this is actually coming to you 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 with rebels claiming they're in controls most of the country's capital tripoli heavy fighting has been reported new york without his residence earlier three of his sons were said to have been arrested following a night 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 we understand that you were wounded during the overnight kiss so tell us how you're feeling now until us how it happened well thank you i'm fine actually it was yesterday morning i borrowed a bicycle. here and i rode around for ninety minutes green who are checking

out the streets of tripoli which require as they are in the new right now. coming back by you know. by. shot in my right leg and but. my dear this is because yours is the ball of. a god who gave me a permit a sniper from the marriott hotel was shooting and i did notice that and i got to go on fire and i am i am going back. yes it was good to hear that you're fine but tell us what's happening in the city now who is in conflict. well. i'm sure more. media reports i can tell you about this section on. the twenty sixth floor of the. hotel plus. i have

a friend who just just came in what i observed about forty minutes ago it's a high more i have twenty two military vehicles from the government filled with fighters and that came by our hotel and then just pulled into the right by the bible law outsell by the sea here near the marriott there's a countdown called five hours of five buildings there they set up. checkpoints and they're obviously digging in what i what some people are suspecting here and it's just speculation but i'm getting this feeling myself is that as in other places. the government here is luring the rebels and allowing them to have their fun at reims square and then very well maybe congress passing their screens so that if you give any. a glock knowledge but as to

abraham movement claim of a sixty five thousand well armed troops there are certainly a resistance going on in pockets to the rebels so while i would acknowledge the ender's is probably coming it's not clear to me that that is poppin yet and that there won't be a serious counter attack only the hours coming well say about the attitude of the people they seem very well like the ones i've talked to frankly to jump ship and support the new government this hotel that is host the government officials until two days ago the large. not the doubts but to door into every building here as you can imagine the fear so did this seventy two green flags on the poles that flew yesterday and before outside the main entrance so i think the population. we're all in a large a bar i do not have

a huge problem in shifting its allegiance. to a large extent obviously. the. reaction but tribes in the n.t. you see we have yet to know but i say the view of tripoli is not over and we won't know until the coming hours and days exactly what's going on here are going to be again there are some signs that got a huge rebels maybe even ordered to a trop are mob be crimes of the government war i we don't know the answer to get. over it franklin lamb thanks very much indeed for this as you just told us the atmosphere that you've spanned the past few hours has been emotionally charged there do stay safe and that was franklin lamb director of americans for middle east peace life from tripoli. journalist madina says

the hotel in tripoli where the foreign press has been obliged to stay during the conflict has been looted. i got fired at the start of the day while i was putting signs saying press made signs of put them in the front of the till they fired the hotel 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 are earthier feel very secure about that 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 the liberty to come in here to show you the movie so 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 the young men who just come in and. gone into all the rooms is started collecting things you can

see they broke the doors will open doors and again you can see. a lot of the project there is computers. this is happening in various offices here the next few hours for us you 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 here they've been shaken by they just shot at the hotel. i cannot say for now what would happen but. hopefully there will be peace and will bloodshed but need all these. nails done all that you are bombings here absolutely nato and the leaders of the nato states have to be held accountable as war criminals they've killed civilians in roping 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 if they are not the rest of us. that was medina talked to earlier and now 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 followed are just going to shift our reports from washington d.c. . president obama spoke earlier this sunday night saying tripoli is slipping from the grasp of a thai randel so that must relinquish power once and for all nato secretary general has made a statement of similar in fact saying that could be 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 there from washington has been a key player in the fight for tripoli that's before us 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 levy a 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 when you look at the footage coming from believe very much reminds of. the 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 who are afraid that their voices could be ignored by the international community. reporting their 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 the leading leader argues daniel bushell is in paris with the latest . well how and now the other major european. leaders from the cultural holiday to cheer the national security council over to promote the new it. is the same for the pool. and the promise of a hole through the libyan people. from head over to the

ministry. of germany a little so. quickly you know the. truth. here. in the capital of street to street world war one. million lives their little has already. been told one point of living between them so. there's no correspondent daniel bushell bring us reactions from paris there well the speculation rising and what's ahead for rebels when we are interested in your opinion on the matter and again express it at r.t. dot com. well so far as you can see the most of the year is thankfully be able to turn it into another oil rich colony for nato members twenty one percent don't

believe anything will change at all just feel the video will split in turn a struggle for power will start and there are major say the country will turn into a democratic state well you can let us know what you think are this issue by logging on to our website r t v dot com of course here on our team we're following the dramatic advance into the air and online 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 michelle along later in the program so we'll bring you more on this throughout the program. and was british courts busy dealing with a 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 it's 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 artie's laura hammond 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 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 covering the corruption

that the judiciary you see the. skull 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 policed 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 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 be here luckily for scott he has friends with knowledge of the law and they're acting for him nobody but the porter the for his case here 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 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 it is still going on every day and every call even this long is what exactly is called a. 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 london. now if the u.k. government is determined harsh justice will help man it's broken society author owen jones says it's the lead which sets a bad example to those committing crimes useful injury is coming up in about ten

minutes time. or maybe once in cities on the planet the minimum wage in the country is not enough to live on you can't support a family with it these are huge social problems which 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 bunker he plunged the internet cannot crisis with the politicians he stole from the taxpayer we recently have the news international scandal where police were being bribed by journalists what happened was more disorderly that all but the example being set by the top. now let's take a 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 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 but the. 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 egypt 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 some by 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 and one of them was later released on bail they say they accidentally strayed 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 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 as our military contributor says the investigation into the crash should lead washington to change its tactics both of ghana stan and pakistan . the special operations command chief should analyze and president of the latest to know kenya's disaster to the secretary of defense and to persuade panetta that his view regarding the declared drone warfare in pakistan and the much touted accounting insurgency in afghanistan undermine the whole of government approach to this both countries the best way to minimize unnecessary casualties would be to officially admit obvious fact that neither counterinsurgency in afghanistan nor drone warfare work in fact they both rep or do use of their anti-american

feelings well beyond their region and are perceived an exploited as the main recruiting tool for the terrorist and other transnational organizations against the united states strategic interests and against its allies and friends well beyond that. it was united in our recap of our breaking news story this afternoon morning fighting has reportedly broken out in 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 saif islam who is his closest ally and a. following a night of chaos in the capital crowds were seen in the city central square with people waving revolutionary flags. all here in r t throughout the

day will be bringing you more of dates and what's happening in the libyan capital will 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 golland 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 khadafi to step down words transfer into action you think. well you know i don't think capitulate i think he defends his country the support of i believe by a majority the question is also for a. long time ago through have

a referendum and if the libyans decide that they don't want to keep him to go and the nato and the rebels refuses so i can't see what really happened during the next fall's and the next days you have both options but the thing the international public opinion should know it is. not default relation. as in tunisia in egypt. that wants to get rid of cut f e it's the nato it's obama and cause. well what about the rebels what can we say now by their faith 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 that the rebels is winning or will win it's if there is a victory it's only the need to the nato home in

a very savage way in the last days killing many civilians and it's the usual tactic because in vietnam when you go. in iraq you get back to the civilians in the hope that did not support their leader but. many observations many of surveyed as saying that actually when the nato started is a separation more people in libya supports gaddafi than before given many open and supported him so. i think the key question is indeed oil it is well known that it is a wolf for all that these so-called position government has promised to give the old two from. great britain and the united states actually this government does not exist it's to put the government of course it's about or it's always about.

well people are already drawing parallels to egypt and the celebrations witnessed into career square are libyans going to see the same disillusion that egyptians see now. well indeed in egypt and in tunisia the promises of the west of changing your aegean. people are very disillusioned about us but i would rather compare with iraq remember the promise is the united states and company would liberate the iraqi people they have killed one million they would. tell a democracy it is a corrupt regime they would install peace. even wall and there would instal comforts for all the iraqi people while actually the

keys 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 and next month so is there a coincidence that we see this breakthrough now what do you think yes for sure because you have many disagreements inside the airlines the norwegians wanted to get rid of this wall italians also there were many criticism in france they were investigation missions from french criticizing the policy of soft corsi and yes i think the nato may get a victory i still don't know but they are in deep crisis the consider themselves the cup of the world and. after us live yes sorry afghanistan libya

who are they going to attack. syria venezuela is it one day richelle china nobody is. protected against nature so but this will cost a lot of money and you know that said the united states cannot pay any more for all this will sue they are divided about that and why mr obama has so many polls. 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 print ring of the results as we need a solution to the economic and social problems of europe and united states all

right nischelle thanks very much indeed for bringing us your views and that was investigative journalist and author michelle golland joining us from brussels thank you very much indeed thank you. and you're watching our tea time now 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 to last week spending buying investors awaiting 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 on they can't really use interest rates anymore but it's a bit at the level there and it will be probably taken posted by the market but focus is always to be on europe so that's going to be key after that that i was comes i think the problem for for the further from. the fact that they're now fixed

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a back you're watching are to breaking news libyan rebels have reportedly seize controls most of the capital following a major nato back to vance that according to the government saw thirteen hundred people killed two of gadhafi sons have been arrested and there are reports of heavy fighting near the colonel's residence in tripoli but some sources on the ground have told our teens to early to say tripoli's fall and there are 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 draw parallels to the events in egypt warn of the disillusionment that will likely follow. and disproportionate justice british judges argues of overreacting in cases ranging from recent riding to a war veteran who recorded a court hearing human rights groups have raised the alarm over harsh punishments that often don't match.