just after six pm here in moscow and this is artsy with me roll received shane 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 the security of sites known to contain stockpiles of chemical weapons including that of uranium dust james corbett from the center for research and globalization wonders why libya as a new government is not being trusted to deal with it. 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 beaten into a 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

it 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 the weapons would be safer in the hands of get off u.s. 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 of the u.s. as 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 of barely six months all that simply not ready to handle such cash or anything. 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 at recent meetings 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 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 to discuss whether they're up to the job i'm joined by scott bates vice president of the center for 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 a bang and elected government well i think it's important to remember that qaddafi had stockpiled ten to twenty thousand surface to air missiles for example that country was already awash in weaponry so while 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're saying the libyan it could offer you over the past number of years was already a wash and 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 export or of violence for quite a long time and and the sky was the limit as far as what he could buy we were actually i mean if i may just months ago when he was here 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 if 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 khadafi 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 time frame it'll be very

different story so as you're saying it was nato responsible to get in the country to this stage where we are now if was comes that was the countries are saying does slip back into civil war what role will nato have to play. well there you know colin powell had had a slogan he said it's the pottery barn rule which is a 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 an 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 it might seem to some that would be most of the advantage of nato if indeed there is continued chaos a relapse into 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 fathers of securing the mineral wealth of libya as we know some of the major oil player as a european all players are already staking their claims to parts of libya's rich oil 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 exposed 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 frontal 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 old turned out too 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 khadafi was a master at pitting 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 a sudden a drawing comparisons here for example in iraq with saddam hussein who managed to keep the sudanese in the shia basically on one side of the fence and he still khadafi for some time keeping relative peace in his country but now we see a degradation to civil war but it's a vice president of the national policy thank you very much. the u.s. u.n. any on the all on the verge now releasing up to one hundred billion dollars of frozen assets to libya's incoming government that's as the leader of the national transitional council prepares to meet french president nicolas sarkozy in paris as r.t. said daniel bushell reports for france there's much more than just democracy on the table. fruits feels like a winner was the first power to recognize libya's rebels the first to become free and now the first in talks with rebel leaders for mr allen jew pace's victory gives him great satisfaction opposition m.p. jack lang everyone to be thankful that inspired action at the united nations

corporations in states that voted for you an intervention a rubbing their hands one of the first members of the french team. who. was a reprise into. different or company and that is not very far from of course french all joint hall has been named as this was big we're not rebel all for a go to look brazil russia and china for quote political issues there are three states who refused strong sanctions against gadhafi those nations had contracts with the former regime 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 profits early maintaining forces. presence in libya even the. resolution. yes but keeping troops in the. tree means heavy cost strike gold the 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 is opposed by the us what he meant was the war is far from over and this invasion is already costing much more than we give back. is a growing that libya's new leaders a to do so with the peace good points to the rebels moved in last months of the military chief general yunis exposed widespread rebel looting and executions fronts these problems they have only just begun the new bush will see paris. and

the ted role an american a 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 of two thousand and three the us nation of iraq when the united states told a dictator that effectively stifled this opposition and didn't know what he would be replace him with we're seeing see an exact situation now we need to be out of the international council it's a hodgepodge of groups who are going to be in conflict with one another civil war is almost inevitable because the more i get into libya you can see a lot of the colonel gadhafi is really originated by president obama was kind of feverish payback for a reason you know farnoosh because it's the european point of 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 time except and so now i'm going to be that it looks

like the europeans stand to gain the most. and you can get more analysis on the situation in libya on our website as the conflict rages on 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 yang 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 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 and 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 video 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 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. more of the. lucrative deals with russia north korea business book of murders here. the business does go to keeping an eye on all of them yes i was a lot of people very optimistic about this deal but none of us we've spoken to say that it will be a challenge to convince south korea because they have course don't want to be dependent on the north on anything but there is a way out and we'll tell you about that n business shortly. i had

a quarter past the hour now here in moscow more details have surfaced about the murder of a russian human rights journalist and the 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 who 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 investigators say her professional activities were likely motive for the murder. without a law 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 that was launched from baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan and was due to dock at 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 i assess including food fuel and equipment. now as you all with live from moscow is now it's seventeen minutes past six in the early evening hours here iran has filed a lawsuit against russia in the international court over its refusal of for russia to supply it with the three hundred missiles 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 over a 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 force was a 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 a lift. 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 stamps are not aimed against russia but are actually aimed at giving moscow the so-called illegal trump as the ambassador said in order for this shipment to go through we're actually talking about the s. three hundred air defense systems we've 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 their place. you're going to is going to now iran as we were saying has filed a lawsuit against russia in the international criminal court over its refusal to

supply the s. three hundred missiles i guess more details now and talk about talk about this to even talk of 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. three hundred is a very complex one so it's not about legal grounds but also about politics deterrence national security and so on if we talk about the legal grounds purely you know this is a russian position. the position of international community here are pretty strong because there was a united nations strike the u.n. said this summer this year as we all saw there is ok so what about those 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 the current iran is protected by the relics of called war hawk missile system that

was delivered back in the years of shah software around three hundred is a critical strategic it's a big upgrade it's a great upgrade you see it there from twentieth century into the twenty first one ok but if they want to upgrade and 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 that many of the system to protect our civilian population our civilian targets but definitely as three hundred is going to be a part of their nuclear program and they. protect nuclear facilities that could be attacked by israel or the united states because we're covering the story that iran has moved some of its nuclear facilities to this mountain bunker put iran says it's ready to resume the international go to negotiations on its disputed 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 iran so all these story around nuclear program as three hundred

turned international community here like it's not like like it's like a militia camp telling planting to mildred camp is the great way to control their all relation we know that islamic republic faces great challenges from the young people who want to better relations with more than europe united states russia in this case. promoting peace agenda of being an armed camp surrounded by enemies and protecting ourselves is a great protection of the raises possible protected by force but that. as you were saying there's been months of on arrest across the middle east region are shift in a certain islamic generation so it is a rather fear it's going to face a similar uprising by absolutely absolutely no we have seen uprising seen around during the previous election and you know there is strong opposition who's been around its own agenda and people want to a more open contrary they want to change the leadership maybe and in this case you see the whole story of the with its own you can you renzo nuclear program are

fighting season real fighting united states being betrayed by russia and saw in sort of the great you where you talk about material 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 iran says yes we know we want to develop peaceful ukraine nuclear program because we need a cheaper source of energy which sounds pretty funny given the fact that iran one of the largest fuel supplies of gas and oil but russia said yes we can help you build a nuclear power station according to international agreement who can help you develop your peaceful nuclear program but iran has gone far beyond that it's talking about me to reach enriching uranium itself it's definitely preparing to build and a bomb and in this case you see russia and all other countries of international community have to taste creation seriously iran is

a lot of the red is very close to russia and the last thing russia needs is nuclear war between israel iran with involvement of major. i might even be somebody say that you can equip a nuclear tipped to the heads of these are three hundred ground to air missiles and do they might be something so that's 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 the russian a cargo space ship progress has reportedly crashed in eastern or russia after failing to reach its target or bit early when the same vehicle was in the interim baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan and 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 i assess including food fuel and equipment and more details on that of course on our website at www dot com for now though time for the

business news in just a moment marina across the river with the latest from the world of business. hello and welcome to business here on i.c.l. russia wants to bring the normally hostile north and south korea's sagat there in the name of business at their so much in siberia admitting that they did and kim jong il have agreed to look at building a gas pipeline across north korea so supply the republic in the south but analysts warn that south korea will have a hard time coming to terms with being dependent on its northern towns of parts. i think there will be a large amount of skepticism to overcome in south korea about allowing themselves to become even partially dependent on supplies of gas that all point

across the north america 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 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 that the cost of building pipelines of the pipeline has to be extended into south korea to tap the south korean market. this august has been the best month for gold and twelve years at some time or seventeen percent and the last three weeks i met of course the uncertainty about economic prospects in europe and america the markets are now is waiting for it to news conference and they all asked to hear more about further stimulus measures there mark i want to thank you from platt says the current rally in precious metals reflects investor perception that a new round of money prancing 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 an old 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 in-doors two thousand and beyond. all that high price in gold is just beetle trying to preparing their currency from any further dilution with a quantitative easing wall we call silver is going all oriel stop falling and now seems to be one thing to wall so everything will go up really but just the dollar will buy less than they used to. the let's take a 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

fluent in 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 this is why forecast of brant crude stockpiles in the u s right now w t i is trading at close to eighty six dollars per barrel while bryant says at one hundred ten dollars per barrel. over in the u.s. stocks opened on the positive notes although they are low worth 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 to trading the only direction seen for investors so far is a key speech by federal reserve chairman ben bernanke and that will take place on friday. here in russia investors are hesitant to make any big moves they're also looking forward to digest the news from the u.s. that's due out on friday as i mentioned earlier both the arts yes and the my stocks

are adding around half a percent. let's take a look at the individual sarah moves on the my sex most of the blue chip stocks trading end up black lukoil is adequate three percent gas will hopefully gas problem as over one and a half percent and that's the news that will pump natural gas to south korea to the north where complex banking stocks have also quadrants of positive territory was for a bank more than half a percent. as all the business is for now the headlines are next of henri.

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news here on r t the russian cargo space ship progress has reportedly crashed in eastern russia 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 specialists say the ship went off course after the rocket suffered an engine failure it was taking three and a half tons of cargo to the including food fuel and equipment. now joins us live with details on this so tom what do you know. where lori is far as we can glean at the moment the rocket was in its three hundred twenty fifth second of flight they measure the seconds very accurately on its way up into war but when its third stage motor that's the third stage of the rocket blasting it up into space somehow failed they reported a drop into in pressure at the russian space.