there is renewed fighting between gadhafi forces and the rebels have pulled the libyan city of brega where a nato air strike has destroyed a loyalist convoy some experts say the stabilizing the arab world is now a part of washington's efforts to dominate the region. there's anger in the u.k. as the country spends millions on the war in libya while the public sector at home is neglected and slashed. the russian a space ship named after the man in all that is now carrying out a crew over three to the international space station to mark the fiftieth

anniversary over a year ago darren's the first flight. with r.t. live from moscow where it's now or just after three pm welcome to the program what i knew a coalition strike has destroyed colonel gadhafi is a military vehicles in eastern libya they are tied because allow it rebels to move forward after five days of clashes for control over the town of brega where a key oil town which has changed hands six times in as many weeks meanwhile as diplomatic efforts to end the conflict remain stalled three weeks now into the intervention in a cafe and four years on a three country trip in southern europe to negotiate a solution to the crisis will be crossing live to tripoli to hear more from our correspondent paula that's coming your way here on r.t. in just a few minutes. now as the fight for control over the oil rich libyan coastline

continues the u.s. steps back from its leading role in the operation washington will still oversee the logistics of the mission but has encouraged other nato countries to increase their military contribution he's got a challenge looks at how libya could be just the start of wider us. in the region. as waves of public rage sweep through north africa and the middle east world powers jump on them as many analysts say in an attempt to direct the waves of unrest in a way that's more favorable for them in libya forging relationship with the opposition so that if gadhafi goes their people there to do business with as syria popular wrath gather steam some experts say western powers might see the advantages of getting involved there to these three countries iran and syria are the main countries that will not align themselves or that magically to the global power elite or the western powers interested objectives in more power for good in the

middle east as for example egypt will do or used to do with hosni mubarak and definitely kuwait saudi arabia syria is iran's closest ally in the region and the cost to support the remark in syria after income was mentions of you ran syria is obviously a strategic ally for iran in the in the region and without syria iran loses there and there are bridge their land bridge to lebanon and they're hit hezbollah in forces so of course hezbollah would suffer if the syrian regime was to fall and that would be stabilizing iran and weaken its power in the region which would be an obvious benefit to being called american forces some experts even believe that this stabilize ation is part of the strategy the west perceived in the region you're seeing reflects a strategy which includes our moms other points the generalized weakening of the sovereign nation states of the sovereign genes in the arab world in order to try to

isolate iran. with very few perhaps no friendly countries in the region and that will then leave iran pretty much alone at least in the arab world and will facilitate further turmoil inside iran although the u.s. secretary of state has ruled out america's involvement in syria for now the country's defense secretary caught up with the syrian army to quote empower around aleutian and follow the example of egypt's military syria. iraq america. they were right. just the way. many say you ran though it would be a tough call and no matter how much washington would want the regime there to fall for now it's seen as a mission impossible i'm sure that there are some in the u.s. who would love to attack iran and there are others who would like to take over the iranian opposition i think they know that the iranian opposition is not so fond of

the united states they have a long memory in iran people remember the role of the united states in overthrowing the precursor to the shah of iran overthrowing the democratically elected government of mosul back in one hundred fifty three so i don't think the u.s. would be welcomed and i think many in washington know that would leave you being torn apart by going to war and anti-government protests gaining momentum in syria the question on everyone's mind who might be next i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . coming up your way here on out. if you're in the government over the u.k. saying look you're. taking money away from us and should be spending more money at home. find out why anger is mounting across the u.s. the u.k. that is i mean accusations that britain is a model of democracy just is not working. the never ending crisis in afghanistan is the outcome of international intervention that's according to the

deputy foreign minister of iran mohammed ali. contras from outside the region that have military bases here intervening in our affairs they try to change the interaction between governments and people in the region and the changes that are taking place in the arab world are in their reaction to the west and the u.s. leadership is trying to use these changes for their own purposes in afghanistan for example the interference of nato has been unsuccessful they've failed to bring security production is no forty times bigger than before and extremism is on the right but the u.s. is going to create permanent bases in the region and that only a radical reason as many afghans are against this. course we are keeping after you on the latest developments in libya and around the globe on air and online you can check out our twitter stream has been shown to you right here. underscore.

there in libya to bring you the latest developments and eyewitness accounts we have a lot we can see paula sleep is a. risk an office in the region frank gaffney still with well you can also follow us on our facebook page check out his videos on the you tube channel. more tornado jets are being sent courtesy of the british taxpayer the announcement comes as the armed forces are hit by a wave of redundancies as the country continues to tighten its belt and lore and reports the intervention along with the cutbacks has left many people in the u.k. questioning democratic rights. but winter of discontent that's becoming a thing spring streets regularly filling with massive anti-government protests which start peacefully but retain lee turned violent. yury is

a this spending cuts by a coalition government they say. no one wants and now a new foreign war. i think that democracy in britain which it prides itself on and keenly exports is wearing thin for some. moment they're just making up their own mind about everything really we don't have to say anything. i don't see them do anything about this. comes they work in social care and social care. how much money they're spending in libya by sending planes over their signatures. and taking money away from my position spending more money but the will of these people is one which lawmakers willingly ignore while a t.v. news poll suggested forty three percent of people oppose military intervention in

libya they're elected m.p.'s voted overwhelmingly in favor five hundred fifty seven to just thirteen against what we have in parliament all right political class they all go to the same schools they go to the same universities they get the same jobs and research offices and they spend their careers in politics i mean about jobs in the real world how they operate speak like shape we don't have in the paper i love independent thinkers sitting in the house of commons prepared to make other arguments in a league of their own and a world apart from a public mandate the person directly choose their prime ministers certainly not the most recent man at number ten gordon brown was handed the job when tony blair quits during his eventual successes wroth usual is because of what you thought was obvious if. david cameron was only rescued from a minority government with a deal of his own sharing power with the party that has put third it's

a coalition which an angry electorate sees breaking promises and which listens to washington. more than westminster protesters politicians are so committed to to destroy the city friends to see through it of this special relationship with washington that they are prepared to every necessary to maintain not relationship while they ring you know having no concern for their relationship with the people who elected them in the first place and this is a this is a. function of just function of the hearts of the british democracy the past six months have seen a series of demonstrations in london and across the u.k. gates cuts to public spending and the war in libya some of those protesters acknowledge right down this road past the front door of their democracy to say it's not working you are an authority. over it's our common knowledge that libya has a large oil reserves and of course the ongoing war in the country is affecting the

global energy market in one way or another let's cross over to our businesses now speak arena and find out all of the markets reacting to the latest developments in watertown live here the moment where we as you have just said any unrest especially in an oil exporting we can affect the markets one way or another and they have their ups and downs baby is the news that lead because rebels forces are planning their first certainly from the country since the order of production shut down did not pacify the market so prices for us still quite high with the brands trading at around one hundred twenty dollars a barrel and light sweet is slightly slightly lower one hundred seven dollars by the still quite high and however despite the unrest analysts still say that the global spare capacity there is enough to cover the you know the lost production in north africa or the middle east talking about the markets here i would say the us and energy companies were under pressure today but you know markets go up and down

all the time and perhaps investors are simply you know taking profit from the current situation. and it will i will see you in. about thirteen minutes from now for the rest of it chris thank you. well still to come here on the program on our t.v. a missing palestinian engineer has resurfaced in an israeli court charged with terrorism activities after being seized by secret service agents plus a. guevara no fly zone again fifty years after mankind of first ventured into space find more out in just a few minutes. that japan has dumped more than a ten a thousand tons of radioactive water from the crippled fukushima plant directly into the pacific the emergency move was aimed at freeing up storage space for more highly contaminated water tokyo predicts the power plant devastated during last

month's earthquake and tsunami will continue leaking as workers struggle to plug a damaged reactor radiation levels in the seawater surrounding the site have reached several million times the legal limit and while japanese officials claim the released one to pose an environmental threat some experts strongly disagree the only other normal circumstances the release of such volumes of water would be described as catastrophic i think i'd like to draw attention to the fact that in one thousand nine hundred three when no russian vessel was ordered offloaded or stuck discharging nuclear waste into the sea of japan japanese government was released and led the charge for a ban on all nuclear company at sea well the ocean currents and in that part of japan mean that in the in the first instance the contamination will spread north and south of the coastline from the fukushima power plant which means to the very cause that been devastated by the earthquake in the tsunami so that's going to add

to further unease on the part of the people living in that quarter compound longer term redo nuclides particularly cesium which is a half life of thirty years old christine romans for many many decades and i think that the admission that we haven't really got the situation under control is what we see today. independent nuclear energy consultant john byrne he was talking to us earlier from germany but let's turn our attention now to ivory coast where forces loyal to our. country's internationally recognized leader they claim not to have taken the presidential palace this comes after u.n. and french forces launched a series of air strikes against incumbent president bug well the u.n. says the attempts were carried out to protect civilians but those whereabouts for the meantime are currently unclear though he's been refusing to cede power i was once a losing last november's election hundreds of being killed in clashes between black bows and arrows and supporters from the russian of foreign minister says that the

un and france had no right taking a sides in the conflict. with. the un peacekeepers and supporting french forces in ivory coast started military action taking the side of the old timers we're now looking into the legality of the situation because the peacekeepers were authorized to remain neutral nothing more and emergency briefing in the un security council has been held up on your request we have not received any concrete answers we will keep looking into the matter what about. now a palestinian engineer has been charged with organizing terrorist activities by an israeli court there are the who were sixteen is also accused of conducting training for palestinian militants in gaza he was kidnapped from a train in ukraine and by israeli agents back in february now are actually going to investigate the story. the rocket got farther off come us that is how television has labeled this man palestinian get out of the c.c.

israel claims the engineer was behind the development of kasam rockets and missiles that can penetrate steel how will these accused of developing kassam and grad rockets in creating rockets with a range of over six kilometers like that what it should be devoting my belonging to how mass is a simple accusation and the charges referring not only to weapons design and military training but to planning a murder attempt such accusations may send him to prison for many years. something his ukrainian wife could never believe that any good claes dillard has always been an ordinary engineer and i believe he has always abstained from targets and a few young fighters his only involvement in politics was that he watched news until asia but that is cold awareness and not journalism i'm sure israel wants him simply because he knows everything about the only power station in palestine where he worked i would see if he went missing in ukraine in february allegedly kidnapped

on the train a month later the israeli prime minister confirms that the man was behind bars in israel eyes turned on must start israel's intelligence is known for striking without warning last year a suspected how mass militant was assassinated in dubai without the consent of the emirates security service for this time of the reason king of also raise their eyebrows schoolwork. single intelligence service turned to us to assist wristing a criminal and received no notification of any special operation either. experts say the trial will probably last for months as it's unclear what evidence against sisi will be produced any good since she has already turned to a dozen human rights organizations and even the united nations to have her husband released her last hold may rest with those in power and. their legation from ukraine's interior ministry will be traveling over to israel this week with

a tricky mission trying to get answers from the israeli counterparts as to why the operation was performed without any warning something many are suppose this cry as a breach of a country's sovereignty i think serious ascii art scene reporting from kiev ukraine . where you are with r.t. here live from moscow that's about to our top story now and libyan rebels have managed to advance into the oil rich town of brega after a coalition air strike astroid khadafi convoy. is it possible you know what are. the reports of renewed fighting today also reports about of rebels now in control of brega which is supposed to be quite a significant town tell us how the frontline looking right now and what are you hearing about this this tunnel. mohammed as has been the situation for much of the past week it's not really clear who is in control of this oil town of brega in the east of the country what has changed though is that there was a lull in nato airstrikes for about twenty four hours in and around the city and

several hours ago nato did hit a convoy of eight military vehicles that were advancing from the center of the town which is where they are in control of the outskirts which is where the rebels are holding the frontline now according to eyewitnesses two of those vehicles were hit the convoy quickly regrouped and then retraced of steps back into the city center bringing respects the bodies are slain soldiers and we understand from eyewitnesses that there are now burnt out military vehicles all along that road yesterday monday was fine too between both sides until nightfall at that stage the rebels did retrace their steps to the outskirts and again they awful thing before there this is an important town because if the rebels can maintain control there is a small oil refinery in bray go and this will be a source of income for the rebels will they be able to purchase heavy weaponry and this is one of the shortcomings that they are suffering at the moment despite the fact that the mater is starts off providing them with some kind of assistance they

are continuing to court on the international community for some kind of breakthrough supply in the west of the country in the city of misrata we are now hearing that clashes there in the last twenty four hours have seen five people killed and twenty four people wounded and we are hearing more and more calls that a humanitarian situation is evolving there as people remain without access to food water fuel and electricity. when it comes to the so-called diplomatic efforts that gadhafi. he is making or even even and envoy loyal to gadhafi. is doing a three country tour trying to drum up international support for some type of diplomatic guy resolution here to resolve the conflict one of the people where you are in tripoli saying about these are so-called diplomatic efforts. political of the strange situation because we just heard much about the diplomatic activity happening outside of libya but while here in tripoli the government is the main title but the doctor himself has not been seen or both state television says that

he was greeting crowds of his supporters outside be compounds that he has here in tripoli really haven't been able to independently verify exactly when these pictures were taken but what we are hearing from ankara the turkish capital is that a convoy there representing the gadhafi regime headed by the defense the foreign minister has been putting with the pros on the table that would fire and see some kind of see sky implemented while at the same time a political solution moving forward but the turkish saying that the sticking point is the whole question of bridwell not gadhafi remains in power with the libyan regime insisting that he does while the rebels insisting that he doesn't now we understand that in the coming days there will be a delegation from the opposition who will be going to ankara and they will be putting forward a big case that the libyan delegation has already helped talks in athens and in motor now at that moment the proposals we also hearing that is being put forward is the possibility that one of the sons states. could pick up some kind of

constitutional democracy some kind of transition to do that but the rebels and most of the international community are saying that that is unsatisfactory because he is essentially his father's son and cut from the same cloth and it is ironic because they follow islam until this crisis began was one of the most before mr boyce was here in the libyan regime but ever since this point and began more than one month ago he has turned out to be one of the strongest defenders of his father's policies right out his policy there with the latest on libya live from tripoli thank you. well it's nearly fifty years to the day since the first man ventured into space and today yuri gagarin is flying again a space ship named after the pioneer has a blasted off from baikonur in kazakhstan and it's carrying a three men to the international space station. wasn't baikonur to see the crew's preparations and of course the ground it left off. but there's a lot of excitement definitely especially among spectators for the we're going to

see the takeoff of the crew two russian cosmonauts you have alex on the summer and they are buddy sankoh as well as nasa astronauts ron garan well for the last a few hours leading up to this point right here we have been following the very go here the three flight traditions if you will very interesting indeed especially for first timers even those who have been here several times say it's never quite the same t.v. whole process we saw them i getting out of the core of the facility first they left their signatures on their doors as had their treat assessors and then walked to the out of the crowd and they we saw them in their space suits very interesting to see them in their gear say quite an emotional farewell to the people what we think there are devices of them but this is a special mission if you will because this is happening close to the fiftieth anniversary of beauty got its first space flight happening right here with what they call the current start this is where it all began with nasa astronaut on board

ron garan in his words he has said that fifty years ago on that day mankind became a different species that. to go beyond the boundaries of their. lives the basics of life really you can hear the ground here you can hear them you can hear that here you are quite an amazing sight hear it now by good nor. will it it will take about less than ten minutes to get it through its orbit is to zero gravity and that is a couple of days to reach the international space station where they will join. three of their colleagues and ron garan who's

a very tech savvy astronaut he did say he will try his very best to keep us updated using a tweet twitter that is sending us tweets as well as blogging so we do look forward to reading about their experiences up there in space. that he says are so important but talk of the business news with current. hello welcome to business good to have you with me libyan rebels are expected to start their first oil exports as early as tuesday a greek own tanker called the equator is due to dock enter broke in the east of the country and will be the first exports from libya for nearly three weeks says colonel gadhafi ordered production shut down due to an arrest. that when you said done little to pacify the markets could prices are trading at close to or thirty miles high when crude still cost over one hundred twenty dollars a barrel while light sweet is a practitioner under one hundred eight dollars

a barrel peter westin at our town says there's enough global spare capacity to cover lost production in north africa but prices still carry higher breast premium . i think it all depends on how isolated events in the middle east north africa becomes because at the moment if you look at the countries where you've had you have protests and where your office now we have a war in libya egypt have toppled but if you're looking at the countries of currently and have had some kind of turmoil you look at about five point five million barrels a day if production were to hold completely that is more or less opec spare capacity of the sport of time so from you know in theory you can you know they can put on the top quite easily and sort of patterns to market but at the same time one has to remember that even three months ago regimes like to egypt from one around the village in one who considers being still this creates a lot of uncertainty surrounding saudi arabia which is spending a lot of money to calm down the situation in the in their own country but as long

as that risk is there you would always have this pressure on the oil price for sure that will be the stupid little premium whether that's ten dollars for that's thirty dollars i don't know but it's going to be there for quite some time. and that's a look at the markets here. not good for lower the south pole for footsie and the dogs are starting point three percent the new credit downgrade of portugal by moody's rating agency is further dampening sentiment shares in struggling music and games retailer edge and h. m. v. are down nine percent after the company issued its profit warning said september here in russia the markets reversed very gains and draw for the first day of three that's after all declines in new york trading and that is putting pressure on energy stocks now let's look at some individual movers ross never shedding over one point three percent look all is also down but metal stocks are stronger lifted by hard global prices for precious metals like gold and silver porter's gold is gaining almost two percent this hour north is in the red is in the black as well

after the company started buying back one point two billion dollars of which shares on the open market. both gold and silver are trading close to record highs many see as the financial safe haven political uncertainty and the threat of high global inflation continue to drop the precious metals knock it over is now trading at its most expensive related to gold since one thousand nine hundred eighty but. i think what you're seeing is investors across the world. slowly but surely realizing that inflationary pressures globally you are building up and what silver is is just like gold performs the same function as a store of wealth if you have money that you want to make sure doesn't lose its value you would buy gold or silver to protect yourself from inflationary issues also there's much more of all of this little prices for film gold in the past couple years the world being so over the past decade and very very loose in terms of their own monetary policies and governments are very loose in terms of their fiscal policies so you have a lot of the volume of money that's basically been pumped into the system over the

past ten years that money really has to be taken away so by definition if you have investment i mean pick you know when you have all of this money in the system you're going to have inflation is really no way around. and that's all from me here on r t but you can always find more stories if you lost a website i got called fast stay with us. the official t m three case your wife and i pod touch for me i choose.