video. with the palm of your. question. rebels in libya tried to push towards the capital tripoli but encountered heavy fighting while there is a concern that nato led forces may be acting outside the u.n. resolution intended only to protect civilians and enforce a no fly zone. people are panicking with reports of the rebels are closing in no way to run join me from the capital city in a few moments. and in the rebel stronghold. celebrates its. reported we. find out all the details in just a few moments. by targeting

these troops and those supporting the rebels this was not sanctioned by the u.n. resolution russia's foreign minister says the international coalition is acting beyond the limits of what's been agreed in the un resolution and expressed his concerns over civilian protection the reason for and the only goal of the mission. russian authorities in the rest of republic of have killed seventeen suspected militants and made two arrests in connection with an. airport in which thirty seven. workers at the fukushima nuclear plant in northern japan are frantically trying to dispose of radioactive water after officials warned of the surrounding sea water and soil are contaminated and elsewhere japanese authorities are becoming overwhelmed by the massive number of tsunami and earthquake victims.

broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow this is r t certainly glad to have you with us let's get to the latest from libya now there are conflicting reports about just how far west words libyan rebel forces have advanced towards tripoli the opposition claims it controls hometown of the country's leader colonel gadhafi and a key strategic stronghold but others on the ground say the city is still held by government forces who have been putting up heavy resistance policy reports from the capital. this it is a sense of panic here in the capital city there's almost a sense of fear that you can touch the reports so so conflicting 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 there's a sense of almost amazement that the labels have advanced this far and no doubt the freights and the claims by the rebels that the ultimate goal is to be 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 you 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 that one of the ports are receiving at the moment all quite comfy using and that is why people here are so long to they do understand that whatever 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. if it's as foreign journalists working here we're not being invited almost out of the 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 winning 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 say this with a tiny easy about the cease fire that the government has announced in the past the latest word from this writer is that there is heavy shelling we're now hearing again reports of snipers standing on the roofs and sheeting anything that moves we were hearing those kind of reports just a few days ago so certainly the action on the ground putting up it's very hard to get the concrete evidence in terms of the libyan state television. well tonight more than a hundred civilians have so far been killed in these coalition air strikes we know that they work for the first time a strikes in the city of set there were three young men who were killed we know that there have been explosions in the same two of the country and certainly 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 also started broadcasting pictures of moammar gadhafi he is inside a car he is in his compound and he's been 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 the regime 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 who is leading this country talking to people here and most people don't actually think the pattern will change when nato takes full command when i is all safe on that meeting 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 you to meet 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 we here in the tegan saying that he needs to be an immediate cease fire they'll particularly concerned about the number of immigrants that are coming to these

shores and more and more we hear that people are going there from here from libya to key 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 to same to voices and perhaps in the main to perhaps this steve for this operation to continue will be diminished or to his policy we are reporting from tripoli there now our correspondent you go to going off is in the libyan rebel stronghold of benghazi the country's second largest city and says that while it's in rebel hands there is still evidence of fire. the situation 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's greeted here with 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 bin guys it's pretty clear that the school 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 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 this is a big city with a population of over one million people but the the traces of the recent violence are still seen in all parts of been guys it's mostly government buildings like police offices which have been burnt down nearly completely there is this huge compound which was actually even used by gaddafi himself when he stayed here and visited. 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 fountains of protesters and the revolutionaries these events were unfolding here and as the local say when guys he was being that we were

related from the regime generally at the moment it seems the signs of a normal life are coming back some shops reopened and there's food and water in the city elektra's city as well there are big problems with phone connections that's not working especially 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. you've got a peace corps for poured in from benghazi in libya now russia's foreign minister says the international coalition is acting outside of the terms of the un resolution on libya sergey lavrov has condemned the participation of the foreign forces in the civil war and has demanded independent verification into reports of civilian casualties in the coalition assault as are cilia reports from moscow. 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 in appeal 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 sergei lavrov we should cool ition is taking part in a civil war in libya by targeting colonel gadhafi troops on 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 were also concerned about the unconfirmed reports of civilian deaths caused by the airstrikes and we would like this information to be trying to find 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 falls 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. parties actually reporting from moscow they're now george kenney former diplomat with the u.s. foreign service says 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 this stability that we have promoted has allowed some very unrepresentative 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 has said well we support peaceful demonstrations for democratic change but on the other hand the u.s. government has said 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 and of course you can stay up to date with developments in libya online our twitter stream and gives you first hand accounts

from our correspondents on the ground there are also regular updates on our facebook page and we're posting our latest video reports on you tube channel as well. government.

the country's military helicopters are patrolling the city we can see them and hear the fans you can hear them for yourself it's quite loud here in the capital over the weekend who witnessed a 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 letter. has the power to the president that the south street the presidential at the moment where 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 at the weekend dozens were killed take a pretty good people who are demanding currently from government is said the lifting of the emergency now the restrictions concrete public gatherings of prices the government to arrest anyone who is suspected of threatening the

country's security and government officials have said that said the law is to be lifted but they never specified when that would happen and local authorities are blaming foreign forces for the five hundred sets unfolding in the south over the country that we all weekend was when a bunch of school kids in the south of syria started writing anti-government so 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 the valley center taking place across the arab world and the question remains whether when you 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 speech out of revolution is unique each hour arab uprising is unique and series not going to see another military. it

seems that military intervention not to last i mean vesely for the u.s. led military campaign in libya was the fact that the country's leadership started using a military force against its own people and the similar situation is taking place here in syria at the moment where the country's thirty's have already deployed troops to the south of the country to stop the protestors that was natalya novikov in syria where massive countrywide demonstrations have bought promises of reform from the government. russian authorities in the southern republic of have arrested two suspects in connection with a terrorist attack at the airport in moscow in a special anti terror operation in which seventeen suspected militants have been killed thirty seven died and over one hundred were injured in the atrocity last january artie's company has. according to sources within the local security

offices we know that that operation was being planned for a long time about 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 are believed by security forces to be involved in the terrorist attack on the moscow domodedovo airport which took place first few months ago those two men believed to be by security forces the two men who actually a score to 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 those airports and devastating moscow metro bombings according to russia's most

wanted terrorist model they were acting under his command tuesday will mark a year since a two devastating blast tore through the moscow metro system both a very central location is one of them slowed down coming to a station the other partly due to both of course in the heart of the russian capital bamako being just as 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 in 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. reporting there for us now moving on to japan now japanese authorities say the risk of nuclear contamination is being made worse by the difficulty of disposing water from the stricken fukushima power plant workers at the facility in the north of the country are racing to pump out radioactive water after officials warn the contamination is spreading to the surrounding sea water and soil new readings outside of the site show radioactivity has spread about a kilometer and a half farther into the ocean than previously thought across japan the tsunami and earthquake has killed over ten thousand with another sixteen thousand people left homeless as. reports communities are struggling to cope with the overwhelming number of dead. instead of

a property. a mass grave the japanese always cremate their dead but when the criminal rooms at full capacity. have been turned into emergency graveyards not only will these people be buried in contravention to japanese tradition but when there is an opportunity they'll have to be exuma and they need then cremated and start 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 the days there are at least five hundred dead in the biting when family members get just a few minutes before construction workers bury the coffins. it will take for the criminal to be able to process these bodies probably several years

many of the relatives have themselves lost houses as well as their loved ones. this lets us get on with 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 town untouched since the disaster they say there may still be hundreds of bodies below the rubble. of. kesennuma japan let's take a brief look at some other headlines from around the world now. at least one hundred people have been killed in an explosion at a munitions factory in southern yemen with dozens hurt the plant had earlier been seized by a militant group and looted by civilians with a cigarette thought to have sparked the massive blast it comes as anti-government protests continue to rock the country with thousands of rallying in the capital sanaa in monday alone the most recent protests came as the western backed dictator

president on a promise to step down by the end of the year. italian prime minister silvio berlusconi has been in court in milan on monday in relation to tax fraud charges he's calling the accusations that he hid profits from his mediaset company ridiculous despite being involved in four high profile prosecutions including one for allegedly paying for sex with an underage girl berlusconi's first court appearance in almost eight years he denies all charges and is accusing the judges involved of a conspiracy to discredit him. germany's anti-nuclear green party is celebrating a key victory in the southwestern state of boston and bird which chancellor merkel's conservative christian democrats had controlled for almost six decades being seen as a sign of widespread opposition to merkel's nuclear policy and the euro and voter anger over new bailouts to debt ridden countries in neighboring france president

sarkozy's ruling party suffered a similar fate when opposition socialists took a decisive local election when it adds pressure on sarkozy who faces a presidential election in a year's time. i'll update you with a summary of the main news in about ten minutes time shortly we speak to the russian president's special representative in afghanistan. stay tuned for our 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 are learned.

so i mean 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 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 russian interest because of germany it's much more closer to russia or burn two or three american space where america own be even to europe oh that's why sometimes we.

explain all. our girls and aims and i'm going to spend let's say five or five six years ago. they listened to us but didn't hear no submissions shares how are things looking now still a lot of convincing to do are you getting closer and that we have less. we think thoughts are we specially in our conversations the american about now we feel that they started to hear us. but that doesn't mean that he's. 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 assad the nato members that only the military operation against them. which is not supported by

other means will not bring any attention but results we recall always experience of the soviet union everybody in the world believed that so it even made everything wrong. 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 conceive then look into the pose a thief results of solve it in a moment of them got us and what i mean i mean economy i mean a culture i mean social a fairness whereas soviet union contribute to a lot and as a practical results. let's compare when sorry if you don't was roll troops. regime of president does your blood stand alone against or all the world of mujahedeen the for almost three. i'm not sure that the current regime will

be able to but it's sort of the same that's. historical from all of those correct figures made by the soviet union and that's why we appealed to our partners to look into this q story and loaned us we're hearing two thousand and fourteen. right to withdraw their forces through what would be the time limit in your perception not quite sure of that need there's going to be the role 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 is there nothing in the way they're doing it with me they. see. steps which can

bring. and strong. made there could see for a lot of money and. a soldier they. had. a strong army and police and 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 but quality of the police is very pool. economy. if you have. a younger generation of garments down there was a stable source for. it's hard to believe that they will not drawing any fighting sides even though the just lie will provide their lies so

economy is very important to. us so you judge how long i don't know how long it will take a long you for the current approach is not correct i mean a couple of freshman presidents representative to afghanistan thank you very much for this interview you're welcome my pleasure. wealthy british style such. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. is a report on our team.