it's almost goes into you know but still should image of an air force general scope from some of the c.s. sloviansk guns in soldiers historical who chills of its culture in the city streets in the sky cool small. mid-air as a good up until from the east room for this to to become the hutto. libyan rebels resume their battle for control of key cities but come under friendly fire from coalition forces to duffy loyalist stepped up a fight against the insurgency attempting to recapture the western rebel stronghold of misrata i'm going to see you in the capital city of tripoli join me in a few moments and i'll bring you more. also this hour with radiation expected to leave for several months ahead of japan's trying to rise from the rubble of the quake disaster. and on the first anniversary of a moscow metro bombings a blitz operation strikes as a serious blow to the charity terrorists in the north caucuses.

a warm welcome to the weekly here in archie this sunday afternoon from moscow where it's four pm programs our feed forces in libya are attempting to recapture the country's third largest city mistrust it's the last rumble stronghold left in the west and has been under attack for weeks our correspondent paula sear is in the capital tripoli with more. word of bloodshed is increasingly been used to describe the situation in the last rebel held city in the west 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 city and we understand from the doctors and turn a few days ago there were number of civilians being housed inside that building

they have been injured in recent clashes between pro and anti gadhafi forces but fortunately there have been evacuated before the shelling began we are also hearing from doctors that in the last week alone hundred and sixty people have been killed in misrata itself from these battles are being told by doctors that in a month of fighting between six hundred and eight thousand civilians have been killed in this city certainly the rebels have been in control of it for more than a month now but we are seeing increasingly is that the government troops are intensifying michelle in and more and more looks likely that the city will forward to the hands of gadhafi as man 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 based submarines and the missile ships now this does come across as come against the background of a stalemate in terms of fighting on the ground between those pro and thank you the

people who surround 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 as far as the tripoli government goes that they continue to call this a quote a crusade a route they say that these actions are illegal and immoral and they are not forcing movie concerns that in the future they will be the supply of weapons to these rebel fighters this will soon be followed by training and ultimately end in the deployment of foot soldiers. washington is considering training and arming the libyan rebels despite claims that al-qaeda has infiltrated their ranks and has been talking to opposition supporters in benghazi following the recent nato air strike near by thirteen that the general feeling here in the rebel stronghold

is confusion a lot of confusion around that incident because according to some reports the planes on the rebels was caused by troops. on the rebels that opened fire at the planes but other reports suggest that the rebels were celebrating and began shooting into the air just confusing the pilots and also true. to react back but i can tell you that judging by the pool level of organization and training off the rebel fighters versions are possible because the rebels have been seen arguing and even fighting them on themselves al gore on the front many are teenagers who don't have any experience in combat and there is even speculation and lots of rumors of that egypt and the united states and we see we training the rebels there on the front and also rumors of the cia secret

agents and me operating there as well trying to organize ruggles soon so when it comes to. the forces there are much better trained they're much better equipped and apparently there is much more of them according to some biggers. forces out the moment is around one to ten meaning one a rebel fighter against. the soldiers so the general understanding here in benghazi is that the only way the rebels could be successful is with this support from nato. well many experts warn the military support of the rebels could mean helping the enemy in the long run or going to canada such as the potential consequences the international community permitted intervention in libya to protect civilians from colonel qaddafi who washington wants 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 is secret order authorizing covert american support for rebel forces seeking to oust the league in 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 we think somehow we're going to be able to direct the outcome it's the same hubris that has resulted in the united states and iraq the same hubris that keeps us penya and in afghanistan causes us to believe that somehow we are going to wreck events and the outcome in libya we cannot do that nor do we have the right to determine who the leader of libya should be many fear radical forces could take advantage of the chaos in libya former

jihadists no my bad men who renounce his all kind of two thousand says he has two mates one thousand jihadists are among the rebels in libya one b.b.n. 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 al qaida and hezbollah have 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 these people. will not be able to take

control over the situation as soon as the current regime. goes off and this means that somebody else will be. tempted to take over the country and we know that the only will organize. world force in the region not in the country but in the region is unfortunately 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 are cautious about military intervention could blow back their charm was johnson johnson wrote famously about is sure to happen in libya in afghanistan back in the eighty's the u.s. had a narrow goal to help them fight soviet troops subsequently the same with militants

turned their weapons and training against the us among those of them was osama bin ladin whose group of eventually evolved into al qaida this cannistraro cia and alice is an operations chief in the 1980's says back then the us didn't see the dangers of arming the afghan militants no good. and what we've seen with the tribal society. and 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 ghana check on our t. washington d.c. . so have three of us our business behind bars we look at how a man owed a hundred million dollars by the georgian government has ended up in jail.

well let's go to japan now for the latest developments there the country is facing the grim prospect of at least a few months of uncontrolled radiation release officials have said radioactive water continues to leak into the ocean from a crack in the focus in the plant second reactor after a failed attempts to plug it with concrete emergency crews are trying to absorb absorb with palmer the visor two workers killed last month by a devastating tsunami have been recovered from the wreck facility a massive wave that hit the country last month and severely damaged the plant has now claimed the lives of twelve thousand people over two hundred thousand still live in shelters the authorities have given assurance that they're doing everything they can to help the displaced communities but as the road have discovered many people fear their government has felt. this is the first time many residents of. have seen their houses since the tsunami surged through them but in most

a little of value remains 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 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. but the cramped 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 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 they won't solve the far greater problem. they go with the excavators are

removing the rubble as fast. 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 call it 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. the government is good at solving big problems not the ones of a small people i don't 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. or 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 much more difficult. no r.t. topical japan. but independent nuclear power consultant john lawrence believes

while japan was caught off guard when the tsunami struck the country was still i'm prepared to deal with this type of accident. the problem is really the fundamental nuclear safety culture in japan and generally in the rest would be developed world is flawed what happened here is that the japanese considered this. tsunami could never happen or would happen so infrequently that they didn't have to take account of it and as a result they never practice is never rehearsed for this type of accident and we can see affectively that the japanese for the first two weeks have been running around to corner an old english phrase like headless chickens not knowing what to do the real problem is this if they take a measure like flood in and quench in the reactors with water that may well lead to serious consequences later on when they have all that accumulated water which is highly radioactive then they have to make a decision of how to do with the water to keep it in slightly. or to actually

destroy it to see with the consequences on the marine environment so whichever way they turn they've been prepared and they poorly planned for the consequences of this succeed in action. but they're from john large who's an independent nuclear power consultant. and one of the biggest counter terror operations in years the last seventeen militants dead in russia's southern republican monday it was thought that a warlord delco morrow with russia's most wanted terrorist could be among those killed but a number of forensic tasks have yet to be carried out to verify the information during the raid security forces also destroyed in the militant camp where terrorists are being trained now gratian took place on the eve of the first anniversary of the twin suicide bombing of iraq from moscow natural claiming thirty eight lives that is would you know question of caught up with some of the survivors of the. it

started off as just an ordinary monday morning for me you could talk to like many others had a certain spring in his step. no in the harshness school winter was a little bit over but little did he realize the nightmares he would be thrown into just a few minutes later suddenly there was a very horrible sound as if something huge had fallen down and i woke up and there was a small behaves. he was shouting and rushing out of the car would need the had her it was the start of the worst terrorist attack in the russian capital in six years just before eight am the first of two explosions hit a moscow subway killing twenty four people at the crowded luganda station which lies beneath they had quarters of the federal security service forty minutes later the terror trail moved south targeting a station at

a crucial city intersection killing twelve moved. east last year finally we face it came at age thirty eight right in the middle of the rush hour it struck up the back of the train asked commuters try to get on board it was dark there was no lighting and i just saw people bodies and that whatever remained of them some of them were threats on the floor near the metal frame and the side was horrible it was people who would die just before their eyes and there was nothing that would save them with eight million commuters every day moscow subways one of the busiest in the world that's made it a terrorist target in the past a year ago it was to be a target and once again a twenty year old student leader so the horrors for herself but refuses to live in fear today. sometimes i feel something like this i think about this but

general i think that we have safe safety now. a year ago tires brought moscow to. standstill bringing horo to reading life but if they wanted to destroy people's spirits the goal was certainly no one to cheer city alive go zone and while a terror threat to millions more than moscow and across the globe remains it's something people have learned to live with the question also moscow. when an israeli businessman granny food received an invitation from the georgian prime minister to attend an informal dinner the last thing he was expecting was a prison sentence a meeting was to finalize the settlement of a hundred million dollars owed to him by the georgian government and that food had been chasing for almost fifteen years because he's getting those are reports doing deals with 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 newly independent georgian 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 one of the difficult part was getting the georgian side to cough up one hundred million us dollars it all started negotiations with. me to find this was and will these negotiations if they just go to. the payment of the hip nothing in the month from mccain he knew. it was just story thumping with which he would go over very informal drinks and unnamed as temple hotel folks worked out the details of none other than george'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 insane georgia seventy to 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 doc but instead was collected himself there was in fact a. cooperation a collaboration between four important ministries of the government and probably with the approval of the president of the ministry of finance the ministry of justice ministry of the interior and the prime minister's office all of which came together with a plan to a problem if you and trapped in now in prison the businessman then apparently got sucked into yet more corrupt games after going straight to jail without bail. acting as cash folks was to get his

a get out of jail free card would cost him one hundred million u.s. dollars his own one hundred million dollars fuchs was that 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 big money into georgia the odds of his succeeding in georgia are very very slim less than point zero one percent so it's a good it's a good warning to businessmen who are thinking of investing in georgia but they should think twice and that they should be aware for now georgia may have saved itself a lot of money considering the fact last year's foreign investment scheme for four hundred thirty three million u.s. dollars avoiding pleading with nearly porter could be turned you know mean feat but the overall cost to his economy could be colossal as not many nesters like doing

business with people who don't sell debts and film them with hidden cameras newspapers are already full of the potential political and financial consequences to this convention and as well as ronnie folks and see if incl stay in prison some businesses may well decide that this is the kind of georgian hospitality they did not want to invest into. catcher it is however i t d c ga. there's always more news views and analysis waiting for you on our website here's some of what's on line right now i want to the people what come up on your personal lectures twenty bills have soared following the federal decision to allow energy providers to our norah find out why city officials are calling the move a money grab. bust prime minister vladimir putin takes the green machine for a sprint and find out what he thought of the new russia hybrid vehicle named you all on our web site heartbeat. some economists visit

has been a top government officials from running or even helping to run companies in which the state has a stake in the movies aimed to create a better quine meant for investors and russia president very good has ordered ministers to leave any corporate post they hold by july this year or to be replaced by non-government figures official statement only applies to competitive corporations such as the country's major energy and defense companies and also banks. so more of this hour's international stories hundreds of french troops are being sent to i really close as the power struggle in the country heats up there are reported to have taken over the airport in the main city abidjan around a thousand people have been killed in violent clashes in the west of the country over the last few days forces loyal to you when recognized leader of us from your torah are battling supporters of incumbent president laurent gbagbo refuses to cede power. hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets in

afghanistan in renewed protest over the burning of the koran by a pastor in the u.s. last month demonstrators in kandahar attacked cars and shops in a riot that left at least five people dead the protests have also spread to the city of two all of it comes after fourteen people including u.n. staff were killed after similar moves on friday. america's southwest airlines has grounded nearly eighty planes for inspection and canceled three hundred flights nationwide the move came after a section of the fuselage ripped open on a boeing seven thirty seven during a flight on friday forcing an emergency landing at a military base in arizona a jet with one hundred eighteen people on board was on route phoenix to sacramento when the cabin pressure suddenly dropped it made rapid descent and none of the passengers were seriously injured. now in the fiftieth anniversary year of the

first manned flight into space russia's preparing to honor that epic achievement a crew of cosmonauts and astronauts are set to blast off on board a sight you spacecraft this week on their mission to the stars are used as our silly a is out of baikonur cosmodrome and has been following all the traditional preparations. well it's just the day before the launch of these so used to have a twenty one to the international space station and of course the crew they're going through. final preparations the spacecraft itself is already quoted in its vertical position but they're putting the final touches but what's most interesting is the process the traditions that the crew have to go through fall when the footsteps of the men and women that came before them with the most interesting thing happening today is the blessing of the russian orthodox priest who's he's giving his blessing to the group before they go off on their mission of course this was a practice during the. cosmonauts excited because i call requests for this before

he went on his mission to the mir space station this was the t m a twenty this so used to have twenty missions another interesting tidbit we found out is that the russian orthodox priest himself he actually wanted to be a cosmonaut but he didn't manage to achieve that feature the closest he could get to that dream is to be working with the cosmonauts themselves so he's there giving his blessing so that's what we've been watching for today and another tradition that they have to go through is having a haircut before. launching into space. aside from the journalists who are here for people for the side of the caught this space program we also have a lot of people coming here just to witness what's going on as tourists. i'm joined now by adam riess she's actually a tourist here at baikonur oh thank you very much for joining us just tell us briefly why are you here i know you're a tourist but what is it that drew you to this place well i'm actually a fulbright scholar in moscow this year and i'm interested in the russian space

program and the history of the russian space program as well as the cooperation between the u.s. and american space program what was the most interesting things so far that you've seen that you can share with people who can make it here over here if i can or it's it's almost seems like it's in the middle of you know it's in the middle of nowhere it seems like a. launching space ships every six months actually much more frequently than that but it's just it's in the middle of nowhere and it's really a small town atmosphere and. same time a big spaceport thank you very much. so there you have it we have a lot of tourists here going to the different monuments so he'll be going to the launch pad as well to have a closer look at the rocket which of course there's the symbol the face actually if you got it for the fiftieth anniversary of his first space flight another interesting thing is that we've been talking to the wives of the cosmonauts especially the two russian cosmonauts. and everybody said will be this is their

first time in space that he will you could you talk to their wives they're actually the ones who are very very nervous about their making their husbands making this trip so again a very interesting atmosphere here what you don't see. maybe in front of the camera is all the conversations that go on between basketballs the people visiting just a very informative a very exciting atmosphere that we are experiencing here at baikonur in force everybody looking forward to the launch marking be a fiftieth anniversary of utica got its first space flight. well less than five minutes here on our team well look it will take a closer look at washington's action in libya that's after a recap of our weekly top stories stay with us. from.

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