teetotaler times. in serbia multis available in. coalition forces leave colonel gadhafi is air defense in tatters but on the ground tensions remain high in libya amid claims of civilian deaths. people in tripoli are waking up to fresh explosions and more bloodshed with more than one hundred people killed and many more injured many are now starting to ask the question whether or not the foreign forces are causing more harm than good meanwhile the tens of thousands of libya continues. from the egyptian with the border. and other news on our t.v. london braces itself was promised to be the biggest political protests in a decade with thousands expected to hit the streets against austerity cuts. and critical workers temporarily suspended one of the reactors in japan's fukushima

nuclear power plant as radiation levels skyrocket. to live from moscow this saturday where it's twelve noon our top story the libyan health ministry claims at least one hundred fourteen people were killed in the first four days of the coalition's week long series of airstrikes report comes as nato gears up to replace the u.s. leading the campaign aimed at protecting civilians archies polls in tripoli were explosions were heard throughout the night. it was quite difficult getting here to this live position a woman has just stormed into the hotel where we're staying she's crying hysterically she says that she has just escaped from prison where she was badly beaten by gadhafi is made and now we have been hearing stories like this for the last two three weeks but it is quite unusual that someone's actually been able to

have access to the foreign media we now understand that the security is trying to take her away so that we will not have direct access to her story in the early hours of today saturday they were three explosions that were heard in and around the suburbs the coalition air force insists that it is targeting important distillations important targets of gadhafi is a force for the third straight night the suburbs of two shura was hit not i was there a few hours ago we drove past a radar installation building that is still smoldering we know also that the town of zim ten which is one hundred sixty kilometers to the east of tripoli was also hit in these airstrikes as well as the town of as ws now what we're hearing from there and this is a town that is one hundred sixty kilometers away from benghazi which is the rebel stronghold in the east we are hearing from the rebel fighters themselves or for the first time they have entered as from the eastern part of the city for the first time they are able to take on the duffys forces and are pushing them back whether

or not this is true remains to be seen but if it is true it marks a turnaround in the fighting on the ground because it was just this time last week that gadhafi forces were on the perimeter of benghazi threatening the people there with what we were being told was a massacre the health ministry here in tripoli has held a brief press conference it says that in the first four days of fighting one hundred fourteen people were killed four hundred and forty five people were wounded but the health ministry is unable to tell us just what percentage of those people were civilians and what percentage were fighters but we're hearing from rebels in that vicinity of as double that as their advantage for where they are coming across civilian bodies in the road many of them are women and children that. again it's not clear whether those people have been killed in airstrikes or whether they've been killed by gadhafi forces now the government insists that at least hundreds of the people that it claims have been killed in these airstrikes are civilians but they proving it but it's proving very difficult for them to actually show this to

us i attended a mass funeral of course there it's impossible to verify who was inside more than thirty coffins or i visited a farm yard where there were two people suffering from shrapnel from a missile attacks there too it seemed a very small number compared to the claims that have been put forward from the government now the american military says that in the last twenty four hours it has fired sixteen tomahawk cruise missiles and a hundred and fifty three is sorties have flown over libya again it is insisting that the target is strategic targets are gadhafi his artillery is mechanized forces and his command and control infrastructure. for the first time is not part of this international operation now the u.s. president barack obama has said that the operation is a success he says that they have significantly reduced capability and pushed back his ground forces but a very different story coming from the libyan leader himself in fact he has now gone on record plays in his fighters saying that he will advantage in he will

reward them for their heroic efforts against the crusader enemies for most rebel fighters it doesn't really matter who is in command of the international airstrikes essentially they want more air strikes and they want more weapons but among the leadership they understand that when you have some twenty eight nato countries now calling the shots it will be a little bit more difficult to get a more robust action on the ground that you always run the risk of one of those countries actually vetoing an operation so we are hearing some kind of concern particularly among the leadership within the opposition but having said that though we do understand that come sunday night nato will now be in command of the no fly operation in terms of implementing that there still needs to be a decision. made in terms of he will have overall command of this operation you might see some countries we considering how this international operation in libya moves forward if indeed gadhafi which is what we're hearing and again we can confirm that we're hearing that he is prepared to make some kind of concessions if indeed this turns out to be true the international community will have

a new set of questions in terms of how it wants to move forward. well as more bombs fall on colonel gadhafi forces the libyan people who the coalition stepped in to protect are fleeing the country and estimated three hundred thousand have already become refugees and many more fear to join them our correspondent your group's kind of is observing the exodus across the border with egypt. so far the humanitarian situation hasn't really improved much tens of thousands of people are continuing to flee libya each day looking for safety and better living conditions the main flow of refugees is on the western border with tunisia but many people are going to egypt as well we met this family we were from. they said that the humanitarian situation in the city is critical at the moment they were saying how they're not actually fleeing because their home has been destroyed the zone feel safe there

anymore and said that they were going to wait out here in egypt as he was going on there maybe come back when things settle down when it comes to egypt actually many towns and cities in the egyptian libyan border security has been strengthened there also there have been changes on the egyptian will be in voter itself if we hear that just several weeks ago it was patrolled basically only by egyptian border guards or people who are letting people in and out of the country now it's being patrolled by both sides there are representatives of the so-called national police in the libya whole so checking documents of the people that are going through the border so maybe the opposition is gaining some more. some more control over the situation and perhaps just simply discipline them but judging by these figures and the tens of thousands of refugees each day and in total according

to the u.n. over three hundred thousand people have already fled libya the situation hasn't improved much and to the goal of this the whole military operation by the alliance which was to improve the lives of ordinary people and make it safer for ordinary people to live there at the moment in libya that still has not been changed unfortunately. if you follow our correspondents firsthand experiences from the ground in libya twitter and facebook are just cauliflower and you both to know just south korean there are tweeting from the war torn country with all the latest developments just search for all of to underscore columns to follow breaking news from them on twitter you can also find us on facebook to stay updated on our page there are. america has come under fire for intervening in libya while overlooking violence in other countries in the arab world political writer john walsh says u.s.

foreign policy in the region is completely inconsistent it is not about protecting the people or human rights because in egypt when people were being shot during the initial phases of the rebellion they're described as a good friend of the family and the united states has taken no action in bahrain it's a matter of fact at the same time this is going on the israeli planes are bombing gaza bombing people and. the united states says nothing it is not about human rights it seems to me that it's a bit of. imperial arrogance and human family the united states does not need that oil it's not about oil it does not fit in with the united states master plan to dominate the middle east for purposes of oil and israel so it doesn't make sense it's a pasturing on the part of people so powerful they have no no cures for what their

consequences are i think gadhafi and the world are going to take a lesson from those that could down if you give up its weapons get out of the trust in the west and look what's happened to him. now take us is still bearing the brunt of responsibility for the intervention in libya despite washington's promise to minimize its involvement the campaigns lead to a spike in antiwar sentiment on american soil the highest recorded surge in decades there's artie's going to can reports the title of the operation may spell a long and painful conflict for the u.s. coalition is calling this operation odyssey dawn odyssey dawn odyssey dawn what's in a name the names that the u.s. previously gave to his campaign is kind of make more sense like desert storm in the gulf war or operation enduring freedom and of gametes then or iraqi freedom but odyssey dawn on top of making no sense as a combination of words in itself if we interpret it actually mean something really

lengthy in time or the word bomb could it possibly imply that what we have now is just the beginning we talked to the u.s. command in africa that was tasked to come up with two words and they say the title does not mean anything what happened is there is a group of planning officers led by a lieutenant colonel the sit down in the early days of planning he came up to look at the list and they decided to call it odyssey just because they like the sound of odyssey. the second part of the word or the second part of the nickname is basically chosen at random but amid the growing confusion that americans have over the ultimate goal that their government pursues in the oil rich north african country the title suggests different interpretations the title is confused and so is the operation and so is the public understanding of the operation so i think it's all it's all very confusing what's really unhappy is that if you think about the odyssey it's this story about these people wandering around the mediterranean for ten years not able to find their way and that seems exactly the wrong metaphor

for what what they want to convey about this president obama said the u.s. will be in and out of libya in no time. the name odyssey dawn. seems to be an odd choice for a quick operation considering a this is is ten year journey to return home after a ten year war it in some ways represents the lack of clarity as to what the objective of the mission is in americans in their own hearts could call it something it would be operation here today gone tomorrow for many in the u.s. odyssey dawn has become a joke following odyssey dawn. nearly name a combat operation after a yes album i want to see don't i that's not a military operation that's a carnival cruise ship i don't know i was thinking oh i know her but not only do most u.s. comedians poke fun at the name of the operation they also best express the growing

public prostration over the u.s. involvement poll showing the last four decades americans disapproval of a military action has never been as high as it is now with the libyan convention the pentagon saying that. the activities in libya that we're only going to be in for a short time and then we're pulling out and they are many times where there are ladies where it war. oh do you many fear like homer's odysseus it may take the u.s. years to finish the journey. is going to check out our t. washington d.c. . well later this hour we head to new york where journalist laura her from this has been out on the streets dating opinion on the edge of a sea of the intervention in libya. we didn't choose sides we don't know what the opposition forces we don't know if they're communists we don't know if they're democratic what we're saying is don't bomb them with heavy duty weapons when they

have just pistols when the other countries the fritos from the from the nazi party that it was ok. but the moton was so to say i. always with paired with economic reasons. i don't think it's ok. well arty's military contributor thinks the u.s. is making a mistake by passing command of the libyan intervention to nato colonel you have done it herself says watson chance it involved more of it libya's neighbors in the operation and that's of course the american goal in libya it's all about oil libya in a slow mo dissembling from autocracy into slow mo couse puts united states president in a very precarious situation when despite all the reasons he told to the emotions of

fury's and authorized the humanitarian disaster slowly unfolding in libya mr obama should have shifted the litter ship responsibility from the united states not to the bickering nato allies but to the joint venture of arab league and african union and to persuade them that the future of libya. and the whole region is incumbent upon the league neighbors the one thing has never change the humanitarian intent of the u. s. foreign policy whether it is led by republican administration or democratic one at the end of the day it will also boil down to one cold war oil. we have more in-depth analysis on today's top stories that are dot com you can get

all the latest developments and expert opinions on libya including how the situation in light of fact european relations. and the u.s. soldier faces life behind bars or even the death penalty for choosing to desert the army he claims was fighting an illegal war find out more on line. also moscow and why it's will be switched off today as part of a worldwide movement designed to draw attention to the threat of global warming. hundreds of thousands are due to take part in what said to be the u.k.'s biggest political demonstration for a decade mass protests are planned across the british capital to oppose the government's eighty billion pound spending cuts the austerity measures are part of

a treasury initiative to eliminate the country's huge budget deficit in just four years correspondent laura elements in london. preparations are in full swing hair in hyde park for today's march for the alternative organizers are expecting two hundred thousand demonstrators but some are saying that up to hoffa million will turn out to march against austerity measures in the u.k. they're demanding that the government abandons what they're calling damaging cuts and sets out an alternative based on job creation farrah's taxation and growth this much has been planned for a few months following on from last year's big student demonstrations this time it's the trade unions who are getting it on the act and there's a whole new dimension to it over the last six months towns and cities all over the country have seen hundreds of thousands marched against cuts in public spending in areas like education and pensions but now the u.k.'s spending hundreds of millions

on military intervention in libya it's estimated that in the first week bombing libya has already cost two hundred forty five million dollars ahead of the march i spoke to lindsey german of the stop the war coalition he told me about the costs of war more people say yes it's been ten years now that we've been intervening in wars we had the war in afghanistan began nearly ten years ago then we had to grow up no saddam these were full of fear through war which the british government is leading the charge over other signed on it says it doesn't go in the off money for the welfare of the people in this country need and they say everybody has to make a sacrifice well maybe we shouldn't be spending eight hundred thousand pounds for miss on all the others what was every time we foreign missile was i don't two thousand pounds up in smoke how many large breweries how many news stories how many young people sentenced could this fall and today's marches organized by the trades

union council or tea you see which represents more than six million workers the march for the alternative it's tipped to be the biggest event. decades bringing together trade unionists community groups and uses of public services people here today will be saying they're sick of hearing the government say it's got no money particularly as it's now involved in yet another expensive war in a foreign land and it's a war that polls show up to forty five percent of britons being a part of. what journalist patrick hayes says demonstrators in the u.k. are trying to remove the government but instead asking for help a lot of protesters here are saying we need to walk like egyptians and we need to link up the issues between the protests are happening in the middle east and the protests are going to be happening here soon and i don't think it's that easy because actually what you see in the middle east are a lot of people arguing against state intervention in their lives for greater

freedom from the state grows here is very much deeply ingrained so if we want to change then we need to go to the state to be the main agent of change there's a real sense that we can't do it by ourselves we're quite vulnerable people are often protesting on behalf of the vulnerable people in the u.k. shouldn't people who would be of who was effectively there's a lot of arguments about how to divide up shrinking pots of money in the u.k. because we need to obviously a balance the books but there isn't really any vision from the government or from the protesters about how you can actually bring about economic growth how we could invest not just in keeping the public services we have but in developing the economy so we can actually have more for everybody. really is and know what you see instead of basically special pleading measures and i think i was very disappointing . to developments in japan now we're getting reports that workers have had to stop their cooling efforts at one of the reactors at the fukushima nuclear power plant

this comes after highly radioactive water was leaking from two reactors propelling fears of a nuclear meltdown three workers have already been exposed to dangerous materials but wait no active i have diamonds been found in the scene near the plant measured at over a thousand times the normal level the japanese government has asked people living within thirty kilometers of the plant to voluntarily leave the area nuclear energy experts say the damage is cost of the sides already having dangerous the facts on the environment and the locals. i think it's catastrophic i think that the narrative that we've had for the last week or so which is that we're trying to fix the problem and get it under control is misleading i think that there's evidence of radiation having entered the environment in large amounts it's turning up in lots of places in water and food it's even being detected far away what this could mean is that there is really a significant entry of radiation going on into the environment right now and that

there doesn't appear to be any any any halt to it in the near future so that's very catastrophic this is not something that is a situation that may get out of control this is a situation that is having a catastrophic impact currently already i would say and significantly dangerous there's been high levels of radiation detected out of the twenty kilometer limit already in what you have it when you have radiation levels of 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 been an earthquake there's been a tsunami 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 in one. they may not be getting electricity so the impact of these exposures will be been larger. so they.

receive in the course of a weaker to be exposure to the nuclear plant workers receive in their entire lives is rather dogger these people should not be allowed to remain in such an exposure area. nuclear energy expert dr robert jacobs there on the situation at fukushima well let's check some other world news making headlines this saturday more trouble in the middle east unrest continues spread across syria challenging the will of president bashar assad of course a state troops opened fire killing at least twenty three people in three separate protests tear gas was also used against demonstrators in the capital damascus dandy government movement began over a week ago after protesters demanded the release of political prisoners. and in jordan two people were beaten to death and hundreds wounded after pro-government loyalists attacked a vigil in the capital the classes were broken up by riot police over two thousand young demonstrators were calling for reforms to the current leadership and more efforts to fight corruption the violence was the first of its kind in jordan during

more than two months of protests which have seen the king sacked his cabinet and plots before. and myanmar's local media has put the number killed in thursday's earthquake at seventy four with more than one hundred injured many of the victims died when their homes were buried in a landslide triggered by the tremor it's measured a magnitude of six point eight hundreds of houses along with monasteries and government buildings were damaged strong aftershocks were felt as far away as thailand one woman was killed after a wall in our house collapsed. france and gerry are calling for a un resolution that would impose new sanctions on i recall its leader the back row it's been refusing to see power fall in the disputed presidential election four months ago victory was claimed by both bagwell and his right. of all of the sign you ouattara triggering the violence between opposing supporters over four hundred people have now died in the fighting with up to one million forced to flee the

capital abidjan. now back to our top story a week after coalition forces intervened in libya there's growing international concern over whether the action was justified journalist or hard fittest also known as the resident collective a snapshot of opinion on the streets of new york. as the situation in libya heats up foreign militaries are starting to get more involved should they be this week let's talk about that do you think we could ever know what it's like for the libyans there but we didn't choose sides we don't know what the opposition forces we don't know if they're communists we don't know if they are democratic or saying is don't bomb them with heavy duty weapons when they have just pistols i think it's ok to send troops to leave. i don't want to become a second iraq or something there. so do you support your country's decision to stay

out of it i understand germany's decision because of course with our history when it's really difficult for us to send our troops to other countries how would you feel about another country coming into your country depends on the motive when they the other countries the allies freed us from the from the nazi party that it was ok . but the modern war so to say always with paired with economic reasons and then i don't think it's ok there's so many uprisings going on in the middle east why are foreign countries getting involved in libya yeah that's a good question. i mean i think it's really important that the united nations backs war like this or and. perhaps we should get involved in more countries do you think the world has a plan for what comes next in libya probably not. but probably not going they should if they're going to go in there and try to oust the leader i think we have

to if it's going to be a democracy obviously and that's one going towards have to have to put in place elections and examination but other than that it at the time it's a tough question to answer because you see what's going on over there and you. it's kind of hard not to want to help whether or not you think foreign military intervention in libya is right the bottom line is that at this point world leaders seem determined to get involved. coming up as a recap of our top stories and a look at the global food crisis with peter lavelle after a short break stay with us.

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