the so. cold. winters old macdonald really pulls up the tone with her revere of the tone the current situation told the. rebels in libya gain more ground all the way to the capital while nato has to assume full control of operations. fuel medicine and food supplies are running low in tripoli as fears grow that this could lead to a protracted war joins me from the capital city in just a few moments a formal the rebel celebrate their troops a parent's worst reported recapturing the found off the fight on the war from rebels old benghazi. result of violent all prizes in the arab world draw little foreign interest questions are raised over whether coalition countries are targeting libya for revenge or wrong than to protect its people. all say

this our radiation surges to well hundred thousand times above normal at the fukushima nuclear plant is to pound to prevent meltdown while struggling to pay thousands of tsunami victims to bret's. a very warm welcome to you this is a lie from moscow conflicting reports about just how far west rebels have advanced toward the living capital tripoli the opposition claims it controls his hometown but reporters say the city government hung's correspondents a corpse going off in. tripoli the latest the city is in a state of shock the first reports we got in the early hours of this morning monday actually suggested that the rebels had. taken over the city of sirte which is not

only a strategic city but it has a great symbolic value for the regime this is of course gadhafi is home town it's about six hundred kilometers to the south of tripoli it's about halfway between the rebel stronghold of benghazi and tripoli now what we're hearing from the regime is in fact very little there have been no place conferences no forthcoming on says all suggesting that the regime is incredibly worried as the rebel forces at vons closer and closer to tripoli they were never supposed to get this far this is the furthest the rebels have taken land in terms of their advancement so it now seems increasingly that they threats to advance on tripoli are becoming true some of the analysis and some of the assessments coming out of tripoli is that the reports by the rebels earlier that they had taken the city were as much for domestic consumption as they were for the international community the rebels have not made light of the fact that they need these coalition air strikes they create a vacuum and that vacuum and laus the rebels to advance forward so they are calling on the international to community to keep up with its bombardment of towns the

rebels saying that they need this impact to advance further and feel that the situation in tripoli is dire indeed we're being told that in just a matter of days the city will completely have run out of fuel there are short supplies of water food and medical supplies so essentially the city itself is in a state of lockdown it go to you on the rebel stronghold in the libya's second largest city but how people there are responding to the advances further west first of all even though there are conflicting reports coming from the front if the hometown of got out he was in fact taken over by the rebels or not i can tell you that through support of the country the eastern or of libya is under the full control over the opposition and the rebels meaning that any anti gaddafi successful operations done by the rebels out there on the front or greeted here with applause in fact here in guys the air. there is news of

a successful operation done by the rebels out there on the front we hear these shots being fired into the year as a sign of support of the anti god if you move as we were going from the egyptian border to i saw. all of the various troops from all the men carrying a really old outdated rifles two teenagers with forty seven's and even commandos are trolling the roads there are security checkpoints along the entire route so i think it's pretty safe to say that this part of the country is really under the control of the opposition so every positive news coming out there from the front if it's a successful operation against gaddafi that we did with great applause here paul ever is there any concrete evidence with regard to the number of casualties the libyan state television as well as the government puts the figure at more than a hundred and they say that the number of casualties continues to climb we know for

example that overnight for the first time they were explosions nine explosions in the city of set we are hearing now of eight strikes near the city of misrata as well as in the same type of the country inside all the time those reports of explosions and bring the risk of civilian casualties and the libyan state television is not shying away from the fourteen twenty four seven that the number of casualties caused by these coalition air strikes is climbing the big guns the is a mediterranean ports you know say an increased presence of coalition forces off the coast nato ships or are now patrolling the coast of libya to enforce the embargo and also the no fly zone operation itself and actually in this situation turkey is being quite active in this sense it's already said that several of its vessels can the port. in this operation in

patrolling the mediterranean including the submarine and so i think it's so four or five other a large vessels and also the united states italy rumania can and in many other countries are all keen to stablish their presence here in order to support the north fly zone operation but the question is where is this operation going is going to lead to a ground operation or is it going to end would be for all of these regime but when it comes to the ground operation the rebels have strongly stand their ground stood their ground in saying that there are against any. foreign intervention here on the ground in the country coalition air strikes have made it possible for the rebels to advance in the country but that pattern change do you think when they come all nato will only take full come on tomorrow choose stay at a summit that will be held in london at that summit they will be the establishment of a steering committee find much most people here are waiting to see whether in fact

this changes the situation on the ground but certainly the same side from speaking to people here is that they don't really believe nato taking full control of the military operations in libya will make that much of a difference there are still outstanding questions outside outstanding concerns concerns such as for how long this operation will continue we're hearing the timeframe of anything from three months to a year or two more years people on the ground increasingly concerned that this operation could just continue and continue the other concerns are the rules of engagement and still they doesn't really seem to be that much clarity in terms of when how and if the coalition partners can operate the fact that the united states was meeting this operation until now was something that the rebel fighters enjoyed and certainly for them they would have preferred for this to continue they do understand that when you have twenty eight members now calling the shots it does pose a much greater struggle for robust action on the ground but the latest word from the united states is that it will be providing a support base some kind of support structure but to kill any of the terms of the

coniston and also in terms of jamming all communication lines. our correspondents politically in tripoli and he did just going off in benghazi there well with the u.s. being the military and economic backbone of nato experts say it will be hard for washington to play down its activities in libya or thousand journalists ashton returns he says the alliances expanded role in the operation does not mean that the u.s. 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 in 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 one hundred the african union we just

don't 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 well you won't see any tunisian or egyptian help for this nature were operational to all i think that that question needs to be answered by all these nato leaders why do you think that 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 . old journalist. now russia's foreign minister says the international coalition is that d.l. signed the limits of the un resolution on libya thirty eleven all fizzles a demanding independent verification and reports of civilian casualties in the

foreign forces assault. from the very start russia has been a reluctant participant in the what is going on in libya at the moment what worries the foreign minister right now in his statement he says that it appears that coalition forces are taking sides in his worries come amid a nato statement saying that they will stick to the books and do what is stipulated there no more no less well let's look at the un resolution it says there that it authorizes all necessary measures to protect civilians will their words all necessary measures could be open to interpretation but protecting civilians is definitely stated there as the goal and so what worries the a russian government is that the offensive is going beyond just protecting civilians that the coalition forces taking sides is clearly not stipulated well let's hear more from the foreign minister sergei lavrov we should do. is taking part in a civil war in libya by talking to him colonel gadhafi troops and those supporting

the rebels this was not sanctioned by the u.n. resolution which stated that the coalition can only enforce a no fly zone and protect the civilian population should loosen concerns about young confirmed reports of civilian deaths caused by the air strikes and would like this information to the kind of fight the u.n. has every means to carry this out and we are expecting this to happen as soon as possible so again it's a he's going back to what is stipulated in the a u.n. resolution and again when russia abstained from voting they clearly stated their position that they are against the use of force on civilians by the gadhafi regime however they did have a lot of questions with regard to the rules of engagement the limits of engagement and right now these are the questions that are coming forward and again as the accompli gun folds in libya we can see a lot of the countries especially those that had abstained to keep looking at the actions versus what is stipulated and had been agreed upon on paper. develop. firsthand accounts from our correspondents there are also regular updates on our

facebook page and. video reports on. being reported in syria. yemen and is leading to questions over why the military.

coalition leaders claim they're just in forcing the no fly zone over libya but have been engaged in widespread and heavy attacks on colonel gadhafi has ground forces and buildings and targets linked to his regime so what are the real motives for france the u.k. and u.s. leading the attack on libya some say it's pure vengeance but they're certainly settling a town center taking revenge turkey says it's disturbed by france's eagerness to invade but expose believe ankara shouldn't be surprised gadhafi is accused of ordering the bombing of u.t.a. flight seven seven two which killed fifty four french men and women in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine a u.k. court found the gadhafi agents the year before planned the bombing of pan am flight one hundred three over lockerbie which killed forty three british and one hundred eighty nine u.s. citizens he blew up his intelligence agency did a terrorist bomb very similar to the lockerbie bomber in the u.k.

it was called flight seventy two and it blew up a venetia with the loss of everyone on board so i would argue that there's an element of revenge a strong element of revenge now more recently gadhafi has hurt french commercial interests all over the fly and french will for a towel have a billion dollars he also bought russian fighter planes instead of french or felt it. but now coalition bombs are reported to be killing libyan civilians up or she surely the worst is resorting to heavy bombing and civilian casualties are of no concern. that could increase regional hatred towards the west after. there will be quite. a resistance from of it count. critics say the western military alliance is simply taking one side in what's an internal civil where rebels seek to overthrow an internationally recognized

government western forces should be prosecuted not just for civilians but also for killing libyan conscripts i don't know why. people find it. so. i mean. as nato chiefs arrive to plan the next stage of the bombardment of libya there are growing calls for them to be held accountable for what they describe in war speak as collateral damage but which in brutal language means the death of innocent civilians the coalition no admits it's haunting gadhafi the original reason was only to impose a no fly zone the trouble is the more civilian deaths their causes the more they risk being accused of the same crimes as gadhafi himself. crosses. internal divisions that meant it may take its time in deciding whether to take

command of operations but also his military contribution says the good news is that nato his new role in the conflict should pave the way for u.s. dependent alliance. challenge is if wake-up call. and opportunity for a bamma for a totally new grand bargain between the united states and its and its european nato allies the united states commander in chief and american president has a unique opportunity to rid validate the military and security arrangements between the united states and western europe and finally lead the nato to take full responsibility and regain their full sovereignty from the american security and military embroil that could be a bit on one and only positive feature of the unfolding drama in libya right now.

while syria's government is promising reforms following a wave of deadly protests and the fast point town of an attack here troops have been deployed after twelve people were killed over the weekend made calls for political freedoms i'll correspondent italian over in the capital damascus. we witnessed a very tense weekend here in the syrian capital with thousands of people gathered on the streets there were huge traffic jams people were shouting and shooting last saw dozens of people attacking the local bureau of al-jazeera news channel as people here were saying that they were and happy with the coverage events unfolding here by the channel of course it is much more tense in the south of the country where dozens of people have already been killed in the clashes with people here are demolishing is for the country's emergency law to be lifted now the mercian civil war imposes restrictions on public gatherings it almost was the wisest of the

government to arrest anyone who is suspected of threatening the country's security and now of course they are praising this in syria began with a bunch of schoolkids in the south of the country who started writing and say governmental slogans on the borders they were arrested after the dozens of people took to the streets demanding that those school kids are released government officials are saying that's the emergency law is to be lifted but they did not specify when exactly that's going to happen of course another reason for the rallies here in syria is uprisings in other arab countries that inspired a local people to go to the streets however it is unlikely that we going to see a military intervention in syria such as the one taking place in libya for example as the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has said the situation in each other country is

very different and is unique the main reason for the military intervention in libya for example is the fact that the country's leader is using air force a have the armory against its own people and according to hillary clinton the situation is not quite the same here in syria nonetheless syrian authorities have deployed troops to the south of the country to stop the protesters. seasons have another covered with the latest from syria which is in the grips of anti-government protests to japan now and its troubled focus even nuclear plants high levels there of radiation have been detected in a trench outside one of the reactors well the readings say it's one hundred thousand times above normal similar to the levels of found in the water used to cool reactor number two on sunday well earlier the plant operator tepco mistakenly said levels of good ten million times of all the normal the japanese government slammed the company for what it called on acceptable mistakes in handling the

crisis fears of a nuclear meltdown began when four of his reactors was severely damaged by the massive earthquake and tsunami the tragedy has claimed over ten thousand lives. sixteen thousand are still missing as that overall there before it's even destroyed communities struggling to cope with the overwhelming number of dead. instead of a proper. a mass grave the japanese always cremate their dead before the crematorium is at full capacity. have been turned into merge and see graveyards. these people be buried in contravention to japanese tradition there is an opportunity they'll have to be exuma and they need their cremated instead of a priest a town official conducts an impromptu ceremony is only just devised. this is

horrible we're just trying to bring these people closure as best as we care. is a traditional fishing town after being struck by the earthquake and the tsunami it was then ravaged by fires that last a day. at least five hundred dead in the biting when family members get just a few minutes before construction workers bury the coffins. to be able to process these bodies. many of the relatives have themselves lost houses. loved ones. of the other things for two weeks we search for my cousin and now at least we know what happened to her meanwhile soldiers raked through the remains of the untouched since the disaster they say there may still be hundreds of bodies below the rubble. out of. japan. we'll get more on the situation in japan on our web site of course all to

you dot com there's a full comical of events from when the country was hit by ideas quake and tsunami the current. crisis is spreading internationally now japan is having trouble with exports and people big boots may spread radioactive contamination also online. seismologists sound the alarm to japan is dissolved or is just the start of a decade of trouble all from the pacific ring of fire. and kind of secularism other international news is making headlines this hour now the explosion at an ammunitions factory in southern yemen has killed at least seventy eight people and injured nearly one hundred others the plant had been raided by suspected al qaeda militants who clashed with government forces it was apparently then looted by civilians medical and security officials say many women and children are among the victims. italy's prime minister is appearing at cool hearings where

he faces corruption charges silvio berlusconi is accused of tax fraud a the sale of the riots by his company this is the first person a presence in a courtroom for almost eight years despite being involved in four trials including one for allegedly paying for sex with an under-aged go well a scary denies all the chargers. germany's and you need clear green policy is that liberating a key victory in a state which chancellor merkel's conservatives have controlled always six decades it's being seen as a sign of widespread opposition to america's nuclear policy and decisions on libya and the euro in neighboring france president sarkozy's ruling party's selfhood a similar phase when opposition socialists took a decisive local election win it out of pressure on sarkozy who faces a presidential election. any years' time. in just a few minutes we explore

a fortress church i don't want trying resistance headquarters to go find hard to spot enough because they're buried deep underground that's their technical what's happening in the pits as well. as alone welcome to business b. disaster in japan could reduce global car production by first two percent that's according to the latest research from chess consulting many japanese carmakers are holding work at their local factories with producers in other countries suffering from a lack of components being distributed i.h.s. consulting says while companies currently have some reserves they could be used up by mid april if automakers find no alternative global production may fall for free hundred thousand cars a day to around two hundred thousand meanwhile general motors ford and citron have already part the cup production in a number of european. copper anally minium have enjoyed

a strong run over the last few weeks rallying in line with broader industrial commodities the markets are being supported by the prospect of robust demand linked to the future reconstruction in japan gail berry of barclays capital investment bank says the demand is likely to push growth. the reconstruction work that will be needed in japan is certainly going to be a boost for industrial commodities and for the base metals i think to begin with what we'll see is a base of a of a dip in demand because of the disruptions to manufacturing activity within japan itself but after that i think is caroline's or rebuilds and. office blocks are rebuilt you then see and increase probably starting sometime in the second half of this year and going into into two thousand and twelve i think reason in demand for things like call her out i mean you and the lead demand that

actually will probably benefit straight away because you need to lead for a batteries and things like backup diesel generators and so on. so you look at the stock markets now we start with europe and the markets there will pretty much still mix them lot of trading after the biggest rise in almost six months last week investors remain cautious on renewed concerns about japan's nuclear crisis and the ongoing unrest. put so use the slightly up just point one percent the dax is down. here and russia markets have managed to recover slightly from when we last looked at them they were suffering losses following negative trends in the asian markets the r.t.s. is still down point two percent in my six managed to actually go into positive territory by just a notch sigurd's some of the stocks the most energy majors are losing as oil declines with gazprom is up point eight percent. as one of the biggest gain is up

two point four percent on the new incoming orders from the government meanwhile banking stocks are among the main losers was a bag shedding point six percent. and now the news russia's state controlled oil pipeline monopoly transnet is to invest five point seven billion dollars in the. construction of new facilities this year it will help the company build over six thousand kilometers of new pipelines more than half the money will be spent on developing the east iberia pacific ocean pipeline which exports russian crude oil to the asia pacific markets. national oil group g. and k. b.p. may be embroiled in a dispute between its major shareholders but it's still trying to improve its operations as it gets on with its every day business of extraction the company's vice president explains to business out see some of its plans for increasing efficiency we are going to spend about one from a million dollars. of our investments into energy efficiency program and

total result in three years will be a bald three hundred twenty million dollars. energy saving or it's not a question about to building more capacities are these money will spend two or more energy efficiency to realize some innovation projects and draw us some energy intensity for improvements in our technical processes that's all we have for now we will be back next out with an update alice is next with headlines to stay with us here but that. thank you and in the. way you.

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