the 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 the need for dismantling the captain says even just a few moments formal. also on our t.v. several weeks after the on the arrests in egypt ended president mubarak's control of this fourth of the revolution here they've been manipulated to allow his allies the same power. and first images emerge of the fifty workers remaining inside the damaged japanese fukushima power plant as they attempt to repair its cooling system despite reports of rising temperatures and small

commissions. my from our headquarters in central moscow and you're watching our team with me and he said no way it's two pm here in the russian capital one pm in tripoli where fresh explosions and gunfire have been heard in the b. and capital of reports saying coalition forces are targeting major military facilities across the country now that forces have also conducted air strikes against troops more oil to the leader moammar gadhafi in the country's western city . archies part of your house the latest from tripoli. noticing more and more is that the momentum for this operation in libya remains in the balance it's literally hanging in the balance because on the international front we're seeing that coalition forces are now it's 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 to move forward and even now here in the capital city of tripoli which is traditionally the stronghold of moammar gadhafi we are hearing very human every reports of some of his former supporters starting to meet in secret from the coalition is trying to form a coalition community we know that for six days there is a strike that have been happening overnight and into the early hours of this morning we are being told that they hit 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 towns that the coalition hit according to them was the town of misrata and they insisting that they've managed to stim the government force 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 both to feel and in a key city that gadhafi soldiers are literally going from house to house that they've hit the local hospital here in tripoli in the early hours of this morning

and for several hours off the words they were loud explosions it was all said and he 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 it is a definite 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 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 rank and command structure they simply do 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 we need the group is able to actually move forward and advance well ready now for three straight days later leaders have been meeting to try and decide who can actually move forward we

can take control of this operation over libya and today they say to me for a fourth day they seems to be no dream in two sides turkey is one of those countries that is most critical the sticking point is essentially the killing of civilians and teaches this thing that they can be no civilians killed in such an operation but of course the other european powers are saying that he needs to be unable to be they will be some kind of political damage that of course they try not to injure civilians the civilians will always get caught in the crossfire the longer it ministration is in court which case because for days now we've heard the american president insists that america's handing over control of this operation to nato countries and he keeps saying that this is going to happen soon but suki in terms of the cracks we've seen on the international front it doesn't seem as if it's going to happen any time soon so the question really at the heart of this debate is whether or not these airstrikes can continue who will take control over them and just how much longer they can carry on. well arty's we are just all

reporting there from libya's capital is keeping across developments in tripoli but on to our website our two dark part where you can find paul of the blog she constantly delivering our world latest updates and shares her own experiences of the conflict you can also check out our q three spoke on twitter feeds and give us your views on the situation unfolding in libya. well crippling financial debt in the european union hasn't stopped some of its members spending billions on the military campaign in libya leaders have gathered in brussels for today's summit as yet another european country may speak about well given to greece and our lives for more let's cross cross live to our europe correspondent daniel bushel he's in brussels then you know what are we expecting this summit to focus on here. the sense of process has been shut down by this massive and you'll stare it's a protest coming to the office this morning the protesters no police wanted to let

people get through to get to work the police of barricades to stop people getting into sensitive parts of the center process of course the home of both e.u. and nato headquarters last nights the european commission called this was shot down by what police are calling serious side but now they're trying to find out if it's moved to today's trade union and public protests the internet and e-mail services was shut down as a result and it's really seriously disrupting today's e.u. summit which is expected to give unprecedented powers to the e.u. to control economic policy of its member states and impose new. portugal's prime minister has resigned after portugal parliament rejected imposition of austerity measures which gives you an idea of the publicly is not in favor of more austerity measures what's being called social regression people are angry that really they

feel their life still gets even worse that their way of life they called for life is getting worse and it makes it far more likely this rejection of austerity measures package by parliament that portugal will become the third country to greece and ireland in the need and e.u. bailouts and as a backdrop to all of this there's increasing anger at the cost of the war in libya because saying why are we bombing libya when there's record unemployment here in the e.u. we need help here because the cost of the bombing campaign could reach a billion dollars if the bombing campaign continues you. live from brussels thanks for that. an overwhelming majority of egyptians have approved changes to the country's constitution one of the main aims of the uprising but just over a month since the victory some of gippsland already said they may not get

everything they fought for our. house 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 of our of usual live nation didn't finish here we need change there we need we'll be able. to govern ourselves. how can do that and we would be. nervous you see 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. the main demand is to. me around all those who are around including ari and i would pick this up but they can't make. their financial pressure and that very professional 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 . according to the united nations around three hundred people lost their lives during the unrest thousands of others were injured by that 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 the election is coming very soon nobody is prepared. and for a lot of the leftists and look for the political opposition they're thinking that maybe this will be staged as a way to be in power the entity 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 so obvious life on the

city streets. to be returning to normal here on the square most of the shops every or when heavy traffic has returned but the political situation in the country is still far from healthy sure thousands mobilized to get rid of the authorities but whether the in muling emerged political powers will be able to get their act together in time for the election and what direction it will be to this country and it's still a big question even to the revolutionaries themselves you've got this kind of arty cairo. and the turmoil in egypt is going across borders as we find out in just a few minutes ripple sent by the un brass in the arab world are set to turn into waves of immigration into europe threatening the weakened economies of countries like greece also. the russian plane that made a miracle crush landing last september but takes to the skies again review all the

details in just a few minutes. but first three workers have been exposed to harmful radioactive elements while working at the fukushima nuclear power plant in japan there have been reports of a rise in temperatures and new plumes of smoke rising from one of the reactors are grown it is keeping a cost of elements for us. after being forced off the side to focus by black potential 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 that's the one that was emitting the smoke it's also the one i thought the operator of plutonium which is critically 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 it down it was considered that those potentially the fuel overheating that caused the reactor to start working 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 cooling systems could be restarted a lot of the attention has been focused on the so-called nuclear samurai the workers themselves helping to restore the station to a normal state really i'm the one hand they're seen by the media as heroes people who are risking their own lives and doing everything to save japan from nuclear disaster because a lot of hand they're seen as victims debris a lot of these people are not professionally trained nuclear workers and they do not know what they're doing and some are saying that in fact they've been forced to do the job that they're doing and as we know from what happened in chernobyl a lot of these workers have a tendency to suffer cancers and other elements for years and years afterwards in fact several of them have already died in the operation and just today we received news of a couple more also being hospitalized for receiving too high a dose so this is a story into developing over the next weeks and even then months and years as the

radiation fallout from the accident keeps spreading we heard of levels of radioactive iodine being exceeded by more than one hundred times around. here yesterday the water was the cloud unsafe to drink for infants despite a fight of the government told people stay stay calm they swept. 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 vegetables and fruit growing around the fukushima area today several more join that list the strain has now banned imports from japan for the moment and also russia has banned imports from japanese profit church we got the first estimates of the damage which has been suffered from this earthquake and from the tsunami and from the nuclear accident actually my top three hundred billion dollars was the most expensive natural calamity in history. as well

as images of japan's earthquake and tsunami poured in the world watched as the tragedy unfolded but media coverage has not been a star oh in more remote regions of the world natural disasters in the last technologically advanced areas tend to get less attention and as a result generate less awareness has more. images that shook the world tragedy life twenty four seven leading news outlets deployed their 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 images that make the viewer sympathising feel that tragedy of the people caught up 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 the growth earthquake in pakistan it killed

more than seventy five thousand people in two thousand and five while the world's media did notice that 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 and 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 and you see the aftermath the shots of the aftermath of

a psych loan that hit mine mark three years ago are 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 die down if there is a disaster in the middle of africa said. aaron africa it's always rich you won't have the same kind of images that you have from ship that where he is at twenty four seven operation that's why this tsunami in japan is so huge in terms of force worldwide coverage because there are cameras absolutely everywhere except that if this was in china i would say western china for instance you have probably one parent's of the coverage because the images are not there the earthquake in the six 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 in chile deserves

sympathy but more often than not the attention span of won't news channels depends on which tragedy makes it better television i'm going to check on reporting from washington our team. well with the israeli prime ministers and rival here in moscow russia hopes to be able to persuade israel to resume peace talks with palestine i think step towards resolving the mideast conflict between us our violence following the meeting between israeli prime minister and officials here in moscow turned out what facts can israel take in light of the middle east uprisings in order to move towards a resolution of the israeli palestinian conflict what are we hearing. well the many have already suggested that israel will now reconsider its position on settling in negotiating the middle east peace process and that negotiating the

conflict and seeking some alternative means of resolving it because of course following the recent events in the region in north africa specifically of course libya tunisia egypt all of those. countries where a protest took place or anti-government protests took place are still taking place i have definitely caused egypt israeli officials to think twice about their plans for the future of course egypt for once a very strong ally of israel and with the current change in government the israeli officials may have to rethink the game plan of their allies and their own game plan and possibly renegotiate their positions on the israeli palestinian negotiations maybe as some have already suggested this could mean that. rethinking the settlement plans maybe some sort of a slower change by perhaps

a more gradual one lot of most people do seem to agree that israel will now be rethinking its game plan and of course renegotiating its positions in the middle east peace process. now first with all our talks with mom. and our boss here in moscow now benjamin netanyahu looking roces role be in this peace process. while russia is of course a member of the middle east quartet and a group of countries four countries that are actively involved in mediating and moderating perhaps the middle east peace process russia has always considered self a mediator and always attempted to strive towards a peaceful resolution of the middle east of hard like of course and this was shown just recently by the russian president meeting with the leader of the palestinian national authority and now with the israeli leader as well so. this definitely

shows russia's position as a strong negotiator within the middle east of quartet and of course a strong of heart and integrity part of all the negotiations that are hopefully leading to some sort of a peaceful resolution but of course many russian officials have already said that the ongoing conflict in libya could very well do sterilize not only the north african region as a whole but also affect the middle east and of course the negotiations and the problems between israel and palestine so russia very keen on making sure that everyone knows what is happening that negotiations are still ongoing and that the current this is a conflict and instability that is taking over north africa does not spread further to the middle east the conflict of course that. may be difficult because of accidents still continue incidents still continue to happen israeli airplanes bombed gaza a few days ago we had as

a suicide bombing attack in jerusalem just yesterday so the situation is still definitely tense but russia doing everything it can to bring about peaceful negotiations. right cutting our of our live from moscow following the israeli prime minister's. is that to the russian capital. well the number of immigrants trying to reach europe is set to dramatically increase following the uprisings in north africa gazans have already fled the violence and uncertainty as as the government protests continue but as our kids are going to lose school reports the grass isn't necessarily greener across the mediterranean. i was under arrest in egypt i. had a full out civil war in libya is northern africa a city for with unrest people flee the region you can defeat the heroes in their home countries and many end up in greece where their lives hardly get any simpler

one of two hundred fifty migrants living in this makeshift refugee camp in the center of the greek capital. frankly the increase is a european country and 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 yet 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 mostly from the group countries were arrested for illegally crossing into the country now the situation in which they have a region has gone from bad to worse the number of migrants seeking to escape the turmoil is sure to rise of course the money that is all there is no one can best

describe. this. otherwise existing problems. with migration are 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. 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 . and one of the coalition forces are busy people boarding levy are seeking to close. as the country to peace its european nations like greece that end up getting here the hardest hit in those courtsey athens greece. a russian airliner involved in an emergency crash landing in september last year has once again taken to the skies but there are more details marti's tom martin he followed the

emergency landing when it happened back in the autumn i tell us about the plane's first flight after the crash. well the plane took off from is from our airfield about one thousand five hundred promises north of moscow the komi republic it took off from their field made a short flight to another city in the region but that airfield is the same airfield that it made this what was at the time called of miraculous the crash landing last september at the height of ten thousand meters the plane suffered a massive electrical failure it's nothing but maybe it's back trees overheated it meant that it lost its fuel supply of the fuel rods it's not a geisha and supply navigation equipment went down as did its radio communications to the pilots then out in the middle of the ten thousand meters to try and find an airfield they found this old disused airfield in it and become a republic in the middle of

a heavily forested area and managed just by sights alone manual controls to land the plane overshot the short runway there brilliant design for light aircraft and at the time only used helicopters over the top back so that one way at about two hundred meters in just like woodlands the seventy two passengers and nine crew on board it was safe no one hurt her the crew were hailed as heroes and it was it was seen to be a miraculous landing at the time since then that the russian federal agency for air transport house said but the plane clearly was very old in fact the. dozens of these too close to you right floors that used to go around russia and it said the point of my this year russian companies using these planes even so great them all to mark but at the moment to make this flight they did with its approach down it will now fly on to another russian citizen mara sitting in the lots of. every north

pole engineering experience in it's an engine is they be able to look further at the plane i'm not saying what happened to take suckley and make the replies so that it will still be it seems to be used instead. right tom burton i promise kept thanks for. the climb now to get the latest from the world of business math here next time. thanks for staying with us here on r.t.i. matter as a with your business folded away you have russian companies are preparing to list on the london stock market among them real estate developers telecoms and banks and totally issuers will be looking to raise two point seven billion dollars in april david buick from b g c partners in london says its market sentiment and timing which determine an i.p.o. success. the number of times but not for strangers for god's eye view in the last

ten years is extraordinary once you came through on an international basis the pain barrier when we used to see huge numbers every year between one thousand nine hundred six and two thousand and one now we see a little film cancellation with people saying the total part rights and so you could actually have the extreme be good but essential goods like that it doesn't go and i wouldn't be remotely negative about any of these side piers that russia is putting forward they all have very credit worthy reasons for doing this just a question of tony. let's run the market for numbers for you now european stocks in the block at the moment modest gains in europe followed a stronger session for most asian markets and wall street on the back of a more optimistic view of what japan's rebuilding will do for the global economy it's also helped to offset sovereign debt worries on the continent after portugal's

parliament rejected new austerity measures here in russia markets are extending the gains of the previous few days both the r.t.s. and my sax more than point seven percent this hour with commodity stocks taking the lead to get some individual market movers abdulla edging higher after the russian government decided to extend the cash for clunkers program till the end of the year russia's second largest oil producer lukoil out more than a per cent as concerns that oil supplies from libya couldn't stay disrupted and keep oil to read highs blocking this trend is the arrow float it's trading lower on the news that it sold its subsidiary airlines more davia tonight in giant norilsk nickel. russia's biggest lender spare bank plans to gradually increase the size of its dividends according to the bank's head hair monograph sarah banks' advisory board supervisory board recommends that shareholders confirm dividends for twenty ten twelve percent of net profits previously that figure was ten percent for

a given year. so the business news i'll be back next hour with more and you can find the latest at r.t. dot com slash business. from. the.