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 called in that cannot be son saif al islam 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 their arms after days of heavy shelling. and other stories that shaped the past week the crackdown against english writers it 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 a promise of a single economic government fails to reassure anxious investors as a fresh trouble trouble over greece once again threatens stability. it is a six o'clock on a monday morning here in a moscow four o'clock in the morning in a libya which is where we have breaking news let's get to right not right now reports say rebel forces have reached of the center of the capital and are in control of ninety percent of tripoli the head of that libyan leader moammar gadhafi is personal security forces reported to have disarmed is unit and surrendered the international criminal court says it can confirm that khadafi son saif al islam has been arrested the rebel council announced it will stop the fighting that's raging around tripoli if colonel gadhafi. he leaves the country but in

a second audio address maternal urge to the nation to fight to the witnesses are tweeting that an independence flag has now been raised on tripoli's central mosque in the rebel stronghold of benghazi and victory celebrations are already under way . independent journalist says we shouldn't write off the use of force is just yeah . i mean. it's all right now because if you see the situation. outside. yesterday and we've also i've also had that there's been intense mates opening up the city. so clearly you know there's been a lot of bloodshed some nights last that the last time we had as you choose a few hours the president said. they was one thousand three hundred so surely has risen above that and nato has about the back on its hands today so all i can say is

i definitely would not underestimate the libyan army they do have that much support as we have seen we should be very vigilant about but leaving anything that makes rebels say as we know they have made many claims throughout the duration of this crisis this which had been prevented be false. journalist. who is also in. the situation on the ground is very dangerous and that they are surrounded by a rebel government. and there are so snipers around the world tell me should i do this i was going to shoot it and it is on the science is great is you to restore it when an attack as you know. means it likes it you are really very good make the struggle to serve you so this. is what you make it sound like that regime is collapsing and the reason is i do think it tells situations that are going to use a lot of people young people out there fighting you know children young people under the age of sixteen pick up once you have seen the lot you are tell he is

young women are going to egypt who are white who are some people who meet my needs . it's a very very situation we're in right now are all around you that you moved out a little bit recently so i. brought some desire to get in on the stairs for everybody so we can see even though you're beaten and that's basically it. that's we cross live to the u.s. for some perspective on developments in libya political scientists dr michael based in berkeley california joins us now now dr randy thanks for being with us during some very interesting times then ravel rebels claim his wall has crumbled what's next for libya. well. expect the same thing as you saw it happen in yugoslavia and in eastern europe there will be a massive privatization take place the public economy that could down the

government built over forty years which included public subsidies for housing education health care all those things will be privatized the oil the oil fields will be handed over to private companies for private profit death squads will come in to clean up those who might still have a commitment to a social wage or a community wage and this is what we have to look old to privatization deregulation . and the like. where the intervention proves is that. where it intervenes and where it doesn't mean it intervenes in any country that tries to use the labor the natural resources and the markets of their own country for their own self development and their own communal development rather than throwing it open to law. yes

and the humanitarian intervention is not really humanitarian they demonstrate that if you give a power like nato of three four or four. sports is then usually system houses oz bottles everything else killing people breaking down their economy showing them there's no. space above them what you do there you can overthrow the government and that was the real intention it was to overthrow the government it wasn't any humanitarian concern it wasn't any concern for democracy or human rights if the united states is concerned. i mean saudi arabia which is a horrible dictatorship great now. so what ok it seems that we are having some technical difficulties with that more trying to get dr michael

franti back was based in berkeley california thank you for that and if you're watching at home we're having some trouble with the audio there on skype on to more news with the libyan situation now 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. and has more from washington. washington a team player in this battle for tripoli that's saying 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 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 is regime is clearly crumbling and here's a quote quote here the sooner 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 the lead his 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 abstain khadafi 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 by the funneling of 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 the line 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 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 change account reporting from washington for some reaction coming from london here's our correspondent. but we have heard reaction from downing street quite late on sunday evening and it wasn't a 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 sort of calling crimes against its own people and he must now to avoid the suffering for his people that's a cool need repeating over a series of months now that the gadhafi must go the background of all this is just less than two weeks ago the embassy that if you never see in london was in fact

handed a bit so you have reopened by representatives of the kids are his general counsel say that it could be exactly regime people who would have now gone back to libya and it's been taken over by the transitional council. we've seen that rebel forces preaching cheerfully vary from the east and from the west and of course all the time backed by these mesa air strikes which have been heavily supported acquired loans in and by downing street and the results of that is that we are hearing reports that we don't know you now where he is but he's read his property records including say paul is arms are being 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 so i have to say that the libyan conflict is rather cool and out at the knees over the last few weeks as things tend to do have very short news cycle and we have 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 is the end was quite yet military experts and analysts 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 going to see it going for chocolate chip lead will not be easy it's called where you can get zero evidence rain which offers advantages to the president as the dependence can then take who are residential buildings last seventy kind of high point they would be to. positive fact i'm using it actually to present a city and a cool space in terms of nature in these these incredibly numerous airstrikes that they've been on saying it's much harder to target as strikes when you are in such a built up over and part of residential area and of course what is going to be left behind when this heat back over fortunately is there you go whoever comes out on top it's expected that it's being targeted please try the rebels and probably bait

i think the rebels and they say i'm for exactly sources will be key for oil and transport infrastructure which reports essentially people carrying on the no more iraqi daylight. laura not 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 the rebels or he's daniel bushell is in paris with the latest. president sarkozy called on gadhafi to immediately give up what power he has left to order his forces to cease fire and to give way to what sarkozy called the legitimate libyan authorities has called the outcome of the rebel victory is no longer in belt but the french leader i did he fully supports the rebels he called this this source of moment and the libyan people who support them reiterating france's backing for the rebel provisional council germany has called on gadhafi to step down quickly the forensics 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 and that was again a bushel reporting from paris we'll keep you updated as more information becomes available from the breaking news in libya. 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 suggested that egypt has managed to broker a ceasefire between the two sides are his policy here is following the developments for us from jerusalem. reports we're receiving indicate they're a matter kushel say that cairo has broken this truce which goes into effect this evening we understand their television was hesitant about making any kind of agreement with the guards are patrols and let the militants they put down fire

first we also understand that it will be the sensibility of how matter security personnel should enforce the ceasefire not only that is good news but the reality on the ground is that no one here really believes that a cease fire between the two sides were exhausted and will will really survive the taste of time this latest violence started on tuesday in a three pronged attack that left eight israelis did that it was almost immediately with a strikes and those airstrikes have been continuous since. there have been more than a thousand palestinians killed they have been more than eighty grad and has some rockets that have rained down on southern israeli towns killing one israeli and injuring many more so certainly the the since on the ground is that both sides are incredibly angry both sides are incredibly distrustful of the other and one of the sentiments being expressed carol israeli circles today is that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been preparing for a war with gaza for some time and never really what happened on tuesday was just so

if it's opportunity to carry out the assault that the scenes here in israeli circles demonstrators there that 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 armed security issues are 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 was the for the so the mood was cool for social justice they added a new slogan yes today they call it for a cease fire now the protesters that i'll be speaking to are adamant that they will . this takes a space of violence to track the netanyahu government from increasing. they planned by the weekend in september they'll have a million man march they need to get a million israeli citizens to the street so that's always one sixth of the population here so the circuit is

a lot of disgruntled is rabies about domestic issues and if anything i want to create a space where violence they say has made an even more determined to make sure that netanyahu and his government addresses the concerns. as they are reporting from jerusalem on to britain now where two young men have been handed a tough jail sentence 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 or cheese of a bet it 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 heenan got banged up for inciting disorder on facebook and 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. there is a danger that the courts are moving into disproportionate territory and not actually devalues our response to more serious crimes the government's encouraged cause to dish out harsh sentences by using the public disturbance as an aggravating factor it's meant this man anderson finance could even be sent to jail for a thing of just two scoops of ice cream cause like this one denying bail to most offenders and ignoring any claims of previous good character of the one thousand two hundred seventy seven people charged so far two thirds have been reminded in custody that's way up on last year's rate for serious crimes chris just ten percent some offenders even being made homeless is their punishment with local governments

taking away their houses but many say it's all simply cause more harm than good i think this is very unwise the move to remove people from hosing interim of 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 proud to society not feeling hard working unities in 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 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 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 cheney britain called it democracy but now the shoe's on the other foot when

troubles closer to home are angry calling to mean you know the. poor. movement to me would be the force that we thought. was. the prime minister says this is where britain fights back put it this fighting fire with fire could only fan the flames of civil disorder are bennett artsy under. 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 the stagnation across the continent but the latest ideas have found little support among investors who say it's too little and too late and on 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 that crisis and according to

international consultant and former belgian m.p. lord was the entire affair was a p.r. boost for ailing politicians these days. and went to london biggest economies of the european monetary union get together it is of course always meaningful if only on the track a logical need these meetings tend to draw the line and should be the euro zone countries said lost in general so we never did decide there is basically taken under any other countries they're not going absolute ones that cost a price and they're not going after the ones that have the money that s. he lost in this crisis i mean why not talk about the raising taxes under people why not talking about putting social demands on these bailouts for you against merkel and sarkozy are facing huge problems with their popularity in the in the polls so i think it's also lou we're clear image building etc not so much into 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 that may be under threat athens has agreed to provide finland with 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 analysts however warn that greece is in people of handing out such guarantees and a professor of applied economics perfect men for it says that lack of direction in the e.u. is a hoping it balance crisis. there's obviously a lot of uncertainty about the eurozone and what will happen 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 and i think that will be resolved but it may take some time to resolve it that's the problem meanwhile 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 quite knows which but that won't be resolved any time soon 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 and availability 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 of that the government is able to deal with of 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 call 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 force model west season governments action as oppression some in syria see it as protection. job is done and city liberated there is or in the east of the country has become the last syrian city the army left after clearing off extremists have been terrorizing its citizens for weeks the military claim is that these bandits blocked their rights put up barricades it became a city were hiding just like hostages. soldiers of the syrian army are living in the city of near the iraqi border and there's no pressure the same operation is now over there the city has been freed from groups as you can see people are welcome in the soldiers as the waiters 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 end. the transition to democracy in syria has begun and it's time for assad to get out of the way not everybody has agreed there 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 a fragile transition which are absolute reforms would give forces to syria it will make the country stronger but syria's enemies don't want syria to be strong america for instance they're sick and tired of a strong syria and they want to weaken it they don't want reforms they need instability and chaos across the country as long as possible and their pressure

works for it with contradictory reports about police when security officers killed across the country and the army's continued crackdown on protesters despite president assad's pledges to the u.n. to talk with three operations the syrian people no longer know who to trust and what to believe. with their country at the crossroad again the on themselves with patience and if notion r.t. syria. and of course we will keep you updated on the developments in libya and i'll be coming back with a recap of our stories here in just a few moments right here on r.g.p. thanks for staying with us.

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