i'm positive like the who. and how would prince which will be split into true wins if it's not your picture of a good international house of the chief every green for chill. and later sneeze and the week's top stories on r.t. the libyan opposition is fight against colonel gaddafi suffered an unexpected setback in the nato air strike reportedly killing more than a dozen rebels. fears over a potential terrorist attack in europe grow security experts claim the coalition's involvement in libya could trigger a radical response. to struggles to stem the leak of radioactive water from the fukushima power plant into the ocean thousands of whom the tsunami survivors face an uncertain future.

the most suicide bombing russia deals a devastating blow to terrorism by killing a group of high ranking militants. we can even feel welcome to the program. forces continue the latest offensive in the east attempting to recapture the country's largest city was ransacked meanwhile nato is investigating reports that at least thirteen libyan rebels were killed in a coalition and struck in the east of the country let's cross over to me and i want to go. actually yes you can see you are in the second largest city benghazi one of the rebel saying

about the recent kalish an attack that killed supporters. well i must say that here in bin guys you the rebel stronghold there is a lot of confusion and uncertainty around this incident with this coalition strike reportedly killing thirteen rebels because according to some reports it was caused by a program that these troops sneaked in the rebels and opened fire opened fire the nato planes full of pilots basically were forced to open fire back but according to other reports the rebel fighters opened fire in the air while celebrating their advance west also confusing the pilots and triggering them to open fire back but. this just shows this could be possible and i personally would believe the second version also because mining the poor level of organization and military

training this could be the right the right scenario there are even reports now that the. egypt and the united states are secretly training these rebels because of many of them are teenagers with a k forty seven s which obviously facts of their performance out there on the front and especially the latest reports on the ratio between the forces and that's reportedly one rebel against ten. fighters here in benghazi the opposition understands that even though there might be these casualties we also would need to take importing casualties i mean these. unexpected deaths in the rubble. caused by reportedly caused by the strikes here everybody understands that without nato support the rebels will not be

able to achieve their goal ok you stay with us there are we just going to cross now to paula slim. it's he's a correspondent in the capital tripoli and paula we're hearing reports of new fighting in the west of the country not far from the capitol where you are what's been happening overnight. but this is the city of misrata which is the third largest city in libya it is also the last rebel stronghold in the whistling part of this country in the early hours of this morning sunday they was the new government shelling we are hearing from doctors inside the city that at least one person was killed and several wounded now the doctors are saying that in the last week alone hundred and sixty people have been killed in the city we understand that this latest round of shelling targeted a building that until two days ago had been housing patients and other civilians who've been quilter in the gunfire but just fortunately they have been evacuated now it's very difficult for us as foreign journalists to actually get to misrata and independently confirm all verify what is happening in the city ever since

fighting started more than a month ago there has simply been no outside presence allowed into that city by gadhafi forces but we are being told from doctors on the ground that between six hundred and one thousand people have been killed in more than a month of fighting now despite the fact that the town is in the hands of rebels we are increasingly hearing that the rebels are starting to lose their stronghold in the city and it wasn't just such a long time ago that there was talk of a renewed bloodshed in the city of misrata is the certainly the attention of the focus in terms of the tripoli government and what is happening on the wrist in part of this country remains. this go back to you go in you've been in benghazi put almost a week now what's the morale like among the rebels. well i think the main problem for the rebels is the poor organisation and poor a level of training for for the for this operation for the fight against the guy

that these troops which are march better organized much better trained and much better equipped and in fact the rebels have been seen arguing and even fighting among themselves. ground right out there on the front which also quite badly affects the way the fight against gaddafi is troops. here there is training going on done by those who are used. in god i feel as army they're trying to train the new conscript conscripts or they're more like volunteers who are such to go to the front but i think this is does not provide the right level of preparation and that's why these reports that the united states and even the cia agents reportedly working under. working undercover there on the front they could

also be helping to train these people i think these reports could be relevant to a reality and also the rebels say they are short of forms they're sure of ammunition that's why they are even asking the international community and the opposition is saying they're ready to take on this from any country willing to give it so far there has not been a decision made on this issue whether or not supplying the rebels with on is because it is not clear if if in this type of scenario the arms will get in the right hands but. basically the main problem here is to somehow get these people organized so they can fight troops by themselves without nato support and without the fight. ok well finally back to paul in tripoli paula be the fighting in libya does seem to have come to a stalemate clearly gadhafi is not going to give up one of the coalition forces

going to do about it. what ever since the united states handed over command of military operations in libya to the nato coalition it has been slowly backing down and executing a declining number of combat missions here in libya what we now are hearing from american military officials is that they will begin withdrawing their fighter jets their missile ships and they submarines from this country this comes against the backdrop of this stalemate in fighting most of it seem to have between pro and anti gadhafi fighters around the town of brega in eastern libya it also comes against every background of increasing criticism from within the american president barack obama's own administration over the capability and the representation of those rebel fighters what we're hearing from the american administration is that they will be taking out eleven of the naval naval ships that are really actually withdrawn and also be withdrawing in ninety eight craft this means that the nato coalition will be left with one hundred and forty three military jets now there was

some concern particularly among opposition rebel leaders when it was first announced that nato was going to be taking over command of this military operation that they would perhaps see a much robust military action on the ground because you now have a twenty eight member alliance that needs to reach some kind of consensus over what to do and how to move forward rather than just washington itself as far as the attitude here in tripoli goes we continue to hear the government calling this foreign intervention crusader walls of course are increasingly concerned with what happens next the concern being expressed in tripoli is that the next step for international intervention will be the supply of weapons and it will be very long after that it will see the training of rebel fighters and ultimately foot soldiers on the ground. ok in tripoli and you go after the rebel stronghold of garcia thank you betty. well brendan neil editor of political magazine spikes thinks the foreign intervention in there is unlikely to bring the country's

population any positive outcome. it's a disaster i think from beginning to end it's a very it's i've called it the barbarism of what we have here are western leaders who don't know what they want don't know why they're interbreeding don't have any plan or strategy or even any real leadership and yet they're throwing bombs into a country that was already very volatile it's one of the most reckless actions that western governments have taken for many years and it's going to end terribly for the people of libya the west is going to back some kind of former regime former rulers making their own new kind of government this is not going to be an intervention that supports the actual cause of liberation or the cause of democracy or the people in libya who actually want to run their own lives and be free it's going to be an intervention that ends up strengthening the hand of people who have already had power in some form former friends of gadhafi former backers of gadhafi they are the people who are going to benefit people who turn their back on good actually and say they want to run libya in a new way so i think at the end of this we could end up with

a situation where libya is ruled by pretty much the same people just like a himself that is going to be really proud of the people of libya. that was great. that's what magazines right. now that's the coalition forces continue to impose a no fly zone over libya there are concerns that the intervention may soon backfire on europe security experts fear they'll be in the islamic groups are plotting terror attacks intervention strikes. e.u. countries have taken a leading role in enforcing the u.n. resolution but their efforts all the way over in libya now threaten to bring conflict right to their very own back doors claim colonel gadhafi now has little other weapons left in his armory than overseas terror he's faced repeated accusations that he ordered lockerbie bombing that killed two hundred seventy mostly westerners experts say some countries are particularly in the firing line

three leading countries of the offensive operation. in the united states of course the only option he has really is to use terror so i think that on joyce today it's a clear cut in prison better today in the coming days maybe in the coming weeks but e.u. backing for anti gadhafi rebels could backfire further rebel leaders include the libyan islamic fighting group and associates of al qaida and the casualties mounting every day from allied bombing make fertile recruiting ground for and she western forces there are agents of l.k. working now in that atmosphere of chaos. i am sure. e.u. muslims protest against nato storming of libya and the organizer says people should

prepare for the worst but that's not the only there's a very strong likelihood if i think what i do. like everybody should. the invasion of iraq live in terror attacks in the e.u. almost two hundred people died in the madrid train bombings in two thousand and four while suicide bombers killed fifty two people in london in two thousand and five officials now dread similar results in the wake of this campaign with an intelligence report creased activity among suspected terrorist cells indicating the threat of attack is why one officer told r.t. an e.u. terrorist strike is now just a question of time. see brussels coming up in a few minutes abducted and arrested for no apparent reason israeli special forces kidnap palestinians here they claim is a criminal something that's running. in

japan a radioactive water continues to be a quake hit. the scene. of the trouble maybe this was meanwhile the hundreds of thousands of people who lost their homes in the tsunami. ravaged shelters. survivors are angry at the government's failure to. this is the first time many residents of asian a marquee have seen their houses since the tsunami to search through them look at most a little of value remains but subtle shinji is not trying to salvage material possessions . my house was totally destroyed and my husband died in the tsunami now i'm honoring him by getting his personal things out i just wish everything could go back to how it was. shinji has been housed at a local school with several hundred others people here have been taking turns to

volunteer as cooks and cleaners. but the cramped conditions mean that after nearly three weeks the communal spirit is frame and. we are dissatisfied with your forties we know there are temporary houses that will be put up but who will get them some areas are being favored over others. the government admits that not a single temporary house has been constructed so far but even when they do finally go up there won't solve the far greater problem. the government the excavators are removing the rubble as fast as they can but for the victims of the disaster even those lucky enough to get the temporary housing it will be years before they can come here rebuild the house at the call of their home many of the stricken japanese coastal towns rely for generations on bling bling fishing and shipping industries and livelihoods which no longer exist and there is little hope of ever getting them

back out of. the government is good at solving big problems not the ones of a small people i do not think this town will ever be a rebuild as it was even if i restore what i have and no one will build anything next to my house. for the government providing food and temporary shelter was the relatively straightforward part in helping victims cope with the disaster making sure people have a place and a community to return to will be more much. well difficult if you're of no out see . japan. large scale counter terror operation russia's caucasus region killed seventeen militants last monday while dr assistant. terrorist whether it's a part of the experts agree this proves that the high. was killed as a three ready there is somebody is a sense of. it's also expected to take several weeks if not the phrase operation or

targeting of his close circle responsible for a series of attacks starting earlier this year results were released. of year since the double suicide bomb attack it's a metro system for. suspects behind trusting. to terror. buttons visited the site. it started off as just an ordinary monday morning fog meekly put off he like many others had a certain string in his step and knowing the harsh moscow winter was over did little did he realize the nightmare he would be thrown into just a few minutes later suddenly there was a very horrible sound as if something huge had formed. and i walked out there was a small a haze. people were shouting and rushing out of our other car would meet

the had her it was the start of the worst terrorist attack in the russian capital in six years just before eight am to first of two explosions hit the moscow subway killing twenty four people alkie crowded lubyanka station which lies beneath they had quarters of the federal security service forty minutes later the terror trail much south targeting a station at a crucial city intersection. these. days it's right in the middle of the rush hour work it's truck out the back of the train asked can you try to get on board. there was no lighting and i just saw people bodies. of them some of them were stretched on the floor near the metal crane and so it was horrible it was. just before your eyes and there was nothing

that could save them eighty million commuters after a day moscow subways one of the busiest in the world that's made it a terrorist target in the past and on a year ago in wants to be a target once again a twenty year old student leaving. for herself the true fuses to live and. sometimes i feel something like this i think about this but general i think we have safe safety now. a year ago tires broad masco to a standstill by bringing horo to our reading life but if they wanted to destroy people's spirits there's goal was certainly in order to city live go zone and while the parents were out to millions in moscow and across the globe remains something. to live with. also moscow. israeli secret services have

actually kidnapped a dangerous palestinian criminal in the ukraine they claim he's been assisting the militant organization a mass killer of officials. it says actions have cost doubt over the operation of the palestinian. several months ago and hugo and her husband palestinian engineer did i will see she fled from gaza to her native ukraine they were looking for a peaceful life far from the constant hostilities of the middle east you are even childes to leave behind a very good job with. my husband was deputy director of the only power station in gaza he's a very highly qualified engine year and received an immensely high salary by local standards. but their relieved did not last long one evening i will cease he boarded an overnight train from quite a few key here to meet his brother i will says he was sound asleep when in the

middle of the night two men walked into his compartment and asked him to provide his id the man refused to do so and the next moment they handcuffed the palestinian and removed him from the train very close says she has no doubt it was a kidnapping plotted by israel's intelligence service the must start small and i received a text message from him the next day he said and that he needs to lie low and is going to saudi arabia and i knew it wasn't his style he never uses words like that when many called unique a crazy in the following few weeks while her husband's whereabouts were unknown until israel's prime minister confirmed all this time the matter had been behind bars in an israeli prison abuse and sewage all of which you see years from ours and we arrested him for cord and. warm. but one question arises if the arrest was indeed legitimate why had ukrainian special services been left in the dark about the operation. of our. single

intelligence service turned to us to assist the wresting a criminal received a commission of any special operation i. expert say in special operations between the intelligence of two countries a suspect is routinely arrested and deported otherwise the procedure breaches a country solvency in the present case nobody can even say how exactly the man was taking out of ukraine but a mention in that him of this woman was not put on a wanted list by any country and there have been no extradition claims. he left ukrainian territory. this would not be the first case when my side has struck without warning last year a suspected hamas militant was assassinated in dubai and guess what the emirates special forces say they had no idea about the planned move as i will see she awaits charges against him to be brought next week then he could says she will spare no

effort to put an end to this campaign against an ordinary engineer alexey rush ascii art see reporting from kiev ukraine. the russian president has branded top government officials from running or even helping to run statement company it's the internet yet it has a lot of ministers to leave any hope posts they hold like you know you see here it's be replaced by non-government officials say they're creating a better climate for investors in russia. but more international news in brief for you down. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu was called over he went to the city council to report which accuses forces of committing war crimes during the ten thousand dollars or offensive cartoons of the accounts or african richard goldstone backtracked on claims that israel and the british targeted civilians and israel refused to cooperate with

investigators and condemned these reports to store them some fourteen hundred palestinians and thirteen israelis were killed three paying. the ivory coast where the number of those killed during violent clashes in the west of the country has reached one thousand this pointing continues across the ring city forces in the world and u.n. recognize the ground assault or battle there is rather want both sets of rival supporters now claim to have control of the country's capital writing comes off about by refusing to step down from the presidency since then there's an action which united nations and he last. polls have opened in kazakhstan of the country of x. its new president but it is expected to overwhelm me we confirm the leadership wrong so sometimes those are three candidates are challenging him about it but none

publicly oppose his want to see it morgan of international observers overseeing sunday's vote which is what really come of the criticism for a perceived lack of fairness. but especially more on our web site at r.t. dot com including today in history one hundred chess player bobby fischer refused to play it said we can't really count on causing an international struggle over details on the. cost of arts we'll be able to would rather works of claude monet probably so and he would hold among others before the masterpieces they want to come or even walks in house. and fashionistas across russia's capital of been treated to not one but two fashion weeks at the same time over the exist trends on our website that our team both come.

preparations for the takeoff of a soyuz spacecraft are in full swing at baikonur cosmodrome with a rocket now installed the launch pad state will blast off celebrating the upcoming anniversary of mankind's first journey to the stars. as our senior is that a lot sites and got some first hand impressions from a cosmonaut just back from space. we're here at the a launch pad to baikonur cosmodrome we're actually watching right now. they're moving the rocket for the exit exit twenty seven for the 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 last not full stop she actually just landed on the international space station weeks ago and this is your 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 to the rockets work to get to space shuttle as a person out in the end but very different very different to the spatial in what we do but for to watch my friend run care and load up in a couple days so 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 comply with this kind of. a window that looks down to the earth and it just. it really it's a very emotional thing to i think that. you know you see growth plan from space you're experiencing floating around in microgravity and to exhibit work up there i think and work is international partners to you know anything about living in space

or in india you honestly 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 is you know walking up the shore without special so the most part of the entire time you're there you're thinking about things like you know what do i need to do to protect myself in this given environment and fortunately the space station and the aquarius how to tap water are very comfortable places to be so. they got this win this without. either it should be a big worry for your view of the planet below maybe very much thinking about inside maybe even colder although there you have it there are a lot of astronauts cosmonauts and astronauts here right now watching this process coming here especially because i'm here to enjoy the base happy to fiftieth anniversary of you guys first flight and the thirtieth anniversary of the this first step of the space shuttle flights so get everyone here very excited seeing

all this up close and the weather is pretty good for me for at this late hour though a bit of it to chile to have the moment so we are expecting to see more of the family say the astronauts coming here it even be a little boy from french guiana who had designed to detach the crew of expedition twenty seven to die assess i was surfing the forward so it's the back of the boat so the headlines at this.