tonight as coalition air strikes and heavy gunfire brought libya's capital for a fourth night experts point of a lack of strategy and coordination among the allied forces. khadafi continued his reckless callously of intimidation is relentless pursuit has to be counted on america to be passive. be counted wrong old habits die hard we look at how the gauging and foreign military conflict has become a trademark trait of u.s. president. and the new holes in japan's attempts to cool the reactors of the quake damaged fukushima power plant that's rising black smoke the evacuation of workers

and fire five. pm wednesday night here in moscow you're watching the r.t. news channel with kevin zero in very warm welcome the top story coalition strikes on libya is showing no signs of easing with more than three hundred war plane flights reportedly on the fourth night a french aircraft carrier is now moving to the region two more fighter jets are arriving in crete despite the pentagon she's pledged to ease the intensity of the strikes policy is following developments in the capital tripoli. colonel gadhafi spoke on state television on tuesday night in what we're being told is and i've addressed some of 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

he called this a crusader war and say that he would not back down that the libyan control would make a mockery of these air strikes he said that 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 now speaking to people here in the capital city of tripoli what they say it's particularly frightening is that he said that they have not 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 if course 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 kurdish leaders that there is strikes have been successful but they simply haven't stemmed back the advancement of gadhafi soldiers on the ground there is

continuous fighting in a number of cities the most prominent cities in the cities of misrata and then town in the west in the city of ajdabiya in the east now particularly in misrata where they were some is strike very intensive shelling and intensive fighting continues just yesterday tuesday we've been told that thirteen civilians were killed four have been 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 that they work from there as mine was 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 shortly before boarding they were three explosions here in the capital city of tripoli they came. in the eastern part of the city and it's too she seemed to say what exactly was the target that there is a military base there so we are case think that that was probably at least one of the target people here in the capital city are getting incredibly frightened and to

this is turning people even move in gadhafi spago yesterday i visited and naval base here in the capital city and it had been struck by six missiles and speaking to naval officers there it 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 and 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. for the very latest from all of these paulus lee who you just saw there you can go to our twitter feed and the latest poll is there's anger and anxiety and heavy in the air of tripoli on the fourth might of airstrikes you couldn't follow us on twitter at all to underscore kong to get the latest insights from our war correspondent.

protecting civilians in libya is important but it shouldn't be done at the expense of human life such as the opinion of prime minister vladimir putin. there's a civil war going on in libya the proposal of a no fly zone was aimed at preventing gadhafi from firing into his opponents and so as protecting civilians such a decision applying to sovereign state is a difficult one again is well intentioned and what are we seeing now strikes on the whole charity of the country and how can it be that while aiming to protect civilians such means actually isn't this civilian death toll actually rises. well for more on the struggle in libya and the implications let's talk now to lindsey german from the start the revolution in love with a very good even back at the beginning of march will recall that we robert gates was visiting a stand in his conversation with general petraeus that was actually caught on record much of their embarrassment you recall that i'm sure that the public in

chief was jokingly asked if they were planning strikes on libya so it was yeah exactly you know but then it was perceived as a joke judging by what we're witnessing right now kind of prove that old expression really a true word spoken in jest here. well it certainly does and i think that lots of people who may have been taken in by this idea of the no fly zone being a relatively cost free why of. britain and france and the united states intervening in libya and now i think in many cases having second thoughts i can't remember a great issue military intervention which is so quickly become. contested become unpopular what we're seeing here is that. is that whole number of people a number of opinion polls are showing that there's a growing opposition to this because people are asking a number of questions if it is simply no fly zone to protect civilians. for nice

and. missiles are being used and the obviously civilians are in fact we don't know exactly how many have been killed but we know that they're in threat of being killed and wounded and what exactly is the purpose of this and i think they'd look more and more skeptical about it you know it's not a mixed messages from the top brass and top officials especially in the u.k. have been willing consistently over the matter of change i want to see regime change in libya to spread the question they actually know what they're doing. well that they obviously do want regime change well obviously they know that this is beyond the remit of the u.n. resolution that they got passed which even when it was passed as you know had a number of. major countries abstaining including including germany which is part of the you obviously russia china india and brazil so it's it's absolutely

clear the british prime minister the french president would like to get rid of collaborated of course it does i've not many many difficult questions they don't really know what they're doing there they've had real problems within nato because nato up till yesterday wasn't able to agree about the role that it. it should play either is clearly very great this grant in the in the arab league which obviously didn't think that the no fly zone which you agreed to last week will end up with this amount of fighting and in britain itself the clearly are divisions novoa in the parliament there was a very big vote i think shamefully large vote to support the intervention in libya actually even within the original debate there were many many. including on the government side who were expressing great concern about it and worried that this will spiral out of control that nobody knows where it's going to end what will

happen if gadhafi is just simply frightened off which seems to be the original plan that he would just be frightened by. missiles and if that doesn't happen and there's absolutely no sign that there is happening what then is the strategy and i suppose the real question many people are asking it is what are we doing intervening in the third the rayna in in the middle east in asia or in less than a decade when the previous two wars have been so on successful war despite the us defense secretary paige that intensity of strikes will decrease you touched on this just noticing more and more forces coming to the region are we therefore in for a long war no point saying we should have done it it looks like it's already happening. well i do think there's still a point in saying that we shouldn't have done it and i'm going shortly to go down to downing street to make that point along with other protesters tonight i think

the danger is that the afghan war has solved absolutely nothing and is. in all sorts of problems and distinctly and popular here the wrong. generally considered to have been a disastrous intervention which far from advancing western interests and back in the middle east and now we have a third arena of war in africa or in north africa led by the previous colonial powers and this is something more and more people i think as they start and see that actually isn't going to do what he claimed to do which is to protect civilians in libya who become more and more disenchanted with what does the us knows our allies keep getting involved in disputes and wars like this. well this is the problem that the u.s. has is that it is a declining power in the world it is still the major power really is a declining power it faces

a number of rivals it more and more has to intervene militarily in order to protect its interests but it is clear from this intervention that not just a bar not a whole number of people at the top of the of the u.s. government the military are very very concerned about getting dragged into this they can see where this may become and of course people are also asking about those are all standards that there are many people being killed in power a euro people being killed across the region the idea that the saudi regime one of the most undemocratic regimes in the world should be somehow fighting on the side of democracy in libya when it does absolutely nothing to help its own people is a question that. many many people will say what on earth are the priorities of the west and you have to say the priorities of the west again and again have been found wanting they're not about genuine democracy they're about protecting the interests of the west and protecting resources like oil and gas which the west wants to get

its hands on and lindsay briefly if you can are we any clearer tonight do you think about where this intervention is going to lead. it doesn't seem to me that is clear and told her i think that is the british and french are getting more and more in brought in this without any clear idea of what they're doing and if this becomes another unpopular war and indeed another very costly war on a day when we've been told in our budget here in parliament that there is no money for all sorts of welfare people move then this will become a very unpopular war very very quickly in the german from the store or coalition in london thanks to you on our show tonight. thank. when president obama said colonel gadhafi was continuing his repression despite ample warning many may have a feeling of deja vu because similar words the beginning of the attack on libya by the reagan administration twenty five years ago but is out these christian for points out next since that all incoming american leaders have made

a habit of waging war. it's become an unspoken a dent into 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 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 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 a quick and living it campaign on our borders 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 u.n. security council passed a strong resolution but demands an end to the violence against its. 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 melting military offensive we are determined to knock out set of 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. congresswoman that is considered says it's time for washington to think of diplomatic methods to ease tensions in the muslim world rather than cultivate war conflicts that we are in a fourth war here a fourth front compact plus a record to understand. we do 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 a space it's really a massive attack on the defense structure of a nation we're in a war. and there is more insight into the situation in libya coming up at eight thirty pm g.m.t. and people evolves show which offers a variety of opinions and intends to break through. we're seeing a complete meltdown of authoritarian rule in north africa and in the middle east what does the united states their allies do sit back and let it occur when people are rising up and asking for help and atrocities are being made against people by their own governments this is essentially dressed up as a humanitarian mission and the days and weeks to come will show that the libyan people will pay a very heavy price not only for kept out of these crimes and the ruthlessness but

also for this western intervention without these airstrikes then you can see right now who would be the people think as you right now would be mass you could go to benghazi now. i'm sort of the point where it's already there you know listen this is how much how is the sort of the easier to. pick out. i'm saying here is the signal. much more that in three hours time next the contamination fears are growing in japan where high levels of radiation of reach tokyo in the region around the stricken fukushima nuclear plant meantime residents have been told to avoid some local produce japan's struggle to resolve its nuclear crisis again but still today its workers it's a shame are evacuated off the black smoke emerge from one of its reactors at the sago good old lives in the japanese capital for us. another setback for the shut down operation i think regime workers have 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 i never thought ever to get out into the environment to be a very expensive and very difficult cleanup operation because of course more orders being a last few days of very steady progress the engineers have now managed to connect up all of the reactors to some electricity in fact electricity 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. 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 the sheema 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 fairly dangerous to them. 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 problem 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 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 that it's supposed to be even though the indicators are normal nevertheless the authorities are asking their citizens to stay calm. and you can follow japan's nuclear crisis and its effects online r.t.c. go go rob me of tweeting from tokyo for us he says rolling blackouts have stopped

but shops and restaurants are still shutting the switch off lights early solidarity for it all for the updates on your family first much more log on to our twitter feed that's past three hundred schools. and focusing on some of the top stories from around the world palestinian authorities are condemned deadly bus which is hit central jerusalem killing dozens the city's first bombing in a public place and several news comes amid escalating tensions between israel hamas the islam is political party in control of gaza has launched over sixteen shells of israel since last week while israel carried out travel time treats its. leisure american actress elizabeth taylor has passed away at the age of seventy nine starting out as a child star her beauty and talent we could neither one of the great actresses of hollywood's golden age their personal life falls right into her stardom with eight managers to seven husbands importing glamorous lifestyle later she devoted much of

it time to charity driving for greater awareness of aids and establishing a memory foundation. forty three people including a russian crew of four being killed in a plane crash republic of congo this dramatic footage shows how the plane crashed into a residential area in the town of course the story destroying several houses and starting a fire authorities say a committee will be established to investigate the incident. belgium is setting a political record is it spinning deadlock over forming a new government for most a year now the two communities from northern flanders and southern bologna have been locked in a stalemate since parliamentary elections last summer many experts foresee a split ahead so if a compromise isn't reached i desire to push the reports next they say the session is wave might not just belgium but the e.u. is world. the fridge parents in florida all of those both

cultures so was breaks up he fears for his children's future it will be much more difficult than no because all this new zealand should this please all these big picture. northern flemings and solve them clash on the streets. fed up with subsidizing its poor southern neighbor the north wants away but we're big to disagree leaving the country paralyzed without a government for nine months now and world record schools already teach well children on the ground floor flemish kids up stairs defect. and move in with him and the need. for spain like france they will follow growing ethnic divides are fueling separatist movements across the e.u. from the shaky cease fire of the terrorist attacks in spain to bombings in french

corsica divorce is amicable in just one states and britain. at least if you believe the editorials it would be acceptable that. 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 hopeless conflict away you're stuck with a poor neighbor the e.u. seems unable to stop the rising inequalities between its people in the twenty first century some say take a new states forming in europe as best make 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 city. isn't the royalty on the wall the new political party brussels. but that shouldn't french

speaking communities in belgium co-exist as two separate entities that's the opinion of danny peters he's president of the belgian senate. you have two countries already you have two public opinions i always suggest foreign people who are interested in understanding a bit of both of politics simply to look at very clean things such as the pages in the newspapers with the t.v. programs on where you look at a flemish newspaper you would see a very. belgian programs in the french speaking newspapers suppose you don't even find the flemish problems it's not because politics have decided so it's because we really live in two substantially different worlds. just the one who will bring you full interview in less than ten minutes of swenson i've sportier an hour to just after the others world tonight putin's got the latest

ahead of russians first competitive football game of the year but let's look at the business next. thank you kevin this is business r.c. hello and welcome to the program the political and environmental sharks that have sailed the world and of france of course of twenty eleven have broader been good for russian equities then referendum middle east and north africa has caused oil prices to junk more recently the quake in japan has raised the prospect of increased demand for commodities for reconstruction and you get me to negotiate from a german flanger south says the fact of the shocks is unlikely to last long but the fundamentals are improving anyway. taking into account the current situation i don't even mean japan and states although we're speaking about japan the b. and other stuff i would see these effects on oil and stuff most this could lead to for an atheist medium term but they can talk. of developing nations to grow the world economy especially emerging markets who like me but they trigger sort of moving increasing the price and that's exactly what the russian fundamental know

this will support russian economy in terms of in full of my financial position in terms of potential development and we manage to use it properly so that's exactly the question. russian consumer prices jumped zero point eight percent in february not have been in january but so twice the rate of the european average we prices rose the most with buckwheat and eggs not far behind early a final thought is that if they could recall for extreme measures to curb inflation driven by last summer's drought and high create prices. inflation has been a melting 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 or your c.p.i. for said we were the producer price so i would smaller than twenty but this is really broadly an emerging market seem which is now spilling over and translating into inflationary pressures in the rest of world in developed markets too. and let's take a look at how the markets informing us stocks are trading for want to positive out

and done thing into negative territory on reports new arms sales fell to record during february there because this is now five percent off stage off it and lower than expected profit for cars blaming the crisis in japan for a lot of the sales european stocks are mixed as more is about that problems in portugal and ireland are a match makers are among the biggest losers it seems very down more than five percent i'm just pointing results that while company called the n.w. is on the rise after a broken operate. on here in russia the markets punished the trading session to blunt the all c.s. is up by one percent while the minus six gained over one hundred hospice act. let's take a look at some individual shimer among the blue chips norilsk nickel gained two percent after the company's former chairman and influential power broker got examined devotion was elected to the company's board in the energy sector in toronto grew almost three percent and needs to get acquired maybe eighty percent of the power generating company owned u.k.

three telecoms are also on the vest as well rushing to buy into regional operators ahead of that merger with the record as well still a home finished by zero point two percent of the mine six. russia's largest oil producer a chance a.d.p. says its profit reached six point five billion dollars it twenty times and its credit a small but that expected income tax go for the twenty five percent permanent on last year's performance jan k.p. is a joint venture between a group of russian businessmen and the british oil giant. well that's all the better things are now much more to come next next hour china if you can and you can almost find all our latest updates at home. in the. mall.

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