the. international community and certainly no fly zone is in place right here in tripoli we continue to hear reports of civilians injured and killed join me paulus here from the capital city in just a few moments and for more. several weeks off the armrest in egypt ended president mubarak's control activists who fought for the revolution fear they've been manipulated to without his allies to stay in power. all the world has its eyes fixed on how japan deals with the aftermath of a devastating earthquake and some questions are raised as to why they're from disaster something that's a ground's part of the world then there's so much media attention. slew of russian

companies that hugo pop world i'm address out of business today as well all this or more coming up. on the air and online twenty four hours a day this is r.t. welcome to the program our top story now fresh explosions and gunfire have been heard in the libyan capital tripoli with reports saying coalition forces are targeting major military facilities across the country but i'd forces have also conducted airstrikes against troops in the world and the market traffic in the country's western city of misrata. has the latest from tripoli nobody noticing more and more is that the mainstream 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. a mouse not

a green in terms of how to move forward here on the ground the rebel groups themselves are divided in terms of how they want child forward and 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 starting to meet in secret but not from the coalition is strikes in from the coalition community we know that for six days of these airstrikes have been happening overnight and into the early hours of this morning we are being told that they hit the military bases around the country but a different story emerging as it always does with the capital city here we've been told that a number of civilians have been killed and injured one of the towns that the coalition hits according to them was the town of misrata and they insisting that they've managed to stem the government feels advancement there but we are hearing conflicting reports some of those reports suggesting that for days now the town has been unable to have access to the whole church feel and immature city that gadhafi soldiers on the cheney going from house to house that they've hit the local

hospital here in tripoli immediately also this morning and for several hours off the words they were loud explosions that will set anti aircraft gunfire exploding in the sky to tripoli again coming under intense fire overnight now the coalition has insisted that the airstrikes have been successful if there is a gadhafi 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 putting 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 rank and command structure may simply do not have the experience to take on that a few soldiers but those soldiers in turn to not have the numbers so you have this situation on the ground where neither group is able to actually move forward and advance yes or to see the porting from the country's capital. and she's

a kid who crossed about once in the bill for him you can log on to our website at hotmail dot com or income or it's below and give us the very latest updates and shares her own experiences over the conflicts and also check out these facebook and twitter feeds if your views on the situation unfolding in libya. is indeed. in the. european leaders are gathering in brussels for a two day summit for the situation in that we are expected to dominate talks it comes as nato members fails determine who should be responsible for overseeing the

operation in libya across a large now two artes general bush who's in brussels so what exactly is going to be discussed. well as you say as nato failed to come to an agreement last night e.u. states having a go today the u.s. wants to play a less central role the trouble is in practice it is playing a central role for example two thirds of the sorties flown on tuesday were u.s. led ones but even at the very center of the e.u. the two states leading the charge an e.u. the france and the u.k. all divided david cameron of the u.k. is happy for the nato to take charge words from along with germany and turkey two of the key allies want to see the separate governments making much more of the decision making turkey is extremely concerned by reports of civilian casualties it says it's not what it signed up for when it agreed to this operation and there's an open rift between the french and german foreign ministers french foreign minister i legit pay here in brussels that i say what i think and he says what he thinks are

really showing that there is a difference of opinion i think what comes to the center of this is that it is many states feel this is not what they signed up for folks the u.k. defense secretary saying that while we can defeat is a legitimate target for coalition forces many states signed up for the humanitarian side for the protection of civilians and of course there's growing concern that reports of civilian casualties. pale bush will live from brussels without up thanking. western powers have always seen even the them daffy as a danger to their interests in the arab world that's according to vitale no one can expert in international relations. next hour but here's a quick i think. it was an insuperable to believe so unpredictable a leader not friendly to the west and there was a sort of all also feeling of rubin to what he has done to the wisdom state when

there were preventive considerations to prep more friendly with regime in libya along with a busy short along with the media he was presenting some alternative who the global paradigm of systems to the main liberal western type of society and regimes it or some of the people in this alternative was going to mental put the interests of the promotion of this liberal kopel democracy in their liberal. and staying in the region and now an overwhelming majority of egyptians have approved changes the country's constitution one of the main aims of the uprising but still for a month since the victory some egyptians already sense they may not get everything they thought for letting the orchestra has the story. several weeks have passed since the revolts but it seems the wheels of the old political machine are still turning we start now oh oh are the usual good addition didn't finish here we need

to there we will be able. to govern ourselves. can do that and would be. none of us use if they 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. the main demand will. be around all those who are perhaps thinking that are here now take this up at their feet and make. a financial correction that you know that people are. in late january several hundred thousand people took to the streets of cairo demanding president mubarak step down after several weeks of violence the president these are right now according to the united nations around three hundred people lost their lives during the unrest thousands of others were injured i'd since then

the interim government has held a nationwide referendum set parliamentary elections 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 the vote elections coming very soon nobody's been here. and for a lot of the leftists and look for political operatives they're thinking that maybe this will be staged as a way to green 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 meath year 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 life on the city streets see. to be returning to normal here on time square most of. the traffic has returned but the political situation in the country is still far from healthy sure

thousands mobilize to get rid of the authorities what. powers would be able to get their act together in time for the election and what direction this country in a big question given to the revolutionaries themselves going off authority cryo. across borders as we find out if it's cripple sense for the rest of us to turn into waves of immigration. because the commies of. three workers have been exposed to harmful. power plants in japan. rising temperatures of smoke rising from. after being forced. by black potentially radioactive smoke coming from one of the

reactors today the engineers have been able to return to the site they're focusing on reactor number three. the slope it's also the operator of plutonium which is completely dangerous in case of any potential contamination what have they been doing they've been pumping as hard as they can using hoses inside the reactor to try and cool down it was considered that those potentially to fuel overheating that caused the reactor to start smoking in the first place those initially away with optimism over the weekend as more and more reactors were connected up to electricity it was assumed that once this is done the systems could be restarted the radiation fallout from the action keeps spreading of levels of radioactive being exceeded by more than one hundred times around the area and it's reached the spot. yesterday the border was declared unsafe to drink in france this part of the government told people they can't. hold mineral water off the shelves here so

there's a real water shortage here in tokyo other countries are also taking what they're saying of precautionary measures to prevent the radiation spreading abroad several countries have already banned the import of bird little's and fruit growing around the fukushima area today several more join that list australia has now banned from japan for the moment and also russia has banned imports from japanese also russians and so the planes are stopping and refueling in japan and they must not take any japanese food as well so these are considered just out of safety because the japanese government is calling for people to stay calm and saying that most of the consuming here is absolutely safe nevertheless we got the first estimates of the type of the damage which has been suffered from this earthquake and from the tsunami the nuclear accident actually my top three hundred billion dollars rather

expensive natural calamity in history. that's images of japan's earthquake and tsunami poured in the world watched in or as the tragedy unfolded media coverage has not. moved the world's natural disasters and this technologically advanced terrorist attention as a result generates this awareness and. images that shook the world tragedy live twenty four seventh's leading news outlets deployed their best journalists to cover the disaster in japan and the hearts of billions in few words worldwide have gone out to those japanese who fell victim to the earthquake and deadly tsunami what makes great television images that make the viewer sympathize and feel the tragedy of the people. in a natural disaster but when there is a lack of such images streaming live from our screens the sorrow of millions can go

almost unnoticed let's look back at both 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 where is 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 the shots of the aftermath of

a psych loan 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 africa in sub-saharan africa it's always let you all have the same kind of images that you have subject where he is a twenty four seven operation that's why this ship bed is so huge in terms of all worldwide coverage because there are cameras absolutely everywhere in japan if this was in china i would say western china for instance you have probably one parents of the culprits because the images are not there the earthquake in the search 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 news channels depends on which tragedy makes better television i'm going to check on reporting from washington. current next hour a special report into the corruption infecting the pharmaceutical industry with the good weather human health is being sacrificed for big bucks. in canada and the us that it is legal for you to use a bulb your baby they contains a known carcinogen something that causes cancer most of the time for most people and they are sponsored by the industry and most of the time great drama creates a conflict of interest today an average cancer drug prescription costs nearly one thousand six hundred dollars a month. but nobody with cancer by five therefore i predict it's

because the navy to ninety five percent of cancers hurts people with health family 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. to. a number of immigrants trying to reach europe etc that's increased uprisings in north africa thousands have already fled the violence and uncertainty and government protests continue. reports the grass isn't necessarily greener across the twenty. under arrest in egypt i term who in tunisia and a full out civil war in libya is northern africa is still a boy with unrest people flee the region you can dissipate the chaos in their home

countries nearly end up in greece where their lives hardly get any simpler module is one of two hundred fifty migrants living in this makeshift refugee camp in the center of the greek capital. frankly though greece is a european country the quality of life here is not much better than it home after the financial crisis it's nearly impossible to find a job here we can only hear is lagging behind many other european states. tens of thousands of migrants come into country every year most of them are hoping to move on to other countries like france and germany using greece as a transfer grace however a lot of them end up staying hoping to make it in the country is not able to handle such an influx of migrants and some are calling the situation catastrophic the last thirty six thousand migrants from the great countries were arrested for illegally crossing into the country and now the situation in northern africa region has gone

from bad to worse the number of migrants seeking truth is sure to rise. as no one can best describe. this. to nothing. otherwise existing problems of social visit. with migration. migrants themselves only have one hope that this issue isn't in north africa. and they will be able to return home. every person must leave and work in the country and not in a foreign land to feel human at home on his loved ones but right now home countries is impossible and forces are busy been boarding libya seeking to coerce the country to peace its european nations like greece and ended up getting here the hardest. athens greece. hopes will be able to persuade israel to change its. activity in

the west bank seen by many as the main obstacle middle east peace process it's really prime minister benjamin netanyahu arrives and talks today off the palestinian leader this is a russian capital. the only rest in north africa could lead israel to rethink its approach to start when the two sides back to the table science expert. says that a suspension. it's ready construction in the palestinian territory is the key to success. i think the israelis should. have read. as far as. east is the. question and. the other countries iran. countries such as egypt.

i think. the secure should find. the right look now at some other international headlines this hour. but i think having killed twenty five others injured in a suicide car bomb in the west pakistan the bomber was targeting a police station or town but failed to breach security barricades part of the building was destroyed in the blast and when there are houses authorities believe a taliban base is situated in the district this. u.s. soldier who pleaded guilty to murdering three afghan civilians has been sentenced to twenty four years in prison jeremy morlock is the first of five. to face trial in order to avoid a life sentence to testify against another force. the case represents the most

serious prosecution that u.s. mature trustees afghanistan since the two thousand and one invasion. portuguese prime minister socrates has resigned after the country's lawmakers rejected an austerity budget all five opposition parties voted against the proposed measures which include spending cuts and tax rises the fittest. it's a trigger of bailed out some of the ones that grease the public of the acceptor of last year. a russian airliner involved in an emergency crash landing in september last year so once again taking to the sky and to make one thing took off from the same average earlier it completed a crash landing off its bumbled house a plot of failed ten thousand meters up into the efforts of the crew on the seventy two systems of all. the russian government all of the pilots who managed to run the

plane safely start their malfunction power system and it's a few take off that numerous tests and safety checks the plane has once again been deemed suitable for flight. for the candidates and business. thanks for staying with us here on r t i match reza with your business bulletin a wave of russian companies are preparing to list on the london stock market and among them real estate developers telecoms and banks in total the issuers will be looking to raise two point seven billion dollars in april to discuss the challenges these listings might face we go live to london with david b. away from b g c far. good to have you with me thanks for joining us so there's a whole host of russian companies looking to raise capital in london it's a real estate company had a lot of mobile phone vendor never a said bank no notice and agricultural holding ross agro do you think they've got the timing right. it's always very hard to say the number of times the map has

changed as regards to in the last ten years is extraordinary once we came through on an international basis the pain barrier when we used to see huge numbers to three hundred in the united states in the u.k. every year between one nine hundred ninety six and two thousand and one all of them eagerly accepted and then as the economy went down hill so the two thousand and three there were less and less of the rather bigger variety ones and basically the investing public generalizing has become rather cynical so now we see an awful lot more cancellations with people saying because it's not quite right sentiments change the stock markets we're worried about geo political problems any excuse or reason you like so you could actually have an extremely good company you could have your share price very well priced you can provide really great opportunities for the investor but it's sentiment it's not right that it doesn't go and i wouldn't be

remotely negative about any of these i.p.o.'s that russia is putting forward they all have very credit where the reasons for doing that is just. the question of timing and so what do you think the appetite is for russian companies in the london market right now. but i think everybody looks and sees how well russia has done in the course of the last four years and what the opportunities are because you have internal growth which many other countries apart from the stream. and they realize that the opportunities of growth in russia are absolutely enormous so they should be thought intents and purposes enticed into investing in russia should be no question but we would encourage that it's the way forward it has to be done but unfortunately russia is no different from any other country in the world and is a say keep reverting back to sentiment a no we generally find that many of the

investment banking so finding for their cost that they are tend to be. the price of many i.p.o.'s and i think also you have to offer the investor a guaranteed profit on the first day of trading but if he doesn't feel they feel that they'd rather leave ross telecom looks like he will be delaying its line and offer insights problems in japan for that how much do you think those situations those crises are muddying the waters right now. for that specific company. because say the chip political problems something that we never even legislated six months ago and here we have them staring of his life in the face and really is a say until such time as we've got some kind of peace and tranquility whether it's in libya or in the whole area because it's not just live here on fortunately. in the wake of those problems in yemen problems in syria and even to the unrest in

saudi arabia which is very disconcerting and very very damaging in terms of sentiment the entire region and of course that does filtering what we're doing in the western world as well. so i think in terms of that in terms of clients and has to these sort of areas where ties investors in and to lose a little bit more stability in the region by new mean says the company's written oh . it's like all these things it's timing the most important thing that russia companies can do is the same for the u.k. german british american is gets a really good share register there full time should not be wasted should be able to go on the road with the investment banking taking the management of these companies introducing them to all the fund managers around the world so that they can sell the really plus points of the compass i want to add one more question before we go in february russian companies chel pipe and sever stalls in north gold you know

we're supposed to go on the market now at the last minute they pulled out do you think that any of the current offering may do the same and what are the consequences if they do. the consequence is my opinion a temporary the consequences there's nothing worse than giving your company a bad sendoff you must give your company when you take it to be old for the public rotation he was given the biggest sendoff in the world so that he gets universal acknowledgement from the press from analysts and from everybody that this is the kind of company that fund managers and the retail investor should be invested and if the conditions are not right right up to the last day then pulled it and you're putting it for exactly the right reasons and not the wrong words all right very good thanks for instance david buick from fiji see part. that's all the business news for now i'll be back next hour with more and you can always find the latest updates at r.t. dot com slash business. the

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