the rebel advance that topic coalition airstrikes is held up in the hometown of the libyan leader moammar gadhafi there are mobile fears of an impending bloodbath i'm point to syria the capital city of tripoli joining a few moments formal. here in the rebel stronghold of the guys you got them from celebrates saying the won't stop until garb you've gone i know with you girls in just a few moments. president admits he's also keen to avoid the give down the victory saying the u.s. won't be hands on even when nato takes come on david libya.

moscow mourns the forty victims of last thursday when suicide attacks on the capital's missile system shocked nation state song like against terror. a very warm welcome to you this is also a line from moscow libya has seen more coalition air strikes overnight after a day of captures on the ground between rebels and gadhafi supporters on monday anti-government fisons advance westwood's was stopped on the outskirts of the birthplace of the libyan leader paulus mir is in tripoli with more. there was a nother night of is strikes here of the capital city of tripoli they started late last night on monday and they continued until the early hours of this morning choose date we understand that a number of military targets have been hit but we also is receiving reports that

a number of civilian areas have been struck the big news here is the growing fear that they could be an impending bloodbath in the capital city of tripoli just yesterday after what seemed like a lightning advance the rebel forces after sitting out on friday from the stronghold of benghazi was stopped in front of the hometown of the libyan leader moammar gadhafi the city of sirte and that is both a symbolic and strategic city because the understanding here is that if gadhafi cannot hold on to search well then he cannot hold on to his power now the residents of tripoli are increasingly feeling she quote them and to see age not only do they feel under threat from the rebels who are more and more seen as if they can make good on its promise to march into tripoli but there are reports of the city within two days will run out of fuel and we're now seeing large queues of people outside bakeries and other from schools one resident i spoke to summed up the middle of most adequately when he said if the city got involved to protect civilians but he asked what exactly is civilian about people now armed making their way to tripoli

very important meeting taking place in london today tuesday it comes in just hours after the u.s. president barack obama said that nato would be taking over for military control over military operations here in libya by tomorrow wednesday now there are some pressing issues still on the table that have yet to be decided the major purpose of this meeting in london is to get some kind of consensus over the military commandment of this operation and of the political direction it is taking there are a number of heavy weights attending it is being changed by the british prime minister david cameron u.s. secretive state hillary clinton will be there they will be members of the arab league members of the african union thirty five foreign ministers as well as members. the ribose transitional council that is the body here that is with his own seeing the rebel groups now it is significant and it is worth noting that it will be no threat presented to us from the libyan government which is causing some

people to ask questions well how exactly can the international community say it's facilitating or debating the issues and concerns around the future of this country if indeed it's not inviting those who are empowered to actually attend and participate in the talks the other question is of course are these rebels that will be participating what kind of islamised leanings do they have what kind of political leanings do they have what kind of backgrounds do they come from and even more important what kind of future are they working towards they still has been no clarity and no unity of consume says among the international community in terms of where they want this operation to games what is the ultimate end game the defense officials also say that the number of a strike that they've been conducting over libya have increased in recent days they say that this is because of surveillance material that they've been receiving and also because of reconnaissance actions that they've been taking that they also point to the fact that increasingly more and more of these airstrikes are happening in civilian areas in the urban areas where the risk of civilian casualties is that

much more graciously this is raising concerns because here again we're hearing from the libyan government that the number of civilians who are being killed and injured in these international air strikes is increasing. meanwhile in the rebel stronghold of being god the opposition fighters have expressed their joy its gains on the front line with gunfire going off to a rifle in the egyptian border to libya's second largest as you to bring off this report. the entire city of been going to the rebel stronghold and the entire need to warn of libya or monitoring the situation out there on the front and of course especially around the good guy that beats home talent but even though that said the rebels have not been able to gain control over the the still the spirits are pretty high in fact the opposition does say that they do understand it's not going to be easy to fight and the god that he's rejean and the day that they are ready to you

to do whatever it takes in order to achieve that goal the were able to retake control of most of the towns that the people lost to god at least what was just a week ago so the spirits here are still very high everybody believes in the long tradition that every time there is some type of humans or even from part of a special lesion a profitable victory down there on the front of your gun shots being fired into the air as a sign of applause and support off the revolution that's the ultimate goal is to get rid of all got acces regime and to establish a new order in the country and the opposition says that this is going to be edge democratic country in fact they are stressing that they will not allow one to any third died to tell them what sort of a victim will be here they want any of this thing that it's up to be a libyan people to decide what to do with god at the end his family and what kind of a regime they want here in the country they do see that they are ready to listen to

some headway coming from the west from germany france and great britain but they're stressing that this is their own agenda here in the country it's a very country and they have to decide what to do with it so far it seems like you're in the east part of the country the opposition isn't full control and in fact the rebels are i have organized an interim authority body here and once again they're saying that it's only up to the libyan people to decide what to do with the entire country after gadhafi done. one juror in his first major speech since the strikes on libya started barack obama said the u.s. would like to remove any chance of a good down the victory that appears to confirm suspicions the washington has taken sides in a civil war something russia says is not sanctioned by the u.n. resolution and even when nato takes charge that doesn't mean american bombs will stop falling. towards here's what we heard from president obama

is that the u.s. involvement in libya would be limited that the goal is to protect civilians and that the u.s. is happy that nato is taking command of all libyan operations take a listen this transfer from the united states to natal will take place on wednesday going forward but leaders in enforcing the no fly zone and protecting civilians on the ground will transition to work allies and partners and i am fully confident that our coalition will keep the pressure on these remaining forces. you know they're for the united states will play a supporting role it may seem that the u.s. is taking its hands arms rather off leader but many experts say in reality this formal transition does not make the u.s. any less involved in fact a pentagon official said friday that even as other nations begin taking a larger role in the international air assault mission in leader the pentagon was considering adding air force gunships and other attack aircraft and within nato

osvaldo u.s. is the largest contributing building ization so handing over command to nato does not mean quitting we also have to take into account that this speech comes amid growing frustration over what the u.s. strategy is the president is clearly on the defensive trying to win over a largely skeptical public poll showing the last four decades americans a disapproval of a military action has never been as high as it is now we believe the intervention the fischel reasoning which is we're there to protect civilians doesn't sit well with many because they ask why do we choose their civilians in libya and not in other places where even worse massacres have been happening and they don't get straightforward answers the answer that president obama gave in his speech also sounded rather vague it's true that america cannot use our military wherever repression of hers given the costs and risks of intervention we must always measure our interests against the need for action but it cannot be an argument

for never acting. on behalf of what's right but some of the statements previously made by u.s. officials could suggest an idea as to why libya we remember hillary clinton saying what the u.s. fears most these libya becoming some giant somalia somalia means power vacuum carrots and no credible leader to deal with express a will power specifically western powers would never let levy which sits on best oil reserves become anything like somalia italians for example accuse the french of being motivated by a desire to secure oil contracts with a future leaving government the turks voice certain conditions with nato saying nato should go all in with recognition and acknowledgement that leave you belong to leave us not for the distribution of it under ground resources and wealth another interesting point from president obama's speech the united states will use the thirty three clause billion dollars of khadafi frozen assets to provide assistance to goodly to the people of libya although the president did not say anything about

this money being spent on strikes but it made some people wonder whether the u.s. and allies are waging war on qaddafi on his money or george can you use a former diplomat from the u.s. foreign service told r.t. washington will end up in the trap if it continues to play the lead role in the operation for libya. further american military intervention is almost certainly going to result in in in a variety of failures this ability that we have promoted has allowed some very un representative regimes to stay in place so that we can 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 are being received in very different ways all across the arab world. well the violence in libya north africa is second largest producer of crude oil is affecting global oil markets a pretty complex level of one point six million barrels a day how small and dramatically that's got more notice than was down cross over to our business desk where you are standing by for us it is there is the news of rebels closing in on colonel seriously affecting oil prices now well absolutely although prices have slightly recently on the news that lead been broke balls have managed to retake the key oil town of bragger and the new raising hopes that the country's oil x. force could be resumed soon and sooner than expected and of course also the oil

infrastructure will be preserved as you know much of libya's oil exports go to to europe but how quickly the rebels could resume exports is unclear and also it's unclear who would risk buying that oil and western analysts and companies also they say that now has dared to go and pick up oil for the last two weeks because of the allied blockade and sanctions a lack of insurance and uncertainty about whether the global coalition could be. willing to national recognition as lieve is legitimate government is really is was still enough to drop by by. a dollar and thirty eight cents to about one hundred and four dollars per barrel in new york and in london brant crude fell ninety cents to one hundred fourteen point fifty two dollars

per barrel that's in london and just to remind you benchmark crude just jumped twenty four percent since mid february as fighting in leaders stop the oil shipments and they previously. previously supplied nearly two percent of the world's oil. in addition to that oil prices were pressured by really negative developments in japan's nuclear crisis as you know concerns that china could go for further tightening. money tree policies so this point all that retail gasoline prices are still continue to set records ok here many times more from you on the business little later in the hour. on moving on to developments in syria now where there are also anti-government protests thousands gathered in the city of dera having to get the president to kick some long awaited reforms the government has promised greater freedoms including the lifting of

a controversial imagine saying we're all used to detain different without trial more than one hundred fifty people have been killed in lebanon thinking i think i made a wave of unrest that she could have a genius president bashar al assad's government blames foreign sources locals claim government troops are responsible the situation in syria has raised fears another foreign intervention could be possible or dreams dense loud he's a writer a middle east politics and security issues says although the west is not in the new digital series a fast right now and might change its mind. it's back to predict what's going to happen the middle east in a moment but i would say that certainly what from what we're hearing from washington and from the europeans there is no appetite for expanding the current intervention that we're seeing in libya i think even in libya the americans have been very quick to hand over to the nature a. force of wash their hands of total responsibility to local happen next that i had a reference in was quoted as saying that they still believe that bashar assad is

a reformer someone who can potentially i deliver a better syria rather than heading down into civil war which would have huge repercussions for the rest of the middle east bearing in mind syria's geo strategic position so i don't see any kind of appetite or presence for western intervention in syria that said syria has a legacy in the rain in the eighty's of heavy handed clampdowns on his own sort of civil protests and i think if we saw anything like what happened it's a nice mix of to get how much the west would be through the streets again simply because the level of bloodshed but i think once again we're a long way away from that right now certainly libya has a more natural resources in terms of oil and is of course located right on the southern flank told us and pretty powerful european states. syria on the other hand is deeply intertwined in the middle east peace process relations with israel of course it has a longstanding and very complicated relationship with lebanon a country which still has yet to form a government following syria's ally hezbollah are sort of bringing down the

previous one and of course has links with iraq to interested in what i've heard from various commentators about the role the saudis and the jordanians have had in print pressure on the americans to sort of back off syria and syria usually is an easy punch bag for the american administration has always been quite happy to have a go at the states actions and it's a lack of democracy and freedoms but it is quite interesting that she said the americans almost defending the shar asset as a reformer today i think which is a reflection of how incredibly dynamic and fluid the situation is in the middle east at present. well that was james then a slower rise from middle east classics on security issues. are russia's most wanted man may have been killed in an anti terror operation in the north caucuses local model of is thought to have most aligned at times almost you don't get out of apples on the city's metro or commemorating the one year anniversary of the mission bombings which killed forty rush hour commute his company in. one of the stations

there were talks it. members of services are scheduled to take place throughout the day both here at the park with the mixer station and also look down for metro station where of course the first blast or through the early morning rush hour around just before eight o'clock in the morning exactly one year ago however we have already seen some people carrying flowers and leaving just inside the petrol station not as it was just a single number of people of course muscovites will be remembering this terrible tragedy throughout the entire day on its one year anniversary but what it meant to the fortune of looks back at that tragic day. it started off as just an ordinary monday morning for me three people who like many others had a certain spring in his step in the way that harshman school into his own little

but little did he realize the nightmare he would be thrown into just a few minutes later suddenly there was a very horrible sound as if something huge had formed down and i woke up and there was a small haze. people were shouting and rushing out of the car would need to be had her it was the start of the worst terrorist attack in the russian capital in six years just before eight am the first of two explosions hit the moscow subway killing twenty four people at the crowded lubanga station which lies beneath they had quarters of the federal security service forty minutes later the terror trail moved south targeting a station at a crucial city intersection killing twelve will. be stopped last year was a sit in at eight thirty eight right in the middle of the rush hour it struck up

the back of the train asked commuters try to get on board it was dark was no life and i just thought he was bodies and that whatever remained of them some of them were stretched on the floor near the level plane and that site was horrible it was a people what just before their eyes there was nothing that would save them with eight million commuters after a day in moscow subways one of the busiest in the world that's made it a terrorist target in the past and on the stage a year ago in wants to be a target once again a twenty year old student leader so the force for themselves the truth uses to live in fear today. sometimes i feel something like this i think about these. general i think that we have a safe safety. a year ago tire's broad law school to a standstill by bringing horo to reading all life but if they wanted to destroy

people's spirits those goal was certainly know what it says you live go zone and while the terrorists were out to millions both in moscow and across the globe remains it's something people have learned to live with wasn't a question also moscow today there is a visible increase in security personnel more specifically outside the moscow metro absences that exits just outside where we are there's a lot of police officers on the ground you know that security has also been stepped out stepped up around other moscow metro stops apostasy those missiles doing everything they can to prevent a repeat of last year's terrible events wilson of the security of this has been doing everything possible to bring to justice all those responsible for this terrorist attack we know that one of the men he was pleased with the supported the true suicide bombers to moscow and actually left the each of their metro

station each at their final destination so to speak we know that that man has now been issued an international arrest warrant so not only russian security officers but the international community will be looking for also no. other men have been detained in the russian republic we should say of those two men are believed to be a risk linked to the terrorist attack of moscow's international the i did the airport which was took place just a few months ago was also believed by officials to up the support of the suicide bomber to the budget of a where he detonated his deadly package killing injuring dozens of people and of course according to teligent reports bill that both those terrorist attacks have been claimed responsibility of russia's most wanted terrorist the world market. ok well we get reports that russia's most wanted man mentioned there. may have been

one of the gangly does killed during an anti terror operation in the north caucuses will of course i bring you all the latest developments and link to the metro who. says we commemorate its one year anniversary. japan says the government is now in a maximum state of alert after traces of high you talk separate tony and or found in soil near the quake hit for can seem a plug the substance is believed to be seeping from a nuclear fuel highly radioactive has also been found out from like one of the reactor buildings for the time the government is considering whether to extend the evacuation zone beyond its current promise of twenty kilometer and here's the nuclear meltdown began when four of pushing these reactors was severely damaged by the earthquake and tsunami two and a half years ago traces of radioactivity have been found as far away as china itself we're on. the web are new the latest all dates from japan on

line you can always have a verse are you dot com for full coverage of the disaster radioactive leak from before the whole problem seems to have already crossed the ocean rainwater in the u.s. state of massachusetts has tested positive for radioactive element. and pounds and is also nominated to be a student there breaking the japanese tradition the body should be coming to find out why on our sins of. the. ok let's check out some hands national news in brief this hour and at least a hundred and ten. people i think killed in a series of explosions other bullets making factory in southern yemen the plan

which had been seized by a militant group was in the process of being looted by civilians when a cigarette is thought to have sparked the massive blast meanwhile anti-government rallies continue in the country on the streets of the capital from yemen that western backed president is facing pressure to stand down and face trial. in the ivory coast forces a lawyer for the internationally recognized president say that trying to seal the border with liberia and the sun what are these troops thinking is the company by grove importing fighters from the neighboring country refuses to step down despite an international consensus that he last november's election one of the home scaring a widespread soul will be. seen by the soldiers have been killed in an apparent friendly fire incident the incident took place during an anti

militant operation near the border with afghanistan according to an official the soldiers were retaliating machine when their mortar bomb missed the target and mistakenly hit their own position pakistani military forces the raaf the targeted by rebels linked to al qaeda and the taliban. all the latest business of the way now with the media. and sam is this is his business and welcome to the program the price of oil has fallen back with grund slipping below one hundred fifteen dollars per barrel and investors have high hopes that leave in or maybe flowing back through the pipeline

sooner than expected that's after rebels regain control of key oil times and pleasure to point chris started out but how about richard saunders on plants energy agency says it may take some time before that all market stabilizes. the libyan situation is far from the old and even leave you alone can move the process because not forget when libya started moving all price where we are promising start against gadhafi regime it wasn't just libya it was the fear of war drug arrest and irrespective of what happens in libya that fear is still then throw in factors like european economic fears fears over stalled recovery high prices then turn them on anyway people are a bit nervous other. lets her look at how the markets are performing a little higher hang seng is that point one percent though it's so narrow not as in the early trading as h.s.b.c. holdings and some property developers were hit by wall street's pullback overnight countering strong gains in coal mines tokyo's talk said by some graphs and efforts

to bring post great japan back to normal down stable situation b.b.'s make a last point two percent. and the russian markets are about to open now and they finished in the black on monday the r.c.s. was up by three were point one percent i'm going my six game zero point two percent and to monday. as the metals and mining industries growing to be in discord light during the trading day on for the whole week. the market is starting to focus on what is a weak results in mining and industry in particular. yes i will and a lot of gold me your ordinary all companies are reporting results this week so from today from our stance of price in these numbers of people that we're really interested in is the extent of my input cost coal prices i will prices have been very high for schools for the last with last year. and that's how the business news

this hour john it's more about fifteen minutes time. because. if. you. feel. more news today vote.