with president medvedev during his first visit to russia you know most a decade. ten am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie welcome to the program rebels have stormed and looted colonel gadhafi compound in tripoli after three days of fighting in the libyan capital here's how it happened i was like oh my god i mean do guthrie's rule. do this thing have a guy following this oh it was like oh my goodness but i'm happy you know i'm having this thing meanwhile the location of could offer himself is still not known in his second radio address in the space of twenty four hours he called on his supporters to cleanse the capital he claims that he's retreat from the compound was a tactical move and promised to fight to the death some broke out the forces

continue their armed resistance with reports suggesting they're attacking the town of aaja lot west of tripoli with missiles and tanks journalist richard spencer says that even if the rebels taken troll the country civil war is imminent. i think would be us is 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. 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 for them maybe get some 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 and years. on our website we're asking what do you think awaits libya if the rebels assume power let's take a look at the side build there most of our viewers think it will be nothing more

than just an oil rich colony for me you know members around this fear of the country will be torn apart by a power struggle sixteen percent think that little will change with one dictatorship swapped for another and only four percent think that the rebels will preside over a democratic state you can have your say on the issue of logging on to our web site r t v dot com and let us know what you think. on 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 to declare a humanitarian reasons for the intervention had nothing to do with its real aim. whenever the united states or britain or france the colonizers enslavers of africa intervene in africa or the middle east or anywhere they assign 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 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 lindsey german a london based activist from the stop the war coalition believes the majority of libyans don't want the west 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 are being 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 war 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 tripoli last night all hopes for a look pretty of 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 known agenda of the rebels could mean more losses and gains. troops feels like a winner as the first power to recognize libya's rebels the first to pull become free and now the first in talks with rebel leaders for mr islands to pace's victory gives him great satisfaction opposition m.p. jacques laing everyone to be thankful that inspired action at the united nations corporations in states that voted for human intervention a rubbing their hands one of the first members of the french team. who. was a representative of. the french or company and that is not very far from these of course french all join the toll has been named as this was big enough rubble all

for a go go has threatened to block 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 of russian officials says quote we've lost libya completely it is well known that it is a wall forms that these so-called position government has promised to give the old to false fronts officially claims its war mission is over but timeless tippett to secretly stay you'll be in libya make sure profits france and. maintaining forces. presence in libya even though the resolution said it's going to answer yes but keeping troops in the country. means heavy 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 it now is opposed by the group i guess with few months of war is far from over and this invasion is already costing much more than we can back see is a growing that libya's new leaders to do so with the peace here good points to the rebels moved to last months of the military chief general yunis exposed widespread rebel looting and executions beachfronts these problems may have only just begun the new bush will see paris. as a levy on conflict continues oil companies are waiting in the wings with a look at of oil contracts up for grabs while on the desk you keep an eye on that for us we're going to tell us there you know how they're absolutely right marina rebels hailing the end of the gadhafi regime a save that russian oil companies may lose some looker to contracts but we talk to some analysts and they say that labor will not be able to afford this we'll have

more in our business voice in about ten minutes. but before that let's get some more analysis of what the future libya could look like and shapiro professor of political science at yale university thinks a high number of former gadhafi 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 after old stuff i jolly a little was a justice ministry in khadafi government djibril was the head of the economic development council in the field regime and. he was sleaze libya's ambassador to india for the gadhafi regime these are the related is 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 edits an arabic newspaper based in london he's saying skurnick gadhafi will definitely fall but the question is whether the rebels will be able to govern the country. could turn to a fitting state and i quote happened in afghanistan nobody can predict what will happen after we know that he would be removed from power because he cannot actually fight and he hasn't called back up abilities but the big question is you know what the position was when the first pain. the huge division is in its second with it is capable to run the country and to keep. the united states. to other news now investigators say they have new information about who ordered the

murder of russian journalist anna politkovskaya five years ago well the statement follows the arrest of a former key witness in the case has now fallen under suspicion himself for organizing the killing artist peter all over joins us now with the latest. here what more can you tell us about these new developments in this high profile case well the very latest to come out from the investigators is that they are saying they have information regarding the name of the person who sold it the saucer they should of journalist out at an airport a cold sky now this is the the person they've really been looking for the man right at the top of the pyramid they haven't released any further information about him as of yet but that's the the latest they saying they have information tending to the name of the the man who ordered the assassination of a political it's going to this comes just one day after the arrest of a form a key witness for the prosecution. dimitry public cenk of was

a retired senior police officer here in moscow he had been on the stand as a witness for the prosecution because he said that he overheard the defendants who were facing trial at the time he overheard then plotting how they were going to get a weapon how they were going to follow on the public and how they were going to carry out the murder now it's expected that he'll be charged later on today on a wednesday with being at the all can i said the facilitator of involved in this murder that it was him who obtained a weapon for the assassin a assassin to pull the trigger it was also him that in his role as a senior police a senior police officer used on duty police to surveil an apology to allow the assassin say no well hello whereabouts where she was going to be at a particular time and allow them to to carry out their crime now the arrest

of of. the arrest of the still a police officer has led to many in the. account perth have friends or family to say that they take this is good news they have been wary about what he's been saying since the beginning and they say that his arrest now and the fact that he will be charged later on today show that they were right to have their concerns about him. in the party and before you know if you're a citizen 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 court to buy nobody because after the show this man was linked to political sky was murder. well peter this has been a long running process so can you take us through the main details of the

investigation and how it's been progressing well this investigation has been going on for many years now october two thousand and six was when a lot of politkovskaya was gunned down here in central moscow since then we we saw a trial in two thousand and seven it didn't come out with any major results but we have seen developments in this case in recent times is of course a case that has. drawn media attention from around the world anna politkovskaya eastward could not because yet she was a very highly respected journalist and gained much praise and not just here in russia but around the world for her investigative work into human rights abuses in chechnya now she gained amongst some of the people she wrote about some some say the enemies in the north caucasus area and it has always been assumed that it was somebody from last part of the world this was behind her saucer nation now. just in

may of this year the case today received a bit of a boost to investigators says the the man accused of being the gunman who pulled the trigger that fired the bullet that killed out a political was arrested in a village in chechnya he was brought here to moscow where he's charged with a crime and remains in custody and now with this latest news that they are looks like we're going to see. chen calls the former police officer as i say former witness for the prosecution being charged with having being the the older nicer of the killing and investigators saying that they now have information regarding to who is the kingpin the the all the main man behind altering the assassination that the investigation into who killed anna politkovskaya is progressing along and that we could see some major developments in this case in the next few months and weeks all right peter thanks very much indeed for bringing us the details here all. ported there from moscow. to other news now here on r t kim danielle is

visiting russia for the first time in nine years in an unusually open foreign visit for the north korean leader is touring the country on his armor train with tight security involving dozens of guards he's now meeting with president medvedev and russia's republic of are these countries as are was 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 you know when you've crossed into russia we know where he's made stops what kind of people he's met and what he's done 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 forced korea withdrew from the six party talks which include north korea south

korea russia china 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 leaves 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 in 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 because it is our reporting there well if you log on to our web site r.t. dot com you can find out how the north korean year has been spent. time in russia out of the key meeting at the sing a relaxing day of the world's deepest leg by car taking a dip in its waters to buy more on his visit our web site at sochi dot com. to other stories now after months of scandalous headlines and slanderous whispers criminal charges against dominique strauss kahn 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 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 among 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. reporting there professor robert zaretsky 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 i thought 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 doesn't need a conspiracy theory one doesn't need to look to political machinations on 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 and the only witness to this alleged crime was not credible. let's have

a look at some other stories from around the world as the un is ramping up its pressure on syria due to them going crackdown on protesters there europe and the u.s. have prepared a draft already council resolution to impose sanctions against president bashar last regime rushes against the move and says assad should be given an opportunity to carry out the reforms has started the un human rights council puts the number of dead at around two thousand two hundred and ordered an investigation into the actions of syrian security forces meanwhile the 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 quake was also felt in new york and office workers had to leave buildings fishel say several people have been injured and many buildings damaged. well brings us up to date here on our t.v.

remember that in five more on our web site twenty four seventh's and i'll be back shortly with headlines before that let's take a look what's happening in business. hello that's right time for your business update scramble to gain access to libor is the world has kicked off the fighting is not over rebels hailing the end of the gadhafi regime warning russian firms may lose lucrative oil contracts however analysts say libya will not be able to afford. the point there is that any government in libya will need money as soon as possible for for the contrary restoration for feeding the people. so they will welcome any investments for basically the only source for the budget for new budget of the country's oil and gas so basically i think the any company especially the ones that already have been

there will be welcome there. this august has been the best moment for gold and twelve here it's jumped almost seventeen percent in the last three weeks to meet then certainty about economic prospects of europe and america the market is waiting for a key news conference in the us to hear more about further stimulus measures that. hold human to parker from plots says the current rally in precious metals 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 all 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 of 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 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. of europe split on whether issue euro bonds will help solve or ease the debt problems till monday at a critical believes crease default is looking increasingly likely. it's not. that countries like greece would benefit from the four percent because of course greece doesn't really export anything russia benefits it because it exported on the course you know that was highly beneficial for exporters because in the result but ultimately they may have to go down that route you know there's no way that over the longer term countries like greece can continue to be supported by countries like germany or france so you know i know the long term solution could be quite a complex one again you don't so we see that there's

a lot of lot of uncertainty in markets and they have no idea or no way of pricing that. which brings us to the market's world prices a mixed after seeing some gains in previous sessions investors are keeping an eye on the situation in libya right now it's trading at around eighty five point six dollars per barrel while the brant plant is that one hundred nine dollars and precious metals are also climbing this hour gold is up one percent after hitting another all time high of one thousand nine hundred dollars on tuesday. silver is flat it's trading at almost forty two dollars per ounce. in days in asia the nikkei is in the road just by strong cues from wall street that softer mood it's got credit rating agencies said it made the downgrade due to the country's largest budget deficit and build up in government debt since two thousand and nine and hong kong stocks are also lower as china life insurance company plunged one

disappointment over its first half profits which fell twenty eight percent. and here in russia they are posting strong gains in early session those who you can see hundred percent of the mice it is close the boards will start trading in a few moments we'll bring you the details in our next bulletin. on russian equities have largely started the week makes with no clear direction in sight. the capital believes this is because most are anticipating federal reserve chairman ben bernanke a statement later this week. expect mark you to stay in the big rain where it is no right now we don't expect any significant move. of the reason the market is waiting for ben bernanke a speech on friday friday we won't see anything new in russian market steel or high volatility. but no direction. russia's energy major gas promise

spreading its wings in foreign airports it's signed an agreement with french oil giant total alone both companies to use each other's facilities for jet fuel supplies all the deal gives gazprom access to two hundred seventy airports in seventy countries and europe the pacific africa and the middle east. that's all the time for knowledge you're in the less than one all small business story here on r t but if you can't wait you can always log on to our website r t dot com slash business.

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welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow here is a look at the top stories libya's rebel forces have stormed colonel gadhafi compound in tripoli once again claim to have control of the city but cut off the loyalists continue their armed resistance with their leader of the fight to the death. news just in russian investigators say they have information about who ordered the murder of a prominent russian journalist anna politkovskaya five years ago this follows today's arrest of a former new witness in the case retired senior police official suspected of organizing the killing. talks as part of the north korean leader's first visit to russia in over a decade he's been touring siberia in the far east on his armor train.