the libyan government says no thursday's cry offer from the opposition saying it would be madness to take its soldiers out of the cities where this uprising i'm told is there in the capital city of tripoli joining me in a few moments i'll bring you more. meanwhile a russian card trueness conference there on the internet with his take on the events in libya and of course the middle east. and the rest while something travels to along to a close resume now for example as a major tourist destination offering a break from bustling city life to your mountains.

it's seven pm in moscow this is our g coming to you live thanks for being with us our top story this evening nato says it's investigating reports of at least ten libyan rebels killed in a coalition air strike some sources suggest that the strike came after a program if you fighter joined the group and opened fire at allied planes meanwhile the country's government has rejected rebel calls for a cease fire. 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 to tripoli itself to cease fire offers and at that time the rebels said that these offers 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 diplomatic front

a slightly different picture is emerging we are hearing on the country film a prime minister mr abdul actually a baby that the lines of communication have 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 wednesday mohammed ismail who is a trusted 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 but landed insisting that any kind of deal any kind of settlement plan would have to include the consult stepping down we're hearing from doctors on the frontline and some of the most recent later it 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 different incidence nato is five hits and 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 say that the government and soldiers there have intensified their surely 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 reste of the city some one. landing in get at his compound has his ear according to eyewitnesses there they were my peers on the building and there was blood on the ground the fighting in the frontline into the round 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 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 been provided by the international community well also being told that the rebels had water and some new people so that they are stepping up the fight on the ground we're hearing from the european union that if it is ready to stand a humanitarian mission it what you should 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 humanitarian organizations working here. well brendan o'neill editor of the online political magazine spiked told r.t. the foreign intervention in libya is unlikely to bring the country's people and positive outcomes. it's a disaster i think from beginning to end it's a very it's i called it the barbarism of perfumes 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 the 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've already had power in some form from the friends of the former backers of gadhafi they are the people who are going to benefit people who turn their back 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 live through ruled by pretty much the same people just with himself that is going to be really proud of the people of libya. and journalist and author susan lindauer says the cold asians decision to back the rebels wasn't

properly thought. will never step down he's a fighter to the end and it seems extraordinary that the opposition forces while they are losing the war will try to dictate the terms of surrender to the party that's winning which is the united nations has jumped into this conflict before they were before they understood who they were teaming up with they did not understand anything about this opposition force the opposition force is not highly emotive 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. now for updates on the situation in libya throughout the day check out our. blog on our website you just saw her reporting at the top of the hour from tripoli and her latest post online she describes the hotel

where she and foreign journalists are saying suiting el signings in the air and difficulty going anywhere due to government restrictions stay with her latest news from libya a lot on starting dot com we go straight. now as the world's attention is fixed on libya the events have inspired some vicious debate and satirical jobs a russian cartoonist has created an animated picture of the north african unrest which became an instant hit on the internet are just more important matter. opportunity parity 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 igor's goot a twenty six year old motivated by technology and politics. pleasure i wanted to do. on that. i just looked. towards one of my favorite games that. i fold. all the things that are going on and i thought you'd like put through the roof and i fold and slide into my shop those kids in this three little pigs remake libyan strongman moammar gadhafi and the ousted leaders of tunisia in egypt will warm of green pigs hiding in houses angry bird protesters smashed denali and the bar but with libya.

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 and game plays out we're in a fortnight r.t. . well still ahead here this hour here on our team breasts of praise for economic recovery. what i do i actually draw a. alarm that's where you move to the corporation and government which right now that alarms very blurred the residential hence the streets of the big apple find

out what people think might save the global economy from further blows. plus an inside look at the family's side of the sun years grace craft where we'd witness final preparations for a launch marking the fiftieth anniversary of man's first flight into space. he has. to.

be official look ancient and short on the phone called touch from the. launch all she is on the go. video. blog she's mine old girls. and omissions features now in the palm of your. question on the call. here with our team life and moscow colonel gadhafi his attack on civilians has prompted combination and immediate response from the international community while the outcry on libya is loud other conflicts have sal to draw such reaction as our team is going to check can now reports this is how some leaders risk a punishment for their crimes that 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 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 the good you begin to me george the reborn part of the sleeping city of tskhinvali and the peace will carry. 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 sacrifice really as bombings she was visiting relatives in one of the counties south of setia i believe such really should be removed from office i think you should be tried in international courts for rouer crimes but when it comes to mikhail saakashvili even though the e.u. finding mission determines that he started the war in two thousand and eight and

ordered the bloodbath in south the city at 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 about georgia about palestine about kosovo the question of who is held respond. sibel 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 fox news interview shows almost unstoppable praise of the us is also believed to have played a role in the west supporting saakashvili no matter what his clients america's like

because he faced them better than the america and more more didn't receive more freedom from religion as i say for a graduation from the bastard so you're 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 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 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 atrocities he would be treated like they could benefit the now banned from travel but these principles 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 he grew us is happy to to continue. ending a blind eye to the blood of separateness heads i'm gonna check out reporting from washington r.t. . generous in the middle east on the crisis in japan have raised volatility on global markets causing fears of another worldwide economic crisis with the dollar sinking against other currencies the rest of show host laurie harvest takes in the streets of new york find out what people there think. of the world's financial or.

billionaire investor george soros is holding a conference to be attended by the world's richest and most influential people it turns out 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 reproach away with already going on which is the governments of long since lost control of the monetary world and it's because. corporate. so. what i do i actually draw a line between the two corporations and government which right now their line is very blurry my i'm 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 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 company's working in as well as a lot of people feeling like it's time for the dollar to step down because there's always been animosity against the u.s. by. because well 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 about the middle east i got crushed by the. you know thirty percent of the dollar's losing weight no matter what we do thank you oh well look i remember back then i used to go through a sixty yen to the dollar now it's a hundred a soviet time for a global monetary system 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 with the most money for better or worse. preparations for the takeoff as a sign of spacecraft are in full swing at baikonur cosmodrome with the rocket now installed on the launch pratt on tuesday it will blast start celebrating the upcoming fiftieth anniversary of humankind first journey to the stars. alongside has got some fresh firsthand impressions from across the not just back from. the we're here at the l. launch pad and i could never possibly program back to washington right now. they're moving the rocket to the expo expedition twenty seven from the cars on the position to the vertical position and feeling very interested to see this whole process will join in watching what's going on right now it says nasa astronaut told scott and she actually just laughed it off on to the national space station about three weeks

ago knight yeah and this is your first time looking at this process particularly what do you think about it i think it's it's pretty impressive it's really neat to see. how differently on different markets work to get to space and out all as a person out of the end but very different very different to the space shuttle and what we do but looking forward to watching our friend ron karen load up in a couple days to go back to school and having been there before i had you know an idea of what i was going to be looking forward to and everything at the space station is such a wonderful huge volume in space the largest volume of never had in history and space and now to be able to look out oh we were talking earlier this couple a window this kind of. a window that looks down to be earned it just. there really it's a very emotional thing to do i think that. you know you see your own planet from space you're experiencing floating around in my gravity and doing some good work up there and big guy and working as international partners to you know anything about

living in space or and in a city should be you're very protected knew that you have to do it because we as humans can look at little to put her out in the vacuum of space and very similar to what it's like living under water here under pressure you can't just you know walk out the door without special going on so little for the most part you know the entire life you're there you're thinking about things like you know what do i need to do to protect myself in this given environment and fortunately the space station and the aquarius out of the water are very common place to be set up. and you've got those where those worked out. your interview for the reader or your beautiful we're. going to thank you thank you nicole you're old were there you i remember a lot of astronauts cosmonauts and astronauts here right now watching this very process coming here especially because of the it's an important day it's happening to your time the first year of the guards first flight and the thirtieth anniversary of his first space shuttle flight so again everyone here very excited

seeing all this up close said it was or is pretty good for this right now though is it a bit chilly at the moment so we are expecting to see more of the families of the astronauts coming here and even the little boy from french guiana who had designed the hatch of the crew of expedition twenty seven so i assess. baikonur she'll be keeping track of the latest on this trip into orbit including the big launch on tuesday on our web site we've got a special space anniversary section celebrating fifty years since the current torrent site it's got one new features and images for these tracks thank you. probably never seen before to check out the high resolution views captured by a russian satellite and much more of our team.

let's take a look at some other stories dominating world news this saturday. and stricken fukushima power plant have sealed a crack in a reactor which was leaking radioactive water into the pacific floor was reported to be continuing however and more works are planned planned officials are also searching for other possible leaks contaminated seawater near the plant has shown radiation levels four thousand times the legal limit meanwhile japan's prime minister has visited the tsunami ravaged religious 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 by asked thirty laps dozens more were injured on friday a similar protests in the city of mazar e sharif led to the deaths of seven workers at the local u.n.

office. gunfire and explosions have been heard at the presidential palace in our main city of abidjan as the country's struggle for power heats up every eight hundred people have been reported killed in violence in the city of duke way this week fighters backing the un recognized leader on the side of your tahrir are pressing the offensive against the incumbent president they are said to have seized the key port and the country's capital. later today on our t.v. our documentary about sean sellers sentenced to death and executed in the u.s. at the age of sixteen our special report reveals his emotional trial and examines how those caught up in the case are still haunted by twelve years on. as you know song was sixteen years old when he committed these murders that's not to say the song so it should not be punished for his crimes sean is being punished

no rational person in the now about sean has been punished is being punished and will be honest. as ours must be executed for the brutal crime committed this is a punishment this is not. imagine. that it's. because we've been immersed know me whatsoever. how i didn't come here justice. and heard they first. start a small. minority. and my dad is now.

you can watch that special report throughout the day here on r t well in a lighter note next we continue our russell close up series on our team isn't the ural mountains to show you a relaxing getaway. we're in the city of saturday in the southern your role as a major industrial hog closed off to foreigners as recently as the one nine hundred ninety s. but today it's natural beauty is on display for everyone and i think it's a real bonus that. when the soviet union broke out businessmen into latin school so an opportunity to try this once closed down region it's a major tourist destination after all

a good look around shows the southern euros have much to offer the almost unanimous goal was to elaborate it was always perceived as a mass allergic allegiance of course it remains say to this day but many people see that there's more to life than mine and questions such as this will start to attract thousands of people. and it is a businessman who on a whim invested most of his capital into building resorts new to national parks the russians generally prefer to hit the slopes in europe alexandra jim says the number of visitors to the resort grows every season but this is the world's foremost going to go to the alps and you love it but you come back here because it's just two hours from must go by quite a lot of the cure not to mention the fact that you can get away with this at a lot of ski resorts in europe snowboarding stress really it's just part of these cases which draws young and old alike that you have in scrooge and thank you mr right because it's 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 olds not ins actually goes a long way towards helping the minds unwind of course there are plenty of gorgeous place in the world but how do you know but if you want a true russian winter fairy tale and to go national park is definitely the place for you here as another leg of the night travel for you are off 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 bodies that but even if you use transportation it's still difficult to get it all back to our campsites but thousands of tourists every year do manage because the region previously known as russians do you and stronghold has too much too thin or when it comes to natural beauty and from quality and if you have an screech an. r.t. . to take a short break you're on our team only back with

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