breaking news on r.t. tonight battle rages in libya multiple reports of fierce clashes around tripoli as colonel gadhafi are citizens to take up arms against the rebels the country's major military base is now thought to be in rebel hands strengthening their chances about victory because the latest for you just ahead this hour. also suggestions of ceasefire egypt reportedly managed to convince both guards and israel to lay down arms after days of heavy shelling that's a developing story to again we've got the latest for you. came top stories from us that shaped the week just gone the crackdown against english rioters gains momentum with harsh sentences handed to those who only played minor parts in the chaos as

human rights groups say judges and politicians went to. the leaders promise of a single economic government fails to reassure him best this is fresh trouble over greece once again threaten the stability. welcome it's midnight here in moscow you're watching r t with me kevin and the breaking news rebels have reportedly entered tripoli from the west as fighting in libya appears to be intensifying some estimates put the death toll from this weekend alone in the hundreds with around a thousand injured it's also believed that major clashes have seen the rebels capture the capital's miti get. opposition forces also claim some of the freed prisoners lot of during the uprising against colonel gadhafi his regime to get more reaction on the ground. royer is in tripoli and she's from the center for research

on globalization marty thanks for being on the line with this and how would you describe what's happening in tripoli at the moment. there are targeted attacks seven it's specifically targeting the areas where international journalists are to keep their need of heavy work this is a nato war make no mistake this is me toward the heavily bombed cities west of here in the bomb all night put out even ten seconds of starting a pompous uncursed a needle landed in the year or the insurgents wanted to cause tripoli they have no respect for international trade i was putting up a sign on the hotel on top of what would go to the mission. and. i implore i beg. beg international community the real international to need international community of people governments within the nato alliance to stop this

bloodshed and to get me to discuss already this horrific attack in tripoli. part of. being engaged in afghanistan in iraq and in pakistan and other parts of the world this part of the scene and. mercilessly in this country and the current instance to be when. things are speedball to take up arms to defend tripoli from the rebels how likely is that do you think to bring about a strong response are people prepared to lay down their lives to save his regime what is the strength of feeling behind them let me tell you kevin quite frankly that i was told right now i can't confirm it for you i was told and a lot of the libyan civil the people in green square in other parts of the city appeared not armed and ready to fight to defend this nation i don't know how it was issued mission trips. to. media has been. out here and

since i'm on the talk of the media one of my friends colleagues was told by a producer by c.n.n. as we're waiting for to be resting was told where producer c.n.n. but now you're going to suffer the consequences of your actions because you oppose it but war again we need a war because with this thread this is right up to c.n.n. should aim for. ok well we can't comment on what's happening on another channel but i can what you say there as the situation of libyan capital is obviously intensive finds and the details are still sketchy the plumbing in a lot of this has to be verified a number of all the leaders meantime have again demanded the gadhafi steps what other international reaction coming expect do you think do you think he will step down at the last moment at the eleventh hour perhaps. why is this what this war is not about colonel gadhafi. is just a pretext for this war this war has nothing to do with colonel gadhafi has to do

with stealing money from people have already asked the colonel gadhafi it could be the process more handing to the prophet jesus or the pope to detergents question has been raising. tell you they have no respect for you. know how to stop this war in order to. be armed in world country. that rep in the french there was why is this going on where is this real international community that people listen what the united states turkey senator not the international community governments around the world do you mean this is going to be right back here because we're. briefly just listening in while you were talking there are going to gunshot that gunshot was coming from close to you was it that was coming from nearby if you're attacking the town here attacking any international he is trying to shoot at me earlier today i was great i was on with the green. sniper fire when i was on the roof putting i had to chop it right on

a handkerchief. press them on the roof this is this is obviously a terribly frightening time for that for the residents of tripoli the people you've spoken to the people you've seen around you they're all what are their feelings i guess the terribly afraid. it's mixed feelings you know there's a psychological process we go through the shock denial just fear and then fear is resistance and many of them children i honestly cannot really sorry. i've seen young and not going to get under scrunchy you know this is not about colonel gadhafi the world should realize it's not about to think that because the people on the other stright been saying got you know far worse think little bit after a lot of our cities committed in libya when they were government. either way to the united nations you need for when the accusations were meeting about the murders in the east the libyan human rights is directly directly involved in rice

documented documents will be out there and it will be directly like and by members of the transitional council were part of the libyan human rights leap they subsequently became members of the transitional council right up to the issues working and there is no paper being in geneva and rights council needs to be examined in the board members of these organizations need to be granted could be united states israel and for of the our i have a big monopoly in geneva over this and they do using the same tactics against the syrian arab republic in eastern mediterranean right now the very briefly because we want to let you get on with your own plans i'm only going to do next what what is i have seen for the next twelve hours will be leaving the country. i've contacted the cuban embassy i've talked to many of us here at my community when you see that immediately by your two parent there's a chinese press t.v. rant and journalists and. tell us. don't want it was

myself. on the other side so you can see it if you hear it. there's an roi tripoli from the center for research on globalization thank you for talking to assert live on r.t. international we wish you well and hope you continue to be safe let's get some more reaction now shall we talk to free loans to mr chandan he's recently come back from libya he's now safely in london super very good to see you tonight as well maybe based on your recent experiences and how much you heard of our interview there with marty just now based on your recent experiences in would you assess what's happening in libya right now. even having we've heard this several times before that we're on the verge of gadhafi and regime change is just about to take place in libya where more than five months into a nato bombing campaign six months into this libyan crisis and gadhafi is still there let's try to see. does seem to be ratcheting up greatly tonight doesn't it.

absolutely the thing is i don't want to deny for a second that there is some kind there's some level of clashes taking place in tripoli which they obviously are but there's mixed reports about the about the airport that's been taken or hasn't been taken but so far no strategic positions have been taken by the rebels in tripoli so it remains to be seen really how this plays out and already even in the west the mainstream press are having voices that are saying don't expect this to be over in days days or weeks or even expect this to last some many months yet this is a city of two million people generally is an oil to the regime but it's an armed people so it's yet to remain to be seen how this battle will evolve from here on in what do you think will transpire over the next twelve hours or so do you think the it was very difficult to know but do you think the rebels will make more gains will get into this city or you think they'll be pushed but we're hearing there are thousands of quote thousands upon thousands of troops ready to defend the city

ready to defend me what do you think is going to happen. i think what we're seeing right now is an obviously concerted media campaign to really ratchet up and high apart the this so-called accomplishment accomplishments of the rebels in tripoli at the moment this has to be put into relation to what's happening with syria and with palestine it doesn't surprise me to hear your headlines just a just a few minutes ago but egypt has broken the ceasefire between the palestinian resistance and the zionist state of israel one thing is for sure the palestinian resistance will continue to fight against israel because they know that the arab spring is a pro western arab spring arab spring clean up for the west and the palestinian resistance want to turn the arab spring the progress the arab spring into an arab spring clean of zionism and an empire of politics in the region so really what the west is trying to do the trying to make the libya a quote unquote success so they can roll on syria next so as you see it this is maybe not good. no no no not not by far this guy has been

out war with the west before and in a way i'm sure that you know really he revels in it so what we're seeing now is nato trying to make a success of libya so they can focus on syria but they've got problems in afghanistan and we saw what the taliban contribution to this debate was in the glowing up of the british council in kabul so they have many headaches on their hands right now so it's completely not sure what the outcome of this and gadhafi and his forces no doubt will put out very stiff resistance in tripoli is going to be very messy so you can't thanks ever so much independent freelance journalist as you are forgiven you sure thought on the line from london tonight on r.t. international. but the situation in libya is of course being closely monitored in the u.s. a key player in the military campaign against gadhafi has ruled it also remains in contact with rebel leaders are he's got if you can is now on the line to give us a washington view and it are there has there been any statement yet from the white

house on this latest round of fighting which as we've been say does appear to be ratcheting up tonight presumably the rebel advance is what they would have wanted yeah. well kerry we haven't heard any official say statements yet but as the rebels are closing in on tripoli we might be well seen the end of could all the regime the whole of the international community has been denied it is saying they could offer has no future in a lead and that including all of the members of the u.n. security council they all shared their view that moscow including russia as well but the means by which nato has been accomplishing the goal of al sting khadafi have seen many violations of the u.n. resolution that authorized the military intervention six months ago the resolution was designed to protect civilians with many innocent civilians have been killed by nato strikes during those six months and the funneling of weapons to levy unravels has been done in here a violation of the arms embargo that was imposed on libya western powers clearly

took sides in the civil war basically this regarding the whole part of the population that never wanted an intervention in the first place in light of all those violations it was very on likely that the u.n. security council would have adopted and now the resolution only via constant tempered september is when the previous resolution runs out so it's very it was very crucial for the rebels and nato to carry out the operation before the resolution expires from what we see on the ground the rebels might be meeting the deadline there's still despite the violations as it often happens in history the winner takes it all as for who the winners are although the rebels are far from being a homogenous group their official leadership and that is the transitional national council has been recognized that all allied forces there who have been helping them oust gadhafi the rebels have seen some happy backing they've been have really backed by western powers including the united states the head of the council

mustafa abdul jalil who has traveled to washington a number of times he has received overwhelming support from politicians here so he's definitely seen as their man. truthfully but one of the stumbling points here is that he hasn't been chosen as a leader by the leader and people themselves and many libyans are outraged by the fact that those very important choices are being made for them also going back to the point that the rebels are not a homogenous group there has been some infighting going on among the rebels as well at the end of july a top rebel military commander was killed and a very suspicious circumstances circumstances which led to believe that the head of the transitional national council might have had a hand in that murder but again that infighting has been very murky and definitely has not received enough coverage but many experts are saying the fight who are being in charge of levy is no surprising considering what is at stake and let's not

forget it is a nation that has. richest oil reserves in africa and the watch and washington d.c. correspondent thanks for giving us your thoughts on it as well tonight now a bit earlier on i spoke to independent journalist lizzie failon cheese in tripoli should been reporting about the last couple of days for she says that as far as she could see where she was the rebels how he had established any sort of control within the city. i'm not battles. only i mean the beneficial areas certainly. being what it could be small group of people just whatever you want to call them and not. some kind of treat the opposition didn't predict who is there for a really long race. against the libyan army which of course is a conventional army and before he. is in tripoli by the libyan government that's

the beginning of it so really we could wait to get our and the. lawsuits and you like i said. they don't have any kind of populist the courts and they believe. any of it is in private he was. very very down i mean very much ready to have been using anywhere near military capability. that many volunteers were going to repeat were going to take it and take him on to other areas. isolate is not the opposition treatment they can any he. will bring you as much information as we can as we get it from correspondents and reporters that stay tuned to see for the latest news give some european reaction to it president sarkozy of france as well as the german government again calling on good powerfully to step down in the face of recent gains by the rebels but he's

done a bushel produce up to date from paris with the latest. president nicolas sarkozy had a court a row holding the. libyan leader well let me reiterate the backing of the group provisional council you'll get out immediately. you have a letter at the outcome of rebel victory is no longer in bell. should immediately order he's full of the peace process and to give way to the commitments as he called individuals or at least he has really transmissions in the last twenty four hours you've got to leave your people will never allow all of that goes across because you get a major exporter of energy that he will never allow a big. problem approach to rule and also it was libyans are crossing in tripoli as rubble troops are closing in on a crowd sourced from what worryingly that they will really have the room. and

electricity to the capital larry given you want to. do this very morning because. i think you're a hero here and you will be used to it because local people use the queen's national criminal court in going they can go to you got to charge you five minutes interventions in the capital because that's what prompted you. to decode the leaders there they claim they will be already includes a young child because generally ours was pulling the strings militarily. warning a battle in the capital could be exceedingly low the streets of warfare also you support. and they're all going to be a pivotal role. small and too badly organized to actually handle the fighting. but if you're of correspondent daniel bushel of north africa trouble in the middle east cross border violence saw this week with israel launching airstrikes as it

would for back with dozens of rocket attacks latest reports tonight they were suggest that egypt has managed to broker a cease fire between the two sides which could come into effect within the next few hours to update us on data spoke to our teams paula slayer in jerusalem across the latest. and of course we're receiving indicate and that's official say that cairo has broken this truce which goes into effect as the evening we understand there tell of the it was his attend and making any kind of agreement with the guards are pictures and lists the militants the put down fire first we also understand that it will be the responsibility i'm asked security personnel should enforce the cease fire not only that is good news but the reality on the ground is that no one here really believes that a cease fire between the two sides will rast and will will really survive the test of time this is the latest violence started on thursday in a three pronged attack that left eight israelis did not at all responded almost

immediately with a stright and those strikes have been continuous since. there have been more than as doesn't palestinians killed they have been more the eighty grad and some rockets that have rained down on southern israeli towns killing one israeli and injuring many more so certainly the least 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 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 perfect opportunity to carry out the assault as we see these other ties in with the current domestic problems. that israel this very weekend we saw the marches on the streets you have more people protesting about the way that it was a lot of the government's domestic policy right now there is some cynicism is there about the timing of these. assaults the what across the weekend at the same time as

they were demonstrating about the problems within israel but he said you know some cynicism here in israeli circles when you talk to demonstrators they did it they're not surprised by the latest spate of violence that many believe that netanyahu was hoping for something like this to happen because he is a prime minister there is very strong. on security issues on issues of what is called terrorism here in israel rather than on increasing 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 and they marched again last night and was before the slogan was a call for social justice they added a new slogan yesterday saying a cause for a cease fire now the protesters that i've been speaking to adamant that they will not let this latest spate of violence detract the netanyahu government from addressing their concerns they planned it by the first weekend in september they'll have a million man march they believe though he had a million israeli citizens to the streets and that's almost one sixth of the

population here so he certainly is a lot of disgruntled israelis about domestic issues and if anything ironically this latest spate of violence that they say has made an even more determined to make sure that an attorney who needs government addresses the concerns. to britain were . tough jail sentences for using facebook to encourage violent riots were praised by problems to david cameron human rights groups is over the top parties are bennett has more on how the policy of zero tolerance is 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 our worry is that it isn't in balance

a four year sentence for example would normally be given to some me for a previous bodily harm for holding someone up with a knife or even for. some form of sexual assault so it seems to me that. there is a danger that the courts are moving into disproportionate territory and that actually devalues our response to more serious crimes that governments encourage courts to 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 a 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 are being reminded in custody that's way up on last year's rate for serious crimes this 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 interim of 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 porter society not feeling part of working unities then these measures are actually going to push people further away from society further away from our communities and far more likely to commit crime the 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 and troubles closer to home. the new you know the. poor. but we. the prime minister says this is where britain fights back put it this fighting fire with fire could only fan the flames of civil disorder after bennett's artsy london . collective economic government burst 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 latest appears a found little support among investors who say it's come too little too late and are merkel and nicolas sarkozy rejected the idea of euro bonds favored by the markets and seen by many as the best we have a mostly from the crisis political analyst and author william angle's told us

there's little real substance to these latest measures. he said i think the collective economic government that merkel and sarkozy are talking about is really a desperate political ploy to try to create the illusion of stability where the underlined stability doesn't yet exist there is no political will not in germany nor in the rest of the eurozone countries for as surrendering national sovereignty to a collective entity that has any decision power so that it's simply a shimmer that's been thrown out there to try to calm the markets the i'll turn it over really is is to get a stable export market relations i think above all with with russia the central asian republics trying to and the rest of asia in the middle east and if that is created then you can have a growth vector that leads you out of this debt impasse that the eurozone countries are in without that and so long as as the. dollar system dominates international

financial relations that moody's standard and poor's do the rating on sovereign debt for european union countries and that there is no independent european credit rating agency and there isn't is no. growth perspective not only austerity there is no up to this crisis. but the news from the middle east no serious president assad's giving a live t.v. interview saying the regime is not in danger of falling that the government is able to deal with the current unrest in the country syrian state media condemned the u.s. and european calls for president assad to step moves quite a conspiracy russia for its parts also refused to back the call saying assad should be given more time to implement promised reforms is comes in the wake of a crackdown and anti regime protesters result is rare for national reports next while the west sees the government's action as oppression some in syria see it it's . job is done the city liberated there is order in lease of the country has become the last syrian city the army left to clear in are extremists

that have been terrorizing its citizens for weeks and claim is that these bandits block their weights put up barricades and became a city with a hiding just like hostages. soldiers of the syrian army are living in the city of . the iraqi border no traffic has a say in operation is now over there the city has been freed from groups as you can see here the welcome in the saw there is as the way there is the twelve tanks have been trying to make their way through jubilant crowds thousands of kilometers away in the white house and his situation has already matured president bashar assad is the one who's terrorizing the syrian people and that should and the transition to democracy in syria has begun and it's time for assad to get out of the way not everybody has agreed barrow 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. forms will give bosses to syria that will make the country stronger but syria's anime's don't want syria to be strong america for instance they're sick and tired of a strong syria and they want to weaken it they don't want reforms they need instability and chaos across the country as long as possible and their pressure works for it with contradictory ports about policemen and security officers killed across the country and the army's continued crackdown on protesters despite president assad's pledges to the un and his top military operations and syrian people no longer know who to trust and what to believe. with a country at the crossroad and.