the pentagon says it is a monitoring of stockpiles of could after use chemical weapons in libya for fear they could fall into the wrong hands and in the chaos gripping the country. the u.n. and u.s. on the european union consider releasing up to one hundred billion dollars of frozen assets to libya's incoming government as foreign nations involved in the campaign prepared to share the oil spoils. north korea will consider halting nuclear tests if six party talks to resume so says the country's elusive leader on a rare trip to turkey russia. and iran files a lawsuit against russia over its refusal to supply that's three hundred missiles saying they don't fall under a un resolution preventing

a weapons imports. just after six pm here in moscow this is r.t. with me roll recent shame rebels now control colonel gadhafi fortress in central tripoli but violent clashes continue throughout the capital however in the u.s. the pentagon says it has another concern for security of sites and to contain stockpiles of chemical weapons including out of uranium dust james corporate from the center for research and globalization wonders why libya as a new government is not being trusted to deal with. 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 the civilians in tripoli have been you've been

you know 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 kind of he was quoted as saying that he would be willing to strike in 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 the weapons would be safer in the hands of it off the forces or the terrorists so i think ultimately perhaps getting rid of these types of weapons would be the ultimate goal for in terms of peace and stability of the u.s. as it's working towards up to one hundred dollars or frozen assets to the new transitional government some say that for a government of barely six months old it's simply not ready to handle such cash. certainly i think it would be foolish to hand that sum of money over to a transitional council which has yet to demonstrate that it has the support of the vast majority of the country and and even by their own standards even a recent meeting so obviously true libya's 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 true 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 go to a transitional government which so far has really only demonstrated its interest in securing contracts with foreign and western companies. now the future of libya now appears to hinge on the capacity of the transitional council to establish law and order and i think discuss whether they're up to the job i'm joined by scott bates the vice president of the center of a national policy thank you for joining us today so the united states and nato went to great lengths to avoid getting involved in a ground conflict but how wise was it to flood the country with small arms and heavy weapons i mean especially now when everything hinges on people obeying and and that good government well i think it's important to remember that khadafi had stockpiled ten to twenty thousand surface to air missiles for example that country

was already awash in weaponry so well of the nato alliance may have armed the rebels they were going to get those weapons one way or the other from the hands of the people they defeated or they were going to get better weapons from the nato side so this issue of weapons proliferation small arms proliferation and also these weapons that could be very dangerous in the hands of terrorists is a real problem look it underscores the real problem in libya right now which is that no one is in charge and security is tenuous if you are saying the libyan khadafi over the past number of years was already awash in the weapons are where these weapons coming from. moammar qaddafi secured weapons wherever he could get them the best the money could buy he export weapons and expertise and troops and terrorist operations across africa struck into europe you'll recall in the

eighty's and so libya was an exploiter of violence for quite a long time and and the sky was the limit as far as what he could buy as we will recall has been if i may just months ago when it went into when it came to egypt and its recent revolution that many of the weapons in egypt over the possible decades came from people like england and france but if i may for a moment what is the public attitude towards a government so closely linked with nato bearing in mind that several of the dictators deposed during the arab spring would despise for their close ties to the west yeah it's very interesting to note i mean look he was on good terms recently with some of the western governments on horrible terms for decades but the real question i think in the minds of the libyan people was whose side are you on right now at this moment when cut off he was on the ropes and make no mistake the libyan rebel movement could not be where it is today without nato's

involvement the real test though is going to be what comes after because there are good feelings toward nato governments in benghazi right now but if the country falls to chaos over the next six months two years timeframe it will be very different story so as you are saying it was nato responsible for getting the country to this stage where we are now if was comes the worse the countries are saying does slip back into civil war what role will nato have to play. well there you know colin powell had a had a slogan he said it's the pottery barn rule which is a shop in the united states and you you break it you buy it and look at nato now i believe and the arab league have a moral responsibility to stabilize the situation in libya after the fall of gadhafi you can't just go in and use force of arms and destabilize entire nation and then leave so there's got to be a coordinated long term reconstruction security first basic services right after

that have to be restored that's a huge logistical challenge it's got to be under a u.n. rubric and it's going to take the resources of not just the west but the arab league as well which you'll recall. the arab league authorize this intervention in the first what if i might seem to some. that would be most of the advantage of nato if indeed there is continued k. also really have to do civil war in libya the nato would have the need as you were saying to establish more of a presence in the region perhaps then to the if a job securing the mineral wealth of libya as we know some of the major oil play is a european or players already stake in their claims to parts of libya's rejoice fields. you know the real challenge here you're talking about the nato forces i think first of all what this intervention showed to me is nato has capabilities are incredibly stretched and the european component of nato expose itself is not particularly capable as it should be so i hope the situation doesn't deteriorate

because the only force in the world military force capable of projecting the logistical strength and the force is the united states and the united states does not need to be front and center in this situation so i think the nato alliance is in a very precarious spot right now where as we know with president barack obama he is trying to tread very carefully around this allegedly saying well certainly during the during the american press that america's role is not full from the front line that nato is a major player in libya here but you know we had nato staying in iraq and afghanistan that didn't hold set out so well did it yeah i mean that's that's the challenge any time you go into these situations it's very easy with modern force of arms and the disparities in the world when it comes to that to topple a regime it's incredibly difficult then to stabilize situation especially where for decades there's been little to no tradition of consentual rule or democratic

rule at all so cut off he was a master at hitting group against group there's a lot of grievances this is going to take a very big long term sustained effort to stabilize libya for the benefit of their own people but some of the new drawing comparisons say for example in iraq with saddam hussein he managed to keep this sudanese in the shia basically on one side of the fence and he still could not be for some time keeping relative peace in his country but now we see a degradation to civil war president of the senate national policy thank you very much. the u.s. the u.n. and e.u. are on the all on the version of releasing up to one hundred billion dollars of frozen assets to libya's incoming government but as the leader of the national transitional council prepares to meet french president nicolas sarkozy in paris daniel bushell reports for france there's much more than just democracy on the table. fraud's feels like a widow was the first power to recognize libya's rebels the first to become treaty

and now the first in talks with rebel leaders or mr allen should pace his victory gives him great satisfaction opposition m.p. jacques laying off everyone to be thankful that inspired action at the united nations corporations in states that voted for you in intervention are rubbing their hands one of the first. members of the french team. as a representative of the company and that is not the. french all drawn towards whole has been named as this was big enough rubble or 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 the russian official says quote we've lost libya completely it is well known that it is

or will fall that these so-called position government has promised to give the old two from france officially claims its war mission is over the timeless tippit to secretly stay all the libya up a make sure it profits only maintaining was his. presence in libya even the. resolution so it's quite likely. that keeping troops in the country means heavy cost strike all latest polls say most french people now oppose the military intervention this in pieces for the bloodshed and the hit fifty price tag to deal with it now reports by the new memoir the war is far from over and this invasion is already costing much more than we give back. libya's new leaders to do boy did so with the peace. points to the rebels moved the last months

of the military chief general yunis exposed widespread looting and executions for all these problems they have only just begun. see paris and ted rall an 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 is striking really two thousand and three. when the united states charcoal to do it effectively stated this our position and you know what we. were saying see the exact situation now we need an. international council it's a hodgepodge of groups who are going to be in conflict with one another civil war is almost inevitable the more i'm going to look. really really present. for foreign news because it's the oil companies

that are the most at stake in libya so this is really normally you know you scratch my back and i can understand the raw tonics and so now i'm going to think it looks like the. most. trying to you can get more analysis on the situation in libya on our website as the conflict rages are just log on to r.t. dot com for the latest. north korea has confirmed it's ready to resume long stalled six party talks on its nuclear program without any preconditions come yang will also consider suspending the production and testing of nuclear weapons while talks are ongoing north korea's reclusive leader kim jong il president dmitry medvedev in russia's republic of korea during a rare visit to the country. isn't there a public's capital following the talks. after a meeting with the russian president the north korea 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 months 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 back to 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 mediated 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 gas well has been tasked with overseeing a 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. lucrative deals with russia north korea business book of reducing. in the business let's go keeping an eye on all of us for a while a lot of people are very optimistic about is the up but analysts we've spoken to

say that it will be a challenge to convince south korea because they have course they don't want to be dependent on the north on anything but there is no way out and we'll tell you about that and business shortly. so at a quarter past the hour now here in moscow more details have surfaced about the murder of a russian human rights journalist and a political five years ago investigators say they have new information about who might have ordered the killing the statement follows the arrest of a former key witness in the case he's a retired police lieutenant colonel is now under suspicion for organizing the killing. who investigated human rights violations in chechnya was shot five years ago on the stairs of the building where she lived and just going to say her professional activities were likely motive for the murder. charge with us here live from moscow our breaking news for you this hour the russian cargo space ship progress has reportedly crashed in eastern siberia after

failing to reach its target or bit earlier wednesday the vehicle was launched from baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan and was due to dock at the international space station on friday especially say that ship went off course after the rocket suffered engine failure it was taking three and a half tons of cargo to be i assessed including food fuel and equipment. as you are with are to your life from moscow it's now at seventeen minutes past six in the early evening hours here iran has filed a lawsuit against russia in the international court over its refusal for russia to supply it with the s. three hundred missiles artie's that you got it is going off now has more of this from just outside the iranian embassy here in moscow. according to the iranian ambassador tehran is suing moscow or shipment of a badge of russia's past three hundred air defense systems to tehran under a deal which was signed back in two thousand and eight but the shipment never went

through because in june two thousand and ten the un the security council slammed a set of sanctions on iran which in forces are wide range of limitations including those on the sales of various types of forms so russia froze 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 we could go on go through with a deal if and when the u.n. security council and lifts this set of sanctions tehran says that it has taken this case to the international court of justice but what's interesting is that they see these steps are not aimed against russia but are actually aimed at giving moscow be a so-called illegal trump as the ambassador said you know order for dessert shipments to go through we're actually talking about the s. three hundred air defense systems the been in production strictly for export since one thousand nine hundred ninety four but just

a few days ago their production was stopped altogether more advanced models taking place. i think they're going to go off right now iran as we were saying his father lawsuit against russia in the international criminal court over its refusal to supply the s. three hundred missiles i guess more details now in a talk about talk about this to either cut off military expert thank you for joining me today here so first of all is this lawsuit legitimate and could iran even win this lawsuit. first of all i would like to say that you know the whole issue of those sands as three hundred is a very complex one so it's not about legal grounds but also paula kids deterrence national security and so on if we talk about the legal grounds purely in our russian position. and the position of international community here. which is strong because there was united nations strike the u.n. said this and this yes we also did ok so what about strategic implications in the

region if indeed the s three hundred mobile weapon system was delivered what would be the implications so the first thing we have to understand that currently iran is protected by the relics of cold war hawk missile system that was delivered back in the years of shah saw for purchasing gas three hundred he's a political strategic it's a big it's a great upgrade you see a list there from need twentieth century into the twenty first one but if they want to upgrade why why would they need it this is the most advanced ground to air missiles and we know developed by the russians why would iran need to know that when the system to protect our seat in relation to our civilian targets but definitely else three hundred was going to be a part of their nuclear program. called israel in the united states because we're covering the story that iran has moved from this nuclear facilities to this mountain bunker. says it's ready to resume the international go to negotiations on its destructive nuclear program are they ready

to make some concessions to the u.n. because it seems like a bit of a sudden one eighty if they're now suing russia for not supplying this mobile this three hundred missile system basically believe that the whole issue is about the situation inside the red saw all these story around nuclear program as three hundred turned international community away it's not like a local selective camp turning into militant camp is the great way to control their all relation we know that islamic republic faces great challenges from the young people for want of better relations with more united states russia in this case peace promoting peace agenda of being an armed camp surrounded by enemies and i was cells as a great protection my whole dres is possible protected by force but i. as you say there's been months of the rest across the middle east region our shift in a certain islamic generations it is a raw fear it's going to face a civil uprising that you sort of let you know we have seen uprising seen around during the previous election and you know there is

a strong opposition who has been around it's own agenda and people want more often kanchi they want to change the leadership maybe and in this case in syria the whole story of the of it's on you in your hands or nuclear program are fighting these real fighting the united states being betrayed by russia and so on and sort of the great you when you talk about a trail by russia but russia is helping iran with the development of the bushehr nuclear power plant here but when it comes to this lawsuit do you think russian authorities really take it seriously you know the lawsuit has no legal grounds in iran says yes we want to develop peaceful nuclear program because we need a cheaper source of energy which sounds pretty funny given the fact that iran one of the largest oil supplies of i guess the world but russia said yes we can help you build nuclear power stations international agreement that can help you develop your peaceful nuclear program but iran has gone far beyond that it's not in the

most need to reach in reaching uranium itself it's definitely preparing to build enable in this case you see russia and all other countries of international community have to play station seriously iran is a lot of the red is very close to russia and the last thing russia needs is nuclear war between israel and iran with involvement of major. fighting to somebody say that you can equip a creative to the heads of these are three hundred zero ground to air missiles and didn't have the summit it was possible but. i'm afraid that's all the time we have for today military expert thank you very much indeed. well here you are with live from moscow it's now a six twenty three pm here and going back to our breaking news here on r.t. other russian a cargo space ship progress has reportedly crashed in eastern or russia after failing to reach its target or a bit earlier wednesday the vehicle was in the interim baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan was due to dock with the international space station on friday

specialists say the ship went off course after the rocket suffered engine failure it was taking three and a half tons of cargo to the iris that's including few fuel and equipment and not of course on our website at www dot com for now though time for the business news in just a moment up maureen across the river with the latest from the world of business. and welcome to business here on i.c.l. rushworth wants to bring the normally hostile north and south korea's together in the name of business after so much in siberia administrative and kim jong il have agreed to look at building i guess quiet line across north korea so supplied overcomplicate in the south but i know this war that south korea will have a hard time coming to terms with the independent on its northern counterparts. i

think there will be a large amount of skepticism to overcome in south korea about allowing themselves even partially dependent on supplies or of gasoline or quite across their northern neighbor you have to have an agreement between three countries russia north korea and south korea it's no good. building a pipeline i think simply leaves rupture in north korea because the north koreans are not going to be. a situation price for gasoline for russia that would ever pay back because building pipelines a pipeline has to be extended to south korea to tap the south korean market. this august has been the best month for gold and twelve years it's jumped almost seventeen percent and that last week's summit of course the uncertainty about economic prospects in europe and america the market right now is waiting for

a two news conference and a lasting hear more about further stimulus measures there for him once a decade from platt says the current rally in precious metals reflects and that's a perception that a new round of money prints and as a level of the bull. if one looks at the sequence of events of what the central banks need to do they are in effect a draw in terms of liquidity so the only option they have left is to do an old round of quantitative ease you can see that the market is forecasting quantitative easing so the price of gold seems to be here and thousand and beyond. all that high price of gold is just people trying to play their currency for many for a good illusion. easing wall legal or silver is going to let oriel stop falling and mel seems to be wanting to go up so everything will really but just a dollar will buy less than a used. second look at the figures now gold is

a drop in from an all time high above one thousand nine hundred dollars an ounce and that's a concern of a worse than sovereign debt crisis complicating global economic slowdown has been fueling demand for a store of value but right now gold is news in one point three percent so let's move on to oil crude is trading in the black despite forecasts of growing through stockpiles in the u.s. right now w t i is trading close to eighty six dollars per barrel while bryant says at one hundred ten dollars per barrel. covering the u.s. stocks opened on a positive note although they are low work compared to wednesday's rally the dow is up points eight percent and. point nine percent this hour. in europe shares are rising after a choppy start so trading that the only direction seen for investors so far is a clue by federal reserve chairman ben bernanke and that will take place on friday

. here rough investors are hesitant to make any big moves they're also looking forward to digest the news from the u.s. that's through out on friday as i mentioned earlier both the arts yes and the my stocks are rallying around half a percent. let's take a look at the individual sermons on the my sucks most of the blue chips are trading in the black lukoil is adequate three percent that's all played gasp from over one and a half percent and that's the news that will count natural gas to south korea to the north for complex banking stocks have also climbed that's a positive territory. more than half a percent. and all the business is for now the headlines on that savory.

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