from plans to. start on t.v. dot com. backed by coalition airstrikes rebel forces in the claim they've made more ground against colonel gadhafi his forces tripoli accuses the international community of taking sides and says as far as coalition partners don't fall from protecting civilians they're harming them on policy in the capital city join me in a few moments formal. russia stop general says the coalition's air strikes in libya have brought no results and it's likely that ground troops will soon be deployed. and hundreds of thousands of people have converged on london to cry out against deep government cuts in the largest demonstration the country's experienced in eight years.

it is four am in moscow you know with r t twenty four hour news live from the russian capital libyan rebels claim they have made further gains towards the east of the country after regaining control of the strategic oil hub of from kind of good office forces have also retaken another oil town helped whether by western airstrikes which government officials say have killed over one hundred people archies fall asleep has the latest from the capital tripoli. the rebels have taken the town of which is a strategically oil important town in eastern libya it is some one hundred and sixty kilometers from benghazi benghazi of course being the heartbeat of the rebel revolution the word coming through now though is that they were advancing beyond edge ws and that they were around the perimeter of brit ago which is some forty kilometers further on that much closer to the capital city of tripoli inside edged

up yet there are massive celebrations as can well be expected this is an important town because it is the gateway to the oil reserves in the eastern half of this country now we're hearing though from the libyan government from the deputy foreign minister that the international community far from being neutral is taking sides in this conflict he went so far as to accuse them of siding with the rebels in the sense that there is strikes are actually causing this advancement and these claims have been backed up by the rebels themselves he is also warning that the longer the coalition powers remain involved the longer this operation will be torn out so essentially what he is saying is that the international community argued that it started this operation because it wanted to protect civilian lives the full the more time that this operation continues the more civilians are likely to be killed and we will be know that some one hundred fourteen people were killed and more than four hundred forty five in just the first four days of a strike so no doubt that figure is safe to climb

a very different picture emerging from the western part of this country around the town of misrata now there that this town has been held onto by the rebels for some time now it was the last town in the west of this country that the rebels actually still maintain some kind of control we have mount hood that gadhafi forces have entered on buses smarties of into the city from the western side and we've been hearing for days now that gadhafi is a man operating in a city in plain clothes using civilian cars we're hearing increasingly more and more reports like this now the american president barack obama says that he is satisfied with. this operation he said that it has saved many civilian lives but a very different would coming out of tripoli the libyan leader moammar gadhafi saying that he is promoting those of his soldiers who have been involved in this fight for their heroic efforts against the crusader enemies among the rebels themselves there is growing concern because the understanding is that as soon as you have the twenty eight member alliance calling the shots it's a muckle difficult to have

a robust stringent action on the ground so we are hearing the stirrings of concern that as the rebels call for more weapons as they call for more airstrikes which is indeed what they are calling for and again that is why many here are starting to wonder just how long this operation is going to go on for if indeed the international community responds to those kind of calls the rebels themselves also miss the organizers they have a very light within reach compared to the weaponry that gadhafi forces are using so people get very much suspecting that if the international community is going to remain involved in this conflict it what might need to be on the weapons and there's even the stirrings of the suggestions here in tripoli that despite the fact that that u.n. resolution one ninety seven three clearly stated that they would be no ground forces it also said that they would be the use of the more it necessary measures which is why some people here in tripoli are beginning to suggest that that might mean the eventual deployment of ground forces now the african union is one of the latest bodies to come to the party they were against a military intervention from the start but they're now calling to facilitate peace

talks between both sides the libyan delegation to the african union has said that the deaf ears prepared to make some concessions he might even go so far as to call for you but opposition leaders are rejecting this outright they do not believe the libyan leader and also they say that they will have nothing to do with him short of him actually stepping out of the political climate so they really want moammar gadhafi gone from the political atmosphere but if indeed these claims are correct in terms of the concessions he's prepared to make the international community again faces a whole host of questions how then can it on cue. continuing with its operations if indeed they begin to eat is put paid to meet some of the positions that had been demanded of him. artie's paula slayer reporting from tripoli and as colonel get up his troops exchanged fire with rebels and the coalition forces continue their strikes many people are fleeing their homes hundreds of thousands have a ready to become refugees with more expected to follow as are to see for ports

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. they said that 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 strengthened there also there have been changes on the egyptian will 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 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 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

. r.t.c. corpus cannot reporting and you'll find our correspondence first hand accounts on libya on our twitter feed and facebook page our two spotlessly and your corpus can often keeping us updated with all the latest developments just search for our to underscore com to follow the breaking news from our correspondents and you can also find us on facebook stay updated on our patriarch to news. that's in our ear from the danish institute for international studies says the operation in libya is a key test for the e.u. and nato but there's no indication how it will conclude it is fair to say that definitely there is no clear understanding of what the endgame of this mission is supposed to be clearly all the big air mold aspirations about the e.u. playing the foreign and security policy role 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 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 the nato option if the idea of ground troops becomes actual their objective would become regime change rather than protecting the civilian population 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 thrown 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. russia's top military

general believes the coalition's aerial operation in libya has brought no results meaning it might not be long before ground troops are sent in meanwhile russia's envoy to nato says the lions can't count on moscow's support for a possible operation which led forces which could with land forces which could be classed as an occupation of libya. reports. the head of rushes the chief of staff general in the climate of did say that in his opinion the operation conducted by the coalition forces in libya is failing and that most most likely they will have to resort to use of ground troops and alleviate and if that happens that will be a direct violation of the u.n. security council resolution which does not permit that sort of involvement in libya general makarios sentiments were echoed by the opinion of russia's envoy to nato meter goes in who did say that by what he's hearing and observing in brussels it does look like nato officials are also thinking in terms of the ground of very soon

as the most likely result of the ongoing situation in libya there also there's also information coming from the united states navy that around four thousand sailors and marines have been shipped off to the mediterranean in order to assist the ongoing operation in libya at the moment at the same time state department also made a statement on saturday saying that the united states is not going to participate in ground operation in libya mr goes in russia is on the way to nato is saying that the operation nevertheless will take place on the ground and that is because the coalition and nato are caving in under the pressure from the united states and if that actually will have a result on the situation in libya it forces will be on the ground that that will. hinder goes into opinion that will put the united states into a third losing war that's alongside iraq and afghanistan also the

the the heads off the opposition of their position forces in libya themselves have thanks the coalition for the airstrikes which they believe are helping to undermine mcduffie's regime but they have asked the coalition and major to refrain from putting troops on the ground so we have to see if that call will actually go unheeded by the coalition and nato or whether they will listen and comply with their resolution and. with a request from the libyan opposition. and as the u.s. tries to step back from leading the libya assault americans assuring signs of fatigue the prospect of yet another potentially lengthy war opinion polls suggest a position to be leaping complain is almost forty percent close behind the proportion in favor showing the country is sharply divided and as archie is going to come reports the title of the operation could spell a long and pain from 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 odyssey dawn on top of making no sense as a combination of words in itself if we interpret it actually mean something really lengthy in time or the word done 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 a lieutenant colonel the sit down in the early days a plan you came up 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 and 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 you know 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 honestly don't know. 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 leap intervention the pentagon saying that the activities in libya that we're only going to be in for a short time and then we're pulling out and they are many times where there are ladies where it war. oh a good 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. . while the name for the militar operation against libya is one source of debate archie's been finding out the views on the streets of new york about the tax on colonel gadhafi has forced us later this hour we check in with our big apple residents for a harvest who's been gauging opinions there. over two 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 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 then i don't think it's ok. an estimated quarter of a million people from across the u.k.

have staged a massive march in london against the british government's eighty two billion pounds public spending cuts that were really was mostly peaceful but violence erupted after wards want to break away a group of activists clashed with police the protesters the largest in britain for eighteen years since a huge antiwar demonstrations before the iraq invasion archies laura him a trip or two from central london. it became towards the end of the day as we've seen lloyd's demonstration with up to five hundred thousand people on the streets of london demonstrating against what they see as when she cuts that the government is going to make the public sector over the next year is very short period of time well it has a lot she's still there and cried harder in other areas of the city i mean she was in people in our street with the police trying to use the controversial technique of cackling to contain them the police believe where in the riot gear they smashed

windows of shops along the streets and regent street london's main shopping areas and we've seen more than fourteen people injured some of the protesters of trade. and police notices that they've done gentiles and most serious given that they've thrown a mania police offices which could potentially blind building this demonstration had been in the planning stages for a long time since december that's a whole new dimension to it now that the u.k. is involved in yet another war in a war in country this military intervention in libya. makes it that the u.k. is spending four and a half million dollars a day on the military intervention in libya against the backdrop of these cuts and that inflicting on that country now explain to children priests from the start of the whole coalition and he told me why it was so important to him to show up today if we were to stop the wars in afghanistan only we would have

a very very last portion of the british government steps it dealt with a single blow. very first more to the attack. over one hundred cruise missiles were for those cruise missiles one hundred million dollars works. resources blowed up everything with every single weapon that the strike a lot of fights over much of asia the people. here to calculate how many places a university stuff would mean how many libraries would be out of the hospital with me so i think it's very very graphic the proof to clear what the financial cost of this is these demonstrations have been taking place since the beginning all of the winter and yet the u.k. government came out with a new budget space week which doesn't have to take in people's concerns into account it tolls there remains to be seen whether the government is made by the huge turnout of people that we've seen on the streets of london today. the japanese

government has criticized the management of the fukushima nuclear power plant for its failure to contain radiation leaking from the facilitate a report has emerged showing the research as were ignored two years ago despite warning of a threat a tsunami would pose to the complex it's over two weeks since the devastating earthquake and tsunami struck japan leading to a here a crisis that the plant in the north east of the country but uphill from the widespread destruction now stands at over ten thousand with many more missing or displaced emergency tables are still working to bring focus under control though several workers have sustained radiation burns during an operation to restore the plant's cooling systems nuclear power experts say damage to the site is a wretched creating dangerous consequences for the environment and public 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 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 you know we grew to your have people that are experiencing the radiation exposure of nuclear plant workers or you know over the course of their career and these are people in situ. 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. was nuclear power jacobs and don't forget there's always much more on our website archie dot com you can find all the stories we feature online as well as top videos photos and features is a taste of what you can find there at the moment. in. no way back home where u.s. soldiers could face the death penalty for which is searching an american military base unless he gets political asylum in germany. and russian lawmakers have passed a new rule for themselves find out why this day duma devotees will be deprived of

cigarettes and biggest cuts. let's take a look at some of the stories making headlines from around the world the yemeni president has rejected demands for his resignation despite two months of unrest and protests across the country western backed president saleh who's held power three decades has indicated he'll step down by the end of the year on this hot weather which the opposition says is broken before to mass rally of supporters staged at his palace on friday he denounced the opposition as criminals and said he'd only hand power over to what he called trustworthy hands there's been widespread international criticism of yemen security forces for shooting unarmed protesters killing fields in the last week alone and a week of anti government protests in syria has exploded into national why don't rest with tons of files marching in cities across the country in rest of city hall

there are crowds have been demanding that president bashar last of steps down the ruling baath party headquarters the store in the southern city of tire fast at least twenty three professors were killed in the city to remove violent crackdown on demonstrations on friday. seven civilians including three children have been killed in another nato air strike in southern afghanistan five others were injured a car suspected of during it. along with other militants started it but it exploded next to another vehicle carrying the civilians going to fishel wouldn't say the insurgents were killed earlier this month nine children were killed by nato forces strike sparking a furious reaction from the president first sight foreign forces should leave his country. and the number of people killed by a strong earthquake in myanmar has increased to seventy five with more than one hundred injured relief operations are underway after hundreds of houses buddhist

monasteries and government buildings were destroyed by thursday's drama and to follow up landslide strong aftershocks up to five point four on the richter scale felt in thailand laos and vietnam. when the lights went out all around the world on saturday for earth hour symbolic sixty minutes of energy saving to highlight diminishing natural resources in europe citizen towns across the continent went dark between eight thirty and nine thirty pm in the evening central european time the event began four years ago in sydney australia and has since brad world wide world wildlife fund which was earth hour says it's to help promote a future where people live in harmony with nature. so weeks passed since coalition forces began attacking leave here with growing concern

internationally over whether the action is justified laurie harvin a star resident reporter in new york has been finding out what people think on the streets of the big apple. as the situation in libya heats up foreign militaries are starting to get more involved should they be this week let's talk about that do you think we could ever know what it's like for the libyans there but we didn't choose sides we don't know what the opposition forces we don't know if they're communists we don't know if they are democratic or saying is don't bomb them with heavy duty weapons when they have just pistols i think it's ok to send troops to leave. i don't want it to become a second iraq or something. 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 i'm going towards have to have to put in

place elections and examination but other than that it. 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. and i'll be back with the headlines in just a few moments stay with us. thank .

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