and he leaders the promise of a single economic government fails to reassure anxious investors as a fresh trouble over greece once again threatens its stability. broadcasting live direct from the heart of moscow this is our team with breaking news from a libya some reports even suggesting that colonel gadhafi may even be detained we'll give you updates on that as we get information available but reports now coming in that the libyan leader moammar gadhafi is personal security guard has disarmed and surrendered khadafi has been detained reports are coming in that libyan leader moammar gadhafi is personal security guard as i just mentioned has disarmed and surrendered to the rebel council says it will stop the fighting that's raging around the capital tripoli if gadhafi leaves the country but in a second audio address the colonel urged of the nation to fight for the country

they also claim to have captured colonel gadhafi son saif ali islam associated press says that libyan rebels are coming under sniper fire as they near the capital's main square rebels have reportedly entered tripoli from of the west as fighting in libya intensifies associated press also says that nato backed rebel forces have advanced to within a few kilometers of the tripoli's city center eyewitnesses are tweeting that an independence flag has also been raised on a mosque in the city. there are also reports on social media sites that state t.v. in libya has gone off air get off the spokes person. has called for a cease fire but says that the rebels are not ready to listen independent journalist lizzy of feeling and gave us this report from tripoli. the situation now is very grave and crucial and it's clear. that it's only obstacle to this brutal bloodbath in tripoli how can you say is is nato

and the minute that nato leaves this country i mean it is bloodshed will and the rebels agree to that the beginning of the crisis that without the support of nato they would have collapsed within two days and this morning we had. a press conference with heads of the indian intelligence analysts and you see. the west. which to be in government of course has been saying all along and this is been vindicated a number of times during this crisis most recently the veyron al jazeera interview with. the who is a well known. terrorist who was speaking on behalf of the rebels in libya so now we have a situation whereby. leaving nato on the ground in libya they are ground forces they are poorly made and telling them where to bomb and here in

tripoli every time that the rebels conduct threat from the masses the masses in tripoli and the libyan army nato bombs as abraham says anything that moves so really the time may well overdue for a cease fire and for negotiations that we've seen thousand three hundred people killed in the past twelve hours alone is almost equal to the number which was massacred in the three week by israel in gaza in two thousand and eight two thousand and nine so really the way the people of the wild as well raising that we sizwe some of them raising their voices across the world because they're in two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine where are they for the people of tripoli and for the people of libya more than one thousand three hundred people have been killed within the last twelve hours of fighting this is according to the libyan government spokesman. he addressed to journalists in tripoli accusing nato

forces of causing death and destruction. nato is at the king the heart of it these foreign civilian city it's at the economic. that has taken defensive position is that that volunteers and they do give. air cover to these again who have no political project no dream for libya what they want right now is been there to understand political analyst mahdi none of them royal who's in tripoli says nato is the major player in this recent 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 of stopping 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 i was told right now i can't confirm it but i was told and a lot of the libyans that people are amassing in green square in other parts of the city not arms and ready to fight to defend this nation i don't know how to play out that it was a shooting to ecological war here that it hurt the war effort the media has been there liberally involved here 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. switching to another angle now nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen has released a statement on the situation in tripoli saying that the libyan people should be spared of further bloodshed for more on this we join our team is that going to

church or can from washington now if you can give us a little feel of what is the reaction from washington right now. well washington a t player in this battle for tripoli that's for sure was saying that could offer these days are counted and they've they are in close contact with the rebels we do know at this point that nato has been doing the heavy work attacking tripoli we're talking about seventy five thousand strikes where they have some five to six months and here is what nato secretary general said you know about the recent developments in that league and he said that gadhafi is regime is clearly crumbling and here is i quote quoting here sooner or colonel gadhafi realizes that he cannot win the battle against his own people the better so that the leading people can be spared further bloodshed and suffering while the whole of the international community has been united saying that he has no place in libya's future and that he must step

down and that was a view shared by all u.n. security council members including russia but. the means by which nato has been accomplishing the goal of al staying gadhafi have seen many violations of the u.n. resolution from six months ago that authorized the military intervention the resolution it was designed to protect civilians but many innocent civilians have been killed by nato strikes within those six months or the falling of weapons to libyan rebels has also been done in clear violation of the arms embargo that was imposed on libya western powers clearly took sides in the civil war basically disregarding the whole part of the population in libya that was against the military intervention in the first place well in light of all those violations that have taken place it was very likely that the u.n. security council would have adopted yet another resolution on leave you know come september and september is when the previous resolution was out so it was very crucial it was crucial for nato and the rebels to carry out the operation before

the resolution runs out and from what we see on the ground they are meeting the deadline although the rebels are far from being a homogenous group but their official leadership and that. the transitional national council has been recognized as legitimate as the legitimate power to deal with in libya by all allied forces who have been helping them oust gadhafi the rebels have been heavily backed by western powers including the united states they had of the transitional council. 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 foreign powers are making those very important choices for them also going back to the point that the rebels are not a homogenous group there has been some internal fighting going on among the rebels

as well at the end of july a top rebel military commander was killed on the very suspicious circumstances circumstances which led to many would 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 there definitely hasn't been enough coverage on that but many experts are saying you know the fight for tripoli the fire for who's going to be ane charge of libya is no surprising considering what's at stake and let's not forget we're talking about a nation that has the richest oil reserves in africa all right thank you very much . reporting there from washington d.c. now for some reaction coming from london we can cross live to our correspondent laura now laura what are the people have turned down the street saying at this moment in time but we have heard reaction from downing street quite late sunday evening and it was a surprising reaction i'll be honest with you they released

a statement saying that the name think it's a happy that he's committed some are calling crimes against his own people and he must now to avoid the sun. for him for his people that's a cool they've been repeating i have a series of months now that the gadhafi must go and the ground swell this is is just just less than two weeks ago the embassy that there be an embassy in london with in fact handed over to have reopened by representatives of the overturned his general council say the gadhafi regime people who were that have now gone back to libya and it's been taken over by the transitional council. we see that rebel forces create sharing actually both from the east town and from the west and of course all the time backed by these negative ads strikes which have been heavily supported by london and by downing street and the results of that is that we are

hearing reports that we don't know who now wegg exactly is where you could sell the records of being feeling safe while islam have been captured and the rebels say that they're holding them in a safe place ready to hand them over to the relevant authorities now the view generally on the ground and i have to say that the libyan conflict is rather cool and out of the news over the last few weeks as things tend to do have very short news cycle and we've had a lot of already stuff going on here in the u.k. but people are saying now that this might be the end game but then not thinking of that is the end was quite yet but some analysts are coming out and saying that these these final moments as these final few streets that the rebels have to take if they are going to gain control of tripoli will not be easy at all but looking at the rain which of its advantages to the defendant as the defendants can then the takeover of residential buildings mosques any kind of high point they will be taking advantage of that and using it to defend the city and of cools in terms of

nature and these these incredibly numerous and strikes that they've been launching it's much harder to target as strikes when you are in such a big part of residential area and of course. what is going to be left behind when this key battle fortunately is there you go you have a comes out on top it's expected that it's being targeted placed by the rebels and by date i'm the rebels and nato and five exactly sources will be key oil and transport infrastructure which are the same sort of people carrying on the no move every day now we all seeing the rebels make a very she remains remarkably defiant are they have read this whole thing the information minister says that the government is still very resilient and he's a he's a naysayer as we've heard of backing gangs play the power and get down to his issued this in this school to his supporters to do what he calls that cleansing action

really of the rebels and gadhafi still says and we are hearing reports from the ground that there are still hundreds all oh and it's actually supports of who gave some of them have surrendered so where this is going to lead it's not quite the end rather than the end and also we should think about what will be left behind when they spotless ultimately about how people get into the scene that they know are. all right thank you very much r t is a laurent reporting there with the latest on the libyan reaction from london now we are getting reports now the rebels have reached a green square in the center of tripoli and that there are celebrations going on there meanwhile president sarkozy of france as well as the german government are again calling on gadhafi to step down in the face of the recent gains by the rebels bushell is in paris with the latest. president sarkozy called on gadhafi to immediately give out what power he has left to order his forces to cease fire and to give way to what sarkozy called the legitimate libyan authorities as quote the

outcome of the rebel victory is no longer in belt but the french leader added he fully supports the rebels he called this a disorder of moment and hailed the libyan people who support them reiterating france's backing for the rebel provisional council germany has called on gadhafi to step down quickly difference experience here fear friends will now use military force in the capital putting civilian lives at risk and that it will use the international criminal court of gadhafi as a justification and a bushel reporting there for us now of course we'll keep you abreast of latest developments in libya as they come across but moving on now cross border violence has erupted in the middle east this week with israel launching airstrikes in gaza hamas responded by launching up more than one hundred rockets and mortars into the country the violence erupted after a series of attacks inside the jewish state on thursday that killed eight civilians latest reports however suggested that egypt has managed to broker a ceasefire between the two sides are policy is following the developments for us

from jerusalem. the reports we're receiving indicate that her master 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 operatives and the militants they put down fire first we also understand that it will be the responsibility of her master 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 will really survive the test of time this latest violence started on thursday in a three pronged attack that left eighty's rabies did not its all responded almost immediately with a strikes and those airstrikes have been continuous since tuesday there have been more than a dozen palestinians killed they have been more than eighty grad and cause some rockets that have rained down on southern israeli towns killing one israeli and

injuring many more so certainly the the stance 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 sharon 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 perfect opportunity to carry out the assault that we've seen here in israeli circles demonstrators david 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 armed security issues on issues of what 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 i've been speaking to are adamant that they will. this latest spate of violence detract the netanyahu government from the great scene. they plan that 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 they certainly is a lot of disgruntled israelis about domestic issues and if anything ironically this latest spate of violence they say has made them even more determined to make sure that netanyahu and his government addresses the concerns. of britain now where two young men have been handed a tough jail sentences for using facebook to encourage violent riots the jail terms were praised by prime minister david cameron but slammed by human rights groups as over the top parties are bennett has more 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 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 naive 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 theft 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 remanded 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 this will simply cause more harm than good i think this is 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 participating 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 for mobilizing 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 in britain called it democracy but now the shoe's on the other foot when troubles closer to home are very current. the news you know they're really poor or. movements only would be the forced to comply. with countries who are trying to walk . the prime minister says this is where britain fights back put it speeds this fighting fire with fire could only fan the flames of civil disorder bennet's artsy london a collective economic a government that's the latest measure proposed by top e.u. leaders in their bid to halt market turmoil and reverse of the stagnation across

the continent but the idea have found little support among investors who say it's come as too little and too late angela merkel and nicolas sarkozy rejected the idea of euro bonds favored by the markets and a seen by many as the best way of emerging from the debt crisis and according to international consultant and former belgian m.p. lord knows the entire affair was a p.r. boost for ailing politicians. and went to london biggest economies of the european monetary union get together that is of course still is meaningful if only on up psychological level need these meetings tend to draw the line of should be the euro zone countries at last in general so whatever to decide there is no basically taken by the other countries they're not going after the ones that cost the crises they're not going up to new ones that have the money that we lost in this crisis i

mean why not talk about the raising taxes on those people why no two are talking about putting social demands on these bailouts for the banks merkel and sarkozy are facing huge problems with their popularity in the in the polls so i think it's also new with the image of building etc not so much for it to finding a real solution and yet in another blow to the euro zone of the blocks a second one hundred sixty billion euro bailout for greece may be under threat adams has agreed to provide finland with collateral in return for its contribution to the financial rescue package but it has sparked indignation among the other fifteen dollars some of which are now also demanding collateral analysts however warn that greece is incapable of handing out such guarantees and professor of applied economics patrick men for it says that lack of direction in the e.u. isn't helping battle its crisis. there's obviously a lot of uncertainty about the eurozone and what will happen go to the euro zone

summit wasn't very conclusive all helpful in that respect so that's a great deal of uncertainty which is worrying the markets about the situation of banks in europe and i think that will be a result but it may take some time to resolve it that's the problem meanwhile the 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 try. to bail all these countries nobody really in a quite knows which. that won't be resolved any time soon but i think what it is happening what is happening is that the western economies the richer economy is having a harder time of it because you know all the growth. of all 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

oil prices you know which depress their incomes and make them much more cautious syria's president assad has given a live t.v. interview saying the regime is not in danger of failing and that the government is able to deal with the current unrest in the country syrian state media have condemned u.s. and european calls for president assad to step down saying the move is part of a conspiracy russia has also refused to back the calls saying assad should be given more time to implement promised reforms is comes in the wake of crackdown on protesters but as our national reports while the west sees the government's actions as oppression some in syria see it as protection. job is done the city liberated there is or in lease of the country has become the last syrian city and left after clearing off extremists have been terrorizing his citizens for weeks the military claim is that he's bandits blocked their rights 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 or near the iraqi border measure 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 way there is 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 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 though 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 is only supportable and their pressure works for it with contradictory reports about policemen and security officers killed across the country and the army's continued 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 want to believe. with a country at the crossroad again beyond themselves patience. syria . now back to our breaking news this hour with a round of the latest developments in the libya reports that say rebel forces have

reached the center of the capital and are in control of ninety percent of tripoli but colonel gadhafi remains defiant and in a second audio address urged to the nation to fight till the end international criminal court prosecutor spokeswoman confirms that offseason son saif al islam has been detained the rebel council says it will stop the fighting that's raging around tripoli if the libyan leader leaves the country i witness is our tweeting at that an independence flag has been raised on the city's central mosque. and of course we will keep you updated on the developments in libya and i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few moments here on our team thanks for joining us.

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and broadcasting live directly from the capital of moscow this is a tweet went ahead with us to get right to our breaking news the battle rages on for control over libya reports from tripoli say the commander of colonel gadhafi that security brigade orders his soldiers to lay down their arms as rebels enter green square in the center of the capital the rebel council says it will stop the fighting and it often leaves the country and also claim to have captured three sons of the libyan leader according to the libyan government one thousand three hundred people have been killed since the nato backed onslaught on tripoli started. and suggestions of ceasefire egypt has reportedly managed to convince both gaza and israel to lay down arms after days of heavy shelling. and other stories that has shaped the past week.