markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. comes a report. have bines in the week in review here on r g the rebels gave momentum in libya putting an end to their recent stalemate but local leaders blame foreign forces and their air strikes for helping to give that it's. tripoli accuses the international community of taking sides and says as far as coalition partners go soft on protecting civilians there harming them i'm told is here in the capital city join me in a few moments formal. kind of washington tries to distance itself from the libyan crisis but the country's long history of international interference leaves a war weary public fearing another blank the conflict.

painful economic katsu quarter of a million marched through london and protests elsewhere as hard pressed europeans question an expensive libya campaign all spending slot at home. plus in japan radiation rises in the senior fukushima despite efforts to bring the plant under control following the earthquake tragedy over ten thousand are now listed as dead with many more homeless or missing. form welcome to the weekly here on our team this sunday on many snow with the latest and a look back at the week's top stories we begin of course with libya where rebels are advancing west words after reagan in control of a strategic eastern oil town from progress afy forces reports suggest they're heading. for another key oil port while it marks

a change of path in the libyan conflict which at one point saw gadhafi supporters retake rebel strongholds the eastern towns along the coast have been lost before u.s. led coalition stepped in to enforce a no fly zone last saturday is now again under rebel control after days of fighting now they're pushing west libyan state t.v. claims airstrikes hit civilian areas killing over a hundred findings also intensifying in one of the few western towns held by rebels in misrata artie's paulus lear explains. 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 closing 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 before 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 fifty five in just the first four days of a strike so no doubt that figure is safe to climb 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 mine for the heroes if it's 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 an awful difficult to have a robust stringent action on the ground so we are hearing the stirrings of concern that as the rebels pull from. more weapons as they call for more air strikes 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 recently organized they have a very light within reach compared to the with the way that he does his forces are using the people here 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 first 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 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 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 a live shot 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 to duffy gone from the political atmosphere but if indeed these claims are correct in terms of the concessions has been paid to make the international community again faces a whole host of questions how then can it argue continuing with its operation if indeed the victim need is put paid to meet some of the concessions that have been demanded of him. well former british intelligence officer an emotional told us that this is why the coalition to claim gadhafi is not a target they may be tempted to get rid of him to make their job easier i think they're a tangle as soon as the whole uprising began in libya because they really didn't know which side to back in which way to jump of course the colonel gadhafi had been a historic enemy of the west for many many decades and. suddenly he'd been brought

back into the international fold and there were lots of nice juicy oil contracts and business contracts flowing out of libya towards places like the u.s. the u.k. france and italy so i think they're very torn for a long time and it's only really over the last weekend that they did a bit of a rush job to take the violence to the next stage and protect the rebels that they had been backing secretly for a couple of decades in the east of libya so i think the different aims from different countries different vested interests within libya of the different countries and also different histories are all playing a part in this in this model and it is interesting as we're looking at the sort of conflicting reports coming out of the u.k. particularly about the endgame where the military chief of defense is saying absolutely not we're not going to attack decapitate the libyan state we're not going to try to assess the gadhafi and yet the government is trying to sort of hedge its bets on that front i think the temptation is going to get stronger and stronger certainly for the west the u.k. and france to try and get rid of gadhafi in an accident a bomb that goes off in the wrong place or something because of course they've made such a problem for themselves now even if they end up with a stalemate

a war of attrition and particularly a partition situation between the east in the west of libya then we have a situation where gadhafi still has power now gadhafi is going to feel very betrayed by his ex best allies in the west of course because it's up to him over the last decade and gadhafi has experience and a track record and also his stated intentions of carrying out terrorist attacks in the future if he stays in power so i think the west really is in a position where it has to go for the end game of getting rid of gadhafi for regime change but of course that is highly illegal under all sorts of international laws and is specifically excluded from the u.n. resolution. while american barb's power. says the u.s. should not and cannot intervene every time there's a crisis somewhere in the world even so every american president since ronald reagan. has weighed in into at least one bullet or a conflict or just christopher's out winds up the consciousness or trapped. it's become an unspoken i dent into the job description. become

president of the united states. declare war my fellow americans my fellow citizens for president ronald reagan in one thousand nine hundred eighty six a familiar attack on a familiar enemy despite our repeated warnings gadhafi continued his reckless policy of intimidation is relentless pursuit of terror he counted on america to be passive he counted wrong turns out so did saddam hussein just two hours ago allied air forces began an attack on military targets in iraq in kuwait for his successor president clinton the target was slobodan milosevic today our armed forces joined our nato allies and air strikes against serbian forces responsible for the brutality in kosovo president george w. bush said it was weapons of mass destruction that threaten the world and invaded iraq in what was supposed to be a quick and limited campaign on my orders coalition forces have begun striking

selective targets some military importance to undermine saddam hussein's ability to wage war most thought it would end there with president obama running on an anti-war platform he has spent most of his presidency trying to end the wars started by his predecessor until now the u.n. security council passed a strong resolution that demands an end to the violence against citizens. it authorizes the use of force in the timeline of recent history there have been some glaring similarities when it comes to the use of force by u.s. presidents none have been in response to a military attack or even threat of an attack on u.s. soil and none have ever been formally declared wars we had to protect thousands of innocent people in kosovo from a melting military offensive we are determined to knock out saddam hussein's nuclear bomb potential we will also destroy his chemical weapons facilities self

defense is not only our right it is our duty the definition of duty often changing the result eerily parallel thank you god bless you. god. thank you very much christine for r.t. . president medvedev says the u.n. backed military intervention is the direct consequence of the violence carried out by libya's leader moammar gadhafi against his own people but he criticized the airstrikes saying the no fly zone should be used only to protect civilians and restore peace. everything that's happening in libya is a result of the shameful behavior of its government and the crimes against their own people we shouldn't forget that everything else is just a consequence of that we supported one of the un security council resolutions and allowed the other resolution to go through this was done consciously to prevent the escalation of violence but still the events that followed showed that any decisions of this kind should be accompanied by thorough consultations as well as remembering

that the use of force should be proportionate to what is happening the fact that as a result of these actions of ilion targets were damaged and according to unconfirmed reports that innocent people have died shows that states taking part in the military strikes have achieved that i hope that as a result of coordinated actions by the international community there will be peace on libyan soil and full measures will be taken to prevent the conflict from spreading into africa and other states. our correspondents in libya and around the globe are updating our twitter stream you can stand touch with what they're witnessing there is also more on our facebook page our team. if.

london streets were filled with more than a quarter of a million angry voices on saturday public sector workers staged britain's biggest political demonstration and years over the deep spending cuts which are being rolled out well there were hundreds of arrests as part of the rally turned violent and windows of shops and banks were smashed and doused with right the demonstrators oppose the government's eighty billion pound spending cuts which they say will destroy essential services and jobs that ministers insist they are necessary to reduce britain's deficit you guys outpouring of anger follows a week which saw intense protests in brussels as the e.u. contemplated bailing out portugal are reporting. no more layoffs no to pay cuts no retirement the message from angry demonstrators

pushed back with more to come and pepper sprayed by riot police the protesters tried to get through to e.u. leaders meeting in brussels to slash spending this war there was made to be too good to be used for social security. to be used for this is so health not drug the bench so when you are bringing the tall chose to move to take ground because of the prison there goes across europe voters are saying no to more spirity measures portugal's prime minister has quit of the poll but voted down a fresh round of cuts because he has three months left to repay almost ten billion . at a time when its sovereign credit rating has been caught analysts say the only option left is national default tolin does the country called pay back its loans or accept an e.u. bailout similar to greece and ireland it hasn't happened in the west since the second world war but the longer you postpone this necessary evil. the more costly

it is it's going to be at the same time military intervention in libya is costing hundreds of millions of euros many a furious so what they see as an unnecessary and expensive campaign somebody asked the chancellor of the finance minister about the financing of this and i think the overwhelming sense that you got from it among the public in britain with skepticism with millions unemployed across europe people losing patience with politicians who seem out of touch with reality increasingly familiar sides on the streets of the e.u. with government bill tightening these growing numbers well to work the big question is now the right time to spend the money available for wars abroad the new bush or brussels well british euro m.p. knight of raj says people across the continent have every right to feel angry over cuts while their government squander money and bright. we've had british troops on

the ground in afghanistan now for over ten years i don't think there's any appetite for us getting involved in foreign wars where we cannot directly see our own national interest being threatened where frankly if we go in to support the rebels we don't even know who they are or what they stand for or what they want i don't think anybody has thought this through and if they are going to put ground troops in that i think they're going to find in all the member states involved in this a real strong level of opposition when people see cuts in front line services for whatever reasons when people see their retirement age is going up when people see the taxes both direct and indirect they're paying going up they have a right to question what on earth are we doing getting involved in an open ended commitment in terms of war with libya that could cost us goodness knows what else i do think we're to a very close but i also feel as portugal is about to topple over as the next

eurozone country writ requiring a bailout that that is actually going to cost each british taxpayer about four hundred pounds and that actually the biggest effect on our pockets this week wasn't the chance of this budget but it was the fact that the portuguese government fell and they're about to be bailed out so i think people have every reason to be pretty angry that they see their own costs at home going up their services being cut a money being thrown overseas in all sorts of projects that they wouldn't necessarily support. let's turn to developments in japan now the spread of radiation from the fukushima nuclear facility is raising concern among those in the region high levels have been found in the senior by and there are increasing the government's warning people to get out of the area ivor bennett's folk to a man who knows firsthand what the consequences could be. leese man has borne the scars of nuclear disaster for most of his life as a resident of nagasaki you're shiria milwaukee has had liver and kidney problems

since he was thirty five and he's already beaten cancer twice every time he falls ill now he feels it could be his last battle you sure are watches events unfold at fukushima fearing the true nature of the disaster is yet to show itself so you are saying that the result of the contamination won't just end of the event it will be handed down from generation to generation and i have four daughters the first to have leukemia another has breast cancer the results of a disaster will be shown in generations to come. you should know was just eleven when the bomb was dropped he survived the blast but was exposed to lethal levels of radiation on his two trips to the hypocenter first to find his father then to bury him despite everything he's pro nuclear power but still thinks fleeing from fukushima is the wise thing to do so then the i don't think the public or the

government are overreacting in this situation i think people must take all precautionary measures they can to avoid the worst for the rest of the nygard psyche the stands today had to be built from scratch eleven square kilometers were jews to dust the cloud of its tragic past still hangs over the city its residents though know what it means to suffer and are willing to help those in need members of the international volunteer organization the lion's club here collecting for the victims of the earthquake and tsunami everyone's desperate to give with donations already ten times higher than normal. we have a custom something happens in our nation we're calling the nation that would help each other especially the people and i guess i mean we're very sensitive to atomic power so we're very worried about what happened here and we want to help more than money every way it sounded like a sack it is

a memorial to the seventy five thousand it died when the atomic bomb was dropped here this one mark that exact moment now the city will forever serve as a reminder of the destructive potential of power and there is here now praying that focus shima ramadan the same way now go psyche's transformation has been remarkable ground zero is unrecognizable the city would escape any radiation from a meltdown at fukushima but there is a nuclear plant close by and the incident has left residents living in fear. of what there. i think that people from nagasaki and hiroshima are very sensitive to the incident in fukushima we've never experienced such a devastating nuclear accident before and i think everyone is never free this could happen again i wasn't afraid of nuclear accidents before but now because i can see it's not under control so this memorial represents the water crave by so many after the explosion the basin's tranquility

a far cry from the destruction wrought by the tsunami once that has done its damage this place reminds us the ripples from a radioactive disaster extend for generations after bennett r.t. and a sucky. nuclear historian say the damage to the site is extremely hazardous to health and the side effects will be felt for a long time. 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 and 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 end he's 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 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 that night they may not be getting electricity so the impact of these exposures will be even larger. so they. do receive in the course of a week or two the exposures the nuclear plant workers receive in their entire lives is rather dire and these people should not be allowed to remain in such an exposure

area. now even though japan claims radiation levels are not harmful companies are taking precautions when it comes to japanese manufactured goods contamination has already been found in some food products reading radiation whereis far beyond japan source and started loyalists or explain the thing people to think twice before by. as japan works overtime to avert a nuclear meltdown is another crisis in the making maybe maybe think twice second thoughts born of paranoia that radioactive remnants may reach far beyond japan's borders how worried about the seafood maybe the seafood is safe and radiation bought in the water i would i'm going to be very wary of that for quite a while it's the fear of japanese imports going all the way to the top u.s. regulators have said they will increase screenings of food coming in from the embattled asian nation the european union has warned members to do the same and

italy was the first e.u. nation to ban food imports from japan all together in the wake of the nuclear scare it's fueling suspicion that besides the quake the tsunami and the nuclear crisis japan will soon have to deal with another problem becoming a trade pariah morgan likely will for reasons that may not be entirely radioactive countries all over the world in tough economic times and the star are looking for ways to subsidize their own producers their own workers and so an incident like the one unfolding in japan gives them quite a good reason to do something that they may have been looking to do anyway this is bad for trade made worse for the country itself if made in japan comes to mean made a nuclear wasteland to consumers in countries like the u.s. we're here in times square and i wanted to come down here because it is where the rubber meets the road as far as advertising in this country and you can really see the brands to play

a major role in the united states i wanted to see how many of them were japanese now take a look at this center post of advertising from top to bottom you can see sony c.d.k. toshiba all japanese corporations playing a major role in the us i noticed even our camera and my my clip from my microphone are manufactured by sony and with the nuclear disaster there is no telling what the total. be on but the manufacturing of companies like that but also their brand i think countries like the u.s. and this data have the made in japan label that would be concerned about like the television for components that might carry the radio active materials to the field as well and japan's economy will feel it for a long time to if trade suffers a major blow and this is dragged down already near zero growth rate in japan if it does that it's going to have bigger effects internal to japan and globally we don't know exactly what those are but they're potentially quite significant significant

because in a global economy which made in japan matters for everyone many of the world's cell phones laptops in cars rely on a poxy computer chips or auto parts from the country stoppages in manufacturing and trade consent shock waves through the system likely farther reaching than the radiation itself lauren mr r.t. new york. we're updating you around the clock on what's happening in japan right now also at our to dot com you can trace back the events as the earthquake disaster unfolded we look into the radiation wary of the fukushima reactors as nuclear experts explain the danger level to both health and environment. also japan's economy has been crippled by the disaster and will take years to recover but the human cost of the tragedy is much harder to calculate we have survivor stories all mine at our team dot com.

russian energy giant says it's pushing ahead with its alliance with b.p. to pursue its arctic exploration project that's despite a swedish court ruling earlier this week that said the alliance conflicts with b.p.'s joint russian partnership pete wilson of chairman said the deals not dead yet and that he is satisfied with b.p. as a partner multibillion dollar share swap between the two oil giants was signed in january to explore potentially huge deposits of oil and gas in russia's arctic so. let's take a look at some of the news making headlines today for you now a week of anti-government protests in syria in a syrian border city has developed into a nationwide on the rats with tens of thousands marching across the country and the

rest of through the crowds called for president bashar al assad to go he faces the deepest crisis of his eleven years in power after security forces fired on protesters on friday killing at least twenty three activists all the government blames gangs for the bloodshed and civilian deaths. yemen's embattled president isn't. talks with the opposition for a handover of power after weeks of protest of the above the flood may i venture the offer to quit later this year but protesters insist they want to go now to resolve hardened after surround fifty people were shot dead at an anti-government protest last week senior military and political figures have also abandoned the theater. and hamas says it will agree to a cease fire with israel if attacks on gaza stop it comes after some of the most serious violence in the palestinian territory which the group controls at least ten

people including civilians and children were killed in last week's attacks israel is yet to respond to the cease fire. going to take a short break here in our seat i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a moment stay with us. first

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