tonight coalition forces become a hindrance while trying to help the libyan rebels meanwhile get guffey's soldiers try to take control of key cities. the loyalists take up a fight against the insurgency attempting to recapture the western rebel stronghold of misrata m twenty three in the capital city of tripoli joining me in a few moments and i'll bring you more. also japanese authorities predict several months of radiation leaks as people try to rise from the rubble of the quake disaster. and in other news this week russian security forces strike

a serious blow to the terrorist stronghold of the north caucuses on the first anniversary of the suicide bombings on the moscow metro. hello this is our team from moscow it's eight pm here now my name's kevin now in with a news update and a recap of the top stories in the week and first program our few forces in libya are attempting to recapture the country's third largest city misrata it's the last rebel stronghold left in the west it has been under attack for weeks now our correspondent paula slitter is in the capital tripoli with. the 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 that and turn a few days ago there were a number of civilians in house inside that 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 are also hearing from doctors that in the last week alone one 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 a thousand civilians have been killed in the city so he 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 will fall to the hands of gadhafi and them 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 this submarines and they missile ships now this does

come across does come against the background of the stalemate in terms of fighting on the ground between those pro and thank you this is 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 as far as the tripoli government goes that they continue to call this a quote a crusader 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 supplying of weapons to these rebel fighters this will soon be followed by training and ultimately end in the deployment of foot soldiers. he's pulling washington's considering trading in arming the libyan rebels despite claims that al qaeda has infiltrated their ranks as he can off speed talking to a position supporters and ghazi felt in recent nato airstrike nearby that left.

the general feeling here in the rebel stronghold confusion a lot of confusion around that incident because according to some reports this attack on me of planes on the rebels was caused by troops who leaked to the rebels and 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 had been seen arguing and even fighting among themselves al gore on the ground 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 that cia secret agents may be operating there as well trying to organize the rebels soon so when it comes to. forces there are much better trained they're much better equipped and apparently there is much more of them according to some biggers a ratio of forces out the moment is around one to ten meaning one rebel fighter against. the salters so the general understanding here in guys he is that the only way the rebels could be successful is with this air support from nato. well i was give some thoughts about that talk to marty darrius nisan roy is from the center for research on globalization joining us from not a thanks for being on our team against pre-show and there's mounting speculation

isn't it that washington is considering arming and training the rebels what basis do we have for that now any clearer that will or won't happen well based on american sources they are helping the rebels couple weeks ago and american official told this chicago. tribune that cia officials were. ok. yes to carry on before that reuters said that before president obama. asked the. rebels the cia was already on the ground the u.s. is playing gyptian military to send weapons into the rebels the rebels are very much being supported by the united states and nato but we've got a bit of a bad line here i'm afraid let's try persevered with one more question so it goes if not afraid latin leaders induces a bit of a sound problem if these people are on there's

a worry is near that al qaeda is infiltrated there's some of these rebel groups so washington could in fact be handing arms to al qaeda the very thing you didn't want to do yes in fact that the united states senate armed services committee to make sure that there are there are al qaeda elements involved or similar elements that are terrorists involved in this rebellion in eastern libya so yes they are going to arm terrorists. now following the recent nato air strike that killed thirteen rebels as we were reporting yesterday is this their early stages do you think of another iraq and afghanistan where coalition attempts to establish peace roof claiming innocent lives. well if you look at yugoslavia after the bombings were done in cost of all nato itself it needed. they killed more albanians the serbs that they were there. are indiscriminate in who they killed in fact i also want to

point out that the head of the trend this spokesperson for the transitional council apologized when their people were killed by nato this shows that they're not really an independent party there to their toeing the line from brussels and washington so . there's russia there's russian and ukrainian nurses testifying that hospitals are being bombed and civilians are being hurt so this is not a humanitarian effort it's a smokescreen this is this is aggression this is a war of aggression against libya you know and there's a big on some question to the side to this alluded to just now who actually the rebels are and how they led forces any closer to knowing who they're actually dealing with another at the cia they're trying to get some information taking it back to washington where these people will be able to form a government to think anyway at the end of the day it could that he does go. i

believe that the interests of the united states are to balkanize libya divided into several states. they are working to divide if you're going to give the rebels limited help. and another united states arm six senate armed services committee the head of intelligence. senator mccain. and senator lieberman that libya is going to be divided it's probably three different states and i'm going to paraphrase one based around tripoli and its environs and no one in benghazi and its environs in another and he said it's going to be similar to libya before the monarchy was established when it was three different semi autonomous areas so they're breaking libya up just like they broke you can slavia interesting of your thoughts in the program of money various nasm roy from the center for research and globalization of sale on the line from ottawa canada tonight thank you . well still to come for you this business behind bars we look at our foreign

investor oh the hundred million dollars by the georgian government ended up in jail . it's almost fifty years since mankind's first journey into space we bring you all the latest on preparations for a special verse of in-flight. japan now that it's facing a grim prospect of said rule months in controlled uncontrolled radiation leakage officials have said radioactive water continues to escape into the ocean from a crack in the fukushima plant second reactor despite all the efforts to try to stem the flow and the bodies of two work who's killed by the devastating tsunami have been recovered from the red facility meantime a massive wave that hit the country has now claimed the lives of twelve thousand people over two hundred thousand still live in shelters your thought is given assurances that they're doing everything they can to help the displaced communities but it's not easy go go out and discovered many people. feel their government has

failed them. this is the first time many residents of haitian a marquee have seen their houses since the tsunami surged through them but then most 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. has been housed below call 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 of communal spirit is fraying 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 they won't solve the far greater problem. the government excavators are removing the rubble as fast as they can but for the victims of that as even those lucky enough to get the temporary housing it will be years before they can come here rebuild their house at a call of their home many of the stricken japanese coastal towns relied for generations on dwindling fishing and shipping industries livelihoods which no longer exist and there is little hope of ever getting them back sort of the. government is good at solving people problems but 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 turn breech 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. to japan. it dependent nuclear power consultants joan large believes that power was caught off guard when the tsunami struck the country was still on for paired to deal with this type of accident. the problem is really the fundamental nuclear safety culture in japan and generally in the rest of the developed world is flawed what happened here is that the japanese considered this cascade. of tsunami could never happen or would happen so infrequently but 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 of practically that the japanese for the first two weeks have been running real to coin 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 and slime which is highly radioactive then they have to make a decision of how to do with the water whether to keep it in site in bond trenches or to actually discharge it to sea with the consequences on the marine environment so whichever way they've turned they've been ill prepared and they poorly planned for the consequences of this succeeding action john large independent nuclear consultant from london talking to me there. one of the biggest counter-terror operators in years has left seventeen militants dead in russia's southern republican to shetty and monday it was thought that russia's most wanted terrorist dr mara could be among those killed but a number of forensic tests to get to be carried out to verify the information during the raid security forces also destroyed the militants camp where terrorists were being trained the operation took place on the eve of the first anniversary of the twin suicide bombings of what the moscow metro claiming thirty eight lives that

is within a culture caught up with some of the survivors of those deadly attacks. it started off as just an ordinary monday morning for me to get off he like many others had a certain spring in his step the heisman schooling little bit little did. realize the nightmare she would be thrown into just a few minutes later suddenly i was a very horrible sound as if something huge had fallen down and i woke up and there was a small haze. people were shouting and rushing out of the car would meet me had heard 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 the moscow subway killing twenty four people at the crowded lubyanka 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 more. established last year was basically came at eight thirty eight right in the middle of the rush hour work it's up the back of the train us commuters try to get on board it was dark there was no lighting and i just saw people what is that whatever remained of them some of them were stretched on the floor near the metal train and the site was horrible it was people what i 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 at a year ago in was to be a target and once again a twenty year old student leader so the horrors for herself the truth fuses to live in fear today. sometimes i feel something like this i think about this but in

general i think we have safe safety now. a year ago tires broad moscow to a standstill by horror of reading life but they want. to destroy people's spirits there's a goal was certainly know what it shit says you live gold zone and while a terror threat to millions than moscow and across the globe remains it's something people have learned to live with my final question r.t. moscow next when israeli businessman ronnie foods received an invitation from the georgian prime minister to an informal dinner the last thing he was expecting was a prison sentence the meeting was to finalize the settlement of one hundred million dollars owed to him by the georgian government had been chasing from was fifty years but is that his country over reports doing deals with georgia can be a risky business. pick one israeli businessman one former soviet

republic and a lot of potential profit from early gas transit sounds like a winning combination which is exactly why ronnie folks came to independent georgia nine hundred ninety one and scored a monopoly on the energy transfer market but the subsequent changes of government saw folks down for bigger fish and his investments turned into a loss so he did what any businessman would take the case to court and won the difficult part was getting the georgian side to cough up one hundred million u.s. dollars oh they started negotiations with. their friends with all these negotiations they just wanted to establish the payment was this it nothing goes they didn't get money from georgian government or any. it was just story time think was the way to go over very informal drinks and unnamed istanbul hotel folks

worked out of 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 georgia seventy two go to folks and everybody's happy so and just a week later the business knew received an invitation from the georgian prime minister and was expecting to collect the dodge 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 the ministry of the interior and the prime minister's office all of which came together with a plan to and for our priority few weeks and trapped in now in prison the businessman then apparently got sucked into yet more corrupt gains after going straight to jail without. acting as cash box 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 schemes of four hundred thirty three million dollars avoiding pleading with nearly a quarter would be turned in your mean feat with the overall cost to his economy

could be colossal is not really in the streets like doing business with people who don't sell debts and fill them with cameron's newspapers are already full of the potential political out of financial consequences to this kind of action and as well as ronnie fox's if frank will stay in prison some businesses may well decide that this is the kind of georgian hospitality they did not want to invest into cash as our i t v c ga. well there was more analysis news views of your say on our website some stories online right now you might be interested in getting a lot of clicks painful but it will cost you your because the tricity bills have sought after a federal decision to the people by those who are more but find why city officials are calling the move money grab is online tonight for you and in russia prime minister of the eve of puts and takes the green machine for a spin there's the machine find out what he thought of brushes when he was tried by

the police and pulled a young will be. on our website. and would bet it was banned top government officials from running or even helping to run companies in which the state has a stake the move is aimed to create a better climate for investors here in russia president would bet it was ordered ministers to leave any corporate posts they hold by july this year to be replaced by non-government figures official say the move only applies to competitive corporations such as the country's major energy defense companies and banks. ballots have been counted in kazakhstan or from any presidential vote the ballot is expected to overwhelmingly reconfirmed the leadership of long standing. as a buyer of peace but in power since one nine hundred ninety one and enjoys the exclusive right to be elected for a limitless number of times some of the constitution will no longer allow any other president has called off the authorities council referendum about prolonging as

a buyer in office three candidates challenging him in the vote but none of publicly opposed his policies more than a thousand international observers were seeing the trip which has already come under criticism for perceived lack of fairness the first official results are expected early monday. morning a national news in brief this time hundreds of french troops are being sent to ivory coast as the power struggle in the country heats up there are reported to have taken over. the airports in the main city of abidjan around a thousand people have been killed in violent clashes in the west of the country of the last few days forces loyal to un registered recognized leader of his son who was battling supporters of incumbent president laurent gbagbo who refuses to see. at least forty one people have been killed and dozens injured in twin explosions at a sufi strine in pakistan believers were gathering for a three day festival at the building in the punjab province when the blast went off

to few strides have come under attack in the country before many muslim hardliners consider this mystical branch of islam. hundreds of protesters have taken the streets of afghanistan in renewed protests over the burning of the qur'an by a pastor in the u.s. last month demonstrators in kandahar attacked cars and shops in a riot that left at least two policemen dead the protests have also spread to other cities now it comes after twenty people including u.n. staff were killed in similar demos in recent days. america's southwest airlines is grounded nearly eighty planes for inspection and it's canceled three hundred flights nationwide the move came after a section of the fusion ripped open on a boeing seven three 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 at the time was on route from phoenix to sacramento when the cabin pressure suddenly dropped the pilot made

a rapid descent and none of the passengers was seriously injured. and the fiftieth anniversary year of the first manned flight into space russia's preparing for one of their epic achievements and a crew is set to blast off on board a soyuz spacecraft on monday night on their first mission to the. well it's just the day before the launch of the so you may be at twenty one and to the international space station of course the crew out there going through the final preparations the spacecraft itself it's already sitting 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 with the footsteps of the men and women that came before them the most interesting thing happening today is the blessing of the russian orthodox he's giving his blessing to the group before they go off on their mission of course this was a practice derby a superior actually began when a cosmonauts excited at the right call request for this before he went on his

mission to the mir space station this was the t m a twenty two so you see him twenty another interesting tidbit we found out is that the russian orthodox priest himself he actually wanted to be a cosmonaut but he did manage to achieve sort of close as he could get to a bad dream is to you booking with your cosmonauts themselves so he's there giving his blessing and so that's what we've been watching for today and another tradition that they have to go through is having a haircut before the actual launch of space by the way aside from the journalists who are here are the people for the people for the sides of. 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 now just tell us briefly why are you here i know you're a tourist but what is it that drew you to this place i'm well i'm actually a fulbright scholar in moscow this year and i'm interested in the russian space

program in the history of the russian space program as well as the cooperation between the u.s. and american space program but what was the most interesting things so far that you've seen that you can share with people who can't make it here or here in baikonur. it's almost seems like it's in the middle you know it's in the middle of nowhere it seems like a desert and yet they're launching speed. every six months actually much more frequently than that but it's just it's it's in the middle of nowhere and it's really a small town atmosphere and at the same time a big spaceport thank you very much. so there you have it you have a lot of tourists here going to the different monuments he'll be going to the launch pad as well to have a closer look at the rocket which of course bears the symbol that basically if you because got it for the fiftieth anniversary of his first spaceflight leatherworker sleeping is that we've been talking to the wives of the a cosmonauts especially the two russian cosmonauts. but he said this is their first time in space and when you

get when you talk to their wives they're actually the ones who are very very nervous about the making their husbands making this trip so again a very interesting atmosphere here what you don't see. maybe in front of a camera is all the conversations that go on between bastard also people visiting just a very informative a very exciting atmosphere that we are experiencing here at baikonur and force everybody looking forward to the launch marking be a fiftieth anniversary of utica got its first space flight yet we'll be following the progress here. in the week now coming up in fifteen minutes time tonight rather than the day sporting news of a new leader all for a day of shocks in the russian premier league the twist in the tale of the playoffs to come and this is our t.v. on sunday evening the third of april. thank you for being with us all of those headlines for you in just a few minutes to. down

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