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 that say rebel forces have reached the center of the capital and are in control of ninety percent of tripoli the head of libyan leader moammar gadhafi is personal security forces reported to have disarmed his unit and surrendered the international criminal court says it can confirm that cut off his son safe ali islam has been arrested the rebel council announced it will stop the fighting that's raging around tripoli if colonel gadhafi leaves the country but in a second audio address the colonel urged the nation to fight to the end i would this is our tweeting that an independence flag 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 lizzie feelin in tripoli to find out what's happening on the ground there hello lizzie thank you for joining us under what is sure to be stressful circumstances tell us first of all where are you exactly at this moment in time. i at the moment i'm in. the south which is where the foreign journalists think in their capital it's a media center and it can become it's necessary that foreign media sense and that happens in essentially. the hotel right now because of you see the situation. outside knots yes say. that there's been intense nato bombing of the city. so clearly you know there's been a lot of bloodshed tonight the last at the last time we hide which is

a few hours ago i think the death toll for the day was one thousand three hundred so surely gets raised enough that nato has or hasn't gotten its times today you know and i'll just point out this point are you being threatened in any way is the hotel under government control rebel control 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 in particular for myself and janet you have. taken a different position from the rest of the mainstream media that has been at the center of this conspiracy of the school against. media war against libya and i'm sure that the. rebels who have charge anywhere near the hotel the safety of c.n.n. sky b.b.c. news channel this is such a. thing of nato forces on the ground i will be assured stuff of those

myself and i thought i know what i. mean there are very few voices that have been critical of nato mate i'm playing here and right states. linked forces on the ground. now we are hearing that 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 the libyan army has extended this full five months. and at track from that well it's most powerful military machine so really nato has clearly underestimated the libyan military when it we were hearing that the beginning of the crisis that gadhafi would be gone within days and that obviously hasn't happened and he's still very much fighting so on i can say is i definitely would

not underestimate the libyan army they do have the mass supplies we have seen with a million march is in green square and across the country so despite obviously. my. mates and indiscriminate. attacks on libya targets say they have they really have no. morals will all respect simple rules of engagement if you like as we have seen in the massacre eighty five people in time in which the majority of people are children as well as we have seen with. my state death tolls and the end goal in libya now right now the rebels are in control of the libyan state t.v. do you have access to media have any information on that at this point in time. at this very moment i don't have any information on the status of the end television

and i did hear that i had been. as we know it has been that has been a target for nato so. yes they can if that 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 has being the only the source of all time and save information for the libyan people. far and media mainly out to the west impressed with the new exception really of russia today. as has been really a source of confusion for the libyan people so libyan state television has been a vital tool for them so we have some clarity about what is happening in that country so if it is the case by has by neighbors and the rebels. then.

this is obviously a worrying development but i'm sure that the libyan people will find their way. and find a way to keep communicating with each other to have clarity about what is happening on the ground and that's of course very important that you have mentioned that you are a little bit concerned that you and other journalists who may have taken a different stance than what you have said is the main western media that you're concerned for your safety this seems the kind of support the gadhafi is resistance is a feeling can you confirm rebel claims that they are in control of most of the city . now i can confirm that so because as i said i'm not able to. see was what is happening in the streets but i would say that you know that is the case then so be it but we should be very inventive dance about it but the thing i mean you're. bibles say as we know they have made out any claims throughout the duration of this crisis which have been prevented b.

falls despite the fact that they have been taken so seriously that they created the pretext that they swore by including barry said a plane that people the people of tripoli would be in on the island that every time by their own government which russian satellite states of it's the people's. pain that they would be ungovernable tiring memories from elsewhere across africa points also to be false despite the fact that it lets you know mass benching of balco unfortunately we seem to be running out of time but 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 feeling 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. snipers are only going to only show those i was going to

shoot and it is on the sign saying. when an attack this you know. it isn't right you. make the slogan to try to do so this. would make it sound like that regime is collapsing i don't think the reason is i do think it tells situations when there's a lot of people young people you know children to young people under the age of sixteen pick up guns you've seen the movie hotel he is young women are going to be joining your wife who are some people to me money. it's a very dire situation we're in right now are all around you that you moved out a little basically saying i brought some dessert for me to get in on the stairs for everybody so we can see you need to know it's basic we are. nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen has released a statement on the situation in tripoli saying the libyan people should be spared

further bloodshed artes to can has more from washington. washington a team player in this battle for tripoli that's for sure was saying that could alfie's days are counted and they've been in close contact with the rebels we do know at this point that nato is be 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 as we dream is clearly crumbling and here is i quote quoting here 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.n. security council members including russia but. the means by which nato has been accomplishing the goal of al seeing 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 of funneling weapons to libyan rebels is also being done in clear violation of the arms embargo that was imposed on libya western powers clearly took sides in the civil war and 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 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 check our reporting there from washington now for some reaction coming from london here's our correspondent laura and. 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 think exactly that he committed some appalling crimes against his own people and he must now to avoid the suffering for his people that's a cool that they've been repeating i have a series of months now that gadhafi must go and the background will this is just less than two weeks ago the embassy that if an embassy in london with in fact had to do that so you have really put into law i represented to overturn his you know council say the exact the regime people who would have now gone back to libya and it's been taken over by the transitional council. we see rebel forces approaching

at aaa very from the east and from the west and of course all the time backed by these naysayer and strikes which are being heavily supported by our youngs and and by downing street the results of that is that we are all hearing reports that we don't know who now exactly is fox has raised himself with reports of being feuding savefile islam have been hatchets 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 so i have to say that the libyan conflict is rather cool and out at the news over the last few weeks as things tend to do have very short news cycle and we've had 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 then not thinking of that is the end was quite yet military experts and analysts are coming out and saying that these these final few moments as these final few streets that the rebels have to take if they are going to getting control of tripoli will not be

easy i'm told we're looking at going to rain which often fall into just to the defendant as the defendants can then take who are residential buildings mosques any kind of high point they will be taken. i'm using it to defend the city and the cool stuff in terms of nature or at least these incredibly numerous and strikes the base being real and saying it's much harder to target as strikes when you're in such a big problem kind of residential area and of course what is going to be left behind when this key battle fortunately is there you go where the problems out on top it's expected that it's being targeted placed by the rebels and by date i mean the rebels and nato and five if that is forces will be key or oil and transport infrastructure which would cause the same sort of people carrying on no more every day life. 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 the

rebels daniel 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 the outcome of the rebel victory is no longer in belts 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 different six here fear friends will now 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. daniel bushell reporting there for us from paris and of course we'll keep you posted as more information from libya becomes available. across a 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 ceasefire between the two sides artie's paulus lior is following the developments for us from jerusalem. the reports we're receiving indicate that her matter officials say that cairo has brokered this truce which goes into effect this evening we understand their television was his attend and about making any kind of agreement with the guards operatives and the militants there 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 survive the test of time this latest violence started on thursday in this week attack that left eighty's rabies

did not its responded almost immediately with a strikes and those strikes 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 that have 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 karen 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 thursday was just so 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 increasing concerns they plan to buy the first weekend in september they'll have a million man march they believe they'll get a million israeli citizens to distribute 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 i want to keep this latest spate of violence that they say has made them even more determined to make sure that netanyahu and his government addresses become citizens 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 parties over 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 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 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 it was 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 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 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 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 that there i've been you know the. poor or. movement we would be the force to complete. the authorities the countries who are trying to walk. the prime minister says this is where britain

fights back but it speeds these fighting fire with fire could only fan the flames of civil disorder five minutes 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 and a lot 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 m.p. lord. the entire affair was a p.r. boost for ailing politicians. who went to london biggest economies will you be in monetary union get together that is of course always meaningful if only on the china logical level meetings tend to draw the line of should be the 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 crises they're not going after new ones that hash. the money that has been lost in this crisis i mean why not talk about the raising taxes on those people who i know 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 rita 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 is sparked indignation among the other fifteen donors some of which are now also demanding collateral analysis however warned that greece is incapable of handing

out such guarantees and a professor of applied economics patrick oppman for says that the lack of direction in the u. isn't helping it battle its crisis. there's obviously a lot of uncertainty about the eurozone and what will happen because the eurozone 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 resolved 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 day will produce a fiscal union with big as to bail all these countries out nobody really in a quite knows which. that won't be resolved anytime 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. are 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 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 and this comes in the wake of a crackdown on anti regime protesters but as artie's more of notional reports while 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 and left have to clear an extremist strip have been terrorizing his citizens for weeks the military claim is that he's bandits blocked the rights put up barricades it became a gay 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. officials are saying operation is now over that the city has been freed from the groups as you can see people are welcome in the soldiers as the way there is between the 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 stupid area 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 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 un 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 or if notion r.t. syria. of course we will keep you updated on the developments in libya and i'll be coming back with a recap of our top stories in just few moments right here on our team thanks for staying with us. we'll.

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broadcasting live direct from the heart of moscow this is. glad to have with us let's get a look at your top stories reports from tripoli say rebel forces have seized control of most of the libyan capital the libyan leader's security force has reportedly surrendered and confirmation has come in his son saif ali islam has been arrested according to the libyan government one thousand three hundred people have been killed since the nato back don't start until police started sunday night. suggestions of ceasefire egypt has reportedly managed to convince both gaza and israel to lay down arms after days of heavy shelling. in other stories that shaped the past week the crackdown against english rioters gains momentum with harsh sentences handed to those.