most civilians as nature takes command of military operations and if these horses succeed in pushing rebel fighters further that i'm paula still in the capital city of tripoli join me in a few moments and i'll bring you more. security services in europe more on the libyan ex-pats could be able to better student loans and eventually conspiring down . and an israeli businessman trying to georgia awaiting a court decision says he's been set up the government told four hundred million dollars owed to him.

and on line twenty four seven this is r t welcome to the program first in libya where pro-government troops have pushed rebel forces out of recently captured territory that come to his hometown with a heavy counter offensive capital tripoli which has been a constant target for nato missiles there's been reports of further explosions. there is keeping across to the source. the mood here i think it is quite accurate to say has done almost a hundred eighty degree flip since the weekend when the rebel forces began that almost night me at once and 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 of the rebels who are 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 their leader will hang on to

power and they do believe that these rebel fighters will be pushed all the way back to being 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 gadhafi pull 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 backwards towards the city of benghazi the latest reports we had to do suggest that the rebels have been pushed now to the city of jawad that this city is clearly in the hands of gadhafi is made it is the last major 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 would actually advance into sirte but now not only have they been pushed to 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 that far from the city. 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 of ajdabiya there was a lot of confusion there's a lot of chaos on the frontline with this constant forward and backward movement that syrupy what is becoming more and more clear is that. his tactic seems to be she has moved his forces away from the front line to fall out into recruit and into of sent him back to face the rebels in small mobile units rather than in these long convoys of tanks the international community was of pains to say that the u.n. resolution one nine seven three did not allow for international countries to supply the it with weapons but now we seem to be hearing almost a difference of opinion on there at that summit yesterday tuesday in london he was

secretary of state hillary clinton said it was not answerable never been the framework of there was a vision of where things could be allowed we know that france is going to be holding discussions over this very issue at the moment will be hearing though is that countries will not be supplying the rebels with weapons right now but they could in fact 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 they will certainly need more than just a strike because it's until now the rebels have only been able to advance because of these coalition airstrikes against the question if more than a week later they now are being pushed back almost to where they began and the coalition air strikes have been continuing for more than ten days will be inserted here it seems as if coalition airstrikes are simply not enough so the rebels will need some kind of more systems 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. in the major rebel stronghold of benghazi he reports now and help people there are refusing to give up their

positions. everybody here in the city is monitoring the situation out there on the front and of course the news that the rebels were thrown back again by gadhafi forces were somewhat of a lot i mean here but i can tell you that all the locals here are really standing only on the one position and that is for gadhafi to go as soon as possible on the rebels say that they are ready to battle the fight until the end either until they're gone or until you have duffy's not that there's even this local joke going around that the only way gadhafi may say is that if he's only going to be the only person living in this country when it comes to bin guys he the rebel stronghold here on the east of libya i can tell you that clearly there's an illusion of a normal life because many shops are open to cafes and even restaurants but at the

same time the banks are still not working and also neither of our schools in fact just yesterday i saw a ten or maybe eleven year old boy dressed in the traffic police uniform directing traffic at the same time the opposition has been working to build the control structure of the administrative structure in the east of the country the war going to rise to an interim council somewhat of an interim government during this time they've also organized a new national bank and a new national oil company but when it comes to oil that industry is currently on hold here in the country because of the on the rest and many foreign companies international companies suspending their operations here and we're actually hearing that the only will refinery working currently in the country is in the town of tobruk that's right there on the libyan gyptian border not far away from the border

at least this may be enough to supply the the rebels with gasoline and oil but it's truly not enough for exploiting oil abroad. well us congressman and it's because sr says to prevent civilian deaths in the office that it's late says so it cuts all thought in the full military campaign since congress wasn't consulted on whether to go to war and i think the only real power congress has here to a certain style the people's representative is to stop funding 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 is put in the hands of the congress this is not an academic issue by the way because what we have is a president who basically is assumed as a matter of executive privilege the war powers the bombing that has occurred

through it and in large no fly zone where the no fly zone mandate was expanded to go after these troops and then expand it 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 humanitarian crisis with more people becoming refugees with more civilians put at risk of injury or death due to the bombing. and that's more information from our correspondents in the troubled region and i think that. the street and facebook page and your reports where the story is actually happening and it's a lot seems cheap shot. if .

you could serve a similar five has growing concerns that would be an extract supporting terrorist attacks and recent according to reports would be seen as revenge for bombing raids by european countries all along the gulf as regime. bush a looks of all these threats could be connected to al qaida. e.u. countries have taken a leading role in enforcing the u.n. resolution but their efforts all the way over in libya now threaten to bring conflict right to their very own back doors claim colonel gadhafi now has little of the weapons left in his normally the 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 and that means france u.k. . and united states of course the only option yes really. so i think. it's a clear cut in prison today in the. coming weeks but e.u. backing for and you could that the rebels could back fire further rebel leaders include the libyan islamic fighting group and associates of al qaida and the casualties mounting every day for allied bombing make fertile recruiting ground for anti western forces there are agents. now. that the. tales. e.u. muslims protest against nato bombing of libya the organizer says people should prepare

for the worst that's certainly there's a very strong likelihood. that the muslim some tax everybody should. anger at the invasion of iraq led to 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 activity among suspected terrorist cells indicating the threat of attack is by one officer told all t m p u terrorist strike is now just a question of time. r.t. brussels. next hour in people avails cross talk to his guests discuss how successful nato has been in the. with the other interventions like iraq they didn't have an exit strategy but with this one they don't seem to have an entry strategy

either. to japan now where the government is considering the construction of a containment shallop a damaged nuclear power plant with all the anger out of that's all further regulation the crisis that is still described as grave a plan that would involve the three most badly damaged reactors being covered with high tech material level of radiation and hidden cymbalta where the site is now said to be around the three in the half thousand times where the workers have been unsuccessfully trying to restore the cooling system of the city is now the worst twenty crisis since june the party spoke to nuclear energy expert. who says that there are parallels with that disaster musica. good morning is a very very dangerous and harmful substance in very small quantities of plutonium lead to this ingested by human body almost certainly through

development of cancer there's no concept go to one who taught in public who saw the radioactive fuel which will radiate for many many many thousands of years what we know from the information provided by already lost. significant amount of substrate or closeups. it might. do a situation where we can compare it to the novel and sort of who she got it will come from the amount of release of radioactive substances last at this time there's the danger of the release of plutonium. auntie's alexia cesky has traveled to the chernobyl exclusion zone to find out where the nature is showing any signs of recovery there he said this report from the area abandoned after the catastrophe. exactly twenty five years ago what is now an absolutely lifeless ghost town of

people 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 guides were called 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 it connects the chernobyl nuclear power station and the closest town of people when the explosion happened nobody knew what was going on in the very first hours so the authorities 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 and

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 now i'm walking in the central part of it right now and my radiation meter shows the level of around a hundred and forty micrograms per hour this is of course about five seven times more than the normal human level and it may sound scary to sound but this still is a radiation would not kill a human being but in some parts of radiation levels go much much higher this is now around three hundred and twenty micro wrong hands 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 there. ideation level will go dramatically higher now this layer of morse is one of the most

dangerous spots and people in fact and it acts like a radioactive sponsor 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 specialists 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'll feel some harm to your body in the fallout period of many nuclear particles still remaining in this area amounts to several thousand years only few of them actually started the fall out 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 russia fifty r.t. reporting from the chernobyl exclusion zone in ukraine. well you can always find that story and many more at r.t. dot com whatever he wants including still interest russia plans to build high speed rail links with several european capitals the toy for twenty eight world cup also. police on the prowl for a birdbrain criminal the search is on for a problem for two hundred agents most improved. in georgia and israeli investor one hundred million dollars other government is awaiting a judge's verdict later today for the controversial trial only foods who's already

been in jail six months is challenging the bribery but says he was set up because the authorities don't want to pay their debts that there's a lot in the somali reports for the georgian government desperate for cash and he see a little chance of a fair conclusion. you might not know exactly where the small caucus country years georgia the crossroads of europe and asia my chances are if you watch major global news networks you've seen it invest in georgia ads. not here for investing huge or just capitalism because getting a trump tower. businessmen should be we're getting trying to. turn just spend millions trying to get the world to know it on a mission to cut corruption but one of them is brawny folks and it's really business men who torture owes almost one hundred million dollars been sitting in

jail for almost six months with no bail in march twenty ten bronnie 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 to was to avoid paying. hundreds. of they were instructed to. international arbitration process. on the world bank. release he is alleged to have set up a street arresting food from bribery charges after warning him on a visit to georgia i was struck that in the muslim world what was happening i thought it. would take two days before it's over and there would be. a plot behind it. it was a trip to georgia and the fifteen 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 finance the ministry of justice the ministry of the interior and the prime minister's office all of which came together with the plan to entrap brown effects after the businessman was arrested what could be called a ransom was put on the table fuchs was that informed through diplomatic channels that he would not be released until the arbitration award was waived georgian human rights activist during a broken system that is cracked at the very top but this is actual saggers really does not want an independent court system the prosecutor's office dominates the law and the police and the main power and political pressure instrument in the country is true that this is something from says us lawyers are more than aware of the odds

of his succeeding in georgia are very very slim less than 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 it really seems and he's in a way archie scam that's not the international stories making headlines protests across the many thousands. so they is accused of oppression it's none of it was something of a test and. explosion a mission something since you left one hundred fifty people. i think that the plans which had been seized by a militant who was in the process of being looted by civilians on

a cigarette in school it was a blast. eleven people have died at least twenty are missing all their heavy rain will cause widespread flooding in southern thailand thousands of tourists are stranded with two red ports having suspended operations definitely came to my road closures the floods have caused landslides which a lot friends and damaged bridges and heavy rain is expected over the next few days . in the augury coast forces loyal to the internationally recognized kristen for the torah say they've taken control of several major cities company president but you for a minute ceasefire still refuses to step down this bicycle by consensus that he lost his election countries are literally split off the north pole to perth christensen's anything out the un refugee agency is warning of a massive spilling over into thinking god if the violence worsens. coming

up later today it's been nicknamed a box of ice even a polar bear garden but the language of its indigenous peoples the word alaska means a great. it's the secret incursion into the country . it's the invasion by means of. tradition language is really. the first. beat. and culture. thing is the had the germans are still unaware of what's going on in their mind. asking me. if i go to. the grave. on our cheek. of course there was a. state. thanks

for being with us here on r.t. and welcome to the business news for this hour russia is one of the few places in the world where the web search engine google has struggled to establish its dominance studies have shown that russian and yandex is three times more popular its key advantage is the ability to deal with the complexity of the russian language while also offering a wide range of web services but the head of google russia says the company is still developing in this country. we continue with. services for you from birth to go with the main idea if you're for a mind to groom here or to rush all. products and services

for all users customers in oz or printers the broader us as we mentioned through agreed to go through before if you have a group. of us there was no water skier who pulled right the least. at the same moment which. for example u.s. or western europe. now let's have a look at how the stock markets are performing asian markets are on the rise driving the regional benchmark index higher for the first time in three days in the case up over two and a half percent this hour due to japanese shares rallying within news that some major national companies lacking tashi and this and motors would resume production following a devastating earthquake hong kong stocks also got a lift the hang seng rising to almost one point seven percent this hour spurred on by overnight gains on wall street and strong endings reports from several companies including hutchinson one paw and agricultural bank of china and in here in russia

the markets are opening in just a few minutes and you can see now tuesday's figures both the r.t.s. and myself my six lost one and a half the same time closing however russian stocks could see a rally on wednesday after posting losses on tuesday mark rubenstein i have seen metropolitan plains. today we might see. some dollars back and some. may be interesting for 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 that's american company got worse with private payrolls and this is a.d.p. data is always good. precor search for their main employment report that's coming out this friday gave the number comes out ok better than expected that's certainly going to help the market also the market today isn't just baiting for their

corporate reports from russian majors have. and the are solid reporting earnings. russia's two billion dollars sovereign wealth fund to attract direct foreign investment may be in place as quickly as june this year the head of russia's state development bank v. e. b. says investors abroad are welcoming the idea. one of the smallest you can we've gained support from the leading private unsoldered investment firms including abu dhabi and the investment corporation of china but the move from players support the idea of co investment and they're ready for it i think. that's the only business news we have time for now but you can always keep up to date online at home for once last business.

of. disarming saddam hussein. yes no charge of iraqi citizens. this event brings further assurance that the torture chambers and the secret police are gone forever. play nice again every embassy in kabul. cherish too much occupied afghanistan.

now to buy sales at guantanamo bay. it is appropriate today in accordance as much as we can if he could be a good. face lab studies class if you can shoot him enough so that it shocks them especially if it's stuff but you don't actually break it you. could target. take a seat we take it one tom are up for. it we have nothing to. lose. touch or is that so much definitely a huge musician on the mark when the battle for libya is the so-called humanitarian intervention there so noble and straightforward must intervene. wealthy british style.