but you know peer to hotels you're really in a cool do a boutique hotel. in serbia is available in one hundred regency. battleground tripoli heavy fighting goes on in the libyan capital as rebels bombard colonel gadhafi compound backed up by nato air strikes. secret assistance british intelligence has reportedly planned the endgame for gadhafi regime guiding the rebels and their push on tripoli. libyans are joining in jubilation dissipating peaceful but skepticism that it may be too early to celebrate is just as widespread . e.u. oil giants flocked back to libya on a red carpet laid out by a self-proclaimed new government. to help to oust gadhafi.

level news twenty four seven this is r.t. live from moscow explosions have been heard near the libyan leader's compound as the fight for tripoli rages for a third day but no one is 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 letters of footage from the capital here 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 o'connell coffee's a son saif made a surprise public appearance proving wrong reports that rebels have captured him yet at the hotel where foreign journalists are holed up earlier we managed to speak on the phone with independent journalist lizzy. fella who saw so you could ask

yourself. that libyan government. plane the plane that they are completely out of there with my right. side of the bar in. the photo when. the hotel. i gave an interview. with right. where they were taken. from have been paid a thousand people in the. media and. a number but it is people from tried across the country have come in. here again. very much in high. activity in government. and then we all have to. be

relieved by. i mean the authority to speak. so of course these events. about what's happening here in the capital. i don't know how come we caught more interviews with witnesses from the rixos hotel in tripoli. who is responsible. these are volunteers. he returned. it. is not a picture it was confident journalists to say they've been talking to the boy rebels that are afraid for their lives get more information from inside the libyan capital r t dot com. the u.k. has reportedly authorized a clandestine operations the assault on tripoli covert intelligence agents were

allegedly inserted into libya to coordinate and rebels actions during the push and more u.k. military personnel are said to be on standby in the mediterranean. that's more on. it seems the british did have a bigger and in all of this than it originally let on the press here today reporting the whole team of intelligence officials have been operating in the country for some time now. ever since it became clear the rebels would need some help if they really were going to topple back he said people like spies m i six officials former s.a.'s officers to giving military advice and also nonlethal heat 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 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 exactly on the back they've been smuggling weapons fighters even the fighting and also telecommunications equipment to secret weapons dance around the capital and then on the weekend following the bombing campaign from the air of strategic communications they got the go ahead for the final march on tripoli itself so the british government actually knew this was all in 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. there is some contradiction there to this idea of handing over control to the libyan people so they're in charge of their own future and clearly british and also other european states and not bang conference just yet this trend transition will be as peaceful as they all wanted to be. a bennett. who is the director of international studies at the u.s. based at trinity college says that libya could face the same fate as afghanistan a lot more people are going to be killed as it is need to his up the fighting in the review here. and yes actually forces troops on the ground did being you know proof i didn't get nicholas distance by being more sophisticated oh you

know means or being in touch with warplanes for bombing i mean the reason being on the ground right through in fact sections are. to be trained so i fear this is going to set precedent already armies are being read oh you know i've been stolen from the army's is this going to be you know arc two thousand and three or even worse is this going to be after the fall of the taliban when that civil war grevious and hurtful for the people of afghanistan. but 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 well giants given the go ahead by rebel officials have already begun moving it with italian company. which had close ties to spearheading the return and artie's of lore and reports this time its service is going to 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 their support to the rebels to take tripoli to stop the war coalition warns libyans not to expect they're getting something for nothing but 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 turkey is one very very important issue that's 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. for exploring and those all richard the purchase 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. export 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 when western powers look at the region and they talk about humanitarianism all democracy but i think the actual great 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 to resume italian all giant easy n i. he is the first to

send back to libya and he shares rose on the new french state towel and. he did well as investors may 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 the west's interests or oil companies interests and does nothing for the people of your of its quality london. times correspondent happy escobar believes as soon as western countries get libyan oil contracts their 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 there as the basis for u.n. resolution one nine seventy three there is a b. the of the agreement between the us is saudi arabia we get a resolution based on your fake arab league called ninety countries out of twenty two and you can do when you want with were reno or in saudi arabia itself but this

was a cover story salt to american in european public opinion especially the chinese the russians many brazil for america are by it they not it so you asked me to coordinate our operation without them there will be no featured this will be a still need their will for ever and we have the international community sort of easily atlanticist ours teaching sides in a civil war so when they knew there we could cool war for months or years and it is ok let's try to think tripoli in one day and they did it because they blew all these are good 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 seat we're going to have a western good summit ground and we're going to open up. libya for a hard core nor hold far too little capitalism with no repatriation of profit so you know what let's get their oil with them as we care and the best contracts

possible are not that this is completely quit if this is the way we don't know yet that us and meet our goals we're going to have we rack two point zero. in time across 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 and paris now sees a venue push on our reports from the french capital. almost 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 futures are exposed they are 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 wednesday in paris defense minister gerard long 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 angler merkel says 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. the scenes of excitement and jubilant celebrations across libya recalled those in cairo's tahrir square in february but the high expectations are for the revolution have given way to disillusionment and dismay. at how the latest events in libya have parallels in history. could there he regime is crumbling. the levy and rebels are cheering.

at 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 home is being crushed by reality. but you know i love 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 don't tell me about democracy for hungry people just doesn't matter the egyptians now are not governed by who they tros as their leaders instead it's their army that's in control the army that has strong ties with the u.s. and he sponsored by washington the military regime that the edifice the institutions that were to be as since the fundamental essence of the mubarak regime those remain and we can see that thousands of people have been brought to military trial since the end of the popular revolution that ousted in tripoli the by taking

over is the national transitional council also not chosen by the leading people yet the council is being recognized as the legitimate government of libya by all allies who've been helping oust gadhafi many lidia's are outraged by the fact that foreign powers are effectively making vital choices for them there's too much wealth in geopolitical strategic value to libya to look at only because reform democratic rights and universal participation by the citizenry. western part. there is 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 buttressed by western powers was in power said throw 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 the lead 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 try again strive this is not democracy against the kalahari the revolutions in egypt and libya developed under different scenarios in egypt it was an on arms of uprising of millions 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 money gyptian is are having libyans could be facing a fresh out break of violence at the hands of mom i'm going to shut down reporting from washington our chief. now fighting in libya is reported to have reached the country's border with tunisia where heavy gunfire has been heard in recent days you know i'm using creased its presence along the frontier amid reports that libyan

infiltrators of illegally crossed the border corresponded to really good news on the spot for us. violent clashes have been reported along with tunisia libyan 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 really being men we cannot talk with certainty about the 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 north africa and the result is that what we are seeing in capital right now now back 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 all 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 every few days will try and make their way into europe which built with that crisis and now may be facing another one with the ongoing clashes in libya. well i'll just remind you here now to you we have got extensive coverage of the situation in tripoli your website if you head over to r.t. dot com good latest video analysis and of course a good top to the minute news from from the region on our twitter page or just follow us on parts of. the unceasing

violence in syria between protesters and government forces has drawn the attention of the u.n. human rights council it has ordered. investigation into alleged violations. as was witnessed are some of the most severe clashes to date so at ease of travel back to assess. 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 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 one of the massacre according 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 operas 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 that ten day military operation. the way to hama goes through homs the city where activists have been reporting dozens of civilian deaths over the last few months of violence. the closer we get to it the more dramatic history becomes checkpoints of here along the highway. at the entrance to hama all the cars. 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 the 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. despite the president's photo and 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 offices. in the sense that the city of hama officials say it was attacked by three mr rove's 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 its hat. he only came to remove barricades in the hind 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 those happened a crowd gathers outside his residence this slogan sound natural first. to the changes in seconds. what's people saying is a completely different picture we lived about for months and i hope for. the best

for the most persian rug after the army service if we see. if anybody is if they're afraid of hope for the cover up for the rest that a friggin officials though put 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 to it but no matter what his initial goal was it turned out to be very different from its name. r.t. camera syria. are you without the light from moscow let's watch out some other world news for you now and. world ok for austin to drop sex assault charges against former international monetary fund chief dominique strauss kahn they say they doubt

the credibility of the thirty two year old hotel maid who made the allegations and they quote the evidence inconclusive trust can't quit his job after facing charges of attempted rape this may. so he says a six days of cross border air raids of killed about one hundred kurdish rebels in northern iraq the shelling started last wednesday hours after eight turkish soldiers were killed in an ambush by the kurdistan workers party instead of a terrorist organization by turkey the e.u. and the us because of people having autonomy within iraq but not within turkey ok so now for the business update with maria. hello and welcome to business here on arts you know crude prices are fly it's own expectations it will take a year for lebanon exports to return to the global markets on monday a former top libyan official said the country could restart oil production within

the once market watchers claim the renewed supplies could ease the bullish sentiment on the market but horton want to play there from. the docks in oneself said go wrong global demand for oil. i believe in production the outrageous return of oil is roughly in the range of or give or take a million barrels per day so in the biggest scheme of things you goes in change things but much of what he has added to the bullish sentiment so by definition as that production comes back some of the course way from the market place but please note that international prices have really been over one hundred dollars so from our fundamental point of view in terms of the man the man of oil continues to grow saw the basis for the market collapse are not really there and if the central

banks flood the market with a queer view then we're in another environment. where scramble to get access to libya's oil has gulf although the fighting is not over rebels hailing the end of the gadhafi regime warned russia firms may lose lucrative oil contracts gas from left anti-theft have invested millions of dollars in libya and russia's top officials say the current deals will be enforced alexander massada from gas from bank believes even if the warnings come true the losses of will not be significant . only did disclose the total amount of the mess it's making to read and it's it's likely less than two hundred million dollars so less than a percent of total assets of the company and i mean it's would really it doesn't mean much to lose he says this is how it was going to be with. russian oil companies especially compared to the internal russian assets domestically as. well as they can look at the latest figures oil has slipped into well it's mixed this

hour and that's after a long one by both home supply continues fighting in libya and inspiration all befall in the u.s. crude stuff piles right now the government is gaining just the notch while brant blood is losing just. three cents there. and a quick look at precious metals after hitting another all time high of one thousand nine hundred dollars per ounce this morning gold is losing ground the silver is also lower it's lose their newborn point four percent this hour let's have a look at who was stocks they open the higher extending gains into a second day after a full week losing streak the dow is now up one percent and the nasdaq is gaining almost one and a half percent. stocks in europe are extending monday's rally tracking overnight gains on wall street and in asia south of the axis of just the knowledge boy it's out a half a percent now and the fourth seed is slightly behind with point zero five there's

also national catalyst for why so trade as it sits in may be short lived. here in russia the markets are down this hour the arts us is losing almost half a percent and my sex is similarly going for you let's take a look at some of the individual share moves on the my sex sperm bank shares have drawn the spike news russia's biggest lender is considering the acquisition of two major banks in poland right now i see that is just. back up a bit of volatility there and seeing where b.p. is losing ground after a reported sixty four percent increase in net profit for the first half of the year it's down almost two and a half percent for new directives for car production in russia could see a group of parts manufacturers opening up in the country and international automakers with plants in russia have to use sixty percent of locally sourced components within eight years production is scheduled to reach three hundred

thousand vehicles in four years. i was a local as a genre is being forced up and you will see martha many more amy bassman supposedly bandits of the only way really you can force a variation on the local supply base and then we might argue that the market want to get a law is going to be those that maybe one might theory allies in twenty fifteen it will martha realize later on but certainly there was no other way to enforce it all these are the layers of the supply base become fool to russia. that's all the business is for now for more stories in their heads how websites are to dot com. in the meantime states in the headlines are boring.

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