we've got. the biggest issues dear voice face to face with the news makers. in the. u.s. reportedly also rises covertly cia operations in libya while the libyan foreign minister defected you may need a development seems to stop example forces from propelling the rebel the city. holds in stabilizing the push even nuclear plant is radiation levels in the sea you reach new eyes the u.n. which is japan toots fund evacuations a. loss of close up travel to siberia stalls where space travelers get out welcome home for all could join us in the chilly arctic region.

and new regulations aimed at helping russia trade for a new investments have been spelled out by present me very worried business involvements minutes. a very warm welcome to you this is on the line from moscow the u.s. is reportedly sending cia teams into libya to gather intelligence and set up links with rebels when it comes down to grow about the exact makeup of the movement to oust colonel gadhafi and that's criticism of plans to arm them with nato officials themselves admitting they fear that al-qaeda fighters are among the rebels with honestly i have the latest from tripoli. where they have strikes in the east and south eastern suburbs of tripoli at a military base there while the front line seems to have been pushed ever 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 as darby a would switch certainly does the jets that the coalition is afraid there could offer his forces are closing in on this town and also they do not want to fall to gadhafi forces now the terrain that the rebel fighters are fighting on is working against him 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 trying to making very little difference nato has taken over the full command of all military operations here but increasingly the questions being posed not only by tripoli but by the international community are that they might be liberating the rebels but this certainly is a very different scenario from the arab democratic revolutions that we saw in tunisia and 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 nine hundred seventy

three actually allows for the arming of the rebel fighters the rebels have shown themselves to lack of leadership to be quite loosely organized and by large not to 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 have been assisting me needs determining mystery 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 on the ground gadhafi is winning the war but certainly he has been killed a psychological blow to his foreign minister musa kusa has defected and he's currently in discussions with the british intelligence not koussa has been a foreign minister of this. since two thousand and nine he's headed the libyan

intelligence agency for some fifteen years and as its influence him the nickname of the man of death is the death is a white haired 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 aris of course who knows what has caused him to defect and just how important any information he has be to the coalition partners. or the british authorities say libya's defected foreign minister won't be granted any special immunity but our international agency has not common so it's embarrassing for the u.k. to accept uses a man with a devious past. an intelligence officer on the cover of being a diplomat who was supposed to or organize attacks and threats against you've been examined and then later on you can figure i'm a lucky woman so i had on hand an enormous amount of knowledge about the charges

against corporate office and even the british government raised as a result of the british public oh my god on the other hand he's also a pupil doing trying to undermine the. british government but he also has a legacy. and i wouldn't operate and against him if he was inside libya or in other words for the chief of police. of the united states has a long and mixed history of supporting rebels in internal conflicts and as r.t. teleports helping out and the government forces can sometimes backfire. the international community to permit intervention in libya to protect civilians from colonel qaddafi who washington wants to go further than that and is considering arming the rebels while officially denying that toppling khadafi is the word captive of its involvement in libya but 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 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 we think 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 hubris that keeps us penya in afghanistan causes us to believe that somehow we are going to wreck events 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 know my bennett men who renounce his ilk filiation in two thousand says he estimates 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 libya'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 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. the world 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 are cautious about military intervention to blow back their charm was 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 them fight soviet troops subsequently the same with eighteen militants turned their weapons and training against the us among those of them was osama bin ladin whose group of eventually evolved into al qaida this cannistraro cia and alice is an operations chief in the 1980's says that then the us didn't see

the dangers of arming afghan militants know they could. and what we've seen with the tribal society. you know so. and leading to. some reconstruction composed well over two decades after arming the afghan mujahedeen america is now considering giving weapons to another radical band with an unclear identity simply because of who they're fighting against ghana check out r t washington d.c. . well nathan the thumb on all thunder from which the commander in iraq says there's no way the united states or anyone else can predict the consequences of supporting a representative. 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 for a 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 that from from boots on the ground the american 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 about and we don't know then 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 from this this action i think your worries are all in on this thing 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 and that that is not a formula for success right now well jeff in blank for saying this to a close and falling to arab. region as it's climbing. it

seems that the old colonial powers have an inability to resist using weaponry in the old colonies the course the united states has a number of colonies around the world they call it the good for nothing but the us is a clone power and it actually treats the middle east as if it's their colonies of the united states and france and england particularly were pushing on this in france since president sarkozy has had some very intimate relations with israel gadhafi and his son and his son claims that he helped to finance sarkozy election president sarkozy would be very much interested in going after libya because it would be very embarrassing if something happened terribly there and french france had no i think the idea however that this is a humanitarian intervention is belied by the whole history of the us france and british interventions of countries don't act humanitarian of the day are in their

national interest what they perceive as their national interest. and bring you close as want to really go along on the ground that when one of her native at tweets and says. that he did all that would mean that the left is in there with that. al qaida will find us on twitter on the phone call or log on to read about a war correspondent why that's important and how long. first . if. in japan our work at the damaged plant has been hampered by the dangerous and fluctuating radiation in and around the facility levels in there i think i would

have all think. it's now estimated to be a four and a half thousand times more the normal the highest level recorded in the sea giving all of the crisis experts think it may be caused by highly radioactive cooling water leaking from the plant or the u.n. found contaminated soil forty kilometers from the facility in twenty kilometer evacuation zone around it government those findings require no only do that dr john a largely an independent consultant says the crisis shows japan was ill prepared for an emergency like this 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 this kind of scary earthquake fruita 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 affectively that the japanese for the first two weeks have been running around to go in an old english phrase like headless chickens not knowing what to do the real problem is this is going to take a measure like flooding in question 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 do with the water whether to keep it inside. or to actually destroy 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. well the earthquake towns an army which caused massive destruction up and she more also winds howled in tiny communities people who lost their homes they're living in a crowded shelters what

a painstaking cleanup operation continues but as you get a gardener found out many will still have nowhere to go but it's complete. this is the first time many residents of asian a marquee have seen their houses since the tsunami the surge through them but then most 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 below call school with several hundred others people here who've been taking turns to volunteer as cooks and cleaners. but the cramped conditions mean that after nearly three weeks a communal spirit is fraying and. we are dissatisfied with your forty's 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 moving the rubble as fast as they can but a lot of 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 many of the stricken japanese coastal towns relied for generations on dwindling fishing and shipping industries livelihoods which no longer exist and there is little hope of ever getting them back. 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 turn breech shelter was the

relatively straightforward part in helping victims cope with the disaster making sure people have a place and a community to return to will be much more difficult either abroad know of r.t. . japan. let's check on some other headlines from around the world syrian state media is reporting president has ordered a new commission before to consider his own for the country's decades long the rules that's going on the key demands about a government protests over the past but move comes a day after the president vanished expectations that he would an old risk reforms according to human rights groups over a hundred people have been through the government crackdowns and protests in the last two weeks. the u.n. has introduced sanctions against ivory coast's embattled leader including freezing his assets and a travel ban the resolution also aims to prevent both from using weapons against

the coffee civilians meanwhile fighters and loyal to the internationally recognized president elect and his son my partner have seized a key port city rapidly advancing towards the commercial capital abidjan which remains under law control. has struck a convoy in northwestern pakistan and the second attempt on the life of a local islamist leader people died and more than forty others injured when a suicide bomb on a motorbike blew the self up near the claw of milan was nuremberg it was on her for a day earlier another suicide attack on a crowd of bremen supporters also killed thirteen women is a hardline politician whose that oppose the militant balance but also against pakistan's u.s. ties. next the russia closeout team journeys a city that provides a space age welcome for those returning from the i don't from here.

well the area is around three thousand kilometers east of moscow not the border between them i see your old mountains at home we siberia or it's three and a half million population it's an industrial but the child at joining they also makes it a perfect landing spot close. as any negligible discovered. months scranton 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 they return to earth the mission for other men and women begins. obviously there is no telling me where costs will live and so in order to be prepared for anything this is possibly go wrong russian navy and russian space agency regularly

exercises just a month before its scheduled landing so they could visit there for anything in fact the rescue operation kicks off even before the capsule of the cosmonauts lands of noise it's one of the most exciting moments hearing in your headphones or because on their radar they're watching us and following us but also that means that all the survival practices that we had will 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 you know if you're provocative because such training is or conduct is regulated right before every wending the objective is to test the condition of the equipment in vehicles of the preparedness of the personnel or a team has an extensive experience in this field and we're ready to work in any condition and the process involves several teams of specially trained air force personnel from parachute. just to medical staff finding

a landing capsule opening it up there in the cosmos out into the open valley 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 and one of the most important factors the weather is also one of the most unpredictable somas forces of both there is the hardest when helicopters can fly into the ground as a lone 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 because we're left of hardly a low pressure working environment but their word is priceless. i'd like to say for all cosmonauts we greatly respect you guys and really love us and i hope that all knowledge and lifesaving skills that you have will never be needed by you or us but

thank you and you know. go r.t. . now we travel even further east later say on where russian. grain which flies the stripes alaska death the nation and all special. it's the secret incursion into the country. it's the invasion by means of. tradition the language the you. the first the peak the beat. culture. the have the germans are still unaware of what's going on in their mind still asking. like. i did last time. an arche.

i'm sure will be the first opening his business deals with. that's right time to delve into the world of business a very warm welcome to new regulations aimed at helping russia try to track more investors have been spelled out by president medvedev it calls for juicing government employees and stage companies increasing their transparency and pushing probably sation so denning from variables acid better than just looking for proof and putting. you know right now the the investment climate in russia is improving in the foreign investors these three initiatives are very positive very positive words but again the problem that russia has with these kind of issues is that they need to be followed by action i think it's very positive there have been independent directors i think it's also kind of a promotion of this initiative to increase. for russian russian the russian

equities for foreign investors. some knowledge of how the stock markets are performing the asian markets closed in the black on size but the global economy is recovering out to japan's record earthquake the nikkei gained almost toughest on the hang seng closed up point three percent. and european stocks weighing between gains and losses on thursday as banking starts gave up on the session gains ahead of the results of irish bank stress tests the biggest client as i was h. and then his shares dropped almost four percent after his earnings missed school costs rose the footsie under texas still club to negative. the us markets are mixed this hour with our two point three percent but my sense is down more than point one percent this hour. that's now have a look at some of the individual share moves most energy majors a losing this hour rosner after it was down one point six percent look well the

scene too low point two percent metals stocks are also down at the moment with the rolls around point seven percent and the read on the r.t.s. . the world's biggest aluminum producer was saul has posted to more than three fold increase in much profit figures for twenty ten share revenues were up by a third to ten billion dollars with a profit of two point eight billion 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 twenty eleven. it is also good news from one of russia's biggest mining and still companies your brass profit for twenty ten is up to five hundred thirty million dollars with a ninety percent increase in it the company's president says they're also going to invest almost three hundred million dollars in brush and base production in the next two or three years out of the twenty eleven spoke to rosa too with the company

planning to boost still up by seven percent over us expects the demand for construction still within russia to grow by ten cent this year. ruffles gold and international currency reserves have topped a half trillion dollar mark the central bank of russia says the results have been steadily climbing for the last six weeks then through rising world prices the reserves are now five hundred four billion dollars but it's still a long way from the high of mid two thousand and eight when the country held almost six hundred billion dollars in reserve. russia's gazprom in germany is winter's haul have agreed to explore and jointly develop gas fields of the north sea which is whole which is already ruled in the north stream in the north through the gas pipeline project but also in another russian pipeline development south stream this month the company has started a new drilling operation on a small well filled in germany. is

a whole world facility in northern germany tell us more. what you think behind my back is the beginning of a new drilling operation led by terminal wall and gas company adventist college the company is planning to drill sixteen new shells to maintain the current. production of this very filled now germany doesn't have enough reserves under the proposed all the crude oil produced within the country with a level of consumption is a relatively low that's why of insist on is quite active abroad now it is a pod not in gaza sprawl allowed project more stream and this is a project where pipeline. transport the russian gas across the baltic sea into germany and currently there are two pipelines dropping constructors this pipelines cannot noise stream with you or the pipeline not supported now one

pipeline is already constructed and of the second one is due to start operating next year. called house recently agreed to joint and not the gazprom project which is the south stream and it is to acquire a fifty percent stake in this project for iran to billion euros and many analysts say that this move will increase the big projects chances of gaining european union backing imagine a question or forcing the. refs off the business bulletin for no jordan unless they want to sign for more business stories here on our team.

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