which beasts in which grayson if you remove the song from plans to. start on t.v. dot com. politics tonight in libya progress duffy troops reversed the rebels' advance following their airstrikes the coalition considers army the opposition now but there's also a warning that that would breach the u.n. resolution we have the latest for you just. says the fears of a terrorist but a clash in europe emerge with the alarm sounded of a possible plot by libyan islam is in revenge for the bombing raids again report on about four. hundred radiation is the biggest concern runs japan's stricken nuclear plant because of the once prosperous town it should noble to see what a post crisis exclusion looks like a quarter of

a century on. very good evening this is the r t news channel it's nine pm here now in moscow i'm kevin owen with a top story for you and we start in libya where pro-government troops have pushed rebel forces out of several recently captured territories are for a heavy counter offensive it comes to some nato countries including the u.s. and france is suggesting they could be open to arming the rebels but there's criticism that that would go beyond the terms of the u.n. resolution. as the latest from tripoli. brutal fighters have now been pushed back to the city of ras lanuf we are hearing that this is strategically important oil city is firmly in the hands of the duffys men 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 organize they

better trained and they have basically leadership and this is person something real that limits 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 hope has some weight more than one hundred now we do know that there were secondary explosions course in the town of ms there which is about two hundred kilometers to the south and the police there were close and munitions dump that was hit in those coalition airstrikes we went there as a group of foreign journalists and we saw damage to the hospital as well as to civil zones and residential areas the moves of some of the rules in the hospital had been broken in we also saw some beds where there was blood stains and now the patients were evacuated in time but we heard from the hospital staff that some thirteen people were wounded we also reckon we were very

a number of ministers thought that day she had also filippi me and they as you can well imagine are very anxious and very scared and very desperate to get out of here with the 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 me here in tripoli since that u.n. resolution one nine seven three was approved there is the cause that talks about a series of measures and this is open to interpretation and what we think of the british is that if we needed to protect civilian lives well then they can justify the use of weapons will securing the similar kind of line coming out of the obama administration they're saying that they could allow for the supply of. more weapons and that they are looking at all options on the table now if indeed there is going to be the supply of weapons to the rebel fighters this poses a whole host of the members and a whole host of very critical questions number one people do not know who the rebels are there are those amongst the ranks of al qaida leanings extremist

leanings movies where there is land up in the hands and indeed if they do what does that mean there's also a very real possibility that the weapons could end up in 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 for here in tripoli and that is the question of whether or not the international community is preparing the ground to send ground forces here now the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has reiterated just how critical and just how important it is to mario whatever space should be still to do that we all heard the statements only gold as yours regime 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 objectives saying the operation

to protect and circulation is 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 the 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 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 their target the same and the mood here in tripoli as their people here do not believe that. the policy is feeding back to us all the time that's the latest report there you can also catch up with the latest on the twitter feed in our latest tweet she reports that a change of tactics by gadhafi forces meant that coalition pilots have struggled to tell them apart from the rebels a really interesting point she told. me more of that coming from there as well keep abreast of the latest on twitter and party on the school prom.

parties you go to skin off said the major rebel stronghold of benghazi he reports next the people there remain defiant despite the latest defeats. 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 stating only on the 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 purely 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 are schools in fact

just yesterday i saw a ten or maybe eleven year old boy dressed in a 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 they've also organized a new national bank and a new national oil company but when it comes to 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 refinery working clearly indicates he is in the town of tobruk this may be enough to supply the the rebels with the gasoline and the world but it's truly not enough for exporting oil abroad. it's in black is a senior writer from the on my political magazine spiked he's joining us now for

a good evening cheaters who are more talk about supplying the opposition with weapons but surely that isn't possible is it under the arms embargo currently in place against libya and indeed it's not at all in the spirit of the original u.n. mandate either. just a question i wish if you actually heard me could he have a cell phone for a second keep can you hear me mr black just check in can he be great i was going to says we're more thoughts night of the opposition supplying weapons also thought. that maybe this whole thing isn't in the spirit of the original u.n. mandate what's your take on it. i think principly i don't think that the west should be arming the libyan rebels or not because object to it as a particular tactic or because i think it violates the conditions of un resolution seven hundred ninety three i think it's because i oppose the intervention on

principle believe that by internationalizing this conflict the fate and future of libyan society has been taken out of the hands of the libyan people themselves and placed into the hands of the un and nato. where is it going to go do you think project at all if the allied forces do for instance supply arms now is this a precursor maybe do you think that eventually finding a reason to reduce grown troops along the line. well i think that i think you know from the start there's been an utter confusion as to the purpose of this intervention and that's confusion of the purpose of this intervention has meant that there's been a lot of confusion as to the tactics because no one can actually say what the objective is this is to be. a speculation anderson muting of possibilities about how to continue the intervention i suspect that it could continue to slip.

simply arming the rebels to to running aground if what you say is sure that this wasn't sort properly it was allowed to go ahead do you think. well i think the source the reason for the intervention had. was principally with sort of. the message situation in particular in fact i think it allowed people like cozy there david cameron allowed president obama to pose on international strange people doing the right thing by opposing what looked like a sort of cartoon bad guy. there's a lot of question marks as well of course in libya over who this opposition actually really is do you think the west really no. no but but again because the reason for the intervention had voted little to do with the actual situation in libya itself i have no doubt that they are very confused as to

who exactly they might be. another interesting alarm that came out of this story came out so yesterday i don't know if it tells us any more about it british foreign secretary william hague invited a representative of the libyan opposition to london but crucially didn't invite them to the conference held tuesday do you think the west really wants to pay attention to what the opposition saying. at the risk of repeating myself i think this intervention has very little to do with the libyan people themselves very little to do with the fight for freedom for their attempt to realize a form of self-determination because if it was surely you would expect the west would expect ukraine the u.s. to be intervening in say bahrain where there is an equally oppressive regime and equally there are people struggling for freedom. it looks like it's going to hang on to the very very last if he does cling to what next for the allied forces what's the next step. i wouldn't want to possibly recommend for the allied forces

i would like to see them step out of libya right away i suspect that they have as little idea as to what will happen in libya of course i do at the moment or to block it thank you for being frank senior. political writer from the political magazine spites much appreciated thanks being an artsy. well as the allied forces push for war military action in libya experts on arab affairs warm of the intervention may soon backfire on europe the theory is that libyan islamic groups are plotting terrorist attacks in britain in revenge for allied airstrikes are these don't push or it's got that story. e.u. countries have taken a leading role in forcing 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 gaddafi now has little of

the weapons left in his armory the 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 for you 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 today in the coming days maybe in the coming weeks but e.u. backing for anti 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 from allied bombing make fertile recruiting ground and she western forces there are agents of that working now

in that atmosphere of chaos. i am for. e.u. muslims protest against nato bombing of libya the organizer says people should prepare for the worst there's certainly there's a very strong likelihood think what we do know that inevitability. attack everybody . at the invasion of iraq lived 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. and you terrorists strike is now just a question of time. see brussels. but he had

a couple of times and i don't r.t. people of us crosstalk question whether nato really knows which direction it's heading and in libya. this ambiguity make 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 asian specialist recently sold me he said well as far as i can see it. with the other interventions like iraq we didn't have an exit strategy with this one they don't seem to have an entry strategy either. next the latest from japan and they're ready ation levels in the sea water near the fukushima plant continue to rise there now more than three and a half thousand times higher than normal radioactive materials also been detected in soil at the facility and government described the situation is serious and predictable workers have been successfully trying to restore the plant's cooling system in what's now the worst atomic crisis since chernobyl there's been something big too over whether there are any similarities between the two events professor

christopher busby from the european committee on radiation risks told me that he does. see the powerless he thinks they are plain to see. why i said right from the beginning that this was a normal level disaster because it was quite clear to me at that time having looked at the explosions that there were no major problems with the reactor person vessels and it now turns out that there are not at least one of them is cracked and there's fuel all over the place and the similarities with chernobyl are quite quite real and in fact in we're in a way this is a much worse accident than to normal and the reason is that there are a lot of people living nearby the population of the hundred kilometer zone is about three million and out to two hundred kilometers is another seven million people and the and the contamination out to those distances according to the eye is about one make a better. meter no no that's an awful lot of radiation that's one million disintegrations for second per square meter of land which is about twice as high as the channel

exclusion zone so they're going to be an awful lot of an awful lot of cancers we're not being told everything and right from the beginning we weren't being told everything this is one thing that happened which a novel as well as another parallel between these two situations is that we don't get told anything and when and the truth slowly comes out it is being dragged out of people there was a massive cover up an international cover up by the nuclear lobby of all the health effects of an awful accident which is only just coming out now we now know as a result of research that at least a million people have died as a result of the chernobyl accident yet we still have the nuclear industry telling us the only a few liquidators died and there really wasn't any problem except fire or cancer in a few children and that can be cured that was a pack of lies and i think we're going to get another pack of lies after this so people should watch out. we're looking back twenty five years looking at the situation now the chernobyl exclusion zone still has high levels of radiation a quarter of a century of the world's worst nuclear accident and his election is yes he traveled to the nearby town which was abandoned because of

a catastrophe that. 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 turns likely parents were called the mcgruff 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 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 of radiation would be able to kill a human being within minutes or even seconds now i'm walking in the central part of people 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 those of 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 michael 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 morse is one of the most dangerous spots and we can in fact and it acts like a radioactive sponge if we put the radiation meter on it you can see and you can even hear how frantic the radiation we did goes and the numbers are increasing rapidly some may say that this is very dangerous for for human health but 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 and the fallout period of many nuclear particle still remaining in this area amounts to several thousand years only few of them actually started the full hour 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 for this land for the exclusion zone in ukraine the images will remain until the end of times as this land will never be inhabited again and let's see russia ski out see reporting from the chernobyl exclusion zone in ukraine. exactly nine hundred twenty one pm moscow time we bring you up to date on a couple of other top world news stories in britain reports that police in syria have opened fire rallies in the city of latakia it's not known whether the gunshots raided protesters or into the air them again after president the sad addressed the nation but failed to lift the fifty year old state of emergency as expected he blamed the country's unrest on foreign conspiracies and vowed to eliminate those behind it and the government protests broke out a fortnight ago causing over sixty deaths so far. flash floods swept through eight provinces in southern thailand it's killed at least twenty one and left more than three hundred missing tonight with trains canceled and three airports shut over

seven hundred thousand people have been affected and thousands of tourists are stranded in colleges play in the heavy rains on a cold front coming from china more rain is expected to over the next few days. investigators are working to establish whether russia's most wanted man was killed in a special anti terror crackdown security services such as suggest the doc whom are of could have been among seventeen militants and died during a raid in the country south of monday at his paper all over as the latest on that from moscow. security services and investigators have been cautious about announcing a confirmed day of the al qaeda linked terror leader who model has been announced around eight times in the past that they killed him in operations and knots turned 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 shia 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 once not 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 around ten years from security services in the area they used the full force of the russian security services we saw it from the sky using aerial bombings as well as helicopter gunships being used to as suspects were arrested on the scene. 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 mastermind behind the january suicide attack on the dollar

he had of the airport here in moscow now called course tuesday of course of which well the end of this city the one year anniversary of another terror attack claimed by your model which took so many lives that was the the double suicide bombing on the moscow metro so a very very much public enemy number one here in the country but 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. nation's looking out wanting to see him being brought to justice. and more about that developing story as well online tonight at r.t. don't call me coming up we'll take you to the largest but at least populated state in the united states has been part of russia this cover alaska in less than ten minutes time but that's going to cross the latest business and spends a night after a quick break. right

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