rheims. ninety m. of the russian capital you're watching r t would mean really joshie our breaking news story this morning libyan rebels claim they are in control of most of the country's capital tripoli two of gadhafi sons are arrested with some reports suggesting the leader in self isn't a specialist hard hospital in the town fourteen kilometers east of tripoli following a night of chaos of the capital crowds were seen in the city's central square with people having revolutionary waving revolutionary flags now we cross live to journalist my the royal hotel in tripoli where foreign journalists have been obliged to stay during the conflict marty thank you for being here with us this morning now you have been trapped as most journalist in the hotel so tell us what's it been like for you where you threatened over the night. guy got fired at the

start of the day while i was putting signs saying press made signs of put him in front of the hotel they fired going to tell they have snipers. we all feel threatened it's less now than before but if the rebels get here we are a lot of us or feel very secure about that. what is the situation right now. what is it like now do you get any gunshots outside of the hotel yes i mean we haven't stepped outside this snipers but they've been there's been looting in the hotel right now i'm in the being media stories office which is. basically you need permission to be near by i took deliberate come in here to show you can looting you can see the projector up there was taken and you can see the lighters that they put. they have been going through the rooms of people even the looters young men i don't think they were dangerous at all but young men who just

come and. gone into all the rooms it started collecting things you could see they broke the doors were locked doors and again you can see. a lot of the projector's computers. this is happening in various offices here i want to also point to the fact that the foreign journalists immediately went into these offices because of the files kept on them or kept your files on all of us visiting with your kept here and immediately took the chance to come in here and to to. to take the final space sickly because they weren't happy about it either and. were going to be speaking about the find those involved e-mails and. some i think one of the b.b.c. gentlemen named roger. secure security based files were using resounds with.

i cause i kind of sort of peak. so you can see so it's a ghost town when we've all divided we're not old together no we're different to different planet bases throughout the excel data break it's come here in tripoli in the opening that we will be safely taken out by an international contingent from the united nations not from nato the british are talking about evacuating this place only for five nationals. only for five but they're not the rest of us mt i understand that the situation is very volatile at the moment from what you're saying but can you tell us if you perhaps hear what's happening outside to hear any gunshots do you hear any any people there at all what's been going on. you know i haven't heard any gunshots i have been in touch with local libyans. they are

telling me to. go home what things mean more and you know i have to be honest with you they deliberately scared us a couple times took the opportunity to do a photo shoot with us ok. but you know you know. i think it's true to say i don't think this regimes. and i really don't believe that and if what i mean told is correct it sounds very plausible because this is based on you could slide tactics yugoslavians. taught that libyans the libyan military in yugoslavia military had a lot of cooperation agreements and there was a lot of training from the yugoslavs here so this could very well be that you slot model is used here a mixture of local tactics and maybe even though the guerrilla warfare. anyways you could see some of the young men who were living in or out. so i know you're

walking around. town it really is. you tell that you told us earlier tonight that there are not a verse outside of that there is a terrible so who do you think the earth might be targeting. they were shooting at us putting up a shoe at me putting up a press so i shouted. why do you show it in an airfoil journalist might be the target. yeah there is firing out firing started again. firing started again or. i'm sorry. i'll get my question asked you earlier so you told us that the sniper is there outside of the hotel and targeting you why do you think is this is the reason why do you think they are targeting you international journalists more hold up an escapee in a stick in need mr sarkozy wants

a reason to sent french troops here just like you did in the ivory coast do you know a couple of international journalists saying to us we have to intervene this is a responsibility to protect. and his cabinet could easily say that so can president obama and prime minister david cameron you know a couple of us get killed for multiple reasons not just that. there's a bloodbath in tripoli randi say we can intervene it's our responsibility to protect since they have a responsibility to protect i'd like to see them going to battering or other parts of the world that are being bombarded i never saw the response of the tech the and rwanda or in gaza. or and i've been on. this he says preposterous and we were they were firing rockets which has been fired you know i'm sure that my colleagues here from the other procedure will say that they can't soldiers in year or something i regret they'll say anything syrians are using

civilian shields print but that's something case i'm sorry i'm not even if they're going to kill me which. my credit. ok. tell us what's happening in your hotel now how many international journalists are there with you and tell us what is the safety situation i mean i understand that it's not very impressive there at the moment but can you describe what everyone is going through emotionally being there. we are going through we're teeter tottering . you know there's fear there's anger there's exhaustion let me tell you lot of people didn't sleep because the nato bombings and needle bombings kept this up before this event because they did it in the tent city bombing campaign in order to have you surface right in this in the libyan capital so it was a very intense bombing here and this kept us up hand we're all obviously this is

a bitter shock so my colleagues and i have to speak to them very aggressively or to only be. i think. several of us are really afraid for alights because of the positions we we have them swore in are opposition to needle intervention in a sovereign state it's nato this is this is a legal beef this is a war of aggression it was not a defensive war whatsoever they do not protect civilians that is in part that is preposterous and if they if anybody believes they protected civil unions that is wrong because they are bombing civilian facilities there dear launching an offensive they launched an offensive into tripoli goes that that's very real or movie and they are not protecting civilians whatsoever and. my colleagues when they go out they report of. a lot of things but they don't talk about the civilian gets

in is being a lot of suing that's we've been abandoned so tell i think we've been left here and . we. international community specifically an international initiative that is not needle which includes the russian federation the people's republic of china and several other countries you know we have people from iran's press t.v. here we have people from a.f.p. here we have people from from telus who are the cuban national news agency. all these nations how should should we now speak outside of the context we don't want the contact group because the signal gress are here we want someone we want a neutral configuration of the international community to come in get us out of here i personally i can't speak for everybody but i'm sure there are some other people were all the same views as me and really like to and you know in a very difficult there situation you've spent

a night of being an emotional roller coaster and we will be crossing back to you for more updates but thank you very much indeed for bringing us what you could being in those circumstances there imagine as i'm roy in a hotel in tripoli were most of the international journalists are at the moment and thank you very much for showing some of the pictures there and what the looters have done to the hotel thank you very much indeed and stay safe you can now do. they are joining us from tripoli. and as the mainstream media talks of people waving revolutionary flags all over tripoli some independent reports suggest colonel gadhafi may be regaining control journalist liza phelan feels it could be the libyan leader's international strategy to intentional strategy should say to let the rebels in. i have heard reports 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. the rebels inside the city because previously they had been operating in sleeper cells and therefore it was very difficult for the libyan army to know who they were or where they will hide them so you 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 and so joined at the back so 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 the question be of course this is a huge time around. and if they turn out to be if they do if they are confined in the coming hours. then it will be very interesting to see what this means for nato and its forces on the ground i.e.

the rebels. he's a felon there how the white house is hailed what it called a tipping point for the regime of colonel gadhafi but amid the positive sentiments parallels have already been drawn to gyptian celebrations on talking square and the disillusionment that later followed are reports from washington d.c. . president obama spoke earlier this sunday night saying tripoli is slipping from the grasp of a thai randall's so that you must relinquish power once and for all nato secretary general has made a statement of similar in fact saying they could offer a 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 from washington has been

a key player in the fight for tripoli that's before it's part of nato and as we know at this point nato has done the heavy work the means by which nato has been accomplishing the goal of ousting khadafi have seen many violations of the u.n. resolution from six months ago that authorized the military intervention in light of all those violations it was very unlikely that the u.n. security council would have adopted yet another resolution or leave it to 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 so 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 believe it very much reminds of. 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 and many libyans too who are afraid that their voices could be ignored by the international community now. ganesh you can report here from washington california based political scientist dr michael parenti 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 mansion privatization take place the public economy that could down the government built over forty years which included public subsidies for. education health care all those things will be privatized the oil the oil fields will be handed over to private companies private profit death squads will come in and clean of. those who might still have a commitment to

a social wage work new 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 the president sarkozy of france as well as the german government are again calling on qaddafi to officially step down in the face of the rebel storming of tripoli and there are a few years of more bloodshed and rumors france may use its military forces to try to capture leaving leader daniel bushell is in paris for 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 sarkozy called the libyan authorities the outcome of the victory is no longer dealt with the french leader did he fully supports the rebels he called this moment the libyan people who support them

reiterating his backing for the rebel provisional council germany has called on gadhafi to step down quickly difference here fear for use military force in the capital puts and civilian lives at risk and that it will use the international criminal court of gadhafi as a justification daniel bushell there now with speculation rising on what's ahead for the when we are interested in your opinion on the matter well express it r t the dot com so far let's take a look most of the viewers think believe you know will turn into another oil rich colony for nato members about a third don't believe anything will change at all fourteen percent say libya will split as an internal struggle for power will start and the remainer say the country will turn into a democratic state or deny this know what you think this issue by logging on to our web site r.t. and have your say. with british courts busy

dealing with riots 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 so for the first time among those now spending time with the looters behind bars is a war veteran whose crime was recording a court hearing laura amis reports the reason behind us 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 and 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 a very harsh sentence and i believe it was because caesar in covering the corruption of the judiciary you see them frown upon a scarth is no stranger to the legal system he won a case in the european court of human rights bombings secret hearings yet still some cases in england all heard behind closed doors and recording and taking photographs is forbidden unlike in all the 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 having theory in this country something called freedom of expression that is 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 support of them for his case here to the boil court of justice but they don't feel justice is being served to heaven meanwhile the plaintiffs being denied essential medication in prison. 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 allocated scott also says he's being denied access to a lawyer by his jail as the schools are going on every day and every fall the islamist terrorist. 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

arty london. now as the u.k. government is determined harsh justice will help mand its broken society author owen jones says it's the lead which sets the bad example to those committing crimes useful injurious coming up next hour. we're most expensive cities on the planet the minimum wage in this country is just not enough to live on you can't support a family without police a huge social problems which aren't being addressed and we have these problems at a time when people at the top are river so yes we have a bunker the international crisis we have the politicians who stole from the taxpayer we recently have the news international scandal where police were being bribed by journalists what happened is more disorderly that all but the example of being set by the top. look at some other stories from around the world and syria's president has once again said his regime is not in danger of collapse and the government is able to

deal with the current on the rest in the country the statements were made in an interview broadcast and state t.v. human rights groups say more than two thousand people have been killed in the government's crackdown on protesters since march. washington has said it's disappointed by iran's decision to sentence to american citizens to eighty years in prison the pair were found guilty of spying and illegal entry into the country three americans were arrested in july two thousand and nine when they were hiking on the iran iraq border one of them was later released on bail they say the acts to dandle east strayed into iran but iranian authorities claim they were working for american intelligence agencies. time now for a business of date with. hello and a very warm welcome to the business update it's been called the largest infrastructure

project in europe for the first part of the russian backed north rim coutts pipeline is finished. witness the final stages of construction well this is it 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 while 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 low it's also the thickest and made to withstand extreme conditions including temperatures as low as minus fifty degrees celsius it shovels under the both fixed they need can only examines the 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 nice stage in energy and gas security they're going to be able to bypass transit countries in the problems that we've seen in the past and have direct delivery of russian natural gas to the european customers. the russian currency has seen a heavy so a lot for us the uncertainty about the club economy is pushing investors to safe havens in all of us and from a tone such as the ruble still has room 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 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 at last that we could see continuation of capital flight but you know hopefully passing october we should have hopefully again call me a situation that might give some additional fuel for fuel for a commodity prices and therefore the currency. and time for a quick look at the markets oil is stuck between gains and losses as reports say rebels in libya of the country's capital they hope to resume more lockwood and restore some supply to global markets strong dollar and concerns about economic growth also putting pressure on current land is that over one hundred six dollars a barrel while. offering at eighty two dollars. billion on to asia it shares here in the right strong here and is weighing on exporters in tokyo toyota is losing more than two percent monster is down more than three percent asian markets lost at least one percent last week amid concerns world's economic prospects. ok and one hour ahead of the opening bell in moscow russia which is took

quite a beating despite managing to regain some losses prior to five years trading closure close top of percent in the red and the my six and just under one percent lower. that's the business bulletin for more stories you can log on to our website archie dot com slash business.

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breaking news this morning libyan rebels have reportedly seize control of most of the capital following a major nato back to the boarding to the government saw thirteen hundred people killed but some sources on the ground have told r.t. it's too early to say tripoli's fall and there are still confusion as to who is controlling the city. and while massive celebrations are in full swing in the rebel stronghold of benghazi but experts who draw parallels to the events in egypt warn of the disillusionment that will likely follow. human rights groups raise the alarm over british judges often overreact in cases ranging from recent riding to war veteran who recorded a court hearing. as we have learned here in our next hour a special report looks at life after death penalty in the u.s. .