so the we've got. the biggest issues get an invoice face to face with the news makers on. the u.s. it reportedly authorizes covertly cia operations in libya rather libyan foreign minister defects to the u.k. but neither development seems it to stop production forces propelling a further rebel advance its. holes in stabilizing the fukushima nuclear plant is radiation levels in the sea reach new highs the u.n. pushes for to plan to expand the evacuation say. and then some travel to siberia still southwest space travelers get their welcome home from orbit joining us military obviously job.

a very warm welcome to you this is r.c. live from moscow now the u.s. is reportedly sending cia teams into libya to gather intelligence and set up links with rebels it comes down to grow about the exact makeup of the me with colonel gadhafi and his criticism of plans to arm them with nato officials in cells and missing they fear that al qaeda fighters are among the rebels. the latest from 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 still further back it is now an hour 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 our dobie i would switch certainly

doesn't change that the coalition is afraid there could have his forces are closing in on this town and also the last one to drive your two forward to face forces now the terrain that will fighters are fighting on is working against them it is essentially one highway in the desert it is very hard for them to get supplies and service at this stage it does seem as if this coalition is strikes are making very little difference nato has taken over the full command of all military operations here but increasingly the questions being posed not only about international community are that they might be liberating the rebels but this certainly is a very different scenario from the arab democratic revolutions every saw interim is the kind of egypt where 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 feet actually allows for the arming of the rebel fighters the rebels 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 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 assisting me needs to try ministry 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. but certainly he has been dealt a psychological blow his foreign minister musa kusa 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's head of the libyan intelligence agency for some thirteen years and accusations and him the nickname of the man of the day he is the duffys of 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 wiesel koussa knows that has caused him to defect and just how important any information he has be to the coalition partners. of the bushes and of course you say libya's defected foreign minister won't be granted any special immunity you've got it's national relations professor mark harmon says it's embarrassing for the taking except in this case there isn't. any notion. of threats against you do not exist and are going to wrong leaving a key figure in the lockerbie bombing. of the one hand he has an enormous a knowledge of the charges against congress and he will the british government. or the british public market are wrong and he's also if you figure in trying to

undermine graft. but he also has a legacy or. it goes against. the words of the chief of police. of the united states has a long and mixed history of supporting rebels in internal conflicts and is also used again energy can reports helping out anti-government forces. the international community permitted intervention in libya to protect civilians from colonel qaddafi but washington wants to go further than that and is considering arming the rebels while officially denying that toppling khadafi is the objective of its involvement in libya but broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake president obama has reportedly signed a six quick 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 some how we're going to be able to recreate outcome it's the same hubris that has rejected the united states in iraq because shame hubris their kids 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 noman badman who we now says all cried affiliation 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 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 to take over the country and

we know that the only will organize the world force in the region not in the country but in the region is unfortunately i was. some say arming the rebels could backfire we've been in 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 all jaidyn fight soviet troops subsequently the same militants turned their weapons and training against the us among those of them was all sama 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. what we've seen with the tribal so.

you know it's so. 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 check on r.t.e. washington d.c. . on a limb on all found a former troop commander in rank says there's no way the united states or anyone else can perceive the consequences of supporting rebels in libya. there's going to be a period of time re 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's really corrupt and out there are selfish gain and you're not going to gain that from buying them from twenty thousand feet above the air or less you're going to only gain that from from boots on the ground you guarantee people are not stupid and i

think you'd 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 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 from this to 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 to ten year escapade as what we've done in the other countries and that that is not the formula for success right now what happened thanks for watching jonathan thanks. but that. still as it's coming. it seems that the old clone powers have an inability to resist

using weaponry in the old colonies the of course united states has a number of colonies around the world they call them other different things but the us is a colonial power and it actually treats the middle east as if it is their colonies of the united states and france and england particularly were pushing on this in france since we're presidents or cozy has had some very intimate relations with colonel 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 now i think the idea however there is a humanitarian intervention is the lie by the whole history of the u.s. france and british interventions countries don't act humanitarian lead they act in their national interest what he perceives as their national. a lot of players.

from tripoli to bring you closer to what's really going on on the ground that we don't want to make we. mention any thing that arming the rebels and that the west is in for the fact al-qaeda find us on twitter and on the. websites so we've got a war on the line in porn as well if. if . a this is japan now where work out the damaged fukushima plant is being hampered by dangerous infatuated radiation in and around the facility where the levels the nearby sea water have also reached new highs it's now estimated before the heart panels and times than normal the highest level recorded in the sea since the

beginning of the nuclear crisis experts think it may be caused by highly radioactive cooling water leaking from the plant the u.n. found contaminated soil forty kilometers from the facility one of the twenty kilometer evacuation zone expanded japan's government those as the finals or why no immediate action touched on largely dependent. quite 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 cascade from earthquake food 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 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 to go in an old english phrase like headless chickens not knowing what to do the real problem is this if you can

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 inside which is highly radioactive then they have to make a decision of how to deal with the water with or to keep it in site in bond trenches or to actually destroy it to see with the consequences on the marine environment so whichever way they turn they've been prepared and they poorly planned for the consequences of this succeed in action. well the earthquake and tsunami which caused massive destruction of because she was also wiped out entire communities lost their homes are living in overcrowded shelters while the paint cleanup operation continues but are they going to get are there many will still have no right to go even when it's complete. this is the first time many residents of asian a marquee have seen their houses since the tsunami surged through them but in 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 can go back to how it was. chingy has been housed at the local school with several hundred others people here have been taking turns to volunteer as cooks and cleaners. crammed conditions mean that after nearly three weeks the communal spirit is fraying and. we are dissatisfied with your thirty's we know there are temporary houses that will be put up and who will get them some areas are being phased in over others. the government admits that not a single temporary house has been constructed so far but even when they do finally go up it won't solve the far greater problem. the government excavators are

removing the rubble as fast as they can but all the victims of the disaster even those lucky enough to get the temporary housing it will be years before they can come here rebuild their house and all of their home many of the stricken japanese coastal towns rely 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 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 no one will build anything next to my house. but the government providing food and temporary shelter was a 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. of r.t. topical japan. check out some other headlines from around the world the sour and

syrian state media reporting the press. has interviewed a new committee before going to consider the removal of the country's decades long emergency bills it's been among the key to my advantage government protests over the past long the move a comes a day after the president daft expectations that he would announce political reforms according to human rights groups over a hundred people killed in gotham crackdowns on protests in the last two weeks it's . high rico saw me chief is seeking refuge at the home of the south african on basta because as the u.n. introduces sanctions against income the leaders of the embargo including freezing his assets and a travel ban we were all supporters of internationally about president and let out of the sun with tyler have reportedly increased towards the main commercial city of abidjan the previous seasons dick report of the capital is controlled continues to slip away from by both refuses to quit its. a bomb

has struck a convoy in northwestern pakistan and the secretary on the life of the local islamic leader thirteen that people died and more than forty others injured when a suicide bomber on motorbike we were in self on is a call from a large files on the rehman he was on heart with a day earlier another suicide attack on a crowd of rehman supporters also killed thirteen rehman is a hard line on the opposed it was in violence against pakistanis us. but next the rush of close up team journeys to the city that provides a space age welcome for those returning from the final frontier. well the areas around two thousand kilometers east of. mogs the border between the

mice in your amounts hands and harsh snowy siberia for its three and a half million population it's an industrial heartland but the chinese authorities plane or same exit the perfect landing spot for cosmonauts are astronauts as that evolution discovers. months spent in space i mean stars and constellations orbiting the earth in zero gravity being a cosmonaut or an astrologer 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 nothing exactly where partner will live and so in order to be prepared for anything it is possibly go wrong russian is the russian space agency regularly exercises just a month before its scheduled landing so they can visit faired for anything in fact the rescue operation kicks off even before the caps are with cosmonauts lands of

noise so it's one of the most exciting moments hearing in your headphones that they goes on their radar they're watching us and following us but it also means that all the survival practices that we have will 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 training as our conduct is regularly right before every wending the objective is to test the condition of the equipment in the course of the preparedness of the personnel or 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 chemical. finding a landing capsule opening it up there in the cosmos allen to 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 and one of the most important factors the weather is also one of the most unpredictable almost all of the support is the hardest when helicopters can fly in on the ground as long can you get to the cosmonauts evacuate them and get them to the nearest airfield we always have very little time and we must get them out as soon as possible. hardly a low pressure working environment but there ward is priceless it's all 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 thank you. r.t. we travel even further reflate say r.t. to where russian culture is deep grain which flies the stars and stripes alaska's

us on a ship and off the shore ports. it's the secret incursion into the country. it's the invasion by means of. traditional language. this is the first deep copy could be. culture. to think. about how the germans are still unaware of what's going on in their mind still asking what. it's like. i don't know if. they're great. on our. backs we've got the business these with. clones are very well welcome to the business update new regulations aimed at

helping russia trip tracked more investors have been spelled out by presidents but that if he calls for juicy government influence and state companies increasing their transparency and pushing privatization david doubting from burma's asset management is looking for the proof in the pudding. this is the step in the right direction it's you know it's probably a very small piece of a bigger puzzle but giving independent directors room for companies that may be able to help them be more efficient is something that i would support but it's definitely not you know the tipping point it's not something that investors are going to say ok well you know this seems that you know this is going to be a great place to invest and then moving in the right direction and therefore a certain look at russia it's going to take a lot more than that obviously. that's hello good how the markets are faring this hour you guys start started trading slightly lower author of the government report

of a small conspectus truck with new jobless claims the labor department said new applications for unemployment benefits fell to three hundred eighty eight thousand for those we'll be watching friday's job proposed clues to when the federal reserve will raise interest rates. beyond three your peers stocks weighing between gains and losses on thursday as banking stocks gave up only session gains ahead of the results of irish bank stress tests because the client was a damn whose shares dropped almost four percent off these things missed the costs both to the debts are still flat to negative result. of the russian markets are mixed this hour with the r.t.s. point two percent while the most it's is down just under two percent point two percent rather let's have a look at some of the individual share moves energy of may just how losing this hour will snuff to start one point six percent for the low point two percent metals

stocks also dollar at the moment with the world's to making the wrong point seven percent in the red on the r.g.s. . called the world's biggest sort of medium producer to solve has posted here more than three fold increase in net profit figures for twenty term show revenues were up by a third ten billion dollars with a profit of two point eight billion. no solace 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's also good news from one of russia's biggest mining and still competency of gross profit for twenty ten is up to five hundred thirty million dollars with a ninety percent increase in the picked up the company's president says they're going to invest almost three hundred million dollars of brushing base production in the next two or three years but the outlook for twenty eleven is pretty rosa too with the company planning to boost still not i said sent us expects the demand for

construction still within russia to grow by ten percent this year. russia's gold and international currency reserves have talked to half a trillion dollar market the central bank of russia says the reserves have been steadily climbing for the last six weeks thanks to rise in oil prices reserves and now worth five hundred four billion dollars but it's still a long way from the high of two thousand and eight when the country held almost six hundred billion dollars in reserves. and now russia's gazprom and germany's which is all have agreed to explore and jointly develop gas fields in the north sea but this hole which is a ready involved in the north stream gas pipeline project will also take part in another russian pipe and development south stream this month the company has started a new drilling operation on a small oil field in germany artie's but in a question about is that there were just all the oil facilities in northern germany to tell us more. what you see behind my back is the beginning of the new drilling

operation led by a german oil and gas company adventists called the company is planning to drill sixteen new shells to maintain the current allowable production of this very filthy knowledge germany doesn't have enough reserves on different potion of crude oil produced within the country with a level of consumption is a relatively low that's one of insist on is quite active abroad now it is a pawn not in gaza sprawl allowed project nor stream and this is a project where a pipeline of. transport russian gas across the baltic sea into germany and currently there are two pipelines that are being constructed this pipelines one cannot ignore the stream with that you are a pipeline not word now one pipeline is already constructed and of the second one

is you to start writing next year with vince's called has recently agreed to join and not that gazprom alag project which is the south stream and it is to acquire a fifteen percent stake in this project for iran two billion euros and many analysts say that this move will increase of the project's chances of gaining european union backing. artie's much of a question for all to go on that wraps up the business program and join us in lesson one last time to get more business stories and you can always log on to our website artefact com slash business.

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