libyan government saves no ceasefire offer from the opposition saying it would be madness to take its soldiers out of his way this pointing on point is there in the capital city of tripoli coming in a few moments i'll bring you more. a midwestern states insisting that colonel gadhafi pay for attacking civilians or examine how global powers seem to turn a blind eye to similar crimes in other countries. also a satirical view of the unrest in the middle east the russian cartoonists are already on the phone to our leaders at efforts to topple of grapes a stir on the internet got that for you too plus. these people are not old

soldiers like the corps has this direct launched in our soldiers that interest in these people are human beings workers that japan's fukushima nuclear power plants are fighting to stop radioactive water leaking into the pacific under extreme conditions that activists are calling any human. it's one of them right now here in moscow welcome if you just joined us my name is kevin oh is this is the r t news channel in the top story nato says it's investigating reports of at least thirteen libyan rebels killed in a coalition air strike some sources suggest the strike came after a pro get out the fighter joined the group and opened fire at allied planes meantime the country's government rejected rebel calls for a cease fire paula slithers got the latest 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 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 fanatic trying to slightly different picture is emerging we are hearing from the country from the prime minister mr. 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 civil high ranking libyan officials we know that just on wednesday mohammed ismail who is a trusted aide of the guthrie's sound was in london he was trying to organize what

we understand some kind of exit strategy for 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 front line and some of the most recent nato airstrikes at least seven civilians were killed they were all children three of them were girls from the same family you know what we've been told in what was incidence nato is strike hit an 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 pursue the reports coming from the resistance 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 east winds have continued overnight there were missiles that were fired in the east and south and west of the city some other. landing and good at his compound are bad 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 starting to be inexperienced young fighters who have shown 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 being provided by the international community who are also being told that the rebels have water and some new equipment so that they are stepping up the fight on the ground we're hearing from the european union that if asked is really to send anything a man a teary a mission it 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 humanitarian organizations working here. there was opposition forces struggled to hold back

advancing progress troops could not physically rebel stronghold of being guards you for a city says the opposition did 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 his troops when they try to retake control of you've got your start right here at the entrance to the city and a similar picture can be seen throughout the entire way from bin ghazi to the front to the west of the city it's around two hundred kilometers away from the gaza at the moment the rebels are continually trying to advance west towards tripoli and are being backed by nato planes when it comes to the spinors themselves a lot of them are teenagers with the forty seven's who have neither the training for the experience of real combat out there on the front at the moment it's quite neutral sided situation even though there have already been the first that some of

the rebels caused by the need to strikes here in big guys in the east of libya it's pretty clear that people only way the rebel forces could be effective in fighting going to be soups is that with the support of nato. grows off as a blogger an antiwar activist he told me that nato is using the same strategy in libya as it did in afghanistan in kosovo. there are certain parallels of course with the beginning stages of the invasion and. military operations in afghanistan in october two thousand and one i think there are also astonishing parallels with all the united states and nato you know conduct of the war against yugoslavia ninety ninety nine your report a little while ago mentioned you know sophisticated satellite telephone communication. more advanced weaponry and so forth you know falling lands are being supplied to insurgent forces libyan that's you know fully comparable to what the

united states and nato did with the so-called possible liberation army in the serbian province of possible in nineteen ninety nine it looks like the the handbook for military aggression an intervention that the united states and nato. very little options and they tell you week wait the saints in areas repeat western powers reserved for themselves the exclusive prerogative of waging war whenever we are ever under whichever pretext they choose to do so. or if you have more of a handle on what's happening on the ground in libya to check our policy is blog on our website you saw reporting from tripoli just a bit earlier on she's been there from the start of this trouble and the latest post she describes how international journalists have been fighting to establish the truth about that libyan woman who you may recall pursed into the hotel last week saying that she'd been raped by fifteen of gadhafi as men find out the latest about her paul has got some details that are t. dot com straight to our blog section for more of the story.

if. you. as the world's attention is fixed on libya the events have inspired both angry debate and satirical jabs an old russian cartoonist has created an animated picture of the north african unrest which became an instant hit on the internet and he's made a point nine i went to meet him. 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 i twenty six year old motivated by technology and politics i wanted to do flesh

game i wanted to do yeah. i just looked. towards one of my favorite games. for. some of the things that are going on in the middle east. and i for. the sense in this three little pigs remake libyan charm in the market and the ousted leaders of tunisia in egypt take the form of green pigs hiding in houses angry bird protesters smashed literally and the bark but with libya oh my god i'm going 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 bots and garnered nearly one million hits on you tube says he will likely make a second video and has already been approached about turning his cartoon into

a game colorful metaphors and imagery illustrating the story of revolutions as the world waits to see how the real and game plays out marina porton our party. can conduct its attack on civilians has prompted condemnation and an immediate response from the international community but while the outcry about libya is allowed other conflicts of failed to draw such a reaction result is going to change it can reports next for us this is held certainly it is to escape punishment for their crimes. 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. 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 screen vall and other peaceful palace nearby. 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 second street is bombings she was visiting relatives in one of the towns in south 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 of here 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 found lists and is this fox news. 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 and there is like because it's based on briggs and their marriage pretty much if they're more worried enough to go through go through all this of this to say for a graduation the bastards who you are 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 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 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 mr felt 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's him to the why else is happy to continue turning a blind eye to the blood of separate peace heads and ballots right now reporting for lost in r t. still to come on the program here on out to you ready for takeoff an inside look at the assembly site of the so used spacecraft will witness final preparations for the launch just marking the fiftieth anniversary of first flight from space. look forward to plus. there are plenty of gorgeous place in the world that have not. but if you want true russian winter period then to the national park is definitely the place for you. oxys close up to explore the whole region of russia as you will be linked with heavy industry is no turning into a perfect getaway for school to make sure that it's. ok for the workers at

japan's stricken fukushima nuclear power plant battling to seal a crack in a reactor there that's leaking radioactive water into the pacific contaminated sea water in the area has indeed show radiation levels four thousand times the legal limit japanese officials have told the plant's operator to examine the facility for other potential big snow. meantime japan's prime minister's visited the tsunami ravaged villages in the northeast of the country for the first time you have a campus of nuclear power expert for greenpeace he told me that workers at the fukushima plant deserve better conditions for the vital job they do. because these people are not not soldiers like. them abuse people are human beings that are voluntary and very often also with with very nasty histories in their own family life because of the tsunami are still overcoming that and working all their best to to to overcome very difficult circumstances yes they do need they do really need to

get a certain sense is a matter of will to support i think what we see is that not everybody that only that we believe should have been evacuated has been evacuated there is still in the twenty to thirty kilometers only a large group of people that are advised to stay indoors there are no really indoors for three weeks and that is not a very easy way to to live the selected a few days ago when we could go we found the radiation levels in the village of. that for really high enough to to have people evacuated there the only confirmed at last wednesday. withdrew the employees again today these people with those kind of political voices from all kinds of salts they get extra inches and i think it would be better indeed to get those people out in a place where they can relax where they do not have to be scared of anything that could happen to the power plant and keep in mind series at the moment every fear always still heavy after shock and aftershocks for the four point eight five five

point zero five control of yesterday still very very heavy aftershocks and every time this completes a new emergency in the power station those people are only enormous strides and start there from here on how to count nuclear power expert from greenpeace talked about the ongoing crisis in japan's fukushima power plant. the preparations for the takeoff of the soyuz spacecraft from full swing in the baikonur cosmodrome with a rocket now installed on launch pad vehicle choose date is set to blast off celebrating the upcoming fiftieth anniversary of humankind's first united states i think test of sellers at the launch site for a she's got some first hand fresh impressions from a cosmonaut just back from orbit. well we're here at the elbow pads baikonur cosmodrome we're actually watching right now. they're moving the rocket for the expedition twenty seven cars opposition to the vertical position very interesting

to see this whole process will shortly be watching what's going on right now it's announced last not full stop and she actually just landed from the international space station about leaks ago and this is the first time looking at this process particularly with the think about it i think it's it's pretty impressive it's really neat to see. how differently the rockets work to get to space shuttle as it were going out in the end but very different very different to spatial in what we do but for to watch my friend run parallel in a couple days 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 is such a wonderful. volume in space the largest value ever had in history and space. now to be able to look out oh we were talking earlier this crew flow 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. in a zero planet from space you're experiencing floating around in microgravity doing some good work up there i think and working as international partners to you know anything about living in space you're engaging in a space ship me you're very protected you you have to be because we as humans can can't live on earth in the vacuum of space and very similar to what it's like living on the water you're under pressure you can't just you know help the shore without special so for the most part 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 various houses have water are very comfortable place to be. and they got this with this without. you know richard big or your beautiful planet initiated by think you and i think even know you are. here you know that there are a lot of astronauts cosmonauts finance here right now watching this process coming

here especially because of the court dates happening in the fiftieth anniversary if you compare its first flight and do you think the first three and that's this first space shuttle flight so get everyone here very excited seeing all this up close and whether it's pretty good for this right now though if it it's a chilly day at the moment so we are expecting to see more of the family said yes you know ask coming here event the little boy from french guiana who had to sign to patch the crew of expedition twenty seven to die assess. keeping track of the latest on my trip into orbit as well including the big launch you can follow it to our website love interest is now going to special space anniversary section set up for you celebrating fifty years since you could garlands historic flight they use features and these images breath taking pictures of the earth and maybe you've never seen before check out these high resolution views because you captured by russian. all of mortality.

the best laid plans acknowledging now the rest of the middle east and the crisis in japan has raised volatility on global markets causing fears of another global economic crisis with the dollar sinking against other currencies the resident show half of us took 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 hands 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 repair to

a what's already going on which is the governments of long since lost control of the monetary wealth and it's because. corporate. show. what i do. actually draw a line between the two. corporations and government which right now their line is very blurry my and most important economic trade which is triple bottom line which means you look at what's best for not only the businesses. only for the employees involved in businesses but society as well so if that becomes your economic standard then you're improving not only the companies and other global economy but the. area that that that companies 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. why. because we're the best. there was it jealousy. yeah i do i think a lot of people are jealous of what we have were

a free country you can come from nothing and make a million dollars or you can make a million dollars and lose it all but you have opportunity i just about from italy and i got crushed by the. you know thirty percent of the dollars losing weight no matter what we doing well look i remember back when i used to turn a sixty yen to the dollar now it's maybe a hundred a so the. global monetary system now you deny are a socialist i can't go down that road no matter what you or i think should be done . him for the global economy the bottom line is those that this is will always be made by those with the most money for better or worse. the residents has spoken ok let's move on now to a couple of top world news stories i would like to bring you up to date with nine people have been killed in the afghan city of kandahar during a protest of the burning of the qur'an by a pastor in the u.s.

dozens more injured on friday to a similar protest in the afghan city of mazar e sharif led to the deaths of twelve people that time including seven workers local un office. gunfire explosions have been heard at the presidential palace in ivory coast main city of abidjan is the country's struggle for power heats up at least eight hundred people have been reported killed in violence in the city of new quaid this week fighters backing the u.n. recognize leader understand what pressing the offensive against the incumbent president is said now seems to keep order in the country's capital. coming up next we continue our russia close up series this time out things looking for a perfect getaway. and it looks like the founded two day three of the trip to chill you have been

screeching in the you rules at some seven hundred kilometers east of moscow there wasn't a map major industrial hub and it was closed off to foreigners as recently as the one nine hundred ninety s. but these days it's picturesque mountains a welcoming everyone at these are really going to school with to find out more. when the soviet union broke up businessmen in chicago so an opportunity to turn this once called gulf region it's a major tourist destination after all a good look around shows the southern euros have much to offer at the well over a service called with the children's was always perceived as a metallurgical of course it remains so to this day but many people see that there's more to life in. prison such as this one is going to attract thousands of people. and that is a businessman who on a whim invested most of his capital into building resorts knew that to be our national park the russians generally prefer to hit the slopes in europe i exit

watson says the number of visitors to resort grows every season with used to work with only going to if you go to the alps and you love it but you come back because it's home just two hours from moscow by plane but. not to mention the fact that you can get away with this in a lot of ski resorts in europe snowboarding stress really it's just part of the skate business which draws young and old alike the children speech and turkey. in places like these you really do relax and get away from the fast of a large city which is totally unnecessary and it's all about resting your mind and body. the landscape in this part of the year old mountains actually goes a long way towards helping the mind unwind of course there are plenty of gorgeous places in the world that have no but if you want a true russian winter fairytale pentagon i national park is definitely the place for you here as a matter of that he had a second i travelled you know one of the hiking camps in the national parks grounds

where we began building our first thoughts eight years ago literally pulling all the weight we carried all the building materials on our back but even if you use transportation it's still difficult to get all back to our campsites it would but thousands of tourists every year do manage because the region previously known as versions. hold has too much to ignore when it comes to natural beauty entering qwerty in italy have been screeching in middle school r.t. . other more from russia closer to next month as well another bit of russia explored for you here it's early sunday morning in moscow ahead of the story of shawn sellers is the only american to be sentenced to death under the age of seventeen since capital punishment was reduced in the u.s. over thirty years ago program illuminating one coming up in a couple of minutes here on r.t. .

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