kremlin has been come police it is or not. i think that makes little sense given where the murder happened right in the middle of moscow right next to the kremlin, a stone s throw away you could say. the truth about boris nemtsov i have met personally did not know very well but he was articulate intelligent, tall and hand smchlt politically over the past decade he s become increasingly irrelevant. so the risk or the threat that he poses to the cement lynn is virtually nil these days. so, you know, my initial impression is to direct this or to link this to the kremlin or president putin is really a red herring at this point. let s turn to our senior international correspondent in moscow with closer look at who maybe behind this killing. how hard will it be to find the
inquiry. what s so sad is the way in which he was murdered so brutal and callus for someone so kind and open minded. it s horrible. reporter: witnesses say two men attacked roy and his wife with machetes on thursday night. roy died and his wife was baddedly wounded. i saw an unknown person bring out a big knife and first hipt him from behind on his head and then on his shoulders. i shouted for help from the people but nobody came to save him. no one came. a lady was with him. she was his wife. she was also hit on the shoulder. roy is the second blogger to be killed in bangladesh in the past two years. his father says islamic extremists are behind the attack. for more let s go to ivan watson in hong kong. this is not the first time a writer has been attacked in this
after the arab league actually called for the imposition of a no sfloe fly zone, called for the u.n. security council to help out with this against muammar qadhafi. he came out side-by-side with the u.n. secretary general saying that libya had been suspended from membership in the arab league and seemed to take another step closer towards endorsing the action that is taking place now, which is going to be very important for this military operation to maintain any credibility or legitimacy in the eyes of the arab world. all right. ivan watson there in cairo. thank you. we re following developments from japan where officials are saying smoke is pouring out of the number three reactor, the damaged fukushima nuclear power plant. workers have been pulled out of the site. engineers were starting to make some headway in their effort to cool the reactor down. more than 1,100 tons of water had been sprayed on it in just the past day. they re also working to relieve
committed to the no fly zone, but over the last 24 hours the arab league has also criticized the bombing and missile attacks on libya. ivan watson is in cairo, and he joins me now. ivan, talk a little bit we re just trying to establish some communication with ivan, but the arab league has been concerned about some of the extent to which the military strikes have occurred on libya, and essentially criticizing that the fact that that had happened, because these images have been plastered wall to wall for two days on arab tv, and they say that wasn t part of the deal. they say they were committed to the no fly zone, but not to what s happening. in tripoli, an air strike has hit and destroyed a building in the heart of the libyan leader s compound. coalition military officials say the bomb struck one of colonel qadhafi s command and control centers. after the attack libyan officials took western journalists inside the flattened
how united is the opposition? how potent is the opposition? does the opposition have the people, the support of the libyan people really to take qadhafi on after the end of hostilities? we ll just have to hold it on. if you could stand by. let s go to ivan watson in cairo. we had heard that the arab league had that news conference there with the u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon. ooich watson, joining us again. tell us more about what was said in that news conference and where the arab league stands at this point. reporter: well, we know that ban ki-moon came out once again defending the air strikes and cruise missile strikes against colonel qadhafi s forces saying that across the entire world there had been condemnation of his actions killing libyan civilians. that s according to ban ki-moon. hearing from arma moussa who seemed to now give more of an endorsement now of the u.n.