difficulties of work from there are say staying on because she's now telling us many foreign journalists shortly to leave the country they're said to be a score to the two newseum border in a convoy find out more than from her dates is all about the latest events at r.t. underscore calm on twitter. now moscow for its part standing firm over the crisis in libya saying the no fly zone over the country should be used only to protect civilians and bring peace president medvedev has discussed the issue with the pentagon chief in the russian capital artie's people all over them as more from moscow now. u.s. defense secretary robert gates has been in moscow meeting with president dmitri medvedev this was a meeting that had been scheduled for some time there's already plenty on the agenda to discuss but the ongoing 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 that the

international intervention that's taking place in the country must to u.n. resolution one nine hundred seventy three that imposed the no fly zone on the country and the action should remain within the parameters of the u.n. resolution is only to protect the civilian population president made yet 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 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 affect the ongoing middle east peace process but the situation in the middle east and north africa has been teased up but has become more difficult we should exchange opinions on how they should to

a shot in the air will affects the peace process in the middle east. also in the region at the moment in north africa is the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov he said this the if the conditions in the situation in libya continue to worsen then there is the risk that we could see if attentional new spark of international terrorism coming from this situation. the crisis in libya has also been the focus of a meeting between the prime ministers of russia and slovenia journalists as bloody a potent to comment on his recent past comparison of the libyan campaign to a crusade the previous reply counted media speculation about differences within the russian leadership over the issue. used really stories for the unity were different so that use on a dance in libya within the russian leadership the president of the russian federation is the only one who defines foreign policy and there can be no divergence here this was the crux of the matter who should be thinking about the

victims the number of whom is growing as a result of the civil war and the bombing of libya in syria torie those who are behind us to educate should think about this and pray that their souls will be pardoned. 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 secretary said that there is a possibility the troops could target. scott 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 the personally he

unequivocally said absolutely not and said that he didn't want to discuss it any further we are seeing in this affair for 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 them 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 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 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 politically. told me the u.k. is no longer capable of conducting military campaign. the arab league's position is has been very strange to say the least if it wasn't for the arab league arguably brazil russia india china and germany could have used the veto but in the face of the arab league being these powers to not use their veto these powers could only but abstain now for the arab league to criticize what i mean the arab league is not you know it's not it's no strangers to foreign invasions of their countries iraq being the most infamous one so the arab league was well aware of what type of

humanitarian fallout there would be i think this is very dangerous territory that the west has stepped into the you know he around the west ragged for decades in the seventy's and eighty's and into the early ninety's gadhafi is that is frankly a third world leader not to be messed with and i think gadhafi is in a very good position and the head of the joint chiefs of chief of staff in the united states had said don't expect a victory over gadhafi expect expect the stalemate now if the american joint chief of staff is saying that well we know that things are looking better than he is saying for for for gadhafi and his regime britain is now a third rate country that can never again conduct such military operations that has done in afghanistan and iraq so what the british and the other western powers have done to libya is a very desperate gamble. india has condemned the invasion of libya by the new coalition saying that not enough time was devoted to

a peaceful resolution. brought us the latest reaction from new delhi. the minister of external affairs did say that he believes that airstrikes would be counterproductive and actually harm innocent civilians coronaries and diplomats and just to let you know you can watch the full report and get statements on the situation in libya from world leaders on our website r.t. dot com there to all the latest developments and in-depth analysis as the news comes in to us r.t. dot com. 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 to mattick video footage tonight and the very latest developments in the country including this video of a u.s. fighter jet that crashed in. american saying it wasn't shot down but we've got the footage though if you take a look at it plus we invite you to join a lively debate on the fresh air live bombing again tonight of libya on our facebook page have your say what you think about it all it's always good to hear your thoughts.

radiation levels in some areas around japan's fukushima nuclear plant to 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 smoke stalled repair work for the city yesterday he go god lives 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 had to be stopped after smoke started billowing out of two of the reactors as soon as the power is reconnected several more steps will have to be taken but eventually the engineers are hoping that 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 dorothy's are saying that some of there 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 instead they're being given bottled water there's also suspicion that some of the marine life around the plant on the coast as being a poisoned as well and up may pose some sort of risk to the fisheries you also had scares over the weekend and afterwards that i would call chilled produce from that area may be contaminated as well now the 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 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 is missing three hundred thousand or more than doubt remain homeless and of course the

number of the confirmed dead is likely to grow over the next few weeks as our correspondent in tokyo ego a garden if i spoke to david lindorff he's an investigative journalist and founding editor of the online newspaper this can be said japan's government isn't telling the full story as he sees it about the ongoing nuclear crisis. every single case where there have been nuclear accidents in japan and in the united states in the soviet union. all the places that have had crises 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 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 major flaw which is that as an international body it basically answers to the government's. hold its purse strings and so it's very politically controlled organisation that the nuclear crisis in japan's of over fears that a new atomic catastrophe could devastate the country the only nation ever to feel the full force of a nuclear weapon japan still remembers the horrors of the event sixty five years on bennett reports next this morning from now. this man has borne the scars of nuclear disaster for most of his life as a resident of nagasaki 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 should know what she's events unfold at fukushima fearing the true nature of the disaster is yet to show itself

so you will find that the result of the contamination won't just end off the event it will be handed down from generation to generation 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 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 so then. 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 jews 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 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 and something happens in our nation will collect donations and we help each other especially the people and i guess i can be 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 atomic bomb was dropped here this one marks that exact moment now the city will forever serve as a reminder of the destructive potential of nuclear power and those here are now praying that focus shima wherever in the same way now go psyche's 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 nothing. people should notice erkki and hiroshima are very sensitive to the incident in fukushima we've never experienced such a devastating nuclear accident before and i think everyone is no 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 extends for generations after bennett's r.t. and if something. would use

a brief 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 you during his tenure as minister of tourism and sexually harassing two other former workers women's rights groups in israel welcomed the verdict saying that workplace abuse is all too often ignored. a fire swept through egypt's interior ministries police protested outside demanding higher salaries and better working conditions the demonstrators have been accused of starting a place that something they deny hundreds of people gathered at the site which is close to tahrir square the heart of the recent gyptian unrest the mass demonstrations that toppled former president hosni mubarak were followed by several labor protests. tensions growing in the yemeni capital sanaa as opposition and pro-government troops are deployed in the city president saleh vowed not to pass power to military commanders who recently defected to the pro-democracy movement the country's leader of thirty two years has promised to leave office by the end of

the year he waited then he who attempt could lead to civil war. i'll be back with a recap of our top news stories in ten minutes right now they discuss the rise of islamophobia in the u.s. with award winning journalist in beirut named one of the world's top one hundred intellectuals by the foreign policy magazine.

your latest book is taming the gods of religion and democracy on three continents so i want to start our discussion by asking you about the role of islam in the modern world how significant is it and do you see a certain level of islamophobia in the united states nowadays there is certainly a level of islamophobia just as the all over the western world it's difficult to talk about the role that because it's not one thing to millions and millions of people it's a faith but inside the world of islam there's also a violent revolutionary movement which is a minority of muslims who take part in it you can sympathize with it but it's there and that causes problems. to the extent that people are worried about violence coming from those groups that worry is justified is that we. know that would be very mistaken dangerous notion are you seeing

a certain level of phobia when it comes to. well yes. people bigoted opinions on it. i think it's one of the last forms of bigotry that is more or less respectable i mean you can't be ninety seven nights and be respectable but you can say that. you can't stand muslims and you can you'll still get invited to dinner from some of the things that have been coming out of the media really seems like that is a sentiment they're trying to fuel i wouldn't blame the mainstream media for that and so. i think what it really is is that because of globalization. because of financial insecurity. fast moving developments in the modern world in which some people feel that they're being left behind and so on there's a lot of anxiety and it's always useful in times of anxiety when people have an enemy to focus on immigrants in general but muslims in particular are singled out

as an object to fear. but i don't think that the mainstream media been. the worst culprits in this who have been the worst in europe some of the populist politicians who have used this. in the united states. on radio cable t.v. and so on who use this issue to stir up. or to exploit resentment or do you think is the real power in the united states who really leads the country at this point is it corporations you know still wall street is it really washington d.c. or is it the tea party is the media its course not one thing and the fact that it's not a dictatorship means that there is no center of power but you corporations for example do you think they have a bit more control than they should in making some i think they probably have more control than they should but that's not to say that corporations run america be too

simple they certainly have a huge influence as does wall street as does the pentagon as does. congress as do various voices in the media i mean they all have an influence some of these groups institutions have perhaps more influence than. and that's because of the enormous role played by money when he talks about china now do you think china is really a threat to the united states why is it seen as a threat by so many people doing to consider red threat to the united states. certainly not a military threat they're competing and they have the comparative advantage of having a huge population that can make things much more cheaply than people kind of the united states i don't think it's a huge threat it's perceived again because the rise of china as a serious power. with economic clout is has been recent and has been very

fast people are fearful for many different reasons and it's it helps them to be able to focus on something in the united states it's usually an external enemy well why is it such so often struggle and it could be part of a lack of knowledge what is one of the i think it's a big well it's partly the history of the u.s. it's sort of refuge from the dangerous outside world one way to make people feel that they have something in common with each other that it creates a kind of cohesiveness of society is of course this idea that here we are in the united states and we will have to defend ourselves against this dangerous world out there i want to ask you about bric bloc that is made up of brazil russia india and china some experts are saying that this block is going to really become a leader in. the world economic arena do you think that's the case or is china way

ahead of everyone else china is certainly bigger than most other places and all these countries have a long way to grow and are very dynamic for that reason because they come from a lower. basis tend to be industrious and ambitious it's only the way that perhaps is less true in. a calm. like your which has been prosperous for an awful long time do you think they could become stronger than the united states and europe in terms of their. combined possibly but what is stronger me in today's economies when. corporations very very often it's they have will have their headquarters in one country but most of the factories in other countries and consumers all over the place and. it's become such an international economy now that it's difficult it's very difficult to talk in terms of national strength the chinese talk and the way it's in one thousand century.

rather german way of looking. thinking about in a column e. . the american system of course is different if you are an american corporation your aim is not to make the united states into a stronger nation state your aim is to make a lot of money and make sure that the shareholders are happy how do you measure power in north korea economically is it a complete backwater it's a little slow out there that nobody would pay any attention to accept for the fact that they have nuclear weapons and that makes it into a power that has to be taken into account.

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