and a major breakthrough in the anna politkovskaya case investigators say they know who ordered the russian journalist murder ballads tuesday's arrest of a man suspected of organizing the killing. this is r t coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshie welcome to the program and we start with breaking news this hour a north korea's leader has confirmed she's he's ready to return to six party talks was no further conditions and after to implement a moratorium on the production and testing of nuclear weapons made a statement during his meeting with president dmitry medvedev in russia's republic . well we've got because we know. with more details for us here on the phone. katrina so as significant development there was further news can you bring us about

this breakthrough. indeed a very significant statement for i mean the north korean leader a warning the act has a trying to many heads already here of course among the journalists the news that is there is very likely to be very fast the return in the willing let out of north korea tour that tried to return to the north six party talks is she and also a readiness to implement again the moratorium production and have to think of nuclear weapons and but only if. it appears like we have lost our connection with katrina czar who was joining us on the phone there but just to remind you of our breaking news story that we're following for you here this hour an r.t. humi on l. says north korea is ready to return to six party talks and bring back the moratorium on nuclear production and testing will be trying to restore connection

with our correspondent to get more details on this here in the program. now during the stocks president medvedev has said that if the rebels in libya will be able to unite the country russia might consider establishing diplomatic relations with them but noted that colonel gadhafi still retains some military potential and influence this comes as the rebels have stormed and looted colonel gadhafi compound in tripoli after three days of fighting in the libyan capital so here's how it happened i was like oh my god i mean. during this call i mean i. think i have a guy following this oh it was like oh my goodness you know i'm having this thing. angry crowds are that of their anger at the portraits and luxuries of 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 calling on his supporters to clans the capital claims that his retreat from the compound was a tactical move and promised a flight to the death broke it off and forces continue their armed resistance with reports suggesting they're attacking the tattles aijalon west of tripoli with missiles and tanks 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 some revenge against an old enemy but mainly for them to be in control and they're going to be fighting with

each other for control for the next months in yours. well we are conducting a poll in our website and asking our viewers what you think awaits if the rebels assume power let's take a look at the cycle there well most of the viewers think so far it will be nothing more than just an oil rich colony for nato members around a fifth fear of the country will be torn apart by a power struggle sixteen percent think that little will change with one dictatorship swapped for and the other and only four percent things that the rebels will preside over a democratic state so you can let us know what you think on the issue by logging on to our website and having your say there. well now for more on the developments in libya we're joined live from indonesia by ted rall and american political cartoonists call him mr and author mr all thank you for being here with us in the program well there is food and of rebels kissing the american flag and saying king

presidents obama and sarkozy for what happened but to western leaders actually know who they're backing. it's been pretty well established that they really don't it's a striking replay of two thousand and three with the us invasion of iraq when the united states told a dictator that effectively stifled this opposition and didn't know what they would be replacing them with we're seeing seen exact situation now in libya and the international council is a hodgepodge of groups who are going to be in conflict with one another civil war is almost inevitable. well. misra you there with us. looks like we've lost connection with mr ball there and hopefully we'll try to reconnect with him later mr are you with us.

i'm being told that we have yes i'm still here all right. well my next question is about. how ordinary libyans to react to what's happening there in the contrary well it seems like they have been had a hope for a better alive there so in your opinion should they be hoping for the better or do the country's problems run much deeper than that do you think their expectations will be mat's. well people should always be optimistic and try to make the best of any situation that they're in and obviously the toppling of a dictator is. an opportunity for a new kind of life and a new kind of government one that spreads itself which is one equally to all the people but that said realistically speaking you have to have an organization that is set up to step into power and do that and the policies and establish law and order that are going to be required in

a post-revolutionary scenario right now we don't see that so my advice to the libyan people is be focused be hopeful. but we're very very hard to maintain law and order first and foremost as i saw personally you know recently and over the last ten years each we've got law and order really democracy and everything else was not. well still there are a lot of questions than answers and a lot of people are particularly now looking to. the country's rich oil reserves in your opinion who will benefit the most. that the war against libya. colonel gadhafi that was really originated by president obama was kind of the biggest payback for the reason you don't foreigners because it's the oil companies that have the most at stake in libya so this is really more of a hey you know you scratch my back in afghanistan and iraq some extent and so now

i'm going to be good looks like the europeans stand to gain the most. well what's interesting though is of course the fate of colonel gadhafi no one knows where he is now at the moment but what will happen to him eventually. well who knows what will happen with colonel gadhafi. again and it seems like a replay of two thousand and three with saddam hussein went missing you know one of the mistakes that the united states and its allies repeat over and over these days is to try to take over countries and not have anything to surrender that that occurs after a victory you know without a decisive surrender by the losing party it's almost impossible to really clean up on victory and here we are in iraq eight years later and the war continues and it's the kind of you know it would be far more beneficial from the standpoint of the

united states to nato to help colonel gadhafi come out and surrender and then perhaps fly into exile or be put in front of the war crimes tribunal. all right ted ron american political cartoonist columnist and author very much appreciate your views here on r t thank you very much for being with us here on the program just. french oil companies are likely to be among those who would have enjoyed the pictures coming in from tripoli last night i hopes for a look rich of oil contracts with a new government only be art certainly high as it is daniel bushell reports the cost of the intervention and the i know to jannah of the rebels could mean more losses than gains. for old spills 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 allen jew pace's victory gives him great satisfaction opposition m.p.

jack laying everyone to be thankful that inspired action at the united nations corporations in states that voted for u.n. intervention of rubbing their hands one of the first members of the french team. who. was a representative of the different or company and that is not very far from this of course french all joint hole has been named as this was big enough rubble all for a go go has threatened to blow up 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 all

too from france 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 keep. keeping troops in the country means heavy costs drag on latest polls say most french people now oppose the military intervention this n.p.c.s. further bloodshed and the hefty price tag to deal with it now is opposed by. the war's far from and this invasion is already costing much more than we get back there are fears a growing that libya's new leaders are too divided to win the peace. points to the rebels murder last months of their military chief general yunis experts warned widespread rebel looting and executions mean france's problems may have only just

begun bushell r.t. paris. r.t. has also spoken to. addison 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. to a state like what happened in afghanistan nobody can predict what will happen after we know that he would be removed from power because he cannot speak in the terms and he has a good backup abilities but the big question is you know what the position. the first. division it's today. with or if he's capable put on the country. to keep. the united states.

you're watching r.t. and let's go back now to our breaking news story here in r t north korea is ready to return to six party talks with no further conditions and after that see implemented a moratorium on the production and testing of nuclear weapons the country's leader came jarrell made a statement during his meeting with president medvedev and russia's republic of brioche the largest country is. the details for us because he rehashed of course a significant development there was further news can you bring us about this breakthrough. well something right there is the only details we do actually have that the north korean leader has said that his country is ready to return to the six party talks and if that return just happened then north korea will consider reimplementing once again the moratorium on the production and testing of nuclear weapons of course a huge significance in the denuclearization of north korea of the korean peninsula something that russia as

a member of the six party talks has long been striving for of course korea withdrew . unilaterally from the six party talks and continued its nuclear test much to the dismay of the international community specifically of course the other members of the six party negotiations so chaz china the united states japan and south korea all of those very outraged with north korea's actions but this is indeed a breakthrough and there were some hints about the possibility of such a statement being made the usually very secretive north korean leader made no secrets about the fact that he was actually planning to visit russia that he was planning on having a meeting with the russian president this was in fact his first visit to russia in over nine years and usually most of the international community finds out about the trips of kim jong il post factum or even not at all the fact that it was

immediately known when the north korean leader crossed the russian border that his schedule was relatively publicized all of that led many to believe that a statement of great significance would be made during the meeting between the russian president and his north korean counterpart many of question forty eight holding their breath and waiting to see exactly what that statement would be and they haven't been disappointed the fact that korea has announced its readiness to return to the six party negotiations is a very big deal argue and thank you very much for bringing us the details on this and just remind our viewers might be just joining us here on r t north korea is ready to return to six party talks and bring back the moratorium on nuclear production and testing will be trying to get more information on this raw the day as we get the details so stay with us here on our team for more on this. now though let's take a look at some other news that we are following for you this hour investigators say they have new information about who or the murder of russian journalist. 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 our despair all over brings us the details. the very latest to come out from the investigators is that they are saying they have information regarding the name of the person who alters the subsidization 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 fourteen years not that i was before you know a theorist sigman 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 quit to buy nobody 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 was to a fanatic as 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 and 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 now. 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 goldman who pulled the trigger that fired the bullet that killed out a political was arrested at a village in chechnya he was brought here to mosco where he saw it with a private remains in custody the investigation into who killed other political is progressing along that we could see some major developments in this case in the next few months and weeks peter all of our reporting there now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world if you want us ramping up pressure on syria due to the ongoing crackdown on protesters there europe and the u.s. have prepared a draft security council resolution to impose sanctions against president bashar us and regime rushes against the group should 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 a meeting in turkey to try and form a national council. and a rainy a man as confessed to killing a nuclear scientist into iran last year and says he had connections with israeli intelligence during a trial session ali jamali fashion said mossad taught him how to carry out terrorist acts including how to plant a bomb if found guilty defendants could face a death penalty physicist masood mohamadi was assassinated in a bomb attack outside his home in january last year two other scientists were also killed after wards. 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 had to leave buildings officials say several people have been injured as many buildings damaged. 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 is more important i have 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 if 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 had 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. very important our reporting there well that brings us up to date i'll be back shortly with more dates for you on the news stories that we're following including our developing story before the ads we'll take a look what's happening in the world of business you'll use here with us. hello that's right time to get the latest business news 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 warned russian firms may lose lucrative oil contracts with 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 formally 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 but it's august has been the best month for gold in twelve years it's a jump to almost seventeen percent in the last three weeks i mean 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 that hold him on to package from plots as 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 less 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 hard pricing is just people trying to prepare their currency from any for the dilution with a quantitative easing wall will go up silver is going all oriel stop falling m l seems to be one thing to war so everything will go up really but just a dollar will buy less than a year. ok now to the time to have a check of those figures precious metals are climbing the solid gold is up nearly one percent after hitting another all time high of one thousand nine hundred dollars per ounce on tuesday and filter is flat it's trading at almost forty two forty two dollars per ounce let's take a look at the price of the blood gold. flattop to seeing some gains in previous

sessions investors are keeping an eye on the situation leave it right now is trading at eighty five dollars per barrel while brand is that one hundred nine one hundred eight dollars. and in asia america is on the road just by strong cues from wall street that far to moody's to cut japan's credit rating agency said it made the downgrade due to the country's ballooning budget deficit and hong kong stocks were also lower as china life insurance company plunged from disappointment over its first half profits which fell twenty eight percent. going on to europe european shares are rising in early wednesday straight extending a rally into day this comes amid speculation that chairman ben bernanke. this week will signal new help for the economy and of course russian traders eyes are on this important news from the u.s. but here in russia the markets are going into reverse after a brief rally in the opening minutes of trade both the r.t.s.

with my six. point three percent. time to check up on some of the individual should i move saw on the my six energy may just makes the solid gas promise slightly upward point seven percent in the right as you can see on banking stocks are also under pressure with spare bank losing their own want to help the scent. crush a supermarket chain magnate taz reported second quarter profits of seventy nine million dollars up eighteen percent from the same period last year in the top mike meat has opened over four hundred stores and this is sales by a nearly forty percent. ok that's all we have time for know you are up to date more business stories on all website or to dot com slash business.

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welcome back you're watching on t.v. live from moscow and breaking news this hour a team yawn ael says north korea is ready to return to six party talks and to bring back the moratorium on the production and testing of nuclear weapons and follows his meeting with president medvedev during a visit to russia. levy is rebel forces celebrate storming colonel gadhafi compound in tripoli and once again claim to have control of the city bods gadhafi loyalists continue the are armed resistance was the earlier vowing to fight to the death. and russian investigators say they have information about who ordered the murder of a prominent russian journalist anna politkovskaya five years ago this follows tuesday's arrest of a former key witness in the case.