a very warm welcome to you this is r t live from moscow with me to show so we start off with breaking news the fast moving developments in libya rebels say they now control most of tripoli and have taken the libyan state t.v. off the air but some reports also suggest that opposition fighters have been looting private houses another of the khadafi sons meantime is in the rebel custody opposition leaders say a large number of their fighters have been killed there are reports that the rebels are closing in on khadafi compound but the whereabouts of the colonel remain unknown some rumors suggest that could f.e.m.a. 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 servant following a night of chaos in the capital crowds have been seen in tripoli's central square

waving revolutionary flags. right over now we're joined live with journalist a muddy who was in the hotel in tripoli where the foreign press have been obliged to stay during all of this hello to us so what is the situation in the hotel where you are now when we last spoke to you and heard random gunfire outside you'd also mentioned that one of the two could not be loyalists had to come inside the hotel for medical treatment or what what's the what's the latest. situation is growing more tense more members of the previous hotel staff and security. media group who is responsible for us have returned with guns and obviously is the refining these are volunteers they're not soldiers they returned with news from the fighting and the picture they've given us is not a picture of loss and they were very confident and i believe i'm sorry to say i couldn't go for it one of them. might have been killed from this possibility acting out for me right now because there are snipers still. we've been given messages by

. c.n.n. for example mark to mention al-qaeda or anything like that because we get to. a veiled threat in my eyes it's unacceptable it's censorship. it is not acceptable and it certainly seems like an increasingly fair way you have it you when you when you're talking about the latest violence is that around the hotel where you all reside in other parts of the city or are you hearing violence from other parts of the city as well but i have to news came of. the conflict in what the western media that you. are seeing c.n.n. journalist i believe you can take the needle in the rebels. the ones that are actually security guards who can actually security guards that's who they really are but i've said we have to take action soon now they have expressed their own

extraction times and i believe my wife and my wife are the journalists who were not reporting. not reporting in the framework of this consensus i'd like to endanger a very unhappy press were didn't get networks and anything happens to. anything out and i believe not going it would have definitely been a threatening us the friend british national british nationals national french national. this is not acceptable you know just because we're not going with nato. in new york. and new york of rich in the us when ongoing right now when it was present to new york is not winning i think they going to try to speak as a back to the military here their responsibility to protect which i never saw back greener or saudi arabia and there's. seeing this get their troops caught here this

is the. people we saw or seen kept their car here and they were very confident and to be honest with you i just a little more seen one of them is young man he works you know. one of the journalists ha he's very. very peaceful comments are and i want you to when you talk about feeling feeling threatened to try to hear you want to forgive me for interrupting here but you don't you talk about feeling threatened befitting talking by the rebel forces who have taken control of our centers or is it was is also the loyalists go no no not that we feel threatened by the rebels and by the name of the journalists and i'll tell you right now and you don't have threatened what i think is i'm not real sure. you know. what do you do you have a safe house to do you have a safe room with no pursuit of the war zone where where can you seek shelter if you know if. the russian embassy said do welcome us we can't get there because the

fighting in front of the cuban embassy. do you hear the fighting it started it's getting very becoming you know it's you know this crash god knows what can happen. to the real international community not in need of countries take action to get us out of here and i know you just ask me if i hear if i hear the latest gunfire was i got fire was up possibly nato bombing. there was going to fire me and i haven't heard that going for. you did say earlier that you. know it's it is in the immediate vicinity of your hotel lebanese your neighborhood to say under siege. is my neighborhood under siege but we have snipers here somebody was sure i don't know if they did i'm sorry i cannot go for check and once in a person sure they left in their car and asked to come back with a message was we are here. maybe i'm letting you know that the messages we're

hearing on the ground are conflicting what they report see what al-jazeera she would soon see and you can get very upset if you very upset. if you're not going the way the law. will try to show you later i guess there's a. life for us there in tripoli many thanks indeed. all right i will members of the european union have once again called on khadafi to relinquish power but 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 ben it is following the reaction from london. house come out and address the press he said it's clear the end is in sight now and gadhafi is regime is toppling around in those 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 recognize them the just move 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 to really he's 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 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 france germany and italy of all back to 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 probably

twenty percent of tripoli is under the control of could that be 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 and is posted down the plan however we have been made to tell you brooke harriet's situation of the post dictatorship. of course with iraq and like 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 greece in that though will be keen to avoid another round that nick clegg the deputy prime minister has already said that they are in 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 and meantime

a briton has sworn to stand by the fractured transitional government in the days and weeks ahead but self interest may be the driving force behind at london's promises that's according to john research the stop the war coalition. got rid of gadhafi and nobody is 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 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 proxy use of the western powers and the western powers don't do this without asking for a payback and they will be asking for a payback if i were 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 have a knows what a military alliance supposedly assisting a transition to democracy is all about i would take those remarks as more of a threat than a promise that is a direct threat by david cameron that they will use their military and economic weight to gain what they want out of any new government in libya 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 assistance of nato that they do not require the assistance of the major powers that 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 would i really believe that that will further divide them. well

meantime the french president nicolas sarkozy will hold talks with the leader of the libyan transitional government later today by telephone and a multinational oil giants have already started to move their workers into now vacant oil fields down a bushel brings the latest reaction now from europe the french defense minister says that has called for a meeting in paris to plan what he calls a road map for libya french france's foreign ministry says that talks are under 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 says that the transitional council will need help as it moves forward now as it plans its future did the libya is a potentially prosperous country but it needs assistance from the west if it's to comes through with those plans to 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 you

admitted that 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 at their feet it was very easy for various factions some with very different interests to bond together and now there are fears that this may collapse and there may be a power vacuum france in fact claimed that the mission in libya is over now defense experts here in the european union are 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 some analysts do see the potential for western powers to divide up libya according to british in particular to the oil interests shares in italy's all giant any have shot up on news that it has sent workers into libya already to work on that country's oil fields. daniel

reporting right there as the fall of gadhafi government in tripoli is apparently moving closer speculation about who will get control of libya's a 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 to lead this government does not exist it's to put a government of course it's about it's always about all you have many disagreements inside the alarms the airlines are in deep crisis the consider themselves the cup of the world and asked. to use lobbyist story afghanistan libya who are they going to attack the key question is when will the public opinion week finally and see we don't need these kind of aggressions we don't the killings we

don't print ring of the results is we need a solution to the economic and social problems of europe in united states the white house has hailed the rebels advance into tripoli saying that the situation is at a tipping point president obama once again call them a libyan leader to acknowledge reality and give up power immediately is a gun a teacher cannot join us live from washington d.c. with more guy what else did president obama have to say. well worry as the gadhafi regime is collapsing with the enormous help of nato when their air strikes washington says they were in close contact with the lead rebels leadership and that the u.s. will support and here i quote president obama a peaceful transition to democracy well everything that was going on in tripoli this weekend was anything but peaceful we're talking about extensive nato bombing of the city before the rebels made it to the central square of tripoli we've seen the rebels cheering all night that very much reminded of what we saw in cairo when

hosni mubarak was ousted but up until now as we know the people in egypt are not governed by who they chose as their leaders and similar things happened in other colors revolutions when people ended out with not what they wanted and in libya those who took over and that is the transitional national council have now been chosen by the league and people get the council is being recognized as a legitimate power in libya by all allies been helping oust gadhafi many libyans are outraged by the baghdad foreign powers that have essentially made those very important choices for them. the u.n. mandate for nato is a military mission expires next month so been under pressure to topple gadhafi before the deadline we know a couple of weeks ago the nato sent a message to rebel leaders hurry up and to finish this nato wouldn't continue to prop up this revolution. well exactly the war has been going on for six months it took many lives and drew a lot of criticism nato is facing

a deadline in the september when a resolution full strikes has to be renewed and given all the violations that have taken place it would be very hard to get everyone on board for extending the campaign with what we're seeing on the ground it looks like they have met the deadline it's important to know that colonel gadhafi had no friends in the international community after what he had done to his people and the whole of the international community has been has so far been united in saying that he must go all of the u.n. security council members shared their view including russia but many say the way nato has been accomplishing the goal of toppling khadafi went beyond the u.n. resolution from six months ago which also raised the military intervention and some say far beyond the resolution was designed to protect civilians but many innocent civilians have been killed by nato strikes during those six months the funneling of weapons to levy and rebels was also done in violation of the arms embargo imposed on us for the rebels they are far from being a homogenous group there has been some internal fighting going on among the rebels

themselves but many experts are saying the fight for being in charge. is no surprising considering what's at stake and we're talking about a nation that has the richest oil reserves in africa well while there is still fighting going on in tripoli we know that the rebels are already negotiating oil contracts with companies from countries that have helped to help them get off their back one libyan oil for and controlled by the rebels said that there may be political issues working with russian chinese and brazilian companies in this sector so for some the battle in tripoli may be about ideals but it seems many of them there are very much down to earth with their emissions going at the consulate isn't even over yet according to most people and yet the multinational corporations already getting involved going to china today that it's it's very eager to get involved with every building the infrastructure of libya perhaps another another country they're looking to go to get

a piece of the pie here off the cuff possibly the post office he's gone each life in washington. moscow believes that khadafi has no option but to resign and that a change of power in libya could pull the country out of crisis however it says that foreign interference in libya's internal affairs is unacceptable russia also hopes the takeover will put in place a digital a power which will stick to its economic commitments towards moscow because that in course a trough the chairman of the state duma foreign affairs committee says even if the opposition wins infighting is just around the corner the international community systems community is not united it consists of different tribes ethnic groups political forces. will start fighting each other i'm afraid. mr. know the future government of libya heading

had these foreign supports will be very very grateful and. very helpful to these characters these group of need to countries for them to receive the future contracts for the rebuilding of the economy of libya their china nor 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's trip. and i will be following the dramatic events in libya on air and online throughout the day so if you can do stay with us. and some other news now here on r.t. 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 and airstrikes artie's poulos leno has more details for us from tel aviv. the popular resistance committees has agreed to be

party to this egyptian brokered truce between israel and hamas now the p.l.c. is significant because one it is a relatively small one palestinian state and it is the. whole to sponsible for that initial cross border raid on thursday that killed eight israeli citizens and that's 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 not 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 crazy and for him to distract attention away from them. with r.t. live from moscow now iran has started to move equipment used to enrich uranium for nuclear fuel to an underground bunker that until two thousand and nine was a secret the fordo nuclear facility is carved into a mountain offering better protection from a possible attack iran's top nuclear spokesman said that the some centrifuges have already been moved but the taking the time to observe what he called technical standards officials insists they inform the international atomic energy agency about the move professor mohammad marandi from tehran university says the transfer is partly to remove any temptation the u.s. may feel to attack so it's basically to protect the people who work there the

workers the scientists and the ordinary people who are involved with the program and also to prevent the united states from making or the zionist regime for me in a stupid decision to attack iran at this moment republicans highly popular among its own population if you look at polls carried out by americans in iran you'll see that the iranian election is in the past have shown the lawmaker republic to be contrary to what western media and western officials like to say in like that thing that 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. now i do you up to date on the latest news stories here on r.t. but do stay with us kareen is now here with the business.

welcome to our business update this all thanks for joining me there are some currency continues to retreat after it's saw a heavy sell off last week and certainty about the global economy is pushing investors toward safe havens peter weston from says that the ruble still house will for weeks. really the ruble is how the whole stage to what happens with the dollar and with dollar prize given that we feel is going to get worse before it gets better i think we're going to further weakening and that could be some other 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 oktober we should have hopefully again call me a situation that might give some additional fuel to fuel for the commodity prices and therefore the currency. of the markets now your stocks opened shop a high breaking a four week losing straight many traders are looking ahead to a speech by the federal reserve chairman ben bernanke who had an illness named on

friday meanwhile airline stocks to reports that a six month civil war in which to levy a could soon end shares of u.s. airways game four percent group public airways rose five and delta airlines plan b. point four percent despite a negative opening the footsie has made a u. turn into the black gaining over two percent the dax is up one and a half percent this hour the gains for both and this is comes despite blow also as an asian markets early in the day and will speak on friday. on the roster then this is a high end trading they bounce back from earlier losses but the r.t.s. gaining a quarter of a percent this hour while the my six is up half a percent now here's a look at some individual share most of them isaac's most energy majors bounced back from earlier losses were. up point two percent north may kill is also up to fitch cut its rating to below investment grade that's because of the shareholder dispute. and a delay in posting last year's financial results polymath poll is among the main

gainers this up over five percent actually five percent supported by a strong goal. now brant crude falls in london on speculation even production will recover after rebels enter the capital tripoli brant down one dollar twenty four cents to trade at one hundred seven dollars a barrel is hovering at eighty four dollars. and a quick look at precious metals silver is up it's gaining over two percent and a half percent or so and gold is up more than one percent that's after touching an all time peak one thousand eight hundred ninety four dollars as the flight to stay contained was. added to a russian banks have seen a wave of customers buying gold bullion futures or promise we notes but hard cash gold coins that's in a pickle reports the banks say they've 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

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about it with the live from moscow and i'll break the news for you this hour libyan rebels reportedly gained control of the capital after a major nato back to advance meanwhile there are reports that two of colonel gadhafi sons have been captured by the opposition but the location of the libyan leader meantime is unknown. opposition supporters are rejoicing hoping the forty year old regime is nearing a dead end but skeptics point to the bitter disillusionment that followed the fall of egypt's dictator. and the international reaction now ranges from euphoria to outright caution talk about concern over the likelihood of an unstable rebel government twenty apart by competing interests. but it's not just the u.k.'s justice system under scrutiny following recent riots the aussies are the bennett talked of british author i would.