international news and comment live from moscow where it's just past one am and in tripoli eleven pm where the breaking news is that libyan rebels are inside colonel gadhafi tripoli compound following a fierce fight they now claim to control most of the capital three days after entering the city well these are the latest pictures from the compound that we've received here at r.t. rebels around the square where colonel gadhafi used to make speeches to the nation exactly where gadhafi is no one seems to know if he's been rising over the libyan capital for out tuesday as a result of pockets of fighting between the two sides casualties are said to be mounting. well in germany a london based activist from the stop the war coalition talked to me a little earlier 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 this we've been there before with iraq and i think the lesson

from both of those and that should leave the message that is even coming from many of the rebels in tripoli and elsewhere in libya 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 i think is absolutely out to the libyan people to decide what they do with cafe and with anybody else that they if there is evidence they should they should be dealt with in libya and not in the hague or anywhere else i feel that the whole western intervention around this has been. too they were caught taken by surprise by the average what they're trying to do is to reassert western control. well the question you could have his whereabouts is yet to be answered and i spoke to dr

going to he's a director of the german orient institute based in berlin who thinks the embattled leader is not likely to run away gaddafi is very erratic in his behavior and is very difficult to say what will you do i mean his son and the television yesterday said no no my father still here and we are fighting and he is not the man to run away like the other dictators did 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 see truth the first victim of any war so nobody knows what is true in all the different than outs which i don't think that will take him to new years definitely not maybe he might go to the south to tunisia and the other countries so 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 i did might take some time to discover him even if he stays in his own countries if we remember saddam 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. says he has spoken to him on the telephone. in this after a month or so ago when i was in my. car there for the whole the he called me by one and i was surprised. yes yes i am and i asked why because yes the bit i saw. in prison. or now i mean in tripoli. he's my father moammar gadhafi and my father wants to say some words to you and after that here in

arabic language market that here said that now he's he's contrary he doesn't want to leave his home lent he wants to defend his country and he wants to thank all people into all who support. small company and small nation will fight against countries from me and after that it's in english thank you very much and mohammed translate these sentences from english and of the he said give some sort of because of security and i will call you later. freelance journalists are concerned and who has recently come back from libya has told me that gadhafi forces may continue the fight. nato apache

helicopters and jets have literally massacred and blown apart all these were able to get into tripoli look out the images very carefully from zawiya and from tripoli and even western mainstream media is admitting no civilians are coming out in support of the rebels although all the shockers all the shops all the houses are shut down in zawiya and they shut down in tripoli now the rebels think they've got to go after his compound but last night i had lost lights bustle round one went to gadhafi because they said they had mohammed gadhafi and cycle islam hey presto cycle as long as smiling driving around tripoli he so a house like last night tonight is another trap for the rebels in the compound that good thought his forces are allowing all these dozens and scores of rebels into the compound and let's see what happens to like and you know it may be another big crowd for the rebels in tripoli two weeks ago it's been confirmed it was the british are you concerned about conducted at moscow eighty five civilians including thirty five children nothing to do with protecting civilians everything to do with dominating few libya but what's been clear in the last few days and it's been

admitted by the daily telegraph that yesterday what's planned all along a week 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 worker gadhafi and his people and resist nato here but if they can with this made their way in libya they won't be coming for syria and good locking himself said in a speech just under a month ago about his resistance against nato is defending syria and iran as well and journalist richard spencer has told me that the other war going on in libya is between rebels fighting for power when gadhafi is gone. but i think would be us as accomplish is to establish a coming civil war in libya which we help finance we will be a trained number of the people who will be killing one another. children and think that these rebels who. want democracy and freedom and mcdonalds

this is clearly. our. nor the enemy but mean we put them to be in control and they're going to be fighting with each other. for the next months and years in other developments the u.k. is reportedly authorized to clamp to 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 the standby in the mediterranean bennett has more on this in london it seems the british did have a big 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 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 the kit that they've been supplying the rebels with has been non-lethal and therefore not in breach of this u.n. resolution however these missions have been very covert clandestine 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 fighters 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 card 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 clearly 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 all want it to be 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 afi spearheading the return and reports this time its services will 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 t.n.c. is running off to paris to meet with the french president will of course start his 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 with the t.n.c. 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. exported to round 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 democracy but they think about oil greg mott 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. it's the first to send back to libya and it says the nice french towel and. the dead well as investors hoped they'd soon be able to resume production in libya but at what price to the libyan people the great sheer is that just as they did in iraq that creates a democracy which interests the west's interests or oil companies' interests and does nothing for the people of libya nor. the scenes of excitement and jubilant celebrations across libya recalled cars to his square in february but the high expectations off to the revolution have given way to disillusionment and dismay but he's got to tell the places events in libya have parallels in history. the cadets

the regime is crumbling. the rebels are cheering. the. same cheers and tears could be seen in egypt in february as the nation ousted their longtime leader hosni mubarak but six months on many egyptians say their hopes have been crushed by reality. you know i loved the revolution when it happened i welcomed it that looked at the time we call life at the end of the tunnel we see it's not getting better we have nothing to eat don't tell me about democracy for hungry people it just doesn't matter the egyptians now are not governed by who they chose as their leaders instead it's their army that's in control the army that has strong ties with the us and is sponsored by washington the military regime that the edifice the institutions that were the absence the fundamental essence of the

mubarak regime those remain and we can see the thousands of people have been brought to military trial since the end of the popular revolution that ousted mubarak in tripoli the body taking over is the national transitional council also not chosen by the leaving people yet the council has been recognized as the legitimate government of libya by all allies who've been helping oust gadhafi many leave ians are outraged by the fact that foreign powers are effectively making vital choices for them there is too much wealth and geopolitical strategic value to libya to let it only become reformed in democratic. 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 league in national transitional council giving them billions of dollars and weapons to gain control but the rebels are far from being a 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 a toilet. different scenarios it was an 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 maybe you could find themselves in a much worse situation than the egyptians because on top of power crisis similar to the one egyptians are having. could be facing a fresh outbreak of violence at the hands of the armed mom. reporting from washington r.t.

. rebels are reportedly put their flags on top of buildings inside the gadhafi compound and raided weapons stores however the 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 and nato forces say they've hit as many as fifty targets in three days of fighting the biggest number in a single location since the operation started in march. well just to remind you we've got extensive coverage of the situation the developing situation there in tripoli on our website. dot com for the latest video analysis and opinion and you can also get up to the minute news from the country on our twitter page. it's going to get you to.

the. other news now the u.n. is increasing pressure on syria where deadly fighting between government forces and protesters have been raging for almost six months now the human rights council has ordered an investigation into alleged violations u.n. says over two thousand protesters have been killed during the uprising and political analyst was speaking to me a little earlier from beirut says the west will use this development to its advantage. been using all their resources to. syrian regime we seen american sanction followed by other european sanctions they are using now the international court or the international human rights to

find. my my as they will use. more pressure on syria to asia. obviously it has been very difficult for the syrian because there is international interference by west power and there is some element from from the arab regimes they want they want to change in syria and when they come for that change we know it is their. cord in nation between between some country in the west and some arab country probably pushing for regime change in syria we heard that from the obama administration were heard that from. france and britain and germany and we've seen some calls from the saudis and the qatari and other country in the region and

obviously. haven't been away from hosting the opposition turkey. but i think the situation in syria despite the effort by the regime is going through very difficult time. dominic strauss kahn the former head of the i.m.f. has been cleared of criminal sexual assault charges by a new york court and our correspondent 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 former cleaning lady at the self itself 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. has appealed for a special special project prosecutor in this case now the judge already denied that request for a special special prosecutor but we have we do have to wait and see what the appeals court says but as we know now the judge has dropped all this case of sexual assaults against dominique strauss kahn the one that has caused a scandal here in the u.s. and around the world the u.s. media jumped on dominique strauss kahn as if public enemy number one had been finally captured this was through the ringer basically all the headlines of all the major newspapers essentially had him guilty and mocking him skits were made about him that shows here in the u.s. we did see that in just a matter of

a week dominick strauss kahn lost his job as head of the mouth he was his reputation was was completely dissolved. and then you know he was just basically a running joke but at this point we should also mention there is a civil suit that has been filed by ms diallo against dominique strauss kahn and many are imagining he will settle out of order 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 vindicated on all these sexual assault charges. there in speaking to me a little earlier that ski history professor at the university of houston said only the u.s. prosecutor's office has come out of this well i see this as just the latest the latest chapter. in the probable i thought don't mix trust can there's nothing surprising about about what happened in the 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 dominic strauss kahn one is in need of a conspiracy theory one doesn't need to look too political machinations are not the side of the atlantic to explain what has happened what happened is what's happened repeated in his past his lawyers have been minute that there was a sexual encounter what remains up in the air is the nature of this encounter was a consensual it was a true artist if it vindicates anybody in this affair a very sad affair it's the new york prosecutor's office but in the wake of more than two months of intensive investigation they realize that their plaintive in the only witness to this alleged crime was not credible. to other news now at twenty four minutes past the hour here in moscow a man suspected of organizing the killing of renowned russian journalist anna politkovskaya has been arrested by russian police but of course guy was gunned down

at a moscow apartment building five years ago well let's get the latest from his kind of he's in central moscow. what do we know about the arrested man and. well the arrested man is a former lieutenant colonel of the police he was actually one of you witnesses during the course of the investigation will presenting himself as somebody with exclusive access to information coming from the suspects but investigators say that they suspected he could be directly linked with journalists. from almost the very start of the investigation but it's only now that they've managed to gather enough evidence to detain him his name is. and it's suspected that he received an order from somebody to organize the police. found allegedly the people who would do it to the entire thing and supplied them with weapons but according to

the deputy editor in chief of the newspaper or on the political stage used to work and they've been told holding their own separate investigation as well he says that even if. it is the man who organized the police. doesn't necessarily mean the afterwards will be able to quickly find the people who ordered it. to be arrested man was a prosecution witness in the case as far as i understand had been misleading investigators in a very clever way for a long time pretending to be an important source of information about the murder in the prosecutors have doubts that he was sincere but there was not enough evidence no prosecutors have enough evidence also quit to buy nobody because that's. this man was lin to political skies murder is difficult to say if this arrest will help to discover who ordered the murder because such crimes are based on very complicated schemes there may be a long chain of mediators so it will take time before investigators can answer all

the questions as. well despite that has this actually brought the prosecutors any closer to finding a solution to this case. well it's really hard to say since the investigation has been continuing for quite some time and surely the manner of the police is one of the most high profile cases probably of the last decade just to remind you a bit about her she used to work for a. newspaper in russia mostly focused on the chechen republic and the human rights situation in russia and she was murdered right as she was entering her apartment building in the very center of moscow back in two thousand and six this caused a huge reaction both here in russia and among the international community with people demanding that those who planned an organized murder are brought to justice there were four suspects from the beginning two of them are still under the

investigation one another person that was detained a few months ago and now possibly this man the former police officer who could of organized. political squares murder but of course that is still to be found by a court if indeed. planned an organized. death. we go thanks very much indeed for that live update on this case there in central moscow now of course we're going to keep you updated on all the latest developments in libya at the moment fast moving developments there of course i'll be back or indeed my colleague sean thomas will be back in thirty minutes from now from now to bring you the latest i'll be back up very briefly though in a couple of minutes with some of our top stories stay with us live here in moscow.

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