close state comes out into the open as north korea just came here on ail holds talks with president medvedev during his first visit to russia in almost a decade. eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r t was nearing a 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 here's how it happened i was like oh my god i mean did the freeze rule. but then then this thing kevin i found this i was like oh my goodness but i'm happy you know i'm having this thing. angry crowds than did their anger add the poor and the lock. at the compound while the location of khadafi himself is still not

known he made a second radio address in the space of twenty four hours pollyannas supporters to play as a capital claims that his retreat from the compound was a tactical move and promised to fight to the death some pro get out and forces continue their armed resistance with reports suggesting they're attacking the town of marjah lot west of tripoli missiles attainments journalist richard spencer says that even if the rebels take control of the contrary 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 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 but then maybe get. revenge against nor the 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 r t dot com we're asking what you think awaits levy if the rebels assume power let's take a look inside both now well as we can see most of our viewers think it will be nothing more than just an oil rich colony for a nato members around a fifth of the country will be torn apart by a power struggle sixty percent think that little will change with one dictatorship swath four and now there and only four percent saying that the rebels will preside over a democratic state you're saying by a while beyond their website r t a comma let us know what you think on this issue. there are havel's were only able to answer tripoli after a huge help from nato including our bombing campaign in the country lasting five months brian backer from the antiwar coalition answer declared humanitarian reasons

for the intervention had nothing to do with its relaying 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 lyndsey germinal london based activist from the 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 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 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 unknown a janda of the rebels could mean more losses than gains. troops feels like a widow was the first power to recognize libya's rebels the first to will become free and now the first in talks with rebel leaders for mr allan she paces victory gives him great satisfaction opposition m.p. . 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 different or incompetent and that is not very far. 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 of russian officials says quote we've lost libya completely it is well known that it is or will form that these so-called position government has promised to give the all 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 the. resolution 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 reports but it could take yes for a few new memoir the war is far from over and this invasion is already costing much more than we could back see is a growing that libya's new leaders to do so with the peace. points to the rebels moved in last months of the military chief general yunis exposed widespread looting and executions beachfronts these problems they have only just begun the new bushel altie paris. levy and cons of continuous oil companies are waiting in the wings with the locomotive oil contracts up for grabs well you know business desk is

keeping an eye on that. that's very mayor absolutely right while the libyan oil race has kicked off and the rebels hailing b.m. to figure tougher regime saying about russian oil companies may lose some lucrative contracts but we talked to some experts and they say that it's unlikely as it may not be able to afford this more in business in about ten minutes time. as get some more analysis of what the future levy a could look like in 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. it was a justice minister incurred off his government jabril was the head of the economic

development council in the regime. as far we was slaves libya's ambassador to india for the gadhafi regime beazer 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. at it's an arabic newspaper based in london he sings 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 and like what happened in afghanistan nobody can predict what will happen after that we knew that he would be removed from power because he cannot speak in the tubes and he hasn't called back up abilities but the big question is you know what the position is so he wouldn't be able.

to visualize it so that second with if he's capable to run the country and to keep it as a united states. so other news stories now here in r t investigators say they have new information about who ordered the murder of russian journalist anna politkovskaya five years ago the statement follows the arrest of a former key witness in the case has now fallen under suspicion himself for organizing the killing all artes peter all over has the latest. 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 sauce and they should of journalist anna politkovskaya now this is the person they've really been looking for the man right at the top of the pyramid and they haven't released any further information about him as of yet but that's the latest this comes just one day after

the arrest of a form a key witness for the prosecution to me to the public cenk of was a retired senior police officer here in moscow he had been on the stand as a witness for the prosecution many in the. camp 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 in a boy has not been with before you know a theorist that 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 now prosecutors have enough evidence also quit to buy an over because after the show this man was linked to political skies murder this is of course a case that has. drawn media attention from around the world anna politkovskaya

resort but not because yet she was a very highly respected journalist and gained much praise at 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 the last part of the world this was behind her assassination. just in may of this year the case today received a bit of a boost to investigators as the. the man accused of being the gunman who pulled the trigger that fired the bullet that killed out of particles was arrested at a village in chechnya he was brought here to moscow where he's charged with that private remains in custody and now with this latest news that they have a it looks like we're going to see. each end call for the former police officer as i say for the witness for the prosecution being charged with having being made the

old 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 all during the assassination here all of our reporting there it was ninety coming to life from moscow and later today we continue our series of special reports on of wildlife now like in countries on sparta of the soviet union. twenty years ago the largest country. to some degree to. what had been trying. to teach began a journey. where did it take them. came ya now is visiting russia for the first time in nine years in an on a usually open foreign visit for the north korean leader has been touring the country on his armor train was tight security involving dozens of guards well he is

now meeting with president medvedev and russia's republic of artie's country as our eyes following a 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 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 attention 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. let's redesign our reporting there well

one more on the significance of this visit we can cross to the new patrol a lecturer in korean studies now the university of sydney who joins us via broadband. for being here with us to the program now it's the north korean leader's first trip to russia in almost a decade so what do you make of the timing of this visit. well the timing is always important but has been. just the last year i can go visit to china three times and twelve months and on leave the first visit. shows that something use changing in either inside north korea or in relations between russia and the sequence of the circles of state we know the situation economic situation in north korea is not the best it's improved since one thousand mind north korea needs more aid and aid does not come from south korea any more china provides as much as it can and probably it's time for the balance between relations between china and

north korea china. and russia so i think it's a p.r. exercise for john to make sure that people still believe him but next year two thousand and twelve north korea as promised is going to be strong evidence that all of russia is probably very significant he. will talk about the economic and political landscape in the region in more detail a little later before is out there i'd like to ask you a question about the media coverage of this visit i mean because what's interesting though it's very unusual this time it's very publicized we usually see a few pictures photos of after the event and awful media coverage during it so what should we read into this change in approach in your opinion. far there is some change in approach kim jong il was in china just three four months ago probably learned from this chinese who maintain his positive

image among his own futile but also abroad before. traveling to china usual soviet union and information about his travel was not publicized until he was safely back in this time actually last month the rumors about can go into russia but the group was cancelled in the last moment apparently due to. order because. the need for the information about his trip and security issues forced him to stay so there is some change but not much. as you know the relations between north and south remain quite terence how big a role can russia have as a mediator in soothing stanchions between the two countries. well russia is one of the six parties participating in the military solution talks. the six party

talks indefinitely in the body really knows when they're going to be resumed so russia. can expect the successful resolution of the negotiations by little negotiations between moscow and pyongyang but camels really force any sides to go back so these days to north korea use the party which really wants to go back to the six party talks and participate in those discussions are waiting for more concessions some aid in exchange for its nuclear program but these days probably korea japan and the united states who are much more reluctant to resume the talks so russia's ability is quite limited but i'm sure by literally things can be resolved peacefully or there is some promise. you look things look quite positive after that after meeting with president medvedev there is

a possibility of a resumption of six party talks at least from the perspective all right many of you trust thanks very much indeed for sharing your views with us here in the program and if you trust lecture in korean studies university city with us here in the program. while you're watching our team if you log on to arkie dot com our web site and find out how the north korean leader has been spending time in russia i had of the key meeting this includes our likes in day out of the world's deepest light by car and taking a dip in its waters so more on this can be found on our web site that is r t v dot com. after months of scandalous headlines and slanderous whispers criminal charges against dominic strauss kahn have been dropped the former half 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 to diyala has not been truthful on all matters a great and small now however this willing 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 ruined 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. reporting there from new york let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world the u.s. lapping up the pressure on syria due to the ongoing crackdown on protesters there europe and the us have prepared a draft security council resolution to impose sanctions against president bashar

assad's regime russia's advance the movement has to be given an opportunity to carry out the reforms he 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 a group of syrian opposition members has been meeting in turkey to try and form and national council. one of the strongest earthquakes on record has shaken the east coast of the united states the tram or has forced evacuation of parts of washington including the white house and pentagon the quake was also felt in new york and office workers had to leave buildings fishel say several people have been injured in nattie buildings damaged. brings us up to date here on r t let's take a look what's happening in the world of business.

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 war and russian firms may lose lucrative oil contracts if the fail to support the rebellion hall where the 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 for for the contrary restoration for feeding the people. so they will welcome any investments or basically the only source for the budget for new budget or 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. has been the best moment for gold in twelve years it's jumped almost seventeen percent in the last three weeks and then session t.

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 that what he want to package from plot 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 draw 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 in dorset two thousand and beyond. all that hard pricing is just people trying to prepare their currency from any for the dilution with the quantitative easing wall will go up silver is going all oriel stop falling m l seems to be one thing to go up so everything will go up really but just the

dollar will buy less than they used to. let's take a look at the figures of oil is flat after seeing some gains in private sessions investors are keeping an eye on the situation leaving and right now the doubling is trading at around eighty five dollars per barrel while the brand blind is at one hundred nine dollars per barrel time to check the precious metals gold is up one percent after hitting another all time high of one thousand nine hundred dollars per ounce on tuesday and silver is flat to negative it's trading at almost forty two dollars per ounce. and finally nature of the nikkei is in the red just by a strong cues from wall street that's after moody's cut japan's credit rating the said it made the downgrade due to the country's largest budget deficit and of buildup in government since two thousand and nine and. all slow as china life insurance company plunged into support interment over its first top profits which

fell twenty eight percent. trading in europe has already started european shares are rising in early went astray is extending a rally into the day this comes as speculation current that chairman ben bernanke here this week would signal new help for the economy and of course all eyes. just. on this news from the hugh as the russian markets have opened lower both the r.t.s. and the my six are trading in the red. that softer a brief bounce in the past few minutes of trade time to check up on some of the individual show moves on the might six of energy majors are still trading up both and crossing after gaining over one percent and banking stocks are also on the rise this burbank a third of a percent. ok that wraps up the business bulletin for more stories log on to our website our team dot com slash business.

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welcome back to join us you're watching live from moscow a look at the top stories leave years. rebel forces have stormed kerl could obvious compound in tripoli and once again claim a half control of the city but gadhafi loyalists continue their armed resistance with their leader value of fights to the death. russian investigators say they have information about who ordered the murder of the prominent russian journalist anna politkovskaya five years ago this follows tuesday's arrest of a former key witness in the case and retired senior police official suspected of organizing the killing. and to me trinidad of help talks as part of the north korean leader's first visit to russia in almost a decade he's been touring siberia and a foreign.