we've got. the biggest issues good voice ceased to face with the news makers. it may be a government to save notice from the opposition saying it would be mad to take its soldiers out of the cities where there's pricing i'm going to clear in the capital city of tripoli joining me in a few moments and i'll bring you more. meanwhile our brushing cartoonist also a star on the internet with his take on the events in libya and the middle east. but the us are close i mean travels to i want to close the region in our program plaza a major tourist destination often a break from playing city life in the euro now.

it's five pm here in moscow this is our team coming to you guys thanks for being with us first stop ten libyan rebels have been reported killed in a coalition air strike some sources suggest that the strike came after a progress daffy fighter joined the group and opened fire at allied planes meanwhile the country's government has rejected rebel calls for a cease fire or just post here has more from the capital 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 made to cease fire offers and at that time the rebels said that these authors were insincere and could not be trusted to thirty a lot of mistrust between both sides neither willing to be the first to lay down

arms but on the diplomatic trying to slightly different picture is emerging we are hearing from the country's former prime minister mr ashton has baby the lines of communication have been opened and that they are 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 wednesday mohammed ismail who is a custody aide of gadhafi son was in london he was trying to organize what we understand some kind of an exit strategy for the gadhafi family that 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 frontline and some of the most recent nato is strikes 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 thick with incidents nato air strikes hit an ammunitions and lorry 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 residents saying that the government and soldiers there have intensified actually that it is very random and that 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. landing in get out the compound as is here according to eyewitnesses there were snipers on the building and it was blood on the ground the fighting in the frontline into the around the town of gregor we are hearing though that the rebels are slightly greater organized that they are not stopping the inexperienced young fighters who have shown themselves to feed in the face of chaos and actually

reaching the frontline we are also being told that they have new communication instruments with them in the form of satellite phones in the form of radios these have no doubt be provided by the international community we're also being told that the rebels had moved and some new equipment so that 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 if what you say it should be holding not a military operation that will provide humanitarian assistance in the sense of hoping to evacuate displaced people and also provide assistance to the humanitarian organizations working here. now brendan o'neil editor of the online political magazine told her to go for an intervention in libya is unlikely to bring the country's people and the positive outcome. it's a disaster i think from beginning to end it's a very it's i've called it the barbarism of put food what we have here are western leaders who don't know what they want don't know why they're interfering don't have

any plan or strategy or even any real leadership and yet they're throwing bombs into a country that was already very volatile it's one of the most reckless actions that western governments have taken for many years and it's going to end terribly for the people of libya the west is going to back some kind of former regime former rulers making their own new kind of government this is not going to be an intervention that supports the actual cause of liberation or the cause of democracy or the people in libya who actually want to run their own lives and be free it's going to be an intervention that ends up strengthening the hand of people who have already had power in some form former friends of the former backers of gadhafi they are the people who are going to benefit people who turn their back on good actually and say they want to run libya in a new way so i think at the end of this we could end up with a situation where libya is ruled by pretty much the same people just about gadhafi himself and that is going to be really bad for the people of libya. suggestion of some western countries to supply arms to the libyan rebels and pointless and

potentially harmful that's a great artist military contributor colonel is again equal sort of says a lack of leadership which hampers the rebels not a shortage of. in the recent interview they did the silly center's grilled me own their one of the latest challenge to the u.s. foreign policy in libya were able to arm or not to arm the rebels against their could not be loyal so now i have a unique opportunity to explain to me why it doesn't make sense politically or militarily to armed the walkaway only the rebels so the main challenge for the rebels is not so much the local square parts but there are the local leadership the absence of political and military organization so the supplier rebels who may or may not have already been infiltrated by al qaeda right now before the rebels figure out how to their goal these amounts of challengers to supply them we have

weapons only elgar of aid and to destabilize further political and military situation in libya and beyond for updates on the situation in libya throughout the day out artie's paul the slayer blog on our web site morning at the top of the hour for us in our latest post to describe the hotel where foreign journalists are saying we're sitting outside anxiety in the air and difficulty going anywhere in the strict sense if they were terrorists a brazen breaking news online twitter and facebook up from a blog block on our team. if. he. as the world's attention is fixed on

libya the events have inspired some vicious debate. jobs a russian cartoonist has created an animated picture of the north african unrest which became an instant hit on the internet arches were important i went to meet him. it's a cartoon parody starring. 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. a twenty six year old motivated by technology and politics wanted to do flex game i wanted to do. i just looked at. one of my favorite games. for. the things that.

i thought play clips. and i for. those things in this three little pigs remake libyan strongman moammar gadhafi and the ousted leaders of tunisia in egypt take the form of green pigs hiding in houses angry bird protesters smashed denali and rebar but with libya on. this so-called freedom fighters achieve victory with the support of an american eagle wearing a french hat. in less than five days this viral clip has created a global baas 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 end game plays out we're in

a fortnight our team. still i have this hour here on our recipes for a canonical coppery. what i do i actually draw a line between the two. corporations and government which right now that line is very blurry residence so it's the streets of the big apple declined knowledge but you don't dare think mine save a block or call me from further blows. plus an inside look at the family side of the science crazed craft where we witness final preparations for a launch marking the fiftieth anniversary of man's first flight into space.

it. is easy. to believe. colonel gadhafi as attack on civilians has prompted confirmation then an immediate response from international community but while the outcry on libya is allowed other conflicts have failed to draw such

a reaction and sort of he's going to can report this is out suddenly appears to escape punishment for their crimes. this is the warm welcome and further handshakes for someone who just three years ago gave the order that led to the deaths of civilians in the republic of south the city has been 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 a georgia begin to me george tiller reborn bargeman of the sleeping city of tskhinvali and other peaceful callus the. region which georgia wanted to bring under its control was raised to the ground. hundreds were killed in the attack. as nearly lost his daughter in sacrifice really is bombings she was visiting relatives in one of the counseling south of said here i believe start this really

should be removed from office i think you should be tried in international courts for rule crimes but when it comes to make outside pressure even though the e.u. finding mission determined that he started the war two thousand and eight and ordered the bloodbath in southall city as they do it in 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 a basis for the decision about libya it's not a 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 locks. interview shows almost nonstop all 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 faced them in their marriage protection and more and more the right to go through the afternoon religion of the president for a graduation the bastard so you're now as the world has declared a no fly zone over libya to stop could offie 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 gas it was 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

or the 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. is 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 atrocities he would be pretty like they could benefit the now banned from travel at this point that's not the way politics works but the interim president killed scores of civilians but was exonerated by the west politicians accept him as a friend is leaders are looking to invest in his country and it seems the group west is happy to continue turning a blind eye to the blood of socrates' heads i'm going to check our reporting from washington our team. but the unrest in the middle east and the crisis in japan have raised the volatility on global markets causing serious of another worldwide

economic crisis with the dollar same here against other currencies the rest of soho story harvest takes to the streets of new york to find out what people there think needs to be done to fix the world's financial order. billionaire investor george soros is holding a conference to be attended by the world's richest and most influential people 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 reply to a what's already going on which is that governments have long since lost control of the monetary wealth and it's because. 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 not 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 against the u.s. by. because we're the best. so is it jealousy. yeah i do i think a lot of people are jealous what we had 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 got back from italy and i got crushed by the. you know thirty percent of the dollars losing weight no matter what we think well look i remember back then i used to get turn to

sixty yen to the dollar now it's. hundred a. time for a global monetary system do you think now you've been a or a 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. preparations for the takeoff side spacecraft are in full swing and fighting across the drum the rocket now installed on the launch pad three days of all glass tossed celebrating the upcoming fiftieth anniversary of humankind's first journey. artists are sillier story. we were a few days before the actual launch of the so used to be twenty one and we had good witnessing the assembly of the rocket the three main modules that make up the spacecraft now according to be a 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 did 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 utica god and the number fifty obviously signify the a fiftieth anniversary of you got his first space flight on april twelfth nineteen a sixty one it was very interesting is the captain of the crew captain and excited to have some of which he was known as a little garden what he was young so it's if you will a good quince events on his part or the other crew members are cosmonauts and super cycle and american astronaut ron garan while they are in space there's a lot of experience they'll be doing that they're going to be testing themselves

are basically going to be lab rats they're going to be testing how the human body can survive for longer in space this is of course to further space exploration to see how long human beings could stay in space and to prolong this capability if human beings and other important experiment he will be doing is observing the earth from an ecological point of view given the natural disasters we've been witnessing a recently especially out of the earthquake in japan so it's not just for the sake of further space exploration but also for bettering the lives of human beings living on earth. parties tests are silly i will be keeping track of the latest on this special trip into orbit including of course the big launch also our website we've got a special space anniversary section celebrating fifty years since your regard storage flight it's got more news these are images for you including these graphs taking pictures of earth as you've never seen before check out these high resolution of music concert by our guns and sign a line all that and much more at our.

a look now at some other stories dominating world news this saturday workers at stricken fukushima nuclear power plant are set to sue a crack in a reactor with concrete facility is believed to be leaking radioactive water into the pacific is very fearsome levels and coastal areas four and a half thousand times the legal limit in relative terms prime minister has just visited the tsunami ravaged villages in the north east of the country for the first time. nine people have been killed in the afghan city of kandahar during a protest over the burning of the koran in the u.s. dozens more were injured

a violent demonstration follows an american pastor's burning of the muslim holy book last month on friday a similar protests in the afghan city of mazar e sharif led to deaths of seven workers at the local u.n. office. and gunfire and explosions have been heard at the presidential palace in ivory coast main city of the job as the country's struggle for power heats up at least eight hundred people have reported the been killed in violence in the city of do choir this week fighters backing the un recognized leader i will sign you are pressing the offensive against income the incumbent president there is said to have seized a key port and the country's capital. now we continue our russell close up series on our team is in the ural mountains to show you our relax and get away.

we're in the city of in the southern europe also a major industrial holiday closed off to foreigners as recently as the one nine hundred ninety s. but today it's not all beauty is all display for everyone and our jesus is there to see it for herself. when the soviet union broke out businessmen in chicago so an opportunity to turn this once closed off region into a major tourist destination after all a good look around shows the southern euros have much to offer of all over australia scored with the elaborate 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 than iron works and places such as this one start to attract thousands of people. i need is a businessman who on a whim invested most of his capital into building resorts new that will be our national park the russians generally prefer to hit the slopes in europe alexandra

jim says the number of visitors to this resort grows every season with use the word but you go to the alps and you'll love it but you'll come back again because it's home just two hours from moscow by plane. not to mention the fact that you can get away with this at a lot of theories or it's in europe snowboarding stress really it's just part of the scape is a which draws young and old alike the children scrooge and. 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 urals mountains actually goes a long way towards helping the mind unwind of course there are plenty of gorgeous places in the world that have mountains and snow but if you want a true russian winter fairytale pentagon i national park is definitely the place where you hear when there's another leg the head of they're going to travel and you know one of the hiking camps in the national parks grounds. we began building our

first thoughts eight years ago literally pulling all the ways we carried all the building materials on our backs but even if you use transportation it's still difficult to get all back to our campsites but thousands of tourists every year do now nage because the region previously known as versions deep and strong hold has too much to do nor when it comes to natural beauty interim clearance initially have been screeching in middle school arty. well less than ten minutes time here in our documentary about science it was sentenced to death and executed in the us in the ninety's it remains the only american put to death for a crime committed under the age of seventeen cents capital punishment was reinstated in the country our special report reveals his emotional trial and examines how those caught up in the case are still haunted by a cold. as you know song was sixteen years old on communities mars was not inside the song so are some

of the honest for his crimes saw and is being punished no rational person can deny about sean has been honest is being honest and will be honest. as ours must be executed for the real crime committed this is a punishment this is not. imagine. that it's safe to. cause. any mercy on me whatsoever. and i didn't come here just for justice. and her baby boomers. start to see more. violence martin. and i that is now.

that special report coming up in just a few minutes and i'll be back good to have bias after this short right.

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