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hotel in touch with the hotel in touch your book the future a good how would international house flood the cheap evergreen lol her job in talk of. breaking news this morning here in our t.v. libyan rebels reportedly seize control of most of the capital following a major nato bappa vans that according to the government saw thirteen hundred people killed but some sources on the ground have told or to needs to early safer place paula there are still confused as to who's controlling the city. yes there was. a national journalist in tripoli fear for their lives would 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 acts birds will draw parallels with dancing in egypt warned of the disillusionment out will
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likely fall. plus this proportion of justice the british judges are gears of overreacting in cases ranging from recent riding to have war veteran who reported the court hearing as punishment often don't match the crimes. eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r t on marina joshie and our breaking news story this morning maybe an rebels claim they are in control of most of the country's capital tripoli heavy fighting has been reported near could out his residence earlier two of his sons were arrested following a night of chaos in the capital crowds were seen in the city's central square with people waving revolutionary flags journalists medina's and royals says the hotel in tripoli you were before in france has been a large stage during the conflict that's been looted. guy got fired at the start of
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the day while i was putting signs saying press signs of government in front of the hotel they fired can only tell they have snipers. we all feel threatened it's less now than before but it's the rebels kid here we are a lot of us are feel very insecure about that there's been looting in a hotel right now i'm in the being media stories office which is. basically you need permission to be near i take delivery to come in your chair you can move me you can see the projector up there was taking and you can see the ladders that they put. paving going through the rooms of people and even the looters young men i don't think they were dangerous at all but the young men who just come in and. got into all the rooms it started collecting things you could see it broke the doors were locked doors and again you can see. people
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ladders project areas computers. this is happening in various offices here 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 they've been shot at the hotel. i cannot say for now what would happen but. hopefully to be peace and will bloodshed that need always. nails down all that you are i mean here absent a new leaders and you know states have to be held accountable as war criminals civilians in roping that we received be 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.
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but it isn't talked to earlier as the mainstream media talks of people waving revolutionary flags all over tripoli sound independent reports suggest girl gadhafi may be regaining control lizzie phelan heard it could be the leading leader's intentional strategy to let the rebels in. i have heard before that people have come out in green square and other thoughts waving the green flag and that the libyan army is in control now what we've heard is that the strategy up in libyan government and army was mixed in sadr city because previously they have been operating in sleeper cells and therefore it was very difficult for the libyan army to know where they were so you can strategy was part of bringing them out of the. direct confrontation so that they could we quite swiftly and also we have. a large part of that question. and i that came in from came from the areas.
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we have also. 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. coming now it's. then it will be very interesting to see what this means whole nato and its forces on the ground are you the rebels. the white house has hailed a lot of called a tipping point for the regime of colonel gadhafi but i mean it's a positive sentiments perils have already been drawn to should celebrations on tahrir square and the disillusionment that later follow it she can reports from washington d.c. and president obama spoke earlier this sunday night saying tripoli is slipping from the grasp of a thai randall so that could offer you must relinquish power once and for all the
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nato secretary general has made a statement of similar in fact saying the 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. and in tripoli has been very far from being peaceful we're talking about extensive bombings by nato throughout the weekend actually throughout six months here in washington has been a key player in the fight for turkey leda or as part of nato and as we know at this point nato has done the heavy work the means by which nato is going to accomplishing the goal of ousting khadafi have seen many violations of the u.n. resolution from six months ago that authorized the military intervention calling light of all those violations it was very unlikely that you want a security council would have adopted yet another resolution i'll leave you come september and september is when the previous resolution runs out so it was crucial
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for the rebels and for nato to carry out the operation before the resolution expires when you look at the footage coming from believe 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. reporting there from washington d.c. conforte a base political scientist dr michael currency says protecting civilians was just a pretext for nato to step in to lead the topple gadhafi and to redirect the country's economy. same thing as you saw happen in yugoslavia and. the mansion they should take place in public economy because the government took over forty years to conclude in public
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subsidies for the education put health care for all goes to be privatized the oil the oil fields will be whole group of private companies will private profit death squad will come in and clean up. those who might still have a commitment to a social wage or communal way. and this is what we have to look forward to and that was the real intention was to overthrow the government it wasn't and humanitarian concern it wasn't any concern for democracy or human rights. france germany and italy are damn calling on khadafi to officially step down in the face of the rabble storming of tripoli there are fears of more bloodshed amid rumors france may use its military forces to try to capture the leading leader barges daniel bushell joins us now from paris could have bring us more of the european reaction to what's
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going on in libya now. evaders operating the president french president will take in the leader they have done throughout what and mention to be a big a little r. and b. that you need to be by and all our we have left now the other major european all calling the rebel. leader david cameron the cultural his holiday to chair the national security council and as a diplomat and nick clegg is preparing to give speeches on the issue he's expected to say the pool is closer than ever he will be britain's decision to intervene and probably would say the call for the taking the libyan people and putting them in charge of their own but the head of it's the ministry called order that. germany has also said because that is the south quickly the the leader of libya this is a departure time mission to the libyan people and all the rebels will happily and
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leave you without water or electricity. use military or in the capital as street and dream world war one put many more billion dollars it really is a little patience and how well good boys will be between them so notably oil. all right dana thanks very much indeed for the selfie in your bushel reporting from paris for. speculation driving in what to have or leave your rivals when we're interested in your opinion on the marry you expressed that on our website r.t. dark heart cost so far most things leave your will turn into another oil rich colony or needle members twenty one percent and i don't believe anything will change our just under that you leave your was as an internal struggle for power will start of the remain there or stay the country will tear into
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a democratic state. well you can let us know what you think on this issue by logging on to our website party dark com and we'll be following the dramatic against me on air and online for our the day so do stay with us for that if you can . was british courts a busy dealing with riot cases your rise groups have been crying foul over the sharp disparity being so you between chronic punishment some judges have been accused of overreacting and it's not for the first time among those now spending time with the looters behind bars is of war veteran as crime was recording a court hearing searches lore and it now 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 when it's best to leave prison they'll be languishing alongside eighty five year
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old norman scar he played 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 reporting a cool tearing 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 season covering the corruption that the judiciary you see them frown upon me scott is no stranger to the legal system he won a case in the european court of human rights. hearings yet still some cases in england all heard behind closed doors and recording and taking photographs is a good bit and unlike in healthy you countries scoff attenders demonstrations where he shouts about corruption in the police and judiciary saying lawyers police and
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the courts got. and regularly persecution kalak those who disagree with them that's why m.p. john hemming suspects the charge was trying to shut him out 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 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 coming to him for him nobody supported them for his case here to the moral courts of justice but they don't feel justice is being served to him meanwhile the guy claims he's being denied it then chill 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 allocators scott also says he's being
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denied access to a lawyer by his jailers spirit enjoy every day in everything all this life is what it's all. 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 artsy london. now as the u.k. government is determined harsh justice will shall demand its broken society author owen jones says it's the lead which sets the bad example to those committing crimes is full interview is coming up next hour. we're racing friends in cities on the planet the minimum wage in the country is just not enough to live on you can't support a family with it these are huge social problems that aren't being addressed and we have these problems at a time when people at the top are richer than ever so yes we have a plan because the internet in a crisis we have the politicians you stole from the taxpayer we recently have
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a new international scandal where police were being bribed by journalists what happened was more disorderly that all but example of things that are the top. they received bailout money and they're now reporting profits by the financial recovery of u.s. carmakers isn't filtering down to the streets of the country's once booming automotive capital detroit increasingly looks like a ghost town and its residents are literally surviving on scraps as are discovered . this was once a city that symbolized america's innovation and manufacturing might. but to day 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
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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 crime in the school system. is making people leave the cd and so there's no money here 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 lined the streets of detroit hollow shells of america's middle class which have ignited an industry of scrappers people who strip these properties of copper wire and steel pipes as a means of income. scrappers ruins for profit yards like this
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just five miles out of detroit scrap yard owner albertan talat says he sees new faces every day and little bit of money they get the price of good making everything on the hill even more hellish is this. site of a city looting itself landmark buildings and foreclosed homes are gutted for survival go around that we took a little british were over in addition to scrappers an increasing number of cash stops working americans. are free from goods for greenbacks guy in a lexus and we're going to the suit and tie and low brass lamb and you know he's not into the league like the recycling pentagon. broke short of money the us president promised things would be better for america's car making capital after the two thousand nine hundred fifty billion dollar bail out general motors and chrysler or automakers are in the midst of their strongest period of job growth in more than
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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's revenue is said to be up by thirty percent nearly fourteen billion dollars from last year what about bail in the people out you belt out the corporations you bailed out the banks and doesn't mean a whole lot because the people who are in the cities so don't get those jobs those jobs are still being outsourced so that could nobody in the community they're not going to move they're not been and sitting around them so you still have a large percentage of people who are jobless 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 and scraps for your ilk are just
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to make ends meet perino working on r.t.e. detroit. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world syria's president has once again sent his regime is not in danger of collapse and the government is able. to deal with the current unrest in the country the statements were made in an interview broadcast on state t.v. human rights groups say more than two thousand people have been killed in the government's crackdown on protesters since march the. militants and gaz are continuing to fire rockets at israel tel aviv claims up to fourteen world launched overnight forcing it to take with an air strike on sunday hamas said it had agreed to a cease fire with israel violence flared up on thursday after a roadside ambush along these really injured or killed at least eight israelis. washington has said it's disappointed by iran's decision to sentence to american citizens to eight years in prison the pair were found guilty of spying and illegal
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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 they accidentally straight into iran iranian authorities claim they were working for american intelligence agencies. funerals have been held for the thirty u.s. soldiers who were killed in a helicopter question of. course shot down by taliban insurgents earlier this month and the single deadliest incident for american forces in two decade long war and as artie's military contributor says the investigation into the crash should lead washington to change its tactics both of ghana stand and pakistan. the special operations command chief should analyze and presenting the latest kane's disaster to the secretary of defense and to persuade an error that he's view
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regarding the role of warfare in pakistan and a much touted counterinsurgency in afghanistan undermine the whole of government approach to give both comfort their breasts the way to minimize the necessary repairs realties would be to officially admit obvious fact that neither counting insurgency you know again astaire nor drone warfare work in fact they both repartee do use their anti-american feelings well beyond their region and perceived them exploited as their main recruiting tool for terrorist and other transfer national organizations say against the united states did strategic interests and against its allies france well beyond the. recap of our breaking news story this morning colonel gadhafi is forty two year
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grip on libya appears to be nearing its a and it was fighting reportedly breaking out near his residence in tripoli and libyan rebels claim they have almost total control of the capital earlier two of gadhafi sons were arrested including saif islam who is his closest ally and a following and i have chaos in the capital crowds were seen in the city's central square with people waving revolutionary flags will stay with us here on our t.v. together latest and we'll be keeping you across what's happening in levy in the meantime let's take a look at what's happening in the world of business you know he joins us next. hello and a very warm welcome time for your business update global indices that trying to catch your breath after last week's panic buying investors are waiting for clues from the federal reserve as it prepares to announce further quarter to easing measures. there will be some kind of stimulus measures coming along because clearly
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on they can't really use interest rates anymore do right but at the level there and it would be probably taken posted by the market but the truth is there's always to be in europe so that's going to be key after that but i was comes i think the problem for for the third of. the fact that they've now fixed the interest rates at zero twenty five i believe two thousand and thirteen and just looking backward i mean six months ago the outlook for us was much more rosy and this means that you know how can you believe that you will have the same environment supporting israel you know such a low interest rate in six months or even four months time i think that we have something that could become quite a problem problematic issue. ok let's take a look at some numbers courage has dropped more than three dollars on monday to below one hundred six a barrel on the potential for a resumption of exports from opec member leave a six month civil war there if you had to be close turns up which i was hovering at
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eighty one and a half dollars per barrel. and asia shares are in the red the nikkei has touched a five month low as well as bob u.s. economy that signs that the japanese authorities down ready to quell anything began strength of the strong yen is of course weighing on exporters in tokyo toyota is losing two and a half percent mazda has dropped more than five percent here. are the prospects of her double dip recession in the u.s. and europe are having european traders reaching for the sell button and as you can see the front seat and the dax the both are down hard sounds now we're going to rush of panic driven trained is again dominating the russian market and to says half of extending losses the r.t.s. has one to two and a half percent in the first hour of monday's trade my six is one point two percent lower. part time to check up on some of the individual show moves on the my six energy majors are losing problems and we will price cross net to shedding more than two. sent financials also in the right with her bank down almost three percent on
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rules nicholas continue this is not soft rating to below investment grade that's because of its shareholder disputes and a delay in pens to financial results for the previous year bucking the trend is called as gold which is benefiting from gold reaching historic highs of one thousand eight hundred ninety dollars. meanwhile steam from stocks of buying believes the current volatility is a good chance to cash in well if you look at value investing from bottom of investment obviously this is very very good science but you have to remember that investment is always based on the liquidity in which it's taken so what is important to note now for investors need to ensure in the long term is that there are several good stocks across the globe where you can now and buy them a reasonable prices but you have to cater for the fact that liquidity the banking side of things will be increasingly under pressure you probably see the banks and
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you're having to be recapitalized to some extent some of the u.s. banks also going through the same exercise so would you have is to balance the value in stocks we did lack of the critique and it's just i think what you need to do is just to average yourself in don't commit fully here don't get just words either you know by five percent be a cast portfolio this month five percent next month and average yourself into your decision in my opinion that's the way to play. well russia is plotting new sweeping and cheese smoking laws which will seriously down the profits of tobacco companies in the country the government is usually increase tobacco due to which will see the price of a packet of twenty. two dollars well it's also going to bring in legislation to ban smoking in public places such as restaurants and my clubs hotels and airports t.v. advertising will also be banned the sale of cigarettes restricted to larger stores and there are currently about half of russian men and one in six women smoke the
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new rules are being introduced to try and improve the health of the russian population which has one of the lowest in life expectancies industrialized world. that's all we have time for now during the last one also for more business stories here on our block told website r.t. dot com slash business. the.
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