in tight you tell me touch your room it's a good international. cheese every green day tune into. heavy gunfire is heard near the rixos hotel in tripoli where around thirty five journalists are reportedly being held by government fighters under the rebel controlled gadhafi compound crawls with snipers also. from the suburbs. despite continued pockets of fighting all across tripoli many rebels rejoice and claim most of the capital is that. north korea will consider halting nuclear tests if six party talks are resume so says the country's leader on a red trip to russia. and iran files a lawsuit against russia

a virtual fusel to supply three hundred missiles saying they don't fall under a un resolution preventing weapons imports. a very warm welcome to you this is off the line from moscow with me. journalists trapped inside tripoli's rixos hotel say there's heavy fighting by the area is still thought to be controlled by colonel gadhafi loyalist fighters there are around thirty five people from international media organizations inside the building some say they're not being allowed to leave by gunmen guarding the hotel these are the latest pictures from the hotel where gunfire is moving closer to the libyan leader's compound meantime which was taken over by rebels on tuesday there are reports of snipers firing at the rebels the opposition celebrated. victory

vented anger at the portraits and luxuries of the former dictator but still the location of gadhafi himself was unknown earlier he made his second radio address in the space of twenty four hours calling on supporters to cleanse the capital he claims his retreat from the compound was tactical and promised to fight to the death journalist richard spencer says that even if the rebels take control of the country civil war is imminent i think would be us as accomplishes to establish a coming civil war in libya which we have financed you will be of we will have trained a number of people who will be cheering one another we shouldn't be naive children and think that these rebels are these nice little folks who want democracy and freedom and donald this is clearly a chance for them to keep our enemy in action rigid energy against north enemy but mainly for them to be in control and they're going to be fighting with each other

up for the next months and years. any time the pentagon says it's monitoring sites known to contain stockpiles of colonel gadhafi chemical weapons it's feared terrorist cells and militants could raid the arsenals which allegedly include tonnes of uranium dust more than are joined by james corbett a member of the center for research on globalization a lie from osaka japan a thank you for joining us today so nato says it's absolutely critical to secure khadafi is vast chemical weapons arsenals are given the chaos in tripoli but are non-existent police forces a lack of structure among rebel fighters just how safe are the stockpiles. well it's an interesting question but perhaps it presupposes the idea that sort of the stockpiles are unsafe in the hands of the rebel forces and would be safer in the hands of the nato forces whereas the people who have so far been involved in siege in tripoli and killing tripoli civilians in tripoli have been you deny you know side so i think the question is really who are the people to be concerned about having access to those weapons but certainly there are and by the most conservative

estimates friends of five hundred civilians have been killed in the fighting so far if not more and it's difficult to get accurate numbers obviously at this point but hundreds of civilians certainly have died at this point so i think it would be strange to suggest that it could offer u.s. forces would actually be interested in killing citizens in tripoli where as they did the rebels are the ones actually laying siege to the city so it's hard to tell which side would be potentially more dangerous with that with access. but let's talk about it at all if they're still and perhaps they could launch a last ditch it's not using these weapons or possibly proliferate them to terrorist factions and a spiteful act of revenge well again i think the idea of them using them inside libya is is well it's possible but i would say it's rather farfetched i went to imagine that that if there was any danger to be had it would be obviously in the proliferation of those weapons as in early july kind of he was quoted as saying that he would be willing to strike at europe if if tripoli with was attacked so i

guess that is a possibility it seems to be on the table but certainly it's unclear to me whether if the weapons would be safer in the hands of the gadhafi forces or the terrorists i think ultimately perhaps getting rid of these types of weapons would be the ultimate goal for in terms of peace and stability let's talk about gadhafi himself but every reports that he's been hiding in a twenty kilometer network of heavily fortified tunnels been in therapy do you believe he's still there or indeed even in the country. personally i have no knowledge of it and no way of finding out i think it would be foolhardy to get mentoring yes at this point especially when there's so much of a fog of war over the situation right now and that's been demonstrated. in all sorts of events including the early reports we had that gadhafi sons had been captured by rebel forces as well we do have video footage that was aired on our t.v. of good of the sun parading around in the center of tripoli so so this point really it's anyone's guess what's really happening there and unfortunately it's extremely difficult to get in touch with people there as you know and as i know have you tried to contact not you know the royal who's also reporting from

a decision from research on globalization from tripoli and and actually having experience of talking to him and having to cut out suddenly it's just really really difficult to get ahold of and keep in touch with people there at the moment so if there is a fog of war and it's it's really anyone's guess where it often is at the moment and i think there is this information being put out on both sides of the queen at this point in terms of what both sides are capable of and what so far been achieved it certainly does seem there's some back and forth with this information about you know the capture of gadhafi sons and as you said these blackouts that have occurred as well as limiting the communications there in tripoli but if indeed he is still on the ground he's in these huge tunnels i mean for the past twenty five thirty years just how far would nato go to smoke and you think they would dare deploy the bunker buster bombs all the moab the mother of all bombs do you think because it makes impossible the rebels could not get into these heavily fortified tunnels it certainly does seem a possibility and there are reports even that there is a taped italian in the it's a giant underground tunnel complexes so the idea that there would be

a bunker busters or other types of heavy weaponry used in trying to lay siege to it is not out of the question and certainly need to have demonstrated that they have no compunction about using these types of weapons on civilian populations and in civilian populated areas so it would certainly be no moral qualms about that and unfortunately likely no international criminal court investigation of the war crimes in perpetrated by the nato led rebel forces at this moment now if the u.s. says it's working to release up to one hundred billion dollars of frozen assets to the new transitional government some say that for a government barely six months old it's simply not ready to handle such cash or anything. certainly. i think it would be foolish to hand some of money over to a transitional council which has yet to demonstrate that it has the support of the majority of the country and even by their own standards even at recent meetings obviously true libya is very much divided along tribal lines as you know and of the dozens and dozens of different tribes represented in the in libya only only less than half of them actually claim to be in support of the transitional council so so

there's a deep divisions going on in libya right now and i think it would be very foolhardy to release those types of funds to a transitional government which so far has really only demonstrated its interest in securing contracts with foreign western companies certainly seems to be the point right now with european all companies are already trying to stake their claims with the mineral reserves of libya and as you were saying we've had out of this also discussing the fact that these are representatives in this new transitional government come from various tribal factions that don't always see eye to eye james corbet of the colbert report news website thank you very much thank you rory. let me treatment get upset at russia night establish diplomatic ties with the libyan rebels if they unite the country the russian made a call for immediate talks to term and the future of libya an activist from the stop the war coalition lindsey german says that most libyans don't want the west tell them what to. we have to remember we never saw we've been there before with afghanistan we've been there before with iraq and i think the lesson from both of

those and that actually the message there is even coming from many of the rebels in tripoli and elsewhere in libya is that i 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 my ease in which these things have been used i personally think the intervention of the international criminal court. the idea of a control i because i feel his family is criminal also this is yet another sign of western reporter see when we have to supposed to only play 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 in the hague or anywhere else. well as i said

a few moments ago the u.s. you any you were on the verge of releasing up to one hundred billion dollars of frozen assets to libya's incoming government and leader of the national transitional council prepares to meet with french president nicolas sarkozy in paris as artist and a bushel reports for france much more than a democracy on the table. fraud's feels like a will or as the first power to recognize libya's rebels the first to become tree another first in talks with rebel leaders for mr allen sure pace is victory gives him great satisfaction opposition m.p. jack lang also everyone to be thankful that france inspired action at the united nations corporations in states that voted for you a little bit should a rubbing their hands one of the first members of the french team. as

a reprise into the. different or company. is not very far from. french all drawn towards hall has been named as this was big enough rubble all for a go through a lot brazil russia and china political issues they all three states refused strong sanctions against gadhafi those nations had contracts with the former regime of russian official says quote we've lost libya completely it is well known that it is a wall for all that these so-called position government has promised to give the old two from france officially claims its war mission is over but analysts tippit to secretly stay you'll be in libya make sure profits early when jailing was is. present in libya even the resolution it's only going to yes but keeping troops in the country means heavy costs. latest polls say most french

people now oppose the military intervention this in pieces for the bloodshed and the hefty price tag to deal with it now reports. the war is far from more and this invasion is already costing much more than we could bear fears are growing that libya's new leaders to do so with the peace. points to the rebels murder last months of the military chief general yunis expose was widespread rebel executions frauds these problems they have only just begun the new bush will see paris and i to roll what american columnist and author says that it's now europe's turn to move in on the foreign oil that following the u.s. example in iraq it's a striking weekly of two thousand and three the us unleashing of iraq when the united states toppled

a dictator sceptically staple design position and you know what they would be replace him with we're seeing the same exact situation now. with the international council it's hard for two groups who are going to be in conflict with one another civil war is almost inevitable in the war against libya. colonel gadhafi is really really president obama was trying to be sure it isn't you don't buy new shoes because it's the. most at stake in libya so this is really more of a he i'm you know you scratch my back in afghanistan and iraq. and so now i'm going to be in the europeans can't even most. editor of london's hour but i'll could say newspaper abdel-bari atwan has given his view on developments in libya to us here at r.t. . iran has filed a lawsuit against russia and the international court over its refusal to supply s.

three hundred missiles so that's how the details on this marty as you go to prison offers outside the iranian embassy right here in moscow are you going to say what is this lawsuit all about that. well according to the iranian ambassador in this country is suing russia for a shipment of its s. three hundred air defense systems to tehran this deal was signed back in two thousand and eight but the shipments never went through since in june two thousand and ten the u.n. security council adopted a set of sanctions against iran which in force is a wide range of limitations including the sales of various types of arms so moscow froze the shipment last year officials said that we are ready to give iran down payment which is around two hundred million dollars or we could go through with a deal if and when the u.n. security council a lists the set of sanctions they run says that it has taken this matter to the international court of justice but what's interesting is that they claim these

steps are not aimed against russia but actually to give moscow a legal trump as the ambassador called it for the shipment to be able to go through . many many thanks indeed live outside the iranian embassy in moscow. north korea has confirmed it's ready to resume a long stalled the six party talks on its nuclear program without any preconditions will also consider suspending the production and testing of nuclear weapons while talks are ongoing north korea's reclusive leader kim jong il met president dmitri medvedev and russia's republic of korea during a revis it the country. is in a republic scuttle following the talks after a meeting with the russian president the north korean leader kim jong il has announced his country's willingness to return to this. six party negotiations aimed at denuclearizing the korean peninsula but it will only reimpose its moratorium on

production and testing of nuclear weapons once those six party talks begin the rest of the six party talks members like south korea japan the united states they all wanted north korean leader to implement the moratorium first and then have north korea return to the six party talks which have been stalled since two thousand and eight the north korean leader still wants to do it his way but still his announcement is a very big deal there were several signed pointing to the possibility of such a breakthrough even when kim jong il began his journey usually the very secretive north korean leader travels completely incognito in the international community finds out about his travels post factum or even not at all this time the entire world knew as soon as kim jong il crossed the russian border on his specially designed armored train and that of course led many to speculate that the meeting

also publicized with the russian president dmitry medvedev would bring about some definite breakthrough and we know that there have been further developments in the plans for a gas pipeline that will go from russia to south korea of course north korea we also know that a number of committees have been created and this c.e.o. of russia's gas giant gazprom has been tasked with overseeing the project so that definitely is still in the works and could be a very lucrative deal for north korea for south korea as well and definitely for russia which is looking to export more of its resources so he's got a lot of the order right but of kim jong il's trip to russia began on saturday morning where officers on the train stopped on his journey is going to see that included a relaxing day of the world's deepest lake go to. the news waters. much more on our website r.t. got. more details have surfaced about the murder

of russian it's human rights journalist anna politkovskaya five years ago investigators say they have new information about who might have ordered the killing on tuesday police detained a former key witness in the case he's now under suspicion for organizing the crime himself he's pretty roll over reports. the very latest to come out from the investigators is that they're saying they have information regarding the name of the person who alters the cessation of journalist anna politkovskaya 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 former key witness for the prosecution to me to the public chain called with 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 he will be charged later on today show that they were right to have their concerns about him. before the arrested man was a prosecution witness in the case because far as i understand he had been misleading investigators and a very clever lawyer for a long time pretending to be an important source of information about the murder we in the prosecutors have doubts he was sincere but there was not enough evidence now prosecutors have enough evidence also court to buy an over because after the show this man was linked to political skies murder this is of course a case that has. media attention from around the world anna politkovskaya. she was a very highly respected journalist and gained much praise not just here in russia but around the world for her investigative work in 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 sussan nation. just in may of this year the case 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 holocaust was arrested in a village in chechnya he was brought here to moscow where he's charged with the crime and remains in custody the investigation into who killed anna politkovskaya is progressing along and we could see some major developments in this case in the next few months and weeks. right there now are twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow after a three month case surrounded by a sensational list media circus the sexual assault charges against dominique strauss kahn have now been dropped the former head of the international monetary fund called the ordeal a personal nightmare in a fortnight i reports from new york. and then hatton supreme court judge delivered

that ruling on tuesday after prosecutors in the case say that the accuser nafissatou diallo has not been truthful on all matters a great and small now however this ruling delivered by the judge is on hold pending an appeal by mr gallo the accuser now in his first public statement since being arrested on may fourteenth dominic strauss kahn says that the past months have been a nightmare for him and his family and they are looking forward to returning home to france government extra 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 unknown 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 to 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 comments and negative press that preceded after his arrest. right out is a very important reporting right there now and some more international news now from our world update here on r.t. a strong earthquake has a lot to the east coast of the united states tremors sort of in virginia forced evacuations in washington including the white house and pentagon in new york to

a nuclear reactors were shut down people also had to leave buildings officials say no one was seriously injured but many buildings have since been damaged. human claims up to thirty al qaeda linked separatists are being killed and forty wounded during airstrikes in the country's south eight soldiers also died during clashes with islamists who are trying to use a power vacuum in the region to gain influence yemen has been in turmoil since an uprising against president ali abdullah saleh that started in february. an iranian man has admitted killing a nuclear scientist in tehran last year i'm working with israeli intelligence at the trial i'll eat jamali fire she said that mossad taught him to carry out terrorist acts including how the part of bomb the defendant could now face the death penalty for that is that must leave the home of marty was murdered in a bomb attack outside his home in january last year or two other scientists were killed shortly afterwards all right time now for the business with maria.

hello and welcome to a business here on arts you know russia wants to bring the normally hostile north and south korea's to go there in the name of business are there some lights in siberia and i have agreed to look at building a gas pipeline across north korea to supply the republic in the south but i'm going to swan about south korea will have a hard time coming to terms with the independence on its northern towns apart. i think there will be a eighty eight large amount of skepticism to overcome in some of korea but not allowing themselves to become even partially dependent on supplies of gas that are quite across the north you have to have an agreement between all three countries russia north korea and south korea it's no good. building

a pipeline i think simply links russia or north korea because the north koreans are not going to be able to pay a sufficient price for gas imports from russia that would ever pay for the cost of building the pipelines of the pipeline has to be extended to south korea to attack the south korean market that's all this has been the best one for gold and twelve years it's jumped almost seventeen percent in the last four weeks and then certainty about economic prospects in europe and america the market is waiting for its news conference right now in the us hear more about further stimulus measures there caught him on the back there from platt 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 another 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 force two thousand and beyond. all that hard price in gold is just people trying to birthparent their currency from any further than you should with a quantitative easing wall we call silver is going all the oil stopped falling and now 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 arpa figures now while gold has rebounded after dropping from an all time high of about one thousand nine hundred dollars an ounce investor concern of course then suffered that crisis complicating global economic slowdown it's even in the rainforests north of baton gold is gaining almost one percent this hour let's move on to or oil which has slipped from its highest close in four days in the north and

that's after a downgrade of japan's credit rating and forecasts are going crude stockpiles when they go as he's concerned about slowing economic growth will reduce the demand right now they're doubling your i is a losing four cents and brands as losing three cents about the sell them let's take a look at what's happening in europe shares there are going to have her top restarts are trading the only direction seen for investors so far is a key speech by federal reserve chairman ben bernanke on friday. here in russia investors are hesitant to make any big moves they're also looking forward to digest the news from being was due out friday the markets are flat after a brief rally in early trade let's take a look at the individual fare moves on the my stocks and the two majors arm. mix the sour with lukoil slightly down but gas monopoly gas as i add in point seven percent and that's the news that will pump natural gas to south korea to the north

for public banking stocks have climbed into the blank with her bank point nine percent. russia supermarket chain of the need has reported a second quarter profit off seventy nine million dollars and that's all eighteen percent from the same period last year during the first half mile commute has opened over one hundred stores and that sales by nearly forty two sites rose from a grants and scan asked not only gas from at the messed up price increase fifty percent next year and that's according to the ad the must daily and that's almost three times more than all the regulated herbs the price hype will help bring profits of home and lloyd with export profits the government says the move will help maintain investment levels in the company. so the business news for now the headlines are next to the glory.

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