children should see best is the pressure trouble of the group once again threatens stability. is why i'm here in moscow you're watching r t with me kevin owen in the main news we're just getting through reports coming in saying that gadhafi security brigade has laid down its arms rebels have reportedly entered tripoli from the west tonight as fighting in libya appears to be intensifying some estimates put the death toll from this weekend alone in the hundreds with a round of thousand injured it's also believed that major clashes have seen the rebels capture the capital base opposition forces also claim to have freed prisoners locked up during the uprising against colonel gadhafi his regime just to bring you a bit more about the news we were bringing you the very early days of it that

gadhafi forces reported to have laid down their arms that's coming from the reuters news agency quoting al-jazeera television is also coming from a lot of beer television as well citing the rebels telling them that so again this is all to be verified but they are the latest details we've got through i spoke to a political analyst and royer he's in trip police says nato is the major player in the assault. they specifically targeting the areas where international journalists are to feed their nato has done all the heavy work this is a nato war make no mistake this is a nato war they heavily bombed cities west of here they bombed all night without even ten seconds so they bombed this entire city nato landed the insurgents on to the coast of tripoli they have no respect for the international press i was

putting up a sign on the hotel on top of the hotel i took the initiative to downright press and snipers shot at me and i was told right now i can't confirm it but i was told and a lot of the libyan to the people i'm not seeing in green square in other parts of the city not arms and ready to fight in the sand this nation i don't know how to play out that it was a shooting to ecological war here that is the war effort the media has been there liberally involved here and since i'm on the topic of the media one of my french colleagues was told by a producer by c.n.n. because we're waiting to be rescued was told that now you're going to suffer the consequences of your actions because you opposes the war against benita war this was a threat this is an excess of what this war is not about colonel gadhafi colonel gadhafi is just the pretext for this war this war has nothing to do with colonel gadhafi has to do with stealing money from the people that's what it has to their shock is denial there's fear and then there's resistance and many of them children really

sorry the church actually young men picking up going specifically to defend this country. independent journalist as you feel it is in tripoli says that this far as she can see the rebels haven't yet established in the sort of control within the city a spoke last hour. currently i'm in a beneficial area of tripoli but it does appear that what it is the rebel. or whatever you want to call them and not. some kind of treat the opposition i mean it didn't take. really how long they have laws. against the libyan army which of course is a conventional army and the poor here. is in tripoli by the libyan government. so really we're just raping our and being alone for the last few days. about that.

they don't have any kind of popular support and they say. any kind of they don't think that even. the key player in the military campaign against the libyan regime washington's claim the rule of gadhafi is coming to an end the u.s. is reported to be in close contact with rebel leaders and is monitoring the situation on the ground who's going to reports from washington we haven't heard any official say statements yet but as the rebels are closing in on tripoli we might be well seeing the end of your regime the whole of the international community has been denied it is saying there could be has no future in a libya 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 he needed has been accomplishing the goal of ousting 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 but many innocent civilians have been killed by nato strikes during those six months and the funneling of weapons to levy and robles has been done 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 unlikely that the un security council would have adopted another resolution only via come september is that temper is when the previous resolution runs out so it was 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 although the rebels are far from being a homogenous group their official leadership and that is the transitional national council as being recognized by all allied forces there to have been

helping them oust gadhafi the rebels have seen some have the backing they've been have really backed by western powers including the united states the head of the council most stuff jolie has traveled to washington a number of times he has received overwhelming support from politicians here so he's definitely seen as their man in tripoli but one of the stumbling points here is that he hasn't been chosen as a leader by the libyan 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 for being in charge of libya is no surprising considering what is at stake and let's not forget it is a nation that has the richest oil reserves in africa. is going to come with me but on their own for. recently bug from libya and who's now in london told me nato needs to have a successful campaign in libya in order to move on to other parts of the arab world . 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 with more than five months into a nato bombing campaign six months into this libyan crisis and gadhafi is still there but 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 western mainstream press having voices that are saying don't expect this to be over in days days or weeks even they expect this to last some many months yet this is a city of two million people that generally is loyal to the regime people so it's yet to remain to be seen how this the battle will evolve from here on in this has to be put into relation to what's happening with syria and with palestine it doesn't surprise me to hear headlines just a just a few minutes ago that egypt has brokered a cease fire 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 pro-west 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 libya a quote unquote success so they can roll on syria next. president sarkozy of france

as well as the german government again calling on gadhafi to step down in the face of the recent gains by the rebels of these dental bushels in paris with the latest on that side of it. president nicolas sarkozy has political rivals in the dispositive moment the. libyan people call them a really great. backing of the rebel provisional kelto you will get that immediately get what he had left as the outcome of rebel victory is no longer in del bosque the idea that it should immediately all that is forbidden to cease fire and to give way to the legitimate as he called it libya north or the now because he has really to live transmissions in the last twenty four hours you know the libyan people will never allow all of the goods across the globe to be a major exporter of energy that he will never allow the collaborator the equal of the french to rule those libyans to crush the uprising in tripoli as brutal troops

are closing in on the capitals also what worrying is that they will really impress the rebels. food water and electricity to the capital where you've given the oldest open with is that very worrying find that for me the billions back now the security here in your opinion to see a flock of people who use the international criminal court in bayamon played in thought that you know i think to justify military intervention in the capital because the profits really in the are recovered as a closely formally those that they claim that they will be over including charge whether in fact it doesn't generate enough power it's more than pulling the strings militarily because they are also warning a battle in the capital could be extremely bloody street to street warfare also usually support. and they're all a bit of the rebel. too small and too badly organized to actually handle this i think. he's done you a bushel there with the latest on the a european side of it and reaction i just to

bring you more about the main news story of the getting home to put some more meat on the on the bones of this story. we have heard as we went on air the top of the hour the reports were coming in to say colonel gadhafi security brigade troops have laid down the arms that is still to be substantiated it was coming from the reuters news agency has been mentioned a number of news outlets a news agencies in the last few minutes as a say we're treating this with some skepticism yet until we can get this firmed up for you but telling you exactly what we know it's coming through looking at the news wires now it's also being reported on twitter as well reuters quoting al-jazeera television quoting they say they're saying rebels are telling us some people would say the rebels would say that wouldn't they as i say we need to get more on that but if that is true that is obviously very big news tonight if you just joined us this is r.t. international and the main story is that reports in the last ten minutes coming in

saying that the gadhafi security brigade has laid down its arms amid reports tonight for the last few hours of fierce clashes around tripoli earlier on colonel gadhafi asked his citizens to defend the capital with rebels fighting for control of a central square there are also unconfirmed reports but a lot of reports on the last of the country's major military bases know thought to be in rebel hands and strengthening their chances the thoughts are of victory there we have got people on the scene in tripoli tonight telling us what they were seeing lizzie feeling was one of the reporters earlier on she was saying where she was at least there wasn't wasn't too much going on there was some violence and it wasn't shooting but it wasn't of the scale as some media outlets were reporting we also talked to another child who was holed up in a hotel that he'd been shot earlier on we could hear the gunfire going on in the background so obviously tension very much ratcheting up tonight in libya

as if these reports are to be believed the rebels are now in. tripoli it's. self and as a say the other big news if gadhafi security brigade has indeed laid down its arms we're trying to get on top of this story for you we're hoping to bring you more in the next ten minutes. cross border violence a sword meantime in the middle east this week with israel launching airstrikes in gaza which for back with dozens of rocket attacks latest reports suggest that egypt has managed to broker a cease fire between the two sides tonight which could come into effect within the next few hours as opposed to artie's paula slee mideast correspondent in jerusalem about these latest developments to. the reports we're receiving indicate that her matter fishel say that cairo has brokered this truce which goes into effect this evening we understand their television was hesitant about making any kind of

agreement with the guards or operatives and the militants put down fire first we also understand that it will be the responsibility of her mask security personnel to enforce the cease fire not only this 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 survive the test of time this latest violence started on thursday in a three pronged attack there cliff eighty's rabies did not it's all responded almost immediately with a strikes and those air strikes have been 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 the since on the ground is that 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 every day what happened on tuesday was just the opportunity to carry out the assault that we've seen other ties in with the current domestic problems. in 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 isn't there about the timing of these. assaults across the weekend at the same time as they were demonstrating about the problems within israel but it certainly has some cynicism here in israeli circles when you talk to demonstrators they say that they're not surprised by the latest spate of violence many believe that netanyahu was just hoping for something like this to happen because he has a prime minister that is very strong. on security issues on issues of what 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 they marched again last night and was 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 i've been speaking to are adamant that they will not let this latest spate of violence detract the netanyahu government from addressing their concerns they plan by the first weekend in september they'll have a million man march they believe they'll get a million israeli citizens to the streets so that's almost one sixth of the population here so this certainly is a lot of disgruntled 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 that netanyahu and his government addresses be concerns of these mid east correspondent paula let's take a look at britain two young men in the wig and the tough jail sentences for using facebook to encourage violent riots but jail terms were praised by prime minister david cameron but slammed by human rights groups as over the top these are the

better it has more on how the policy of zero tolerance has taken hold of 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 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 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 form of sexual assault so it seems to me that 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 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 have been reminded in custody that's way up on last year's rate for serious crimes chris 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 a very unwise the move to remove people from housing interim move 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 part to society not feeling part of our communities 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 fueled revolutions in egypt and tunisia britain called it democracy but now the shoe's on the other foot when troubles closer to home i'm very conscious. you know the. poor. movements we would be the force. the. country's. prime minister says this is where britain fights back but it speeds this fighting fire with fire could only fan the flames of civil disorder after bennett's artsy

london. a collective economic government that's the latest measure proposed by top e.u. leaders in their bid to hold market turmoil and reverse the stagnation across the continent but the latest ideas have found little support among investors who say it comes as too little too late angela merkel and nicolas sarkozy rejected the idea of euro bonds favored by the markets and seen by many as the best way of emerging from the crisis political analyst and author william and l. believes there is little real substance to these latest measures being proposed to them or if 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 underlying stability doesn't yet exist there is no political will not in germany nor in the rest of the eurozone countries for surrendering national sovereignty to a collective entity that has any decision power so it's simply

a shimmer that's been thrown out there to try to calm the markets the alternative really is is to get steve all at. sport market relations i think above all with with russia the central asian republics china 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 but there is no up to this crisis. well and yet another blow to the euro zone the block second hundred sixty billion euro bailout for greece could be under threat athens as agreed to provide finland with collateral in return for its contribution

to the financial rescue package but sparked indignation among the other fifteen donors some of which are now also demanding collateral unless the war that greece is incapable of handing out guarantees like that the commission says it best to go where the finance actions were appropriate. but more troubles in the middle east syria's president assad has given a live t.v. interview saying the regime is not in danger of falling and that the government is able to deal with the current unrest in the country syrian state media has condemned u.s. and european calls for president assad to step down said the move part of a conspiracy russia's also refused about the calls saying assad should be given more time to implement promised reforms this comes in the wake of a crackdown on anti regime protesters but as artie's maria for national found while the west sees the government's action as oppression. you see it as protection. job is done the city liberated there is or in lease of the country has become the

last syrian city the army left after clearing extremist streets have been terrorizing the citizens for weeks the military claim is that these bandits block their weights put up barricades it became a gay city in the hiding just like hostages. soldiers of the syrian army i live in the city of there as though near 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 waiter is between the tanks have been trying to make their way through jubilant crowds thousands of kilometers away in the white house decision has already matured president bashar al 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 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 transitional. reforms will give forces to syria it 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 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 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 u.n. to stop military operations the syrian people no longer know who to trust and what

to believe. with a country at the crossroad again the on themselves with patience raef notion r.t. syria. you're watching out international live from moscow i promised you we'd have day to assume if we got more details on the the main news at the top of the hour which is that reports have been coming in over the last half hour that libyan leader moammar gadhafi is personal security guard has disarmed and surrendered that's according to the news agency in the last thirty minutes or so we're also hearing the rebel council claiming that colonel gadhafi son saif islam has been captured more details emerging too in the last half hour rebels say they have entered tripoli from the west as fighting in libya has appeared to be intensifying all night. the associated press news agency saying that nato backed rebel forces have in fact advanced to within a few kilometers of tripoli city center now we're getting reports from our

eyewitnesses tweeting now that an independent flag has been raised on abdul ghani mosque and there are also reports on social media that state television in libya has gone off to some estimates put the death toll from this weekend alone in the hundreds with. thousand injured so just to bring you that news again if you just joined us on r.t. reports in the last hour coming in still to be fully substantiated that libyan leader moammar gadhafi is personal security guard has disarmed and surrendered the reuters news agency is reporting that the normally pretty reliable. also we're hearing that the rebel council claim colonel gadhafi son saif al islam has been captured. eyewitnesses tweeting that an independent flag has been raised on abdul ghani mosque the associated press news agency again another well respected news agency saying rebel forces have with advanced to within

a few kilometers of tripoli city center as the fighting has intensified tonight. i'll bring you more in just a few minutes time here on r.t. international from moscow thanks for choosing us for your needs.

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if you joined us it's cover though in here an international let me bring you up to date on the breaking news. reports just coming in to us in the last thirty minutes suggest that colonel gadhafi security brigade has. the rebels advance towards the central square the capital the main news the associated press news agency saying the rebel forces have advanced to within a few kilometers of tripoli city center tonight some reports initially saying they didn't meet with a lot. earlier on pulling people in the city to rise up in arms we also heard they've been given arms from the beat.