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. for getting from moscow it's ten pm wednesday night here my name's kevin zero in this is the r t news channel and the top story coalition strikes on libya is showing no signs of easing with more than three hundred war plane flights reported on the fourth night a french aircraft carrier is now moving to the region and more fighter jets are arriving in crete despite the pentagon chief pledged to ease the intensity of strikes out his paul asli 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 his compound bab al aziziya now that compound was hit some two days ago by iraq and live is strike he was incredibly angry and incredibly defiant

people called this a crusader war and say that he would knock that 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 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 is typically frightening is that he stated that they had not used the few rights of the libyan military machine now we've been hearing from kurdish leaders that they've managed to practically destroyed his if 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 coalition leaders that the airstrikes have been successful but they simply haven't skimmed back the advancement of good up these 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 into waste in the city of ajdabiya in the east particularly in misrata where they were some is strike very intensive shelling and intensifying continues just yesterday tuesday we're being 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 that they work in there as snipers 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 two key scenes to say what exactly was the target but there is a military base there so we are casing that was one of the pieces one of the targets people here in the capital city are getting incredibly frightened and to this hero is turning people even move into the space of yesterday i visited

a naval base here in the capital city and it had been struck by six missiles and speaking to naval officers there great he called 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 how 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 they meet under the prostration on the ground is just going to intensify. wolf the latest from our teams paula story you just saw there remember you can always go to our twitter feed in our latest tweet paula so she's met the people who show that nothing is going to change in a good guthrie will stay you want to more about that follow us on twitter at our feet under school call and get the latest insights model calls. and there's many

a true word spoken in jest of a say with the action in libya heating up many will already have forgotten how the pentagon chief had hinted that it could her back in early march. currently. what robert gates was meeting general petraeus in afghanistan when that little chart was recorded the two men i guess didn't realize they were like to the times where gates quit yeah exactly the sarcastic question of whether he was going to attack libya he could hardly have suspected this reply would come back to haunt the u.s. former british intelligence officer and a microphone says that the coalition forces are becoming more and more entrenched in the libyan crisis now with no way out. i think they're a tangle soon as the whole uprising began in libya because they really didn't know which side to back and which way to jump and of course they're kind of our feet in 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 flowing out of libya towards places like the u.s. the u.k. and 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 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 kili about the endgame where the military chief of defense is saying absolutely not we're not going to tap the capital 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 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 peculiar partition situation between east and the west of libya then we have a situation where gadhafi still has power now gadhafi could feel very betrayed by his ex best allies in the west of course he goes into action over the last decade and it off he has experience as a track record and also has 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 it is specifically excluded from the u.n. resolution. london's bracing for a wave of public anger this weekend as protest movements planned to take to the streets there angry a proposed spending cuts and say that western governments the lashing out at other countries for not listening to their people's voice but doing the same with home and his contributor. has more from london. this saturday london might experience

the biggest process in its history bigger than the antiwar coalition march in two thousand and three up until now the rise political activist groups have not been very well organized but they have finally decided together everybody has been badly affected by the actions of the coalition government with thirty five to forty five percent of british people opposing the intervention in libya it seems on saturday those intervention protests as well more be lost in the crowds i will not expect government to rush into and doing everything straightaway it rarely happens in practice but those provinces are simply a part of the democratic system however there is a paradox when normally western countries serious problems and their governments do nothing about western countries immediately you governments and be undemocratic but when western countries do the same ignore opinion of people in their country

they that is considered as the norm because surely cosmic opinion play regarding the intervention in libya is not me ruled by m.p.'s and house of commons it was only thirteen of them voting against the military intervention this thought was taken on monday two days after you. all believe it was a rare moment in the house of commons where labor are literally occupied seats and next to the tories and believe dems locating the opposition sides of their. people of britain losing german from the stop the war coalition in london told me she believes british people's concern over the country's involvement in libya is growing as the bombings continue. i can't remember a british military intervention which is so quickly become contested. and what we're seeing here is a number of opinion polls are showing that there is

a growing opposition to this because people are asking if it is simply no fly zone to protect civilians. in four nights in one parliament how can the quins missiles are being used and obviously civilians are in threat and what exactly is the purpose all of this the i think people are more and more skeptical about. when president obama said colonel gadhafi was continuing his repression despite ample warning many of a of a feeling of deja vu similar words mark the beginning of the attack on libya by the reagan administration twenty five years ago i was asked is christine for zero point next since then all incoming american leaders have made a habit of waging war. it's become an unthinking identifies of the job description. i become president of the united states. declare war on my fellow americans i fellow citizens for president ronald reagan in

one thousand nine hundred sixty three mil your attack on a familiar enemy destroyed our repeated warnings khadafi continued his reckless policy of intimidation is relentless pursuit of terror he counted on america to be passions. you called it 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 limited campaign on my orders coalition forces have begun striking selective targets some 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 that demands and to the violence against. it authorized 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 are to protect thousands of innocent people in kosovo from a mounting military offensive we are determined to knock out satam 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 result eerily parallel thank you god bless you. god.

thank you very much christine for r.t.d. . more insight into the situation in libya coming up next hour in fact unpaid lavelle show cross tool which offers a variety as ever of opinions on this edition some very intense debate. we're seeing a complete meltdown of authoritarian rule in north africa and in the middle east what does the united states or our allies do sit back and let it occur when people are rising up and asking for help in atrocities are being made against their 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 a couple of these crimes and ruthlessness but also for this western intervention without these airstrikes then ghazi right now would be the people the guys here right now would be nasa could go to benghazi now they certainly want to. and sort

of the problem we're talking about you know listen this is how much how is this sort of the easier to do and also what is the critical. i'm sorry here is the signal. contamination fears are growing in japan with high levels of radiation of reach tokyo elsewhere in the region around the stricken fukushima nuclear plant residents have been told to avoid some local produce struggle to resolve its nuclear crisis is again been stalled to with workers at fukushima evacuated of the black smoke amerge from one of its reactors how does he go growth moves in the japanese capital for us. 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 of a to get out into the environment to be a very expensive and very difficult cleanup operation this of course was orders been. lost two days of very steady progress the engineers have now managed to connect all of the reactors to some electricity in fact electricity has been restored in one of the control rooms and 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 will then cool 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 for the sheema 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 pay interest 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 bottled 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 and 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. you can follow japan's nuclear crisis and its effects online he's tweeting from tokyo for a c says that the rolling blackouts have stopped there now but shops and restaurants nonetheless still shut seeing and switching off the lights or solidarity if you want all the updates. plus

a lot more to log on to our twitter feed r.t. underscore. international news in brief palestinian authorities have confirmed the condemned the deadly bus station plus hit central jerusalem killing ron and injuring dozens israeli leaders have promised aggressive and responsible reaction the city's first bombing in a public place in several years comes amid escalating tensions between cars are and israel amass the islamist political party in control of gaza has launched over sixty shells at israel since last week while israel carried out several retaliatory attacks. the legendary american actress elizabeth taylor has passed away at the age of seventy nine starting out as a child star of beauty and talent quickly made her one of the great actresses of hollywood's golden age a personal life also added to her stardom with eight to seven husbands the glamorous lifestyle later she devoted much of it time to charity driving for

greater awareness of aids and establishing a number of foundations. for the three people including a russian crew of four have been killed in a plane crash in republic of congo this traumatic footage shows just how the plane crashed into a residential area in the town of point you are destroyed several houses and started a fire as you can see authorities say a committee now will be established to investigate the accident. of belgium setting a political record as it spinning deadlock over the form of a new government for almost a year now the two communities from northern flanders and southern will only have been locked in stalemate since parliamentary elections last summer many experts foresee a splitter head then if a compromise isn't reached and as artie's done your bushel reports next they say this is session this wave might sweep not just belgium but the e.u. as well. pawns of fridge parents in florida there's all of those are totally both

cultures so was breaks up he fears for his children's future it will be much more difficult than no because all this museum should be splits 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 losing to disagree leaving the country paralyzed without the government nine months now or world record schools already teach one loon children on the ground floor flemish kids up stairs de facto segregation it will not and in. and flung out of conference like spain like france they will follow growing ethnic divides of fueling separatist movements across the e.u. from the shaky cease fire of the terrorist attacks in spain to bombings in french

corsica divorces amicable in just one state and groups. 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 hope to conflate 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 a snake tensions across the e.u. 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. r.t.

brussels. the dutch and french speaking communities of belgium co-exist as two separate entities that is the opinion of the early 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 pages in the newspapers but with the t.v. programs on when you look at a flemish newspaper you will see a very tiny let the peking belgian programs in the french speaking newspapers suppose you don't even find the flemish programmes that's not because politics have decided so that's because we really live in two substantially different worlds. but if you'd like to see more about it we're pleased to know the full interview coming up in just a bit less than ten minutes time tonight here on our t.v.

right now it's coming up to twenty two minutes past ten at night let's get up to date with the latest wednesday night business news from moscow. thanks karen hello and welcome to business r.c. great to have you with this the political and environmental shocks that have assailed the world in the first quarter of twenty eleven has broadly been good for russian equities unrest in the middle east and north africa has caused or crisis still saw more recently the quake in japan has raised the prospect of increased demand for commodities for instruction and eve gaining a daughter from jones less south says the effect of the shocks and light it lasts long but the fundamentals are improving in a way. taking into account concentration i don't even need to plan and tax all the west we can 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 but they can in fact count increasing wealth of developing nations to grow well because of this special imagine market it's very

likely that nature of the sources will be increasing in price and that's exactly what the russian fundamental most obvious from support russian economy in terms of inflow of my 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 zero point eight percent in february much less than in january but still twice the rate of the european average we prices rose the most with buckwheat and that is not far behind finance minister aleksei could record for extreme measures to curb inflation driven by last summer's drought and high crude prices but as john going so davis explains officials here may be a little tower time. only solution has been a military problem since about the third quarter of last year it's not a specific russia problem and you got nine point four percent i think your readers february on the producer price level it's more than twenty but this is really broadly an emerging market scene which is now spilling over and translating into

inflationary pressures in the rest of world in developed markets to. look at the markets this hour european stocks ended the session mixed as worries about that problems in portugal and ireland reemerge retailers were among the biggest losers let's say is very down more than five percent after disappointing results in the wild card they got b.m.w. was on the rise after a program of great. here in russia the markets finished the trading session in the blind the r.c.s. is up by one percent twelve of my six one and a half percent. let's take a look at something to be job sharing moves among the blue chips no real steve nicol gain two percent after the company's former chairman and influential power broker alexander the notion was elected to the company's board and bring the energy sector into round grew almost three percent with news it acquired needed eighty percent of the power generating company i would u.k. three tele calls were also on the right investors were rushing to buy into regional operators ahead of the merger with lots of home andros to convert some finished up

by zero point two percent on the my six. third largest oil producer at ten k. b.p. shares its profits reached six point fifty four billion dollars in twenty tam credits a smaller than expected income tax bill for the twenty four percent improvement on last year's performance chain k d p is a joint venture between a group of russian businessmen and the british charmant. and that's the business news for now join us next hour for more and of course you can always log on to your construction business well the latest updates.

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