would be so much brighter if the song from feinstein. starts on t. dot com. two years a growing number of senior libyan officials are reportedly fleeing the country the regime stands firm with resumed attacks on a rebel held city. georgia wants the world to know it's going to come paying to wipe out corruption so why is roni flukes a businessman who georgette those one hundred million dollars sentenced to seven years in prison all the details are coming up in just a few minutes here on r.t. . people in this hamlet forty kilometers away are in danger and yet the government seems stunned shingly unwilling to move. we are appalled that japan's authorities

are under fire for the way that they're dealing with the fukushima nuclear plant disaster and for ignoring calls for expand the evacuation zone. this is r t the international news channel from moscow good evening it's eleven pm friday evening here and it's not at night in tripoli my name is kevin zero in first more civilian deaths from coalition strikes are being reported in libya tonight with seven people found dead after the recent bombing of the eastern city of brega the u.k. said meantime to be holding talks with a senior aide to the libyan regime is believed to be seeking an exit strategy for colonel gadhafi for a series of high ranking defections but as artie's paul asli reports next from tripoli the government doesn't seem ready to back off yet. it seems incredibly

unlikely that the libyan leader moammar gadhafi will stick down in face of these increasing defections and also the offer from the opposition of a cease fire deal they are insisting that gadhafi first to back his troops from the waste in the cities of this country and also stop his appearance of in the east of libya they say that if he does not do this they will fight on and liberate this country now there is no reason why gadhafi would actually agree to the cease fire deal because his troops outnumber the rebels by ten to one and off to chew weeks of nato airstrikes the rebel fighters have been pushing all the way back to the oil town of radio and at this stage that is where the fighting are centered around as far as the defections the tripoli government is making light of the fact that the foreign minister who is of course it is in britain that he has defected they say that he is an old man who is very sick and he asked for a leave of absence which they granted him now we are hearing rumors that as many as ten more libyan officials people who are from gadhafi is in

a circle could also be thinking of defecting they are in talks reportedly with the british we've also been told that a senior aide to gadhafi is the son has now returned to tripoli after holding secret talks in london apparently he has been discussing some kind of the weeks to deal for the gadhafi family and we understand that a man from the table insists that gadhafi steps down but so far the tripoli government tightlipped about all of that and those officials that we can get to talk some people deny it the vatican envoy to the obvious is that the information he has what's the number of civilian deaths in tripoli and knowing from nato airstrikes and more than forty he said that most of these people have been killed in the eastern tip of the suburb of europe and he quotes one incident where the house when the roof of a house collapsed in on the family and small children inside that we're also hearing from a doctor on that front line the town of brega he says the seven people have been killed in air strikes so the numbers. civilian deaths continuing to climb. out is

paul a sleeper there from tripoli and you can follow us on her on twitter to get instant updates of course one of the latest tweets tonight she says increasing numbers of people on the ground so they feel a stalemate in libya could become a reality we'll see if that plays out of not follow us at r.t. under school also check out for his insights in a blog on our main web site our team got caught. show. well susan lindauer as a journalist and author specializing in american intervention she's joining us now from washington d.c. very good evening to you from moscow the cia is reported to be there already is now getting reconnaissance and crucially how prince of training the opposition troops and others not all tired with the original goal of humanitarian efforts. well i

have never believed this was a humanitarian endeavor i was also the u.s. asset covering libya at the united nations for nine years from one thousand nine hundred five until two thousand and three and i know these people very well. will never step down he's a fighter to the end and it it seems extraordinary that at the losing opposite to the opposition forces while they are losing the war would try to dictate the terms of surrender to the party that's winning which is the daffy once again we see that the united nations is on the wrong side of the conflict what do you make of these negotiations we're hearing about maybe in britain that he's maybe trying to go see a settlement so they can go quietly do you think there's any knowledge in the. i do

not think could get out he will step down i think he will stay and he will fight and i think that again the united nations has jumped into this conflict before they were before and they understood who they were teaming up with they did not understand anything about this opposition force the opposition force is not highly motivated they may be passionate in their politics but they are not highly organized on the battlefield essentially you're going to have to have a ground war to remove gadhafi ok so you were you saying this is a good well why would you go into this blindly the i'm sorry i take it what you say but why would the coalition forces go into this blindly without of having thought it through as you say. that's it if this was very badly done i will tell you that because because of my knowledge of the lockerbie issue

last summer we began to hear some very interesting gossip about the we began to hear that he was pressuring us and possibly british oil companies and it may also extend to french and italian oil companies all right and kentucky was pressuring u.s. oil companies to reimburse libya for the costs for the payments to the families of pan am one hundred three you see there is this this very important detail that libya had nothing to do with lockerbie and. and the united nations had imposed sanctions on libya and forced libya to pay damages to the families two point seven billion dollars and they had wrecked libya's economy with sanctions and now last summer we began to hear that could offie was pushing the oil companies for reimbursement of the costs to the libyans saying that's my duty and you. yes

yes i do believe that it's very significant i believe that in october chevron and occidental petroleum pulled out of libya ok now. italy france britain and china germany all those countries are still in libya ok those countries are still there but the united states pulled out and i believe that at that point the united states began to think that there were they needed to do something to remove could be because he was going to continue to demand behind the scenes he was going to demand that libya receive compensation for the sanctions that they suffered wrongfully for twelve years interesting theory and it's a lesson she's not literally it's a lesson because i want to ask you one of the point taken everything you say i mean

i was just what it was what was going on the ground in your thoughts about what's actually happening now as well let's bring you up to date has been further confirmation today of civilian deaths as a result of those coalition strikes in libya let's imagine every detail of this operation is eventually made public just like we saw with afghanistan and iraq wiki leaks do you think that might make the same explosive reading if that ever happens . absolutely i think that you don't bomb a village in order to say that i think it's a tragedy this war is wrong or it is a war for oil and to take libya's resources. i mean it's they've already created a new national bank that's outrageous clearly this has been on the drawing board for a long time and these people have no trouble no mercy for the libyan people anyone who cared about the libyan people would stop immediately all right susan thanks for

being on the program interesting to have your views the journalist north rose you are joining us from washington d.c. thank you very much well as the military campaign in libya rages on questions remain over how far the coalition will decide to go on the ground later this crosstalk artie's discussion program people have of his views about that very issue . reality is that obama despite him saying that the call is natural move could our feet on the ground that's what's happening in the course everyone anyone will tell you behind the scenes that is the goal if you look at the last twenty four hour news cycle you'll see that there are special forces on the ground in libya right now and in afghanistan style scenario that is the first step towards ever greater and. involvement in the conflict on the ground.

next seven years in prison that so doing business in georgia has ended up for one israeli investor ronnie fix was found guilty of bribery but simply secord his lawyers say it was entrapped by top officials so the government could avoid paying one hundred million dollars it owed to a businessman that is a katrina groucho over explains. a roni folks is not only a major investor in georgia he's also on record so in turkey a position combining both economic development and all the rock diplomacy he worked as an oil trader in new york for some people teen years and yes he invested huge amounts of cash in georgia back in the nine hundred ninety s. now quite surprisingly for humanity tobel last year he received an invitation to visit georgia from the prime minister of the country himself now was surprisingly because fifteen years rooney folks has been demanding one hundred million dollars

from georgia the money which georgia owes him for a bridge to grammont on construction of an oil pipeline back in the ninety's now a court in london earlier that year ruled that georgia indeed should pay the money back but georgian authorities obviously didn't want to pay that money to rony folks here believe that invitation is just a formality to put an end to this fifteen year old dispute now shortly before that vizard inquiry read see a hotel room in turkey there was an unofficial meeting between rooney and georgian authorities and there they reached a verbal agreement after drinking lots of cognac. would receive only seventy two million dollars instead of ninety eight george owed him but on one critical condition in return he gives seven million dollars back now the agreement was reached only one for a mallet he was allowed to come over to georgia shake hands with the prime minister

and finalize the deal now minutes after that happened in front of georgian t.v. cameras rony folks and his business associate were arrested the question is how did it come that a businessman who georgia owes that huge amount of cash and are in a prison now the lure of it was a trap there. he wisely set out by me himself there was in fact a. cooperation a collaboration between four important ministries of the government and probably with the approval of the president of the ministry of finance the ministry of justice or the ministry of the interior and the prime minister's office all of which came together with the plan to entrap rotation of fuchs was that informed through diplomatic channels that he would not be released until the arbitration award was waived now shortly after roni fox and his business partner what they were

all for it runs a work could be called a ransom was put on the table now just that he could be released if he had needs of killed and if he gave the money back but rooney forbes refused to do either now we know that your agenda wants the world to believe that it's on a war against corruption and really personally wants to attract foreign investment into the country so of course he has saved this one hundred million dollars obviously but the question is how much will he lose because now thorn investors will have to think twice before bringing money into this country. it without c still ahead a few this hour on the channel. palestinian engineer went missing in ukraine too late to resurface in an israeli prison scandal is gathering momentum with everything pointing to ask question operation by the messiah which he created the

forty's had no idea of. the days got all the details in a special report from kiev for you coming up in just a few minutes also. despite the fact that there are new things to buy from one incoming things like oh what's that great still people here for you to make some things which are being hunted by watch for letters the world over as we'll see in a few minutes artie's close visits the place where time seems to have stood still but frankly a lot of folks in the craft of what should be a king join his impressions of it later. japanese officials are spraying resin they say no around the quake hit fukushima nuclear plant to try to avoid any further spread of radioactive substances it comes after radiation was detected in groundwater near the plant for the first time the levels were ten thousand times higher than the legal limit authorities say they don't plan to expand the twenty kilometer evacuation zone despite the fact that radiation was

reduced to forty kilometers from the facility american writer an expert on she. says the action of the government shows is just trying to save face. of the biggest problems they are dealing with here is this whole thing is that left in the hands of the electrical company and in most of the large countries of the world their interview had a problem of this seriousness you'd have to now the central government coming in with all the big resources at their disposal the harmony the navy the resources of this company are not up to it they don't have enough cars and vans and so on to get to the site well them. you know think wealthy countries like japan there are other ways to do it and yet the government is just. paralyzed unwilling to make a move beyond what some direct threats in the electrical company are telling us that there are many problems not only that relations but one of the curious questions is why are they staying at a facility that is subject to radioactivity just five hundred meters from the site

there not to waste and bring in tents people temporary shelter say one kilometer or even two which were the amount of radioactivity that they are exposed to the issue is not so much what the electrical company gets into but why the central government seems unwilling to step in and it's one of the weirder aspects of this that the japanese government seems unwilling to accept reality when it comes to serious danger outside the twenty kilometer limit actually it's not just the u.s. results even the japanese government's own results as published according to a. nuclear radioactivity testing facility which was reported about a week ago announced the same results so it's obvious that people in this hamlet forty kilometers away are in danger and yet the government seems stunned shingly

unwilling to move. i can only guess that it's something to do with face saving. maybe. the government doesn't want to admit. the danger has gone beyond a certain artificial limit. stark warning for the village is there for wife an expert on japan skirt was the nuclear crisis in fukushima continues to unfold there is a worry of course that it might turn into another chernobyl disaster and that ukrainian reactor was the world's worst nuclear accident on our web site you can equate yourselves with more about that you can find exclusive photographs that have been taken from a round of all they've been newly taken for you twenty five years on you can see the striking and harrowing images and follow up columns of blogs about r.t. dot com.

this is r.t. from moscow a scandal flaring up after israel confirmed an abducted palestinian engineer is now awaiting trial in an israeli prison did our bosses see who in the country queues of links with hamas disappeared in ukraine in february. it's got the story. this story has definitely more questions than answers and more mysteries than we can imagine the palestinian engineer did out of lucy she went missing in ukraine in the middle of february he was on board a train from hike of to kiev when allegedly two men walked into his good argument and removed a man from the train there had been no information whatsoever on his whereabouts until thursday when the israeli prime minister openly admitted that the man was kept in a prison on israel's territory now his connection to the hamas is being named as

one of the reasons for such actions and he is waiting for charges to be put against him but his wife and himself are saying that these allegations are not true in fact his ukrainian wife iranica turned to the u.n. high commissioner for refugees to sort this issue out and she believes that this alleged kidnapping was performed by the israeli intelligence service the mossad now what's interesting about the story is how exactly this man was removed from the ukrainian territory i spoke to one of the former security officers and he told me that in case of a planned operation between the two countries intelligence services this is this usually is not a problem with a man is arrested then he is quietly deported from the country but in this case both the training intelligence service and the cheery ministry say they had no idea of any actions by their israeli counterparts moreover the country's interior minister alexander would you know he's going to israel to sort this issue out so

the country's interior minister has now a very difficult task to tell his israeli counterparts not to do anything like that on the korean territory without letting them know. world news in brief least twelve people have been killed the u.n. office in afghanistan. was attacked by demonstrators seven foreigners and four afghan workers a said. the protest was a reaction to the burning of the koran after last month of demonstrators chanting death. now every coast places from their fight to supporting the u.n. backed president like the other son of a tire laying siege to the residence of the embattled leader laurent gbagbo forces loyal to what tara have advanced in recent days seizing a king called am the company's capital the physically step planning time following defeat in the event as president told the un has imposed sanctions against him including a travel ban and a freeze on his assets and usual. huge rallies that occurred in the capital of

yemen tens of thousands of supporters and opponents of the president's have taken to the streets with tensions high between the two clans hundreds of security forces were deployed checkpoints across the city present alibre cell a address the crowd saying that the rule in the country cannot be changed both the demonstrations come amid a stalemate and talks with the position transfer. some of the latest in a rush of closeups series which is a chance to get to know the country better. and we're on day two of our trip to the chair you have been screeching in the euro's there is a map it's an industrial powerhouse there's been feeling russia's economy for centuries among its trademark goods are highly sought after military watches and engraved steel weapons is

a really good went to explore. time stands still in slot oldest. of this time found through iraq is like being the time when anything has to be here over the last thirty to forty years in fact when i look around here are some of the archives that phrases like this one player from back in my childhood they were meeting right in the sixty's in one thousand seven hundred what's the spike that there is they say was the word incoming to us like oh what's that great still people here can you make things good for the hunted by what you call that 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 most. of all we produce 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 now these are the famous divers watches which the watch print 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 good for any watch in those years to all there was into the big things this may just be the ultimate choice and it's not only watch films taken care of here but those tears something to offer even to modern day swashbucklers. with. google from eight hundred fifteen as what most was the center of calderon's production in the country return essentially supplied weapons to the entire russian imperial army. these days a 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 the young american. clients include the army russian federal security service and

private collectors the cold steel weapons are more of a symbolic item now rather than a functional one they signify power and on it to this day so whether you're looking to reaffirm your status with a blade or to keep time with a heavy duty military watch is that almost the town of iron workers who managed to evolve with time but probably have what you want in a godless carty should have been scrooge and. i would be good for your troubles insurance tomorrow as well with more ports on the region about present business next. that's right time to get the latest from the world of business and business isn't russia could be in for a tax break president the social tax rate which pays for health care and pensions should below it it went up to thirty four percent at the beginning of the year are many analysts say it's having

a negative impact on all types of businesses how with a partner. taxation is not the main issue for investors. i don't think the. investment club in russia is in texas to pay taxes that actually is one of the second series of russian isn't going to is not as good as a real wasn't to be. done the research should such a short as a major impediment to invest investments in russia both local and foreign is broke and the purchased. time to have a quick look at how the markets were fairing the actual stock market has hit a new twenty eleven high on a total global optimism both our chairs and my sister dished up more than one and a half percent i did she made just before it looked like on friday with gas proficient up two point six percent russian markets this week have been quite volatile however the positive bias has prevailed and the markets are closing one

hundred percent up well supported by the growth in the. contracts by around two percent as the military conflict in libya continues to be pressing also out of the oil price environment we have seen this week is a mixed bag of statistics from the us europe and china today we have seen a very strong change in my numbers which came ahead of consensus and we face a growth for the first time in four months we have also seen renewed concerns of the european sovereign debt crisis with portuguese debt trading at record high yields in the entire history of the european union. the creative now russian airports are far to take off in a big way the russian government is going to spend almost fourteen billion dollars getting them and upgrades along with air traffic control president medvedev hopes this will also improve their hotlinks across the biggest country in the world. well certainly in your. compared with ten years ago the number of similar reports was

full and my almost forty percent of the main problem is the infrastructure of many airports does not meet existing requirements but in order to improve the situation the government will spend one hundred seventy five billion dollars on evasion in general by twenty twenty that's ten times more than in the last decade before during the year the sheers here and canadian auto parts company magna may supply components for the first russian hybrid car the deal more build the car is there brainchild of businessman mikhail prokhorov it's aimed at saving energy and being cheap to buy and run production to start next year with plans to produce ten thousand cars annually as expects the story price for example bill will be around sixteen thousand dollars the car will have to abortions a four door saloon or a sporting coupe a version like that scene with the prime minister points of behind the wheel. ok that perhaps other business both enjoy in the last one was time for business

stories here on r t and get more from outside our chief outcomes trash business. wealthy british style but it's not i think that's. accurate.