ninety am of the russian capital you're watching our joshua welcome to the program rebels have stormed and loot a colonel gadhafi compound in tripoli after three days of fighting in the libyan capital heres how it happened i was like. whoa whoa. this happened i. was like oh my goodness you know i'm having this big. joke joke joke joke about some of the back up. while they should have could offer himself as still not now and listen to radio address and said that he's retreated from the compound was a tactical move and promised to fight to the death some progress and forces continue their armed resistance with reports suggesting they're attacking the town of aijalon west of tripoli with missiles and tanks journalist richard spencer says

that even if the rebels take control of the country civil war is imminent i think would be us as accomplish is to establish a coming civil war in libya which we have financed we will be as 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 then maybe get 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. as on our website r t v dot com we are conducting in poland asking what you think awaits levy if the rebels assume power let's not take along side. well most of you think it will be

nothing more than just an oil rich colony for nato members around to face the country will be torn apart by a power struggle sixteen percent think that little will change with one dictatorship swapped for another and as you can see only four percent think that the rebels will preside over a democratic state so we can have your say on this issue on terror website. the rebels were only able to enter tripoli after a huge help from nato including a bombing campaign in the country lasting five months brian becker from the antiwar coalition answer says it declared humanitarian reasons for the intervention had nothing to do with its real aim 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 of 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 inzy german a london based activist from 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'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 want indicted 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. french oil companies are likely to be among those who would have enjoyed the pictures coming in from aaa last night hopes for a lucrative oil contracts with a new government in libya are certainly high but as artie's daniel bushell reports

the cost of the intervention and the end no 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 allen jew pace's victory gives him great satisfaction opposition m.p. jag lang everyone to be thankful that 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. the french or company and that is not very far from of course french all join the toll has been named as this was big enough rubble all

for a go to brazil russia and china for quote political issues there are three states who refused strong sanctions against gadhafi those nations had contracts with the former regime a russian official says quote we've lost libya completely it is well known that it is a roll forward 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 of make sure it profits france and. maintaining forces. presence in libya even the. resolution it's like trying to yes but keeping troops in the country means hey. the coast strike gold the 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 no longer post but i

guess what he meant was 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 to do so with the peace. points to the rebels moved the last months of their military chief general yunis exposed widespread rebel looting and executions these problems may have only just begun. to see paris well let's get some more analysis of what the future could look like and shapiro professor of political science at yale university sings the high number of former county officials among the rebel leadership raises doubts over whether a 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. was a justice ministry in. braille was the head of the economic development council in

the same regime. libya's ambassador to india for the gadhafi regime these are the real leaders of the national transitional council a 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 add it's an arabic newspaper based in london he thinks colonel gadhafi will definitely fall but the question is whether the rebels will be able to govern the country. could turn to a failed state like what happened in afghanistan nobody can predict what will happen after we know that he would be removed from power because he and i actually need to spend he hasn't called back up abilities but the big question is you know what position comes he will not be able to paint. the.

divisions in its second with if he's capable to run the country and to keep. the united states. to other news now a former key witness in the case of murdered russian journalist anna politkovskaya has been arrested retired senior police official has fallen under suspicion himself organizing the crime artist peter oliver joins us now with. peter so what do we know about this man just arrested in connection with the case tell us well dimitri public janko visit a retired for the seamy a police officer here in russia a hard being a major witness for the prosecution into the of those that for the prosecution for those investigators looking into who killed on the portico of sky the the famous journalist here in two thousand and six excuse me he had been as a

a major source of information for the prosecution saying that he had overheard those that had been included accused of plotting the death of on a political as they were putting together their plan though he told this information to the colts in two thousand and seven at a first trial in two due to what happened for what caused the murder what led up to . on a protocol he was asked to attend a moscow police station on tuesday for questioning about his role in the death after attending that questioning he was arrested by offices and remains in custody now while you've been what he's been arrested for is police are saying that he had a and they believe that he had a role as being at the old can i say himself that he happened to be just overheard plans he'd been the man in charge of putting together the logistics of all pertaining weapons of tailing on a full of quote sky and of course putting that weapon in the hands of the shooter

who pulled the trigger killing her and october two thousand and six now the arrest of a public chink of his being greeted with a as good news by the friends and relatives and coworkers of fall in love you guys yet a journalist on the phone to call. they saying that they had suspected all the time that publishing co hutton being entirely truthful and that they see his arrest now as vindication for their lack of trust in him. i mean. you know the 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 when the prosecutors have doubts that he was sincere but there was not enough evidence no prosecutors have enough evidence also a court to buy no because after the show this man was linked to political skies murder. of peter what are the chances of this arrest helping to draw the

investigation to a close well this investigation has been going on for a very long time october two thousand and six was the time when pollock was killed we're now in two thousand and eleven but this has been a an investigation it is caught the eye of the whole world anna politkovskaya but it's a very well respected highly regarded journalist. to bad maybe investigating civil rights abuses in chechnya she did make many enemies in that part of the world through her work and it has been widely believed that it is her work in chechnya that resulted in a murder hate being pushed out on her and her eventual death now we saw a trial in two thousand and seven that really didn't have too many loose ends but in this year in may the man who's accused of being the shoe said the man who pulled the trigger killing on a port of call sky as she entered her apartment building in october two thousand and six he is now in custody awaiting trial i know to see this. day to poverty

chain call of a man who previously previously being a used by the prosecution he's now been seriously questioned about a role whether he was the man who provided all of the logistics worked and put together the said the assassins into a team he's now in police custody but what they are looking for and what they are still missing investigators still searching for whoever is at the top of this pyramid the person or persons who ordered the hits officially so they are still these are steps forward that we've seen over the past few months here in russia but still many much much work to be done it do to find out who is at the top of that pyramid who ordered the killing of journalist on the protocol. right here thanks very much for bringing us the details peter all of her reporting there from moscow . to other stories now here on r.t. came yana is visiting russia for the first time in nine years and an unusually open

foreign visit for the north korean leader is touring the country on his arm or train with tight security involving dozens of guards well he's now meeting with president medvedev in russia's republic. artie's country and as our eyes following the 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 the day 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 attention worthy and most likely it will be focused on the six party talks now forced korea withdrew from the six party talks which include north korea south

korea russia trying a new 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 a wow 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 a lowered the veil of secrecy for this visit so everyone here is very eager to find out exactly what is going to be said because you know as our reporting there well if you. gone to r.t. dot com our web site 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 leg by car and taking a dip in its waters while you via more on his visit our website that's our team dot com. after months of scandalous headlines and slanderous whispers criminal charges against dominique strauss gone 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 now facade to diyala 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 at 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 mon 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 of a lot of vote comments and negative press that preceded after his arrest very important reporting there and professor robberies around ski 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 don't nix trust 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 is in need a conspiracy theory one doesn't need to look to political machinations on the other side of the atlantic to explain what has happened what happened is what's happened repeated of in his past and he has always admitted that there was a sexual encounter or his lawyers have admitted 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 had 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 plaintive in the only witnesses to this alleged crime was not credible. let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world and the u.n.

is ramping up its pressure on syria due to the ongoing crackdown on protesters the europe and the u.s. have prepared a draft security council resolution to pose sanctions against president bush on a loss of regime russia is against the move and says us of should be given an opportunity to carry out the reforms started the un human rights council puts the number of data 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 meeting in turkey to try and form a national council. 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 asked to leave buildings fishel say several people have been injured and many buildings damaged. brings us up to date here in r t

time now for the business news. hello and a very warm welcome to the program good to have your company scramble to gain access to libor is oil has kicked off although the fighting is not over roberts hailing the end of the gadhafi regime warning russian firms may lose lucrative oil contracts however analysts believe libya will not be able to afford. the point there is that any government in libya will need money soon as possible you know for for the country or restoration for feeding the people basically so they will welcome any investments for basically the only source for the budget income for new budget of the countries while gas so basically i think the any company especially the ones that already have been there will be welcome there. that's

always has been the best market for gold in twelve years it's jumped almost seventeen percent in the last three weeks and it then certainty about economic prospects in europe and america the market is waiting for q news conference in the united states to hear more about further symbolist measures that george told him want to back up from plot says the contrarian precious metals and reflects investor perception that a new round of money 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 nor the round of quantitative easing you can see that the market is forecasting that quantitative easing so the price of gold seems to be heading towards 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 now seems to be one thing to go up so everything will go up really but just a dollar will buy less than a used or he want to part from plus family while europe with split on whether issue new euro boortz will help solve or ease be a huge debt problems come monday at a critical believes the solution will only give markets briefer spite. the short term resolution of a 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 won't be at the end of the day you know it still means that essentially it's the germans and the french that underwriting the mismanagement of that was maintained by the greeks in particular and also the italians and the and the spanish and the pull g.'s 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 euro note 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 mixed after seeing some gains in previous sessions investors still keep an eye on the situation in libya right now the w.t.r. is trading at around eighty five point six dollars a barrel while the brant plant is that one hundred. precious metals acquiring the solid gold was up under one percent after hitting another all time high of one thousand nine hundred dollars per ounce on tuesday and silver is flat it's trading at almost forty two dollars per ounce. we're going to asia here the markets are in the right the nikkei is losing ground despite strong cues from

wall street but that's after moody's scott rating be made to downgrade due to the country's march budget deficits and to build up in government since two thousand and nine and hong kong stocks are also known as china life insurance company on disappointment over its first top profits which fell twenty eight percent finally here in russia the markets will start the trading day and about what else time both the r.t.s. and the maya six closed flat to positive choose to see the figures on the screen and russian equities have largely started the week mixed with no clear direction in sight this fall because investors were hesitant to make any big moves anticipating some incentive send andree teachin could alpha capital believes this is because most are anticipating federal reserve chairman ben bernanke a statement later this week. expect market to stay in the big range

where it is now right now we don't expect any significant move. up or down the reason the market is waiting for ben bernanke a speech on friday he will friday we won't see anything new in russian market steel high volatility. but no direction. russia's energy major gas probably spreading its wings informing our ports it's signed an agreement with creditors while trying total owing both companies to use each other's facilities for jet fuel supplies the deal gives gazprom access to two hundred seventy airports and seventy countries in europe the pacific asia story africa and the middle east. and finally moscow is selling its sweetest asset the balkan stake in one of europe's biggest scam to make us russia's united confectioner's a twenty six point six percent stake was offered at an initial price of more than three hundred fifty million dollars this week holding

a night shift in county making factories and wasco with consolidated revenue of more than one billion dollars it may be a sweet do you know just 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. ok you're up to date now more business stories in an hour's time. last time the close up team was moving where the gold rush still gets people hike

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back here with r.t. coming to live from moscow these are the top stories libya's rebel forces have stormed colonel gadhafi is compound in tripoli and once again claim to have control of the city but could out the loyalists continue their armed resistance was their leader of fowling a fight to the death. news just in russian investigators say they have information about who ordered the murder of a prominent russian journalist of holocaust deaths five years ago this follows tuesday's arrest of a former new witness in the case and a tired senior police official suspected of organizing the killing. and north korea's leader is in russia for the first time in almost a decade with an unusually open foreign visit by the russian president dmitri to get a friend kim jong il.