barack obama reportedly authorizes secret cia operations in libya sparking analysts concerns that the ground intervention is being prepared. and nato countries consider arming the opposition forces in libya despite a checkered history of weapons ending up in the hands of terrorists or maybe in turn gadhafi himself. work at japan's damaged in the sheema nuclear power plant is suspended and radiation levels are rising as the latest attempts to local leaks a pump the prime rate. plus we travel to siberia to be teams to prepare a soft landing for space travelers returning to earth after their missions in orbit

. russia's major mining companies are posting the end of the results today find out more around twenty minutes time on business. hello and welcome to r.t. world news and much more live from will scare the top story u.s. president barack obama has reportedly signed secret orders allowing the cia to carry out covert missions inside libya teams of operatives are thought to have been gathering intelligence for military strikes and setting up links with rebels on the foreign minister has arrived in britain saying he's no longer willing to work on the regime of colonel gadhafi. has the latest from the libyan capital tripoli. well there have been airstrikes in the east and south eastern suburbs of tripoli at

a military base there while the front line seems to have been pushed it was so further back it is now not far from the town of ajdabiya which is just seventy kilometers rates of the rebel stronghold of benghazi there have been a number of coalition air strikes in and around which certainly does the jets that the coalition is afraid there could have his forces are closing in on this town and also they do not want i just to forward to the gadhafi forces now the terrain that a group of fighters are fighting on is working against them it is essentially one highway image is that it is very hard for them to get supplies and certainly at this stage it does seem as if this coalition is strikes are making very little difference on the ground gadhafi is winning the war but certainly he has been dealt a psychological blow to his foreign minister recent koussa has defected and he is currently in discussions with the british intelligence not koussa has been the foreign minister of this country since two thousand and nine he headed the libyan

intelligence agency for some fifteen years an acquisition and him the nickname of the man of the day if he is gadhafi the right hand man he is trusted by gadhafi but he certainly has been described as a shrewd operator by the international community so many here are asking what is it exactly that mr russo koussa knows that has caused him to defect and just how important the information he has to the coalition partners well the big question on everyone's mind here is the whole question of weapons this is a concern a trip he has had from the beginning and it is a legal question whether or not that united nations resolution nine hundred seventy three actually allows for the arming of the rebel fighters the rebels themselves have shown themselves to lack good leadership to be quite loosely organized and by large not actually know how to use the weapons that they do have now we understand that about two to three weeks ago the american president barack obama reportedly signed a secret order that's all the deployment of cia agents. to this country we understand

that they have been making contact with the opposition fighters they've been assessing they need to turn in their streams and i want to keep what tripoli is saying is that it might be a good thing that the discussion is now on the international table on the international agenda in terms of arming the rebels because it is forcing the international community to revisit the question of who is among the ranks at the same time it is questioning the whole not just from the sea of this operation as my colleague explored further. the your national community permitted intervention in libya to protect civilians from colonel qaddafi but in washington last to go further than that and is considering arming the rebels while officially denying that. these are the rejected of its involvement in libya 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 lead in leader critics of the u.s.

taking sides in a civil war war of the consequences we help accelerate the chaos. and in creating more chaos we're to rethink somehow we're going to be able to correct the outcome it's the same hubris that has visited the united states in iraq the same here that keeps us penya and in afghanistan causes us to believe that somehow we are going to wreck events and the 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 know my bennett men who renounce his old affiliation in two thousand says he estimates one thousand jihadists are among the rebels in libya one libyan rebel commander has openly admitted his fighters have all qaeda links other reports say terrorists seized libyan surface to air missiles when arsenals were looted nato

intelligence reports claim flickers of al qaida and hezbollah have 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 levy is 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 situation as soon as the current regime. goes off and that means that somebody else will be. tempted to take over the country and you know the village will organize. force in the region not in

the country but in the region is unfortunately some say arming the rebels could backfire we've been in this situation in afghanistan one day we help people and the next day they shoot at us if we aren't cautious about real or terry intervention blowback or chalmers johnson johnson wrote famously about is sure to happen in libya in afghanistan back in the eighty's the u.s. had in their own goal to help the mujahideen fight soviet troops subsequently the same with the militants turned their wrappings and training against the u.s. among those of them was osama bin ladin group eventual evolved into al qaida cannistraro cia and alice is an operations chief in the 1980's says back then the us didn't see the dangers of arming afghan militants. and what we see were

tribal society. you know so. and leading to. some reconstruction of. 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 out our chief washington where you see. well nathan sassaman he used to be the commander of american ground troops in iraq he says there's no way the united states saw anyone else come through due to 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 and out per selfish game. and you're not going to gain that from bombing down twenty thousand feet above the air or less you're going to only gain that from from boots on the ground even if people are not stupid and i think you

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 our whether it'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 about and we don't know and be careful what comes out on the other end and be prepared to take the secular tyranny or the religious tyranny that might evolve into this actually i think you were either all in on this thing and we're going to do it right or we're looking at another eight ten year escapade as what we've done in the other countries and that that is not the formula for success right now. on the latest setbacks the rebels are pleading for more help from nato to regain the momentum against gadhafi then calls in benghazi say that since government troops were forced from the city they have been shocking revelations about the crimes and think about a country what's your personal face behind the opposition lines. what is this this

is how. could that these people live with something that you know i hundreds or thousands of times all of. this is so terrible do people know about this before the revolution no no no no these troops were pushed out of bin ghazi every day the locals find out something about his own healing and extreme methods. used to be the premises of the secret police and i feel himself even stayed here during his visit you know we've been told that ordinary people were able to answer 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 realized that the sounds were coming from the openings which turned out

to be ventilation holes for this huge secret underground prison which normally even knew about revolt in neighboring egypt and tunisia in february spread to open protest against get out he was met with a brutal response with demonstrators guns down the rebel stronghold of benghazi came under a sustained attack by government forces would been driven out of the city almost retaken before needlepoint began airstrikes against gadhafi under a u.n. no fly zone resolution. graffitti said he loved me well this is how i love the city and its nato planes. just a few hours later they could have killed everyone. here with nato bombing gaddafi forces from the air the rebels quickly advanced west even making the criminals hometown search around half the distance from benghazi to the capital

with a shortage of forms and organisation there was. it's again being pushed back east by good i think superior firepower and better trained forces if the u.s. air cover were withdrawn gadhafi would then reassert control over the country if however that rebel army manages to get into the western areas they will carry out a tribal vendetta mania with the rebels are teenagers on the forty seventh's what would be a lack in newsweek training they make up in spirit while news of the rebel retreat at the front was greeted with a lawn they're still hopeful of more western support but here in benghazi there is no compromise on their demand for gadhafi to go saying we will fight to the end the work is going of forty reporting from benghazi libya. well still to come in the program the latest in our russia close up series. no telling where

cars will. get. anything in. russia and russia. just. take a look at how the earth prepares to greet explorers returning from it. in japan the operation to make the stricken from consumer nuclear power plant safe has been delayed workers are trying to cover the reactors with a high tech resident designed to dry and hot and to prevent further radiation leaks but rain is hampering their efforts for the radiation seawater and the other facilities in our. lives are a good move the government says it's not considering an expansion of the twenty kilometer exclusion zone around the site despite the un's discovery of contaminated soil forty kilometers away the prime minister now says the plants must meet the

conditions damage done by their mistake in earthquake and tsunami three weeks ago to show on the blog she was an independent consultant says across his shows japan was prepared for such an emergency. the problem is really the big fundamental nuclear safety culture in japan and generally in the rest of the developed world is flawed what happened here is that the japanese considered this classically earthquake proof a tsunami could never happen or would happen so infrequently that 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 affectively that the japanese were the first two weeks i've been running around to corner an old english phrase like headless chickens not knowing what to do the real problem is this if they take a measure like flood in and quench in the reactors with water that may well lead to serious consequences later on when they have all that accumulated water and slime

which is highly radioactive and then they have to make a decision of how to deal with the water whether to keep it in sight in one trenches or to actually destroyed it to see with the consequences on the marine environment so whichever way they've turned they've been ill prepared and they poorly planned for the consequences of this succeed in action. and living on that island today the russia close up team takes us to all step of siberia the show yet inspiration for its nuclear research and arms about the region was shut off to all thought as it was recently as the ninety's now it's wide open to everyone. yesterday have instead hosts the welcoming party for attorney constables and astronauts as one of the designated space capsule landing zones special recovery teams are always ready to track and treat them just minutes after they lend. them

school reports it's not quite as easy as it sounds. months spent in space i made stars and constellations orbiting the earth in zero gravity being a cosmonaut or an astronaut is no easy task. but after their mission is complete and a return to earth mission for other men and women begins. obviously there is no sally exactly where. in. here anything is. wrong russian. space agency regularly exercises just a month before. therefore in fact the rescue operation kicks off even before the capsule with cosmonauts lands. it's one of the most exciting moments of hearing your headphones have because on their radar they're watching us

and following us. but though this is how it usually happens the search and rescue teams on land know that it's better to be safe and story. is regular right before every way. to test the condition of the equipment and vehicles preparedness of the personnel are a team has an extensive experience in this field and we're ready to work in. the process of several teams of specially trained personnel from parachutists to medical staff finding the landing capsule opening it out 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 that aid months of training are needed after all their own lives at stake and one of the most important factors and weather is

also one of the most unpredictable. so most all of this is both is the hardest when helicopters can't fly into the ground can't get to because they're not like you could create them immediately to the nearest airfield we always have very little time and we must get them out as soon as possible because one of the hardly low pressure working environments but their reward is priceless it's just of my i'd like to say for all cosmonauts we respect your them guys and really love us for god and i hope that all knowledge of lifesaving skills that you have will never be needed by you or us but thank you all enjoyed out and even those go artsy ideal man accounts now some international stories making headlines this hour the un security council has voted unanimously for the media and to balance in ivory coast sanctions will be imposed on incumbent presidents one by but his inner circle

council agreed that peacekeepers should make all means necessary to protect civilians and terrorists of supporting the internationally recognized president tara seize control of the mistress of. former american presidents jimmy carter has the size of u.s. policy towards cuba at the end of a three day visit to the island he said decades of financial and economic sanctions have ended up. leading to the u.s. and trade and travel calling them unproductive single. stretch and said he was pleased that. police in syria have reportedly opened fire as a demonstration what are some of the time it's one of the shots for protesters and it follows a speech by president bashar al assad. if the space agency. wanted

to take him to write scripts sixty. tests since. becoming on later in our tape financial analysts max keiser and stacy have had to pick apart the latest news headlines. that the average american lost twenty three percent of their net wealth forbes wealthiest list reflects changes in global economy and the wealth of the world's billionaires was up twenty five percent in the same time that the wealth of the american population was down twenty three percent yeah yeah it's a club talk or see normally capitalism is about risk reward risk reward winners and losers like this you say this is this is what f.d.r. guaranteed during the depression when he brought in the f.c.c. and the f.b.i. thing and all the reforms like last legal but the last five years thanks to j.p.

morgan goldman sachs we have something like this we call your money. i want to show in the phone about ten minutes time before the patriot and business desk called the latest from the world stay with us. thanks for being with us here on r.t. and welcome to the business bulletin new rules the russian state companies have been spelled out by president medvedev he says regulation needs to be significantly

improved in order to help the country's investment climate be a credit deal it 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 pretty including prices and information about contracts that would get. him in grass the c.e.o. of russia's largest bank sperm bank says measures to improve and attract investment are critical for the country. that russia is the six or the seventh largest economy in the world and it gets around the heart of a sense of the world's foreign direct investments this is definitely an acceptable and the fact that these measures were spelled out is an important step to pushing

all government institutions towards working on this problem for them. and the role of the sovereign wealth fund is being seen as crucial for improving the investment climate in russia. it's going to take a minority stake in big projects and because it takes a state and it's a government oh but privately managed i think will be a higher level of security for investors they'll see that political risk is reduced lunches when one of the three you see beyond the or i or see take a position in a project that reduces risk for international investors so i think it's plausible that that will leverage our investment in key projects. now let's have a look at how the stock markets are performing the asian markets are trading in the black the nikkei has improved this hour and up just around half a percent hank saying has picked up the pace at around twenty five percent also spurred on by those bank earnings russian markets are mixed on the on opening with the my six slightly down from yesterday's positive gains around two percent point two percent sorry the out here is slightly up on opening. day we'll

see reporting from your us. companies we don't expect any surprises but so we are blue sure and i mean different to motorola and hold information you have of us we still don't see any serious inflows in russia into the market is trading on tiny volumes that's why we see a very good interest for years for seeing blue chips but as for second thirty years . almost almost don't see her as from international justice year. the world's biggest enemy and producer ross out has posted more than a three fold increase in net profit figures for two thousand and ten share revenues are up by a third to ten billion dollars with a profit of two point eight billion roussel is traded on the hong kong market and shares have been up almost five percent on the news the company says it plans to

expand production in two thousand and eleven. russia's budget is currently being boosted by higher than expected all prices there rising significantly admit tension in north africa some analysts suggest the government should use the extra revenues to increase public spending however the world bank thanks the work needs to be done on fiscal policy first when commodity prices rise there is a temptation. when the government's. fiscal stimulus to increase the expenditures and delay a sort of fiscal adjustment but i think in russia that would be a mistake i think the sustainable long term fiscal deficit to russia has been estimated by various experts of the order of about four to five percent of g.d.p. . right now it's about twelve and to get between two represents the magnitude of the necessary fiscal adjustment over the medium term in order for fiscal 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 old process. temporarily. well it's all a business user this out but you can always keep up to date online alkie dot com but what's ash business. wealthy british style. but i. find.

markets why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's culture for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into a report on our t.v. . news you know song was sixteen years old when communities marmes that's not inside the song so it should not be honest for his crimes sean is being punished no rational person can deny that song has been punished is being honest and will be honest. as ours must be executed for the brutal crime committed this is punishment this is not. to

mention. bands. because we've been immersed know me whatsoever. and i didn't come here just. first. this time the small. town. that is now. disarming saddam hussein. asked maturity of iraqi citizens. this if it brings further assurance that the

torture chambers and the secret police are gone forever. flag flies again every embassy in kabul. cherish to watch occupied afghanistan. now occupy sales at guantanamo bay. commitment. it is appropriate to do this in accordance as but just began with the to be a bitch face lab studies class if you can shoot him enough so that it shocks them especially if it gets stuff which you don't actually breaking into homes cut them three days into a case that we use in jail if kuantan are approved by the senior leadership of our god. this would be a good thing to have. we believe transparency.