global news life from moscow's city center this is artsy with me role research 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 himself is and heavy clashes between the rebels and government forces have been reported in central parts of tripoli including around the hospital in the latest footage we have here from the capital we can see explosions possibly caused by nato bombing raids the casualties are said to be mounting after intense fighting over night although electricity in tripoli has been restored after hours of blackouts colonel gadhafi has a son saif made a surprise public appearance proving wrong reports that rebels had captured him he entered the hotel where foreign journalists were holed up earlier we wanted to speak on the phone with independent journalist. who saw saif gadhafi herself. we've

been hearing over the few days that the libyan government is crumbling but there's enough grain rebels that claim that they are complete control of tripoli that it was much about the prize to the surprise of all the foreign journalists here in the rick perry how it went by please i'm sorry i at the hotel. with you on boy and he gave an interview he did maybe also pick some of it with him for a drive through the b.p. where they were taken the the way from and then they they both thousands of people in the in the area and the port that the libyan government report that a number of the people from tribe the quote the country have come into the capital that this struggle here began the rebels. are very much relaxed in high spirit in the fear that the libyan government. are winning against the rebels and then we also have been that mohammed gadhafi. mama gadhafi doesn't run. he was reported to

have been caught that has been released by his daughter by the comment gadhafi i mean at the apartment he gave the speech to be end of it. so of course he's been completely prior to that that ok well that about what's happening here in the capital on it. and on our website here we've got more interviews with the witnesses from the hotel in tripoli. the media group that was responsible for a separate turn was going so obviously because they were fighting these are volunteers. he returned from the fighting. is not a picture of loss and they were very confident journalists say they've been targeted by rebels for their lives get more information from inside the libyan capital 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 rebels actions during the push and

more u.k. military personnel are said to be on standby in the mediterranean bennett has more on. 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 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 a daffy 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 daffy communications post 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 turns 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. there is some contradiction there to this idea of handing over control to the libyan people so there is going to go there own future and clearly the british and also other european states are not that confident just yet this trend transition will be as peaceful as they all want it to be. reporting right when i mean time. who is the director of international studies at the u.s. based trinity college so the libya could face the same fate as afghanistan a lot more people are going to be killed as it does need to hit up the fighting in the reveal here. and yes patient forces troops on the ground being you know providing technical assistance by being more sophisticated 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 general 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 after the fall of the taliban when that civil war was grevious and search for the people of afghanistan well there may still be fighting in tripoli but the new software claim 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 had a close ties to khadafi spearheading the return and its r.t.s. lore and it 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 he is 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. 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 sing about oil 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 for it to resume italian oil giant a n i. is the first to send back to libya and he 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 the creation democracy which serves british interests or the west's interests or oil companies interests and does nothing for the people of libya nor emmett's. and asia times correspondent pepe escobar believes that as soon as western countries get libyan oil contracts they 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's a u.s. nato coordinator operation without them there will be no victor just will be a stalemate they'll go for ever and we have the international community sort of basically deaf lantus ist powers taking sides in a civil war so when they knew that they could go on for months or maybe years on that it's ok let's try to take tripoli in one day and they did it because they belong basically going the whole city and the way towards the north is 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 regrets 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 completely krrish if this is the way we don't know yet that u.s. and nato goals we're going to have reracked two point zero well if in the meantime france plans to hold a high level meeting next week to discuss libya's political future the top libyan opposition leader has for now been invited to attend in paris he's done a bushel 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 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 on wednesday in paris defense minister 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 musson 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. well the scenes of excitement and jubilant celebrations all across libya recalled those in cairo's tahrir square in february but the high expectations after the revolution have given way to disillusionment and dismay. nature can now looks at how the latest events in libya parallels in history. could there he 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 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 u.s. and he 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 leading people yet the council is being recognized as the legitimate government of libya by all allies who have been helping oust gadhafi many levy as are outraged by the fact that foreign powers are effectively making vital choices for them there is too much wealth in geopolitical strategic value to libya to only become reformed in democratic rights and universal participation by the city. 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 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 we could find themselves in a much worse situation than the egyptians because on top of power crisis similar to the one egyptian is are having. could be facing a fresh violence at the hands of the armed mom i'm going to shut down reporting from washington to the fighting in libya is reported to have reached the country's a border with syria that's where heavy gunfire has been heard in recent days the

chinese an obvious increased its presence along the frontier and it reports that libyan infiltrators have been legally crossed the border correspondent she's right there on the spot. violent clashes have been reported along the tunisian 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 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 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 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 to 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. is a ridiculous for one thing i would just remind you we have got extensive coverage of the situation in tripoli on our website if you head over to our to dot com find the latest video analysis on also got up to the minute news from the region on our twitter page or just follow us on the school.

the on season violence in syria between protesters and government forces has drawn the attention of the u.n. human rights council it is. sort of an investigation into alleged violations the city of hama has witnessed some of the most severe clashes so i travel there 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 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 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 it 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. rishon 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 phone too 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 said 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. we only came to remove barricades and 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 the slogan is sound neutral first. for the changes in seconds. what's people saying gives

a completely different picture we lived about for months in the heart of her own neighborhood this was the most pleasure after the army in the city we say oh it's a bit about is it fair i fit the bill of hope for the government i pray that less than a third 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 journey 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 or if notion r.t. how much syria. all right so just turning twenty three minutes past the hour here in the russian capital let's check out our world update for you here on out prosecutors have asked the judge to drop a sex assault charges against

a 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 called the evidence inconclusive trust carney quit his job after facing charges of attempted rape this man. so he says that six days of cross border air raids of killed about one hundred codice rebels in northern iraq the shelling started last wednesday hours after eight took his soldiers were killed in an ambush by the kurdistan workers party the group is considered a terrorist organization by turkey the u.s. and the e.u. the kurdish people have been autonomy within iraq but not within turkey. standard and poor's has confirmed its president will step down by the end of the year his resignation comes just weeks after the rating agency downgraded the united states aaa credit rating the company says sharma's departure has nothing to do with a downgrade s. and p. has been heavily criticized for reducing the rating by many u.s.

officials. all right time now for the business news with a very. hello and welcome to business here on our team now crude prices are trading higher well that's what stations it will take a year for libyan exports to return to the global markets on monday a former top libyan official said the country could restart oil production within months market watchers claim the renewed supplies could ease the bullish sentiment on the markets but a lot of him wants a peck a from platt says let him put ducks in the wallets offset growing global demand for oil. had levy on 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 the bullishness course it way from the marketplace but please note that international prices have really been over one hundred dollars so from up fundamental point of view in terms of the man and the man of oil continues to grow so the basis for a market collapse are not really there and if the central banks flood the market will liquidity then we're in another environment. let's scramble to get access to libya's oil has kicked off although the fighting is not even over rebels hailing the end of the gadhafi regime warned russian firms may lose lucrative oil contracts gas from left and talking have to have invested millions of dollars in libya and russia's top officials say the current deals will be enforced alexander than those from gas from baghdad believes if the warnings come true the losses will not be significant only to disclose the total amount of the mess been made in to rebuild

assets. 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 the says this is not really harm russian oil companies especially compared to the internal russianness its domestic gas. let's take a look at the figures oil is higher as fighting continues in there and then says a patient of a fall in stockpiles right now the w c i is hovering at around eighty four dollars heard it heading into eighty five per gallon and a brand blend over one hundred and eight approaching one hundred nine dollars per barrel a quick look at precious metals after hitting another all time high of one thousand nine hundred dollars per ounce this morning gold is snoozing ground and a silver is also lower it's losing forty one cents this hour. u.s. stocks opened higher extending gains into a second day that's after

a four week losing streak the sentiment is supported by reports on manufacturing the new york and china the dow is up over one percent 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 but the dax is up half of a percent and footsies a bit behind there's also partial catalyst for buying so traders it's typically it may be short lived. ever hear of both the arts yes and the my sex and the trading session for that's a positive let's take a look at some of the individual share moves on the my stocks spread bank shares have dropped the spine news russia's biggest lender is considering acquisition of major banks and poland meanwhile the coil was bucking the trend this shares were all two point three percent after reports it's become the first russian company to be allowed to develop oil from the no room to. ground the spot of reporting

a sixty four percent increase in that profit for the first half of the year and. banc capital wraps up today's trade for us. we've seen. broad activity in the morning the north. means almost no we. can be with we've. actually. monday intraday of all kilty above average volume but still no direction where the end of the day trading with some kind of makes the only me and i came can mention. the former i don't know exactly what the story but feel it is mine and. much more than the market in general. that's all the business news for now for stories you can head to our website artie dot com. the headlines are next.

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that will help us they are here in russia with our t. a quick recap our top stories now and the battleground tripoli heavy fighting goes on in the libyan capital. compound by nato airstrikes rebel of claims that they controlled most of the city and had captured gadhafi son saif have now been approved an incoming. secret assistance british intelligence has reportedly planned the endgame for kentucky's regime guiding the rebels and the push on tripoli. military personnel are said to be on standby in the mediterranean to boost the effort. and ego e.u. oil giants flocking back to libya on a red carpet laid out by a self-proclaimed new government to reward those who helped to oust gadhafi.