been accused of sexually assaulting a hotel made. international news and comment live from moscow where it's just past two am and it's just past midnight in tripoli which is where we go to breaking news at this hour libyan rebels are inside colonel gadhafi tripoli compound following a day of fierce fighting they claim control of most of the city but small pockets of resistance still remain the casualties are said to be mounting as of now the leader and his family the whereabouts are nowhere to be found however reports suggest that the colonel could have fled the city via a network of underground tunnels ranging for over thirty kilometers it has been reported that loyalist troops to cut off you have been retreating to his home town of sderot al jazeera reports that the insurgents' headquarters will be moved from

benghazi to tripoli within the next two days. the rebel council now plans to hold a summit in qatar on wednesday with international community representatives to seek funds lindsey german a london based activist from the stop the war coalition 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 afghanistan we've been there before 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 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 this does. bring to mind some of the

worrying ways in which these things have been used i personally think the intervention of the international criminal court. the idea of a control i could half in his family is criminal also this is yet another saw in the western hypocrisy when we have to suppose tony blair and various other people responsible for the disastrous episode in iraq in particular who wanted to i think in this wire if there is evidence to put him on trial they should they should be dealt with in libya or not. or anywhere else. the question of could our fees aware bounce has yet to be answered but he could be hiding in the tunnels of tripoli that's according to dr gupta a more director of the german orient institute based in berlin. appear in the rebels were in a situation to advance small to barboza zia to the compound in which duffy might still be i mean he would be there in the bunkers in the underground bunkers

and not not on the surface so during the last hours apparently the rebels have advanced somewhat to that part of the city that the socialist and part of tripoli's durfy is very erratic in his behavior in three difficult to say what will he do i mean his son and the television yesterday said no no my father you 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 i don't think that would take him to tunisians definitely not all maybe he might go to the south to tunisia and the other countries bordering and take a plane from there to zimbabwe or to do 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 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 a curious son ill human gene off says he has spoken to him by telephone climate the car that hit the el the sun he called me by phone and i was very surprised and. where mohammed then yes yes i am and i asked the why because yesterday i saw. him in prison and. ok now i mean in tripoli and now he's my father moammar gadhafi and my father wants to say some words to you and after that here in which the market back here said that the now he's in he's country he doesn't want to leave his home lent he wants to

defend use country and he wants to thank all people of all who supports these small company and small nation fight against countries from me and after that it's in english thank you very much and mohammed translate these sentences from into english and after that he said give some sort of because of security and i will call you later. freelance journalist chandan who has recently come back from libya says cut off these forces may continue the fight look at images very carefully from zawiya and from tripoli and even the western mainstream media is admitting no civilians are coming out in support of the rebels although all the shutters all the shops all the houses are shut down in zawiya and they shut down in tripoli now the rebels think they've got

the gawkers compound but lost lost lives but it's all round one went to gadhafi because they said they had mohammed gadhafi and cycle islam a price goes like this along with smiling driving around tripoli so perhaps like last night tonight is another trap for the rebels in the compound that the office 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 trap for the rebels in tripoli some of the countries will call them to support the no why zone in this so-called protecting civilians but since since day one of the bombing of the maids operation they have been massacring civilians and most infamously in little in just two weeks ago it's been confirmed it was the british are you concerned that conducted that massacre eighty five civilians is a. state this is the business which nato is involved in in libya in afghanistan and anywhere else they operate it's state terrorism pure and simple nato apache helicopters and jets have literally massacred and blown apart these rebels against

the tripoli. meanwhile journalist richard spencer says that there is a nother war going on in libya and that's between the rebels who is going to be in charge after the gadhafi regime falls i think would be us as accomplish is to establish a calming 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. children and think that these rebels are these nice little folks who want democracy and and freedom. mcdonald's this is clearly a chance for them to gain power that they may be dead in acts of revenge against an old enemy but mainly for them to be in control and they're going to be fighting with each other for control for the next months in yours. foreign forces may have played a bigger role in the rebels' assault on triple even just support from the air u.k. intelligence agency and security services were reportedly secretly inserted into

libya to coordinate rebel action during the push more u.k. military personnel are said to be on standby in the mediterranean. bennett has more . 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 form a s.a.'s offices 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 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 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 descend into anarchy so they're prepared for that and also six hundred more marines

actually also stationed in the mediterranean 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 charge of 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. reporting for us there from london now there are many 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 gadhafi spearheading the return. of reports this time 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 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 the 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 western powers look at the region and they talk about humanitarianism all democracy but they think about oil great must 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 and all 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 rose on the knees french towel and. the 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 the spanish interests or the west's interests or oil companies interests and does nothing for the people of libya nor emmett's. the scenes of excitement and jubilant celebrations across libya recall those in cairo's tahrir square in february but the high expectations after the revolution have given way to disillusionment and dismay egypt was a facing its first democratic parliamentary election in september but the interim government has delayed it citing the need for more time to prepare. you can comments on how the latest events in libya may 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 the it 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 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 in g.o.p. . strategic value to libya to only become reformed in democratic rights 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 buttressed 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 libya 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 totalitarianism 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 how a crisis similar to the one egyptian is are having libyans could be facing a fresh break of violence at the hands of mom. reporting from washington to.

the u.n. is increasing pressure on syria where deadly fighting between government forces and protesters hasn't been raging for almost six months now the human rights council has ordered an investigation into alleged violations the u.n. says over two thousand protesters have been killed during the uprising political analyst was speaking to us earlier from beirut says the west will use this latest development to its advantage. been using all their resources to. syrian regime we seen american sanction followed by other european sanctions and they are using now their international court or the international human rights to find. my my as they will use. more pressure on syria to asian obviously it has been very difficult

for the syrian leader because very international interference by western power and there is some element from our from the arab regimes they want they want to change in c. and when they didn't come for that change we noticed there has been coordination between between some country in the west and some arab country to 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 seen some calls from the saudis and the qatari and other country in the region and i 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 but. to other news now a man suspected of organizing the killing of renowned russian journalist. has been arrested by russian police. was gunned down in her moscow apartment building five years ago artie's you've got the latest the arrested man is a former lieutenant colonel of the police he was actually one of the witnesses during the course of the investigation but investigators say that they suspected he could be directly linked with the journalist. 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 the suspected that he received an order from somebody to organize. those murder he found allegedly the people who would do it all ends of the entire thing and supplied them with weapons but according to the

deputy editor in chief of the newspaper were on the political scale used to work and today be an old holding their own separate investigation as well he says that even if the people is the man who organized the police or it doesn't necessarily mean the afterwards will be able to quickly find the people who ordered it if i mean it is not what i want to be arrested man was a prosecution witness in the case as far as i understand he had been mislead 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 it's a show this man was looking to put those 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 that may be a long chain of mediators so it will take time before investigators can answer all the questions it's really hard to say since the investigation. has been continuing

for quite some time and surely them on or off on the political scale 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 her porch mostly focused on the chechen republic and the human rights situation in russia and she was murdered to a 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 and organized her murder are brought to justice there were four suspects from the beginning two of them are still under the investigation one of another person that was they detained a few months ago and now this man the former police officer who could have organized. the political squares murder but of course that is still to be

found by a court if indeed you meet the people who. planned it organized. death. as you have he's been off reporting to us there from moscow on to america now where a judge has dropped all charges against former head of the i.m.f. freeing him to rebuild his shattered career and reputation strauss kahn had been previously accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid something he has denied artie's brings us the latest from new york. following three months of scandalous coverage and slandering headlines sexual assault charges against dominique strauss kahn have been dropped a manhattan supreme court judge delivered that ruling on tuesday after prosecutors in the case say that the accuser now facade to diyala has been not has not

been truthful on all matters a great and small the new york district attorney's office says misty alos tarnished credibility has made it impossible for investigators to resolve the question of what exactly hoppin between thirty three year old hotel maid and the former head of the international monetary fund now however this ruling delivered by the judge is on hold pending an appeal by mr gallo the excuse or her lawyer has petitioned the court to appoint a special prosecutor to proceed with the case now that is a request that the judge dismissed and now mr yellow and her lawyer are appealing that decision now in his first public statement since being arrested on may fourteenth dominique strauss kahn says that the past months have been a nightmare for him and his family and they are looking forward to returning home

to france but in the meantime mr strauss kahn's attorneys and the attorney for misty alo of both left the courthouse on tuesday and addressed the media were regarding the verdict that was delivered here's a little bit of what was said today is an extraordinary day and it's an extraordinary event to have a district attorney stand up in a public courtroom and dismiss an indictment concluding that the complaining witness is not worthy of belief we are disappointed. that district attorney grants . apparently does not believe. justice under the law. has. an innocent woman by day in court dominic strauss kahn was arrested on may fourteenth shortly after paraded in front of news cameras by the new york city police department had that point he was essentially vilified by most mainstream

media outlets and found guilty in the court of public opinion now the new york media turned this criminal investigation into somewhat of a circus because many of the new york new york city newspaper headlines refer to dominic strauss kahn as a frog one refer to him as pepe le pew and they also refer to him as a womanizer now this of course ruin the reputation for this french politician he was considered a contender for the next presidential race in france but his basically his reputation was ruined before he was convicted at all he lost his job as head of the international monetary fund and there was a lot of a lot of comments and negative press that preceded after his arrest of course now you may feel vindicated now that a new york man heightens the court judge dismissed all sexual assault charges but

now he has he is in a position where he needs to possibly get his career back on track and start from scratch because as we've already mentioned he lost that high profile position as head of the i.m.f. . our team is very important i are reporting from our new york bureau there for us now professor robert from the university of houston told us earlier that the only side vindicated in this case is the u.s. prosecutor's office i see this as just the latest the latest chapter on in the probable i thought don't need stress can obvious 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's transcon one is in need of a conspiracy theory one doesn't need to look to the political machinations are not the sort 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 in the wake of more than two months of intensive investigation they realize that their plane did in the only witness to this alleged crime was not credible and of course we will keep you updated on the all of the latest developments in libya in less than half an hour and i'll be coming back with a recap of our top stories in just a few moments thanks for staying with us you watch party.

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keeping on top of breaking news a direct from the heart of moscow to. get on that breaking news right now from hundreds of rebels in the libyan leader's compound the opposition claims to be in control of most of the capital however the whereabouts of colonel gadhafi remain unknown. the u.s. pressure on syria ordering an investigation into possible rights violations during the crackdown on anti-government protests. also police arrest a man suspected of masterminding the murder of a renowned russian journalist. over sky. and all charges are dropped against a former international monetary fund chief dominique strauss kahn who had been accused of.