breaking news here on our t.v. and rebels reportedly seize control of most of the capital following a major nato backed the vans that forty to the government saw thirteen hundred people killed but some sources on the ground have told r.t. it's too early to say for italy's fall and there are still confusing as to who's control of the city. international journalists in tripoli fear for their lives or bring you a firsthand account from their hotel that's already fallen prey to looters. meanwhile the celebrations are in full swing in the rebel stronghold of benghazi but experts who draw parallels with events in egypt warn of the disillusionment that will likely follow. was disproportionate just as british judges are accused of

overreacting in cases ranging from recent writings go before a veteran who recorded at court hearing as punishment often don't match the crimes . this is r t coming to live from moscow i'm marina joshie we begin with breaking news story colonel gadhafi is forty two year grip on libya appears to be nearing its sand of rebels claiming they're in control of most of the country's capital tripoli heavy fighting has been reported new york about his residence earlier three of his sons were said to have been arrested following a diet of chaos in the capital crowds were seen in the city's central square with people waving revolutionary flags but let's not get the latest from tripoli and speak to dr franklin lamb the director of americans for middle east peace israel

and. thank you very much for being here with us understand that you are wanted you're in the overnight can so tell us how you're feeling now and tell us how it happened. thank you for asking i'm fine actually it was yesterday morning i borrowed a bicycle around seven thirty here and i rode around for ninety minutes green square checking out the streets of tripoli which were quiet as they are done the right now and coming back by it's two by one. shot in my right eye and but i don't know if you can see this my dear this is because this is the bullet the a doctor gave me a burn a sniper from the abandoned marryat hotel we're shooting and i didn't notice that until i got get but i'm fine i'm i'm i know i'm tough. yes i can hear that you're fine but tell us what's happening in the city now who is in conflict. well.

i'm sure you've heard the media reports i can tell you about the section. that is front and the twenty sixth floor of the. site i. just just came in what i observed about forty minutes ago. hymel i counted two military vehicles from the government filled with fighters and it came by our cell else who were going to go right by the bible was help i did see here near the marriott out there's a countdown sours are fighting going there they set up. a checkpoint and obviously digging in what i what some people are suspecting here and it's just speculation but i'm getting this feeling myself that as in other places. the government here is you luring the. rubbles allowing them to have their fun

adds green square and then very well maybe congress i think there's credence to that if you have any. a glock knowledge but. he brought him nugent a sixty five thousand well armed troops. a resistance going on in pockets to the rebels while i would acknowledge the end is probably coming it's not clear to me that it's happened yet and there won't be a serious counter attack only the hour is coming say about the attitudes of the people they seem very well like the ones i've talked to jump ship and support the new government this how to tell how student government officials and child to go the large. the doused the current every building here if you can

imagine here so how did this seventy two green fly on the polls yesterday and before outside the main entrance so i did the population will in large a biological not have a huge problem in shifting its allegiance. to a large extent obviously just the degree of resistance the. reaction the tribe the infighting with the n.c.c. we have yet to now but i say the. bible for tripoli is not over and we won't know until the coming hours and days black may want to i'm gone again there's a sense that the rebels maybe to a trap are marked then other times by the government where i we don't know the answer yet. frankly lamb thanks very much indeed for that as you just told us

the atmosphere that you've spanned the past few hours has been emotionally charged there they stay safe and that was frankly land director of americans for middle east peace like for interest. journalist martin says the hotel in tripoli where the foreign press has been obliged to stay during the conflict has been looted. started the day while i was putting signs saying press signs of put him in the front row tell a far good hotel they have snipers. we all feel threatened it's less now than before but if the rebels get here a lot of us. feel very insecure about that there's been looming in the hotel right now i mean the thing in media stories. which is. basically you need permission to be in your. i took the liberty of coming here to show you the movie so you can see the project here

a pair was taken and you'd see the lighters and they put. anything going through the rooms of people even the looters young men i don't think they were dangerous at all but one man who has just come in and. got into all the rooms and started collecting things you could see he broke the doors locked doors and again you can see. a lot of steel projectors 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'd 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 there will be peace and watching that nato is. done all that you or i mean here.

in the leaders and you know states have to be held accountable as workers yes if kill civilians and hoping that we would be safely taken out by an international contingent from the united nations not for nato the british are talking about evacuating this place only for five nationals. only for five years not the rest of us. that was medina's roy i talked to earlier on the white house has hailed what it called a tipping point for the regime of colonel gadhafi but amid the positive sentiments perils have already been drawn to egyptian celebrations on tahrir square and the disillusionment that later fault r.t. is going to shake our reports from washington d.c. . president obama spoke earlier this sunday night saying tripoli is slipping from the grasp of a thai randall's soledad khadafi and 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 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 that we can actually throughout six months there from 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 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 i'll leave you to come september and september it 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 when you look at the footage coming from believe the it very much reminds. of a 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 levy unst who are afraid that their voices could be ignored by the international community now. reporting there france germany and italy are dan calling on khadafi to officially step down in the face of the rebel storming of tripoli there are fears of more bloodshed and rumors france may use its military forces to try to capture or kill even leader is daniel bushell is in paris with the latest. you know what our we have. a cultural holiday to cheer the national security council.

we will. call. them. three zero. zero zero zero germany. south quickly. in the capital on the streets of st. louis. and powell. between them so. there's no correspondent daniel bush will bring us reactions from paris they are all the

speculation rising and what's ahead for media revels when we are interested in your opinion on american express it at r.t. dot com. also stars you can see that most of the year is thankfully be able to enter another oil rich colony for nato members twenty one percent don't believe anything will change just feel the split. terminal struggle for power will start and there are major say the country will turn into. politics let us know what you think on this issue by logging on to our website r t v dot com of course here on r.t. we're following the dramatic advances of the fine throughout the day for you. so stay with us for that if we can and will be trying to get some more reaction to what's happening in libya from the investigative journalist and author of the shark along later in the program we'll bring you more on this throughout the program.

and was 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 and not for the first time among those now spending time with the looters behind bars as a war veteran whose crime was recording a court hearing as art is lore and 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 except that it was a very harsh sentence and i believe it was because she's a recovering the corruption of the judiciary she doesn't frown upon a scarth is no stranger to the legal system he won a case in the european court of human rights banning 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 have in theory in this country something called free will expression of his 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 who 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 but the porter the for his case here to the royal courts of justice but they don't feel justice is being served to have meanwhile plainfield 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 allocated scott also says he's being denied access to a lawyer by his jailers still drawing on every day every call the islamist military school. 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 nor am it r.t.

london. now as the u.k. government is determined harsh justice will help manage a broken society author owen jones says it's the lead which sets a bad example to those committing crimes it's well injury is coming up in about ten minutes time. we're making plans to cities on the planet the minimum wage in the country it is not enough to little support a family with these a huge social problems which are being addressed and we have these problems a time when people at the top are richer than ever so yes we have the bunkers the internet cannot crisis group of politicians he stole from the taxpayer we recently have a new international scandal where police were being bribed by journalists what happened was more disorderly but the example being set by the top. now is to look at some other stories from around the world syria's president has

once again said he is not in danger of collapse and the government is able to deal with current unrest in the country the statements were made and 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. militants in gaza are continuing to fire rockets at israel tel aviv claims up to fourteen were launched overnight forcing it to retaliate 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 the israeli interest border killed at least eight israelis . washington at satis disappointed by iran's decision to sentence two american citizens to eight years in prison the pair were found guilty of by and illegal entry into the country three americans were arrested in july two thousand and i when they were hiking on the iran iraq border a lot of them was later released on bail they say they accidentally straight into

iran but iranian authorities claim they were working for an american intelligence agency. funerals have been held for the thirty u.s. soldiers who were killed in a helicopter crash in afghanistan there are two new was shot down by taliban insurgents earlier this month is the single deadliest incident for american forces in the decade long war because our military contributors as the investigation into the crash should lead washington to change its tactics both of galveston and pakistan. the special operations command chief should analyze and presenting the latest to no cameras disaster to the secretary of defense and to persuade leon panetta gets his view regarding the. drone warfare in pakistan and the much touted counterinsurgency never going to stand undermine the whole of government approach to these both countries the best way to minimize

unnecessary casualties would be to officially admit obvious fact that neither counting insurgency in afghanistan nor drone warfare work in fact they both repr do use the anti-american feelings well beyond their region and are perceived and exploited as the main recruiting tool for the terrorist and other transfer national organisations against the united states and its strategic interests and against its allies france will be on their back region. it was a nineteen hour recap of our breaking news story this afternoon morning fighting has reportedly broken out new york colonel gadhafi is residence in tripoli with some sources saying he could be holed up inside even rattles claimed they have almost total control of the capital earlier today of khadafi sons were arrested

including so i who is his closest ally a. following and night of chaos in the capital crowds were seen in the city central square with people waving revolutionary flags. we're hearing our team throughout the day will be bringing you more on dates and what's happening in the lead in capital we'll we'll try to get this from the sources available and of course a lot of information has to be. well we'll now try to get in touch with michelle golan there michele i can see you can you hear me yes i do hear you excellent well michel is an investigative journalist who is in libya for us there we are hearing that a chorus of leaders calling and could offer to step down the words transfer into action you think. well you know i don't think

capitulate i think he defends his country he supported i believe by a majority the question is he also for falls a long time ago true have a referendum and if the libyans decide that they don't want to keep him to go and the nato and the rebels refused so i come and see what three happening in the next fall's of the next days you have both options but the thing the international public opinion should know it is. not the population. as in tunisia in egypt. that wants to get rid of caffie it's the neutral it's obama and so cause. well what about the rebels what can we say now about their fate will they be completely in control or will there be outside

interference particularly when it comes to oil what's your opinion on this. it is not true the rebels are winning or will win it's if there is a victory it's only the needs of the nato. in a very savage we in the last days killing many civilians and it's the usual tactic is in vietnam when you go. near out your usual tactic of the civilians in the hope that they do not support their leader but. many observations many of survey to us are saying that actually when the nato. mission more people in libya support scatter feed then before even many open and support of them so. i think the key question is indeed oil it is well known that it is

a wall for all that the so-called position government has promised to give the old two from. great britain and the united states actually this government does not exist its corporate governance of course it's about it's always about four. hundred people are already drawing parallels to egypt and celebrations witnessed into careers where our leaders going to see the same this illusion that egyptians see now. well indeed in egypt and in tunisia the promises of the west of change. people are very disillusioned. but they would rather compare with iraq remember the promises the united states and company were to liberate the iraqi people there killed one million they would. install a democracy it is

a corrupt regime they would install peace. even wall and they would install comforts for the iraqi people while actually the airy iraqis have lost everything education health come false security so indeed the situation situation of libya should be compared with iraq. well finally the un mandated military operation is due to end next month so is there a coincidence that we see this breakthrough now what do you think yes for sure because you had many disagreements inside the allowed the alliance the norwegians wanted to get rid of this war italians also there were many criticism in france they were investigation missions from french criticizing the policy of soft cozy and yes i think the need to get

a victory i still don't know but they are in deep crisis he considered himself a cup of the world and asked. after us live yes sorry afghanistan libya where are they going to attack. syria and israel is it one day rochelle china nobody is. protected against nato so that this will cost a lot of money and you know that the united states cannot play anymore for all these who are all so they are divided about arabs and why mr obama has so many poles. in the united states is spending billions of dollars to kill people and mr cameron has so many social problems in great britain and he's sending more missiles and killing people also so i think the key question is when will the public opinion wake finally and say we don't need these kind of

aggressions we don't the killings we don't crunching of the third world result as we need a solution to the economic and social problems of european united states right michele thanks very much indeed for bringing us your views and i was investigative journalist and author michel joining us from brussels thank you very much indeed thank you. and you're watching our time now to take a look at what's happening in business. hello and a very warm welcome to the program global indices a trying to catch a breath after last week's pending buying investors the reaching for clues from the federal reserve as it prepares to announce further quarters of easing measures. there will be some kind of stimulus measures coming along because clearly on they can't really use interest rates anymore but it's

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