bill telling us of the time the who to the queen's pushers and how would prince or to the school and the entire truth wins if it's only to let your rule the rich and the guru go how would international journalists fled to cheat every green little free tool in total. libyan government. from the opposition saying it would be madness to take its soldiers out of the cities where they supply saying i'm going to stay here in the capital city of tripoli killing in a few moments and i'll bring them all. and make some satirical comments in computer gaming the russian cartoon based on the rest of the arab world goes viral was. these people in the old soldiers like the girl who says correct oh soldiers the people to see these people are indeed workers of japan's fukushima nuclear plant vital to stop radioactive water for leaking into the pacific under conditions

activists call in human. and in moscow good to have you with us here on r t our top story nato says it's investigating reports that 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 on allied planes meanwhile the country's government has rejected rebel calls for a ceasefire parlous leader has the latest 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 that tripoli itself to ceasefire 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 rather to from actually trying to slightly different picture is emerging we are hearing from the country former prime minister mr. beatty that lines of communication have been opened and that they're hoping to intensify them they said 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 reins day mohammed ismail who is a trusted aide of gadhafi sons 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 gadhafi himself stepping down we're hearing from doctors on the frontline and some

of the most recent nato a 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 to put incidents nature is right it's 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 disturbing reports coming from the western city of misrata where residents say that the government and soldiers there have intensified their shelling 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 risks of the city started . landing in get at this compound as is here according to eyewitnesses there they were snipers on the building and it was blood on the ground the fighting in the frontline into the around the town of gregor we are hearing though that the rebels are psyche based who organized that they are now stopping really inexperienced

young fighters who showed themselves defeat 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 staff i phones in the form of radios these have no doubt be provided by the international community well also being told that their bills had 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 it is waiting to see and 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. as opposition forces struggle to hold back in vans and program the troops are refusing or piskun all of those in the rebel stronghold benghazi 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 swept all got their streets but they're trying to retake control

of the guy before stopped right here at the entrance to the city and a similar picture did you see of the entire way from the garden to the front to the worst of the cities around two hundred kilometers away from the at the moment the rebels or if you tried to advance the west towards tripoli and are being backed by nato planes when it comes to these foreigners the cells a lot of them or teenagers book the forty seven s. who have neither the training or the experience of real combat out there on the floor at the moment it's quite certain situation. there have already been the first . that some of the rebels caused by the needs of the franks here in benghazi and in the east of libya it's pretty clear that the people the way the rebel forces could have active help in fighting going to be suits is with the support of nato weyrich

rose off a blogger an anti-war activist says nato is using the same strategy in libya as it didn't afghanistan and kosovo there are certain power 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 into the hands or being supplied to insurgent forces and libya now it'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 one nine hundred ninety nine it looks like the handbook for military aggression intervention that the united states and nato everywhere is to as very limited options and they could replay the same scenarios

repeatedly for the western powers reserved to themselves the exclusive prerogative of waging war whenever wherever and under whichever pretext they choose to do so. to get a better idea of what's happening on the ground in libya you can always check out policy policy leaders blog on our website you saw reporting from tripoli a little earlier the latest post she describes how international journalists have been fighting to establish the truth about a libyan woman who burst into their hotel last week saying she'd been raped by fifteen of these men r.t. dot com and go straight to our blog section for more of that. as the world's attention is fixed on libya the events have inspired both the angry debate and security all jobs are russian cartoonist has created an animated picture

of the north african or as that's become an internet hit or he's marine important i imagine. you. can. 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 i twenty six year old motivated by technology and politics. flesh game i wanted to do yeah. i just looked. towards one of my favorite games that we could. afford. going on and i thought plug and play. and i thought oh my

shop those things in this three little pigs remake libyan strongman moammar gadhafi and the ousted leaders of tunisia and egypt they could 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 for attack. 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. fortnight r.t. . cut off these attacks on civilians are prompted condemnation and immediate

response from the international community but while the outcry in libya is allowed other conflicts failed to draw such a reaction as our he's got a chicky on reports this is out some leaders escaped punishment for their crimes. 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 of 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 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 sacrifice really as bombings she was visiting relatives in one of the towns in the south of setia i believe saakashvili should be removed from office i think you should be tried in international court crimes but when it comes to mikhail saakashvili even though the e.u. finding mission determined that he started the war in two thousand and eight and ordered the bloodbath in south the safety 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 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 there boundless and as this fox news. 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 he faced them but some americans are sure there are more more you can receive more freedom after religion mr president for regulation of the bastards so 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 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 pretty like they could be i think he now is banned from travel but that's pretty close that's not the way politics works because your 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 the grass is happy to continue turning a blind eye to the blood of these heads and then a check out reporting from washington r.t. . stay with us here on our q still ahead this hour getting ready for takeoff here

inside look at the assembly site of the soyuz spacecraft and witness the final preps for the launch marking the fiftieth anniversary of man's first flight into space last. there are times when al gore's his place in the world but how do not and for now but if you want it rush in when to ferry pentagon and national park is definitely the place where you are explores how our region in russia is here old firmly linked with heavy industry is now turning into the perfect getaway for sports and nature of office. first though workers are panic stricken fukushima nuclear plant are battling to seal a crack in a reactor that's leaking radioactive water into the pacific contaminated sea water in the area has shown no radiation levels four thousand times the legal limit japanese officials have told the plant's operator to examine the facility for other potential leaks and while japan's prime minister is visited the tsunami ravaged

utilities in the northeast of the country for the first time yada however camp a nuclear power expert for greenpeace says workers at the fukushima plant deserve better conditions for the vital job they're doing. with these people are not soldiers like that as director of the newspeople are. voluntary and very often also with with very nasty mysteries in their own certainly life because of the tsunami are still overcoming doubts and working all their best to to to overcome very difficult circumstances yes they do need they do you really need to need to get a certain sense is a little support actually what we see is that not everybody that only did we believe should have been evacuated has been evacuated syria still in the twenty to thirty kilometers only large group of people that are advised to stay indoors there are no really indoors for three weeks and it is not a very easy way to actually live in a person affected a few days ago we can go we found the radiation levels in the village. get.

really high and also to help people there the only confirmed at last wednesday. with drew that is why. again today at least people with those kinds of license from all kinds still needs. to get extra inches and i think it will eventually need 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 them to keep in mind series of the moments you always thought i had the. four point eight. zero five police told us today still very very heavy aftershocks and every time it's good leads to new emergency in the gulf station those people only distress commentary from yana however it happened nuclear power expert for greenpeace talking about the ongoing crisis at their pads fukushima power plant in preparation for the takeoff of a soyuz spacecraft and forswearing a baikonur cosmodrome with

a rocket now installed on the raj pad tuesday it'll start celebrating the upcoming fiftieth anniversary of mankind's first journey to the stars or the steps are so he has more for a large site that has some fresh first hand impressions from an astronaut just back from orbit. the we're here at the a launch pad the baikonur cosmodrome we're actually watching right now. they're moving the rocket for the exit expedition 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 is a nasa astronaut full stop and she actually just landed from the international space station weeks ago and this is the first time looking at this process particularly when you think about it i mean it's it's pretty impressive it's really neat to see. how differently to the rockets work to future space shuttle as a person out in the end but very different very different in the spatial in what we

do but looking forward to watching my friend ron karen in a couple days 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 is such a wonderful huge volume in space the largest all you've ever had in history and space . now to be able to look out oh we were talking earlier this cologne this kind of. a window that looks down to the earth and it just. it really it's a very emotional thing to think that. you know you see your own planet from space you're experiencing floating around in microgravity to exhibit work up there i think and working as international partners to it you know we think about living in space you're in eunice a ship the ear very protected you have to be because we as humans can can't live. in the vacuum of space and very similar to what it's like living underwater 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 various how to tap water are very comical places to be. and they got this when this what the. either it's your big worry grief or your beautiful planet and anything i think you meant inside thank you nicole you all there you have it there are a lot of astronauts cosmonauts and astronauts here right now watching the process coming here especially because it seemed like a chap you need to keep good time to receive you guys first flight and there you think the first three and not the first space shuttle flights is again everyone here very excited seeing all this up close it was just pretty good for this late i'll go if it gets a chilly at the moment so we are expecting to see more of the families of the astronauts coming here and even be at the little boy from french guiana who had designed to detach the crew of expedition twenty seven to die assess where he's

tests are so you will be keeping track of the latest on this trip into orbit including the big launch and on our web site we've got a special space anniversary section celebrating fifty years of spirit darren's first restore like it's more news than features any images for you including these breathtaking pictures of earth as you've never seen it before check out the high rez v. was captured by a russian satellite all about anymore i've archon dot com. unrest in the middle east and the crisis in japan have raised volatility on global markets causing fears of another global economic crisis with the dollar sinking against other currencies resident host laurie harshness takes to the streets of new york to find out what people there think needs to be done to fix the world's financial

order. billionaire investor george soros is holding a conference to be attended by the world's richest and hence most influential people up 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 monetary wealth and it's because. corporate. what i do i'd actually draw a line between the two. corporations and government which right now that line is very blurry my and most important economic trade which is triple bottom line which means you look at what's best for not only to businesses. only for the

employees involved businesses the society as well so if that becomes your economic standard then you're improving not only the company's and other global economy but the. area that that companies working in as well as a lot of people feeling like it's time for the challenges step down because there's always been animosity against the u.s. by. because we're the best. so is it jealousy. yeah i do i think a lot of people are jealous of what we have we're 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 i met about leaving well look i remember back then i used to turn to sixty yen to the dollar now it's maybe a hundred a. global monetary system now you are

a socialist i can't go down that road no matter what you or i think should be done . and same for the global economy the bottom line is there is this is will always be made by those with the most money or went. to another some other stories making headlines across the globe 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 us dozens more were injured on friday a similar protest in the city of mazar e sharif led to the deaths of twelve people including seven workers at the local you when office. gunfire and explosions have been heard of the presidential palace in ivory coast main city of abidjan is the country's struggle for power heats up at least eight hundred people all supported killed in violence in the cities due to the way this week fighters backing the un recognized leader although sunday what are pressing the offensive against the incumbent president laurent gbagbo are said

to have seized a key port and the country's capital. next we continue our russian close up series this time our team is looking for the perfect getaway. day three of our trip to the show you have been screened some seven hundred kilometers east of moscow a major industrial harbor was closed off to foreigners or recently as the ninety's but today its picturesque grounds are welcoming everyone r.t. is really political has more. when the soviet union broke up businessmen interlocked and so an opportunity to turn this once closed off region into a major tourist destination after all a good look around shows the southern euros have much to offer. very much called with the average 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 and works in places 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 resorts near the to go national park the russians generally prefer to hit the slopes in europe alexander tim says the number of visitors to fizzy resort grows every season what with use their words when you go to the alps and you love it but you come back in 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 skerries or it's in europe snowboarding stress relief it's just part of these capers and which draws young and old alike to the children screech and thank you. 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 risking your mind and body. the landscape in this part of the year olds nothin's actually goes

a long way towards helping the mind unwind of course there are plenty of gorgeous ways in the world that have mountains and snow but if you want a true russian winter fairy tale and to go national park is definitely the place for you here when there's another leg the head if they're going to travel heavy on or 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 backs but even if you use transportation it's still difficult to get all that to our camp sites would but thousands of tourists every year do manage because the region previously known as russia's deep and strong hold has too much to do nor when it comes to natural beauty intern quality and she had been screeching in middle school r.t. . we're back with a recap of our top stories in a few moments stay with us here on r.t. .

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