barack obama reportedly authorizes secret cia operations in libya to gather intelligence for coalition air strikes stocking concerns that some ground intervention is being prepared. translated countries consider arming the opposition forces and if it's quite a checkered history of weapons ending up in the hands of terrorists. can withdraw from himself. work at the hands of damaged fukushima nuclear power plant to suspend the radiation levels are rising straightest attempts to block off leaks from bahrain. and russia close up takes into the chelyabinsk region

known as the gateway to siberia it's also the place that russian space may be turning to work for move it. this is r.t. broadcasting live from moscow welcome to the program u.s. president barack obama has reportedly signed secret orders allowing the cia to carry out covert missions inside libya teams overseers are thought to have been gathering intelligence for military air strikes and setting up links with rebels one of our libyan foreign minister has arrived in britain saying he's no longer willing to work on the regime of colonel gadhafi. as the latest from that his capital. burble fighters have now been pushed back to the city of ruslan north we are hearing that this is strategically important oil to the city it's the only in

the hands of gadhafi is made and 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 so organized they better trained and they have basic leadership and this is posing some real dilemmas to the international community in terms of what it should be 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 a strikes began that the number of civilians continues to climb and that it hovers somewhere more than one hundred now we do know that they were secondary explosions because in the town of mr which is about two hundred kilometers to the south of tripoli there were posts and 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 we have some of the woods in the hospital had

been broken in 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 nursing staff bangladeshi and also filipino and they as you can well imagine are very anxious and very scared and very desperate to get out of here with 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 hundred seventy three was approved there is the clothes that talks about the series of measures and this is open to interpretation and what we're hearing from the british is that its weapons are needed to protect civilian lives but when they can justify the use of weapons we're also hearing some of the kind of lines coming out of the obama administration there they saying that they could allow for the supply of. and that they are looking at all options on the table and 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 the ranks of al qaida leanings extremist leanings movies where there is a land up in the hands and indeed if they do what does that mean it's also the very real possibility that the weapons but they're not in the hands of gadhafi soldiers i mean even moving that if you're going to have handover weapons to fighters on the ground who are going to need to give them some kind of practical assistance in training which begs the next concern particularly here in tripoli and that is the question of whether or not the international community has the preparing the ground to stand ground forces here. ok united states has a long and mixed history of supporting rebels in internal conflicts and result is going to chicken reports helping out the anti government forces can sometimes from . the your national community intervention in libya to protect civilians from calling the duffy in washington wants to go further than that and is considering

arming the rebels while officially denying that toppling khadafi is the objective of its involvement in libya but broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake president obama has reportedly signed a secret order authorizing covert american support for rebel forces seeking to oust the leave your leader critics of the u.s. taking sides in a civil war war of the consequences we help accelerate because. and in creating more chaos we're to rethink somehow we're going to be able to direct the outcome it's the same hubris that has visited the united states and iraq the same hubris. kenyon in afghanistan causes us to believe that somehow we are going to wreck. any outcome in libya we cannot do that nor do we have the right to determine who the leader of libya should be many fear

radical forces could take advantage of the chaos in libya former jihadists no man bennett men who renounce his all cried affiliation in two thousand says he has two mates one thousand jihadists are among the rebels in libya one libyan rebel commander has openly admitted his fighters have links other reports say terrorists seized libyan surface to air missiles when arsenals were looted nato intelligence reports claim flickers of al qaida and has a lot has been found among the rebels in libya but maintained there is no reason to believe their presence is significant but a u.s. military study three years ago said lidia's made up the second largest group of jihadists in the world right after saudi arabia all of that seems to be discarded as the u.s. is trying to prop up the opposition in libya as some analysts say in an attempt to forge a relationship with them that would be favorable for the united states in the future

but experts say as of now the opposition in libya hardly has a defined face or power these people. will not be able to take control over the city should assume is the current regime. goes off and this means that somebody else will be. tempted to to take over the country and we know that the only will organize the world force in the region not in the country but in the region is unfortunately i was. some say arming the rebels could backfire we've been in a situation in afghanistan one day we help people and the next day they shoot at us if we aren't cautious about military intervention to blow back there chalmers johnson johnson wrote famously about is sure to happen in libya in afghanistan back in the eighty's the u.s. had a narrow goal to help the mujahideen fight soviet troops subsequently the same would

you eat in militants turn their weapons and training against the u.s. among those of them most osama bin ladin whose group of eventually evolved into al qaida this is cannistraro cia and alice is an operations chief in the 1980's says back then the u.s. didn't see the dangers of arming afghan militants you know what works and what we've seen with the tribal society. you know through its. leading. who comes from. over two decades after arming the afghan mujahedeen america is now considering giving weapons to another rebel band with an unclear identity simply because of who they're fighting against ghana check on our t. washington d.c. well they france us and i used to be the commander american ground troops in iraq he says there's no way to get out of states or anyone else can predict the

consequences of supporting the rebels in libya. there's going to be a period of time really trying to figure out you know who's in charge who's really genuine who's really interested in the goals of the future of libya and then who's really corrupt get out for selfish gain. and you're not going to gain that from bombing them from twenty thousand feet above the air or less you're going to only gain out from it's on the ground the very people are not stupid and i think it would be just really it would be really good for for our government and our leaders to just come out and say we want the leader of libya out of power whether he's captured whether he's killed whether he's sent into exile but that's really what we want we want regime change and we're entering a revolution that we know very little of ballot and we don't know be careful what comes out on the other end and be prepared to take the secular tyranny or the religious tyranny that night of all into this action i mean you're worried are all

in on this thing and we're going to do it right or we're looking at another eight or ten year escapade as what we've done in the other countries and that that is not a formula for success right now. part of their latest setbacks the rebels are pleading for more help from nato to regain the momentum against colonel gadhafi vocals in benghazi saying that since government troops were forced from the city they have been shocking revelations about the crimes committed by the current regime let's see what the score faces behind opposition lines. this is how. their fees tell of my people love them for now by hundreds or thousands what's on the for this is i have all these people. before the revolution no no no no good are these troops were pushed out of benghazi every day the locals find out something new about his regime and extreme methods. this used to be the

premises of the secret police and that he himself even stayed here during his visit . we've been told that ordinary people were able to enter this territory for the first time only after the revolution and when they did many began hearing these cries for help and they couldn't figure out where they were coming from at first until they found these holes in the ground and saw sticks coming out of them and we was that the sounds were coming from the opening which turned out to be ventilation holes for this huge secret underground prison which normally even knew about we've all in neighboring egypt and tunisia in february spread to libya open protest against gadhafi was met with a brutal response with demonstrators guns down the rebel stronghold of benghazi came under a sustained attack by government forces who'd been driven out the city almost retaken before needlepoint began airstrikes against gadhafi under a u.n.

no fly zone resolution. after he said he loved being nosey well this is how he loves us if nato planes would have gotten involved just a few hours later they could have killed everyone he's no army was here would need to bombing these forces from the air the rebels quickly advanced worst even reaching the colonel's hometown sirt around half the distance from benghazi to the capital with the shortage of arms and organization there once again being pushed back east by going to the superior firepower and better trained forces if the u.s. air cover were drawn gadhafi were going to reassert control over the country if however that rebel army manages to get into the western areas they will carry out a tribal vendetta many of the rebels are teenagers. forty seventh's. in new. retreat in spirit while news of the real will be treated at the bronze was

read it was a warm they're still hopeful of more western support but hearing there is no compromise on their demand for gadhafi to go saying we will be. reporting from libya but also to come on the program the latest in our russia close up seems. obvious is no telling where. it is. safe to say exercise is just to. take a look at how the welcoming party for course north returning to work is prepared. on the stance of politics and business. one in london one of the first in the president. is. in

japan the operation to make the stricken from nuclear power plant safe has been delayed workers are trying to cover the reactors with a high tech reason dry and hard to prevent further radiation leaks but rain is hampering their efforts. water. thousand times. japan's nuclear safety agency has recommended twenty kilometer exclusion zone around the site and the operator has failed to regain control over the site since it was hit by devastating earthquake and tsunami twenty days ago dr john. consultant says the crisis. prepared for such an emergency. problem is really the fundamental nuclear safety culture in japan and generally in the rest of the people of world is flawed what happened here is that the japanese

considered this cascade. to tsunami could never happen or would happen so infrequently but they didn't have to take account of it and as a result they never practice is never rehearsed for this type of accident and we can see affectedly that the japanese for the first two weeks have been running around to corner an old english phrase like headless chickens not knowing what to do the real problem is this give claim take a measure like flooding in and quench in the reactors with water that may well lead to serious consequences later on when they have all that accumulated water inside which is highly radioactive then they have to make a decision of how to deal with the water with it to keep it inside. or to actually destroyed it to see with the consequences on the marine environment so whichever way they turn they've been ill prepared and they call the plan for the consequences of this succeed in action. but change of pace hours today russia close up takes us to the doorstep of siberia the show you have been screeching. for its. region was

shut off to all foreigners until as recently the ninety's but now it's never. a story of the welcoming party returning cosmonauts and astronauts as one of the designated space capsule landing zones special recovery teams always ready to track and retrieve them just minutes after the end. of the school reports is not quite as easy as it sounds. months spent in space and it stars and constellations orbiting the earth in zero gravity being a cosmonaut or last or not is no easy task. after their mission is complete and

a return to earth mission for other men and women begins. obviously there is no telling that's where. in order to be first here for anything it is possibly the wrong russian or the russian space agency regularly exercises just a month before its scheduled landing so think of it there for anything impact the rescue operation kicks off even before the capsule with cosmonauts lands noise it's one of the most exciting moments hearing in your headphones that they got us on their radar they're watching us and following us that's awesome that means that all the survival practices that we heard won't be needed. but though this is how it usually happens the search and rescue teams on land know that it's better to be safe than sorry. such training is are conducted regularly right before every wending objective is to test the condition of the equipment in the vehicles of the preparedness of the personnel our team has an extensive experience in this field

and we are ready to work in any condition of. the process involves several teams of specially trained air force personnel from parachutists can medical staff finding the landing capsule opening it up there in the cosmos out into the open back on terra firma of course during the training one of the rescuers acts as a stand in for the cosmonauts the whole process normally takes twenty five to thirty minutes but in order to achieve such speed months of training are needed after all they're all lives at stake and one of the most important factors the weather is also one of the most unpredictable. no missiles this is both there is the hardest of all helicopters can fly into the ground and can you get to the cosmonauts evacuate them and get them to the nearest airfield we always have very little time and we must get them out as soon as possible because one of the harley low pressure working environment at their word is priceless just of i'd like to say

for all cosmonauts we greatly respect you guys and really love us and i hope that all knowledge and likely skills that you have will never be needed by you or thank you engine out on screen. r t y d only. international stories making headlines for you the un security council has voted unanimously for an immediate end to violence in the ivory coast sanctions will be imposed on company president. in a circle the council agreed that un peacekeepers should be able to all means necessary to protect civilians. to support him to recognize president. seize control of misrata capital. former u.s. president jimmy carter has ended a three day trip to cuba and find ways of improving relations between the two countries carter criticize u.s.

policy towards cuba several decades of financial sanctions and indeed. here an immediate end to the trade embargo travel home on. the scene of. he said he was pleased to see. the last soviet leader mikhail gorbachev turned eighty this month and the biggest party taking place in london world stars and politicians flocked to a charity concert in his honor roll all nazis lower and it spoke to some of the v.i.p.'s on the red carpet. this star studded evening brings together influential people from various walks of life for a charity dollar to mark the eightieth birthday of mikhail gorbachev known as the man who changed the world and the first and only president of the u.s.s.r. former british prime minister john major thanks german chancellor gerhard schroeder

and two term california governor arnold schwarzenegger just some of the political figures from the world that show biz to sharon stone and kevin spacey are hosting the evening earlier i spoke to some of the guests about why they're here were in good short term search through the crowd he could've. had. prevented from fully and he did and for that he deserves the nobel prize we have an opportunity to thank someone for being such an extraordinary example of good citizenship what democracy really can mean and what it means to be a beacon of light and hope in the world we see people fighting for their freedom of expression and being able to travel freely i think you can probably draw a straight line to become gorbachev and see that he began it this is also an award ceremony gorbachev the owner of people who changed the world this caller called said chains to raise around eight million dollars to charity the money will go to

corporate office own foundation which researches social economic and political problems around the world and to cancer charities or events on the red carpet true there has. thanks kerry and thanks for being with us here on out to. the russian state companies have been spelled out spelled out by president medvedev he says regulation needs to be significantly improved in order to help the country's investment climate. we are called uma dillard 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 privatisation of 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 contracts if a lot of them haven't grasped the c.e.o. of russia's largest bank says measures to improve an attractive investment are critical for the country. russia is the sixth all the seventh largest economy in the world and it gets around a half a percent of the world's foreign direct investments this is definitely unacceptable and the fact that these measures were spelled out is an important step to pushing all government institutions towards working on this problem so. now let's take a look at how the stock markets are performing the asian markets and next at the moment after yesterday's gains in the k. is down around point three of a percent and the hang seng is slowly advancing at point one of a percent spurred on by back burning and here in russia the r.t.s. and the my six finish with a session in the black recovering from tuesday's losses with the my six getting more than one point five percent and they are two years out point nine of

a percent of the clothes those days trading in russia is expected to be driven mostly by international markets oil prices and some corporate developments. will. reporting from your us. companies we don't expect any surprises what's. different in motorola and holden from the from your us we still don't see a new susan flows in russia fortunes in the market is trading one point he will use this why was he very good in for his forty two years save blue chips what is for certain to use and thirty years. almost almost gone from international justice year . russia's budget is currently being boosted by higher than expected oil prices they're rising significantly amid tensions in other producing countries while some analysts suggest the government should use the extra earnings to increase public spending but the world bank thanks for thanks work needs to be done on fiscal policy first. when commodities prices rise there is

a temptation. among the governments to slacken the fiscal stance and to increase the expenditures to delay the notice or fiscal adjustment but i think in russia that would be a mistake i think that the sustainable long term non-o. of fiscal deficit russia has been estimated by various experts for the order of about four to five percent of g.d.p. so it's a four and a half right now it's about twelve and the gap between the two represents the magnitude of the necessary fiscal adjustment or with the medium term in order for a political policy to reach a long term sustainable level so that's a challenge and that adjustment should not be delayed into the future just because the oil prices are high temporarily. well you have today for business for this hour but remember you can also keep up to date online at out t. dot com forward slash business.

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