it's. sold on the. public a fury of the huge cost of foreign military campaigns yet stringent austerity cuts in home spreads in the e.u. as the bloc looks sets a bail out but not the whole country. and the radiation spike at the fukushima power plant forces japan's government to consider expanding the evacuation zone while those still living dangerously close to the area are said to be struggling without vital supplies.

r.t. is coming to you live from the heart of the russian capital right now or just after four pm the next who has agreed to assume command of the patrols and forcing the no fly zone over libya is expected to take charge of the air strikes within days officials have warned the operation could last up to three months overnight fresh bombs rocked the capital tripoli with reports of yet more civilian casualties. as the latest. well if we look specifically at the question of how many civilians have been killed or injured with thirty 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 thirty people the graves were laid out the coffins

were laid out the mood there though was essentially one of anger they were easily three four five hundred people and they were shouting names it's a cozy obama for the international community to stay out of internal affairs of the mood there a lot more angry then there are a funeral procession eight different people journalists were taken to a local hospital here in tripoli and there they filmed more than a dozen the 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 sheriff talking at that funeral position he said that all libyans are fighters so they gave begging the question in terms of the difference between civilians and fighters we're also hearing rumors that bodies are being brought in from other fighting seem to such as as there we are and that they've been presented here as casualties as civilian casualties 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 intensified to me in the town of misrata which is the last rebel held town in the race for this country and only today we're hearing the first reports that fighting there has argued somewhat between rebel and government forces in there 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 agita beer which is the next main town after being ghazi their rebel fighters have been i. able to advance for more than a week they are now literally waiting this fight out on the perimeter and hoping wreckage effie's forces will run out of supplies and at that stage they'll be able to actually make a difference so the word from rebels on the ground is that they want more airstrikes 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 u.n. resolution that talks about all this the syrian measures to bring the fighting on the ground to an end the war in questions those are there if the international community needs to get further 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 there being more casualties here in tripoli the mood is incredibly tense overnight there were air strikes in the east in the waste on the city and the city is running out of fuel and we're being told that in the next few days they could simply be no gas in any of the picture stations here now are to correspondents are also keeping you right up to date on the situation in libya. for you. reporting from tripoli has tweeted that she has just heard the sounds of being directly outside her window was virtually page now lots of what i can to get you up to date on the situation in that ravaged nation or you can check out our to underscore for the latest. on the.

u.n. now says it along by the looming humanitarian crisis in libya officials warn that food supply lines have been disrupted and over three hundred thousand refugees have already fled the country. and of reports from the libyan border with egypt. 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 are purely at 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 country we spoke with one family even the war from bin guys the they 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 she was happening and maybe come back if things settle down we

also told us that some of the pro 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 a side of bin guys the itself just on thursday the united nations met to discuss the humanitarian situation in the country strongly criticized in what was 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 so for the mean war or this military operation to enforce the no fly zone which was to help ordinary libyans very still has not been it cheap. what if you could discover right there were still to come for you later in the program here are the cross talks people of al and his guests engage in a heated debate about the future of the military operation in libya is just a teaser of what's ahead we. need that to see very clearly that the

united states britain and france must see this sister from any further military involvement in libya and that it is not their rule to cut old regime change it is the ruler of the great libyans and africans to remove gadhafi not the western europeans who have propped up gaddafi over the past forty one years the german from syracuse presumes to know what the libyan rebels should be doing while the libyan rebels themselves are the ones that have asked for western assistance in that the point is you can always find persons in countries to invite foreign troops and a very arab league that invited the west to enter into libya the very same arab governments that are repressing their countries in bahrain in countries such as algeria in countries such as morocco in saudi arabia.

across towards coming your way here and r.t. in about three hours and twenty minutes time mr meantime european capitals have been preparing for fresh and your starting protests after violent clashes in brussels on thursday e.u. leaders were meeting that to hammer out a set of measures to ease the euro zone's debt crisis that's the single currency is facing a new threat with portugal looking set to walk for a bailout. from brussels. 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 eurozone places like poland latvia denmark will also participate so you get a sense of the crisis spreading across the european union i've met with some of the protesters out on the streets and ask them why they're fighting the news plans. no

more layoffs 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 be to give brussels to slash spending this money was made. to be used for some security. to be used for do. not join the bank so when you bring you the world's worst to take brand because of the prison there goes across europe voters are saying no to more spirity measures portugal's prime minister has quit off the paula but 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 liberals 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 is going to be at the same time military intervention in libya is costing hundreds of millions of euro many a furious so what they see is and are necessary and expensive campaign somebody. transfer 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 politicians who seem out of touch with reality increasingly familiar sights on the streets of the e.u. was government built tightly leaves growing numbers pile to work the big question is no good right time to spend the money available on news of the world going to be

sure altie crosses. china let's get some more details on this and talk to dr marcus kerber professor of political economics of the technical university in waiting for us live right now and so what nato countries have once again embarked on a costly thorin war all the while with many struggling with national debts and possible austerity measures are what's your analysis on that. first of all i would like to remark in fact the germans were part of the military coup vision. why is it on the rise in northern germany has decided to trade group the most rights or. it's temporary which we actually i support of the study. actually consider this a matter of the fact that there is of course the. military expenditure. and there are tightening the belt police on the other hand. from that we have to look at the crisis she was on the wrong trichomes the political hard times i have

her card i have impression that you have the conversion of the for me to this program called for sarkozy and to the american administration it's all out for the security forces will be there has created a mess which is going to be in the hands of the enemies of the us to work on a let's say let's talk about the past couple of days we've seen some just sensational pictures of protesters in brussels getting clamped down by police the guys are protesting over the cuts and a possible austerity measures are cuts to social services for example all of this just western governments bottom of colonel qadhafi for not listening to his own people do you think we're going to case of a double standards. i think of this incident or a little bit to its conclusion who protest against. austerity measures and yes a lot over the last few crisis where we need to separate actions independently of

what's happening that you are going to meet in even more conflict as we've had in the past and kind of groups who just they don't forget there will be other purposes and a very very good lead in truth and woof a no promise an easy thing to your. left expenditure to what is there would be reasonable. to fall away from it all it's all completely restored and there would be a true correct her actual you have zero. of this would have cautions to follow. you can eventually so i think this is the protesters are all doing three months from personally or if they have a new economic reason whatsoever they underestimate the protests that is silent majority those countries still have really the soul of the public financing such as they have the means it will be all street luxembourg of course germany are dyslexic and it will take their attention away away from the ongoing protests in brussels

and these potential austerity measures that you seem to support but if we can sort of focus now as the western powers are engaged in libya let's talk about the motives here we heard nato and western powers saying we're using bombs to save civilians or is it because they're eyeing that country's oil reserves so what are the motives here i had a very very interesting conversation with german foreign minister or make some progress with the sort of there are two problems until we can most. wrecks and i'm certain we've gone through taken two car collection and then are just there to say what is for civil rights. throughout a way to prove. it will all be over the situation as you have to deal with this in extreme. it's a challenge for you know who. is strong enough to cope with all these problems it's all true means to contact with the problems of taming so i'm sorry but if you say

the egyptian military has the ability to handle this or more of it all not a regional domestic front then what is the west doing getting getting involved in the first place and one a leader look at it i don't know the school the west so that i still. had to explain what should be done. as i said before we move forward interventions are extremely good for her. it is obvious that america is very scared about us she writes about. libya as a. supply of natural resources had to cross a special problem because the problem revealed the french president is no longer a thief and so he's looking probably if i make a judgment about it i'm running i'm running very low on time here very briefly if you can just wrap this up for me in a very brief statement what are. the regional consequences going to be if indeed the libya operation turns into a full scale war we're talking economic global regional reverberations if things

get worse or as they seem to agree there will be way to protest in the world that there will be. a lack of critical word summits of the western world and we will not be able to solve the political will to the only problems of living so we must help push overseas us dr marcus cover the professor of political economics at technical university live in butler thank you. try it now in the next hour here on r t are the events in libya an example of history repeating itself we explore some striking parallels between the military intervention and the u.s. led campaign in yugoslavia twelve years ago a war which claimed at least two thousand civilian lives. now the japanese government is debating whether to expand the evacuation zone around the fukushima power plant by water radiation there is now ten thousand times higher than the norm the evacuation area is currently twenty kilometers around the

plant and those living close to the area are seeing a lack of vital supplies let's not cross lives and we have nowhere to live in turkey and so we're hearing that many people living close to the evacuation zone i'm not leaving their homes but i hear there's a lot about a lack of electricity a lack of normal daily supplies how is a i was every day life there right now. well the government does seem to have almost failed these people over the past two weeks now those living within a twenty kilometer range they got very simple instructions straight away as soon as the accident happened they were told to leave people in the twenty to thirty kilometer range and in fact the population of the area could be as high as one hundred thirty thousand we don't there are many of those people are still in that area but it's numbering in the tens of thousands they were given very contradictory and instructions they were told that they could stay in a home that they would be ok as long as they shut their windows and didn't go out but as the weeks of cold of what we're actually witnessing is that these people are

not getting even the basic supplies so what is their state in their homes protect themselves from radiation the government isn't even able to give them food and water and all that incessantly because nobody else will be prepared to go into the area and now we're finding out is that in fact their lives might not be safe because once they got of the same ok we can give you got into your cable don't worry we're already doing just that and being a thought for your safety in fact science experts are probably different picture. and high levels of radiation detected out of the twenty kilometer women already going in what you have here where you have radiation levels and that that will have obvious that in a week or two your have people that are experiencing the radiation exposure of nuclear plant workers or you know over the course of their career and these are people in a situation where there's going to earthquakes in the tsunami there's a shortage of food there's a shortage of water so these people should not be allowed to remain in such an

extraordinary. because this is something which follows the trust issues which have been quite a problem here in japan people were not feeling getting enough information from their government and this has led to a degree of panic this is led to the buying public calling of water in tokyo over the last few days people exchanging rumors some which are untrue and a lot of information being passed on by bloggers who are on the one hand doing a very important job because the feeling in the government to government but on the other hand as you know these unofficial sources of information can sometimes be hysterical or badly informed themselves and therefore it's probably a false picture so we've seen politicians in the last few days stepping in and actually criticizing the government for the way it's been handling this crisis. people saw explosion again and again and again on television and the government one tell you for many hours what the hell's going on so the

government shouldn't be releasing information timing this should tell you what's really happening so right now the people who are wondering if the government is telling you true stories already or can we are can we just take a step back and get a wider picture to weeks now after the barely tsunami struck how is to pan coping. well the jury of the victims are still the victims of the tsunami and earthquake and some of the pictures which we have been seeing are truly horrifying people who would normally be cremated the japanese culture of the japanese religion instead being dumped into work on mass graves sometimes end badly hastily constructed coffins sometimes even plastic bags would be government saying ok this is the best we can do for now this is all that we can do a little later exude these people and give them a proper cremation so you can imagine you know considering the stress of their

relatives have already gone through you can imagine what's being told something like this can do to people psyche there's also fear that amongst those populations which are still living near the coast which are likely suffered the job might be infection spreading and so on so this is their very negative side but on the other hand the resulting to be optimistic about we've already seen some of the roads rebuilt you've already seen some of the train service is restored as well so the japanese in terms of restoring the infrastructure have been very fast and very efficient but of course what you can't just leave is the figures which are already receiving which is more than ten thousand people there and seventeen thousand people missing will most of whom are presumed to be dead as well you know you've got those figures continue to rise and i sense. i feel like in tokyo thank you very much. all right now time for the business news with you via.

hello welcome to all of his business updates it's great to have you with us russia's state run all firms all steps says it will continue to pursue its exploration and assets sought deal with b.p. that's after the stockholm tribunal ruled that the do you broke b b p's agreement with its current russian partners in ten k.p. and for more now joined live by our correspondent tom fox that also the how to run sniff ego is sachin has also deputy prime minister says his company will defend its deal with b.p. so what position has he set out. for mr searchin has responded to the the ruling of the arbitration for first of all these said that. it was stressed that the the deal has not been stopped it's not been it's just going to leave the final decision yet to be made that will happen on the seventh or they go on until then all the parties involved should not make any further big decisions until that has been heard however he did state more about wasna position in

relation to the deal firstly stated that there will be no one else all they are they are is the represent the russian shareholders in t m k b b and some commentators have suggested that might have been in order for the deal to go ahead the city's stage of the dark will not help but he's also said though that because of the delays that are happening to this roster if suffering definite losses and they may well see compensation for those losses however he was very keen to stress the rosneft is very easy to steal they will defend their side of the deal on that these type of a deal will happen. could be please parts it must be a bit disappointing they hailed it back in january is a very historic deal it could open up the arctic for oil and gas exploration however they too will also be very key to look for a compromise on a made a way to make this deal work. all right.

tom thank you very much for that update right now let's take a look at how the markets are trading here in russia and it's a mixed day after a number of sessions of gang shares in iraq now after suffering following that decision blocking a deal with. the russian central bank has decided to keep its key interest rate unchanged at eight percent of its policy meeting on friday that's despite the threat high inflation poses to the economy and joining me now live to discuss whether the mandarins and i've got it right is the list of only chief economist at deutsche bank russia as well thank you very much indeed for joining us so how does the central bank got it right or are they are they not doing enough to curb inflation oh i think certainly there were some encouraging signs with regard to inflation recently we've seen some deceleration so to some degree i think of the decision not to raise rates may have been partly

impacted by this more favorable recent development but ultimately all of these decisions related to interest rates to reserve requirements are a balancing act between high inflation and the need to curb inflation at the same time growth considerations and. to some degree both for economic growth and how much is central banks relying on the strength of the ruble to keep prices you know in check and what happens in the currency the currency weakens well certainly in your view some of these. we've seen in recent periods may have been due to appreciate and certainly the scale of appreciation has been quite significant since the beginning of this year. i think going forward probably the central bank will start to rely on this instrument and kirby. inflation and the

exchange rate instrument and we'll start to use some of the other instruments more like reserve requirements for what you're for cost information and russia by the way it's dropped in the fabric compared to january do you think it said temporary development well i think as a trend we will see further declines in inflation in the course of this year our forecast is eight point five percent by the end of the year currently worth around one point four nine point five percent so i think there are grounds for there were deceleration but a lot of course will depend on the forcefulness of the actions of this and for banks and also the central bank has once again raised the reserve right requirement for banks is this an effective way to remove quiddity from the market i think given the difficult circumstances that a lot of the central banks around the world face these days and the concerns that

the central bank has with regard to catalan flows i think this is the preferred instrument that they raise reserve requirements this is the realizing liquidity and this is better than the increase in interest rates which would have as a negative implication excessive capital inflows into the country and what's your view about the ripple with regard to the ruble our view is that by the end of the year it will be around twenty eight rubles versus the dollar so we still see some scope for. appreciation in the course of this year but again i don't think that. it's going to be used as in terms of we as we've seen so far of course there are considerations associated with some of the negative implications of will appreciate and for growth for example. especially in the manufacturing sector in the sectors that are competing with imports so my view is that perhaps another several percent

. this is a war will strike all right thank you very much indeed get us off the civil it chief economist at deutsche bank many thanks indeed. and that's all the business news for now back next hour with more and of course you can always track all our latest updates at r.t. dot com scratch space.

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