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a store called moderation drive you'll find out more in business so you know around twenty minutes time. it's nine pm in moscow this is our team coming to you live thanks for being with us first up this hour nato has agreed to take command of the libyan no fly zone but stop sort of accepting full military control alliance chief anders fogh rasmussen 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 i spoke to our correspondents in the region also we're a new groups going all for the latest. the explosions they came for me in the waist of the capital city we know that the government has a military a field and military bases there so we say that this was the target as always nice . almost simultaneously happened with rounds of anti aircraft gunfire now today of

course is friday prayers security incredibly intense in the downtown part of the city here's what we're being told is massive demonstrations being planned after those periods we've also seen reports and indeed i have noticed it myself over the past few days that several of the picture stations here are running low on fuel and we are hearing that the city could almost wind to a halt with him and the next now as you mentioned we need to announcement was happening tomorrow those strikes were taking place over the capital city the latest word from major they have agreed to enforce a no fly zone they have agreed to actually take command of that which in the coming days we've been told by sunday night we're hearing from the nato secretary general that he still needs to be discussion of the will our nato will extend its control of her mind to the entire operation and there is of course because of objections and concerns that are being raised by countries like a major sticking point really is the whole effect that it's having on the ground

such as is strides on libyan ground forces so we will need to wait at least a few days to see exactly our coalition agreement and starts a second with your group is going on he is on the libyan gypsum border for a cigar tell us what's happening where you are people are fleeing the country we saw scores of refugees coming out of the media and according to the united nations over three hundred thousand people have already brought forward the graduates thought that nearly ten thousand refugees are purely. borders with egypt and tunisia and dozens of more or it's spread to drawing them saw this kind of gives a picture on the humanitarian situation in the great shoes for one family the war from the leaders who are the situation that it's terrible these so it was absolutely impossible for them to were there any more so they decided to wait it out in egypt. see what's happening and maybe come back if things. be also

some of the. supporters who are doing undercover inside the war captured by the opposition so in that sense there is still activity going on in the bin guys it's just on thursday the united nations and to discuss the humanitarian situation in the country strongly presiding what's what's happening there and actually judging by these figures over three hundred thousand people already. it's a real humanitarian crisis. for the means war or the military are we can to reinforce the north rhizome which was to help ordinary libyans there has not been achieved our paula to you now in tripoli the libyan government is reporting civilian casualties as a result of this military mission and the coalition is denying that it's any kind

of evidence that airstrikes have in fact killed or injured civilians. but we don't have overwhelming evidence that civilians have been children. who have been so stated a vision is reported almost nonstop the number of innocent bystanders which is what it would have been killed in these coalition airstrikes putting out a few edwardian hundred and i want to start the mass funeral for some thirty sixty people he laid out there was a crowd of about five hundred people. each they were shouting slogans at a cozy and the international community to stay out of libya nothing is of course we have no way of determining exactly who is inside and the government spokesperson here in tripoli even going so fast admitting that some of the people who were being buried actually soldiers and not civilians say but the shade was addressing that funeral procession sued all in libya and it's our soldiers of this country so big so question in terms of a. civilians versus soldiers i think it's also worth noting that some of the

journalists were taken to a hospital where they were shown charred bodies and been told that these were civilians and again it is the same problem of actually being able to determine who exactly are these bodies that we have been presented with and how exactly they were sure the government even according to rumor has perhaps walked in from fighting and . resumed its evidence of that the main problem at the moment with the fighting which seems to have now been stand around. which is not too far from the rebel stronghold of benghazi is at the rear and able to advance forward and we've been told that in that time the rebels have surrounded the town and committee intially forces will run out of supplies and only way that they can move forward if it does work is two questions and an exact number when the fighting on the ground is in urban areas so the risk of civilians children. and number two we don't see any weakening the heart of the gap eugene either politically or militarily. well gerald

from the trends research institute says nato is just a cover for the u.s. and the libyan mission is about control of the country's oil. when people get killed or there are strikes in afghanistan they 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 that attack any country it wants to have any tied to 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 united states be in iraq if their major export was broccoli or would they be in libya. if they weren't holding on to those sweetest of sweet crude oil on the planet. several un members including rostov express their concern over the risk to civilians in libya as nato forces continue their bombardment and sort of turkey a number of ports they have got some libya acco nato bombings in the balkans twelve years ago. in march seasons change sunshine invites americans onto the streets american politicians invite themselves to foreign countries. who marched 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 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 an end to the violence against its. it authorizes the use of force if it will sanction by the one security council in contrast to the bombings of the slavia there was no such green light in the one thousand nine hundred ninety one it's one where by needle the first type of military alliance atop the sovereign nation a non-native member posing no threat to the group similarly libya poses no external threat and there are other striking parallels between the conduct of these wars the enemy then slobodan milosevic jobbed the new hitler the enemy up to date the eccentric one marker duffy and power for over forty years now similarly villainize to pry 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 we're seeing is of course alleged war including of jumping the gun lead to actual the head of state of the targeted country and other leaders of the government that again as you know a page from the yugoslav book of twelve years ago. what is the world learned only not much the official reason for western involvement and so-called humanitarian mission a term coined and in the bombings of nine hundred ninety nine if you're willing to use a really good theory of this is going to say it's evil. russian else still relied upon but widely questioned. as a great series of surveyors with this is a very. very well here's a serious the engine of that machine both then and now a 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 blurred him. did in yugoslavia with thousands of people killed and close to one million displaced after the war when they did a count they found us nato destroyed fourteen tanks and serbia king tanks but they had also four hundred thirty seven schools a similar scenario is now predicted in libya obama vows the anti could after war will last these are not weeks and that was the field plan and yugoslavia bombings lasted two wonder how for months they think that a quick bit of bombing will sort the matter but in fact i think they will find that it will last far longer than they have gambled for twelve years on serbia still remembers the losses inflicted by u.s. nato bombings the us is now involved in its fourth attack of a foreign nation in the same twelve years and. new york.

and later today in our duties cross talk to. the libyan conflict with concerns that nato is involvement could become a case of history repeating. the u.s. british foreign policy objectives would be the removal of gadhafi regime un security council resolution nine hundred seventy three fall short of that clearly put 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 where you from the top of this debate about the end state and all the controversy flowing from up but frankly i think if we look at previous no fly zones that are remarkably in effect if you. fly zone of the bores me achieved proud to be a little fly zone over iraq did have better achievements but look at the length of time that these operations went on for. it.

if you look at. the new threats of the year or the sound of. another ensues that brussels a possible international bailout for portugal dominated talks on your bite with water cannons to disperse crowds protesting against austerity cuts that is then your bustle has more on the latest oh. no more layoffs no to 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 money was made to be to be used for some security. to be used for social health not to own the banks to. bring you know towards us to take ground because of the prison there goes across

europe voters are saying no more spirity measures portugal's prime minister has quit off 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 caught. the only option left is national default to tell the country called pay back its loans or accept an e.u. bailout similar to greece and ireland it hasn't happened in the west since the second world war but the longer you postpone this necessary evil. the more costly it is it's going to be at the same time military intervention in libya is costing hundreds of millions of euros many of your and so what they see is and are necessary 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 losing patience with politics. shouldn't you seem out of touch with reality increasingly familiar so it's old streets of the e.u. was billed timing he's doing no baseball to the big stick which is no good what time spend the money you will be easier when you get your grocers'. here with our team live from moscow coming up on the program i think you're abroad deserved back home. anything that anyone could possibly imagine the answer of war crimes that were committed throughout world history the american forces that. we meet us in iraq veteran who burned the bridges back to his home country after witnessing what he calls. the first apprentice expanding a voluntary evacuations thirty kilometer radius near the charcoal nuclear power

plant yes artie's insists the measure is not down to health risks but the country's minister of ministry of science said people remaining in the area are being exposed to high levels of radiation are seen as the latest from japan. the government is saying that even those people outside the plant outside the immediate area for the sheema are receiving up to a yearly those radiation and one day further afield to go and those are showing people that the water say here in tokyo it's safe to drink but people are still not believing this message all the bottled water has been bought off the shelves and japan is now saying that it might have to import some just to compensate for the shortage in the last few days it's been a problem to which less media attention has been played but in terms of fuel devastation of course the earthquake hundreds lonny has wreak more havoc the latest figures show that more than ten thousand people have died as a result of more than seventy thousand are still missing japan still hasn't coped

with the consequences particularly at fukushima the nuclear engineers have gotten into the reactor reactor number three perhaps the most dangerous one because it operates on plutonium and there was no water that they called the situation was ok yesterday they went in again those water that they thought although they're showing a high radiation level they ignored a little the problem was with their equipment but actually the radiation level in the plant exceeded the norm but ten thousand times they were right david with the poisoned water and had to be taken to hospital after nearly reaching the limit which they're supposed to be exposed to. coming up in a few minutes in our business goals and here in our two we have the latest on joint cards or correlates. to tiles. the between ross neff deal is on hold for a moment what next for the oil giant's joint venture we'll bring you all the

details in just a few minutes. a u.s. soldier is seeking political asylum in germany after deserving an american military base in his home country he could face life in prison or even the death penalty because you know a veteran at the center of the scandal. the american cuisine. for example operates the coast it was really good for me my personal favorite was the workers because i can't. think there are any that even met come schools that would 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. his mom cried with pride when he volunteered for the army but after a six month tour of duty in iraq andrei walked off a u.s. base in germany and never returned or anything that anyone could possibly imagine

in terms of war crimes that were committed for world history the american forces have done this and are continuing to view this on a daily basis so that we're being attacked from somewhere but they didn't know where so they just shot right in and we had different direction after hiding out for more than a year andre chaper it surfaced in marriage to german security himself supports from a number of human rights organizations and is now officially seeking asylum tucked away on the border of germany and austria lake he was a has long been popular with holiday makers but now the ideal exporter 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 and the pressure is very high on germany and i'm very often said in his speeches and so sorry about that you know to putting so much pressure on the german government also we really love this country so much andrea will argue of course the war in iraq was a complete fraud. but lawyers say he has little chance of winning the sega war with the u.s. it's particularly. more difficult if it is a war such as the war in afghanistan for example or there were lucky war where it was not a popular war and if we just started having droves of soldiers deciding on their own but 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 up to life

including the possibility of death. the mainstream media in the so-called coalition countries are not in a hurry to give andrea say either of the major corporations like the b.b.c. c.n.n. what would happen is that if i say anything that was controversial or would go against the government line i would be completely censored andras says he's ready for the battle of his life claiming there was no just occasion for the war in iraq but he admits he's on a slippery slope exceeding the pressure of the r t but now i'm keen germany. a look now at some world news and grief for you this hour first to syria where protesters plan to hold a day of dignity on friday expand demonstrations across the country but one is called despite president bashar al assad's pledging to grant people greater political freedoms and raise public pay meanwhile in the southern city of daraa thousands of people continue to rally against the forty eight year rule of the

ba'ath party activists claim that dozens have been shot dead and many are western security forces. over the last few days. five military police were arrested in northern brazil after a security camera captured the officers firing shots take a look at a teenager the footage shows police pushing the fourteen year old boy around and shooting him in the chest at close range the victim survived but suffered several rooms according to the prosecutor the video was only broadcast for the first time this week as the boy's family hesitated out of fear of retaliation. a wildfire in colorado has engulfed sixteen hundred acres of land in a denver of soccer forcing over eight thousand residents to flee their homes this is the second major wildfire to erupt this week the cause 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 coming your way here in our c after this short break. and welcome to business r.t. could have your company the arctic exploration as a swap deal between oil majors p.p. and ross now has been blocked by the stockholm arbitration to lybia the case was brought by a the russian shareholders of team k b p and the existing partners of the british oil company in russia for more i'm joined by these correspondent tom bart and tom

thanks very much for being with us is this situation by the stockholm arbitration tribunal binding. this result ration court has ruled against b.p. saying that they were in the wrong in their in their dealings with ross and after that that deal to no longer go ahead of the moment has to stay on the hold that very much pleased they are which is a group that represents the interests of the russian shareholders in the t k t n k b the group understand coverlets their chief executive has said byrd's. he is pleased with that decision and that b.p. is in the in the wrong let's just have a listen to that. military doing all very queer. b.p. was in breach which are all going to be. it cannot pretty would completely trying to put all of the. actual. deterioration the

relationship between b.p. and they are in the management of b.p. b.p. will have been a lot of time building. trust. partner . and. then our time building its reputation russia. by agreement of the parties that decision is legally binding it doesn't necessarily mean that the deal itself is to stop forever it's just on hold at the moment it's an injunction against a proceeding with that bt has applied for a further decision by the courts to see whether they can drop one part of the deal with rosneft which was a global strategic partnership to explore for oil and continue just with a share swap a sixteen billion dollars share swap but the shares sort tween here and ross know what they're going to have to do sort out some kind of compromise by the fourteenth

of april or else the agreement without having been consummated will expire right so what are the two companies going to do now is the deal off. the question many people are asking it seems at the moment bird's for the moment at least one can say been please very disappointed with this decision back in january when the deal was first trumpeted b.p. we're very happy with the deal with their chief executive bob dudley called it a historic agreement and one that closed for not but last great unexplored reserves of oil and gas under the arctic currently only explored and there they could hopefully revolutionize the oil industry in the world with expertise swap between them and rosner it's disappointing but it seems that most commentators don't think this is going to stop the deal then surely there will be there are other ways

around this setback and p.p. will definitely be trying to arrange some kind of compromise. horribly the key to this is dealing with they are the russian shareholders in seeing k b p perhaps including them on a deal with with ross nafta perhaps giving them some kind of compensation but certainly i think it was a compromise will be made all right tom barton artie's correspond thank you so much for your comments. now chris we for chief strategist also believes the exploration deal is too important to be abandoned. i think it's dangerous far too important for russia this is a strategic deal for the russian state to developing the country's biggest oracle to be held every one of the world's richest or a major search of the arctic surface treated must go ahead it's too important so i think what happens now basically is that we get into a more serious phase negotiations involving all the folkies. to reaching a deal i would expect the states to consider

a role in these discussions as well because they really need to reach of impasse clearly from earth point of view pay they want to speed to go ahead. excluded because they could risk just being sidelined to deal with industry and not getting access to any future growth so whatever teeters done and i do believe that deal will be done. he will have to. be a our shareholders are provided with some other compensation for the deal. one is they can look at the market asian stocks the sharing gains the writing session with the nikkei out around one percent so i was banks and that's up to egypt bank upgraded its rating sony corp by it's up more than two now they're here in russia trading will stun around one i was going to get a session in my picks around one now and then with commodity stocks on the.

so we have time for this hour we'll be back in one hour's time with an update of the that. today violence is one.