with results much as any closer to home a review of its own would seem to be told the. libyan government says no to cease fire from the opposition saying it would be mad to take its soldiers out of the cities where they spicing on point to stay in the capital city of tripoli pulling in a few moments i'll bring you more. and a mix of satirical comments and computer gaming a russian cartoon based on the arab body arrest goes viral lots of these people in the old soldiers like to pull his sister out joyously and our soldiers that it's nice to be nice people are indeed workers at japan's fukushima nuclear plant battle to keep radioactive water from leaking into the pacific under conditions that

activists haul in human. five am in moscow i match reza 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 procrit off you fighter joined the group and opened fire on allied planes meanwhile the country's government has rejected rebel calls for a cease fire or his policy or has the latest from tripoli. person 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 diplomatic front a slightly different picture is emerging we are hearing from the country from a prime minister mr. 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 cast of eight of gadhafi son was in london he was trying to organize what we understand some kind of exit strategy for the graphic 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 frontline and in some of the most recent later it strikes at least seven civilians were killed they were all

children three of them were girls from the same family you know what we've been told in what with incidents nato airstrikes hit an ammunitions and laurie and the explosions according to nearby houses to collapse and some of those injuries coming from that overnight friday we're also hearing the student reports coming from the western city of misrata where residents say that the government and soldiers there have intensified it surely that it is very random and that a lot of people are dying here in tripoli levy is trying to have continued overnight zero missiles that were fired in the east and south risk of the city center. landing and get at his compound as is here according to eyewitnesses there were snipers on the border and it was blood on the ground the fighting in the frontline into the ground the town of brega we are hearing though that the rebels are psyche better organized that they are not stopping to be 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 be 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 ready to send a humanitarian mission it will essentially hold a not a military operation apple provide humanitarian assistance in the sense of hoping to evacuate displaced people and also provide assistance to the humanitarian organizations working here as opposition forces struggle to hold back advancing progress the troops are accusing is going on it is in the rebel stronghold benghazi he says the opposition doesn't come across as a credible fighting force and struggle even with nato air support. this wreckage behind me is what's left of going after these troops and they trying 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 in gaza to the front to the west of the city it's around two hundred kilometers away from because the at the moment the rebels are continuing to try to advance to the last towards tripoli and are being backed by nato planes when it comes to these finals themselves a lot of them are teenagers with the 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 a neutral site his situation even though there have already been the first that some of the rebels caused by the need to strikes here in gaza and in the east of libya it's pretty clear that people only way the rebel forces could be affected in fighting going to be troops is with the support of nato. blogger and anti-war activist rick rose off says nato is using the same strategy in libya that it didn't

kosovo and afghanistan. there are certain power parallels of course with the beginning stages of the invasion and military operations in afghanistan in october of 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 in libya and 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 one nine hundred ninety nine but it looks like the handbook for military aggression in intervention that the united states and nato have recourse to is very limited options and they tend to replay the same scenarios repeatedly the western powers reserved to them so as the exclusive

prerogative of waging war whenever wherever and under whichever pretext they choose to do so. to get an idea of what's happening on the ground in libya you can check out policy and there's a lot at our website you saw our reporting from tripoli a little while ago and her latest post she describes how international journalists have been trying to establish the truth behind a libyan woman burst into their hotel last week and said that she'd been raped by fifteen of gadhafi is men but on guard he dot com and go to our blog section for more on that. now as the world's attention is fixed on libya the events have inspired both angry debate and some satirical jobs a russian cartoonist created an animated picture of the north africa arrest that became an instant internet hit arsons marina porton i went to me.

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. a twenty six year old motivated by technology and politics wanted to do fledged and i wanted to do a routine. i just looked. great birds one of my favorite creams. for. all the things that. can be applied. for. my shop so since in this three little pigs remake libyan strongman moammar

gadhafi and the ousted leaders of tunisia and egypt take the form of green pigs hiding in houses same group burd protesters smashed literally and really barak but with libya. his so-called freedom fighters achieve victory with the support of an american eagle wearing a for attack. in less than five days bizarro 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 marina porton our party. put off these attacks on civilians has prompted condemnation and immediate response from the international community but while the outcry in libya is allowed other

conflicts of failed to draw the same attention and the same reaction as ours he's guy who reports this is help some leaders s.k. punishment for their crimes. this is a 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 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 the door to begin the me george tiller meet of the sleeping city of tskhinval and other peaceful palace in. the region which georgia wanted to bring under its control was razed to the ground. hundreds were killed in the attack. as nearly lost his daughter in second bombings she was

visiting relatives in one of the counties south of setia i believe scottish really 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 determines that he started to worry two thousand and eight and ordered the bloodbath in south of the georgian president he 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 a basis for decisions about georgia about palestine about kosovo the question of who is held responsible and how is very much a strategic question it's not a legal question as it should be to boost its strategic importance among other things georgia has dispatched one thousand troops to join allied forces in

afghanistan and became the leading troop contributor relative to georgia's overall population lives have found lists and as this fox news. the 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 america's like because it's based on reducing the marriage production and more more didn't want to go through that privilege of history as a for a graduation the bastard so 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 the campaign or when israel bombed the gas of the 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 is banned from travel but these principles 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's simply why us is happy to continue turning a blind eye to the blood of cyprus he's head i'm going to check out reporting from washington r.t. . stay with us here on our team still ahead this hour ready for takeoff here inside

look at somebody's side of the soyuz spacecraft where we witnessed by the preps for the launch more to the fiftieth anniversary grabs the first steps into space. there are plenty of gorgeous place in the world that have mountains and snow but if you want it true russian winter fairytale and to go national park is definitely the place for you party's close up team explores how a region in russia is heroes firmly linked with heavy industry is now turning into the perfect getaway for sport and nature of others. but before we get to that workers a chip pan stricken fukushima nuclear plant are battling to seal a crack in a reactor that's leaking radioactive water into the pacific contaminated seawater in the area how short of 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 it as prime minister has visited the tsunami ravaged villages in the north and east of the country for the first time yana harvard have

nuclear power expert for green says workers at the plant deserve better conditions for the vital job they're doing. these people are not old soldiers like paul has there's direct to the news people are human besides that voluntary and very often also with very nasty easterlies in their own certainly life because of the tsunami but still overcoming doubts and working through all their best to to to overcome very difficult circumstances yes they do need to do we really need need to get the circumstances and the support i think what we see is that most everybody there's only the good 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 really indoors for three weeks and there is not a very easy way to actually live close the strike that a few days ago we could go we found the radiation levels in the village. could.

really high and also to help people evacuated there the only confirmed at last wednesday. with do that is. again today these people with those political heated slices from will consume needs they get the extension is and i think it would be better indeed to get those people in a place where they can relax where they do also have to be scared wolf anything that could happen to our plans and keep in mind series of the moments you always still have the. four point eight five point zero point five years today still very very heavy off your shoulders and it's leads to new rigs in the gulf station those people only enormous trucks commentary from me and i have a nuclear power expert for greenpeace talking about the ongoing crisis there pads our. preparations for the takeoff of a soyuz spacecraft are in for a swing at the bike on our cosmodrome with a rocket now installed on

a large pad on tuesday a rostov celebrating the upcoming fiftieth anniversary of humankind's first journey to the stars are his tests are so he is at the launch site with some fresh first impressions from an astronaut just back from orbit. we're here at the a launch pad baikonur cosmodrome we're actually watching right now. they're moving the rocket for the expedition thirty seven cars off of the ship to the vertical position feeling very interesting to see this whole process watching what's going on right now is announced last night full stop and she actually just landed from the international space station weeks ago this is the first time looking at this process particularly what do you 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 and how it all isn't perfect out in the end but very different very different in the spatial in what we do but for to watch my friend ron karen in

a couple days go back to space having been there before i had no 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 volume ever had in history and space. now to be able to look out a we were talking earlier this cucolo into this kind of. a window that looks down to the earth 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 doing some good work up there i think and work is international partners too and you know we think about living in space you're in if you're in a spaceship 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 living on the water you're under pressure you can't just you know walk out the door 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 habitat water are very comfortable places to be. and they got this what is what the. if you're big or you're beautiful planet. i think you know that inside me even though you will. have it there are a lot of astronauts cosmonauts and astronauts here right now watching this day process coming here especially because immediately important dates have the fiftieth anniversary of you guys first light and there you find verse three and that's the serious stuff the space shuttle flights so again everyone here very excited seeing all this up close it was just pretty good for sure at this late hour though if it gets a cheerleader at the moment so we are expecting to see more of the families of the astronauts coming here and even the little boy from french guiana who had designed to detach the crew the next edition twenty seven to die assess. so we'll 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 out of ursa resection celebrating fifty years since go darren's first historic flight for news images and features for you there including these breathtaking pictures of earth as you've never seen it before check out the high resolution views captured by a russian satellite all that and an even more. if . the interest in the middle east and the crisis in japan that have raised volatility on global markets causing fears of another global economic crisis with the dollar sinking against other currencies the resident host laurie harkness thanks to the streets of new york to find out what people there think needs to be done to fix the world's first 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 reply to a what's already going on which is the governments of long since lost control of the monetary world and it's because. corporate. 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 the businesses not 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 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 of just the u.s. why. because we're the best. because it tells. me 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 got back from italy and i got crushed by the. you know thirty percent of the dollars losing weight no matter what we think well look i remember back when i used to go through a sixty yen to the dollar now it's maybe a hundred a soviet times for a global monetary system do you think oh now you deny or a socialist i can't go down that route 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 with the most money for better or worse. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe nine people have been killed in the city of kandahar during a protest over the burning of the koran by a u.s. base after dozens more were injured on friday a similar protest in the afghan city of mazar e sharif led to the deaths of twelve people including seven workers at a local u.n. office. and gunfire and explosions have been heard of the presidential palace in ivory coast main city of abidjan as the country's struggle for power heats up at least eight hundred people reported killed in violence in the city of juke way this week fighters backing the un or recognize leader hour a sign a what tara pressing the offensive against the incumbent president there is said to have seized the keyboard and the country's capital. next we continue our russia close up series and this time our team is looking for the perfect getaway.

three of our trip to the chill you have been squeezing in the year old which is some seven hundred kilometers east of the russian capital a major industrial how it runs was. closed off to foreigners as recently as the ninety's but today it's picturesque mountains a welcoming one an all artes riga lousteau has been. when the soviet union broke up businessmen in chad 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 you have much to offer the australians called with the children 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 here than i in works in places such as this one start to

attract thousands of people. i lead is a businessman who on the whim invested most of his capital into building resorts knew that a national park the russians generally prefer to hit the slopes in europe i exhort and says the number of visitors to his 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 a lot of ski resorts in europe snowboarding stress relief it's just part of these capers and which draws young and old alike to the tree out and scream. in places like these 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 year olds now actually goes a long way towards helping the mind unwind of course there are plenty of gorgeous

places in the world but how do you know what if you want a true russian winter fairytale pentagon i national park is definitely the place for you here we head to 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 waste we carried all the building materials on our backs believe it if you use transportation it's still difficult to get to our camp sites the 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 in this eleven scrooge and in a close call r.t. . coming soon the story of shannon sellers the only american to be sentenced to death under the age of seventeen since capital punishment was reintroduced to the u.s. more than thirty years ago but first i'll be back with a recap of our top stories stay with us.

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