coalition forces leave colonel gadhafi air defense in tatters but on the ground tensions remain high in libya made claims of more 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 tens of thousands of libya continue to see the kurds each day looking for safety and stability jamie you've got this little for me the border. and other news london braces itself or was promised to be the biggest political protest in a decade with thousands expected to hit the streets against the austerity cuts. and critical work has reportedly been suspended one of the reactors in japan fukushima

nuclear power plant that's radiation levels skyrocket. your authority live from moscow it's one pm our top story this hour the libyan health ministry claims at least one hundred fourteen people were killed in the first four days of the coalition's weeklong series of air strikes report comes as nato gears up to replace the u.s. in leading the campaign aimed at protecting civilians argues falsely or is in tripoli where she woke up to heavy explosions. 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 as men 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 if force insists that it is targeting important distillations important targets of gadhafi is a force for the third straight night the suburb 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 that for the first time they have entered as from the eastern part of the city and that for the first time they're 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 says that in the thirty four days of fighting one hundred and 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 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 hundred of the people that it claims have been killed in these in strikes also. billions 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 the more than thirty coffins that were bought out i visited a farmyard 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 us president barack obama has said that the operation is a success he says that they have significantly reduced gadhafi is a 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 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 might

see some countries reconsidering how those international operation in libya moves forward if indeed gadhafi which is what we're hearing and again we can't 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. but 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 with many more fewer to join them or correspondent is observing the exodus across the border with egypt. for the humanitarian situation. isn'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 libya as a western border with tunisia but many people are going to egypt as well we met

this family we were from. they said that to be 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 here anymore and said that they were going to wait out here in egypt as he was going on there maybe come back when the 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 of 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 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 . but you can follow our correspondents are standing. spirit in libya on twitter and facebook are to support the near. libyan people affected by the violence read hardly does streets and breaking news search for our feet underscore calm you can often find us on facebook stay updated on our page there are two new.

america has come under fire for intervening in libya you know what 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 mission say since the rebellion there described it's a good friend of the family of the united states it's taken no action by rain it's a matter of fact at the same time this is going on the israeli planes are bombing gaza bombing people and planes 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 be 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 character with their consequences and i think gadhafi and the world are going to take a lesson from this that khadafi gave up his weapons that he trusted the west and look what's happened to him. throughout the u.s. 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 antiwar sentiment on american soil the highest recorded surge in decades and start is going to can now 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 that or iraqi freedom but

odyssey dawn on top of making no sense as a combination of words in itself if interpret it actually means something really lengthy in time or the word bomb could it possibly. why 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 and looked at the list and they decided to call it odyssey just because they like the sound of odyssey. the second part of the word and the second part of the nickname is basically chosen at random but amid the growing confusion that americans have over the alternate goal that their government pursues in the oil rich north african country the title suggests different interpretations with titles confused and so as the operation says 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 the 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 if americans in their own hearts could call it something it would be operation here today gone tomorrow for many in the u.s. to see don 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. 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 frustration over the u.s. involvement pose. showing the last four decades americans disapproval of a military action has never been as high as it is now with the levy intervention 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 going to as we are that our ladies were at war. oh do you many fear like homer's odysseus it may take us years to finish the journey. we're. going to check out our t. washington d.c. . later this hour we had to new york where journalist marie harf for this has been out on the streets gauging opinion on the legitimacy of 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 are democratic what we're saying is don't bomb them with heavy duty weapons when they have just pistols when the other countries freed us from the from the nazi party but it was ok. but the moton was so to say always with. it with economic reasons and then i don't think it's ok. largest military contributor thanks to us is making a mistake by passing command of the libyan intervention to nato colonel you're going to herself says washington should involve more of libya's neighbors in the operation and that's of course the american goal in libya is all about oil. libya in a slow mo dissembling from their autocracy into slow mo couse puts

united states president in a very precarious situation when despite all of their reasons he will go to the emotions of theories and authorized their humanitarian disaster slowly unfolding in every bit mr a bamma should have shifted their leadership 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 leave. and the whole region is incumbent upon the lead b.n. neighbors the one thing has never change and the humanitarian intent of the u. s. foreign policy whether it is led by republican administration or a 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 are dark the problem of course all the latest developments and that sort of video on libya our coverage for you at our to dot com including how the situation might affect european relations also online. if you meet a u.s. soldier who faces a life behind bars or even the death penalty for choosing to desert the army he claims was fighting and illegal war. he was moscow's winds will be switched off today as part of a worldwide movement designed to draw attention to this thread of global warming.

hundreds of thousands are due to take part in what's set to be the u.k.'s biggest protect political demonstration for a decade mass protests are planned across the british capital to oppose the government eighty billion pounds spending cuts the austerity measures are part of the treasury initiative to eliminate the country's huge budget deficit in just four years or just correspondent more and it is monday. 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 fera 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 what people say yes it's been ten years now that we've been intervening in walls we had the war in afghanistan began nearly ten years ago then we have iraq no saddam these are full it's clear troops war which the british government is leading the charge over other signed on it says it doesn't go enough 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 oh miss on the others what with every time we foreign missile why is i under thousand

pounds up in smoke how many large breweries how many mysteries how many young people sentenced could this from today's march is 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 t u c s biggest event. decades bringing together trades unionists community group members 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 the polls show up to forty five percent of britons oppose being a part of. the terms patrick caved to demonstrators in the u.k. are trying to remove the government but instead are asking for help. a lot of protesters here are saying we need to walk like a gyptian that we need to link up the issues between the protests that are

happening in the middle east and the protests that 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 road here is very much deeply ingrained so if we want to change then we need to go to the state to be the main agents of change so there's a real sense that we can do it by ourselves we're quite vulnerable people are often protesting on behalf of the vulnerable people in the u.k. students people who would be of. effectively there's a lot of arguments about how to divide up a shrinking part of money in the u.k. because we need to obviously a balance the books but there isn't really any vision from the governments or from the protesters about how you could actually bring about economic growth how we could invest not just in keeping the public services we have put in developing the economy so we can actually have more for everybody to feel fifty and there really is no what you see instead of basically special pleading measures and i think it's

very disappointing. let's turn to developments in japan now workers are struggling to control the stricken focus enough power plants this comes after highly radioactive water was reported leaking from two reactors propelling fears of a nuclear meltdown it's been over two weeks since the devastating earthquake and tsunami destroyed large part the country efficient death toll stands at over ten thousand many more homeless missing damage at sema facility has sparked i'm going to an atomic disaster three workers have already been exposed to harmful airborne elements radioactive iodine has been found in the sea near the plant measured at over a thousand times the normal nuclear energy experts say the damage caused to those lines are already having dangerous facts on the environment and people's health. 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 or 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 and 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 and he's 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 that of that level is that in a week or two you'll have people that are experiencing the radiation exposure of nuclear plant workers 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 at night they may not be getting electricity so the impact of these exposures will be even larger. so that to receive in the course of a week or two the exposures the nuclear plant workers receive in their entire lives is rather dire and these people should not be allowed to remain in such an exposure area. that was nuclear energy expert dr robert j. cups let's check on some other stories dominating world news this saturday more trouble in the middle east unrest figures to spread across syria challenging the hold of president bashar al assad reports 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 the anti-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 clashes 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 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 plights reforms. me on mars 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 the landslide trigger vive a tremor which measured a magnitude of six point eight hundreds of houses along with monasteries and government buildings were damaged some aftershocks were felt as far as thailand where one woman was killed after a wall in her house collapsed. and friends in nigeria are calling for

a un resolution that would impose new sanctions on iran close leader laurent gbagbo has been refusing to cede power following the disputed presidential election four months ago victory was claimed by both bagwell and his rival of the sunnybrook daraa triggering violence between opposing supporters of four hundred people have now died in 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 laurie harshness also known as the resident collected 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 it to become a second iraq or something there will think 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 an attack 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 though you think they should if they're going to go in there and try to oust the leader oh 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 put in place elections and examinator 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 know 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.

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