nato excepts command of the no fly zone over libya but not full control of the military operation is a profound and tells us the airstrikes are continuing to withdraw from the capital tripoli. and the conflict in libya is playing out right after those of you out front campaigning you can swap the twelve years ago aboard which claimed some two thousand civilian lives. was angry protests in brussels as e.u. leaders meet sconce new spending cops newly sworn billions on military campaign it's a growing. watching

art scene of live from moscow with me and he's in the way it's ten am here in the russian capital and their top story this hour nato has agreed to take command of the libyan no fly zone but stopped short of accepting full military control alliance chief anders 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 suppose our correspondents on the ground in the region paul sr and you go to school oh it's kind of for the latest. there were large explosions that came from the east in the way it's a capital city we know that the government has the military air fields and military bases there so we suspect that this was the target as these strikes almost simultaneously happen with rounds of anti aircraft gunfire now today of course is friday. security incredibly intense in the downtown part of the city here's what

we're being told is the massive demonstrations being planned after those periods we've also seen reports and indeed i have noticed of massmart of over the past few days that several of the pictures stations here are running low on fuel and we are hearing that the city could almost wind 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 nato and obey have agreed to enforce a no fly zone never agreed to actually take command of that within the coming days we've been told by sunday night and we're hearing from the nato secretary general that he still needs to be discussion over whether or not nato will extend its control of her mind to the entire congregation and that is of course because of objections and concerns that are being raised by countries like to keep the major sticking point really is the whole effect that it's having on the ground such as the strides on libyan ground forces so we will need to wait at least

a few days to see exactly how our coalition agreement hands out but second with your group is going on he is on the libyan gypsum border of course they're going to tell us what's happening where you are people or the currency. wars of reviews holding of and according to the united nations over three hundred thousand people have already brought forward the ground thought they had nearly ten thousand refugees or clearly as many as borders with egypt and tunisia and dozens of war or it's spread to drawing them so it's kind of gives a picture on the humanitarian situation. spoke with one family in the war from. the describe the situation the terrible the said it was absolutely impossible for them to have any more so they decided to weed out in egypt see what's happening and maybe come back if things settled there also told us that there are some of the

gaddafi supporters who are acting undercover inside the war captured by the opposition so in that sense there's still activity going on in. itself just on thursday the united nations and to discuss the humanitarian situation in the country strongly criticizing what was happening there and actually judging by these figures over three hundred thousand people over your left. it's a real humanitarian crisis and sole source for the means all of this military operation to reinforce the north winds on which was to help ordinary libyans there still 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 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 told anything strikes or no

doubt there have been so stated a vision it's reported almost nonstop the number of innocent bystanders which is what it would have been killed in these coalition he strikes putting that figure at more than one hundred now one who started the mass funeral for some thirty sixty people were laid out it was a crowd of about five hundred people. each they were shouting some slogans outs a cozy end of the international community to stay out of libyan if it is of course we have no way of determining exactly who is inside and the government spokesperson here in tripoli even went so fast admitting that from other people. but we're being buried actually soldiers and not civilians per se but the shape it was addressing their funeral position sood they're all libyans are soldiers of this country sort of begs a question in terms of how they view civilians who as 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 been 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 have been presented with and how exactly they were killed the government even know what we're hearing according to a rumor has perhaps networks in lighting and other areas to resume it's evidence of those the main problem at the moment with the fighting which seems to have now been standing around. which is not too far from the rebel stronghold of benghazi is at the rebels are unable to advance forward and we've been told that in the rebels have surrounded the town and meg who committee intially duckies forces will run out of supplies and only wait and they can move forward but he does admit it's two questions and that exact number when the fighting on the ground is an urban areas so the risk of civilians being children are so high and number two we don't see any weakening under half of the gadhafi regime either politically or militarily. or correspondence polls clear

a new group is going are keeping you up to date with breaking news constantly via our twitter feeds to do check out what her latest polls paula tells us how security infertile to believe and usually high amounts in expected in preparation for expressive possible mass protests following new day of prayers on friday your glory is heading to benghazi for us to stay with our correspondent on the ground in libya follow us there are it's an underscore calm. it's. so there are all celebs safe from the trends research institute says nato is just

a cover for the u.s. and the libyan misson it's about gaining control of the country's oil 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 have any time any reason that they could make up and the new reason that they made up is perfectly orwellian humanitarian crisis so you kill people to solve a humanitarian crisis and you take dictators out that you don't like because really what's behind this and i've said it before united states being in iraq if their major export was broccoli oh would they be in libya if they weren't holding

on to those sweet is crude oil on the planet. and several un members including russia have expressed their concern over the risk to civilians in libya but as nato forces continue their bombardment and starts he's going to see it circling the reports the events in libya echo 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. march nine hundred ninety nine the u.s. and its nato allies bomb yugoslavia armed forces joined our nato allies and air strikes against serbian forces responsible for the 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 but the man's and up to the violence against others. there

authorizes the use of force it was sanctioned by the un security council in contrast to the bombings of the slavia there was no such green lights in the one nine hundred ninety nine when the bombings were led by nieto the first time the military alliance atop the sovereign nation and moderate a member posing no threat to the group similarly libya poses no sternal threat and there are other striking parallels between the conduct of these wars the enemy then slaughtered on the loss of each job to new hitler the enemy up to date the eccentric one marco duffy and power for over forty years now similarly villainize by the u.s. colonel qadhafi base just stepped 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 a questionable opposition in what started as a civil war what we're seeing is a four fledged war including attempting that would only to kill the head of state

of the of the targeted country and other leaders of the government that again is you know a page from the yugoslav bloc of twelve years ago. what is a world war not only not much the official reason for western involvement and so-called humanitarian mission a term coined and the bombings of nine hundred ninety nine if you go if you say look at the politics of the period of this is going to be to say that people. say today that was aggressive. war with the soviet russia now still relied upon but widely questioned. the greatest series of surveyors with all this is a very business of articulating a c.v. . this is a real here's a serious the engine of that machine both then and now the 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 they did. in yugoslavia with

thousands of people killed and close to one million displaced after the war when they didn't account they found the u.s. nato bombs had destroyed fourteen tanks and serbia fourteen tanks but they had also four hundred thirty seven schools a similar scenario is now predicted in libya obama vows the anti you could argue war will last these are not weeks that was the field plan in yugoslavia bombings lasted to 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 far longer than they have gambled for twelve years on serbia still remembers the losses inflicted by u.s. and nato bombings the u.s. is now involved in its fourth attack of a foreign nation in the same twelve years and there's a. new york. and next hour to dissect the libyan conflict in cross

talk with debate over concerns makers involvement could become a case of history repeating. the u.s. british foreign policy objectives would be the removal of his 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 door for 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 the remarkable. fly zone of those near chief comparatively little fly zone over iraq did have better achievements but look at the length of time that these operations went on for.

a new threat to the euro overshadowed libya. other issues that summit in brussels a possible international bailout for portugal dominated talks while nearby police use water cannons to disperse crowds protesting against austerity cuts are says danielle wessel has more on the latest well to the euro zone. no more layoffs pay cuts no retirement the message from twenty thousand angry demonstrators pushed back with. paper spray by riot police the protesters tried to get through to e.u. leaders meeting in brussels to slash spending this where there was major. abuse for such a curiosity. to be used for health. no joke the badge so when you heard. that word chose to move to take brand because of the prisoners day goes across europe voters are saying no thirty measures portugal's prime minister has quit of

the parliament voted down a fresh round of cuts the country has three months left to repay almost ten billion euro at a time when its sovereign credit rating has been called only saved the only option left is national default to tell does the country called pay back its loans or accept an e.u. bailout similar to greece has now been the worst since the second world war but the longer you postpone this necessary evil. the more costly. there's going to be at the same time military intervention in libya is costing hundreds of millions of euros many a furious so what they see is an unnecessary and expensive campaign somebody asked . about the financing of this and i think the overwhelming sense that you got from it among the public in britain with skepticism with millions unemployed

across europe people losing patience with politicians who seem out of touch with reality increasingly familiar sights on the streets of the e.u. was government built timing leaves growing numbers out of work the big question is now the right time to spend the money available on wars abroad can you go see russell's. here with r t n live from moscow coming up in the program i hear oh i brought the problem designer back on. anything that anyone could possibly imagine in terms of war crimes that were committed for all of history the american forces have done this we made a us iraq veteran who burned the bridges back to his home country after witnessing what he called how fragile that war also. you know there's just bullets in the b.p. roll snuff deal is on hold for them over what next the future of the oil giant's joint venture to bring you all the details in just a few minutes. but first the plan says the core of reactor three at the

fukushima nuclear power plant may have been damaged the development could lead to further radiation leaks meanwhile authorities are expanding a voluntary evacuation zone to a thirty kilometer radius near the site. has the latest from japan. the government the saying that even those people outside the plant outside the immediate area. are receiving a yearly doze of radiation in one day butterfield to go and positioning people that the water say here in tokyo is safe to drink but people are still not believing this message old 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 two days it's been a problem to which less media attention has been paid but in terms of pure devastation of course the earthquake how little army has read more how about the latest the figures show that more than ten thousand people have died as

a result of a more than seventy thousand are still missing japan still has to cope with the consequences particularly at fukushima the nuclear engineers have got into the reactor reactor number three perhaps the most dangerous one because it operates on plutonium and there was no water there because the situation was ok yesterday they wanted again those water that they thought although they were showing a high radiation level they can order they thought the problem was with their equipment but actually the radiation level in the plant exceeded the norm by ten thousand times they were radiated with poisoned water that had to be taken to hospital after nearly vision delimit which they're supposed to be exposed to. well another natural disaster has hit further west on the continent in the six point eight magnitude earthquake. craig struck around lunchtime on thursday and was cross to the border with thailand one hundred buildings collapsed and roads have

been closed and resulting tremors were felt hundreds of way as as far. protesters in syria plan to hold a day of dignity on friday to expand demonstrations across the country when it's come to spite president bashar al assad pledging to grant people greater political freedoms and raise public pay in the southern city of there are thousands of people continue to rally against the forty eight year rule of ba'ath party activists claim that dozens have been shot dead and many arrested in the security forces clamp down over the last few days. a u.s. soldier is seeking political asylum in germany after observing an american military base extradited to his home country and could face life in prison or even to death penalty or to secure the veteran at the center of the scandal. the very thing we've seen. for example

a big steak house that was really good for me my personal favorite was the ruler of course because i can't. seem to remember even come schools that much for andre chaperonage his life has become one giant rollercoaster four years ago he deserted the u.s. army causing all the way to his native cleveland for rapport his mom cried with pride when he volunteered for the army and got through his six month tour of duty in iraq andrei walked on 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 a history the american forces have done this and are continuing to be somewhat daily basis so they were being attacked from somewhere where they didn't know where so they just shot off and then we go different direction after hiding out for more than a year andre chaper it's surfaced in marriage to german security himself support 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 flow of the bust the 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 he really loves this country so much andrea will argue of course the war in iraq was a. pleas for all but the lawyers say he has little chance of winning the siegal war

with the us it's particularly. more difficult if it is a war such as the war in afghanistan for example will be it will help you war where it was not of a popular war and if we just started having the 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 laws. including the possibility of their. mainstream media in the so-called coalition countries are not in a hurry to give andrea say even the major corporations like a big season and then what would happen is that if i say anything that was controversial it would go against the government line it would be completely censored andras says he's ready for the backlog he's launched claiming there was no

just a vacation for the war in iraq which he had meets he's honestly pretty slim extended virtual r.t. but now i'm teams in germany. pickering's you have to drink from the news desk arties moscow program is coming your way to first let's talk the business news with dimitri after a short break. in a warm welcome to business the arctic exploration asked us what deal between oil majors b.p. and what steps has been blocked by the stockholm arbitration strike you know the case was brought by a are the russian shareholders of c m k b.p. and the existing partners of the british oil company in russia for more i'm joined

by r.t. correspondent tom barton now tom thanks for being with us is the decision by the stock on arbitration tribunal binding. this swedish arbitration court ruled against b.p. saying that its intended deal with rosneft was in breach of an earlier agreement made when t n k b p was for that detail that deal is now on hold. stan tull of us who is the chief executive of a r which represents the russian shareholders in t.n. k b p said he was happy with the court's decision. for a tribunal with very clear. b.p. was in breach but which are all that agreement. it cannot. complete the transaction through the whole of the. actual quote the significant if you're a from the relationship between b.p. and they are in the management of. you would expect to hear that from

a r p p disagrees but by agreement of the parties the decision of this of this tribunals is legally binding b.p. has also asked the another decision from the court they've asked the court to say whether they could perhaps drop the part of the deal with loss now if that was for all exploration but continue with a sixteen billion dollars share swap that will be decided later whatever b.p. does it has to arrange something by april the fourteenth if it doesn't the deal in its current form will expire right but what happens next is a deal or. does a question many people are asking very good question it seems that all the most commentators looking at this deal agree with deals probably not going to be off it certainly is very disappointing but b.p. back in january when this deal was announced the p.p.

were very happy with it they said it was a historic deal and that it could open up by the last great unexplored reserve of oil and gas the arctic now it seems that it is a setback but b.p. will definitely be trying to arrange a compromise is central to that compromise is t n k b p and the russian shareholders there whether they will be brought into a ross an f.p.p. deal or perhaps given some kind of conversation is yet to be seen but many people still think that that might be part of the compromise that b.p. will try to arrange they certainly will be working on one all right tom thanks very much there was artie's correspondent on barton. and chris we've heard chief strategist ed we're also believes the exploration do between b.p. and was never too important to be abandoned. think it's peter stark too important for russia to secure strategic peter fricker russian streets involving the country's biggest or a company and one of the world's biggest story major started in the difference of the arctic circle speed of light go ahead it's too important so i think what

happens now basically is that we get into a more serious. negotiations involving all the parties. to reaching a peace i would expect the state consider. this question well because every week to reconvene. theory here a good. point if you. want to see people go ahead. they're prepared to exclude it because it could preach just being strike right if you want your history in iraq every year for a future growth so whatever cuter going to jog right you believe if you will veto. he will have to write criterion for our he a our cerebral reserves or provide him with some larger compensation for it if you. think we're going to markets now start with page where both markets the nikkei and the hang sang them putting out pretty hefty gains i think up one percent i'm saying point eight percent at the close led by tech and telecom stocks not stop the deutsche bank upgraded its rating from sony

corp to buy it's up three point three percent of the clouds here in russia the markets will start trading in a matter of minutes actually this is the session the obvious my stocks put up one office said led by commodity stocks you will precious metals are hitting new highs as they benefit from their traditional say haven status the gold price has set new record of one thousand four hundred forty seven dollars now it has come down slightly now as you can see that's as deepening political crisis in portugal as rich project added to investor unease about libya and japan meanwhile still prices are also rising slightly. that's all for now will be back in one hour's time with actually a look at friday's session on russia's markets. the

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