the latest news and the week's top stories on our team the libyan opposition fights against colonel gadhafi suffered an unexpected setback for the nato air strike reportedly killing of a dozen rebels. fears over the tensional terrorist attack in view of security experts claim the coalition's involvement in libya could trigger a radical the spall. struggles to stem the leak of radioactive water from the fukushima plant into the ocean thousands of the tsunami

survivors face an uncertain future. and a year after the moscow metro suicide bombing russia deals a devastating blow to terrorism by killing a group of high ranking militants. you're watching artie's weekly news revealing carrie johnson pro gadhafi forces continue their latest offensive in the west attempting to recapture the country's third largest city his relative meanwhile nato is investigating reports that at least thirteen libyan rebels were killed in a coalition air strike in the east of the country. ok let's cross over there will be crossing later hopefully our correspondents. and your

personal because it will bring you up to date that later in the program. well me as a coalition forces continue to impose a no fly zone there are concerns that the interventionists soon backfire on europe security experts fear libyan islamic groups are plotting terror attacks in revenge for allied airstrikes. troops have taken the lead role in forcing 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 or the weapons left in his armory the overseas terror he's faced repeated accusations that he ordered look at the bombing that killed two hundred seventy mostly westerners experts say some countries are particularly in the firing line three leading control of the offensive operation that means for you in.

a state of course the only option yes really is to use terror so i think. it's a clear could imprison danger today in the coming there's no been the coming weeks but the backing for a few rubles 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. now in that. chaos. i am sure. e.u. muslims protest against nato bombing of libya the organizer says people should prepare for the worst those are the leaders of are you strong likelihood but i think. that the muslims track they want to be sure. that the

invasion of iraq led to a surge 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 western intelligence reports increased activity among suspected terrorist cells indicating the threat of a type is one officer told l.t. and the terrorist strike is now just a question of time. brussels. washington is considering arming the libyan rebels but experts warn that could mean helping the enemy in the long run the opposition is alleged to have links to al qaeda which is reportedly poised to expand its influence in that. the international community intervention in libya to protect civilians from canal khadafi but washington lost

to go further than that and is considering arming the rebels while officially denying that toppling khadafi is the objective of its involvement in libya broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake president obama has reportedly signed a secret order authorizing covert american support for rebel forces seeking to oust the league and leader critics of the us taking sides in a civil war war of the consequences we help accelerate the chaos. and in creating more chaos we're to rethink somehow we're going to be able to direct the outcome it's the same hubris that has visited the united states in iraq the same here. penya and in afghanistan causes us to believe that somehow we are going to wreck. the outcome in libya we cannot do that

nor do we have the right to determine who the leader of libya should be many here radical forces could take advantage of the chaos in libya former jihadists know my bennett men who renounces all kind of asian in two thousand says he estimates one thousand jihadists are among the rebels in libya one lady and rebel commander has openly admitted his fighters have links other reports say terrorists seized libyan surface to air missiles when arsenals were looted nato intelligence reports claim flickers of all quiet on hezbollah has been found among the rebels in libya but maintained there is no reason to believe their presence is significant but a u.s. military study three years ago said lidia's made up the second largest group of jihadists in the world right after saudi arabia all of that seems to be discarded as the u.s. is trying to prop up the opposition in libya as some analysts say in an attempt to forge a relationship with them that would be favorable for the united states in the future

but experts say as of now the opposition in libya hardly has a defined face or power so these people. will not be able to take control over the situation as soon as the current regime. goes off and that means that somebody else will be. tempted to take over the country and you know the villain here will organize the world force in the region not in the country but in the region is unfortunately i was. some say arming the rebels could backfire we've been in this situation in afghanistan one day we help people and the next day they shoot at us if we aren't cautious about military intervention so blow back their charm was johnson and johnson wrote famously about it was sure to happen in libya in afghanistan back in the eighty's the u.s.

had a narrow goal to help the mujahideen fight soviet troops subsequently the same with militants turned their weapons and training against the u.s. among those of them los osama bin ladin whose group of eventually evolved into al qaida this is cannistraro cia and alice is an operations chief in the 1980's says back then the us didn't see the dangers of arming afghan militants. and what we've seen with the tribal society. interests some. leading to the. construction of. over two decades after arming the afghan mujahedeen america is now considering giving weapons to another rebel band with an unclear identity simply because of who they're fighting against. going to check on our chief washington d.c. . well that's of course not our correspondents who are on the ground in libya in

tripoli your pissing off in being god's ear paula to you first we're hearing reports of new fighting not far from the capital where you are but what's been happening overnight as far as you can tell. well the word of bloodshed is increasingly been used to describe the situation in the last rebel held city of the waste of this country the city of misrata now according to doctors on the scene they say that one person was killed and several people were wounded in the early hours of sunday morning when the government forces renewed shelling on a building in the thirty now we understand from the doctors and that until a few days ago there were a number of civilians being housed inside their building they had been injured in recent clashes between pro and anti gadhafi forces but fortunately there have been evacuated before the shelling began we're also hearing from doctors that in the last week alone one hundred and sixty people have been killed in misrata itself from these battles now as foreign press it's almost impossible for us to independently verify this information because since the start of these clashes more

than a month ago we've been prevented from actually reaching misrata but we are being told by doctors that in a month of fighting between six hundred and a thousand civilians have been killed in this city now this is the third largest city here in libya it's about two hundred kilometers to the east of tripoli it was also mentioned before when you remember the rebels were making their advance to the city of sirte and at the time they were playing with the strategy of actually bypassing sirte and then advancing towards misrata from where they say they would renew the forces and then march on to tripoli so you the rebels have been in control of it for more than a month now but what we are seeing increasingly is that the government troops are intensifying the shelling and more and more looks likely that the city wharf or to the hands of gadhafi is in. summary from your person of your in the largest second largest city i should say being garcia what's the morale like among the rebels following the recent coalition attack that killed thirty their supporters. well the

general feeling here in the rebel stronghold is confusion a lot of confusion around that incident because according to some reports. this attack by nato planes on the rebels back planes on the rebels caused by gaddafi troops who sneaked in the rebels and opened fire at the planes but other reports suggest that rebels were celebrating and began shooting into the air confusing the pilots and also true. to react back but i can tell you that judging by poor a level of organization and training off the rebel fighters both versions are possible because the rebels have been seen arguing and even fighting among themselves out there on the front many are teenagers who don't have any experience in combat and there is even speculation and lots of rumors that egypt and the

united states me. training the rebels there on the front and also rumors that the cia secret agents maybe operating there as well trying to organize rebels when it comes to gaddafi forces there are much better trained they're much better equipped and apparently there is much more of them according to some biggers ratio of the forces at the moment is around one to ten meaning one rebel fighter against then these soldiers so the general understanding here in benghazi is that the only way the rebels could be successful is with this air support from nato. so certainly a lot of confusion the fighting in libya seems to have come to a stalemate now clearly gadhafi is not just going to give up one of the coalition forces planning to do about that. well ever since the united states handed over

command of the military operations here in libya to nato the u.s. has been decreasing the number of combat missions it carries out here we are hearing from top american military officials that they are also going to begin withdrawing the fighter jets they suddenly leans and the missile ships now this does come across does come against the background of a stalemate in terms of fighting on the ground between those pro and you got the forces around the city of brega in the east of the country it also comes against the backdrop of increasing criticism from within the american president barack obama's own administration over questions in terms of the representation and the capability of those opposition fighters what we also understanding though in terms of the reaction here on the ground is that the rebel fighters are increasingly concerned as nato takes over command of this operation that they will need to be greater consensus from your twenty eight member coalition for some kind of robust action on the ground and that action perhaps would have been much more quickly

authorized when the united states was in charge as far as the tripoli government goes though they continue to call this a quote a crusader war they say that these actions are illegal and immoral and they are not always think movie concerns that in the future they will be the supplying of weapons to these rebel fighters this will soon be followed by training and ultimately end in the deployment of foot soldiers. ok tourists there in tripoli and you're pissing off in the rebel stronghold of being god's ear thank you both for that. on the way from investor to convict an israeli businessman has been sentenced to seven years and in jordan prison try to get back one hundred million dollars to police. in japan are radioactive water continues to leak from the quake hit a plant into the ocean officials say a crack on a troubled reactor may be the source there were twelve thousand people who lost

their lives in the tsunami disaster hundreds of thousands left homeless have been forced into overcrowded shelters and as r.t.d. ordinary found out survivors are angry at the government's failure to rebuild their lives. this is the first time many residents of asian a marquee have seen their houses since the tsunami has surged through them but in 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 giving his personal things out i just wish everything could go back to how it was. chingy has been housed at the local school with several hundred others people here have been taken turns to volunteer as cooks and cleaners. crammed conditions mean that after nearly three weeks the communal spirit is fraying and. we are dissatisfied with your thirty's we know there are temporary

houses that will be put up and you 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 they won't solve the far greater problem. the governor of the excavators are moving the rubble as fast as they can but all the victims of the disaster even those lucky enough to get the temporary housing it will be years before they can come here rebuild their house and all of their home many of the stricken japanese coastal towns rely for generations on dwindling fishing and shipping industries livelihoods which no longer exist and there is little hope of ever getting them back to. the government is good at solving big problems not the ones of the small people they do not think this town will ever be a rebuild as it was even if i restore what i have 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 and making sure people have a place and a community to return to will be much. difficult. out see. japan. a larger scale counter terror operation in russia's caucasus region killed seventeen militants last month that the wife of dr an assistant of reference number one terrorist. support among the dead experts agree proves there is a high chance more of himself was killed as the three really right some bodies have not yet been identified forensic results expected to take several weeks. three things operation targeting others in a circle responsible for a series of deadly attacks in russia started early this year so it's very least it's not a year since the double suicide bomb attack on two of its metro stations the

suspects the hymie authority having identified the most to being killed and interoperation parties within a quarter of a percent of the sight of us going fast. it started off as just an ordinary monday morning for me to be turned off he like many others had a certain string in his step knowing the harsh moscow winter was all over but 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 woke up and there was a small a haze. people were shouting and rushing out of the car would meet me he had her it was the start of the worst terrorist attack in the russian capital in sixty years just before eight am the first of two explosions hit the moscow subway

killing twenty four people at the crowded station which lies beneath the had quarters of the federal security service forty minutes later the territorial moved south targeting a station at a crucial city intersection. well small. piece. right in the middle of the rush hour work it's shot out the back of the train asked can we try to get on board. there was no lighting and i just saw what is that whatever remained of them some of them were stretched on the floor near the metro train. so it was horrible it was the people who were just before us and there was nothing that would save them with eight 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 was talking it once again

a twenty year old student pleading. for herself the truth fuzes to live in fear. sometimes i feel something like this i think about this but in general i think we have safe safety now. a year ago terrorist broad mass go to a standstill by going to our reading life but if they wanted to destroy people's spirits there's goal was certainly in order to secure live go zone and while a terror threat to millions both in moscow and across the globe remains it's something people have blown to live with my r.t. moscow. when israeli business when relief groups receive an invitation from the georgian prime minister to an informal dinner the last thing he was expecting was a prison sentence and he was to finalize a settlement one hundred million dollars to the government. has been chasing for

almost fifteen years. ever reports doing deals in georgia can be a risky business. take one israeli businessman one former soviet republic and a lot of potential profit from oil and gas transit sounds like a winning combination which is exactly why ronnie folks came to new independent georgian one thousand anyone and scored a monopoly on the energy transfer market but the subsequent changes of government saw things done for bigger fish and his investments turned into a loss so he did what any businessman would tip the case to court and won but the difficult part was getting the georgian side to cough up one hundred million u.s. dollars. they started negotiations with. their finest. negotiation. to. the payment of the not because they didn't get money from georgian government. it was just story

pumping which was the way to go over very informal drinks in an unnamed istanbul hotel folks worked out the details with none other than georgia's deputy finance minister the debtor plainly stated that one hundred million was not the kind of money georgia could afford to pay out and suggested an alternative five million once again georgia seventy two go to folks and everybody's happy so in just a week later the businessman received an invitation from the georgian prime minister he was expecting to collect the dosh but instead was collected himself there was in fact a. cooperation a collaboration between four important ministries the government and probably with the approval of the president of the ministry of finance the ministry of justice the ministry of the interior and the prime minister's office all of which came together with a plan to entrap probably feels and trapped in now in prison the businessman and

then apparently got sucked into yet more corrupt games after going straight to jail without. king is cash close to that he's a get out of jail free card would cost him one hundred million u.s. dollars his own one hundred million u.s. dollars fuchs was the informed through diplomatic channels that he would not be released until the arbitration award was waived so what signal does this send to anyone else who might be considering putting that money into georgia the odds of his succeeding in georgia are very very slim and point zero one percent so it's a good it's a good warning to businessmen who are thinking of investing in georgia that they should think twice and that they should be were for now georgia may have saved itself a lot of money considering the fact last year's foreign investment scheme just four hundred thirty three million dollars avoiding pleading with nearly

a quarter could be turned no mean feat but the overall cost to his economy could be colossal as new like doing business with people who don't sell jets and filled them with him hammers newspapers are already full of the potential political and financial consequences to this kind of action and as all of us ronnie fox and see if it will stay in prison some businesses may well decide that this is the kind of georgian hospitality they did not want to invest into. cashiers like t u b e c ga. the russian president has top government officials from running or even helping to run state owned companies reach an advantage as ordered ministers to the many corporate posts they hold like unlike this year that place like non-government officials and movies aimed at creating a better climate for investors in russia will say the president's decision will

competitive corporations such as banks and oil companies. or international news in grief for you. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has called the u.n. to immediately cancel a report which accused his forces of committing war crimes during the two thousand and eight to nine dollars or offensive comes council south african richard goldstone backtracked on claims that israel had been targeted civilians israel refused to court rate with goldstone's investigation and contempt as reporters distorted and biased some fourteen hundred palestinians and thirteen israelis were killed during the three we can pay. to the ivory coast where red cross reports say the number of those killed in iran clashes in the west of the country in the past few days has reached one thousand fierce fighting continues across the main city of abidjan as forces loyal to the u.n. recognize the. battle those of his rival their own brother both sets of brothers

supporters now claim to have control of the country's capital the conflict comes off the blood but refused to step down from the president and see since november the election which united nations last. polls opened in kazakhstan as the country it makes its new president veritas expected to overwhelmingly reconfirm their leadership from serving in the assault on the the three candidates challenging for the ballots but none presently approved his policies with rousing international observers or overseeing sunday's vote which has already come under criticism for a perceived lack of fairness the first official results are expected. well that's up plenty more to website i thought he called me creating a day in history legend chessplayer but we refused to place a counterpart on a three card because in an international standard with details on one. hand

muscovites will be able to apply the works of voting public servant i did. well hope among others for the boss to be since bill under the cover of a thing or. impressionist is across russia's proposal have been treated so much one question weeks at the same time because trendsetter explained that's the sort of website particularly. if. arrested for crimes he may not have committed the palestinian engineer waits his fate of an israeli prison even though he says he's innocent he was arrested in the middle of the night on a train traveling across ukraine and israeli intelligence agency mossad claims are seen as part of

a militant organization but officials here are confused as to why they want to move to israel's actions have cost a long shot of downtown a dismissal from the pressure on the government terms of the suspects have to say an hour's time. the headlines for you in a few moments stay with us. live

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