as coalition air strikes that heavy gunfire rocket libya's capital for a fourth night x. words point and a lot of strategy and coordination among the forces. gadhafi continues his reckless policy of intimidation is relentless pursuit of terror he counted on america to be passive. he countered wrong old habits die hard we look at how engaging in foreign military conflicts become a trademark of the west of it. and a new halt in japan's attempts to pull reactors at the quake damaged fukushima

power plant was running i think black smoke prompts the evacuation of workers and firefighters. on the other they get turned down the rest of the middle east and north africa on the quake in japan and russian economy turns more expensive and it's. approaching r t live from moscow where it's seven pm first this hour coalition strikes on libya are showing no signs of easing there's more than three hundred war plane flights reported on the fourth night french aircraft carrier is moving to the region and more fighter jets are arriving in crete that's despite the pentagon chiefs pledge to ease the intensity of the strikes argues paul the slayer is following developments in the capital tripoli. colonel gadhafi spoke on state television on tuesday night in what we're being told is a live address from his compound bab al aziziya now that compound was hit some two

days ago by a lot allied is strike he was incredibly angry and incredibly defiant he called this a crusader war and said that he would not back down that the libyan control would make a mockery of these a strike sipek libya with leading international efforts in the international war against imperialism and this process he also said that this was a blatant aggression by fascists not speaking to people here in the capital city of tripoli what they say it's particularly frightening is that he said that they had not yet used to be for the rights of the libyan military machine now we've been hearing from kurdish leaders that they've managed to practically destroyed here's a 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 hearing

from these coalition leaders that the air strikes have been successful but they simply haven't seemed that the advancement of these soldiers on the ground there is continuous fighting in a number of cities the most prominent cities in the cities of misrata and sometimes in the ways in the city of ajdabiya in the east now particularly in misrata where they were some air strikes very intense of shelling and intensive fighting continues just yesterday tuesday we've been told that thirteen civilians were killed for being with children from the same family we're also being told that the duckies men have taken up positions on the roofs of buildings and there they work from there and smyth is literally 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 shawqi to four doored they were three explosions here in the capital city of tripoli they came from. the wisdom part of the city and it's too too soon to say what exactly was the target but there is a military base there so we are basing that that was probably at least one of the

targets of people here in the capital city are getting incredibly frightened and to this feud is turning people even move in gadhafi spago yesterday i was at it and naval base here in the capital city and it had been struck by six missiles and speaking to naval officers there late because the woods of gadhafi saying that this was an illegitimate move 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 gate is this going to be a war that just continues for months and months and if indeed it is within the anger and the frustration on the ground is just going to intensify. ok back with the very latest from aren't you supposed we're just reporting there from tripoli you can stay with her on our twitter feed and her latest tweet poll it tells us

about the anger and exonerating hanging heavy in the air in the libyan capital that's after the fourth night of airstrikes follow us on twitter and paul was there our work correspondent in libya that are to underscore that hot. well former british intelligence officer and he marched on told our show you the roots of the differences within the coalition why in the longstanding inconsistency of western policy towards the viewer. i think there are a tangle seen as the whole uprising began in libya because they really didn't know which side to back and which way to jump of course there colonel gadhafi 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 to see oil contracts and business contracts flowing out of libya towards places like the u.s. the u.k. france 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 backing secretly for a couple of decades in the east of libya so i think a different names 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 is we're looking at the sort of conflicting reports coming out of the u.k. particularly about the end game where the military chief of defense is saying absolutely not we're not going to get out of the capitaine the instate we're not going to kind of assess the gadhafi 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 certainly for the west the 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 particularly a partition situation between the east and the west of libya then we have a situation where gadhafi still has power now gadhafi is going to feel very betrayed by his ex best allies in the west of course because it's up to him over 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 gadhafi was continuing his repression despite ample warning many might have felt a feeling of deja vu because similar words marked the beginning of the attack on libya by the break into administration twenty five years ago and thirty's christine points out than all incoming american leaders have made a habit of war. it's become an unspoken dens of 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 sixty three million attack on a familiar enemy despite our repeated warnings gadhafi continued his reckless policy of intimidation is relentless pursuit of terror 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 today our armed forces joined our nato allies in airstrikes against serbian forces responsible for the tell of the 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 a weak and limited campaign on my orders coalition forces have begun striking selected 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 un security council passed a strong resolution but the man's and to the violence against its. 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. president 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 wars we had to protect thousands of innocent people in kosovo from a mounting military offensive we are determined to knock out saddam hussein's nuclear bomb potential we will also destroy his chemical weapons facilities self defense 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 r.t. . u.s. congressman dennis kucinich it's time for washington to think of diplomatic methods to ease tensions in the muslim world rather than cultivate conflict. we are in a fourth war here a fourth priest got a compact plus iraq and afghanistan. we do these wars and the united states does not have unlimited power we should be trying to find a way to effect. with the muslim community worldwide which means getting out of afghanistan out of iraq out of. away from the explained current and pakistan doesn't mean ceding to terrorism and work with the world community and 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. history of u.s. involvement in conflicts over the years suggest the future is bleak for colonel gadhafi and matter whether the libyan people bumpus or not that's one opinion voiced and peter novell's to pay child cross talk coming up in around twenty minutes. our mission is to remove gadhafi either dead or alive let's face it that is the deal by then is in the atlas guys if 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 i resolutely and is pretty vague and only because they want to that is their business are you ok whose business is it to get rid of gadhafi sam if i can go to you here gaddafi is that ruthless dictator but it's for the libyan people to overthrow qaddafi just like it's for the egyptian people talk or throw mubarak in 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. to get. the. good news.

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been told to avoid song local produce japan's struggle to resolve its nuclear crisis has again been stalled workers at fukushima evacuated after black smoke emerged from one of its reactors are due to grow to visit 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 radium i never thought ever to get out into the environment to be a very expensive and very difficult cleanup operation this of course all has been a last few days of very steady progress the engineers have to collect all of the reactors to some electricity and factory kristie has been restored in one of the control rooms there saying that if this operation continues successfully destroyed

the recent setback that eventually they'll be able to put the cooling systems back into action and the cooling system. and therefore any immediate risk of contamination will then have been avoided here and take care to dangerous 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 thirty's are saying that the levels of radiation in the water are also rising and. babies and small children have been banned from drinking tap water because the levels are apparently dangerous to take a paddles but at the same time i'm doubting that a lot of people are risking it and in fact if you go to the shops the proper water is still going at a very fast rate so people are not risking drinking water from that that there is a lot of rain which has been falling here over the last few days and it's been dropping if not significant but notice all of the radiation and we've been walking

around the city measuring the radiation levels in some of the streets by five six times that it's supposed to be even though the indicators are normal nevertheless these are asking their citizens to stay calm. well continue to follow japan's nuclear crisis and it's a fact online with us a gravel road tweeting from tokyo and he says people are sweeping mineral water off the shelves that's after the government's contamination alert for all the updates on to tampa plus much more to our twitter feed that's r t one. one woman has been killed and dozens of people injured in a possible last which has rocked central jerusalem violence comes amid escalating tensions in the region saad name or lecturer of political science at that university says the bombing could have been a provocation it's very hard to determine. that

a stimulus or not it's better to get. say it's not but it's the i we don't want to grow again with the same area i like what happened with the israeli settlement when it wasn't killing a family and then these really start the. collective punishments against the palestinians unleashing is a very simple i was against the greatest thing and so i think it's the early to determine which of the palestinians have got it or not and we have noticed that in the last month or so. and again over there was right. it's a marker of threat to provoke the palestinian reaction. it's seventeen minutes past the hour of us took a look at some other stories dominating world news 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 stardom with eight marriages to seven husbands she embodied the grammars lifestyle and later she devoted much of her time to charity driving for greater awareness of aids and also establishing a number of foundations. in other news yemen's parliament has approved the president's allays request to impose emergency law in the country it comes despite massive protests against the move with opposition saying it condones the massacre of civilians and urgency while bounce 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. some amazing video here twenty three people though including a russian crew of four have been killed in those plane crash in the republic of

congo dramatic footage shows how the plane crashed as you can see it was a residential area in the town of. destroying several houses and also starting a fire clouds of smoke are still billowing out from this site authorities say a committee will be established to investigate that. now belgium is setting a political record as it's been in deadlock over forming a new government for almost a year now if you're communities from the northern flanders and southern elodea have been locked in a stalemate since parliamentary elections last summer many experts foresee a split ahead if a compromise isn't reached and artie's then you bushell reports they say the session is wave my sweet not just belgium but the e.u. as well. the french parents in florida's own tobie both cultures so was build them breaks up he fears for his children's future it will be

much more difficult than no because all this new zealand should be splits all these . northern flemings and some of them clash on the streets. fed up with subsidizing its pull southern neighbor the north wants away but where loons big to disagree leaving the country paralyzed without a government for nine months now a world record schools already teach well uhm children on the ground floor flemish kids up stairs effect so sigrid nation it will not and. those which will not and from flanders and. great britain like spain like france will follow a growing ethnic divides of fueling separatist movements across the e.u. from the shaky cease fire off the terrorist attacks in spain to infringe corsica divorces amicable in just one states and britain. at least if you

believe the editorials it would be acceptable that scotland if there is a majority of the referendum splits of a less harmonious kind could mean trouble ahead here comes. the southern part of the country and help to conflate away you're stuck with our core 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 ethnic tensions across the e.u. reach 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 citizens the writing on the wall valuable for one party brussels. garcetti french speaking communities in belgium coexistence two separate entities that's the opinion of

danny peters president of the belgian senate will bring you his full interview next hour but here's a preview. you have two countries already you have two public opinions i always suggest foreign people who are interested you know the standing of belgium politics simply to look at very clean things such as the pages in the newspapers but with the t.v. program something where you look at the finish newspaper you would see a very very local. programs in the french speaking newspaper suppose you don't even find it flemish problems because politics have decided so there's because we really live in. substantially different worlds. the business news is up next year in our t.v. after this short break.

this is a business saw see how learned a very warm welcome to the program the political and environmental shows that have assailed the world in the first quarter of twenty eleven have brought have been good for russian equities the rest of 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 reconstruction and you can even have caution from charles lyon last fall says the fact of the shocks isn't likely to last long but the fundamentals are improving anyway. taking into account current situation i don't even mean japan and takes all the west thinking about japan libya and other stuff i would see these effects on oil and stuff most this could lead to point at

least medium term but they conduct around increasing wealth of developing nations to grow revolt economists special emerging markets where like the effects of the sort of ruby increasing in price and that's exactly what the russian fundamental no support russian economy in terms of inflow of my you financial position in terms of potential development if we manage to use it properly so that's exactly the questions there. russian consumer prices jumped as zero point eight percent in february much lower than in january but some twice the rate of european average wheat prices rose the most with buckwheat and that is not far behind their finance minister alex a good record for extreme measures to curb inflation driven by last summer's drought and high crude prices. inflation has been a relative problem since for the third quarter of last year it's not a specific russia problem and you've got nine point four percent i think your are your c.p.i. for february the producer place that will it's more than twenty but this is really broadly an emerging markets which is now spilling over and translating into

inflationary pressures in the rest of world in developed markets too. let's take a look at how the markets are performing this hour u.s. stocks are lower at the open of reports new home sales fell to a record low in february adobe systems are down five percent after a profit i learned an expected profit for cars blaming the crisis in japan for about a segue european stocks are mixed as war is about problems in portugal and ireland retainers are among the biggest and that was it. was rather with things were down more that fight the sons of the disappointing results in a while come a being double views on the rise after a broken upgrade. russia the markets are trading in the blind the sour he also has his trading marching me in the black well to my sense is up by more than one and a half percent. and let's take a look at some individual shy moves among the blue chips no real skinny kill he's gaining one percent as investors wait for further details of its long term strategy

in the energy sector into round is up two percent and news is quite nice eighty percent of the power generating company o.j. case three exams are also on the rise investors are rushing to buy into reaching operators ahead of their merger with prosthetic home and rustic home is currently trading flat on my six. produce that chain k.b.p.s. . as its profit reached six point five to four billion dollars in twenty turn and its credit a smaller than expected income tax code for the twenty four percent improvement on last year's the foreman's chain k.b.p.s. a joint venture between a group of russian businessmen and the british oil giant. to more russian companies have announced plans to list on the london stock exchange one of the country's largest real estate developers its own group is expecting to raise around five hundred million dollars from the flotation the company is that it intends to use funston acquire land plots and to replenish working capital. and

russia's second largest privately owned by an enormous announced its intention to raise seven hundred million dollars that the offering will consist of one hundred ninety five million dollars worth of primary shares as well as existing shares for the minority shareholder. that sold the business news for now much more to come next hour and you can always find all our latest updates at r.t. dot com slash business.

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