and i am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me rena joshua 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 while we now cross to independent journalist lisa helen in tripoli find out what's happening on the ground there. 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'm about to say is. just as all of the information in the city coming from journalists will be unconfirmed because we have been in hotel all night i have had all night there has been a lot of noise outside the hotel there's really been battles taking place as you

know there has been an immense amount of bloodshed and question. but now things have gone extremely quiet and i have spoken to a number of people across the city and everyone is also things are very quiet i have heard. that people have come out in green square and other 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 up there libyan government and army was to permit the rebels inside the city because previously they have been operating in sleeper cells and that's why it was very difficult for the libyan army to know they were out where they were hiding so this strategy was part of bringing them out of the. direct confrontation so that they could be dealt with quite swiftly and also we have heard that the tribes the large tribes that were shot by no one. and the tribes came in from came from the areas to tripoli to join the battle we have also heard that

gadhafi was. with the people there. so this is this is the information that i'm hearing from our contacts across chippie 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 a lot of confusing information is clearly coming out as it has been generating this

whole crisis actually this is this it's been the only thing that has kind of been a constant during this crisis where the massive confusing information so we have seen footage fabricated 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 will become a lot clearer and we will be able to see it 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 to. the reports that i have been talking about being concerned about really we just have to wait and see at the moment as i said things have just. really just stick to me at the moment. believe me understand that 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. i

have heard that the hotel is now secure. and. the whole night was pretty a pretty scary experience. in particular for journalists that have been. critical of nato strategy and of the forces on the ground. really have to be. so or it will is it for now though thank you very much for the sub date and independent journalist lizzie phelan joining us from tripoli. and later we'll be joined live by journalist medina's embroider 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 it tipping point for the regime of colonel gadhafi artie's going to run as the latest from washington d.c. . 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 in fact saying that khadafi 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 being peaceful we're 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 our staying could dump you have seen many violations of the u.n. resolution from six months ago that authorized the military intervention fully in

light of all those violations it was very unlikely that the u.n. security 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. we saw in cairo when hosni mubarak was ousted and the army took over there. are still struggling to make their voice heard and many levy who are afraid that their voices could be ignored by the international community now. reporting there from washington d.c. will california based political scientists dr michael brandy says protecting civilians was just a pretext for nato to step in to leave you 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 massive privatization take place the public economy that because the government has 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 will be handed over to private companies private profit death squad will come in and clean of. 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 president sarkozy

of france as well as the german government are gann calling on khadafi 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 at the libyan leader daniel bushels in paris where 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 oil story as quote 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 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 fear friends will now use military force in the capital putting civilian lives at risk and that it will use the international criminal courts indictment of gadhafi as

a justification. well we're now going back to leave me at an event journalist why has no hotel in tripoli where foreign journalists have to spend the night well that's why i thank you very much for being here with us here this morning you have been trapped in the hotels we understand what international journalists are staying so how have you spent this rapidly developing night. snipers outside nato can ask the transitional council why you have snipers outside of their hotel why reasons why they're snipers what danger. will be injured we. guess what danger we start to disturb. it's been very it's been an emotional roller coaster i did hear you speak to a colleague of mine and she said that. there's reports that. libyans it

deliberately used military tactic. sitting in the begin to push and this could be correct i believe it's very strongly that it that it is correct because the yugoslavian this is a you can slightly model the yugoslavian military had very good relations with the libyan military and they have taught the libyans a lot of them for the military tactics this fire you know what are we to. i don't know what's going to have been the next few hours are going to be very critical. well i understand that 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. only security use the good journalists some. journalists who are more than just your names

and if securing the perimeter. note you're going to have means offices through their files here they were surprised to find some clothes that. showed in some of these units are not journalists i believe they're speaking about it. in front of us well i understand what you're saying that you are in a very vulnerable position there but what about the staff there i mean when are stand 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's some stuff you're not worth. and well you just said earlier that in a few hours we will be. do 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 i

mean either stand that a lot of the information that we have here now will have to be confirmed so what is your outlook for the next few hours. i think 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 would be more fighting it's been very quiet. but they just shot at the hotel. i cannot say for you know what would happen but. hopefully there will be peace and no bloodshed but need obese you know it's done all day i mean zero. and the leaders of the united states have to be able to carry out its war protests. you know and if they're saying they want to get rid of moammar gadhafi as a tyrant do that yourself. eyes and your allies and your allies in qatar who have been opposing democracy and who have been showing their own populations. well mozzie we're also hearing reports that looters tried to get in to the hotel where

you are staying can you confirm that. i can confirm the fact if i go downstairs and sure you can rip them projectors computers. do worse they went through all the rooms b s. k. y l while you were talking to us understand that you're moving around the hotel is this the absolute safety measure why are you doing this why can't you just like be in one place. you know the journalists have dispersed it's not really us who are some of a certain groups nombre all in small groups. small groups just their own small group should know which ones you turned i have always i would call it's. 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

activity there as you said that are that are there are people there so if it's safe of course can you show us a bit more what's happening around you. sure hold on i'm sorry try to. steere's. this for some of the viewers that might be joining us right now we're talking to mom who is joining us from the hotel in. the international journalists are staying well according to mahdi it's very unsafe to be there and there's practically no security well right now we're looking at the pictures. showing us from the hotel in tripoli . oh yes mighty well thank you very much indeed for bringing us this update from the hotel where most of the international journalists are staying that was smart enough

embroidered joining us from tripoli. and of course the other day will be bringing you more on what's unfolding in the libyan capital at the moment well we're following the dramatic events of course and air and online throughout the day and now in other stories to come later this hour when perspire eighty turns to poverty we report from the american city of detroit to see how people in the once booming automotive capital have to survive on scraps. lessons to be learned from the single deadliest incident for american forces in the decade long war in afghanistan we're bringing you an expert opinion on that. what british courts busy dealing with riot 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 at a stall for the first time among those now spending time with the looters behind bars is a war veteran who's crime was recording

a court hearing surtees laure am 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 scarth he played the arctic sea cheering the second world war serving his country taking essential supplies to the savior 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 cool tearing he said he did it because he's hard of hearing but the judge didn't except that it was a very harsh sentence and i believe it was because she's a recovering the corruption of the judiciary she the frown upon a scarf is no stranger to the legal system he won

a case in the european court of human rights bindings. hearing's yet still some cases in england all heard behind closed doors and recording and taking photographs is forbidden unlike in other e.u. countries scarth 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 syria in this country something called freedom of expression not just 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 may not always be right but he has a right to be here luckily for scott he has friends with knowledge of the law and they're acting for him normally the porters the for his case to the boil court of justice but they don't feel justice is being served to heaven meanwhile claim to

being denied essential medication in prison here the case wasn't done 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 allocative scott also says he's being denied access to a lawyer by his jailers still drawing on every day and every call even the slot in the musical chairs balls 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 and it's artie london. as i 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 country's ones booming

automotive capital detroit increasingly looks like a ghost town and its residents are literally surviving on scraps as i. discovered. this was once a city that symbolized america's innovation and manufacturing might. 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 once glamorous 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 city and so there's no money they're really in there no

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 lined 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 detroit scrap yard owner alberto says he sees new faces every day. they get. hit making every day hell even more hellish is the side. the city looting itself landmark buildings and foreclosed homes are gutted for survival and i go around and wait up to do

a little bring to flip it over in addition to scrappers an increasing number of cash stops working americans. are treated in goods for greenbacks guy in a lexus. suit and tie and low brass lamp and you know he's not into 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 profits chrysler revenue is said to be up by thirty percent nearly fourteen billion dollars from last year what about bail in

the people out of bell about the corporations who bailed out the banks and doesn't mean a whole lot because the people who were in the city still don't get those jobs those jobs 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 scrap see if you'll take barney just to make ends meet during a point 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 in both afghanistan and pakistan. the

special operations command chief should analyze and present of the latest to know kids disaster to the secretary of defense and to persuade lay on panetta that he's view regarding the undeclared drone warfare in pakistan and the much touted county insurgency in afghanistan undermine the whole of government approach to this most countries the best way to minimize unnecessary casualties would be to officially admit obvious fact that neither county insurgency in afghanistan nor drone warfare works in effect they both rep or do they anti-american feelings well beyond their region and are perceived an exploited as the main recruiting tool for the terrorist and other transnational organisations state against the united states strategic interests and against its allies and friends

well beyond their af pak 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 stream 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 north stream pipeline there's a hundred thousand of these in this life this unfold the golden well not only because it's the final one but also because all of the rest of them have been tested when they've run water through the pipeline previously this one has to be golden because it's going to get its first test when they feed a russian natural gas for the first time directly two years and that's going to be

happening very shortly during september it's not only the world's longest pipeline over twelve hundred kilometers long is also the thickest inmates withstand extreme conditions including temperatures as low as minus fifty degrees celsius it travels under the both sixty of course and need you know exertions of five states and it's been described as an example of multilateral cooperation in energy currently russia supplies around a third of europe's gas and there are concerns that europe will become even more dependent on russian hydrocarbons now russia's oncet 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 for she currency

has sin. as the uncertainty about the global economy is pushing investors toward safe havens and while peter western from the rubble still has room for weakness really the ruble is held hostage to what happens with the dollar and with all price and given that we feel it's going to get worse before it gets better i think we could have further weakening and that could be further sort of accelerated by the populations responding to the shift in their current their savings into hard currency a plus that we could see continuation of capital flight but you know hopefully passing october we should have hopefully again called the situation and that might give some additional fuel for fuel for commodity prices and therefore the currency . ok let's take a look at the markets oil a stop between gains and losses reports say rebels in libya and to the country's capital they hope to resume or large food and restore some supply into global markets strong a dollar and concerns about economic growth are also putting pressure on kurds

around land is that over one hundred six dollars a barrel. is that eighty two dollars per barrels as you can see from the graphic we're going to asia shares here are trying to recover from earlier losses in hong kong the resource and energy stocks have started the week with against strong again is weighing on exporters in tokyo toyota is losing more than one and a half percent it's down almost two percent asian markets lost at least one percent last week and we've concerns about the world's economic prospects. all too also ahead of 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 as close top of descent in the red and my six and a just under one percent lower. ok that's all we have time for now join the lesson one last time for more business stories here on our team.

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america watching r t going to live from moscow and breaking news this morning leaving rattles have reportedly seize control of most of the capital following a major nato back to the fans that according to the government saw thirteen hundred people killed two of colonel gadhafi sons have been arrested however the location of the libyan leader himself remains unknown but some sources on the ground have told r.t. it's too early to say tripoli fallen and there is still confusion as to who is controlling the city. meanwhile massive celebrations are in full swing in the center of the rebel stronghold of benghazi but experts who drop parallels to the events in egypt warn of the disillusionment that will likely follow. and disproportionate justice british judges are accused of overreacting cases ranging from greece and riding to war veteran who recorded the court hearing human rights groups have raised the alarm oh.