video on demand. in my old. street. if you want. to. call. the rock obama reporter the authorized this secret cia operations in libya sparking and this concerns of the ground its aggression is being prepared. and nato countries consider arming the opposition forces in libya despite a checkered history of weapons and in the hands of terrorists. were kept their pants are damaged and the human nuclear power plant is suspended and radiation levels are rising and latest attempts to block off the leaks are come from bahrain . of course we travel to siberia to meet the teams to prepare

a soft landing for space travelers returning to earth after their missions in orbit . and russia's president calls for new regulations in a bid to boost the country's investment opportunities catch me for more in about twenty minutes time. this is r.t. welcome to the program kerry just got off story now u.s. president barack obama has reportedly signed secret orders raring cia teams to enter libya to gather intelligence and set up links for the rebels meanwhile the libyan foreign minister has arrived in britain saying he's no longer willing to work under the regime of colonel gadhafi. has the latest from tripoli. where they have strikes in the east and south eastern suburbs. tripoli at

a military base there while 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 and have been a number of coalition air strikes in and around i just be i would switch certainly doesn't just that the coalition is afraid their government forces are closing in on this town and also they do not want a juggler to forward to gadhafi is false is now the terrain that will 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 gulf a psychological blow to his foreign minister to has affected his county in discussions with the british intelligence in arkansas has been a foreign minister of this country since two thousand and nine he headed the libyan intelligence agency for some fifteen years and that position found him the nickname

of the man of the day if he is 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 consume knows that has caused him to defect and just how important any 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 from aria from the arab democratic revolutions every saw interim is here and in egypt 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 one thousand nine hundred eighty three actually allows for the arming of the rebel fighters the rebels themselves have shown themselves lack of leadership to be. quietly loosely

organized and by large not actually know how to use the weapons 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 have been assessing their needs to terminate restrains 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 object in the city of this operation as my colleague explores for. the your national community a permitted intervention in libya to protect civilians from no khadafi put 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 broadening our military mission to include regime change would be

a mistake president obama has reportedly signed is 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 the. and in creating more chaos we're true we think somehow we're going to be able to direct the outcome and it's the same hubris that has visited the united states in iraq the same hubris that keeps us penya and 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 jihadist moment that men who are now sizzle kind of and in two thousand says he has to mates one

thousand jihadists are among the rebels in libya one lady and rebel commander has openly admitted his fighters had 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 the u.s. military studies 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 arming the rebels could backfire we've been in a situation in afghanistan when 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 weapons 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 were troublesome. to us. and leading to. some reconstruction. 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 shekau r t washington d.c. and nathan sassaman author and a former troop commander in iraq says there's no way the united states or anyone else can predict the consequences of supporting 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 corrupted now. 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 from boots on the ground you know really people are not stupid and i could 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 about and we don't know what be careful what comes out on the other end and be prepared to take a secular tyranny or the religious tyranny that night and all of it into from this action 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 or ten year escapade as what we've done in the other countries are now that is not the formula for success right now. well still

to come on the program the latest in our russia close up series. there is no telling where costs will live in order to be prepared for anything that. russian space agency regularly calls exercises just some. listening. test take a look at how the earth protests to pretax dollars with turning from orbit. in japan the operation to make the stricken from nuclear power plant safe has been delayed workers are trying to cover the damaged reactors with a high tech resume designed to try and harden a vent for the radiation leaks but rain is hampering their efforts there for radiation in seawater near the facilities now four hundred thousand times higher than normal the government says it's not can. said an extension of the twenty kilometer exclusion zone around the site in spite the un's discovery of

contaminated soil forty kilometers away pens prime minister says the plant was commissioned following the damage done by the devastating earthquake and tsunami three weeks ago dr john large dependent consultant says the crisis shows japan was ill prepared for such an emergency the problem is really fundamental nuclear safety culture in japan and generally in the rest will be developed world is flawed what happened here is that the japanese considered this cascade. of 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 not a rehearsal it's quite an accident and we can see affectively that the japanese for the first two weeks have been running around the corner and all of these phrases like headless chickens not knowing what to do the real problem is this if they may 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 waldron's light which is highly radioactive then they have to make a decision of how to deal with the water whether to keep it in slightly in bond trenches or to actually discharge it to see with the consequences on the marine environment so whichever way they turn they've been ill prepared and they poorly planned for the consequences of this succeed in action but the earthquake and tsunami which caused massive destruction that are also wiped out entire communities people who lost their homes are living in overcrowded shelters operations on but even after that's finished many will still have nowhere to go as are things. that. this is the first time many residents of haitian a marquee have seen their houses and that's an army search through them but at most a little of value remains but subtle shinji is not trying to salvage material

possessions. my house was totally destroyed and my husband died in the tsunami now i'm honoring him by getting his personal things out i just wish everything could go back to how it was. shinji has been housed at the local school with several hundred others people here have been taking turns to volunteer as cooks and cleaners. but they crammed conditions mean that after nearly three weeks the communal spirit is fraying and. we are dissatisfied with your forties we know there are temporary houses that will be put up but who will get them some areas are being favored over others. the government admits that not a single temporary house has been constructed so far but even when they do finally go up they won't solve the far greater problem. the government excavators are removing the rubble as fast as they can but for the victims of the disaster even

those lucky enough to get the temporary housing it will be years before they can come here rebuild the house at a call of their home and many of the stricken japanese coastal towns will live for generations on doing ling fishing and shipping industries livelihoods which no longer exist and there is little hope of ever getting them back to tell us anything the government is good at solving big problems but not the ones of the small people i do not think this town will ever be a rebuild as it was even if i restore what i have and no one will build anything next to my house. for the government providing food and shelter was the relatively straightforward part in helping victims cope with it disaster making sure people have a place and a community to return to will be much more difficult either and no see. japan. coming up later on r.t. french oil and the smacks kaiser stacy has become part the latest business headlines. 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 yes yes it's a kleptocracy you see normally capitalism is about risk reward risk reward winners and losers but this is a this is this is what f.d.r. guaranteed throwing of oppression when he brought in the f.c.c. and f.b.i. seeing all the reforms like last legal but the last twenty five years to j.p. morgan goldman sachs we have something like this. eek. well now to some international stories making headlines this hour the un security

council has voted unanimously for an immediate end to violence in ivory coast sanctions will be imposed on incumbent president laurent bribery and his inner circle the council of brutal u.n. peacekeepers should be able to meet all means necessary to protect civilians the vote comes as supporters of the internationally recognized president alassane ouattara seems to control the administrative capital as well as ivory coast second largest port. former american presidents jimmy carter has criticized u.s. policy towards cuba at the end of a three day visit to the audience of several decades of financial and economic sanctions ended reform carter urged an immediate end to the u.s. imposed trade embargo and travel ban calling an unproductive seem like an illegal who said he was pleased with the result. police in syria have reportedly opened

fire at a demonstration in the volatile city or town though it's unclear whether shots were fired at protesters or into the air it followed a speech by president bashar assad which he did not refer to lift a state of rage and see her widely dictate according to human rights groups of over sixty people have been killed in a government crackdown on protests since march nineteenth. moving on now today the russia close up team takes us to the doorstep of siberia and you have been screeching in the hunt for its nuclear research and development the region was shut off to all foreign news and to others recently as the early ninety's but now it's wide open to everyone.

yes sure you have the welcoming party for returning cosmonauts and astronauts as one of the designated space capsule landings and special recovery teams are always ready to track and train just minutes after they land but as o.t. is a really good school reports it's not quite as easy as it sounds. months spent in space i mean 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 the mission for other men and women begins. obviously there is no telling where parts will land so you can see from here for anything it is possibly go wrong the russian space agency very good exercise is just a month before its scheduled landing so they can be prepared 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 that they got on their radar they're watching us and following us also 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 and know that it's better to be safe than sorry . such trainings are conduct as regular 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 with. the process involves several teams of specially trained air force personnel from parachutists to medical staff finding the landing capsule or putting it out there in the cosmonauts 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 and weather is also one of the most unpredictable. it's the hardest when helicopter is going to fly in only the ground can get to the cosmonauts you know create 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 a low pressure working environment but there ward is priceless it's just 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 i thank you and you know. r.t. . coming up in just over ten minutes time it's been nicknamed

a box of ice and even a polar bear gotten. over its indigenous peoples the word means right now. it's the secret incursion into the country. it's the invasion by means of. traditional language tell you this the first copy could be totally. culture. the thing is that the have the germans are still unaware of what's going on in their mind. much. like. i don't know alaska the great. this is news now with katrina.

thanks for staying with us here on our team and welcome to the business news that's our new rules for 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. you know this 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 for the next three years then to eliminate practices where government ministers hold positions on the board of directors in competitive companies and thirdly state companies need to establish a procedure for publicizing planned procurement including prices and information about contracts if a lot of the group will run their present president's plans have been widely welcomed by the business community in russia many see it as a way forward to attract critical investment. from russia is the stick

school the seventh largest economy in the world and it gets around the heart of the stance 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 push an old government institutions towards working on this problem. both former president putin and president medvedev tend to call a spade a spade if there's problems they say those problems that's the first kind of comfort point for institutional investors but the big question is implementation it's one thing to have a good bunch of policy initiatives and it's another to make sure they actually get implemented and make a difference on the. island have a look at how the stock markets are performing the asian markets closed in the black on the signs that the global economy is recovering after japan's record earthquake the nikkei gained point four eight of a percent and the hang saying point three two of the same european stocks weighing between gains and losses on early trading as banking stocks stocks gave up early

session gains ahead of the results of irish bank stress tests the biggest decline of the i was eighteen m. whose shares dropped almost four percent after its endings missed forecasts right now both the footsie and the decks are up there forty about point two percent and the dax just just under point two of a percent russian markets are mixed this hour with the my six down around point four percent and the out years up around point four percent. and if have a look at some individual share moves most energy majors are losing their south with both luke oil and rosin they're down both just under point six nine and point six five respectively gazprom i was looking slightly better with point one percent up. will. be reporting for us. companies were gone and spoke in a surprise is blue sure and why recommendation to motorola and high. information you have us we still don't see in you susan flosi in russia fortunes of the market

is trading on tiny volumes that's why we see very good interest for you two years for saved blue chips but as for seconds you censored two years. almost that would almost gone from international justice you are. the world's biggest alamy and producer roussel has posted a more than three fold increase in net profit figures for two thousand and ten show revenues are a third to ten billion dollars with a profit of point two eight billion of two point eight billion sorry resell is 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 gold an international currency reserves have topped the half a trillion dollar mark the central bank of russia says the reserves have been steadily climbing for the last six weeks thanks to rising oil prices it's now worth five hundred and four billion dollars but it's still a long way from the highs of mid two thousand and eight when the country held

almost six hundred billion dollars in river reserves. russia's budget is currently being boosted by higher than expected or oil prices they are rising significantly among tension amid tension in north africa some analysts suggest that the government should use the extra revenues to increase public spending however the world bank things work needs to be done on fiscal policy first. when commodities prices rise there is a pain patient. going to governments through the fiscal stance and 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 fiscal deficit in russia has been estimated by various experts in the new order about four to five percent of g.d.p. so for the hearth 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 fiscal policy to reach a long term sustainable level so it's a challenge and that adjustment should not be delayed into the future just because the oil proceeds are high temporarily. while you are out today for business this hour but i will be back within the hour to keep you up to date with more.

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