well breaking news rebels claim to control the libyan capital after a major nato back to advance and there are reports three of color taffy's sons have been captured by the opposition but the location of the libyan leader is unknown. journalists in tripoli reported gunfire near the hotel saying reports of overnight looting of holes in the capital has left them feeling unsafe. and the opposition supporters rejoice hoping the forty year old regime is nearing a dead end but skeptics point to be said disillusionment that followed the fall of egypt's dictator. and international reaction ranges from euphoria to power right portion amid concerns every week likelihood of an unstable rebel government torn apart by competing interests.

international news from r.t. here in moscow is just turned eight pm and six pm in tripoli and so to our breaking news this hour the fast moving developments in libya rebels say they now control most of tripoli and have taken libyan state t.v. but some reports also suggest that opposition fighters have been looting private houses through going after his sons are now thought to be in rebel hands opposition leaders say a large number of their fighters have been killed there are reports that rebels are closing in on a good half is called public but the whereabouts of the colonel are unknown some rumors suggest that gadhafi may be in talks with self africa about a possible escape route despite denials from both sides and nato insists it will continue combat air patrols until the government forces surrender on the night of

chaos in the capital crowds have been seen in tripoli central square waving revolution the flags. or journalist mahdi nothing wrong. who is in a hotel in tripoli where the foreign press have been obliged to stay a juror in the conflict is afraid for his safety and he says he's being threatened . if the situation is going more tense more members of previous hotel staff and security. and media group he's responsible for a separate turn with guns obviously because they were fighting these are volunteers and not soldiers that returned from the news from the fighting and the picture they have given us is not a picture of loss and you were very confident and i believe i'm sorry to say i couldn't go for any one of them worse might if you kill from this possibility acting on it for me right now because there are snipers so motel. you leaving

messages for. us to c.n.n. for example might to continue right here and that is we would get killed. up veiled threat in my eyes it's an acceptable censorship in news came of. the. conflicts in what the western media that us are seeing as you know in journalist because i believe we contacted need on the rebels and i believe. the right of the journalists who were not reporting as for not reporting. framework of this consensus like saying danger we feel threatened by the rebels in my kitchen on the journalists here i'll tell you right now send me your own friend my degrees in your wheelchair you have snipers here somebody was sure i'd better know if they did i'm sorry to say i cannot go out of the arctic and he went to the person sure they left in their car

and asked to come back with a message was we are here you maybe i'm letting you know that the messages we are hearing on the ground are complete a. now did you receive. the law. there are reports of gunfire near the libya chuen is you have gotten thousands of libyans are heading in that direction and i want to flee the fighting between pro and anti gadhafi forces both immoral we're joined on the phone by our correspondent dina going to show she is in tunisia i mean to tell us now what is happening close to the border that. well. you have just mentioned there has been a rather intense fighting reported the same thing after all khadafi and rebel forces have just been kilometers from the border with tunisia and it's out of the much now if you have also mentioned of course border as within the band you have

been in sort of a degree of plate over the past five months people have to not have to try to cheaply because they have very good life you know about what's going on you know is potential it especially now with libyan forces literally attacking just going over out of their way over tripoli i want to get even more confusing out people who president in every cite me or the what are. they can cite say that over the past couple of weeks there have been reported clashes between on that identified arm down arms and again in border guards the ohss say does. there have been sightings of members of vehicles loaded with arms people reportedly reportedly libyans but with no rice's plate so it's hard to identify exactly who those who those people were now as in the clashes which were reported earlier today to be independently or

we're told. and i really believe and are just like to be in government was there have not been deployed and i just thought. already to say that they believe. that men on european. want it didn't work going on a quarter right now of course. then figuring everything that is going on it would be ok if what. i read here and bring you all. right thanks very much indeed for that update as you say more from you as you hear more of an. intern is now britain's sworn to stand by the fractious transitional government in the days and weeks ahead but self interest may be the driving force behind london's promises when that's according to john receipts from 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 good their free for their out of the western powers and part of the problem here is of course the way in which figures forward today has been the single biggest day of nato air operations in the entire history of this intervention so it's quite clear that here and see 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 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 but a promise that is a direct threat of 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 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 really i really believe that that will further divide them. john reese there in london where news of the rebel advance into tripoli was greeted warmly by investors around the world sparking an immediate drop in oil prices and they say now the most important question is just how much stability this new government will bring lardy sarah ferguson has the latest for us sara joining us

there in italy so what's the rebel takeover of tripoli done to the price of oil tell us more on that. but what we seeing really is a need jerk reaction in the oil markets to the events in tripoli we see in the oil prices as you say talking almost three dollars in festus thinking that there are oil production kids shortly now it's least foreign minister has confirmed that the italian oil company any has sent workers back into libya they've led the way really in sending their work is back there immediately we saw the stock prices rise again as we're saying on the hope that they'll be able to reestablish output from libya now what we've seen is the other big oil companies such is the b.p. have actually sat on the fence at the moment they're waiting for the exactly how this plays out and what's going to happen over the coming days and weeks analysts saying that any and total companies such as any intakes who could be the major

winners in post-war libya they were the companies and they were the countries that showed the most support for the rebel forces during this time. that they can benefit now with the current situation you originally but presumably many others have got. any thoughts about the future concerning. absolutely what we've heard from the information editor of the libyan rebel oil is they said they don't have any problems with western countries companies italy france the u.k. they're ok but they have political issues with countries like brazil china and russia and now if that's to be the case then that could certainly be a major setback those countries you could see the loss of billions of dollars worth of oil contracts i was speaking to one of the edited today very large nice paper here in italy and he's been following the situation very closely and how he described this is like

a chess game now between the oil companies between the front countries on the ground there is still an extremely confusing time in libya what's happening in sickly now there is still a lot of. thought out and they certainly find a means that this game at the moment but that both potential problems for those countries that the libyan rebels had pointed out but as he said amongst the market that they will be out there in oil production restored at some point in the near future in libya so thanks very much indeed for that from rome sara reporting there . well for more insight let's cross live now to french journalist and blogger most go from rome we now go to paris thanks very much indeed for joining us now from says of course has been the key driving force behind the nato campaign to help the rebels supporting the national transitional council but how beneficial is this friendship likely to be for paris in the future. well it begins to

place france but at the top of the global management table in the european sector otherwise known as. number one number two france interests and total oil and gas are invested in libya and as your reporter just pointed out they should be getting energy costs as they hope for the transitional government and more to their price liking even though the consumer will continue to be great with higher. gasoline prices they still benefit very well they're getting a lot of publicity out of this remember they were the first country to begin military. due to agree to belittle or even be against gadhafi in libya so they're riding talboys right now. to the mess just to ask you is nicolas sarkozy a writing cal popular opinion of him in

a moment. his opinion ratings are the lowest since he took office because his terrible reckless mismanagement of the economy. nicholas sarkozy nonetheless is taking a foreign policy view which we've seen all along since. of playing global management on foreign policy through nato operations and afghanistan and libya and people now you have to look at this this story. began yes this began as an east west dialogue with the russian foreign minister saying be cautious now we must look it's a north south conflict and south african foreign minister said today they will not recognize the interim government if mr gadhafi is ousted so we're beginning to see the seeds of the north car solve conflict as before we saw the seeds of the west

and cautionary. cautionary statements from the russian foreign minister. can explain it and this is a story that the north south conflict here. eluding that to south africa and indeed that's quickly talk about the african support for the african union hasn't exactly been that thank you very much right thank you very much mr gadhafi was a dictator he but he was a benevolent dictator if you know whether you like or dislike and he gave millions to black african health education and agricultural projects he is remembered for doing back he has not seen as black and white as he has seen in the west by his former supporters from the west the black african population particularly in chad all the way down to south africa i think that he made major contributions for the advancement of education health care and agriculture in africa which were a lot his money given to those nations who were not attacked. at the strings of the

international monetary fund or the world bank the bank steps you mentioned a little about this being a vindication of france's foreign policy victory for the and obviously the supporters among the nato alliance but the big question for them now is based on what happens next is this transitional government going to turn into a legitimate government or could they have a chance of a power vacuum after all the transitional government there are a lot of different factions there tribal differences religious differences what do you make of that yes i make it this way some of the key players on the transitional government are human rights activists from law but other key players. have been brought in like mr holland for his daughter who left to conduct the regime in the eighty's and moved to cia virginia near langley virginia to get tutored for a return to libya on

a projected period like we're now we have another chief man and the transitional government who got his ph d. from kurds which is fine but has been tutored in french imperial or geo political designs so yes there is going to be a big rift in this transitional coalition if you will there will be some nato will we therefore see nato continue. its military mission is due to expire in september what are your thoughts about the nato occupation further on or its involvement i should say. my thoughts are listening to general rasmussen the commanding general of nato is just riding cowboy also on this invasion because he finally thinks he has a winner after losing in afghanistan and iraq he thinks they told can get into war and war contractor business quite well by continuing in libya and he showed dictate western global management decisions like france and germany

and the u.k. as the military arm he is so police there. he has no designs i want to believe it's because he thinks right now he's riding high on western opinion and doing corporate press and western leadership houses like the white house where like ten downing street it's very interesting to hear your perspective on all of this thanks for your time and thanks for sharing your thoughts on this matter and. thank you for asking. it's no secret that joining us now live in paris where the french president nicolas sarkozy has announced that he'll hold a conference with the leaders of the libyan transitional government later this week . daniel bushell brings us now more from paris. 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 the talks are on the way

level and that nicolas sarkozy the french president will meet with do brule be head of the transition later today monday france is that the transitional council will be held 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 to come through with those problems 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 the vacuum. did the hard work lies ahead and the deep divisions between rebel factions means that it will be a difficult time because when there was a single enemy in gadhafi it was very easy for various factions some with very different interests to call in together and now there are fears that this may collapse and there may be a power vacuum fronts in fact claimed that the war mission in 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 kind of bushell there in paris that now the white house has held the rebels advance into tripoli saying the situation is that tipping point and i think going to church kind joins us live with more reaction from across the atlantic than what else are we hearing there. well from the latest here the u.n. secretary general has called on colonel gadhafi forces to cease fire immediately and make way for a peaceful transition and that the u. when he said stands ready to provide all possible assistance to the libyan people he also said that the u.n. is going to hold a meeting on the recent developments in libya with representatives from the e.u. the arab league and african union as well as other organizations well the could argue regime is falling apart that's obvious to everyone we meet enormous out of

nato and their airstrikes intervene time launching to a key player in this fight for taking the source says they are in close contact with the rebels leadership and that the u.s. will support and direct quote president obama at 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 the people in egypt are not governed by who they chose as their leaders and that's just one example of a gravel whooshing that any doubt puts people not getting what they wanted and the levy or those who to call for and that is the transitional national council have not been chosen by the leading people get the council has been recognized as a legitimate power in the by all allies has been helping al skidelsky many libyans

are outraged by the fact that foreign powers of essentially made those very important choices for them just briefly and finally the u.n. mandate for nato is going to treat mission in libya expires in september not going to go it was a crucial time for the alliance to topple gadhafi by this time. bill the work has been going on for six months it took many lives include a lot of criticism nato is facing a deadline in september when a resolution for 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 see on the ground in libya right now it looks like the nato has met the nato forces have met the deadline it's important to note that colonel gadhafi had very few friends in the international community after what he had people and the whole of the international community has been united saying that he

must go he must step down all of the u.n. security council members shared that you including russia but many say the way nato has been accomplishing the goal of toppling could be going beyond the u.n. resolution from six months ago which authorized military intervention some say it went far beyond the resolution was designed to protect civilians but many innocent civilians have been killed by needle strikes during those six months and also the funneling of weapons to libyan rebels as has been done in violation of arms embargo imposed on the as far as the rebels are concerned they are far from being their home market is sort of united group here there has been internal fighting going on among them but many experts are saying that the fight being in charge of leave us will be of no surprise to anyone considering what's at stake and here we're talking about a nation that has the richest oil reserves in africa ok going to thanks very much indeed for that live in washington d.c.

. william ngo of the author of full spectrum dominance to try to turn democracy in the new world order has told us a little earlier that he thinks the struggle for libyan oil is the real bottom line of the whole nato operation. it's simply an insurgency been supported covertly by u.s. financed arm shipments into the rebels and in order to simply carve up the oil fields and get it into western hands rather than in a libyan state hands which could offer he held firmly to that i think the real underlying issue in this whole nato bombing of libya i think some of the western oil interests especially the british and the french who are fighting like and like puranas over grabbing the most to use the world feels for them for their own companies. to have chaos because and they can control the perms of of oil exploitation much better and ever since and it's been the most brazen violation of

international law that we've seen it's so incredible to me that. the international media doesn't abate some of the some of the legal aspects of this and i think what what libya's going to face after that is a period of prolonged chaos nobody knows the outcome this is as i said in the beginning this is try again strive this is not democracy against innocent. well let's go believes that gadhafi 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 legitimate plan which will stick to its economic commitments towards the constantine cause the job the chairman of the state duma foreign affairs committee says that even if the opposition wins infighting is around the corner. the national committee assistance committee is not your native it consists of different tribes ethnic groups political forces. will start fighting each other i'm

afraid there's. no the future government of libya heading heads of these foreign. support we'll be very very grateful and. very helpful to these current just this group of nato countries for them to receive the future contours of for the rebuilding the economy of libya. you know russia they have no chance to have the same equal. treatment of the countless which have helped with the opposition in libya to believe this week three. will be following the dramatic events in libya on air and online throughout the day so to stay with us here and i think i'll be back with the latest headlines in just a few minutes from now before that we have the business news with kareem.

hello and welcome to our business up at this hour start with oil prices are falling sharply code is sliding as needed rebels appear to be on the verge of ousting the cloth it was aimed and christine says coronal from standard and poor's says brant crude is likely to hit the one hundred dollars per barrel mark. well he needed to fix this particularly with brandy because it is more sensitive to what's happening in the region would be for it to come down but you have to realize that the things seemed libya have not actually been resolved. khadafi the forces of good steel place are counter-offensive so things have not been resolved but if things do get settled then we will see price the price of grain coming down but we must not forget the price of oil it's also something that investors and other people use is a hatred against inflation goes we've seen the price come down with new fuel

believe but then the rise as the dollar so it's going to have a mix effect will think brant even situation in libya falls apart doesn't fall apart who proudly trade down to one hundred. let's look at the thirty's now crude oil futures turn lower tracking those losses brand crude on the heels of a regime change in libya bring down one dollar fifty four cents to trade at one hundred seven dollars a barrel. hollering at eighty two dollars a barrel. other quick or precious metals gold careening closer to one thousand nine hundred dollars an ounce of the fight to see it and continues and silver is gaining you need to pursue something else stocks of the you were counting well all financial rallies nesters keep tabs on libyan and game traders are also looking ahead to a speech of third chairman ben bernanke on friday energy majors or higher u.s. listed shares of italy's any biggest producer leading crude jumped eight percent

french all conglomerate total also rose it's now up three how sad and world that show over three percent here's europe where most of the markets in the black athletes and finished over a percent higher led by gains world feel services from from the petro fact after a strong first couple of days the rising silver and gold prices helped lift is no out of the debts and the lord. moderate gains losing the point one percent. here in russia markets and then in the black but not so high the odds he has gained a quarter of a percent while the eyes it's finished and nearly point four percent here's a look at something of a total shambles organize it snows an inch of majors bounce back around a loss was worth also have a couple of points one for subs mining stocks were also on the rise the bt be up gun point seven percent and point metals among the main gainers adding nearly six percent on strong gold costs. that's a business that got us out by to join me in about forty five minutes nelson or

right out. twenty years ago in the largest country in the same situation. which had been. begun the german.