international community has such a no fly zone is in place but here in tripoli we continue to kill it sorts of civilians injured and killed join me want to stand on the top of the city in just a few moments pull. off one arts new mosque in transition weeks after mass on the grass in egypt led to regime change there are signs of disenchantment with the outcome of the revolution plus. the first images of the workers struggling to stabilize the situation at your pants focusing up power plants how merged with reports that the more had been exposed to dangerous levels of radiation. and all

the media fixation with japan keeps the world sympathising some question why huge natural disasters in less advanced countries are far less expensive. to. live from our studios in central moscow you're watching r t with me and he says no way it's four pm here in the russian capital three pm in tripoli where for us this night explosions and gunfire have shaken the capital and other libyan cities as coalition forces conducted more airstrikes on the allies debate who will take over command of the operation from the u.s. fighting between gadhafi his troops and the opposition is intensifying in the west of the country argues policy or has the latest from tripoli. what do you know to say more and more is that the main symbol 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 mouse not to be 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 from him in any reports of some of his former supporters starting to meet in secret now from the coalition is strikes in from the coalition community we know that for six days these airstrikes have been happening overnight and into very 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 with a capital city fire 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 stem 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 full church fuel and a kiss a t.v.

that duffy soldiers are literally going from house to house that they've hit the local hospital you know 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 inquired 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's a gadhafi is a 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 falling on the international community for some kind of treat 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 in a city do not have the experience to take on gadhafi 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 why. already now for three

straight days major 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 it's a need for a fifteen day seems to be no green interest side turkey is one of those countries that is most critical the sticking point is essentially the killing of civilians and teach insisting that they can be no civilians killed is such an operation that of course the other european powers are saying that he needs to be a negative you will be some kind of collateral damage that of course they try not to injure civilians but civilians will always get caught in the crossfire with the advantage of ministration is being caught red faced because for days now we've heard the american president to says that america's handing over control of this operation to nato countries and he keeps saying that this is going to happen soon the city in terms of the cracks missing 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 is triste can continue who will take control

over them and for just how much longer they can carry on. parties were correspondent paula we are there she's keeping you up to date on our trip her feet as well and one of her latest tweets she says there are rumors in tripoli that colonel gadhafi might be planning to escape or even commit suicide will stay with her followers that arche underscore can for the latest on the ground in libya. going to keep the discussion going on the war torn country and we're now joined live from chicago by political activist and writer rick ross all very for being with us the coalition is still undecided on who will take over command what do you think is going on in their. well first of all i think we should define the word coalition there seems to be an unspoken assumption there are generally agreed upon . you know pretoria international community and its international coalition in fact

we're talking about thirteen at most fourteen nations that have been involved in the really aerial assault against libya government facilities troops airfields and so forth of those thirteen or fourteen everyone except for kept are the emirate of qatar is a member of nato in the united states and certainly playing the lead role in fact overwhelmingly the u.s. kind of cons website defense like yesterday. to listed three hundred thirty sorties so far flown against libyan government facilities and assets including. what they said were one hundred sixty two cruise missile strikes and the overwhelming majority of those in the ninety percentile area certainly you know are americans so what we're seeing is an american military style assault against a sovereign nation with the assistance as always of washington's military alois in the north atlantic treaty organization which is fall of the us down this path the

war is you know with bosnia in one thousand nine hundred forty nine hundred ninety five against yugoslavia i mean to ninety nine young afghanistan in two thousand and one after the crisis and even though not formally knowledged in support of the in beijing occupation of iraq so when we're talking about a coalition let's be clear about what we're talking about the two guided missile destroyers and three submarines in the mediterranean off the coast of libya that are launching blustering attacks against the country are american. even though the u.s. is very big on making it seem like there are a lot of players along that steam do you think that's because they want to make sure that no one takes the main responsibility for what promises to seem to be a long and exhausting work here. good question i think the u.s. would like to not be seen as taking sole responsibility or primary responsibility for what you're what you're correct can be

a long drawn out protracted conflict and such with would like to share the responsibility with its ever faithful allies in the north atlantic treaty organization of course britain and france have been more than eager to play that support if they're even i suppose they would like to play a prominent you know given the opportunity but we have to remember that since the end of the cold war the collapse of the soviet union the breakup worse off that the united states has been able to intrude in the north atlantic treaty organization throughout eastern europe really throughout the mediterranean and a number of matters you know including absorbing twelve new eastern european nations all of. all but a couple which have been former members of the word stop back into the north atlantic treaty organization what that means no is another way nato but the west's military has access to military bases air and naval bases throughout the mediterranean. you know on corsica sardinia sicily crete cyprus most

every island also the key point that i think your viewers may not know is in the one nine hundred ninety s. as a part of what would become the global expansion of nato several partnership programs they call them or set up one of which is called the mediterranean diet and include seven nations in the middle east and north africa two of them do not know what are the mediterranean israel part but the other five do and they include i'm sorry israel pact borders mediterranean jordan does but the mediterranean dialogue includes morocco tunisia algeria egypt needing libya is the only north african country we're going to train that is not a member of this nato partnership program i use convinced that in both reform washington and brussels whatever regime. they want to enforce to replace well right off the what in fact joint program and with solidified. nato and u.s. control of the entire mediterranean basin i think we have to look at that you don't

know all of the situation as well as the naval aviator. now there are reports that the u.s. is deploying more than four thousand south and marines to the area what will happen if we see troops make it onto the ground there. that's a good question i think that's the inevitable next phase you know u.s. military planners in both u.s. africa command which is assumed you know there's the lion's share of the burden for so caught up to see don. talk about a multi-phase campaign and that is the first phase starting on saturday march nineteenth with cruise missiles and b. one spirit style farmers bombing the airfields and in libya and so forth has not been thought of as you know with nato drains of course we're going to be called a naval blockade. of libya in the next phase presumably is a more active role in the ground war in the country. wherever the armed insurgents

are and i don't think he you know they think anybody really knows the complete nature of the insurgents they're not able to pipes you know clearly i mean this is right there is bombing not only appear fields and radar facilities and so forth in libya the bombings of you know troop and armored convoys so that the west has already intervened on behalf of an armed insurgent group and the next step of course is to become more actively involved in the ground campaign and that means in addition to what are presumed to be american french and british special forces armor he planted amongst the insurgents you may see the introduction of special forces or even u.s. marines as you indicate. you know particularly in eastern libya. the runners up thank you very much for speaking to us live on the line from chicago thank you. well as the crisis in libya continues to unfold a neighboring country is struggling to find its feet after

a longstanding dictator was toppled the revolutionary euphoria in egypt is subsiding but many fear the return of the old guard and question whether the new leaders will bring about the changes they fought for or to see groups going to have has more. several weeks have passed since that revolves but it seems the wheels of the old political machine are still turning we start now oh oh ripping usual reclusion didn't finish here we need change we will be able. to better ourselves. how can do that and. you see if they used to be an anchor on egypt's national state run media she claims even though president mubarak has already stepped down the media is still being million people in the main command is to. leave around all those who are proud including the hard elephant this up but they can't make it 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 he's right 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 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 is prepared. and for a lot of the leftists and look for a bit of the political activist there 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 mean if you're 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 seems to be returning to normal here on the square most of the shops every open and heavy traffic has three. turning to blogs the political situation in the country is still far from healthy sure thousands mobilized to get rid of the authorities but one of the newly emerging political powers will be able to get their act together in time for the election and what direction it will be. a big question even for the revolutionaries themselves we've got this little authority. well the changes in egypt are expected to affect not only the country itself but also its neighbors later in the program we'll look at what they need rather for the peace process in the middle east is really prime surfacing moscow talks with the russian president we asked why there is now

a new how that would finally homework. but first european leaders are gathering in brussels for a fresh attempt to stop the region's debt woes from spreading on thursday portugal made this goal even harder as the economic crisis there took on political overtones moving closer to when you go out and the summit may result in more austerity measures it seems the public is not ready to tighten their belts further and artie's don't know bushell reports. the sense of process has been shut down by this massive and she will stare at a protest coming to the office this morning the protesters no police wanted to let people get through to get to work the police barricades to stop people getting into sensitive parts of the center of brussels of course the home of both. nato headquarters last night's the european commission headquarters was shot down by what police are calling serious side. now they're trying to find out if it's meant

to today's trade union and public protests the internet and e-mail services were shut down as a result it's really seriously disrupting today's e.u. summit which is expected to give recede into power. to control economic policy of its member states and impose new rules there are two measures that portugal prime minister has resigned off the portugal parliament rejected imposition of austerity measures which gives you an idea of the said publicly is not in favor of more austerity measures what's being called social regression people are angry that really they feel their lifestyles gets even worse that their way of life that they come for life is getting worse and. makes it far more likely this rejection of austerity measures. parliament that portugal will become the third country off 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 people are saying why are we bombing libya when there's record unemployment here in the e.u. we need help here and reports that the cost of the bombing campaign could reach a billion dollars if the bombing campaign continues. to japan now where three more workers have been exposed to harmful levels of radiation while connecting electricity at the fukushima power plant many are asking if the people toiling to make their facility safe are heroes or victims. of reports now from japan. 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. emitting the smoke that's also one of the party operates on plutonium which is completely dangerous in case of any

potential contamination those initially away with optimism over the weekend as more and more reactors are connected up the 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 normal state on 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 but on other hand they're seen as victims a lot of these people are not professionally trained nuclear workers 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 just today we received news of a couple more being hospitalized for receiving too high a dose so this is a story that will be developing over the next weeks and even then months and years the radiation fallout from the accident keeps spreading we heard of levels of

radioactive being exceeded by more than one hundred times around the area and it's reached as far as tokyo here yesterday the water was the glad and safe to drink for infants that's why the pride of the government people stay stay calm they swept all mineral water off the shelves here other countries are also taking what they're saying up precautionary measures to prevent the radiation spreading abroad several countries had already banned the import of vegetables and fruit growing around the fukushima area we got the first estimates of the damage and actually my top three hundred billion dollars have the most expensive natural calamity in history. well the tragedy in japan has been extensively covered by news outlets around the world the images of the earthquake and tsunami have garnered huge interest but some are now asking why other natural disasters in less developed countries tend to attract so much attention or she's going to she can't explain. true the world

tragedy live 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 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 our screens the sorrow of millions can go almost unnoticed let's look back at the 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 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 die down if there is a disaster in the middle of africa and such so africa. all you need have the same

kind of images that you have from egypt that where she is a twenty four seven operation that's why this ship thread is so huge in terms of coverage because there are cameras absolutely everywhere except that if this was in china i would say western china for instance you have really one pence of the coverage because the images are not there the earthquake in position one province in china killed around sixty eight thousand people and again the coverage was limited and so therefore was world interest in the disaster of their human tragedy 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 i'm going to check on reporting from washington our team. of russia is hoping to help get the mideast peace negotiations back on track and israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu visits moscow talks and starts in september when israel

refused to extend a freeze on settlement construction in the west bank are you comparing aadhaar reports from moscow. following the recent events of under arrest in the north have fricken region and of course the middle east israel may have to rethink its positions due to the conflicts that we saw staking place in countries like egypt tunisia libya all those places of course specifically egypt which israel long ago has considered a very strong ally with the change in government israeli officials may now have to rethink their position on the middle east peace negotiations and somehow gel grade and modify their position making it perhaps a more negotiable one more call in a more open to finding diplomatic solutions that would suit both sides of the israeli palestinian conflict still israel is. suffering from one of its first

bombing is in jerusalem in a number of years that of course intensifies the situation a lot of with benjamin netanyahu maybe not as willing to look for softer political solutions that would perhaps include the palestinian authority or in the following of these latest small pushes of course has been a longtime member of the middle east quartet that has jetted hated a lot of time and effort to acting as mediators in the middle east peace negotiations hoping to find a solution that would satisfy both sides and of course be a political one on a military one the united states frequently try to act as mediator in the conflicts but russia possibly now hopes to pick up where the united states left off and perhaps couldn't achieve what they'd set out to do now with the meetings first with the leader of the palestinian national authority now with the israeli prime

minister russia hopes to step up to the plate and fill the position of mediator bring it the two sides closer together and closer to finding a diplomatic or political solution to the middle east conflict. it's coming up here twenty five minutes past the hour business is next here in our. offensive is a hello and welcome to aunty's business update it's great to have you with that's a wave of russian companies that preparing to list in london stock market among them real estate developers telecoms and banks in total the issue is will be looking to raise two point seven billion dollars in april and david buick from big juicy partners in london said the further russian equity looks attractive new offers can be overpriced. well i think everybody looks and see 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 far reaches of. but unfortunately we generally find many of the investment banking so finding for the cost that they all tend to be rather of sugar prices for many years but i think also you virtually have to offer the in those to a guaranteed profit on the first day of trading but if he doesn't feel as good if they feel that they'd rather leave. the snapshot of the markets this hour european stocks are in the blank at the moment with german times gaining more than one and a half the sun again in europe for the just trying to session for most asian markets and wall street on the part of a more optimistic view japan's rebuilding will do for the global economy that's also how some of the foreign sovereign debt worries over the continent after portugal's parliament rejection rejected new austerity measures. and here in washington they're extending the gains will be created by the os here sunday myself

a bit more than a percent this hour with commodity stocks taking the lead. take a look at the individual market moves it is after bonds is edging higher after the russian government decided to extend speak cash for clunkers program to the end of the get russia's second largest oil producer nucor there's also been a percentage as concerns that all supplies from leaving could remain disrupted like the week highs in the trans am trading below news that it has sold a subsidiary airlines north to mining giant. russia's largest lender its burbank plans to gradually increase the size of its dividend according to the bank's head to get money grab for a bank supervisory board recommended that shareholders confirm dividends from twenty ten. percent of net profits while previously that figure was ten percent for a given get. little economic news a financial giant citigroup upgraded russia's g.d.p.

growth for cars for this year two point three percent from four percent because drivers fueling the growth are higher government expenditure and consumer demand but a degree of economists also warned that big inflation could be even ten percent at last in the first. one but the business news for now i'm back next hour with more and you can always find all the latest updates at actually dot com slash business. the.

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