what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to. leave colonel gadhafi defense in. but on the ground tensions remain high in libya amid claims of yet more civilian deaths. in tripoli. more. than one hundred people anymore. meanwhile. continue to be the growth be looking for safety. from the. london braces itself for what's promised to be the biggest political protest in a decade with thousands of spikes in the streets against austerity cuts.

and a critical work has reportedly been suspended in one of the reactors in japan's fukushima nuclear power plant as radiation levels skyrocket. from moscow where it's now just after welcome to the program now the libyan health ministry claims at least one hundred fourteen people were killed in the first four days of the coalition's a weeklong series of strikes the report comes as nato gears up to replace the u.s. and leading the campaign aimed at protecting civilians. and i was in tripoli where explosions were heard overnight you cross to our live now and we've been keeping up with you your updates and progress on our twitter account. for now the the situation there we're hearing it was another night of

a military action what are you hearing about fighting in the rest of the country right now you're in tripoli. paula you may not be hearing us very well we might have a bit of a technical problem but we will come back to you in the very near future bear in mind that artie's who is in tripoli is updating us every step of the way with the r.t. twitter account now more bombs fall on colonel gadhafi forces the libyan people who the coalition stepped in to protect are fleeing the country an estimated three hundred thousand have already become refugees with many more fear to join them our correspondent you go to risk an office 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 they were from going. 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 there 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 any 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 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

wholesale 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 all 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. now you kind of course follow our correspondents firsthand experiences in libya on twitter and facebook. has been talking to the libyan people are affected by the violence and here we can have a look at the twitter page right now you can read her latest tweets search for r.t.

underscore com to follow our breaking news and of course you can also find us on facebook to stay updated on our web page that is simply our team. but hundreds of thousands are due to take part in what's said to be the u.k.'s biggest political demonstration for a decade mass protests are planned all 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 and that is in london for us. 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. 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 march 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 couldn't remain in wars we had the war in afghanistan began nearly ten years ago then we have iraq no saddam these are full of fear through war which the british government is leading the

charge over other signed on it says it doesn't go in there from on the 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 was every time we foreign missile was i don't two 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 dugs the march for the alternative it's tipped to be the biggest event. decades bringing together trades unionists community group members and uses of public services people here today will be saying that's 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 oppose being apart so.

it was more a matter of the let's discuss these demonstrations further with political activist joining us live from london. the labor party opposition who said these demonstrations are a march of mainstream britain what are these protesters hoping to achieve. we want to send a very strong message to the government today that these enormous cuts devastating cuts that are wreaking havoc in british communities jobs in the economy these are not the way to solve britain's economic problems is a very clear role to being put here today we need investment in growth areas investment in british industry sustainable energy technology for example is something that britain desperately needs and which would create hundreds of thousands of jobs and people are also here today to defend basics of their everyday lives that will help them and their families things like libraries things like

education there are major attacks on higher education funding making it impossible for many young people particularly from poor backgrounds to attend university all things which are attacking the very fundamental equality appreciate silence is a huge outrage all across british communities it's not just small areas for certain types of political activists it's something which is affecting the real heart of the british way of life and that's why hundreds and hundreds of thousands will be marching here today already just a few yards from where i'm speaking there are people lining up there with their placards with their families so as you say the numbers that people are beginning to show up here but you mentioned it's a brief spectrum of the public spending cuts that are being now singled out today by the protesters here but let's talk about briefly what kind of possible effect can they have when we look back at the november december student protests where

thirty to fifty thousand students rallied in london to protest against education fees at universities being troubled by the protests have little effect what about the influence on the government today will these protests have any turnout. i'm sure that the government will be shaken by the scale the extent of these protests of course they'll say that what they are doing is necessary a few days ago the charts and said that if his new budget was a budget for growth he wasn't announcing any more cuts i think that the government will be swayed by the scale of this protest and by the social extent of the protest they can't say this is just one small sector they can't just put it down to students or lefties or something like that and this is the whole heart. they ignore it at their peril because these are the people many of these people voted for them perhaps hoping for an alternative these are people who will never

vote for these coalition parties ever again because it is devastating british society and the standards of living of ordinary people are now as we saw for the past couple of days in brussels an e.u. summit with major major protests the police who are cracking down on protesters who are upset with austerity measures further austerity cuts with portugal poised to be forced to accept a bailout from the e.u. but apart from those protests here in europe the comparisons are being drawn between the protests in the arab world and what's about to take place on the streets of london can you draw any parallels to think. in the sense yes that it is ordinary people expressing their the just. expressing their views yes it's about different issues here we do have the right to protest in the right to speak out that is about ordinary people articulating their aspirations and their concerns and

saying that they do want something different they do want which is in the interests of every party not just in just a small number of people so in that sense yes it is about people power now we did see some small areas of violence during the november december two thousand and ten student protests in london not widespread certain little cells of it do you think we can expect today's event to turn violent as you were saying hundreds of thousands are expected to show up how the police likely to react to things. well. demonstrations in britain always peaceful overwhelmingly peaceful these mass demonstrations that we've organized from the antiwar movement over the past decades have always been peaceful if there is a small element of troublemakers around the fringe this is nothing to do with the mainstream of the marches is nothing to do with what we are working for here today maybe troublemakers that maybe i was wrong provocateur but this is not part of the

mainstream of this demonstration and i very much hope that the police will not play out that aspect of it i hope that the media will not play up that aspect to create fear amongst people or concern because this is a peaceful protest it's the articulation of ordinary people's concern anything about violence it's a red herring which is distracting from this very very genuine desire this genuine message. or a political activist live from london thank you for your time there indeed. we will be keeping you posted on the developments in london with the demonstrations forth coming today with our teams or more and therefore also next hour now for the meantime let's get back to one of our top stories now with the situation in libya. who is waiting for us capital of tripoli as i was saying earlier paula we're still monitoring your twitter account on our twitter page. is the situation in tripoli

under control now and what are you hearing about fighting in the rest of the country. no i do not think that the situation in the capital city is under control the city essentially is in a state of lockdown we're now hearing reports that given two days the city will be out of fuel and we're also hearing reports that they are dressed in food and in order this is a saturday afternoon there is very little traffic on the streets most people are staying at home businesses are shut there are many shops that are also closed there have been seven consecutive nights of a strike on tripoli so people yet do not sleep again this morning in the early hours we heard loud explosions in and around the downtown part of the city we are hearing from the libyan government that in the first four days of air strikes one hundred fourteen people were killed and four hundred and forty five were injured it's finding it very difficult though to determine which of those figures are actually civilians and which of them are fighters and this continues to be the problem here we're also hearing from rebel fighters in eastern libya that as they

advance for the when they are coming across the bodies of women and children and again it's very difficult to tell from the civilians whether they've been killed by gadhafi forces or whether they've been killed in coalition airstrikes the rebels are now claiming that they have captured the town of which is one hundred sixty kilometers away from the rebel stronghold of benghazi we haven't been able to verify this because we haven't yet had any word from the government but the rebels themselves saying that they entered the town from the eastern part that they've pushed back the duffys forces and that his soldiers and his tanks are now about two kilometers from the western part of the city now the rebels might be pleased with this progress and certainly they are but it does raise questions one of the questions is the fact that it's taken a week to actually advance forward they are also now calling for more weapons of questions are being asked well just what is going to be the international community's involvement moving forward and how is the international community going to ensure that the rebels to not only maintain this town but actually advance some very real concerns on the ground that this operation could drag out so paula when

you are when you talk about the international involvement what is the next. step for the global intervention here the come out of the operation will soon pass into nato's hands tell us what is the attitude in libya toward such a switch when we don't want tomorrow night sunday they will be the command of one force in the no fly zone in the hands of nato and countries like france that have already voiced their concern and then diety over those in terms of the reaction of the rebel fighters themselves the average fighter doesn't really care who commands an international commission but among the leadership there is the concern that you have now twenty eight countries essentially calling the shots and they are worried that it will be harder to have those robust international action on the ground when you get out of organizations like the african union which has been against military intervention in libya from the beginning but they are now urging both sides to come to the party and they say that they will be in forcing peace talks at least trying to enforce some kind of peace talks with the libyan delegation to the african union has actually gone as far as to say that gadhafi is prepared to put in place some

concessions and he might even call for elections but the opposition here simply disregard this they say that nothing short of gadhafi sticking down and no longer being on the political stage is something that they will accept. policy of bringing us up to date on the situation in libya live from tripoli thank you for that ask about to one of our top stories here a week after coalition forces intervene in libya there's a growing international concern over whether the action was justified journalist laura huff an asst also known as the resident collected a snapshot of opinion on the issue 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 but. i don't want to become a second iraq or something there are enough to 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 with three 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 so 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 what we're going towards have to have to put in 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 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. well aussie's military contributor thinks that the u.s. is making a mistake by passing come on to the libyan intervention to nato. says

washington should involve more of libya's neighbors in the operation unless of course the american gold in libya is all about oil libya in a slow mo dissembling from autocracy into a slow mo couse puts united states president in a very precarious situation when despite all the reasons he'll go to the emotions of fury's and authorized the humanitarian disaster slowly unfolding in libya mr obama should have shifted the leadership responsibility from the united states not to the bickering made to allies but to be joint venture of arab league and african union and to persuade them that the future of leave here. 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. now we do have more in-depth analysis on today's top stories of course at dot com all the latest developments and expert opinions on libya covered online right now including how the situation might affect european relations. and a u.s. soldier faces a life behind bars or even the death penalty but you seem to desert the army he claims was fighting and legal war. at moscow's lights will be switched off today as part of a worldwide movement designed to tension to the threat of global warming.

without a live from moscow and twenty two developments now in japan where workers are struggling to control the stricken fukushima power plant this comes after a highly radioactive water was reportedly leaking from two reactors putting fears of a nuclear meltdown it's been over two weeks now since the devastating earthquake and tsunami destroyed at large parts of the country the official death toll stands at over ten thousand with many more homeless or missing the damage the facility has now sparked ongoing fears of an atomic disaster three workers have already been exposed to harmful elements meanwhile radioactive iodine has been found in the sea near the plant measured at over

a thousand times the normal level nuclear energy experts say the damage caused to the site is already having dangerous effects on the environment and that of people's health. i think 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 been in some of the 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 and he said 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 it's significantly dangerous there's been high levels of radiation detected out of the twenty kilometer limit

already. 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 they. do receive in the course of a week or two the exposure to the nuclear plant workers receiving their entire lives is rather dire and these people should not be allowed to remain in such an exposure area. and that was a nuclear energy expert dr robert jacobs or it was you without check out some other world news making headlines around the world at this hour and more trouble in the middle east unrest continues to spread across syria challenging the rule of

president bashar al assad. 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. i didn't 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 the more efforts to fight corruption by the violence was the first of its kind in jordan during more than two months of protests which have seen the king suck his cabinet and pledge reforms. i mean mars a local media has put the number killed in thursday the other way seventy five in our country. many of the victims died when their homes were buried in

a landslide triggered by the tremor which measured a magnitude six point eight hundreds of houses along with monasteries and government buildings were damaged and strong aftershocks were felt as far away as northern thailand where one woman was killed after a wall in her house collapsed on her. government in me i. phones and in nigeria calling for a un resolution that would impose new sanctions on. he's been refusing to cede power following the disputed presidential election some four months ago victory was claimed by both the bug and his rival. triggering 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. right now and i just a few minutes we explore the long running a love affair between a russian and french culture that's coming your way after a recap of our top stars. it's

the secret incursion into the country. it's the invasion by means of.

traditions the language the journey you run the first day copied the beat. and culture. the thing is that the had the dunes are still unaware of what's going on in the land just over the last year i've no idea but that's like nothing which i don't know any but the alaska the great guild on our cheek. line. would be so much brighter if you. let's move from polls to pressure. the stunts on t.v. don't come. download the official placation joe i phone or i

pod touch from the i choose i'm still. watch on t.v. and life on the go. video on demand on teens and live broadcasts and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the t.v. dot com. it's .