thank you very much for that update peter oliver in cairo keep us up to date on events that are folding. now transform caster to says it's not support for libyan people but interest of the country's vast oil fields that's driving he west rhetoric the only reason they're interested in with libya is back to you oil you hear anybody screaming and yelling about all those people last week that were killed in the ivory coast or the sudan and i guess cocoa was that that you know a bunch of a national priority they'll try anything but we already heard hillary clinton say that they're willing to do anything for anybody in libya that needs aid so they appear pretty good out there already they're talking about no fly zones and the hypocrisy is just beyond the belief i mean for example they did has anybody called for a war criminal trials against mubarak as they all are. and you know in all of the the world is the the western world of calling for his head but the other heads in bahrain and bin yamin and in egypt they are you know they're ok leave them alone but they're calling for gadhafi said why

russia's defense minister who met with the pentagon chief tuesday that's crossfire now it's our peter oliver he's following the meeting tell us some details of these latest statements coming from both the u.s. and russian defense heads. that's right u.s. defense secretary robert gates is here in moscow to meet with his russian counterpart. following the meeting they both had statements to make robert gates said the united states is role in the ongoing operations would be reduced over the coming face the moment the united states really be the point if you will be the main force in these operations against targets in libya. case also said that nato is expected to resume to assume control of the operations very shortly and the libyan people should be allowed to determine their own future in their in their country now he also said the leaders in neighboring countries on the arab league were on board with the decision the colonel gadhafi had brought all of the actions that are taking place upon himself that gadhafi actions had brought about the un resolution on these airstrikes and strikes from s

to grow over the next few days countries also boosting its humanitarian aid and energy supplies peter oliverhas more now from the russian capital. that's already russian rescue workers and aid workers on the ground in japan and the numbers are expected to increase over the next couple of days so to around one hundred eighty now these rescue workers and aid work is what's ten day old part of this rescue team by the emergency crews here in russia what that means is that iraq could respond to that they're ready to go as soon as they hit the ground was also a team of nuclear physicists in russia's far east that are ready to go to fukushima should they be requested for any help that they could give there and it's not just this humanitarian aid but it's also this d.c. to muscle outpouring of support in russia for the japanese people over the weekend there were flowers being laid outside of the japanese embassy and did an act of solidarity between the two nations prime minister vladimir putin has invited the russia the japanese judo team to come over here to russia to train. well the situation in f

size of moscow has called on coalition forces to refrain from using indiscriminate force in libya peter oliver has the details the latest statement that's be released by the russian foreign ministry the ministry says that it's all except civil for military force to be used for anything other than the protection of civilians in libya they also call them dead and what they see is the indiscriminate use of force by coalition there we can now hear part of that foreign ministry statement. we strongly call upon the relevant states to stop the indiscriminate use of force we believe it is unacceptable to use the mandate laid out in resolution one hundred seventy three by the security council passing which was rather ambiguous for purposes which are obviously beyond its provisions which were to protect the peaceful population all the same in continued to say that the foreign ministry here in moscow has received reports that dozens of civilians were killed and scores wounded in those attacks from me and from boats from ships stations in the mediterranean they also said that they've received information

early mccauley gallus hibbard spoke to our correspondents a luxury jet ski in kiev ukraine and peter oliver in moscow. the nuclear disaster taking place in fukushima is also taking main focus for russia we heard from me there in russia's far east talking about the what's being done there to make sure that it's all ok well one of the main problems that's come from. the disaster. nuclear reactor is that thirty percent of japan's energy is derived from nuclear power now that is severely depleted at the moment as you can imagine gita the situation with that nuclear reactor as well as the precautions being taken over other reactors in the country so russia has pledged one hundred fifty thousand tons of liquid gas to help the situation there to get power turned back on said places they're also going to increase the supply of coal to the country and has even the possibility of providing electricity directly from russia to japan to win the war to cable links the two countries a power of course a very important commodity when it comes to japan trying to get itself back on its feet very important to

peter king at one time sought their abodes now he considers as many as the enemy. more thoughts on libya now is already years from britain's former ambassador to the country oliver miles says the global reaction such as the un's travel ban on khadafi is questionable. today i'm talking to all of the miles he's a former british ambassador samir bia we're going to be talking about the situation in the country at the moment the west response to it and how it might sound fold out of the well thank you very much for talking to r.t. now isn't the west's response to the situation in libya dangerously close to what we saw before the invasion of iraq i'm thinking of this place no fly zone these claims that we've heard that gadhafi has chemical weapons and also this talk around the world of military intervention. well there is a parallel but i think there are some important differences and look on the one i think i'd focus on is that the although there's been some. rather bellicose talk from both london and washington and perish. the what they've actually done is total security council straightaway and they got full agreement in the security council you know less support for a r