the. libyan government says no to cease fire or fire from the opposition saying it would be mad to take the soldiers out of the cities where this fighting i'm going to stay in the capital city of tripoli join me in a few moments and i'll bring you more. meanwhile russian cartoonist causes a stir on the internet with his take on the of benson libya and across the middle east there the pictures you should see we've got more on that coming up in just a bit here on r.t. and. russia close-up t.v. troubles old ones close region now revamped as a major tourist destination offering

a break from the plus league city life in the ural mountains. it's eleven pm you're of moscow you're watching the r.t. news channel my name's kevin owen very good to have you company let me take you through our top story the nato says it's investigating reports of at least thirteen the libyan rebels killed in a coalition air strike some sources suggest that the strike came after a frayed we've got a bit of a problem there we've lost but story i was telling about but let's try and bring you that report now from paul the slip. 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 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 on a diplomatic front just like egypt from peculation emerging we are hearing from the country former prime minister mr abdul aziz a baby that lines of communication have been opened and 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 civil high ranking libyan officials we know that just on wednesday mohammed ismail who is a pastor dave of the death the sound 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 graphic himself stepping down we're hearing from doctors on the frontline and some

of the most recent nato airstrikes at least seven civilians were killed there were children three of them were girls from the same family you know what we've been told in what was to put incidents nature is trying to get 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 has soldiers there have intensified their shelling that it is very random and that a lot of people are dying here in tripoli levy a strikes have continued overnight there were missiles that were fired in the east and south risk of the city some. landing and get up is compound as is here according to eyewitnesses there were snipers on the boarding 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 that they are now stopping the inexperienced young fighters who showed themselves to flee in the face of chaos from 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 being provided by the international community we're also being told that the rebels have water and some new equipment so that they are stepping up the fight on the ground we are hearing from the european union that if asked it is really to send a humanitarian mission it what you see in chile holder 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. paula slater a war correspondent reporting there was opposition forces struggle to hold back advancing progress after the troops obviously go piskun office in the rebel stronghold have been ghazi he says the opposition do not come across as a credible fighting force and struggle even with nato air support. this wreckage

behind me is what's left of god after these troops may try to retake control of the guardian or stop right here at the entrance to the city and a similar picture can be seen throughout the entire way from the ghazi to the front to the worst of the cities around two hundred kilometers away from gaza at the moment the rebels are continuing to try and do it fast blast which more tripoli are being manned by nato planes when it comes to these finals themselves a lot of them are teenagers eight hundred forty seven s. who have neither the training or the experience of real combat out there on the front at the moment it's quite true sided situation even though there have already been the first that some of the rebels caused by the need to strikes here in benghazi and in the east of libya it's pretty clear that people only way the rebel forces could be affected in fighting going to these troops is with the support of

nato. stephen lebanese radio host and author from chicago he told r.t. that the allied campaign is a legal and anxious to colonize in libya. well the security council here was basically authorized the u.s. britain and france to legally interrogate and nonbelligerent country so that the council by a waiter article fifty what would be your way of sharing clearly syria has no mission to me of another nation except in self-defense to security council mean i know that in violation of its own charter this war which is what it is it's a hologram by the three called illiterates america the main one is the idea is to call a user of the country destroy it course privatizers industries control its resources is for its people and this wall is following the same script

descriptions identical each story but it is mark twain once said about history it may not repeat exactly but if it were. two thousand back in two thousand and three it was a much rain sharking or it gives the red shock a lot of it gets libya civilians are being given no surprise we don't hear about civilians so billions a year and missiles from thirty thousand feet cruise missiles. we don't distinguish between civilians. will be a lot of sleet but this including the forces only grow. when you get more idea of what's happening on the ground in libya check how poorly a lot on our website you saw reporting from tripoli just a bit earlier there in the latest poll she describes how international journalists we've been fighting to establish the truth about that libyan woman remember her

burst into that hotel room last week saying that she'd been raped by fifteen of kidnappings man heard it all the news channels we've got a back story that we're trying to find out more information for you log on to our team gone straight to more blog section for more on that later. if. well as the world's attention is fixed on libya the events of inspired both languages great and satirical jab as a russian cartoonist has created an animated picture of the north african unrest which became an instant hit on the internet but it's more important i went to meet him. it's a cartoon 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's goot twenty six year old motivated by technology and politics wanted to do flesh games i wanted to do yeah. i just looked. for birds one of my favorite games. before. i go in on a. plug. for. my shop those things in this three little pigs remake libyan strongman moammar gadhafi and the ousted leaders of tunisia and egypt took the form of green pigs hiding in houses angry bird protesters smashed literally and mubarak but with libya. this so-called freedom fighters achieve victory with the support of an american

eagle wearing a french pack. in less than five days this viral clip has created a 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 endgame plays out we're in a fortnight r.t. . gadhafi is attack on civilians has prompted condemnation an immediate response from the international community well the cry of libya is other conflicts a failed to draw such a reaction and is not is going to come reports next that's held some leaders to escape punishment for. 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 the georgia begin the major artillery bombardment of the sleeping city of involved and the peaceful palace nearby. the region which georgia wanted to bring under its control was razed to the ground . hundreds were killed in the attack. nearly lost his daughter in his bombings she was visiting relatives in one of the towns in the south the city of i believe scottish really should be removed from office i think you should be tried in international courts for rule crimes but when it comes to mikhail saakashvili even though the e.u. finding mission determined that he started a war in two thousand and eight and ordered the bloodbath in south 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 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 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 is this foxy. 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 the great american archer and more more being referred more through got to religion mr president for regulations the bastards are you 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 lee campaign or when israel bombed the gassing 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 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 he now and then from travel but misprints that's not the way politics works the georgian president killed scores of civilians but was exonerated by the west's politicians accept him as a friend business leaders are looking to invest in his country and it seems the white house is happy to continue turning a blind eye to the blood of peace heads i'm going to check our reporting for last in our piece. still ahead this hour on the program ready for takeoff how do you decide low could be your second side of the show you spacecraft will witness final preparations for the marking the fiftieth anniversary man's first flight of the space that's ahead for you then. us. there are plenty of gorgeous place in the world that help mark. but if you want it the russian winter period then to go

national park is definitely the place for you to heartsease close up team explores how the region rushes you rules firmly linked with heavy industry is now turning into a perfect getaway spot for sports and nature lovers. but more serious matters before that let's take you are selling in japan and workers at the stricken fukushima nuclear power plant battling now to seal a crack in a reactor there that's leaking radioactive water into the pacific contaminated seawater in the area has shown radiation levels four thousand times the legal limit japanese officials have told the plant sort rated to examine the facility now for other potential the next this is japan's prime minister's visited the tsunami ravaged villages in the northeast of the country for the first time that's talk more about the ongoing crisis and its possible future ramifications as well and the page should go to the ends ragnor he's a member of the international because it should for the prevention of nuclear war.

thankfully on the program you know as this crisis on falls where does it leave the whole future of the industry as you see it fukushima is of course a disaster but surely doesn't mean the end of nuclear energy there is it just not realistic. yes i think we must be prepared that this catastrophe is there see the minds of the people a little bit maybe a half a year or a year on the industry will again be calming with the argument that nuclear power plants can be see. this sentence will be broadcast. kinds of means into the mind of people's minds and we must be very much prepared for it but no one's ever pretended it's a hundred percent safe it's always all but about calculated risks and they're very minimal risk isn't it yes and exactly that minimal risk.

is calculated in a wrong way as we've now proved. we can now do some calculation and see that as actually the risk is quite high and with the amount of reactors we have over the world we must be prepared to have more of this catastrophe catastrophes in maybe shorter times ok so so what's the solution to shut the nuclear power stations but how do you sell that to a country like for instance france more than half its power comes from nuclear belgium again a big proportion of its needs comes from nuclear as you sell that to countries like bellows. yes that's a matter of political decision as it has been a matter of political decision to install power plants in the fifty's and sixty's and seventy's so all of that was a political decision and it had enormous costs to install it it was mainly driven by the military industrial complex which wanted to one up allies energy production

and of course produce atomic weapons that was their main goal and in those times called and always will was she saw there was no real reason from the energy side to have nuclear power plants so it was a political decision to have them and it's not political decision to go on and have a renewable energies. producing our electricity will this also at a time of course that the world's minerals the gas the oil is all running out we're told and it's heating up the atmosphere anyway given its problems and in other aspects surely nuclear is a good bet isn't it taking all that into account they also take into account the green technologies making solar thinking when they're not really reliable are they well at first we must say that one thing that it's not reliable now it's tommy power plants and there's a lot more problems that have to be addressed and just. maybe. we should we have all kinds of disasters minor ones and medium sized ones all over the years

and we have also this problem of the tommy waste which is dumped by the mafia into the mediterranean sea which is stored under a free skies in siberia as to leave it to rust and we have all kinds of difficulties in europe with tomic wastes being stored in mines. so really atomic energy is the norm most harmful and most dangerous and the most so what is the great palace see what is the favored way forward that will work as you say it. the favorite we would be constructive and coordinated plan in europe and all over the world how to get rid of this form of energy as soon as possible and with a real political decision was what that's what i was and replace with what because people are still going to need energy so what do you replace it with that's the big question isn't it yes the potential has been long calculated even in the

fifty's it was known that potential from. wind energy is specially with those energies we can supply the world with as much electricity electricity as we want ok good to hear your thoughts poppy as wagner's member of the international physicians for the prevention of nuclear war from say about the ongoing crisis of hands at fukushima power plant and indeed the future for nuclear thank you. to my preparations for the takeoff of a so spacecraft are in full swing at the baikonur cosmodrome with the rocket now installed on the launch pad on tuesday except stuff indeed celebrating the upcoming fiftieth anniversary of humankind's first journey to the stars are to test for a sellers at the launch site she's got some fresh firsthand impressions from a cosmonaut just back from orbit. the we're here at the a launch pad to baikonur cosmodrome we're actually watching right now. they're

moving the rocket for the exits to the twenty seven cars on the position to the particle position very interesting to see this whole process will surely be watching what's going on right now it's announced last night a full stop and she actually just landed on the national c.c. ship. this is the first time looking at this process taking what do you think about it i think it's it's pretty impressive it's really neat to see. how differently to what it's worth to get to space and how it all as a person and in the end but very different very different in the spatial in what we do but looking forward to watching my friend around here unload a couple days to go back to space having been there before i got you know an idea of what i was going to be looking forward to and everything and the space station such a wonderful huge volume in space the largest volume ever had in history and space. down to be able to look out oh we were talking earlier this cucolo into this kind

of. a window that looks down to the earth and it just. it really it's a very emotional thing to i think that. you know you see your own planet from space you're experiencing floating around in microgravity too it's a good work up there i think and we're these international partners to you know when you think about living in space you're engaged in a species in the ear very protected you have to be because we as humans can't can't live. in the vacuum of space and very similar to what it's like living under water you're under pressure you can't just you know walk out the door without special equipment 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 the aquarius habitat water are very comical places to be. and he got his way this without. the richard big worry for your beautiful planet unit here in particular and side thank you nicole you're welcome there you are literally lot of astronauts cosmonauts and astronauts

here right now watching this very process coming here especially because i'm here to enjoy the base happy fiftieth anniversary of you guys first flight and the thirtieth anniversary of the this first space shuttle flight is again everyone here very excited seeing all this up close said it was it's pretty good for this right now though if it does get to chile at the moment so we are expecting to see even more the families of the astronauts coming here and even the little boy from french guiana who had to sign to the passion of the crew of the expedition twenty seven to die assess an exciting time for space fans nazis test first said it will be keeping track of the latest trip in the world including a big launch rocket to our web site and big day you may be interested to know we've got a special space anniversary step should be celebrating fifty years since you go and story flight you know features before you cleaning things is breathtaking and it

uses as you've never seen before will high resolution that was taken by a russian satellite you want to see more than a star to go home if. if. couple top world news stories in brief nine people have been killed in the afghan city of kandahar during a protest the growing of the koran by a pastor in the u.s. dozens more were injured on friday's similar protest in the afghan city of mazar e sharif led to the deaths of seven workers at a local rental fees. gunfire and explosions have been heard at the presidential palace in ivory coast main city about the john as the country's struggle for power he and his eight hundred people have been reported killed in violence in the city of u.k. this week fighters backing the un recognized leader of the son of the tyro pressing

the offensive against the incumbent president they said have seized a key port the country's capital. change pace no next we continue on the third and final day of russia close of series and this time our team is looking for a perfect mounting getaway. gotta look sort of find it too as it is day three of this trip to the chill you have been screeching in the urals there is a map at some seven hundred kilometers east of moscow a major industrial one time it was even closed off to foreigners as recently as the one nine hundred ninety s. but these days it's picturesque mountains of welcoming everyone is artie's we're going to share that with our team. when the soviet union broke up businessmen in chile audience so an opportunity to turn this once close off

region into a major tourist destination after all a good look around shows a southerner how much to offer of all over australia is called 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 in the nine works in places such as this one start to attract thousands of people. i live is a businessman who on the whim invested most of his capital into building a resort near the national park the russians generally prefer to hit the slopes in europe i like certain says the number of visitors to fizzer resort grows every season but with use their words you go to the alps and you love it but you come back here because it's home and it's just two hours from moscow by plane. not to mention the fact that you can get away with this at a lot of ski resorts in europe snowboarding stress relief it's just part of the escapism which draws young and old alike to the children's krege and critique mr

rugg 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 euro's mountains actually goes a long way towards helping the mind unwind of course there are plenty of gorgeous places in the world that have. no good if you want a true russian winter fairy tale then to the national park is that really the place for you here one has another leg the head of the gun i travel and the owner of the hiking camps in the national parks grounds. we began building our first thoughts eight years ago literally pulling all the waste we carry all the building materials on our backs but even if you use transportation it's still difficult to get it all back to our campsites where thousands of tourists every year do manage because the region previously known as russia's defense stronghold has too much to ignore when it comes to natural beauty intern quality in this eleven screech an integral r.t.

. ok just a few minutes on r.t.e. our interview show spotlight tonight so i'll go north for his guests discuss the a run up to next year's london olympics is touted as the greatest in history fun and more about that rhymes kevin i would hear a dirty tonight with you or be updating the headlines for you very shortly.

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