coalition forces become a hindrance will try to help libyan rebels gadhafi soldiers try to take control of key cities. gadhafi loyalists step up the fight against the insurgency i think until we capture the western rebel stronghold of misrata on course here in the capital city of tripoli join 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 disaster. and want to give them a new stories of the week russian security forces strike a serious blow to a terrorist stronghold in the north caucuses on the first anniversary of the

suicide bombings on the moscow metro. hello this is r t from moscow it's now one am here my name is kevin owen with a news update for you in a recap of the top stories that shape the week for us and first pro good are few forces in libya attempting to recapture the country's third largest city misrata it's the last rebel stronghold left in the west and has been under attack for weeks now our correspondent paula sleeze in the capital tripoli with the latest. the work of bloodshed is increasingly being used to describe the situation in the last rebel held city in the waste of this country the city of misrata now according to doctors on the scene they say that one person was killed and several people were wounded in the early hours of sunday morning when the government forces renewed shelling on a building in the city and we understand from the doctors that i'm told

a few days ago there were a number of civilians being housed inside that building they have been injured in recent clashes between pro and anti duffey 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 that are being told by doctors that in a month of fighting between six hundred and a thousand civilians have been killed in this city certainly 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 michelle and 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 they suddenly leaves and they missile ships now this does come across does come against the background of

a stalemate in terms of fighting on the ground between those pro and thank you 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 tripoli government goes that they continue to call this a crusader route 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 ultimately end in the deployment of foot soldiers. washington is considering training and arming the libyan rebels despite claims that al qaeda is infiltrated their ranks r.t.c. go to prison offspring talking to opposition supporters in brain karzi following the recent make the worst right nearby they left thirty 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 of nato planes on the rebels was caused triggered by god that the 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 but i can tell you that judging by the pool level of organization and training of the rebel fighters both versions are possible because the rebels have been seen arguing and even fighting them on themselves out there on the front many are teenagers who don't have any experience in combat and there's even speculation and lots of rumors of that egypt and the united states and we see we training the rebels out there on the front and also

rumors of the cia secret agents media operating there as well trying to organize the rebels soon so when it comes to god that these two forces there are much better trained they're much better equipped and apparently there is much more of them according to some biggers. forces at the moment is around one through ten meaning one rebel fighter against then the soldiers so the general understanding here in bin guys he is that the only way the rebels could be successful is with this air support from nato. told me the coalition doesn't have as much support for libya as it's making you know. don't forget germany the most important country in europe brazil russia india and china the bric countries theo epstein from vaulting and this week i managed to talk to two high grade diplomats at the united nations

they'd all said and this was independently confirmed in another us scholar had his own investigation they've all said independently that the greek countries and germany did not sought for the resolution because they knew there was a thirty deal in the background house looks out the barack obama administration so you can attack force through testers in bahrain a legitimate drop dast and you give us the green lights were attacked. and the 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 seat to sum it all up is a farce. and this coalition forces continue their operation in libya there are concerns that the intervention may seem backfire on you or security experts for that libyan islamic group supporting terror attacks in the e.u.

in revenge for the allied airstrikes bushell reports. e.u. countries have taken a leading role in enforcing the un resolution but their efforts all the way over in libya now threaten to bring conflict right to their very own back door was a list claim colonel gadhafi now has little other weapons left in his armory an overseas terror he's faced repeated accusations that he ordered look at the bombing that killed two hundred seventy mostly westerners experts say some countries are particularly in the firing line three leading countries of the offensive and that means for us in. the states of course the only option yes really is to use terror so i think. it's a clear cut in prison today in the coming days maybe in the coming weeks but e.u. backing for anti could f.

you could backfire further rebel leaders include the libyan islamic fighting group and associates of al qaida and the casualties mounting every day from allied bombing make fertile recruiting ground and she western forces there are agents of it. 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 that start only there's a very strong likelihood but i think what i do know that inevitability that the most like everybody should. at the invasion of iraq live in terror attacks in the e.u. almost two hundred people died in the madrid train bombings in two thousand and four while suicide bombers killed fifty two people in london in two thousand and

five officials now dread similar results in the wake of this campaign western intelligence reports to create activity among suspected terrorist cells indicating the threat of attack is high one officer told r.t. an e.u. terrorist strike is now just before question of time. marty gospels. so heavy this snatched off a train in the middle of the night find out how palestinian engineer disappeared and ukraine's resurfaced in israel and why the secret service is may be involved. as it's almost fifty years now since mankind's first journey into space will bring you all the latest on the preparations for a special anniversary flight about to happen the next twenty four. 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 a fukushima plant second reactor despite all the efforts to try to stem the flow

and the bodies of two workers killed by the devastating tsunami have been recovered from the wrecked facility to the 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 given assurances that doing everything they can to help the displaced communities but the result is a go have discovered now many people feel their government has failed them. this is the first time many residents. have seen their houses since the tsunami surged through them but in most a little of value remains but subtle shinji is not trying to salvage material possessions. my house was totally destroyed and my husband died in the tsunami now i'm honoring him by getting his personal things out i just wish everything could go back to how it was. shinji has been housed at a local 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 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 have been 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 there won't solve the far greater problem. the government excavators are removing the rubble as fast as they can but all the victims of the disaster even those lucky enough to get the temporary housing it will be years before they can come here rebuild their house and call a home many of the stricken japanese coastal towns rely for generations on dwindling fishing and shipping industries livelihoods which no longer exist and there is little hope of ever getting them back to tell us the government is good at

solving big problems not the ones of our 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. of r.t. . japan. that into those problems of the fears of radioactive contamination of the country independent nuclear consultant john large told me that japan was caught off guard and that tsunami struck and was not properly prepared for the chain of events that followed 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 earthquake food

a 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 effectively 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 with water that may well lead to serious consequences later on when they have all that accumulated water inside 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 gun trenches or to actually discharge it to sea 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 succeed in action. the problem nuclear power could soften from. one of the biggest counter-terror processions in years has left seventeen

militants dead in russia's southern republican because. it was thought that russia's most wanted terrorist attack or mara could be among the killed authorities are waiting on the results of forensic tests to verify that information during the raid security forces also destroyed the militants camp where terrorists were being trained the operation for place on the eve of the first anniversary of the twin suicide bombings the walk from moscow metro thirty eight lives i think within a culture of a quarter of the some of the survivors of those deadly attacks. it started off as just an ordinary monday morning food neatly put off if you like many others had a certain spring in his step knowing the harsh moscow winter was all because i did little did he realize the nightmare he would be thrown into just a few minutes later suddenly there was a very horrible sound as if something huge had formed.

and i walked up and there was a small to his. people were shouting and rushing out of the car would meet me had her it was the start of the worst terrorist attack in the russian capital in six years just before eight am to first of two explosions hit the moscow subway killing twenty four people at the crowded lubanga station which lies beneath the had quarters of the federal security service forty minutes later the territorial move south targeting a station and a crucial city intersection killing twelve from all. these last five days these days thirty eight right in the middle of the rush hour work its truck up the back of the train as commuters try to get on board it was dark and. and i just thought people bodies and whatever remained of them some of them were stretched on the floor near the metal frame and the side was horrible it was the

people what 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 and the year ago in wants to be a target once again and twenty year old student leader so the surest with herself the truth uses to live in fear triggering. sometimes i feel something like this i think about this but in general i think that we have safe safety. a year ago tires brought moscow to a standstill by bringing horo to everyday life but if they wanted to destroy people's spirits this goal was certainly know what it shift says alive goldstone and while the terrorists cry out to millions both in moscow and across the globe remains it's something people how long to live with my question also moscow

a palestinian engineer is in an israeli jail hour for allegedly being kidnapped by israel's secret service is there a sissy was snatched from a train in ukraine and disappeared for weeks now israel admits it is holding a man accuses him of links with a mass with ukraine is perplexed over why its authorities were alerted as artie's election explains. several months ago get a new car and her husband palestinian engineer did i will see she fled from gaza to her native ukraine they were looking for a peaceful life far from the constant hostilities of the middle east there are even chills to leave behind a very good job with my husband was deputy director of the only power station in the he's a very highly qualified engineer and received an immensely high salary by local standards but their relieved did not last long run evening up with c.c.

boarded an overnight train from quite a few kia to meet his brother i will see if 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 the must start with mobile and i received a text message from him the next day he said that he needs to ny low and is going to saudi arabia i knew it wasn't his style he never uses words like that. many called you and you crazy in the following few weeks while her husband's whereabouts were unknown until israel's prime minister confirms all this time the man had been behind bars in an israeli prison of will since it was your home or a bush years from ours and we arrested him for accordance with warm. but one question arises if the arrest was indeed legitimate why had ukrainian

special services been left in the dark about the operation. of our. single intelligence service turned to us to assist resisting a criminal received notification of any special operation either by. experts say in special operations between the intelligence of two countries a suspect is routinely arrested and then deported otherwise the procedure breaches a country solvency in the present case nobody can even say how exactly the man was staking out of ukraine a million in. this man was not put on a wanted list by only country and there had been no extradition claims it was unclear who left ukrainian territory. this would not be the first case when mossad has struck without warning last year a suspected hamas militant was assassinated in dubai and guess what the emirates special forces say they had no idea about the planned move as i will see see always

charges against him to be brought next week that any good says she will spare no effort to put an end to this campaign against an ordinary engineer let's see russia ski r.t. reporting from kiev ukraine. if you get more of our coverage when i visit our website here's some of what's online for you right now. and. russia's president we here is promising to invite barack obama to experience something like that authentic throat singing and also. planet probe find out what nasa says messenger craft is doing. just two stories tonight. and me to prevent it was banned top government officials from running or even helping to run companies in which the state has a stake and moves a to create a better climate for investors in russia present developers all that ministers to leave any corporate posts they hold by july this year to be replaced by normal

government figures official say the move only applies to competitive corporations such as the country's major energy defense companies and banks. it's supposed to just because it stands incumbent president nursultan as a buyer feel secure another term in office he said to have won over ninety percent of the ballots cast in the early presidential vote as a buyer has been in power now since one thousand nine hundred 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 a vote was called after the leader rejected the idea of a referendum about the long term in office till ten to twenty three candidates are challenging the folk with publicly opposed his policies more than a thousand international observers rather signal action has already come under criticism for perceived lack of fairness the first official results from still today monday. more world news in brief hundreds of french troops are being sent by brick ost as the power struggle in the country reported to have taken over the

airport in 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 of the senate battling supporters. company president laurent gbagbo refuses to see. the forty people have been killed and dozens injured in twin explosions at the super swine in pakistan believers were gathering for a three day festival building in the province where your glass window trying to come under attack in the country for many muslim hardliners consider this mystical branch of islam. hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets in afghanistan in renewed protests over the purging of a koran 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 it comes after more than twenty people including u.n. staff were killed in similar demos in recent days. old news for most americans

southwest airlines has grounded nearly eighty of its planes for inspection scam some three hundred flights nationwide the move came after a section of the fuselage ripped open on a boeing seven three seven during a flight friday forcing an emergency landing at a military base in arizona the jet with a hundred eighteen people aboard time was on route from phoenix to sacramento when the cabin pressure system broke the pilot made a rapid descent and none of the passengers were seriously. in the fiftieth anniversary of the first manned flight into space russia's preparing to one of their epic achievement a cruise set to blast off aboard the soyuz spacecraft of monday night on their mission to the stars. well it's just the day before the launch of the so you may twenty one and to the international space station of course the crew they're going through the final preparations the spacecraft itself is already closer to this 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 group before they go off on their mission of course this was a practice. actually began when cosmonauts. requested for this before he went on his mission to the mir space station this was the t m a twenty two so you see twenty mission 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 dream so the closest he could get to dream is to 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 to be had to go through. before the actual launch into space. aside from the journalists who are here. are the people. side of the 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 she's actually a tourist here at baikonur 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 oh 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 thing as 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. and yet they're launching speed. ships 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 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 if you will be going to as

well to have a closer look at the walker which of course bears the symbol the face actually if you got it for the a fiftieth anniversary of his first spaceflight another interesting thing is that we've been talking to the wives of the a cosmonauts especially the two russian cosmonauts are there some of which i have been to everybody said call they this is their first time in space and even when you're going to talk to their wives they're actually the ones who are very very nervous about their making their husbands making biz trip together very interesting out this year here what you don't see. maybe in front of a camera it's all the conversations that go on between bastard also people visiting just sort of a very informative a very exciting atmosphere that we are experiencing here at baikonur of course everybody looking forward to the watch marking be a fiftieth anniversary of utica got its first space flight. going to take over the next twenty four hours we'll be following it as well something completely over sort of in a few minutes we had an exploration underground all revealed about back shortly on

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