as coalition airstrikes and heavy gunfire rock libya's capital for a fourth night experts point out a lack of strategy and coordination among nato forces that. gadhafi continued his reckless policy of intimidation is relentless pursuit to be counted on america to be. counted wrong old habits die hard we look at how engaging in foreign military conflicts have been caught trying to arbitrate. and a new halt in japan's attacks to cool reactors at the quake damaged fukushima

nuclear power plant as rising black smoke prompted the evacuation of workers and. also. on will have a leg and the unrest in over north africa and the middle east plus chaos clicking to qana from the russian economy join me in about twenty minutes time. it's five pm in moscow you're watching our team with me and you snow way first this hour coalition strikes on libya are showing no signs of easing with more than three hundred war plane flights reported on the fourth night a french aircraft carrier is moving to the region and more fighter jets are arriving in crete despite the pentagon chief's pledge to ease the intensity of the strikes are cheese balls leaders following developments in the capital tripoli.

colonel gadhafi spoke on state television on tuesday night in what we're being told is and live address from his compound bab al aziziya now that compound was hit some two days ago by iraq allied is striking he was incredibly angry and incredibly defiant people called this a crusader war and said that he would not back down that the libyan control would make a mockery of these airstrikes he said that libya was leading international efforts in the international war against imperialism and this past he also said that this was blatant aggression by fascists not speaking to people here in the capital city of tripoli what they say is the ticket before i think is that he stated that they had not yet used the full rights of the libyan military machine now we've been hearing from kurdish leaders that they've managed to practically destroyed his eighth post this was denied by the libyan leader he hasn't spoken in public for several days now and they were questions being asked as to where exactly he is but

we understand that he has a number of underground bunkers and no doubt he is hiding in one of them we're hearing from these kurdish leaders that there is trying to have been successful but they simply haven't stemmed back the advancement of gadhafi is soldiers on the ground there is continuous fighting in a number of cities the most prominent cities being the cities of misrata and then turned in the ways in the city of ajdabiya in the east now particularly in misrata where they will some is strike very intensive shelling and intensive fighting continues just yesterday tuesday we've been told that thirteen civilians were killed four of them were children from the same family we're also being told that the duckies men have taken up positions on the roofs of buildings and that they were working there as mine was between shooting at anything that moves on the ground the local hospital has run out of medical supplies and is in fact turning people back early this morning wednesday shortly before bored they were three explosions here in the capital city of tripoli they came. in the eastern part of

the city and it's too soon to say what exactly was the target but there is a military base there so the odd case think that that was probably at least one of the targets people here in the capital city are getting incredibly frightened and of this is turning people even move in gadhafi spago yesterday i visited a naval base here in the capital city and it had been struck by six missiles and speaking to naval officers if they could the words of gadhafi saying that this was an illegitimate war and that they would continue to fight back against what they are calling a gray says these strikes besides making people very angry are also opening the floodgates in terms of the questions of who we will this operation in what is he in strategy what is the exit date is this going to be a war that just continues for months and months and if indeed it is will be in the anger and the frustration on the ground is just going to intensify. argues poll

we're reporting there from the tripoli where you can keep up with the very latest from paula on our twitter we are to underscore home in our latest poll was says she feels she governed feel rather safe and that there is lots of anxiety hane heavy in the year of the libyan capital after a fortnight of airstrikes follow up again like i said on twitter for the latest from our war correspondent paula we're in pretty. well former british intelligence officer and you march on told our to the roots of the differences within the coalition why in the long standing inconsistency of western policy towards would be i think there are a tangle since the whole uprising began in libya because they really didn't know which side to back in which way to jump and of course there are those are if you've been a historic enemy of the west for many many decades and suddenly he's been brought back into the international fold and there were lots of nice juicy oil contracts and business contracts churning out and of libya tools places like the us the you

came from. and italy so i think they're very torn for a long time and it's only really over the last weekend that they did a bit of a rush job to take the violence to the next stage and protect the rebels that they had been battling secretly for a couple of decades in the east of libya so i think a different aims from different countries different vested interests within libya of the different countries and also different histories are all playing a part in this in this model and it is interesting as we're looking at the sort of conflicting reports coming after you cater to killie about the end game where the military chief of defense is saying absolutely not we're not going to protect it happen tate even state or not it's trying to assess they could elphick and yet the government is trying to sort of hedge its bets on that front i think the temptation is going to get stronger and stronger if the west u.k. and france to try and get rid of gadhafi in an accident a bomb that goes off in the wrong place or something because of course they've made such a problem for themselves now even if they end up with a stalemate a war of attrition and peculiar partition situation between east and west of libya then we have a situation where gadhafi still has power now gadhafi is in feel very betrayed by

his ex best allies in the west of course because it's up to him of the last decade and gadhafi has experience and a track record and also his stated intentions of carrying out terrorist attacks in the future if he stays in power so i think the west really is in a position where it has to go for the end game of getting rid of gadhafi for regime change but of course that is highly illegal under all sorts of international laws and is specifically excluded from the u.n. resolution. well when president obama said colonel attack he was continuing his crash despite ample warning many may have had a feeling of deja vu some of the words market beginning of the attack on libya by the break an administration twenty five years ago was artie's christine. since then all incoming american leaders have made a habit of waging war. it's become an unspoken identified to the job description. become president of the united states.

declare war my fellow americans my fellow citizens for president ronald reagan in one thousand nine hundred eighty six a familiar attack on a familiar enemy despite our repeated warnings khadafi continued his reckless policy of intimidation is relentless pursuit of character he counted on america to be passive he counted wrong turns out so did saddam hussein just two hours ago allied air forces began an attack on military targets in iraq in kuwait for his successor president clinton the target was slobodan milosevic to go our armed forces joined our nato allies in airstrikes against serbian forces responsible for the brutality in kosovo president george w. bush said it was weapons of mass destruction that threaten the world and invaded iraq in what was supposed to be quick and limited campaign on my orders coalition

forces and began striking selective targets of military importance undermine saddam hussein's ability to wage war most thought it would end there with president obama running on an anti-war platform he has spent most of his presidency trying to end the wars started by his predecessor until now the u.n. security council passed a strong resolution but demands an end to the violence against us. it authorize the use of force in the timeline of recent history there have been some glaring similarities when it comes to the use of force by u.s. presidents none have been in response to a military attack or even threat of an attack on u.s. soil and none have ever been formally declared war we had to protect thousands of innocent people in kosovo from a melting military offensive we are determined to knock out set of hussein's nuclear bomb potential we will also destroy its chemical weapons facilities so this is not only our right it is our duty the definition of duty often changing the

results eerily parallel thank you god bless you. god. thank you very much christine. u.s. congressman dennis kucinich says it's time for washington to think of diplomatic methods to ease tensions in the middle in the muslim world rather than cultivate more conflicts there. we are in a fourth war here fourth from pakistan plus iraq and afghanistan. going to these wars and the united states does not have unlimited power we should be trying to find a way to effect more with the muslim community worldwide which means getting out of afghanistan out of iraq out of. away from the explosion currents in pakistan that doesn't mean ceding to terrorism it means you work with the world community this is

a massive intervention already in the name of a no fly zone which isn't like telling people you just can't park in this space it's really a massive attack on the defense structure of a nation we're in a war. a history of u.s. involvement in the complex of the years suggests the future is bleak for colonel gadhafi a matter whether the libyan people don't buy it or not that's one opinion point and peter viles to pay child cross talk that's coming your way. our mission is to remove gadhafi either dead or alive let's face it that is with anybody that is going to have his guys in the u.n. resolution though see this is what i'm getting it's not the u.n. wrote yeah but the u.n. rebel resolution is pretty vague and anybody's order that is if they will use this are you ok whose business is it to get rid of gadhafi sammy if i can go to you here gaddafi is that ruthless dictator but that's for the libyan people to overthrow qaddafi just like it's for the gyptian people to overthrow mubarak it look and

nobody has a crystal ball but one thing is for sure and that is khadafi must go he must go and we've already made that decision with our allies and now we've got to see it through we've made a mistake in in gulf war one one we freed kuwait we should have removed that dictator at that time it was our mistake shame on us we didn't do it so we had to wait a number of years to get the job done the second time. the. your social anti allocation your colleagues on called talk from the substance.

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following the accident at japan's fukushima nuclear plant people in the capital have been told not to drink tap water the country's struggle to resolve its nuclear crisis has again been stalled with workers out the fukushima plant evacuated after black smoke emerge from one of its reactors. is in the japanese capital. another setback for the shut down operation at fukushima workers had to be withdrawn once smoke began billowing from one of the reactors for fear of contamination now this time it's reactor number three perhaps the most dangerous of the lot because it operates on plutonium plutonium has a much longer half life than you raney and i never ever to get out into the environment would be a very expensive and very difficult cleanup operation there's of course more orders being my last few days of very steady progress the engineers have managed to connect up all of the reactors to some electricity in fact that of christie has

been restored in one of the control rooms they're saying that if this operation continues successfully despite the recent setback that eventually they'll be able to put the cooling systems back into action and the cooling systems then clean the rods and therefore any immediate risk of contamination will then have been avoided here in tokyo the dangers of radiation are coming from different directions first it was the vegetables and the fruit which are produced in the area near focus shima which are becoming contaminated now the authorities are saying that the levels of radiation in the water are also rising and now babies and small children have been banned from drinking tap water because the levels are apparently the interest to them are you take a for adults but at the same time i'm doubting that a lot of people are risky and and in fact if you go to the shops the bottled water is still going at a very fast rate so people are not risking drinking water from the tap there is

a lot of rain which has been falling here over the last few days and it's been dropping it's not significant but noticeable there was a radiation and we've been walking around the city measuring the radiation levels in some of the streets by five six times and it's supposed to be even though the indicators are normal nevertheless the authorities are asking their citizens to stay calm. but you can always catch up with the latest news on japan's nuclear crisis on our twitter feed. we just heard from there in the japanese count but also is tweeting for us constantly his latest tweet saying that mineral water is being trapped off the shallow after the government's contamination overt all the updates and much more log on to twitter and of search for r t underscore com. let's take a look at some other headlines from around the world this hour central jerusalem been hit by a bus explosion which has killed at least three people injured dozens the city's

first bombing in a public place in several years comes amid escalating tension between gaza and israel a mass the islamic militant group in control of gaza has launched over sixty shells at israel since last week while israel carried out several tele to work attacks. legendary american actress elizabeth taylor has passed away at the age of seventy nine starting out as a child star her beauty and talent quickly made her one of the great actresses of hollywood's golden age her personal life also added to her start over with eight marriages to seven cars you didn't see embodied the grammar of lifestyle later she devoted much of her time to charity driving for greater awareness of aids and establishing a number of foundations. yemen's parliament has approved presidents and those requests to impose emergency law in the country because despite massive

protests against the move with opposition saying it condones the massacre of civilians emergency law bans protests suspends the constitution and allows security forces to exercise greater powers it's seen as a desperate attempt by the president to preserve his power amid crumbling support and mounting public anger. twenty three people including a russian crew of four have been killed in a plane crash in the republic of congo this dramatic footage which you can see shows how the plane crashed and the aftermath it crashed into a residential area in the town of. destroying several houses and starting a fire clouds of smoke are still billowing out from the site thirty say a committee will be established investigate the accident. in other news belgium is a political record as it's been invented lock over forming

a new government for almost a year to communities from northern flanders and southern wallonia have been locked in a stalemate since parliamentary elections last summer many experts foresee a split ahead if a compromise isn't reached daniel bushell reports they say this is such an as wave might suite not just belgium but the e.u. as well. the french parents in florida all those cultures so was building breaks up he fears for his children's future it will be much more difficult than no because all those new zealand should always be the. northern flemings and saw the. clash on the streets. fed up with subsidizing its poor southern neighbor the north wants a way but were big to disagree leaving the country paralyzed without

a government for nine months now a world record schools already teach while children on the ground floor flemish kids up stairs defect. and influence in. like spain like france will follow growing ethnic divides are fueling separatist movements across the e.u. from the shaky cease fire after terrorist attacks in past spain to bombings in french corsica divorces amicable in just one states and britain. at least if you believe that it. would be acceptable that. if there is a majority of a referendum splits of a less harmonious kind could mean trouble ahead here comes. the southern part of the country and hopeless conflict away you're stuck with

a poorer neighbor the e.u. seems unable to stop the rising inequalities between its people in the twenty first century some see a new states forming in europe as basic tensions across the boiling point separatists see lloyds at the end of the tunnel that threatens the very concept of the european union as for growing numbers of its. isn't a royalty on the wall. or to brussels. and french speaking communities in belgium co-exist as two separate entities at the opinion of danny peters president of the belgian sun it will bring you his full interview next hour but here's a preview. of it rolled forward quite different results in the two democracies we have been in order parts of the center of the party since right now the national flemish alliance the elections in the south of the country. the french speaking

socialist or party he won the elections and that brings you to the difficulties of to be really live in. substantially different worlds you have two countries already . business is next with you here in r t after a very short break stay with us. this is business saucy hello and welcome to the program big political and environmental shows that sales the world in this last quarter of twenty eleven have brought have

been good. in the middle east and north africa has caused oil prices jump more recently the quake in japan has raised the prospect of increased demand for commodities for construction and again even abortion from drones flying less south says the effect of the shots is unlikely to last of the fundamentals are improving in a way. taking into account current situation i don't even need japan infects other was thinking about japan the b. and other stuff i would see these effects on oil and stuff most this could lead to a point at least medium term as it was structured did not i don't really expect great recovery rate of growth in japan because of the need for construction because most thing for structure most of the manufacturing industries which operate now we will nearly perfectly with the current standards i think that count increasing wealth of developing nations to go real world economy especially in larger markets it's very likely that nature of this sort of be increasing in price and that's exactly what the russian fundamental know to support russian economy in terms of in full of my financial position in terms of potential development if we manage to use

it properly so that's exactly the question. russian consumer prices jumped zero point eight percent in february much less than in january but still twice the rate of the european average week prices rose the most with buckwheat and eggs not far behind finance minister alex a good recall for extreme measures to curb inflation driven by last summer's drought and my crude prices. and let's take a look at how the markets are performing you have stocks i'll go at the open only reports new home sales that will to record low and probably the dog systems is down five percent after a top of alert an escrow expected profit forecast and blaming the crisis in japan for lower sales european stocks see sawing between giants and gains and losses as worries about a dreadful bins in portugal and ireland remarriages retailers are among the biggest losers was things break down water on the sunday after disappointing results in a while can make a b.m.w.

is on the rise after a program of great. here in russia the markets are trading in the black this hour the r.c.s. is trading marginally in the black while the modest exams by more than a percent. let's take a look at some individual shy moves among the blue troops no risk neocon italy is gaining over one percent of the best disappoint for further details on its long term strategy in the end i just said to instagram i was up almost in the whole of the sense of news it's acquired need eighty percent of the power generating company o.g. case three telecoms are also on the rise investors are rushing to buy into the regional operations head of the merger with ross telecom and also the commerce currently trading flask on the my six. third largest oil producer at ten k. b.p. says its profit reached six point six billion dollars in twenty terms and its credit a smaller than expected income tax but over the twenty four percent in tournaments or last year's performance is a joint venture between

a group of russian business that and the british or giant. two more russian companies have in our plans to list on the london stock exchange one of the country's largest real estate developers at a long group is expected to raise around five hundred million dollars from the flotation the company says it intends to use fahnestock wireline applause and to replenish working capital. russia's second largest privately owned by an enormous announced its intention to raise seven hundred million dollars the offering will consist of one hundred ninety five million dollars worth of from very shares as well as its existing rather shares from a minority shareholder. russia's atomic energy agency ross artemis cutting its auto for australian uranium mine at montreaux by twelve percent the agency explained the problems at japan's fukushima nuclear plant are likely to affect mantras business move did not come as a surprise to mantra and its vice shareholders talks of the revised offer. it's

going to busy week for that south stream gas pipeline project deals have been struck with german industrial major b.s. at the elephants levine a confirming the involvement of putin is now in serbia for talks seven officials already say the country plans to receive around one hundred million euros a year in transit fees once the pipeline is opened south stream will also provide a billion cubic meters of gas for service internal consumption and bring around one point five billion dollars investment to the country. and that's all the business news for now that's more to come next hour and you can always find all our latest updates at our business.

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fact there are more pharmaceutical industry lobbyists in washington d.c. and members of congress. to. wealthy british style sign. on to the suppliers on. the. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening. into the global economy with max concert for a no holds barred look about lobel financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on r t. v is the key to. the.