enter the flight explorer the cost most embarrassing right speech please please acknowledge me i'm pleased that you shared coverage. international community and so said no side so she's in place right here in tripoli we continue to hear of course of civilians injured and killed joy needlessly on the capital city in just a few moments formal. culture this hour both in transition weeks after mouth from the draft in egypt blood to regime change there are signs of disenchantment with the present revolution thoughts. police crackdown as the austerity protestors in brussels would tear down some water cannons critics say western conference and look to the problems at home before imposing costs on spending millions on building

a campaign. for the first images of the workers struggling to stabilize the situation at hand to see more power plants have emerged with reports that three more have been exposed to dangerous levels of radiation. on the russian lawn kids just clothes in the blind could have been my six reaching the highest levels of the pre-crisis some motor thousand in day. seven pm in moscow this is archie coming to life thanks for being with us first up this hour for a fifth night explosions and gunfire have shaken tripoli and other libyan cities as coalition forces conduct more airstrikes of the allies debate who will take over command of the operation from the u.s. fighting between gadhafi troops and the opposition is intensifying in the west of

the country archies paulse leader the latest. what are you noticing more and more is that the main support 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 green in terms of how to move forward here on the ground there will keep themselves 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 and every reports of some of his former supporters just trying to meet in secret now from the coalition is strikes in from the coalition community we know there 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 terms that the coalition gets according to there was the town of misrata and they insisting that they've managed to skim 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 move to seal and a key city that gadhafi soldiers on the tree 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 there were loud explosions it was all said and aircraft gunfire exploding in the sky so tripoli again coming under intense fire overnight now the coalition has insisted that the airstrikes have been successful it's 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 in 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 nature leaders have been needing to try and decide who can actually move forward who can take control of this operation over libya and today they say to me for a fourth day and they seems to be no we meant to side 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 he needs to be i mean never to be they will be some kind of collateral damage that of course they try not to injure civilians the civilians will always get caught in the crossfire we want to administration is incorporated face because for days now before 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 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 for just how much longer they can carry on. well arty's for person polis leader is also keeping you up to date on our twitter feed her latest tweet coming in are talks about rumors that bodies last after fighting between the traffic forces and rebels are being presented as evidence of coalition bombing casualties will play with her followers that are under support for the latest on the ground from the. well for more we're joined live by terry admits from his political analyst and founder of the international n.g.o.s for terror network mr misrata and the flight from the group this evening now the official aim of this operation in libya is protecting civilians it sounds well intentioned and some might say the coalition is being selective because there are of course other conflicts in the

region where civilians are getting hurt but nothing's happening what's your take on that. oh of course. the international intervention is not at all. for. example police from the. conflict is very complicated because the. members of a coalition of. different. intervention. but what do you think the long term consequences of this intervention it will be for him and for the region in general. for the us big game is to stop for your rubber lucian. in africa you know very. few come. through for you

for your to push for the there are not forces in africa. colonial aims for the french and british this is the renewal. of the french and the british in this part of the world now there are reports that the u.s. in fact will be deploying more than four thousand sailors and marines do you think that we're in for a long term a ground operation. i'm sorry. we're hearing reports from you is in fact you touched on this a little bit is in fact planning to deploy some four thousand sailors and marines if we see troops on the ground do you think we're in for another long ground

operation in iraq say of course they will be ground off later are you new since the beginning. been strong and we can see it is wrong first it's not a need to operation where you have the support of the african union and your rugby league but. they say they. are leaving the middle of. a very sort of you is a very sad it will be benito. very city. a u.n. resolution. forty point is. strong a truce if you read the. breeze aleutian. who ground the problem on this point only if you say.

but it is not prohibited if you say it is to implement the no fly zone to off course they will do it even exists. again just briefly the arab league has withdrawn its support for this operation since the scale of the strikes became very clear do you think the arab world is losing more trust in the west. we have to understand what is really at stake. first you have to know about the french are preparing with the british police operation since last november. you know. the head of the protocol of police. which was the closest confident. i make defection in october he goes to paris and he is now under the protection of the

french secret services so he proposed to the french to organize an uprising in benghazi and truly vasquez there. psycho's he was in big trouble with care because the councell. a huge contract signed to give are four years ago for the raf and fighters and a lot of new car plans and the french asked to the british to kuwait to give the. military expenditure of force and it was signed between the french and the british. to november. the peroration not for the nineteenth of march good for twenty. five hurt because all of the. french military is.

asked to perform a big exists the british called for mistrial and this little exists size in perth exactly what is happening now but the same people and. the same strategy so all was clearly decided at the beginning of november of course also out of that i'm very sorry for you but we're going to spend our interview there thank you very much for being with us live on the line from beirut this this evening terry miss on the founder of the international n.g.o.s. now as the crisis in libya unfolds the revolutionary guard for egypt is subsiding but many fear the return of the old guard and question whether the new leaders will bring about the changes they want for. more from cairo. several weeks

have passed since they've evolved but it seems the wheels of the old political machine are still turning we start now oh everything usual revision didn't finish here we need change we need you'll be able. to govern ourselves. now that would be. 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 and made to me and is. me around all those who are around including ari and i would pick this up but thinking and making 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. 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 fall elections coming very soon nobody is speaking. and for a lot of the leftists and a lot for the political 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 state media still under its control it may gain enough force to come back to power. even though the traces of the recent violence are still obvious life on the city streets seems to be returning to normal here on the square most of every opened and heavy traffic.

returns but the political situation in the country is still far from healthy sure thousands mobilized to get rid of the authorities but whether the newly emerging 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 is going off already. to japan now where three more workers have been exposed to harmful levels of radiation walk connecting electricity at the fukushima nuclear power plant is raising the question if the people working to make a facility safe are heroes or victims are reports from japan. after being forced off the side of focus by black potential radioactive smoke coming from one of the reactors today the engineers i've been able to return to the site they're focusing on reactor number three the one that was emitting the smoke it's

also doing a party operates on plutonium which is completely dangerous in case of any potential contamination so 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 the attention has been focused on the so-called nuclear samurai the workers themselves who are helping to restore the station to normal state really 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 they're not one hundred 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 also 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 are being exceeded by more than one hundred times around. and it's reached the store as described by the government told people stay stay calm they swept 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 fruits grown around the focus she went area we got the first estimates of the damage and actually my top three hundred billion dollars rather expensive natural calamity in history. but the tragedy in japan has been extensively covered by news outlets around the world the images up there of quake and tsunami have garnered huge interest this is also started today on what other natural disasters in less developed countries fail to attract such attention as he's going to cap explains.

images that 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 all screams the sorrow of millions can go almost unnoticed let's look back at the earth earthquake in pakistan it killed more than seventy five thousand people in two thousand and five while the rules media did notice 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 and 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 countries 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 can see the aftermath of 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 said. aaron africa always rate you would

have the same kind of images that you have subject that where he is a twenty four seven operation that's why this tsunami in japan is so huge in terms of all 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 this issue one province in china they 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 news channels depends on which tragedy makes better television or i'm going to check on reporting from washington are keen. the situation in the middle east is not heading in a positive direction so it's making its way to about your meeting israeli prime

minister benjamin netanyahu here in moscow russia 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 or for you thought settlement construction in the west bank or you know as are overjoyed with the latest from central moscow writes that with the current on rest sweeping through north africa and the mideast that you agreed they had i want to discuss what exactly was on the table today. well of course the current unrest sweeping the north north african and middle east regions were definitely topping the agenda of talks between benjamin netanyahu the israeli prime minister and the russian president it is needed here in moscow both men agreeing that efforts need to be stepped up in order to control the destabilization and perhaps resume peace negotiations in the middle east conflict between israel and the palestinian national authority of me to just say no to try

any changes are currently under way which could lead to severe destabilize they should all the region as a whole and could prove seriously detrimental to the continuation of the middle east peace negotiations then minutes on the outlook his sense said that russia has a lot of experience in putting out these metaphorical boyer's they're currently ravaging north africa and the middle east and asked the russians help in putting those fires out mentioning of course the great existence of carers threat that could also prove detrimental to continuing negotiations peace negotiations which have been stalled since september. because to netanyahu of course has come to moscow just a day after much more abbas was here while she was role in the israeli palestinian peace process. brochures of course apart. the middle east quartet which also strives to. mediate and to monitor the negotiations between israel and

palestine but russia also wants to step up its role as a moderator in these negotiations hoping to jump start that of the peace process once again it has been stalled since september russia of course wanting a mediator role offering its assistance and expertise the situation of course in israel is heads not only with the ongoing conflicts in countries such as egypt tunisia libya now other noise and north african states but also with the ongoing threats of terrorism in israel itself yesterday terrorist attack took place in jerusalem the first in a number of years there were casualties on the ground so the situation in israel is very tense right now which is perhaps why many minutes and you know who is in moscow hoping to get assistance from russia russia of course very willing to step up to the plate and act as a mediator in the negotiations right after the knives are appalled by from central

moscow following benjamin netanyahu visit to the russian capital. now police and protesters have clashed in brussels as european union leaders are gathering there for fresh attempt to address you use here along that crisis argues daniel bushell has more from the belgian capital. water cannon and pepper spray being used against protesters and police actually and man perry caves to the testers getting into the building where i am now this book of building houses the european parliament and the european council really the key to buildings but they were about flutes meters away stones throw away if you like that's exactly what happened demonstrators threw stones bottles any other sharp objects that came their way to try and hit the building. and the leaders who were gathering for this for this people off. the double standards the big story that. you crack

down on demonstrators in the halls of your very center of europe but when libya's leader colonel gadhafi cracks down on the demonstrators there the e.u. chooses to bomb the e.u. leaders are not there for the morning they wrote to me often and police have actually pushed the protesters away for the way now so the e.u. leaders don't see see the protests as they are happening he is expected to force an even stricter on precedented level of powers for itself because now it's being told was there it's the measures on countries which it sees as overspending portugal's prime minister has resigned yesterday as a result of his palm and refusing also thirty measures which gives you a sense that the public does not support these austerity measures protesters speaking to today told me that you know their wages are being cut friends and family being laid off and this is not what they signed up to trade union leaders

say that europe social model is something that they want to keep a generous pension system the good working conditions and they see this as back for europe as a whole. business is back. this is business saffy hello and welcome to the program a wave of russian companies are preparing to list on the london stock market among them real estate developers telecoms and banks in total the shows will be looking to raise two point seven billion dollars in april and debut from b g c part of the

london says that the russian equity looks at trying to new york as 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 the opportunity saw because you have groups . many other countries of course in the far east as. we generally for. many of the investment banking so finding to their cost that they all tend to be rather of the price. for years and i think also you have to offer the ghost of a profit on the first day of trading. they feel that they'd rather leave. let's take a look at how the markets are performing follow the dow and the nasdaq trading in the blind gaining all of the signs encouraging corporate reforms pushed the market to vest as appears to be unfazed by the deepening political crisis and portugal european stocks are in the blind at the moment with german dyes gaining more than

a percent and gains in europe followed a stronger session for most asian markets on the back of a more optimistic view of what japan's rebuilding will do for the global economy that's also how to offset that worries on a big continent up the parliament rejected new austerity measures. and here in brush markets expanded again so much during this week and all the r.t.s. and the my sense closed around a percent and a half after thursday would come up to stocks taking the heat. let's take a look i've been to regional markets move after hours edged higher after the russian government decided to extend the cash for clunkers program till the end of the gear russia second largest oil producer luc was also are going to send has concerns that oil supplies from leaving could remain disrupted and keep oil. bucking the trend of traded low news it has sold at subsidiary airlines ignored obvious and mining giant rules and he got the high from troika dialog sums up

sentiment on the market. we. should be nervous markets actually we feel that the market is knows about your three things japan the middle east and the latest news is portable but on the other here and it was very strong oil prices and very stable and i would say even the ruling of the market in the united states is supporting russian markets in general always on those very high but still we see minor net inflow of too much from companies. first largest land plants and gradually increase the size of its dividends according to the bank's head again grabbed her balances board recommend that shareholders confirm dividends for twenty terms at twelve percent of net profits while previously that figure was ten percent i didn't get. around to any other economic news financial giant citigroup was great and rational g.d.p. growth forecast but it's year to four point three percent from the so they can

drive it's healing growth are higher government expenditure and consumer demand but citigroup's economists also warn that be inflation could benign or even ten percent i'm not so fast top. and that's the business news for now back next hour with more and you can always find out all the latest updates i started out called. down the official g.o.p. cation your i phone i pod touch for me.