live. bringing you the latest in science and technology from around. the future coverage. reports from tripoli say rebel forces have seized control of most of the libyan capital except that off his compound this comes after the commander of the colonel's security brigade defects and orders his soldiers to lay down their arms the international criminal court says it can confirm the arrest of gadhafi is son safe. according to the libyan government one thousand three hundred people have been killed since the nato bank onslaught on tripoli started. suggestions of a ceasefire egypt has reportedly managed to convince both gaza and israel to lay down arms after days of heavy shelling. and other stories that shaped the past week

the crackdown against english rioters gains momentum with harsh sentences handed to those who played only minor parts in the chaos as human rights groups say judges and politicians have gone too far. and e.u. leaders promise of a single economic government fails to reassure anxious investors as fresh trouble over greece once again threatens stability. it is four o'clock am here in the russian capital at two o'clock am in tripoli thomas this is where we will find our top story and breaking news reports say rebel forces have reached of the center of the capital and are in control of ninety percent of tripoli the head of the libyan leader the head of libyan leader moammar gadhafi as personal security force is reported to have disarmed his unit and surrendered the international criminal court says it can confirm the son saif al

islam as been arrested the rebel council announced it will stop the fighting that rages around tripoli of colonel gadhafi leaves the country but in a second. audio address the colonel urged the nation to fight to the death for the country i witness is our tweeting that an independent flag has been raised on tripoli's central mosque. there are also reports on social media that state t.v. in libya has gone off air independent journalist was a field and gave us this report from tripoli. situation now is very grave and crucial and it's. only obstacle to peace. but it should be happening. is nato and nato leaves this country i mean it is bloodshed will and the rebels agreed to that the beginning of the crisis that without the support of nato they would have collapse within two

days and this morning we had. a press conference with the heads of the libyan intelligence analysts and you see who the west. working with al qaeda which the government of course has been saying all along and this has been indicated a number of times during this crisis most recently in al-jazeera interview with. the who is a well known. terrorist and who was speaking on behalf of the rebels in libya so now we have a situation whereby. we made so on the ground in libya they are ground course they are calling nato and telling them where to bomb and here in tripoli every time that the rebels kinds of threats from the masses the masses in tripoli and the libyan army nato. says anything that moves

so really tiny well overdue for a cease fire and for negotiations that we've seen one thousand three hundred people killed in the past twelve hours alone is almost equal to. which was massacred in the three week onslaught by israel in gaza in two thousand and eight two thousand and nine so really. the wildcard as well raising. them raising their voices across the world but bostonians you thousand and eight and two thousand and nine wherever they are good people of tripoli and for the people of libya. political analyst martin who is in tripoli says nato is the major player in the assault. specifically targeting the areas where international journalists are to be panicked or need or have done all the heavy work this is a nato war make no mistake there is a need a war they heavily bombed cities west of here they bomb all night out even ten

seconds to stop the. car spinning needle landed the insurgents on to the coast of tripoli they have no respect for you traditional i was putting up a sign on the hotel and i took the initiative you didn't write it and. i was told right now i can't confirm it but i was told and a lot of the libyans who were in that people are thinking green square in other parts of the city not armed and ready to fight and then mission i don't know how to play it out it was. a war. for war effort but media has been. here what this war is not about colonel gadhafi colonel gadhafi is just a pretext for this war this war has nothing to do with colonel gadhafi has been spewing money from wooden people you know secretary general anders fogh rasmussen has released a statement on the situation in tripoli saying the libyan people should be spared further bloodshed or he's going to change and has more from washington. washington

a key player in this battle for tripoli that's one thing that could dockery's days are counted and that they are in close contact with the rebels we do know at this point that nato is doing the heavy work attacking tripoli we're talking about some seventy five hundred strikes within some five to six months and here is what the secretary general said gadhafi regime is clearly crumbling and here is i quote quote here the sooner colonel gadhafi realizes that he cannot mean 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.s. security council members including russia but. the means by which nato has been accomplishing the goal of asking gadhafi have seen many violations of the when resolution from six months ago that authorized the military intervention the

resolution was designed to protect civilians but many innocent civilians have been killed by nato strikes within those six months as a funneling of weapons to libyan rebels is also being done in clear violation of the arms embargo that was imposed on libi a western powers clearly took sides in the civil war i basically disregarding a 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 the video comes to temper in 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 of the fight for who's going to be in 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. or he's going to church you

can reporting from washington now for some reaction coming from london here's our t. correspondent. but we have heard reaction from downing street quite late on sunday evening and it wasn't surprising reaction i'll be honest with you they released a statement saying that the end is near and think it's happy that he's committed so the poor little crimes against its own people any you must now to avoid further suffering for his people that's a cool aid repeating over a series of months now that we've lost the groundswell this is just less than two weeks ago the embassy that libyan embassy in london was in fact handed over to have reopened by representatives of the soviets are his general counsel says the exactly the regime people who were there have now gone back into and it's been taken over by the transitional council i mean we see rebel forces creech cheerfully varies from the east and from the west and of course all the time perhaps five years later

and strikes which have been heavily supported by a car loans and arms by downing street the results of that is this week hearing reports that we don't know now where exactly is this we've had problems reported including savefile is the arms are being captured and the rebels say that they're holding them in a safe place ready to hand them over to the relevance or for ities now the view generally on the ground so i have to say that the libyan conflict is rather cool and out of the news over the last few weeks as people tend to do have very short news cycles and we've had a lot of our own stuff going on here in the u.k. good people are saying now that this might be the beginning but they're not thinking about it the game is quite yet military experts and analysts are coming out and saying that these these final columbus's these final few streets that the rebels have to take if they are carrying seeding tripoli will not be easy i'm told we're looking at zero evidence reading which offers advantages to the president as

the defense can then take who are residential buildings lost any kind of high point they would take. it's a trick that i'm using it actually to play in the city and of course in times of need to run these these incredibly numerous and strikes a briefing on saying it's much harder to target strikes when you're in such a brutal part of a residential area and of course what is going to be left behind when this people fortunately is there anybody who ever comes out on top it's expected that it's being targeted placed by the rebels and because i hate i don't do drugs later i'm proud to say the sources will be key for oil and transport infrastructure which reports essentially the people carrying on the no more every day lives. are at reporting there from london now president sarkozy of france as well as the german government are again calling on khadafi to step down in the face of the recent gains by rebels are your bushel is in paris with the latest president sarkozy call

don't give af into immediately give a war power he has left to order his forces to cease fire and to give way to sarkozy called the legitimate libyan authorities as the outcome of the rebel victory is no longer in belts but the french leader i did he fully supports the rebels he called this a disorder of movement 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 experts here fear frauds will no use military force in the capital putting civilian lives at risk and that it will use the international criminal courts employments of gadhafi as a justification. for reporting there from paris. on to other news now across the border violence has erupted in the middle east and this week with israel launching airstrikes in gaza hamas responded by launching 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 suggest that egypt has managed to broker a cease fire between the two sides parties policy here is following the developments for us from jerusalem. the reports we're receiving indicate that matter fishel say that cairo has broken this truce which goes into effect as evening we understand there television of what his attend and about making any kind of agreement with the garda operatives and the militants they put down fire first we also understand that it will be the responsibility of her massive security because to enforce the cease fire not only this is good news that the reality on the ground is that no one here really believes that if he's fire between the two sides were rostered and will will really survive the test of time this latest violence started on thursday in a tweet to tack there cliff to eighty's rabies did not it's all responded almost immediately with

a strikes and those strikes have been continuous since. there have been more than a dozen palestinians killed they have been more than its eighty grad and has some rockets that have rained down on southern israeli towns killing one israeli and injuring many more so certainly the these things 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 binyamin attorney are who has been preparing for a war with gaza for some time and never really what happened on tuesday was just the scope of copper trinity to carry out the assault that we seen here in israeli circles him straight as did it they're not surprised by the latest spate of violence many believe that netanyahu was hoping for something like this to happen because he is a prime minister that is very strong armed security issues are stations of what is what is called terrorism here in israel rather than on addressing socio economic into and of 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 the for the slogan was a call for social justice they added a new slogan yesterday saying a cause for a cease fire now the protesters as he's speaking to are adamant that they will. this latest spate of violence detract the netanyahu government from increasing their concerns they planned that by the first weekend in september they'll have a million man march they can even get a million israeli citizens to the streets and that's almost one sixth i'll be population here so he certainly is a lot of kids who i'm told israelis about domestic issues and if anything ironically this latest spate of violence they say has made him even more determined to make sure that netanyahu any government addresses the concerns. going back to our top story breaking news from tripoli leaving libya we can cross to martinez and roy who is in tripoli from the center for research on globalization.

you are in a media center in tripoli which is surrounded by rebel gunmen what is happening around you right now it is for a moment. we are surrounded by snipers i mean my space and. we are year one british national it was noted specifically instructed not to come near me. this was going to be taking office he said he was specifically told in the same year he was. there we are we're all bottled the staff. here is. some people here some people are outside right now but we were all essentially here the chinese were there in a queue where i'm going to worry you're french nationals myself. so. there was a couple times someone said security it turned out to be needing you cause a panic here and then the media immediately took. me

immediately took them to cook. started taping you know sooner or tails of and. i'm going to i feel that my life. right now and i'm going to be this is going to people you're going you need to be extracted and he said look international community needs you are doing the united nations need to what are you to be united nations. we understand that here under a very stressful situation right now we're also here in kentucky has turned to two tribes calling for their support is there any chance the colonel could turn the battle against the rebels and nato at this point from your position where you are. on my position is it's here i. think the western press says something for example we said yes you see a list face the western press said i see said safe for us like was crimes in the rexus was not in the rexus i mean the rexus i'm confined rex's he wasn't your he

was outside the regs and you exist he was caught and it turned out that the i.c.c. were or was a nexus the report it was an official from the a few i.c.c. speaking. anonymously he's a was not the i.c.c. an official to see these things. amongst us at least is what we don't know if this could be. heard the. groups where we see green square you have heard these things i don't know. i've heard the speech he did not say so he won't surrender areas where anybody here reported that he said he wants to go she. did not say this in the speech and i can tell you that. i personally very concerned about myself several people here and again i. was told not to eat you are going to be unique by their foreign office also now we are hearing reports we know that you're in a position that is completely surrounded there are also reports that rebels are in control of the libyan state t.v. building building do you have any information on that at this point. i think they

are the most logical thing to turn on to we need some things you need see what it's reporting. i don't have a television in front of me but i'm here with with international other people you see we're trying to. you know just between the internet and some people i think we really want to give them to be honest with you so that when you can sound like that region this club side of the regime is that it's like you would be you would tell situations where you say that you are in you're surrounded now is it your room that's surrounded is it your hotel that's right give us a little bit more about the perspective of where you are at this point. and there are so snipers around nortel in the shadows i was actually showed him some of the sign says resident evil right is going in attack us you know and there's the libyans and rocks get you were the three of you can make the slaughter too it's not just us you know. we don't know who it's really from

a personal perspective it's very dire and i have to say that i feel selfish inconsiderate of myself but when you use a lot of people who don't believe what they're fighting you know children young people under the age of sixteen picked up next i've seen people do you or tell each young and they're going to eat cake right who are some people to be a mighty power it's a very dire situation right now or all around you moved out a little this respect i brought some dessert something can change up stairs here everybody so we can stay the night eating and that's basically it really all right thank you very much mahdi nothing in tripoli from the center for research on globalization thank you very much for joining us on what are very stressful times right now. on to britain now where two young men have been handed 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

of a bennett has more on how the policy of zero tolerance has taken hold of me. 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 or worry is that it is an imbalance a four year sentence for example would normally be given to somebody for a grievous 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 or not actually devalues our response to more serious crimes the government's encouraged calls 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 of the annoying 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 but 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 intern move benefits because actually if we are saying that some of the crime that we saw in the streets was an expression of people not feeling porter society not feeling part of work immunities then these measures are actually going to push it further away from society further away from our communities and far more likely to commit

crime the facebook case is that person of the government's desire to crack down on social media sites like twitter were applauded by the west can 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 cinching britain called it democracy but now the shoe's on the other foot when troubles closer to home i'm very current. we knew you know the. poor war. movement only we even thought we we thought we thought it. was. the prime minister says this is where britain frights put it this fighting fire with fire could only fan the flames of civil disorder are definite artsy

london. a collective economic the government events in the latest measure proposed by 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's come to 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 debt crisis and according to international consultant and former belgian lord. the entire affair was a p.r. boost for ailing politicians he said morally for us and when the biggest economies of the european monetary union get together it is all forceful is meaningful if only on the china logical nice meeting stand to georgia line it should be a euro zone countries at last in general so we're going to decide there is

basically taken i'm going the other countries they're not going after the ones that cost the price and they're not going after the ones that have the money there. we lost in this crisis i mean why not talk about the raising taxes on do some people why not to talk about putting social demands only as bailouts through advanced merkel and sarkozy are facing huge problems return to clarity in the in the polls so i think it's also new with the image of building as a not so much richer finding a real solution and in it yet another blow to the eurozone the block second one hundred sixty billion euro bailout for greece may be under threat athens 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 donors some of which are now also demanding collateral analysts however warn that greece is incapable of having out such guarantees and a professor of applied economics as

a man for says the lack of direction in the e.u. isn't helping it battle its crisis. there's obviously a lot of uncertainty about the eurozone and what will happen go to the euro zone some it 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 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 trans was to bail all these countries out 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 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 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 falling and that the government is able to deal with the current unrest in the country syrian state media have kids u.s. and european homes for president assad to step down saying the move is part of a conspiracy russia has also refused to back the call saying assad should be given more time to implement promised reforms in the wake of a crackdown on anti regime protesters but as our he's with the notion of of course while the west sees the government's action as oppression some in syria see it as quote section. your mother's job is done a city liberated there is or in the east of the country has become the last syrian

city the army left after clearing extremists have been terrorized and citizens for weeks the military claim is that it's bandits plot their way to split up barricades and became a city hiding just like hostages. soldiers of the syrian army i live in the city of 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 the twelve tanks have been trying to make their way through jubilant crowds thousands of kilometers away in the white house and decision 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 though 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. reforms would give forces to syria that 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 strong syria and they want to weaken its they don't want reforms they need instability and chaos across the country as long as course it will and there pressure works for it with contradictory reports about policemen and security officers killed across the country and the army is continue to crackdown on protesters despite president assad's pledges to the u.n. to stop operations the syrian people no know longer. you know who to trust and want to believe. with a country at the crossroad again beyond themselves with patience and refuel shotty

syria. and back to our breaking news this hour with a round of the latest developments in libya reports say rebel forces have reached the center of the capital and are in control of ninety percent of tripoli the national transitional council says that the rebels are now in control of tripoli airport and the highway to tunisia but colonel gadhafi remains defiant and in a second audio address urged the nation to fight till the end international criminal court prosecutor spokeswoman confirms that often son safe is long 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 wish says are tweeting that an independence flag has also been raised on the city's central mosque. where i am.