in touch with the who tell me tonight your group which is a good girl i would international. every green for till. nato members agree on taking command of the full military operations in libya while on the ground forces make quick responses of westwards i'm pointed to in the capital city tripoli joining me in a few moments formal. meanwhile moscow says it's gadhafi is crimes against his own people that have brought to the fore in airstrikes criticizes coalition forces for breathlessness over reports of civilian casualties. and in all the news this week over two hundred are rescued in love them to serious rioting following the huge protests half a million people against british government plans to slash public spending by eighty billion pounds demonstrations also group citizens angry out of dirty carpets

weld county one of the banks and homes. and in japan the fukushima nuclear facilities management has apologized for wrong reporting that radiation levels have topped ten million times the norm a mistake brought the music of a creation of origins to teams at the site. you're watching r t twenty four hour news live from the russian capital is seven am in moscow a very warm welcome libyan rebels advancing west towards the capital tripoli after further gains in the east of the country and they have retaken several strategic towns from broken off the forces but with the help of western lead. meanwhile nato has to assume control of the coalition military operation in libya from the u.s.

. reports from tripoli. right most of sunday we saw these rebel fighters advancing with almost and lightning speed westwards through eastern libya they're now in the town of the bin jawad which is about a two hour drive from the city of sets and the reason why set is important is that this is the hometown of the libyan leader moammar gadhafi is where it is where he has his major supporter base now we know that the rebels along the way encountered very initial resistance this is partly because they were driving through the desert and also because we're hearing that gadhafi forces were treated to set a hit of this rebel advancement of the soldiers simply abandoned their military equipment along the sides of the road so the focal point now will be on sirte when those rebels reach said we are expecting that they will be a major showdown between the pro and anti kadafi forces and this is where the role of the international community becomes so critical because we are hearing the rebel fighters call on the coalition partners to continue with the airstrikes on sirte

which they have been doing for several days now and to continue to give them a power now the other focal point we've been watching throughout the course of the day is the city of misrata in western libya this is a city that is firmly in the hands of gadhafi is made then it has been for several days now the rebels simply aren't able to take over there and they are today calling on the international community to assist them with more a strikes nato countries have met in brussels where they discussed enlarging the nato command of this operation so what he century we're going to see now is nato taking full control of the military operations on the ground here in libya from the coalition of the british the french and the americans until now there's almost been two parallel operations the one by nato that is essentially enforcing a no fly zone and the arms embargo and the one under the leadership of the americans which was essentially targeting ground forces and tanks so those now come together those military operations firmly in the hands of nato the sticking point

at this meeting by nato members is of course the rules of engagement just. how far can the international community go in terms of involving itself in what is happening on the ground and here the questions of civilian casualties making sure that civilians are not injured or killed in any kind of international action is what is being discussed on the table we know that the french are very much against nato taking over control of this whole operation and we know too that turkey would very much see this operation be very limited in terms of its scope it would rather just have the international community's involvement being that of in force in the no fly zone and nothing more than that the latest news we have though is that the command and control center will not be based in western turkey in the town of izmir we also know now that once this whole operation is enlarged it will not be up to one country to say when where and if and a strike must take place that will not meet this broad consensus what is important though about those nato enlargement and nato taking control of the full military

operations here is that it certainly will send a message to the arab world and it will be much more tasteful for arab countries to be able to come to the party in terms of the mission that is under the nato leaders ship in one that is under the american leadership there is a summit that has been planned on tuesday in london there the contribution of the arab world will be much more to meet discussed in terms of what they bring to the party we're also hearing that the italians are proposing an immediate cease fire and the establishment of humanitarian corridor also that she will be clarified at this meeting on tuesday in london. with a journalist. as nature's expanded role and doesn't for us is no longer in charge. they say it's a nato operation turkey is expressing a lot of reservations as to whether it's gone too far i think we can bet that there are already s.a.'s and other forces on the ground and as for a nato which is somehow european compared to u.s.

led in terms of this mission i think it's absurd the united states of course is still behind it even though robert gates and so on a lot of reservations about it there were five abstentions for u.n. resolution one hundred seventy three and would have to the african union would just not care about them because they unanimously didn't want what is going on now as for the arab league a very very iffy support for this although for them it could be a win win as were the autocrats who are in power the dictators who are in the arab league can now blame the protests in their own countries on zionist american conspiracies because after all didn't they come to help the protests in libya also they get to topple a dictator that hasn't been good to them because he's always looked to africa you won't see any more egyptian help for this nature operate at all i think that that question needs to be answered by all these nato leaders why do you think it is here in egypt are involved because they see a great danger of western powers trying to get involved with this oil rich nation

i'm sure that there are people on the ground in the coalition from western agencies already planning the future and what the future government will be i fear it won't be got a democracy that we saw in the natural revolutions as it were in tunisia and egypt russia says the here and backed military intervention in libya is a result of colonel gadhafi is crimes against his own people but president rich image that if also criticized the coalition forming saying the no fly zone was meant to strengthen peace and that civilians should not be put at risk. just that 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 show that any decisions of this kind should be accompanied by thorough consultation 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 indian targets were damaged and according to unconfirmed reports that innocent people have died shows that states taking part in the military strikes have achieved 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. and russian prime minister vladimir putin says he is concerned by the number of civilian deaths only b.n. he believes foreign air force us have been to iraq less than their actions. there's a civil war going on in libya the proposal of a no fly zone was aimed at preventing gadhafi from firing it is appalling and so protect civilians such a decision applied to a sovereign state is

a difficult one but it was well intentioned but what are we seeing it is drug use on the entire territory of the country how can it be aiming to protect civilians such means or choice of the civilian death toll actually rises. and on tuesday the u.s. defense secretary was in moscow calling on the russian leadership to think about joining the military campaign in libya president have confirmed that moscow is ready to serve as a mediator there but expressed his concerns over civilian casualties because of nonselective use of force from although moscow abstained from voting on the u.n. resolution which lets of the no fly zone and force meant it ruled out getting involved in the coalition bombing robert gates assured president the major operations and leave be able to scale back within a few days it wasn't the only military issue which came up missile defense and europe was also discussed moscow wants an equal partnership in the project saying

any other option would be a threat to curate in its promise that russia's concerns are being taken into account. and our extensive online coverage childs to bring you up to date with developments in libya twenty four hours a day check out regular updates from our correspondents on the sport that's all on our twitter and facebook pages you'll also find all the latest videos on our you tube channel.

over two hundred have been arrested in london after a crowd estimated by trade unions to be as small just half a million took to the streets over british government public spending cuts of eighteen billion pounds serious rioting in the city's main shopping areas and trafalgar square went on until the early hours but it's chaos followed saturday's largely peaceful marches radical extremists attacked banks and shops with paint fireworks and smoke bombs the chief target due to anger over the credit crunch continue to fail up the activist areas as money of big business and military campaigns not for public services like health and education unions the opposition say the cuts will just straw essential services and jobs ministers insist they have . britain's huge deficit u.k.'s largest broaches and each year is just the day after and not the violence and her general strain brussels are just dead of motion

reports. of more layoffs to pay cuts. retirement the message from angry demonstrators pushed back with. pepper sprayed by riot police the protesters tried to get through to e.u. leaders meeting in brussels to slash spending this where there was made. to be useful social security. so how it's not just the bank so when you bring you the world's worst to move to take brand because of the prison there goes across europe voters are saying no more spirity measures portugal's prime minister quit after paula but voted down a fresh round of cuts because she has three months left to repay almost ten billion euros at a time when its sovereign credit rating has been caught. the only option left is national default to toluene does the country called pay back its loans or accept an

e.u. bailout similar to greece and ireland 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 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 sights on the streets of the e.u. with government built tightening leads growing numbers out of work the question is now the right time to spend the money available or wars abroad. losses.

here appear in parliament member and the leader of the u.k. independence party nigel farage says people across the continent have every right to feel angry over cuts at home while their governments throw money around abroad. 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 and 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 those goodness knows what else i do think that to a very close but i also feel as portugal is about to topple over as the next eurozone country rich 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. and you'll find more news features and analysis on our website dot com and he's a taste of what's online at the moment. but candidate for mayor pauses outrage in the u.s. state of florida over his past as

a former grand dragon off the land. one of the most elegant sporting cantors in the world lives over to moscow russia's capital takes over hosting of the figure skating world championships from quake stricken japan. and stay with japan two weeks after the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami a serious concerns remain over the radioactive fallout spreading from the fukushima nuclear plant its operators also apologized for mistakenly reporting false information which sparked huge alarm that radiation levels that a reactor had shot to ten million times the norm the statement as to crews had to abandon the site immediately now japan's nuclear agency has rebuked the facilities operators for various mistakes in dealing with the crisis three workers at the plant have been exposed to dangerous radiation levels as the fight continues to

restore the cooling systems destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami which structure two weeks ago argues either bennett is in japan and spoke to a local man who knows the consequences of the meltdown firsthand. this man has borne the scars of nuclear disaster for most of his life as a result of nagasaki. he 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 will just end of the event it will be handed down from generation to generation or the three i have four daughters the first to have leukemia another has breast cancer for the results of a disaster this 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 for them the i don't think the public or the government are overreacting in this situation but 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 and 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 case of a lot of them something happens in our nation we call it a nation that's going to help each other especially other people and i guess i am very very sensitive to atomic power so we are very worried about what happened. and we want to help more than money every way it sounded like a sack it is a memorial to the seventy five thousand died when the atomic bomb was dropped here this one marks that exact moment now the city will forever. ever serve as a reminder of the destructive potential of nuclear power and those here are now praying that focus well remembered in the same way nagasaki 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. i

think you know i think that people from nuggets of hiroshima are very sensitive to the incident fukushima we've never experienced such a devastating nuclear accident before and i think everyone is now free this could happen again i wasn't afraid of nuclear accidents before but now because i can see it's not under control though that this memorial represents the water crave by so many after the explosion the basins 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's r.t. and a sucker. japan's authorities are trying to calm the nation's nuclear crisis saying their levels of radioactive materials pose no immediate danger to health but experts say there's no such thing as an harmful radiation. unfortunately there is no safe level of artificial radiation in terms of its risk to humans if exposed to

that radiation the international commission for racial quotation declares as much now that's not our advocacy organization it's relatively pretty clear but there is no safe threshold variation of course long lived radiation exposure increases the chances that you will develop cancer i mean one of the examples i think the particular levels they're talking about and i had. in the city water and also was found in tap water in tokyo that has a relatively short half life so within about eight days you're losing half of the radioactivity but some of the we didn't like that had been talked about will be being released into the environment we've heard of cesium one three seven that's around thirty years before it loses half its reader activity is a huge problem in terms of long term cancer risk but even other eyes took such as plutonium which almost certainly there's some plutonium entering the environment from these reactors that's a twenty four and a half thousand your half life so the long term health risks from this accident for

the people of japan are truly horrendous. meanwhile asian european and american importers have already burned a number of goods from japan to reach fears of contamination. lauren list found out panic is spreading faster than great. 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 bomb in the water what i'm going to be very wary of that. 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 like we will for reasons that may not be entirely radioactive countries all over the world in tough economic times and they still 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 are japanese now

take a look at this center post of advertising from top to bottom you can see so many. ok toshiba all japanese corporations playing a major role in the u.s. 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 toll will be on both the manufacturing of companies like that but also their brand presence in countries like the u.s. and the status of the made in japan label that would be concerned about like televisions the components that might carry the radio active materials could be fueling this for a long time and japan's economy will feel it for a long time to trade suffers a major blow does this drag down an already near zero growth rate in japan if it does that it's going to have bigger effects internal to japan globally and 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 are 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. time for a brief look at some other headlines from around the world and tens of thousands of activists in syria are staging protests across the country as unrest intensifies the government's deployed troops to the city of latakia up to snipers kills twenty one people as a demonstration that president bashar lawsuits would address the nation on sunday night but there are no reports so far he house in the speech he was expected to move to more sensible rules that's been in place hold most fifty years. and german chancellor merkel's ruling party luke search for a humiliating defeat in

a key regional election exit polls indicate the christian democrats about to lose and bhajan were russian by. after six decades of conservatives being in power there it was widespread opposition to merkel's nuclear policy decisions will lead. to palestinian gunmen have been killed and three more injured in an israeli air strike in gaza comes a day after hamas dated it would agree to a ceasefire if israel attacks on this trip by the militant organization at least ten people including civilians and children were killed last week alone israel's recent attacks come on top of a sustained blockade of the area adding to the misery of gazans most of whom live in poverty. and the internationally recognized window of november's disputed presidential elections. has rejected the african union representative appointed to help the country's political crisis on

a sunday which our us fishel want to fight and boris has ties to his rival run. and he's refusing to step down from power despite an international consensus that. more than a million people have fled ivory coast since violence erupted as a result of the disputed. now russian energy giant it will defend its alliance with b.p. to pursue its arctic exploration project that's despite a swedish court ruling only this week that blocked the deal between the two companies the proposed and get russian baseball and said it would destroy their competitive advantage both b.p. and smith say they'll be still looking for ways to maintain a partnership a multi-billion dollar bill signed in january to exploit the potentially huge deposits of oil and gas in russia. ok you're up to date now and i'll

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