in the. race for libya sparking concerns that the ground intervention is being prepared. for. nato countries consider arming the opposition forces and despite a checkered history of weapons ending up in the hands of terrorists or maybe even colonel gadhafi himself. were captured down in the seam of nuclear power plants are suspended the radiation levels are rising the latest attempts to block off and the company by brain.

plus we travel to siberia deep inside some landing space travelers returning after their missions in a bit. twelve noon here in the russian capital let's go straight to our top story now u.s. president barack obama has reportedly signed secret orders allowing cia teams to enter libya to gather intelligence and set up links with rebels meanwhile the libyan foreign minister has arrived in britain saying he's no longer willing to work under the regime of kind of good ol think he's point to slip as the latest from tripoli. well there have been airstrikes in the east and south eastern suburbs of tripoli at a military base where now the front line seems to have been pushed it was the 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 and number of coalition air strikes in and around here would switch certainly does suggest that the coalition is afraid there could have his forces are closing in on this town and also they can offer a job or two for gadhafi forces now the terrain that the rebel fighters are fighting on is working against him it is essentially one highway in the desert it is very hard for them to get supplies and sadly 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 mr koussa has defected and he's currently in discussions with the british intelligence are koussa has been a foreign minister of this country since two thousand and nine he headed the libyan intelligence agency for some fifteen years and our position and him the nickname of the man of the he is the got his 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 can the information he has the to the coalition partners nato has taken over the full command of all military operations here but increasingly the questions being posed not only by the international community are that they might be liberating the rebels but this is a very different scenario from the arab democratic revolutions that we saw interest and egypt the big question on everyone's mind here is the whole question of weapons this is a concern a trip we have 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 a lack of leadership to be quite loosely organized and by large not actually know how to use the weapons that they do have now we understand there are 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 have been assessing their needs determining 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 of 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 gadhafi who 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 were groveling or military mission to include regime change would be. president obama has reportedly signed a secret order authorizing covert american support for rebel forces seeking to oust

the lead 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 in iraq the same here bush kid shows penya and in afghanistan causes us to believe that somehow we are going to wreck. 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 jihadist noman bennett men who renounce his old and in two thousand says he has two mates one thousand jihadists are among the rebels in libya one levy and 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 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 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 force your relationship with them that would be favorable for the united states in the future but experts 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 in afghanistan back in the eighty's the u.s. had a narrow goal to help the mujahideen fight soviet troops subsequently the same militants

turned their rap and training against the u.s. among those of them was osama bin ladin whose group of eventually evolved into al qaida. and what we've seen with the tribal society. you know congress. separate. and leading to the. construction of the code over two decades after arming the afghan mujahedeen amerikay snap and giving weapons to another rebel band with an unclear identity simply because of who they're fighting against ghana check out r t washington d.c. nathan sassaman author and the former troop commander in iraq says there's no way that states or anyone else can predict the consequences of supporting rebels in libya there is going to be a period of time really trying to figure out you know who is in charge who's really genuine who's really interested in the goals of the future of libya and then who is really corrupt and out for selfish gain and you're not going to gain that from

bombing them twenty thousand feet above the air or less you're going to only gain that from from boots on the ground the american people are not stupid and i do you 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 a 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 a secular tyranny or the religious tyranny that might evolve into from this action i think you were either all in on this spinning and we're going to do it right or we're looking at another eight to ten year escapade as what we've done in the other countries are now that is not a formula for success right now. for and then they test setbacks the rebels are pleading for more help from nato to regain the momentum against code gadhafi locals

in benghazi saying that since government troops were forced from the city they have been shocking revelations of crimes and that the current regime. itself is behind opposition lines. this is this is how. to get their fees killing my people love them there you know by hundreds or thousands but all of a this is so horrible these people know about this before the revolution no no no no good are these troops were pushed out of bin guys in every day the locals find out something new about his regime and extreme methods. this used to be the premises of a secret police and the doctor 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 schools in the ground and saw sticks coming out of them and we wise that the sounds were coming from the openings which turned out to be ventilation calls for this huge secret underground prison which normally even knew about. it after he said he loved being nosy well this is how he loves us we would need to bombing these forces from the air the rebels quickly advanced west even reaching the criminals hometown sirte around half the distance from benghazi to the capital to the shortage of arms and organization there once again being pushed back east by go to the superior firepower and better trained forces if the u.s. air cover were drawn 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 menials the rebels are teenagers only with eight hundred forty seven but what we lack in military 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 they will fight to the end. and you are just going to be reporting from the guys the radio. still to come in the program the latest in our russia close up since. there is no telling where. all. the size is just. take a look at how the earth prepares to meet its rulers returning from the bit.

in the operation to make the stricken fukushima nuclear plant safe has been delayed trying to cover the damaged reactors with a high tech resident designed to dry hardened to prevent further radiation leaks but rain is hampering their efforts to get the radiation and sea water in the city is the route for the heart thousand times higher than the one that 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 japan's prime minister now says the plant decommissioned one of the damage done by the devastating earthquake and tsunami three weeks ago dr john large pendant consultant says the cross is japan was paying for such an emergency. the problem is really the 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 discussed. 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 offensively that the japanese for the first two weeks have been running around to corner an old english prose 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 we 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 do with the water whether to keep it inside trenches or to actually destroy or get 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. well coming up later on our teeth

financial analysts max keiser and stacy herbert pick apart the latest business headlines. you see 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. see this is normally capitalism is about rares korea war where you war winners and losers like this and say this is this is what f.d.r. guaranteed the president when he brought in the f.c.c. an f.b.i. thing and other reforms like last year got but the last five years. we have something like this. we. eat.

now to some international stories making headlines this hour the u.n. security council has voted unanimously for an immediate end to violence in ivory coast sanctions will be imposed on incumbent presidents were invited for his inner circle casting agreed on when these people should be able to or means necessary to protect civilians votes came with supporters of the internationally recognized president alassane ouattara seize control minister to capital. former american presidents jimmy carter has criticized u.s. policy toward cuba at the end of a three day visit to the island he said decades of financial and economic sanctions have ended before the controversial u.k. and the u.s. imposed trade embargo and travel ban unproductive he was seen off by cuban leader who just said he was pleased with the. police in syria have

reportedly opened fire the demonstration the homes hearts and over time it was unclear whether shots were fired at protesters or into the head on a speech by president bashar assad in which he did not refer to the state of emergency widely dicta one of the human rights groups or more than sixty people have been killed in a government crackdown on protests since washington. oh heard today the russia close up taking texas to the doorstep of siberia youngins commission we now know for its nuclear research in arms about it went region was shut off to all foreigners until recently as the early ninety's but now it's wide open.

yes and i've been sky hosts the welcoming party for returning cosmonauts and astronauts as one of the designated space capsule nanjing cern's social recovery teams are always ready to track and train and just minutes after the event but it's artie's really political report so it's not quite as easy as it sounds. months spent in space and 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 telling where costs will live in the south in order to for care for anything in the we go wrong rationalization and russian space agency regularly exercise the system our scheduled landing so they can visit there for anything in fact the rescue operation

kicks off even before the capsule with cosmonauts lands. it's one of the most exciting moments hearing in your head phones have begun 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 as our conduct is regularly right before every wending the objective is to test the condition of the equipment in 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. the process involves several teams of specially trained air force personnel from parachutists to medical staff finding a landing capsule opening it up there in the consonance 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 there are lives at stake in one of the most important factors and weather is also one of the most unpredictable. this is the hardest when helicopters cones fly into the ground can 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. hardly low pressure working environment but there ward is priceless so i'd like to say for all cosmonauts we greatly respect you guys and really love you and i hope that all knowledge and lifesaving skills that you have will never be needed by you or us but thank you. r.t. . coming up in just over an hour's time it's been nicknamed

a box of ice even polar bear gotten angry inch of its indigenous peoples the word alaska means the great that. it's the secret incursion into the country. it's the invasion by means of. tradition the language is really. the first deep copy could be. culture. the thing is that the have the germans are still unaware of what's going on in the. city they're still there. like. i don't know if alaska the great. all the days it's you so far with katrina.

thanks gary and thanks for being with us here on r.t. welcome to the business news for this our new rules the russian state companies having spelled out by president read that if he says regulation needs to be significantly improved in order to help the country's investment climate. we are pretty much 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. because a lot of the group with bank of the president's plans have been widely welcomed by the business community in russia many see it as a way forward to attract critical investment. since russia is the states

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. it's going to take a minority stake in the projects and because it takes a stake and it's a government that we manage for i think will be a higher level of security for investors they'll see that political risk is reduced much as when one of the few c.v.r. do you are you 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 that have a look at how the stock markets are performing the asian market that both trading in the black and signs of the global economy is recovering after japan's record earthquake both the nikkei and the hang sang out at around point four percent and the hang thing just just about three percent point three percent european markets

swing between gains and losses on the early trading time as banking stops gave up early session gains head of the results of the irish bank stress tests last action and also wait after this for about five point zero that go up at the moment only marginally the dax zero point zero five to seven point one seven right now russian markets are mixed this hour with the my say down almost half a percent on the hour here nothing there about point one percent. we'll see reporting for on your us. companies we don't expect any surprises we are blue sure and buy recommendation to motorola and holding from news from your us we still don't see a new series inflows the. fortunes of the market is trading on tiny walloons this why we see very good interest for two years so you lose what is for certain to use and through tears and. almost that would almost be true as from international

justice yes. the world's biggest alamy and producer roussel has posted a more than three fold increase in net profit figures for two thousand and say ten share revenues up by a third to ten billion dollars with a profit of two point eight billion dollars traded on the hong kong market and shares have been up almost five percent on this 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 they're rising significantly amid tension in north africa some analysts suggest the government should use the extra revenues to increase public spending however the world bank thinks work needs to be done on fiscal policy first. when commodities prices rise there is a pain patient. member governments through their the fiscal stance to increase the expenditures and delay necessary fiscal adjustment but i think in russia that would

be a mistake i think that the sustainable long term nonoy fiscal deficit in russia has been estimated by various experts of the order of about four to five percent of g.d.p. growth for the half right now it's about twelve and to get between two represents the magnitude of the necessary fiscal adjustment or with the medium term in order for a person policy to 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 proceeds are high temporarily. well that's all the business news at this hour but remember remember you can always give up their day online at the dot com forward slash business. and.

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