from steve. stone totty dot com. coalition forces a leave cut defense. but on the ground tensions remain high in libya with claims of more civilian deaths with but he's starting to wonder whether foreign forces are doing more harm than good. in tripoli people are waking up to fresh explosions. more than one hundred people killed and many more injured the question is being honest about whether the foreign forces are not doing more harm than good meanwhile tens of thousands of you continue to feel betrayed be looking for safety and stability mean you've got this little from the egyptian border. demonstrators gathered to demand the british government abandon its public that take cuts as the e.u. case spends an estimated four point eight million dollars

a day on military intervention in libya more from me in london in just a moment some. critical work has reportedly been suspended in one of the reactors in japan's fukushima nuclear power plant as a radio radiation levels skyrocket. very well welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow the libyan health ministry claims at least one hundred fourteen people were killed in the first four days off the coalition's week long series of strikes the report comes as nato gears up to replace the u.s. lead in the campaign aimed at protecting civilians. in tripoli where explosions were heard. 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 all there have been seven consecutive nights of a strikes on tripoli so people yet do not sleep again this morning in the early hours we've heard loud explosions in and around the downtown part of the city we're hearing from the libyan government that in the first four days of strikes one hundred fourteen people were killed and four hundred and forty five were injured it's lining a 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 above my friends in eastern libya that as they advance or when they are coming across the bodies of women and children 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 but the rebels themselves saying that they entered the town from the eastern part that they've pushed back his forces and that his soldiers and his tanks are now about two

kilometers from the wisdom part of the city now the rebels might be pleased with his progress and certainly they are but it does waste question is one of the questions is the fact that it's taken him a week to actually advance forward they 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 but we know that tomorrow night sunday they will be the come on for the force in the no fly zone in the hands of nato and countries like france that have already voiced their concerns and then desires he over those in terms of the reaction of the rebel fighters themselves the average fighter doesn't really care who commands an international operation but among the leadership there is the concern that you have now twenty eight countries essentially calling the shots and they all want that it will be harder to have a robust international action on the ground when you get out of organizations like the african you. 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 to be a 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 stepping down and no longer being on the political stage is something that they will accept. his policy of reporting right there on a small bombs for mcconnell about his forces the libyan people and the coalition stepped in to protect a fleeing the country an estimated three hundred thousand have already become refugees with many more fear to join them of course want to go to prison officers 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 libya it's

a western border with tunisia but many people are going to egypt as well with this family they were from. they said that of 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 the things settle down when it comes to egypt actually many towns and cities in the egyptian libyan border security has been really strengthened there also there have been changes on the egyptian would be in border itself if we hear of that just several weeks ago it was patrolled basically only by egyptian border guards who are 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 . this kind of reporting right there where you can follow our correspondence first hand experiences in libya on our twitter and facebook pages to fall asleep as you can see here has been talking to libyan people affected by the violence to read her

latest tweets just search for the under school call to follow operating news you can also find us on facebook so do stay updated on our page years. america has come under fire for intervening in libya 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 we were being shown during the initial phases of the rebellion there described as a good friend of the family the united states has taken no action bahrain it's a matter of fact at the same time this is going on. israeli planes are bombing bombing people planes in the distance there is nothing it is not about human rights it seems to me that it's. 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 pasturing on the part of people so powerful they have no no carrot for what their consequences are i think daffy and the world are going to take a lesson from this khadafi gave up its weapons get out of the trust in the west and look what's happened. now hundreds of thousands are gathering to take part in what set to be the biggest political demonstration for a decade mass protests are planned across the british capital to oppose the government's. spending cuts there are starting measures are part of a treasury initiative to eliminate the countries of budget deficit and just for us let's cross live now to austin correspondent who is live for us in london hello to

you laura we're hearing from one you can use paper reports of up to three hundred thousand demonstrators turning up throughout the day but how are things developing in london what's the tone out looking like at this point. i can well believe that we are here point where the mob is gathering and you can see these people gathering behind me demonstrate demonstrate it from all over the country. trained to come and join this protest the people behind me. which is usually full of traffic at this time of day and it's not just these people behind me that's just the tip of the iceberg all the way down to my right literally as far as the eye can see that. people got the. full of the. people arriving from the other direction. now when i was on my way here this morning everybody on the underground seemed to be on that way to the demonstration is more like a weekday rush hour than a saturday morning they were coming for a variety of different reasons and the people that i've met down on the roads this

morning. that what pension is they're protesting against potential changes to the pension system i've seen several young families who are against the cost saying no provisions but young children have to protect the education of their children. in control of this demonstration today but they're also taking part in the moment demonstrating themselves again to the police and of cool. coalition c.n.d. big a big. she wore a president's head until more than i'm joined full i'm joined by john restrung the stuff that will coalesce said mr rhys thank you very much for talking to us today now tell me what is your cause that you're playing here today well i think a very big part of the problem of the british government has with its deficit is its continual addiction to war if we were to scrap the trident nuclear weapons renewal if we were to stop the wars in afghanistan on the attack on libya we would

have a very very last portion of the british government's deficit dealt with at a single blow and i think that many many people although as you say they've come for a variety of reasons i think whatever's brought them here many of them will also sympathize with that point of view and of course this much has been planned for a while since december that c.e.c. had been talking about having eggs but recently the whole new dimension is being out in the shape that this military intervention in libya what's your take oh we were told in the very first moment of the attack on libya over one hundred cruise missiles were fired at those cruise missiles one hundred million dollars were all resources blown up every day with every single weapon that doesn't take a large amount over magination for people here to calculate how many places at universities that would mean how many libraries that would mean how many hospitals that would mean so i think it's very very graphic he brought home to people here quite apart from the disastrous policy the loss of life which of course is

uppermost in that mind what the financial cost of this is but of course some would say that it will be a sad day when question what news intervenes to aid the rise of democracy and the wow that would be a sad day but it's not this day because i think the intervention in libya is not meant to assist democracy it is meant to give the western powers a foothold in the very fast moving arab revolutions they packed with dictators for decade after decade and now that those dictators are being removed western foreign policy is in a mess. they want to get back in this guy i'm not what the intervention in libya is about and now the persons involved in some would say leading the charge to libya what do you calling on them to stop it now we don't want western intervention in the arab revolutions the revolutions approved one thing beyond any reasonable died from that is that the arab people are more than capable of dealing with the dictators in their own in their own nothing but this has to be our view of course

we want solidarity for ordinary people from organizations like the war in syria and the other civil society bodies we don't want to leave them on their own dog government and little arms manufacturers that they represent to the oil companies that do the deals they don't really have the same interest in assisting the people of the arab world realistically want to see think this is going to make i mean i had a day in the tension in iraq and based in iraq we saw a huge military and on that which appeared to make no difference whatsoever well i think the government has been weakened by ten years where consistently the mass of people in this country been opposed to the war the majority who are opposed to the afghan war still opposed to the afghan war were opposed to the iraq war and opinion polls show that they're opposed to this and i think you can see the nervousness in which the government's approach this by how careful they've been to try to construct a coalition which is now pulling apart but they are vulnerable on that's the work of ten years and i think it will make a difference at the day in the future to the american intervention to a number of wars that the british government can be involved occasionally stumble

hellish thank you very much now i'll be here all day following this macho people are going to start marching down to hyde park where they're going to have a rally that's going to last for most of the office again i'll be down there with them to see what kind of a difference they think they're going to make the government policy based on the cots and on the military intervention in libya i'll write off he's a lawyer they're keeping us up to date on the demonstrations in london thank you on a political activist kate hudson says the british people will not take these austerity measures lying down. 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 in jobs in the economy these are not the way to solve britain's economic problems there's a very clear alternative being quoted today that we need investment in growth areas investment in british industry sustainable energy technology for example is

something that britain desperately needs and which will 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 is a huge outrage all across british communities it's not just from small areas from 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 plight cards with their families people are bringing whole families here 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 if 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 sect of

a card just put it down to students or lefties or something like that but this is the whole heart of the british society tells me 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. you without see life from moscow now it's developments in japan where workers are struggling to control the stricken fukushima power plant this comes off the highly radioactive water was reportedly leaking from to react as propelling fears of a nuclear meltdown it's been over two weeks now since the devastating earthquake and tsunami destroyed large parts of the country the official death toll stands at over ten thousand with many more homeless or missing the damage the fukushima facility has spotted ongoing phase of a disaster and three workers have already been exposed to harmful elements

meanwhile a radioactive iodine has been found in the city near the plant measured at over one thousand times of the normal level nuclear historians say the damage caused to the site is already having a dangerous effects 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 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 in 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 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 they're out there already stressed their bodies are already stressed he may not be in he did go home that 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 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 and that was a nuclear historian dr robert jacobs right there now let's check on some other

world news making headlines around the world this hour and more trouble in the middle east as unrest continues to spread across syria challenging challenging the rule 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 who demanded the release of political prisoners. and in jordan two people were beaten to death and hundreds wounded after a 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 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 a pledge of reforms. i mean animals at local media has put the number

killed in thursday's earthquake up to seventy four with more than one hundred injured many of the victims died when their homes were buried in a landslide triggered by the trauma which measured of magnitude of six point eight hundreds of houses along with monasteries and government buildings were damaged and the strong aftershocks were felt as far away as northern thailand where one woman was killed after a wall in her health collapsed. france and nigeria. in for a u.n. resolution that would impose new sanctions on ivory coast leader but both he's been refusing to seek power following the disputed presidential election some four months ago victory was claimed by both by bo and his rival son yet worked out a triggering of 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 . all right where you with us here live from moscow back to our top story 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 in antiwar sentiment on american soil the highest recorded in decades as ati's a guy in a church 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 its campaigns kind of make more sense like desert storm in the gulf war or operation enduring freedom and of gametes then or iraqi freedom but obviously dawn on top of making no sense as a combination of words in itself if you interpret it it actually means something really lengthy on i 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 lieutenant colonel the sit down in the early days of planning it 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 or 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 of title is confused and says the operation 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 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 leave yet in no time. the name odyssey dawn seems to be an entree ways 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. odyssey dawn has become a joke following odyssey dawn. nearly name a combat operation after a yes album i want to see don't one. that's not a military operation that's a carnival cruise ship i don't want and 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 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 that our lady we're at war. many fear like homer's odysseus it may take the u.s. years to finish the journey. was going to check out our t. washington d.c. . meantime a military contributor thinks that the u.s. is making a mistake by a posse in command of the libyan intervention to nato connel that you can khrushchev says that washington should involve more of libya's neighbors in the operation unless of course the american goal in libya is 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 the reasons he told to the emotions

of fury's an authorized of the humanitarian disaster slowly unfolding in libya mr a bamma should have shifted their leadership responsibilities 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 beyond 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.

but we always have more in-depth analysis on our top stories at r.t. dot com are all the latest developments on expert opinions on libya a couple of online right now including how the situation might affect european relations. and a u.s. soldier faces and life behind bars or even the death penalty for choosing to desert the army that he claims was fighting and legal war. and moscow's lights over you switched off today as part of a worldwide movement designed to draw attention to the threat of global warming. all right i will do stay with us for a recap of our top stories i'll be followed by her ati's a spotlight program a coming up in just a few moments with our very special guest. if

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