thank. you very. much. on our team tonight reports emerge from libya a fierce fighting at me to get air base in tripoli while gunfire is heard around the city itself of the country's leaders political parties to negotiate the story develops tonight we've got the latest just ahead also suggestions of ceasefire tonight egypt reportedly managed to convince both gaza and israel to lay down arms are the days of heavy shelling again the latest report on buffy live this hour to wrapping up some of the top stories in the week the crackdown against english why it says gains momentum with harsh sentences handed to those who played only minor parts in the chaos as human rights groups say judges and politicians went too far. and the leaders promise of a single economic government fails to reassure anxious investors fresh trouble over

greece once again wrecking stability. welcome it's nine pm sunday evening here in moscow my name's kevin knowingly watching r.t. international and first libyan rebels are reportedly pushing on towards tripoli although gadhafi forces are denying that the opposition is making any progress it's believed that major clashes have taken place there with the capital's me to get an air base the sound of gunfire is also echoed around the city streets according to journalists on the ground let's try and catch up with the latest across the dr franklin lamb he's director of americans for middle east peace he's currently in tripoli he's on the telephone let's see if we can catch up with him no sir no communications a little difficult but dr land can hear me very good evening from r.t. we're getting reports of gunfire in tripoli tonight. what's happening where you are

. here. and. it's. seven pm in. this hotel which is twenty six. and you can see. the mystery. seems to be on the. but. it's near my hotel i don't knock you heard but i was out in tripoli on a bicycle or ninety minutes it's watering and when i came back walking inside a swimming pool a good hotel i wished i. could just meet a poet is the souvenir fine. but there was a suggestion that the program that. i'm comprised. of people preparing here people who are not going to young mr not mr knockers picking up i

think the vision been going to of various areas where they are correct i don't know if you heard yesterday to what the report that this hotel. that was not for what happened it's a work of eighty men. who were waiting for better at such protection to go to. a question about payment of not me and talk to a cleaner torture of three hours but then there were. hundreds of. thirty more young men. and i'm not sure what their problems are due to the various reports about how close to tripoli the rebels are some reports saying there was close is around twenty kilometers away is there a real sense that they are getting close to tripoli now what news is feeding through to you i know the people living inside the capital is that are a sense that these people are coming and that they're succeeding. well i think

they're sort of missing piety anderson tension and dressed all in all you i'm preparation being that nobody knows how probably they are but yes i'm going to mainstream media is reporting that they're getting closer and closer and people are hearing voices reports. were stalled at night which is. twenty five miles from here gratian being i don't know if they're going into here but you see tourist there's i thought terrorists racing through the streets obviously there are no tires here but they were filled with young men can i think that those talking of being used to princess of the decision anders. polito yes i would say definitely measures are being taken people are staying inside. of a civilian part very few people not going out you could even meet and.

see what happens tonight. why do you think there's been no response to the libyan government schools again today for negotiations with nato and with the rebels why do you think there has been no positive response by the dam government yes can be no response because nato has been told we talked all rebels actually if you want to go ships don't want to kill some brothers and sisters and they don't have power button and it says that nagel's campaign unit or i should individuals into. you know somebody through the company. just sort of get over it not much probably a little. didn't. thank me a copy. of pitt's country so they can call claim a victory and. being used just on. and.

depending on which way out i think there's got to be honest i didn't need or. didn't. really need or. even really don't. ok we very much appreciate your time dr franklin lamb director of americans for middle east peace on the line from tripoli there take care of yourself stay safe thank you. but even ellen how spoke to earlier on these from the independent institute in washington who told me believes that much of the media's pandered to western interests in the way that they reported the civil war. in the western media here particularly in the united states all the western countries the media is sort of been a cheerleader you know. on the retreat is almost over so maybe the reports are exaggerated but certainly the western media as a whole for because no one likes gadhafi and certainly i'm not defending his human

rights record but he was the leader of the country and it seemed like the western countries just took advantage of a rebellion to get rid of him of course they haven't really done that in an aside in syria they've been very slow because israel doesn't necessarily want to get rid of him. because they're scared of what could happen there but why isn't doesn't the same thing apply in libya what could happen there we don't know it's hard to say during war you get report one report on one thing and then it's contradicted by another but i think the rebels think they have the advantage at this point and they're being helped by the nato. bombing and that sort of thing so i think they think they're almost ready to take tripoli. and just let you know later this hour of another update of what's going on in the libyan capital from an independent journalist who's also in tripoli trying to bring as much information as we can as the situation develops tonight. chris part of violence

a sort of the middle east this week with israel launching airstrikes in gaza which pulled back with dozens of rocket attacks the latest reports suggest that egypt has managed to broker a cease fire between the two sides which could come into effect later later on sunday let's get latest on this fast moving so it's a night out his policy is in jerusalem keeping across the developments for us what we know about this possible cease fire how much hope is there that the violence is drawing to a close. but haven't we are receiving reports there all palestinian militant groups operating in gaza have agreed to a cease fire with israel now the reports we are receiving indicate that her master push will say that cairo has brokered this truce which goes into effect this evening we understand there tell of the of was here turned out about making any kind of agreement with the guards up witches and let the militants the put down fire first we also understand that it will be the responsibility of her math

security personnel to inforce the cease fire not only this is good news but the reality on the ground is that no one here really believes that is between the two sides will rast and will will really survive the test of time this latest violence started on thursday in a three pronged attack that left eight israelis did that it's all responded almost immediately with strikes in those areas trying to be in continuous since tuesday there have been more than a dozen palestinians killed they have been more than eighty grad and some rockets that have rained down on southern israeli towns killing one israeli and injuring many more so certainly the east since on the ground is there both sides are incredibly angry both sides are incredibly distrustful of the other and one of the sentiments being expressed here in israeli circles today is that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been preparing for a war with gaza for some time and never really what happened on tuesday was just the perfect opportunity to carry out the assault that we've seen. other ties in

with the current domestic problems faced in israel this very weekend we saw the marches on the streets you have more people protesting about the way that. a lot of the government's domestic policy right now there is some cynicism is there about the timing of these. assaults that went on across the weekend at the same time as they were demonstrating about the problems within israel. well you said you had some cynicism here in israeli circles when you talk to demonstrators they said that they're not surprised by the latest spate of violence many believe that netanyahu was hoping for something that has to happen because he is of prime minister there is very strong armed security issues are issues of like what is called terrorism here in israel rather than on addressing socio economic internal problems so for more than a month now you've had tens of thousands of protesters in all the major cities in israel they marched again last night and whereas before the slogan was

a call for social justice they added a new slogan yesterday saying a call for a cease fire now the protesters that are adamant that they will not let this latest spate of violence detract the netanyahu government from addressing it their concerts they planned their first weekend in september they'll have a million man march they believe they'll get a million israeli citizens to the streets and that's almost one sixth of the population here so it is certainly it is a lot of kids grant told israelis about domestic issues and if anything ironically this latest spate of violence that they say has made them even more determined to make sure it is an attorney who any government addresses the concerns. of these correspondent joining us live in jerusalem thank you bring you something there on that moving story tonight. in britain next two young men who are tough jail sentences for using facebook to encourage violent riots the jail terms and be praised by prime minister david cameron but nonetheless they've been slow and

rights groups as being too over the top of his other brother has more now on how the policy of zero tolerance has taken hold in the u k. four years behind bars for the riot that didn't even happen jordan black sure and perry sutcliffe kenan were banged up for inciting disorder on facebook and no one turned up after their invitation to riot which they later said was a drunken joke but now they face sentences even tougher than most looters and i worry is that it is an imbalance a four year sentence for example would normally be given to somebody for a previous bodily harm for holding someone up with a knife or even for. some for reception assault so it seems to me that that there is a danger that the courts are moving into disproportionate territory and not actually devalues our response to more serious crimes the government's encouraged because the dish out harsh sentences by using the public disturbance as an aggravating

factor it's meant this man anderson fernandez could even be sent to jail for thing of just two scoops of ice cream because like this one denying bail to most offenders and ignoring any claims of previous good character of the one thousand two hundred seventy seven people charged so far two thirds being reminded in custody that's way up on last year's rate for serious crimes is just ten percent some offenders even being made homeless is their punishment with local governments taking away their houses but many say it's all simply cause more harm than good i think this is very unwise the move to remove people from housing internet benefits because actually if we are seeing that some of the crime that we saw on the streets was an expression of people not feeling proud to society not feeling proud of working it is in these measures are actually going to push people further away from society further away from our communities and far more likely to commit crime for

facebook case is the first sign of the government's desire to crack down on social media sites like twitter were applauded by the west to mobilize. the masses in the arab world but they were also instrumental in the u.k. riots so now the prime minister wants it to stop we are working with the police the intelligence services and industry to look at whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these websites or services when we know they are plotting violence disorder and criminality when social media fuel revolutions in egypt and she needs britain called it democracy but now the shoe's on the other foot when troubles closer to home. we knew. who. we thought. was. the prime minister says this is where britain fights back but it's be if this fighting fire with fire

could only fan the flames of civil disorder i bennett artsy london. later in the program the football transfer is set to break all records find out who's expected become the world's highest paid player into a big spending team in russia's premier league. next though a collective economic government that's the latest measure proposed by top e.u. leaders in their bid the whole market turmoil and reverse the stagnation across the continent but the later is that there's a little support among investors who say it's probably too little too late and i'm glad merkel and nicolas sarkozy have rejected the idea of euro bonds favored by the markets and seen by many as the best where most of the debt crisis and according to international consultant and former belgian m.p. lot of an os the entire affair was a p.r. boost for ailing politicians. and when biggest economies of the european monetary union get together it is of course always mean families on the china logical level

needing to draw the line it should be the eurozone countries at last in general so we never did decide to. i'm going the other countries they're not going absolute ones that cost they're not going after new ones and hash the money their guests we lost in this crisis i mean why not talk about the raising taxes on those people why not to talk about putting social demands on these bailouts through against merkel and sarkozy are facing huge problems with the clarity in the in the polls so i think it's also new with the image of building a chair not so much richer finding a real solution and yet another blow to the eurozone the blocked second one hundred sixty billion euro bailout greece may be under threat now that's because half of the greek could provide finland with collateral in return for its contribution to the financial rescue package but that's part in that nation among the other fifty

goannas which are now also providing collateral to list so ever agree on that greece is incapable of handling such guarantees and the professor of applied economics patrick oppman for told us the lack of direction in the u. isn't helping a battle in the crisis even. there's obviously a lot of uncertainty about the eurozone and what will happen there goes the eurozone summit wasn't very conclusive or helpful in that respect so that's a great deal of uncertainty which is worrying the markets about the situation of banks in europe i think that will be resolved but it may take some time to resolve it that's the problem meanwhile markets are very nervous and the eurozone will be will take time to sort itself out either the euro will break up all they will produce a fiscal union with big transfer to bail all these countries out nobody really quite knows which but that won't be a result any time soon but i think what it is happened what is happening is that

the western economies the richer economies are having a harder time of it because you know all the growth if you like in realty of raw materials is being taken by countries like china and india and brazil and so that's leaving very little scope for the richer countries to grow their groaning under these very high. prices you know which depress their incomes and make them much more cautious professor patrick been for joining us on the line from cardiff earlier on about to a top story tonight there are reports of gunfire on the streets of the libyan capital is the latest to only see now on the phone from tripoli and talk to independent journalist lizzie thiel and she's joining us again this evening lizzie very good evening to thanks for being with us again i know the situations very fluid way you are it's difficult to establish exactly what's going on in different parts of the city but it does doesn't it seem tonight the fighting has reached the streets of tripoli. yes i can we. begin with you

i think. and then we heard the quote by the. people refreshing relief of course. the famous because we hear i think that route. and joining them and we've just had a press conference that i think the intelligence here in libya. thank you for what . happened during the war on the plane i think now i. think on the ground is make three percent and then of course they have been going through them and sending them to me and i'm not being a great friend we've seen in recent be an interview. with him i'm not very famous. i mean that. now. really. everybody is.

saying we're hearing that so. revolutionary they. really. made the fork is becoming clear. but if you think that what is really a nightmare situation. i think intelligence. thank. you think the west especially against the west and he thought to. be. releasing they may throw. them that make. me. tripoli the moment. i mean i'm. not clear what he will be losing do you soon so this is the most stressful time yet as far as the residents in tripoli

a concert maybe as far as gadhafi is concerned we heard you mentioned just now the call to if you like over the tannoy we've also. various civilians have been. guns eccentric said to be given arms training over the last week or two by the gadhafi government and the gadhafi regime just in case it's needed do you get the sense that this is the you know most tense time yet in this ongoing civil conflict. yeah i think it probably is the most current. so far i mean the next few days will be. short experiment and they i think that they. are unique in particular and nearly every interview is. a point with the rape if it. is clear that the market for

people going to be anything. that they are you have this situation and within the next few days we will feel. it pretty i spoke just a bit earlier on to dr franklin lamb he's also in the capital with you. i was asking him why he thought the nato and the rebels hadn't got back to the could the government's request today to negotiate he gave us his answer why do you think they haven't got. because very clearly you have no interest. or clearly only interest is. that the country you know what may or the long standing of being. racist that anger against the report being pressing for you michael as he making investment board it development of.

europe underway and powers and their feet again. so i would be complimented if you meant the beginning of the warning for of course you would make. a complete but i bet. from the beginning i went straight for the military option but . if you need it for them i mean. really. could be. a few weeks. even for the whole of that. thing on the floor but what if. you think you're going to present it within a week if i don't know that i was right and i'm writing month. really. make

a profit. they going to be a problem and it's really going to happen if you mention that you know just across the mediterranean extremely complicated scenario you're pointing out well from tripoli the president's lewsey feeling thanks for being on artie's pre-shared. but song syrian state media this condemned the u.s. and european calls for president assad to step down in the weeks the move is part of a conspiracy russia's also refused to back the call saying assad should be given more time to implement promised reforms this comes in the wake of a crackdown on nancy regime protesters results his roof and national reports while the west sees the government's actions oppression some in syria see it as liberation. job is done the city liberated zoar in the east of the country has become the last syrian city the army left after clearing off extremists that have been terrorizing its citizens for weeks the military claim is that it's bandits blocked the raids put up barricades it became

a city we were hiding we were just like hostages. soldiers of the syrian army i live in the city of. the iraqi border. officials are saying operation is now over that the city has been freed from armed groups as you can see people are welcome in the soldiers as the waiters but while tanks have been trying to make their way through jubilant crowds thousands of kilometers away in the white house a decision has already matured president bashar al assad is the one who's terrorizing the syrian people and that should end. the transition to democracy in syria has begun and it's time for assad to get out of the way not everybody has agreed there moscow has insisted that assad should be given time to implement promised changes his recent decisions to release political prisoners repeal emergency law and allow peaceful demonstrations have indicated the right direction

but external pressure could still bury fragile transition which are sort of the sort of reforms would give forces to syria and will make the country stronger but syria's enemies don't want syria to be strong america for instance they're sick and tired of a strong syria and they want to weaken its they don't want reforms they need instability and chaos across the country as long as possible and their professional works for it with contradictory reports about policemen and security officers killed across the country and the army is continuing crackdown on protesters despite president assad's pledges to the un to stop operations the syrian people no longer know who to trust and what to believe. when their country at the crossroad again the on themselves with patients refinishing r.t. syria. let's take a minute to another big sports story the world of football is

a buzz with news of a new dream possibly gathering here on russian soil but there's a lot of russia's republican delegates than are expected to sign the superstar striker some of your eto from the italian side into milan if you get a caution of as war with the old well prove a story for russian football. the transfer of the internal and striker has taken some time but according to the latest reports samuel eto has five goodbye to his italian teammates and is such a big call him a player of the un she must allow for built up some of the ads all will undergo medical examination within the next two days and on monday he is you to sign a contract with the dagestani football club in the and under you will pay over sixteen million euros for the next three years for the soci year old attacker and this move will make them all out so as the most highly paid football player in the world in the space of a few months of the biggest any football club has made headlines over cross the

world by buying leading international football players and this happened after of the biggest earning club was bought by the locally born businessman and also one of the most richest men in russia thirty monkey muff and now he's spending millions of euros in a bid to make the club which is situated here in russia's north caucasus and known all across the world the team has already legendary brazilian about the cutlass and also received their december and then you say but now it's some five russian tri cones i'm not only funding money on the development of the job through the book clubs like it was done earlier but i'm on about a move each one he bought chelsea but also on the development of the russian football and to the signing of out so will bring of the biggest any club on to a new level and the international world of football so of course part of it in a coaching of a reporting coming up for you a special report on covering the problem of domestic violence in the united states that's on every shortly before but i'll recap our top stories head guards in just

a few minutes time. you're watching our two international from moscow. for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. there.