out from the reactor building because this is exactly what was happening twenty five years ago by peter noble nuclear power plant first when her stand there was a serious blaze with fire raging above the nuclear plant facility then the white smoke which indeed was the radiation emitted into the atmosphere with the radiation levels all around the nuclear power plant deadly enough to kill a person within just minutes if certainly a person was not wearing any protective suit at the site indeed what is happening in japan is. certainly reminding us what happened in chernobyl and indeed what russia what the soviet union back then did to prevent the further spread of radiation could come very useful to the japanese authorities now indeed the first step to. localize the danger of the threat coming from the open reactor was to extinguish the fire but then when the rescue people at the site were realizing that so much water inside the burning reactor could lead to another explosion this was seized and they started bombarding the open reactor with sand and a lead this eventually proved to be very very u

a low in the well from the crosstalk i'm peter lavelle the battle for libya is the so-called humanitarian intervention there so noble and straightforward must intervention lead to military occupation and human suffering and is the libyan scenario a new template for disaster. they can. discuss what's happening in libya i'm joined by david gibbs in tucson he's a professor of government at the university of arizona in london we have i bet she is a senior lecturer in international relations at the university of kent and in beirut we cross the caution he is a professor of political science at the american university of beirut and another member of our crossfire team illinois hunger all right folks this is crosstalk that means you can jump in anytime you want if i could go to london first to know if how would you describe events being played out now in libya because i've been covering this watching this very closely obviously it's my job in and that's what i do for this program and it seems to me this is a civil war in the west under the guise of a coalition has chosen a side in my being unfair in that description i think