for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. a key oil town in libya. continues with claims of over one hundred civilian deaths. the libyan government accuses coalition forces of taking sides from simply imposing a no fly zone it says they are actively helping the fighters on the ground. and as we look at live pictures right here hundreds of thousands of people often verging on london crowd against the government and what's expected to be the largest the country's experienced in years again live pictures right here from london. and in japan about battling to stabilize the crippled fukushima nuclear plant amid

reports that a highly radioactive water is leaking from two of its reactors. worldwide news live from moscow this is art. well libyan rebels say they've regained control of the strategic oil town of from colonel gadhafi forces it comes as the country's officials claim that over one hundred people were killed in the opening days of the coalition strikes which have now lasted a week meanwhile nato's are gearing up to replace the u.s. in that lead in the campaign let's go let's get more on this now from our to fall asleep who's waiting for us in tripoli so paula we've heard about continued explosions are from the overnight there we heard about a lack of supplies available to the people of tripoli and surrounding areas what is the situation like now in the libyan capital and what are you hearing about the rest of the country. while the capital city of tripoli is essentially in lockdown

we're hearing now that within two days fuel supplies here might very well run out we're also hearing of shortages in food and water now for seven straight nights the city has come under fire from those air strikes from the coalition the residents here are very very frightened many of them are choosing not to go to work to spend their days at home barricaded in their homes because they are very frightened in terms of what will happen in the coming days now the state television is reporting that more than one hundred people have been killed it puts the figure at one hundred and fourteen people killed and some four hundred and forty five wounded in the first four days of a strike it's not making clear whether or not it's talking about civilian deaths or fighters and certainly it is proving quite difficult to differentiate between the two here in tripoli we are hearing from rebels in the town of adj ws they have advanced there from benghazi and they say that they've been coming across civilian bodies women and children in the road but they too it's difficult to discern

whether the bodies were killed by coalition is strikes or whether they were killed by gadhafi forces we are hearing from the rebels themselves that they have now taken over the town of they say that they entered the town through the eastern part and that gadhafi is men are now on the perimeter some two kilometers west of the city but we are hearing from abel's complains that they do not have in. enough with all sufficient enough weaponry to take on the heavy weaponry of gadhafi soldiers these reports have not been confirmed by the libyan army itself so we are very much relying on what the rebels are telling us but certainly if they have taken over this town it is a significant step in them being able to recapture towns and cities that they lost in the last week we need to remember that this time last week it was a very real fear that the town of benghazi would be overthrown by gadhafi some in the situation on the ground though is such that it's taken the rebels a week to get this far so many people are asking the question wolf of just how much longer is the international community going to be involved in this conflict if

indeed the rebels are struggling to actually advance with words back over land that they've already taken and when you talk about the role of the international community here in this military intervention in libya there seems to be your sense of. spreading across the arab world this point to another commodity operation will soon pass into nato how the libyans are reacting to such a switch. well there was a press conference that was held here by the libyan government a short time ago and they the government was extremely critical of the coalition air strikes it says that they are not simply targeting neutral sites they say that the coalition is not interested in only enforcing a no fly zone but that they very much involved in actually aiding the rebels on the ground so this biggs the question in terms of what will be the next step from the international community despite the fact that we hear the international community insisting that it's actually not going to get involved in terms of foot soldiers but the sense of the urgency on the ground here or more from what we're hearing from the rebels and certainly the criticism coming out of the tripoli government

puts the suggestion on the table that there might be something that might be under consideration now nato is officially supposed to take command of enforcing this no fly zone on sunday but we're hearing criticisms from paris and other countries they're a little bit cautious in terms of how this will work on the ground itself rebel fighters are also concerned that now that you have an enlarged leadership. calling the shots essentially it will be a lot more difficult to carry out intensive united fighting on the ground the african union is coming to the party in terms of trying to facilitate some kind of dialogue between the opposition nato rebels and the libyan government they have been against foreign involvement from the beginning and according to a libyan delegation to the african union we hear that gadhafi might be considering some kind of i mean a tease he might be prepared to meet with the rebels and possibly even call for early elections but the rebels themselves deny this hour flight number one they don't believe it and number two they simply say that nothing short of gadhafi

actually stepping down from power is something that they would consider that we will continue to monitor your regular updates on your on our twitter page on his policy and i can truly thank you. for those kind of gadhafi troops exchanged fire with rebels on the coalition forces continue their strikes many libyans are fleeing their homes hundreds of thousands have already become refugees in the ongoing violence and more expected to join them. is going to reports from the libyan egyptian border. so far the humanitarian situation hasn't really improved much 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 with this family they were from going. to 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 she was going on there maybe come back when things settle down when it comes to egypt actually many towns and cities in mirror of the egyptian libyan border security has been really strengthened there also there have been changes on the egyptian would 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 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 . if you go to chris kind of reporting right there well you can find our correspondence first hand accounts on libya on our twitter feed and facebook page. talking to people affected by the violence there if we have a look at some of the comments he's made on the page on twitter pages there you can find it under school call there we can see that you've been talking to the locals on the ground and getting the latest details there you can also check out our facebook page where we constantly keep you off to date on the latest story just as

he is on. what america has faced criticism for intervening in libya while overlooking baden's in other countries in the arab world political writer john walsh show us a 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 in the rebellion there described it's a good friend of the family of the united states it's taken no action in bahrain it's a matter of fact at the same time this is going on. israeli planes are bombing bombing people planes the united states is nothing it is not about human rights it seems to me that it's an. imperial arrogance in 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 from the consequences and i think daffy and the world are going to take a lesson from this down if you give up its weapons it abit trusted the west and look what's happened. well america's present position at the helm of the campaign has already led to a spike and see war sentiment on home soil the highest recorded surge in decades and as aunties a guy nature can reports the title of the operation may spend 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 campaigns kind of make more sense like desert storm in the gulf war or operation enduring freedom mean 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 it actually means 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 lieutenant colonel the sit down in the early days of planning and came out 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 alternate goal that their government pursues in the oil rich north african country the title suggests different interpretations the 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 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 of 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 a lead in convention at the pentagon saying that the yeah activities in libya that were only going to be in for a short time and then were pulling out and they are many times where they are ladies were at war. oh a good many here like homer's odysseus it may take the u.s. years to finish the journey. going to check out our t. washington d.c. . gauging opinions on the legitimacy of the intervention in libya we had to new york where web. to find out

what the people there think about it. we don't know what the opposition forces we don't know their. democratic. heavy duty weapons just the other countries the freedom. that it was ok. with paired with economic reasons then i don't think it's ok. now a multinational coalition is leading the intervention into libya as a military contributor says the country's future should rely on its neighboring arab states. 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 will do the emotions over fury's and authorized the humanitarian disaster slowly unfolding in libya mr obama should have shift the leadership responsibility from the united states not to the bickering made to allies but a 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 lead the 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 it's now a quarter past the hour here in moscow you all with hundreds of thousands of people from across the u.k. gathering in london to voice their anger over the government's massive slashes to public spending the protest against the eighty billion pound austerity cuts is expected to britain's largest in yes. reports from central london. when i was on my way here this morning everybody on the underground seemed to be on that way to demonstrations 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 radio this morning have also said that what tension is that they are protesting against potential changes to the pension system i will say seen several young families who are against the cost saying all professions but young children of course have to protect the future education of that children i've also seen police they'll be

florida how thousands of police in chain control of this demonstration today but they're also police taking part in the mob demonstrating themselves against cars to the police and of coolest that is that it will coalition as c n t a big a big antiwar presence here until more about that i'm joined joined by a strong the stop the war coalition mr aris thank you very much for talking to us today now tell me what's your cause that you're playing here today well i think a very big part of the problem the british government has with its deficit is its continual addiction to war if we were to scrap the triton nuclear weapons review 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 a single blow but i think the many many people there with you say they've come for a variety of reasons i think whatever group of here many of them were also supposed to that point of view and of course this much has been planned for

a while since december that c.e.c. have been talking about having it but recently the whole new dimension is being added in the shape of 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 worth all the resources blowed up every week every single weapon that the strike a lot of my old. imagination of people here. so many places at universities that would mean so many libraries would be over the hospital would mean so i think it's very very graphic brought home to hear. or see the loss of life which of course is uppermost in. the financial cost of this is ok john thank you very much now i'll be here all day following this march shortly these 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 afternoon i'll be down there with them

to see what kind of a difference they think they're going to make government policy based on the cuts and on the military intervention in libya. reporting that for the british government says the drastic cuts to public spending ghar the best way to eliminate the country's issues your budget deficit in just four years but academic and political activist kate hudson says there are in fact many less painful alternatives the government could use 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 there's a very clear alternative being put here today that we need investment in growth areas investment in pritish 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 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 of british society. well turning to japan now where workers are struggling to control the stricken fukushima nuclear plant highly radioactive water was reportedly leaking from two reactors propelling fears of a nuclear meltdown well it's been over two weeks now since the devastating earthquake and tsunami the official death toll stands at over ten thousand people with many more missing or homeless the damage at the fukushima facility has spot phase of an atomic disaster several workers a sustained radiation burns while installing cables as part of efforts to restore the critical cooling systems tests on the seawater near the plant have shown it

contains over a thousand times the normal level of radioactive iodine and nuclear energy experts say the damage to the site is having a dangerous effect on the environment and on 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 in my element 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 in 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 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 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 and that was a nuclear energy expert dr robert jacob speaking right there. all right now that's a check out some other news making headlines around the world this hour and. in

syria the pressure is increasing on president bashar assad at least twenty three protesters were killed on friday during a violent crackdown on anti-government demonstrations in the southern city of daraa . was also used against angry crowds in the capital damascus last week twenty five people died of state troops down on protests tens of thousands turned out for the subsequent funeral march. i. am in yemen the country's a foreign minister says he hopes for a deal on a transfer of power on saturday it comes after president saleh announced he is ready to pass his role into trustworthy hands the leader to step down by the years and after elections the country has seen two months of anti-government protests where fifty demonstrators shot last week. and in jordan two people have been beaten to death after pro-government loyalists attacked a vigil in the capital one hundred protestors almost all of them students were

wounded in the clashes forces used to disperse over two thousand demonstrators reforms and more efforts to fight corruption. and the number of people killed by a strong earthquake in me and has increased to seventy five with more than one hundred injured many of the victims died when their homes were buried in a landslide triggered by thursday night's tremor hundreds of houses buddhist monasteries and government buildings were destroyed. after shocks were felt in thailand laos and vietnam. and now for some or our top story and week after coalition forces intervene in libya there's a growing international concern over whether the action is justified journalist laura huff missed as the resident collected a snapshot of opinion from 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 they're. thirty 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 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 even 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 i'm 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. and i'll be back with a recap of the headlines in just a moment. wealthy british style. that's not on.

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