bribable forces in leverage falls wessels kept trying to keep oil critics play in these games are due to western air raids on the kabul weak un resolution intended to protect civilians and not to take sides in fueling a civil war. tripoli accuses the international community of taking sides and says as far as coalition partners go far from protecting civilians they're harming them on policy in the capital city join me in a few moments for more. russia stop general the coalition's strikes on libya have brought few results meaning a ground offensive posts likely soon despite assurances from nato there's no such intent. and hundreds of thousands of people have converged on london to cry out

against the government and the largest demonstration the contras experienced in years. a very warm welcome here with r.t. it is five am in moscow libyan rebels claim they have made further gains towards the east of the country after regaining control of the strategic oil hub of jobs from colonel good office forces they have also retaken another town helped by weather by western airstrikes which government officials say have killed one hundred people are just fall asleep has the latest from the capital tripoli. the rebels have taken the town of edge ws 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 or so the on that much closer to the capital city of tripoli inside edge wu 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 already 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 set 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 the buses snipers of into the city from the western side and we've been hearing for days now that gadhafi has been operating in the city in plainclothes 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. operation he said that it has saved many civilian lives but a very different word 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 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 is types 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 cause the rebels themselves also loose the old denies they have a very lightweight can reach compared to the weaponry that gadhafi forces are using so people here very much suspecting that if the international community is going to remain involved in this conflict in what might need to be on the weapons and there's even the stirrings of the first suggestions here in tripoli that despite the fact that that u.n. resolution one ninety seven three clearly said that they would be no ground forces it also said that they would be the use of the witness a series of 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 that 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 that opposition leaders are rejecting this out find 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 argue. continuing with its operation if indeed to begin it is put paid to meet some of the transitions that have been demanded of him. archie's policy are brought in from tripoli that colonel gadhafi troops exchanged fire with rebels on the coalition forces continue their strikes

many people are fleeing their homes hundreds of thousands have already become refugees with more expected to follow the corpuscles 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 we met this family they were from the and. 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 would be in water itself if we hear 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 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 . reporting you'll find our correspondents fast turned the council on leave it on our twitter feed facebook page or g.'s flawlessly. keeping us updated with all the latest developments just. to follow breaking news from our correspondents you can also find us on facebook stay updated. from the danish is that huge for international studies the operation in libya is a key test for the 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 game ball

desperations 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 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 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 gadhafi 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. and 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 alliance can't count on moscow support for a possible operation with land forces which could be classed as an occupation of libya artie's if you think of course. the head of russia is 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 libya 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 and 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 a variation 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 into russia is going 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 if forces will be on the ground that that will.

hinder goes in is opinion that will put the united states into a third losing war that's alongside iraq and afghanistan also the the the heads of 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 they do to refrain from putting troops on the ground so we have to see if that cold 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 the u.s. tries to stop losing the libyan assault americans a showing signs of fatigue their prospects of yet another potentially lengthy war opinion polls suggest opposition to the lead to complain is almost forty percent close behind the proportion in favor cheri the country is sharply divided and give

it to come reports the time of the operation could 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 us 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 of planning 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 the levy 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 here 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 military operation against libya is one source of debate our team has been finding out the views on the streets of new york about colonel gadhafi has forced us later this hour we check in with our big apple resident laurie harvest there's been gauging opinions there. 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 pissed off when the other countries the allies freed us from the from the nazi party that it was ok. but the modern was 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 billion pounds public spending cuts the rally was mostly peaceful but violence erupted afterwards when a breakaway group of activists clashed with police the protesters the largest in britain for eight years says a huge antiwar demonstrations before the iraq invasion. from central london. what does it open the peaceful demonstration here in london on saturday has turned into this hundreds of college coed demonstrations gathered tailbone piccadilly with the police using the controversial closing off a technique that's not become named as catholic these demonstrations move down the street earliest smashing everything in that because they smashed up the windows of expensive shops banks cash machines all sorts of buildings with that when they

smash down to take killed over that they're now hanging on into the evening they've just a few around about five hundred we have to make all the huff a million demonstrators who took to the streets of london today but nevertheless possibly it may be saying that these are the ones that will make them based impacts the ones that breakaway from the main rights act and the ones that pulls at quite significant amounts of damage in the city of love and it will be a whole new dimension it's been added to this protest in recent days with the minute she intervention the question is now before making in libya had to make that four and a half million dollars a day is being spent on bombing libya and the people here are angry about that angry that the government says it's got a money and yet at the same time it's entered into another expensive forit whirlpool not only i spoke to john briefed of the stop the full coalition and he told me why he thought it was important to come down and present some say if we

were to stop the wars in afghanistan and the attack on libya we would have a very very last portion of the british government's deficit dealt with a single blow to total in livery for its knowledge of the attack on libya over one hundred cruise missiles were for those cruise missiles one hundred million dollars worth all resources blown up every day with every single weapon that the take a larger fire over imagination for people here to calculate how many places at university stuff would mean how many libraries that would mean for the hospitals. let me so i think it's very very graphic brought home to people here what the financial cost of this is i think they largely peaceful demonstration here in london on saturday but it may be these people here the people who the cool thing the damage the people who have to get dressed up in that. case. been thievin anything they can get their hands on the police maybe these people

here who have the most impact and make them a overwriting and lasting impression on the government and of course on the fact of how this process has proceeded on that day. the japanese government has criticized the management of the fukushima nuclear power plant for its failure to contain radiation leaking from the facility a report has emerged showing that for such as worried north two years ago to spice warning or threat to tsunami with post to the complex two weeks since the devastating earthquake struck japan leading to a huge nuclear crisis at the plant in the northeast of the country but after a widespread destruction now stands at over ten thousand with many more missing out just placed. still working to bring fukushima under control though several workers have staged radiation burns during an operation to restore the plant's cooling systems nuclear power experts say damage to the site is

a retrograding dangerous consequences for the environment and public health. i think it's catastrophic i think the narrative that we've had for the last week or so which is that we're trying to fix the problem and get it under control is misleading i think that there's evidence of radiation having entered the environment in large amounts it's turning up in lots of places in water and food 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 says any hope 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 on scene 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 the homes at night they may not be getting electricity so the impact of these exposures will be even larger. so that. you received in the course of a week or two the exposures the nuclear plant workers receive in their entire lives is rather dire these people should not be allowed to remain in such an exposure area that was nuclear power. and don't forget there's always much more on our website archie dot com you can find all the stories with your online as well as stop videos photos that feature us is a taste of what you can find there at the moment. no way back home with us soldier

could face the death penalty for possessing an american military base unless he gets but if you find him in germany. and russian lawmakers that any rule for themselves find out why the state duma deputies will be deprived of cigarettes and this cuts. let's take a look at some other stories making headlines from around the world yemeni president has rejected demands for his resignation despite two months of unrest and protest in his country at a rally of supporters said his palace on friday western backed president saleh denounced his opponents as criminals and said he'd only hand power over to what you called trustworthy hands to step down by the end of the year but has broken similar promises before yemen's security forces face international criticism for strategic unarmed protesters killing forty last week alone. and the week of

anti-government protests in syria has exploded into national wider unrest with tens of thousands marching and sitters across the country all in the rest of city of dirk also have been demanding that president bashar last steps down the ruling baath party headquarters was torched in this southern city of fast at least twenty three protesters were killed in the city during a violent crackdown on demonstrations on friday. seven civilians including three children have been killed in another nation airstrike in southern afghanistan five others were injured a car suspected of carrying a taliban leader along with other militants will start it but it was exploded it exploded next to another vehicle carrying the civilians in the fischel wouldn't say the surgeons were killed. nine children were killed by nato forces during an airstrike sparking a furious reaction from president karzai who said foreign forces should leave his country. 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 were felt in thailand laos and vietnam. and lights went out all round the world on saturday for our symbolic sixty minutes of energy saving to highlight the diminishing natural resources in europe citizen towns across the continent where dark which were eight thirty and nine thirty in the evening central european time event began four years ago in a sydney australia and has since spread worldwide the world wildlife fund which organizes our says is to help promote a future where people live in harmony with nature. and the expanse since

coalition forces began attacking libya with growing concern internationally over whether the action is justified. 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 to become a second iraq or something there are enough to thirty 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 all that back with the headlines in just a few moments. wealthy

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