a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow with me received and our breaking news at this hour government tanks shutting parts of central tripoli despite rebels claiming they are in control of most of the libyan capital one of coffee sons is reportedly meantime in leading forces towards at the city center earlier three of his other sons were said to have been arrested heavy fighting has been reported near the libyan leader's residence meanwhile a state t.v. is still airing pro khadafi programs rumors are circulating that khadafi may be in talks with south africa about a possible escape despite denials from both sides following a night of chaos in the capital crowds were seen in the city's central square with people waving revolution revolutionary flags and alice across live to a journalism audience now is embroiled in a hotel in tripoli where foreign journalists have been obliged to stay at the

coffee thank you for joining us today and just bring us if you would up to the minute what is the situation in the hotel where you are now. where the situation here is tense again it's all going to. feel like a roller coaster ride. armed men from the volunteers libyans have entered the building young man one of them is hurt they don't want to be tape so i can't go we always and tape them and. they've asked for help to be bandaged up we i implore the international community not to let the transitional council answer this facility or to comply or pursue the soldiers in here at all so . are you saying that there are rebel fighters that are seeking refuge and medical assistance in your hotel. there are there are there are libyan. loyalists the young men some look like soldiers some are don't have uniforms it's very hard to save their own tears or soldiers have come in year one and you got shot in the

leg they're saying the fight is still strong in tripoli but we we heard gunfighting several hours ago are going fighting outside and was getting closer we don't want them to storm in you're dead would be catastrophic and these are not disciplined as everybody knows they're not disciplined forces and. we have a wider array of people here from all over the world from the united states to the people's republic of china to france and myself from canada. and we can be very very bad situation we also have a u.s. congressman you're with us as well and he's going to be on a priority flight and while the rest from what i hear you might get a priority flight out of here back to ation with four or five other people while the rest of us have to wait. i think to be international community really needs to

. pull in effort to get us out of here to the united nations and it has to be something to do outside of needle all right now we see today that you say there are a couple at least a lot us that are seeking some sort of medical assistance in your hotel that. you're saying you're hearing gunfire you have heard gunfire in recent hours but what's happened during the night we know there was some looting can you perhaps show us or any of the aftermath. i don't know if you can see the broken to all the rooms. i can be used chairs as ladders. and projectors. in the rooms the school computers they went through rooms and school things. they didn't seem violent just young men who came to take what they could opportunists. the community mooted. what happened after they looted these offices which belonged to the movie you know which are the right

to do movie in for no foreign media authority is that some of the journalists who came and started going through the files that the. foreign media. tends to present situation here where we we've been there's been some panic people becoming known and on. about panic forgive me for interrupting but you talk about your there in the hotel with other journalists as you were saying about ago there was a u.s. congressman there seemed to be flown out on a priority flight what is the mood where you are do you feel safe. you know i personally going through see i don't want to seem to people that. they're like that have caused problems in church here afghanistan to come here so. you know you don't you're not feeling safe at the moment up what about basic supplies food and water are you getting any of that oil are you taking any safety

measures we should be good we should be good for for a few days. we i think in airlifts the best thing for us or an escort the international community has to put pressure on the transitional council to stop them transition there was a young man right now right. actually telling me do not take you know it's for his safety and i perfectly understand. why. you need a way out you're saying you're saying if you are saying a few hours ago that you did have some gunfire in the libyan capital that we're getting reports of all. or new to the last assault on the libyan capital have you have you heard just random gunfire or perhaps if you heard any more nato bombing what else do you know about how cool could be happening now the libyan capital i've heard. what could be a bunker buster which means there's still resistance you obviously need is not going to bomb it's the regime collapse and nato has gone which logically equates to

resistance. tripoli and he's going to kill people and you said he said. he said. he said. they're here on the outskirts of the city and. this has to be verified i'm telling you what i've heard ok we understand we understand that they decided to call it a sort of at a time of war it's very difficult to confirm a random reports of whether it's gunfire or nato bombings or even as you were saying a possibility of a of a moab bunker buster bomb the mother of all bombs being being dropped that but is that perhaps a safe room a few there in the hotel or a padded room with mattresses where you can see protection. i don't think so i don't think so we don't have to stick together or in small groups know when beginning we were in a large group so it was a lot of annie. when there was a lot of photo ops here. photo ops here but

a lot of the media during the day and. we're at their mercy that's the honest truth we don't have weapons we're sitting here we're just waiting where we can't take any action we're waiting sort governments in the internet the international community has to take action to get us out of here. all right journalist not somebody from the center for research on globalization thank you very much. dr franklin lamb the director of americans for middle east peace who was wounded by a sniper on sunday says gadhafi may be preparing a massive counter-attack. i borrowed a bicycle of some thirty here and i rode around for ninety minutes in green square checking out the streets of tripoli which were quiet as they are and only right now and coming back. to buy one. shot in my right leg

but i don't see that this is the culprit this is the follow up a doctor apparently. abandoned maryon now we're shooting and i didn't notice that. yet but i'm fine i have observed a convoy of twenty two military vehicles from the government they're all good fighters and came by our hotel and then just pulled into the right by the bible law hotel by the sea near the marriott hot there's a compound called five hours five buildings there they set up. checkpoints and they're obviously digging in what i and 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 luring the rebels then allowing them to have their fun green square and then very well maybe congress

passed. and the e.u. countries are again calling on khadafi to officially step down in the face of the rebel storming of tripoli the latest came from the british prime minister david cameron who also said that nato will continue its action in libya quote for as long as it's needed now for more on this that's an approach like what's i've been in london i have a bring us up to date here what is the reaction of the british government to the events unfolding in libya now. well the prime minister just made a statement to the press heralding this as the end of gadhafi forty two year regime he says is toppling around and once again you are new calls for gadhafi to go did address the big question which is what happens next then after all of this after gadhafi supposedly steps down and he said that the need is for a smooth transition to a democratic leadership he said that this will be in the hands of the national

transitional council that the recognized leadership of libya by britain and he said so that needs to happen so that the future of the libyan people is in their own hands but at the same time as all of that he did that nato forces will remain in the country to try and make sure that happens for as long as it takes so that's quite an open ended answer to that question fairly ambiguous clearly is not short of that this will be a very rapid transfer they're prepared for it to take longer because it is of course a lot easier said than done knowledge the need to put in really firm infrastructure things like a water supply power food to make sure all of these things can speed up this me transition so the people of libya have their own fate in their hands i did also say that britain will soon be releasing the frozen assets of libya to so they can be again in the hands of the libyan people however we don't know who that's exactly

going to be going to or how it's going to be used and on the issue of gadaffi himself. slight change of stance here once again from britain they said his future will be in the hands of the national transitional council so is he washing his hands of that issue well to begin with did say a few months ago when or when the coalition started their campaign in libya that they get after you will be tried fairly by the national transitional. council then they changed tack on that saying that he will be allowed to live in a exile if he steps down and a change of tank once more he certainly seeing some mixed reactions and make statements coming out from the coalition and the coalition here interesting that what you say about the comments out of ten downing street prime minister cameron saying that the coalition campaign is an open ended campaign of course what started months ago as a un humanitarian mission has the same rhetoric been heard from other e.u. states that you know of. yes

a lot of rhetoric coming from europe echoing that of cameron's angle of merkel and president sarkozy of france both call for gadhafi to step down and heralding this is the end of. the e.u. has also said they're already putting in place their planning so everyone recognizes this is the beginning of the end it seems and everyone's saying that they're prepared to launch this smooth transition. but of the same time of course acknowledging the name. hold this u.n. resolution to protect civilians lives because the big question here is that the big task they face and it's almost an unspoken one is how do they avoid another iraq and long drawn out handover residual insurgents revenge attacks that's exactly what they don't want an order to try and beat down well nick clegg has already said that brittany's in for the long haul and all of this is. different from iraq in the in

libya they already have the foundations of a new democratic leadership a new government the national transitional council that britain france and germany all recognize as the legitimate leadership of the country so that already that foundation of government there however they do acknowledge that they need to try and stay in the country to deal with any residual insurgents fifteen to twenty percent of tripoli is still controlled by gadhafi forces according to the rebels and once this government in britain is different from the one of course that was in charge of saddam hussein iraq they will of course learn lessons from iraq and they do say they do not want to turn into another on however only time will tell or interesting over how you draw the draw on the differences between iraq and libya there are some would say yes there are differences such as the contrasting governments but they are still two very wealthy oil member states bennett live in london thank you. well the white house has also held what it called

a tipping point for the regime of colonel gadhafi but it the positive sentiment spirals already being drawn to egyptian celebrations onto a roof square disillusionment that later followed has gone into account reports from washington and president obama spoke earlier this sunday night saying tripoli is slipping from the grasp of a tyrant also that could offer 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 there through washington has been a key player in the fight for tripoli that'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 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 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. meantime of course the chairman of the state duma foreign affairs committee says

even if the rebels do take power infighting is already on the horizon this is not the and of the story this is just the beginning of the further developments and the next stage of this development will be equally complicated for libya for the simple reason the international community stands community is not united it consists of different tribes ethnic groups political forces reach will start fighting each other i'm afraid as soon as mr qaddafi resigns but in any case the most important think right now is to convince mr qaddafi to resign not to use military force because any further human characters will never change this development this situation. and as the fight for tripoli continues experts are already speculating on who will get control of libya's vast oil reserves. the key question is indeed

oil it is well known that it is a wall 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 government and of course it's about our it's always about power you have many disagreements inside the alarms the airlines the idea crisis the consider themselves the cup of the world and asked. after us live yes sorry afghanistan libya who are they going to attack 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 think of the results as we need a solution to the economic and social problems of europe and united states. with

speculation rising on what's ahead for libya if the rebels win no we are interested in your opinion on the matter or you can have your say god see dot com let's check out what some of you are thinking right now and so far most think that libya will turn into yet another oil rich colony for nato members twenty one percent don't believe anything will change it all just stuff under that field that libya will split as an internal struggle will start to the power and the remainder of the country will turn into a demo state i look on to r.t. dot com but now is a crucial time to do so and make sure you have your say right i will be following all the dramatic events in libya on air and online throughout the day for you so you can do that. and out of some other news now in our world update here on r.t. israel and the militants in gaza have agreed to renew a truce that's after sunday's attempt to end four days of fighting resulted in more

rocket strikes paula reports from tel aviv. the popular resistance committees has agreed to be party to this injunction brokered truce between israel and hamas now the p.l.c. is significant because one it is a relatively small we had a strong interest group it is the group that is well hold responsible for that initial cross border raid on tuesday that killed eight israeli citizens and that's why this latest wave of violence what we are hearing from the p.r.c. itself until now it has not been prepared to be party to this now saying that it will be but there still remains a lot of confusion over this cease fire it was signed last night it was in fact agreed to last night since been some fourteen rockets have been fired into israel now the pumpkin that hamas has faced from the beginning is that it does not have control over all palestinian factions operating in the gaza strip there is almost a sense of enormousness there but we now hearing from the palestinian official that hamas will be able to enforce the cease fire with smaller militant groups if you

speak to israelis here really what many israelis will tell you is that it is in israel's interest at least now under the leadership of the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to launch some kind of attack on gaza he's the right person to do it people here saying that is what has been preparing for such an attack for quite some time and of course there has been social protests at home criticizing the netanyahu government that would make it almost convenient for him to detract attention away from them. that was offered up all the syrians out of even of course you can keep up to date on everything that's happening in israel on our twitter page all on the school call by having a look right now. is posting. she's been keeping an eye on the social unrest that's been gripping israel for more than a month now i want to latest posts so as the protesters a million strong. two weeks time of wanting social justice and the prime minister netanyahu steps to date with the situation in israel all see under school.

are not of check out some other world news for you 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 unrest in the country 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. washington has said it is disappointed by iran's decision to sentence two american citizens to eight 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 they accidentally strayed into iran but iranian authorities claim they were working for american intelligence agencies. and a recap of our breaking news story here on r.t. for you rebel officials say that a large number of their fighters have been killed in tripoli government tanks are

shelling parts of the capital despite rebels claiming they are in control of most of the city i want to gadhafi sons is reportedly leading forces towards central tripoli meanwhile state t.v. is still airing pro kentucky programs earlier three of got out these other sons were arrested including saif al islam who is his closest ally and a following a night of chaos in the capital crowds we've seen in the city's central square with people waving revolutionary flags. and time now for the business with you. hello and a very warm welcome to the program the russian currency continues to retreat after its soil have it so lost last week then certainty about the global economy is pushing investors toward safe havens meanwhile pecha weston from a tong says the ruble still has drawn for weakness. really the ruble is held hostage to what happens with the dollar and with all the price 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 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 me situation and that might give some additional fuel to fuel for commodity prices and therefore the currency. let's take a look at the numbers brand curtis dropping one to help the dollars to trade at one hundred seven dollars a barrel slumbers two to the potential for resumption of exports from. the six month civil war that period close to an end w.t.r. is hovering at eighty three dollars per barrel and a quick look at precious metals gold is up more than one percent that's after touching an all time peak at one thousand eight hundred ninety four as a flight to safe haven assets continue to be somewhat is also up it's gaining one

point four percent the sell. expired negative opening the footsie has made a u. turn into black gaining one point nine percent the solve the taxes up point four percent all the gains for both indices came despite losses in asian markets and on wall street on friday. the russian indices up to solve my six is so hard for a percent in the black and the r.t.s. is valid but. i want to check up on some of the into. on the minus six most energy may just bottles but from a loss this book will sniff around point four percent meanwhile neuro chemical is continuing to lose ground off to think it's crazy to the low investment grade that's because of its shareholders dispute town to delay in post to last year's financial results to parliament toll is among the main gainers here it's out of a form to help the sense by strong. a man more or less steam

jakobsen from sex believes the current volatility is a good chance to cash in well if you look at value investment from bottom of investment obviously this is very very good times but you have to remember that investment is always based on the gritty in which it's taken so what is important to note now for investors median sure in a long term is that there are several good stocks across the globe where you can buy 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 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 to balance the good value in stocks with the lack of liquidity and it's just i think what you need to do is just to average yourselves in don't commit fully here don't get to just words either but you know by five percent of the cast voted for you this month five percent next month an average yourself into a good position in my opinion that's the way to play it. rashness flooding new

sweeping and to smoking laws which will seriously dent the profits of tobacco companies in the country the government just blooding to hugely increase tobacco juice which will see the price of a packet of twenty quid triple to about two dollars well it's also going to bring in legislation to ban smoking in public places such as restrooms and night clubs hotels and airports t.v. advertising will also be banned the sale of cigarettes restricted to larger stores currently about half of russian men and one in six women smoke the new laws are being introduced to try and improve the help of the russian population has one of the lowest life expectancies in the industrialized world. russia's biggest appliance retailer eldorado has been bought by out by a chick private equity fund b.p.'s already owned top the company and has bought the remaining stake from a squash and found analysts estimate the deal is worth about six hundred twenty

five million dollars eldorado has over three hundred stores in ukraine and kazakhstan as well as in russia. and another kind of russian company growing a broad the russian company specializing in payment service is negotiating to put its street terminals in western europe and the united states well r.b.c. daily reports kiwi is in talks with mobile phone operators orange vodafone and telephony come the terminals coming on russian streets that can be used for paying phone bills utilities the internet and even talk packages. ok that springing up state more stories in less than one.

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back it was thought to look for most of the research show breaking news for you this hour nato is said to be preparing. a fortified compound in tripoli this comes as libyan rebels reportedly seize control of most of the capital following a major nato backed up but according to the government a sole one thousand to three hundred people killed but some sources on the ground have told r.t. it's too early to say tripoli is full and i want to get a few sons is reportedly leading forces towards the city center. 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 form. and in other news the palestinians in gaza agreed to resume a cease fire with israel after a fresh exchange of strikes.