worldwide news live from moscow this is r t with me rule received explosions have been heard near the libyan leader's compound as the fight for tripoli rages for a third day but no one seems to know where colonel gadhafi is and heavy clashes between the rebels and government forces have been reported in central parts of tripoli including around a hospital in the latest footage from the capital we can see explosions possibly caused by nato bombing raids casualties are said to be mounting after intense fighting overnight although electricity in tripoli has been restored after hours of blackouts colonel gadhafi son a safe made a surprise public appearance proving wrong the reports are that rebels had captured him he entered the hotel where foreign journalists are holed up earlier we managed to speak on the phone with independent journalist lizzy phelan who saw saif gadhafi

herself. we've been hearing over the few days that the libyan government is crumbling and have claimed rebels that claim that they are in complete control of tripoli so it was much about apply to the part of all the foreign and the rick perry how it went by friday at the hotel. where you from the boy who gave an interview he did and he also put some of it with him for a drive through the fifty where they were taken to be the area where some of them say they thought thousands of people in this area and of course that the libyan government report that a number but it is a people from tribe to quote the country have come into the capital to support the struggle here again the rebels. very much relaxed in high spirit. that the libyan government are winning against the rebels and then we also have the news that mohammed gadhafi. moammar gadhafi doesn't run he was reported to have been captured

has been released by his other brother comment gadhafi and he apparently gave the libyan television so of course these events completely. at the back. of the wild about what's happening here in the capital. and on our website at www dot com we've got more interviews with witnesses from the exhausts hotel in tripoli. and your group is responsible for a separate turn going to be seen as the reporting these are volunteers than the soldiers he returned from. the picture given this is not the picture of loss and they were very confident trying to say they've been targeted by rebels and or afraid for their lives get more information from inside the libyan capital at dot com. the u.k. has reportedly authorized a clandestine operation to aid the assault on tripoli intelligence agents allegedly inserted into libya to coordinate rebels actions during the push and more u.k.

military personnel are said to be on standby in the mediterranean bennett that's. it seems the british did have a bigger hand in all of this than it originally let on the press here today reporting that a whole team of intelligence officials have been operating in the country for some time now. ever since it became clear that the rebels would need some help if they really were going to topple gadhafi so people like spies m i six officials former s.a.'s offices to giving military advice and also non-lethal aid now it's important to note here that the u.n. mandate that nato is operating under in the country does not include a provision for ground troops and so the u.k. foreign secretary william hague has been quick to stress that. they've been supplying the rebels with has been non-lethal and therefore not in breach of this u.n. resolution however these missions have been very covert clandestine and off the grid

so as not to cause any diplomatic issues and also in these reports that. intelligence officials have been planning for some time now this assault on tripoli so as to catch gadhafi on the back they've been smuggling weapons fighters even fighting and also telecommunications equipment secret weapons around the capital and then on the weekend following the bombing campaign from the air of strategic communications posts they got the go ahead for the final march on tripoli itself so the british government actually knew this was all on the cards for some time now however it did concede that it does already have two hundred troops ready to be deployed from cyprus as peacekeepers should the situation the transition they want to send into anarchy so they prepared for that and also six hundred more marines actually also stationed in the mediterranean ready to be deployed in what the

government terms as the role of support for the humanitarian cause so clearly downing street at the moment refusing to rule out. the use of what could be almost one thousand ground troops should the situation call for it clearly there is some contradiction there to this idea of handing over control to the libyan people so they are in chicago their own future and clearly the british and also other european states are not that confident just see it that this transition will be as peaceful as they all want it to be. reporting right well i mean brian becker who is an antiwar activist who believes that nato is actions in libya are an investment in the future of reconstruction of the country and future foreign bases elaborately stoked and provoked and stimulated it armed the civil war that ended up destroying big parts of the country and then bombed huge parts of the infrastructure knowing that that infrastructure would be later rebuild probably by western corporations

making lots of money you have to then strip nato of any positive performance in in oppose khadafi libya i think in fact if nato stays there will have noble humanitarian sounding sort of excuses and pretext for their role but ultimately it's that dominate this country remember before he came to power in one thousand sixty nine the u.s. had the wheelus air force base the british had two major air bases in libya it wasn't just oil it's about military bases it's about control of what was a vital u.s. and british fear of influence now france plans to hold a high level meeting next week to discuss libya's political future a top libyan opposition leader has been invited to attend in paris bush will now reports from the french capital. most every e.u. state has now declared it wants to take an active role in libya's development while at the same time saying it was the libyan people to decide their own future so exposed they were raising the question what does europe want does it want to

continue interfering in libya's affairs or let them democratically decide their own future even poland's foreign minister has said that poland wants to take part but france has really taken the lead president sarkozy will meet the rebel leader mahmoud jibril on wednesday in paris defense minister gerard longer says that they will build a road map for the future all of that country diplomats here are explaining the e.u. and nato see an opportunity now to play a leading role in the future of north africa with america the united states taking a back seat for the moment for political reasons over in washington nato head on this fall grows most and says they will continue with their mission of protecting civilians in libya german leader angela merkel said gadhafi is money must be secured in the name of the libyan people but it's very unclear who will control that money and how it will be used. these are the new bushell that now are the

scenes of excitement and jubilant celebrations across libya recalled those in cairo's tahrir square in february but the high expectations after the revolution have given away to disillusionment and dismay he's gone into account looks at how the latest events in libya have parallels in history. the cadets the regime is crumbling. the rebels are cheering. the. same cheers and tears could be seen in egypt in february as the nation ousted their longtime leader hosni mubarak but six months on many egyptians say their hopes have been crushed by reality. you know i loved the revolution when it happened i welcomed it that looked at the time we call life at the end of the tunnel we see it's not getting better we have nothing to eat just don't tell me about democracy for hungry people it just doesn't matter the egyptians now are not governed by who

they chose as their leaders instead it's their army that's in control the army that has strong ties with the us and is sponsored by washington the military regime that the edifice the institutions that were the absence the fundamental essence of the mubarak regime those remain and we can see the 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 has been recognized as the legitimate government of libya by all allies who've been helping oust gadhafi many leave ians are outraged by the fact that foreign powers are effectively making vital choices for them there is too much wealth and geopolitical strategic value to libya to let it only become reformed in democratic rights and universal participation by the citizens. the 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 in libya will indeed be supported and buttress by western powers western powers have thrown all their support behind the national transitional council giving them billions of dollars and weapons to gain control but the rebels are far from being a united group what libya is going to face after that is a period of prolonged chaos nobody knows the outcome this is as i said at the beginning this is tribe against tribe this is not democracy against totalitarianism revolutions in egypt and libya have developed under different scenarios in egypt it was an on armed uprising the new leader in libya it's been an insurgency flooded with weapons by the west and those weapons are still in their arms and they're not going anywhere and many analysts are saying that we 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 break of violence at the hands of the mom i'm going to shut down reporting from washington our team. you know there may still be fighting in tripoli but the new self-proclaimed government is wasting little time in setting up its future cash flow european oil giants given the go ahead by rebel officials have already begun moving in with italian a company. which had close ties to khadafi spearheading the return laura and that reports this time its services won't come cheap. 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 as allied forces lend 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 while of course he's one very very important issue which 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 with with the t.n.c. to further explore those oil riches 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. exported 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 western powers look at the region and they talk about humanitarianism democracy but they think about oil greg martin 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 learned from iraq western oil firms move into libya even before the fate of tripoli is sealed the 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 its resume italian oil giant e n i. is the first to send back to libya and he says rose on the knees french towel and. the well as investors hopes they'd 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 that creates a democracy which serves british interests or the west's interests or oil companies

interests and does nothing for the people of libya nor am its. times correspondent pepe escobar believes as soon as western countries get libyan oil contracts no one boots on the ground to keep them secure. this is the cover story in this story from the beginning was r two p. responsibility to protect that was the basis for u.n. resolution one nine seventy three there is that bathes of the agreement between the u.s. and saudi arabia we get a resolution based on your fake arab league gold nine countries out of twenty two and you can do any you want with bahrain saudi arabia itself but this was the cover story sold to american and european public opinion especially the chinese the russians many brazil for that matter they're not buying it they know it's a u.s. nato coordinated operation without them there will be no victor just will be a stalemate they will go for ever and we have the international community sort of

basically get lantus ist powers taking sides in a civil war so when they knew that they could go on for months or maybe years on end it's ok let's try to take tripoli in one day and they did it because they blow basically they bombed a whole city and the way towards the sea you know what this reminds me of i was there at a time you could mission provisional authority in iraq in two thousand and three this is the same seeing we're going to have a western goods on the ground and we're going to open up. libya for a hired core no holds bar durable capitalism with no rebuts ration of profit so you know what let's get their oil as soon as we can the best contracts possible are not that this is completely creech if this is no way we don't know yet that u.s. and nato goals we're going to have reracked two point zero meantime fighting and to be as reported to have reached the country's border with china as you heavy gunfire has been heard in recent days the tunisian army has increased its presence along

the front porch that libyan infiltrators of illegally crossed the border correspondent arena sco is right there for us. violent clashes have been reported along with 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 libyan license plate carrying arms men have been spotted afterwards clashes have been erupting throughout the weekend between the tunisian border patrol and believe binmen we can 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 trends 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 the northern africa and the result is that what we are seeing in the 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 thought 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 the me how of course we do not know whether or not those refugees will try and make their way into europe which dealt with that crisis and now may be facing another one with the ongoing clashes in libya. you know just to remind you we've got a stance of coverage of the situation in tripoli website which you are to go home for the latest video analysis. you can also get up to the minute news from the region on our twitter followers to underscore.

the unceasing violence in syria between protesters and government forces has drawn the attention of the u.n. human rights council it is a now ordered an investigation into alleged violations the city of hama as witness some of the most severe clashes to point so i want to travel to assess the aftermath. the city of hama around two hundred kilometers north of the capital damascus religiously conservative sunni dominated city it's been one of the centuries old religious tensions here in syria for many years in one thousand nine hundred eighty two during the current president bashar assad's father rulon the city saw a bloody massacre according to amnesty international over ten thousand people were killed there in the regimes crackdown on the city's sunni population but 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 to see how things are on the ground after the army left the city and

to try to find out exactly what happened there during a ten day military operation. the way to hama goes through homs the city where activists have been reporting dozens of civilians over the last few months of violence. the closer we get to the more dramatic distin the real becomes checkpoints appear and on the highway. 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 dead bodies 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. this is what's left from the office is in the center of the city of hama officials say it was attacked by extremist groups operating here shortly before and said that the city they say that. the armed groups that the building on fire and killed at least twenty soldiers who were inside the building at the time of the attack. the only came to remove barricades behind these barricades there were people 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 their slogan sound neutral first. but the changes in seconds. what's people start saying gives a completely different picture we live to about for months and the hope for. the

best for the most pleasure right after the army in the city we see. if it is by these affairs i fear the fruit of hope for the governor and for the rest of the thread giving officials though put all responsibility on the people themselves they have the right spots these people just don't want to give the government time to do reforms the reforms cannot go through in such an atmosphere. i would journeyed to hama has been part of a so-called syria is following tour but no matter what his initial goal was it turned out to be very different from its name. r t how much syria. has come to life in the heart of moscow it's now at five twenty two pm time for marina now with the president.

hello and welcome to business here on arts you know the fighting is not over in tripoli but the scramble to gain access to the game is oil has kicked off rebels hailing the end of the gadhafi regime one russian firms may lose a lucrative oil contracts gas brahmans had left invested millions of dollars in libya and russia's top official say all current deals are still in force well to discuss this issue joined by alexander those at all from gas from mike thank you very much for joining us now let's start let's talk of what russia has at stake in libya. not much really especially compared to the internal russian assets of russian companies officially only did disclose the amount of investments made into libya and it's about slightly less than two hundred million dollars so basically it's just less than percent of the total assets of a russian company so it would be even less for gas probably so basically it's not

really much and it's all just about exploration i know no real production there for russian companies like when you see the russians get back to work in libya well as soon as the war is over i believe because i mean it's all this is straightforward that you know gas production is pretty dangerous so it needs good security and of course you know what it's for all around it's impossible to produce so war is over and you know every all the oil and gas companies will make it best to come back to libya how do you expect the new version to look at russia as all. well and gas interests in the country well i think they will do well come because mainly oil and gas are the main sources for budget will be khadafi regime or any other resume rebels somewhere else i mean all of them will need quick money for

restoration of the country so basically they will welcome. i think contras an old company especially who already have some practice in the country so you so you think that russia will gain more contracts new contracts considering the competition from companies and countries that support the bombing campaign. i don't know of course i think it's all political but the point is that you know russian companies are already there and probably will be easier for. welcome russian companies big. rights and examine those that have thank you very much for joining us analysts from gas from there and we'll take a look at the latest figures and well prices are climbing off as fight in libya continues and anticipation of a fall in u.s. crude stockpiles. at about eighty five dollars per barrel and the buying plant is

over one hundred and eight dollars a quick look at the precious metal after hitting another all time high of one thousand nine hundred dollars per ounce this morning gold is losing ground then silver is also lower it's losing over one and a half percent let's take a look at markets in europe they are extending monday's rally tracking overnight gains on wall street and then the into the dax is up over one percent and the fuss is about behind there's no special tie less to buying so take us exhibits and it may be short lived. and this is the picture here in russia the markets are higher supported by stronger crude the r.t.s. is gaining point three percent right now. and my psych's is up just the naughts let's take a look at some of the individual share moves on the my sex and sperm bank shares are soon gained some not so in news russia's biggest lender as consider an acquisition of two major banks in poland meanwhile energy stocks are among the

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five thirty pm here in the russian capital. stories. heavy fighting goes on in the libyan capital rebels. compound by nato airstrikes rebel it claims that they controlled most of the city and captured. have proven incorrect. secret assistance british intelligence has reportedly planned the endgame for. guiding the rebels in that push. more military personnel said to be on standby in the mediterranean to boost the. e.u. all john's flooded back to libya on a red carpet laid out by a self-proclaimed new government reward those who helped to oust gadhafi it's reignited the debate over a name.