our breaking news this hour here on r.t. the libyan rebels reportedly gained control of the capital after a major nato practice but sources in tripoli tell us here at r.t. it's too early to say that the fees regime has fallen of course that one of his sons is currently leading troops into the heart of the city. journalists in tripoli reported gunfire near the hotel saying course of overnight looting of houses in the capital has left them feeling unsafe. opposition supporters rejoice hoping the forty year old regime is nearing a dead end but skeptics point to the bitter disillusionment follows the fall of egypt's dictator. and the international reaction to ranges from euphoria to

white course amid concern over the likelihood of an unstable rebel government torn apart by competing interests. because i just after five pm on monday here in moscow this is r.t. with me wrong i'm sure so we start off with the breaking news fast moving developments in libya one of colonel moammar gadhafi sons is thought to be leading government troops to retake central tripoli rebels who say they control most of the city are allegedly losing private houses and hotels another of the sons is in rebel custody opposition leaders say a large number of their fighters have been killed there are reports that the rebels are closing in on kid off his compound but the whereabouts of cannot remain unknown some rumors suggest that khadafi may be in talks with south africa about a possible escape route but 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 crowds have been seen in tripoli's central square. being a revolutionary. says the hotel in tripoli where the foreign press has been obliged to stage or in a conflict has been that. situation years chance again it's on and off feels like a roller coaster ride armed man. volunteers libyans have entered the building young man one of them is hurt they don't want to take they've asked for help to be damaged up we were the international community not to wreck the transitional council answers so if you're to come play for some of the soldiers and we heard gunfighting several hours ago american fighting outside is going to close or we don't want them to storm in here that guy would be catastrophic and these are not disciplined as everybody knows they're not disciplined forces and. we have

a wider. people here from all over the world from the united states who are peoples republic of china. 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 for. the rest from what i hear and might get a priority right out of here and evacuation. four or five 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 through the united nations and it has to be something outside of needle well i don't know if people can call the ones. i can be used chairs as ladders skilled in projectors. the school

computers you went through you know reams install things. and you can see this young man. to take what he could what happened after the switch won't. be you know which are to move you know foreign media afterward is that some of the journalists who came in started we kind of files that you know the foreign media. can you know. that's the present situation here. is going to change something any it will be coming down on people crying first. it was a young man right now. actually telling me you know. you know it's for his safety and i perfectly understand. we need a way out we're all we want a lot of us want to be. meantime affronts says the head of libya's opposition is

expected empire us next week to discuss japanese future with other international players as a show of confidence that khadafi has definitely gone down a bushel now joins us live from paris on a daniel just hours ago we heard the british prime minister cameron saying that regardless of the u.n. resolution expiring next month of course the resolution on libya the mission is now an open ended campaign not so what's the reaction in france at this point to the latest events in libya. the french defense minister gerard long says that has called for a meeting in paris to plan what he calls a roadmap for libya french france's foreign ministry says that talks are on the way at the highest level and that nicolas sarkozy the french president will meet with djibril the head of the transitional council later today monday france is that the transitional council will leave help as it moves forward now as it plans its future it added that libya is a potentially prosperous country but it needs assistance from the west if it's too

kind of through those plans. so we get some reaction there from french authorities but don't you what about what's being said by the e.u. and by nato that you know. because in brussels the you were representatives have said that as the united states seems to be taking a back seat in these negotiations they see an opportunity to fill that vacuum. the hard work lies ahead and the divisions between the rebel factions means that it will be a difficult time because when there was a single enemy it was very easy for various factions some with very different interests to hold together and now there are fears this may collapse and there may be a power vacuum fronts in fact claimed that. libya is over now defense experts here in the european union all concerned by such statements because with the absence of gadhafi in any sort of real power structure there are concerns that there could be an even more bloody civil war emerging the very unorganized nature of the rebellion

has allowed many different interests to join nato. and has called on a good effort to end his career of violence as he put it he said the world is watching that i did was just to predict civilians and that they will continue doing that. do see the potential for western powers to divide up libya according to british in particular to the oil interests shares in all joint any shot up on news that it has sent workers into libya already to work on that country's oil fields and so already some international intervention to secure the rich or energy assets of libya and as you as you were saying their concern over nato. it's continuing it's a humanitarian mission that many analysts in the world say that nato has gone far beyond the u.n. resolution one hundred seventy three that is down a bushel level thank you. martin let's get more details on this now and discuss what the future might hold for post khadafi libya and the interests the various

factions have in it i join our life by joining us from the stop the war coalition in london thank you for joining us today mr e.u. leaders have made it clear they will continue to support the new government some have already deployed ground teams to assist but is it possible that could harm the legitimacy of the new government in the eyes of the libyan people if i western powers just continue to stick their noses in places where they're not always perhaps invited. yes i think that's the predominant danger that now faces people in libya they've got rid of gadhafi and nobody's going to shed any tears for that brutal dictatorship but i imagine that what most people in libya don't want is to swap the rule of gadhafi for that of the western powers and part of the problem here is of course the way in which he has fallen in tunis here and in each year politik taters fell. as victims of a mass popular movement nobody could say that the coalitions or the u.g.

table to be the union in tunisia were in the hands of the western powers but that is not something that can be said on this occasion today has been the single biggest day of nato air operations in the entire history of this intervention so it's quite clear that the t.n.c. will come to power as the proxies of the western powers and the western powers don't do this without asking for a pay back and they will be asking for a pay back and you can see that immediately why is it that the head of the t.n.c. is running off to paris to meet with the french president the head of egypt and even the military government which is not a government which many who fought in the egyptian revolution want to see in place but even that government didn't run off to london or to paris or for that matter even to the even when you when you talk about it i mean i mean they paid ok are you referring to the mineral wealth in libya said to be distributed here. well of

course starting is one very very important very very important issue it was why the western powers tony blair and others struck a deal with gadhafi in the first place it will be exactly what they're seeking to continue with the t.n.c. to further explore those and those oil riches but that's not the only thing and it may not even be in the short run the most important thing you see the military intervention in libya came exactly at the same time that the same people the united states and their supporters in the side of the regime acted to crack down on the bahraini revolution these were two interventions that were designed to give the west a foothold in the fast developing process of the arab revolutions and they will want to use this government in a new government if it's if it's at all possible for them they will want to use any new government in libya as a bulwark against the spread of the revolution in the arab world because if there's

one thing that's even more important to the western powers than oil wealth in libya it's their entire strategic operations in the middle east as you say geo political strategies being thought of here as well but we know that president obama in washington has said recently just today actually and this is a turning point now in libya gadhafi has essentially been put back into a corner but just hours ago british prime minister david cameron declared that the libya intervention is an open ended mission and yet the un resolution one ninety three expires next month how do you interpret that. well if i were a libyan and i were listening to david cameron's speech or if i had listened to what nato said earlier that they want to assist the transition i mean heaven knows what a military alliance supposedly assisting a transition to democracy is all about i would take those remarks as more threat than a promise that is a direct threat of famine that they will use their military and economic weight to

gain what they want out of any new government in libya let's talk about this new government as you say the transitional council what is the charge you think of survival for a new government comprised of various rebel factions they don't always see eye eye to. well i think there's very little chance of it surviving in any kind of stable stable form a less it begins the business of telling the major powers where to get off because if it continues the business of competing among the various elements in the transitional national council who has the ear of the major powers who is there going to look to the libya through whose agencies does the aid come through whose agency is the military assistance mediated they will inevitably fall out amongst themselves the only chance of unity for the t.n.c. is that they do what most libyans i believe want them to do and that is to say that

the future of libya is to be decided by libyans and by nobody else but they do not require the systems of nato they do not require the assistance of the major powers they do not want their resources exploited by western oil companies that could be a point of unification but if they continue down the line of competing amongst themselves for who has the ear who has the greatest the greatest sway with the major powers then i really i really believe that that will further divide them it's already divided and that's why. some some weeks ago their military commander was assassinated in a bloody internal feud and that was precisely because it allowed themselves to be drawn into this business. of becoming the interlocutors of the major powers by now we had an analyst say earlier that the members of the next traditional transitional government in libya is a net next bag of members and yet here is here the west releasing hundreds of millions of dollars to fund this transitional government who knows where that money

is going to go it's unlikely it will go to the infrastructure education and hospitals and so on and so forth there's the west know who these rebels are that they're funding. no i don't think they do properly know that even if they know it it might be the case that they don't care because if we look at the money that's been funneled into the karzai government in afghanistan for instance and many of that has much of that has found its way the rectally into the hands of mercenary groups indeed into the hands of warlords into the hands of drug dealers the whole point about these kind of interventions is that there can be no stable legitimate government other but one which has the face of the vast majority of the people in the country concerned and that stands in stark opposition to those governments that are created by or financed by the western powers you can either have particular see among your own people or you can be funded by the imperial powers but you can't do both all right i can respond to stop the war coalition live in london many thanks

and. thank you. members of the european union have once again called on cathy to relinquish power euphoria over the ongoing assault on tripoli is fading replaced by concern that the new government may not have the authority needed to bring and maintain peace these i bet it is following the reaction from london mr house come out and address the press he said it's clear the end is in sight now and go back to his regime is talking around to notice 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. recognize them the dismay leadership of libya they already have a dramatic 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 is clearly he is prepared for it to take longer than the maybe desirable david cameron the prime minister did also say that britain is prepared now to release the frozen at assets and give them back to the libyan people however there is some aren't certainty of who that will go to and how that will be used exactly the other uncertainty is of course get out of his exact whereabouts is still unknown there are confirmed reports that he is still in tripoli 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 this is still twenty first probably twenty percent of tripoli is 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 all the wheels in motion of is exactly how we have been here before for some leaders for kerry it's a situation that was posed dictator see. of course with iraq unlike iraq iraq

libya is sitting on this by. asked oil wealth 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 britain will be keen that would enough. play if the prime minister has already said that they are in for the long haul they saying they have learned those lessons and that is fueled. by the insurgence revenge killings to try and achieve this smooth transition. has either been upright that the white house meantime is hailed as the rebels advance into tripoli saying the situation is at a turning tipping point president obama once again called on the libyan leader to acknowledge reality and give up power immediately and as the u.n. mandate for nato as a military mission there expires next month some are suggesting the timing of the battle for tripoli is no coincidence. and president obama spoke earlier this sunday

night saying tripoli is slipping from the grasp of a thai wrangled so that could offer you must relinquish power once and for all the nato secretary general has made a statement of similar in fact saying they could offer a regime is crumbling and they now believe you 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 throw out six months here to washington has been a key player in the fight for the florist out of nato and as we know what this means nato as the heavy work the means by which nato has been accomplishing the goal of alice think gadhafi have seen many violations of the u.n. resolution from six months ago that authorized the military intervention building

light of all those violations it was very unlikely that the u.n. security council would have adopted yet another resolution on the levy a come september and superior 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 deledio the a very much reminds me 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 of you who are afraid that their voices could be ignored by the international community now he's going to come right then and there will be following the dramatic events in libya on air and online throughout the day so if you can stick with us. iran has started to move equipment used to enrich uranium for nuclear fuel for an underground bunker that until two thousand

and nine was a secret the. the nuclear facility is carved into a mountain offering better protection from any possible attack iran's top nuclear fission will settle some centrifuges have already been moved but they are taking their time to observe what he called technical standards that surround so as it has informed the international atomic agency about the view of more on this we're now joined by from tehran by professor marandi from the rather from the lebanese capital you were in beirut excuse me sir do you think three other real reasons behind this transfer of nuclear equipment well this is nothing new the new facilities that are being opened were or were being built for years and the reason was because the united states and its ally israel were constantly making threats against iran against against international law that they will bomb iran and bomb iran's nuclear facilities the iranians if there were if

there were no american threats to its sovereignty and to its independence the iranians had no reason to even take these facilities into any underground facility in the first place so it's basically to protect the people who work there are the workers the scientists and the ordinary people who are involved with the program and also to prevent the united states from making more of the zionist regime for making a stupid decision to attack iran so it's a preventive measure as well as a preventive measure here would move nuclear facilities borrowed deep into a mountain because of threats as you were saying by israel and america but given the international anxiety over iran's nuclear program how do you think this could affect relations with the international community could it is. devious in some form or another certainly washington might be prone to think such a thing. well the united states and the western european countries and governments

are not the international community they like to think they are but a euro centric world is coming to an end especially now that the united states and its partners have failed throughout the middle east and their economies are in very sorry shape i think that era is beginning to end the iranians are working with the international community the international atomic energy agency despite it being highly influenced by western powers is knows about the insulation the visited the installation the iranians build it and announce it within the framework of international law and so there is no problem in that respect the only problem is that the united states feels it has the right to impose its will upon others and to threaten countries with military strikes and this was. a program that from happening of course i think now it is becoming more and more clear that the united

states simply does not have the ability to attack iran the iranians are much stronger today than they were in the past and the united states and its allies are much weaker now in just about a two weeks or so ago see we had the chance to sit down and have an exclusive interview with the iranian leader argument. where he said the nuclear weapons are a weapon of war the last century and are obsolete before iran has no interest in any nuclear weapons so how would you read that. well i think the very fact that there has never been any need any evidence whatsoever to show that iran's nuclear program has been anything but peaceful even early on when there were very intrusive inspections throughout the country by the i.a.e.a. and the americans were feeding them all sorts of so-called intelligence there was absolutely no evidence provided or revealed that the iran's nuclear program had any aspect of it that was in any way or form military so the program itself is a part of iran's drive to do to move towards high tech industries and you see that

iran has developed all sorts of industries that have so far been in the hands of a very few countries for example satellite technology. nanotechnology. technology you're saying again the nuclear energy is out of energy purposes in technological purposes but if i may be running low on time here do you think that it's just a coincidence that the transfer of the nuclear equipment to this mountain facility comes with the change of regime in libya does it wrong possibly fear it could face a similar uprising you think. not at all i think there's no comparison to the iranian at this moment republicans highly popular among its own population if you look at polls carried out by americans any run you'll see the iranian election in the past have shown the best ami republic to be contrary to what western media and russian officials right there saying like that think it is highly it is solid it is

strong and it has popular support the problem really is that american allies in the region in the region are much weaker than before the united states is losing influence in the region but the reason why this move is taking place is because the facility is finally ready it's been being it has been built they began building it years ago and it's now ready and it's an investment and the iranians are going to make use of professors i admire and you know live for us from beirut thank you all the time now for the business news out karim is here. now welcome to our business update this hour the russian cars he continues to treat after it's a heavy sell off last week and certainty about the global economy is pushing investments or safe havens in a western from absalom says the ruble still house room for a week. really the ruble is held hostage to what happens with the dollar and with

oil prices and given that we we feel it's going to get worse before it gets better i think we get a further weakening and that could be seen further sort of accelerated by people palatial estate responding to diet and shifting their current their savings into hard currency and plus that we can see continuation of capital flight but you know hopefully passing oktober we should have hopefully again call me a situation that might give some additional fuel for fuel for the commodity prices and therefore the currency. as a collector markets now despite a negative opening the full sea has made a u. turn into the black getting over to two and a half percent the south the dax is up one of the sad gains of both and this is gaining some spot losses and asian markets earlier today. on friday on the russian and the seas are off the side of the bounce back from earlier losses where the r.t.s. game one percent why is it up one point three percent and a quick look at precious metals sell for a stop let's get over. to perception how percent this hour and gold is up more than

one percent that's after touching an all time peak one thousand eight hundred ninety four dollars a pop to say this could see. russian banks have seen a wave of customers buying gold bullion futures or promissory notes but hard cash gold coins not because. the banks say they sold more gold to private investors in the last month than they did in the rest of the year the reason is clear gold has risen all those four hundred per cent over the past and yes and move them thirty percent this year alone and in prices times it's physical gold gold and that is that gives a certain reassurance that paper money or a stock certificate just can't some experts fear in about two years and longed for gold may outstrip supply as central banks and hedge funds and now the public are looking to physical gold as

a sure way of weathering the market storm but it's no surefire investments some analysts predict it could hit the record levels of three thousand dollars per ounce all reza next year others are arguing it's a bubble and a half over its value is soon given so investors are still willing to bet gold will come through a shining that's all the business out there for no buts of about what about twenty minutes time. the be. the big.

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