the libyan rebels a rapid advance towards the capital is halted with reports that gadhafi forces are using heavy shelling despite declaring a cease fire. with neither side willing to back down you know in the spirit and impending bloodbath when liberals know once the next attack i'm going to say in the capital city of tripoli join me in a few moments and i'll bring you more. foreign the heavyweights meet in london to thrash out libya's political future saying they'll continue putting pressure on gadhafi really complies with the un's resolution. and russia remembers the thirty eight people killed in the moscow metro blasts a year ago today it was one of two suicide bombers blew themselves up during the

morning rush. and after a rather modest session on monday russia's markets and choose the session in the red. one point three percent find out more on stocks and the top business news and business bulletin around twenty five star. here with r.t. live from moscow welcome to the program now after their rapid advance the libyan rebels are now being pushed further back from the outskirts of colonel gadhafi his hometown there are reports of a heavy bombardment and gunfire being used by pro-government forces this despite claims of a cease fire. now reports from the capital tripoli. there have been is 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 and we all just hear reports that in terms of the fighting on the ground the frontline has been pushed backwards to the city of joy ride away from the city of sirte that is gadhafi hometown we are hearing distressing reports though from doctors inside said they say that they have been treating hundreds of patients libyan soldiers who have been targeted in these coalition airstrikes the doctor saying that many of them have lost limbs they've lost arms they've lost a leg and they have trapped no wounds to their heads the doctors also saying that it's impossible to determine how many people have been killed in these is strikes because many of them have died on the sides of the roads and they've been just been buried there now the rebels are suggesting that if they can operate through there his 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 western part of this country we still though continue to

hear reports of intensive shelling of intensive writing 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 now being told that more than four thousand egypt shins and other africans are housed in tents and that they are facing in painting starvation and also the risk of diseases breaking out in the last twenty four hour with eight people have died in the straw to move in twenty four have been injured a group of international journalists was taken there a few hours ago and although we were prevented from actually reaching 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 food out tanks 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 the early reports 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 who are here growing shortages of fuel. we've seen queues of people not only in the front of the trial stations loose in front of bakeries supermarkets and other such schools it is understood that tripoli is not only a strategic importance to the rebels that it has great symbolic value it certainly is something that is incentivizing the rebel fighters to march to which 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 this frontline keeps getting pushed. to the east. the rebels are holding out and fighting against his forces.

the entire city of been going to the rebel stronghold in the tiny east corner of libya are monitoring the situation out there on the front and of course especially around the surge of these home town but even though that the rebels have not been able to control over the city still the spirits are pretty high in fact the opposition does say that you understand it's not going to be easy to fight and defeat god that he's be the man they see that they are ready to to do whatever it takes in order to achieve that goal will be were able to retake control of most of the towns that the people lost to go to these forces just a week ago and what he believes. that every time there's some very easily even some positive speculation upon. gunshots being fired into the air as a sign of. the ultimate goal is to get rid of all.

that was when you were in the country and the opposition says that this is going to be a democratic country in fact. that they do not want any third side to call them what sort of system will be here they want. a libyan people to decide what to do with got to be and his family and what kind of regime they want to hear in the country. already. coming from the west from germany france and great britain so far it seems like here in the east of the country the opposition is in full control in fact the rebels are prime organized. forty body here and there are now fighting responsibilities on one of the other when it comes to be a series of life from the economy industry and police and law and etc so they are

establishing more control here in this port 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 has gone. to go to school reporting that now a foreign ministers and a statesman from about thirty five countries meeting in london to outline the u.s. political future but let's not get some more from our correspondent laura and she is following the meeting for us. we've been showing these publicity shots of these statesmen and these foreign ministers from these thirty five countries they all seem quite eager and happy and content to get involved in what's going on with libya here can you tell us this meeting that's going on today what exactly is expected to be the end result of. well there are a lot of countries represented here in london today between thirty five and forty thirty seven actually by my count in the u.k. plus representatives from nato the european union the united nations and of course importantly the arab league also important to note that russia and china neither of

those countries are presidents. that sort of takes out two dissenting voices potentially from around the table because of course they have stains both of those when the when the u.s. voted when the security council voted on the resolution which which took them to libya in the first place and there's been a lot of talk so far about speaking with one voice particularly from hillary clinton at the very beginning of the meeting so it's very unclear what these countries and these organizations are actually going to be able to agree on they're obviously coming to the table with the will to agree but what we might ultimately result in is something like agreeing to agree rather than any sort of concrete decision the outlines three goals for this meeting the first was to reaffirm the commitment to that u.n. resolution which which allowed the adoption of a no fly zone over libya also said that they were going to be very proactive in

terms of humanitarian aid making sure that particularly the new rebel held town has enough food enough water and enough fuel to go around as well as the transition was taking place and also to help plan for the future in libya making a wide coalition of political leaders together with the cooperation of the interim transitional national council as it's being called which is the group of opposition players but beyond that there's a lot of dissent around the table on on what are the key issues and really key issues that relate to how to implement those three things that i just outlined some countries for example france have already recognized the rebel forces as the legitimate government of libya and most other countries are hanging back on do. some are calling for an immediate cease fire they include italy and turkey on the other side of the coin the u.s. we've heard this morning doesn't rule out arming actively arming the rebels and there's also a very controversial very controversial issue of whether to target gadhafi

specifically we're hearing more agreement on that and in fact france and the u.k. came out ahead of this meeting with a joint statement saying that gadhafi must go immediately but i'll go countries are saying that it's beyond the remit of the u.n. resolution so really a lot of disagreement starting out and a very short time around two and a half hours in which to iron out all those areas of disagreement and move forward so a lot of these of these delegates that they're meeting in london were discussing the future of libya but they're doing so without anyone from the troubled country actually attending nobody from from the so-called rebels side no one from the actual government that is in effect still in charge of the country does seem a bit bizarre do we know what the reaction in libya is to all of this this external discussion for the country's future. well in fact we are we we are seeing members of the rebel forces of the opposition are here in london and they have met this morning with william hague and hillary clinton and also the foreign ministers of france and germany so they are informing the process but you're right they haven't

been invited to this main meeting they have released documents which is written in the most beautiful language the most beautifully put together document being distributed and e-mailed and handed out to journalists by the foreign office although the u.k. foreign office insists that they've had no part in writing it and the the. the interim transitional national council has also a short time ago given a media conference in which they said that the task of. liberating libya is for the libyans that they didn't ask for this intervention they're quite pleased it's happened but they're going forward they must be in charge of the process themselves they also in this document they released they said that there are two non-negotiable points that they would like to see enforced the first is that the new libya should be a united libya one country with tripoli as its capital and the second is that they want to prosecute he and his son and his aides in the international court on humanitarian grounds now that might result in

a bone of contention between libya and whether or not this is the new government between the libyan people and the international community because they're already divided about whether to actually bring good work still marketed to it but other countries including italy and germany are saying why do we offer him a deal why don't we say if he steps down now we'll offer him immunity from prosecution and he can live out his life in exile so that's also something that is likely to be discussed today. of course he and his government are still in charge and no representative at all here in london at the meeting on the fringes of the meeting from the government which as you rightly say is still in charge and in libya. didn't step down yet but they let. me thing are telling them to end what he's calling their barbaric offensive and likening these airstrikes to. military offensives in world war two so he is really very angry about this meeting or about

to live in london thank you. well there is a suspicion that armor piercing radio weapons are being deployed by foreign forces on libya the u.s. says quote it's not aware that depleted uranium is being used while the u.k. flatly denies it control of the review says that britain should now be making sure that its allies follow suit. depleted uranium is of high value in military because it's a very have a substance if what was depleted uranium keep strikes the town for example it would go through it and erupt the explosion produces dust that is radioactive and very harmful i think the worst thing that happened to iraq in afghanistan is the use of depleted. british prime minister has confirmed that britain does not use those weapons however they stop their work coalition and it is

a shame that complaints against military interventions still believes the very reason. if this time it's true and britain does not use those weapons and the prime minister understands why it is so important i think he should be in the forefront ensuring that other countries such as the us and france do not use those weapons either if the state is that i involved in the military intervention in libya will not take this question seriously all the talks about a better future for the people of libya are no more than a joke. he was off the law from moscow and moving to developments in syria now where the president accepted his captain his resignation the move comes amid weeks of violent crackdowns on demonstrations calling for liberty reforms and despite a massive pro president rally on choose day when your 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

has been eleven days of fighting in the country with more than one hundred fifty people killed the president blames foreign sources that locals claim the government troops behind the lethal violence serious situation is raising fears that another foreign intervention could be possible like what is happening in libya now of course one of the. as in the capital of damascus for us. live. to see the list something. live. live live. live.

live. live. live live. live .

there's a. sphere on moscow's metro this year's day it was a year to the day after it was 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. reports from outside puckle to hear outs one of the metro stations involved. it's a busy average tuesday across the metro system but a very somber atmosphere here at a park called to remember first station where i am also at lubyanka in the center of the city we see many people turning up with flowers to pay their respects to those who died in these two suicide blasts as well as remembering those who were

injured in these attacks is well known many people have said stop wishing a. makeshift memorial there on the platforms no i said a very busy day on the metro the one thing that has come from this is it hasn't stopped people from using the metro system and are 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 now my colleague but the coach of a spoke to some of those who were caught up in the blasts a year ago it started off as just an ordinary monday morning food neatly put off he like many others had a certain spring in his step and knowing the harsh moscow winter was all but over but little did he realize the nightmares he would be thrown into just a few minutes later suddenly there was this horrible sound as if something huge had formed. and i walked out there was a small

a haze. people were shouting and rushing out of the car would meet me had heard 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 a had quarters of the federal security service forty minutes later the territorial move south targeting a station at a crucial city intersection killing twelve from all. these last minute wait a sec. days that you hate right in the middle of the rush hour work its truck out the back of the train ass commuters try to get on board it was dark there was no lighting and i just thought he was bored is that whatever remained of them some of them were thresh on the floor. and the side was horrible it was

a people what just before their eyes and there was nothing that could save them 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 this day a year ago in must be a target once again a twenty year old student leader so the horrors for herself the true fuses to live and she actually doing sometimes i feel something like this i think about these bad general thing that we have safe safety now. a year ago terrorist brought moscow to a standstill by bringing horo to our reading life but if they wanted to destroy all spirits this goal was certainly in order to city live goal zone and while the terrorists were out to millions than most go on across the globe remains it's something people have long to live with my question also moscow will in january

moscow again was the target for suicide bombers this time it was a comedy out of the airport the blast there killing many and leaving many many more injured 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 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 turn to terrorist operations ongoing. it's been ongoing for a long time now in the north caucasus where russian security forces fighting against fighting against terrorists groups there know both the moscow metro bombing a year ago and the suicide attack on the comedy out of the airport were both claimed by the same man rushes number one

a 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 no among them it was reported that doku amount of may have been killed though it's must be reiterated that these are unconfirmed reports that we cannot confirm. 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 and were killed. present their commute image that 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. but 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 worked well in cooperation with different parts of the government we've been able to bring them serious losses as moscow remembers those who were killed an injured in a suicide bombings on the metro system a year ago president dmitri medvedev boasted bring those who are responsible to justice and any means possible. from moscow and japan's describing the situation of the fukushima nuclear station as a very grave ternium. a highly radioactive. a leak from one of the reactors and the government says it's on a maximum alert to tackle the crisis is also considering whether to extend the evacuation zone around the plant which is currently at a thirty kilometer radius the battle to restore the cooling system has been underway for almost three weeks but with little progress ever since the reactors

were damaged by the earthquake traces of radiation were found in a sauna products and water as far as tokyo that's about two hundred fifty kilometers south of folk who she know the countries are still struggling to look after community shattered by the earthquake and tsunami and eight quarter million people are still living in that massive shelters. wealthy dot com has more on japan as it struggles to recover from disaster we have online video reports from the moment that tragedy struck and its aftermath branded with reporters all the thousands of victims relatives are being forced to lay their loved ones to rest in the mass graves at the reports from the tsunami devastated region also one line that the warning get of more to come as earthquake experts say the seismic pacific ring of fire could lead to further destruction in the region. all right in a few minutes it's time to get on the big banks case and delve into the darker side

of wall street investor tactics in the kaiser report but first though dimitris here with this i was business up day. thanks rory japanese carmakers have mostly resumed operations almost three weeks after the disastrous earthquake and tsunami however the car market globally is still concerned about supply disruptions forecasting firm i.h.s. automotive recently estimated that the quake caused the sixty five percent decline in production in the last two weeks of much however russian car dealers apparently see no shortages so far one of the country's top car dealers roth is confident about supplies. messily monster to you want to end its addition russia we're not affected by the crisis in japan we're seeing a rise in sales of japanese cars with enough the cars in storage this apply sheen 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 for the delays in operations. by secular the stock markets now and u.s. stocks are gaining this tuesday session passed despite a decline in consumer confidence which was much expected and therefore we're seeing the dow put up point four percent last that point seven p. and stocks mixed now then led down by banks shares and commerce bank fails much as three percent frankfurt as observers speculate that it may be looking to raise capital also preventing from the field see from growing b.p. is adding pressure to the downside after a broker downgrade footsie and at that. point one and down point four percent respectively. here in russia tuesday session ended on a negative and now there's a correction on the negative news from the board second look at some of the individual shares energy majors where some of the biggest losers of the gaining the

previous session rosneft was shedding two and a half percent because nucor one point eight percent burbank is very invested in the market actually up just a notch. the market is dominated by profit taking and which is not surprising we are seen as a small price correction it's very very small nevertheless it gives investors agree skiers to take some profits from their oil and gas sector names mostly we are seeing oil and gas majors john by between two and two a half percent on the day to day which is again quite logical and explainable given the run up that they have had over the past three weeks. mark rubenstein from mexico light seen knowing could be poised to invest around thirty billion dollars in russia over the next twenty years the air space giant is looking at developing

projects in the titanium valley special economic zone in russia's europe company officials as well the suppliers and partners are visiting the region this week which could result in a package of agreements being reached me in belize being set up to encourage the export of high tech manufacturing from. russia's budget airlines could soon use the field in the moscow region as a means of cutting costs prime minister putin said it would help will reduce air traffic across the capital spree major airports because of the poor state of the country's regional carriers nasco currently serves as a transit hub for locals their light summated at the proper development of the airport system could ease the capital's aviation traffic by twenty percent. rory is next with the headlights to stay with.

if. it is easy. to. see. in india she's available in the movie go hard enough.