issue is that so much of it is a huge music. on the market really is the so-called humanitarian intervention there so noble and straightforward most intervention. believe you are trying to get out the cheap thrill buzz the rebels advance following airstrikes the coalition considers arming the opposition but there's a warning that would reach the u.n. resolution. the fears of a terrorist past lashing europe with me alarm sounded over possible plots by libyan islam as a revenge for the bombing. being cancer rates of israeli business where he's found the president is the payback falls from the georgian government schools to foreign investment. than the person central bank because reconfirms expects the annual

inflation rate to fall from eight point nine percent last year to between six and seven percent this year but the world bank is a small saw it will choose the scope for business in twenty minutes. a very warm welcome to you this is live from moscow with me allison but now we start in libya where pro-government troops have pushed rebel forces out of several recently captured territories after heavy counter offensive well this comes as some nato countries including the u.s. and france are suggesting they could be open to arming the rebels but there's criticism this would go beyond the terms of the u.n. resolution asking support from tripoli. the fighters has now been pushed back to the city of ras lanuf we are hearing that this is the. t.t.t.

important oil for the city is firmly 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 based organized a base were trained and they have basic 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 kurdish mistreats 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 cost in the town of music which is about two hundred kilometers to the south of tripoli airport at an ammunitions 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 in we also saw some beds where there was blood stains and the other

patients were evacuated in time but we heard from the hospital staff that some thirteen people were wounded we also reckon we were there a number of years to stop bangladeshi and also philippine me and they as you can well imagine are very anxious and very spirited and very desperate to get out of here because 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 syrupy here in tripoli synthetic u.n. resolution one hundred seventy three was approved there is the 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 then they can justify the use of weapons we're also hearing that some of the kind of lines coming out of the obama administration there they saying that they could allow for the supply of move reproduce and that they are looking at all options on the table now if indeed there is going to be these. supply of weapons to the rebel fighters

this poses a whole host of members 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 i'll cry the meanings extremists meanings movies weapons wound up in the hands and indeed if they do does that mean this is the very real possibility that the weapons program that when the hands of gadhafi soldiers i mean even more than that if you're going to hand over weapons to fighters on the ground who are going to need to give them some kind of practical 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 the preparing the ground to send the ground forces here now the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has reiterated just how critical and just how important is so mario would have the space should be stewards of what we all heard the statements that the only good as your regime is to protect civilians as according to the u.n. resolution we also heard the coalition wouldn't side with anyone in the conflict at

the same time the transfer is recently stated it's ready to supply libyan rebels with weapons the nato secretary general has immediately objectives saying the operation aims to protect particularly should not armies 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 i leave you with him power saying that they do not intend to target him he is not their target for sense and the mood here in tripoli as if people here do not believe that. is also reporting the latest from tripoli by our two feet in her latest report that a change of tactics by his forces meant that code. mission pilots struggle to tell

them apart from the rebels evolved state and find us on twitter as aussie underscored kabul. and as you go to the north as in the major rebel stronghold of benghazi he reports that there remain defiant or not despite the latest defeat. 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 lawyer 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 to fight until the end either until they're gone or until god does he's gonna purely there's an illusion over normal life because many shots are all cafes and even restaurants but at the same time the

banks are still not working and also neither or 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 an interim council we'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 rest many foreign companies international companies suspending their operations here and we're actually hearing that the only fly in are you working clearly indicates he is in the town of this midi enough to supply the the rebels with gasoline and oil but it's truly not enough for an exploding war abroad and i paralyzed fulton's push for

more military action in libya expense on arab affairs intervention a file on europe the fear is that libyan islamic groups are plotting terrorist attacks and britain in revenge for allied air strikes explains. 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 doors our lists claim colonel gadhafi now has little of the weapons left in his armory overseas terror he's faced repeated accusations that he ordered look at the 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 france in the united states of course the only option yes really is

to use terror so i think. it's a clear cut in prison better today in the coming days and maybe into coming weeks but you backing for and he could have fewer 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 anti western forces there are agents of a bad guy working now in that atmosphere of chaos. i am for. you muslims protest against nato as bombing of libya and the organizer says people should prepare for the worst though certainly there's a very strong likelihood that i think. that the most the attack they will fight is . the invasion of iraq live 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 drive similar results in the wake of this campaign where some intelligence reports christlike to see among suspected terrorist cells indicating the threat of attack is why one officer told r.t. and you terrorist strike is now just a question of time. russell says. this hour on r.t. crosstalk questions whether nato a really knows which direction it's heading in libya. this ambiguity make it 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 stalled me he said well as far as i can see it. 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. investigators are working to establish whether russia's most wanted man was killed in a special anti terror crackdown security and suggest the doctor could have been among seventeen militants who died during a raid in the country. security services and investigators are being cautious about announcing a confirmed test of the al qaeda linked terror lead it doku a model has been announced around eight times in the past that they killed him in operations and that's turned out not to be true so they're waiting on the thorough investigation it's 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 services a not operation won't start 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 that used the full force of the russian security services attacks from the sky using aerial bombings as well as helicopter gunships being used to test suspects were arrested on the scene 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 on tuesday he was the fish really charged with being the most the minds behind the january suicide attack on the head

of the airport here in moscow now called course tuesday of course of which well was the anniversary the one year anniversary of another terror attack claimed by your model that 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 wanted list also the unite. nations looking out wanting to see him being brought to justice. russell to come this hour on r.t. facing a jail term for tangling with it's a 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 romney folks and it's really business men who georgia owes are not one hundred million dollars been sitting in jail for almost six months with no bear. the risks of putting your wealth into georgia about

story just ahead. in japan radiation levels in the sea was never thought of plans continue to rise there now more than three and a heart howls and times higher than normal or radioactive material has also been detected in a saudi oil that has been deceived about governor describe the situation as serious and unpredictable. and that's exactly trying to restore the plant's cooling system and what's now the worst atomic crisis said. its nuclear energy expert on my eggs says there are parallels with that disaster twenty five years ago. it was all it was a very very dangerous powerful substance very small quantities if you only believe it is ingested by a human body it will almost certainly be. that of cancer there's no concert oh through the hole through the store the radioactive fuel which will

really for many many millions thought it was nice of fierce already a significant amount of stops the really because we're. in to this situation where we can compare our. own to. constantly more of a proof of substances so that's the problem that there's a danger of the resort to calling you. well that should not be leagues still have high levels of radiation of the century after the world's worst nuclear accident and then you travel to the nearby town which was the pounded because of the. 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 were called

out or a nuclear city and they were restricted only to the nuclear power plant workers and some military personnel and security service and people that 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 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 the radiation would be able to kill a human being within minutes or even seconds and i'm walking in the central part of people right now and my radiation meter shows the level of around a hundred and forty mile per hour this is of course about five seven times more than the normal human level and it may sound scary to some but this is a radiation would not kill a human being but in some parts of the plant radiation levels go much much higher this is now around three hundred twenty micro wrong ins 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. ideation level will go dramatically higher now this layer of moss is one of the most dangerous spots in people in fact and it acts like a radioactive sponsor if we put radiation meter on it you can see and you can even hear how frantic the radiation it 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 particles still remaining in this area amounts to several thousand years only 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 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 let's. see reporting from the chernobyl exclusion zone in ukraine. in other world news syria's

leader is blaming the rest of the country on a plot from outside and president are fans vowing to eliminate those behind it his comments during his first address the anti government protests broke out i thought might ago causing over sixty deaths so far contrary to expectations the president has not lifted the fifty year old stage with virgil's of the country he sent the cabinet on tuesday's huge pro presidential crown devoutly to support his side. yemen's president in opposition members of resume talks is huge crowds of protesters continuing system the leader he ends his decades of rule early of that as a result of to go off for elections and install a caretaker government in the meantime wednesday's rallies in the capital city denounce the deadly explosion and weapons factory which killed over one hundred in the sounds demonstrations in cities elsewhere have all the president's control

further away. flash floods have swept through eight provinces in southern thailand killing at least twenty one and leaving more than three hundred missing with trains cancel them three or four shots over seven hundred thousand people have been affected and panels of tourists stranded just made heavy rains of a cold front coming down china more rain is expected over the next two decades some up. georgia is advertised worldwide as a lucrative business destination but one of the best and says it needs a health warning is languishing in a georgian jerad awaiting sentencing of bribery even though he invested a fortune in the country's development well as it is now explains why the government millions things turned our city. you might not know exactly where this small caucus country years georgia the crossroads of europe asia are

chances are if you watch major global news networks you've seen invested in georgia ads. nassib magnets are investing in georgia capitals even getting a trump tower of its own by businessmen should be we're getting trout to be seen as torture spends millions trying to get the world to know it on a mission to cut corruption but why ban is romney folks and it's really great isn't it a man who tortures owes almost one hundred million dollars been sitting in jail for almost six months with no bail 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 for going what there was to avoid paying hundreds of dollars when they were instructed by the lobby to ration process was conducted on the world bank.

securities he is alleged to have set up a stream arresting troops on bribery charges after luring him on a visit to georgia. what was happening for the. take a few days before and it would be. plot behind it. was a trip to georgia and the sixteen year just 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

a plan to and probably phoenix 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 at the very top. 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 to get 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 tangle with tbilisi and he's now away

r t. now next. days. that's right a business update a very warm welcome and new rules for russian state companies have been spelled out by presidents but that of their regulation needs to be significantly improved to help the country's investment climate. you're pretty much is delivered in order to reduce the influence of state companies on the investment climate we need to do three things first of all to publicize the show jewel of state companies privatization for the next three years then to eliminate practices where government ministers hold positions on the board of directors in competitive companies and thirdly state companies need to establish a procedure for publicizing planned procurement including prices and information

about contract. before that to keep more days ation on track present develops as russia's sovereign wealth fund needs to be worth at least ten billion dollars fund should attract direct foreign investment into the country and that would be at least five times larger than the fund itself i think i'll say there is plenty of scope within the economy. he was in russia direct investments make up less than twenty percent of g.d.p. you know they should be at least eighty percent so you can see the potential for investment growth. let's have a look at how the markets of faring this hour your stocks are higher after some relatively good news about jobs the a.g. the national employment report says about two hundred thousand private sector jobs have been added this miles in line with analysts expectations it's raised optimism before friday's government nothing payrolls report. moving on to europe european markets are trading in the black cracking games and asia that would see which has

been backed by strong gains from the mining sector is slightly narrowed its gains this hour it's a quarter of a percent and the techs is up one point seven percent. and here in russia there are two years in the mines it's finished once this session and the blog recovering from tuesday's and also this was the noise that is gaining more than one hundred percent and there are cheers was up we climb percent at the close . let's have a look at some of the individual show moves energy measures were enjoying gains gazprom was more than two percent our world was not far behind it so it was up just under two percent banking storper also on the rise was very wrong up around point seven percent on my sites. and russian nature metal metal major in the loop is still has posted a six fold increase in its annual net profit total of one or so billion dollars though coming inside them as forecasts increase is in profit is in line with other

still make the wrong the worlds the company costs ten percent increase in our this year. and there are some central reconfirmed expects the annual inflation rates to fall from eight point nine percent last year to between six and seven percent this year how well the law 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 of troubling remains to be inflation. here i think that the simple being has already started tightening the monetary conditions and the question is how that will go over the course of the year anything below ten percent will be success eight or nine percent is probably achievable provided that one of her interest corporate is continue to need. the

policy stance. we think that this is possible this is within the realm of possible but we also think that six or seven percent is. probably very difficult to achieve under the circumstances. and finally the european central bank will raise raze gradually at the last speaking exclusively to business r t e c b blodget member of the business market confirms the bank is ready to move its policy to next thursday it also help is in place for vulnerable countries that may be pushed to the edge by a high interest rate environment. i mean again interest rates would be on the music really becoming more and more explanatory which is not appropriate so we're raising interest rates in a broader way first so we have any only one interest rate so it's pulls in our school for everybody but we have also always old for providing a critique of the system that ensures that all the banks in the system would have

roxas for the financing. and without risk of access somebody else will pull out of the market so we have sort of the head thinking when they come from anywhere which more difficult times that's it for me are up to date small stores no website authority dot com slash.