libyan crisis online anytime you want log on to our you tube channel to see dramatic video footage of the very latest developments in the country including the video of a u.s. fighter jet that crashed in benghazi plus we invite you to send corner by the way the fresh allied bombing of libya on our facebook page and have your say. 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 stole repair works at the facility yesterday up his ego or god never is in japan 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 have to be stopped after smoke started billowing out of two of the reactors as soon as the power is reconnected several more so still have to be taken but eventually the engineers are hoping that the water cooling systems will be able to be activated otherwise the focus has shifted on to the impact of the radiation which has already been released these are saying that in some of the areas around the plant the radiation levels are one thousand six hundred times higher than the this should be normally villages in nearby settlements have been told not to drink tap water because it contains fossil radioactive elements and so they are being given bottled water there's also suspicion that some of the marine life around the plant on the coast has been a poisoned as well and that may pose some sort of risk to the fisheries we also had scares over the weekend and afterwards the agricultural produce from that area may

be contaminated as well now the 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 i sort of possible risks of radiation of course through 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 as 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. and you can check out our twitter account for the latest tweets from the go coordinate of who's report you just saw he says indeed that aftershocks are still shaking his thirtieth floor hotel room check out post an experience from the latest update said to our friends. from all the nuclear crisis in japan we can now talk to david lindorff he's an investigative journalist and founding editor of the online newspaper this can't be happening but sadly it appears it is a very good evening after chernobyl we saw thousands of cleanup workers sacrificing

their lives and we can't forget those grainy pictures twenty five years on volunteers are working daily at fukushima to how come people are still having to put themselves in danger in such conditions and situations like this well there's really little alternative because your only real alternative would be robotics i suppose but these plants are. all unique. in their usually i mean when you look at the facility is there just. how you would get a kick up ration going in something like this. and what it what it's capable of at this point and certainly the japanese are we up front with robotics so you're left with human beings and that's the only way to do it you have to get a lot of people with minimizing each person's exposure david some of these reactors they're quite old they're forty years old although there were concerns we hear

raised about the safety of some of the plants reactors even back in the nineteen seventies apparently three workers resigned back then saying the facility was unsafe to do you know anything about this story did they ever receive a response. no they didn't and in fact the there were people in the nuclear regulatory commission and within kendrell electric who said that this particular plant design the mark one was flawed from the start. and so by nine hundred seventy q when they were just starting to build these things and put them on line. there were complaints that he that he shouldn't be building them and the chair of the nuclear regulatory commission in the united states well as the time and energy commission then basically said well there's too much invested in these things for us to put a stop to them now so it was a flawed plant from the start and we still have twenty four of them operating in the us and i think. pretty close to an equal number around the rest of the world is

there anything do you think that could have been done to prevent the disasters there i think it is all the work that goes into the development of peaceful nuclear energy should the safety come first should these things as you said and being been close a long time back i think that's the only answer for plants like that particular model. i hear people say that it's possible to design you stays a state nuclear plant it has all passive cooling systems so that if all the power fails you still can keep the plant from going into a meltdown is but i think the problem is in navy that's true but you'd have to take all the existing plants and shut them down they're not selling to people and i think that mean thing is that the costs against things to make them safely is so enormous require so much government subsidy taxpayer subsidy that they really are not economical. and don't make any sense because look at the situation in hand now if your plans gov months gone away saying that the rebels of radiation are not

harmful you think that telling the full story do you think we've got the full picture at this stage. i would have to say that history would suggest that they're not telling the truth in every single case where there are nuclear accidents in japan and united states and the soviet union. all the places that have had crisis with nuclear power the initial response has been to lie and cover up the seriousness of the problem so i don't know why this one would be any different and i would put zero stock in what official reports are and how serious it is how much it's been released what the dangers are i would about the a work of the i.a.e.a. in this crisis is that has that response been efficient and timely as you say it no i don't think so and the i.a.e.a. has a long long record of being a basically a tool of the nuclear industry in all the countries that have nuclear power the

i.a.e.a. has a meter flaw which is that as an international body if he answers to the government's bid and hold its first string so it's very political he controlled organization like they have a dog that's going to enlist in the founding editor of the online newspaper this can't be happening thank you. thanks for having. nuclear crisis is a source of course of exhausting for millions for so many could also be a source of profit in two of its cars or mysteries you know we discuss how much she when lives are worth major corporations. like japanese population going to skyrocket in value because of this theory that the more worse you screw up an economy the higher prices go maxwell speaking of extinction in relation to the japanese nuclear disaster documentation is emerging from one 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 safe this reactor build 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 reckless their reckless and there they are they fall the masters of blind profiteering and human life is worth nothing. craigs launched a criminal investigation of former president leonid kuchma as potential into the murder of an outspoken opposition journalist eleven years ago which was suspected of abusing his powers and giving orders which led to the crime. he's got the details from ukrainian capital kiev. 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 some like to remind you of you was not a very well known opposition journalist the went missing in the year two thousand he's body was found a month later in one of the forests outside of kiev and in this wild chase of investigation there have been several arrests and several in prison a prison terms for several former security offices even the executioner of this case was apprehended. 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 by 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 body it shapes leaked by one of the former security offices 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 actually had any hand in this murder of his correspondent in ukraine election head in ten minutes tonight an award winning film about one of the greatest environmental disasters in american history but the company's changed tonight business for most.

time to get the latest from the world of business another piece of the stream puzzle has been search and plays forever some of putin's visit to slovenia prime minister saw agreements concerning the construction of the pipeline in the balkan country correspondent michael schumacher has the details. well it's been a rather good week for south dream so far and continued here in finland where it deal was signed between russia's company gas drum and slovenia scale the joint venture to construct their slovenia segment off the cells dream project now earlier a german company assaf has joined the venture as well acquiring fifty percent stake in the project and planning to invest as much as two million a year is in its answer gather wood the french company e.d.f. and italy's any deal has significantly improved the image of the south stream project well south stream is meant to deliver gas to southern european countries

from russia bypassing ukraine which has previously proved to be an unreliable transit country a project is estimated at about twenty eight billion years and the construction will begin in two thousand and fifteen and three years after that the pipeline will be operating in its full capacity. and because the patients are three major pm companies and south stream plus the unrest in libya and persian gulf could tell reduce your political objections to the project as prospective sivan a from the national energy security foundation explains go out with spread using a part of the europeans used to see south stream as just a sort of get together between russia and italy the involvement of winter's heart and e.d.f. which sorry to say memorandum in 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 main objection of south stream was political because europe was afraid of russia as

a supplier i think we have been seen in libya and the persian gulf will bring the europeans down to earth. let's take a look at how the markets are performing stocks are inching well what investors are hesitant to make any big moves the rally which began last day appears to be slowing down. moving on to europe stocks retreated from their early against it at low on tuesday among the losers was the german retailer metro a g down five percent after giving cautious trading outlook how whether some financial stocks were rallying. and here in russia stocks finished tuesday's trading well as investors were still taking profits after last week's strong gains the r.g.s. lost twenty three percent while the miser's point seven percent let's have a look at some individual share. lost about two percent on news a company associated with because c. has sold two billion dollars worth of local derivative stock prompts down just

under one percent as of cells to deal with which is all well the fact that alexa miller has been elected c.e.o. for another five years hasn't been has left her for extended losses dropping one percent and despite a source at the airline saying. that program is moving to sold in one to ten to two hundred days in and out of. brussels largest mobile retailer your sas has confirmed plans to float on the london stock exchange so close to the deal says the company is looking to raise as much as one and then dollars and the ships are such has been followed by banks of between twenty four each and five and on it's. a crap start the business goes on for up to date now.

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