libyan government says no. from the opposition saying it would take the soldiers out of the cities where their pricing i'm point is clear in the capital city of tripoli coming in a few moments i'll bring you more. meanwhile a russian cartoonist causes a stir on the internet with his take on the events in libya and across the middle east as we report on. the russia close a team travels through a once closed region that revamped as a major tourist destination offering a break for a bustling city life in the. evening

for me kevin no it's eight pm here in moscow and thanks for being with the international news broadcaster the top story nato says it's investigating reports of at least ten libyan rebels killed in a coalition air strike some sources suggest the strike came off for a few fighter joined the group and opened fire at allied planes meanwhile the country's government rejected rebel calls for a cease fire paula syria has the latest from tripoli for you. 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 for thirty 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 from a prime minister mr abdul actually a baby that 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 come from that in recent weeks it has been meeting in private with several high ranking libyan officials we know that just on reins day mohammed ismail who is a trusted aide of gadhafi son was in london he was trying to organize what we understand some kind of exit strategy for the gadhafi family that landed insisting that any kind of deal any kind of settlement plan would have to include himself stepping down we're hearing from doctors on the frontline that even 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 separate incidents nato is strike hit an ammunitions and laurie and the explosions according to 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 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 and west of the city somewhere. landing in get at his compound and. according to eyewitnesses there were snipers on the building and it was blood on the ground the fighting in the frontline centered around the town of brega we are hearing that the rebels are slightly better organized but they are now stopping to be inexperienced young

fighters who have shown themselves to flee in the face of chaos and actually reaching the frontline we're 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 provided by the international community we're also being told that the rebels have water and some new equipment so they are sticking up the fight on the ground we're hearing from the european union that if asked is really to send a humanitarian mission it will essentially hold a not a military operation that will provide humanitarian assistance in the sense of hoping to evacuate displaced people and also provide assistance to humanitarian organizations working here but it will correspond. more thoughts about what's going on here we're joined live by a stephen news radio host and also from chicago mr loman very good evening from artsy observation news that they two forces have reportedly killed at least ten rebel fighters by mistake on top of the confirmed civilian deaths we heard about yesterday do you think the allied operation is no losing more credibility. well i

think it has no credibility and what would it over there are said repeatedly regarded the surge the u.n. security council literally by a weighed in so i'm sure the u.n. charter is not authorized and all eyes are on the u.n. charter does not authorize war because that's what a no fly zone. the u.n. charter is not authorized all necessary means what is security council did was basically authorize the u.s. with recall of your it's me me guess what this is all about three called illiterates. the u.s. britain and france to legally attack a nonbelligerent country so that the council violated article fifty one of the un charter it clearly says that no nation me attack another nation except in

self-defense if another nation attacks a nation the nation attacked me respond until the security council acts but the security council maybe not act in violation of its own charter this war which is what it is it's a power grab by the three callable is your it's america the main one is the idea is to colonize another country destroy it crowd up a corpse privatized industries control its resources is split it's equal wars i never thought. to liberate people could humanitarian reasons for anything other than wealth and power and this war is following the same script the script isn't identical each story but is math when one said about history it may not repeat exactly but it right i have seen descriptive for are you at all

surprised then i know what your answer is going to pay about the turn of events and the speed in the way it's all happening it's no surprise to you that i guess oh not at all if you remember back in two thousand and three much right exact same date at the attack on libya here attacks the campaign begins months months and years nothing like this just happens over and you know it's certainly good news reporters in there we could do with. war begins this war was was planned by washington by france by britain months in abeyance i wrote about an italian radio saying the french began it in november two thousand and ten speaking before november two thousand it probably was six months at least in appearance it could have been a year it could have been two years of it yes and the pentagon kept just going on the shells which it does and that it makes its moment to launch it which was my

train teams two thousand and eleven back in two thousand and three it was much nineteen shopping are against a rare shark in or it's libya civilians are being targeted no surprise we don't hear about super billions so billions a year and missiles from thirty thousand feet cruise missiles. they don't distinguish between civilians gets will be a large fleet but this including the forces on the grove so you say there are echoes and similarities. with what we saw in iraq then yeah absolutely and what we saw in afghanistan. nine eleven happened back in two thousand what four weeks later america begins to put me here we have to stay here against the illiterate country it's. going to see a poke at absolutely nothing to do with. them

it will look here have nothing to do with nine eleven but the four weeks later sharpen up again because if you noticed it was minimally six months or a bit less yes to be taken what you say that most of them are but what about these opposition supporters in libya these people that say they want to better life and they want gadhafi to be toppled that they weren't happy with his regime their lot wasn't good enough these are genuine people with genuine concerns you saying that they've been agitated by the u.s. to rise up against gadhafi then what he's saying to these people not genuine oh you've got a few elements in here you have very popular resistance to gadhafi and they have you know i think the year after year after year of fighters me including some of the sleet killing people in the ranks they are the same equal we call them who

should be interfering in the one nine hundred eighty s. l. cairo in the 1980's recruited enlisted funded. by google by the cia that would be traitors are in iraq until two thousand and three they turned on america they attacked america europe and even america in it can't stand today and now this same group of people are the rebels the so-called rebels attacking a darkie supported by u.s. special forces u.k. special war suitors. cie in my six bay have been in libya many weeks i suspect months c. are used to me for. being nice people a rousing phony i meet them and so on and just that's what these people are they have legitimate grievances i believe there but they don't realize of it sure.

if america gets control. along with france and with britain they won't get the things that they will they will. be exploited so guess what but seeing a usual withdrawal you know moans and since most any year would. i have no doubt that it didn't get rid of him because they would stop in philly do i mean they were killed that's what they want to do they want to replace him with another crop of regime another me and i called a kind of person that america was running a country subservient to america they use the water we stole and they'll be a useful idiot who will all be orders from washington and. rebels won't be your eyes we don't give a damn we're just using them and it will betray them just. when you've got some clear views i can see about what you think on this stephen leatherman radio host

north of from chicago thanks for being on artsy. hold to get some more idea of what's actually happening on the ground in libya check out our t. paul asli is blog on our website saying he saw reporting from tripoli just a little earlier on the end her latest post in fact she describes the hotel where foreign journalists is staying with chinking outside she's talked about i'm sides here in the area difficulty going anywhere in the moment because the government restrictions she's paid in the press picture the fullest pictures you can about what you see going on around of there you can keep up to date with as well at our t. dog poem and her straight talk blogs section. well as the world's attention is fixed on libya the events of inspired some vicious debates and satirical jabs

a russian cartoonist has created an animated picture of the north african unrest which has become an instant hit all the incident miniport niall went to meet him. can't. occur to 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 igor's twenty six year old motivated by technology and politics wanted to do the flesh i wanted to do. i just looked at the birds one of my favorite games. for. some of the things that are going on and i thought plug. for.

my shop those things in this three little pigs remake libyan charm and the market off me and the ousted leaders of tunisia and egypt take a mormon of green pigs hiding in houses angry bird protesters smash their gnarly and bark but with libya. this so-called freedom fighters achieve victory with the support what i'm an american eagle wearing a for a chat. in less than five days this viral clip house created a global bars 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. new york. still ahead for you ready for takeoff for an inside look at the assembly

site for use spacecraft with just one preparation it's all the books that marks the fiftieth anniversary of man's life in the space. now though colonel gadhafi is attack on civilians has prompted condemnation and immediate response from the international community but while the outcry on libya is allowed other conflicts of failed to draw such a reaction and if that is going to teach you can report this is how some leaders to escape punishment for their crimes. this is a warm welcome and for handshakes for someone who just three years ago gave the order that led to the deaths of civilians in the republic of south. 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 the major artillery bombardment of the sleeping city of tskhinval and other peaceful callus the. 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 second street is farming's she was visiting relatives in one of the towns in the south the city of. 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 me even though the e.u. finding mission determined that he started the war in two thousand and eight and ordered a bloodbath in south of the georgian president is still supported in the west they have no strategic interest in. supporting his overthrow the notion that decisions get made on the basis of humanitarian concerns is simply false it doesn't

it's not 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 unstoppable praise of the u.s. is also believed to have played a role in the west supporting saakashvili no matter what his clients america's like because it's based on race and the murder of archer and more more didn't reflect more true got religion as i say for a graduation the bastards are here now as the world as they 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

lee 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 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. 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 there have been denounced banned from travel by this result 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 for the best in his country and it seems the white house is happy to continue turning a blind eye to the blood of these heads and belichick are reporting from washington r.t. . preparations for the takeoff of a soyuz spacecraft from full swing at the baikonur cosmodrome with a rocket launch a tuesday such blast off celebrating the upcoming fiftieth anniversary of humankind's first journey to the stars of the sensor a series at the launch site for us and it's got some fresh first time impressions from a cosmonaut just back from orbit. the we're here at p.p.l. launchpad baikonur cosmodrome we're actually watching right now. they're moving the rocket for the x. the expedition twenty seven term the cars on the position to the particle position feeling very interesting to see this whole process will surely be watching what's going on right now it says nasa astronaut old scott and she actually just landed on

the international space station about three weeks ago now right yeah and this is your first time looking at this process particularly what do you think about it and i think it's it's pretty impressive it's really neat to see. how differently different rockets work to get to space and how it all ends up working out at the end but very different very different to the space shuttle and what we do but looking forward to watching our friend right there and in a couple days to go back to space having been there before i had you know an idea of what i was going to be looking forward to going to rethink of the space station is such a wonderful huge volume in space the largest volume ever had in history and space and now to be able to look out we were talking earlier this couple a window this kind of. a window that looks down to the earth it just. it 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 microgravity and doing some good work

up there i think and working as international partners to you know when you think about living in space or and you know a space ship you're very protected and you you have to be because we as humans can can't live on her own in the vacuum of space and very similar to what it's like being underwater you're under pressure you can't just you know walk out the door without special equipment on so for the most part you know the entire time 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 me at various houses have the water are very comfortable place to be so. and they've got those windows look out. you know if you're big boy or you're beautiful plant thank you very much thank you side thank you nicole you're all are there you have it there are 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 the fiftieth anniversary of your guards first flight and the thirtieth anniversary

of the first space shuttle flight so again everyone here very excited seeing all this up close said it was pretty good for this right i'll go and get a bit so it's chilly at the moment so we are expecting to see more of the families of the astronauts coming here and even be a little boy from french guiana who had designed the touch of the crew of expedition twenty seven to guy assess. keeping track of the latest on that trip and they will be including the big launch of our web site as well just going to special space on the grocery section celebrating fifty years since your darren's historic flight is one of the features in the images there for you including these press taking pictures of earth as you've never seen it before check out these high resolution views. don't call.

well top news stories from around the world now the workers in japan stricken fukushima nuclear power plant of sealed a crack in a reactive is leaking radioactive water in brazil the flows reported to be continuing however and more works are now planned but officials are also searching for other possible leaks contaminated seawater near the plant is showing radiation levels four thousand times higher than the legal limits meantime japan's prime minister visited the tsunami ravaged villages in the northeast 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 qur'an by a pastor in the u.s. dozens more injured on friday a similar protest in the afghan city of mazar e sharif led to the deaths of seven locals a local u.n. office. gunfire and explosions have been heard of the presidential palace in ivory coast's main city of abidjan as the country's struggle for power heats up at least

eight hundred people have been reported killed in the violence in the city as you quaid this week fighters backing the u.n. recognize lead and listen to what pressing the offensive against the incumbent president said to have seized a key port of the country's capital. we continue our russia close up series and this time our teams looking at a perfect man get away. and it is day three of our trip to the chill yabrud school region in the your rules which is some seven hundred kilometers east of moscow as you can see on the map there a major industrial how it is it was closed off to the foreigners as recently as the one nine hundred ninety s. but today it's picturesque mountains welcoming everyone back again art is really good is this it's. when the soviet union broke up businessmen

interlocked in 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. with the challenge 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 i am here and posts such as this one start to attract thousands of people. i love is a businessman who on a whim invested most of his capital into building a resort near the top national park the russians generally prefer to hit the slopes in europe are leg so it's in says the number of visitors to fizzer resort grows every season with used the word to go to the alps and you love it but you'll come back again because it's home just two hours from moscow by claim. 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

escapism which draws young and old alike that you have in scranton thank you mr but in places like this you really do relax to 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 now owns actually goes a long way towards helping the mind unwind of course there are plenty of gorgeous place in the world that have no but if you want a true russian winter fairytale then the national park is definitely the place for you here as another leg the head of the going i travel the owner of the hiking camps in the national parks grounds. we began building our first thoughts eight years ago literally pulling all the weight we carry all the building materials on our back but even if you use transportation it's still difficult to get all back to our campsites but thousands of tourists every year do manage because the region previously known as russia's deep and strong hold has too much to gain or when it

comes to natural beauty interim quality initially have been sprayed in integrals r.t. . more from the team next month it's sort of an idea of moscow british sporting days being to shortly tonight kate's got news of a new leader at the top of the russian premier league and some stunning comeback at the top of the english one and the trashing in the ice hockey semifinals a lot to come of there in about a quarter of an hour my name's kevin allen here at r.t. to model a vigorous headlights for you in just a couple of minutes. see

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