coalition forces become a hindrance small trying to help libyan rebels meanwhile gadhafi soldiers try to take control of key cities. gadhafi loyalists to fight against the insurgency attempting to recapture the western liberal stronghold of misrata and for this here in the capital city of tripoli joining me in a few moments 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 it will be other main news stories of the week russian security forces strike a serious blow to the terrorist stronghold of the north caucasus and the first

anniversary of the suicide bombings of the moscow metro. hello this is art c. from moscow it's now ten pm here my name is kevin i would with a news update in a recap of the top stories that shape the week for you and first program duffey forces in libya are attempting to recapture the country's third largest city of misrata it's the last rebel stronghold left in the west and is put under attack for weeks now our correspondent paula slayer's in the capital tripoli with more. the work of bloodshed is increasingly being 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 that and turn

a few days ago there were a number of civilians being housed inside that building they had been injured in recent clashes between pro and anti gadhafi forces but fortunately there had 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 eight thousand civilians have been killed in the city certainly the rebels have been in control of it for morgan a month now but what we are seeing increasingly as every government troops sign tenser find michigan 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 the submarines and they miss all 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 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 pull of this a crusader war they say that these actions are illegal and immoral and they are not voicing 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 ultimate. and in the deployment of foot soldiers. poor slayer their washington is considering arming and training the libyan rebels despite claims that al qaeda is infiltrated their ranks are t.v. gold piskun are still in talking to opposition supporters in benghazi following the recent nato air strike nearby that left thirteen dead. the general feeling here in

the rebel stronghold is confusion lots of confusion around that incident because according to some reports the tank planes on the rebels was caused by gaddafi troops who sneaked in on 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 i can tell you that judging by the pool level of organization and training the rebel fighters versions possible because the rebels had been seen arguing and even fighting them on themselves or on the front many are teenagers who don't have any experience in combat and there is even speculation and what's rumors of that egypt and the united states me the seat we training the rebels there on the front and also rumors that

the cia secret agents needy operating there as well trying to organize 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 the forces at the moment is around the one to ten meaning one a rebel fighter against then the soldiers as so general understanding here in being guys the. only way the rebels could be successful is with this support from nato. to go it's going off there let's bring a journalist asked about the conversation so he's joining us from some part of brazil either the u.s. and the coalition forces have been keen only to save a regime change isn't part of the plan yet we hear reports the to washington is thinking of ali training the rebels this big contradictory don't you think. it's

effect this is completely ridiculous because obama in his own words has been saying from day one that's the goal but this is not what the u.n. resolution is all about don't forget germany the most important country in europe brazil russia india and china the bric countries the all abstained from voting and this week i managed to talk to two high grade king diplomats or united nations the well said this was independently confirm you know how the u.s. dollar had been his own investigation people said independently that the bric countries and germany did not hold for the resolution because they knew there was a thirty deal in the background between the house of south and the barack obama administration so you can attack force through testers in a legitimate broadcast and you give us the green light so what that qaddafi. an

arab league no fly zone resolution which was not diluted by the whole arab league only nine countries in twenty two in the arab league voted for the no fly zone so this whole scene to sum it all up is a farce and puppy account of thinking about the irony here kenya for nearly a decade now al qaeda has been america's public enemy number one but we've approached some in the libyan opposition a from that terror group isn't the u.s. therefore unwittingly trying to help the very people it's been battling to defeat all this time. isn't that plastic that the pentagon on one. side of. this. historical shower or the aft area to al qaeda in demographic a key i guess they call themselves their actual piece by friday. they will end up in afghanistan or camps. they came back to libya are part of the

islamist. start. position and the opposition itself is a motley group you find exiles. iraq's two thousand and five military defectors from a few government. glute in. france flight legitimate masters. every seventeen used movement which have been completely sidelined. ten days that legal healy i just want to jump in yes i can pepper on a few problems with the sound we're not hearing you very well i want to get a quick question if i can are that the american p.x. is a very much against this war in libya from the outset what's their reaction what are you hearing there on the ground. well good late the latest we heard was a repeat paul two days ago the american population is absolute split fifty

percent against it and forty eight percent so you know even though the man himself with his. speech trying to explain why america is in libya how much of the american population is because if anybody knows there are no strategic u.s. interests to leave us we start talking about nature which is the army in europe of course having. libya which is what. we did to rein in countries are in need who is not at the other two by the way in syria lebanon there's a look at i guess lebanon and syria as we all know it's in a different process as we speak so this could go on agenda there's also the french i tend to though forget this whole scene was created by nuri smart protocol kathy who defected to france in two over two thousand and ten so this is the pre-stage

it's very elaborate that in paris between us mary and french intelligence and then we have the action of the house of south which has a bad blood with. you know purposely part of the i'm afraid you know i know you've got a lot of say over this show is how but the technology is letting us down the sound isn't very good i'm afraid we're not here yet so we're going to leave it for now thanks pete on the program we do pretty shocking story no worries thank you. of the year wonders of modern technology yeah ok let's move on i still ahead few of this out of business behind bars we look at how foreign investors are owed one hundred million dollars by the georgian government said jail. and there's it's almost fifty years since mankind's first journey to space you bring you all the latest on preparations for a special anniversary flight that's to to come. it is from japan now though and the country is facing 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 in spite of all the efforts to try to stem that flow and the bodies of two workers killed by the devastating tsunami have been recovered from the wreck facility the massive wave that hit the country's no claimed the lives of twelve thousand people over two hundred thousand still live in shelters the authorities are giving assurances that doing everything they can to help the displaced communities but as. many people feel their government as failed . this is the first time many residents of be sure markie have seen their houses since the tsunami the search through them but in most 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 getting his personal things out i just wish everything can go back to how it was. changing has been housed at a local school with several hundred others people here who've been taking turns to

volunteer as cooks and cleaners. but they cram conditions mean that after nearly three weeks the communal spirit is free and. we are dissatisfied with your flora g.'s we know there are temporary houses that we put up but you will get them some areas are being faded over others. the government admits that not a single temporary house has been constructed so far but even when they do finally go up there won't solve the far greater problem. the government excavators are removing the rubble as fast as they can put 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 the house and call of their home many of the. stricken japanese coastal towns lived for generations on doing ling 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 but look the ones of the small people i do not think this town will ever be rebuilt as it was even if i restore what i have and no one will build anything next to my house. or 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. now of r.t. . japan. next one of the biggest counter-terror operations in years has left seventeen militants dead in russia's southern republican shetty on monday it was thought that russia's most wanted terrorist local maro could be among those killed authorities awaiting the results of forensic testing verified information during the raid security forces also destroyed a militant 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 never caught up with some of the survivors of those there. it started off as just an ordinary monday morning for me keep it off he like many others had a certain string in his step knowing the harsh moscow winter was over but little did he realize the nightmare he would be thrown into just a few minutes later suddenly there was this horrible sound as if something huge had formed. and i woke up and there was a small haze. people were shouting and rushing out of the car would meet me had hurried was the start of the worst. in the russian capital in six years just before eight am difference of two explosions hit the moscow subway killing twenty four people at the crowded playground for 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 small. pieces that. we. gave right in the middle of the rush hour were it struck up the back of the train as communities try to get on board it was dark there was no lighting and i just saw people borders and whatever remains of them some of them were stretched on the floor near the metal crane in the side was horrible it was a people who were just before your eyes and there was nothing that would save them with eighty million commuters every day in moscow subways one of the busiest in the world that's made it a terrorist target in the past year ago it was to be a target once again

a twenty year old student leader so the horrors for herself the truth chooses to live in fear. sometimes i feel something like this i think about these bad general thing that we have safe safety now. a year ago tires broad moscow to a standstill by gringo in coral to our reading life but if they wanted to destroy people's spirits goal was certainly no order chips says alive goals own and while a terror threat to millions both in moscow and across the globe remains it's something people how blown to live with my son the question also moscow. where israeli businessman wanted food for received an invitation from the georgian prime minister to an informal dinner the last ten years explodes it was a prison sentence that meeting was to finalize the settlement of one hundred million dollars owed to him by the georgian government a debt foods had been chasing for almost fifteen use result his country in

a zone of reports next doing deals with georgia could be risky business. to mourn 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 running foop scheme to newly 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 paper fish and his investments turned into a loss so he did what any businessman would take the case to court and won at the difficult part was getting the georgian side to cough up the hundred million us dollars it oh there's started negotiations with. her finest was in. asian they just wanted to establish the payment was this it nothing. from georgian government to any immunity. it was just story time what was it would

go over very informal drinks and unnamed it's terrible hotel folks worked out the details with none other than george just 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 it's dangerous seventy to go to folks and everybody's happy so i'm just a week later the businessman received an invitation from the georgian prime minister and was expecting to collect the dosh instead it 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 the plan to and for our priority fix and trapped in now in prison the businessmen and then apparently got sucked into yet more corrupt games

after going straight to. jail without collecting his cash folks was told that he is a get out of jail free card it would cost him one hundred million u.s. dollars his own one hundred million u.s. 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 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 aware for now georgia near saved itself a lot of money considering the fact last year's foreign investment scheme four hundred thirty three million dollars avoiding printing with nearly a quarter would be turned real mean feat but the overall cost to his economy could

be colossal as not many investors like doing business with people who don't settle debts and film them with cameras newspapers are already full of the potential political and financial consequences to this kind of action and as old as ronnie fox interviewed frankel stay in prison some businesses may well decide that this is the kind of georgian hospitality they did not want to invest into. cashiers however i keep the b.b.c. georgia. owes a lot more news analysis views waiting for you on our website as well as take a look at what's going on not a heads tonight. and power to the people but it will cost new yorkers that krisna bills it seems of sought after a federal decision to allow the energy bill providers to more follow why those city officials are calling a money grab not gone down well. the place for that story plus a promise of

a dream of who takes a green wishing for. find out what he thought of russia's new is tied with vehicle mode is the go all be. on our website r.t. dot com. to meet with various ban 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 medvedev has ordered ministers to leave any corporate posts they hold by july this year they'd be replaced by non-government figures official say the move only applies to competitive you corporations such as the country's major energy defense companies and banks. exit polls suggest because it stands incumbent president nursultan as a buyer feel secure another term in office he said we have won over ninety percent of the ballots cast in the early presidential vote as a by have stayed in power since one nine hundred ninety one enjoys the exclusive right to be elected for a limited number of limitless the number of times something the constitution will

no longer allow any other president vote was called after the leader rejected the idea of a referendum about from only used in office until twenty twenty three candidates are challenging in the vote but none of publicly opposed his policies more than a thousand international observers overseeing the election which is already come under criticism for perceived lack of sounds the first official results are expected. to national news in brief now hundreds of french troops are being sent to ivory coast as the power struggle in the country they 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 past few days forces loyal to the u.n. recognize leaderless son of a battling supporters of the incumbent president. refuses to see. the forty one people have been killed because he's even given the twin explosions swine in

pakistan believe his were gathering for a three day festival in a building in the province. the blast went off if you try to come under attack in a country before many muslim hardliners consider this mystical branch of islam. and it's a protest is a taking the streets in afghanistan and with these protests of the burning of a qur'an by a pastor in the u.s. last month demonstrators in kandahar attacked cars and shops in a riot that left is two policemen dead the protests have also spread to other cities 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 of their planes for inspection and cancel three hundred flights nationwide the move comes after a section of the fuselage 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 aboard was on route from phoenix to

sacramento calving precious dropped the pilot made rapid descent and none of the passengers were seriously injured. and the fiftieth anniversary of the first manned flight into space rusher is preparing to one of their epic achievements her crew is set to blast off aboard the soyuz spacecraft on monday night on their latest mission to the stars as for sailors following a fourth. well it's just a day before the launch of the so used to twenty one and to the international space station of course the crew there going through the final preparations the spacecraft itself it's 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 following the footsteps of the men and women that came before them the most interesting thing happening today is the blessing of the russian orthodox priest he's giving his blessing to the crew before they go off on their mission of course this was a practice theory. actually began when cosmonauts started because i requested for

this before he went on his mission to the mir space station this was the t m a twenty 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 didn't manage to achieve that explosive as he could get too bad dream is to be working with the cosmonauts themselves so he's there giving his blessings so that's what we've been watching for today and another tradition that we had to go through his haircut before the actual launch to space. aside from the journalists who are here from nasa the people. side with. 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 actually a tourist 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

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 thing a so far that you've seen that you can share with people who can make it here. it's almost seems like it's in the middle you know it's in the middle of nowhere it seems like there's a launching speed. every six months actually much more frequently than that but it's just it's a it's in the middle of nowhere and it's a 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 they will be going to the launch pad as well to have a closer look at the rocket which of course there's the be a symbol the base actually if you because got it for the a fiftieth anniversary of his first space flight another interesting thing 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 said told me 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 of their husbands and making this trip to get 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 people visiting just a very informative a very exciting atmosphere that we are experiencing here at baikonur of course everybody looking forward to the launch marking be a fiftieth anniversary of utica got its first spaceflight. and covering more of that as we go work towards that launch now we're coming up in fifteen minutes time tonight a round of the day sporting action kate's got news of a new leader of for a day of shocks of the russian premier league person of the twist to the tale of the ice hockey playoffs it goes on this is our duty on the sunday evening the third of april thanks for being with us all of the headlines for you in just a few minutes time.

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