once again threatens stability. it is seven o'clock here in moscow the russian capital it is five o'clock in tripoli where you will find breaking news let's get right to that reports say rebel forces have reached to 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. the international criminal court says it can confirm that. islam has been arrested the rebel council announced it will stop the fighting that's raging around the capital tripoli if colonel gadhafi leaves the country but in a second audiotape urged the nation to fight to the end eyewitnesses are tweeting that an independence flag has been raised on the central mosque in the rebel

stronghold of benghazi celebrations are already under way. now we can cross live to journalist. who's in tripoli's rixos hotel where foreign journalists have been obliged to stay during the conflict thanks for joining us on what we know is very stressful. last time we spoke to you you were in a bunker reporting on rebels surrounding the building what's the situation like there where you are right now. well you know they have a copy of a young upstart young man have come. downstairs. we are very intense situation at the chinese border right next to me in the sun we actually here today. we don't know what's going to have to do with by tonight you know until you do have visitation because i didn't tire see the fight it's not over yet because. we do your get it off you. we.

don't feel as if the eight years before we moved out a little bit to it's still a very tense and your sneakers that's. a do you feel as this point that you are a target for rebels. yes i guess i'm just. going to i've been threatened. i don't think international or. anything like that needs i'm going to my fuels and create a body different you can't be threatened essentially a notable tells taken by journalists in the united states and britain that certain journalists here are also secured the time i guess and a fear they take you know it's actually going through the files that believe these have a story which was. dave taking the air in turkey. so i don't point in time there were a minders from the libyan government who were in charge of you in the hotel my

understanding that that they have left and now that no one is really keeping up on you except for journalists themselves. yes that some of the journalists i want to carry. on t.v. are here for security for you know that you can gauge are they going through the parameter is he going to be offices here he looked at some papers the things that they were upset already voting for some reason. to. very dear gerri. specially ones from. cuba it was sure here in the grand jury proceeding may take you drinks all right thanks very much journalist somewhere in tripoli from the center for research on globalization thank you for joining us now we can go to independent journalist lizzy feelin who says we shouldn't write off gadhafi forces just yet i will name the say the hotel right now because of you

see the situation. outside is not so yes safe and i'm evil so i've also had said that there's been intense nato bombing of the city. so clearly you know there's been a lot of bloodshed some nights that the last time we had which is a few hours ago i think that toll for the day was one thousand three hundred so shooting has risen above that and nato has a has a month to advance on its hands today so what i can say is i definitely would not underestimate the libyan army they do have the mass supplies we have seen we should be very invention lens about but leaving and hearing and i got bibles say as we know they have made out of many claims throughout the duration of this crisis case which had been prevented baseball's. political scientist dr michael parenti based in berkeley california says protecting civilians was just

a pretext for nato to step into libya topple gadhafi and redirect the country's economy. expect the same thing as you saw it happen in yugoslavia and in eastern europe there will be a man soon privatization take place the public economy that we could down the government built over forty years which included public subsidies for housing education health care all those in need to be privatized the oil the oil fields would be handed all group to private companies for private profit death squads will come in and clean out. those who might still have a commitment to a social wage or communal wage and this is what we have to look forward to and that was the real intention was to overthrow the government it wasn't any humanitarian

concern it wasn't any concern for democracy or human rights. we can now cross to washington where our t. is. standing there by is it now you have some reaction coming out of the white house on the developing situation in tripoli tell us a little bit about that. well shon washington has been a key player in the fight for tripoli that's for sure is part of nato and as we know what this point to nato has done the heavy work actually most of the work attacking tripoli president obama spoke earlier this sunday night saying tripoli is slipping from the grasp of a tyrant also that you must relinquish power once and for all nato secretary general has made a statement of similar in fact saying that qaddafi regime is crumbling and that now the libyans have a chance for a new beginning he also said that the transition must come peacefully and of quote well that part has raised

a lot of questions because everything that was going on in tripoli has been very far from being peaceful we're talking about extensive bombings by nato throughout the weekend actually throughout six months there while the whole of the international community has so far you nine date saying that could be has no place in libya's future that he has to step down and that was a view shared by all of the u.n. security council members including russia but the means by which nato is going accomplishing the goal of our staying 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 in nato strikes within those six months and also the funneling of weapons to leave in gravel so it's been done in clear violation of the u.n. arms embargo that was imposed on leave the western powers they've been taking sides in the civil war basically disregarding the whole part of the population in

a leader that was against this kind of a military intervention in the first place well in light of all those violations it was very unlikely that the u.n. security council would have adopted yet another resolution or levy a come september and september is when the previous resolution runs out so it was crucial for the rebels and for nato to carry out the offer. rationed before the resolution expires from what we hear on the ground in tripoli the rebels and nato forces have met the deadline so despite all the violations as it happens in history the winner takes it all less for who the winners are although the rebels are far from being modern is due to their official leadership and that is the transitional national council is being recognized as a legitimate power by all allies that have been helping the rebels and now don't think that the stumbling point here is that neither the council nor each leader has been chosen by the leading people themselves and many libyans are outraged by the fact that foreign essentially foreign powers have been making those very important

choices for them you know when you look at the footage coming from tripoli it very much reminds of. the cheering that we saw in cairo when hosni mubarak was ousted and then the army took over there and the egyptians are still struggling to make their voice heard in many levy and who are afraid that their voices could be ignored by the international community now. and going to church or can reporting from washington d.c. thanks for that will keep up with you as more information becomes available on this developing story 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 over a series of months now that the gadhafi must go and the ground swell this is just less than two weeks ago the embassy that indian embassy in london was in fact handed over to have really put into law a representative of the overturn his general counsel say that the gadhafi regime people who were that have now gone back to libya and it's been taken over by the transitional council. we see rebel forces approaching actually very from the east and from the west and of course all the time backed by these negative ads strikes which have been heavily supported and by downing street the results of that is this week hearing reports that we don't know now wegg exactly is where you could sell these reports of being puting savefile is lines 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've had a lot of already 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 moments as these final few streets that the rebels have to take if they are going to gain control of tripoli will not be easy i'm told we're looking at going to rain which often fall into just to the defendant as the defendants have that date taken to have a residential buildings lost any kind of high point they will be taking. it's a joke but i'm using it to defend the city and cool so in terms of nature at least these incredibly numerous are stripes the face being real and saying it's much harder to target strikes when you're in such a built up problem kind of residential area and of course what is going to be left

behind when this key fact though fortunately is there you go you have problems out on top it's expected that it's being targeted place by the rebels and by late i mean the rebels and nato and five exactly sources will be key oil and transport infrastructure which was essential to people carrying on no more every day lives. president sarkozy of france as well as the german government are again calling on gadhafi to step down in the face of the recent gains by the rebels 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 is the called the legitimate libyan oil storage fees as the outcome of the rebel victory is no longer in doubt that the french leader did he fully support the rebels he called this a disorder 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 what difference six here fifth rolls will no use military force in the capital putting civilian lives at risk and that it will use the international criminal court of gadhafi as a justification for his dinner bushell reporting there we'll keep you posted as more information comes from this breaking story in libya. across a border violence has erupted in the middle east of 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 are policy there is following the developments for us from jerusalem. the reports we're receiving indicate that her master officials say that cairo has brokered this truce which goes into effect this

evening we understand their television was hesitant about making any kind of agreement with the guards operatives and the militants there you put down fire first we also understand that it will be the responsibility of her master security personnel to enforce the cease fire not only this is good news but the reality on the ground is that no one here really believes that a cease fire between the two sides will rast and will will really survive the test of time this latest violence started on thursday in a three pronged attack that left eighty's rabies did not it's all 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 eighty grad and cause 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 that 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 benjamin netanyahu has been preparing for a war with gaza for some time and every day what happened on tuesday was just the opportunity to carry out the assault that we've seen here in israeli circles demonstrators day that 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 is 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. if this latest spate of violence detract the netanyahu government from a great scene. they planned that by the first weekend in september they'll have

a million man march they believe they'll get a million israeli citizens to the streets so that's almost one sixth of the population here so there certainly is a lot of disgruntled israelis about domestic issues and if anything i want to keep this latest spate of violence they say has made them even more determined to make sure that netanyahu and his government addresses the concerns. reporting there from jerusalem now to britain where two young men have been handed a tough jail sentences for using facebook to encourage violent riots to jail terms were praised by prime minister david cameron but slammed by human rights groups as over the top parties ivor 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 our 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 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 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 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 of the news you know the. poor. movements we would be the. country's. prime minister says this is where britain fights back but it's feared this fighting fire with fire could only fan the flames of civil disorder after bennett artsy london. a collective economic a government that's the latest measure proposed by top e.u. leaders in their bid to halt market turmoil and reverse the stagnation across the continent but the latest ideas have found little support among investors who say it's come as too little and too late angela merkel and nicolas sarkozy rejected the

idea of euro bonds favored by the markets and seen there by many as the best way of emerging from the debt crisis and according to international consultant and former belgian m.p. lord van noosed the entire affair was a p.r. boost for him and politicians similarly and went into the biggest economies of the european monetary union get together that is of course always meaningful if only on the psychological level these meetings tend to draw the line of should be the euro zone countries at last in general so we're living 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 hashed the money that we lost in this crisis which i mean why not talk about the raising taxes on those people why no two are talking about putting social demands on these bailouts for the banks merkel and

sarkozy are facing huge problems for egypt the clarity in the in the polls so i think it's also new with the image should building etc not so much for it to 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 collateral in return for its contribution to the financial rescue package but it's sparked indignation among the v. other fifteen donors some of which are now also demanding collateral analysts however warn that greece is incapable of handing out such guarantees and professor of applied economics patrick meant for says that 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 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 buying so 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 day will produce a fiscal union with big try. to bail all these countries nobody really to 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 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 that 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 condemned u.s. and european calls for president assad to step down saying the move is part of a conspiracy russia has also refused to back the calls saying assad should be given more time to implement promised reforms is calm in the wake of a crackdown on anti-government protesters. while the west and other governments action as oppression in syria see it as a protection for a good. job is done the city liberated there is order in the east of the country has become the last syrian city in left have to clear an extremist strip have been terrorizing his citizens for weeks the military claim that he's bandits blocked the weights put up barricades it became a go he said we were hiding we were just like hostages. soldiers of the syrian army i live in the city. 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 tanks have been trying to make their way through jubilant crowds thousands of kilometers away in the white house a decision has already matured president bashar al assad is the one who's terrorizing the syrian people and that should and the transition to democracy in syria has begun and it's time for assad to get out of the way not everybody has agreed though moscow has insisted that assad should be given time to implement promised changes his recent decisions to release political prisoners repeal emergency law and allow peaceful demonstrations have indicated the right direction but external pressure could still bury a fragile transition. sort of a sort of reforms will give forces to syria it will make the country stronger but

syria's anime's 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 policemen and security officers killed across the country and the army is continuing crackdown on protesters despite president assad's pledges to the u.n. to stop military operations the syrian people no longer know who to trust and what to believe. with a country at the crossroad again the on themselves with patience or if notion r.t. syria. and of course we will keep you updated on the developments in libya as they unfold and i'll be coming back with a recap of our top stories in just a few moments here on r.t. thanks for staying with us.

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libyan rebels claim they've seized control of most of the capital tripoli the security force has reportedly confirmation that his son saif al islam has been arrested according to the libyan government over one thousand people have been killed since the police started on sunday. 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 to gain momentum with harsh sentences to those who played only parts in the chaos. thirty minutes with a full look at your news but first we'll keep you updated on all of the recent developments in libya and meanwhile stay with us for our. coming your way in just a few moments. for the full story we've tapped the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers.