just after five pm here in moscow this is r.t. with me role research showed journalists trapped inside tripoli's rixos hotel say there's heavy fighting nearby the area around the hotel 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 of them say they're not being allowed to leave by a gunman guarding the hotel these are the latest pictures from the hotel where gunfire is moving closer meantime of the libyan leader's compound which was taken over by rebels on tuesday there are reports of snipers firing at rebels earlier the opposition celebrated a victory and vented anger at the portraits on luxuries of the former dictator but still the location of kid 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 tactical and promised

a fight to the death activist and journalist richard spencer says that even if rebels take control of the country a 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 and we will have trained number of the people who will be killing one another we 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 gain our that and maybe get 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 for the next months in yours. meantime the pentagon says it's monitoring sites known to contain stockpiles of colonel gadhafi chemical weapons including uranium dust a british embassy spokesman also says its agents are ready to secure the depots but

james corbett a member of the center for research and globalization questions of 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's 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 would 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 cut 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 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 i mean reports that he's been hiding in

a twenty kilometer network of heavily fortified tunnels but in tripoli a given 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 to get venture a 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 that gadhafi sons had been captured by rebel forces only do have video footage that was aired on our t.v. of gadhafi son parading around in the center of tripoli so so at 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 a tank battalion in these giant underground tunnel complexes so 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 nato has demonstrated that they have no compunction about using these types of weapons on civilian populations and in civilian populated areas so there would certainly be no moral qualms about that and unfortunately likely no international criminal court investigation of the

war crimes being perpetrated by the nato led rebel forces that at this moment. i mean time to me to register first that russia might established about developing ties with libyan rebels if indeed they unite the country the russian leader called for immediate talks to determine the future of libya activist from the stop the war coalition lindsey german says most libyans don't want the west to tell them what to do we have to remember we've been here before we've been here before with afghanistan 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 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 have been used i personally think the intervention of the international criminal court. the idea that they can try. and 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 why if there is evidence to put him on trial they should they should be dealt with in libya or not. or anywhere else. but u.s. u.n. and 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 in paris and as it is a daniel bushell reports for france there's a more than just democracy on the table. for olds feels like a winner as the first power to recognize libya's rebels the first to become tree

and now the first in talks with rebel leaders for mr allen jew pace's victory gives him great satisfaction opposition m.p. jack lang everyone to be thankful that france inspired action at the united nations corporations in states that voted for u.n. intervention are rubbing their hands one of the first members of the french team. who. was a reprise into t.v. off to tell the difference or company. is not very far from of course french all drawn towards hall has been named as this was big enough rubble all for a go go has threatened to look brazil russia and china for quote political issues there are three states who refused strong sanctions against gadhafi those nations had voles 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 france only many jaylene force is. presence in libya even though it's not part of the resolution. yes but keeping troops in the country means heavy. because stray gone 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 reports by the us with the war is far from over and this invasion is already costing much more than we give back fears a growing that libya's new leaders are too divided to win the peace. points to the

rebels murder last months of the military chief general yunis experts warned widespread rebel looting and executions france's problems may have only just begun the new bushell r.t. paris and attend role than american 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 the two thousand and three. u.s. invasion of iraq when the united states told the dictator deceptively stifled this opposition and you know what he would be replacing him with we're seeing see an exact situation now we need to be an. international council it's a hodgepodge of groups that we are going to be in conflict with one another civil war is almost inevitable because the more i get into libya you can see i'm on colonel gadhafi and it's really originated by president obama who was kind of

a feverish for a reason you know for a new show because it's the european boil companies that have the most at stake in libya so this is really more of the you know you scratch my back in afghanistan and iraq some extent and so now i'm going to be that it looks like the europeans stand to be the most. and the editor of london's out of a newspaper one has given his view on developments and of it he spoke to us here at r.t. you can watch the interview unfold next hour but for now it's a pretty. good time to i think state like what happened in afghanistan nobody can predict what will happen after that we know that he would be to move from power because he and i actually need to use and he hasn't called back up abilities but the big question is you know what the that position the council will be april first. the. divisions and it's that

second whether it is capable to run the country and to keep it as a united states i. now eleven minutes past the hour here in the russian capital you without saying north korea has confirmed it's ready to resume a long stalled six party talks on its nuclear program without any preconditions or also consider suspending the press. testing of nuclear weapons while talks are ongoing north korea's reclusive leader kim jong il met president dmitri medvedev in russia's republic. during a rare visit to the country. is in the republics 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 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 dmitri 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. he's got a lot about reporting right that we'll have more on the economic partnership and lucrative deals between russia and north korea business block a marina at our business desk right now keeping an eye on the situation yes sorry harwell analysts we've spoken to say that it will be a challenge to convert south korea because they don't want to be dependent on the north for anything but there is a way out and more talking about in our business program very soon. nearly

a quarter past the hour here in moscow now iran has filed a lawsuit against russia in the international court over its refusal to supply s. three hundred missiles. 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 asked three hundred air defense systems to tehran under a deal which was signed back in two thousand and eight but this shipment never went through since in june two thousand and ten the u.n. security council adopted a set of sanctions against iran which enforced a wide range of limitations including on the sales of various arms so moscow froze the shipment last year officials said that they are ready to give iran back its down payment which is around two hundred million euros dollars or they are ready to go through with a deal if and when the u.n. security council a lift the set of sanctions just to tell you

a little bit about the three hundred air defense systems since one thousand nine hundred ninety four they've been in production strictly for export but now their production a stop altogether with the more modern and advanced four hundred an ass five hundred air defense systems taking their place to iran says its stake in this matter up to the international court of justice but what's interesting is that they see the steps are not aimed against russia but actually to give russia illegal drama as the ambassador said in order for this deal to go through was. i haven't received an official reaction from the foreign ministry here in moscow of course we'll be monitoring that and we'll report on the story as soon as it happens obviously go to kind of right there now more details have surfaced about the murder of russian 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 picture all over reports. the very latest to come out from the investigators is that they are saying they have information regarding the name of the person who altered 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 former key witness for the prosecution to me today published chank 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 in 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 for not because yet she was a very highly respected journalist and she gained much praise and not just here in russia but around the world for her investigative work into human rights abuses in chechnya now she gained amongst some of the people she wrote about some some say the enemies in the north caucasus area and it has always been assumed that it was somebody from the last part of the world this was behind her saucer nation now.

just in may of this year the case today received a bit of a boost to investigators as the. the man accused of being the gunman who pulled the trigger that fired the bullet that killed out a 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 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 now facade to diyala has not been truthful on all matters

a great and small now however this 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 said that their minds have been in making their 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 mon most mainstream media outlets and found guilty in the court of public opinion now the new york media turned this criminal investigation into somewhat of a circus because many of the new york new york city newspaper headlines refer to dominique strauss kahn as a frog one refer to him as pepe le pew and they also refer to him as

a womanizer now this of course ruin the reputation for this french politician he was considered a contender for the next presidential race in france but his basically his reputation was ruined before he was convicted at all he lost his job as head of the international monetary fund and there was a lot of of a lot of the comments and negative press that preceded after his arrest. reporting right there just moments away now from the business with marina across the river but for now it's the wild update iran. if you're out there is the leader of the palestinian islamic jihad group has been killed in gaza. an alleged weapons smuggler died in one of three strikes also targeted with two other militants accused of firing rockets at israel last week which caused at least seven civilian deaths it was the deadliest string of attacks against the israeli population in two years. a strong 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 working with israeli intelligence at the trial. said it mossad taught him to carry out terrorist attacks including how to plant a bomb the defendant could now face the death penalty physicist must be 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 our team now it's the business news with maria. hello and welcome to business here on russia wants to bring the normally hostile

north and south korea's together in the name of business at their summit in siberia admitting to defend kim jong il have agreed to look at building a gas pipeline across north korea says supply the republic in the south but analysts warn that south korea will have a hard time coming to terms with the independence on the store than towns of parts . i think there will be a a large amount of skepticism to overcome in south korea about allowing themselves to become even partially dependent on supplies of gas that are quite across their northern neighbor 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 the 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 with ever pay that the cost of building the pipelines of the pipeline has to be extended into south korea to tap the south korean market the southwest has been the best month for gold and twelve years it's jones almost seventy percent in the last so weeks on that the uncertainty about economic prospects in europe and america the market is waiting for a teen news conference in the last to hear more about further stimulus measures there or him once a pack a from plot says the current rally in precious metals reflects and that's a perception that a new round of money printing as 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 all the round of quantitative easing you can see that the market is forecasting that quantitative easing so the

price of gold seems to be here indorse two thousand and beyond all that high price in gold is just people trying to protect their currency from any further dilution with a quantitative easing wall will go up silver is going all oriel stop falling m l seems to be wanting to go all 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 now gold has rebounded after dropping from an all time high above one thousand nine hundred dollars an ounce and that's the concern of a worsening sovereign debt crisis complicating global economic slowdown as fluent demand for a store of value gold is gained in point four percent this hour. though let's move on to the oil crude is trading in the black this is why the forecasts of growing crude stockpiles in the u.s. right now w.t.r. is trading close to eighty six dollars per barrel while bryant is at one hundred

ten dollars per barrel. in europe shares are rising after he took a starts a trading the only direction seen for investors so far is a key speech by the federal reserve chairman ben bernanke who on friday. here in russia investors are hesitant to make any big moves they're also looking forward to digest the news from the or as they're out on 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 sex most of the blue chips are trading in the black lukoil is out in point three percent gas monopoly gas from is also. office add an awful 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 into positive territory would spur more than half a percent. russia supermarket chain monkey need has reported a second quarter profit of seventy nine million dollars about sulfates of percent

from the same period last year during the first half mug neither has opened over four hundred stores and boosted sales by nearly forty percent. russia may grant said scats monopoly gas at the best price increase fifty percent next year and that's according to mr daly that's almost three times more than the other regulated for and the price hike will hold 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 are to dot com slash business in the meantime say it's in for the headlines with of ory.

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now of five thirty pm here in the russian capital and with with me. now the top stories here heavy gunfire. hotel where around thirty five john lists are reportedly being held by government fight as the rebel controlled the. duffy compound meantime is crawling with loyalist. north korea will consider halting a nuclear test if the six party talks are resumed so says the country's elusive leader on a red trip to russia. iran of files a lawsuit against russia over its refusal to supply the s three hundred of mobile missile systems to iran says they don't fall under a un resolution preventing the weapons imports. and russian investigators say they now know who ordered the move.