the old waverly who turned to give him also to the mill stone who took some of the country house holiday is the bull the government tells the remembering the creamy that used to feel the most acutely tells the world the ruben's hotel. on our teeth like the libyan government says the coalition's airstrikes on the country and claimed more civilian lives is progress duffy 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 targeting happy. and radiation levels around japan's fukushima nuclear plant reported to be one of the half thousand times higher than the fears of food and water contamination of the area growing.

this is r.t. it's ten pm here in moscow if you just joined us most welcome my name is kevin zero in on the top story tonight anti aircraft fire and explosions have been heard in the libyan capital as the operation of the coalition forces enters its fourth night of the country's government said there have been more civilian deaths a u.s. fighter jet crashed there overnight although american officials say it wasn't shot down. to the libyan leader colonel gadhafi or attacking rebel strongholds in the west of the country. are reports next on the results of one of the air strikes in tripoli. i mean ok said locals here call the people is this was a hit being told us it's missiles on monday night as you can see the case is completely destroyed there is still smoke there is still the acrid smell of burning in the air now but 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 they enjoy being 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 why this was considered a legitimate target because they say that none of this equipment was being used in fact they say that there was a bus here they say that there was a worker's car and that those kind of vehicles were simply used to take people home at the end of every day but so again this is machinery that must have been used by the libyan army and whether or not it's 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 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 is 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. and indeed to stay on top of all the action in libya check out our twitter feed our teams paula slayer you've just seen reporting from the country will be staying on in war hit libya despite the difficulties of working from there she's telling us many foreign journalists shortly to leave the country are going to be a school to the chilis even bordered by a convoy to find out more from her as she had dates all the news coming out r.t.

underscore calm on twitter. moscow standing firm in time over the crisis in libya say with no fly zone over the country should be used only to protect civilians and bring peace president good vet it was discussed the issue with the pentagon chief in the russian capital artie's peed all over as more about that from moscow. u.s. defense secretary robert gates has been in moscow meeting with president dmitri medvedev 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 around 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 connections in north africa to do that first of a did have had quite a busy day also met with the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas meeting president medvedev expressed concern the ongoing situation in libya could i think the ongoing middle east peace process the situation in the middle east and north africa has increased dark it has become more difficult we should exchange opinions on how the situation in the air will affect the peace process in the middle east. so in the region at the moment in north africa is the russian foreign minister. he

said this if the conditions and the situation in libya continue to worsen then there is the risk that we could see if it's ensured spark of international terrorism coming from this situation. the situation in libya has also been the focus of a meeting between the prime ministers of russia. and the comment on his recent comparison of the libyan campaign to a crusade. media speculation about differences within the russian leadership over the issue. used to really. be. busy and pretty. much stock of. food you're probably familiar with which is just going to do with the officer of the snow a glitch translation for you but in

a link to it i'm sure you got the gist of what he was saying that is what he said now in britain there appears to be inconsistency with entirely aims the coalition is pursuing in libya prime minister cameron says the regime change is not on the table but the u.k. defense and foreign secretary some say that there is a possibility that troops could target colonel gadhafi is lauren let's call the latest from london. the governments both in front of it scenes 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 he personally he unequivocally said absolutely not and said he didn't want to discuss this any further we are seeing in this therefore 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 sound the u.n. security council will come out but now the the resolution is open to a bit of playing with words a bit of interpretation 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 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. reaction from india to its condemned the invasion of libya by the new coalition saying that not enough time was devoted to a peaceful resolution is pretty straight up orders the latest reaction from new delhi. the minister of external affairs did say that he believes the airstrikes would be counterproductive and actually harming innocent civilians foreigners and death. and you can watch that full report and get statements on the situation in libya from world leaders on our website our team dot com where we've also got the latest developments and in-depth analysis as the news comes in again it's starting dot com. so for more on the coalition airstrikes in libya let's now talk live from chicago to our robert nigh met a contributor to the huffington post news website mr nine a very good evening to you the coalition's in

a bit of debate isn't it right now over who will take on military command in libya from the u.s. how solid is the coalition itself right now tonight you think well obviously there's a big string we're sure we're only interpretation of the u.n. resolution and there's also a strain. you know the gap between the rhetoric that preceded the resolution and the actually all the all the people some of these groups so instead of. people as you reported seeing airstrikes of tripoli well it's not. well the arab league indeed has expressed concern over the airstrikes although they supported didn't know the initial resolution do you think the west is now losing arab support and trust. well i think that it's much more difficult to defend this in the reality he then in the abstract you know defense secretary gates of before last week during the debate of the united states where many people were pushing for this no

fly zone and the pentagon was secretary gates and he said let's call a spade a spade a no fly zone begins with airstrikes so no many people you know surprises cover if he was telling the truth and that this is one of the photo flights i was not some kind of you know. violence free magic not what in fact was a very violent something. they're sort of upset there is a contradiction to the u.n. security council resolution when here as your report said about protecting civilians and then here probably in the. future there's about a robot what do you make about the inconsistency among top officials in the u.k. about whether the coalition will actually target specifically good bassim self is regime change what's really on their minds do you think i think it's very troubling clearly some people do you have regime change on their minds and secondly the

french been very aggressive from the beginning example of recognizing the. armed rebel council as you know the legitimate government of libya which nobody else even heard of french are doing so clearly there are conflicting you know about this question are we protecting civilians or are we like regime change and obviously if you give up targeting it up the end of the libyan government officials it is dangerous because it is. it does suggest regime change and then opens up the whole question is. what comes after what is your plan for the hollings yes if you will exactly what gives you what do you think the long term consequences are likely to be there i think it's very scary of the the idea of intervening on the one side of the civil war to overthrow the libyan. leader for the future

government of libya or else your plan is that the rebels in the east are the future with not a clear mandate to wall of libya clearly there is there is a clear vision of libyan society. not an easy call easy the goal of the try to heal that cleavage to bring about a government that represents all the b.s. not just one faction robin i'm a good over the program contributor to the huffington post news website as you are thanks for being on r.t. . it is let's get back now to that meeting between prime ministers of russia and slovenia the crisis in libya was at the center of attention there as well journalists are split in a post into a comment on his recent harsh comparison of the libyan campaign to a crusade a previous reply counted media speculation about differences within the russian leadership over the issue we've got it translated for you now. and used to be

really pretty units we were different so use on appearance in libya within the russian leadership the president of the russian federation is in the only one who finds foreign policy and there can be nor do virgins here this was the crux of the matter is that we should be thinking about the victims the number of whom the scrawling use a result of the civil war still look lambing obligations to retore those who are behind us tragic you should think about this and predict their saul's will be important and 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 you cannot call it already they are very latest developments in the country in this video of us fighter jet crashed in benghazi i thought this thing wasn't shot down over plus enjoy the lively debate on the fresh allied bombing of libya on our facebook page and have your say that to.

the. next tonight radiation levels in some areas around japan's fukushima nuclear plant are a thousand six hundred times higher than normal so says the international atomic energy agency now that comes as engineers did resume the struggle to cool down those reactors after smoke stored repair work for the facility yesterday at his eager a garage moves in japan with the latest for us tonight. 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 stuff will have to be taken but eventually the engineers are hoping that 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 that ortiz are saying that there is 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 that water because it contains possible radioactive elements and so they'll be given bottled water there's also suspicion that some of the marine life around the plant on the coast as be a poisoned as well and up may post some sort of risk to the fishery you also had scares over the weekend and afterwards that some day i would cultural probably shown that area may be contaminated as well saying that the levels are safe but of course there's still a level of anxiety among the japanese people and even people further abroad as 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 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. with want to keep abreast of the latest on japan's nuclear crisis check out our twitter feed radioactive particles that we detected in iceland with experts saying that they most likely come from the trouble fukushima plant for all the updates from japan live on top of things that are safe and this will come. to us what david lindorff he's an investigative journalist and founding editor of the online newspaper this can't be happening he told me japan's government's not telling the full story about the ongoing nuclear crisis as he sees it every single case where there are nuclear accidents in japan and united states and the soviet union. all the places that have had crises with nuclear power the initial response has been to a lie and cover up the seriousness of the problem so i don't know why this one would be any different and i wouldn't put zero stock in what official reports are

and how serious it is how much it's been released what the dangers are the i.a.e.a. has a long long record of being basically a tool of the nuclear industry in all the countries that have nuclear power the i.a.e.a. has a major flaw which is that as an international body it basically answers to governments yeah. and hold its purse strings and so it's very politically controlled organisation the nuclear crisis in japan is a vote fears that a new atomic catastrophe could devastate the country the only nation to have a feel of course the force of a nuclear weapon japan still remembers the horrors of the orphan of and sixty five years on these other bennett reports next from nagasaki. police man has borne the scars of nuclear disaster for most of his life as a resident of niger sucky you 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 are watches events unfold at fukushima fearing the true nature of the disaster is yet to show itself so you are saying that the results of the contamination will just end of the event will be handed down from generation to generation i have four daughters the first to have leukemia another has breast cancer for 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 and was exposed to lethal levels of radiation on his 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 for them 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 nygard psyche the stands today had to be built from scratch eleven square kilometers were reduced to dust the 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 and here collecting for the victims of the earthquake and tsunami everyone's desperate to give with donations already ten times higher than normal. we have a custom something happens in our nation or call of the nation that would help each other especially if the people in the recycle were very sensitive to power so we're very worried about what happened here and we want to help one and only every way it sounded like a sack it is a morial so the seventy five thousand died when the atomic bomb was dropped here

this one marked that exact moment now the city will ever serve as a reminder of the destructive potential of nuclear power and those here are now praying that focusing well remembered in the same way now has psyches transformation has been remarkable ground zero is unrecognizable the 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 that. people cannot assert here hiroshima are very sensitive to the incident in fukushima we've never experienced such a devastating nuclear arsenal before and i think everyone is never free this could happen again i wasn't afraid of nuclear accidents before but now it is in c. it's not under control so this memorial represents the water 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 generations. and it's something. some international using brief now and israel's former president moshe katsav has been sentenced to seven years in jail for sexual offenses he was found guilty of raping a female employee ten years minister of tourism and sexually harassing two other former workers well it's rights groups in israel welcomed the verdict saying that workplace abuse is all too often ignored when a fire swept through egypt's interior ministry as police protested outside demanding higher salaries and better working conditions the demonstrators have been accused of starting the blaze which they deny hundreds of people gathered at the site which close to tahrir square the heart of the recent gyptian and west mass demonstrations that toppled former president hosni mubarak followed by several

labor protests. in ukraine is 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 not is a legacy he says the details now from the 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 to like remind two of us that a very well known opposition journalist the went missing in the year two thousand he was found a month later in one of the forests outside of key of and in this wild chase of an investigation there have been several arrests and several in prison a prison terms for several former security offices even though 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 to the prosecutor general's office whether he could be actually found guilty in masterminding this crime because the only evidence against. him which is in the possession of the authorities his audiotapes leaked by one of the former security offices years ago and on that on those audiotapes and man who is believed to be sounding like the new kuchma is giving out 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. more companies updated twenty four seven for you here sports ahead in twenty minutes and i discover. kontinental hockey league glory with just

a bit but it's business news next from. time to get the latest from the world of business and another piece of the puzzle has been through such interplays sure it was one of putin's visit to slovenia and the prime minister oversaw agreements concerning the construction of the pipeline in the balkan country our correspondent has the details well it's been a rather good week for south stream so far and continued here in atlanta where it deal was signed between russia's company gas plan and slovenia scaled in a joint venture to construct their slovenia segment off the cells dream project now earlier a german company a south joint venture as well acquiring fifty percent stake in the project and planning to invest as much as two million years in it and together with the french

company e.d.f. and italy's any deal has significantly improved the image of the south stream project now south stream is meant to deliver gas to several european countries from russia bypassing ukraine which has previously proved to be an unreliable transit country the project is estimated at about twenty 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. the persistent nation of three major european companies and sole stream plus the unrest in libya and persian gulf could tell produce your of political objections to the project and since even of from the national energy security foundation explains. go out there probably was spread using the bulk of the europeans used to see south stream is just a sort of get together between russia and italy the involvement of e.d.s. which sorry to say memorandum in two thousand and ten means that we'll have european states in the project that will help people see south stream as

a european project that's really important but the e.u. is main objection to south stream was political like because europe was afraid of russia as a supplier i think we have been seen in libya in the persian gulf would bring the europeans there with. the time to have a look at how the markets were performing on tuesday european stocks retreated from their early gains to edge lower on tuesday among the losers was the german retailer metro a.g. down five percent after giving a cautious trading outlook however the insurance and financial stocks were rallying and here in russia stocks then issues this trading low as investors were still taking profits after last week's strong gains or just lost points three percent randomize its share point seven percent. well it's on the quake hit japan being closely watched by investors like richard grasso from the to the capital says equities worldwide are benefiting from

a relief rally the sentiment has improved in japan the actual situation is that it's not really good in the mena region obviously the military activity in libya is not is not a positive development so i think it's a relief rally because the japanese equities and global markets are carrying much lower because their expectations were that strange and japan might get even worse as. that's all i have time for now but you can get more stories on our website archie dot com slash business.

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