used for long term civil service in over forty countries the largest fleet of t. you one said she is still in washington and in two thousand and seven they've russian transport minister igor leviton called c. one thirty four an old and outdated and should be replaced by superjet one hundred or its foreign logs with five years and these are twenty eight crash records including the recent one for this plane obviously more information for you this hour moving so nato has continued its raids on tripoli launching another missile strike against a compound in which they have been officials claim at least fifteen people died including three children that time comes just twenty four hours after the alliance has admitted to killing up to nine civilians in another last try on a neighborhood in the capital on sunday or should blamed on a technical failure maria finish and reports now from tripoli with something images you might find disturbing. to. mohamed that heard his extended family used to be

one of the biggest in the neighborhood and they table mean killed five of them his father one of his brothers his sister and her own family mohammed shows us the picture of little jumana his niece taken on his mobile phone does days before he pulled her dead body from on daybreak. i woke up when i heard an explosion starting to piece of the roof fell on me i ran immediately to see how my family is and many were dead my mother survived another brother is in a coma and we don't know when or if he will recover that how does that not reach they've been living in this agreement they strict entry fully it's home to many hours income people most from one family this is just regular sitter quarter why does the populated built up area this is what used to be the heart is house the three story buildings are reduced in ruins in just moments after being hit in a missile strike home on mohammed's brother who survived says they will never

forgive or forget what nato has done to them destroying their lives and hems that they should take responsibility for their wrongdoing and may take has responded with an apology. intended target during last night's strike in tripoli was a military missile site. however from our initial assessment of the facts it appears that one weapon did not strike the intended target due to a weapons systems failure although officials in tripoli claim more than eight hundred civilians have died in nato raids the nine people they say were killed in sunday's bombardment of the city have become the first civilian casualty is officially acknowledged by the alliance only on saturday nato has also admitted and other mistake in a strike this time on rebel forces neither live in oil port of brag or with the number of casualties not been disclosed we who are nato you hold mr cameron mr

sarkozy mr better scorning mr obama may already. have a good response about how the deaths of these innocent children innocent one is going to kill an innocent fathers and mothers you cannot justify this attack if the enemy is up with that incident in. sunday's fatal error occurs in the rising concerns within nato about his operation in northern africa only eight out of its twenty eight members have joined the mission to protect civilians in libya which raises the question how many would support one to kill them. r t tripoli. and with civilian casualties in labor mounting and no end in sight of those paying for the intervention by based on paying out more than they bargained for the u.k. has announced that its taxpayers might see one point six billion dollars of their hard earned cash diverted to fund the intervention and those aussies lore and that

report says little patience left among an already does illusion and public. they're already calling it the billion pound war it's calculated that if the war in libya goes on for six months it will cost the british taxpayer one point six billion dollars but that initial humanitarian mission is now get rid of gadhafi operation and that could take a lot longer assuming that their goal is to simply oust him from power this is not going to end until he. leaves office so this could potentially drag on for months more and as we've seen they've already extended the operation by another three months that's unlikely to be popular with the british public that government spending like a hawk already furious at seeing services job slashed even so downing street swore wall it is open and it's taking the lead in libya data gathered by britain's

guardian newspaper from defense ministries and news reports shows that britain has flown twenty five percent of all sources in libya second only to the u.s. by the second week of may six thousand strike missions had been ordered blogger daniel rennick says the u.k.'s likely to have weighed up the cost but with a warm wind blowing westwards from libyan rebels and us movements britain reckons a billion pounds is a pretty good investment it's about having control of north african resources particularly. where we may through the transitional council that seems to be some bombs cost up to one and a half million dollars each and with the u.k. cutting defense spending analysts say they may not be replaced and when you're dealing with such big numbers small things make a big difference to tight food costs maybe one thousand pounds per hour to fly so small changes in the number of hours us to meet produce big changes in cost

estimates for the upper end. was always expensive but the costs back home. could prove harder to afford next in line to strike a million public sector workers who are being asked to work more and get less disruption to services could run in two weeks the commitment to continue in libya for however suggests a blank check at a time when there's little in the kitty the deployment of apache helicopters doesn't appear to have given the tactical advantage it hoped for and every time a plane takes to the sky or drops the bomb the cost for britain and its beleaguered european neighbors create higher and higher your average r.t. . and there's libya remains locked in a bloody and costly stalemate attention is focusing now on syria with washington trying to negotiate a un resolution on the situation in the country moscow however opposes any u.n. action fearing every piece of the libyan scenario where

a resolution to protect civilians was used as a pretext to bomb the country and russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says everything must be done to prevent it. but she will know she will russia will do everything you can to prevent the libyan scenario happening in syria she do it together with the international community we can urge bush's surge to put the reforms into practice as soon as possible and to call on the opposition not to ignore suggestions to discuss these reforms but to start negotiating them. these comments came as syria's president assad addressed his nation only his public appearance since the rise began in mid march and his promises for liberal reforms did not go into details with a call for a national dialogue and there would be no trying to until violence stops or she once again blamed on foreign influence that he had his address the address was modified fresh protests with thousands again on the streets calling for us not to quit and some commentators say however this speech would mark

a turning point if the president for a story on his promises. coming out. the question being down to president medvedev about whether one of the second. it also shows that he still has some of the conflicts in syria and media among other masses in a wide ranging interview with the financial times. the united nations nuclear watchdog is holding a conference in vienna to find ways to improve international safety standards the fukushima power plant disaster following the quake and tsunami in japan has intensified international concerns over atomic energy and representatives from one hundred fifty member states of the international atomic energy agency are taking part in the five day long conference the participants are discussing strengthening nuclear safety regulations and new responsibilities when things go wrong in this

forum as a response to the crisis in japan which has admitted it wasn't prepared for an accidental such a scale is far from sorting out the devastating consequences of his short told us reports now from the city official that the deadly legacy of the disaster has left . the ominous and constant ticking of geiger counter scientists working in fukushima city concerned on the woman i'm in charge of the group of radiation detection and survey from fukushima university where now thinking their creation protocol and process set up by the japanese government is not enough and myself i think i should evacuate from this area but because of my job at the university i can't my family and my friends family are evacuating. officially fukushima city is in a safe area eighty kilometers from the daiichi plant reactor one and a full sixty kilometers outside the band danger zone but still radiation levels here are much higher than normal. just to give you an idea of the consistency right

now the dagger count is really quite two nine micro ringgits which is about thirty times what is more than the accepted level but if you come down here to where it just sort of a lot of it collected the radiation will quickly jumped out and it's still climbing earlier we've got a reading of nigel now in my career which is about a thousand times more than a wildly accepted level of little. but in order to claim that fukushima is truly safe from leaking radiation the japanese government has had to be creative with the numbers of the government deedes de change the redish a quantum level standard the levels from one. minute. to twenty minutes even twenty times. the standards before the accident and now. they raise the. the standard so that they can

say it's safe but actually the standard has changed the new higher levels mean that fukushima can be classed as being outside of the exclusion zone some say that evacuating the city would be simply impractical given the huge numbers of people affected to try and mitigate the circumstances to some degree a group of scientists have teamed up to find simple ways to reduce the radiation levels. we're just trying to do a pilot project do d.d. contamination. by ourselves and we are not using a specially equipped man we just use normal child bolts. scoops. just the. topsoil is a small effort to bring some security to a community facing a scary and uncertain future in fukushima city sean thomas r.t. . will he or won't he the question president dmitry medvedev is being asked more

and more about whether he'll run for a second term in an interview with london's financial times dimitri medvedev said he would not face off with prime minister vladimir putin as both of them represents the same political force. cities. it's definitely the question that the russian president has been asked most frequently in the recent months to begin with they decided to keep the suspense up for a little longer but if you don't i'm leader especially one who occupies the president's seat has to be willing to run for reelection however it's not a question of whether he would make that decision for himself i suggest waiting a bit longer and keeping the intrigue. of course the main intrigue of the twenty twelve presidential election still remains but with the imitative did answer some questions in relations to who will run for office and one thing is certain both he employed him and put him will not run for the same office it will just be one man

or still remains to say cool well that mandate. it's hard for me to imagine. both running for president of the same time for at least one reason we strictly speaking represent the same political force competition between us would bring harm to the goulds on topics we've been working on for the past several years it wouldn't be good for russia and it wouldn't be good in this particular situation it was a very long interview that the russian president gave to the financial times of course many issues were raised throughout the course of it both of course pertaining to russia's national and foreign policies many aspects that are interesting both to people living in russia and to those observing russia from abroad specifically of course questions relating to the goals that the russian president set out for himself during his term in office modernization battling the option for snow interviews that is taken by western media source has gone by without the issue of

the half of them will see the former c.e.o. will join us being raised the russian president reiterated his position that that calls his release should it happen will not in any way be a danger to society unlike any russian citizen who's currently serving time that he has the right to an appeal more so it wasn't just matters of domestic policy that were touched upon the russian president speaking quite harshly about the nato military intervention in libya saying that some of russia's partners basically chose to misinterpret the resolution passed by the united nations security council resolution that russia led past hoping that it will be observed and kept to as it is worded. but of course you did just said that basically a very good resolution turned into a meaningless bit of paper with nature's military intervention in libya and that person i see because of that no resolution will be passed on syria but the most and all the serious matters of course that were just cause we do know that the russian

president is very fond of his gadgets he's rarely seen without his i pad and he did let slip that he has a special on it that lets him monitor exactly what his employees are doing there which of his staff savile already been fulfilled now that is a very useful thing i personally plan to check out the app store to see whether it's been specifically custom made for the president or whether it's available for the general public. in greece workers at a state owned electricity company have gone on a forty eight hours try against a star regime measures the unction comes as e.u. finance minister decided to withhold the release of a twelve billion euro learn to the country until so enduring new austerity plans are brought in by athens the decision reflects increasing concern that the greek parliament might still paedo the unpopular set of measures the plan would see many of the state owned companies privatized and tax increases taxed taxes increased and

continued fee is all agreed to for what has made his british finds and fund billions a viewer of from viewers a lending market which has started to hit european and which is. a member of the european parliament for the u.k. independence policy which ones britain out of the u. remains the greek situation on the euro which he says is a political project. as far as the eurozone is concerned and the countries in the euro zone it was always it was always a project driven by politics not by economics and now the economic birds as it were are coming home to roost what's basically happening is that the tax payers of northern europe particularly germany are going to have to pay up. to to stop greece will default we already saw in the last finnish election that a particle the true finns sure probably more aware of moscow the most people. came came from nowhere to get twenty twenty percent of the vote and that was on the

platform specifically on the platform of no finish contribution to bailouts for greeks obsession the near fanaticism of the european elite for the political project of united states of europe and a common currency has resulted in a terrible terrible human cost and and the people and if the if there is a greek default the people who would suffer would be the holders of greek sovereign debt who are basically banks institutions and the like instead of the people who are suffering now who are principally private the two million private sector employees in greece who are actually bearing the brunt of these draconian austerity cuts. passenger plane once again we remind you of passenger plane has crashed in northwest russia with many fatalities feared among the forty eight who are on board and latest information indicates that ten people including a child are reported to have survived as well as ten people are in critical

condition the tunnel airliner was flying from moscow to korea when the crash landed short of the runway at the. crew are currently working on site looking for survivors the fuselage of the plane was destroyed after it splits into court file and hitting the ground the flames were quickly put out and of course we'll bring you all the latest information as we get it. up next also takes a closer closer look at the nuclear crisis in japan and we'll talk to the country's number two you need to have fishbowl.

we are here with he day he call initiate who is with the ministry of a commie here in japan specifically with the agency that deals with nuclear safety and thank you very much for taking some time to be with us today now as this. devastating event has happened in the news has spread out around the world it's become clear in the past three months that the information coming from the from the nuclear plant has gotten worse can you tell us what's the situation on the ground right now the situation is improving. for example we're steadily in introducing a water to the reactors because. you need one two and three and they're fairly stable code so that already asia

exposure is becoming less and less a problem is best i've been on the water which originated from what i would introduce into their reactors so we are now at the find their testing process of introducing establishing waterproofing a system people on the ground say that they have doubts about the information that is coming from the government why do you think they have these doubts and what is the government doing to get this information out there. the japanese government tried to. distribute or make. available all the information we've got from that call and from our monitoring systems so i think we hope that people can understand that stabilize the situation right now we have to explain in the manner in which people can easily understand the situation that's our task there's

a perception out there that the quality of information is coming from the government isn't what it needs to be what do you think this perception exists. it's very difficult to understand for ordinary people how. dangerous those numbers are we think that except for press is very close to the nuclear power plants because she made a huge you. know a big risk for the. ordinary people so we should make them understand that point now we were in it fukushima just a bit ago and there are some spots that we measured personally where the radiation levels are one thousand times the safely recommended dose there are mothers who are concerned that their children go by these hot spots where you have to say to these mothers our government especially ministry of. education is in charge of monitoring all of us out of japan and they and they

publish that they obtained throughout japan and. they asked you create safety commission to evaluate their that so and you care as if the commission is publicizing their comments every day i think the problem for mothers and. is that it's difficult to understand how safe or how dangerous those numbers are. and it's basically it is said that the radiation dose is more dangerous for children and that's the point that we should. make people understand more currently the accepted level is twenty micro sieverts. which those standards were actually raised to twenty micro sieverts from one micro sievert do you think it's responsible to actually change the standards so

that. they are now considered to be safe we do not say that. twenty meters see that it is safe but. it's. a pretty standard in this type of emergency situation scientists say there needs to be more cooperation with outside agencies and outside governments what do you say to these critics they don't know the fact and actually. from the time of their accident we have been consulted with the united states france and russia and other countries in terms of take any kind of support. machine regular support and we closely exchanged information regarding the status of plants and possible measures to take japan a country which has faced a two nuclear tragedies with your shimon nagasaki there are many critics out there

who say that it's irresponsible for a country that has experienced such tragedy with the nuclear field to be building nuclear plants. in an area that may be unstable seismically known to have earthquakes what's your response to this so far. we have a forty years of more than forty years of history of safe usage of. at to make energy and this was caused by the emperor. isn't that a tsunami very high it's an i mean nobody an expected that the size of a tsunami so you can't blame us that you failed but this was foreseen by anybody or over the world of course we are responsible for this accident but it should be closely reviewed whether we could have taken any other measures to prevent this and as of right now can you imagine

a future japan without nuclear energy moving away from atomic energy altogether and right now no we depend thirty percent of. the source. on you could energy so we have to use nuclear energy in the near future at least. no. question is that so much of the taxpayers' money i mean i seriously have a real serious africa in the new great game outside interest in this continent is the manse rich in natural resources in a growing middle class china deal less wealthy british style.

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this is dante coming to life for most good headlines. ten people have been taken to hospital in a serious condition of her plane crashed on landing in the northwest and russia where investigators say there have been fatalities this is a launch of the maid was just traded off to britain to unquote find it in the ground though the flames were quickly put out the allied air was heading from moskos deny dead of a cold to the city open for the phones but didn't make the runway unsafe people are reported to have been on board and we'll bring you the latest information as we get it. also nato admits that it launched the as trying that killed nine civilians in a tripoli somebody by the british taxpayers barely record spending on the bill for

three months of modestly. so the international atomic energy agency is expected to slam the ship run for poor handling of the british mccoy says nuclear safety is indiana a given for the state's regulations on preventing a repeat of the drippings crisis. on europe's finance ministers post a decision on the french by law to greece they say more stereotypes needed in the country of the country already shaken by violent protests against funding council is to say. as the headlines up next the emotional crusade of an eighty nine year old us world war two veteran outraged by war he believes is the indifference of his country to the memory of foreign soldiers. the large concentration of litter on the beach poses an additional health hazard when the refuse is swept out to sea during the storm and. despite this danger leon

saw no empty aluminum cans or plastic bottles he found a base yos major recycling plant nearby where aluminum cans are crushed in both cans and bottles. leon paid a visit to the owner and manager of the plant derek and reward that i wrote repeatedly to the washington usual suspects the president and the white house the secretary of defense the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff members of congress so i'm here to began and hopefully an action program with funding from my government what we've got. is really starting to see how there are many. plastic bottles. and call that. way here in a nutshell what i'm thinking that we should expand your operation clean up the.