the. libyan government says no to cease fire offer from the opposition saying it would be mad to take its soldiers out with cities where they find saying i'm point is here in the capital city of tripoli join me in a few moments and i'll bring you more. and we take you to where such higher meets computer gaming a russian cartoon based on the unrest in the arab world goes viral plus. these people in the old soldiers like to call his sister actually is that our soldiers that it's just people are human beings workers are japan's fukushima nuclear plant vital to keep radioactive water from leaking into the pacific under conditions activists claim human.

have been moscow why not try as a good to have you with us here on our t. our 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 cut off the fighter joined the group and opened fire on allied planes meanwhile the country's government has rejected rebel calls for a ceasefire or his policy or 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 made to cease fire offers and at that time the rebels said that these offers were insincere and cannot be trusted so certainly a lot of mistrust between both sides neither willing to be the first to lay down

arms but on the diplomatic trying to psyche just one 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 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 custody aide of gadhafi son was in london he was trying to organize what we understand some kind of an exit strategy for the gadhafi family that 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 front line and some of the most recent nato strikes at least seven civilians were killed they were

children three of them were girls from the same family you know what we've been told in what was to put incidents nato airstrike hit an ammunitions an oil leak 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 they 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 risk of the city some of the. landing in get at the compound as is here according to eyewitnesses there they were snipers on the building and there was blood on the ground the fighting in the frontline centered around the town of gregor we are hearing though that the rebels are slightly better organized that they are now stopping the inexperienced young fighters who showed themselves to free 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 be provided by the international community for well being told that their bills have water and some new reports and so that they are stepping up the fight on the ground we are hearing from the european union that if asked it is ready to send a humanitarian mission it will essentially be holding out a military operation that will provide humanitarian assistance in the sense of hoping to evacuated displaced people and also provide assistance to the humanitarian organizations working here. as opposition forces struggle to hold back advancing procrit are the troops are he's eager appears good others in the rebel stronghold benghazi he says the opposition doesn't come across as a credible fighting force and struggles even with nato air support. this is wreckage behind me is what's left of god after these troops when they try to retake control of people i feel more stark right here at the entrance to the city and

a similar picture can be seen throughout the entire way from gandhi to the front to the worst of the city it's around two hundred kilometers away from uganda at the moment the rebels are continuing to try to advance to the west and towards tripoli and are being backed by nato planes when it comes to these finals themselves a lot of them are teenagers with a k 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 mix of strikes here in benghazi and in the east of libya it's pretty clear that people only way the rebel forces could be affected health in fighting going to be troops is with the support of nato. stephen lanman a radio host and author from chicago tells our t.v.

ally campaign is a legal and aims to colonise libya. what the security council did was basically authorize the u.s. britain and france to legally attack and nonbelligerent country so that the council by a way to article fifty one of the u.n. charter there clearly says that no nation me attack another nation except in self-defense to security council me not act in violation of its own charter this war which is what it is it's a power grab by the three call the curate's america the main one is the idea used to colonize another country destroy it course privatizers industries control its resources exploited its people and this war is following the same script and script isn't it identical each time but it's much twain once said about history it may not repeat exactly but it rhymes. two thousand older than

back in two thousand and three it was much nineteenth shock and awe it gives the rash shock and awe against libya civilians and mean it is no surprise we don't hear about civilians so billions of beer and missiles from thirty thousand feet cruise missiles. they don't distinguish between civilians gets to be a lot of sleet built by this including the forces of the growth. she had an idea of what's happening on the ground in libya check out powerless leaders blog on our website you saw a little of her reporting from tripoli earlier in her latest post she describes how international journalists have been fighting to establish the truth behind a libyan woman who burst into their hotel last week claiming she'd been raped by fifteen of gadhafi is men blood ontology dot com and go straight to our blog section for more on that.

as the world's attention is fixed on libya the events have inspired both angry debate and some satirical jabs are russian cartoonists created an animated picture of the north african unrest that became an instant hit on the internet or he's merino porton a sat down with him. opportunity parity starring the. 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 goot i twenty six year old motivated by technology and politics wanted to do flesh i wanted to do. i just looked. towards one

of my favorite games. for. the sake of the things that are going on and i thought. and i thought and so until my sharp those things in this three little pigs remain libyan strongman moammar gadhafi and the ousted leaders of tunisia in egypt norm of green pigs hiding in houses angry bird protesters smashed you know ali and the bark but with libya 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 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 king plays out. r.t. . coffee's attacks on civilians have prompted condemnation and an immediate response from the international community while the outcry in libya is allowed other conflicts have failed to draw such a reaction as he's got a cheeky on reports from washington this is how some leaders a skate 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 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 scream bob and other peaceful callous nearby. the region which georgia wanted to bring under its control was raced to the ground. hundreds were killed in the attack. nearly lost his daughter in sacrifice really is bombings she was visiting relatives in one of the towns in south the city here i believe saakashvili should be removed from office i think you should be tried in international court for rule 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 southall city or 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 of 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 crimes and there's a strike because it's based on bags and ameritrade i'm sure there are more or even receive more frugal thrills of mr president for regulating 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

deadly 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 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 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 get i think denounced and from travel but with results that's not the way politics works the

georgian president killed scores of civilians but was exonerated by the west politicians accept him as a friend business leaders are looking to invest in his country and it seems the grass is happy to continue turning a blind eye to the blood of these heads i'm going to check out reporting from washington r.t. . stay with us here on r t still ahead ready for takeoff give you an inside look at the assembly site of the soyuz spacecraft where we were in those final preparations for the launch marking century verse three of man's first flight into space flight . there are plenty who are displaced in the world that have mountains and snow but he wants kids who rush in the wind to carry him to the national park and definitely the place where you are cheese close up team explores how a region in russia is year old firmly linked with heavy industry is now turning into the perfect getaway for sport and nature lovers. but before we get to that

workers at japan's stricken fukushima nuclear plant are battling to seal our crack in a reactor that's leaking radioactive water into the pacific and tommy to the sea water in the area has shown radiation levels four thousand times the legal limit japanese officials have told the plant's operator to examine the facility for other potential leaks meanwhile japan's prime minister has visited the tsunami ravaged villages in the north east of the country for the first time ya heard kava nuclear power expert for greenpeace says workers of the fukushima plant deserve better conditions for the vital job they're doing. because these people in the old soldiers like typical has this direct joins them newspeople are human beings said so that's a voluntary and very often also with very nasty mysteries in their own family life because of the tsunami but still overcoming doubts and working with all their best to to to overcome very difficult circumstances yes they do need they do we really need need the circumstances and little 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 kilometer zone a large group of people that are advised to stay indoors there are no ready indoors for three weeks and that is not a very easy way to to live but oppose the fact that a few days ago we could go we found the radiation levels in the village still could put for a really high in order to to have people evacuated there the only confirmed that last wednesday a good smith drew that it was again today these people with those kind of conflicting advice is from all kind of so it's a good extraction is and i think it would be better a need to get those people out in a place where they can relax where they can be scared of anything that could happen to the power plant and keep in mind there is at the moment every few hours still heavy aftershock an age old aftershocks for the four point eight five zero five

control of yesterday still very very heavy aftershocks and every time this completes community regencies in the college station those people only rain rural districts commentary from me and have her captor nuclear power expert or greenpeace truck iraqian going crisis at the pads for a question about power. preparations for the take out of a soyuz spacecraft are in full swing at baikonur cosmodrome with a rocket now installed on the launch pad tuesday or prost off celebrating the upcoming fiftieth anniversary of humankind's first foray to the stars or he says are so is that a launch site and it's got some fresh first hand impressions from an oscar an astronaut just back from orbit. we're here at the a launch pad to baikonur cosmodrome we're actually watching right now. they're moving the rocket for the expedition twenty seven cars opposition to the particle position very interesting to see this whole process will surely be watching what's going on right now it's announced astronautical stock and she actually just landed

on the national c.c. she needs to go this is the first time looking at this process particularly when you think about it i think it's it's pretty impressive it's really neat to see. how differently to the rockets were to to space shuttle as it were going out at the end but very different very different to the space shuttle and what we do but for to watch my friend ron karen in a couple days go back to space having been there before i pad 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 ball you will ever have in history and space . now to be able to look out a we were talking earlier this can flow into this kind of. a window that would sound 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 to exhibit work up there i

think and working as international partners to you know when you think about living in space or india you in a space ship the ear very protected you have to be because we as humans can and can't live on earth in the vacuum of space and very similar to what it's like putting other water here under pressure or you can just you know how mature without special 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 houses have water are very comical places to be. and they got this way this without. you there if your big worry for your beautiful planet thank you very much i think you that inside me even cool you old there you have it there are a lot of astronauts cosmonauts and astronauts here right now watching these great process coming here especially because an idea to deploy the base how many fiftieth anniversary of you guys first flight and they're your family first three and that's

the serious stuff the space shuttle flights so again everyone here very excited seeing all this up close said it was pretty good for it is this right now though if it does it's a chilly day at the moment so we are expecting to see more of the families of the astronauts coming here and even be the little boy from french guiana who had designed to detach the crew and expedition twenty seven to die in a sense. are these tests are so you keeping track of the latest on this trip into orbit including the big launch on our website we've got a special space anniversary section celebrating fifty years since yuri gagarin's historic flight it's got more news interesting images for you including these breathtaking images of earth like you've never seen before check out high resolution views countered by russian satellite all bad and plenty more at r.t. dot com.

if. the rest of the middle east and the crisis in japan have raised volatility on global markets causing fears of another global economic crisis with the dollar sic against other currencies show host laurie harford also known as the resident took to the streets of new york to find out what people there think needs to be done to fix the world's financial or. 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 are trying to figure out how to fix the economy they're trying to repair to a what's already going on which is the government's i've long since lost control of the monetary world and it's because. corporate.

show. when i do i 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 in businesses but 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 that company's working as well as a lot of people feeling like it's time for the talent to step down because there's always been animosity against the u.s. by. because we're the best. because it tells. me 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 dollar's losing weight no matter what we think well look i remember back then i used to turn a six the yen to the dollar now it's maybe a hundred a savage time for a global monetary system oh now you can hire a socialist i can't go down that road no matter what you or i think should be done to improve the global economy the bottom line is those decisions will always be made by those at the most money for better or worse. turns out of 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 koran a u.s. based pastor dozens more were injured on friday a similar protest in mazar e sharif led to the deaths of twelve people including seven workers at the local u.n. office. and gunfire and explosions have been heard at the presidential palace and

ivory coast main city of abidjan is the country's struggle for power heats up at least eight hundred people reported dead in violence in the city of duplay this week fighters backing the un recognized leader alasania what taler are pressing the offensive against the incumbent president they are said to have seized a key port and the country's capital. up next we continue our russia closeup series at this time our team is looking for perfect mountain getaway. day three of our trip to the chelyabinsk region in the urals which are some seven hundred kilometers east of moscow i mean you're industrial hub it was closed off to foreigners as recently as the ninety's a day it's picturesque mountains are welcome in london all these really as will. when the soviet union broke up businessmen in charge and 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 you have much to offer over a surveillance court with the elaborate it 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 iron works and places such as this one start to attract thousands of people. i lead is a businessman who on a whim invested most of his capital into building a resort near the to go national park the russians generally prefer to hit the slopes in europe i'll exhibits in says the number of visitors to fizzy resort grows every season but with used the word you go to the alps and you love it but you come back again 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 these capers a 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 now actually goes a long way towards helping the mind unwind of course there are plenty of gorgeous ways in the world that have no 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 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 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 but thousands of tourists every year do manage because the region previously known as russia's defense stronghold has too much to do nor when it comes to natural beauty interim quality initially have been

screeching in a close call r.t. . sunday morning here in moscow busy sporting weekend so far kate partridge will reveal the surprise results in football or thrashing and the latest in the work in the cricket world cup championship coming your way in about fifteen minutes we're back with our headlines after a short. into

the. major industry. top secret military strong. today has a limit. those possibilities for extreme sports. with the last season damask seal has been discovered. and the real soviet fleet divers watch is a may. come from the chelyabinsk region of. russia close up on ati.