tonight the u.s. reportedly authorizes covert cia operations in libya while the libyan foreign minister defects to the u.k. but neither development seems to stop production forces from further rebel advances we've got the latest for you plus. cults and save lives in the fukushima nuclear plant as groundwater radiation a round of passivity reaches a worrying. and russia close travels to siberia is doorstep where space travelers get their welcome over from all of its joyous that

in the. region. even for me kevin oh it's ten pm here in moscow and it's eight in the evening in tripoli right now and 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 that's prompted criticism in time of plans to arm them with nato officials themselves admitting that they fear that al qaeda fighters are among the rebels. as the latest from tripoli. well they have been 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 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 and have been and number of coalition air strikes in and around the i would switch certainly doesn't just that the coalition is afraid their conduct resources are closing in on this town and also they've been off while i just got here to forward to gadhafi forces now the train that a group of 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 certainly at this stage it does seem as if this coalition is trikes are making very little difference to 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 hundred seventy feet actually allows for the arming of the rebel fighters the rebels have shown themselves to a lack of leadership could be quite loosely organized and by and 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 saw the deployment of cia agents to this country on the ground gadhafi is winning the war and certainly he has been dealt a psychological blow for his foreign minister a recent case there has defected and he is currently in discussions with the british intelligence not koussa has been a foreign minister of this country since two thousand and nine he headed the libyan intelligence agency for some fifteen years and opposition found him the nickname of the man of the 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. ati's policy or they should be reporting on the latest in from libya since february the polish to those who contributed to our troops and freed from tripoli is. bring you closer was really going on the ground there in one of the latest tweet she says that some people in tripoli think that arming the rebels would mean that the west is also effectively arming al-qaeda as late as from find other related to it's

a party of the score call on all caution also love on the website r t dot com to read about the war correspondents life in point of personal blog share big story. this is the former canadian diplomat peter dale scott is in california for us on a straight connection i believe very good evening to you mr scott now there's an increasing talk of supplying arms to the rebels in libya but when the u.s. tried this before such as supplying weapons to the taliban in afghanistan in the 1980's it led me to a catastrophic reversal of fortune and now could we be witnessing a danger of who do you think. i think it would be very very foolish for america to arm the rebels. you never know the reason rai the cia is in libya i think the primary reason is to find out who the rebels are and there is name are reports very solid reports for some here is the l i f g which is probably the dominant staging.

element of this very mixed up coalition of rebels is itself very close to al-qaeda is composed largely of people who fought in iraq against america it's amazing to me that secretary of state hillary clinton who is now well i think pretty much in the forefront of those people rushing to want to arm the rebels she or so testified just a week or two ago that the rebels in libya were probably more anti american then they are and she could benefit i think that's true and in addition to that there are also more approach terrorists they have genes composed of people who have trained suicide bombers so we're very much on the side of those who say that and another thing is said in the security council resolution one nine hundred

seventy three it's quite clear easy to read and it doesn't allow for the arming of rebels it it strengthens the existing in by the arming anyone more further to that as you know mr scott the coalition countries are also not me talking about arming the opposition also though you may have training them we have the rebels are desperate said the groups as you've been describing there how could they ever be organized anyway and again i guess i'm going to hear from you that your fears of this is going to come back and bite them isn't it. where my primary fear is there. is that this conflict will be our own. no molesting one because it's not going to be easy target for he has supporters as well as opponents and may second concern is that putting more arms into the hands of people whom you don't really know there is no guarantee in a payment to use them against civilians which is ludicrous the stated purpose of

the we win resolution so i would say that the world has to be strong interest in the military and seeing this conflict as quickly as possible rather than to upping the ante so to speak procuring more arms into the mix cisco you touched on it just now with this media report suggesting the cia and m i six officers are already on the ground in libya and how does that correspond with the aims of the un resolution is a touch that i just not like to expand on a bit where i think cia or just about everywhere you know and there are many things that upset me about what america has done and this is our at the top of my list by any means we it's been admitted there when lee american plane went down with the very beginning of the air straits the marines went ashore to get a pilot and the cia went ashore can get the great engineer who was held by

a different force and held by a bunch of arab women think more closely my question is how does their presence fit in with the original u.n. resolution. i think in many ways the u.s. has shown that it doesn't take the u.n. resolution very seriously to to even suggest that it allows the the. emperor who aren't as to the rebels is just for eyes on the face of logic and reverently of the resolution i think is very clear in reinforcing member who are just so the if there is a difference between. the strafing and the bush administration is the bush administration didn't take the u.n. seriously or troll only a baronet ministration pays lip service to the. i would i would like to see the security council really reconvene with russia and china taking part in the

discussions and just try to get back to the stated aims of the resolution which is clearly being exceeded but if this carries on as it is the pairing so at the moment we've bearing in mind the intelligence has been talking about the relentless strikes that are ongoing talks of supply and all this building a thing to eventual ground operation if so how quickly could that happen. well it is of course they're ground up or you made an international or ground operation u.s. officials on the streets and that's where the cia presence is important because it's the scene agency which i don't think that they are intending at this point to the cia to do more than just gather intelligence but pretty soon there will be pressure for them to offer a training role because obviously the rebel firm just believed in training most of these rebels of being skilled in things for. you know terrorist attacks or

even the real war fare in afghanistan but this is a very different kind of campaign in the deserts of libya in some ways if people wait me really nerve to remember world war two was right when the british and the germans were rushing backwards and forwards across libya because there's really one road and the further you go on that real the more it's appropriate and exposed you become it's very in stable. i think the main thing to do is to. think about a cease fire and think about what you would want to see happen after the cease fire late is the top priority for us from a canadian diplomat peter dale scott pleasure of your insight on the program joining us from california tonight thank you. the united states is a long mixed history of supporting rebels in internal conflicts and as artie's

gonna cheat you can reports next helping out anti-government forces can sometimes backfire. 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 reactive of its involvement in libya but broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake president obama has reportedly signed a sick create 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 direct the outcome it's the same hubris that has visited the united states in

iraq the same here british 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 jihadists know my benefit men who are now sizzle 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 levy is 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 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 there chalmers 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 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 that then the us didn't see the dangers of arming afghan militants. and what we've seen with the tribal society according to its. leading to. some reconstruction composed 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. again

a check on our team rushing to n.b.c. . bring you the latest from japan work at the damaged fukushima nuclear plants being hampered by the dangerously fluctuating radiation in and around the facility the highly radioactive substance has been found in groundwater near the plant which is ten thousand times more than normal and levels in nearby seawater and now estimated to be four and a half thousand times more than normal the highest figures recorded in the sea since the beginning of the nuclear crisis experts say they think it may be caused by highly radioactive cooling water that's leaked out from the plants and also today the u.n. found contaminated soil forty kilometers from the facility and it wants the twenty kilometer evacuation zone to be expanded japan's government though says the findings require no immediate action was put dr john large he's an independent nuclear consultant he told me the crisis shows a 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. of 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 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 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 whether to keep it in site in bond trenches or to actually destroy get to sleep 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 their succeeding action. dr john largely depend the consultants all the earthquake and tsunami which caused massive destruction at fukushima also wiped out entire communities as we witnessed people who lost their homes are living now in overcrowded shelters rather painstaking cleanup operation continues but as he found out for tea many will still have nowhere to go to even when it is complete. this is the first time many residents of be sure marquis have seen their houses since the tsunami surged through them look at most a little of value remains but supple 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 of after nearly three weeks the communal spirit is fraying and. we are dissatisfied with your forties we know there are temporary houses that will be put up but who will get them some areas are being faded over others. the government admits that not a single temporary house has been constructed so far but even when they do finally go up they won't solve the far greater problem. the government excavators are removing the rubble as fast as they can but 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 call 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 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. of. japan. well as the nuclear crisis in japan continues to unfold the worry among some is that fukushima might turn into another chernobyl artie's correspondent jeff squeeze visited some of the long abandoned areas in the chernobyl exclusion zone in ukraine and he's got his photos to share with you with r.t. dot com the source a special report from his well documenting history's worst manmade nuclear power disaster with those who lived right through the tragedy you can experience it all

on our website r.t. dot com. world news and grief now syrian state media is reporting a present a sad and sort of new committee to be formed to consider the removal of the country's decades were mergence the laws it's part of the key demands of anti-government protests over the past month the move comes a day after the president passed expectations but he did now it's political reforms the rights groups say over one hundred people have been killed in government crackdowns on protests in the last two weeks. because my everything goes there the army chief is seeking refuge at the home of the south african ambassador it comes as the u.n. introduces sanctions against the incumbent these are all valid bow including an asset freeze and a travel ban meanwhile supporters of the internationally backed president elect of the son of ouattara are laying siege to the country's main city abidjan they previously took over a key port and the capital is control continues to slip away from. refuses to quit

. twenty past ten pm here in moscow next now the russia closer to offer the journeys again this time to the city that provides a space age welcome for those returning from the final frontier. so where are we headed then well let's take a look at the map and focus in the areas around two thousand kilometers east of moscow it marks the border between the my two year old lands in the harsh snowy siberia for three and a half million population it is an industrial heartland but the giant adjoining plane also makes it the perfect landing spot for cosmonauts and astronauts as it is ridiculous that. months spent in space and it stars and constellations were getting the earth in

zero gravity being a cosmonaut or an astronaut is no easy task. after their mission is complete and a return to earth mission for other men and women begins. obviously there is no telling that when their cars will land self in order to be prepared for anything it is possibly go wrong restless he says and thus the space agency regularly exercises just a month before its scheduled landing so they could be spared for anything in fact the rescue operation kicks off even before the capsule with cosmonauts lands noise it's one of the most exciting moments hearing in your headphones that they goes on the radar they're watching us and following us that's awesome that means that all the survival practices that we had will be needed most. but though this is how it usually happens there's search and rescue teams on land and know that it's better to be safe than sorry. such trainings are conducted regularly grade before every

wending the objective is to test the condition of the equipment in vehicles 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 to medical staff finding the landing capsule opening it up there in the cosmos al 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 and 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 so missiles this is the hardest when helicopters can fly and all of the ground as alone can get to the cosmonauts if you 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 as well of the harley low pressure working environment but their word is priceless that's where i'd like to say for all cosmonauts we greatly respect you guys and really love you and i hope that all knowledge and lifesaving skills that you have will never be needed by you or us but i thank you and you know in a godless crow party. support all of you in twenty minutes about the news of a big ice hockey match up seven finals just one more winner for atlanta lied to them through the finals for the first time a check of i got on with coach shortly but the president has got the latest in our business. that's right cound time to get the latest from the world of business sound we start with the proposals by president medvedev to overhaul state companies and we try

already kicking up a storm even before they've been introduced the president wants to see government officials also boards of stage companies his aides aren't mincing words spitting together a hit list of kremlin officials who should be stripped out of their directorships. well. in many cases the gate of directors is being led by government officials deputy prime ministers and ministers and the examples are well known in finance it is very cheap and compare and you know what a gas it is rules and after searching and transport it is very flawed ensuring that you go negative and financing and agriculture it is rosales was buying and of and there are other examples but we need to understand of course these officials will continue to have wide ranging powers to influence the activity of these institutions but you know this is actually all part of the president's call for it using government influence in states companies increasing their transparency and

pushing privatization the new regulations saw aimed at helping russia attract more investors. time not have a quick look at how the markets during this hour u.s. stocks up flat after the government reported a smaller than expected dropping weekly jobless claims the labor department said new applications for unemployment benefits fell to three hundred eighty eight thousand prisoners will be watching friday's marshall for what clues to when the federal reserve will raise interest rates. how the decision has or just finished in here about the stocks closed and the ride on thursday with the fleet's and losing almost point seven percent banking stocks gave up and a session games as a result of irish bank stress tests show that the country's banks need an additional thirty four billion dollars to survive the financial crisis the biggest decline though was say two denmark trades are names missed that's. how the trading session is over in russia on the markets finished makes with a r.t.s.

up less than half a percent otherwise it was down just ten four percent plus i'll have a look at some of the individual share moves most energy major sources of thursday will soon afghanistan one point six percent faster almost point one percent banking stocks were also down. burbank's wrong to send in the rubble my six. national journal the trading day. they've been really quite flat today the big story has obviously been around. the impact of present comments about the potential change in board of directors. suffered actually as a result of that and i think it's been the really underperforming for today i think that reflects you know uncertainty what does it actually mean for for obviously such as a. story. of the world's biggest. increase

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