am of the russian capital you're watching r.t.m. marina jascha welcome to the program that rebels have stormed then looted colonel gadhafi is compound in tripoli after three days of fighting in the libyan capital here's how it happened. thanks. oh. ok thank you mr president. thank you so. meanwhile the location of gadhafi himself is still not known at least in radio address he said that his retreat from the compound was a tactical move and promised to fight to the death so broke it off and forces continue their armed resistance with reports suggesting they're attacking the town of a lot west of tripoli with missiles and tanks journalist richard spencer says that even if the rebels take control of the country's civil war he said. i think would

be us as accomplish is 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 we shouldn't be naive children and think that these rebels are these nice little folks who want democracy and freedom and mcdonald's this is clearly a chance for them to gain power but maybe do it in action revenge against north 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. on our website we're asking what you think awaits the rebels' assume power. you think it will be nothing more than just an oil rich colony for nato members around fifty or the country will be torn apart by a power struggle sixty percent saying that little will change with one dictatorship swap or another and only four percent as you can see think that the rebels will

preside over a democratic state and you can also have your say on this issue by logging on to our website which is. well the rebels were only able to enter tripoli after a huge help from nato including bombing campaign in the country lasting five months brian becker from the n.c.a.a. work and search says declare a humanitarian reasons for the intervention had nothing to do with its reeling whenever the united states or britain or france the colonizers and enslavers of africa intervene in africa or the middle east or anywhere they assigned their mission a noble cause to protect freedom to protect democracy to protect civilians in the case of resolution one thousand nine hundred three but this is a longstanding policy of the u.s. government to overthrow the government of libya the country that possesses as you've said before the largest oil reserves in all about africa it has nothing to do with human rights and in fact when you bomb

a tripoli when you drop seven thousand five hundred bombs and missiles on a country a country that did nothing to the american people that's an act of aggression that's a war crime that's a crime against humanity that's the complete opposite of defense of human rights meanwhile into germany a london based activist from to stop the war coalition believes the majority of libyans don't want the west to tell them what to do. we have to remember we've been here before we we knew 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 being disastrous episode in iraq in particular who want indicted in this wire if there is evidence to montreal they should they should be dealt with in libya and not in the hague or anywhere else. french oil companies are likely to be among those who would have enjoyed the pictures coming in from aaa last night helps for a look or to foil contracts with a new government in libya are certainly high but as artie's daniel bushell reports the cost of intervention and the unknown agenda of the rebels could mean more losses and gains. fraud's feels like a winner as the first power to recognize libya's rebels the first to become tree

and now the first in talks with rebel leaders for mr allan she paces victory gives him great satisfaction opposition m.p. jacques lying on everyone to be thankful that france inspired action at the united nations corporations in states that voted for u.n. intervention or rubbing their hands one of the first members of a french team. who. was a representative of total different or company. is not very far from this of course french all join the toll has been named as this was big enough rubble all for a go go has threatened to brazil russia and china for quote political issues there are three states who refuse strong sanctions against gadhafi those nations had contracts with the former regime of russian official says quote we've lost libya

completely it is well known that it is or will fall that these so-called position government has promised to give the all to false fronts officially claims its war mission is over but analysts tippett to secretly stay you'll be in libya make sure it profits from early mid jaylene forces. presence in libya even the. resolution it's going to answer yes but keeping troops in the country means heavy cost. latest polls say most french people now oppose the military intervention this in p.c.'s for the bloodshed and the hefty price tag to deal with its own proposed by the us with human life the war is far from over and this invasion is already costing much more than we get back see is a growing that libya's new leaders a to do so with the peace. points to the rebels moved the last months of the

military chief general yunis exposed widespread rebel looting and executions these problems may have only just begun bushell see paris let's get some more analysis of what the future levy could look like and shapiro professor of political science at yale university thinks the high number of former gadhafi officials among the rebel leadership raises doubts over whether and new regime will be any different from the old one we know very little about the agenda of the forces that are coming to power after all. was a justice ministry in cut off. djibril was the head of the economic development council in the regime. place libya's ambassador to india for the gaddafi regime and these are the real leaders of the national transitional council they're certainly known have any history as democrats you know they've been

associated with the gadhafi regime for a very long time. r.t. has also spoken to abdel bari atwan who added sen arabic newspaper based in london and he sings colonel gadhafi will definitely fall but the question is whether the rebels will be able to govern the country. maybe. to a failed state like what happened in afghanistan nobody can predict what will happen after that we know that he would be removed from power because he and i actually need to use and he hasn't called back up abilities but the big question is you know whether that position council will be able first to paint. the. divisions in its second with if he's capable to run the country and to keep you as a united states. if

you're watching r.t. live from moscow to other news now a former t. witness in the case of murdered russian journalist anna politkovskaya has been arrested or retired senior police official has fallen under suspicion himself for organizing the crime peter all over joins us now with the latest quality peter so tell us what we know about this man just arrested in connection with the case. dmitri chunk of this former senior russian police officer is now being detained by police for questioning over his role in his possible role in the in the slaying of on a part of called sky the nobody has yet a journalist killed in two thousand and six now he had being a key witness one of the main witnesses for the prosecution and a trial into into the alleged killers in two thousand and six and two thousand and eight however he was called to a moscow police station early yesterday yesterday and then following questioning by

offices there detained he had in his previous. testimony said that he had overheard the plotters all deny a saying. how they were going to how they were going to kill mr pollack or scare he's been detained saying that he was actually the ringleader organizing those people together and allowing them to providing them with the logistics that allowed them to carry out a murder or the murder on an apology so he remains in custody at the moment now the family and friends and of anna politkovskaya have welcomed the arrest of public cenk of saying that he was somebody that from the start they thought had more to do with the slaying of the journalists that previously being said by him. you know the arrested man was a prosecution witness in the case as far as i understand he 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 court to buy novaya gazeta show this man was linked to political sky is murder. here what are the chances of this arrest helping to draw the investigation to a close well it has been a long and drawn out process son of protocol this guy was gunned down in the stairwell of a moscow apartment in october of two thousand and six and we're now in two thousand and eleven with one trial already behind us not resulting in any any major discoveries in finding out who is behind this killing but we are seeing the steps coming forward in may of this year. was arrested in chechnya now he's a charge of being the man who pulled the trigger which killed anna politkovskaya.

and now we've seen to me to the public chen called being a being charge being questioned over being a ringleader organizing the plotters as they try to as they planned the murder of pollock this is just these are steps forward to surely be some type of light relief for the family of pollock of sky as well as their colleagues as well that people who knew her well. that they will take these are stepping stones to hopefully find out who was ultimately behind ordering the murder back in two thousand and six so things are progressing as we've seen and this in the last year we've seen two major pieces of information come through the arrest of mahmoud of a now public chain called previously being thought to be a key witness for the prosecution a key source of information for prosecutors he's now facing self standing on the other side of the court. ok peter thanks very much indeed for bringing us the details fear all over it here reporting from moscow. came here and now is visiting

russia for the first time in nine years unusually open for an visit for the north korean leader he's touring the country on his armor train was tight security involving dozens of guards and meeting was president medvedev and russia's republic of scandal for a later in the day i discussed it as our visit. his usual atmosphere of secrecy has been kept up but not to the extent that it usually is most of the times we get to hear about his business post facto or even not at all this time we know when he crossed into russia we know where he's made stops what kind of people he's met and what he's done and we know that right now he is in the capital of the russian republic of this so this kind of thing has led many to speculate that the subject matters that will be discussed during the meeting between the leaders of north korea and russia is definitely going to be a tension worthy and most likely it will be focused on the six party talks now of

course korea withdrew from the six party talks which include north korea south korea russia china and the u.s. and japan and continued with its nuclear experiments defiant in its continuation of its nuclear program that of course caused outrage within the six party community but also within the international community so the fact that the russian president is meeting with his north korean counterpart and that visit is being publicized in the media definitely leads many to believe that korea is preparing some sort of statement on but of course it's not the only subject matter that is likely to arise during the discussions various economic debates are also bound to make their way on to the table. trilateral trade with russia south and north korea and also bilateral trade relations and north korea exported six million dollars worth of

goods to russia in two thousand and eleven alone so definitely a lot of things on the agenda and the very usually secretive north korean leader has lowered the veil of secrecy for this visit so everyone here is very eager to find out exactly what is going to be said. in his arm recording their well if you. log on to r.t. dot com you can find out how the north korean leader has been spending time in russia had of the key meeting this includes a relaxing day at the world's deepest lake by call and taking a dip and its waters war on our website dot com. after months of scandalous headlines and slanderous whispers criminal charges against have been dropped the former head of the i.m.f. was accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid in new york. brings us the latest. a manhattan supreme court judge

delivered that ruling on tuesday after prosecutors in the case say that the accuser nafissatou diallo has not been truthful on all matters a great and small now however this ruling delivered by the judge is on hold pending an appeal by mr gallo the accuser 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 to france dominic strauss kahn was arrested on may fourteenth shortly after paraded in front of news cameras by the new york city police department at that point he was essentially vilified by the moon 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

dominique 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 vote comments and negative press that preceded after his arrest. there professor roberts around q. 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. in the probable life of dominic stress can there's nothing surprising about what

happened or what may have 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 doesn't need a conspiracy theory one doesn't need to look to political machinations are not the side of the atlantic to explain what has happened what happened is what's happened repeated in his past and he has always admitted that there was a sexual encounter or his lawyers had that minute that there was a sexual encounter what remains up in the air is the nature of this encounter was a consensual it wasn't forced if it vindicates anybody in this affair a very sad affair it's the new york prosecutor's office they have the courage to do a one hundred eighty degrees on their original findings they thought they had a credible case but in the wake of intensive investigation they realize that their plaintiffs and the only witnesses to this alleged crime was not credible

let's have a look at some other international headlines now the un is ramping up right here on syria due to the ongoing crackdown on protesters there europe and the us have paragraphed security council resolution to impose an arms embargo and other sanctions against president bashar asad in one thousand rights council puts the number of the dad at around two thousand two hundred and ordered an investigation into the actions of syrian security forces meanwhile a group of syrian opposition members has been holding meetings interrogate to try and form a national council. you know that. one of the strongest earthquakes on record has shaken the east coast of the united states the tremor has forced the evacuation of parts of washington including the white house and pentagon the quake was also felt in new york and

office workers cattle leave buildings officials say several people have been injured and many buildings damaged. while the brings us up to date here now to remember you can always find more on our website r.t. dot com follow us on our website facebook and twitter pages for that oh let's take a look at what's happening in the world of business with us. hello and a very warm welcome to the program the scramble to gain access to libya's oil has kicked off although the fighting is not over rebels hailing the end of the gadhafi regime russian forces may lose leak or to oil contracts however analysts believe libya will not be able to afford this the point there is that any government in libya will need money as soon as possible you know for for the contrary restoration for feeding the people basically so they will welcome any investments for

basically the only source for the budgeting for new budget or the country's oil and gas so basically i think that any company especially the ones that already have been there will be welcome there. well that's august has been the best month the golden twelve years has jumped almost seventeen percent in the last three weeks and then certainty about economic prospects in europe and america the market is waiting for a key news conference in the us to hear more about further stimulus measures them or him want to procure from plants says the current rally in precious metals reflects investor the separation that turned new round of voting printing is unavoidable if one looks at the sequence of events of what the central banks need to do they are in effect dry in terms of liquidity so the only option they have left is to do more the round of quantitative easing you can see

that the market is forecasting that quantitative easing so the price of gold seems to be here indorse two thousand and beyond all that high price in gold is just people trying to protect their currency from any further dilution with a quantitative easing the wall will go up silver is going ot oriel stop falling and mel seems to be wanting to go up so everything will go up really but just the dollar will buy less than they used to. meanwhile europe a split on whether issue your loved ones will help solve or ease the e.u.'s debt problems tom monday at a pretty believes this solution will only give markets briefer spite the short term resolution of the euro euro zone or euro wide bond issuance is quite a neat way of getting these countries to bring their monetary policy in line but it will be at the end of the day you know it still means that essentially you know it's the germans and the french that underwriting the mismanagement of that was

maintained by the greeks in particular and also italians and the and the spanish and the produce so it's no wonder the the germans and the french are not willing to go down the line. because the main structural issue has yet to be resolved the market still has to price the potential defaults in euro zone markets and a potential further weakening of the of europe you know from for investors in countries like russia which of commodities exporters the implication is that for sort of a stronger dollar because the dollar despite the downgrade from the s. and p. of u.s. debt is still is still the currency of choice. let's take a look at the figures oil prices a flight to positive after seeing some gains in previous sessions investors still keeping an eye on the situation in libya right now the w. is trading at around eighty five dollars a barrel while the friend learned that one hundred nine dollars a barrel and brushes barrels a climbing the solid gold is up under

a percent after hitting another all time high of one thousand nine hundred dollars per ounce on tuesday and silver slightly in the black it's trading at forty two dollars per ounce. in asia the nikkei is in the red despite strong cues from wall street that's after moody's scott japan's rating david said it made the downgrade due to the country's large budget deficit sound of build up in government since two thousand and nine and hong kong stocks are all slow as china life insurance company plunged on this point over the first half profits fell twenty eight cents. and here in russia the markets will start the trading day in about two hours time both our chance in the minds it's closed flat to positive on tuesday the russian which is far larger has started the week makes with no clear direction in sight they probably need a catalyst for investors to make some big moves and untreated chunk of from alpha buying believes this is because most are anticipating federal reserve chairman ben

bernanke a statement later this week. expect mark you still stay in the big green cheer where it is now right now we don't expect any significant move. the reason is that mark is waiting for ben bernanke a speech on friday he will friday we won't see anything new in the russian market steel high volatility high volume but no direction. and finally moscow is selling its sweetest first the balkan stake in one of europe's biggest county makers russia's united confectioner's twenty six point six percent stake is offered at an initial price of more than three hundred fifty two million dollars this week holding unites fifteen candy making factories and moscow with a consolidated revenues of more than one billion dollars it may be a sweet deal less united confectioner's has more than thirteen percent of the local market but experts warn investors may be put off as the company has

a complicated structure. that wraps up the business bulletin what stories you can head to our website that's our team dot com slash business or join me in less than one hour's time for more.

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baby is rebel forces have stormed colonel gadhafi compound in tripoli and once again claim to have controlled the city but khadafi loyalists continue their armed resistance was nearly a year of ballet a fight to the death. and major breakthrough in the i pod cost to murder cases a former senior police official is held on suspicion of masterminding the crime we took of a chunk of was also a key witness in the investigation of the killing of the prominent russian journalist five years ago. and leader of the world's most closed state comes out into the open north korea's kim visits russia for the first time in almost a decade. as the headlines here in r.t. now as the civil war in libya rages many say the country could go the way of egypt and end up with a disillusioned society impatient for reform but some believe it could be much worse arches lore and talks newspaper editor up.