nato accepts command of the no fly zone over libya but not full control of the military operation as are pros spawning tells us air strikes are continuing to rock the capital tripoli. and the conflict in libya is playing out with tackles of the u.s. led campaign in yugoslavia twelve years ago a war which claimed two thousand civilian lives. was angry protests in brussels as e.u. leaders meet to discuss new spending cuts while continuing to splash billions on that military campaign in libya.

good morning from moscow this is r t coming to you live with me and use now a our top story this morning nato has agreed to take command of the libyan no fly zone but stopped short of accepting full military control alliance chief and said the u.s. will hand over operational responsibility to nato within days meanwhile fresh air strikes are being reported in the libyan capital tripoli for more let's cross live to our correspondents paula slayer she is in the libyan capital. although i'd like to go to you first what's happening in the libyan capital this morning and any news about fire overnight. but it certainly was fire of the night and into the early hours sworn in there were large explosions that came from the east and west of the capital city we know that the government has the military airfields and military bases there so we split but this was the target as always in these strikes although

some of the happened with rounds of anti aircraft gunfire now today of course is friday midday prayers security incredibly intense in the downtown part of the city ahead of what we're being told is the massive demonstrations being planned after those periods we are also seeing reports and indeed i have noticed over the past few days that several of the pixel stations here are running low on fuel and we are hearing that the city could almost align to a halt within the next few days now as you mentioned the nato announcement was happening while those strikes were taking place over the capital city the latest word from major bay have agreed to enforce a no fly zone we check should take command of that within the coming days we've been told by sunday night we're hearing from the nato secretary general if he still needs to be discussion over whether or not nato will extend its control of her mind to the entire our coalition and that is of course because of objections and

concerns that are being raised by countries like turkey the major sticking point really is the whole effect that it's having on the ground such as the strikes on libyan ground forces so we will need to wait at least a few days to see exactly two hours coalition agreement hands out for that second request was going our ears are the libyan did some border forest or tell us what's happening where you work. well what's happening is people are fleeing there are plenty. of refugees coming out of with yet and according to the united nations over three hundred thousand people have already brought forward the ground you thought that nearly ten thousand refugees or purely. borders with egypt. and tunisia and dozens of more are expected to drawing them so this kind of gives a picture on the humanitarian situation in the country we spoke with one family the war from bin guys the b describe the situation the terrible the said it was

absolutely impossible for them to live there anymore so they decided to wait it out in egypt she was happening and maybe come back if things settled down the also told us that some of the gaddafi supporters who are acting undercover inside going guys the aiming against the opposition and possibly even against the media because some of them. are it's thought that some of them took part in the attack against the ounces your t.v. crew in which it's cameraman was killed so all the rest he said that some of them were captured by the opposition so in that sense there's still activity going on in the bin guys itself just on thursday the united nations met to discuss the humanitarian situation in the country strongly criticizing what's what's happening there and actually judging by these figures over three hundred thousand people already you left libya it's

a real humanitarian crisis and so small for the main goal of this military operation to reinforce the no fly zone which was to help ordinary libyans that still has not been achieved. paula to you now in tripoli the libyan government is reporting civilian casualties as a result of this military mission but the coalition is denying that it's any kind of evidence that airstrikes have been sacked killed or injured civilians. well we don't have overwhelming evidence that civilians have been killed in strikes have been some state television is reporting almost nonstop the number of innocent bystanders which is what of course there would have been children its coalition is trying to figure at morgan one hundred now i'm going to start in and the mass funeral for some thirty six people the companies were laid out it was a crowd of about five hundred people very very angry they were shouting some slogans as our cosey and of barmer and international community to stay out of

libyan if it was of course we have no way of determining exactly who was inside and the government spokesperson even went so fast admitting that some of the people who were being buried were actually soldiers and not civilians because of the shape it was addressing that funeral procession sood they're all libyans are soldiers of this country so big so question in terms of how they view civilians versus soldiers i think it's also worth noting though that some of the journalists yesterday were taken to a hospital where they were shown charred bodies and being told that these were civilians and again they face the same problem of actually being able to determine who exactly are these bodies that we've been presented with and how exactly they were a government even know what we're hearing according to rumors has had snortin bodies from fighting in other areas to see evidence of that the main problem at the moment with of fighting which seems to have now been steamed. which is not too far from

the rebel stronghold of benghazi is that the rebel forces are unable to advance forward and we've been told that in that time we will have surrounded the town and they have already intially got his forces will run out of supplies and it will be the only way that they can move forward but it does raise two questions and that exact number when the fighting on the ground is an open ears so the risk of civilians being killed is ever so high and number two we don't see any weakening behalf of the gadhafi regime either politically or militarily but our correspondents covering our fight of this crisis in libya policy are in the capital and your group is going on the border with is it making his way through very gaza will resign you both throughout the day thanks for that update. well gerald celente from the trance research institute says nato is just a cover for the rats and libyan misson is about gaining control of countries. when people get killed or there are strikes in afghanistan that kill innocent people they always use the term nato it's mostly the us and yes the prime minister of

turkey is one hundred percent correct again the hypocrisy is before our very own eyes it's so all this is is the united states doing what it's become accustomed to do and that is attack any country it wants to at any time any reason that it could make up and the new reason that they made up is perfectly orwellian a humanitarian crisis so you kill people to solve the humanitarian crisis and you take dictators out that you don't like because really what's behind this and i've said it before would be united states be in iraq if their major export was broccoli or would they be in libya if they weren't holding on to this leader of sweet crude oil on the planet. well several u.n. members including ross expressed their concern over the risk to civilians in libya

as nato forces continue their bombardment as artsy as i must have turkey in the now reports it isn't the first time the alliance is on least its military power on foreign lands. in march seasons change sunshine invites americans onto the streets american politicians invite themselves to foreign countries. march nine hundred ninety nine the u.s. and its nato allies yugoslavia our own forces joined our nato allies in airstrikes against serbian forces responsible for the brutality in kosovo and march two thousand and eleven america's next democratic president and a new coalition of the willing attack libya the u.n. security council passed a strong resolution that demands and to the violence against others. it authorizes the use of force to be able sanctioned by the un security council in contrast to the bombings of the slavia there was no such green light to the ninety ninety nine in the bombings were led by nido the first time military alliance atop the

sovereign nation and nonito member causing no threat to the group similarly libya poses no external threat and there are other striking parallels between the concept of these wars the enemy then slug on the loss of each god the new hitler the enemy of today the eccentric one marker duffy and power for over forty years now similarly villainize to buy the us colonel qadhafi base just step down from power and leave the goal now and back then getting rid of a leader no longer favored by the west taking sides with questionable opposition in what started as a civil war what were seen as a four fledged war including attempting to the only to kill the head of state of the targeted country and other leaders of the government again as you know a page from the yugoslav book of job years ago. what is the world learned only not much the official reason for western involvement and so-called humanitarian mission

a term coined amid the bombings of nine hundred ninety nine you know it's who you say like of all of us are going to say this is evil. the same issue that was. a rationale still relied upon put widely questioned you do know as a very serious officer has with. us. this is. ridiculous because if he. says he will here is a serious the engine of that machine both venom now and no fly zone fueled in libya by the additional all necessary measures where the line between the enemy in a foreign land and its civilians often gets. it did in yugoslavia with thousands of people killed and close to one million displaced after the war when they did a count they found the u.s. nato destroyed fourteen tanks and serbia fourteen tanks but they had also

four hundred thirty seven schools a similar scenario is now predicted in libya that was the you could offer you war will last be weeks that was the field plan in yugoslavia bombings lasted two wonder how for months they think that a quick bit of bombing will sort the matter out but in fact i think they will find that it will last for longer than they have gone before twelve years on serbia still remembers the losses inflicted by u.s. nato bombings the u.s. is now involved in its fourth attack of a foreign nation in the same twelve years. new york. and later today artie's cross talk to. the libyan conflict with concerns that may doesn't volman could become a case of history repeating. the u.s. british foreign policy objectives would be the removal of gadhafi regime u.n.

security council resolution one hundred seventy three fall short of that clearly but it does have the mandate in the open ended mandate to protect civilians so that's what much of this comes down to and that's what opens the top of this debate about the end state and all the controversy flowing from that but frankly i think if we look at previous no fly zones that are remarkably ineffective. the bosnia achieved proud to be a little fly zone over iraq did have better achievements but look at the length of time at least operations went on for. it. and the threat to the. your oversight of other issues that summit in brussels possible international brought. tox one year by police use water cannons to disperse crowds protesting against austerity cuts are daniel wessel has more on the

latest blow to the eurozone. no more layoffs pay cuts no retirement the message from twenty thousand angry demonstrators pushed back with water cannons and pepper spray by riot police the protesters tried to get through to e.u. leaders meeting in brussels to slash spending this where there was made. to be used for such a curious thing. to be used for this is so here it's not the bank when you bring you the world's first move to take ground because of the curse is there goes across europe voters are saying no more austerity measures portugal's prime minister has quit of the parliament voted down a fresh round of cuts because he has three months left to repay almost ten billion euro at a time when its sovereign credit rating has been called analysts say the only

option left is national default to tell liberals the country called pay back its loans or accept an e.u. bailout similar to greece and ireland doesn't help and the worst in the second world war but the longer you postpone this necessary evil. the more costly it is there's going to be at the same time military intervention in libya is costing hundreds of millions of euros maybe a few areas so what they see is an unnecessary and expensive campaign somebody asked the. finance minister about the financing of this and i think the overwhelming sense that you got from among the public in britain with skepticism with millions unemployed across europe people lose. patients should seem out of touch with reality increasingly familiar sites old streets of the e.u. is give me will tell you he's growing not dispell to it big so the question is no

good right time to spend the money you believe that will be easier than you get your losses. coming up in the program here in r.t.i. hero abroad but i deserve back home. anything anyone could possibly imagine in terms of war crimes that were committed to real world history the american forces their goodness we need a us iraq veteran who burn the bridges back home back to his home country rather after witnessing what he calls a fraudulent war. japan may increase the voluntary evacuation zone from twenty kilometers to the thirty kilometer radius near the trouble focusing on nuclear power plants the government's top spokesman said the move is designed to improve the daily lives of those still in the area of the country's ministry of science said people remaining in the area are being exposed to a year's dose of radiation within twenty four hours on thursday three workers were exposed to levels of radiation ten thousand times higher than normal meanwhile the

relief operation is entering its third week in the troubled nation with the confirmed number of dead topping ten thousand more than seventeen thousand people are missing. now with our jeanne live from moscow coming up in a few minutes in our business bulletin and with the latest from the world of finance. the b.p. ross nets deal is on hold for the moment so what next for the future of the oil giant's joint venture we'll bring you all the details in our chief business in just a few minutes. a u.s. soldier is seeking political asylum in germany after observing an american military base if extradited to his home country he could face life in prison or even the death penalty are going to show them at a veteran at the center of the scandal. the american cuisine. for example out. it was really good for me

a personal favorite was the rule of course i can't. even met schools that. watch for andre chaperonage he's alive has become one giant rollercoaster four years ago he deserted the u.s. army causing all the way to his native cleveland forever his mom cried with pride when he volunteered for the army but after a six month tour of duty in iraq under a walk talk a u.s. base in germany and never returned or anything that anyone could possibly imagine in terms of war crimes that were coming into history the american forces have done this and are continuing to do this on a daily basis so they were being attacked from somewhere where they didn't know where so they just shot off randomly a different direction after hiding out for more than a year andre chaperoned surfaced in marriage a german security himself supports from a number of human rights organizations and is now officially seeking asylum tucked

away on the board of germany and austria lake he was a has long been popular with holiday makers but now the ideal exports may also go down in history as the home of the first u.s. the iraq war veteran granted political asylum to become dispersed is not going to be easy though germany is the main staging post for the u.s. military with around sixty thousand u.s. troops stationed there each year some of those soldiers go a while and get beat up by the police the pressure is very high on germany and i'm very often said in his speeches he's so sorry about that you know to putting so much pressure on the german government also we really love this country so much andrei will argue in court the war in iraq was a complete fraud but lawyers say he has little chance of winning b.c. legal war with the u.s.

it's particularly. more difficult if it is a war such as the. war in afghanistan for example will be your war aki war where it was not a popular war and if we just started having rows of soldiers deciding on their own that they were no longer going to become a member of the united states military apparatus we have a problem and so there are very harsh penalties to wife including the possibility of death. in mainstream media in the so-called coalition countries are not in a hurry to get andrea say either the major corporations like the b.b.c. some and then what would happen is that if i say anything that was controversial or would go against the government line we would be completely censored andras says he's ready for the battle of his life claiming there was no just a few cation for the war in iraq but he admits he's honestly pretty slow extended

version of our team there now in germany. it's coming up to twenty one minutes past the hour let's take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world protesters in syria plan to hold a day of dignity on friday to expand demonstrations across the country but once calm despite president bashar al assad pleasure to grant people greater political freedoms and raise public paid meanwhile in the southern city of daraa thousands of people continue to rally against the forty eight year rule. party activists claim that dozens have been shot dead many arrested in security forces clamp down over the last few days. five military police arrested in northern brazil after a security camera captured the officers firing shots at a teenager you can see the footage shows police pushing a fourteen year old boy around and shooting him in the chest at close range the

victim survived but suffered several wounds according to the prosecutor the video was only broadcast for the first time this week as the boy's family hesitated out of fear retaliation. a wildfire in colorado has engulfed sixteen hundred acres of land in a denver suburb or sent over eight thousand residents to flee their homes this is the second major wildfire to erupt this week because of which is unknown the blaze which started thursday afternoon is being driven by winds of more than fifty kilometers per hour firefighters have now managed to contain seventy percent of the fire and no injuries have been reported. the latest business is up next here in our city with anything. one is you watching business out see the arctic exploration analysis walk deal between oil majors b.p. and was here has been blocked by an arbitration course in stockholm the case was

brought by the russian shareholders of team k b p and the existing partners of the british well company in russia now for more i'm joined by r.t. correspondent tom boston going to do so is the decision by the still cannot be traced and called binding. well as you say dimitri that arbitration called a swedish taishan court in london rules that b.p. was in the wrong and that deal had to go on hold for the moment he couldn't do that deal with ross nast a.a. oz chief executive stan probably less said to was earlier that he was very pleased with that ruling and that b.p. was in the wrong. for the tribunal was very clear. b.p. was in breach and which are all going to be in and. it cannot proceed with complete was trying to work through the whole of the. actual quote the significant

deterioration the relationship between b.p. and they are in the management of. people who spend a lot of time rebuilding the trust. with a partner and a man. and all of them are building. that is the position that you would expect to hear from a are the russian shareholders in c. and k b p obviously p p disagrees but as they agreed to go to arbitration they also agreed that this her decision of this court is legally binding and also means that the team now haaz until the fourteenth of april to try and sort out some kind of compromise with they are armed with rosneft in order that that search original deal they tried to do with ross enough to go ahead. what's now going to happen to be and

ross never has the deal off. to question it that's a question that's on everyone's lips it certainly will be very disappointing for b.p. this back in january when the when the deal was trumpeted in the notes to be pleased chief executive bob dudley was very happy about the deal he called it historic but it could open up one of the world's last great exploration fields the the arctic four to contain huge reserves as yet on top of oil and gas. that was that was the feeling at the time so this is clearly a blow but the deal considers not only of what they called but global strategic partnership to explore but also a share swap between ross and aften and b.p. but has also for the moment been put on hold whether will stop the deal most commentators say probably not it's such an important strategic deal they say that

b.p. is definitely going to try and find a way to make it work and it that the key to that is going to be some kind of compromise with the russian shareholders represented by a yacht whether they come in on this deal or whether they get some kind of compensation from it is yet to be found out but it seems. b.p. certainly going to try and make some kind of compromise out of the situation these correspondents on bars and thank you so much for those comments. and staying with the deal chris we first chief strategist believes the exploration deal between b.p. and was there is just too important to be about. american fifteen years far too important for russia to strategically or for the russian scary to our being the country's biggest or a company and one of the world's biggest story of nature something bigger than the arctic circle street of us go ahead it's too important so i think what happens now basically is that we get into a more serious. negotiations involving all of the parties future reaching if

you i would expect the street consider their role in the discussions there is well because they read each reach of impasse clearly here from a point if you. did not want to speak. they're prepared to exclude it because they could risk just being sidelined and beyond industry and not having access to any future growth so whatever teams are going to generate you to be there to. he would have to. be a our shareholders or provide him with some larger compensation for thrifty. going to markets calling me asian stocks assuring order against this morning with the nikkei are almost one percent lead like taking time to come stocks that suffered torture bank rating operates a sony corp it's up to the sec. and russia trading will start in around two hours time the markets extended gains made during the week on thursday of the r.t.s.

my sixth close around a percent and a hard up with commodity storks taking the. meanwhile precious metals are hitting new highs as they benefit from their traditional safe haven status gold prices set a new record of one thousand four hundred forty seven dollars an ounce it's now a bit down to thirty three that says a deepening political crisis in portugal over its budget added to the needs about libya and japan meanwhile civil prizes also reached a sea of high so we have time for now will be back next hour with an update and he says next we'll have one stay with us.

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