in libya approach the troops reverse the rebels advance calling the airstrikes the coalition considers arming the opposition but there's a looming that would breach the un resolution. the fears of a terrorist camp clash in europe with the alarm sounded over possible plots by libyan is nervous in revenge for the going to great it's. fun being cancer rates it is really business that you found that prison is the only payback for altering the georgian government or the foreign investment it's.

a very warm welcome this is live from moscow with me on a civet now we start in libya where pro-government troops have pushed rebel forces out of several recently captured territories after heavy counter offensive. countries including the u.s. and france are suggesting they could be open to all making the rebels but there's criticism that this would go beyond the terms of the u.n. resolution paula slee has more from tripoli. global fighters have now been pushed back to the city of ras lanuf we are hearing that this is strategically important oil city it's been in the hands of gadhafi is made now there are numerous reasons being bandied about as to why the rebels are being forced to retreat and retreat so quickly part of that is because gadhafi forces are simply base organized they better trained or they have base of leadership and this is posing some real dilemmas to the international community in terms of what it should do next when

it's becoming increasingly clear that these airstrikes are not that successful while the government here in tripoli is insisting as it has done since these coalition air strikes began that the number of civilians continues to climb and that it hovers some way more than one hundred now we do know that they were secondary explosions because in the town of wisdom which is about two hundred kilometers to the south of tripoli there were ports and munitions dump that was hit in those coalition air strikes we went there was a group of foreign journalists and we saw damage to the hospital as well as to several homes and residential areas the moves of some of the wards in the hospital had been broken and we also saw some beds where there was blood stains and did we now the patients were evacuated in time but we heard from the hospital staff that some thirteen people who we also met when we were there any number of tourists in stock value day she had also filipino and they as you can well imagine are very anxious and very scared and very desperate to get out of here british prime

minister david cameron says that he has not ruled out arming the rebels and this of course is the concern that's been expressed by critics in the international community and serve you here in tripoli since that u.n. resolution one ninety seven three was approved there is a cause that talks about the syrian measures and this is open to interpretation and what we're hearing from the british is that if weapons are needed to protect civilian lives when they can justify the use of weapons we're also hearing a similar kind of line coming out of the obama administration there they saying that they could allow for the supply of. more weapons and that they are looking at all options on the table but i think the there is going to be the supply of weapons to the rebel fighters this poses a whole host of and a whole host of very critical questions number one people do not know who the rebels are there are those amongst their ranks with all cried meanings extremist meanings move these weapons wound up in their hands and indeed if they do what does that mean it's also the very real possibility that the weapons could end up in the hands of gadhafi soldiers i mean even woman that if you're going to hand over

weapons to fighters on the ground you are going to need to give them some kind of tactical assistance and training which begs the next concern particularly here in tripoli and that is the question of whether or not the international community is preparing the ground to stand ground forces here now the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has reiterated just how critical and just how important it is to mario all of this case should. we all heard the statements that the only goal is the operation is to protect civilians as according to the u.n. resolution we also heard the coalition would side with anyone in the conflict at the same time schrans has recently stated it's ready to supply libyan rebels with weapons the nato secretary general has immediately objected saying the operation is to protect. not amish and we feel you agree with his positions russia's ambassador to nato has warned that when you talk about an arms embargo it needs to be applied

across the whole field in other words it needs to be applied both to the rebels as well as to gadhafi support base now another question that is also alarming people here in tripoli is the whole question of whether or not the international community intends to target gadhafi certainly here when we hear statements from the british government as well as other european powers saying that they do not intend to target him his not they target the same city and the mood here in tripoli as if people here do not believe that a lot of the court is going north because in the major rebel stronghold of goals you hear reports that people there remain defiant to spoilage the latest. 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 law here but i can tell you that all the locals here are really standing only on one position and that is for gadhafi to go as soon as possible on the rebel say

that they are ready to battle to fight until the end either until they're gone or until. the clearly there is an illusion of 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 are 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 we've also organized and you national bank and a new national oil company but when it comes to oil that industry is clearly on hold here in the country because of the on rest many foreign companies international companies suspending their operations here and we're actually hearing

that the only flying are you working currently in the k.g.b. is in the town of tobruk this may be enough to supply the the ruggles with gasoline and oil but it's truly not enough for exploiting oil abroad. well as the allied forces push for more military action in libya experts on arab affairs want to be intervention may seen backfire on europe i fear is that lead to an islamic groups are plotting terrorist attacks in revenge allied air strikes down operation explains. e.u. countries have taken the lead role in forcing the u.n. resolution but their efforts all the way over in libya will threaten to bring conflict right to their very own back doors claim colonel gadhafi now has little of the weapons left in his armory an 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 the don't release today it's a clear cut in prison danger today in the coming days maybe in the 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 and she western forces there are agents of ok looking now in v.b. i think that not. chaos at all i am sure. you

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 ability to. track everybody. 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 suicide bombers killed fifty two people in london in two thousand and five officials know abroad similar results in the wake of this campaign and intelligence reports from christopher activity among suspected terrorist cells indicating the threat of attack is by one of the total t. and you terrorists right is now just a question of time. to brussels. next hour here on. cross talk panel question whether nato really knows which direction it's heading in

libya. this ambiguity make it this mission creep even worse because we don't even really know what we want actually a friend of mine who's not an international ation specialist recently sold me he said well as far as i can see it. with the other interventions like iraq they didn't have an exit strategy with this one they don't seem to have an entry strategy either. investigators are working it whether russia's most wanted man was killed in a special crank down security services the death could have been among militants who died during a raid in the country's south on monday. security services and investigators are being cautious about announcing a confirmed death toll from the al qaeda linked terror lead it. has been announced around eight times in the past that they killed him in operations and not stand out

not to be true so they're waiting on a thorough investigation is taking place in the aftermath of a major operation that took place on monday in the shade to in the north caucuses now once the d.n.a. testing is being carried out on those seventeen people who were killed while resisting arrest from security says is it not operation won't stop investigation is being fully carried out then they will give an announcement whether doku umarov was among those seventeen who were killed on monday in english eighty you know this was a huge huge operation the largest we've seen in town ten years from security services in the area they used the full force of the russian security services we saw attacks from the sky using aerial bombings as well as helicopter gunships being used to suspects who are arrested on the scene who model certainly the

most wanted in the country he has links to al qaida and his his terror cells have carried out a slew of deadly attacks across russia and just now on tuesday he was the fish really charged with being the most the minds behind the january suicide attack on the committee head of airports here at moscow now called course tuesday of course of which well the end of this should be the one year anniversary of another of the models they claim to go later attacks claimed by you model this took so many lives that was the double suicide bombing on the moscow metro so a very very much public enemy number one here in the country but and it's not just inside russia's borders that he is wanted. it was announced that the united states had placed him on their. their wanted list also the united nations looking out wanting to see him being brought to justice. still to come this hour here on our c

facing a jail term for tangling with p.c. . you're just spend millions trying to get the world to know it on a mission to cut corruption but why ban is wrong the folks and israeli businessman who georgia owes are not one hundred million dollars been sitting in jail for almost six months with no back up. the rest of their single wealth into georgia that story just ahead. has cost to japan now by radiation levels in the sea what's in it a focusing a plant to continue to rise there now more than three and a half thousand times higher than normal when radioactive material has always think into tennessee would be a story of a similar season's founds government describing the situation as serious an unpredictable work is to happen unsuccessfully trying to restore the plans cooling system and what is now the worst economic crisis since. nuclear energy expert lars

my says there are parallels about the stuff that twenty five years ago. it was a very very dangerous powerful substance you know in very small quantities welcome to only if it is ingested it by a human body will almost certainly through the garden of cancer there's no concert coach who. saw the radioactive fuel which will review it for many many many thousands of years significant amount of really because. if. she were a situation where we can compare our. two fukushima who constantly might of we use our fruits of substances the last of this time there's a danger of controlling it. well the chernobyl exclusion zone still has high levels of radiation. of the century after the world's worst nuclear accident that lets you

travel to the nearby town which was abandoned because of a catastrophe. exactly twenty five years ago what is now an absolutely lifeless ghost town of pre-clearance 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 the parents were called out on the ground 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 novel 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 people 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 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 of radiation would be able to kill a human being within minutes or even seconds now i'm walking in the central part of the picture right now and my radiation meter shows the level of around one hundred and forty michael wrong an hour this is of course about five seven times more than the normal human level and it may sound scary to some but those radiation would not kill a human being but in some parts of p.p.i. it's radiation levels go much much higher this is now around three hundred twenty micro wrong and 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 in people in fact and it acts like a radioactive sponge if we put radiation meter on it you can see you can even hear how frantic the radiation goes and the numbers are increasing rapidly some may say that this is very dangerous for for human health. 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 will feel some harm to your body and the fallout period of many nuclear particle still remaining in this area amounts to several thousand years only a few of them actually started their fall out period twenty five years since the chernobyl accident should anything like that happen at the fukushima nuclear

reactor the entire 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 ski r.t. reporting from the chernobyl exclusion zone in ukraine. so all the world news in brief this hour syria's president says the rest there was a from outside the country and is pledging to eliminate those behind it is the bashar ourselves of first address since outside government protests broke out a fortnight ago causing even sixty deaths so far contrary to expectations the president has not lifted the fifty year old state of emergency in the country he signed the cabinet on tuesday's huge approach that it took rounds rallied to support assad. huge crowds of protesters in yemen refusing to back down

a system that didn't immediately ends its decades of rule in battle that has offered to go after elections are still a caretaker government in the meantime wednesday's rallies in the capital city denounced the deadly explosions like this country which killed april highs in the south demonstrations izabella square have also seen president sunday's control slip away. floods have swept through eight provinces in southern thailand killing at least twenty one and even more than three hundred missing trains canceled and three airports shot over seven hundred thousand people have been affected and thousands of tourists stranded means you will just blame the heavy rains on a cold front coming down from china the rains expected over the next few days. the water is up to times that world wide is a lucrative business destination but one investor says it needs a health warning he's languishing at a georgian jet awaiting sentencing for bribery even though he invested

a fortune in the country's development as it is now explains why the government bet eighteen millions things turned up steam. you might not know exactly where this small caucus country years georgia but the crossroads of europe of asia are chances are if you watch major global news networks you've seen invest in georgia ads. you're. not of magnets are investing usually just the capitals even getting a trump tower on the phone conversation is men should be we're getting trapped to really see your spends millions trying to get the world to know it on a mission to cut corruption but one that is why many folks and it's really business men who torture owes almost one hundred million dollars been sitting in jail for almost six months with a nobel in march twenty ten 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 on a motive was to avoid paying one hundred dollars when they were instructed by international arbitration process was conducted on the world. series he is alleged to have set up a stream arresting fruits on bribery charges after luring him on a visit to do our job was struck they didn't understand what was happening for the record if they're going to. take four days before it. but. i have a plot behind the. start was a trip to georgia tech and the fifteen year just spew we can official invitation from the country's prime minister turned out to be a one way ticket to prison there was in fact a. cooperation collaboration between for important ministries 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 close to and probably fix 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 activists blame a broken system that is cracked acca very top but this is actual suckers 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 too but this is something folks is us noirs 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 mourning others not to tango tbilisi and he's in our way archie. i hate how now. with you here. that's right time for your business update and the russian central bank has reconfirmed it expects the annual inflation rates to fall from eight point nine percent last year to twenty six and seven percent this year hold whether the world bank isn't so sure it will achieve that goal. russia still has a lot of short term and medium term and long term policy challenges that would need to be addressed head on the main short term troubling remains to be inflation.

here i think that the simple being has already started turning the monetary conditions and the question is how that will go over the course of the year anything below ten percent would be success eight percent is probably achievable provided monitoring for school authorities continue taking the policy stance. we think that this is possible this is of possible but we also think that six or seven percent is is probably very difficult to achieve under the circumstances. to keep modernization on track president better watches soaring wealth funds needs to be worth at least ten billion dollars fund should attract direct foreign investment into the country and that could be at least five times larger than the fund itself official say there is plenty of scope within the

economy. the laws in russia generic investments make up less than twenty percent of g.d.p. though they should be at least thirty percent so you can see the potential for investment growth. ok about time travel look the stalks us markets have opened high after some friends who are good news about jobs the a.d.p. national employment report says about two hundred thousand private sector jobs have been added this month that's roughly in line with analyst expectations it's raised optimism for friday's government monthly payrolls were. moving on to europe european markets are trading in the cloud tracking gains and they show the currencies are just on the hot percent backed by strong gains from the mining sector and the dax is up one point eight percent this hour. and here in russia the markets are staying in positive territory both the r.t.s. and the y. six have recovered from tuesday's losses with the wise it's gaining on the last one

point three percent in the r.g.s. is up six percent point six percent at the moment. as have a look at some individual moves energy majors are enjoying gains gas from is gaining more than two percent the problem is not far behind it's up just under two percent banking stocks are also on the rise was wrong point seven percent on my sites. on russian metal major new the look still has posted a six fold increase in its annual that profit it total going to quarter billion dollars though coming in slightly shy of them as price increases and profit is in line with the still makers around the world company forecasts a ten cent increase in our base year. and that the board of directors of russia's state owned companies start to get a big overhaul president wants all ministers and deputy prime ministers sit in one . place by independent directors and says the measure will only affect companies in

what he calls a competitive environment but it should all happen by the middle of this year. ok and european central bank will raise rates gradually for a speaking exclusively to business r t e c b board member around. confirms the bank is ready to move and its policy meeting next thursday also says help isn't place for vulnerable countries that may be pushed to the edge by high interest rate environment. restraints were. basically becoming more and more expansionary which are not appropriate for the raising interest rates and aggressively first second that we are not only one interest free so it's pools for everybody but we have also always called for providing for the system there insurance that all the banks in the system will have access to the financing.

without we've got some bad people out of the markets or we're certainly even in confidence in your area which report difficulties. that's the business news for that solid when the last there was time for business stories here on r.t. .

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