breaking news this hour a lot of production suns considered by many as his father successor appears in tripoli from supporters despite rebel claims to have been detained when they stormed the city a day ago it's added to the confusion over who's in control of the capital both government and insurgent forces insist they count the op or hand. also doubts are cast over whether a rebel victory would actually leave the libyan people people in control of their destiny for points to egyptians were those who fought for the revolution and it up with the governments they didn't choose and. even get pulled the fate of tripoli is sealed great oil grab is already beginning. as western oil companies start

circling around the violence torn country concerns resurface the so-called battle for democracy was a war for black and gold all along. a day on the russian capital you're watching r t a marina joshie tell breaking news this hour gadhafi son made an appearance in central tripoli refusing rebels claim that he was arrested the claim was initially confirmed by the international criminal court as an apparent journalist lisa phelan told us this is casting a shadow over other statements by the rebel council. well there have been some extraordinary events of course we've been hearing over the past few days that the libyan government is crumbling the position of claim the rebels have claimed they are in complete control of tripoli was not surprised by the surprise of all the

foreign journalists here in the rixos hotel when i found one show doc at the hotel . with. convoy and he gave an interview he did and he also took some of the journalists with him for a drive through the fifty where they were taken to the area where some of them say they saw thousands of people in the area in support of the libyan government and. a number of people from sides across the country have come into the toughest. the struggle here against the rebels. very much relaxed and high spirit. that the libyan government and volunteers are winning against the rebels and then we also have the news that mohammed gadhafi has got. his other son who was reported to have been captured has been released by his other brother. and he apparently has television so course he's. just completely plan the

perception of the wild about what's happening here in the capital on its side. journalist and anti-war activist susan lindauer says the libyan regime might fall but bad long bringing a chance to the bloodshed i think that it is the end of the regime however i do not think that it is the end of the war i think that that nato has a very serious problem they have arrived at the point of a gun they've brought to my quote unquote democracy to libya through guns and the people of libya are very angry at nato they are not jubilant the rebels who have arrived there are celebrating but people are not celebrating with them these people do not like outsiders they are now preparing to pursue tribal vengeance and vendettas very quietly they will punish those who have attacked them and we will probably not hear very much about that in the in the western media at all but this war is not over and they will now have their blood and they are not going to be

eager to reciprocate and reward britain or france or italy they would like to see those countries stay out of their of their of libya and to stay out of their oil as well now the fight is not over in tripoli but the carve up of libya's vast oil richest the biggest in africa it's already beginning to tell you and foreign minister fired the starting gun saying it was any oil company will play the number one role in the region and as he's lower and it reports the service won't come cheap or the libyan people. delivered as a promise but seen by many as more of a threat david cameron says nato will stay while libya makes the transition to democracy allied forces lend their support to the rebels to take tripoli to stop the war coalition warns libyans not to expect they're getting something for nothing the western powers don't do this without asking for a paper why is it that the head of the t.n.c.

is running off to paris to meet with the french president well of course that is one very very important issue is 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. to further explore and those all richard the british government makes no secret of the fact that it's motives in supporting the rebels aren't entirely altruistic last year alone the u.k. exports it around forty billion dollars of goods and services to north africa and the middle east but it's black gold that's the key libya has the largest oil reserves in africa and western powers look at the region when they talk about humanitarianism ultimately think the whole great matter it says it's impossible not to draw a comparison with iraq he's written a book about the aftermath of the iraq invasion in which he maintains western

powers imposed a democracy which played on sectarian divisions that ensured years of tribal struggle but also meant the allies retained control of the oil supply while the u.k. government insists lessons have been learnt from iraq western oil firms move into libya even before the fate of tripoli is sealed great oil grab is already beginning b.p. has a contentious oil and gas exploration contract in libya which the u.k. government will be anxious for it to resume italian all giant easy n i. is the first to send back to libya and its shares rose on the new french two towel and all three as. well as investors hopes they soon be able to resume production in libya but at what price to the libyan people the great fear is that just as they did in iraq the creation democracy which serves british interests or western interests or oil companies interests and has nothing for the people of libya nor emmett's

aleksey london asia times correspondent pepe escobar believes as soon as western countries get libyan oil contracts the old one boots on the grounds to secure it. this is the cover story in this story from the beginning was r two p. responsibility to protect there as the basis for a un resolution one hundred seventy three there is a b. the of the agreement between the u.s. and saudi arabia we get a resolution based on your fake arab league world nine countries out of twenty two and you can do when you want with perino or in saudi arabia itself but this was the cover story salt to american and european public opinion especially the chinese the russians many brazil for where they are not by and they not it's a us need to coordinate or operation without them there will be no the traditional be a stalemate there will forever then we have international community sort of these equally that lantus is ours he can sides in a civil war so when they knew that he could go on for months or years on end it's

ok let's try to take tripoli in one day and they did it because they belong basically people on the whole sea and the way towards you know what this reminds me of i was there at a time because the russian provisional authority in iraq in two thousand and three this is the same thing we're going to have a western boots on the ground and we're going to open up. libya for a hardcore no holds bar to war capitalism with no rebuttal ration of profits you know well let's get their oil as soon as we can the best contracts possible are not that this is cool please if this is the way we don't know yet that the u.s. and nato goals we're going to have a rock two point zero. let's speculate ssion rising and what to have for a levy if the rebels when we're interested in your opinion on the matter express it at r t dot com well so far most of the viewers think levy zero will turn into another oil rich colony for nato members twenty one percent don't believe anything

will change at all and just under that field will split as an internal struggle for power begins only a minority believe the country will actually turn into a democratic state well you can let us know what you think on this issue by logging on to our website our team dot com and have your say. cheering crowds in tripoli is the green square left mannie around the world with a feeling of deja vu back in february egyptians were united in joy and hope for a brighter future when they celebrated the toppling of hosni mubarak now it's the feeling of disappointment that unites them is that it should count looks at what's ahead for levy and if the change finally comes. to could that the regime is crumbling. the levy and rebels are cheering. the. same cheers and tears could be seen in egypt in february as the nation outfit their

longtime leader hosni mubarak but six months on many egyptians say their hopes have been crushed by reality. but you know i love the revolution when it happened i won't come to it look at the time we call life at the end of the tunnel we see it's not getting better and i think just don't tell me about democracy for hungry people just doesn't matter the egyptians now are not governed by they chose their leaders instead it's their or me that's in control the army that has strong ties with the u.s. that he sponsored by washington the military regime the edifice the institutions that were to be as since the fundamental essence of the mubarak regime those real. and we can see that thousands of people have been brought to military trial since the end of the popular revolution that ousted mubarak in tripoli the body taking over is the national transitional council also not chosen by the libyan people yet

the council is being recognized as the legitimate government of libya by all allies in helping oust gadhafi and many libyans are outraged by the fact that foreign powers are effectively making vital choices were that there's too much wealth and geopolitical strategic value for libya to only become reformed democratic rights and universal participation by the citizenry. western powers need to implement a western economic and military agenda and therefore the people who will eventually command the political situation in libya and the military situation will indeed be supported and buttressed by western powers western powers have thrown all their support behind the leading national transitional council giving them billions of dollars and weapons to gain control but the rebels are far from being a united group what is 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 tribe against tribe this is not democracy against totalitarian revolutions in egypt and libya developed under different scenarios in egypt it was an own armed uprising the new leads in libya it's really an insurgency flooded with weapons by the way and those weapons are still in their arms and they're not going anywhere and many analysts are saying that libyans could find themselves in a much worse situation than the egyptians because on top of power crisis similar to the want to gyptian they're having libyans could be facing a fresh outbreak of violence at the hands of the long i'm going to shut down reporting from washington r.t. former bush administration official michael o'brien says once caught no matter what happens to khadafi it will be the hague tribunal pulling the strings. be careful what you ask for you might get it but again you may not the example of egypt and they're not really there a they didn't get what they were fighting for that may happen in libya as well. it

seems that. the west is very there's a there's a bond between the libyan rebels and the western countries there's a lot of input now we'll have to do a lot of you know a lot of interplay i should say but now we'll have to wait and see. the rebels who are still sort of well you know exactly who are they and how will they do there are they just using the west to get to take over tripoli in the country and get rid of gadhafi and then once that's gone they're going to do their own thing and they don't need the west anymore the hague be reassured or is very much involved in what's going to happen when when they captured gadhafi which i have no doubt they will so does that mean the people of libya are going to decide his fate i don't really think so i think the international court's going to decide his fate and i sound a little cynical when i say this i think maybe his trial and maybe punishment execution

life in prison may be in libya to make it look like the libyan people or are deciding his fate hiding in the he is reported to have reached the country's border with tunisia where heavy gunfire has been heard that he has beefed up its army presence in the frontier areas leaving and infiltrators have allegedly crossed the border are just correspondent a really low skilled at a spot for us. violent clashes have been reported along it's unusually been border over the weekend it all started on friday when a local resident has reported that near the town of dues reportedly several vehicles with the license plate carrying arms men have been spotted afterwards clashes have been erupting throughout the week in between but it's unusual border patrol and the even men we cannot talk with certainty about their identity now you have to remember that it was in tunisia where the events of the so-called arab

spring have started transfer to transpire this year with the ousting of the tunisian president and the unrest which started in tunisia has essentially been caught like a fever throughout the middle east and northern africa and the result is that what we are seeing in capital right now now back then in the spring of this year thousands were fleeing from tunisia to europe in order to escape the mayhem which was going on here and now a similar situation is happening to libya but now libyans are fleeing over the border with tunisia into tunisia and of course what we could be witnessing is yet another human catastrophe in the region with thousands of refugees trying to escape to me of course we do not know whether or not those refugees will try and make their way into europe wish filled with that crisis and now may be facing another one with the ongoing clashes in libya now former u.s.

diplomat in libya john graham says even if the rebels take over there will barely be a hint of democracy in libya. there is so little civil society in libya there are so few and so democratic institutions and are so weak they have nothing to do other than egypt and tunisia has at least something to build on once the filter was was no way were it in libya that's not the case these people have to start from scratch and there are all kinds of reasons why it could fail what is the whole nature of the transitional council is the it's it's a mess these people are some of them are exiles some of their marmar have fled from there you could argue regime a few of them are islamicists some are intellectuals and college professors some are business people so just hanging together is going to be an enormously difficult task for them the other thing is that they've got. reprisals they've got they can't

they can't they can't care for prizes against their enemies that will just create the kind of civil strife that everyone was to avoid russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says there could have been a last bloody you're a solution to the league in crisis but both know you didn't allow it to happen. we have always wanted a quick outcome and it could have been faster but a number of factors prevented this from happening including could have his position told allies they could actually insist the negotiations were only possible through him as actions were also on the far exceeded their mandate it should go to the u.n. security council. france plans to hold a high level meeting next week to discuss a b.b.s. political future the top leading opposition leader has been invited to the french capital archy's daniel bushels as paris is behaving as if it conflicts over and that could be seen as jumping the gun. the french president has spoken to the rebel

leader. by telephone on monday and announced that he's invited him for talks on wednesday francis said that libya is a potentially rich country but it needs support and aid to rebuild in fact paris is behaving as if it's all over now but experts here do express fears that the regime is between the rebels themselves that they like a common enemy and get their feet because indeed now gone maybe there is further violence as those splits between the rebels are exposed in brussels the diplomats and analysts saying that would give united states has really taken a backseat here see an opportunity to take a leading role french defense minister says that the talks will find a road map to the future of libya that's necessary to avoid the country slipping back into civil war to find common ground and to force the crissy the officially approved toys between european nations and the new government now it's

a leisurely the silvio berlusconi has also announced that he will be meeting the rebel leaders now analysts here are saying that this may be too also long before western ration for its oil corporations for example we know that it's only any have large contracts with gadhafi before the civil war and was accused of corruption in order to gain must've contracts in that country then a little reporting there it was just to remind you we've got extensive coverage of the situation in tripoli on our website i. always had there for the latest video analysis and opinion and again i also get the latest news from the region on our twitter page so powers that are actually on a score. counter and going out conflict now in syria the u.n. says more than twenty two hundred people have been killed there in say. monthlong

crackdown on anti-government protesters and the spy growing calls by the western leaders on the shuttle acid to step down he says his regime is not in danger the government is in control he is worried for national who is in syria went to see for yourself whether that's true. the city of hama around two hundred to one of those north of the capital damascus religiously conservative sunni dominated city it's been one of the centuries of religious tensions here in syria for many years in one thousand nine hundred eighty two during the current president bashar assad's father ruling the city saw bloody massacre more than to amnesty international over ten thousand people were killed there in the regime's crackdown on the city's sunni population during this conflict this city has been among the last to join the national opera's in the army were moved into in july and withdrew ten days later i t. is now going there to see how things are on the ground after the army left the city and to try to find out exactly what happened there ten day military operation

during the first part of our journey the road looked quite normal surprisingly so for a war torn country. goes through homs a city where activists have been reporting dozens of civilians over the last two months of violence. the closer we get to it the more dramatic twists in the real becomes checkpoints appear along the highway. a while later our car catches up with a military convoy the troops apparently returning to a nearby base after the operation in homs officially over a store but not for long. at the entrance to hama all the cars are checked but that's not the only reminder of the recent unrest. this bridge in the city of hama became infamous after it appeared in an amateur video posted on you tube showing their butt is thrown to the r.c.

river comment accompanying this video sad these were residents of hama killed by security forces while syrian t.v. reported they were policeman. disappointed presidents vote to end all military operations against anti-government protesters they've recently been reports about the army still being deployed in several cities across syria including hama. we mistake a man at the checkpoint for one of the soldiers but he's just a police officer wearing special arms protection a measure introduced following dramatic events here this is what's left from the office of squad in the center of the city of hama officials say it was attacked by three missed groups operating here shortly before. the city they say that. young group set a building on fire and killed at least twenty soldiers who were inside the building at the time. the army came to remove garrick reason behind these barricades there

were armed creep or not peaceful demonstrations and there were clashes between them and the troops. while the governor's sharing his views on what's happened a crowd gathers outside his residence this slogan sound natural first. god is great. but it's. changes in seconds what's people start seign gives a completely different picture we lived about a month and the. disclose the information about. the city we. met at the state i thought. maybe i. remember is that officials though but all responsibility on the people themselves they have the right spots these people just don't want to give the government trying to do reforms the reforms cannot go through in such an atmosphere. i would journey to hama has been part of

a so called syria is fine tour but no matter what his initial goal was it turned out to be very different from its name. r.t. damascus hama syria a time now for the business news with us here. hello that's right time for your business update well the latest plunge in the markets could force russia to revise its privatization program one of the most anticipated deals of the autumn the sale of a seven point six percent stake as burbank is under threat the country's biggest lender has lost over twenty percent of the capital since late july and say the current market situation is not favorable for selling any assets to good price and it stayed with its product as asian programme aiming to gain over two hundred

billion dollars by twenty seventeen. crude prices dropped sharply on monday as the rebellion in oil rich maybe a bit close to ending a resumption of oil exports which is worries of the global supply constraints but of course prices just three year highs this year however christian says corona from standard and poor's says it will take the country at least a year to get back on top. i think it will take about a full year before production he said its peak i believe is currently producing around less than one hundred thousand barrels which is about nine percent of the previous capacity now we understand from any which is the largest producer in the country that so far as they know installations have been hurt but still you cannot just turn it on you have to build up the pressure and you have to start gradually so it will probably take a full twelve months before they reach peak. time for a look at the market's current price was edging up while the muscles continue to

our development and leave you with more indications on the restart of world x. was from the opec member transplant is trading at one hundred eight dollars per barrel while the government is just a notch below eighty five dollars a barrel and so quick look up the precious metals gold is trading at another all time high of one thousand nine hundred dollars. like safe haven ass's continues and silver is also well it's trading at forty three dollars. asian shares are inching higher as overnight gains on wall street and european markets improved investor sentiment here and gallucci was ahead of the opening bell here in moscow the markets managed to close in the black on monday marty has gained point two percent while the mice are close by a third of percent. ok look at it head to the trading day tony monday from a screeching investment boeing says u.s. economic data and events in libya will be guiding market sentiment. investors and

russian markets we focused on the key story of the week which is going to be. coming out of the u.s. at the end of the week that has us second quarter g.d.p. revision as well as u.k. but the big story of course is jackson hole on friday will be trading around stories that potentially could come out of the big story is there going to be q e three is there going to be another round of easing is the gateway not a program by which the fed buys backed securities or extends the maturity of the doubt that it's already bought back no one really knows but that'll be the tape drive or really through the week to remove mill around that so i think today at least the markets are going to be pretty pretty volatile as they have been for a while i think the second story as well for russia which is important is that the market price to digest the implications of. of the events unfolding in libya and what the implications are for the oil price. on monday from up there with what you can expect from the coming trading day that's all the business news for now you can find more stories on our website archetype console business.

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