heavy gunfire near tripoli's a rixos hotel where about thirty five journalists are reportedly being held by government fighters and other rebel controlled gadhafi compound meantime crawls with loyalists like this also. despite continued pockets of fighting all across tripoli many rebels rejoice and claim most of the capital is that. north korea will consider holding a nuclear test six party talks are resume so says the country's elusive leader on a rare trip to russia. and iran files a lawsuit against russia over its refusal to supply s.

three hundred missiles saying they don't fall under a u.n. resolution preventing a weapons importance. just after five pm here in moscow this is r.t. with me rory sushi journalists trapped inside tripoli's rixos hotel say there's heavy fighting by the area around the hotel is still thought to be controlled by colonel gadhafi loyalists fighters there are around thirty five people from international media organizations inside the building some of them say they're not being allowed to leave right gunman guarding the hotel and these are the latest pictures from the hotel right gunfire is moving closer. to the libyan leader's compound which was taken over by rebels on tuesday there are reports of snipers firing at rebels the opposition celebrated victory and vented anger at the port.

luxuries of the former dictator but still the location of it after himself is 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 topical and promised a fight to the death activist and journalist richard spencer says that even if rebels take control of the country civil war is imminent i think with the us as accomplices to a stout worship coming civil war in libya which we have financed we will be and we will have trained number of the people who will be cheering one another who shouldn't be naive children and think that these rebels are these nice little folks who want democracy and freedom and mcdonald's this is clearly a chance for them to keep our in the media in action revenge against north enemy but mainly for them to be in control and they're going to be fighting with each other for control up for the next months and years meantime the pentagon says it's

one of the insights known to contain its stockpiles of colonel gadhafi chemical weapons including uranium dust approach embassy spokesman also says its agents are ready to secure their depots but james corporate a member of the center for research on globalization questions why libya's new government is being sidelined in the rush. perhaps it presupposes the idea that 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 the nato side so i think the question is really who are the people to be concerned about having access to those weapons i want 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 could off he was quoted as saying that he would be willing to strike at europe if if tripoli was was attacked so i guess that is a possibility it seems to be on the table but certainly it's unclear to me whether

it's 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 ultimate goal further in terms of peace and stability let's talk about gadhafi himself i mean reports that he's been hiding in a twenty kilometer network of heavily fortified tunnels. if you 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 guess 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 b. early reports we had the gadhafi sons had been captured by rebel forces only to 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 and there are reports even that there is to take the tally and it needs a giant underground tunnel complexes so that the the idea that there would be 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 it's really in populated areas so it would certainly be no moral qualms about that unfortunately likely no international criminal court investigation of the war crimes and perpetrated by the nato led rebel forces at this moment. meantime dimitri read your first post on russia might established about a lot of ties with the libyan rebels if indeed they unite the country the russian leader calls for immediate talks to term in the future of libya activists from the stop the war coalition lindsey german says most libyans don't want the west to tell them what. we have to remember we've been here before we've been here before with the star we've been there before with iraq and i think the lesson from both of those and that actually the message that is even coming from many of the rebels in tripoli and elsewhere in the here 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 these towns. bring to mind some of the worrying ways in which these things have been used i personally think the intervention of the international criminal court. the idea that they can try could afy and his family as war criminals is yet another sign of 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 way if there is evidence to montreal they should they should be dealt with in libya and not in the hague or anywhere else. the u.s. the u.n. and the e.u. are on the verge of releasing up to one hundred billion dollars of frozen assets to libya's incoming government says the leader of the national transitional council

prepares to meet french president nicolas sarkozy and paris and that is a daniel bushell reports from france and there's a more than just a microscope on the table. frauds feels like a winner was the first power to recognize libya's rebels the first will become free and though the first in talks with rebel leaders for mr allen ship it is victory gives him great satisfaction opposition m.p. laying off every want to be thankful that france inspired action at the united nations corporations in states that voted for you intervention or rubbing their hands one of the first members of a french team. to. march as a representative of. the french or company. is not very far from this of course french all joint tal has been named as this was big we're not rebel all for

a go it's a lot brazil russia and china political issues there are three states who refused strong sanctions against gadhafi those nations had contracts with the former regime a russian official says quote we've lost libya completely it is well known that it is a 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 it profits only when jailing was is. present in libya even though it's not part of the resolution. but keeping troops in the country means his. because straight on latest polls say most french people now oppose the military intervention this in p.c.'s further bloodshed and the hefty price tag to deal with it now reported by the yes with the

war is far from over and this invasion is already costing much more than we could back 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 want widespread rebel looting and executions beachfronts these problems may have only just begun the new bushell r.t. paris and ted rall columnist and author says it's now europe's turn to move in on foreign oil following the u.s. example in iraq. it's a striking replay to two thousand and three. when the united states told. this sceptically statement this opposition in syria would be would be replaced we're seeing see the exact situation now we know the

council is a hodgepodge of groups who are going to be in conflict with one another civil war these almost inevitable card the more i conclude the consumer. is really really president obama was kind of leaving the state for a reason you know for a new show because it's the european companies that have the most at stake in libya so this is really more of a he arm you know you scratch my back in afghanistan and iraq. and so now i'm going to have it looks like the europeans stand to be the most. and the editor of london's out of codes newspaper delivery of one has given his view on developments and nobody spoke to us or about see it watch the interview unfold axtell but it's a pretty. good state like what happened in afghanistan nobody can predict what will happen after that we know that he would be removed from power because he and i actually the u.s.

and he hasn't called back up it. but the big question is you know whether that transitional council will first. the. divisions that it's that second whether it is capable put around the country and to keep and leave as a united states. now eleven minutes past the hour here in the russian capital here without say north korea as it's ready to resume a long stalled six party talks on its nuclear program without any preconditions also consider suspending the press. action on testing of nuclear weapons while troops are ongoing north korea's reclusive leader kim jong il met president dmitri medvedev in russia's republic. during a visit to the country not used when i was one of them is going to report its capital 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 the 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 want the north korean leader to implement the moratorium first and then have north korea return to the six party talks which opens fault since two thousand and eight or the reason 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 to meet the media would bring about some definite breakthrough and we know that there have been further developments in the plans for a gas pipeline that would go from russia to south korea of course why are north korea we also know that a number of movies have been created and this c.e.o. of russia's gas giant gas 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. he's coming out of our reporting right that we'll have more on the economic partnership and lucrative deals between russia and north korea in our business block a marinus at our business desk right now keeping an eye on the situation yes sorry

our analysts we've spoken since said that it will be i think how and south korea because they don't want to be the pendant on the north for anything but there is a way out and more to tell you about in our business program very soon. nearly a quarter past the hour here in moscow now iran has filed a lawsuit against russia and the international court over its refusal to supply s. three hundred missiles. it's going off and says more on the story from just outside the iranian embassy right here in moscow. according to the iranian ambassador is going he is suing moscow over a shipment of a batch of russia's three hundred air defense systems to tehran under a deal which was signed back in two thousand and eight but this 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 forced a wide range of limitations including on the sales of various arms so moscow throws the shipment last year officials said that they are ready to give iran back its

down payment which is around two hundred million dollars or they're ready to go through with a deal if and when the u.n. security council lifts this set of sanctions just to tell you a little bit down to the three hundred air defense systems since one thousand nine hundred ninety four he'd been in production strictly for export but now their production a stop altogether would be more modern and its last four hundred an ass five hundred air defense systems taking their waste to iran says it's taken this matter up to the international court of justice but what's interesting is that the cd steps are not aimed against russia but actually to give russia illegal drugs as the ambassador said in order for this deal to go through this. still haven't received an official reaction from the foreign ministry here in moscow of course we'll be monitoring that and will report on the story as soon as it happens obviously going

to is going to right there now more details of surfaced about the murder of russian and she writes journalist anna politkovskaya five years ago and investigators say they have a 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 and his patrol reports. the very latest to come out from the investigators is that they say they have information regarding the name of the person who alters the sauce or 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 former key witness for the prosecution dimitri public chain called who's 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 shows that they were right to have their concerns about him you know i mean that's not what i was before you know a fair assessment was a prosecution witness in the case as far as i understand he had been misleading investigators very close to lawyers for a long time concerned him 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 nobody because after the show this man was. murdered this is of course a case that has. drawn media attention from around the world anna politkovskaya to a football because yes she was a very highly respected journalist and games much praise and not just here in russia but around the world for her investigative work in human rights abuses in chechnya no 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 saucer nation. just in a 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 holocaust was arrested in a village and church 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 that we could see some major developments in this case in the next few months and weeks. now after a three month case surrounded by a sensationalist media circus the sexual assault charges against dominique strauss kahn have been dropped the former head of the international monetary fund called the ordeal a personal nightmare. reports from new york. a manhattan supreme court

judge delivered that ruling on tuesday after prosecutors in the case say that the accuser enough to diyala has not been truthful on all matters great and small now however this healing 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 company sheryl's mine said that their minds have been a nightmare for him and his family and they are looking forward to returning to france germany extra's khan 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 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 want 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 of a lot of good comments and negative press that preceded after his arrest. marina what not reporting right there are just moments away now from the business with marina costa river but for now it's the world update iran see if your answer is that a leader of the palestinian islamic jihad group has been killed in gaza. an alleged weapons smuggler died in one of three strikes also targeted were two other

militants accused of firing rockets at israel last week which caused at least seven civilian deaths it was the girliest string of attacks against the israeli population in two years. from earthquake has rocked the east coast of the united states tremors centered in virginia forced evacuations in washington including the white house and pentagon in new york today nuclear reactors were shut down and people also had to leave buildings there if you will say no one was seriously injured but damage to property was quite. an iranian man has admitted to killing a nuclear scientist in tehran last year and with working with israeli intelligence at the trial are leaked generally far she said mossad told him to carry out terrorist attacks including how to plant a bomb the defendant could now face the death penalty for the system mohammadi was murdered in a bomb attack outside his home in january last year two other scientists were killed shortly afterwards all right i do stay with us here on r t now it's

the business news with maria. hello and welcome to the business here on russia wants to bring the normally hostile north and south korea together in the name of business at their summit in siberia and jungle have agreed to look at building a gas pipeline across north korea says supply the republic in the south but analysts warn about south korea will have the hearts of all incumbents of terms with independence on its organ counterparts. i think there will be a eighty eight large amount of skepticism to overcome in south korea about allowing themselves to become even partially dependent on supplies or of gas that all point across the north america 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 rupture in north korea because the north koreans are not going to be able to pay a situation price for gas imports from russia that would ever paid up because the building pipelines of the pipeline has to be extended into south korea to tap the south korean market that's all this has been the best long for gold and twelve yes it's gems almost seventy percent in the last two weeks i'm at the uncertainty about economic prospects in europe and america the market is waiting for i can use confidence in the last to hear more about further stimulus measures there who are going want to pay for plot says the current rally in precious metals reflects and that's a perception that a new round of money transcend as unavoidable. if one looks at sequence of events what is central banks need to do they are in effect draw in terms of

liquidity so the only option they have left is to do nor the round of quantitative easing you can see that the market is forecasting quantitative easing so the price of gold seems to be heading towards two thousand and beyond all that high price in gold is just people trying to portray their currency for many for a good illusion with a quantitative easing wall legal or silver is going all boil stopped falling and l. seems to be wanting to go up so everything will go up really but just a dollar will buy less money used. let's take a look at the figures now gold has rebounded after dropping from an all time high of one thousand nine hundred dollars an ounce and that's the concern of the worsening sovereign debt crisis complicating global economic slowdown as for women demand for a store of value gold is again in point four percent this hour. though let's move

on to the oil crude is trading in the core of this wide forecasts of growing crude stockpiles in the u.s. right now the government is trading close to eighty six dollars per barrel brian says that one hundred ten dollars per barrel. in europe shares are rising after a talk this starts the trading the only direction seen for investors so far is a speech by federal reserve chairman ben bernanke and on friday. here in russia are investors are hesitant to make any big moves they're also looking forward to going to us the news from the or as they're out of friday as i said both the arts yes and m i six are adding around half a percent this hour let's take a look at the individual share moves on the my sucks most of the blue chips are trading in the black luke oil is out in point three percent gas monopoly gastronomy is also. it's added over a one and a half percent and that's on news that will pump natural gas to south korea through

the north republic banking stocks have also climbed in suppose the territory would spur by more than half a percent. russia a supermarket chain like you need has reported as second quarter profit of seventy nine million dollars about soffits and her side from the same period last year during the first half minute has opened over four hundred stores and boosted sales i merely forty percent rush from a granted scats monopoly gas from at the best price increase over fifty percent next year and that's according to that almost a daily so that's almost three times more than the other regulated for years and the price hike will help bring profits at home in line with export profits the government says the move will help maintain investment levels in the company. that's all the business news for now for more stories you can always check out our websites article called sash business in the meantime states in full the headlines with henri.

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