now so to. me to take command of enforcing a no fly zone over libya. controlling the military operation right here in tripoli continued to fall on the capital city. public fury of the huge cost of foreign the military campaigns yet stringent austerity cuts at home and spreads i mean you look so pale out yet another crippled country. by 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 so three struggling without vital daily supplies.

on a friday night here in moscow without. nato has agreed to come out of the patrols and forcing the no fly zone over libya it's expected to take charge of the air strikes now within days officials have warned the operation could last for up to three months now overnight bomb attacks rocked the capital tripoli with reports of yet more civilian casualties. in the capital with more. 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 big room window with a 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 a mass funeral with more than fifty coffins we pushed down we were told that inside we see millions but a government spokesperson later did admit that it was possible that some of the bodies will suffice as the chest beating at this funeral procession say that all libyans off ice was so sick the question in terms of what is the difference here between a fighter and a civilian power journalist when to visit a hospital with him where more than a dozen bodies were charred beyond recognition and presented also as proof that these is tribes are killing civilians there are rumors here in the capital city the bodies are being brought in from other areas the reason tents of fighting and been presented to the foreign media as proof again that civilians are the targets and are the collateral damage in these is strikes the reaction on the ground in terms of the announcement that mater 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 that 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 than european powers which have domestic issues they need to consider such as migration here in the capital city the situation is very very tense friday prayer is always a focal point security downtown has been stepped up in fear that it could be nasty demonstrations overnight there were is strikes in the east in the waste of the city targeting military barracks. ministry a field at the same time it was a lot of crossed gunfire over the capital city so indeed the situation tense people angry and most just fearing what the next few days and weeks can bring policy r.t. tripoli. is also writing a blog so if you can updated on all the latest from libya she's doing so on our

twitter page taking a look right now and one of our latest post she describes how the sound of missiles and explosions is oppressing the capital tripoli of course also on the r.t. twitter page you can get the latest on the four thousand u.s. marines and sailors who are poised to possibly march on libya and the civilian casualty numbers as well on our twitter feed r.t. under school. right now the u.n. says it's alarmed by the looming humanitarian crisis in libya officials warn that food supply lines are very disrupted and over three hundred thousand refugees have already fled the country that you're going off now 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 already for the country it's thought that nearly ten thousand refugees are 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 bin guys the v. 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 there are some of the gaddafi supporters who are acting undercover inside been very the war captured by the opposition so in that sense there's still activity going on in a side 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 left libya it's

a real humanitarian crisis and sole source for the means all of this military operation to reinforce the no fly zone which was to help ordinary libyans there still has not been achieved. not easy going to south africa right there while european capitals have been preparing for fresh anti austerity protests after violent clashes in brussels on thursday and youth leaders were using that to hammer out a set of measures to ease the eurozone debt crisis that's that's the single currency is now facing a new threat with portugal looking set to ask for a bailout if he's done a bushel has more from brussels. when public e.u. leaders are saying they feel people's pain 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 are fighting these plans. no more layoffs to pay cuts no retirement the message from twenty thousand angry demonstrators pushed back with water can spray by riot police the protesters tried to get through to e.u. leaders meeting in brussels to slash spending this money was made. to be used for such a curious thing. to be used for. not just the bank so when you bring you the world's worst critic brand because of the christmas day goes across europe voters are saying no. measures portugal's prime minister has quit of the parliament voted down a fresh round of cuts because he has three months left to repay almost ten billion euro at

a time when its sovereign credit rating has been caught analysts say 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 in the second world war but the longer you pursue 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 many a furious what they see as an unnecessary 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 sides on the streets of the e.u. was government built tiny leaves growing numbers called to work the big question is

no good right time to spend the money available on wars abroad don't you go through brussels. right now to discuss all that's gotta live now to london to talk to a nigel farage a member of the european parliament and leader of the u.k. independence party so the european council president herman van rompuy pointed out earlier today that the e.u. is primarily aiming at ousting could you know that's not what the u.n. resolution indicates do you think the e.u. is on a collision course with the u.n. here perhaps i was very shocked i've just been to a private meeting with him several of us from the european parliament where he repeated that so it's perfectly clear that as far as remploy is concerned regime change is why would embolden libya what was also surprising was that we'd all seen it to begin with as france britain and america getting involved in this and it now coming under this morning and later on brother but what that run point made clear was that those countries would not and in fact could not have gone to war in libya

without the european council approving it so what i wrote what you're saying is that it's the e.u. as much as anybody else that has started off this war and that the aim is to topple gadhafi and i would have thought that that does go against u.n. resolution one thousand seven three i see it as a very surprising development so let's go some comparisons here if we may back in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight zero on the former yugoslavia for almost four months and still introduce the ground forces to take full control now we hear reports that four thousand u.s. marines are being moved closer to libya do you think is there any support for another ground offensive. i don't believe there's any support for another ground offensive and certainly if i talk about british public opinion you know we've been told by the armed forces minister nick harvey in response to a question what is the length of our commitment he replied how long's a piece of string will goodness me we've had british troops on the ground in afghanistan over ten years i don't think there's any appetite for us getting

involved in foreign wars where we cannot directly see our own national interest being threatened and where frankly if we go in to support the rebels we don't even know who they are or what they stand for or what they want i don't think anybody has thought this through not just in the context of libya and ground forces but hey what about the yemen what about syria what about bahrain what about saudi arabia is there really do to stop cosy or band room point of cameron have they thought about the strategy to the north africa and the middle east the only we need when you talk about yemen and bahrain for example we're seeing a protests antigovernment protests people fighting for the same cause as what we've seen in libya why is he then the western powers of course in involved in libya and not in places like bahrain and yemen but look i mean you're asking me the question it's the same question that i want to ask as well surely logically if we've got ourselves involved in libya because we're on the side of the rebels and we want to bring parliamentary democracy to libya then we have to repeat that in bahrain yemen

syria saudi arabia and everywhere else do we really have the will to do that that we have the money to do that do we have the military might to do that what's an earth that we doing now when you talk about the will to to do such a regional intervention talking about yemen bahrain and of course libya already underway a lack of will you say in europe but also perhaps a lack of will in the region against western powers getting involved when they're not invited. well i would have thought that's true as well and you know it may well be that the people defending benghazi against get out we are at the moment very grateful for the help they've had over the course of the last week but you know if we if we run this on any longer we may well find ourselves with ground troops in a country where we we actually alienate both sides of the conflict so i am very very nervous and very skeptical i don't like what's happening in libya but here we are throwing in our aircraft possibly about to throw in our troops against

a man who just four months ago a mr bad report was hugging in public now why do you think mr van report would be hiding in public and we are we thinking there is some sort of behind closed doors energy dealings going on there are mutually beneficial agreements but quite possibly i mean don't forget it was tony blair who did bring it actually in from the cold peter mandelson of course knows good at his son well he's been pheasant shooting with a yacht in the mediterranean with him and as i say there was one room december i mean there is a the air is pretty thick with hypocrisy. we could have singled out other dreadful dictators we could have gone in the sack with garbage will or chosen all sorts of different places so i just don't know why they picked i don't believe they fought through it are going to put ground troops and i think they're going to fire in all the member states involved in this a real strong level of opposition so you say you're not entirely sure of the true motives behind this military intervention but there are many that are saying it's

because of the four percent of the global crude oil that comes from the region could oil be a factor. what i would boil is clearly a factor and oil and business was the reason that tony blair did bring it up again from the cold so you have to be perhaps careful in life which friends you choose it may be that it's oil but look if they're worried about that what would happen if there was a serious insurgency in somewhere like saudi arabia that produces far more by now if you were just take us by for a moment here when when british m.p.'s voted on u.k. intervention in libya only thirteen of them voted against the measure why why so few of course well of course we saw that with afghanistan we also saw that with iraq where with the exception of the liberal democrats virtually everybody in parliament voted for the iraq war and it seems that what we have in parliament are a political class they all go to the same schools they go to the same universities they get the same jobs and research offices and they spend their careers in

politics having never had jobs in the real world how they operate speak and vote like sheep we don't have independent enough independent thinkers sitting in the house of commons prepared to make up their arguments right now when we look at the bombing campaigns and the missile strikes in libya at the moment hundreds of tomahawk missiles and dozens of bombing campaigns have been striking so-called rebel areas meantime western powers claim though these acts are to protect civilians they seem to you that collateral damage is an acceptable and expendable side effect. well i don't think it matters you know how good your missiles are or how up to date your kitty is there is no doubt that if you are involved in military intervention unfortunately however much you try and pick the targets and select the targets there will there is bound to be a number of civilians killed in these things i think that is just a fact of modern war of this nature but again we seem to be i saw mr cameron this afternoon talking about fantastic picture is secured over the course

of the last week i'm not sure what to believe but i hear all all of that certainly civilian casualties will be an ongoing part of this campaign and when you hear prime minister cameron talking about so-called victories in one context you think victory actually translates to translates to well they seem to be measuring success in the number of tanks and armored personnel carriers and fighter jets that they've destroyed from the air and with missiles they seem to be saying look you know we've smashed up loads of beckett they haven't got much of an air force left we've killed lots of their people and therefore are we doing well i doesn't this justify the action that we took just over a week ago and i just want to tell the public a writ of the by the by now let's turn our focus now to that in brussels or the past two days of severe protests there is the e.u. summit has been discussing a possible bailout of portugal and and more parity cuts in social services there do you think with severe austerity cuts taking place around europe it's it's likely to possibly overshadow military involvement in libya or on the contrary make the

public more sensitive to the huge spending on the libyan campaign. yeah i think when people see cuts in front line services for whatever reasons when people see their retirement age is going up when people see the taxes both direct and indirect with their pay going up they were right to question what on earth are we doing getting involved in an open ended commitment in terms of war with. goodness knows what else i do think to a very close but i also feel that there are lots of countries small and certainly in britain people woke up this morning and they looked at the television bought the newspapers and saw that as portugal is about to topple over the next eurozone is requiring a bailout that is actually going to cost each british taxpayer about four hundred pounds and that actually the biggest effect on our pockets this week was the chance that his budget but it was the fact that the portuguese government and they're about to buy all doubts i think people have every reason to be pretty angry that

they see their own costs of home going up their services being a money being thrown overseas in all sorts of projects that they wouldn't necessarily support reports families will be cashing out about four hundred pounds for the bell out of portugal is the eurozone failing do you think. out of the euro zone i've been saying for over ten years that the eurozone as it's currently constructed cannot work you cannot have countries as diverse and different as greece and germany put together a single economic and monetary union it won't work and they can come up with their bailout packages how they can come up with their plans how they can keep these countries inside the euro but in the end all they're doing is building a far bigger far worse bust when it comes us really convinced that greece ireland and portugal and possibly even spain are they are being trapped inside an economic prison where their democratic voice in terms of general elections can't be where

we're going to see increasing violence on the streets and at some point in time they've got to come out of the reestablish their own parents is devalued and richard jewel their dad otherwise they are simply not going to survive. a member of the european parliament and leader leader of the u.k. independence party thank you. 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 current military intervention and the u.s. led campaign in yugoslavia twelve years ago which claimed two thousand civilian lives. now the japanese government is debating whether to expand the evacuation zone around the fukushima power plant the 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 daily supplies. that is in tokyo for us. the government there

seem to have almost failed these people over the past two weeks now those living within the twenty kilometer range they got a very simple instruction straight away as soon as the accident happened they were told to leave people in the twenty to thirty kilometer range and of 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 my area but it's numbering in the tens of thousand they were given very contradictory instructions they were told that they could stand at homes that they would be ok as long as they shut their windows and didn't go out but as the week some of the older what we're actually witnessing is that these people are not getting even the basic supplies so what is their staying in their homes it's a bit of protecting as i was some radiation their government isn't even able to give them food and water a lot of necessities because nobody else will be prepared to go into the area and now would be a thought on the other is that in fact the laws might not be safe because once they

got over there saying ok we can give you the opening to be ok but don't worry we're only doing this to be a convenience lot for your safety in fact science experts are probably different picture there's been high levels of radiation detected out of the twenty kilometer limit already and what you have been when you have radiation levels that have that level is that in a week or two you'll have people that are experiencing the radiation exposure of nuclear plant workers are you know over the course of their career and these are people in a situation where there's been an earthquake there's been a 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 exposure area this is something which highlights the trust issues which have been quite a problem here in japan people who are not feeling that we're getting and of information from the government and this has led to a degree of an egg is led by the 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. and doing a very important job because the feeling in the gavel the government puts on the other hand as you know these are unofficial sources of information can sometimes be hysterical all but name calling themselves and therefore it's not 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 explosion again and again and again on television and the government one tell you for many hours the hell's going on so the government shouldn't be releasing information time when they should tell you what's really happening so right now the people who are wondering if their government is telling you true stories some of the pictures which you have been seeing are truly horrifying people who would normally be cremated under japanese culture of the

japanese religion instead being dumped into what the mass graves sometimes an end badly hastily constructed coffins sometimes even in plastic bags would be government saying ok this is the best we can do for now this is all that we can really relate to exude these people and give them a proper promotion so you can imagine you know considering the stress that their relatives have already gone through you can imagine being told something like this can do to people psyche this is their very negative side both carlotta her and the resulting to be optimistic about we've already seen some of the roads rebuilding already seen some of the train service is restored as well as of course what you can this is the figures which are already receiving just more than ten thousand people dead and seventeen thousand people missing most of whom are presumed to be dead as well. and i want to go to a person if it's also keeping up there it's on japan on our twitter feed you can see it right here one of his latest tweets here he talks about interviewing a top japanese official who blames big energy companies for the fukushima crisis

and you can get the latest on the spread of contamination and of course the ongoing search for those thousands missing just to say where our teeth on the story came. from are they back again with with the headlines rather sometime this time of business news we think. i think you're right this is our business update hello and welcome to the program russia's state run oil firm said it will continue to pursue its article exploration and assets will deal with p.p. that's after the stock or moderation tribunal ruled the deal broke the b.p.'s agreement with its current russian partners in the chain k b p deputy prime minister igor such it was also chairman of the ross never pulled aside his company's not considering buying the russian shareholders out of ten k. b.p. and he also noted that the arbitration decision was not final. find out what might happen next let's now cross why with all that under both the london capital

group mr campbell thank you very much indeed for the time so what can ross now b.p. do to make this deal go three. well there is every possibility that the deal could become unstuck and certainly the share price for flex that started over one percent to the downside earlier today and has recovered to finish up nearly three quarters of a percent oh yeah and expectations are for some sort of resolution it's just a real shame that we've actually come to this we're in the situation but there are a number of ways that. you could look at this you could see. k. become. a shareholder maybe get a deal directly with them but it's a bit unlikely g.g. the contention between t.k. t.n. k.

and wells after all there could be no deal tool some sort of out of court settlement but certainly the. b.p. bob dudley is working hard ensure that the share swap goes ahead say. that it's would certainly be a first step and some way to. the younger shareholders. and then look at the expiration down the line and. this will now take quite a long time it's going to prolong any finalize decision and deal but there's certainly some scope for some sort of tie up get right into if the whole thing falls apart which companies would be a suitable partner for us net. well. there are lots of other all its poor results

and b.p. just happen to worry very very closely tied into russia and they don't see been talking to the russian government for some time ever since of course the disaster in the gulf of mexico nearly a year ago been. tarnished. with respect to u.s. investors their huge stake the house in the u.s. market so they've been trying to return to it and if this does feel relieved then. there are other european explorers that shell of course that could potentially benefit from. no deal unlikely really to see any american companies to sort of step in place and be but you know there are other people that was enough countour tree right right and of course the exploration of the arctic was not about to happen to nori this means that ross never has time to

rethink but all the stakes high for b.p. from your point. sorry. yeah you're saying that that yeah. the exploration of the arctic was not about to happen to morrow and they're all snapped as time to to think about it once again august states hired full b.p. . agree with that of course you know any deal that was struck. it was first mentioned in january it would have been completed probably by the mid part way through two thousand and eleven but we're not expecting to see any actually doing anything built in two thousand and fifteen and actually in the oil until a few years of the vouch that there's plenty of time to come to some sort of other arrangement and one would hope that. b.p. can secure this because it's. important for their reputation and future revenues as

well of course a very significant part of the b.p. plan they contribute some ten percent of these overall in a substantial more of their actual oil output so it's. not the be all end all and certainly the share price recovery today would suggest that you know the best has remained firmly on the side of b.p. and there can be quite soon brighter thank you very much campbell ahead of the hour sales at london capital group thank you very much indeed and well this is europe today join us for more next hour the latest headlines are story coming up next. the real.