the libyan rebels a rapid advance towards the capital is halted with reports that gadhafi has forces are using heavy shelling despite declaring a cease fire. which neither side willing to back down in the in the spirit encasing bloodbath when rebels normally stay next attack i'm going to say in the capital city of tripoli joined in a few moments and i'll bring you more. foreign heavyweights meet in london to thrash out libya's political future saying they'll continue putting pressure on gadhafi until he complies with the un's a resolution. and russia remembers the thirty eight people killed in the moscow

metro blast one year ago today when two suicide bombers blew themselves up during the morning rush hour. a very warm welcome here this is the line from moscow well after the rapid advance libyan rebels are now being pushed further back from the outskirts of hometown there are reports of heavy bombardment and gunfire being used by pro-government forces that despite claims of a cease fire. has more from the capital tripoli. there have been a strikes overnight and into the early hours of this morning tuesday here in the capital city of tripoli the targets were both military and civilian now we all just hear reports of in terms of the fighting on the ground the front line has been pushed backwards to the city of revenge awad away from the city of sirte that is

gadhafi is home town we are hearing just received reports though from doctors inside set they say that they have been treating hundreds of patients libyan soldiers who have been targeted in these coalition is strikes the doctor saying that many of them have lost limbs they've lost arms they've lost made and they have deep shrapnel wounds to their heads the doctors also saying that it's impossible to determine how many people have been killed in these airstrikes because many of them have died on the sides of the roads and they've been just been very fearful now the rebels all suggesting that if they cannot break through the these defenses in sirte they will work they wait around the city to the city of misrata misrata is the third largest city in this country it is the last and only rebel stronghold in the wisdom part of this country we still though continue to hear reports of intensive shelling of intensive fighting taking place there now and doctors there are warning of economic theory in crisis not only because of the situation among libyans in

souls but we're not being told that more than four thousand egypt shouldnt and other africans are housed in tents and that they are facing impending starvation and also the risk of diseases breaking out in the last twenty four hour with eight people have died in this water boarding twenty four have been injured a group of international journalists was taken there a few hours ago and although we were principal actually leaving the city center from the outskirts it's quite clear in terms of the destruction and devastation there was broken glass from windows of buildings bullet holes in the walls of those buildings there were a number of burnt out civilian vehicles as well as burnt out times people here are encouraged by the latest reports that the rebels are actually being. backwards yesterday monday the city was in a state of fear near you before it's actually suggested that the city of sirte had already been taken the city is essentially in a state of lockdown in addition to the impending fear that the rebel fighters make good on their promise to actually march on the police there are still growing

shortages also fuel. we've seen queues of people not only in the front of it'll stations but also in front of bakeries supermarkets and other such schools it is understood that tripoli is not only a strategic importance to the rebels but it has a great symbolic value it certainly is something that is incentivizing the rebel fighters to march to tripoli and because of that residents here are rallying around the leader moammar gadhafi and so he they are increasingly alarmed by the reports of his frontline keeps getting pushed. to the east and the rebel stronghold of benghazi the rebels are. holding out fighting his forces. is there for us. we entire city of been going to the rebel stronghold and the entire east or libya are monitoring the situation out there on the front of your

specially around search of god that he's home town but even though that for the rebels have not been able to control over the city still the spirits are pretty high in fact the opposition does say that they do on the stand it's not going to be easy to fight and defeat gaddafi the man they say that they are ready to to do whatever it takes in order to achieve that who will be were able to retake control of most of the towns that the people lost through got out these forces just a week ago really. should in fact every time there's a some positive he will leave them some of them especially tional on. the. gunshots being fired into the air as a sign of the walls and the support off the revolution the old from a goal is to get rid of all got back to establish a new order in the country and the opposition says that this is going to be

a democratic country in fact stressing that they do not want any third side tell them what sort of a system will be here they want the other say the libyan people to decide what to do with gaddafi and his family and what kind of regime they want to hear in the country they do say that they are ready to listen to something advice coming from the west from germany france and great britain so far it seems that here in the east of the country the opposition is in full control in fact the rebels are i'm organized an authority body here and there are now fighting responsibilities on one another when it comes to spears of life from the economy industry and police and law and set. we are establishing working for all here in this war once again they're saying that it's only up to the libyan people to decide what would be in.

this kind of reporting that foreign ministers and states went for over thirty five countries are meeting in london to outline libya's political future key figures in the group say they'll keep up the pressure on gadhafi and so he complies with the u.n. security council's resolution and provide humanitarian assistance to libya and it's been reported that a gradual officials have been invited for friendly talks at the meetings but it's unclear whether they arrived or not but there's no one of the gathering from the libyan government which is still officially in charge of the country let's not talk to talk to our director of the institute of islamic political thought waiting for us now live in london so there are over thirty five countries present at the meeting in london do you think it will be easy to reach a consensus that. the last words if you could. and there are thirty five countries being represented at this meeting in london one

might imagine it would be hard to agree on a general consensus as to the future of libya would you think. here indeed and i think one of the signs of the lack of consensus is the fact that representatives of the rebels as they are called at times or of illusion of these as they are called that other times although they are in london as i have been told have not been invited to the meeting and there just shows that there is no agreement. all to even deal with what was going to say you know you talk about a rebels or rebel leaders not being at the meeting in london but what about members of the libyan government who lot of officially still in charge of the country surely they should have some sort of role in the future of libya. yeah this is because some of the members of this international coalition. have already discounted good that he and his regime and recognized the leaders of the rebels as the legitimate representatives of the libyan people now remember that this

started with a very limited mandate to impose a no fly zone then very quickly progressed into bombardment of. gadhafi forces in order to tilt the balance in favor of the rebels or the revolutionaries and now there is talk about removing gadhafi altogether and this is not something that everybody agrees on or everybody has a clear vision as. i was reading or so ago of the e.u. council president herman van rompuy he quite blatantly stated he has got to go obama was originally not saying much about that now he has come to that side of the fence supporting the ousting of coffee here but what seems to be the general consensus across the arab world the region in general they all supporting me being taken down. oh the arab world is divided and i've been touring the region recently

yesterday we had a discussion also in the house of lords with many libyans and other arabs and some british people attended. there is no consensus on this particular case as in the case of tunisia and egypt simply because this has turned into an ugly warfare and. the revolution that was supposed to be peaceful very suddenly became armed and people don't like. the proceeding they don't like western intervention is brings to them memories of the intervention in afghanistan in iraq and in other places in the balkans and in all these cases the results have not been really that pleasant ok if what you're saying though is that the the so-called revolution or the demonstrations in libya start off as peaceful they didn't really start off as peaceful if indeed they did it was for more than one day let's just talk about the rebels or should we say the antigovernment protesters in libya who are these people

why is frauds in england and other countries supporting these rebels that they don't even know who they are or what their true motives are here. well it started simply because some people were inspired by what happened in tunisia and egypt and wanted the same thing to happen in libya for the first few hours there were peaceful demonstrations but i think there were in broad very soon somehow i don't know how what happened probably the future will tell us more in armaments and they became armed and some units of the army joined them and they started fighting now is the gaddafi regime has not been a favorable review in the eyes of many countries in the west and now with different parties may have different motives for the current alliance to bring down the they get their heme by the atrocities that were reported to have been perpetrated by his troops against unarmed civilians as we kept hearing have also alarm many

people and not realize that certain arab governments to urge the security council to take action right so to sum to me director of the institute of islamic political force thank you. r.t. correspondents on the ground are keeping you updated around the clock from libya they're bringing you what they're seeing firsthand through our series twitter stream and facebook page and for video reports that's from where the story is happening you can just heard over to our to use you tube channel.

with r.t. live from moscow now moving to developments in syria where the president's accepted his cabinet resignation the move comes amid weeks of violent crackdowns on demonstrations calling for liberty reforms and despite a massive probe president rally on tuesday and you government is expected to be in place on wednesday as well as the lifting of a controversial state of emergency that's been in effect for more than fifty years that's been eleven days of fighting in the country with more than one hundred fifty people killed while the president blames foreign sources for the violence locals claim its government troops are behind it serious situation is raising fears that another foreign intervention could be possible about what's happening in libya james stanzel who's a writer on middle east politics and a security issues says although the west is not in the mood to intervene in syria's affairs right now it could change its mind. it's bad to predict what's going to happen in the middle east at the 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 nato. or sort of wash their hands of total responsibility for what will happen next that henry clinton who was quoted as saying that she still believes that bashar assad is a reformer someone who can potentially deliver a better syria rather than heading down into the civil war which would have huge repercussions for the rest of the middle east bearing in mind syria is here strategic position. so i don't see any kind of appetite at present for western intervention in syria that said syria has a legacy mainly in the eighty's of heavy handed clampdowns on its own sort of civil process and i think if we saw anything like what happens in one thousand and two. there west would be forced to intervene simply because the level of bloodshed but i think once again we're a long way away from that right now so libya has a more natural resources in terms of oil and is of course located right on the

southern flank of some 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 sort of bringing down the previous one and of course has links with iraq to i'm interested in what i've heard from various commentators about the role the saudis and the jordanians have had in putting 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 state's actions and it's a lack of democracy in freedoms and it is quite interesting to actually see the americans almost defending bashar assad 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. james a writer on middle east politics and security issues. markedly somber

atmosphere on a moscow's metro this tuesday it's exactly one year after it was bombed rocked by two terror attacks thirty eight commuters were killed and many others injured when two female suicide bombers blew themselves up in two stations during the morning rush hour. outside one of those metro stations for us. hi peter so flowers lighting candles what kind of tributes i mean paying at the stations today refusing. because the average tuesday across the map. tro system but a very somber atmosphere here at park station where i am also at love younker in the center of the city we've seen many people turning up with flowers to pay their respects to those who died in these two suicide blasts as well as remember knows who were injured in these attacks is world now and save many people to establishing a. makeshift memorial there on the platforms now as at

a very busy day on the metro one thing that has come from this is it hasn't stopped people from using the metro system and still saying that they won't let the terrorists win and won't stop them from using that they're getting on with their day to day lives artie's medina cochon over spoke to some of those people who were caught up in the blasts. it started off as just an ordinary monday morning for me that he could get off he like many others had a certain string in his step and knowing the harsh moscow winter was all over but little did he realize the nightmare he would be thrown into just a few minutes later suddenly there was a horrible sound as if something huge had formed. and i walked out there was a small haze. people were shouting and rushing out of the car would meet me 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 luganda 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 from all. the stuff. we face it came at eight thirty eight right in the. middle of the rush hour work its truck out the back of the train as commuters try to get on board it was dark there was no lighting and i just saw a heap of bodies that were there were remains of them some of them were stretched on the floor near the metro train and the site was horrible it was a people from what i just before your eyes and there was nothing that would save them with eight million commuters after

a day moscow subways one of the busiest in the world that's made it a terrorist target in the past and on this a year ago in wants to be a child it once again a twenty year old student leaving so the horrors for herself the truth chooses to live and she actually doing sometimes i feel something like this i think about these bad general i think that we have safe safety in our life a year ago tires broad moscow to a standstill by bringing horo to our reading life but if they wanted to destroy people's it's those goal was certainly know what it says to live go zone and while a terror threat to millions both in moscow and across the globe remains it's something people have blown to live by the question also moscow. well in january moscow again was the target for suicide bombers this time it was

a comedy out of the airport a blast there killing many and leaving many many more injured now this prompted president medvedev to order a view of how russia defended itself against terrorist attacks and put in place many new systems to make sure that terrorists couldn't strike at the capital again in a future without it being the one day one year anniversary of. when i was given the matter today i mean i certainly saw a police presence but can you tell us i mean how has the terror crackdown intensified since the. well yes and yet every day to day to day lives you will be seeing more police around on the metro system as well as on other transport networks across russia but there's also a wider larger scale antiterrorist operation ongoing this been ongoing for a long time now in the north caucuses where russian security forces fighting against fighting against terrorists groups there now both the moscow metro bombing

a year ago and the suicide attack on bolivia comedy out of the airport were both claimed by the same man rushes number one most wanted terrorist model for now the most recent. operation was the the largest in recent memory now that left seventeen gunman dead in the shade here now among them it was reported that boko models may have been killed now it's must be reiterated that these are unconfirmed reports that we can't confirm if the model was among those killed but it has been suggested that he may have been amongst those who resisted arrest by russian security forces and into shape here and were killed. president to be to get of his being very strong in his words about what he what he saying to those people who have been involved in organizing terrorist attacks in russia and those who resist arrest saying that they will face the strongest possible penalties.

we've identified all the suspects behind this most horrible of crimes most of them were eliminated during special operations this is a just punishment the fact that we've managed to get these villains is good i think that we work in cooperation with different parts of the government we've been able to bring him seriously. it's. a small school remembers those who were killed in a suicide bombings on the metro system a year ago president dmitri medvedev bows to bring those who are responsible to justice in any means possible right. outside the metro station here in moscow thanks. which apparently is describing the situation at the fukushima nuclear station as very grave plutonium has been detected in soil near the plant after highly radioactive water leaked from one of the reactors the government says it's

on maximum alert to talk of a crisis that's also considering whether to extend the evacuation zone around the plant which is now at a thirty kilometer radius the battle to restore the cooling system has been underway for almost three weeks with little progress ever since their reactors were damaged by the earthquake and tsunami traces of radiation were found in some products and tap water as far as a cure that's about two hundred fifty kilometers south of fukushima the country's still struggling to look after a community is shattered by the earthquake and tsunami disaster nearly at this point a quarter of a million people are still living in mass childhoods. but r.t. dot com has more on japan as it struggles to recover we've online video reports from the moment tragedy struck and its aftermath and with the bodies of thousands of relatives are being forced to lay their loved ones to rest in mass graves are the reports from the tsunami devastated region also online the warning of more to

come but earthquake experts say the seismic pacific ring of fire could lead to further destruction in the region. right here with us here let's get to some of this i was out of international news stories now the u.s. army has apologized for the disturbing images which show soldiers posing with the dead afghan civilians. the troops from maine supposed to kill squad that targeted civilians they were published in rolling stone magazine which also posted videos of it logically showing us attacks on afghans one soldier has already pleaded guilty to murder another war crime hearings that will also take place in the u.s. . and in ivory coast forces loyal to the internationally recognized president say they have taken control of several major cities in the region the incumbent president laurent gbagbo refuses to step down it's quite an international consensus that he last november's election up to

a million people have fled their homes fearing a widespread civil war. right now it's time for the business news with dmitri. welcome to the program japanese carmakers of mostly resumed operations almost three weeks after the disaster. however the car market globally still concerned about roi disruptions forecasting firm i.h.s. automotive recently estimates that the quake caused a sixty five percent decline in production in the last two weeks of march however russian car dealers apparently think no shortages so far one of the country's top car dealers rolf is confident about that market. to you or to and the submission russia we're not affected by the crisis in japan we're seeing a rise in sales of japanese cars with enough eagles in storage use this applies

even from japan last more than two months so now our supply chain is full and given how quickly japan is recovering we're sure the economy is will very quickly make up a little a's in operations. the russian british oil exploration do hangs in the balance says contracting parties b.p. ross never. prepared to battle it out in court mr tribe you know will hold a hearing on the case next week and i'm now joined by a tease because if you neglect sure four more could feel very good to see you there what progress is there in the speech what are russian officials saying about it. look much about russians officials say that these disputes will not have cops investment in quiet climates in russia in the first place and when i was. there was a press conference today held by russia's presidential aide he said. when he was asked what decision the two parties should come up with you said the decision

should be mutually beneficial in the first place but only as a tool and gas giants british petroleum and roll snouts agreed to on the climate school ration albie optic shell which is believed to be reach with all and gas reserves and also on. the share swap what some seven point eight billion dollars but the do was astounded by a british court after a group of russian investors out of ten copy that is primary be called a business vehicle in russia followed a lawsuit complaining that these. joint venture a deal of fact it's been positive news so the russian shareholders but they were not aware of the deal at all well meanwhile the sunday times report. that was the crowning describes as a mutually beneficial deal could cause british petroleum as much as people teen billion dollars which it may need to buy all of its russian partners however the latter which are represented by the upper access when all the groups say they did

not offer to sell out all right dixon in a very quickly what are we to expect out of this a potential deal. oh russian russian control laws state control ross never will circulate posts you to push with these politics than church and with it with their share swap as wall i would like to remind our viewers that the plan was that b.p.'s cells bought the sounds of the chairs for nine point five percent of gross never asked how the dubois responded was now well defined by its position as it believes that the deal is beneficial for russia i will also know that russia's prime minister vladimir putin also loaded the deal however he was not informed later sacked by. b.p. management about a possible spot between the russian and b.p.'s partners rosehips may seek however compensation as it incurs losses as they do remains suspended while these do was

actually a very important for b.p. in the first place says ever seen so all spiel leave mexico gold their drills remained stranded. they did not do all these still was seen as it has the flow stop it is moving towards east was so it was a crucial deal so will now wait and see how these spots will be resume you've got all right how to use continuous or thank you so much for your comments i'm afraid running out of time here. all right and that's all we have time for we'll be back in one hour with an update.