level news twenty four seven this is our team 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 qadhafi 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 to 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 colonel gadhafi the son saif made a surprise public appearance proving wrong reports the rebels had captured him yet at the hotel where foreign journalists were holed up earlier we managed to speak on the phone with independent journalist lizzie phelan who saw saif gadhafi herself. been hearing over the few days that the libyan government is crumbling about this and i've trained the rebels that claim that they are in complete control of tripoli

so it was much about the pride of the part of the foreign. power went by probably very dark at the hotel. honestly i think david if you don't know if you also took some of that with him for a drive. where they were taken to be the way some of them they thought thousands of people in the area and purport that the libyan government report that a number of these are people from tribe to quote the country have come in for their capital support this struggle here against the rebels. very much relaxed in high spirit and the fear is that the libyan government. are winning against the referee and then we also have that mohammed is that. gadhafi that the son he was reported to have been caught it has been released by his daughter by that i mean gadhafi i mean he apparently paid to be in television so of course all of these. completely. ok well that about what's happening here in the capital.

and on our website amanpour dot com we've got more interviews with witnesses from the rixos hotel in tripoli. the media group who's responsible for a separate turn going start these things they were fighting these are volunteers they're not soldiers he returned from the fighting and giving notice is not a picture of loss and they were very confident journalists to say they've been targeted by the rebels and 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 operation to aid the assault on tripoli covert intelligence agents were allegedly inserted into libya to coordinate of rebels actions during the push and more u.k. military personnel are said to be on standby in the mediterranean artes of a bennett has more on this. 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 officers 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 rebels with has been non-lethal and therefore not in breach of this u.n. resolution however these missions have been very covert clandestine 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 to 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 an akita they're 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 a 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 because 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 the british and also other european states are not that confident just yet that this trend transition will be as peaceful as they all wanted to be. for bennett right there. who is the director of international studies at the u.s. based at trinity college says a libya could face the same fate as afghanistan a lot more people are going to be killed as it is need to hit up the fighting in the reveal. and yes patient forces troops on the ground being you know providing technical assistance reviving more sophisticated did you know means or being in touch with warplanes for bombing i mean the reason being on the ground right through in fact it took sections of the been granted a billion dollars to be trained so i fear this is going to set

a precedent already armies of being really did you know i would be too easy have been stolen from the armies is this going to be iraq two thousand and three or even worse is this going to be kabul after the fall of the taliban when that civil war was grevious and hopeful for the people of afghanistan but her 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 the tally and company. which has close ties to cathy spearheading the return and it's obvious that laura and 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 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 while of course starting 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 with with appear to further explore those oil riches the british government makes no secret of the fact that its 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 western powers look at the region and they talk about humanitarianism all democracy but they think about oil greg mata 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 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 it to resume italian oil giant e n i. is the first to send back to libya and it says rose on the knees french towel and. we also did well as investors hoped 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 a. london. times correspondent pepe escobar believes as soon as western countries get libyan oil contracts they'll want 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 or in saudi arabia itself but this was the cover story sold to american and european public opinion especially the chinese the russians many being brazil for that matter they're not buying it they know it so us need to coordinate our operation without them there will be no victor dissolute be

a stalemate they'll go for ever and we have the international community sort of basically that lantus is ours taking sides in a civil war so when they knew that they 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 blow basically going the whole city and the way towards you know what this reminds me of i was there at a time because 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 profits you know what let's get their oil as soon as we can the best contracts possible are not that this is cool if this is the way we don't know yet that u.s. and nato goals we're going to have a real rock two point zero meantime 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 dunya bush on all 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 was 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. well 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 garniture cannot accept 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 love the revolution when it happened i welcomed 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 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 essence 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 levy in people yet the council is being recognized as the legitimate government of libya by all allies

that's been helping oust gadhafi many leave us are outraged by the fact that foreign powers are effectively making vital choices or that there is too much wealth in geopolitical strategic value to libya to only become reformed in democratic gripes 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 in libya will indeed be supported and buttress by western powers western powers have thrown all their support behind the lead in national transitional council giving them billions of dollars and weapons to gain control but the rebels are far from being the 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 the taliban the

revolutions in egypt and libya have developed under different scenarios in egypt it was an on armed 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 libyans could find themselves in a much worse situation than the egyptians because on top of power crisis similar to the one egyptian they're having libyans could be facing a fresh break of violence at the hands of the armed mom i'm going to shut down reporting from washington our team. now fighting in libya is reported to have reached the country's border with syria where heavy gunfire has been heard in recent days you know i'm using creased its presence along the frontier reports that libyan infiltrators of illegally crossed the border correspondent is on the spot 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 a libyan license plate carrying arms men have been spotted afterwards clashes have been erupting throughout the weekend between the tunisian 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 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 right 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 from 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. well i'll just remind you here and i'll tell you we have got extensive coverage of the situation in tripoli website if you head over to r.t. dot com for the latest video analysis and opinion and you can also get up to the minute news from from the region on our twitter page or just follow us on to school . the unceasing violence in syria no between protesters and government forces has drawn the attention of the u.n. human rights council it has ordered an. investigation into alleged violations the city of hama witnessed some of the most severe clashes to date so r.t.

summary of the national trouble to assess the after. the city of hama around two hundred kilometers north of the capital damascus religiously conservative sunni dominated city it's been one of the centers 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 a bloody massacre according to amnesty international over ten thousand people were killed there in the regime's crackdown on the city's sunni population but 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 there to see how things are on the ground after the army left the city and to try to find out exactly what's happening 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 the student of 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. 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 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 center of the city of hama officials say it was attacked by three missed the roads operating here shortly

before and the city they say that. the armed groups set 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 they were owned people not peaceful demonstrations and there were clashes between them and the troops. while the government is sharing his views on what's happened a crowd gathers outside his residence this slogan is sound neutral first. of the changes in the second news. what's people saying gives a completely different picture we live here about for months on the home of her own murder destroy the most pleasure after the army in the city we see oh is that everybody is a fair i think the root of most afraid of the government 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 you need to have a has been part of a so-called syria is fine to it but no matter what its initial goal was it turned out to be very different from its name. raef notion r t how much syria. i tell you without the light from moscow let's check out some other world news for you now in our world update here from 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 called 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 the group is considered a terrorist organization by turkey the e.u. and the us the kurdish people have been autonomy within iraq but not within turkey . ok time now for the business update with maria. hello and welcome to business here on our crude prices are floods on expectations it will take a year for lebanon exports to return to the global markets on monday a former top levin official said the country could restart oil production within months market watchers claim their renewed supplies could ease the bullish sentiment on the market but a lot of them want to thank you from platt says libyan production wants off said

growing global demand for oil. i believe in production the outrageous the return of oil is roughly in the range of four give or take a million barrels per day so in the biggest scheme of things it doesn't change things much but it has added to the bullish sentiment so by definition as that production comes back some of that bullishness course way from the marketplace 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 so the basis for the market collapse are not really there and if the central banks flood the market will liquidity then we're in another environment. that scramble to get access to libya's oil has kicked off although the fighting is not over rebels hailing the end of the gadhafi regime warned russian

firms may lose a lucrative oil contracts gas from that and titan have to 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 to disclose the total amount of investment made in to rebuild assets. be less than two hundred million dollars so less than a percent of the total assets of the company and its would really doesn't mean much to lose this says this is how it would not really harm russian oil companies especially compared to the internal russianness its domestic gas. let's take a look at the latest figures oil has slipped into well it's mixed this hour and that's after a long line by both points and by continuous fighting in libya and in the summation of a fall in the u.s. crude stockpiles right now the w c i escape in just the notch while brant bland is

losing just under 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 in silver is also lower it's losing one point four percent this hour let's take a look at who was stocks they open the higher extending gains into a second day that's 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 all the dax is off just a notch boy it's out a half a percent now and the footsie is slightly behind with point zero five there's all special catalysts for buying so traders it's if it's you may be short lived here in russia the markets are down the sour the arts yes is losing almost half

a percent and my sex is similarly point towards two let's take a look at some of the individual share moves on the my sex is for a bank shares have a drop this 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 today b.p. is amusing ground after a reported sixty four percent increase and that 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 glue to parts manufacturers open 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. wasn't localization monies being the force of all of that you will see more and many more investments in supposedly venda it's the only way really you

can force a local supply base then we might argue that the market want to do a lot is a little bit goes that maybe one might do realizing twenty fifteen it will mark their realize later on but certainly there was no other way to enforce it all these are the players of the supply base to come tool to russia. that's all the business is for now for stories it can head to our website r.t. dot com. in the meantime states in the headlines forbore.

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they are now here in moscow you with art see a recap of the top stories now and a battleground tripoli heavy fighting goes on in the libyan capital rebels. compound backed up by nato airstrikes rebel claims that they have controlled most of the city and have captured gadhafi son saif have now been proven incorrect. secret assistance british intelligence has reportedly planned the endgame is regime guiding the rebels in the push on tripoli more u.k. military personnel are said to be on standby in the mediterranean to boost the effort. igo e.u. all of john's flock back to libya on a red carpet laid out by a self-proclaimed new government those who helped to oust gadhafi.