each began a journey. where did it take. you . cannot see tonight coalition forces become a hindrance while trying to help the libyan rebels get out the soldiers try to take control of key cities. gadhafi loyalists they fight against the insurgency attempting to recapture the western rebel stronghold of misrata i'm going to here in the capital city of tripoli joining me in a few moments and i'll bring you more. japanese authorities predict several months of radiation leaks as people try to rise from the rubble of the quake a disaster. the top stories from the week russian security forces strike a serious blow to the terrorist stronghold in the north caucuses on the first

anniversary of the suicide bombing in the moscow metro. this is r.t. from moscow it's nine pm here now my name is kevin and i've got a news update in a recap of the top stories of the week so bring a bill. the forces in libya are attempting to recapture the country's third largest city of misrata really is the last rebel stronghold left in the west and has been under attack for weeks now our correspondent paula steer is in the capital tripoli with more. a lot of bloodshed is increasingly being used to describe the situation in the last wiggle 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 in turn a few days ago there were a number of civilians in houses inside that building they had been injured in recent clashes between pro and gadhafi forces but looking at he said had been evacuated before the shelling began we are also hearing from doctors that in the last week alone and 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 so be the rebels have been in control a bit more than a month now but what we are seeing increasingly is that the government troops are intensifying michigan and more and more troops likely that the city forward to the hands of gadhafi is 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're also going to begin withdrawing the fighter jets based submarines and the 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 iraqi 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 as far as the triple government goes though they continue to call this a quote a crusader who they say that these actions are illegal and immoral and they are no voice in the movie concerns that in the future they will view the supplying of weapons to these rebel fighters this will soon be followed by training and ultimately end in the deployment of foot soldiers. considering the libyan rebels despite claims that al qaida has infiltrated their ranks i think he can also. position supporters and suddenly the recent nato strike that left dead the

general feeling here in the rebel stronghold is confusion a lot of confusion around that incident because according to some reports this attack planes on the rebels was caused for a good 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 that's 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 seem arguing and even fighting them on themselves or 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 of that cia secret agents media operating there as well trying to organize the rebels when it comes to. the forces there are much better trained they're much better equipped and their leader is much more of them according to some biggers. forces out the moment is around one through ten meaning one rebel fighter against then the 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. off there well as the coalition forces continue their operation in libya there are concerns that the intervention they simply backfire on europe security experts fear that libyan islamic groups are plotting terror attacks in the e.u. in revenge for the allied airstrikes that is daniel bushell reports. e.u.

countries have taken the lead role in forcing the u.n. resolution but their efforts all the way over in libya now threatens to bring conflict right to be a very old back door and lists claim colonel gadhafi now has little other weapons left in his armory that oversees terror he's faced repeated accusations that he ordered look at the bombing that killed two hundred seventeen mostly westerners experts say some countries are particularly in the firing line three leading countries of the offensive operation that means for you and. for states of course the only option yes really is to use their own so i think. it's a clear cut in prison today in the coming days and 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 grounds and she western forces there are agents. working now. in that atmosphere of chaos. i am sure. e.u. muslims protest against nato bombing of libya the organizer says people should prepare for the worst but there's certainly there's a very strong likelihood i think. that the muslims like everybody should. anger at the invasion of iraq led to a surge into. there are attacks in the e.u. almost two hundred people died in the madrid train bombings in two thousand and four 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 crease activity among suspected terrorist cells indicating the threat of attack is high one officer told r.t. and e.u. terrorist strike is now just a question of time than a bushel party process. in syria president bush said has appointed a new prime minister after dismissing the old cabinet in an attempt to ease the unrest in the country dozens have been killed in two weeks of fighting there the government blames outside influences for the unrest independent journalist james corbett told us he believes foreign military intervention could be on the cards the president is being set right now with the libyan. the forces of western imperial in libya then it's really just a question of implementing this seems theme in syria and we've seen how it can be done by for mentoring and funding and training and arming and supplying the rebel forces in your country and basically convert attempt to implement regime change and

i think that's exactly what an intervention in syria would be a bold ultimately it would be to isolate iran obviously syria being an absolutely vital strategic partner and a long term partner of iran and are providing that land link to hezbollah fit in and so it's absolutely a geo strategic location and it's very strategic for iran so i would see see that if the if syria is the next country to fall into this imperialist intervention i think that would definitely be the long term goal would be to isolate iran to hopefully eventually in the imperialist eyes to your peripheral are going to judge the regime. still snatched off a train in the middle of the night find out how a palestinian engineer disappeared trains resurfaced in israel why the secret service it might be involved. anderson was fifty years since mankind's first journey into space we bring you all the latest on preparations for a special anniversary. japan faces the grim prospect of several months of

uncontrolled radiation leakage officials have said radioactive water continues to escape into the ocean from a crack in the fukushima plant second reactor the spite all efforts to try to stem the flow the bodies of two workers killed by the devastating tsunami of being time being recovered from the red facility a massive wave that hit the country is now claimed the lives of twelve thousand people over two hundred thousand still live in shelters it's already is a given assurances they're doing everything they can to try to help the displaced communities because r.t.c. don't go rotten have discovered many people feel their government has failed them. this is the first time many residents of marquis have seen their houses since the tsunami the surge 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. shinji 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 the communal spirit is frame and. we are dissatisfied with your forties we know there are temporary houses that will be put up if you will get them some areas are being feted over others. the government admits that not a single term breed. 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 the disaster even those lucky enough to get the temporary housing it will be years before they can come here rebuild the house and 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. the government is good at solving problems but look the ones of the small people i 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. but 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 eager grodner of r.t. . japan i spoke to the pendant nuclear power consultant john large he told me he believes that while japan was caught off guard when the tsunami struck the country was still unprepared 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. fruita 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 part of the accident and we can see affectively that the japanese for the first two weeks have been running around 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 flooding and quench in the reactors we water that may well lead to serious consequences later on when they have all that accumulated water on site which is highly radioactive then they have to make a decision of how to deal with the water to keep it in sight in one trenches or to actually destroy logic to see with the consequences on the marine environment so whichever way they turn they've been ill prepared and they poorly planned for the

consequences of this succeeding action john large their independent consultant from london. one of the biggest counter-terror parishioners in years is left seventeen minutes instead in russia seven republic of english at ir on monday it was thought that russia's most wanted terrorist talk with him are to be among those killed but a number of forensic tests have yet to be carried out to verify that information during the raid security forces also destroyed the militants camp where terrorists were being trained the operation took place from the eve of the first anniversary of the twin suicide when he was the rock the moscow metro taking thirty eight lives of his within a culture never caught up with some of the survivors of those deadly attacks. it started off as just an ordinary monday morning for me think it will kill a khamenei this had a certain string in his step knowing the heisman it's going to be called big little did you realize. he would. he threw me into just a few minutes later suddenly there was

a brief horrible sound as if something huge had fallen. and i walked out 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 crowd little bank a 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 but it was basically came at eight thirty eight right in the middle of the rush hour work its truck out the back of the train us commuters trying to get on board it was dark there was no life and i just thought he was bodies and that

whatever remains of them some of them were thresh on the floor near the metal frame and the site was horrible it was people what die just before your eyes and there was nothing to 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 as a year ago it was to be a target and once again a twenty year old student leader so this story's for herself but refuses to live in fear today. sometimes i feel something like this i think about this but general i think we have safe safety. a year ago tires brought moscow to a standstill by bringing horo to our reading life but if they wanted to destroy. those goals certainly know what it says alive goals own and while

a terror threat to millions were the most go on across the globe remains it's something well how long to live with my question also in moscow. a palestinian engineer is in an israeli jail after allegedly being kidnapped by israel's secret services darragh cissie was snatched from a train in ukraine and disappeared for weeks now israel admits it's holding the man accuses him of links with a mass but ukraine is perplexed over why its authorities weren't alerted as artie's alexina jet ski reports. several months ago to get a new car and her husband palestinian engineer did out of which she fled from gaza to her nature of ukraine they were looking for a peaceful life far from the constant hostilities of the middle east even chills to leave behind a very good job with a purpose my husband was deputy director of the only power station and he's a very highly qualified engineer and received an immensely high salary by local

standards. but their relief did not last long evening up with c.c. boarded an overnight train from quite a few key here to meet his brother i will says he was sound asleep 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 journey because she has no doubt it was a kidnapping plot and by israel's intelligence service. with little interest not i received a text message from him the next day he said he needs tonight and is going to saudi arabia and i knew it wasn't his style he never uses words like. many called you and you crazy in the following few weeks while her husband's whereabouts were unknown until israel's prime minister confirmed all this time the man had been behind bars in an israeli prison i will sue sue in chicago for months and months

and we arrested him for orders up with a scheme was going to kill me. but one question arises if the arrest was indeed a judgement why had ukrainian special services been left in the dark about the operation of the school of rock n roll or not a single intelligence service turned to us just resting a criminal and receive additional any special operations either by. experts say in special operations between the intelligence of two countries a suspect is routinely arrested and deported otherwise the press. egypt breaches a country solvency in the present case nobody can even say how exactly the man was taking out of ukraine. this woman was not goes on a wanted list by any country and there's been no extradition claim as it's unclear who is left of ukrainian territory. this would not be the first case when the side has struck with warnings last year a suspected hamas militant was assassinated in dubai police and guess what the

emirates special forces say they had no idea about the plans. as c.c. awaits charges against him to be brought next week says she will spare no effort to put an end to this complaint against an ordinary engineer lexy risky r.t. reporting from kiev ukraine. those one news viewers analysis so waiting for you on our website as well r t v dot com these are some stories that you might be interested in tonight power to the people but of what the cost to your cause electricity bills have soared following a federal decision to allow energy providers to work more find out the why city officials are calling the move a money grab you can have your say but it seems that affects you plus prime minister vladimir putin's stake in a green machine for a spin there it goes that sea borne of this past but now we thought of russia's newest hybrid vehicle it's going to be known as the go well bill goes on production

shortly details on our website or our t.v. show called. me to my bed it was banned top government officials from running or even helping to run companies in which the state has a stake in movies aimed to create a better climate for investors in russia president medvedev has ordered ministers to leave any corporate posts they hold by july this year they will 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. valid . being counted in kazakstan after an early presidential vote there the ballots expected to overwhelmingly confirm the leadership of longstanding new sultan is a buyer he's been in power since one thousand nine hundred ninety one and enjoys the exclusive right to be elected for a limitless number of times so the constitution will no longer allow any other president it's not vote was called the leader rejected the idea of a referendum about prolonging his term in office until twenty twenty three

candidates are challenging him in the votes the butt of publicly opposed his policies more than a thousand international observers were overseeing the election which is already come under criticism for a perceived lack of fairness the first official results are expected early on monday. well good news in brief hundreds of french troops are being sent to the ivory coast as the power struggle in the country he reported to have taken over the airport of the main city of 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 un recognized leader elliston a battle in support of the incumbent president laurent gbagbo who refuses to seek power. at least forty one people of been killed and dozens injured in twin explosions at a soofi strine in pakistan believers were gathering for a three day festival at the building in the punjab province when the blasts went off trying to come under attack in the country before many muslim hardliners could

see this mystical branch of islam. and as assessed as taking to the streets of the afghanistan in new protests over the burning of a command by a pastor in the u.s. last month seven stray sions in kandahar attacked cars and shops in a riot that left at least two policeman bed approaches have also spread the word the sentence comes after twenty people including u.n. staff were killed in similar demos in recent days. america's southwest airlines is grounded nearly eighty of its planes for inspection it's canceled three hundred flights nationwide the move came after a. section of the fuselage ripped open on a boeing seven three seven during a flight on friday forcing of emergency landing at a military base in arizona a jet with a hundred eighteen people aboard was on route from phoenix to sacramento when the cabin pressure suddenly dropped the pilot made a rapid descent and none of the passengers seriously. at the fiftieth anniversary of the first flight into space russia was preparing one of the. crew of.

spacecraft. on their mission to the stars. more about the. bullets just the day before the launch would be so used. to the international space station of course the crew out there going through the final preparations the spacecraft itself is already hoisted 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 following the footsteps of the men and women that came before them the most interesting thing happening today is the russian orthodox priest is he's giving his blessing to the crew before they go off on their mission of course this was a practice. to be. cosmonauts excited because michael requested for this before he went on his mission to the mir space station this was the t m a twenty the so you see on 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 these are the closest he could get to mr you working with your cause without insults so he's there giving his blessing so that's what we've been watching for today and another tradition that we had to go through. before. launching into space. aside from the journalists who are here. the people. side. we also have a lot of people coming here just to witness what's going on as tourists. i'm joined now by she's actually here at baikonur 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 in moscow this year and i'm interested in russian space program and the history of the russian space program as well as the corker. between the u.s. and american space program what was the most interesting because so far that you've

seen that you can share with people who can't wait to hear or hear 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 get there watching stations 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 so maybe i'll be going to a large crowd as well to have a closer look at the walk of which of course there's the simple the face actually if you think i got it for the fiftieth anniversary of his first space flight number that you're sleeping is that we've been talking to the wives of the a cosmonauts especially the two russian cosmonauts alexandr some of which i have been to everybody cycle this is their first time in space said when you get when you talk to their wives they're actually the ones who are very very nervous about the making of their husbands making this trip to get a very interesting atmosphere here what you don't see. maybe part of

a camera it's all the conversations that go on between basswood also people visiting just a very informative very exciting atmosphere that we are experiencing here at baikonur of course everybody looking forward to the launch marking be a fiftieth anniversary of you got its first spaceflight. you know a bit more from terser is she your covers up for you now if you managed tonight we take a closer look at the dilemma of crime and punishment looking at the case of a man sentenced to have his life taken away when it's sixteen but it barely even begun watching out for more scrutiny approaching you know going to thirty pm sunday night's debate.

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