in libya reports cut off these troops are targeting civilians in a rebel held areas cast doubts on the success of the allied military operation. gadhafi loyalists take up a fight against the insurgency of tensions recapture the western liberal stronghold of misrata on point to here in the capital city of tripoli join me in a few moments and i'll bring you more. plus japanese officials predict months of leaks from the fukushima power plant as workers struggle to plug a damaged reactor radiation levels and seeing water and groundwater surrounding the plant have reached many thousands times the legal limit. plus in

a major anti terror operation russian security forces killed seventeen militants in the north caucasus this has moscow's marks one year since the last metro suicide bombings that led dozens dead and more than one hundred injured. it's seven am in moscow i met trezeguet good to have you with us here on our team with today's top stories and a look back at the week's news we begin in libya where rebel forces are engaged in heavy fighting with procrit aki forces in around the oil town of brega meanwhile it off these troops are keeping up the pressure on miserables libya's third largest city and a major rebel stronghold in the western part of the country our correspondent paula

has the latest from the capital tripoli. the word of bloodshed is increasingly been used to describe the situation in the last rebel held city of 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 and that term a few days ago there were number of civilians being housed 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 if you the rebels have been in control of it for more than a month now what we are seeing increasingly is every government food scientists are flying michelle in and more and more looks likely that this is he will fall 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're 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 a 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 though they continue to call this a quote 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 and the deployment of foot soldiers. washington is considering training and arming libyan rebels despite claims that al qaida may have infiltrated their ranks. of has been speaking with opposition supporters in benghazi following the recent nato airstrike near by but left thirteen 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 planes on the rebels was caused for good by god that the troops. on the rebels had 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 of the rebel fighters both versions are possible because the rebels had been seen arguing and even fighting among themselves and al gore on the front maybe or 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 cia secret agents maybe operating there as well trying to organize the rebels soon so when it comes to. the forces there are much better trained they're much better equipped and apparently there is much more of them according to some biggers the reshoot of the forces out the moment is around one to ten meaning one rebel fighter against. the soldiers is so general understanding here in benghazi is that the only way the rebels could be successful is with this

support from nato journalist pepe escobar says the coalition doesn't have as much support for its action in libya. don't forget germany the most important country in europe receive russia india and china the bric countries the o abstained from voting and this week i managed to talk to two high grade did doormats at united nations the bull said this was independently confirmed in another us dollar ad that his own investigation the ball said independently of jackson the bric countries and germany did not hold for the resolution because they knew there was a dirty deal in the background between the house looks out the barak obama administration so you can attack force through testers a legitimate girl gassed and you give us the green light so what that gaddafi. a

narrow believe no fly zone resolution which was not to build or buy the whole arab league only nine countries in twenty two in the arab league voted for the no fly zone so this whole see sum it all up is a farce. as coalition forces continue their operations in libya there are concerns that intervention may soon backfire on europe security experts fear libyan islamic groups are plotting terror attacks in the e.u. as revenge for their ally for the allied airstrikes or he daniel bushell reports. e.u. countries have taken a leading role in forcing the u.n. 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 that oversees terror he's faced repeated accusations that he ordered lockerbie bombing

that killed two hundred seventy mostly westerners experts say some countries are particularly in the firing line three leading countries of the frontier of the operation that means france. of course the only option has really to use terror so i think today it's a clear i could imprison bindra today in the coming days 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 ground for anti western forces there are agents. working now. in that atmosphere scale that's what i am sure.

e.u. muslims protest against the building of libya and the organize a says people should prepare for the worst that's certainly there's a very strong likelihood but i think what we do have an inevitability about the muslim attack they will tell you. the invasion of iraq live to assume 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 know dritte similar results in the wake of this campaign western intelligence reports creased activity among suspected terrorist cells indicating the threat of attack is one of the total t n e u terrorists troy's is now just a question of time the new bush will see brussels. stay with us here on our t.v. still ahead snatched off a train in the middle of the night right after a palestinian engineer who disappeared in ukraine has resurfaced in israel and why

security services may be involved. almost fifteen years have passed since mankind's first steps into space we bring you all the latest on preparations for a special anniversary mission. first though japan faces the grim prospect of several months of uncontrolled radioactive leakage according to officials radio a radioactive water continues escaping into the ocean from a crack in the fukushima plant second reactor despite all efforts to stem the flow the bodies of two workers killed by the devastating tsunami have been recovered from the wrecked facility the massive wave that hit the country has now claimed the lives of more than twelve thousand people more than twenty thousand are still getting by in shelters and authorities have given assurances they are doing all they can to help people displaced by the tsunami but as i. have discovered many

people. for their government has failed but. this is the first time many residents of a marquee have seen their house and 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 at the local school with several hundred others people here have been taking turns to volunteer as cooks and cleaners. but they crammed conditions mean that after nearly three weeks the communal spirit is fraying and. we are dissatisfied with your forties we know there are a 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 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 of their home many of the stricken japanese coastal towns will live for generations on dwindling fishing and shipping industries livelihoods which no longer exist and there is little hope of ever getting them back. the government is good at solving big problems but the ones of the small people i do not think this town will ever be a rebuild as it was and even if i restore what i have and no one will build anything next to my house. for 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 you know. japan. for those problems are the fears of radioactive contamination that loom over the country independent nuclear power and large says japan was caught off guard by the tsunami strike 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 from food to 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 friday and quench in the reactors with. 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 deal with the water whether to keep it in site in 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 call the plan for the consequences of this succeed in action commentary from john largely dependent nuclear power consultants. one of the biggest counter-terror operations in years has left seventeen militants dead in russia's seven republic of english. it was thought that russia's most wanted terrorist token room are of could be among those killed authorities are waiting on the results of forensic testing to verify the information during the raid security forces also destroyed the militants

or terrorists would be afraid the operation happened on the eve of the first anniversary of the twin suicide bombings that will rock the moscow metro and plains thousands of lives are. caught up with some of the survivors but those. it started off is just an ordinary monday morning fog neatly put off many others had a certain spring in his step knowing the harshness cool winter was over but little did he realize the nightmare he would be thrown into just a few minutes later suddenly in the words of these horrible sounds as if something huge had formed. and i woke up and there was a small a haze. people were shouting and rushing. to the car with me he had her it was the start of the worst terrorist attack in the russian capital in six years just before eight am defers to two explosions hit the moscow subway

killing twenty four people at the crowded down position 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. he's not even thought of it these days thirty eight right in the middle of the rush hour work it's truck on the back of the train communities try to get on board it was dark there was no lighting and i just burst. people aboard is that whatever remains of them some of them were stretched on the floor near the metal tree and the side was horrible it was the people who were just before your eyes and there was nothing that would save them with each million commuters every day 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 pleaded so the horrors for herself the truth chooses to live and she shouldn't sometimes i feel something like this i think about this but in general i think that we have safe safety in our life a year ago tires broad moscow to a standstill horo to our breathing life but if they wanted to destroy people's spirits there's always certainly know what a chance says to live go zone and while the terror threat to millions both in moscow on across the globe remains it's something people have loan to live with my son the question i'll see moscow. a palestinian engineer is i mean is in an israeli jail after allegedly being kidnapped by the israel israeli secret services there are we see she was snatched from a train in ukraine and disappeared for weeks now israel admits it is holding the

man accuses him of links with hamas but ukraine is perplexed over why its authorities were not alerted in the first place as archy's alexy our first reports . several months ago older and younger and her husband palestinian engineer did she fled from gaza to her native ukraine they were looking for a peaceful life far from the constant pursuit keys of the middle east do are even childes to leave behind a very good job with my husband was deputy director of the only power station and he's a very highly qualified to engineer and received an immensely high salary by local standards but their relieved did not last long one evening up with c.c. boarded an overnight train from critical to clear 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 but only because she has

no doubt it was a kidnapping plotted by israel's intelligence service the must start with michael and i received attacks masses from him the next day he said that he needs to lie low and is going to saudi arabia i knew it wasn't his style he never uses words like that when 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 is one of the she she is from mars and we arrested him for corydon's warmly. but one question arises if the arrest was indeed legitimate why had ukrainian special services been left in the dark about the operation over are. single intelligence service turned to us to assist resisting a criminal received notification of any special operations.

experts say in special operations between the intelligence of two countries a suspect is routinely arrested and 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 mention in there as the put him on this woman was not put on a wanted list by any country had been no extradition claims it's unclear how he left ukrainian territory. this would not be the first case one side has struck without warning last year a suspected hamas militant was assassinated in dubai and guess what the emirates special forces say they have no idea about the planned move as i will see if he awaits charges against him to be brought next week very good says she will spare no effort to put an end to this campaign against an ordinary engineer alexy rush ascii art see reporting from kiev ukraine. remember you can find all the latest up to

date information on the stories we're covering on our website. and here are some lighter stories online that you might enjoy. those sounds like it had to meet russia's president promises to invite rock obama to experience and authentic throat singing session plus. probing of the planet find out what nasa is messenger craft is doing your mercury check out old pictures and more. could be treated bed of has a bad top government officials from running or even helping run companies in which the state has a stake in the movies aimed at creating a better climate for russian investors president medvedev has ordered ministers to leave any corporate posts they hold by july of this year are said to be replaced by non-government figures to push will say the move only applies to competitive

corporations including the country's major energy defense companies and that. exit polls suggest kazakhstan's incumbent president nursultan nazarbayev will secure another term in office he said to have won more than ninety percent of the ballots cast in the early presidential vote this has been in power since one thousand nine hundred one and enjoys the exclusive right to be elected for a limitless number of terms of the constitution will no longer allowed any other president the snap vote was called after the leader rejected the idea of a referendum about prolonging his term in office told twenty twenty three candidates are challenging him in the vote but none have publicly opposed his policies more than a thousand international observers are overseeing the election it has already come under criticism for a perceived lack of fairness the first official results are expected to lead monday . turnout of some other stories making headlines. across the globe hundreds of

french troops are being sent to ivory coast as the power struggle there heats up ever reported taking over an airport in the main city of abidjan arrive 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 our assignee what are battling supporters of incumbent president laurent gbagbo who refuses to cede power . at least forty two people have been killed dozens injured in twin explosions that shrine in pakistan leaders were gathering for a three day festival at the building in the punjab province when the blast happened soofi shrines have come under attack in the country before as many muslim hardliners consider this mystical branch of islam to be heresy. and hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets of afghanistan with renewed protests over the burning of a qur'an by a pastor in the u.s.

last month demonstrators in khandahar attacked cars and shops in a riot that left at least two policemen dead protests have also spread to other cities this comes after more than twenty people including u.n. staff were killed in similar demonstrations in recent days. rounding up those news block it's the fiftieth anniversary year of the men first manned flight into space russia's preparing to honor that epic achievement our crew is set to blast off aboard a soyuz spacecraft on monday night in their latest mission to the stars or she's tests are so you are. well it's just the day before the launch of these so used to twenty one and to the international space station of course the crew they're going through the final preparations the spacecraft itself it's already wasted in its vertical position but they're putting the final touches but what's most interesting is the process the traditions that the crew has 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 during. cosmonauts. requested for this before he went on his mission to the mir space station this was the t m a twenty this 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 the closest he could get to that dream is to be working with cosmonauts themselves so he's there giving his blessing to 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 into space. aside from the journalists who are here for the people. side 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 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 as so far that you've seen that you can share with people who can make it here or here. it's almost seems like it's in the middle you know it's in the middle of nowhere it seems like a. 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 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 we'll 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 there's some of which i have and i did what he said told me this is their first time in space and he will get when you talk to their wives they're actually the ones who are very very nervous about their making their husbands making this trip to get a very interesting out this fear here what you don't see. maybe in front of a camera is all the conversations that go on between basswood hasa people visiting just a very informative a very exciting atmosphere that we are experiencing here at baikonur in force everybody looking forward to the launch marking be a fiftieth anniversary of you got its first spaceflight. and coming your way in a few minutes uncross talk the team debates the value of the nobel peace prize first i'll be back with a recap of our top story stay with us your art. disarming

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