civilian deaths in libya continues strikes against government targets and rebels are forced into retreat. counter-offensive. security services in europe were on the libyan experts be halting events in terms of legibly conspiring al-qaeda. and israeli businessmen trapped in georgia awaiting a court decision says he's been set up by the government which once took one hundred million of its money to get. destroyed being a world leader in internet search engines google is struggling to find dominance in

the russian market join me in twenty minutes time for the full story. you're watching r.t. live from moscow welcome to the program well first to libya where pro-government troops have pushed the rebel forces out of recently captured territory in their hometown counter-offensive the capital tripoli which has been a constant target for nato they've been reports of further explosions from all its across life. who's in tripoli force narrow paula there were reports of fresh explosions in the capital tripoli what did you hear where you are. well for the eleventh straight day the capital city of tripoli has been on the receiving end of these coalition airstrikes they were a number of blasts overnight loud blasts coming from the residential area of the

libyan leader moammar gadhafi as well as from his compound a district that is in the. district now the mood here i think it is quite accurate to say has done almost eight hundred eighty degree flip since the weekend. when the rebel forces began their almost nightwing advancement over libya if it was accurate to say that then people here were feeling nervous i think that nervousness is now being transferred to the rebels and the excitement that the rebels were feeling just three four days ago has now been transferred here to tripoli certainly people here in the capital city are feeling renewed vigor and they do believe that they have a leader will hang on to power and they do believe that these rebel fighters will be pushed all the way back to being ghazi and we've witnessed that in the last two nights there has been angry demonstrations just in front of the hotel where we've been staying until the early hours of this morning people standing there with banners screaming and shouting and showing their support for the duffy. yes.

how much rebels were so returning violence and to treat so what seems to be the balance of power that across libya as far as you. call the situation here is so fluid it changes every few hours that frontline constantly moving forward and moving backwards although in the last twenty four hours it certainly seems as if the front line is moving more and more backwards towards the city of benghazi the latest reports we have to do suggests that the rebels have been pushed now to the city i've been in your watch that this city is clearly in the hands of gadhafi is may and it is the last main city before the city of sirte which is a good half a stronghold it is certainly his hometown and they were initially reports coming that the rebels had actually advanced into surge but now not only have they been pushed into bin jawad we are hearing that they've also been pushed further back to the port city of ras lanuf and indeed the next city for them to be pushed back to the city of brega once this happens they are not there far from the city of baghdad

which is just outside of benghazi and if you remember it was a little more than a week ago that the rebels first started making their advance and there was so much celebration and so much talk that because of the coalition airstrikes they had actually after a week of a stalemate been actually able to advance to that city. there was a lot of confusion there's a lot of chaos on the frontline with this constant forward and backward movement but certainly what is becoming more and more clear is that gadhafi is tactic seems to be to have moved his forces away from the front line of allowed into regrouped and into of simpson back to face the rebels in small mobile units rather than in these in long convoys of tanks and we saw these convoys coming under fire from those coalition airstrikes are sort of the that is a tactic that seems to have changed and at this stage it seems to be a tactic that is working the other big question is the question of weapons and the lights wriggles the lights weaponry that the rebels are using seemingly insufficient against the heavy waters and the very rare missiles that could happen

at all jews have been firing at them for the other three points on the ground of course is the city of misrata even waste in libya here we are hearing increasingly that the definition in our gaming the ground we've heard of tanks moving into the city of reinforcements coming in and of renewed shelling but getting there paula you mentioned weapons there and some world piles have been talking about providing military assistance to the rebels but what more do we know about that. there was is a contentious issue because the international community was of pains to say that the u.n. resolution one nine seven three did not allow international countries to supply the it grapples with weapons but now we seem to be hearing almost a difference of opinion on that at that summit and yesterday tuesday in london the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton said it was not one single never been the framework of their prisoners and could be allowed we know that france is going to be holding discussions over this very issue and moment we'll be hearing though is that

countries will not be supplying the rebels with weapons right now that they could in fact to do this in the future certainly we know from countries like britain that from the start they've been pushing for the supply of weapons it is increasingly clear that the group will certainly need more than just a strike because it's until now the rebels have only been able to have. because of these coalition airstrikes it begs the question if more than a week later they're not being pushed back almost to where they began and the coalition airstrikes have been continuing for more than ten days well basically it seems as if strikes are simply not enough so the rebels will need some kind of more substance from the international community which brings a whole host of new questions in terms of just how far the international community wants to wants to become involved we also know from this conference yesterday that what has been quote a libya context has been the states have to look into more depth in terms of how the international community will get involved moving forward today wednesday nato takes control of full military operations in this country the first country to

actually hit this concept which is cutoff which is quite significant because more and more the european powers and the united states are looking for the arab world to become more involved. in the labor force here and say thank you. well the u.s. congress in attendance can seen it says to prevent civilian deaths in the washington's legislates cut off funding for them. since congress wasn't consulted on whether to go to war and the only real power congress has here to assert its. people's representative is so you can meet with a few leaders but there are five hundred thirty five members of congress the constitution of the united states makes it abundantly clear that the war powers report in the hands of the congress this is not academic issue by the way because what we have is a president who basically is assumed as a matter of executive privilege the war power bombing that has occurred through and

large no fly zone where there are no fly zone manned. was expanded to go after these troops and then expanded further to help the rebels as they move towards tripoli there's no way you can avoid civilian casualties and so what we're doing here is enlarging our humanitarian crisis with more people becoming refugees with more civilians put at risk of injury or death to. get more information from our correspondents in the troubled region and you can read their first hand thoughts on artie's twitter stream and facebook page for video reports from where the story is happening head towards these.

secret service and i phone live has growing concerns that they've been experts plotting terrorist attacks in britain according to reports. in countries on the kernel the dolphins when jean parties go bushell looks at how these threats could be connected to al qaeda. e.u. countries have taken a leading role in enforcing the un resolution but their efforts all the way over in libya now threaten to bring conflict right to their very own back door was a list claim colonel gadhafi now has little other weapons left in his ordinary overseas terror he's faced repeated accusations that he ordered lockerbie bombing

that killed two hundred seventy mostly westerners experts say some countries are particularly in the firing line three leading countries of the offensive operation that means for you in the united states of course the only option he has really is to use terror so i think they don't release today it's a clear cut in prison better today in the coming days and they're going to coming weeks but you backing for anti gadhafi rebels could backfire further rebel leaders include the libyan islamic fighting group and associates of al qaida and the casualties mounting every day from allied bombing make fertile recruiting ground for and she western forces there are agents of. the work now. that the whole scale. i am from. e.u.

muslims protest against nato bombing of libya the organizer says people should prepare for the worst but there's certainly there's a very strong likelihood. that the muslim attack in retaliation. the invasion of iraq lived through a surge in terror attacks in the e.u. almost two hundred people died in the madrid train bombings in two thousand and four while suicide bombers killed fifty two people in london in two thousand and five officials now dread similar results in the wake of this campaign western intelligence reports chris activity among suspected terrorist cells indicating the threat of attack is high one officer told r.t. an e.u. terrorist strike is now just a question of time. see brussels. show his guests discuss how successful. with the other

interventions like iraq we didn't have an exit strategy but with this one they don't seem to have an entry strategy either. but to japan now where the government is considering the construction of a containment shell damaged fukushima nuclear power plant getting there to further radiation leaks in a crisis that is still described as grave a plan would involve the three most badly damaged reactors being covered with high tech until the radiation in that nation seawater near the site is now said to be around three hundred thousand times higher than the workers had been unsuccessfully trying to restore the system of sorts in what is now a worst atomic crisis since both parties spoke to nuclear energy expert. says there are parallels with that disaster twenty five years ago. you could call it was a very very dangerous and harmful substance very small quantities

the crucial only if it is ingested by a human body it almost certainly leads to rule of cancer there's no concert oh to monitor all on hold to store the radio to fuel which will retaliate for many many many thousands of years but we know from the information. already lost we are already in significant amount of subsidy or close. to a situation where we can compare it to chernobyl and to morrow it will come to the moment of release of radioactive substances plus. there is the danger of the release of plutonium. well if he's alexia shows he has traveled to the chernobyl exclusion zone to find out whether nature is showing any signs of recovery there he

said this reports from the area abandoned after the catastrophe. exactly twenty five years ago what is now an absolutely lifeless ghost town of prepared in ukraine was a bustling scene this was not only the pride of the soviet union in terms of construction something of a role model of a perfect town but also it was one of its biggest secrets towns like were called at the mcgrath or nuclear city and they were restricted only to the nuclear power plant workers and some military personnel and security service men is nowadays part of the noble exclusion zone and it is believed to be very unsafe to live here in terms of radiation levels now this is the place where the authorities made their first fatal mistake this is called the death bridge that connects the chernobyl nuclear power station and the closest town of p.p.s. when the explosion happened nobody knew what was going on in the very first hours so the authority set up a security checkpoint in order to avoid anyone leaving the city and entering the contaminated area at the security checkpoint was at the very end of this bridge

nobody knew how much radiation was emitted and most of the policemen who were working at this security checkpoint died in the first days after the explosion there's a lot of misperception and misunderstanding concerning the levels of radiation in the chernobyl area or how dangerous it is here many speculate as to whether the land is populated with mutants or the levels the radiation would be able to kill a human being within minutes or even seconds and i'm walking in the central part of treatment right now and my radiation meter shows the level of around one hundred and forty my corona inspire our this is of course about five seven times more than the normal human level and it may sound scary to some but those are radiation would not kill human being but in some parts of prepare it radiation levels go much much higher this is now around three hundred twenty micro wrong in which is more than fifteen times more than the normal human level of radiation but if we just take

a little walk to this layer of moss on the ground you'll see that the. d.h. and level will go dramatically higher now this layer of morse is one of the most dangerous spots in people in fact and it acts like a radioactive sponsorship if we put the radiation meter on it you can see and you can even hear how frantic the radiation meter goes and the numbers are increasing rapidly. some may say that this is very dangerous for for human health but some specialist told me on many occasions that in order to get some kind of harm to your body to to maybe even get the first stages of radiation sickness you have to literally just sit in the slayer for a week or so and only then you will feel some harm to your body in the fallout period of many nuclear particle still remaining in this area amounts to several thousand years only few of them actually started the fallout period twenty five years since the chernobyl accident should anything like that happen at the fukushima nuclear reactor the fifty sixty maybe even seventy kilometer radius would

be evacuated that is according to some experts but clearly this land for the exclusion zone in ukraine will images will remain until the end of times as this land will never be inhabited again alexi russian ski r.t. reporting from the chernobyl exclusion zone in ukraine. you can always find that story and many more on our team dot com when you want wednesday including still on track russia plans to build high speed rail links with several european capitals time twenty eight in the world cup also. these are on the ground bring criminal searches on for robert and two hundred patients.

in georgia israeli investor one hundred million dollars by the government is awaiting a judge's verdict later today following a controversial trial and six months in jail while the fruit says charged with bribery says he was set up because the authorities don't want to pay their debt and starting is this an early reports with georgia's government desperate for cash and seen little chance of their conclusion. you might not know exactly where this small caucus country years georgia the crossroads of europe and asia are chances are if you watch major global news networks you've seen invested in georgia ads. now as of magnets are investing in georgia capitals even getting a trump tower of its own businessmen should be we're getting trapped to b.c. target spends millions trying to get the world to know it's on a mission to cut corruption but why ban is romney folks and israeli businessman who

georgia owes almost one hundred million dollars been sitting in jail for almost six months with no they're in march trying to turn ronnie foods one are ninety eight million dollars payout from the georgian government for breached agreement on construction of an oil pipeline no payment was made instead he was arrested going what there was to avoid paying one hundred dollars when they were instructed to. ration process was conducted on the world bank. he believes he is alleged to have set up a street arresting foods on bribery charges after luring him on a visit to georgia. for the raid if they're going to. take a few days before it. but. i

have a plot behind it. store it was a trip to georgia and the sixteen year dispute with an official invitation from the country's prime minister turned out to be a one way ticket to prison there was in fact a. cooperation a collaboration between four important ministries of the government and probably with the approval of the president of the ministry of. announce the ministry of justice the ministry of interior and the prime minister's office all of which came together with a plan to and for our priority if you have to businessmen was arrested what could be called a ransom was put on the table fuchs was there informed through diplomatic channels that he would not be released until the arbitration award was waived georgian human rights activists blame a broken system that is cracked at the very top but is a national soccer she really does not want an independent court system the

prosecutor's office dominates the law and the police are the main power and political pressure instrument in the country is true that this is something food says us more years are more than aware of the odds of his succeeding in georgia are very very slim and point zero one percent so it's a good warning to businessmen who are thinking of investing in georgia that they should think twice and that they should be were making their legal battle not about winning but warning others not to tango with tbilisi and he said now why r.t. my scamp. well to some other international stories making headlines protests are continuing across again it wasn't scary in the capital sunday so the man president ali abdullah saleh stepped down some days accused of oppression and it's not an issue and the fatal shootings of protesters adding to the on restaurants at an army

mission in front in the southern city of hundred fifty people dead more than eighteen shit the plant which had been seized by the militant group is in the process of being will be to civilians but a cigarette is thought to have lost. hundreds of tourists have been stranded on the resort or and in southern thailand after five days of rain caused widespread flooding two airports have suspended operations and definitely connections the floods have caused once lawrence blocking roads and damaging bridges more heavy rain is expected over the next few days. in the ivory coast forces loyal to the internationally recognized president on sun would say they've taken control of several major cities incumbent president won't refuses to cede office despite right consensus that in the last november's election country's military has split with the generals in the world both presidents are speaking out the un refugee agency is warning of

a massive spilling over into the other if violence worsens. coming up later this hour it's been named a box of ice and even a polar bear garden but the language of its indigenous peoples the word alaska means a great land. it's the secret incursion into the country. the invasion. of. tradition the language. the. copied. and culture. are still unaware of what's going on in their mind. asking. the great. business with control that in

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a lift the hang seng rising one point seven percent is our spurred on by overnight gains on wall street and strong endings reports from several companies including hutchinson brian todd and the agricultural bank of china. and here in russia the markets are correction on negative news from abroad on tuesday both the r.t.s. and the mice are some of my sex lost one and a half percent on closing. however russian stocks could see a rally on wednesday after posting losses on cheese day mark rubenstein from i have seen metropole explains. today we might see. some college bag and some. name peeking in choosing for all of the correction yesterday so overall i think today is going to be a positive day we don't have employment data from a.d.p. corp it's an american company that works with private payrolls and this is a.d.p. data is always a good print course or to their main employment report that's coming out this

friday eve the number comes out ok better than expected that's certainly going to help the market also the market today's into spading for the corporate reports from russian majors are going to have heroes and are solid reporting earnings. and russians two billion dollars sovereign fund to attract direct foreign investment may be in place as quickly as june this year the head of russian state development bank v.-e. says investors abroad are welcoming the idea. mcconnachie magician or thank you we've gained support from the leading private and sober investment firms thank you to abu dhabi and the investment corporation of china for employers support the idea of carbon that's one and they're ready for it. and that's all the business news we have time for the south join us here next hour for more.

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