so close photos in the big old. firstly a ski crazy an escape plan it's reticent to say it's wrong kempinski might go twenty two look you talking. now so to. peter takes come on to be forcing the no fly zone over libya the first short of controlling the military operation but here in tripoli tongues continue to fall on the capital city. public fury of bird huge cost of foreign military campaigns yet stringent austerity cuts at home threads in the e.u. i think block look such a bailout another crippled country. and the radiation spike of the fukushima power plant forces japan's government to consider expanding the evacuation zone while those are still living dangerously close to the area are said to be struggling without vital supplies. and join the business see about twenty minutes time

the norm the latest turn in their role september d.p.t. . worldwide news live from moscow this is r.t. nato has agreed to assume command of the patrols in forcing the no fly zone over libya it's expected to take charge of the asteroids within days officials have warned the operation could last for up to three months overnight fresh hmongs rocked the capital tripoli with reports of yet more civilian casualties. as the latest. this is the proof of civilians being injured and killed in coalition is strikes we've driven more than forty minutes to see the remains of a rocket and some glass in a patron window where the father says he was very lucky that his family was not at home forgive us for being

a little bit suspicious but certainly here the pressure is on for the government to try and show the international community that indeed its claims that more than a hundred civilians have been killed are true and we attended eight mass funeral where more than fifty coffins who poured out we were told that inside were civilians but a government spokesperson later did admit that it was possible that some of the parties were fighters the sheriff speaking at the funeral procession say that all libyans are fighters so they get the question in terms of what is the difference here between a fighter and a civilian now the journalist went to visit a hospital where there where more than a dozen bodies with charred beyond recognition and presented also as proof that these is strikes are killing civilians there are rumors here in the capital city that bodies are being brought in from now the areas being the reason tens of fighting and been presented to the foreign media as proof again that civilians are the targets and are the collateral damage in these air strikes the reaction on the ground in terms of the announcement big nato now will be in charge of enforcing

this no fly zone is rather mixed the average rebel fighter actually doesn't care he just wants to see more weapons he wants to see more air strikes but the opposition leadership is a bit concerned they do understand if when you have more powers calling the shots you run the risk of one of them being able to veto any future operation a lot easier for the united states and canada to take this operation forward in european powers which have to mr issues they need to consider such as migration here in the capital city this situation is very very tense friday prayer is always a focal point security downtown has been stepped up in fear that they could be nasty cayman stray sions overnight there were is strikes in the eastern and waste of the city targeting military barracks. if fields at the same time it was a lot of n.c. it cost began trying those are the capital city so indeed the situation people are angry and most just fearing what the next few days and weeks can bring for. tripoli

. as you just see now is our policy reporting there and she's also writing a blog to keep you updated on the latest from libya as the violence continues there and one of her latest posts she describes how the sound of missiles and explosions is oppressing the capital tripoli you can find a link to our blog and all the latest tweets from our correspondents of course we're talking about our r.t. twitter feed that's r t underscore corman if you just have a brief look at what we're looking at on screen our loads of updates not a lot of items for you to discover your own leisure on the twitter. of the u.n. says it's alarming 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 parties are going off now reports from the libyan border with egypt. 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 fruit for the country it's thought that nearly ten thousand refugees are clearly 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 great she we spoke with one family be water from been guys the they describe the situation the terrible the said it was absolutely impossible for them to live there anymore so they decided to wait it out in egypt see what's happening and maybe come back if things settle down he also told us that some of the gaddafi supporters who are acting undercover inside bin guys the war captured by the opposition so in that sense there's still activity going on in the side of bin guys the itself just on thursday the united nations met

to discuss the humanitarian situation in the country strongly criticizing what's what's happening there and actually judging by these figures over three hundred thousand people already you left libya it's a real humanitarian crisis and seoul so for the mean go all of this military operation to reinforce the no fly zone which was to help ordinary libyans there still has not been achieved. you can put some of our more details on this and talk to maybe a benjamin from washington d.c. she's the co-founder of the antiwar group code pink. now the u.s. has a national debt of some fourteen trillion dollars and considering iraq and afghanistan one might expect there to be some war fatigue among the taxpayers you think capitol hill washington d.c. could expect any backlash from this. i think so is usually happens in the first days or even weeks of intervention like this public opinion

tends to be high and then it immediately starts to go down as people see this is not something that is over in three days and people start recognizing that this is starting to look like the wars that we have been in now for years there's also an extreme fight going on on capitol hill about where to make budget cuts and we see cuts coming out of key services to our communities to teachers firefighters police and at some level we have to be asking ourselves can we afford yet another war and i think if it was pose like that to the american people the majority would say no or let's turn our attention now to a story that's right this moment coming across the wires we just heard from him and run from point the head of you council saying that the western powers involved in the libya military intervention they do have an aim of ousting colonel gadhafi yet

but it's not part of the u.n. resolution one nine seventy three why not a change of heart do you think well i think mission creep is what was to be expected from the very beginning of this it doesn't make sense to say you're going to put the lives of american pilots for example on the line and not say that the mission is to oust gadhafi so unfortunately i think we're going to see more and more of this mission creep which is why groups like ours were against this from the beginning we are no friends of colonel gadhafi we would like to see him gone but we recognize that really liberation cannot come from outside forces it has to come from within and when you talk about outside forces here we're getting reports about more than four thousand americans so humans amerinds are being deployed in the area what do you think will happen if we see you know the ever feared ground operation in libya. well let's remember that the day

of the first u.s. bombs on the forces of khadafi happened on the eighth anniversary of the us intervention in iraq and that was posed to the american people is something that would take five days five weeks but months at the latest we are now in take years so i don't think the american people have the stomach for another long war that is costing us hundreds of millions of dollars and i think that something is going to be have have to be done quickly to convince at least the public here in the united states that that is not what we're looking at when you talk about iraq you talk about an eight year long war many americans are said to be for. of course a very costly war with iraq and afghanistan nato when visitors are three month stint in command of the no fly zone what sort of a time scale we're looking up with this change things. well once again we were promised

a quote short war in iraq to liberate liberate the iraqi people from a brutal dictator saddam hussein eight years later and i don't think the iraqi people will really say they have been liberated and so it's to me it looks like a bad precedent in the case of libya the libyan people have to liberate themselves as people are doing all over the arab world the best thing that the outside forces and particularly the west can do is to sell stock selling so many weapons to dictators all over the arab world including the weapons that have been sold to colonel gadhafi by not only the russians but also the italians the british and here in the united states under both the bush regimes and the obama admin and we do know that the american defense industry and some of the western powers and their defense industries have been selling weapons for quite a number of years to libya but when you talk about the people in the region trying to be liberated as you said about america and it was a so-called liberating the iraqi people there are other conflicts in the region

other than libya where civilians are dying for similar cools and yet this western intervention was allegedly launched in order to protect the libyan people all the while bombs and i missile strikes taking place what is the real interest you think of the coalition in the you know what it's doing. one has to ask why libya and not the other countries and in fact in the in the case of other countries like bahrain the us just a by while the saudis rolled into buffering in with the machinery that was given what was sold to saudi arabia by the united states including a pending sixty seven billion dollar weapons deal to the saudis the largest weapons deal in history so the us continues to protect its dictators like in the case of grain and saudi arabia and its close relationship with the government in yemen

while it is now trying to oust a dictator there has always been a of a either antagonistic towards the west or in recent years where there has been a warming of relationships still not one of trust so if they pick and choose which dictators you feel are aligned with your interests or not or do you know benjamin the co-founder of code pink like and say thank you. well later in the program here an artsy cross talk to the future of the military operation in libya is a preview of what's ahead. we need 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 rule of the libyans and africans to remove gadhafi not the western europeans

who doubt the over the past forty one years the junk 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 into into libya very same arab governments that are repressing the countries in bahrain in countries such as algeria in countries such as morocco in saudi arabia. question is coming your way in just over a couple of hours here on out here meantime a european capitals have been preparing for fresh and so your stare at the protests after violent clashes in brussels on thursday do you think it's what you think that you are off a set of measures to ease the euro zone's debt crisis that's as the single currency

is facing a new threat with portugal set on ask for a payout it's on a bushel it is in brussels he has more. 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 asked them why they're fighting plans. 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 where there was major to be used

for social security it was meant to be used for the health. the belgian sure when you bring you the world's worst to take ground because of the prison there goes across europe voters are saying no small measures portugal's prime minister has quit after 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 carts and lissie the only option left is national default toland as the country called pay back its loans all 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 euros maybe a few areas so what they see is and are necessary and expensive campaign somebody asked the. the finance minister about the financing of this and i think the overwhelming sense that you got from it was 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. with government bill tightening leads growing numbers fell to work the big question is will the right time spend the money available on news of the old go you go through all to see brussels. come here on the program here on r.t. are the events in libya an example of history repeating itself or something like parallels between the current a military intervention and the u.s. led campaign in yugoslavia some twelve years ago a war which claimed at least two thousand civilian lives. of the japanese

government has debating whether to expand the evacuation zone around the fukushima power plant water radiation there is now ten thousand times higher than the norm evacuation area is currently twenty kilometers around the plant and those living close to the area are seeing a lack of vital day to day supplies. as more from tokyo. the government does seem to have almost failed these people over the past two weeks now and those living within the 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 know how many of those people are still in the area but it's numbering in the tens of thousand that were given very contradictory into instructions they were told that they could stand homes that they would be ok as long as they shut their windows and didn't go out but as the weeks of unfolded

what they are actually witnessing is that these people are not getting even the basic supplies so what is there that they're staying in their homes protecting themselves from radiation the government isn't even able to give them food and water and all the necessities because nobody else would be prepared to go into the area and now we're finding out is that in fact the laws might not be safe because once they got over saying ok we can give you the opportunity to be ok but don't worry we're only doing this for you and venus got its safety in fact science experts are using completely different picture there's been high levels of radiation detected out of the twenty kilometer minute already in which you have it when you have radiation levels that 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 been a tsunami there's a shortage of food there's a shortage of water just people should not be allowed to remain in such an

extraordinary area this is something which follows the trust issues which have been quite a problem here in japan people who are not feeling that are getting enough information from the government and this has led to a degree of panic as led to probably by they calling of war 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. and doing every important job because the feeling and the goal of the 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 exposure again and again and again on television and the government one tell you for many hours what the hell is going on so the government shouldn't be releasing information time and again they should tell you

what's really happening so right now the people who are wondering if the government is telling you true stories some of the pictures which we have been seeing are truly horrifying people who would normally be cremated and the japanese culture of the japanese religion instead being dumped into what the mass graves sometimes an end badly basically constructed coffins sometimes even in plastic bags with the 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 called something like this can do to people psyche this is their very negative side but on the other hand the result of things to be optimistic about and we've already seen some of the roads rebuilt you already seen some of the train services restored as well but of course what you can't dispute is the figures which are already receiving which is

more than ten thousand people dead and seventeen thousand people missing who are most of whom are presumed to be dead as well. well artes and you go to keeping you updated on japan on our twitter feed we have a look right now in one of his latest tweets it talks about interviewing the top japanese official who blames the big energy companies for the fukushima crisis you can always keep out of it on the threat of contamination the spread of contamination the struggle for daily supplies the locals there are having to deal with and of course the ongoing search for those still there so you can always find out we're going to offer you that r t underscore call on. the returning to the situation and look you have now where nato will shortly assume control of a bombing campaign and our civilians are still a threat from colonel gadhafi seemingly undeterred armies we also now risk the danger of so-called collateral damage by the allies as artie's anastasio going to reports is becoming increasingly reminiscent of nato as bombing of yugoslavia took

place 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 all armed forces joined our nato allies in iraq strikes against serbian forces responsible for the. march two thousand and eleven america's next 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. it authorizes the use of force here were sanctioned by the un security council in contrast to the bombings of yugoslavia there was no such greenlights of nine hundred ninety nine in the bombings were led by nieto the first time the military alliance atop the sovereign nation a non nato 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 slaughtered on the loss of edge job the new hitler the enemy of today the eccentric one market and power for over forty years now similarly villainize to by the us colonel qadhafi these to 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 a questionable opposition in what started as a civil war what we're seeing is of course alleged war including attempting to gently to kill the head of state of the targeted country and other leaders of a government that again news from the slow work of twelve years ago. what is the world learned evidently not much the official reason for western involvement and so-called humanitarian mission a term coined amid the bombings of nine hundred ninety nine if you go if you say

really devolving because of the because of having to save its people essentially that was. all it was a rationale still rely upon but widely questioned you do know throws a red suit. with all this is a. war that is of killing received. this is real here is 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 he did in. yugoslavia with thousands of people killed and close to one million displaced after the war when they did a count they found the u.s. nato bombs had destroyed fourteen tanks and serbia fourteen tanks what they heard also by four hundred thirty seven schools

a similar scenario is now predicted in libya 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 as this in turkey or new york. time of the business news with you. thanks to ari hello and welcome to our seas business update is great to have you with us russia's state run oil firm ross now says it will continue to pursue exploration and assets will deal with b.p. that's up for that still hold all the trade tribunal ruled that big deal brokered peace agreements with its current russian. b.p. arson correspondent tom daschle brings us since the ruling of the arbitration court

was delivered with such an as commented from ross net's point of view on the deal on what he thinks the consequences of that ruling are firstly points out that the deal has not been blocked only delayed the final decision of the arbitration called will come on the seventh of april and he says that all parties of the deal should wait until long time to make any further big decisions however he's made some other comments about glasnost perspective on the deal firstly he said that there will be no buyout of a are they all represents the russian shareholders in c n n k b b some commentators the said that they might have been forced out by it was enough to enable the deal to go ahead with the big money has said that will not go ahead however he also says that because of the delays in this was never has been making definite losses and it may well see compensation for those losses it does stress

though over rule but ross nerved is very confident about the deal of benjy taking place it will defend its side of the deal and it wants to be as a partner in this deal he said though almost in his capacity as deputy prime minister on the other side rather than as ross never cared but even if for some reason the steel didn't end up going ahead then it was a key state priority to explore the arctic to find and utilize all that gas where so even without breed. p m without this deal the arctic would be explored from b.p.'s perspective obviously this decision is it's a little bit disappointing back in january when it was first announced they trumpeted it as a historic deal able to look into the as yet unexplored arctic and they've to be very keen on trying to find a compromise which lets some form of deal go ahead. and let's take a look at how the markets are performing this hour in the you as the dow jones and

the nasdaq are trading in the blank to sound economic growth data good corporate earnings are left inside and. out here in russia advised the r.c.a.'s on my six have turned positive following those guys on wall street chairs and also nerves are suffering following the decision of blocking access to it well. that's all the business news this hour join us for more about fifteen minutes time and you can always log onto our to accomplish business objects.

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