unfortunately the search of the old clothes and the radio to lead them to join the hotel's shares in new delhi who took the most babyhood to three elections in the close of the maidan so to believe that the leader read this and shift it was punished but they protest permits. the international community and such a no fly zone is in place but here in tripoli to be continued to hear a pool of civilians injured and killed join me point to syria from the capital city in just a few moments formal. and long in transition weeks aftermaths on rather than egypt led to a regime change there are signs of this one sad moment with the outcome of the prevalence of parts of. the first images of the workers struggling to stabilize the situation a transfer pushing a power plant problem ards reports that read more been exposed to dangerous levels of radiation. and while the media fixation with japan keeps the world sympathizing

some question why humans are not disasters and lots of them countries get far less intensive and. watching our t.v. live from moscow where it's six pm it's five pm in tripoli before a fourth night explosions and gunfire have shaken the capital another libyan cities that's called mission forces conduct more airstrikes i want the allies to break who will take over command of the operation from the us fighting between gadhafi troops and the opposition is intensifying in the west of the country party's policy or has the latest. what are you noticing more and more is that the main some 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 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 wanted 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 out some of his former supporters are starting to meet in secret now from the coalition is trying to form a coalition community we know that for six days these airstrikes 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 hits 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 water fuel and the kiss of teeth that gadhafi 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 towards there were loud explosions that was all said anti aircraft gunfire exploding in the sky to tripoli again coming under intense fire overnight now the coalition has insisted that the is trying to be successful if there's a gadhafi 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 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 in a city to 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 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 fifth day and they seems to be no green in two sides turkey is one of those countries that is most critical the sticking point is essentially the killing of civilians and taking insisting that they can be no civilians killed in such an operation but of course the other european powers are saying that they needs to be i mean they're going to be they 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 the advantage administration is being called red faced 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 certainly 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 tried so can continue who will take control over them and for just how much longer they can carry on. argues war correspondent there paula we're reporting keeping you right up to date on our twitter feeds to do chuck brown out her latest tweet talked about rumors that bodies from fighting in are we are being presented as evidence of coalition bombing casualties stay with her follow us apart from the underscore call for the latest from paul on the ground in. we're going to keep the discussion going on for situation in the war torn country for more we're joined live from london by british john baron. alone by mr barron we can get you. there you are her we're almost into the six night the allied operation that was promised to be quick and effective how long will the airstrikes continue as you see it and what's the endgame for the coalition. but i think that's one of the big

questions and one of the reasons i opposed our involvement we simply do not know what the end game is we do not know what the exit strategy is and therefore there is a risk that we run into an ill defined mission and civilian casualties rise as a result so nobody knows what the end game is and the worry is that if there's a stalemate on the ground in other words if it stays in power. then what actually happens do we walk away but what about the arab league they express and have been expressing concern over the airstrikes of course they supported the initial resolution if you think that the west is the losing arab support and trust well i'm not sure about that but certainly a number of us here have concerns about the clarity of the u.n. resolution in the sense that what does it actually allow us to do on the ground what targets does it allow us to attack. the concern here in certain

quarters is that we have to be very careful on this issue because attacking tripoli for example we have to make sure that in attack in tripoli we can justify that we are staying within the u.n. mandate on the u.n. resolution otherwise people will start talking about altruria motives other than just the humanitarian mission now this is not the first time that the u.k. has followed the u.s. and other allies into foreign wars because i think human and financial class and widespread public protests why does this keep happening even to me huge public spending cuts. well i think on this situation you'll find that britain wasn't following the u.s. quite the reverse i think britain and france were actually leading the arguments and were instrumental in getting the un resolution through so i don't think we can be accused of following on this case but even though we've let it. i personally

disagree with the actual intervention itself i think it's once again shows that we're meddling in another muslim country our record of intervention hasn't been good in the past whether you're talking about iraq or afghanistan or indeed going back further than that so we have to be very careful in the bigs also the question where is this. where does this policy take us and why couldn't the arabs themselves those that wanted to know the flags they put the operation in themselves because they have the military capability to do so but some are still wondering how this all in fact started and earlier this month there was a conversation between defense secretary robert gates and general petraeus in which they were joking about striking libya well before of course it actually happened do you think that this really had been on their minds are the still current. well i'm

not but i wasn't privy to that piece of information so i can't i couldn't possibly comment at all i would say is is that a number of arab countries in our arab allies called for a no fly zone i think that should have given a very serious consideration to them actually leading it after all the egypt is very well placed geographically to have instigated one particularly given that the submit concern about the civilian casualties was in the east of libya and i think you know at the end of the day as i say it does beg the question where does this policy lead us to give and that's what appears to be happening across the middle east is one of the other countries where autocratic leaders are putting down rebellions in their view or causing civilian casualties you know i asked the foreign secretary in today's debate statement in the house of commons would there be any circumstances in which we would consider extending a no fly zone to other countries. great british m.p. john baron live from london thanks for your analysis. as the

crisis in libya unfolds the revolutionary euphoria in egypt and subsiding but many fear the return of the old guard and question whether the new leaders will bring about the changes they fight for r.c.c. has more from cairo. several weeks have passed since the revolt but it seems the wheels of the political machine are still clearly restarted now our of usual mission didn't finish here we need. we need you be able. to govern ourselves. now and 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 manipulated the main demand is to. me around all those who are including the heart and i would pick this up but they feed

me and 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. according to the united nations around three hundred people lost their lives during the unrest thousands of others were injured five 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 little elections coming very soon nobody is prepared and and for a lot of the leftists and local. activists they're thinking that maybe this will be staged as a way to be in power in 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 steve 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 opened and 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 new. powers will be able to get their act together in time for the election and what direction it will be this country and it's still a big question even to the revolutionaries themselves he is going to offer r t cairo. and disillusionment with the government is not just being expressed in the violence torn arab world at the moment thousands europeans are protesting against further austerity cuts and possibly military involvement in foreign conflicts as

the e.u. summit opens in brussels more on not coming up in just a few minutes. both situation in the middle east is not heading in a positive direction so so committed to after meeting israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in moscow the russian is hoping to help get the israeli palestinian peace negotiations back on track the talks have been stalled since september when israel refused to extend a freeze on settlement construction in the west bank catherine i thought about joining us now with the latest from moscow could you know with the current on road sweeping through the middle east the two agreed they had a lot to discuss so what was said today. well of course the continuing unrest in the middle east and the way it could effect negotiations between israel and the palestinian national authority dominated the talks between russian president meeting with. these really prime minister benjamin netanyahu just told met of course underlining just for an ongoing draft that we saw sweeping egypt.

ongoing in libya all that could prove very destructive to the prospect of resuming peace negotiations between israel and palestine both metaphor stressing the importance of getting those negotiations back on track rochelle forced wanting to play. a serious role in those negotiations meeting with egypt took the time to say that they are tonic changes as he called them currently taking place in that region in north africa in the middle east and those changes could potentially bring about a very unsettling and down belies to the situation. that could of course affect israel and the palestinians both men saying that a lot needed to be done to of provide some sort of a counter effect to that you stylize ation of the peace process needs to be. reinstated and that work needs to be done benjamin netanyahu of course

a very willing to accept russia's participation in the negotiation process saying that russia had a lot of experience in this matter many aspects of course discussed but this was dominating the agenda and will be of course dominating the agenda for the rest of the day you know netanyahu is a visit comes just a day after mahmoud abbas came to moscow what is russell's role in the israeli palestinian peace process. more issues of course part of the middle east quartet the four countries that are involved with the peace negotiations that have a force been stalled said since september the united states tried to act as a mediator in reinstating those talks they were very successful no washable to pick up where the united states left off and it became a become a mediator a moderator of sorts and hopefully get the two sides talking once again and

searching for a diplomatic and a political solution to the ongoing conflict in the middle east of course the current unrest that is sweeping north africa and the middle east has frequently caused concern here in russia a many russian officials and experts say that it could very well do stab allies the peace process and threaten its progress of course the situation in israel continues to be tense with yesterday seeing one of the first suicide bombings in israel in jerusalem in a law in a number of years so the situation in israel is very tense and a rush of course wants to do everything it can to help bring the all of the tension levels down and possibly moderate and mediate the resume negotiations right everyone's on a boat live from moscow. to japan now we're three more workers have been exposed to harmful levels of radiation more connecting

electricity at the fukushima nuclear power plant many are asking if the people working to make a facility safe are heroes or victims because aren't using or are government reports from japan. after being forced off the side of focus shima by blood but then she radioactive smoke coming from one of the reactors the day the engineers have been able to return to the site they're focusing on reactor number three does the one know it was emitting just woke it's also dollar thought he operates on plutonium which is particularly dangerous in case of any potential contamination those initially away with optimism over the weekend as more and more reactors are connected up to electricity it was assumed that once this is done the cooling systems could be restarted a lot of attention has been focused on the so-called nuclear summarize the workers themselves helping to restore the station to the normal state on the one hand seen by the media as heroes people who are risking their own lives and doing everything

to save japan from nuclear disaster but on the 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 councils 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 because of levels of radioactive being exceeded by more than one hundred times around the area in fukushima and it's reached as far as tokyo despite a fight of the government told people they can't. all mineral water off the shelves here other countries are also taking what they're saying are 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 actually my top three hundred billion dollars but the most expensive natural calamity in history. of 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 the last of our countries fail to track such attention. can explain. images that truck the world tragedy live twenty four seven leading news outlets deployed their best journalists to cover the disaster in japan and the hearts of feelings of few words 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 sympathising 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 both earthquake in pakistan it killed more than seventy five thousand people in two thousand and five while the world's 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 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 you just 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 died down if there is a disaster in the middle of africa and said. aaron africa always let you have the same kind of images that you have subject where he is a twenty four seven operation gets why this. is so huge in terms of what coverage because there are cameras absolutely everywhere if this was in china i will say western china for instance you have probably one bents of the coverage because the images are not there here is quaking decision 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 a better television i'm going to check on reporting from washington our team. but elise and protesters have clashed in brussels as european union leaders are gathering there for a fresh attempt to address the long crisis police were reported the using water accounting can instill disperse the crowd let's cross live to our correspondent daniel bushell in brussels daniel look for the protests are being clamp down on protesters i should say are being clamped down on quite heavily these of course are the same european governments that are striking libya allegedly to protect the people there from the government. absolutely let me just tell you about these really shocking images that are coming through of water cannon and pepper spray being used against protesters and police actually banned barricades to ban

protesters getting into the building where i am now this book of building houses the european parliament and the european council really the key buildings but they were really old about thirty meters away a stone's throw away if you like and that's exactly what happened demonstrators threw stones portals any other sharp objects that came their way to try and hit the building now and the leaders who are gathering for this for this and people are furious at the double standards that would be avoided that you know e.u. cracks down on demonstrators in the halls of europe in the very center of europe but when libya's leader colonel gadhafi cracks down on the demonstrators there the e.u. chooses to bomb. is there any news or are you hearing anything about how this might affect the summit of these leaders. yes the e.u.

leaders were not there for the morning they have arrived in the afternoon and police have actually pushed the protesters away further away now so the e.u. leaders will see see the protests as they are happening he is expected to call and even stricter on precedented level of powers for itself to allow it to be imposed that will stir its images on countries which it sees as overspending portugal's prime minister has resigned yesterday as a result of his parliament refusing all seriously measures which gives you a sense that the public does not support these austerity measures protesters beaten to today told me that you know their wages are being cut friends and family are being laid off and this is not what they signed up to a trade union leaders say that europe's social model is something that they want to keep a generous pension system with good working conditions and they see this as

a step back for europe as a whole. then your question of why in brussels following the government crackdown on protesters in europe the european capital thanks for that. business is next here on r t with you again after a short break. this is business saucy hello and welcome to the program i was able russian companies are preparing to list on the london stock market among them real estate developers telecoms and buying in total be sure it's all good looking to raise two point seven billion dollars in april and david b u m b g c partners in london said that of

their russian equity loops attractive new yorkers can be overpriced. well i think everybody looks and see how well russia has gone in the course of the last four years and what you saw because you have internal growth which many other countries apart from the far reaches of. but unfortunately we generally saw it. leave the investment banking finding to their cost that they all tend to be rather of a sugar price. yes but i think also you have to also the imposed a guaranteed profit on the first day of trading but it doesn't feel as good they feel that they'd rather leave. i think you look at how the markets are performing part of the dow and the nasdaq are trading in the blind gaining around zero point six percent encouraging corporate reform did not get sound investors appear to be unfazed by the deepening political crisis in portugal. and indeed lie of the moment

with german tanks gaining around one and a half percent gains in europe followed a stronger session for most asian markets on the banks for more optimistic view of what japan's rebuilding will do for the global economy and that's also helping to offset sovereign debt worries on the continent after portugal's parliament rejected new austerity measures. in russia markets are expanding the gains of the previous few days extending rather part of the off years sunbeam i think there are a bit more than previous one percent base our commodity stocks taking the lead. let's take a look at the individual market movers after others edging higher after the russian government decided to extend speak cash for clunkers program till the end of the russia's second largest oil producer lou corn is also more than a percent of concerns that oil supplies from lead it could remain destructive and keep oil at two week high bucking the trend and her float is trading low and needs it has sold its subsidiary airlines nor r.v. it to the mining giant. russia's largest lenders bank loans to gradually

increase the size of its dividend according to the bank's had given credit for buying subsidiary. supplies report recommended that shareholders confirm dividends for twenty ten of twelve percent of net profits while previously but bigger was ten percent for a given year. now they can only change financial giants if a group has operated russia's g.d.p. growth forecast but they say it took four point three percent from four percent if you drive it's puting the growth on high government expenditure on consumer demand that's the group's economists also warned that bain fleishman could be not even ten percent at a loss in the first. round that the business has put out i'm back next hour with more and you can always find all the latest updates at all c dot com slash.

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