in today's first world news story government officials have acknowledged cia operatives are on the ground in libya as part of a covert western force to aid the u s led bombing campaign according to the new york times teams of cia agents are gathering intelligence for air strikes and making contact after deciding he can no longer represent it internationally gadhafi forces have retaken several key towns lost in clashes with rebel fighters on wednesday the rebels appeared to lose control of the town of brega one day after funeral of an eighteen month old baby in the town of warri on the victim was reportedly shot and killed by debris from the western bombing in an arms depot a former nicaraguan foreign minister has been tapped states in two thousand and four interviewed on democracy now he called former president ronald reagan the butcher of my people for his administration arming and financing and nicaraguan insurgent surgeons  urged pan to expand the evacuation zone around the tsunami damaged fukushima dai carr nuclear power station as radiation continues to leak into surrounding waters fears of contamination have grown since singapore detected radiation nine times the legal limit and was imported from japan and united states reported small levels of radiation in milk samples on the west coast wednesday dozens of people held an anti nuclear rally outside the tokyo headquarters of the fukushima plant operator the tokyo electric power company one protester said we have to change the way we think it is and if it is going to change we cannot continue down the narrow path of economic growth reliant on nuclear energy and can soon mean everything ohio's republican controlled state house has approved a measure that would strip collective bargaining rights for state employees and bar them from striking the major now goes to the ira ohio senate which passed a harsher version of the bill earlier this month if in fact ohio would become the biggest state so far to curb the rights of public sector workers and officials in the administration of wisconsin governor scott walker are vowing to enforce the state's anti union w despite a court injunction reissued this week on wednesday wisconsin's department of administration secretary said he fears the law as in effect echoing comments from the state attorney general deigned county circuit judge mary and sue me has frozen the laws implementation pending several appeals judge sumi has written sanctions for any attempts to disobey her rulings and that in the law would result in an average eight percent cut to public employees april twenty first paychecks new york state lawmakers have approved one hundred thirty two and a half billion dollar budget that would cut more than two billion and health care and education spending while granting millionaires a tax break despite a budget shortfall governor andrew cuomo opposed to extending a tax surcharge on new yorkers with personal earnings of more than two hundred thousand dollars a year the new budget has drawn criticism from advocates of increased education aide who says the cuts will disproportionately impact students in low income and middle class districts it was approved after russia's day of protests from hundreds of activists who converged on the capital from across the state karen scharf of the group citizens actions of new york spoke out on the protest and said we're here today because budget that the governor has proposed that the legislature is passing is giving five billion dollars away in tax cuts to millionaires five dollars that we need for our schools for k twelve education for early childhood education for our universe isn't for basic public services that low income and middle class new yorkers need but instead of funding those services we're throwing five going out the window in a tax cut for millionaires who don't need it and haven't i asked for it and it's not only irrational but it's immoral it's immoral budget cannot stand obama when i will said when i was elected for this office american importance eleven million barrels of oil a day but a little more than a decade from now will have cut that by one third that is something that we can achieve we can cut our all dependence by a third bottle when i'm to back to continue nuclear energy despite growing concerns in the wake of the crisis in japan and he said it's important to recognize that nuclear energy doesn't emit carbon dioxide in the atmosphere so those of us who are concerned about the climate change we've got to recognize the nuclear power if it's safe can make a significant contribution to the climate change question we're going to incorporate those conclusions and lessons from japan in design building of the next generation of plants but we can't simply take it off the table in a statement greenpeace usa criticized obama's praise for the nuclear power as well as his ongoing support for off shore drilling saying for the millions of americans put at risk by the inherent dangers of nuclear power or those whose livelihoods have been destroyed by the disaster more of the same is hardly a path towards energy security and syrian president bashar assad has reportedly ordered the formation of a government panel to review a decades old emergency law law has been among the key targets of the recent wave of protests that drew a government crackdown living over six through comes one day after assad delivered to find an address that made no concessions to the protesters demand speaking before syrian lawmakers assad blamed the unrest in syria on a foreign conspiracy and said protestors were at fault for the deaths and said it is clear that syria today is being subjected to a big conspiracy the conspiracy is linked to close close and distance countries and it has some internal links there were instructions not to harm any syrian citizens but one of em's happened in the streets and dialogue takes place in the streets instead of legal institution that leads to chaos in which the protest his reaction prevails and the wrong view becomes the dominant view that leads to bloodshed and this is what happened and you all know it what it called a confession suggesting he had spied for israel rodman's family says the statement is false and must have resulted from coercion on wednesday family members led a protest for ride one outside the syrian embassy in cairo his wife and three close associates the u s ambassador to the united nations susan rice hailed the vote and said mr gbagbo and his supporters can continue to cling to power which will only lead to more innocent civilians being wounded and killed and more capital your most so grow and the cocoa export import of san pedro the united nations estimates at least four hundred sixty two people have died more than one million have been displaced since the fighting began party contingence over the newly emerging used movements that were instrumental in revolution former u s president jimmy carter has wrapped up a visit to cuba carter's trip included meetings with cuban president raul castro fidel castro and members of opposition groups before leaving carter called for the release of both a jailed u s government contractor in cuba as well as cuban five in the united states he also urged the repeal of sanctions and he said i think that alan gross should be released because he's innocent i'm being serious crime and i believe that a cuban five should be released because they have served twelve years in prison now and the original circumstances of their trial were considered to be doubtful in addition to those things my own preference would be to see the helms burton law completely repealed i think it is serious mistake when it was passed and signed by president clinton more than fifty santo has one of the averages from farmers whose fields were found to contain this company's seeds but the farmers have claimed their fields were contaminated with monsanto seed without their knowledge on center critics have suggested the company has encouraged the contamination of organic crops as part of an effort to eliminate competition and monopolize agricultural supply the super suit seeks to prevent monsanto from suing for patent violations should its g m o c c wind up on the  could not be located seven twenty three p m a caller from four hundred blocks south reported a man who had been kicked out of a business was yelling and causing a disturbance he was moving on and wednesday twelve thirteen a m a caller reported the man was being treated for injuries and who said he was beaten up on his main street he was arrested on outstanding warrants and one twenty seven a m call from north church in richardson st woman yelling glass breaking and dog barking in a vehicle speeding off one woman was arrested on suspicion of battery fighting in a public place and resisting arrest the second woman was arrested on suspicion of battery a woman from eleven thousand block of brown to drive reported to her home was broken into and one seventeen p m a call from business on thirteen thousand block of power forty nine put it finding a large amount of drug paraphernalia in a room and one ninet block of sacramento street ported a man possible using drugs in a bathroom the man was  partner in the venture it will focus on a superhero living a double life as an ordinary family man sorts an egg or will provide the voice of the title character comic book legend stan lee is another partner in the project which will about a county principle civil engineers steven castleberry it's in the same spot where the sinkhole damage the road in two thousand and six the road southbound lane began sliding down the hillside a few inches late tuesday causing cracks in the road and ground county road crews used temporary asphalt to repair the damage but found the road slid a full half foot by wednesday morning drivers are being detoured from the roadway in the slide area onto a dirt road situated a pill water is seeping from the cracks in the road castleberry added that means the soil is super saturated and when the ground gets that saturated loses all of its structural capabilities a cruise along with engineers from nevada city engineering firm hold ridge and coal plant to investigate the site when the soil dries it may take a few weeks before they are sufficiently dry so holdridge and coles engineer robert finger since we did a pretty thorough investigation of the area in two thousand and six in the slide is a little unusual in that it acts stands to a significant depth in the ground about thirty to thirty five feet fingers and said there are a few areas in nevada county that seem to slide every five to ten years the road slid in an area adjacent to the old north star mine property if you could play a small part in the sly it's most likely it's a slide is associated with deeply weathered rock there's a lot of low strength rock material to their fingers and said it's too early to tell what solutions the county could can sitter for the road well i'm sure they'll fix i of san francisco another story here as prosecutors move closer to finishing their case against barry bonds central figure in much of the testimony he spent his high school years in one of the central figures for a lot of his high school in grass valley grade anderson  directions of human growth hormone for lardy said he sought out anderson because of his link to bonds and they met in various parking lot i can't remember each for a lot of he said wednesday during his twelve minutes of federal court testimony he wasn't sure exactly how many times he met anderson he was asked whether it was more than ten and he said he replied that would be a fair number he said and always there would be an injection and he replied every he became the fourth and likely final ball player to say he purchased performance enhancing drugs from anderson who has been jailed for contempt after refusing to testify against bonds his childhood friend have known the substances he was a secret from anderson were performance enhancing drugs none of the players had personal knowledge of any drug use by bonds after just five witnesses appear in the first four days of testimony trials pace has increased five witnesses finished their testimony on tuesday and ten more completed their questions on wednesday with prosecutors planning to read portions of bond's grand jury testimony to the jury the government's presentation is likely if you wrap up early next week you couldn't quite do all this story either we ran out of time and that's it for local news today give you t v news like this thank associated press rooters amy goodman the union and others for the source in our news and especially you for watching and don't forget we are broadcast three times a day public access and c t v comcast cable channel eleven and suddenly channels sixteen in turkey and all to see their a t m three p m and seven thirty p m 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