a very warm welcome to you live from moscow with me. so we start off with the breaking news here on the fast moving developments in libya one of. his sons is thought to be leading government troops to retake essential tripoli rebels who say they control most of the city are allegedly in looting private houses another sons rebels custody opposition leaders say a large number of their fighters have been killed there are reports rebels are closing in on khadafi his compound but the whereabouts of the coastal us still unknown some rumors suggest gadhafi may be in talks with south africa about a possible escape route despite denials from both sides and nato insists it will continue combat air patrols until all government forces surrender following a night of chaos in the capital being seen in tripoli central square waving revolutionary flags. all journalist. hotel in tripoli where the foreign press

has been obliged to say during the conflict has been limited. the situation here is tense again it's on and off with its feels 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 take save asked for help to be bandaged up we i implore the international community not to let the transitional council answer this facility you're to comply or pursue the soldiers in here at all we heard gunfighting several hours ago where gunfighting outside it was getting closer we don't want them to storm in year that 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 evacuation with four or five other people while the rest of us have to wait. you know i think to be international community really needs to. call an effort to get us out of here to the united nations and it has to be something to outside of needle well i don't know if she broke into all the rooms . like they used chairs as ladders. projectors. in the rooms they stole computers they went through the rooms and stole things. they didn't seem violent just young men who came to take what they could what

happened after the limited use offices which they want to. be in which are and keep to do move you for a new foreign media authority is that some of the journalists you instead of going through the files the libyan foreign media. and. that's the present situation here where we we've been there's been to some panic people becoming known in on people crying. i cursed. it was a young man right now right this actually telling me you know. you know it's for his safety and i perfectly understand. you need a way out we're all we want want to want to be. meantime dr franklin lamb the director of americans for middle east peace who was wounded by a sniper on sunday says could i think may actually be preparing a massive counter-attack. i borrowed a bicycle 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 in the right now and coming back. by by the shot in my right leg but i don't see any of this is the culprit this is the follow up a doctor apparently. abandoned maryon were shooting and i didn't notice. yet but i'm fine i have. 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 light by the bible ma hotel by the sea near the marriott hot there's a compound called five hours five buildings there it's not a place. checkpoint and obviously. 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 allowing them to have their fun square and then very well may be congress passed. meantime the white house has hailed the rebels advance into tripoli saying the situation is quote a tipping point president obama once again called on the libyan leader to acknowledge reality and give up power and they just leave and as the u.n. mandate by nato is a military mission that expires next month some are suggesting the timing of the battle for tripoli is no coincidence. president obama spoke earlier this sunday night saying tripoli is slipping from the grasp of a thai randall's so that must relinquish power once and for all nato secretary general has made a statement of similar in fact saying that 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 on in tripoli has been very far from being peaceful we're talking about extensive bombings by nato throughout the weekend actually throughout six months from washington has been a key player in the fight for tripoli that's 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 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 now. he's gone or chicken reporting the parallels have already been drawn between the libyan rebel celebrations on the scenes of triumph arrear square in cairo which later became widespread disappointment constantino the chairman of the state duma foreign affairs committee who says that even if the opposition takes power infighting is more than likely. the national committee system is committee is not united it consists of different tribes ethnic groups political forces which will start for i think each other i'm afraid. mr.

know the future government of libya having had these foreign supports will be there very grateful and. very helpful to these characters to these group of need to countries for them to receive the future for the rebuilding of the economy of libya their china you know russia they have no chance to have the same equal. treatment of the countless which have helped the opposition in libya to be in this week. meantime members of the european union have once again called on could afy to relinquish power but euphoria over the on going assault on tripoli is fading to be replaced by concern that the new government may not have the authority needed to bring and maintain peace for more than i was cross like the ones i've been in a live in london i've helos you so

a reaction from at ten downing street what do you know. prime minister has come out and addressed the press he said it's clear the end is in sight now and get that fuse regime is toppling around him there was no doubt about that from cameron he's very confident about that however the big question mark that he had to address is what happens next after all this and he stressed the need for a smooth and rapid transfer to a new democratic leadership in the country that will be the national transitional council that record recognizes them the just met leadership of libya they already have a diplomatic representation here in london. and he said the need for that is obviously so that the libyan people can be in charge of their own fate and that's the main goal he stressed however at the same time as all of that he did acknowledge that nato forces will remain in the country for quote as long as it takes so clearly he is prepared for it to take longer than may be desirable and the so how do they

really achieve that goal of a smooth transition well he did stress that the key is infrastructure and make sure . to ensure that there is a solid foundation of things like water supply food aid electricity to the really poorest there poorest areas and david cameron the prime minister did also say that britain is prepared now to release the frozen assets assets and give them back to the libyan people however there is some are certainty of who that will go to and how that will be used exactly the other uncertainty is of course kidnapping himself his exact whereabouts is still unknown there are confirmed reports that he is still in tripoli and on this issue well britain is changing its stance once again to begin with when this campaign started david cameron said gadhafi must go then in the last month william hague the foreign secretary said that they're prepared to allow gadhafi just remain in the country in exile so long as he steps down now is

a change of stance again cameron saying that he's in the hands of the rebel. the national transitional council so is he washing his hands of it well he did say he wants them he wants to see gadhafi held to account and put on trial but at the same time he did say that he will be in the hands of the rebels so slightly ambiguous response so that somehow minister cameron saying that the fate of gadhafi is in the hands of the rebels but it's interesting how the u.n. mandate the resolution one nine seven three on libya expires next month and here's the british prime minister saying this is an open ended mission so tell us what are the other e.u. states having to say on this issue. britain france germany and italy of all backed up britain's claim that this is the end the beginning of the end they're all heralding it is a new beginning but it's not over yet i mean there's still twenty five approximately twenty percent of tripoli's under the control of the forces that's according to the rebels themselves and despite all that the e.u.

is already saying it's got the wheels in motion of that plan and so there is already. the transition it was so cool to transition in process however we have been here before of course having leaders precarious situation of the post dictatorship. of course with iraq unlike iraq iran libya is sitting on this vast oil wealth and that complicates matters. severely but unlike iraq here in libya the coalition are saying that they've got this foundations government already in place this national transitional council already recognized by britain france germany however there is already doubt and skepticism in the british press of how effective these people are because of warring factions within the body and different vested interests britain that will be keen to avoid another iraq nick clegg the deputy prime minister has already said that they're in it for the long

haul they saying they have learned those lessons and that is to avoid the insurgence revenge killings to try and achieve this smooth transition however only wait and see really interesting what you say about the future of the transitional government possible in fighting we spoke earlier to a concert in concert off of the state duma of the foreign affairs committee he was saying it's a mixed bag when it comes to the members of this transitional government and there will be infighting also one of the point i want to make i have is that you talk about britain and france and germany being involved the issue of the oil wealth as well china is they discount you to say that it's eager to get involved with rebuilding the infrastructure of libya perhaps another potential participant in getting its hands on the wealth of that country live in london thank you. and as the fall of gadhafi government in tripoli apparently moves closer the speculation about who will get control of libya's vast oil reserves has already started. 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 a government of course it's about our it's always about all you have many disagreements inside the alarms the airlines deep 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 in united states. and i will be following the dramatic events in libya online throughout the day so if you

can stay with us here on out. to other news and israel and the palestinians have reportedly agreed to restore a fragile cease fire that's after sunday's attempt to cross border fighting around gaza that resulted in more rocket strikes. and other. popular resistance committees has agreed to be party to this rejection brokered truce between israel and hamas now the p.l.c. is significant because one it is a relatively small one. it is the group that israel hold responsible for that initial cross border raid on thursday 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 then some fourteen rockets have been fired into israel

now the problem that hamas has faced from the beginning is that it does not have control over palestinian factions operating in the gaza strip there is almost a sense of enormousness there but we're 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 israel has been preparing for such an attack for quite some time and of course there have been social protests at home criticizing the netanyahu government that would make it almost convenient for him to detract attention away from them. back to britain now where the courts are busy dealing with rioters prisons are packed with those suspected of looting but among the new members of the prison population is a war veteran put behind bars simply for recording a court hearing. reports there could be other motives behind his incarceration.

british prisons are full to bursting the courts are working overtime sending young people to jail for their role in the recent riots in england and if they're sent to leeds prison they'll be languishing alongside eighty five year old norman scarth he plied the arctic sea cheering the second world war serving his country taking essential supplies to the soviet union on the most dangerous journey in the world and now he's serving six months in prison on the whim of a british judge his crime recording a court hearing he said he did it because he's hard of hearing but the judge didn't accept that it was a very harsh sentence and i believe he was because season covering the corruption in the judiciary you see the. scar 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 forbidden unlike in other 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 of 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 freedom of expression that is people's right to speak out about what they see as wrong as long as they're telling the truth and i'm very worried this is an attempt to gag an elderly gentleman may not always be right but he has a right to. luckily for scott he has friends with knowledge of the will and that to pull him normally supportive them for his case to the boil court of justice but they don't feel justice is being served to heaven 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 jail as it is still drawing on every day in every poll released in the musical chairs. norman scarth has vowed to keep fighting to experience 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 with the u.k. government apparently determined to use tough justice to mend its broken society jones says it's the elite which sets the bad example to those committing crimes is a full interview is coming your way in about ten minutes time. it's very convenient for the government to say actually all these people are going to point out that if

it. is their own behaviors that fall and that's what needs to be sorted out there's a problem of lack of jobs we've got two and a half million people unemployed then of the million incapacity benefit was to put into work there's less than half a million vacancies there's not enough jobs to go around so 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 what happened is more disorderly than all that but the example be set by the top. twenty one minutes past the hour here in moscow corrina so shortly with the business news server for now the world update here on artsy students held a protest in chile's capital of santiago demanding free on better quality education organizers of the rally estimate over a million students and their families took part they have been at similar protests over the last three months with most of them ending in a violent clashes with police this recent one did and peacefully. washington has

said it's deeply disappointed by iran's decision to sentence two american citizens to eight years in prison an iranian court found them guilty of espionage and illegally crossing 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 then later released on bail they say they accidentally strayed into iran for the country or stories claim they were working for american intelligence agencies. syria's president bashar assad has once again declared his regime is not in danger of collapse and warned against any foreign military intervention in his country the statements were made in. an interview broadcast on state run television human rights groups meanwhile accuse government forces of killing more than two thousand protesters since the uprising began in march. when i was. in syria now along with one hundred fifty international delegates heading north of the capital damascus to see with their own eyes how things are on the ground are

looking after the army left local residents in hama told her that the killings only started off the army personnel entered the city and now they are afraid of being arrested they say peaceful protesters have already been detained but make sure you keep up to date with. in syria r t under school. ok now occurring is here with the business. so i welcome to this update the south thanks for joining me the russian currency continues to retreat after it saw a heavy sell off last week on certainty about the global economy is pushing investors towards safe havens meanwhile peter weston from asshole says the ruble still has a weakness really the ruble is held hostage to what happens with the dollar and with dollar prize and given that we feel it's going to get worse before it gets better i think we could have further weakening and that could be further sort of accelerated by the populations responding to the shift in their savings into hard

currency and plus that we could see continuation of capital flight but you know hopefully passing october we should have hopefully again called me a situation that might give some additional fuel to fuel for commodity prices and therefore the currency. of the numbers brant crude is dropping almost one dollar to trade at one point seven dollars a barrel the slump is due to the potential for a resumption of exports from opec members a number leave yeah the six month civil war there appeared close to. around eighty three dollars a barrel and a quick look. the precious metals gold is up more than one percent stops up to touching an all time peak one thousand eight hundred ninety four dollars it looks like safe haven assets continue and silver is also obvious gaining over two and a half percent the sound. despite a negative opening the footsie has made a u.

turn slide into the black gaining over two percent this hour of the dax is off point one half percent the gains for both indices games come despite losses and asian markets early in the day and on wall street on friday. and the us in the series of the solidly bounce back from earlier losses were the odds he has gaining point six percent while the wise ics is up point eight percent. to time to check up on some of the individual share moves on the rise ex post energy majors bounced back from earlier losses with wall snapped up around four percent point four percent sorry those may kill is also about to cut its rating to below investment grade that's because of a shareholder dispute and a delay in posting last year's financial results i'm supposing that blizz among the main gainers this out it's over a point a half percent supported by strong gold. meanwhile steve jacobson from believes that the current volatility is

a good chance to cash. 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 degree to which it's taken so what is important to note now for investors median sure in a long term is dead 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 and you 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 is to balance the value in stocks with the lack of the critique 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 do splurge either but you know buy five percent of the cast for the full year this month five percent next month and average yourself into a good position in my opinion as to where to play. for markets to other stories

russ is buying a new sweeping of the smoking laws which will seriously dent the profits of tobacco companies in the country the government is planning to huge increase tobacco duty which will see the price of a packet of twenty to about two dollars it's also going to bring a legislation to ban smoking in public places such as restaurants night clubs hotels and. t.v. advertising will also be banned the sale of cigarettes with strict larger stores currently about half of russian men and one in six women. the new laws are being is being introduced to try and improve health of the russian population which has one of the lowest life expectancies in the industrialized world. and russia's biggest appliance retailer eldorado is being bought out by a check private equity fund p.b.s. already owns half of the company and has bought the remaining stake from its russian founder analysts estimate the deal is worth about six hundred twenty five million dollars eldorado has over three hundred stores in ukraine as well as in

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welcome back you without a live from moscow us now our last four in the afternoon breaking news for you this hour libyan rebels reportedly gained control of the capital after a major nato back to advance but sources in tripoli tell us here at aussie it's too early to say that gadhafi regime has fallen their fall is that one of his sons is leading troops directly into the heart of the come. opposition supporters that rejoice hoping the forty year old regime is nearing a dead end but skeptics point to the december. egypt. and the international reaction ranges from euphoria to outright. truce israel and hamas reportedly agreed to.