winsor tell me tonight you're really the peach of a good girl how would international girls flood to change every green little bit till intel who. reports from tripoli say rebel forces have seized control of most of the libyan capital the libyan leaders a security force has reportedly surrendered and confirmation has come in they've cut off these at sun safe all is long has been arrested according to the libyan government one thousand three hundred people have been killed since the nato backed onslaught on tripoli started on sunday. the 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 shaped the past week the crackdown against english writers 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 it fresh trouble over greece once again the threatens of stability. it is five o'clock on a monday morning here in moscow the russian capital three o'clock in the morning in tripoli which is where we will find breaking news reports say rebel forces have reached the center of the capital and are in control of ninety percent of tripoli the head of the libyan leader moammar gadhafi is personal security forces reported to have disarmed his unit and surrendered the international criminal court says it can confirm the kid off his son's safe ali salaam has been arrested the rebel council announced it will stop the fighting that's raging over. tripoli colonel

gadhafi leaves the country put in a second address the colonel urged the nation to fight to the end with nurses are tweeting that in independence client has been raised on tripoli's central mosque in the rebel stronghold benghazi victory celebrations are already underway. at this point we can now cross to independent journalist lucy feelin in tripoli to find out what's happening on the ground there hello lizzie thank you for joining us on what is sure to be stressful circumstances tell us first of all where are you exactly at this moment in time. at the moment i mean. how does how which is i when have foreign journalists think you can make up its time if you sense there in the can because it's necessary for immediate sentiment in the captain essentially. right now because if you see the situation. outside nots yesterday i

mean it was so i will say that there's been intense makes opening up the city. so you know there's been a lot of bloodshed some nights the last step and last time we had which is a few hours i think very good death toll that day was one thousand three hundred so shooting is raising up on that that hasn't gotten its day. at this point are you being threatened in any way is the hotel under government control rebel controlled or do you know what control the hotel is under how do you feel at this moment time in terms of your threat level. well you know for myself and janet you have. taken a different position from the rest of the mainstream media that has been. the conspiracy of this war against. the media war against libya

so i'm sure that. if the rebels you have any man in the states the c.n.n. sky you can see news and this is such a. thing i mean so it's forces on the ground sure it's about. myself and i've. seen very few voices that have been critical of nato made there and. great states. forces on the ground. now we are hearing khadafi has turned to tribes calling for their support is there any chance the colonel could turn the battle against the rebels and nato at this point. well it's incredible randi that libyan army has its total five months. and. that's half the world's most powerful military in this machine so really nato has clearly

underestimated the libyan military and we were hearing at the beginning of the crisis that could best be would be gone within days and i obviously hasn't happened he's still very much fighting so all i can say is i definitely would not underestimate the libyan army they do have been my supplies the pain with a million marches in green square and across the country so despite obviously. my. mates and indiscriminate. attacks on libya targets say they have baby have no. morals or respectable. men if you like as we have seen in eighty five people in which the majority of people are children as we have seen with. my state that's holes and. now right now the rebels are in control of the libyan state t.v.

do you have access t.v. do you have any information on that at this point in time. at this very moment i don't have any information on the status side of vision and i did hear i had been. as we know it has been that i has been a target for nato so. yes a again i think is the case then it's just another example of how nato is time means to destroy this country by any means possible of course the libyan media as being the source of all time to save information for good maybe in people . power and me mainly out in the west impressed with the new one exception bailey of profits and say. has been really a source of confusion to the libyan people so states had

a vision has been. tool for them to be because some clarity about what is happening in that country so if it is that case by highs but neighbors and the rebels. then. this is obviously a worrying development i'm sure that the libyan people will find their way to and find a way to keep communicating with each other have clarity about what is happening on the ground that's of course very important. you had mentioned you are a little bit concerned that you and other journalists may have taken a different stance than what you've said is the media your concern for your safety this seems the kind of support the resistance is a feeling can you confirm rebel claims that they are in control of most of the city . now i can't because i said i'm not able to see was what is happening in the streets but i would say that you know it is the

case then so be it but we should be very vigilant about but giving anything. away as we know they have made any claims throughout the duration of this crisis which had been prevented baseballs despite the fact that they have been taken so seriously that they created the pretext for this war. very said they claim that the people of tripoli were being. i don't know if you meant which russian satellite states of the city schools. that may be incompetent perspiring memories from elsewhere across africa which also to be false despite that let's you know. we seem to be running out of time well thank you for taking some time under very stressful conditions to join us at this moment in time live from the libyan capital that was independent journalist feel and again thanks for joining us we'll keep you updated as most more information becomes available now journalist. also talked to

us earlier from central tripoli where much of the international press is based he told r.t. the situation on the ground is very dangerous and that they are surrounded by rebel gunmen where they are. and there are so snipers around the world tell me shadows i was actually shot him on the sign saying this isn't even praise so it went in attack us. and there's a loser like skeet you were three didn't make the slaughter two so i just us who know. what make it sound like that regime is collapse i don't think the regime is rights i do think what tells the situations they're going to use a lot of people who don't really know what they're fighting you know children young people in the age of sixteen picked up but still have seemed remote viewer tell each young and they're going to eat cake or why are some people who make money our it's a very very situation we're in right now are all around you that you moved out a little basically so i brought some dessert something kitchen up stairs for

everybody so we could stay the night in unison and that's basically it. nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen has released a statement on the situation in tripoli saying that the libyan people should be spared further bloodshed artie's advantage account has more from washington. washington a team player in this battle for tripoli that's was saying that could alfie'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 is regime is clearly crumbling and here is i quote quote here too soon to 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 the future and that he must step down and that was a view shared by all u.s. security council members including russia and glad. that that means why we should nato has been accomplishing the goal of our staying gadhafi have seen many violations of the u.n. 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 levy and rebels has also begun in clear violation of the arms embargo that was imposed only be a western powers clearly took sides in the civil war and basically disregarding the whole part of the population in libya that was against a military intervention in the first place well in light of all those violations that have taken place it was very likely that a u.n. security council would have adopted yet another resolution on leave here come september and september is when the previous resolution runs 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. but he's going to check our reporting there from washington now for some reaction coming from london here's our key correspondent laura and then. but we have heard reaction from downing street quite late on sunday evening and it was a surprising reaction i'll be honest with you they released a statement saying that the end is near and we could be that he committed some appalling crimes against his own people and even must now to avoid suffering for his people that's a cool that they've been repeating a series of months now that gadhafi must go and the backgrounds of all this is just less than two weeks to go to the embassy that there be an embassy in london with in fact handed over to i really principle i represented this particular traditional

council say the exactly great sheen of people who would have now gone back in india and it's been taken over by the transitional council we see not rebel forces creech actually goes to the east and from the west as of course all the time backed by these nascent asked right which is being heavily supported by loans and arms by downing street the results of that is that we are hearing reports that we don't know now where exactly is proxies resulted from the reports of the increasing savefile is the arms have been captured and the rebels say that they're holding them in a safe place ready to hand them over to the residents of florida keys now the view generally on the grounds i have to say that the libyan conflict is rather full announces the news over the last few weeks as things tend to do have very short news cycles and we have a lot of our own stuff going on here in the u.k. but people are saying now that this might be the beginning but they're not thinking

of that is the end was quite yes yes that's what our lists are coming out and saying that these these final moments as these bionic final few streets that the rebels have to take if they are hearing seeking tripoli will not be easy and told where you can you can see rain which offers advantages to the friends as the dependence can then make who have residential buildings lost any kind of high point they will be. no parts of japan i'm using it's actually different in the city and of course in terms of the nature of these these incredibly numerous airstrikes the baby not saying it's much harder to target as tracer anywhere in such a built up provocative residential area and of course what is going to be left behind when this key battle fortunately is very very careful comes out on top it's expected that it's being told it's a place by the rebels and probably hate the rebels and nato and targets at the store says will be key for oil and chance ports infrastructure issues course the

sound of people carrying on the no more every day lives president sarkozy of france as well as the german government are again calling on could offer to step down in the face of the recent gains by the rebels again a bushel 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 the outcome of the rebel victory is no longer in belts the french leader added he fully supports the rebels he called this the disorder of moment and the libyan people who support them we're treating france's backing for the rebel conventional council germany has called on gadhafi to step down quickly defense 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 employment of gadhafi as

a justification. archy's daniel bushell reporting there for us from paris and of course we'll keep you posted as more information from libya becomes available. across the border violence has erupted in the middle east 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 artie's policy here is following the developments for us from jerusalem. reports we're receiving indicate that hermetic actual say that cairo has brokered this truce which goes into effect this evening we understand there television of was hesitant and about making any kind of agreement with the guards are pictures and the militants they put down fire first we also understand that it will be the responsibility of her master security

personnel should 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 so that's the latest violence started on tuesday in its we construct attack there cliff eighteen's ratings did that it's all responded almost immediately with strikes in those airstrikes have been continuous since tuesday there have been more than a dozen palestinians killed they have been more than its eighty grad and has some rockets their head rained down on southern israeli towns killing one israeli and injuring many more so certainly the least 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 carol israeli circles today is that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been preparing for a war with carson for some time and ever really what happened on tuesday was just perfect opportunity to carry out the assault that he seems here in israeli circles

demonstrators david 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 there is very strong security issues are stations of what what is called terrorism here in israel rather than on its racing 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 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 to track to dina to know who got them and from a great scene. they planned that by the weekend in september they'll have a million man march they believe will get a million israeli citizens to the streets and that's almost one sixth of the population here so these certainly is a lot of disgruntled israelis about domestic issues and if anything and want to

keep this latest spate of violence that they say has made him even more determined to make sure that return yahoo any government addresses the concerns. on to britain 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. 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 courtly 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 not actually devalues our response to more serious crimes the government encouraged 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 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 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 participating 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 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 it 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 and services when we know they are plotting violence disorder and criminality when social media fuel 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 we knew you know the. poor.

movement oh we even thought we. thought it. was. the prime minister says this is where britain fights back but it's this fighting fire with fire could only fan the flames of civil disorder our hope in it r.t. london. a collective economic a 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's come as to that all too late angle of 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 former belgian m.p. lord vamoosed the entire affair was a p.r.

boost for ailing politicians. and when you biggest economies of the monetary union get together it is off course still is meaningful if only on the china logical level which needs meeting stanch to draw the line it should be a euro zone countries at last in general so we're going to decide there is basically i'm going the other countries they're not going after the ones that cost they're not going after the ones that have. the money we lost in this crisis i mean why not talk about the raising taxes on dues people why not to talk about it being socially manse and leave bailouts for the dames who call and sarkozy are facing huge problems with clarity in the in the polls so i think it's also new with the image should building up should not so much richer finding a real solution and in yet another blow to the euro zone of the blocks a second one hundred sixty billion euro bailout for greece may be under threat

athens has agreed to provide finland with a 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 analysis however warned that greece is incapable of having out such guarantees and a professor of applied economics pattern going for it says that 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 there because the euro zone summit wasn't very conclusive or helpful in that respect so that's a great deal of uncertainty which is worrying the markets about the situation of banks in europe i think that will be 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 i will take time to sort itself out either the or it will break up all they will produce

a fiscal union with big transfer to bail all these countries out and nobody really quite knows which but 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 having a harder time of it because you know all the growth if you like in ability 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 of the current unrest in the country syrian state media have also 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 of the calls saying assad should be

given more time to implement promised reforms this comes in the wake of a crackdown on and i was in protestors what is r t is more of the notion of what the west sees the government's action as oppression some in syria see it as protection for the job is done the city liberated there is or in the east of the country has become the last syrian city enough to have to clear and extremists have been terrorizing its citizens for weeks and claim these bandits blocked their weights put up barricades and became a city we were hiding we were just like hostages. soldiers of the syrian army i live in the city of as so many of the iraqi border measure officials are saying in operation is now over that the city has been freed from groups as you can see people are welcome in the soldiers as the way there is twelve tanks have been trying to make their way through jubilant crowds thousands of kilometers away in

the white house position 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. has insisted that assad should be given time to implement promised changes his recent decisions to release political prisoners from people emergency law and allow peaceful demonstrations have indicated the right direction but external pressure could still bury fred child transition. soria reforms will give forces to syria it will make the country stronger for syria's anime's don't want syria to be strong america for instance we are sick and tired of a strong syria and they want to weaken it they don't want to evolve they need instability and chaos across the country as long as possible and their pressure words for it i would up with contradictory reports about policemen and security

officers killed across the country and the army is continuing to crack down 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 crossroads again the on themselves with patience. r.t. syria. of course we will keep you updated on the developments in that libya and i'll be coming back with three top of our top stories in just few moments right here on our team thanks for staying with us. on.

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