breaking news this morning libyan rebels were for deadly seize control of most of the capital following a major nato back advance of the boarding to the government saw thirteen hundred people killed. i don't think the international. media to know if you. had an actual journalist in tripoli fear for their lives we bring you a firsthand account from their hotel that's already fallen prey to looters. meanwhile celebrations are in full swing in the rebel stronghold of benghazi but experts will draw parallels with events in egypt and warn of the disillusionment that will likely fall. pastas the fortunate just as british judges are accused of

overreacting in cases ranging from recent rioting to war veteran who recorded a poor hearing on isthmus often don't match the crimes. and the russian capital you're watching r t with me we're in a joshie we begin with breaking news this morning and crowds of rebels have been celebrating in the central square of tripoli according to reports they are now in control of most of the capital two of colonel gadhafi sons have been arrested however the location of the libyan leader himself remains unknown oh now cross to independently is it helen in tripoli find out what's happening on the ground there hello to you tell us what's been going on in the city right at this moment and what's the situation there now. ok everything that i say is.

just as all of the information. that's coming from journalists will be unconfirmed because we have been in hotel all night but i have had the all night there has been a lot of noise outside the hotel there's clearly been canceled taking place as you know there has been immense amounts of bloodshed. but now things have gone extremely quiet and i have spoken to a number of people across the city. areas also things are very quiet i have heard. people have come out in. parts of the city waving the green flag and that the libyan army is in control now what we've heard is that the strategy of the libyan government and army was to permit rebels into the city because previously they had been operating in sleeper cells and therefore it was very difficult for the libyan army to know where they were. parts of bringing them out of the.

direct confrontation so that they could be dealt with by swiftly and also we have heard that the traits of the large tribes that russia. and other tribes came in from came from the areas that joined the battle we have also. with the people there. so this is this is the information that i'm hearing from our contacts across chimpy of course this is a huge time around. and if they turn out to be if they do if they are confirmed in the coming hours. then it will be very interesting to see what this means for nato and its forces on the ground are you the rebels or as you said lizzie a lot of things will have to be confirmed in the coming hours that's true but we're hearing that according to some of the reports that the rebels are in control of the city and in fact we saw some pictures of them celebrating on the green square so what more can you tell us about that. yes well. in regards to the

images coming from green square i don't really know what to think about them just yet a lot of confusing information is clearly coming out as i was enjoying this whole crisis actually this is this has been the only thing that has kind of been a constant during this crisis a mass of confusing information so we have seen fit to describe a case in the past i'm not saying that that is the case now but it obviously could be. so i think that in the next few hours things become a lot clearer and we will be able to see one way or the other was what what has happened i did hear myself people driving through the streets through the streets celebrating. so that point. that i have been talking about big concerns but really we just have to wait and see it and as i said things have just. really just picked me at the moment and policing i

understand it at the moment you are at the hotel were some other international journalists are staying as well so tell us what's what's it been like for you and what's the situation there now in this hotel where you're staying. but i have i have heard that the hotel is now secure. and. the whole night was pretty a pretty scary experience. in particular for the journalists that have been. critical of nato strategy and other forces on the ground. that really have to be. so cruel is it for now though thank you very much for the sub date and i was a journalist lizzie phelan joining us from tripoli. and later we'll be joined live by journalist modernism roy who's moving around inside the hotel where the international press is holed up at the moment we'll hear from

him later and in the meantime the white house is hailed what a cold the tipping point for the regime of colonel gadhafi r.t. is going to take on as the latest from washington d.c. . and president obama spoke earlier this sunday night saying tripoli is slipping from the grasp of a tyrant also that qaddafi must relinquish power once and for all nato secretary general has made a statement of similar effect saying they could offer a regime is crumbling and that now the leaders 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 the piece we were talking about extensive bombings by nato throughout the weekend actually throughout six months there in washington has been a key player in the fight for tripoli that's for sure as part of nato and as we

know at this point nato has done the heavy worth the means by which nato has been accomplishing the goal of ousting saddam you have seen many violations of the u.n. resolution from six months ago that authorized the military intervention building lot of all those violations it was very unlikely that the wiser through the council would have adopted yet another resolution on libya 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 operation before the resolution expires from what we hear on the ground in tripoli the rebels and nato forces have met the deadline when you look at the footage coming from tripoli it very much reminds of. cheering that we saw in cairo when hosni mubarak was ousted and then the army took over the. shows are still struggling to make their voice heard and many levy unst who are afraid that their voices could be ignored by the international community now. and shouted

warning there from washington d.c. well california based political scientist dr michael parenti says protecting civilians was just a pretext for nato to step in to levy a topple gadhafi and redirect the country's economy. same thing as you saw happen in yugoslavia and in eastern europe there will be a massive privatization take place the public economy that could be government built over forty years which included public subsidies for housing education health care it all goes in to be privatized the oil the oil fields would be whole group to private companies private profit this will come in and clean out. those who might still have a commitment to a social wage work. 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 president sarkozy of france as well as the german government are gan calling on gadhafi to officially step down and the face of the rebel storming of tripoli there are fears of more bloodshed amid rumors france may use its military forces to try to capture or at the leading leader daniel bushell's 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 all thought sees as the outcome of the rebel victory is no longer in belts of the french leader did he fully support the rebels he called this a decisive 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 defense experts here fearful small no use military force in the capital putting civilian lives at risk and that it will use the international criminal court's employments of gadhafi as a justification. paul we're now going back to leave the internet and journalist why hasn't the tripoli for internal us have to spend the night well that's why i think you very much for being here with here this morning you have been trapped in the hotels we understand the international journalists are staying so how have you spent this rapidly developing night. snipers outside nato can ask transitional council. hotel. why. what danger. what we. yes what danger we have sorry. it's been very

spin or emotional roller coaster i could hear you speak to a colleague of mine she said. that ports that. would be as it would be used in a military tactic. at such sitting in it is going to push and this could be correct i believe. very strongly that it that it is correct because that you can sort of you know this is that you can slightly model the yugoslavian military had very good relations with the million new material they have a lot of military tactics there's fire you know it. i don't know what's going to have been the next few hours of community very critical. well i understand it right now you are walking around the hotel and tell us what's the situation there like now how dangerous is it to be there or how safe what's the

security there like. there is no security. security use the good journalists some. journalists who are more. secure in the korean leader's. office is to their photos here they were surprised to find some photos that. showed some of these journalists are not journalists because they are speaking about a. concern to us well i understand what you're saying marty that you are in a very vulnerable position there but what about the staff there anyway understand that there are a lot of international journalists and this is probably the only place where they can feel relatively safe at the moment but what about the staff and other people who are supposed to be in the hotel. there some stuff. and well you just said earlier that in

a few hours we will be. there we still have you. yes. ok we will be hearing a lot of information so what is your forecast what is it likely to be confirmed there i mean i understand that a lot of the information that we are hearing now will have to be confirmed so what is your outlook for the next few hours. i conclude that the next few hours for us here are going to be critical. in regards to tripoli i don't think that fighting is and i think it'll be more fighting it's been very quiet here that i just shot at the hotel like. i said i cannot say for now what will happen but. hopefully to be peace and will be much. in need of peace. is done all that you are going to hear. and the leaders do you know states have to be held accountable for its war critics salutes you know and if they're saying they want to get rid of

moammar gadhafi is a tyrant do that to your saudi allies and your allies and your allies in qatar who have been opposing democracy and who have been showing their own populations. well we're also hearing reports that looters try to get to the hotel where you're staying can you confirm that. i can confirm the fact if i were downstairs and sure you can recount projectors computers i think it worse they went through all the rooms yes. ok. well you're talking to us now they're standing you're moving around the hotel is this the absolute safety measure why are you doing this why can't you just let me in one place. you know other journalists have dispersed it's not really us some of a certain groups number on smaller groups. was most interested just for our own small groups are you know you tend to have

a colleague i would call it. hello well can you i understand you are well you're walking around with this camera can you show us perhaps some of what you see downstairs there and maybe some some of the t.v. there as you said that are that are there are people there so if it stays of course can you show us a bit more what's happening around you. shirt hold on i'm sorry charlie quote gently down stairs. this from some of the viewers of might be joining us right now we're talking to martinez and who is joining us from the hotel in. the international journalists are staying or according to marty it's very unsafe to be there and there's practically no security well right now we're looking at the pictures that there's a royal showing us from the hotel and tripoli.

oh yes well thank you very much indeed for bringing us this update from the hotel where most of the international journalists are staying that was not innocent roy joining us from tripoli. and of course the other day we'll be bringing you more on what's unfolding in the libyan capital at the moment well we're following the dramatic events of course in the air and online throughout the day and now in other stories to come later this hour one prosperity turns to poverty we report on the american city of detroit to see how people in their once booming automotive capital after surviving on scraps. lessons to be learned from the single deadliest incident for american forces in a decade long war in afghanistan we're bringing you an expert opinion on that. what british courts busy dealing with right cases human rights groups have been

crying foul over the sharp disparity being seen between crime and punishment some judges have been accused of overreacting and it's not for the first time among those now spending time with looters behind bars as a war veteran who's crime was recording a court hearing surtees lore and it reports the reason behind his punishment is not that simple. british prisons are full to bursting the courts are working overtime sending young people to jail for their role in the recent riots in england if they're sent to leeds prison they'll be languishing alongside eighty five year old norman scar he plied the arctic sea cheering the second world war serving his country taking essential supplies to the soviet union on the most dangerous journey in the world and now he's serving six months in prison on the whim of a british judge his crime recording a court hearing he said he did it because he's hard of hearing but the judge didn't

accept that it was very harsh sentence and i believe it was because she's a recovering the corruption the judiciary has she done frown upon a scar is no stranger to the legal system he won a case in the european court of human rights. running secret hearings yet still some cases in england all heard behind closed doors and recording and taking photographs is forbidden unlike in other e.u. countries scott attends demonstrations where he shouts about corruption in the police and judiciary saying lawyers police and the courts are in cahoots and regularly persecution gag those who disagree with them that's why m.p. john hemming suspects the judge was trying to shut him up we have in theory in this country called freedom of expression much as people's right to speak out about what they see as wrong as long as they're telling the truth and i'm very worried this is an attempt to gag an elderly gentleman he may not always be right but he has

a right to. luckily for scott he has friends with knowledge of the law and they're acting for him normally guard the force of the for his case here to the boiled courts of justice but they don't feel justice is being served to him meanwhile claims he's being denied it then chill medication in prison here the case was adjourned for another week and for an eighty five year old war veteran every week is precious according to reports conditions in leeds prison are bad the war veteran can't get any exercise because he's unable to walk for the entire hour allocators scott also says he's being denied access to a lawyer by his jailers schoolchildren on every day every fall it's like the musical education of. norman scarth has vowed to keep fighting to expose corruption just as he fought all those years ago to keep fascism out of his country the irony

is the country he fought for is now the one he's fighting against laura emmett r.t. london. they received bailout money and they are now reporting profits but the financial recovery of u.s. carmakers isn't filtering down to the streets of the countries once booming automotive capital detroit increasingly looks like a ghost town and its residents are literally surviving on scraps. discovered. this was once a city that symbolized america's innovation and manufacturing market. but today detroit is the third most violent city in the u.s. with unemployment estimated at up to fifty percent according to officials the one swimmers motor city now has more people living in poverty than cars on the streets home foreclosures continue flight to the suburbs which takes the tax base away from

the city and there's more and more of that the decline in the school system. is making people leave the cd and so there's no money really in that there are no jobs here and as the u.s. census points out a quarter of a million people have left detroit in the past ten years the economic scars of this once vibrant city are impossible to escape roughly sixty thousand vacant buildings and thirty five thousand abandoned homes line the streets of detroit hollow shells of america's former middle class which have ignited an industry of scrappers people these properties of copper wire and steel pipes as a means of income. scrappers ruins for profit yards like this just five miles out of troy scrap yard owner albert talat says he sees new faces

every day a little bit more and they get a prize or by a pretty good at making everything gonna go even more hellish is the sight of a city looting itself landmark buildings and foreclosed homes are guarded for survival in order to go around and when to do move to bring to the slaughter growers in addition to scrappers an increasing number of cash working americans. are free from goods for. greenbacks guy in the lex luthor what is the suit and tie and low brass lamp you know you've met into the league like the recycling kind of guy who broke short of money the u.s. president promised things would be better for america's car making capital after the two thousand and nine fifty billion dollar bailout general motors and chrysler are automakers are in the midst of their strongest period of job growth in more than a decade since g.m. and chrysler emerged from bankruptcy the industry has created more than seventy five thousand new jobs for the first time in six years ford g.m.

and chrysler are all operating at a profit g.m. has reported six straight quarterly profit chrysler revenue is said to be up by thirty percent nearly fourteen billion dollars from last year what about bail in the people out bell about the corporations who bailed out the banks and doesn't mean a whole lot because the people who are in the city still don't get those jobs those guys are still being outsourced in this once great industrial beacon of american idea where henry ford pioneered the famous model t. production schools police and fire stations now stand a bandit as many americans are reduced to dealing in scraps here guilty party just to make ends meet her enough work on r.t.e. detroit. funerals have been held for the thirty u.s. soldiers who were killed in a helicopter crash in afghanistan their to nuke was shot down by taliban insurgents

earlier this month in the single deadliest incident for american forces in the decade long war and the military contributor says the investigation into the crash should leave washington to change its tactics and both against pakistan. the special operations command chief should analyze and present a very latest chine new case disaster to the secretary of defense and to persuade lay on the net that he's view regarding being on the clear of the ground warfare in pakistan and a much touted count the insurgency in afghanistan undermine the whole of government approach to these both countries the best way to minimize unnecessary casualties would be officially admit obvious fact that neither counting insurgency in afghanistan nor drone warfare works in effect they both represent their anti-american feelings well beyond their region and are perceived an

exploited as the main recruiting tool for their terrorist and other transnational organizations say against the united states strategic interests and against its allies and friends well beyond their path back region. well right now we take a look at what's happening in the world of business you're joins us next in the studio . oh that's right time to have a look at what's happening in the world of business and it's been called the largest infrastructure project in your part of the russian backed north korean gas pipeline is finished artie's surface witnessed the final stages of construction. well this is the very last weld in the first line of the no three in pipeline there's a bit of hundred thousand of these in this life this unfold the golden well not

only because is the final one but also because the rest of them have been tested when they bring water through the pipeline that previously this one has to be golden because it is going to get its first test when they feed a wretched natural gas for the first time directly to earth and that's going to be happening very shortly i joined september it's not only the world's longest pipeline a bit twelve hundred kilometers long is also think if the nature withstand extrusion conditions including temperatures as low as minus fifty degrees celsius it travels under the baltic states of course in economic zones of states and it's been described as an example of multilateral cooperation in energy currently russia supplies around thirty years gas and there are concerns that europe will become even more dependent on russian hydrocarbons now russia's answer this by saying that this is really a new stage in energy and gas security they're going to be able to bypass transit

countries and the problems that we've seen in the past and have direct delivery of russian natural gas to the european customers. archies sorry fifth fortune currency has had it so long as the uncertainty about the global economy is pushing investors toward safe havens and while peter watson from the rubble still has room for weakness. really the ruble is held hostage to what happens with the dollar and with all the price given that we feel it's going to get worse before it gets better i think we get a further weakening and that could be further sort of accelerated by the populations responding to that and shifting their current their savings into hard currency and plus that we could see continuation of capital flight but you know hopefully passing october we should have hopefully again carmi the situation and that might give some additional fuel for fuel for a commodity prices and therefore the currency. ok let's take

a look at the markets or let's stop the trend gains and losses reports say rebels in libya and to the country's capital they hope to resume more large food and restore some supply into global markets stronger dollar and concerns about economic growth are also putting pressure on third front land is that over one hundred six dollars a barrel while the japanese is that eighty two dollars because as you can see from the profit they want to asia shares here are trying to recover from earlier losses in hong kong resource and and if you start sub started with again strong yen is weighing on exporters in tokyo toyota is losing more than one and a half percent is down almost two percent asian markets lost at least one percent last week amid concerns about world's economic prospects. cultural as they head off the opening bell here in moscow russia neck which is took quite a beating despite managing to regain some losses trying to find a strange and close. close hundred percent in the red and my six and they just

under one percent well. ok that's all we have time for now during the last and one last time more business stories here on archly. the.