the u.s. reports of you all the rises cia operations in libya while the libyan foreign minister defects and to begin a new development seems to stop broke it down before it was those from repelling further rebel advances. holds in stabilizing the for the human nuclear plant as radiation levels in the sea reached new orleans the u.n. which is but you can shoot stan evacuations a. russia close up travel to siberia is almost step where space travelers get that welcome home from all the joy and the chin elephants queen.

and proposals by russian president richard vedder to overhaul russian state companies are kicking up a storm storm even before they're introduced the president wants to see government officials both the board of state companies more in business in twenty minutes. a very warm welcome to you this is all seen life from moscow the u.s. is reportedly sending cia teams into libya to gather intelligence and such hard links with rivals when it comes is down some grow about the exact makeup of the movement to colonel gadhafi and that storm does criticism of plans to own the word nato officials themselves admitting they fear that al qaeda fighters are among the rebels. the latest from tripoli. well they have in air strikes 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 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 the edges of the i would switch so it does suggest that the coalition is afraid there could have his forces are closing in on this town and also they do not want to fall to the gadhafi forces now the true rain that the global 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 simply 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 actually 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 interest

in egypt the big question on everyone's mind here is the whole question of weapons this is a concern a trip you 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 have shown themselves to 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 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 trim an industry and i want to keep what tripoli is saying is that if you want to 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 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 dealt a psychological blow for his foreign minister moussa koussa has defected and he's

currently in discussions with the british intelligence are concerned has been the foreign minister of this country since two thousand and nine he's headed the libyan intelligence agency for some fifteen years an acquisition from him the nickname of the man odd is the duffys of the right hand man he is trusted by gadhafi but he certainly has been described as a shrewd operator by the international community so many here are asking what is it exactly that mr wilson cousineau those that has caused him to defect to any just how important any information he has to the coalition partners. or the british authorities say libya's defectors foreign minister won't be granted any special immunity but international relations professor elements so it's embarrassing for the u.k. to acceptance because there is a man with a dubious past. or an intelligence officer on the cover of. attacks and threats against you've been examined rather later on you can go and

look at the moment. i heard one hand them enormous and the knowledge of the charges against cargo has really been the british go home. for the british public who might go wrong and he's also a key figure in trying to undermine public office. but you also are going to see. i told. you inside libya in other words for with chief of police. the united states has a long and nixie history of supporting the rebels in internal conflict. reports helping out our government forces. the international community permitted intervention in libya to protect civilians from colonel gadhafi 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 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 warn of the consequences when we help accelerate the chaos. and in creating more chaos were we think somehow we're going to be able to direct the outcome it's the same hubris that has rejected the united states in iraq the same hubris that 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 jihadists know my

benefit men who renounce his old 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 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 a 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 and 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 would you even 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 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 society. and leading. some reconstruction of the code well over two decades after arming the afghan mujahedeen america is now considering giving weapons to another revelled band with an unclear identity simply because of who they're fighting against ghana check out our t. washington d.c. well nathan sassaman author and a former commander in iraq says there's no way the united states or anyone else can take 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 there are 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 at it from from boots on the ground the american 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 of ballot and we don't know and be careful what comes out on the other end and be prepared to take the secular charity or the religious tyranny that might evolve into from this to this action i think you were either all in on this spending 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 is not the formula for success right now. planning for what janice scenes that

closely following the arab the the wrath. of assets colony. it seems that the old clonal powers have an inability to resist using weaponry and the old colonies the of course the united states has a number of colonies around the world they call you different names but the us is a colonial power and it actually treats the middle east as if it had their colonies of the united states and france and england particularly were pushing on this in france president sarkozy has had some great intimate relations with khadafi 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 carol be there and strange france had i think the idea however that this is a humanitarian intervention is be lied by the whole history of u.s.

france and british interventions countries don't act humanitarian day act in their national interest what they perceive as their national interest. lassies fall asleep is contributing to our twitter feed from tripoli to bring you closer is what's really going on on the ground there when one of the latest tweets as she says that some people in tripoli think that arming the rebels and many of the west is also afraid to be arming al qaida find us on twitter ourselves on all of them for web site read about the war correspondent life in all his personal blog. to japan now where work at the damaged fukushima plant is being hampered by the

dangerously fluctuating radiation in and around the facility the levels the nearby sea walls have also reached new highs where it's now estimated to be four and a half thousand times more than normal the highest level recorded in the season the beginning of the nuclear crisis experts i think it may be caused by highly radioactive cooling also making from the plant the u.n. how many agents or oil forty kilometers from the facility and one of the twenty kilometer evacuation zone to be expanded government those as the findings require no immediate i'll show dr john at large is an independent nuclear solvent licensees to plan was ill prepared for an emergency like that's. the problem is really the big fundamental nuclear safety culture in japan and generally in the rest of the developed world is flawed what happened here is that the japanese considered discussed 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 destructive accident but we can see a frigidly that the japanese for the first true will. i've been running around to going in old english phrases like headless chickens not knowing what to do the real problem is this if they may take a measure like flooding and quench in the reactors we water that may well lead to serious consequences later on when they have all that accumulated water on site which is highly radioactive then they have to make a decision on how to deal with the water to keep it inside trenches or to actually destroy it to see with the consequences on the marine environment so whichever way they've turned they've been prepared and they poorly planned for the consequences of their succeeding action. the earthquake and tsunami which caused massive destruction of also wiped out entire communities people who lost their homes or

living in overcrowded shelters a painstaking cleanup operation continues as. many will still have nowhere to go even when things. this is the first time many residents of a marquee have seen their houses since the tsunami surged 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. changing has been housed below call school with several hundred others people here have been taken turns to volunteer as cooks and cleaners. but they crammed conditions mean that after nearly three weeks a communal spirit is fraying and. we are dissatisfied with your thirty's we know

there are a temporary houses that will be put up 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 funny 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 their house and all of their home many of the stricken japanese coastal towns will live 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 the ones of the small people i do not think this town will ever be rebuild as it was even if i restore what i have and no one will build anything next to my house. or the government

providing food and brief 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. no r.t. topical japan. some of the headlines from around the world this hour and syrian state media is reporting that president assad will be a new commitments. to consider the removal of the country's decades long and login symbols it's been among the key demands of anti-government protests over the past month the move comes as a day after the president downstate taishan that he would else political reforms according to human rights groups over a hundred people have been killed in government crackdowns on protests in the last two weeks. ivory coast's army chief is seeking refuge in the home with the south african ambassador it comes as the u.n.

introduces sanctions against in congress need a lot more about both including a cruising his assets and a travel ban meanwhile supporters of internationally backed president elect and his son would. have reportedly pushed towards the main commercial city of abidjan previously seized to keep your town the capital as controlled as the news slipped away from go he refuses to quit. appalled the struck a convoy of northwestern pakistan and the second attempt on the life of a local islamic leader thirteen people died and more than forty others injured when a suicide bomber on a motorbike blew have self taught me this cause of. a roman it was a day earlier another suicide attack on a crowd of bremen supporters also killed thirteen roman is a hardline politician is opposed to religious violence but also against pakistan u.s. time. next the russian close up to journeys to the city that provides

a space age welcome for those returning from the final frontier. one of the areas around two thousand kilometers east of moscow involves the border between the ninety year old mountains of harsh snowy siberia for its three and a half million population with the industrial heartland of the giant adjoining plane or thing makes the perfect landing spot for cosmonauts and astronauts as any degree of discovery. monster spends in space i mean stars and constellations orbiting the earth in zero gravity. 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

sally exactly where romance in order to be for here for anything is possibly go wrong russian navy and russian space agency regularly exercises just a month before its scheduled landing so think of it 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 headphones of the gods on their radar they're watching us and following us awesome always survival practices that we hired 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. it's such trainees are conductors regularly right before every wending the objective is to test the condition of the equipment in vehicles and the preparedness of the personnel are a 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 the landing capsule opening it out and then 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 their own lives at stake and one of the most important factors the weather is also one of the most unpredictable. it's the hardest when helicopter is going to fly into the ground and she alone can get to the cosmonauts get it create them and get them to the nearest airfield we always have nearly full time and we must get them out as soon as possible. hardly a low pressure working environment but their word 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 ancient out in goes go artsy. and we travel even further we say to say on to our russian culture is being. stalled on stripes alaska the nation and our special report. it's the secret incursion into the country. it's the invasion by means of. traditional language. the first deep copy could be. culture. the thing is that the have the germans are still unaware of what's going on in their mind something that's been much. like.

i don't know the last guy. on our team. ok that's coming up later right now they are all the latest this is the media. that's right time to get the latest from the world of business a very warm welcome and proposals by president medvedev to overhaul states companies are kicking up a storm even before they've been introduced the president wants to see government officials off the boards of state companies because it's so aren't worth putting together a hit list of club officials who should be stripped of their detached direction ships. in many cases the board of directors is being led by government officials deputy prime ministers and ministers and the examples are well known in finance it is very to be going in gas it is rosneft inception in transport it is

aeroflot and if you tune in financing and agriculture it is resale for boeing and of the other examples but we need to understand and of course these officials will continue to have wide ranging powers to influence the activity of these institutions. and it's all part of the president's call for reducing government influence and state companies increasing their transparency and pushing privatization the new regulations are aimed at helping russia attract more investors. this is the step in the right direction it's you know it's probably a very small piece of a bigger puzzle but getting independent directors into 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 flipping point it's not something that investors are going to say ok well you know this seems you know this is going to be

a great place to invest and then moving in the right direction and therefore it's sort of look at russia it's going to go up more than that obviously. came out time to have a quick look at how the markets are faring this hour u.s. stocks up last after the government reported just smaller than expected drop in weekly jobless claims the labor department searched new applications for unemployment benefits fell to three hundred eighty eight thousand traders will be watching five years march jobs report clues the federal reserve will raise interest rates. to look to your european stock swing between gains and losses on thursday as banking stocks gave up early session games ahead of the results of irish red stress tests the best kind of though was h. and then after its earnings missed forecasts both if it sees the end attacks are gaining a point four percent and the techs by the way case last two positive. russian markets diminished mixed with the r.t.s. are less than hopeless times while my six was down just a temper said let's have

a quick look at some of the individual share most energy major assault losses on thursday also finished down one point six percent gas from last point one percent stocks were also down was wrong of course with stones and bread from my six. the world's biggest seller meaning produce them so has posted a more than three fold increase in net profits they just want to show revenues were up by a third to ten billion dollars with a profit. two point eight billion cells 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 and it's also good news for both of us as big a mining and still companies eager for us their profit for twenty ten is up to five hundred thirty million dollars with a ninety percent increase in the debt the company's president says they are going

to invest almost three hundred billion dollars in brushing based production in the next three years and the outlook for twenty eleven is richer of the two with the company planning to boost still up by seven percent it was expects the demand for construction still within russia to grow by ten percent this year. and russia's gold an international currency reserves have topped the hard trillion dollar mark such a bank russia says the results have been steadily climbing for the last six weeks then through rising oil prices the reserves are now worth five hundred four billion dollars it is still a long way from the high of two thousand and eight when the country held almost six hundred billion dollars in recent. russia's gasper all in german as well as a whole have agreed to explore and jointly develop gas fields in the north sea winters hole which is a ridge involved in the north rim pipeline project will also take part in another

washing pipeline development south stream this month the company has started a new drilling lot for ations and a small oil field in germany. is a win just hold will facility in northern germany to tell us more. what you think behind my back is the beginning of a new drilling operation led by terminal and gas company adventist college the company is planning to drill sixteen new shells to maintain the current allowed production of this ferry filled knowledge erminie doesn't have enough reserves on the proposed an oil produced within the country with a level of consumption is a relatively low that's why of interest on is quite active abroad now it is upon not in just brawn allowed project nor stream and this is a project where a pipeline of. transport the russian gas across the baltic sea aims in germany

and currently there are two pipelines dropping in sox's this pipelines cannot noise stream with european pipeline not sward now one pipeline is already constructed and of the second one is you just start writing and next year we're going to call the house recently agreed to join and not the gas from a lab 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 here say that this move will increase of the projects chances of gaining european union backing. archies much in the course of reporting your p.j. now join me last one last time from. our chief.