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stabilize the crippled fukushima nuclear plant amid reports that a highly radioactive water is leaking from. it's just after six pm here in moscow you without. libyan rebels say they've regained control of the strategic oil town of. his forces it comes as the country's officials claim that over one hundred people were killed in the opening days of the coalition's strikes which have now lost in one week meanwhile nato is gearing up to replace the u.s. and leading the campaign. now has the latest from the capital tripoli. 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 chill teachers in

food and water now for seven straight nights the city has come under fire from those airstrikes 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 if that's the figure at one hundred and fourteen people killed and some four hundred and forty five wounded in the first four days of strikes 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 said that they've been coming across civilian bodies women and children in the road but they're too it's difficult to discern whether the bodies were killed by coalition airstrikes 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 said that into 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 rebels complains that they do not have enough weaponry or 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 time 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 asking the question well for 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 there was

a press conference that was held here by the libyan government and their government was extremely critical of the coalition airstrikes 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 begs 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 rebels and the libyan government they have been against foreign involvement from the beginning and according to a libyan delegation to the african union you 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 elections but the rebels themselves have denied 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. and reporting right there let's let's get some more on the situation in libya now and get joined live by the british from the danish institute for international studies so there's some concern that the military campaign has gone beyond just employ imposing a no fly zone we've seen over a hundred plus tomahawk missiles striking certain rebel areas multiple air strikes

is this a fair assessment that more than imposing a u.n. fly zone is accurate. apparently we're having some technical difficulties here mr tyson are you can you can you hear us. we've lost the connection there with an hour from the danish institute of international studies we will try and establish that connection a little further in the program now colonel gadhafi has troops in strange fire with rebels and the coalition forces the coalition forces continue their strikes with many libyans fleeing their homes hundreds of thousands have already become refugees in the ongoing violence and more are expected to join them as r.t. as you go 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 the western border with tunisia but many people are going to egypt as well we met this family we 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 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 of water 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 spells 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 all of the 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. all right now let's get some more details on this we just heard from you got a pretty good of let's cross live now in and speak to. you from the dangers of these four international studies so the whole purpose of the western military intervention was to enforce a no fly zone but with continued missile strikes and air strikes it seems that

perhaps the western powers have gone beyond enforcing a no fly zone is that a fair assessment here. well i mean it is fair to say that definitely there is no clear understanding of what the endgame of this mission is supposed to be i mean the d.d.d. going beyond the north fly zone is something that clearly the resolution one thousand nine hundred seventy three of the united nations does not does not prescribe the question is a noble one i mean clearly there is something will need to be done beyond the north fly zone but then the risk is that the coalition that's being put together this can visit cation may crumble so my understanding and my perception is that the parties leading politically in the coalition principally france the united kingdom and the united states are really walking on very thin ice when it comes to making

this endgame or the end result explicit if they want to keep the whole coalition on board well as you were saying a moment ago that there is no clear end game inside there a lot of a question was hanging around what exactly will be the final outcome here but the international coalition says its airstrikes are a success but other countries believe they'll still go in with ground troops what's next. well i mean clearly the idea of ground troops which has been voiced by some of the coalition forces is not something that was mentioned in the in the in the resolution of the united nations so clearly that would be a step beyond. what some of the part this especially from the arab world would like would like to see also because clearly if if the idea of ground troops is becomes actually there and the objective would become regime change rather than protecting the civilian population in

a way you can argue if ground troops are not considered the only other option by. enforcing the no fly zone is really to try and give the opposition a fair chance to or throwing good daffyd by their own means so there we are in a whole different ball game and still looking at various options for supporting the opposition but clearly ground troops is not one of them and i think the libyan opposition or whoever is speaking for them at the moment has been quite clear about that they don't want western ground troops on the ground as you're saying and give the so-called anti-government protesters the time and space to carry out their own grievances at the government but but tell us this why was the e.u. so desperate at the beginning of the campaign to take a leading role in this operation and why didn't they hesitate long before taking the helm. yeah i mean look these are all these are both bodies that work by consensus so i mean that it is almost physiological that you need to have everybody

on board in order for something like this to to work you can say two things one thing is that the only all the big bold aspirations about the e.u. playing again in my foreign and security policy role well here are really being discredited i mean if there was one sealed and one a battleground where the e.u. should have proven its ambitions well this is precisely its backyard and clearly you are seeing that this is not working and then of course the other issue is that who is left to do the job and then we are back at the old. cold war style alliance and that is that this is the nato option which of course has changed very much wanted to come to these kind of operations since the cold war and since the experience in the balkans and in afghanistan so of course also for nato it was very much a question of getting everybody on board in this case especially turkey so it took

them longer but they are proving that nato is actually still relevant despite all the colts in the previous and in the past two years that it may not be and i think this is actually a lesson for the future or let's talk about a possible change of power if indeed there is a change of power in libya if you think it would necessarily lead to democratic reforms there are some of the say it would just simply be a reshuffling of the same furniture. i mean clearly it's very hard to tell and we don't really know who is behind the opposition apart from some key figures that are in the in the national council and in a way it would be a symbolic of the powerful move to to to recognize this this council in the same way that france has done but the young that it is very risky to predict that all of that council a democratic process will begin to show i mean clearly it is also it is also rather

fair to say that the gadhafi regime has been one of the most violent and ruthless in the whole region and this is not. something quite clear to most part is involved so you can hope that something less ruthless and less violent takes its place but whether this is going to be a functioning democracy well i mean we are in the same in the same. game in tunisia as in egypt there we don't really know so the question is we should give it a shot and then hope for the best. from the danish institute for international studies thank you. well russia's top general says the coalition's aerial operation in libya has brought no results so it might not be long before ground troops are sent and russia's envoy to nato who believes the airlines could find itself involved in another major war along with afghanistan and iraq there's now

a get more from our correspondent who can bring us up to date on that so not particularly optimistic assessments there were no absolutely not in fact is that something and versus the twenty first out as just leave the state without saturday saying that by a looks of it the situation now with the date here strikes in the libya that are being trained out by nato forces has not been quite a success was it was hoped to be and has been going on for a week at this point general the current does not see any probable result they have might have been accomplished first if that does happen if the the air with the air precent in spring to be transferred onto the land operation that will be a direct violation of the do in secrecy of the u.n. security council resolution which is adopted right before the right before the nato airstrikes also the statement that was made by general macarthur somewhat echoed by russia's are going to need to listen don't listen also said the doubts and judging

by the statements and and everything that. even nato represents a stop in saying in brussels recently it looks like airstrikes are not enough at least so is succumbing to pressure from the united states mostly to bring troops into libya and carry on the operation for there and of course are still russian support to lead does not believe that would be a good idea because according to him the united states and lead are already fighting what he called two losing wars in afghanistan and iraq and libya and i think entirely with the region really does need a third of the side salad then sure now we also have to remember it that the leader is the opposition forces in libya thanks to nato. and these of course carrying out these airstrikes but they have asked them not to undertake any option on land whatsoever so we'll just have to wait and see whether or not nieto will actually listen and live with the u.n.

resolution or they will succumb to. pressure. but there are these four thousand plus american marines and sailors poised to margin to libya will have to see how that comes out of our correspondent i'm going to try thank you. while hundreds of thousands of people from across the u.k. gathering in london to voice their anger over the government's proposed massive slashes to public spending the protest against the eighty billion pound austerity cuts is expected to become britain's largest in years off the floor and our joins us live to bring us up to date on this and so a lower you've managed to break away from the crowds covering the street so clearly a lot of anger those men motivating them to come out today tell us there what are their motives what exactly do they want. but there is a lot of anger here and that we weren't sure how many people the organizers were expect saying they were talking about sort of upwards of one hundred thousand people but we're now hearing reports that they could be full hundred fifty thousand people up to half

a million possibly out on the streets of london today protesting against the swindling cuts that the government is looking to introduce a very very short period of time a good period of just four years and we have spoken to a variety of people who have turned out to demonstrate love to fill feeling against the government against this coalition government which a lot of people feel they didn't vote for and that is now doing things that they wouldn't have done in their name i'm talking about people like pension is there are no surprises here today you say that the changes being made to the pension system are going to need them worse still there's also a good turnout of young families who are protesting against the cost saying all steps is the case is to small children and also of course going back to that theme of education cause. that we saw a lot of processing about back in december that they are worried that their children won't get access to education that they could have had if they were born or just a generation earlier and we have also seen quite a lot of members of the police force of course the big police presence here in

london policing this demonstration four and a half thousand officers on d.c. but they're also police taking part in they smarts today because they don't want to see that force cuts and they wonder what will happen to safety on the streets if that force is indeed cut and now this demonstration in organized by the t.t.c. place represents some six million people whom we're here in britain and i'm very pleased to be joined by representatives of the t.c. mr paul novak he's going to talk just a bit more about what the aims of this march are apple thanks very much for talking to us now you calling this demonstration the march for the alternative we've got a huge budget deficits in britain which the government's trying to plug the hole in is there a real alternative there is a real alternative where we're cool to change economic course it's becoming more and more obvious that the schools are just not wicked and there is a progressive credible alternative and it's based on growing our economy and spaced on progressive taxation and the government needs to listen to the size of the protest here today at least listen to the voice of the british people and it needs

to change economic force and what's the mood like would you say how's it going i think the mood really positive mean obviously the people came here today because they're angry the frustration the concerned about introducing the blue event itself has been really positive lots of families on the events and lots of pensioners look to young people real cross-section of the british people going to think it shows the field that you feel in the result there are towns and communities right across the country and the message is something. in the community change and this is a massive demonstration but it's not the first is it we've seen a series of them throughout the winter which seem to have made no difference just this week we had the new budget announce which again was was full of cuts and things that are going to affect particularly what we're calling the squeezed middle the middle cause. realistically what difference do you think this is going to make this much to make a difference martin in and of itself is not to get the change course but we are seeing campaigns in every major town and city right across the country and you know nobody voted for billion pounds worth the cost simply nobody who voted liberal

democrats in the last election voted for billion pounds worth of cuts so we think there's a credible alternative we could we should listen to the british people already showing for example on the issue of. the privatization of the forests that when people power expresses itself and when people raise their voice and protest that. will change its mind we are listening today and we hope that they do think again. all right paul novak thank you very much for joining us now i will just say that this is a very peaceful demonstration here in hyde park elsewhere in london we are seeing signs of violence breaking out particularly protesters throwing ammonia at the police and smashing the windows of shops along bring you more on that when i can. show you some live pictures here from central london doing the reporting certainly just throngs of crowds in central london carrying their placards and screaming at the government certainly since the here those pictures once again since the november december student protests against the tripling of university fees and

these protests it's been a tough past five months for the government of prime minister cameron. live in london thank you very much. well radiation levels in the sea near japan's fukushima nuclear plant have spiked to more than a thousand times the norm it's been over two weeks now since the devastating earthquake and tsunami which caused the accident at the facility the official death toll from the disaster stands out over ten thousand people with many more missing or homeless emergency teams are still struggling to control the situation at the stricken fukushima nuclear plant several workers have sustained a radiation burns while installing cables as part of an. it's to restore the critical cooling systems nuclear energy experts say the damage to the site is having a dangerous effect on the environment and on people's health both 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 arm and 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 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 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 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. that was our nuclear expert dr robert jacob speaking right there well there are always more stories and in-depth analysis on our website. including the enemy within read how immigrants in the u.s. descended on georgia as a state capital new legislation they claim infringes on their rights. and turning off a man's thirst for power cities around the world will be plunged into darkness

tonight as they switch off their lights in a show of support for the fight against global warming. all right well let's have a look at some other international news making headlines at this hour syrian a human rights activist says over two hundred political prisoners have been released in the country this pressure increases on president bashar al assad the southern city of tough us thousands of protesters are out on the streets and a ruling baath party headquarters has now been burned in nearby hundreds have been demanding the president step down on friday at least twenty three protesters were killed in this city during a violent crackdown on demonstrations. in yemen the country's foreign minister says he hopes for a deal on a transfer of power on saturday that comes after president saleh announced he is ready to pass his role into quote trustworthy hands the leader offered to step down by the years and after elections the country has seen two months of anti-government

protests fifty two demonstrators shot last week. and in july two people have been beaten to death after pro-government loyalists attacked a vigil in the capital more than one hundred protesters almost all of them students were wounded in the clashes the king's forces used a water jets to disperse over two thousand demonstrators who were calling for reforms and more efforts to fight corruption. 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 a buddhist a monastery and government buildings were damaged and strong aftershocks well so felt in thailand laos and vietnam. but in just a few minutes here on t.v. we explore the long running love affair between russian and french culture that's

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