the libyan government says no to cease fire off letter from the opposition saying it would be mad to take its soldiers out cities way that's pricing i'm point is here in the capital city of tripoli in a few moments and i'll put you will. also this hour in our heracles take on the middle east on ras the combination of a fairy tale animation and news headlines come together to create an ongoing ten. plus trouble continues workers repaired to seal a breach at a town stricken nuclear site as radioactive water seeps into the pacific ocean.

and for a break from the busy life we take you to restate of the art ski resort in the girls out of the area breaks free to start from patient industrial region. a warm welcome to you from our headquarters here in central moscow this is our team first up this hour libya's in battle government has flatly rejected rebel calls for a cease fire describing their terms as matt opposition leaders are demanding the regime withdraw its troops from western cities and grant freedoms to citizens well insisting colonel gadhafi steps down are just mostly or has more from tripoli. spokesperson here in tripoli said it would be mad to expect libyan soldiers to withdraw from cities where there was still fighting and this is almost ironic because it wasn't so long ago that tripoli itself to cease fire offers and at that

time the rebels said that these authors were insincere and could not be trusted so certainly a lot of mistrust between both sides neither willing to be the first to lay down arms but on the financial times a slightly different picture is emerging we are hearing from the country's former prime minister mr. baby that the lines of communication has been opened and that they're hoping to intensify them they say that they are talking with the british the french and the americans to reach some kind of neutral settlement that would see the stopping of killings of civilians now we are hearing the same line coming out of london it has confirmed that in recent weeks it has been meeting in private with several high ranking libyan officials we know that just on greens day mohammed ismail who is a custody aide of gadhafi son was in london he was trying to organize what we understand some kind of exit strategy for the gadhafi family but landed insisting that any kind of deal any kind of settlement plan would have to include gadhafi

himself stepping down we're hearing from doctors on the front line and some of the most recent nato airstrikes at least seven civilians were killed they were all children three of them were girls from the same family you know what we've been told in what was incidence nature is five hits of ammunitions and laurie and the explosions caused two nearby houses to collapse and some of those injuries coming from that overnight friday we're also hearing disturbing reports coming from the western city of misrata where residents there the government and soldiers there have intensified they surely that it is very random and then a lot of people are dying here in tripoli the airstrikes have continued overnight there were missiles that were fired in the east and south risk of the city some of the. landing and get out these compounds are asieh according to eyewitnesses there they were mike was on the border and there was blood on the ground the fighting in the frontline into the around the town of greater we are hearing that the rebels

are slightly better organized that they are now stopping to be inexperienced young fighters who showed themselves to flee in the face of chaos and actually reaching the front line we are also being told that they have new communication instruments with them in the form of second i phones in the form of radios these have no doubt being provided by the international community we're also being told that their bills have water and some new recruitment so they are stepping up the fight on the ground we're hearing from the european union that if it is ready to send a humanitarian mission it will be holding not a military operation that will provide humanitarian assistance in the sense of helping to evacuate displaced people and also provide assistance to the humanitarian organizations working here or do you suppose the reporting there from the libyan capital journalist and author susan lindauer the rebels are too weak and disorganized to dictate their conditions to gaffers forces gadhafi will never step

down he's a fighter to the end and it is seems extraordinary that the opposition forces while they are losing the war we try to dictate the terms of surrender to the party to winning which is the united nations has jumped into this conflict before they before 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're not highly organized on the battlefield essentially you're going to have to have a ground war to remove gadhafi. meanwhile some say the policy of double standards may play into the hands of worker models while leaders around the world continue to rally against moammar gadhafi events of the past so that sometimes leaders can't escape one just meant for the fun they met. also an israeli businessman owed

millions by georgia hands up in it to the need to jail for bribery saying his case was corrupted by the country's government little boy payday. that's coming up for you later this hour but first almost a million views on you tube in less than a week sorry tale of the three little pigs enjoying a comeback turned into a cartoon by a russian illustrator the animation satirical sat's satirize i should say the unrest across north africa are important i found out which pig built house works. occur to parody starring pigs. birds and r t possibly the best and shortest explanation summarizing the uprisings in tunisia egypt and libya. three big pigs was created by russian illustrator igor

i twenty six year old motivated by technology and politics he wanted to do pleasure game i wanted to do a routine. i just looked at the regards one of my favorite games and. i thought that some of the things that are going on in the middle east like put up with the revolution and i fold and so on to shop those things in this three little pigs remake libyan strongman moammar gadhafi and the ousted leaders of tunisia in egypt to put more money of green pigs hiding in houses angry bird protesters smashed literally and rebar but with libya. this so-called freedom fighters they keep victory with the supply what i've been american eagle wearing a french hat. in less than five days this viral clip has created global bots

and garnered nearly one million hits on you tube says he will likely make a second video and has already been approached about turning his cartoon into a game colorful metaphors and imagery illustrating the story of revolutions as the world waits to see how the real and game plays out during a fortnight r.t. new york well the condemnation of gaffney bybee international community has given rise to accusations of corsi recent conflicts and some leaders can escape punishment for their crimes as long as they have the backing of the us. 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 viet nam 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 answered the question why in the middle of the night on august the seventh of two thousand and eight a georgia begin the major artillery bombardment of the sleeping city of tskhinvali and other peaceful calloused. region which georgia wanted to bring under its control was razed to the ground. hundreds were killed in the attack. as nearly lost his daughter in sacrificially as bombings she was visiting relatives in one of the counties south of setia i believe cyprus really should be removed from office i think you should be tried in international courts for rule crimes when it comes to me street even though the e.u. finding mission determined that he started the war 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 it's simply false it doesn't it's not the basis for the decision about libya it's not the basis for decisions of georgia about palestine and 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 will step soundless and as this fox. interview shows almost on stoppable praise of the u.s. is also believed to have played a role in the west's according saakashvili no matter what his crimes and there's a slight because he faced them better than the american archer and more more the referee moultrie got religion mr president for imagine loyalty to the bastard so

you're now as the world as the cleared 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 dad the campaign or when israel bombed the garrison for three weeks in a row on the question for example of gaza where you had a blatant act of aggression clearly a violent massive violation of not only international human rights norms but war crimes crimes against humanity being created fourteen hundred people killed of whom more than nine hundred were civilians more than three hundred four children it was a terrific situation that went on for days the problem there is that israel is the protector protectorate of the united states and the u.s. is not going to allow any united nations or anyone else to actually engage in a serious way in stopping that massacre you would think if

a leader commits atrocities he would be pretty like they could benefit denounced banned from travel but it's crucial that's not the way politics works the georgian president killed scores of civilians but was exonerated by the west politicians accept him as a friend business leaders are looking to invest in his country and it seems the grass is happy to continue turning a blind eye to the blood peace heads i'm going to check out reporting from washington r.t. . r t why from moscow still to come for you why the u.s. dollar could be out of the cracks or with the creation of a new global monetary system. read a lot of people jealous of what we have were a free country you. go for nothing make a million dollars or you can make a million dollars and lose it all but you have opportunity. and other opinions gathered by the president so house on the streets of new york. and

putting the pieces in place reports in the a family fight the fire spacecraft three dogs are scheduled to mark the fiftieth anniversary have you recall daryn first eighth white. workers at the stricken fukushima facility are set to seal a breach in one of the reactors using concrete japan's nuclear officials are highly radioactive water has seeping through a crack into the pacific ocean and you went nuclear official has warned that the operation fall for a crisis of the sight of me along the lines of perhaps prime minister has visited the damage facility to boost morale among those working their party say they don't plan to expand the twenty kilometer evacuation zone of the radiation was register forty kilometers from the facility american writer and commentator on japan alex care says the government is not doing enough to solve the crisis. of the biggest problems they are dealing with here is this whole thing has been left in the hands of the electrical company and in most of the large countries of the world i think

if you had a problem of this seriousness you have the not the central government coming in with all the big resources at their disposal the army the navy the resources of this company are not up to it they don't have enough cars and vans and someone to get to the site well them that they're in a big wealthy country like japan and there are other ways to do it and yet the government it just seems to realize just unwilling to make a move beyond what some direct threats in the electrical company are telling them looks that there are many problems not only the variations one of the curious questions is why are they staying at a facility that. subject to radioactivity just five hundred meters from the site they have got to it in ways to bring in tents to build temporary shelter say a one kilometer or even two of which were blue or you know one of radioactivity that they're exposed to the issue is not so much what the electrical company did or

didn't do but why the central government seems unwilling to step in and not a scandalous and politically charged trial in georgia has ended with an israeli investor being sentenced to seven years in jail ronnie fouth was charged with bribery maintains that he was set up by the georgian government which shows the in past one hundred million dollars i think is a company that explains. rony folks is not only a major investor in georgia he's also an on record so in turkey a position combining both economic development and all the rocker 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 nineteen ninety's and of course rising before he managed to go last year he received an invitation to visit george care from the prime minister of the country himself now why surprisingly because teen

years rooney flukes 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 by 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 is that in quite a rude sea hotel room and turkey there was an official meeting between. georgian authorities and then they reached a verbal agreement after drinking lots of cognac they grieved that roney folks would receive only seventy two million dollars instead of ninety eight we 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 mile that he was allowed to come over to georgia shake hands with the prime minister and finalize the deal the minutes after that happened in front of georgian t.v. cameras rony folks and his business associates were arrested and the question is how did it combat a businessman who had georgia that huge amount of cash and are in a d.c. prison now the lure of it was attract very. wisely spread out by. 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 and for running a few fuchs was then informed through diplomatic channels that he would not be released until your patrician award was waived now shortly after roni fox and his

business partner were they were all for it runs and what could be called a ransom was put on the table now do just that but he could be released if he admitted guilt and if he gave the money back but rooney forbes refused to do either now we know that georgianna 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 foreign investors will have to think twice before bringing money into this country. well controversal case may well to tear other potential investors from doing business in the country that's according to her. leader of the conservative party of torture. right you know it's. not only for israel would be innocent but also i think for european

business and for american businessmen that if you are looking at corrupted links with georgian garbage you can do business in georgia the same signal was that i think it was four years ago when the. officers saw in the in the market those stories the same girl who was he was raided right who was supposed to be very tragic for the georgian economy would cave in great know mr fortune frankly spatially after this case was in the movie told by. it's rather go into different international restrictions. that was. leader of the conservative party of georgia well to get more news and features from our team you can log onto our website r.t. dot com let's take a quick look at what's lined up for you right now as the snow finally melts in moscow some of the capital's innovators to clear the selling season are open on the city road. and earth as you've never seen them before check out the spectacular high resolution images captured by

a rossum satellite back and much more at our team dot com. corporations are in full swing for the upcoming science space launch as the staff and crew make all the necessary checks for a smooth takeoff the event marks the fiftieth anniversary of russian cosmonaut yuri gagarin first flight in space are scenes telstar sylvia has more. we were a few days before the actual launch of the so used to i'm a twenty one and we have been witnessing the assembly of the rocket the three main modules that make up the spacecraft now according to b.s. staff here it takes about ten days or more to put together the spacecraft but today what we've seen it took about seven hours just to a put one piece of the structure to be a top most part the very first module that contains the

a cabin where the crew will be staying what they put today was your crew escape system and this is very important because should anything go wrong during the launch this will provide them with an escape plan as we were standing here watching the assembly we were able to see very closely the exterior of that module carrying the cabin we saw of course the image of you got it at that number fifty obviously signify your fiftieth anniversary of utica got its first space flight on april twelfth nineteen a sixty one at that what's very interesting is the captain of the crew captain and excited. he was known as a little guarded when he was young so it's if you will a good coincidence on his part of the other crew members are cosmonauts i'm very very cycle and american astronaut ron garan they're going to be testing themselves are basically going to be lab rats they're going to be tested how does human body can survive for longer in space this is of course to further space exploration to see how long human beings can stay in space and to prolong this capability of human

beings another important experiment they will be doing is observing the earth from an ecological point of view that given the natural disasters we've been witnessing a recent. instability in the middle east and the japanese disaster have sparked fears of a new global economic crisis the president show host maury hard for this hour people on the streets of new york what needs to be done to avoid a financial collapse. billionaire investor george soros is holding a conference to be attended by the world's richest and most influential people on the agenda to reform the global monetary system how do you fix the world's economy this week let's talk about that well number one they're not trying to figure out how to fix the economy they're trying to repair to a what's already going on which is the governments have long since lost control of the monetary wealth and it's because. it's corporate

so when i do i'd actually draw a line between the two corporations and government which right now that line is very blurry my and most important economic trade which is triple bottom line which means you look at what's best for not only the businesses. only for the employees involved in businesses but society as well so if that becomes your economic standard then you're improving not only the companies and the global economy but the. area that that that companies working in as well as a lot of people are feeling like it's time for the dollar to step down because there's always been animosity of genes to us by. because well best. so is it jealousy. yeah i do i think a lot of people jealous of what we have were a free country you can come from nothing and make a million dollars or you can make a million dollars and lose it all but you have opportunity i just about

a million i got crushed by the oh you know thirty percent of the dollars losing weight no matter what we may well look i remember back when i used to get through to sixty yen to the dollar now it's maybe a hundred a soviet time for a global monetary system now you deny your socialist i can't go down that road no matter what you or i think should be done to improve the global economy the bottom line is those decisions will always be made by those at the most money for better or worse. now continuing our russia closeup series the team heads off to the foothills of siberia reveal a relax and get away from urban life. where

in france can the southern you're also a region calls off to foreigners until as recently as one thousand nine hundred ninety s. but today it's natural beauty and splendor on just like for everyone just like your sort there's the regionals and see the reputation as a haven for those wanting to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city are these ridiculous is that. when the soviet union broke up businessmen into latin school so an opportunity to turn this once closed off region it's a major tourist destination after all a good look around shows the southern euros have much to offer at the all those three must go with the children it was always perceived as a metallurgical regional of course it remains so to this day but many people see that there's more to life the nine and places such as this one starts with a truck thousands of people. i love is a businessman who on the whim invested most of his capital into building resorts knew that ok our national park the russians generally prefer to hit the slopes in

europe i exit watson says the number of visitors to visitors or grows every season or with used to work with you go to the alps and you'll love it but you'll come back in because it's home just two hours from moscow by plane. not to mention the fact that you can get away with this in a lot of ski resorts in europe snowboarding stress relief it's just part of the skate is a which draws young and old alike the children's courage and thank you mr because in places like this you really do relax you get away from the fast of a large city which is totally unnecessary and it's all about resting your mind and body. the landscape in this part of the year old mountains actually goes a long way towards helping the mind unwind of course there are plenty of gorgeous boys in the world that have not know but if you want a true russian winter fairy tale then to go national park is definitely the place for you here we know it's another leg the head of for the night travel and the

owner of the hiking counts in the national parks grounds. we began building our first thoughts eight years ago literally pulling all the way we carried all the building materials on our backs but even if you used transportation it's still difficult to get all that to our camp sites with thousands of tourists every year do now nage because the region previously known as virtual stephen stronghold has too much to do or when it comes to natural beauty and from quality in the shootout in screech an image r.t. . let's take a look now at some other stories making headlines around the world this saturday more than eight hundred people have been killed during violence in the western ivory coast town of required according to the red cross reports a fighting erupted on tuesday a day after the town's taken by opposition supporters meanwhile clashes have been continuing near the country's presidential palace as forces loyal to the internationally recognized president alassane ouattara tried to bring into power mr

ouattara supporters have so far failed to oust entrenched leader laurent gbagbo. seven un staff members have been killed after a crowd of protesters stormed their compound in northern afghanistan the demonstrators were enraged over the burning of a koran by a u.s. pastor last month eleven afghan civilians were also killed in the violence the u.n. security council has strongly condemned the attack protests in afghanistan have been ongoing for over a week now but have been largely peaceful. and three palestinian men have been killed in one thousand during an air strike by an unmanned is. drone in the southern gaza strip officials say the men were traveling in a car at the time is relative france officials claim it was a creative attack on a hamas group of militants were allegedly planning to kidnap as i have. well stay with us here in our state for the main headlines coming up in just a. little.