a senior associate told him libyan regime is reportedly in london for talks seven to doubt his future following the threat of the country's foreign minister signifying a strong space in the ranks. i think a policy success would be the removal of. the cut off the regime the military mission is a limited one can does not include regime change what's the goal of the libyan campaign and who's going to pay for it and u.s. top brass faced some tough questions in congress. the integrity of america's motives are scrutinized by city all civilian deaths in the gaza and south

acetic could jump start the opportunity to bring democracy to other regions. you're watching r t eight am here in moscow that's head straight to our top story now the u.k. is reportedly hosting a senior aides to the libyan regime is believed to be seeking an exit strategy and the log i think media sources suggest that at least ten top ranking libyan officials may feel a country following in the footsteps of the former foreign minister was a coup so let's cross live now to watching sports there he's in tripoli for a supporter of us more about what appears to be happening in the libyan government what's going on in the gulf is right. well at this point in time we are aware of defections the former foreign minister mr nelson. in england is holding discussions

with which officials in london or were they have been at pains that he will not be offered immunity and apple is the announcement by the former foreign minister in the u.n. general assembly president he is also going to depart and exit from iraq and so she both of them have been recently zoning and they cannot continue to be part of a machine that supports an ongoing killing of innocent civilians now look me government has responded only to the departure for lack of a better word of course they see but this was not they say he was sick even elderly now he's been suffering from diabetes and he actually approached the machine and asked in the absence of a government spokesperson i. asked to see if the foreign minister returns to the country he will be welcomed back now the question as to whether or not he was in rio there were other possible departures from the regime and he said no he said that they did not expect any other people to meet despite the fact that we are

hearing that as many as ten people might be planning to defect from the regime now one of its most interested is currently in one going in properly understand he's been in secret talks with the british government of the last fortnight this is possibly to resolve and put on the table some kind of x. a clan or a doctor himself which does suggest a regime might be crumbling and all that could be looking at a way out of all of that's. because the situation on the ground there are we're still seeing that are these troops advancing well you can stop it in you have a situation here in tripoli as they were overnight raids in once thought i hope less than a minute ago in fact we are hearing from the vatican our way that at least forty people have been killed forty civilians here in tripoli alone by these and strikes that have shown no sign of looting he says it may. it's occurred in each of the eastern suburbs. and some people were killed when a house collapsed and there was

a family were stronger and inside the rallies and demonstrations in support and continued it was one just overnight in his compound and as you can see it in a vision is reporting a statement that was actually written by. he continues to call it music strikes. and continues to call on his people to granny and support him as far as the fighting goes most of it now you seem to demand a ton of which seems as if the rebels have managed to stop their push all the way back to the city. but they're still fighting the high sand dunes they're still using very very simple. calling on the international community to me and force and . we understand that there are more disciplined nart than they have been in the last few days. and you seem. to be losing this war while in the city of misrata where it's we continue to hear and are no reports of clashes between her end and he

could also lose in just the last twenty four hours we've been told there twenty civilians have been killed by shelling and residential areas. ok up or do keep us updated throughout the thank you for now. the u.s. has reportedly sent cia teams into libya to gather intelligence from nato operations in the country it is believed that the agents are there to establish links with the rebels some from or in there to the members of our kind either a former officer at the advancing of the terrorists as it's one thing i put imports of true. it wouldn't surprise me at all in fact i'm sure that there are agents the officers in libya right now and they should be because that's the agency's mr mission to provide the president information he needs to make decisions so they should be people there talking to the rebels and assessing you know their capability they have to be meeting with those people and making assessments and

checking on their background in and see is there any kind of affiliation that's worrying their it's not just even if they have no affiliation if the people are so disorganized. they can't legitimately do the task then arming them you just prolong a conflict that's not going to help anyone. living all u.s. defense secretary robert gates and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff will address to the american congress on the didn't there gates said. sister that your position should instead. of going to other countries. twelve days into the u.s. bombing of libya. u.s. congressmen were hoping to finally get some answers but after two hours of questioning the secretary of defense and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff they were still confusion about the u.s. is ending i think a policy success would be the removal of the khadafi

regime a military mission is a limited one and does not include regime change. who the rebels are we don't have much visibility into and of those who have risen against each element has its own agenda. and whether the us well armed them discuss our plans if you need regarding arming the rebels they seem to be getting better but swept but keep in mind pass the buck and that one difference to the white house but if it was al qaeda decided to bristle in their story it would clearly have a problem with that how long the u.s. will stay a bottom line is no one can predict for you how long it will take. for that to happen and whether the u.s. is at war at all these are combat operations were intended to be combat operations for the i don't know why this administration has not been honest with the american people that this is about regime change or your circular defense you ought to be an

expert on what's an act of war act of war or not gates told congress the president actually did not make his final decision on what to do until thursday night less than forty eight hours before the first two hundred tomahawk missiles were fired we don't understand what he's doing still and i don't think he has the support of this congress when was the briefing of the armed services committee. there wasn't what is clear to cost five hundred fifty million dollars in the first ten days alone and it estimated forty million dollars a month but not how it will be paid in terms of how to pay for this. there is a. year in the discussions with the white house would be very difficult for the department to eat this cost it's mine repeated over and over again there would be no american ground troops there will be no american boots on the ground in libya who is the person on the ground that historic and close air support missions of his

fortunes there's no recent press reports at least indicate there are cia operatives on the ground so boots on the ground as i would define it and of other sending troops i guess is we've all read about it in the newspapers the same time i see that's my concern is that we read about things in the newspaper and then we get to comment ask the questions do you want to formally handed control to nato today and you know operation odyssey dawn and beginning operation unified protector newspapers quoting vatican sources so that forty civilians were killed in coalition air strikes guaranteeing that there will be plenty of more questions for a top american military brass here in washington ford artsy washington d.c. . in the cross talk today show discusses who's actually was sponsible for. his. we have to be a little skeptical that that's a you're good u.s. strategy to go in and then hope for it is the idea of hope i guess to quote the

president's own saying to run a strategy like this or we're going to get in do some bombing and that sort of thing and hope for the best and i just don't see going to war in that way is responsible and i can't believe the us foreign policy establishment is supporting that type of a half baked option agreement in line and it continues isn't something to head but this isn't a good this is not that you are second to get in fact the u.s. has taken a back about see through this is a forty three countries internationally that you are doing yes i'm leaving the country is the u.s. against. providing most of this is not going to please can i finish my point please can i finish my point out of countries to five hundred countries two of them are engaged in the military action turkey norway and canada. and another land sort of denmark one two three countries france britain you know

why does not the u.s. against gadhafi i mean we have not invited to you as to come in. the first country to launch air strikes over libya france has taken one of the leading roles and eventually actually against the gadhafi regime many now see it as an attempt to overhaul its image international arena and influence in a region. reports france was plotting war on libya already last year raising fresh fears over the country's global ambitions. there. are humans but the french and the british forced work to nor by the french are preparing. these operations since last november bombing a small arab nation seemed like an easy way to put fronts on the map but once you

get in on what i call the imperial condominium a recurring africa with no way in to the invasion in sight and she wore protests are rocketing across the european union. the war in libya would put french and british abroad and restore the government the popularity of forward instead of the body continues oppositional ball boy his growing demonstrators say they see through from these noble claims. france claims humanitarian intervention but it's really empowering. the results record numbers saying nor the french president nicolas sarkozy. because of more. for ever for the last forty years. french leaders who took a quick military victory would revive the reputation now sound distinctly out of

tune the new bush will see terrorists. also to come on the program of fifty years in space. as the old fresh face grew to achievement best man and making it also. if i could get the things thinking it was somewhat slow in coming does not know what that great still people here can you make some things which are being hunted by. what you call that the world over. from a fancy watches to coast to weapons across one of the urals showing off this over the latest of our russian close ups. japanese officials are planning to pump out contaminated water from the stricken reactors at fukushima nuclear plant authorities hope the measure will help resume efforts to restore the facilities cooling system it's unclear when the operation will start as

radiation levels around the site are continuing to rise the latest tests show it's now ten thousand times the legal limit in groundwater near the plant. fears have prevented recovery of remains about to present victims of japan's earthquake and tsunami from within the twenty kilometer exclusion area and disaster has so far claimed almost twelve thousand lives over sixteen thousand people still unaccounted for. well the crisis in japan has brought comparisons between fukushima and events that noble twenty five years ago still the world's most serious nuclear accident not a correspondence alexy or chef skinner visit into some of the ghost towns in the chernobyl exclusion zone in ukraine you can hear the photos of his experience on our website or to dot com you also find the accies special report on his we can only look up really explored and all this brought in but.

now the un international court is due to announce at the sit in on georgia's legal action against russia so b.c. is accusing moscow of violating an international convention during the conflict in south asserted in the two thousand and eight. you can report sort of broadly case is rife with microsoft. this is the warm welcome and firm handshakes for someone who just three years ago gave the order that led to the deaths of civilians in the republic of south i'm dealing with one of the great leaders of the world the georgian president with his fluent english is a welcome guest on american t.v. shows where he's never asked the question why in the middle of the night on august the seventh of two thousand and eight the georgia begin the major artillery bombardment of the sleeping city of involved and other peaceful palestinian by.

the region which georgia wanted to bring under its control was razed to the ground . hundreds were killed in the attack joe maestas nearly lost his daughter in his bombings she was visiting relatives in one of the towns in south of setia i believe starkest really should be removed from office i think you should be tried in international court for rule crimes when he comes to me even though the e.u. finding mission determined that he started a war in two thousand and eight and ordered the bloodbath in south of the georgian president is still supported in the west they have no strategic interest in. supporting his overthrow the notion that decisions get made on the basis of humanitarian concerns is simply false it doesn't it's not the basis for the decision about libya it's not the basis for decisions about georgia about palestine about kosovo the question of who is held responsible and how is very much

a strategic question it's not a legal question as it should be to boost its strategic importance among other things georgia has dispatched one thousand troops to join allied forces in afghanistan and became the leading troop contributor relative to georgia's overall population soundless and as this foxy. interview shows almost unstoppable praise of the u.s. is also believed to have played a role in the west supporting saakashvili no matter what his crimes america's like because it's based on a break from the murder of archer and more worried the raptors more freedom from religion is to place a for a graduation a bastard so you now as the world has declared a no fly zone over libya to stop gadhafi many wonder why a no fly zone was never on the table when the georgian president launched his deadly campaign or when israel bombed the garrison for three weeks in a row on the question for example of gaza where you had

a latent act of aggression clearly a violent massive violation of not only international human rights norms but work crimes crimes against humanity being created fourteen hundred people killed of whom more than nine hundred were civilians more than three hundred were children it was a horrific situation that went on for days the problem there is that israel is the protector protectorate of the united states and the u.s. was not going to allow anyone the united nations or anyone else to actually engage in a serious way in stopping that massacre you would think if a leader commits the office he would be pretty likely to benefit denounce then from travel but this result that's not the way politics works the georgian president killed scores of civilians but was exonerated by the west's politics friends accepting as a friend business leaders are looking for the best in his country and it seems the

worst is happy to continue turning a blind eye to the blood of separate peace heads i'm going to check our reporting for last in our team. the russian space agency has dedicated its latest so use of space craft the launch the anniversary of you know the government's invention flights fifty years ago blasting off from kazakhstan in four days time the launch will carry two russian cosmonauts and american astronauts to the international space station that seems to be a story. well it's a few days before the a crew of the t.s.a. twenty one of blasts off into space and as expected in the few days in the run up to the the actual flight they're going through the preflight preparations and right now what you're seeing behind me is the actual capsule that will be taken suspects this is the top part of the a space shuttle where the actual crew will be staying and the crew members that we have before this flight are alexandersson antibody seckel and american astronaut ron garan now what they're going through right now is actually called a check literally checking whether they fit into the seats that have been made it

is designed especially for them each of the astronaut cosmonaut has a different build a different weight different height and so they have to customize everything inside the cabin crew area so that they are going to feel comfortable in doing the tasks are supposed to do now the blast off will happen in the approximately about four four days and they're going to be doing about forty experiments in space what's special about this if you can see in the background is that you can see you got in the first time in space a logo of him a banner hanging down a very special about this flight is that it's happening very closely i mean first room if you have a verse or a few to get got its first like the space that was of course april twelfth when my team is sixty one all the p. five perforations are very precise and follow down to the last detail but it's not just the mathematics the science of the rocket science that is that we actually follow to the last detail but it's also the traditions to be a cosmonauts and astronauts have to go through a few days before the flight and today they had gone to the museum as have the

other cosmonauts who had gone to space the visit of the museum we got in museum and they put their signatures every single person that had launched it was gone into space had done the exact same thing beside the went to the garden cottage as well they visited that and it's again it's even more special now that the tomb is because of the fiftieth anniversary of the first large of you've got. well now some other international story. it's making headlines gunfire broke out across ivory coast's financial capital as forces attempting to unseat the country's entrenched president one descended on i'll be shown some sentiment comes of course this was an internationally recognized president tara took control of the majority of the country the regular army put up a little resistance saucer to the ground in the process the u.n. has now introduced sanctions missing an asset freeze

a travel ban on the incumbent president. parish official say the nation's banks need another twenty four billion euro border to withstand any international crisis. the issue of violence international bailout new stress tests well the country's most precious institutions will be introduced new estimates will bring the total cost of audience bank that almost seventy million. today or russia closer to the chelyabinsk region kate of the border between europe and asia for centuries now it's been a defense powerhouse arming results armies in the stablish and civil unions from little nuclear arsenals. that's brought cold steel or nuclear weapons are the only contributions that the

city has made their case now it's been another fracturing jarred from using everything from military watches to engraved metal works this r.t.s. discovered some of those headwinds of the past are experiencing a comeback as collectors on the public turn to timeless classics. time stands still in slot almost. the best time to throw right away is like being the time certainly anything has to be here over the last thirty to forty years in fact when i look around me are some of the archives i'll catch phrases like this one there from back in my childhood they were made in one thousand six thousand nine hundred seventy one despite the fact that the third season was somewhat incoming does not go with what three still people here can feel you need some things which are being hunted by what collectors the world over you may have heard of these russian divers watches they have been hard by collectors worldwide for several

decades now but most can only get their hands on costly replicas which have nothing to do with the originals the real deal is being made right here in town of the coast. we produced these watches until nine hundred seventy four for the soviet navy then we stopped because there was no need for them but now suddenly they've become popular so we've removed production but in a very small capacity now these are the famous divers watches for things like balls to watch planes is known for of course there is nothing dainty about them they're extremely heavy and well frankly very bulky so i don't think i could pull them out of but for any watch in those years to all there was in two big things this may just be the ultimate choice and it's not only watch vance taken care of here the toast has something to offer even to modern day swashbucklers history from school and not from eight hundred fifteen as lottos was the center of calderon's production in the country the term essential he supplied weapons to the entire

russian imperial army. these days the town supply is called steel weapons widely used by russian special forces and military and state officials and state gifts and rewards for outstanding service. clients include the army read russian federal security service and private collectors were called steal weapons are more of a symbolic item now rather than a functional one they signify power in order to this day i think every officer should at least have a cutlass in his possession so whether you're looking to reaffirm your status with a blade or to keep time with a heavy duty military watch as opposed to the town of iron workers who managed to evolve with time will probably have what you want it involves corti. s. cret craftsmanship or the business news is next with katrina. thanks

for being with us here on r.t. and welcome to the business news this hour the price of oil has reached a two and a half year high made new concerns about the situation in libya brant crude is traffic currently trading around one hundred seventeen dollars a barrel while light sweet is around one hundred seven dollars the chairman of germany's energy giant winter's hall says the oil price should hold around those current levels. we do see an oil prize which is in the order of magnitude of five hundred ten dollars plus per barrel i think the recent development you do see in the aerobic waldron and should we really keep the oil price on this for the level we do see right now but the volatility will increase depending on what is from really happening on the world little bit before we have to deal with the situation but the level on short term i do see that. now let's take a look at how the stock markets are performing the nikkei average age lower on

friday as profit taking kicked in after it had advanced to a two week high shortly after opening with investors came to light and recently built positions ahead of the weekend meanwhile shares in tokyo electric power company the operator of the sheema nuclear station plunged another twelve percent after initially climbing shortly after opening and hong kong shares advance to take gains into the third straight session with energy producers leading the way on the growing prices right now but i am by hand saying i'm looking quite positive just up hard just under half a percent for the next day and almost point to the percent of the hang saying here in russia the market did you see i was going until i was time for my six close next on thursday he has gained less than half a percent of my six last just a tenth of a percent. proposals my present that i have have government officials off the board of state companies affected affected the russian markets on tuesday rather measured very capital since the changes will continue having an impact. today the market is

really going to be focusing on the the results of what we saw yesterday you know coming to terms now with the present maybe at its comments about. board of directors what does this mean for sachin what does this mean for how does it impact the companies that they're associated with the price that it's difficult to price something off markets as those kind of comments investors will be looking at the government controlled companies it seems to be a lot but changing at the moment in most government controlled companies they are fundamentally some of the cheapest assets in emerging markets globally so if there is likely to be any positive change there have a big impact. and that's all the business news but it sounds like you can always keep up to date on line of. business.

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