on. nato except the amount of a no fly zone over libya but not full control of the military operation here in the capital city strikes continue to pound tripoli. japan why don't miss the evacuations of ramadan who she loved by saying the area is receiving years of dose of radiation in each and every day facilities reactor number three meantime has reportedly been damaged sparking fears of further contamination also. being here any more possibly imagine in terms of war crimes that were committed for all of history the american forces have done this to me to us a rug veteran who burn the bridges back to his home country after witnessing what

he calls a fraudulent. a very warm welcome scene this is r.t. live from moscow nato has agreed to take command of the libyan no fly zone but stopped short of accepting full military control and i and chief and as a father rasmussen said the u.s. will hand over operational responsibility to nato within days meanwhile fresh air strikes have rocked the libyan capital tripoli with reports of more civilian casualties pulis we have reports. well if we look specifically at the question of how many civilians have been killed and injured was certainly hearing from coalition partners that they are not targeting civilians but here on the ground a very different story being painted state television and indeed the libyan government says more than a hundred civilians have so far been killed now i did attend

a mass funeral for more than fifty people the graves were laid out the coffins were laid out the mood they though was essentially one of anger they were easily three four five hundred people and they were shouting names and so cozier barmouth of the international community to stay out of internal affairs of the mood there a lot more angry than there are a funeral procession a different group of journalists were taken to a local hospital here in tripoli and there they filmed more than a dozen of charred bodies now they were told that these were civilians but it's always very difficult to determine who are the burned bodies and indeed who were the bodies in those coffins a government spokesperson has said that among those bodies no doubt there are fighters but if you listen to the words of the chef talking act that funeral position he said that all libyans are fighters so i gave begging the question in terms of the difference between civilians and fighters we're also hearing rumors that bodies are being gotten from out of fighting seem to such as the we are and

that they've been presented here as casualties as civilian casualties but of these airstrikes the first question that people are asking is what effect have these airstrikes which have been going on for nearly a week actually had on the ground now throughout this week there has been intensified to me in the town of misrata which is the last rebel held town in the race of this country and only today we're hearing the first reports that fighting there has argued is somewhat between rebel and government forces and that for the first time people are actually able to leave their homes but we still hearing very worrying reports at the hospital remains under fire that snipers are positioned there preventing people from entering and leaving and then if you look at the other towns like beer which is the next main town after being ghazi their rebel fighters have been and. able to advance for more than a week they are now literally waiting this fight out on the perimeter and hoping record effie's forces will run out of supplies and at that stage they'll be able to actually make a difference so the work from rebels on the ground is that they want more air strikes they're actually calling for more weapons and i think among them there's

even the hope that they could be ground forces eventually seen tin and again people are revisiting that un resolution their troops about all it necessary measures to bring the fighting on the ground to an end the war in question is no other if the international community needs to get through them involved in terms of the fight on the ground at the moment it's happening in urban areas so that does run the risk of they've been more casualties here in tripoli the mood is incredibly tense overnight there were air strikes in the east in the east on the city and the city is running out of fuel and we've been told that in the next few days they could simply be no gas in any of the picture stations here. now the u.n. says that it's alarmed by human rights violations and a possible humanitarian crisis of libya however not enough aid has been provided to those in need with u.n. officials saying food supply lines have been disrupted official figures suggest that over three hundred thousand people have already fled libya. people are fleeing the country we saw scores of refugees coming out of libya and according

to the united nations over three hundred thousand people have already for fled the country it's thought that nearly ten thousand refugees of our clearly libya's borders with egypt and tunisia and dozens of more are expected to join them so this kind of gives a picture on the humanitarian situation in the great she we spoke with one family the war from. the describe the situation there as terrible he said it was absolutely impossible for them to live there anymore so they decided to wait it out in egypt see what's happening and maybe come back if things settle down we also told us that some of the gaddafi supporters who are acting undercover inside been guys the war captured by the opposition so in that sense there's still activity going on in society been guys the itself just on thursday the united nations and

met 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 already. libya it's a real humanitarian crisis and so so for the main goal of this military operation to reinforce the north fly zone which was to help ordinary libyans there still has not been achieved. not a correspondence if you could is going off and politically they're also keeping you right up to date on the situation in libya our twitter feed. time johnson went from the transit research institute says that nato is just a cover for the u.s. and the libyan mission is all about gaining control of the country's oil. 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 but again the hypocrisy is before our very own eyes 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 with 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 what did i did states in iraq if their major export was broccoli or would they be in libya. if they were holding on to this sweet crude oil on the planet. and the events in libya are both a reminder of the past as we learn in just a few minutes when i would see the conflict again and this is playing out with

echoes of the u.s. led campaign in yugoslavia twelve years ago which claimed at least two thousand civilian lives. and as more money is a splashed on military campaigns of broad leaders scramble to counter a new threat to the euro this time coming from portugal. as the core of reaction about three of the fukushima nuclear power plant may have been damaged the country is now expanding the voluntary evacuation zone around the site saying the area is receiving a year's dose of radiation per day. as the latest from japan. it's been exactly two weeks since an earthquake and then a tsunami devastated the fukushima nuclear power plant out unfortunately the engineers still haven't been able to neutralize the threat we have received news that the integrity of one of the cause of the reactors has been compromised meaning that radiation cannot possibly leak out this is

a troublesome reactor number three this is a reactor which operates on plutonium it's also the reactor which i mentioned smoke over the past few days perhaps these are early indicators of what has just been reported as well in connection with these events attract the three workers at the other reactors have also pulled back there has been a loss of control was the to the dangers which are posed that if people thought outside the station as soon as the accident took place the government is treated at a twenty kilometer evacuation zone and now it's saying that there's only has to be extended to thirty kilometers to go into saying that this extended so it isn't because of any greater danger but simply for the comfort of the people who are living in there to provide them with better infrastructure and housing but at the same time the side ministry has come out with a different report saying that the any people who are within a thirty kilometer radius of the fukushima nuclear power plant are getting as much as one dose of one yearly dose of radiation every single day while

a lot of the media attention has been focused on the nuclear threat by far the largest that has been produced by an initial earthquake and tsunami that followed the latest figures show that at least ten thousand people are dead and seventeen thousand people are missing each day that goes by the number of those missing are found alive is likely to be smaller. i mean time nuclear energy expert talked about in junkyards explains why receiving a year's dose of radiation in one day is a real danger for those still close to the site. there is no high levels of radiation detected out of the twenty hollywood limit already and in what you have it when you have radiation levels of that of that level is that in a week or two you'll have people that are experiencing the radiation exposure of nuclear plant workers and you know over the course of their career and these are people in a situation where there's going to earthquakes there's going to send are i mean there's a shortage of food there's a shortage of water so their health is already stressed their bodies are already

stressed they may not be in heated homes at night they may not be getting electricity so the impact of these exposures will you know the larger to recede in the course of a week or two the exposure to the nuclear plant workers receiving their entire lives is rather dire and these people should not be allowed to remain in such an exposure area without a live from moscow now a u.s. soldier is seeking political asylum in germany after dessert in an american military base if extradited to his home country he could face life in prison or even the best penalty party as you continue to travel with a veteran at the center of the scandal. the american cuisine. for example. it was really good for me the personal favorite was the rollercoaster that they can't. even comes close it was for andre chaperonage he's alive has become one giant rollercoaster four years ago he deserted the u.s.

army cause he not the way t. is nice in cleveland for rap that his mom cried with pride when he volunteered for the army but after a six month tour of duty in iraq i'm trying to walk talk a u.s. base in germany and never return. and the thing that anyone could possibly imagine and there in the war crimes that were committed for a world history. the american forces have done this and are continuing to do this on the daily basis so they were being attacked from somewhere but they didn't know where so they just shot off and then we had different direction after hiding out for more than a year andre shepherd so faced a marriage of chairman sic using self-support from a number of human rights organizations and is now officially seeking asylum talks away on the border of germany and austria lake cames it has long been popular with holiday makers but now the ideal exports may also go down in history as the home of

the post u.s. 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 though a one and get peeked out 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 and putting so much pressure on the german government also we really love this country so much. andre will argue of course the war in iraq was a complete fraud but lawyers say he has little chance of winning the siegal war with the us it's particularly. difficult if it is a war such a story in afghanistan for example would be a well you wore where it was not a popular war and if we just started having the rows of soldiers deciding on the

road if 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 for wife. including the possibility of yeah mainstream media in the so-called coalition countries are not in a hurry to give andry a say either the major corporations like the b.b.c. c n n what would happen is there anything there was controversial or would go against the government why it would be completely censored andrus 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 on a c three slope you've seen a great show of r t but now i'm teams in germany so not just on a quarter past the hour here in the russian capital with our team now your leaders have agreed on the restructuring of

a bailout fund designed to resolve the euro zone's ongoing debt crisis summit in brussels has been overshadowed now by a new threat to the currency as portugal could become of the next country to ask for financial support artie's it done it with an r joins us live more on this and our hi daniel so are the hopes of being high that this meeting would be a breakthrough in you that solution or could we see anything remotely resembling a success. well those perks what they claim mean that more cops will do the trick in public e.u. leaders are saying they feel people's pain but behind the closed doors here in the european commission building they've imposed even more spending cuts slashing spending even further now that even applies to states outside the troubled euro zone places like poland latvia will also participate but the sum has been totally overshadowed by the crisis in portugal we have the parliament saying that it won't pass or thirty measures that's force the prime minister of the country to resign

the trouble is the country is swimming in it which makes it increasingly likely country will have to declare national default which basically means saying we called we won't pay bag it's our obligation to banks and lenders and even increasing talk of leaving the euro altogether in ireland another troubled state next week we'll find the results of the stress tests which will tell us just how bad their banks really are so you get a sense of the crisis spreading across the european union and then we have we've seen some just through matter pictures here in the past couple of days about police using water cannons to disperse crowds are protesting against these austerity cuts tell me why or why are people across europe so angry with. it was basically shut down by clashes violence between protesters and police and. spreading across europe london paris. the capitals of the e.u. are expecting to have demonstrations as world trade union leaders say that people

won't refuse to pay for mistakes caused by banks also if you speak they'll tell you that this may have the opposite effect of what is planned to anyway for the spending cuts will not only shot schools and hospitals but also force hold up people in particular to spend less we think the economy the exact opposite of what they planned and there's also a growing fury of the course of the ballroom livy of the bombing campaign in libya as nato here in brussels is that it is taking over control of the military intervention there are new reports suggest the course to the west of that bombing could reach a billion dollars. in brussels thanks. and i was given some other world news in brief this hour meanwhile a six point eight magnitude earthquake has left over sixty people dead the quake struck around a lunchtime on thursday percent of close to the border with over one hundred

buildings were destroyed and roads have been closed in thailand tremors caused residents to flee their apartments and one woman was killed when a brick wall collapsed on her. and protesters in syria plan to hold a day of dignity on friday to expand demonstrations across the country the plans come despite president bashar al assad pledging to grant people greater political freedoms and raise public pay meanwhile in 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 arrested in security forces clamp down over the last few days. wildfire in colorado. some sixteen hundred acres of land in a denver suburb it's forced over eight thousand residents to flee their homes this is the second major wildfire to erupt this week the course of which is hardly unknown the blaze which started on thursday is being driven by winds of more than

fifty kilometers per hour now fighters have managed to contain seventy percent of the fire at this point and no injuries have been. talking about the situation in libya where several u.n. members including russia have expressed their concern over the risk to civilians as nato forces continue their program and its artie's anastasio reports the events in libya echo nato bombings in the balkans from a 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 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 president and a new coalition of the willing to attack libya the u.n.

security council passed a strong resolution that demands and to the violence against its. it authorizes the use of force if it will sanction the one security council in contrast to the bombings of the slavia there was no such green light in one thousand nine hundred ninety one it's one led by nido the first time a military alliance atop the sovereign nation and not only a member posing no threat to the group similarly libya poses no external threats and there are other striking parallels between the conduct of these wars the enemy then slobodan milosevic jobbed the new hitler the enemy of today the eccentric one marker daffy and power for over forty years now similarly villainize by the us her . 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 was seen as

a four fledged war including attempting would only to kill the head of state of the targeted country and other leaders of the government out 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 in a so-called humanitarian mission a term coined amid the bombings of nine hundred ninety nine if you go into if it was a really good leader this is going to save its people. safely that was. all it is rationale still relied upon but widely questioned you do know it was a great series of surveyors with all this is. this is. this is very real here is. the engine of that machine both venom 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. it did in yugoslavia with thousands of people killed and close to one million displaced after the war when they did the count they found us nato bombs had destroyed fourteen tanks and serbia fourteen tanks what they had also four hundred thirty seven schools a similar scenario is now predicted in libya for bomber vows the anti could off you war will last these are not weeks and that was the field plan and yugoslavia bombings lasted two and a half 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 and 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 and. your call for

an opposite of our top stories here at r.t. turn up the business news with dmitri. thank you very much russia's state run oil firm says it will continue to pursue its arctic exploration assets rock deal with b.p. that's after stock on arbitration five you know ruled that the deal broke b.p.'s agreement with its current russian partners in t.n. katie deputy prime minister said she wants also chairman of the board board says his company is not considering buying the russian shareholders out of tea and cake and you also noted that the arbitration court decision was not final earlier i spoke to ben arras he's editor in chief of business in europe and i started by asking him how this feel about. rosner deal as a key one for the kremlin as part of their energy strategy and out of the blue comes to complaining about this however i mean from the beginning there was an

issue about the shareholders agreement between b.p. and the moment it looks like b.p. is a bit guilty of playing things by russian rules in so much as you know they're the ones guilty of corporate governance chosen to ignore an issue with agreement with their existing partners. and go ahead and deal with the powers that be and you can see why as well i mean we are already accounts for the lion's share of the piece or are going forwards you know it's the place where all the world's going to be found and elsewhere in lng reserves and so throwing themselves in with women who can the state's own company. who can actually provide them access to the space for that was very important which is. now stands firm when it comes to negotiating terms and participating i still know they've certainly got themselves a good position and so much as you know this deal has been frozen but then on this side it's a bit disingenuous as well and so much as you know here they are screaming corporate

governance shareholders agreement and yet the other gods who controlled ok will only choose to follow. agreements with sushma what kind of other partners do you think may consider for this to go well there's a deadline of forty eight i think after which this deal expires so we have a window here of about three weeks where the warring parties could come to some deal if they turned in the deal and there's no upside for b.p. nor fourteen k. so it's possible the result will be quickly if they don't opens up it's possible but you could bring in another really fine if you think the russian government still has power to push this deal through this is the interesting question i mean will the ranks is there going to be some payback for to make too much of a fuss with the rule of law i mean does the shareholder agreement count for anything and so the resolution of this will actually be very interesting as to how it actually plays out and whether it gets nasty. secret of the markets now start with

the european stocks then the reaction to this deal being blogged is that b.p. shares opened one percent lower still at that point pretty much where is the markets themselves actually growing point two percent secular russian markets now and there's growing one hour ago it's now back to flats negative the picture that's after a strong correction on basically a slight correction yeah that's the central bank decided to leave interest rates unchanged but increased reserve requirements for banks by one point five i was. looking at some of the individual stocks we see that like b.p. rosneft is also on the blocked big deal more than one percent last telecom is actually our six point six percent as it becomes the sole company at this place in the information society project which means it will be receiving a lot of new contract the bank is trading in the black on news it's increased the

stake in the my six stock exchange from seven to ten percent in my face not your stock exchanges are in the process of agreeing a much. precious metals now they're trading near record highs even though gold is correcting right now after reaching a record of fourteen hundred forty seven dollars an ounce that's the deepening political crisis in portugal over its budget added to invest on the news about libya and japan while silver prices all still around point three nine percent. so all the business news we have for you junia we'll be here next hour to bring you an update roy's next we have.

in canada and the u.s. that it is legal for you to use a bubble bath on your baby that contains a known carcinogen something that causes cancer most of the shines in the market independence day of the concert but in the spirit and most of the time they don't the place is a conflict of interest today an average cancer drug prescription costs nearly one thousand six hundred dollars a month oh my god i'm a nobody with cancer and my father and therefore i protect fops because ninety to ninety five percent of cancers her people with self funding history of cancer the pharmaceutical industry spends about fourteen percent of their budget on research

and development and about thirty one percent for marketing and administration. in fact there are more pharmaceutical industry lobbyists in washington d.c. than members of congress. to. culture is that so much different if you choose or to share power on the mark with a certain time and again looms for the conflict in libya what are the ultimate aims of the u.s. and its allies what is best for people in the.