international community and such a no fly zone is in place but here in tripoli we continue to hear reports of civilians injured and killed join me paula zahn from the capital city in just a few moments for more. several weeks softly on rest in egypt ended president mubarak's troll activists who fought for the revolution fair they put the data about his allies to stay in power. the world has its eyes fixed on how japan deals with the aftermath. all raids as to why natural disasters in the best parts of the world didn't get as much

media attention. this is r.t. international news twenty four hours a day welcome to the program fresh explosions and gunfire have been heard in the libyan capital tripoli reports saying coalition forces are targeting major military facilities across the country allied forces are also conducting air strikes against troops in the world and even in the country's western city of misrata a lot of course there has the latest from. what are you noticing more and more is that the main sim for this operation in libya remains in the balance it's literally hanging in the balance because on the international front we are seeing that coalition forces are now so not to be agreeing in terms of how to move forward here on the ground the rebel groups themselves are divided in terms of how they want to move forward even now here in the capital city of tripoli which is traditionally

the stronghold of moammar gadhafi we are hearing from him in every reports of some of his former supporters exhausting to meet in secret in the form a coalition is trying some from the coalition community we know that for six days if there is a strike have been happening overnight and into a early hours of this morning we are being told that they could see military bases around the country but a different story emerging as it always does from the capital city fear we've been told that a number of civilians have been killed and injured one of the turns that the coalition gets according to them was the town of misrata and they insist think that they've managed to stem the government force advancement there but we are hearing conflicting reports some of those opposed suggesting that for days now the town has been unable to had access to go to seal and it's a team that beat up the soldiers are literally going from house to house that they've hit the local hospital you know in tripoli immediately also this morning. and for several hours off the words there were loud explosions it was all set and

see aircraft gunfire exploding in the sky so tripoli again coming under intensive fire overnight now the coalition has insisted that the airstrikes have been successful it's a duffy's it capability has been completely wiped out he is denying this he says that he has a capability to continue for some time to come if the rebels themselves are now starting to find themselves in an incredibly difficult position they are calling on the international community for some kind of freak him to strike as they try to advance forward the stalemate on the ground is that the rebels do not have the weaponry they do not have the ranking command structure in a city to not have the experience to take on the duffey soldiers but those soldiers in turn do not have the numbers so you have this situation on the ground where neither group is able to actually move forward and advance. but in support of. the city of the reporting from the country's capital tripoli is keeping across developments in libya for the entire website called recall on pause but all she

delivers the latest updates and only experiences of the conflict going to check out these facebook and twitter feeds your views on the situation currently unfolding in that. is. the. european leaders are gathering in brussels for a two day summit on the situation in libya expected to dominate talks it comes as nato members fail to determine who should sponsor seeing that your operation in libya that's. about is double bushell in brussels i welcome you expect from this

summit. well we can expect that it's going to be fiery because really the mood is descending into chaos here in brussels as you say the meeting alternates of failed to come to an agreement which side would lead america the u.s. is doing everything to pull out of leadership of this campaign with its history in iraq and other places but others are failing to step into the breach and that is leading to real serious complications norway has said it's pulling out its troops because of a lack of leadership turkey a key arab ally and also part of the western defense structure says that it should be no civilian casualties and the reports of civilian casualties in libya is completely unacceptable statements by several sides in the nato allies u.k. u.s. that is the target role the humanitarian assistance is really the center of this

controversy. live michel u.n. route was for an imposition of a new fly zone and now we're seeing gadhafi being targeted talk of more troops being sent in so there's a real sense of chaos here in brussels and you will also really in an attempt to find leadership in what is rapidly developing into a very difficult situation for the western allies. ok go vishal for now in brussels thanking. nato members are split over the future of the military campaign here so says michael hoffman author and political researcher. there seems to be quite a rivalry between david cameron and nicolas sarkozy and then turkey has also dissenting because the turks have already said that all they want is a no fly zone nothing more than man the germans are now stating that they are removing their navy from nato control this seems like an appears to be another type of imperialism it has to be seen that way in the arab world but it can't be about

protecting people i reject that rationale because where are the people being protected in bahrain where is the no fly zone in gaza there are all kinds of areas in the world where the united states nato the u.n. the arab league could intervene and they are not. but western powers have always seen even him as a danger to their interests in the arab world that's according to no expert in international relations but with his views about twenty minutes time but here's a quick taste. it was an acceptable to believe so unpredictable leader that not friendly to the west and there was a sort of all hopeful sort feeling over what he has done to the western states from there with regret the considerations to a more friendly with regime in libya along with a non-busy sure along with the need. he was presenting some alternative to the

global paradigm of perth systems to remain a liberal western type of society and the regimes it was some alternate people in this alternative was going to mental to the interests of the promotion of this liberal democracy umbrella group. and staying in the region and the overwhelming majority of egyptians have approved changes to the country's constitution and the aims of the uprising just over a month since the victory some egyptians are really sense they may not get everything they fought for i think about this enough has the story. several weeks have passed since the revolt but it seems the wheels of the old political machine are still turning we start now oh everything usual good official didn't finish here we need you there we need you'll be able. to govern ourselves.

again do that and we would be mean about you c.f.a. used to be an anchor on egypt's national state run radio she claims even though president mubarak has already stepped down the media is still being manipulated they may demand it will. be from all those who are perhaps including the heart and i would take this up at the feet and make. a financial correction that mary's professional people are. in late january several hundred thousand people took to the streets of cairo demanding president mubarak steps down after several weeks of violence the president. according to the united nations around three hundred people lost their lives during the unrest thousands of others were injured . since then the interim government has held a nationwide referendum said call them and treat a lections to be held before the end of the year but many activists say it's too

soon for the newly emerged political movements to gain enough momentum before they vote the elections coming very soon nobody is prepared. and for a lot of the leftists and the look of the of the political activists they're thinking that maybe this was the stage as a way to be in power the n.d.p. alongside the president for the last three decades the national democratic party was the ruling authority in the country and many fear with state media still under its control it may gain enough force to come back to power. even though the phrases of the recent violence are still obvious why from this. street seems to be returning to normal here on the square most of. heavy traffic has returned but the political situation in the country is still far from healthy sure thousands mobilize to get rid of the authorities but whether it be in newly emerging powers will be able to get their act together in time for the election and

what direction it will be take this country and it's still a big question even to the revolutionaries themselves we've got this kind of forty . on the turmoil in egypt is a career cross borders as we found out in few minutes ripple said by the unrest in the arab world to turn into ways of relation to europe we can recall news of countries like greece. three workers have been exposed to harmful radioactive elements working from the shipment plant in japan and two of them have been hospitalized there are reports of a rise in temperature of smoke rising in the vicinity as most troubled reactor engineers are attempting to restore the cooling system of the facility damaged misstating a quick call stalled on wednesday off the backs of the. contamination fears are growing in tokyo radiation is that the sentenced water in the region around the

stricken western told to avoid some of the produce as more countries import certain foods from japan. as images of japan's earthquake and tsunami in the world watched in war as a tragedy unfolded media coverage for moving would be tens of natural disasters in this technologically advanced areas tend to get less attention than as a result straightness awareness. images that shook the world tragedy in my twenty four seven leading news outlets deployed there. best journalists to cover the disaster in japan and the hearts of billions of viewers worldwide have gone out to those japanese who fell victim to the earthquake and deadly tsunami what makes great television is images that make the viewer sympathize and feel the tragedy of the people caught up in

a natural disaster but when there is a lack of such images streaming live from all screens the sorrow of millions can go almost unnoticed let's look back at the earth earthquake in pakistan it killed more than seventy five thousand people in two thousand and five while the rules media did notice the tragedy the coverage was nothing as intense as we're seeing now in japan some in the business say japan being a high tech country means coverage is assured whereas less developed nations like pakistan get much less media attention the world probably got less of the story in some of those other countries because they don't have they didn't have the technology they didn't have the cameras that were right there like they were in japan from different dozens of different angles you saw the waves coming in which is the kind of footage in our business unfortunately that is the dream to be able

to get that kind of footage and you don't get that in some of the other third world countries you see the aftermath of the shots of the aftermath of a sigh clone that hit mine mars three years ago or horrifying more than one hundred thirty eight thousand people were killed the government of mine more limited access to foreign journalists and there were no live pictures from the disaster zone and as it happens in the news business very quickly the story died down if there is a disaster in the middle of acid in sub-saharan africa or recent you would have the same kind of images that you have subject where he is a twenty four seven operation that's why. this bed is so huge in terms of worldwide coverage because there are cameras absolutely everywhere if this was in china i will say western china for instance you have probably one parent's of the coverage because the images are not there here earthquake in position one province in china killed around sixty eight thousand people and again the coverage was

limited and so therefore was where all the interest in the disaster their human tragedy whether in japan or china or chile deserves sympathy but more often than not the attention span of world news channels depends on which tragedy makes better television or i'm going to check on reporting from washington our team. a clear up next hour a special report in the corruption acting with on a cynical industry we look at whether human health is being sacrificed for big bucks. in canada and the us today it is legal for you to use a bubble bath on your baby that contains a known carcinogen something that causes cancer most of the shine to most put in the present day i'm confident i can distill it and most of the great donut claims a call for coffee interest today an average cancer drug prescription costs nearly

one thousand six hundred dollars a month oh my god i'm a nobody with cancer and my father and therefore i prefer to focus because ninety two ninety five percent of cancers heard from people with health funding history of cancer the pharmaceutical industry spends about fourteen percent of their budget on research and development and about thirty one percent for marketing and ministration. in fact there are more pharmaceutical industry lobbyists in washington d.c. than members of congress. the number of immigrants trying to reach europe is set to dramatically increase in the uprisings in north africa thousands have already fled the violence and the certainty as anti-government protests continue but as all sees only those cool reports the grass isn't the sony reader cross the mediterranean. under arrest in egypt. turmoil in tunisia and a full out civil war in libya is northern africa

a sort of fire with unrest people flee the region you can escape the careless in their home countries and then he ends up in greece where their lives hardly get any simpler was one of two hundred fifty migrants living in this makeshift refugee camp in the center of the greek capital. frankly the greece is a european country the quality of life here is not much better than at home after the financial crisis it's nearly impossible to find a job here because to me here is lagging behind many other european states. tens of thousands of migrants coming into the country every year most of them are hoping to move on to other countries like france and germany using greece as a transfer base however a lot of them end up staying hoping to make it in the country you have the country is not able to handle such an influx of migrants and some are calling the situation catastrophic last year alone thirty six thousand migrants and also from the group

countries were arrested for illegally crossing into the country now the situation in which the african region has gone from bad to worse the number of migrants seeking to escape the term is sure to rise of course there are plenty that is obvious no one can best describe. this. to do nothing. otherwise existing problems of social visit. to the with migration getting bigger and bigger migrants themselves only have one hope that the situation in north africa will stabilize and they will be able to return home and every person must leave and work in the country and not in a foreign land we must feel human at home we mourn his loved ones because right now who have no home countries is impossible and while the coolish and forces are busy bombarding libya seeking to call. first the country to peace with european nations like greece to end during the year the horridest. athens greece.

russia hopes it will be able to persuade israel to change it starts on settlement activity in the west bank which is seen by many as an obstacle for the middle east peace process is very probably stability your arrives in talks just a day after palestinians in the city of the russian capital. believes that we underestimate africa could lead israel to rethink its approach to palestine when the two sides back to the negotiating table side with an expert in middle east politics says that the suspension of israeli construction in the palestinian territory is the key to success. i think the israelis should describe. him and that good news. show of goodwill. as far as that. is really. question.

who is iran and also. remember in countries such as egypt. i don't think. gramatica. think that. it's going to secure should find. their rights. well let's take a look at some other news making headlines around the world. that i think will have been killed and twenty five others injured in a suicide car bombing northwest part of. the mall was targeting a police station a town failed to breach security barricades part of the building was destroyed in the blast so when there are houses forces believe the taliban bases situated in the district their tax base. the u.s.

soldier pleaded guilty to murdering three afghan civilians has been sentenced to twenty five years in prison jeremy morlock is the first of five soldiers charged in the deaths to face trial when the tall order life sentence he agreed to testify against the other four service. the case represents the most serious prosecution of all the edged us military atrocities in afghanistan since the two thousand and one invasion of. portuguese prime minister socrates has resigned off the country's lawmakers we checked it and i'm still a teapot it all at five opposition parties voted against the proposed measures which include spending cuts and tax rises from what is now i think the truth played out a salute to the britons that greece and other politics out of australia. a russian airliner involved in an emergency crash landing in september last year was once again taking to the skies to mourn for four plane took off from the same character

american plane to the crash landing of its on board process applied failed thousand meters are due to the efforts of the crew rather than seventy two passengers on board were injured the russian governments all know the pilots in the run up to the on the plane safely despite the no functioning power system in the fuel tank after numerous tests and safety checks the tables once again deemed suitable but. this is the is there with rapturous. thanks for staying with us here on our t.v. this is your business bulletin a russian oil and gas firm tat now fears it could lose between two hundred forty and two hundred sixty million dollars if there is regime change in libya and contracts with titan after again void the president of totter of tatarstan roost and many says the tells ria novosti news agency the company already has some invested in libya to develop feels that he calls promising says if kid he's

convinced if gadhafi goes tiredness will lose all influence in the country russian consumer prices jump point eight percent in february much less than in january but still twice the rate of the european average starting from january prices grew by three point six percent approximately half the government's target for this year we prices rise in the most buckwheat and eggs close by earlier finance minister alexey called for extra measures to curb inflation driven by last summer's drought and high crude prices but his drop john davies explains officials here may have limited power to act. the inflation has been a mountain problem since for the third quarter of last year it's not a specific russia problem and you get nine point four percent i think you're. on the producer price level it's more than twenty but this is really an emerging market which is now spilling over and translating into inflationary pressures in the rest of the world into the markets too. taking

a look at the scoreboard now japanese shares trading flat to negative with downward pressure coming from tech and auto stocks amid concerns of power shortages following the earthquake down sharply falling four point three percent toyota down two point seven percent nissan dropping twice as much hong kong shares rise as metal and energy producers climb on to higher commodity prices and banks and local conglomerates taking the lead on positive reports. coming from wall street. looking to russian markets they're trading in the black extending previous gains the r.t.s. by point seven percent the my six raising nearly a percent take a look at the individual market movers as edging higher after the russian government decided to extend the cash for clunkers program till the end of each year russia's second largest oil producer lukoil out by half a percent as concerns that oil supplies from libya could be disrupted or could remain disrupted and keep oil two week high aeroflot trading lower run news it's

sold its subsidiary airlines and nor davia two months into a mining giant normals nickel. russian tycoon dmitri mazza and looking to sell fertiliser producer due to the company's one point four billion dollar debt according to better most newspaper three chemical firms say that they've been approached by him as a painter for a deal that might exceed one point five billion dollars iraq and is one of russia's leading producers of ammonium nitrate and nitrogen for the guys just. two more russian companies have announced plans to list on the london stock exchange one of the country's largest real estate developers at a law group is expecting to raise around five hundred million dollars from the flotation the company says it intends to use funds to acquire land plots and replenish working capital. one of russia's largest online retailers you to that rule is also joining the i.p.o. race the company plans to float fifteen percent of its stock on the my six in the first half of the year according to

a commerce daily even that is valued between one hundred and one hundred twenty million dollars and would use the funds for promotion and i t development. well some russian companies are pushing ahead with their listing others have second thoughts national telecom operator ross telecom reportedly holding back its i.p.o. in london a source close to the deal cites the uncertain situation on the financial markets created by events in libya enjoy a pattern for the delay but it also appears ross teleco. may not make the deadline for preparing financial reports and other documents necessary for getting listed on the london exchange ross telecom was due to list in may or june no final decisions yet been made on the delay has yet been announced so the business news for now i'll be back in an hour with more and you can always find the latest at our website r.t. dot com slash business.

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