on r.t. tonight's the u.s. reportedly authorizes covert cia operations in libya while the libyan foreign minister defects to the u.k. but either development seems to stop progress darty forces for telling further rebel advances there are the latest for we. also work holes in stabilizing the fukushima nuclear plant as groundwater radiation around the vicinity reaches a winery. and russia close of travels to siberia is doorstep where space travelers welcome home from orbit join us then in the screech.

hello this is our team from moscow my name is kevin and it's now nine pm here and it's seven in the evening in tripoli the top story the u.s. is reportedly sending cia teams into libya to gather intelligence and set up links with rebels it comes as doubts grow about the exact makeup of the movement to oust colonel gadhafi criticism of plans to arm them with nato officials themselves admitting they fear that al-qaeda fighters are among the rebels. as the latest from tripoli for. 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 the further back it is now not far from the town of ajdabiya which is just seventy kilometers rates of the rebel stronghold of benghazi there have been

a number of coalition air strikes in and around which certainly doesn't change that the coalition is afraid their conduct is false as are closing in on this town and also they don't often want to forward to these forces now the true rain that the rebel fighters are fighting on is working against them it is essentially one highway image is that it is very hard for them to get supplies and survey at this stage it does seem as if those coalition in strikes are making very little difference 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 good leadership to be quite loosely organized and by and 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 on the

ground gadhafi is winning the war but certainly he has been dealt a psychological blow to 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 headed the libyan intelligence agency for some fifteen years and opposition found him going to claim of the man of death so many here are asking what is it exactly that mr russo koussa knows that has caused him to defect and just how important can the information he has be to the coalition partners. pulis leah there and she's contributing to our twitter feed from tripoli of course to bring you closer to what's really going on on the ground there and in one of the latest tweets she says that some people in tripoli think that arming the rebels would mean that the west is also effectively arming al-qaeda we're going for more on that in just a second you can find us on twitter meantime but are too young to school on what web site to read but of course for his life in paul his personal life. across the

lives of washington d.c. to talk to former cia officer philip giraldi for more insight on this ongoing story mr drone the we're getting reports that the cia has its men on the ground now in libya where is this all were heading as you see it is there a possibility that they're there indeed to assassinate gadhafi. no i don't think that's the case i think it's seems pretty clear at this point that the cia teams are in there to gather intelligence and also to begin training of the rebels. but i wonder a little bit of the timing of this apparently this these people had been in the country for at least a week and it seems that this was this was something that began as soon as the bombing began are you surprised at this news of the cia or in their. well i did not there are two aspects to this i'm not surprised that they have people in there gathering intelligence because they really don't know a lot about what's going on inside libya and they don't know

a lot about the rebels and if they're going to assist the rebels which clearly is the intention they have to know a lot more about what kind of people they're arming and whether these people are going to use the weapons against the united states and against nato in the future but you know the intelligence aspect of it is understandable the aspect of it of training getting directly involved in the fighting i think is somewhat more dangerous but what about history another. former high ranking libyan military command has defected to the u.s. in the ninety nine things we know that he's known to be a long time cia collaborates and now we're also hearing is that it by simply admit to being cannot of the opposition forces he's described sort of quote folk compelled to go back to his country is it a call of jude see him or an assignment do you think well i think it's he obviously is going back to to rally the troops but the the problem is if you have

several thousand rebels who are not used to using weapons have no idea of discipline or how to fight a battle a general is not going to make a big difference you need to have people training them and directing them at a lower level and of cia people are doing this at a lower level that means they will inevitably get involved in the fighting and this is what robert gates as recently as today promised would never happen boots on the ground. the west as you saying they're very much talking about trading these people who don't appear to be very organized at the moment how long will it take to train them to become an organized force. well i don't know if you know the of the american folk story about the car gave me where the tar baby looks like a baby but once you grab hold of it you stick to it and you never get loose this happens far too many times in terms of american involvement in countries that we don't really understand very much about and in situations that we don't understand what happens is these things continue for

a lot longer than anyone anticipated how we close it's a night to sing a grown falls being introduced you think by the u.s. . it's my understanding that the british and french are more or less willing to provide some ground forces assistance but you know cia trainers these are paramilitary for the u.s. everything is going to get emotional. i don't think the u.s. will get involved with actual military units but i bet there will be a lot of involvement with cia's special operations and also the army special operations in your view for them to roll the former cia officer from washington d.c. tonight on. for the united states has a lot of mixed history of supporting rebels in internal conflicts of his outs he's got each account reports next helping out and the government forces come sometimes but follow it. the international community permitted intervention in libya to protect civilians from colonel gadhafi put in washington wants to go further than that and he's considering arming the rebels while officially denying that toppling

qaddafi 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 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 rethink some how we're going to be able to directly outcome it's the same hubris that has visited the united states in iraq the same here. penya 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 pick advantage of the chaos in libya former jihadist nomen bettman who we now says will kind of asian in two thousand says he has to mates one thousand jihadists are among the rebels in libya one libyan 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 so 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 villain here 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 so blowback or charm was john 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 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 this cannistraro cia and alice is an operations chief in the 1980's says back then the u.s. didn't see the dangers of arming afghan militants. and what we've seen with tribal so. you know. and leading. construction of. 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 washington d.c. . and while the u.s. has bogged down in libya american billionaire as we hear watching their wealth rise a couple of hours from now on our team financial analyst most college mistakes you heard to dig into the week's financial scandals including the one. average

american lost twenty three percent of their net wealth. forbes wealthiest list reflects changes in the global economy and the wealth of the world's billionaires was up twenty five percent in the same time that the wealth of the american population was down twenty three percent yeah yeah it's a kleptocracy you see normally capitalism is about risk reward risk reward winners and losers like this you see this is this is what f.d.r. guaranteed during the depression when he brought in the f.c.c. and the f.b.i. seeing all the reforms like classical but the last twenty five years thanks to j.p. morgan goldman sachs we have something like this we call you.

back to the news now in japan work at the damage fukushima nuclear plant is being how put by the dangerously fluctuating radiation in and around the facility a highly radioactive substance has been found in groundwater near the plant which is ten thousand times more than normal levels on the levels and by sea water an estimated to be four and a half thousand times more than normal to their highest figures recorded in the sea since the beginning of the nuclear crisis experts say they think it may be caused by a highly radioactive cooling water that's leaking out from the plant also today the un's found contaminated soil forty kilometers from the facility and once the twenty kilometer evacuation zone to be expanded in response to patterns government though says the findings require no immediate action talk to john large told me the crisis shows japan was ill prepared for the 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 earthquake proved 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 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 coin an old english phrase like headless chickens not knowing what to do the real problem is this if they take a measure like flooding and quintin 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 to keep it inside. or to actually destroyed 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 towards a dr john largely dependent nuclear consultant one of the problems they're facing

they're all the earthquake and tsunami which cause the massive destruction of also of course as we saw so graphically what that entire communities people who lost their homes are living now in overcrowded shelters rather painstaking cleanup operation continues but as they found out many will still have nowhere to go even when it is probably. this is the first time many residents of issue no marquee have seen their houses since the tsunami has surged 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 a local school with several hundred others people here have been taking turns to volunteer as cooks and cleaners. but the cramped conditions mean that after

nearly three weeks the communal spirit is fraying and. we're dissatisfied with your forty's we know there are temporary houses that will be put up and who will get them some areas are being feted 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 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 color their home many of the stricken japanese coastal towns rely for generations on bling bling fishing and shipping industries livelihoods which no longer exist and there's little hope of ever getting them back sort of. the government is good at solving big problems but not the ones of

a small people i don't 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. or the government providing food and temporary 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. now of party. japan. well as the nuclear crisis in japan continues to unfold the worry among some is that fukushima might turn into another chill novel our chief correspondent lecturer jeff skis visited some of the long abandoned areas in the chernobyl exclusion zone in ukraine and he shares his photos with you our team dot com our web site is also a special report there as well which documents histories worst manmade nuclear power disaster with those who lived through the tragedy to experience it all at our t dot com.

top world news stories in brief to syria where state media is reporting that president assad's ordered a new committee to be formed to consider the removal of the country's decades long emergency bills it's been among the key demands of anti government protests over the past month the move comes a day after the president dashed expectations that he did now and political reform human rights groups say over a hundred people have been killed in government crackdowns on protests in the last two weeks. because sami chief is seeking refuge at the whole of the south african ambassador right now it comes as the u.n. introduces sanctions against incumbent leader laurent gbagbo including an asset freeze in the travel back meanwhile supporters of the internationally backed president elect salicylate ouattara are laying siege to the country's main city of the john they previously took over

a key port and the capital is controlled continues to slip away from bug fuses to quit. a ball almost of the convoy in northwestern pakistan and the second attempt on the life of a local islamist leader thirteen people died and more than forty others were injured when a suicide bomber on a motorbike blew himself up near the car of milan or france near a man who was unhurt and they earlier another suicide attack on the crowd of rehman supporters also killed thirty raman is a hard line politicians that opposed the militant violence but also is against pakistan's u.s. ties. next on the program the russia close obtain journeys to the city that provides a space age welcome for those returning back from the final frontier. so that's where we go the areas around two thousand kilometers east of moscow it marks

the border between the mighty ural mountains and the harsh snowy siberia for its three and a half million population it is an industrial heartland put the giant adjoining plane also i guess at the perfect landing spot for cosmonauts and astronauts as artesian when it was found. months spent in space and it stars and constellations orbiting the earth in zero gravity being a cosmos or an astronaut is no easy task. but after their mission is complete and a return to earth mission for other men and women begins. obviously there is no telling that the weird part will lend itself to be prepared for anything that possibly go wrong press is essential and thus the space agency beggarly exercises just a month before

a scheduled landing some think of it the feared for anything in fact the rescue operation kicks off even before the capsule because minutes lands nor is its move the most exciting moments on hearing your headphones the day goes on the radar you're watching us and following us not all slim it means that all the survival practices that we handle won't be needed. but though this is how it usually happens as search and rescue teams on land know that it's better to be safe than sorry. such trains are conductors regular grade before every wending the objective is to test the condition of the equipment in the course of the preparedness of the personnel are a team has an extensive experience in this field and we are ready to work in any congressional. process involves several teams of specially trained air force personnel from parachutists to medical staff finding the landing capsule opening it up letting 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. this is both the hardest when helicopters can fly and with the ground ashland can get really cosmonauts 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 because one of the harley a little 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 us 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 i've been screech and go artsy

but later artie takes it into a part of america that use to be decidedly russian join us in alaska in less than seven it's time as we continue our travels first though let's get across this i was business news with you for a quick break. time out to get the latest from the world of business every well welcome proposals by president but after overhaul state companies are kicking up a storm even before the introduced the president wants to see government officials also the boards of state companies. aren't. put in together

a hit list of criminal officials. there. from what you see 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 beauty beyond compare it to want to gas it is rules and after inception and transport it is aeroflot i'm sure imagine if you tin and financing and agriculture it is rosales postponed and zuko of and there are 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 this is actually all part of the president's call for juicing government employees and states companies and persons that transparency and privatization the new regulations are aimed at helping russia attract more investors. now time for a quick look at how the markets are faring this. cloud too negative. to the

government report it is more than expected drop it with the child with claims i believe you said new applications for women benefits fell to three hundred eighty eight thousand predators will be watching friday's march jobs reports clues when the federal reserve will crazy. and moving on to your stop this year closing the red line thursday with the foot still losing almost point seven percent banking stocks gave up session gains ahead of the results of bank stress tests because the crime of oil will say to them are trees earnings missed cuts. next year in russia the markets finished mixed with the r.t.s. less than. myself was down just ten percent i still have a look at some of the individual share moves post i made to major sources will thursday will snatch finished one point six percent point one percent banking stocks will also dollar at the close was wrong because of the sound of the ride on

the my sense was national burning capital prep something. very market has been really quite flat today the big story has obviously been around. president comments about the potential changing board of directors. actually as a result of that and i think it's going to really be underperforming today i think that reflects you know uncertainty what does this actually mean for. research it was a big story. rolled national paranoia capital they're ripping off the says day's trading russia's gasper all known german is just home have a creature explore and jointly develop gas fields in the north sea which is whole which is a rather involved. point five project will also take part in another russian pipeline development south stream the sponson the company has started a new trolling oppression on the small oil fields in germany ortiz machine of

course is of interest. in more than joining stalls more. behind my back is the beginning of a new drilling operation led by german oil and gas company adventists called the company is planning to drill sixteen new shells to maintain the current. production of this ferry filled knowledge germany doesn't have enough reserves under the proposed crude oil produced within the country with the level of consumption is a relatively low that's why i've been to scotland is quite active abroad now it is a part not in just brawn project nor stream and this is a project where pipeline. transport the russian gas across the baltic sea into the germany and current leverage to pipelines that are being constructed this pipelines will cannot noise stream with european pipeline not work now one

pipeline is already constructed and of the second one is you to start operating next year will be in this hall house recently agreed to joint and not the wrong project which is the south stream i did this to acquire fifty percent stake in this project for iran to billion euros and many analysts say this move will increase the big projects chances of gaining european union backing. ok martin of course start forcing bad out of the business board and for knowledge joining in less than one last time for business stories here on our team.

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