kempinski twenty two. rebels in libya march towards the capital forces come under. the u.n. resolution designed only to protect civilians and police the no fly zone. people in tripoli up panicking with reports of the rebels are closing in they simply in no way to run join me point from the capital city in a few moments and i'll bring you more and here in the rebel stronghold of the opposition celebrates its. even hometown find out all the details in just a few moments. arrests in connection with. an anti terror operation in russia's volatile republic of english. and radioactive

ternium is detected in the soil near the paralyzed nuclear plant elsewhere in japan communities struggle to lay. to rest. from the russian capital where it's now one am and eleven pm in libya where there are conflicting reports about just how far west rebels of violence towards the libyan capital tripoli the opposition claims it controls gadhafi hometown but others on the ground say the city is still in government hands well earlier i spoke to our correspondents in benghazi in the capital tripoli. lisette is a sense of panic here in the capital city there's almost a sense of fear that you can touch the reports are so comforting and that is what is making people here so distressed why now we hear that the rebels are thirty

kilometers away from gadhafi hometown of sirte the next hour we hear that they've been pushed back a hundred kilometers the frontline no doubt keeps shifting but in the early hours of this morning monday we actually heard that the rebels were inside the city itself they were never supposed to get this far and that is why talking to people here in the libyan capital is a sense of almost amazement that their bills have advanced to this father no doubt the freights and the claims by the rebels that the ultimate goal is to reach trippin he is why some in the capital city are starting to respond by saying they will be a bloodbath now we've been hearing from search itself that at one stage we could have a few soldiers they will holding up white flags and that rebels advance forward but then there was some kind of clashes in the rebels retreated so a lot of the ports are receiving at the moment all quite calm fusing and that is why people here are so long to they do understand what ever is the reality on the ground no doubt gadhafi forces all move in that even much closer to the capital city it's also interesting to note how the government has been responding in the

last few hours they have stepped up their p.r. efforts as foreign journalists working here we're not being invited almost alvey on various choices and excursions to visit cities that are clearly in gadhafi is hands and this of course is an effort by the government to put across the message into the international community that they are still willing to this war we are also hearing from the town of misrata they the government has declared a cease fire but the reaction from the rebels is that they simply do not believe this and certainly here talking to libyans in the capital city they will see this with the chinese the about the cease fire that the government has announced in the past the latest word from this russia is that there is heavy shelling we're now hearing again reports of snipers standing on the roofs and she took anything that moves we were hearing those kind of reports just a few days ago so certainly the action on the ground cutting up across the country across the northern coast and join. eaglet of their your in a rebel stronghold in libya's second largest city benghazi we've heard how tense it is there in tripoli at the moment how the people there are responding to the

volunteers for the west illustration is quite different from tripoli here in benghazi we are also hearing shots being fired into the air but these are shots marking celebration and there are signs of applause to the opposition because any news that is received here in benghazi or even any speculation about any victories out there on the front by the opposition that greeted here with a great applause and with the first rumors of sort being taken over by the opposition that was in the middle of the night we heard we heard shots fired into the air here in the city and can still hear it from time to time as i guess some of the rebel rebel groups get the news about the military operations going out going on out there on the front but i can tell you as we traveled from the egyptian border here towards be pretty clear that the port of the country the east side of

libya is in full control of the opposition the road the main road which links benghazi to to egypt that's heavily heavily guarded by the national police and it's also clear and it's quite visible on. the actual the rebel force and what it consists of from teenagers to old men carrying old rifles or a k forty seven but everybody here is against gadhafi regime and are for any success successful news from the opposition on the front paula back to you there in tripoli is there any concrete evidence with regards to the number of civilian casualties that's been reported it's very hard to get the concrete evidence that you ask will . in terms of the libyan state television reporting that more than a hundred civilians have so far been killed in these coalition a strike we know that they were for the first time

a strike from the city of set there with three young men who were killed we know that they have been explosions in the fame to the country and city now here in tripoli as it begins to get dark this is the time that the air strikes begin over the capital city a short time ago the libyan state television system to broadcasting pictures of moammar gadhafi he is in find a car he is in his compound and he's being flanked by supporters now we have no way of verifying when this footage was taken and if indeed he's inside that car but it certainly gives you a sense of the way that machine is handling the situation at the moment very much trying to put the message across that they still in control and that gadhafi is still the man with leading this country when you go to benghazi was reporting massive casualties last week when gadhafi troops were advancing what's a situation where you all know any signs of destruction oh this is a big city with a population of over one million people but the the traces of the recent violence are still seen. as it's mostly government buildings like police offices

which have been burnt down you know we completely there is this huge compound which was actually even used by gaddafi himself when he stayed here and visited been guys if there's a huge wall around it well i saw it with my own eyes that this wall was completely torn down i guess by the thousands of protesters and the revolutionaries as these events were unfolding here and as the local c. when guys he was being there were greeted from the regime generally at the moment it seems that signs of normal life or coming back some shops reopened and there is food and water in the city elektra's city as well there are big problems with phone connections that's not working that's. actually if we're talking about international calls so perhaps i think that could be one of the reasons behind this various information and different conflicting reports coming from the front because

of the poor connection between the rebels themselves let's talk about the ongoing foreign military operation taking place in libya coalition air strikes made it possible for the rebels to advance do you think that patton will change when nato takes full command talking to people here most people don't actually think the pattern will change when nato takes full command when i is asked say it on that meeting tomorrow tuesday that will take place in london this will give some kind of political direction to the nato coalition now we do understand that countries such as france and germany they have to say nine hundred views they very concerned about the future of the operation particularly a country like italy from there in naples the whole nato operation will be based be hearing me tell you in saying that he needs to be an immediate cease fire they'll particularly concerned about the number of immigrants that are coming to the shores and more and more we hear that people are going they from here from libya turkey has said it will participate in this nato mission but it too says its role will

only be in terms of humanitarian assistance now i think what the government here in tripoli is hoping is that as you have more and more nations controlling and commanding this operation they will be more dissenting voices and perhaps in the main to perhaps the steve for this operation to continue will be diminished. of course. in benghazi. well russia's foreign minister says the international coalition is acting outside the limits of the u.n. resolution on libya was also demanding independent verification into reports of civilian casualties and the foreign forces assault on syria has the details. 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 this statement he says that it appears that coalition forces are taking sides and 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 u.n. 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 coalition forces taking sides is clearly not stipulated well let's hear more from the foreign minister sergey lavrov we should coolish and is taking part in a civil war in libya by targeting 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 we are also concerned about the un confirmed reports of civilian deaths caused by the airstrikes and we would like this information to be kind of 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 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 falls in libya we can see a lot of the countries especially those that had abstained to a keep looking at the actions versus what is stipulated and had been agreed upon on paper. there and george kenney a former diplomat with the u.s. foreign service told me earlier that his country could spend a long time in libya just as in iraq and afghanistan. further american military intervention is almost certainly going to result in in a variety of failures and the stability that we have promoted has allowed some very un representative regimes to stay in place so that we could get cheap oil but

i think it's pretty clear that the kind of environment that the united states has supported for decades has not worked to the advantage of ordinary people the problem is that on the one hand the united states said well we support peaceful demonstrations for democratic change but on the other hand the u.s. government has well if you're peaceful demonstrations don't work out so well for you we will consider supporting an armed insurrection and those are quite contradictory messages and i think that they're being received in very different ways all across the arab world when you can step to date with developments in libya online on twitter stream gives you firsthand accounts from our correspondents there they're also regular updates on our facebook page and we're posting our latest video reports on you tube channel.

syria's government is promising reforms following a wave of deadly protests in the flashpoint coastal town of the talking troops have been deployed off to twelve people were killed that over the weekend amid calls for political freedoms when a correspondent is in the capital damascus. the country's military helicopters up patrolling the city we can see them and hear the bands you can hear them for yourself it's quite loud here in the capital over the weekend who witnessed that very intense situation on the streets with thousands of people who were protesting and they were shouting and shooting as well almost every car in the capital less bullets every military has the power to the president that the south three.

times at the moment the situation of course is very much different in the south of the country where we have seen the antichrist that she lands a government the pricing out for the weekend dozens were killed pretty good people are demanding currently from the government is said the lifting of the emergency now the restrictions on the gatherings and civil rights is the government to arrest anyone who is suspected of threatening the country's security and government officials have said that so the law is to be lifted but they never specified when that would happen and local authorities are blaming foreign forces for the violence that's unfolding in the south of the country is that we all we get was when a bunch of school kids in the south of syria started writing and sorry governmental slogans on the walls and they were arrested for that's after that people took to

the streets demanding that those schoolkids are released well another reason for their uprising see here in syria is of course there are probably several taking place across the arab world and the question remains when we do see another military intervention here in syria similar to the one it's taking place in libya even though the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has sat that each arab revolution is unique each hour arab uprising is unique and series not going to see another military. it's similar military intervention nonetheless i mean recently for the u.s. led military campaign in libya it was the fact that the country's leader started using military force against his own people and the similar situation is staking place here in syria at the moment where the country's authorities have already deployed troops to the south of the country to stop the protesters. on another group of them with the latest from syria which is in the grip of anti government

protests. two suspects thought to be behind the terror of bombing of moscow's domodedovo airport have been detained in russia's southern republic of english the committee says the pair were arrested during a special operation ortiz catherine brings us the details. cording to sources within the local security offices we know that the operation was being planned for a long time that the number of people who knew about it was minimal so that the operation could be successful we know that seventeen other militants were actually killed as a result of that operation and two men who were detained those two men the brothers the n.d.s. are believed by security forces to be involved in the terrorist attack on the moscow dumb idea the airport which took place a few months ago those two men are believed to be by security forces and the two men who actually scored the suicide bomber to moscow brought him to the airport and left him there to detonate his deadly device now those men were of course

proclaimed wanted security officials have now made their arrests and they will be prosecuting them with all the evidence that they have so far managed to gather the two men are believed to be a part of a group that are planned and carried out the suicide bombing in moscow the mindset of us airport and devastating moscow metro bombings according to russia's most wanted terrorist. they were acting under his command tuesday will mark a year since a two devastating blast tore through the moscow metro system both very central locations one of them slowed down come into a station the other part due to both of course in the heart of the russian capital don could being just steps away from the kremlin of course the heart of the russian capital both attacks took place during the early morning rush hour wounding dozens of people killing over forty hundreds of people will flock to both of those stations bringing candles flowers holding vigils we know that

a lot of people are going to come to pay their respects to all those who lost their lives to show support for all of those who lost loved ones in those terrible attacks basically it'll be kind of a show of strength and support for the people of this country they will. show each other that they are able to come together at tough times like these support one another and of course not rest until authorities find those responsible for these terrible attacks and make sure that they do everything in their hands to prevent similar attacks from ever happening again. in japan plutonium has been detected in the soil near the crippled fukushima plant the facilities operator says the radioactive substance is leaking from the nuclear fuel tepco has already confirmed that radiation levels one hundred thousand times above the norm have been found in a trench outside the plant there's a nuclear meltdown began when for a focus she was reactors were severely damaged by the massive earthquake and

tsunami tragedy has claimed over ten thousand lives so far but over sixteen thousand still missing. reported leaving distraught communities struggling to cope with the overwhelming number of dead. instead of a property. a mass grave the japanese always chromate their dead but want to cram a tory at full capacity. have been turned into a merge and see graveyards. these people be buried in contravention to japanese tradition but when 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 can. as a traditional fishing town after being struck by the earthquake and the tsunami it was then ravaged by fires that last

a days that are at least five hundred dead in the biting when family members get just a few minutes before construction workers bury the coffins. we. will take for the crematorium to be able to process these bodies probably several years many of the relatives have themselves lost houses as well as their 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 rake through the remains of the untouched since the disaster they say there may still be hundreds of bodies below the rubble. of. japan. and you can get more on the situation in japan on our website it's r t dot com and there we have a full chronicle of events from when the country was hit by the earthquake and tsunami the consequences of the nuclear crisis spread internationally now japan is having trouble with exports as people fear goods may spread radioactive

contamination you can find out more about that on the web site also online today seismologists japan's disaster is just the start of a decade of trouble from the pacific ring of fire on all that often called. let's have a look now at some other international news that's making headlines this hour an explosion at a weapons factory in southern yemen has killed over one hundred people including children dozens of others have been injured the plant was seized by militants you clash with government forces it was then looted by civilians meanwhile anti-government protests continue to shake the country as thousands rallied in the capital on monday becomes a day after the president scrapped his offer to quit by the end of the year. but it is prime minister has appeared in court hearings where he faces corruption charges so everybody is going to use accused of tax for the sale of film rights by his mediaset company is the first person in the picture that almost eight years despite being hauled in for trials including one for allegedly paying for sex with

an underage girl on a scale he denies all the charges. germany's anti nuclear green party is celebrating a key victory in a state which chancellor merkel's conservatives are controlled almost six decades seen as a sign of widespread opposition to merkel's nuclear policy and decisions on libya and the euro and even france present ruling party suffered a similar fate the position socialist took a decisive local election win it adds pressure on sarkozy who faces a presidential election and he. will update you with a summary of the sales main news in a few minutes from now but shortly will be speaking to the russian president's special representative in afghanistan. stay with us for. interview in which the envoy says that nato is current strategy in the country isn't working and will end up costing more lives if lessons. that's next on r.t. .

so make up president visits new representative to afghanistan it's great to have you with us today sir thank you very much now you've pointed to a cold war mentality that was preventing nato from hitting good advice do you think that they now accept that a stable afghanistan is also in russia's interests or will you have to convince

them. that. they should understand that first of all that people are going to them in russia interest because of germany it's much more closer to russia or burn through three married to her own but even to europe. sometimes we. explain how our girls are going to from let's say five or five six years ago. they are listen to us by the way here but now our submission shows you how are things looking now still a lot of convincing to do or you're getting closer and that we have less than we think that's. we specially in our conversations the american partners about now we feel that they thought that to hear us. but that doesn't mean that everything keys are clear and we don't have problems there are some power problems

in perception and understanding what i mean i mean that. we failed to my mind to persuade first of all american partners as well as sa the nato members that only the military operation of ghana stand. which is not supported by other means will not bring any tangible results we recall always experience of the soviet union and everybody in the world believed that soviet union made everything wrong from its misunderstanding and so there were a lot of incorrect things about why the world is special in that part of the world but in the world and i've got this that doesn't concede then look into the pause a thief results or solve it in all of them got us and what i mean i mean economy i mean a culture i mean social affairs where the soviet union contribute to

a lot and as a practical result. let's compare when sorry if you don't was roll through hoops. regime a president legible love could stand alone against or all the world of mujahedeen the for almost three years i'm not sure that the current regime will be able to believe it's sort of the same that's. historical from all of those correct made by the soviet union and that's why we appealed to our partners to look into this story and douglas we're hearing two thousand and fourteen. right to withdraw their forces through what would be the time limit in your perception not quite true that need there is going to have to roll in two thousand and fourteen to begin from that point i presume it will take a much more longer time but if nato is going to conduct its

alteration of government and when they say ok aeration i don't mean only new authority. or are there nothing in the way they're doing it with me take a century. old. steps which can bring. and strong. made there could see for a lot of money and life for a soldier if they. had to create a strong army and police all the security forces who would better handle this wall in their own. they're not doing care we have ten year of back. but we don't have strong out of me and police yeah they're great the number. quality of the police is very poor. economy.

if you have for the younger generation the guns down there was the stable source of income it's so hard to believe that they will not join in any fighting side you know the just. so economy is very important true there was far below the us so you judge how long i don't know how long it will take long you for the current approach is not correct wolf russian president's new representative to afghanistan thank you very much for this interview you're welcome my pleasure. wealthy british style it's time to.

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