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international news and comment from moscow where it's just past eleven pm and in tripoli nine pm where the breaking news is that libyan rebels are inside colonel gadhafi tripoli compound following a fierce fight and now claim to control most of the capital three days after entering the city and these are the latest pictures of front but compound were receiving here in r.t. rebels around the square where colonel gadhafi used to make speeches to the nation but exactly where he is no one seems to know smoke has been rising over the libyan capital throughout tuesday as a result of pockets of fighting between the two sides casualties are said to be mounting. london based activists from the war coalition talked to me a little earlier today and she believes the only thing libyans want now is to take the situation into their own hands. we have to remember we've been here before we've been here before with the stuff we need for with iraq and i think the lesson

from both of those and that actually the message is even coming from many of the rebels in tripoli and elsewhere in the here is that they don't want nato there any more they don't want western troops on the ground and they want to run their own country and i think it would be very foolish for david cameron or anybody else to believe this really vindicates their foreign policy in terms of the war on terror one of gadhafi sons made a surprise appearance despite the rebels claim he was captured for almost two days they were saying they are in control and that also turned out to be untrue does that ring the alarm bells for you concerning the credibility of this. coalition. well i think what it does raise alarm bells with is the why in which these these issues they used very very much politically to justify western intervention we had the international criminal court saying that they knew they could have the saif al islam gadhafi was in custody when clearly they didn't know conclusively that that

was the case and therefore this is being used in a political way. to employ the regime was weaker than perhaps it was at that particular time that the rebels have made move on says that they perhaps have a right to take her time and there's a form of this information which really should be coming for. an international institution and these towns. bring to mind some of the warring ways in which these things are being used i personally think the intervention of the international criminal court. the idea that they control i could half in his family is criminals this is yet another sign of western reporter see when we have to suppose tony blair and various other people responsible for being disastrous episode in iraq in particular who wanted to i think in this wire so you think we could have to do so when they are captured should face trial in libya and there should be no

foreign intervention whatsoever in their fate. i think it is absolutely up to the libyan people to decide what they do with afy and with anybody else that they if there is evidence they should they should be dealt with their lives we are not in the hague or anywhere else i was still the whole western intervention around this is and. two they were caught taken by surprise by the obvious what they're trying to do is to reassert western control. well for more on this let's now cross live to richard spencer he's a us based journalist joining us there on his web cam in the usa thanks so much for being with us well we've been getting conflicting reports from the rebels over the situation there in tripoli for almost two days now how credible is the anti coalition do you think. i think it's incredible i think would be us as

accomplishes to establish a coming civil war in libya which we have financed we will be and we will have trained a number of the people who will be killing one another actually but i've heard reports that in the months since the united states got involved in march that actually some of the you know rebels were calling in air strikes on one another so clearly they are preparing themselves for of our among them and you know they're obviously some bigger things to play with the united states might want from the us but it's very clear i think we shouldn't be naive children and think that these rebels are these nice little folks who want democracy and freedom and nick donalds this is clearly a chance for them to gain power at a meeting in acts of revenge against an order enemy and we could them to be in control and they're going to be fighting with each other for control for the next months and years so therefore that justifies the fact that nato say they will

continue to stay in libya after the mandate is over in september. i don't want to be justifying yet another boondoggle for washington and the pentagon however there is a degree to which the united states will break your leg and then offer you a crutch and think that it is it's some amazing benefactor or something like that so i mean it's much like in iraq in afghanistan where you have incoherent policy no war aims no concrete were aims and you blow up a country killed millions and then you decide you need to stay there in order to. push back against the chaos which the united states created so i will say of course there's no way short of the same mistakes could be made sure the lessons of being learned from iraq and afghanistan and libya will be different and that. i love the softball question i'm going to challenge your loss and i don't want you this

questions. because you know it's not learned anything they will continue to do this until finally they they run out of money or a sense the world just refuses to continue to fund and by that gaps of this kind of out of control power so essentially it's going to be the u.s. treasury bond market that will all tumbling starboard are but intil then we can't expect someone to you know acquire a wisdom or acquire state craft this late in the game that it will learn nothing and it will continue to do this what do you think about the immediate future for gadhafi though some are saying that his fate should be left for the libyan people or it should still be up to the international community should be sent off to the i.c.c. the international criminal court. i can't say that i could endure world criminal courts for anyone i think these are equal and show trials and to give it

world body the power to try something. and it is it is a form of just as in which i would never and doris give i work adoptee i would hang out is the stay on the down low for a number of months we were a lot of these rebels to kill one another. and maybe in the united states will kind of lose interest and you could come back and take up work i stayed at a little bit jokingly obviously. but my major point is that just as this is not going anywhere there is not going to be a nice outcome in future would you know how to spend that surely wouldn't a western interests in the oil reserves the gas reserves override all that predicted so you're talking about the snowed in the west in france for the likes of a in iraq or afghanistan scenario because of those resources that say i absolutely agree with you and you know gadhafi is certainly willing to sell his oil to europe

and united states that we've united states buying seven to ten percent of his it well that was coming out of libya a ton of it went to work in europe obviously eighty five percent so if the united states were a rational actor they would be able to deal with tin pot dictators like garnier saddam hussein for instance i certainly if i were in charge in washington i wouldn't have any problem dealing with people who might be a little unpleasant or or strange colorful went these dictators however the problem is they really aren't rational they really they have people there who do not have the long term interest of the country or certainly the interest of the american majority of american people at heart and they actually get in all these kind of ideological games that lead to world chaos and so you can't really you can't really reason with someone like samantha power or rock obama or a number of these people who think of the government as this almost you know. guard

that can sweep down and save people ok martin well yeah all right we're out of time we have to leave it there good to chat to you on this i can hear your point of view thanks very much and gerry and they for joining us live there and whitefish in the usa richard spencer thanks thank you. well the question you could have his whereabouts is yet to be answered and i spoke to dr going to monaco is a director of the german orange institute based in berlin who thinks the embattled leader is not likely to run away. if the rebels were in a situation to advance more troops. because the compound in which gadhafi might still be i mean he would be there in the bunkers and be underground bunkers and not not on the surface. during the last hours apparently the rebels have advanced somewhat compare to part of the city the southwestern part of tripoli and i think we said that up to twenty percent of the city were still are still in the

hands of the soldiers and militia who are defending a good outfit so are you convinced that gadhafi could well be in a bunker in that compound being stormed at the moment by those rebels if that's the case we could be in the witnessing the last moments of gadhafi regime. well yes and no gaddafi is very erratic in his behavior and very difficult to say what will you do i mean his son and the television yesterday said no no by far the still here and we are fighting and he's not the man to run away like the other dictators but on the other hand side i'm quite sure that he must have an emergency exit from his bunker system and can escape if he still should be there it might also be you know unfortunately as we say truth is the first victim of any war so nobody knows what is true in all the different in outs but nevertheless if he did escape from that

bunker how long could it be actually on the run bearing in mind he wouldn't be able to take a plane because there's a no fly zone imposed over the country there what do you think are his chances of perhaps setting up camp somewhere else. well it's very difficult i dunno i don't think that will take him the tunisians definitely not all maybe he might go to the sea to tunisia or of the other countries bordering and take a plane from there to zimbabwe or to very few countries north korea where he would be still accepted as a host so it's very difficult to see and it might take some time to discover him even if he stays in his own countries if we remember sort of hussein how long it took to discover him in iraq. and while the whole world guesses where colonel gadhafi might be hiding world chess federation chief illusion of says he you know he claims you've spoken to him on the telephone. in the supplements i was

a girl when i was you my. son here called me before and i was surprised. yes yes i am and i ask the why because yesterday i saw you in prison and. ok and now i am in tripoli. and he said my father. my mother wants to say some words you after that you know in which. here said but now at least in. theory he doesn't want the police he's home in the end he wants it would be for his country and he wants to thank all people in the water who support. small country and small nation against countries from me and up are there. in english thank you very

much. mohammed translate these simple answers from english and over the. course of security and we'll all. freelance journalist you can chandan who has recently come back from libya has told me earlier that gadhafi forces may continue the fight. nato are under helicopters and jets have literally massacred and blown apart all these were able to get into tripoli and look at our images very carefully and from tripoli and even western mainstream media is admitting that no civilians are coming out in support of the rebels although all the shoppers all the shops all the houses are shut down in zawiya and the shut down in tripoli now the rebels think they've got his compound last night i'd have lost lives but it's a round one when to go home and the guardian cycle is an amp the press corps like it is around this not only in driving around tripoli so

a house like last night tonight is another truck of the rebels in the compound that talkies forces are allowing all these dozens and scores of rebels into the compound and let's see what happens to like maybe a number of the rebels in tripoli two weeks ago it's been confirmed it was the british are you concerned about conducted a massacre eighty five civilians including thirty five children nothing to do with protecting civilians everything to do with dominating libya well what's been clear in the last few days and it's been admitted by the telegraph but yesterday it was planned all along by the nato forces so yes they want to wrap up libya wrap it up nicely presented as a as a successful test case to then roll on syria so it's all dependent on where got these people and resist nato here if they can with this nato in libya they won't be coming for syria and gadhafi himself said in a speech just under a month ago that is resistant against nicko is that and in syria and iran as well.

the u.k. is reportedly authorized expander start 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 but these are the bennett has more on this. it seems the british did have a bigger hand in all of this than it originally so 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 the rebels would need some help if they really were going to topple get back he said people like spies m i six officials form a s.a.'s offices to give the 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 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 fighting and also telecommunications equipment secret weapons guns 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 macarthur 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're prepared for that and also six hundred more marines

are actually also stationed in the mediterranean ready to be deployed in what the government says the role of support for the humanitarian cause so clearly downing street at the moment refusing to rule. now 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 chicago their own future and clearly the british and also other european states are not that confident just yet that this transition will be as peaceful as they want it to be. reporting there while 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 company any which had close ties to get their free is spearheading the return as are reports this time its services won't be quite as 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 is running off to paris to meet with the french president well of course he's one very very important issue with why the western powers and tony blair and others struck a deal with gadhafi in the first place it will be exactly what they're seeking to continue. with a further explore those all richard 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. 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 when western powers look at the region they talk about humanitarianism all democracies think of oil great martic 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 impose democracy which played on sectarian divisions that ensured years of tribal struggle but also meant the allies retained control of the oil supply while the u.k. government insists lessons have been learnt from iraq western oil firms move into libya even before the fate of tripoli is sealed great oil grab is already beginning b.p. has a contentious oil and gas exploration contract in libya which the u.k. government will be anxious for it to resume italian all giant easy n i. is the

first to send back to libya and it says rose on the knees french towel and. did well as investors hoped they'd soon be able to resume production in libya but it was price to the libyan people the great fear is that just as they did in iraq created democracy which the spanish interests interests for oil companies interests and does nothing for the people of libya nor of its polity. rebels have reportedly put their flags on top of buildings inside the gadhafi compound and raided weapons stores part of the city housing the rixos hotel where journalists are staying remains under the control of gadhafi forces those trapped inside the hotel report heavy fighting outside nato forces say they've hit as many as forty targets in tripoli during three days of fighting the biggest number in a single location since the operation started in march. i just remind you we got extensive coverage of the situation there in tripoli on alt website you can head to

r.t. talk on for the latest video analysis and opinion and you can also get up to the minute news from the libya on our twitter page just follow us at a party under school. call. other news now here in r.t. a twenty two minutes past the hour a man suspected of organizing the killing of russian journalist anna politkovskaya has reportedly been arrested in moscow let's get the latest now from our she's got a picture of you know i know we do know. a few details but can you tell us more about this suspect what do you know about him. first of all this is still a developing story and all this information is coming from. the newspaper journalist the police used to work right reportedly of this arrested man is a former lieutenant colonel off the police and initially he was a witness in the investigation he presented himself as somebody who had exclusive

access to facts working with these suspects but investigators every border we now see that base especially to him being connected to other political stir murder from almost the very beginning it's only now reportedly that they've managed to gather enough evidence to charge this man with something his name is people be shoved off and he's now under arrest suspected of receiving. under water from somebody to organize this murder he allegedly found the people who would. who would conduct of this act and supplied them with weapons. what has this group of prosecutors any closer to closing this case. well it's hard to say at the moment since this case and the investigation in fact there were several investigations all of them have been going on since two thousand and six when this murder happened on

the body of course just to remind you was a journalist who worked in. one of the newspapers in russia she focused mostly on the stories around it and the human rights situation in russia and in two thousand and six she was shot dead right at the entrance at the entrance to her apartment building as she was entering basically her home in central moscow in two thousand and six this caused a huge reaction both in russia and among the international community with people demanding that those who follow implemented this crime are brought to justice there were four suspects from the beginning two of them are still under the investigation one more person was arrested just a few months ago and now if these news are correct from the. then of the possible organizer of all for this crime is in custody at the moment as well

you know we'll leave it there thanks very much indeed for that live update from central moscow. on the former head of the i.m.f. has been cleared of criminal sexual assault charges by a new york court correspondent report neither has the details. dominic strauss kahn has been cleared of all sexual assault charges that were filed more than two months ago and in a nutshell the prosecutors say that the accuser in this case thirty three year old nafissatou diallo is not a credible witness according to prosecutors they say that the accuser a former cleaning lady at the sofitel hotel here in new york was untruthful with investigators in virtually every interview prosecutors say she lied in matters great and small and that the problem in this circumstance is her credibility all these charges against him have been dropped however this order is on hold because

the defendant misty hollow is has appealed for a special special prop prosecutor in this case you know the judge already denied that request for a special special prosecutor but we do have to wait and see what an appeals court says but as we know now the judge has dropped all this case of sexual assaults against. the one that has caused a scandal here in the u.s. and around the world the u.s. media jumped on dominic strauss kahn as if public enemy number one had been finally captured this was running through the wringer basically all the headlines of all the major newspapers essentially had him guilty and mocking him skits were made about him shows here in the u.s. we did see that in just a matter of a week i mean extra time lost his job as head of the i am mouth he was his reputation was was completely dissolved. and then you know he was just basically

a running joke but at this point you should also mention there is a civil suit that has been filed. against him an extra on. many are imagining he will settle out of court if he wants this problem to just go away and that would require probably a good sum of money but at this point he's been pretty much been decayed in on all these sexual assault charges. and speaking to me a little. history professor at the university of houston and said the only u.s. prosecutor's office is come out of this well. i see this as just the latest the latest chapter on the probable i thought the next stross can does nothing surprising about about what happened in a hotel room more than two months ago i've always been a big fan of the simplest explanation for any particular problem and in the case of german extracts can one is in need of a conspiracy theory one doesn't need to look too political machinations are not the

start of the atlantic to explain what is happening and what happened is what's happened repeatedly in his past his lawyers had been noted that there was a sexual encounter what remains up in the air is the nature of this encounter was a consensual it was a florist if it's indicates any body in this affair a very sad affair it's the new york prosecutor's office in the wake of more than two months of intensive investigation they realize that their plane ticket and the only witnesses to this alleged crime was not credible. that brings us now to twenty and a half minutes past the hour here in moscow i'll be back with the latest headlines very shortly stay with this knife here in. the be.

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